Chapter 6: Die, Youngsun! (2/2)

Cripple had asked Qin Mu to train until he could no longer feel the burden of the iron weights and boots. Only after that was he allowed to take them off. Qin Mu had only recently gotten used to them, so he hadn’t remembered that he was wearing them as he was frantically escaping.

However, if he tried to remove them now, he’d definitely be caught. There was no way that he could afford to stop moving.

”Trample on Mount Meru!’

As Qin Mu ran, he suddenly gathered strength into his right leg and used the skill, Trample on Mount Meru. The thick sole of his iron boot splattered like mud, shattering the entire boot into flying debris.

At the same time, his calf muscles flexed and expanded, bursting out of the iron weight and shooting its remnants into the trees as if they were sharp arrows.

Qin Mu stepped forward with his other leg, shattering the other iron boot and weight as his foot landed.

Whoosh—!

Suddenly leaping into the air, Qin Mu felt extremely light! He easily reached a branch at the top of a tree, which frightened him greatly.

High up in the tree, barefoot, Qin Mu’s weight caused the branch to dip slightly.

Sword lights flashed from below and came shooting upwards. Upon looking down, Qin Mu saw the tips of a dozen swords!

Senior Sister Qing’s sword handling became progressively stronger by the minute. She wasn’t controlling a dozen swords, she had created the illusion of a dozen swords with just one!

Qin Mu suddenly recalled Cripple’s words.

”Don’t think about whether or not a foothold will be able to withstand your weight. As long as you’re fast enough, even water will be like solid ground. Grass… air… everything will become solid ground!”

Pushing off with the tips of his toes, Qin Mu leaped forward. The sword lights burst into the sky, shredding the top of the huge tree he had perched in.

Two youths leaped up and landed among the treetops just in time to see Qin Mu striding through the tips of the trees, dashing away like a flowing wind. They could only stare blankly, astonished by Qin Mu’s speed.

”Why is he so fast?” one of them asked. ”That kid is younger than us, but his cultivation seems to be… slightly stronger ours…”

As the two youths thought about it, they saw their Senior Brother Qu vanish like smoke and begin to chase Qin Mu at an even faster speed.

”As expected of Senior Brother Qu! He’s much more powerful than we are, having reached the pinnacle of the Spirit Embryo.”

Both of them sighed in admiration. ”With Senior Brother Qu personally going after him, there no way that little devil will be able to escape.”

At this exact moment, a dark shadow suddenly materialized in the forest.

A hairy palm the size of a woven mat came hurtling towards Senior Brother Qu, slapping him as he dashed through the air.

Senior Brother Qu flew backward, spinning uncontrollably and crashing to the ground. He tumbled for a short distance before coming to a stop, coughing up a mouthful of blood as he tried to sit up. ”Don’t go over there! There’s a devil ape! That’s the territory of a devil ape!”

The other four youths immediately stopped in their tracks.

As the shadow emerged from the trees, they saw that it was a huge, terrifying black gorilla. Its eyes were a deep red, and its fangs protruded from its mouth.

Beating its chest like a drum, it bellowed, ”Die, young’un!”

Qin Mu, who had run ahead earlier, had also been struck from the air by this devil ape. He was currently lying at the devil ape’s feet, unmoving. The youths couldn’t tell if he was dead.

Staring at Qin Mu intently, Senior Sister Qing mumbled. ”Since one palm strike from that devil ape heavily injured Senior Brother Qu, and that little devil also received the same hit, he should be dead... right?”

Before she could finish speaking, she jumped in surprise. Qin Mu, who was lying on the ground in front of the devil ape, had tilted his head slightly to ascertain the situation.

”That kid isn’t dead yet?” she said in disbelief.

The pitch black devil ape roared a few times, then stopped when it saw that the rest of the youths didn’t dare to step forward. Then it looked down at Qin Mu, slipping his body over with two fingers.

”Young’un, die?”

Seeing Qin Mu’s wide open eyes, bleeding from his entire face and even the tongue which was sticking out, it was clear he could not be any more dead!

Snorting in satisfaction, the devil ape threw Qin Mu’s body aside. It then sat down and started picking leaves from a nearby tree, eating them.

”Even though it’s so fierce, the devil ape is actually a herbivore..” Qin Mu continued to bleed from his face, keeping his eyes wide open as he slowly crawled away using his elbows.

All of a sudden, the devil ape turned its head to look at Qin Mu’s body, which had gone limp again. As it continued to glare at Qin Mu’s ‘body’, it remained motionless.

Stretching out its finger and poking what it thought of as a corpse, the ape discovered that Qin Mu’s body had already become icy and hard.

”Young’un, die,” it said with renewed satisfaction, then turned back and focused on eating tree leaves without a care.

Witnessing all of this from a distance, Senior Sister Qing could no longer help herself. ”Hey, big fella! Don’t you find it weird that the... young’un... corpse became so cold and hard so quickly?”

Seemingly able to understand her, the devil ape slapped its forehead and immediately turned around. The young’un ‘corpse,’ however, had already gotten up and started to frantically flee.