160 Borrowed Knife (1/2)
Xue Wei continued to hide behind the expert from the Crimson Sunshine Sect. Many experts both outside and inside of the ring were looking at him with disdain in their eyes and felt that the only reason he was capable of surviving up until now was because this esteemed expert from the great sects had decided to protect him for some reason.
The attacks rained down on the sect disciple. Although he was exceptionally skilled when compared to other third layered Sky Warriors, he was still not fully able to deal with every single attack from the group of four experts that were going all out against him.
He was using all his skills one after another. And slowly, the four experts were being worn out as they received more and more serious injuries. Although the Crimson Sunshine Sect's disciple held the upper hand, he was also sustaining injuries, but unlike the others, it seemed as if these injuries mattered not to him and he kept fighting with the same ferocity as from the start, burning his Qi rapidly.
The first to succumb was a woman. She had been hit by a Yang Blast – a very potent martial art technique that the Crimson Sunshine Sect's disciples learned early on.
It was an attack designed fully for attack power, and he had used it for the sake of knocking back two of the advancing four experts, but it had struck one of them, more specifically the woman, completely off-guard and severely injured her. She called out her surrender just in time
She was gnashing her teeth in anger when she did this, but she understood that her life was the most important thing. Only when one was alive could one advance. When one died, everything ended.
The next one to surrender lasted the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn down after the first forfeited. This person was not one of the three remaining experts that had attacked Xue Wei and the Crimson Sunshine Sect's member, but he was one of the three who had rushed to the middle and engaged in a frenzied battle.
He seemed to be around thirty-five years old, but he had a depressed look on his face as he was transported away from the battlefield.
He had received a grave injury which had cleaved into his arm right down and severed half of it so that one could see the entire bone.
At the same time, he also had multiple cuts and bruises all over his body. It was clear that he had taken quite a beating, and he had gained nothing from it!
This was indeed a great reason to be very unhappy and depressed.
The next one to fall lasted for as long as it takes to brew a pot of tea. This time it was once more one of the three remaining people who were ganging up on the expert from the Crimson Sunshine Sect.
It was a man this time. He seemed to be older than the allowed age, but since they had tested the age of every participant, it was clear that this person was within the threshold. He just seemed much older than he was.
This person was not incredibly strong, and his defense was nothing spectacular either, but he had a movement technique that let him avoid the majority of the attacks.
Unfortunately for him, the Ring of Fire that the disciple from the Crimson Sunshine Sect had released was constantly churning and moving around like snakes on the ground.
They moved in erratic patterns and came in many shapes, so he got caught by one of these snakes and was swiftly dispatched by a Yang Energy Blast.
This Yang Blast contained all the energy that the Crimson Sunshine Sect's disciple could pour into one attack. When it came into contact with the expert's chest, it exploded outwards, causing massive ripples to appear and ripping open a gaping wound in his chest that almost exposed his ribcage.
So far, two out of five had already been rendered incapable of continuing the fight from that same ability, the Yang Energy Blast, and the result was even more horrifying the second time than it had been the first.
The remaining two experts looked at the disciple from the Crimson Sunshine Sect with wariness in their eyes.
They understood that if they wanted to win, their biggest obstacle was this cultivator from the Crimson Sunshine Sect in front of them. None of them took Xue Wei seriously at all.
Even the experts from the Crimson Sunshine Sect were losing all respect for Xue Wei. Allowing an enemy to protect you is simply so embarrassing that it cannot be described with words, but that was what Xue Wei was doing right now.
What they believed was the reason could not be farther from the truth, however. The members of the Crimson Sunshine Sect were all certain that this disciple was doing it for the sake of allowing their senior brother to deal with Xue Wei personally.
Xue Wei, on the other hand, knew the truth. This expert wanted nothing more than to rip Xue Wei apart, but he did not have the strength to do it. He could not even withstand Xue Wei's soul skill.
Xue Wei was rather amused by the Crimson Sunshine Sect's reaction. He had already come up with multiple reasons for what they might expect was happening, anything from bribery to friendship had been considered by him, but he had constantly wondered about what he should do to hide his usage of a soul skill from the Crimson Sunshine Sect members.
Now it seemed that they had found a reason on their own. And from the gloating expressions on their faces, alongside the disdain in their eyes, Xue Wei could roughly guess what this conclusion was.
The leader of the Cerulean Starlight Sect was rather confused as to what was happening. He did not know the incident between Xue Wei, Hei Gou, and the Crimson Sunshine Sect.
But he did feel a threatening air from Xue Wei. Had the Crimson Sunshine Sect noticed something and was now trying to reel him in? He did not know, but if this was the case, then he was truly disappointed in Xue Wei. To give in so easily to temptation like this was unsightly.
The Argent Moon's Xiong Bing was also shocked and feeling uneasy. She recognized Xue Wei's presence right away, and she had too felt that he was a talented youth, yet now he was doing nothing and was just letting the Crimson Sunshine Sect's youth defeat the others for him.
”This is no good,” Xue Wei said to himself as he observed what was happening. He wanted as many as possible to die so that he could loot them.
He also knew that if the member of the Crimson Sunshine Sect managed to survive, then he would not be able to use the Mind Infestation on them again.
Although some of their disciples were rather stupid, their leader was not. He would know exactly what had happened and would come up with a way to counter it.
Xue Wei was a little disappointed in the other members of the group. The three that had engaged in battle with each another was of no use to him, and the five who had engaged in battle with the Crimson Sunshine Sect disciple were all incredibly weak.
Xue Wei sighed. If only he had been more proficient with the Mind Infestation ability, then he would make the Crimson Sunshine Sect's disciple he was controlling trash talk and insult the others in their arena so much that they would all gather together to go against him, but this was not possible.