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Translator: Tamon
It went against everything he knew.
He’d heard this mountain had a demon snake and a demon dog, as crafty and sharp as humans. They killed Snake Catchers Sect disciples, stole Unfettered Sect’s Spirit Tail Chickens, and even spoke while making themselves scarce, be it through air or underground.
He never gave it any credence, thinking the rumor mill was blowing things out of proportion.
Having seen it for himself, now he was a believer.
Ye Haichuan’s eyes turned frosty.
“Don’t even think you’ll be getting out of here alive. You killed my sect’s disciples!”
Ye Haichuan gripped a fist and the world dimmed. Sand filled the sky as it mixed with stones into a maelstrom coming straight for Xu Hei.
Earth magical art, Sandstorm!
Now this was a Foundation Establishment cultivator in all his glory, unleashing large-scale magical arts from hundreds of meters away.
It was on a whole different level than the Qi Refining Stage.
Pa~!
The sand slammed into the lizards and sent them flying, ground to dust in the storm. Most of them were gone in that instant.
Xiao Hei didn’t have the luxury to lament, removing Earth Prison so the remaining lizards carried the white snake and wolf king away.
He took off in another direction.
“Go!’
The large flying sword beneath Ye Haichuan shot out, as heavy as a rock. It warped gravity around it, cleaving everything in its path to Xu Hei.
The black snake knew dodging was impossible and resorted to lashing out high with his tail.
Clang!
The deafening sharp sound rang across the mountain.
Ye Haichuan was shocked to find that his flying sword was chipped and cracked in many places, flung backward.
Xu Hei didn’t fair any better, coughing blood as he slammed into the ground dozens of meters away.
He had the dark golden scales to shield his tail, but they weren’t infallible to all damage, the impact rattled his bones so much they had hairline fractures.
“So this is the Foundation Establishment Stage. The gap is immense.” Xu Hei gnashed his teeth.
He was at the 6th layer of the Awareness Stage, but that proved nothing to a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Not even Chen Daoling stuffed with pills could bridge the gap.
Facing such a deadly opponent, Xu Hei felt powerless.
The enemy was a cut above Chen Daoling, surpassing him in everything, Divine Sense, magical arts, knowledge, instincts, and experience.
Ye Haichuan was also shaken up. A mighty Foundation Establishment cultivator like him couldn’t cleave an Awareness Stage demon snake.
His eyes fixed on Xu Hei, hatred building. “I’m curious, just what secrets are you hiding?”
He shot after Xu Hei, the chipped broadsword flitting through the air as it came in for the kill.
Xu Hei ducked underground with his trusty Earthen Motion, but Ye Haichuan used another art to harden the soil to rock.
Any Earthen Motion user would find himself trapped.
To Ye Haichuan’s surprise, Xu Hei was unaffected, speeding along like usual.
“This can’t be!” Ye Haichuan gasped.
A given, since Xu Hei had been tempering himself more times than he could count, going as far as eight hundred meters below ground and overcoming the pressure and hardness with ease.
Xu Hei used the lapse in reaction to gain a five hundred meters advantage.
“You can’t escape!”
Ye Haichuan landed and put his hands on the ground. His mind focused as his eyes grew cold.
Xu Hei felt danger coming up ahead.
He jerked to the left out of instinct, avoiding the huge spike jutting out right next to him and out of the ground.
Boom!
It reached thirty meters high, towering and imposing.
Xu Hei felt a shiver. He was this close to becoming a snake shish kebab.
“He dodged? What sharp instincts!”
Ye Haichuan was amazed but didn’t give up. “Piercing Earth Spike!”
Danger kept assaulting Xu Hei’s mind, backtracking a hundred meters, just in time to see the earth jutting out again.
Xu Hei had no time to catch his breath, forced to back up again.
Boom!
Another spike rushed out. Again and again and again…
Boom~!
Spikes speared the sky as Xu Hei gave his all to weave through the killing blows with uncanny precision, pushed up with each attack.
The slightest mistake would be his undoing.
“Curses, he wants to dig me out.”
Xu Hei ground his teeth and jumped in the air. He used a swift talisman on his belly to ride the wind out of there.
“Ha-ha, right on time! Sandstorm!”
Ye Haichuan pushed out his arms and sand came in like a raging storm. It blew away the trees and ground them to nothing in the air, while the stones were eroded to sand, contributing to the hellish attack.
Eliminating the demon’s advantage, that of Earthen Motion, and shifting the fight to the air was a sure win.
But his eyes went wide as he gawked at the sky.
Gone!
Xu Hei was just gone.
He narrowed his eyes, unable to believe it. “How can he just vanish?”
Ye Haichuan flew over to the sandstorm and found it empty. Xu Hei had pulled a vanishing act just as the sandstorm neared.
He was too far away when he attacked an didn’t see clearly either.
Using Divine Sense to encompass five hundred meters around, he checked every inch of this large area, yet nothing.
“It has to be some concealing talisman or magic treasure. I refuse to believe you’re gone!”
He took out black dust and scattered it in the air. A sudden gale carried it away.
The black dust spread out in the air, underground, covering all bases.
The Visionary Dust was the bane of all stealth arts.
No matter the skill or the place, it would stick to the target and expose him.
Ye Haichuan watched the dust to its thing, but nothing showed up.
That could mean one thing. “He went back?”
Ye Haichuan whipped around and stared with bloodshot eyes.
Zhu Ze and Xue Hu’s storage bags were missing.
Ye Haichuan raged. [The damn critter dared to come back and steal the storage bags!]
This was humiliation!
Ye Haichuan felt like he was going to pop. A nobody Awareness Stage demon taunted him to no end!
“I vow to find you, even if I have to dig to hell to do it!”
…
Xu Hei was eight hundred meters below, panting and sweating.
Eating a pill, his True Qi recovered quickly.
The many attempts confirmed his thoughts. He couldn’t win. Even giving his all would only offer a third chance of success.
Xu Hei knew cultivators had weak bodies. The second he was in melee, it was all over, even for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
But the enemy’s range was ridiculous, killing anything within five hundred meters. Not to mention those deadly magical arts that would flay him alive if he got caught in one. Getting close was simply delusional.
On top of that, the human’s magic treasures were unknown, having used only that large flying sword. Who knew how many aces he had?
Xu Hei had maintained a constant distance of five hundred meters at all times to ensure his survival. The other wasn’t dumb enough to wait for him to get close.
“The dog’s right. Skipping stages might be possible to geniuses among geniuses, but it’s like going against the natural order.
Xu Hei sighed.
He lacked the cultivation and the magical arts in this fight.
His training in the elemental magical arts was varied and shallow. Xu Hei had the talent to master every one of those magical arts, but he couldn’t showcase their true superiority.
The Shifting Mountain Sect specialized in the earth element, taking in disciples with earth spirit roots, bringing out the true potential of their arts.
Xu Hei was good with earth magical arts as well, but he only knew Earthen Motion. He didn’t even have the jade slips to try other skills.
The fight was a valuable learning experience.
Thanks to the dog’s Invisible Talisman, Xu Hei could run wild in the fight.
Xu Hei didn’t tarry. Recovering some True Qi, he was about to circle back having stalled enough. The white snake and the wolf king ought to be safe by now.
“Ha-ha, so that’s where you’re hiding, you worm!” A shrill laughter rang in his ears.
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