Chapter 386

Zhao Boan was fleeing for his life and his brain was completely blank .

He had just witnessed his caravan being cleared up within a very short period of time . Yes, it was “cleared up”, as if the guards he’d hired with a large sum of money were nothing more than rubbish and were cleared up immediately by a broom .

And his enemy was only one person .

Zhao Boan’s heart was like dead ashes .

He had spent all his savings and a huge loan he borrowed in order to knock together this caravan, which was fully loaded with wood elemental materials . If he’d managed to make it to the Wilderness, he could have made at least ten times profit .

If he succeeded, he would become famous . But if he failed, he would be doomed eternally .

The huge amount of debt would kill him . All the creditors would come to him and take away everything he had, including his life .

He didn’t want to die .

He tried to negotiate with the looter and implored him to let him go . But the looter seemed to have heard nothing . All his guards had run for their lives, as life was the most critical thing at this critical moment .

Zhao Boan, however, could not escape . Without the goods, he was dead meat anyway .

Pale-faced, he was shivering all over and was stammering to beg for mercy . But the next scene he saw made him desperate .

The person removed his cloak, and it turned out to be a grass-lotus puppet . It opened the carriage gates of the Three Leaves Bamboo Carts and poured all the materials into its mouth . Its grass and lotus body was not strong, but was like a bottomless pit that could never be filled .

The grass-lotus puppet poured the wood elemental materials from each cart, one by one, into his mouth .

Zhao Boan became more and more desperate . When half of the materials were gone, Zhao Boan knew he was finished .

But as soon as this idea occurred to him, he was no longer afraid, and suddenly broke out into curses .

He was not good at cursing at all, but he racked his brains to collect all the curses in his mind and used them on the puppet .

The grass-lotus puppet was stunned, and came to his senses only after a while . He was irritated, and rushed towards Zhao Boan furiously .

Zhao Boan thought he no longer cared about life or death, but when he was faced with the ferocious grass-lotus puppet, his mind went blank and all his courage was gone . He howled in fear and turned to run at once .

The instinct to survive didn’t leave him any room to think further .

Zhao Boan never knew that he could run so fast, like a mad dog . Even the grass-lotus puppet was left far behind him .

Just at this moment, he noticed that someone was not far in front of him . Like a drowning man who grabbed a straw, he would not miss the chance and shouted loudly, “Help! Help!”

Qing Feng also noticed the figure in the front, but he didn’t intend to stop at all . He was also outraged .

His mission had completely failed . The Ling Residence collapsed, the ancient treasure was missing, Xiao Shuren committed suicide, Qing Feng himself was severely injured, and the nether lotus seeds suffered a great loss .

Qing Feng had been working for Grandmaster Dai and had accomplished numerous tasks . This was the first time that he had been so awkward . He was an arrogant guy, and the failures were a slap in the face .

He was furious and resentful .

If his opponent was Karakorum Savant, he would not be so furious . After all, it would be normal for him to lose to the first ever master swordsman ever .

But who was Chu Zhaoyang?

A nobody!

He was wounded by a nobody’s sword!

Not only his body, but his mind and spirit had also been wounded by this accident . These days he always woke up with nightmares at midnight . Fragmentary mind and spirit were taboos for elementalists, because mental recovery was far more difficult than physical recovery .

The sky palace had always been the most mysterious palace .

Moreover, Qing Feng was a grass-lotus puppet . His body was not his own, but consisted of grass and lotus, and therefore rejected his mind in many aspects . Many of his weird behaviors were due to such rejections .

Usually he had to take medicine to restrain these adverse reactions .

The medicine was prescribed by his master, who once told him frankly that so far he could not solve the problem of adverse reactions .

After the injury, all the adverse reactions that had been restrained before immediately reappeared . Qing Feng realized that his body was like a broken machine that went out of control now and then . Sometimes his hands and feet came loose and became knotted grass ropes, or his body lost balance . Such incidents occurred endlessly . Otherwise he would have already killed this little bug .

The wood elemental materials he had devoured had largely restored his elemental energy . Although not as effective as his master’s mud pool, the wood elemental energy he extracted from the materials was nourishing for his body .

This place was far away from the dangerous Silver City . So there was nothing to fear .

Silver City was really horrible . It seemed to be a shabby house that might fall down at any moment, but once you stepped into it, you would find that crisis and traps were everywhere .

Seeing the figure ahead, Qing Feng didn’t pay much attention . He wouldn’t bother to kill them both .

It was a pity that eating human beings could not restore his elemental energy . Qing Feng licked his lips in disappointment .

Wood elemental materials were hard to find, but elementalists were everywhere .

Qing Feng was annoyed that Zhao Boan cried for help and hid behind some passer-by .

Little Bug, if you thought that anyone is competent to fight against me, then you’re too naive!

With a grim smile, Qing Feng said ambiguously, “I didn’t want to kill you . You asked for it!”

Qing Feng opened his palms and the grass cords stretched and almost covered Ai Hui like five whips .

He was wounded by Chu Zhaoyang, which made him resentful towards all swordsmen . Now that he saw a bone sword in Ai Hui’s hand, his killing intent was stronger than ever .

Ai Hui was happy when he realized, after a glance, that Qing Feng hadn’t recovered from his injuries . Ai Hui had absorbed two elemental elixirs in the last few days that greatly improved his elemental level . Moreover, he was devoted to in summarizing his understandings which largely improved his swordsmanship .

So he shouted loudly, in a similar tone to Qing Feng, “I didn’t want to kill you . You asked for it!”

And the Dragonspine directly confronted the grass cords .

Qing Feng was surprised by Ai Hui’s shout, and became more furious .

Their speeds were very fast . The five grass cords constituted a thick net and swept towards Ai Hui like a violent storm . But to his surprise, his enemy was not slower than him at all .

The thick sounds of crashing was like rain rattling on banana leaves .

Ripples of elemental energy appeared, spread and were smashed between them .

At this moment, Qing Feng realized something weird . This guy’s swordsmanship was good!

He couldn’t figure it out why so many strong swordsmen had emerged all of a sudden . They seemed to be neck and neck, but Qing Feng already wanted to quit, since he hadn’t fully recovered and he still feared swordsmen from the bottom of his heart .

So once he encountered a master-hand, he wanted to escape .

But then he noticed, in fear, an attraction to his grass cords coming from the guy’s sword . His grass cords were sucked in, making him unable to escape .

What kind of swordsmanship was it?

He felt more fearful .

But Ai Hui felt fine . After all, Qing Feng had a solid foundation and great strength . The grass cords that stretched from his fingers were like the tentacles of an octopus that were extremely flexible and fast .

Ai Hui realized that his stabs could hardly follow the grass cords’ speed . He had never met with an enemy whose attacks were so fast . With such a high frequency, there was no time for him to use any fancy moves, and he could only fight back with the basic stabbing attack .

Crack, crack, crack!

Sounds of explosions could be heard up in the sky . Each collision was accompanied by a light that flickered between the two .

Realizing that he was on the disadvantageous side, he put his other hand into the fight . Ten grass cords immediately caught Ai Hui unprepared and whipped him several times .

Qing Feng was overjoyed . The ten grass cords attacked towards Ai Hui at the speed of lightning .

Ai Hui was awkward dodging the attack and was almost pierced by the cords several times .

This made Qing Feng more excited . As long as his enemy was pierced by his grass cord, his blood could be drained within a short period of time .

The ten grass cords were even more faster and transformed into an illusory image .

Crack, crack, crack!

The sound became louder, and the light shrouding Ai Hui became brighter .

One second, two seconds…five seconds…ten seconds…

Qing Feng found, in astonishment, that Ai Hui was wobbling and seemed as if he was about to fall, but he never really fell .

Damn it! Why?

Qing Deng began to feel anxious . His elemental energy was being consumed fast . He had accumulated this energy from the elemental materials he had just devoured .

Once his elemental energy was used up, he could not even run for his life .

So he suddenly started an even faster attack that suppressed Ai Hui and made him very awkward . But this time, he didn’t hesitate and decided to turn and run at once .

Wheeze, wheeze, wheeze…

Ai Hui was soaked in sweat . This was the first time that he’d encountered such a high-frequency attack . If it were not for the improvement of his swordsmanship, he would be doomed this time .

But luckily, he managed to withstand the attack . When his enemy’s moves were at their fastest, he totally reacted with his instincts . The speed at which he stabbed with his swords was faster than his thinking .

Under such high pressure, Ai Hui could feel the change in his moves . His stabs became faster, and the gestures and angles of his attack became more reasonable .

Ai Hui, soaked in sweat, breathed heavily . He stared at Qing Feng who was running away as if he was a priceless treasure .

Trying to escape?

Ai Hui smiled evilly . No precious things could escape from him!

Flapping his Starry Gem Swordwings, he rushed forward like lightning .

The Dragonspine was as flexible as a snake . It stabbed forward and kept dispersing the air in front of Ai Hui to reduce the resistance . Thus, Ai Hui’s speed was again raised to a higher level .

Qing Feng, who was fleeing, heard the thundering sound behind him . He turned back and was scared by what he saw .

Behind them, Zhao Boan was dumbstruck to see that the grass-lotus puppet that was trying to kill him was now running for his life in a huge panic .

And then, the swordsman also rushed out at an amazing speed . He watched the swordsman speeding up and up and up in a supernatural way . Suddenly, after a deafening thunder, the air around him suddenly exploded, creating a ring-shaped shock wave .

The ring-shaped shock wave seemed to freeze in the air, but the figure in the circle disappeared .