Dark Blood Path

The moment Wang Yunfei understood the situation he was in, a nimble figure flew out of the trees on his left, brandishing a short goblin spear in one hand, piercing him like lightning. The speed of it simply gave him no time to turn around, as he barely dodged the attack before the others behind him rushed up to his aid.

Han Kexin’s sneak attack failed this time around; the short spear in her grasp trembled slightly, and she raised her head and flung away two of his subordinates before turning around and stubbing Wang Yunfei once again with her weapon. She had never learned martial arts before, yet her combat talent was strangely superior to Jin shi’s. Who would’ve thought that a few days of tempering was enough to awaken some of her fighting prowess?

At this moment, her short spear twisted quickly and viciously, assaulting her opponent.

After being pierced by Han Kexin’s short spear, Wang Yunfei withdrew several times in quick succession. Feeling that the last wave of attacks was almost over, he seized the opportunity, and the stabilizing wind bead in his hand glowed brightly as a wind blade immediately took shape, ready to shoot out. Wang Yunfei then felt the foliage over his head sway before he looked up. A slender figure with huge wings stretching out from her back plummeted down from the sky, and a green bamboo-like spear descended straight from midair to stab at him.

“So many experts!”

His heart trembled, and he released the wind blade upwards. Jiang Xiaowen pushed her body to fly backward as quickly as she could. The sharp wind blade brushed past her, forcing her to stumble, and she dropped from midair six or seven meters down. Han Kexin seized the opportunity and fully charged like a cheetah, clutching a short spear backhandedly and ready to stab him.

A swirling gust of wind rose from under Wang Yunfei’s feet, and a large amount of golden sand and small wind blades appeared out of thin air, forming a short tornado of sand and wind. Just like that, she was slashed by the violent wind in several spots on her body. Some of the wounds were even terrible gashes with bones protruding out of her skin, but thanks to her innate ability, everything healed as quickly.

Wang Yunfei believed that danger had already passed, and just as he was about to release the tornado barrier and retreat, another short spear came at him from the dense woods. His face changed, and he continued to release the power of the stabilizing wind bead as the spear landed on the tornado of sand just before it twisted and shattered into small pieces of wood.

Xiao Yu came to a conclusion: “it turns out that when you use that sand vortex to shield your body, you can’t move around much. The skill isn’t as invincible as I first thought!” He came out of concealment and appeared right in the area of the forest where Wang Yunfei retreated to. He soared into the air, drew a short spear from his back with his right hand, and hurled it down.

Following a brittle noise, the goblin short spear was mangled into rubble as expected, turning into countless sawdust and floating all over the surroundings. Through his eyes of insight, Xiao Yu could clearly see a few wood shavings blowing from the top of the tornado as they gathered around the tornado’s eye and dropped down, and a few of them even fell on Wang Yunfei’s hair.

A gleam of light flashed in Xiao Yu’s eyes. As he expected, the ability’s defenses were imperfect. The protection at the top of the head was relatively weak, and there was an area the size of a fist that had no defensive effect whatsoever. It’s just that the shape of the vortex was changing at every moment, so let alone mastering its changing flow, it was difficult for regular people to even discover this flaw. However, this was not the case for Xiao Yu.

Wang Yunfei’s figure burst out of the sand tornado, and it vanished before escaping toward the forest’s edge.

Han Kexin gritted her teeth and said, “Damn it, his defense is really powerful; we can’t even touch a strand of his hair!”

“It’s fine; let me deal with him.” Xiao Yu was standing on a tree branch and said, “You go deal with his remaining subordinates.” after he spoke, he leapt up from that tree like lightning, and from one tree to another, he kept hopping with light steps while approaching his enemy.

Running in frustration, Wang Yunfei never imagined he would be defeated so humiliatingly while wielding a powerful artifact in his hands like the stabilizing wind bead. He couldn’t care less about his subordinates at this point. He believed that as long as he had the wind bead in his arsenal, he would always be able to make a comeback. If the beautiful women were gone, he could seize them, and if his subordinates were gone, he could recruit them. But if his life was gone, it would be game over for him.

He engraved this humiliation deep in his mind.

Wang Yunfei sped up and ran wildly, with just one objective in mind: to survive, recover his power, and return for vengeance! After running for about ten minutes, he finally breathed a sigh of relief since he couldn’t hear any sound behind him at all.

Those people couldn’t catch up with me.

But at this moment. A flat voice came from his front side, “You are too slow; I have been waiting here for a long while.”

Wang Yunfei was startled by the unexpected sound and came to a halt. A man was sitting on a large tree in front of him. His clothing was charred, and his hair was messy; he was playing with a long gray blade in his hands, but his red eyes were focused on him. Wang Yunfei had never faced Xiao Yu openly, but his instincts told him that the guy in front of him was undoubtedly several times stronger than the others from before!

He revealed a look of hatred and yelled out, “We don’t have any resentments against each other; why do you want to kill me this much?”

“There are no reasons for killing in a world where the powerful prey on the weak. Weakness is a sin in and of itself.” Xiao Yu sneered, “When the people you killed begged you for mercy, did you spare them?”

“Weakness itself is a sin?” Wang Yunfei’s expression changed slightly when he heard his words, showing a strange smile, “Hmph, you are quite the character!”

Xiao Yu jumped down, landed on both feet, and continued: “Actually, with the power of your artifact, if you fought with everything you got, you may have had a chance to defeat us. It’s a pity that you chose to run away in order to save up on the energy of the orb. Wasting that opportunity.”

Wang Yunfei sneered: “why does it matter? Isn’t before the same as now?”

“There is a big difference.”

“Oh, and why do you think so?”

“If you remained and fought with everyone earlier, I might’ve been worried about protecting the others. But now things are different. I can fight with no reservations, and I’ve seen through all of your tricks. You’ll never have a chance at winning.”

Wang Yunfei snorted coldly and didn’t say anything, but the light of the stabilizing wind bead in his palm bloomed, and a cyan wind blade took shape in front of him, shooting out with a whoosh sound. Xiao Yu’s blood-red eyes reflected that light blue wind blade; as he slid his feet back slightly, and like a leaf getting blown by the wind, he softly shifted one step to the left; the wind blade almost whizzed past his face, and a few hairs were cut off and fell down, yet Xiao Yu was left unscathed, his expression remained unchanged, and he didn’t even blink his eyes.

Boom, boom, boom!

The sound of a large tree crashing to the ground came from behind him, but he acted as if nothing had happened and continued to gaze at Wang Yunfei opposite to him without changing his expression.

Wang Yunfei’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. Even Wang Chao, who had previously depended on his instincts to dodge the wind blade, only achieved that feat because, at the time, he relied on his beast-like intuition after entering his berserk state, in which luck played a big part in preserving his life. You must be aware that the speed of the wind blade approaches the speed of sound, making it nearly impossible for elementary beings to dodge it, let alone evade it easily, like Xiao Yu did.

What a terrifying man!

Wang Yunfei’s face was drenched with cold sweat.

“It takes a certain amount of time for the wind blade to condense. When the process is complete, I can more or less figure out the trajectory of the blast. This kind of direct attacking method is easy to see through, so your skill is useless against me.”

As soon as Xiao Yu finished speaking, he vanished, leaving behind an afterimage on the spot, and by the time Wang Yunfei came to his senses, he had already appeared by his side and slashed at him with the bone blade. Xiao Yu’s strength was several times higher than Wang Chao, Jin Shi, and the others. Ever since he defeated the Flame Goblin, his power has increased significantly, and he was just a hair’s breadth away from advancing to the first-order level. Hence he was not someone Wang Yunfei could hope to fight on equal terms. After all, the latter wasn’t even in the middle elementary level.

Wind and sand blew up in all directions, forming a violent tornado, instantly enveloping Wang Yunfei inside.

Xiao Yu kicked his legs on the ground with haste and shot his body backward like a bullet for more than ten meters away. The bone blade in his hand pierced into the earth and dragged out a long line on the ground to force himself to stop. At that instant, four to five crisscrossing wind blades and one sand spear flew continuously out of the tornado shooting straight at him. Xiao Yu dodged left and right, evading the attacks one by one, as the surrounding huge trees got sliced off with a booming sound, and a large green area tumbled down in the blink of an eye, with one of the big trees almost falling on top of his head.

“die!”

The ‘tornado’ emitted an enraged roar, and five wind blades condensed and shot toward him one after the other. Xiao Yu flipped over and leapt onto the trunk of a large tree that had fallen behind him, then using it as a springboard, He flew into the air like a cannonball well over ten meters high. Almost immediately, the trunk of the large tree was swept by those numerous wind blades, neatly breaking it into five to six chunks. Wang Yunfei’s vision in the tornado was greatly obstructed to begin with, adding to that the dust and wooden rubble in the area all made him unable to locate his opponent in the short term.

Suddenly, a long gray-white blade descended from the sky and landed on top of his head.

Wang Yunfei lifted up his head as he noticed something unusual looming on top of him. His face became pale right when he looked up, and he was about to scream before the gray-white blade penetrated through his mouth… The wind and sand vortex disintegrated in an instant, and the rolling air gradually subsided.

Wang Yunlong’s eyes were wide open, and a gray-white blade that was piercing through his mouth protruded from his back. After a few seconds, his dead body collapsed down, and the turquoise stabilizing wind bead slipped out from his grasp. It rolled down to Xiao Yu’s feet before coming to a halt.

“Yunfei, the great sand emperor, in this unknown place, I discreetly put an end to your life.” he picked up the orb from the ground, with a strange look on his face, “the Wind bead, with its help; it will be much easier to obtain the “Book of Sand” in the future. Wang Yunfei, with his ordinary talent, could stand amongst the top experts of this world, all with the help of that book’s mystical powers, even becoming comparable to Han Kexin of then. If I have that book, I will definitely be able to use its power to the extreme. “

In addition to the The “Book of Sand”, which was one of the six mystical books on the continent, there was also the “Book of Flame”, “The Book of Sea”, “The Book of Forest”, “The Book of Light” and “The Book of Darkness”, which all did exist in this world as the prophecy stated. The six mystical books were, in essence, just one. No one knows their origins, let alone their scribe. It was said that the original book was compiled by the laws of space and time at the beginning of this world. It was also believed that as they were once simply just one, the original book was considered too powerful to be tolerated by the gods. As a result, it was forcibly scattered into six volumes and left in various parts of the chaos continent.

The “Book of Sand” depicts the power of sand and wind. “Book of Flame” the power of fire and lava, “Book of Sea” the power of flowing water and sea, “Book of Forest” the power of forest and earth, while The “Book of Light” symbolizes light and hope, and the “Book of Darkness” represents darkness and destruction.

According to the prophecy, when the six volumes come together, power beyond imagination will be formed!

Xiao Yu now has the chance to obtain the “Book of Sand” after he had obtained the Wind Bead. In addition, he also knew the whereabouts of the “Book of Flame” and “Book of Forest”. As for the other volumes, they were never discovered till the moment of his death.

Xiao Yu held the Wind bead in both hands, carefully feeling the power contained inside it. This artifact was a powerful magic item; moreover, it was a unique item as it was special and had no grades. He could use those three skills, “Sand Tornado”, “Wind Blade”, and “Sand Spear” which were all first-rank magic abilities, not any weaker than the “flame missile”, especially the sand tornado, which integrates both attack and defense, and its power could not be underestimated.

In addition, there was a special effect of isolating wind and sand. However, this was a passive effect and not an actual skill, so it does not need to be activated and does not consume any energy.

The stabilizing wind bead had one big flaw, though, and that is it cannot restore energy on its own, and the energy in it will dwindle over time unless supplied by those valuable soul gems. A low-level soul gem could only replenish it for one “Sand Spear” attack, for two “Wind Blades”, or a few seconds of a “Sand Tornado”, which was too wasteful.

When the energy is all depleted, the wind bead will almost lose its entire value and will essentially turn into a mere ornament.