Chapter 599: Chapter 598: Misunderstanding
"Why should I tell you?"
Shi Xiaole was not surprised that he could not kill him with one sword. He continued to attack with his sword and soon fell into battle with the Fire Stiff again.
The two fought from the ground to the stone wall, and then from the stone wall to the mid-air.
It must be admitted, this Fire Stiff was terrifyingly strong. Other Limit Supreme Lords wouldn’t be able to withstand him even for a few moves, but in Fire Stiffs eyes, Shi Xiaole was also like a monster, even suppressing him a little.
After thousands of moves, Shi Xiaole found the opponent’s flaws and used the Soul Extinguisher three times. Two of those hits landed squarely, causing the Fire Stiff’s condition to deteriorate drastically.
Although Shi Xiaole was also hit by the Fire Stiff several times, he wasn’t fatally injured thanks to the conversion of the Life and Death Dual Qi.
"What do you say if we join hands? The blood energy that I have collected would also benefit you. It can enhance your strength and make you invincible in the martial world!" The Fire Stiff anxiously shouted, as he was forced into a disadvantage and his physical condition became worse and worse.
This time, his revival was entirely due to the loosening of the Array System. He was only at one percent of his peak energy. Originally, he thought he would easily take down Shi Xiaole and reappear in the martial world with this perfect body.
However, he ended up shooting himself in the foot. Now his energy was greatly depleted. If he continued this way, he feared that if a powerful enemy came, he would not be able to break the opponent’s spiritual power and might even be suppressed.
It was unthinkable that Shi Xiaole’s actual combat capability was so strong, causing him to waste so much energy. It’s infuriating!
"Invincible in the martial world? You are not invincible yourself. How can you help me to be invincible? Moreover, my invincibility does not require anyone’s help."
Shi Xiaole not only did not slow down his attack, but his sword swinging speed became faster. After finding the weakness, he used the Soul Extinguisher again, greatly weakening the Fire Stiff’s momentum.
"Damn it!"
Fire Stiff was furious and kept throwing out killer moves.
However, he was injured and in no way a match for Shi Xiaole. After few hundred moves, he was stabbed by Shi Xiaole once again. The dark mist at the wound crept into his body like a poisonous snake, slowing his movements.
"Wait until I leave the Divine Border Realm! Even if I have to search every corner of the world, I will skin you alive and dissect you lash by lash, wait for me!"
A ray of red light erupted from the Fire Stiff’s body and shot into the depths in a blink.
After a moment of hesitation, Shi Xiaole decided not to use the Heart Thunder Sword.
This sword consumed too much spiritual power and the red glow was just an incarnation. The actual damage was minimal. It would only reveal his trump card for nothing.
After chasing for some distance, Shi Xiaole abruptly stopped. He faintly sensed an incredibly powerful aura of an array from the air, posing a lethal threat to him!
Without any hesitation, Shi Xiaole turned around and ran away. This time he didn’t care about making noise. A quarter of an hour later, he rushed out of the mountain wall.
"Crafty little bastard!"
In the deepest part of the mountain wall, a furious voice roared in anger.
This place was filled with a thick red liquid that poured down from all sides. The liquid occasionally made a sizzling noise, and the aura it released was thousands of degrees in temperature!
Underneath the liquid were countless Fire Stiffs lying, seemingly still not awake.
At a certain moment, tens of thousands of Fire Stiffs rushed from different directions. A stream of red energy surged from their bodies and merged into a ball of red light in the center.
"I’m severely injured and weaker now. If I stay here and attract real powerhouses, I may not be able to survive."
The red light vibrated violently, showing extreme brutality.
This was the perfect opportunity for him to reappear in the world. He didn’t expect it to end in the hands of an ant. In the past, he could crush hundreds of these creatures with one hand.
"No, I must use the remaining energy to move to another place! But this means I will have to sleep again for a while. Fortunately, I have imprinted that boy’s aura, hahaha..."
Despite the unwillingness, despite the anger, the red glow still burst into a dazzling light.
In an instant, the ground trembled, the rocks shattered, and Shi Xiaole, who was standing outside, was horrified to see that the mountain in front of him suddenly sank like a sand sculpture, turning into a huge mound with a thunderous noise.
All these seemed to be buried in the flying dust.
"Did it conceal itself?"
Shi Xiaole raised an eyebrow, recollecting the mysterious brains under the Ghost Castle.
Both of them were sealed by the Array System and both seemed to possess a terrifying power. So, is there any connection between them? What happened a long time ago?
"The boat will right itself when it hits the pier. I’ll worry about these things later."
Shaking his head, Shi Xiaole threw these thoughts aside. Depending on the level of one’s power, one should focus on the matters at hand. Right now, he should see the reaction of those troublesome Fire Stiffs.
Not long after Shi Xiaole left, a figure flew from tens of thousands of meters away, arriving near in the blink of an eye. The speed was even better than the ghosts and spirits mentioned in folk tales.
"Oh, such an evil aura."
The old man had white hair and his body aura was restrained as if he was just an ordinary man over seventy, without any sign of being a powerful figure. Then, in the very next moment, he made a grasping motion in mid-air.
Boom!
Directly facing him, a huge mound suddenly had a gap three feet wide appearing, extending from the bottom to the top, as if the whole mound was sliced into two halves.
The elder took a step forward, his body entered the mound, following the path downwards, utterly disregarding the Fire Stiff corpses lying around, pausing at the deepest part.
"This kind of Array System aura?"
Even though it was just a lingering trace, the elder was greatly shaken, with a sense of fear spreading throughout his body.
"This place must definitely be sealing an ancient evil, but according to the records of my family’s ancient books, the ancestor of the Fire Stiffs was clearly buried in one of the eight wonders of the world, the Falling Star Gorge... It is said that the ancestor of the Fire Stiffs had seven sons, could the person here be one of those seven sons?"
The elder fell into deep thought, his brow furrowed.
The news of the appearance of the Fire Stiffs spread quickly, but it still took time for the whole of Tian State to know. The elder was the first super expert to arrive.
"However, since the evil object has been moved, it means that this turmoil of the Fire Stiffs should end."
At this moment, the elder suddenly felt relieved.
If the evil object hadn’t been moved, judging only from the remaining aura, he would have been placed in great danger, as if this was a particularly set trap.
...
The Fire Stiffs wreaked havoc all over the mountain range, not sparing even birds, poisonous snakes, and reptiles in their search for humans, leaving all traces of life desolated in their wake.
But at this moment, all the Fire Stiffs seemed to have sensed something; they roared in unison, and their movements even became a lot slower.
On the mountain peak’s checkpoint, the experts were fighting back. Although they didn’t know what exactly had happened, they didn’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. Each of them fought valiantly, their efficiency in killing instantly many times better than usual.
With the loss of their mainstay, some Fire Stiffs resisted, some escaped down the mountain, some even jumped off cliffs, scattering in all directions. In less than half a 2-hour period, the battle had ended, leaving the experts somewhat at a loss.
"What’s going on?"
"It’s not normal. Could it be that these Fire Stiffs exhausted their energy, so their combat power is not as strong as before?"
The experts were engaged in a heated discussion, with some people trailed after them. Soon after they returned with an odd look on their faces: "These Fire Stiffs seemed to be in a state of terror, their ability to resist has weakened a lot. I managed to kill hundreds of them along the way."
Finally, an elder of the Martial World frowned and said, "I’ve heard the elders say that back in the old days, the hierarchical system of the Fire God Palace was strict. Most of the low-level Fire Stiffs were refined by high-level ones, so their strength was affected by them. Could it be that a high-level Fire Stiff was killed in secret, causing this situation?"
Everyone in the Martial World there was not deaf, they had already been on guard against the occasional roars, only that they were unable to track its location, hence they could only passively fight.
Upon hearing the elder’s words, some people’s eyes flickered. Evil Intent Young Master laughed, "It must be some Terrestrial Immortal who came to eliminate this disaster for us."
By Terrestrial Immortals, he meant experts in the Divine Barrier Realm. As they heard this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. At present, only this explanation seemed most plausible; this also meant that they’ve all escaped crisis.
"Brother Shi!"
Just at this moment, Zhao Hong suddenly saw the newly arrived Shi Xiaole and happily called him out. He then detailed everything that had happened prior.
"Heh heh, what a coincidence Young Hero Shi, you came back just as the Fire Stiffs retreated. Where were you just now?"
An expert laughed whilst asking this question, his tone filled with heavy mockery.
In the eyes of those in the Martial World, they abhor those who desert the battlefield the most, and in their eyes, Shi Xiaole’s previous actions were no different from deserting.
"I bet Young Hero Shi must have a chivalrous heart and knowing that we are here to protect this place, he turned around to save the cats and dogs in the mountain."
Another expert said faintly, causing laughter to erupt among those present.
"Stop talking nonsense. I believe Young Hero Shi is not that kind of person."
Sun Wei retorted indignantly, although his conviction was evidently insufficient, as Shi Xiaole’s previous actions were indeed abnormal, it was hard to come up with a defense for him.
"The facts are all there, what is there to argue about? Could it be you think the disappearance of that high-level Fire Stiff has something to do with him?"
Evil Intent Young Master shook his head and laughed, "Anyway, the crisis has been averted. Why do we need to focus on such trivial matters? We should hurry and take the villagers home."
The face of Evil Intent Young Master seemed unconcerned, but his heart was elated.
Because of Shi Xiaole’s earlier actions, he was publicly humiliated by the villagers, and he had been holding a grudge ever since. Now seeing everyone’s disdain for Shi Xiaole, he couldn’t help but want to mock him a few more times.
And the biggest mock, undoubtedly, was to ignore him.
Upon hearing Evil Intent Young Master’s words, everyone nodded in agreement.
To them, whether Shi Xiaole was good or bad did not matter much. After all, they had only a chance encounter and whether they would meet again was uncertain. At most, they would only look down on him in their hearts, thinking him not worthy of being befriended.
As for all of this, Shi Xiaole did not explain himself.
He did things, always not for others, nor for recognition. To be forthright under heaven and earth was enough.
"Everyone, I think, you might have misunderstood Young Master Shi."
Just at this moment, a deep and magnetic female voice rang out.
