Chapter 598: Shadowy Pursui (2/2)
An eerie flame flickered through Eden’s eyes. This was all the more reason not to let the other party escape, but he wasn’t in such a rush to hunt Qianye down just yet. He paced about for a brief moment and shouted, “Men!”
A faint shadow appeared nearby and bowed. “I await your command.”
“I remember this is the Li family’s warzone, right? Find a way to contact that person and tell him to kill the fellow from just now. Tell him that, as long as he does this job well, the things he desire won’t be a problem.”
The figure bowed respectfully and faded away into the mist.
Eden looked up at the sky and sighed. “Dying to one’s own people is no fitting end for a warrior. So… you’d better die obediently under my blade.”
Dozens of kilometers away, Qianye was running at full speed, changing his forward route from time to time. Hazy silhouettes kept appearing around Qianye which attacked his vitals with grey beams of light. These shadows almost seemed to appear out of thin air with no set pattern. Their attacks were as quick as they were ruthless, forcing even Qianye into a miserable state as he was struck from time to time.
A shadow appeared once more at Qianye’s backside, and the grey light in its hand stabbed at Qianye’s wound. This attack was extremely crafty and ruthless. Qianye didn’t have the time to evade and merely used his vampiric blade to press the powerful attack downward, causing it to land on his waist.
The grey light’s true form was revealed as a dagger of unremarkable design. But the blade actually cut open Young Dragon and left a wound on Qianye’s body. Although the injury to his skin was merely the length of a finger, it went to show that the other party had the strength to harm him.
These eerie shadows were actually able to keep up with Qianye at his full speed. It was true that the latter had been injured, but these shadows couldn’t be underestimated, either.
After a brief moment of running, a cold gleam appeared in Qianye’s eyes as he came to an abrupt halt.
The four shadows reacted instantly and stopped at the same time, quickly forming an encirclement around him. However, the extreme inertia also brought their figures out of concealment.
“Four, huh?” Qianye scanned the scene with eyes like lightning. He had already formed a general idea.
The four silhouettes pounced at him without the slightest hesitation, their daggers all aimed at Qianye’s vitals. The latter brought East Peak into his grasp with a backhand motion and unleashed a loud roar. With both hands on the blade, he brandished it like a mountain peak and launched three consecutive strikes.
Sweeping Calm!
To be precise, his attack could only cover three directions. However, the four shadows couldn’t move a single inch after East Peak appeared—it was as though a mountain were bearing down upon them.
Three shadowy figures were cut into six parts where the three strikes landed. Having escaped a direct blow, the fourth silhouette finally managed to throw himself at Qianye, its dagger aimed at Qianye’s back. However, the latter made no attempt to evade and allowed the blade to connect. The dagger was extremely sharp and managed to pierce through Young Dragon once more. Additionally, this blow had come straight for him at full force. The tip of the blade sunk into his flesh, and eventually, half the blade, too.
But Young Dragon was a heavy armor made for Bai Longjia himself and thus possessed fairly powerful defenses. At this point, the shadow found that he no longer had the strength to push the blade in—neither could he pull it back out.
Qianye grabbed ahold of the figure with his left hand and dragged it into his embrace. At the same time, he grabbed East Peak with his right hand and placed the edge upon the shadow’s neck. Then, a light press of the blade sent its head flying away. Qianye also kicked the body away to prevent any final counterattacks.
The battle began quickly and ended just as fast. In the blink of an eye, the four shadows had become corpses at Qianye’s feet.
Qianye wasn’t feeling too great, either. He momentarily gasped for breath before removing the blade in his back, sending a stream of black blood gushing out from the wound. Qianye made no attempt to stop the blood immediately. He merely watched until the grey fluid had flowed out completely and the blood had turned red. Only then did he close the wound and stop the flow of blood.
At this time, the hazy corpses were gradually becoming clearer. Qianye was surprised because this situation wasn’t common even among the dark races. No matter how strong an expert was, they would lose their concealment abilities upon death, thus revealing their original forms.
These eerie figures had been cut down by Sweeping Calm or beheaded, yet their energy was taking so long to disperse. Apparently, their strength wasn’t mediocre at all.
Qianye crouched down to inspect them and, as expected, found some remnant demonic origin power. This proved that these shadows were all demonkin. There weren’t any insignias on them, but judging from the coordinated attack just now, they were very likely from the same clan.
These eerie shadows were clearly trained as hidden killers and shared great teamwork be it in terms of tracking or assassination. Qianye had to pay a steep price in order to kill all of them in one go. His origin power was on the verge of exhaustion. At the moment, he had no more hidden aces to play except the Shot of Inception, and his newly obtained Young Dragon was already half-destroyed.
The real powerful expert hadn’t caught up to him just yet, but he probably wasn’t too far off.
Qianye didn’t have much time to think before the ground substance beneath his feet began to tremble. He cried out in his mind as he suddenly recalled a problem—the giant trees in the vicinity were all trembling, and the treetops were bulging up. It would seem the creatures inside would break out any second.
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