Chapter 531 Eight months ago (4)


    Lai Lei held on to his sword, with a faint silver light shing in his eyes. He still maintained the same peaceful and graceful aura, despite the tenseness of the situation, while the grey mes of the shadow me hawk seemed much more vibrant.


    They passed halfway through the in with no incident, it was only when they were almost at the edge that a change finally happened.


    Lai Lei tightly gripped his sword as he narrowed his gaze and took a small deep breath. A silver line suddenly shed in his eyes and he lept off the shadow me hawk''s back swinging his sword horizontally.


    Boom!


    A thunderous explosion sounded that parted the hot mist from the in as sprays of blood suddenly appeared with cleanly sliced yellow med thorn chameleons appearing seemingly out of nowhere.


    "Fellow Daoist, it can''t be that you were hunting the yellow me-thorned chameleon, and I happened to interrupt your strike, could it?" Lai Lei said as he softlynded on the ground with his gaze fixed on the ck-robed person standing a few hundred meters away from him.


    The ck-robed person had concealed their face with a mask that was made in the image of a spider''s abdomen and legs. It was a mix of red and ck.


    Lai Lei had a nigh imperceptible frown on his face, as it could feel some sort of istion power being released by the mask. It seemed to iste everything about the person, about the only thing Lai Lei could tell about the person, was that they were at the quasi-pce stage, the same as him, and the only reason he was able to glean that, was from their earlier sh.


    The ck-robed person didn''t respond to Lai Lei as he pulled a chained deer horn knife. As he pulled it, the motion created a deep tear to the ground. It sliced through it easily like a hot knife through butter.


    "Top tier monarch grade weapon, quasi pce stage cultivation, an artifact that can iste their presence even from me. Whoever that person is, their background isn''t simple, and by the looks of it, the attack was deliberate, clearly they seemed to have been waiting for me.."


    Lai Lei took slow steps forward which prompted the ck-robed person to tighten their grip over the chain connecting two deer knives.


    Lai Lei''s robes fluttered gracefully as his sword let out a gentle hum.


    The pupils of the ck-robed person constricted as they detected a sharp piercing sensation surrounding their entire body when the hum sounded. When the person''s gaze fell on Lai Lei, even though Lai Lei still had the same charming peace loving look to him, the person felt a tyrannical force of destruction being released from Lai Lei.


    "Are they done with the preparation yet? I don''t know how long I can hold on against him. Holding on for five minutes seems impossible even with the help of the dragon me pills. I''ll need to use the talisman.."


    Just as a ck jade talisman appeared in the ck-robed person''s hand, Lai Lei flicked his sword in rapid session.


    Cascading moon shes


    White wind cutter slices immediately bombarded the ck-robed person as it sliced through everything in its path.


    The ck-robed person who looked just about ready to detonate the ck jade talisman in his hands, was immediately put under defensive pressure that he could not even spare a momentary thought toward the talisman in his hand.


    Within seconds, the person was already walking a tightrope between surviving and being sliced apart.


    The person was cycling the double-horned deer knife chain so fast that it created a blur in their movements, but even then, they struggled to keep Lai Lei''s lightning-fast attacks at bay. sh marks appeared on the ck-robed person''s body, little by little.


    With every attack from Lai Lei, the ck-robed person felt like their body had been smashed by a sharp mountain. The resulting force caused their blood to churn with their organs shifting in the process and some of their bones dislocating.


    "This can''t be...it''s barely been a minute.."fearfully thought the ck-robed person as they felt the speeds and the weight of the attacks from Lai Lei continuously increase with every passing moment. Their body was already riddled with cuts, their breathing grewbored with the metallic scent of their bleeding body pervading the area.


    "I can''t hold on.."


    The ck-robed person sacrificed one of their legs by leaving it undefended so they could get a chance to detonate the talisman by their hand.


    However, the ck-robed person felt the chain suddenly drop as a cold sensation filled one of their hands, and when they looked over, they saw three of their fingers fly slowly in the air as the talisman slowly fell from their grip.


    Before they could register what had happened their whole arm was next to fly.


    "SENIOR BROTHER NOOW!!!!!!!"the ck-robed person who had remained silent all this time finally opened their mouth, and it was to yell for dear life.


    "It even istes the gender of their voice..." muttered Lai Lei in shock as he heard the androgynous voicee from the ck-robed person.


    He still could not tell their gender or even age.


    The ck-robed person who expected something to happen after their yell was left in shock when they saw different parts of their body being cleanly dismembered leaving only their torso intact, and just as they thought they were going to survive, they saw a sword pierce straight through their be. Even in death, they were still in disbelief.


    "If you have partners then there''s no need to keep you alive.." Lai Lei muttered as he bent over to pick up the spider abdomen''s mask of the ck-robed person''s body.


    However, he immediately paused and dodged to the side where a ck lightning streak shed by.


    When he looked up, he saw fourteen ck-robed people standing ahead of him with the same type of mask that isted their sense of self.


    A ck rusted dagger coated in ck lighting was at the center of the group. Lai Lei could tell that the dagger was special and it required eight of the fourteen people before him to maintain.


    He could intrinsically feel if he was nicked just slightly by the dagger, he would suffer fatal injuries.


    Without hesitation, five talismans instantly appeared in his hands that he immediately detonated,unching them toward the group as he used a silent voiceless transmission to send a message to the shadow me hawk.


    "Shadow, run the way we came from and fly as fast as you can. Use the eagle bracelets like you were taught tounch a distress signal.."