Chapter 26
Chapter 26 – Desperation
Translator: Mr Voltaire
Editor: Master Shadow
"How can a Body Tempering realm cultivator’s Martial Spirit leave their body and attack others?" Fang Rui frowned as he shook his head.
"What’s going on?" The Fang family’s cultivators were all dumbfounded.
"Who cares what’s going on? Are we going to be afraid of a cultivator who’s not even in the Innate realm?" Fang Rui’s gaze darkened as he said, "Kill him immediately; we simply can’t spare him. Once he regains his talent, he’ll become an unrivalled genius."
"Yes!" The crowd nodded.
Five of them were in the Innate realm, while the captain was in the late stage of the Innate realm. They were more than enough to deal with this youth.
As he spoke, Fang Rui led the others to charge towards Xiao Yun.
Whoos.h.!.+
The experts attacked simultaneously, giving off a terrifying might which caused the closed-eyed youth’s eyelids to twitch. His eyes flew open as a cold light shot out like blades towards the crowd. "Fang family people, you’re too excessive!" he icily exclaimed.
The instant Xiao Yun’s eyes shot open, his aura skyrocketed and finally stepped into the Innate realm.
He had long since discovered these people, but he couldn’t casually move around while breaking through. He had only survived because the Violet Vine had blocked that strike for him and seeing that all of them were preparing to attack him, he became utterly furious.
"He broke through?" The Fang family’s cultivators were dumbfounded,
"Hmph, so what if he broke through? He’s only in the early stage of the Innate realm."
"Kill!" With Fang Rui taking the lead, the other four Innate realm experts also attacked.
The boundless Essence Qi from the Innate realm experts’ attacks swept towards Xiao Yun like a ma.s.sive wave that seem as if it would drown everything in its path. The cultivators either swung their blades or launched Martial Skills towards Xiao Yun, blocking off all paths and making it essentially impossible for him to retreat.
The Fang family’s Body Tempering realm cultivators watched by the side with cold smiles on their faces, not intending to partic.i.p.ate in the battle. With five Innate realm experts attacking, why would they need to join in?
With a slight thought from Xiao Yun, the Martial Spirit, which was still in the Essence Spring, flashed as it whipped towards the attackers. It was like a whip putting up an impenetrable defence that the attackers simply could not get through.
Clang! Clang!
The Martial Spirit flashed as it blocked the ferocious attacks.
"Bad guys!" At the same time, the Violet Vine once again acted.
Swis.h.!.+
A violet light flashed as a few vines extended out from Xiao Yun, speeding towards the Innate realm cultivators. The vines were incredibly fast and broke through the air. Before they had realised what was happening, the vines had landed on their bodies.
"Arghhh!"
Cries of pain sounded out, and an Innate realm expert looked down to find that blood was rapidly gus.h.i.+ng out of a hole had been drilled through his wrist.
"Arghhh!"
Following this, another person’s heart was drilled through, and he also cried out as he fell.
"What powerful vines!"
"What are those?" The other Innate realm cultivators were completely shocked and couldn’t help but retreat as they revealed expressions of fear. The Body Tempering realm cultivators behind them were even more terrified.
The crowd looked over and saw that Xiao Yun’s forehead was lit up, with jade-green and violet branches and vines extending out of it.
Evidently, it was these things that had blocked their attacks. Xiao Yun’s Martial Spirit flashed and retreated back into his sea of consciousness, as if it had been hurt during that exchange and no longer dared to fight. However, the violet vines continued to move around outside. This caused Xiao Yun to feel quite depressed. Why was his Martial Spirit such a coward?
When he sent his mind into his sea of consciousness, he found that his Martial Spirit had indeed been injured and was currently healing itself. On the other hand, the Violet Vine seemed more or less fine. It appeared that his Martial Spirit’s toughness couldn’t compare to that of the Violet Vine’s.
"Big brother, don’t worry – Lil’ Violet will help you get rid of these bad guys," the little fellow spoke sincerely as it blinked within Xiao Yun’s sea of consciousness.
Xiao Yun felt quite moved by the little fellow.
"Alright, let’s get rid of these bad guys together then." Xiao Yun drew his sword as he coldly gazed at the Fang family’s cultivators.
Out of the five Innate realm cultivators, one had died and one was badly injured, but the other three were fine. Two of them were in the mid stage of the Innate realm, while the leader was in the late stage of the Innate realm. It was he who had injured Xiao Yun’s Martial Spirit. Xiao Yun circulated the poison qi within his Martial Spirit and shot it towards them.
Whoos.h.!.+
The poison qi sprayed out in a fog, giving off a fearsome aura.
"It’s a poisonous fog!" Fang Rui’s gaze became serious as waves rippled out from his body, and his Essence Qi blocked off the poisonous fog.
Xiao Yun frowned. The late stage of the Innate realm was simply too powerful; they could even defend against poisonous fog.
Lil’ Violet was also quite
"Brat, you’re pretty strange, but that’s all there is to you. You only just stepped into the Innate realm and are destined to die here." A sinister smile appeared on Fang Rui’s face as he mercilessly said, "After you die, the Xiao family is fated for demise."
As he spoke, he flipped his palm, causing Essence Qi to ripple out. A magical seal also appeared on his palm.
The magical seal roughly covered his palm and bright runes flowed within it, giving off a grave air.
The man once again flipped his palm and the magical seal suddenly doubled in size. It gave off a mighty and domineering aura as it rushed forwards, causing the air to tremble and the Essence Qi in the region to dissipate.
"This is the Fang family’s Heavy Mountain Seal! When practised to completion, one can unleash a seal that’s as heavy as a mountain, which almost cannot be blocked. If anyone’s..h.i.t by it, they’ll be crushed to death." Xiao Yun’s gaze became serious as his sword slashed out. The sword light flashed like a rainbow towards the magical seal containing Essence Qi.
Clang!
As the sword hit the magical seal, a metallic clanging sound rang out.
"Is this the battle power of the late stage of the Innate realm?" Xiao Yun slightly frowned, feeling as if his sword had stabbed onto an iron board. The late stage of the Innate realm was simply too powerful. Even though Xiao Yun had stepped into the Innate realm, the gap between them was simply too great.
A wave of inner force wept out, and Xiao Yun felt a tremor in the webbing between his thumb and index finger as he was sent stumbling back 7 steps. He felt as if there was a gigantic mountain weighing down on him and his face turned red, unable to breathe.
The attack from a cultivator in the late stage of the Innate realm was not something that he could block. This was even more so because Fang Rui had used the Fang family’s famous Martial Skill.
Heaven-Devouring Divine Art!
An idea suddenly surfaced in Xiao Yun’s mind as he started to activate the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art.
Buzz!
A vortex appeared in his dantian, which started to devour Heaven and Earth Essence Qi. Even the pressure from the Heavy Mountain Seal started to be devoured, reducing the strain on Xiao Yun. This allowed him to finally take a breath.
This Heaven-Devouring Divine Art seemed as if it really could devour the heavens.
It was a pity that Xiao Yun had not cultivated the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art for very long, and had not reached the Heaven-Devouring, Spirit-Destroying realm. Using the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art could help him reduce part of the pressure, but the Heavy Mountain Seal was still giving off a bright light as it bore down on him.
At the same time, two other Innate realm experts charged at him from his left and right.
"You’re not allowed to hurt big brother, you bad guys!" The Violet Vine acted incredibly quickly. Its vines shot out like whips towards the Innate realm experts as a branch also pierced towards the Heavy Mountain Seal.
The two Innate realm experts were sent stumbling back, unable to contend with the vines.
Clang!
The Heavy Mountain Seal trembled and was actually blocked.
The Violet Vine was capable of fighting with cultivators at the late stage of the Innate realm. Although it wasn’t present in its physical body and its vital essence was limited, it had been living within Xiao Yun’s sea of consciousness. It had absorbed large amounts of vital essence of life and had become even stronger than it was before.
"What the h.e.l.l is this thing?" Seeing that the violet branch had blocked his Martial Skill, Fang Rui was completely shocked. His gaze became cold as he pulled out a dark, flexible sword and muttered, "Hmph, watch as I slice apart this branch."
Swis.h.!.+
Fang Rui slashed out with the flexible sword, which gave off a dark light. It seemed to slash through the sky as it descended toward the branch, like it was unstoppable. This was a precious sword forged by refining black iron, and was a Black grade weapon. It could be said that this sword could slice through iron like mud.
As the flexible sword slashed towards Xiao Yun and the Violet Vine, it gave off a chilling sword qi.
"Bad guy!" The Violet Vine yelled out in its childish voice. After yelling out, it controlled its vines and branches to attack Fang Rui.
"Very good," Fang Rui coldly laughed, "This is my Flowing Clouds Sword Art!"
The feeling the sword gave off changed, becoming like pa.s.sing clouds and flowing water. This sensation was quite otherworldly, which made it difficult to predict the trajectory of the sword.
Swish, swis.h.!.+
In just an instant, Fang Rui unleashed tens of sword lights. Every single one of them was like pa.s.sing clouds and flowing water. They were unfathomable and not only did they block the Violet Vine’s attacks, but they also slashed into the vines and branches at a speed that caused one’s eyes to feel dazzled.
Seeing Fang Rui’s attacks, Xiao Yun’s expression became serious. Evidently, this person had quite a high attainment in sword arts, and was a tough opponent. The Violet Vine was continuously hit by the flexible sword, and its vines and branches hurriedly retreated. Many of them were already covered with sword wounds.
"Big brother, his sword skills are so powerful. Lil Violet’s entire body hurts!" Within Xiao Yun’s sea of consciousness, Lil Violet’s eyes flashed, looking extremely pitiful.
The exchange just then had been too fast and every attack was like a bolt of lightning. By now, Xiao Yun had finally calmed himself down under the mountainous pressure.
Seeing how pitiful the Violet Vine looked, Xiao Yun felt as if his heart was bleeding. He never thought that he would be so powerless – this was the difference between cultivations!
Xiao Yun’s eyes focused as he stared down Fang Rui. He had never been so desperate for power before.
"Go die!" Seeing that the Violet Vine had retreated, the 3 Innate realm experts coldly harrumphed as they once again attacked. It seemed that these people wanted to kill Xiao Yun with this final round of attacks.
"Fang family, one day I’ll make you pay the price for this!" Xiao Yun’s eyes glinted. He knew that it would be difficult for him to fight with experts of the late stage of the Innate realm. As such, he started moving backwards, planning his escape.
"Haha, you want us to pay the price? It’s a pity you don’t have the opportunity anymore." The three Innate realm cultivators flanked Xiao Yun, surrounding him and not giving him an opportunity to retreat. If they let this child go, wouldn’t it be equivalent to letting a tiger return to the mountain?
"Die!" In response, Xiao Yun’s face remained cool and collected. He locked onto the man whose wrist had been pierced by the Violet Vine, and a ma.s.sive wave of spirit energy swept out from his mind, slamming into him.
Buzz!
As the spirit energy entered his mind, the man’s face suddenly changed, looking as if he had been struck by lightning. He stood there, frozen, with only a trace of fear in his eyes. It looked as if his mind had left him and by the time he recovered, a ray of sword light flashed towards him.
Chi!
Blood spurted out as Xiao Yun pierced the man’s throat in a single strike! Just like that, an Innate realm expert fell, his eyes full of shock.
"What’s going on?" The other Innate realm experts glanced at each other, looking completely dumbstruck. They were unable to understand why their clansman had stood there and allowed himself to be killed by that youth.
"This brat still has tricks up his sleeves!" Fang Rui’s expression became cold as his gaze became murderous.
After the Violet Vine had retreated, he felt as if the battle had been decided and had relaxed. Who would have thought that the moment he relaxed, one of the Fang family’s Innate realm experts would have fallen?