Chapter 474 - What Youve Done (2/2)
Xuanxuzi stared blankly for a second but finally relented, bringing down his outstretched arm as he watched Xiao Chen and his companions retreating. Yet from afar, despite being defeated in battle, Xiao Chen gave him a look so dangerous and piercing that even he found it scary.
“I’ll remember this, Xuanxuzi! I’ll remember what you’ve done this day, and I’ll come back to exact my vengeance!”
Xiao Chen’s ominous declaration resounded across the Wuyue Peak, his glare terrifying and fierce. Even as a Tier-4 Rogue Immortal who wielded tremendous strength and power way beyond Xiao Chen, he could not suppress the involuntary shudder that the chill running down his spine caused. Quietly, he began wondering if he should hasten his study and cultivation of magic. He would need to achieve Earth Immortality before coming of the second stage of the Annihilation Era, if he wished to fully feel safe from Xiao Chen.
The sight of Xiao Chen being able to escape his attack, when most other mages of the Grand Completion Realm would have been utterly decimated to bits, with only one severed arm unsettled him greatly and left him brooding about his own safety.
Seeing this, Gu Feng and Xiao Ning landed at once. It was not because they lacked the skills or power to defeat the three Rogue Immortals, but rather, the duel between them before had left them fatigued and wearied.
“After them!” Xuanxuzi squinted and growled, “We cannot let them escape!”
At the same time, at a hidden corner inside an unknown mystic domain was a man trapped in ice. His face was veiled by his silvery-white hair and his eyes opened suddenly.
…
Prowling amid the frigid winds, perched on the top of Nanyue Peak, one of the peaks of Mount Wuyue, were two masked strangers. One of them, the one with a runic “Luo” inscribed on his mask observed dryly. “That really is the Undead Body. To think that he’s able to escape with his life from the attack of a Tier-4 Rogue Immortal…”
His companion, another man with a mask bearing the runic word of “Ji” merely remarked indifferently without any whiff of emotion, “One day. One day I will take back everything that is rightfully mine.”
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With Gu Feng and Xiao Ning leading the way, Xiao Chen and his companions fled North, fighting off whatever pursuers that the League had hurled at them. Only a paltry seven men remained of the band of swordsmen that escaped the custody of the Envoys of the League. “Follow them,” one of them screamed, “Follow them or we’ll never make it away alive!”
In a last-ditch attempt, the remaining seven swordsmen managed to free themselves from the encirclement of the Envoys in the Nirvana Realm and ran after Xiao Chen and his companions.
They nearly caught up with Xiao Chen when Ziyun’er screamed suddenly when she saw them emerging from the undergrowth of thorns and briars, “Who goes there!”
“Please, my Lady! We’re not your enemies! We’re only poor folk from the Wastelands who have been oppressed by the Immortals’ League!”
The leader of the seven was a young man in his thirties. Dressed in green, he bore the distinctive mark on his face that marked him as a fugitive of the League.
“Go!” Xiao Chen croaked hoarsely. There was no way Xiao Ning and Gu Feng could hold back the three Rogue Immortals for long.
The party retreated to the tall cliffs to the north that hung over chasms 30,000 meters deep. With most of the Levitating Dark Fragrance wounded, they could not fly away by riding on swords and that left only fleeing down the mountain paths.
But a gust of wind came from nowhere, slamming into their face and throwing up stray blades of grasses and gravels. More Envoys of the League! Soldiers of the northern detachment of the Immortals’ League that came with Flying-cloud Stones and they had already had men lying around the vicinity of Mount Wuyue in wait for them!
“All right,” Xiao Chen snarled and said, his face hard as stone, “Impeccable timing!” He lunged at the soldiers closing in on them and sent one magical blow after another with his saber at any foe he laid eyes on. Behind him, Ziyun’er shrieked a warning, “No, My Lord! You should not be channeling your powers again!”
None-flower Dust and Yi Tong rushed forward and were joined by the seven other swordsmen. They found a Flying-cloud Stone that was not carrying any soldiers of the Grand Completion Realm and killed everyone on board, allowing Gui Xian to commandeer it. “Get yourself up here on the double, Boy!” He cried.
Each holding on to Xiao Chen, Ziyun’er and Huangfu Xin’er hopped onto the flying stone conveyance followed by everyone else, with only Xiao Ning and Gu Feng still behind to hold off the three Rogue Immortals. The leader of the seven swordsmen cried, “Please, bring us with you!”
“No!” Ziyun’er snapped firmly. Her lord was in a critical condition and she could not risk having strangers with them now.
But Xiao Chen, who never once let go of his Blood Lotus Demon Blade, drew a difficult breath and croaked, “It’s fine. Let them up!”
“But, My Lord!” Ziyun’er protested with horror, although any attempt to object was quickly stopped by Xiao Chen’s resolute shake of his head and she could only trust his judgment for allowing the swordsmen onboard. She shouted to the swordsman in green, “Come up quickly!”
The seven swordsmen leaped up the Flying-cloud Stone and settled themselves in at once. “All right, sit tight!” Gui Xian yelped as he steered the flying-cloud Stone towards north with all the speed he could muster.
Atop Mount Wuyue, Xiao Ning and Gu Feng waited until the Flying-cloud Stone was far enough before they jointed their powers to deliver a pair of powerful blows at the three Rogue Immortals, using the force to propel themselves into the distance where they morphed into two blinding rays of light that streaked off after Xiao Chen and his companions.
Xiao Chen looked visibly relieved to see Gu Feng and Xiao Ning rejoining them. Then he turned to the seven swordsmen from the Wastelands, putting up a calm and somber demeanor to put Ziyun’er and everyone else to ease, “Tell me about the Wastelands you mentioned earlier.”