Chapter 406: The Battle Escalates (2/2)
The Blood Asura felt the defiance in their smiles. But, he also put on a smile as his eyes flashed with a murderous feeling. His smile was full of hair-raising killing intent. The other people also felt that intent and fell back in order to not get involved.
The Blood Asura fixed his murderous eyes on Minghe and Hongjun. Then, he said in a low voice wearing that scary smile, ”The two of you are funny. You don't show any fear of me. It's great, I like that. I like people like you, and I'll like it more when you start to fear. The killing is about to begin.”
Minghe and Hongjun exchanged a glance as if they were communicating. The Blood Asura became furious when they ignored him like that. He struck out his blood-red machete, and the blade Qi turned into numerous bloodied spiritual dragons that overwhelmingly went at the two people. In an instant, the air full of killing intent pervaded the sky.
The Blood Asura did live up to his fame. His bloodied machete was a Top Grade Spiritual Treasure of Chaos similar to Hongjun's sword, and it seemed to exceed Hongjun's. The power of the machete was further strengthened by its owner's Law of Killing. An ordinary Cultivator at the Middle Stage of the Fate Realm would probably be injured, if he could even survive.
Facing such attacks, Minghe and Hongjun remained calm without the slightest hint of fear. Then, Hongjun took a small step and reached out, and a chessboard appeared in his hand. Hongjun sang: ”The world is a chessboard, and everything within it is its pawn.” In a flash, the chessboard became gigantic against the Starry Sky.
”Transform!” Another song was heard. The blade Qi immediately stopped in the air and collapsed at the chessboard in the form of pawns. Lines on the chessboard crossed the three people. Minghe, Hongjun, and the Blood Asura were the players in this extraordinary life-and-death game.
”What a Heaven and Earth game!” Minghe could not help being amazed. That was not an ordinary chessboard. It was a Highest Grade Spiritual Treasure of Chaos in the aspect of Spiritual Treasures, and it was also a Tactical Field in the aspect of tactical formations. Minghe, Hongjun, and the Blood Asura were all in the formation, and the tactical formation went by a strange name.
Its name was the Universal Life and Death Chess. Once you were in the formation, you could only escape by killing someone else or destroying the chessboard. And what was even more special was that it would transfer the luck of the dead man to the one who was living. Thus, it was widely acclaimed amongst many forces.
There were always disagreements within a force. And if one occurred that was irreconcilable, a life and death duel would be held. The duel usually took place in a tactical formation like the Universal Life and Death Chess. That way, they would not waste a disciple's cultivation.
But Hongjun's chessboard was different from the Life and Death Platform. In the Life and Death Platform, both of the players were pawns that were not in control, while here, Hongjun was able to do that. For the first time, the Blood Asura panicked. Apparently, he did not expect it, but fortunately, the tactical formation was not a major attacking one, otherwise, he would have been doomed.
Hongjun ignored the Blood Asura and spat another word: ”Restore!” Then, the pawns turned back into blade Qi and slashed right at the Blood Asura himself. The Blood Asura's countenance changed, and he wielded his machete. The clashes of the numerous blade Qi were ear-piercing.
The blade Qi clashed and vanished. The Blood Asura narrowed his eyes and wore an angry face. It was such a humiliation to be hit by his own blade Qi. He had taken a wrong step to let his opponent take advantage of his own move. Now, it was not easy for him to control it. But he was about to fight back. He would acquire all their luck so long as he could kill them.
However, before he could dream, he was awoken to reality. When all the blade Qi had vanished, a giant axe chopped at him. He was immediately alert and parried with his machete. Other than the clashes, he also heard a crisp sound of cracking.
Though he had warded off the axe, the Blood Asura showed no delights at all. Seeing his old machete, his face turned pale. Under the hit, his machete broke and cracks crawled onto its blade. He was greatly affected by the damage of his Spiritual Treasure.
The Blood Asura lifted his head to look at Minghe and Hongjun, traceless of the arrogance and fury that had been on his face. There was only awe and fear now. Two Highest Grade Spiritual Treasures of Chaos appeared out of the blue. But the scariest part was the Blood Asura did not know if it was their best strike. The only thing he knew was this might be his fate.