Chapter 48 – Either you die, or I die (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Shao Xuan could feel their stalker getting closer and closer, probably it understood that its stalking ability didn’t work in this environment, and severely restricted him. So it pulled all stops loose and decided to go for the kill. After all, it was no good to stall like that.

The Thorn Black Wind used all its strength to chase after them, with its eyes fixed on their backs, catching up. Its every step pierced through the thick snow, nailing down on the frozen ground, and creating loud bangs.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Mao felt a chill in his heart, and almost tripped on a loose stone.

Even though Shao Xuan and Mao both speeded up, and the annoying environment slowed it down a lot, but after all, it was a “Black Wind” with the title “killer of the mountains”. At his full speed, it was impossible for Shao Xuan and Mao to outrun him.

Shao Xuan felt an icy chill run down his spine. His hair stood up on end because of the cold wind and the chilly feeling, and it was as if his whole body was soaked in icy water.

“Split up!” Shao Xuan shouted.

Shao Xuan and Mao split up to evade the huge figure.

Without Shao Xuan’s lead, Mao would never be able to survive under such circumstances. Faced with the night and the snow, he could barely see the giant figure. He had no confidence in whether he could still live if that Thorn Black Wind slashed its paws towards him.

However, it seemed that the Thorn Black Wind also sensed that Shao Xuan was the most annoying one of the two, so after it failed to catch them both, it turned its head towards Shao Xuan. Kicking off with its hind legs, which created a gust of wind and snow blowing towards Mao, the Thorn Black Wind shot towards Shao Xuan.

It knew that as long as Shao Xuan was eliminated, the other little guy would be easy.

Shao Xuan leaped over a layer of snow, and quickly he pulled out a short spear from his back. And just before he was about to land, he twisted his body, he tossed out the short spear using the centrifugal strength of the turn, aiming at the Thorn Black Wind’s eye.

The short spear flew towards the Thorn Black Wind’s eye like a bullet. Even though it failed to dodge the spear, but the beast managed to react quickly, it shifted its head to the side a bit and closed his eyes, having his hard-scaled eyelids cover them.

The short spear did not pierce into its eye, but only stuck the corner of its eye. With the hard scales shielding the eye, the spear did not go in deep, but the sharp stone spearhead still slightly pierced through the corner of its eye. Its eye was hurt and there was blood flowing out.

With its eye injured, the Thorn Black Wind was furious as well as shocked. It did not expect this little thing could actually hurt it so quickly!

Although he could not see the eyes of that Thorn Black Wind, Shao Xuan could still feel the increasingly ferocious glare from its eyes.

In order to share the pressure on Shao Xuan’s end, Mao estimated the position of Thorn Black Wind based on the sound and tossed a spear towards its direction. It was a shame that the thick scales and the thorns on its back together formed a terrible protective armor, which could not be easily broken by a stone spear.

It only had a few relatively vulnerable spots on its head and on part of its tail. The spot that Mai hit before was on its tail, where there was no thick layer of thorns. So only a single layer of scales could definitely not withstand the full force of a totemic warrior.

The Thorn Black Wind ignored Mao completely and focused on Shao Xuan. Its tail waved and slammed on the ground out of anger, which created loud banging noises. It sounded like it was striking on a cement floor, and the only difference was that snowflakes and smashed stones were flying all over the place.

After avoiding a claw, Shao Xuan pulled out his tooth sabre to shield himself from the sharp claw swinging from his side.

Screetch…

The sound of the sharp claw hitting and scratching the tooth sabre.

The sharp claw which could easily smash the stones in that cave now only left some shallow traces on the tooth sabre.

The sabre was not much damaged, but Shao Xuan felt throbbing pain on his whole arm, as if it was broken into pieces.