351 Epiphany! (1/2)
Ice daggers danced in a mad flurry.
Venerable Lord Ice continued to give chase behind them, yearning to grip the both of them and swallow them whole, to vent the grudge he held in his heart.
The palpable pressure made it clear to Yun Yang that the enemy was fast approaching, while the dancing ice daggers all around him signaled the possibility of a melee attack.
Yun Yang’s movements grew swifter as he unleashed a speed that exceeded his current limits. At the same time, he discreetly cultivated the art of wind to increase his current acceleration. It was a state where he need not turn into wind, but only borrowed the wind’s momentum to move forward.
From the standpoint of agility, variation, speed, peculiarity and many other aspects, his skill was exceptionally rare in the world. In spite of this, the basic requirement to sustain a long-distance pursuit was the foundation of one’s cultivation base.
Despite Yun Yang’s recent accumulation of a hundred years cultivation base, Venerable Lord Ice was still much better at this. Besides, Yun Yang was carrying a dead weight. Even if he expended all his effort, the distance between both parties would still decrease.
It had been some time since Yun Yang had pushed about a dozen pills into Lei Dongtian’s mouth. It was Yun Yang’s only hope, that Lei Dongtian could stand again with renewed energy. That would solve a lot of his problems.
The situation was as Yun Yang had hoped. Lei Dongtian’s unusual heaving slowly stabilized and he was now looking at Yun Yang and speaking with great difficulty, ”Brother… Yun, you – you… must… sav – save me… I… I can – cannot die… I don’t want to die…”
Hearing this, Yun Yang came close to hurling the bastard onto a rock to turn him into a meat pie.
You don’t want to die? Excuse me, who wants to die?
Why was he speaking like this? If you claim that I’m your brother, you should have said something righteous, like ”Give up on me, brother,” or ”Escaping alone will give you a bigger chance at survival,” at such a critical moment! Are you willing to risk my life to save your own?
Am I not doing just that? I’m already doing my best! I’ve run with all my might, but I can’t shake our opponent!
Here I thought you’d have some other arcane skills to suppress your injuries and counterattack the enemy, putting an end to this hunting game, but the moment you open your mouth, you ask for a savior?
How can I still have the mood to act out our devoted brotherhood after hearing such inappropriate, tasteless, words? Does your family know that you’re so shameless? How can they be worry-free in allowing someone like you to roam the martial world?
However, no matter how Yun Yang condemned him inwardly, he could never speak these words aloud.
”I know, I'm trying my best.” Yun Yang continued to catapult forward. ”At most, we brothers will die together!”
Lei Dongtian was touched as he mumbled, ”Thank you, Brother Yun, for being so kind to this elder brother. Actually… there’s another way, although it grieves me to say this… you can hide me in… a more secluded place… you go out alone… to distract the enemy… without me as your burden, I believe the enemy can’t do much to you!”
Yun Yang almost cursed out loud.
Do you really take me as an idiot? Do you think speaking flowery words can f*cking cover the fact that you want me to be your scapegoat? You are thinking only of yourself, why don’t you just die? What do you even mean by putting hope on me, this small insignificant ant?
Behind Yun Yang, the expected short-ranged attacks finally lived up to their name. Hundreds of ice daggers caught up to them, surrounding them from every angle, some spinning, flying, picking, hacking, surrounding, flying forward before returning with vehemence.
Venerable Lord Ice’s voice was cold. ”Still fleeing? I am curious to see how far you could make it.”
Yun Yang’s body tilted forward, his advancing motion bending him to an odd degree; his legs continued to charge forward but his waist had shifted to the left, looking as if his upper and lower body were separated. It was eerie. What was strange was that his head was tilted in the opposite direction.
For an instant, Yun Yang gave the illusion of a broken corpse, barely connected as he sprinted forward. His speed was tremendous though; the hundreds of ice daggers that seemingly had no room for error skimmed right past him – not wounding him at all!
”What a great skill you have there!” Venerable Lord Ice was genuinely impressed. ”It's too bad that even with that, you can’t compensate for a true lack of ability!”
The voice indicated that the pursuer had closed another thirty feet of distance.
No matter how remarkable Yun Yang had been in avoiding the ice daggers in addition to maintaining his rapid speed, it was only time before his overall performance would be affected and cause the distance between both parties to diminish again.
Even then, Venerable Lord Ice was slightly surprised at the scene that was unfolding before him. The puny ant lacked much of his cultivation base and was bogged down by carrying an injured person. He had given chase for so long but had yet to catch up. He had executed an unusually dense ice dagger attack but somehow, he could not hinder Yun Yang’s escape… What sort of latent skill did this child possess?
Not only was it remarkable, it was singularly unique in the world!
If it had only been this strange oddity, Venerable Lord Ice would not have been in disbelief, despite his awe. What truly baffled him was the fact that Yun Yang’s mystical Qi had yet to be expended through the chase!