244 A Mugging? (2/2)
”Hmm?” Wang Baole raised his head swiftly, startled. He gazed into the distance. Soon, he saw in the horizon, the first silhouette of a cultivator he had seen in all those days!
It was a youth dressed in black robes. He looked thin and slightly malnourished, with cold eyes and a scar on his face. Wrapped around his right hand were black bandages, and waves of black Qi seeped out from between the bandages. He gave off a feral air and looked like a tiny killer god, cold and merciless. From his attire, he didn't look like someone from the four Dao Colleges.
The waves of Spirit Qi were coming from his person. Upon closer observation, Wang Baole could feel three sources coming off the youth that stirred longing inside him.
Three special fragments? Wang Baole was shocked, and a sour feeling spread inside his heart. He had thought himself extremely diligent, but despite his hard work, he had only found two special fragments. The youth, who didn't even rival him in good looks, actually found three.
Should I attempt to snatch them off him? Wang Baole deliberated. However, as he was deep in thought, the youth turned and looked at Wang Baole suddenly. He immediately switched direction and raced towards Wang Baole.
He was swift like a bolt of lightning and stirred dust clouds off the ground as he approached.
He's coming right to my doorstep? Wang Baole blinked. He fell back a few steps and stared at the approaching youth. The youth soon stopped ten yards away before Wang Baole. He stood there and eyed Wang Baole coldly, lifted his chin, stuck his right hand out, and said coolly.
”Hand it over! Don't make me say it twice!”
Wang Baole's eyes popped out as soon as he heard what the youth said. He stretched out his right hand as well and hollered.
”Hand it over! Don't make me say it twice!”
”You have a death wish!” The youth narrowed his eyes. He dashed out as he spoke, and stood before Wang Baole in a blink of an eye, his fist flying out. He didn't land a direct punch. Instead, as he threw his fist forward, he opened it wide into a palm, and out flew a black jade pendant.
As the jade pendant flew out, it summoned black winds that formed an indistinct shape of a black tiger's head. It roared and charged at Wang Baole.
”A Numinous Treasure? Don't you know your granddaddy here is a Dharmic Armament cultivator?” Wang Baole said arrogantly. He raised his right hand in a sudden sweep and pulled out multiple Numinous Treasures which blanketed the sky and raced towards the youth.
Amongst the Numinous Treasures were the self-exploding beads, the rope, the large seal, and the flying sword.
The Numinous Treasures dashed out in multitudes. The rope and large seal, especially, looked extremely dangerous and threatening. The youth eyed them with great caution.
However, the two Numinous Treasures that he had eyed so closely, upon flying out, didn't charge at the youth. Instead, radiating a terrifying forceful aura, they sped towards the heavens and disappeared… into thin air…
The youth froze as he watched the two Numinous Treasure make their bizarre ascent into the skies. He immediately raised his guard. While keeping an eye out for the Numinous Treasures, he glared viciously at Wang Baole and wielded the Black Tiger Jade Pendant in his hand and pushed his palm towards Wang Baole!
With a deafening roar, Wang Baole's Numinous Treasures and the youth's black tiger collided. The black tiger howled as it clashed with the Numinous Treasures. Amidst the thundering battle sounds, the youth narrowed his eyes and leaped right through the battling Numinous Treasures and arrived before Wang Baole. His finger surged towards Wang Baole's forehead!
”Die!” Wang Baole might be famous, but for a disciple of the Galactic Dusk Sect—a sect whose disciples were inclined towards the traditional and were divorced from the outside world—his knowledge of Wang Baole wouldn't be considerable. What the youth knew was even more pitiful. At that moment, he applied his usual strategy to exterminate Dharmic Armament cultivators, which was to approach them and rely on close combat to wipe them out.
Based on his experience, Dharmic Armament cultivators, Array Formation cultivators, and Alchemy cultivators alike had tremendous abilities, but once an enemy came within close reach, they were vulnerable to an extreme. In his merciless arrogance, his finger snaked forward like a bolt of lightning and was about to land a hit on Wang Baole's forehead.
On the tip of his finger, black Qi had appeared. He had full confidence of piercing through a skull with its touch!
However… what was ideal was indeed good, but the reality was slightly different from his imagination. As his finger reached out, Wang Baole's eyes flashed in excitement.
How long has it been… since someone dared to raise their finger before me…