186 A tragedy of exceptional speed (1/2)

Shi Chang Xiao grunted; his powerful voice resounded through the sky, and it seemed as if it had startled the rain. It appeared as if an invisible wave had hammered the pouring rain away from his body, and towards the rest of the crowd...

Shi Chang Xiao had just been repelled by the Solitary Eagle's counter-attack, and had been forced to retreat a short distance. However, he had immediately extended his arms and had cast out this new and strange move almost immediately...

Everyone felt a strange nip in the air, and immediately retreated backwards, and away from the Solitary Eagle's body due this extremely strange feeling!

Shi Chang Xiao powerful move wasn't intended to hurt the Solitary Eagle, but only to ward off the other experts away from him, and succeeded in carrying his plan out to perfection since the other experts were too afraid to get caught in the scope of his fierce move, and were forced to retreat.

Two silhouettes swiftly drifted away to a tree about forty or fifty feet away from the center of the combat, and quietly positioned themselves on its top branch amidst this chaotic movement.

The Hongjun Pagoda was still revolving at full speed and was still providing energy to Jun Mo Xie' body as he tried to recover from the shock of the Solitary Eagle's strike. Jun Mo Xie almost jumped up the moment he saw this action taking place on the battlefield: [finally! My plan can already be considered half-successful, but I still don't know if... ]

Shi Chang Xiao's angry and powerful strike had sent everyone scuttling away to safety, so much so that even the three Elders of the Silver Blizzard City, all Spirit Xuan experts in their own merit had decided to retreat immediately; even Li Wu Bei's disciples were left with no choice but to retreat since they also knew that weren't capable of facing a Peak Spirit Xuan's explosive strength head-on, and were forced to resign into blankly staring at each other in despair.

The remaining Spirit Xuan expert, Fei Meng Chen wasn't looking any better either. He had also been targeting striking the Solitary Eagle like everyone else, and was only a fingertip away when Shi Chang Xiao's violent strike forced him to retreat backwards due to fear of injury. Even though he managed to escape unharmed, he was still left cursing his subordinate in authority.

But the most unfortunate was the sixth brother amongst the ten acquaintances of Li You Ran!

Because his speed was too quick!

He had rushed in like everyone else to take advantage of the situation; however, the man was even faster than the three Elders of the Silver Blizzard City and Fei Meng Chen; the man was actually faster than Spirit Xuan experts! Li Wu Bei must have indeed been proud of his disciple's speed and agility!

But therein lay his biggest mistake….. he was too fast!

He was almost upon the Solitary Eagle at the time when Shi Chang Xiao went berserk, forcing his unknowing backups, the four Spirit Xuan experts away from the Solitary Eagle!

Because he was too fast, he was somehow able to escape Shi Chang Xiao's attack's scope; but inwards rather than outwards!

Because he was too fast, he was now placed in the same vacuum zone as the Solitary Eagle and Shi Chang Xiao; alone, without any backups! And to make matters worse, he was so quick that he had actually managed to reach the Solitary Eagle before anyone else, and simply had no place to go now!

At this moment, even though his mind had already started to panic from the surprise of the situation, but his hands were still moving in their previously intended direction, and were nimbly making their into the Solitary Eagle's pocket....

An exceptional trait may not always be the best thing... this exceptionally agile man was an excellent example of this truth!

Solitary Eagle was obviously very disappointed by Shi Chang Xiao's move, which had forced everyone to drop their plan of attacking him, and then he suddenly realized that one bold and fearless hand was reaching into his pocket to extract the Xuan Core! This obviously made the Solitary Eagle angrier!

If any man from the entire Xuan Xuan continent was ever successfully able to pick-pocket one of the 'Eight Great Masters'.... This news would bring the Solitary Eagle more shame than actually dying in battle facing a weaker man; it would turn him into a laughing stock!

If it hadn't been for Shi Chang Xiao's intervention, this exceptionally fast man would have actually been able to succeed in his attempt undetected! He had selected the most appropriate time to execute this stealth move; his timing was nothing short of perfection!

Moreover, once he had succeeded, he could have easily escaped away since the only person who would notice this theft, the Solitary Eagle, would have been forced to repel four Spirit Xuan experts! '….. one of the 'Eight Great Masters' was robbed by a pick-pocket…. This news would have shocked the entire world!'