Chapter 146: Chapter 144: Yee Youmeng
The Two Principles Generate the Four Symbols: Lesser Yang, Taiyang, Lesser Yin, and Taiyin!
Four beams of Sword Light stabbed toward the four men without any warning.
The Lesser Yang and Taiyang swords were scorching like fire, seemingly capable of incinerating everything. The Lesser Yin and Taiyin swords, cold as ice, felt as if they could freeze all of creation.
Terrifying, sharp, and unstoppable.
PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!
The three Noble Family Descendants at the Innate Seventh Layer Perfection Realm didn’t even have time to react before they were slain. Two had their life force incinerated by the Lesser Yang and Taiyang swords, while one had his soul frozen and extinguished by the Lesser Yin Sword!
Only the Noble Family Leader’s son, at the Innate Eighth Layer Initial Stage, reacted a fraction faster. He activated his Defensive Secret Artifact just in time to barely block the Taiyin Sword.
But even so, he still felt a bone-deep chill that seemed to freeze his very life!
’What terrifying Sword Skill! To derive a whole new wave of attacks from a Sword Technique that was just fading away... this is the realm of endless proliferation within the Sword Dao!’
The face of the Noble Family Leader’s son was pale, partly from the Taiyin Sword Qi invading his body, and partly from sheer terror.
The Spiritual Qi in his body was now circulating several times slower than usual, his strength dropping directly below the Minor Grandmaster Realm.
’This is bad. In this state, I have to retreat to survive!’
This time, the son of the Noble Family Leader was truly afraid. He felt that the youth before him was simply too terrifying. Despite being only at the Innate Sixth Layer Initial Stage, he truly possessed the power to slaughter them all.
However, he then roared, "He’s heavily injured and on his last legs! Everyone, attack together! Kill him, and the Guo Family will surely reward you handsomely!"
Hearing this and seeing Jiang Jichen’s condition, the four remaining Minor Grandmasters at the Late Stage of the Innate Seventh Realm charged at him once more.
But in the next moment, instead of advancing, the Noble Family Leader’s son retreated, pulling back as fast as he could.
His body had been invaded by the Taiyin’s cold qi, causing his Cultivation to drop. Rushing forward now would just be suicide. His only option was to let these men obstruct Jiang Jichen and buy him time to escape.
By the time the others realized what was happening, it was too late. Their attacks were already raining down on Jiang Jichen.
The person Jiang Jichen wanted to kill most was the Noble Family Leader’s son, but he hadn’t expected the man to be so treacherous. He was the type to let his companions die to save his own skin, retreating decisively with extreme ruthlessness and cruelty.
Faced with the attacks of these four, he could only drag his heavily wounded body forward to meet them.
As for the Noble Family Leader’s son, Jiang Jichen couldn’t split himself in two. He could only watch the man escape, feeling a pang of regret.
"Illusory Indeterminacy!"
"Eight-direction Wind and Rain, Earth and Heaven Shaking!"
He used the Ghost Shadow Step Technique in concert with his Sword Skill, simultaneously evading the four men’s ultimate killing moves while counterattacking with his strongest area-of-effect Sword Technique.
A rain of swords scattered down, pattering like a drizzle, landing with the wind and silently shattering into nothingness.
As the four men attacked, they found Jiang Jichen’s Sword Skill utterly unavoidable. They were all riddled with holes like sieves, as dead as they could possibly be.
Of course, Jiang Jichen took several more hits in the process, and his body was nearly torn apart. But he was, after all, a Body Refiner at the Innate Fifth Layer Perfect Realm. The Undying Power surged from his Body’s Innate Acupoints and flowed through him, instantly healing nearly half his injuries.
Just then, he prepared to rush into the mountains ahead to hunt down the Noble Family Leader’s son. After all, everything had happened in just a few breaths of time; the man hadn’t gotten far and was still within sight.
However, before he could even charge forward, he heard a blood-curdling scream.
A flash of a blade sliced through the air, followed by a geyser of blood. A large head flew into the air, and the Noble Family Leader’s son fell.
Then, Jiang Jichen saw a slender figure walking toward him from a distance, dragging a large machete. The figure’s eyes were bright and quite beautiful, but also completely indifferent. His gaze, as he looked at Jiang Jichen, was filled with wariness.
’It was the slender youth who had been thrown aside by the Totem Youth. To think he hadn’t left, but had been hiding in the mountains and even lopped off the head of the Noble Family Leader’s son with a single strike.’
’Even though the Noble Family Leader’s son had been weakened by the Taiyin Sword Qi, leaving him with only the Cultivation of the Innate Sixth Layer Perfect Realm, the slender youth was merely at the Innate Fourth Realm. This proved his combat prowess was extraordinary—he was also a Transcender.’
Jiang Jichen was injured and couldn’t be bothered to deal with him. He took out a handful of pills and swallowed them, then stood to one side to refine their energy and heal his wounds.
Meanwhile, the slender youth walked over to his brother and started to leave, dragging the barely breathing Totem Youth behind him.
Dragging a heavy large machete in one hand and a dying young man in the other, while being so incredibly thin and frail himself—the scene was rather bizarre.
What made Jiang Jichen wince was that the youth left a long trail of blood wherever he dragged his brother.
’At this rate, even if the burly young man wasn’t dead to begin with, the slender youth is going to torment him to death!’
But Jiang Jichen didn’t move. He let the other party leave, watching them slowly disappear into the mountains.
About a double-hour later, Jiang Jichen had recovered seventy percent of his strength. The wounds on his body were mostly healed, and he was no longer in critical condition.
Jiang Jichen still hadn’t left. He hadn’t cleaned up the battlefield and collected his spoils of war yet.
The slender youth, at least, had been sensible enough to only drag away the Totem Youth and not take anything else.
Jiang Jichen quickly collected the Storage Bags from all the bodies, sparing no one, whether they were Noble Family Descendants or Loose Cultivators.
He stuffed the smaller bags into larger ones, and in the end, all the Storage Bags were placed into the High-Level Storage Bag he had taken from Cang Songzi. There were over a hundred in total. He had really struck it rich this time!
Of course, the Cultivation of these people was too low and their years of practice too few. All their wealth combined couldn’t compare to what he had gotten from Cang Songzi. Still, added together, it was a considerable sum of Cultivation Resources.
As for what was inside, Jiang Jichen had no time to take inventory now. He needed to leave this place as quickly as possible. He feared that people from the Noble Families would hear the commotion and arrive here soon.
So, after finishing all this, Jiang Jichen also rushed deeper into the mountains.
Along the way, he could see a trail of blood on the ground, which left Jiang Jichen speechless.
’Could he be any more obvious?’
’Does the slender youth not understand, or what’s his deal?’
’But soon, Jiang Jichen saw the corpse of the Noble Family Leader’s son. The Mid-Level Storage Bag on his body hadn’t even been taken. It seems the slender youth is truly naive!’
’But if he’s so naive, why doesn’t he show any mercy when cutting people down?’
Jiang Jichen was at a loss for words.
However, dusk was falling, and Jiang Jichen needed to find a place to rest as soon as possible. So, he collected the Mid-Level Storage Bag from the Noble Family Leader’s son, picked up his pace, and passed through dense mountain forests. Soon he was over thirty miles away.
By now, the sky was dark. But just as he was walking through a patch of Ancient Forest, he spotted the flickering of a fire far ahead.
Jiang Jichen drifted closer without a sound. Logically, since he was using Shadow Step, not even a Grandmaster should have been able to detect him. But just as he drew near, a massive blade shadow, swift as lightning, slashed at him from the side.
