89 The Meadow (1/2)

Xue Wei was filled with righteous indignation and anger towards Chu Huiyin.

The longer he walked, the more upset he became. He was not only upset with Chu Huiyin, but he was also very upset with himself.

Giving up on his rational thoughts and allowing himself to let go of his sanity and use the dragonized arms to fight in a battle where he was surrounded by experts who knew very little about the different transformations of other cultivators was by no means a smart move.

A skill like the Azure Dragon Scripture, which aimed to imitate the most amazing beast of them all, the Azure Dragon, was easily misunderstood in the uneducated lens of the Heping Kingdom. Even in the center of the continent, people would be worried if they saw it.

”The bloodlust might be good for fighting,” Xue Wei said through gritted teeth. His entire body was aching. The wounds, although no longer bleeding, were still deep and immensely painful.

”But even if it makes it so that I can fight better than others, I am also more likely to not think straight.” Xue Wei sighed. ”When I fight, I am to leave my bloodlust as the last means to protect myself. I will rely on my rational thoughts at all other times, and reserve the instincts as the final resort.”

The battle Xue Wei had been in had changed him and his view of himself.

He never wanted to be just a frenzied killing machine. He did not want to let it all go. He wanted to be able to keep himself under control.

Xue Wei's demeanor had changed. He was moving as if he had the entire world on his shoulders. He was listless and dispirited. He felt lost. Everything he had strived for had been lost in such a swift change of events, and now he was stuck in a hopeless situation where he did not know what his next step would be.

Xue Wei had his items with him in a bag. They had been on their way towards their military stations when the beast horde had surprised them, and thus they had all their things with them when they started fighting.

Xue Wei had been fighting with his bag on his back the entire time. When Chu Huiyin had grabbed him, the bag had remained on his back. Now that he was back on land again, free from Chu Huiyin, he looked at himself.

His robes were tattered and destroyed. His armor was not much better off. The spaulders had been punctured multiple places by Chu Huiyin's sharp talons in her true form. Other cuts and tears had appeared in the collision with the trees and their branches.

Xue Wei sighed when he saw the state of his clothes. He reached into his bag to find a new set of clothes. He took out another set of clothes made from Fierce Beast Silk, but then he paused and hesitated before shaking his head and stuffing it into the bag again.

He then took out a set of black clothes that Manager Su had given him when he left Tiankong City.

These clothes were a lot less remarkable than the red robes he had been wearing in the capital. He was going to travel through the Kingdom of Heping, after all. If a rumor of some noble-born youngster wearing robes of Fierce Beast material were to spread, then the army could easily guess that it was him.

Xue Wei grimaced in pain as he changed his clothes from the robes to the clean black suit. Although a few scratches could still be seen on his face, all the serious wounds were now covered.

He could not help but lament slightly that he did not have a bamboo hat to cover his face, but he had to make do with what he had.

Xue Wei would have burnt the clothes to dust if he could, but these robes were made from a fire attributed Fierce Beast, and normal flames had no effect on them.

Since this was the case, Xue Wei just left the tattered and blood-stained clothes on the ground and started limping away from the tree under which he had found slight respite and shade for a short while.

The Qi continued to wander through his meridians, slowly making adjustments and improvements to his condition. It was nourishing his bones and organs, healing his fractures, and ensuring that his body would be even stronger than it had been before when he had fully recovered.

Previously, the Qi had only been in his meridians, but now it was passing over into his flesh, entering his organs, entering his bones, and simultaneously strengthening all parts of him.

If he were to survive, then he would have an even sturdier body than before. This sturdiness was not outwardly visible, but it was a bone-deep transformation that changed nothing about his slim and lean figure, instead making his bones as strong as jade.

Unfortunately, this was a process that would take quite some time. His body was exhausted, and his Qi, although initially vigorous, started revolving through his meridians at a gradually slowing pace. The wounds required an inordinate amount of Qi, so there was little left for everything else

Xue Wei shambled along on his journey for a few hours before he was forced to sit down and take a break. He simply had no more Qi in his body, no more energy to continue walking on, and the last few steps had been on sheer willpower, his body in such intense pain that each and every step caused his eyes to blacken.