C5 (1/2)

Old Lei gulped as he tried to calm himself down. The old elder sighed and walked over to push him back into the stretcher. ”Don't worry, we didn't see anything today.”

”Yes, we didn't see anything.”

In addition, Lei Ao would always do odd jobs for them whenever he had free time, and he never asked for money. Now that Lei Ao had been forced to flee, the only thing they could do was to give him more time to escape.

After leaving the village, he had no choice but to run towards the depths of the mountains. However, having lost most of his blood, he could not run too far, and barely managed to maintain his consciousness as he jumped into a river while holding onto a tree stump, letting the river flow by itself.

While he was unconscious, Wang Ba's sister clamored for everyone in Sang Mo village to die with her brother. However, when Mo Yang City sent out officials to understand what had happened, they simply sent all of Wang Ba's family and sister to be rebanded.

There was only one reason. Although none of the villagers had seen anything, there were still elderly, women, and children living in the hegemony. The officials had easily gotten news of the war.

A single slash had turned a person into ashes and turned him into a pile of bones. To the knowledge of the Sky Sun Empire, this strange and inexplicable phenomenon could only be done by the legendary Qi warriors.

It was a group of cultivators that pursued the Heavenly Dao and sought eternal life. With a wave of their hands, mountains collapsed and the earth cracked.

After finding out about what happened at Wang Ba's Residence that day, the Heavenly Sun Empire treated Lei Ao as a practitioner. They could give up the entire Mo Yang City or even half of a mountain, but they did not want to provoke such a legendary existence. As such, Wang Ba's family was in for a ride of misfortune.

The Heavenly Sun Empire did not want to offend Lei Ao, so they did their best to develop the village. Their intention was only to express their goodwill to Lei Ao, and Old Lei had even risen from the status of a fisherman to become a prince overnight.

Lei Ao didn't know any of this, but when he woke up, all he could see was darkness.

”F * ck, why is the sky still not lit up yet?” Lei Ao said a few thick words and began to inspect his body's condition.

Just like before, the wounds from his battle with Wang Ba were completely healed, all of this because of the mysterious purple phoenix tattoo in his body.

Powerful strength and abnormal self-recovery ability. If used well, even if they left the Sky Sun Empire, the world would still be able to do it.

However, these two abilities weren't something that Lei Ao could control. His self-healing ability could only heal himself when he was injured.

In terms of degree of terror, the true power of the Phoenix Tattoo was even more terrifying than the blood blade. Up until now, although this tattoo had helped him increase his strength by quite a lot, Lei Ao had yet to use the true power within it.

It wasn't that he didn't want to, it was that he didn't dare!

Although he had to lose 80% of his blood every time he used the blood blade, it would only take him three days to recover from that insane regenerative ability. But the terrifying power within the Phoenix Tattoo …

In his memory, Lei Ao had only used it once, and that time was also when he went hunting in the mountains. Because he had chased a deer into the mountains, he ran into the den of the giant python, activating the power of the phoenix tattoo at the critical moment.

As a result … Not just the hundred plus giant pythons, even the entire mountain had been razed to the ground by him. Furthermore, all of this was done unconsciously by Lei Ao, which also meant that he would not be able to control this power at all.

So, he would rather lose eighty percent of his blood than use the Phoenix Tattoo. What he was afraid of was destroying the village when he lost his consciousness; that wouldn't be much at all.

”I really don't know if this is a blessing or a curse.” Lei Ao sighed in his heart. Whether it was the purple phoenix or the blood saber, both of these factors gave him immense strength. However, these two things were not easy to use.

The only thing he could use was the true qi he had comprehended from fighting with Wang Ba. According to Wang Ba, it seemed to be called refining one's Qi to breakthrough one's meridians.

Lei Ao recalled the scene back then. When the zhenqi attacked his body, it was as if ten thousand ants were devouring his heart, and it was extremely painful. This pain appeared a total of three times, and every time it passed, he would feel very comfortable, and his strength would also increase exponentially.