Chapter 825: Hybrid Law Overlord!
“The keyhole had half a strand of my hair, but now it’s gone,” replied Wu Yuming in a deep voice.
Xia Fei was slightly taken aback by this. Leaving a strand of hair in some inconspicuous place, this method to prevent others from entering was nothing new. It was something Xia Fei often did himself, too, but he evidently had not uncovered it earlier.
There was only one reason for this: The comrades from the Skywing Information Department had been far too careless, breaking Wu Yuming’s mark.
Wu Yuming clearly knew that he was someone from the Skywing Clan, yet he remained as composed as ever. This demeanor of his was evidence that he was completely unafraid of Xia Fei!
A mere level 3 Law Emperor demonstrating such great confidence in himself? Everything about this defied logical explanation!
At that moment, too many thoughts crossed Xia Fei’s mind. Logically speaking, Xia Fei ought to kill him the very instant he came walking in!
However, Xia Fei could not do that, for Wu Yuming had walked in with such self-confidence. That moment of hesitation before he opened the door had already revealed the true meaning of his arrival!
Xia Fei had no choice but to change his plan, changing from an a.s.sa.s.sination to an open murder!
Wu Yuming appeared to be very disappointed, for Xia Fei had not acted as he initially predicted. That slightest hesitation had caused Xia Fei to change his plan instantly, which was evidence of Xia Fei’s astuteness. He was far more astute than he presumed!
No one would have thought that the several seconds of hesitation, just in how he had entered this room, would start the first round of engagement between Xia Fei and Wu Yuming!
Wu Yuming sighed, a little disappointed. “Why have you waited so long and haven’t killed me the first instance I stepped inside?”
Xia Fei replied, unfazed, “Because that’s what you hope I would do. Though I have no clue as to the reason, I’m certain of one thing: ‘Never act according to what my enemy envisions.’”
Wu Yuming curiously flicked his gaze over to Xia Fei who was shrouded in darkness, his eyes shooting forth a glow of light.
Xia Fei saw as he suddenly pulled his right hand out from the darkness, and a feeble flame quickly revealed itself!
‘Immemorial Mystical Armament! That’s a fused Immemorial Mystical Armament!’ Xia Fei loudly shouted to himself. He was very familiar with the aura unique to the Immemorial Mystical Armaments, for he was the owner of Peac.o.c.k Blue himself!
Though Wu Yuming’s mystical armament was of the fire type, Xia Fei could recognize it at a single glance due to the wild and violent characteristic the fused Immemorial Mystical Armament exuded! It turned out that he was not the only one in this universe who possessed a fused Immemorial Mystical Armament!
Xia Fei was slightly shocked to learn this, and the words that the old demon lord had uttered after nearly ignited him!
“It’s a good thing you didn’t charge to him just earlier. Wu Yuming is currently using the Law of Darkness to hide his Immemorial Mystical Armament, and given his temperament, I am certain that he is a mixed-blood child of both the G.o.d and Demon Races!” Oro hollered.
The truth was revealed!
It was no wonder why the illegitimate son of a powerful father lived such a low-profile life. He was an illegitimate son that Golcen Ward had with someone from the Demon Race! He was of mixed blood!
The two peak races got along like fire and ice! A mixed blood like him would of course not be able to live in White Horse Constellation. In fact, he could not live in the Demon Race, either. No wonder Golcen Ward had him hidden so deeply. This was all due to Wu Yuming’s unique parentage!
As for why Golcen Ward would have a mixed-blood son, or why a fused Immemorial Mystical Armament would be in Wu Yuming’s hand, none of these was important anymore, for Wu Yuming had already begun a round of frenzied a.s.sault!
With a wave of his right hand, that ball of feeble flame suddenly turned extremely frenetic, like a tornado made of fire, which proceeded to make its way over to Xia Fei’s position!
*Kaboom*
The flames surged high in the sky, directly causing this squat room to collapse to the ground!
*Whoosh*
Xia Fei craftily darted away through an open window, using his speed advantage to escape from the encroaching flames. However, this was not just any flame; it was produced by Wu Yuming’s Immemorial Mystical Armament! n.o.body would wish to be lighted up by this type of fire, and even Xia Fei could only temporarily escape this intense fire’s encirclement!
The cramped terrain of this city made it ill-suited for Xia Fei to demonstrate his speed to the fullest potential. Xia Fei pumped his two legs and rapidly drew his distance away, arriving at some wide plains outside the city!
*Whoosh*
An astonis.h.i.+ng scene unfolded. Just as Xia Fei came to a stop, a ball of intense flame appeared from out of nowhere!
“Law of s.p.a.ce!” Xia Fei was stunned. Wu Yuming had used the Law of Darkness to hide the Immemorial Mystical Armament earlier, yet he was using the Law of s.p.a.ce now!
In just the span of a short second, Wu Yuming had demonstrated his superior talent: Law of Darkness, Law of s.p.a.ce, and the fused Immemorial Mystical Armament debuted in succession!
All these were truly inexplicable! Xia Fei suddenly realized that this ugly, middle-aged man before him was practically a genius! To be capable of directing these two seemingly irrelevant law powers from the two peak races on himself, could this be the power of a mixed-blood warrior?!
*Boom!*
The fused Rending Yang Fire came hurtling in an engulfing manner!
The Rending Yang Fire had the cold yin attribute, while the Wolf Butcher Blaze’s attribute was that of manic fury! Fusing these two together had resulted in an unparalleled power!
*Whoosh*
“Crafty Approach!”
Xia Fei dodged once more. The Rending Yang Fire was truly impressive, covering an area several miles wide!
It was different from Peac.o.c.k Blue. The latter was a plant, and it had its own form, but fire was formless! It ignited along with the presence of oxygen!
Xia Fei circled around Wu Yuming at high speeds, but his Immemorial Mystical Armament turned itself into a huge flame wall, which covered an area of several miles, making it impossible for Xia Fei to utilize his speed to get close to his opponent.
All of a sudden, Xia Fei noticed a gap in the flame wall, just a cramped crack that was enough for a single individual to slip through!
‘Chance!’ Abruptly surprised, and Xia Fei went charging toward it with all his might by leveraging his speed of four hundred eighty thousand meters per second! He moved as quickly as a flash of lightning!
Rending Yang Fire’s defensive power was frightening. This was Xia Fei’s only chance to get anywhere near Wu Yuming so that he could use Blood Crystal and finish the latter off!
The moment Xia Fei got near this flame wall, which the Rending Yang Fire had constructed, he felt a chill penetrating his very bones, overwhelming him. It was very hard to imagine that the flames of the Rending Yang Fire could actually bring with it such h.e.l.lish and biting coldness!
Gritting his teeth, Xia Fei’s lowered his figure and went forcibly darting right through that gap in the flames like a shuttle!
When Xia Fei pa.s.sed through the flames, he could finally make out a ma.s.s of black! It was surrounded by a ring of intense flames!
*Squelch!*
The tip of his blade was like a beam of light as it went plunging straight in!
*Roar*
The morphing war armor Monohorn Ogre mobilized eighty percent of its structure to provide the strong defenses possible forward, all in an effort to lower the damage Xia Fei would receive from the Rending Yang Fire.
Unexpectedly, this black figure in the flames did not offer any resistance whatsoever, and Xia Fei managed to get his dagger to slice across its neck!
Xia Fei was instantly shocked, for the sensation he felt when his sharp dagger pa.s.sed through did not give him the feeling that he had stabbed right into muscles; instead, he felt like he had driven it into a piece of st.u.r.dy wooden block!
*Boom*
Xia Fei suddenly noticed the surrounding s.p.a.ce collapsing, and it happened at the exact same moment that his Blood Crystal had stabbed into the black figure!
*Kaboom*
This one cut seemed to have created a chain reaction; Xia Fei saw as a ma.s.s of fog billow and rise before his eyes, turning all shadowy as the entire world blurred! It was as if something was intentionally trying to blot out his vision.
*Whizz*
Xia Fei did not dare to dawdle and hurriedly accelerated away from the encirclement of the Rending Yang Fire. He did not care about the flames burning his skin as a result, for that stab he had executed then felt too strange; Xia Fei could not help feeling deeply unsettled by it.
From the moment he entered that circle of Rending Yang Fire and when he attempted to execute that attack on whom he thought was Wu Yuming up to when he fled from the flame wall, only a second of time had pa.s.sed. However, when Xia Fei was finally able to see everything before him clearly, he was left in a daze!
Xia Fei saw an extra wooden puppet doll in his hand, shaped like a human, and already blackened into charcoal. It turned out that what Xia Fei had plunged his dagger into was not Wu Yuming but a doll of him, instead!
“Law of Puppetry! That’s an offshoot of the Law of Darkness! I know now! Wu Yuming’s mother must have been a Dark Puppeteer!” the old demon lord exclaimed in surprise. “Dark Puppeteers are a subsidiary species of the Demon Race, skilled in the Law of Puppetry and Law of Darkness. They bring along wooden carved dolls wherever they go, and those dolls are their puppets, which look exactly the same as themselves!”
The Law of Darkness and Law of s.p.a.ce combined with a fused Immemorial Mystical Armament… These were already shocking enough for Xia Fei, but now that there was another Law of Puppetry, it was evident that Wu Yuming was definitely a rather troublesome enemy!
*Fwoosh*
Rending Yang Fire returned to Wu Yuming, who turned out to be standing some several hundred meters away from Xia Fei, a vicious look in his eyes.
“You have a Law Overlord cultivation?!” Xia Fei knitted his eyebrows and asked.
Wu Yuming chuckled. “Indeed. You’ve got quite the keen eyesight, and your combat strength isn’t bad, either. If I hadn’t made preparations just then and used my puppet, I would’ve probably died to your strange dagger.”
The situation was becoming more problematic. This illegitimate son of Golcen Ward before him was really strong! Not only was he a mixed blood child from both the G.o.d and Demon Races, he even had a Law Overlord cultivation!
According to Xia Fei’s a.n.a.lysis, he should at least be a level 2 Law Overlord!
To make matters worse, this Wu Yuming in front of him was not even his real body but just a puppet! The real one had already hidden elsewhere under the protection of the Rending Yang Fire.
Xia Fei was not about to make the same mistake twice. Though his Wu Yuming was a very intricate replication of the real person, right down even to the imposing aura that the Rending Yang Fire was giving off, Xia Fei could still see through the lies, all thanks to his Ocular Cognition! It was a powerful visual enhancement technique!
“The Law of Puppetry is really amazing. How can I overcome it?” Xia Fei quietly asked.
Oro shook his head and answered glumly, “The Dark Puppeteers depend on this law of theirs to make a living, so it isn’t something anyone can just easily break. Besides, Wu Yuming has a Law Overlord cultivation, and he must have cultivated his Law of Puppetry to a significant degree that he may even be controlling his puppet from another planet.”
Xia Fei gritted his teeth, and his expression turned severe.
All of a sudden, Xia Fei shut his eyes. When he opened them again, his entire face was filled with green vessels!
He was now using the Beast Spirit Codex’s stage 6 Ocular Cognition at maximum power!
Though the Ocular Cognition of the Beast Spirit Codex was designed to be used against exotic beasts, every sentient lifeforms still had energy circulating within them. In fact, through his observation of the energy movements within, Xia Fei had learned that the Wu Yuming in front of him was a puppet. Now, he planned to use the highest stage of Ocular Cognition in order to locate his real body from this wild expanse!
*Zip*
His two eyes were like lit torches, quickly checking everywhere around him. Xia Fei’s visual acuity had instantly been pushed to an extreme limit that no one could reach!
This supervision gave Xia Fei the ability to see things from very far away. A single sinister black figure about a thousand miles away from him drew Xia Fei’s attention!
‘There!’
The moment he discovered this figure, Xia Fei went das.h.i.+ng right over at his top speed!
A thousand miles distance was only a four second sprint to Xia Fei!
This faraway black figure was startled. He had truly not expected that he would be discovered after hiding himself so far away. He panically switched on his compa.s.s and darted right into the spatial door he had opened.
The next second, the spatial channel began closing!
‘Won’t let you run away!’ Xia Fei bellowed to himself!
Such a terrifying enemy, even though he would have a very tough time dealing with him, a disaster was bound to happen if he let Wu Yuming escape now, as it would give the latter free rein to a.s.sault the lower level Skywing warriors out there!
Xia Fei must do everything within his power to kill him no matter what!
Xia Fei used his superspeed to close in toward the closing channel. At this moment, there was but only a crack left in this spatial door, and Xia Fei pounced right for it! Like a knife, he forcefully thrust himself right into the crack at the last second!