Chapter 1365: Chapter 1345: That Figure—Too Lethal!
The next second, Hu Feng’s rough shout shattered that cozy atmosphere. "After them!"
Hu Feng swung his big hand, leading the more than eighty Guardians behind him, and shot after Ye Huan and the Empress at a terrifying speed!
And they weren’t just simply chasing; on the way they kept firing off killing moves!
In an instant, flames blasted into the sky inside the great rift valley. The flashes from all kinds of killing techniques lit up this whole stretch of night.
Ye Huan could clearly feel that the group behind him was very different from the Guardians he’d met earlier.
In terms of both strength and combat quality, these people far surpassed the sixty Guardians he’d run into before.
Take the killing moves they were using right now, for example.
This group of Guardians didn’t attack him and the Empress directly. Half of them attacked the surrounding mountainsides, blasting the rock faces apart, sending rubble spraying and boulders flying everywhere, while the other half stored up power, aiming at Ye Huan, ready to unleash their killing moves when he dodged the falling rocks!
"Boom—"
"Crack—"
"Clang—"
The rumbling never stopped. Stones crashed down from the cliffs, shaking the earth and kicking up clouds of dust.
For a short time, Ye Huan was really having a hard time coping. He had to shield the Empress, dodge the rocks and the attacks hidden behind them, and his vision was blocked by dust. Even thinking in three directions at once wasn’t enough!
But he still forcibly pushed his focus to the absolute limit!
Right then, a boulder larger than a man, blotting out the sky, had its base blasted loose by the Guardians’ killing moves and came tumbling down the mountain, smashing straight toward the spot in front of Ye Huan!
"Do it!" Hu Feng shouted, convinced Ye Huan would have to burn a lot of strength dodging that boulder, so this was the best chance to take aim and attack.
The Guardians all thought the same. They hurried to charge up their killing moves, planning to land one clean hit and then capture Ye Huan and the Empress!
But in the next second, something they’d never expected happened.
Not only did Ye Huan not dodge the massive rock, he actually raised his iron fists and smashed into it, blasting the boulder into over a hundred small chunks, then thrust his palm sideways!
"Swish—"
A powerful gust of force appeared out of nowhere, blasting those small stones out to distances ranging from over a hundred meters to more than a thousand meters away from him!
Then Ye Huan leaped forward, running across the air, his feet rapidly stepping on those midair stones. He actually used them as stepping boards, and at a crazy speed he dodged all the killing moves coming from behind and opened up a gap of over a thousand meters between himself and the Guardians!
His figure vanished directly into the dust, disappearing from the Guardians’ sight!
"Holy shit, you can do that?!!?" Hu Feng and all the Guardians under him stared in the direction Ye Huan disappeared, their eyeballs almost popping out!
But they still let out an unwilling growl and chased after him!
Ye Huan gave a quick glance back, then sped up again, suddenly charging out of the great rift valley!
What greeted his eyes was a wide, muddy river. The current was fierce, the water a turbid yellow!
Ye Huan didn’t hesitate at all. He wrapped an arm around the Empress and leaped straight into the river!
Seeing this, Hu Feng and the pursuing Guardians didn’t hesitate either and jumped into the river after them!
"Glug, glug... find them!" Underwater, with river water pouring into his mouth, Hu Feng still managed to bark out an order to his Guardian lackeys.
The Guardians, having received the command, all started searching around at the river bottom.
It didn’t take long before they were totally confused.
Other than a dozen big crocodiles, there wasn’t the slightest sign of those two brats at the bottom of the river. What the hell?
Could it be... they’d been played?!
Did Ye Huan reuse his old trick—boost his speed to the max the instant he entered the water, use Shifting Form and Position to leave an afterimage in the current to fool them, while his real body jumped to the opposite bank?
Highly likely. Fuck!
Thinking that, Hu Feng and the others’ faces turned green with rage, and they hurriedly surfaced.
Sure enough, two figures were standing proudly on the opposite bank of the river!
Hu Feng instantly felt like his IQ had been stomped on. Furious and flustered, he shouted, "Brat, you’re despicable!"
"It’s not that I’m despicable, it’s that you’re too stupid."
Ye Huan gave a cold laugh, shifted his right hand into a seal, activated the Eight Gates Escape Armor, let his aura explode, then punched forward, blasting a shockwave straight at the river’s surface!
At once, a thousand-meter-tall wave with earth-shattering force rose up in the river!
Hu Feng was dumbfounded. How did this Initial-Tier Divine King kid’s full-power strike faintly carry the might of a high-tier Divine King?!
In the river, movement was extremely restricted.
Even a high-tier Divine King was no exception.
By the time Hu Feng came back to himself, it was too late to dodge. He just felt that his entire strength couldn’t be displayed at all in front of Ye Huan, and the frustration was off the charts.
The huge, crashing wave slammed him and the Guardians straight down to the riverbed. The backs of their heads cracked into the rocks below. Many of them, full of grief and indignation, blacked out on the spot and were washed downstream by the current.
With that, Ye Huan had taken care of all the Guardians trying to block his path!
"Hoo—"
Exhaling a mouthful of turbid air, Ye Huan released his Eight Gates Escape Armor state.
Worried that more Guardians might catch up, he didn’t linger. He grabbed the Empress by the hand and ran into the forested mountains ahead!
...
"You can’t wear these for now. The altitude’s high here and it’s really cold, probably about minus ten degrees. If you keep those on, the clothes will literally freeze to your body. Even if you’re a Celestial God Level powerhouse, under this kind of torture you’ll definitely catch a chill and start showing symptoms of a real illness." After finding a cave, Ye Huan chopped a pile of firewood and dry grass, started a warm fire by drilling wood, then checked over the Empress’s clothes.
Earlier, to make Hu Feng’s group believe that he and the Empress had actually jumped into the river, he really had held her and stayed at the bottom for a full second before kicking off, using Shifting Form and Position to bring her to the opposite bank.
Because of that, both his and the Empress’s clothes were completely soaked.
The Empress hugged her knees, shivering by the fire for warmth, her pretty face slightly flushed. "But... but all the clothes in the bundle are soaked too. I can’t change into anything."
"You still have to take off that cotton jacket and cotton pants. Look, you can wring water out of them." Ye Huan grabbed the sleeve of her cotton jacket and gave it a hard twist.
"Drip, drip."
The water squeezed from the jacket instantly soaked the ground.
The clothes inside the bundle were the same—every piece so wet you could wring water out.
"Then what do I wear? I can’t just be naked, can I?" The Empress was mortified.
Ye Huan’s old face also reddened slightly. "Wait here."
Saying that, he left the cave.
When he came back, he was carrying a big bundle of dry grass and tree vines.
Using some fine weaving techniques, he intertwined the grass and vines, making a quilt with excellent insulation and a simple mattress. Then he held the grass quilt over the fire for a bit, and it soon became warm.
"Take off your wet cotton jacket and cotton pants and lie inside. You shouldn’t feel cold anymore." Ye Huan blinked as he spoke.
"O-okay..."
The Empress was clearly a bit stiff and embarrassed. She answered shyly, then started taking off her soaked cotton jacket and cotton pants.
The last layer was a black knitted sweater of a wirrner cut. When she pulled that off, Ye Huan turned his head away.
Beneath the cotton pants was a pair of stockings completely drenched in river water.
She peeled off the stockings and tossed them aside, then, braving the cold wind, used the fire’s warmth to slowly bake the river water off her skin.
Even though Ye Huan couldn’t see anything too specific, the Empress’s silhouette, outlined by the firelight, still let him take in the full curve of her proud and insanely sexy figure.
The killing power of that sight was damn near heaven-defying!
