Chapter 338 You Can Talk?
“Are you alright?”
Gazing at Jiang Qiubai, who was very pale and drenched in blood, Shangguan Yuting asked with mild concern.
The battle she just witnessed was too dreadful. If it had not been for the enhancement of the magic star deployment inside the Wolf Temple, perhaps the entire temple would have been reduced to ruins.
“At least I’m doing better than them.” Jiang Qiubai smiled benignly.
At the moment, he looked totally different from the man issuing furious killing intent as if Death was there during the battle. The image of that incensed Jiang Qiubai was still flas.h.i.+ng before Shangguan Yuting’s eyes. But when the battle was over, except for the blood on his clothes and injuries, Jiang Qiubai looked quite serene and gentle, as if there were no battle at all.
Indeed, the Wave-making Master from the Great River and Gu Bansheng, the Evil Sword Demon from the Diancang Faction, were more miserable. The former’s one leg had been devoured by Jiang Qiubai; the latter’s Evil Sword Cultivation was shattered, causing him to spill a cascade of blood out of his mouth. The two of the Nine Superbs in the World were also the heads of two Holy Clans in the extreme south. But when they joined hands to ambush Jiang Qiubai, they suffered no less loss than their target.
Wheezy coughs were heard.
The two-tone eyed weird dog scampered over. It tilted its head and stared at Jiang Qiubai with a meaningful look.
In that instant, all of Jiang Qiubai’s manners and effort to keep a dispa.s.sionate mind evaporated. He went exasperated at the sight of the dog.
During the battle, if the dog had not abruptly bounced over and gripped the hem of his robe with its teeth as an affectionate gesture in its own conceit, Jiang Qiubai would not have been hit by the Wave-making Master’s Kui Water Sword. What was more outrageous was as the dog realized that it had made a blunder, it turned tail and disappeared out of sight at once, showing no guilt or will to make up for him… “This p.r.i.c.k actually has the wondrous power to throw off the influence of experts’ energy zone. If it had gripped the hem of the robe of that Wave-making Master or Gu Bansheng, then…”
“Go away! Why are you looking at me?” Jiang Qiubai snapped.
“This p.r.i.c.k can’t snap back anyway.”
“I’ll give it a give a good dressing down, whatsoever.”
But then—
“Why can’t I look at you?” The weird dog suddenly remarked.
The voice sounded kind of familiar.
Jiang Qiubai froze.
Shangguan Yuting froze too.
The two looked at each other and both registered the dumbfounded look in the other’s eyes.
“This weird dog said that?”
“So, it can talk, can’t it?”
“Has it been playing dumb all the way down here?”
Jiang Qiubai felt he had just taken a blow right in his stomach.
He had simply a.s.sumed the dog was a highly gifted but r.e.t.a.r.ded idiot, for it appeared to be a fool on their way there. But it turned out that… it could talk! It was evident that the dog had gained intelligence. An intelligent dog was practically a demon.
“You can never find a p.r.i.c.k among demons, can you?”
“So the dog has been teasing me the whole time on purpose?”
Jiang Qiubai gnashed his teeth, irritated.
He then turned rather depressed when he started to think about what to say to the dog next. If he simply answered back, he could not see what harm he could give to that dog, given that he could not do anything to it even before he was injured. So, he would only bring shame to himself, wouldn’t he?
“You can talk?” Shangguan Yuting cut in at the right moment.
The two-tone eyed dog answered, “I learned it when watching the three morons fight.”
“Three morons?”
Jiang Qiubai’s face was instantly written with embarra.s.sment. “You called our three of Nine Superbs in the World three morons… Fine, you’re the only smart one here.”
“Hold on, there is something funny… Doesn’t the dog’s voice sound like…”
“How come your voice is the same as that bad guy’s?” Shangguan Yuting probed. She also noticed that the voice of the weird dog was exactly the same as the Wave-making Master from the Great River. The dog was not just imitating his voice but reviving it.
The weird dog scampered happily towards Shangguan Yuting and barked again. “You don’t like the voice I learned? Well, I can switch to another one… What about this one?” It said in a new voice. But that sounded…
“Isn’t this the voice of that Evil Sword Demon called Gu Bansheng?” Shangguan Yuting said, propping her forehead against her hand.
“Why does the dog choose to do him?”
“Not good enough, either? Well, I can switch to another.” The two-tone eyed dog wagged its head and rocked back and forth. It deliberated it for a moment and then swiveled its eyes to Jiang Qiubai.
Jiang Qiubai gave a snort. He knew the dog was about to do his voice.
However, the weird dog mused for a minute and gave him a disdainful look before saying, “What about this one?” This time, it adopted Shangguan Yuting’s voice. It sounded perfectly the same as Shangguan Yuting’s. Even the girl could not detect any difference herself.
Shangguan Yuting’s eyes widened.
“The dog can do anyone’s voice, even women’s!”
Beside her, Jiang Qiubai nearly spilled a mouthful of blood at that voice. “Though I don’t mind you mimicking others’ voice, you don’t have to take on that expression. How could you find me disdainful…” Somehow, anything the dog did could instantly make him lose his dignified image.
At the two’s expressions, the weird dog mumbled, “Still don’t like it. Let me change to another voice…” It changed its voice halfway through the sentence. Shangguan Yuting’s sweet voice instantly evolved into a brisk male voice.
At the last voice, Shangguan Yuting went petrified.
Disbelief was gleaming in her eyes.
Jiang Qiubai was also stunned for a moment. He felt the voice was very familiar, maybe he had heard it somewhere.
“You… How could you… know Brother Mu’s voice? Have you come across him?” Yelled Shangguan Yuting, her eyes rounded with excitement. She then bent over to gape at the two-tone eyed dog.
The weird dog was quite taken aback. “Brother Mu? Are you talking about Li Mu? You know that boy?”
“It all fits together now!”
Just as Shangguan Yuting was about to carry on the topic, all of a sudden, Jiang Qiubai turned alarmed and hushed, “They’re coming. Let’s go to someplace else.”
“Isn’t this your territory?” said the weird dog, disgruntled.
The corner of Jiang Qiubai’s mouth twitched, but he did not talk back.
The two and the dog left the place at once and headed forward under Jiang Qiubai’s instruction.
“Where are we going?” Shangguan Yuting’s voice sounded at the rear.
Jiang Qiubai answered, “Everlasting Heaven.”
“Everlasting Heaven? Where is it then?” asked Shangguan Yuting.
“A land not belonging to this world.” Jiang Qiubai began, “It is a place that might alter your fate. I’m also curious to know what unbelievable things will occur when a person with your special body const.i.tution enters the Everlasting Heaven.”
“How could you be so considerate?” Shangguan Yuting’s voice rang again.
Jiang Qiubai said, “I…” He broke off, sensing something fishy. Shangguan Yuting was a kind graceful girl. She would never take that tone with him. Jiang Qiubai then whipped around, but his eyes almost jumped out of their sockets.
He saw that weird dog was walking on its hind legs while mimicking Shangguan Yuting’s voice. When it stood up, it was a little higher than Shangguan Yuting. Its mouth was basically the same height as the girl’s, so the voice sounded like it came out of the girl’s mouth and successfully tricked Jiang Qiubai.
“A dog walking on its hind legs?”
“What fu*king freak is this dog?”
Jiang Qiubai felt his anger would burst open from his head at any moment.
“Why did you suddenly look back?” The weird dog complained, “Woof, you gave me quite a turn.”
Shangguan Yuting was giggling behind the dog, her hands clapping over her mouth.
Jiang Qiubai’s lips twitched uncontrollably.
“Hurry up. They are getting closer!” Jiang Qiubai urged. As if sensing something, his face turned grim and he picked up his speed. Two streams of terrifying aura were haunting them. The Wave-making Master and the Evil Sword Demon were coming after them.
“The two morons seem to be quite familiar with your place. Who on earth is the master of this place?” The weird dog put on a look of contempt, its eyes riveted on Jiang Qiubai, its head tilted.
Jiang Qiubai was so vexed that he went speechless for the moment.
The streams of dangerous aura were moving faster and faster towards them.
It was perhaps too late to run away.
Jiang Qiubai unfolded his palm. A beam of light zoomed out and wrapped around Shangguan Yuting and Daji, the little white fox, like a bubble s.h.i.+eld. The girl and the fox instantly turned invisible on the spot. Then, Jiang Qiubai turned around and strode in the direction of the two streams of appalling aura.
“Hide in there. Don’t step out no matter what happens.”
Jiang Qiubai shouted in his undertone.
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Two hours later.
“Another battle has occurred here. It was fiercer than the first one.”
After carefully examining the surroundings, Qiu Yin informed the other two of his deduction. “Judging by the residue of the aura, those who invaded the Wolf Temple were the Wave-making Master and Gu Bansheng, the heads of two Holy Clans in the extreme south. Both of them are among the Nine Superbs. The two were sworn enemies for a long time, but now they seem to be in one league.”
When Qiu Yin expressed his opinion, he looked rather shocked.
A thing like that, if it ever got out, would certainly astonish the whole world.
The upcoming duel between the Taoism Master and the Guanshan Master was already a mind-blowing battle between Superbs. But just a moment ago, he discovered that two of the Nine Superbs living in the extreme south had teamed up to secretly hunt another Superb, the master of the Wolf Temple… “Is the whole world going nuts? Or the Nine Superbs have lost their minds? Those who haven’t picked a single fight for several thousand years suddenly turned against one another and decided to wreak havoc in the world?”
After a short pause, he finally willed himself to voice an idea he had harbored for a while. “I don’t know if I was deluded, but I think a dog was probably involved.” Speaking of the dog, a nauseous feeling surged up in his throat.
Because he was reminded of what he just tasted.
“It’s not probably. It’s true that a dog has been here.”
Guo Yuqing marched towards them from afar.
He was grabbing a broken limb. It was half of a palm. Although it was covered in blood, the skin was as smooth as white jade and filled with fearful energy fluctuations. Beads of blood were dripping from the cut like mercury. They rolled across the ground as though they were pearls. The rim of the broken palm was framed in the shape of interlocked canine teeth.
Guo Yuqing explained, “There are marks of fleshes being torn off by a beast. In my experience, the teeth marks were not left by a wolf but a divine dog large enough to bite off a Sage’s hand. That does sound unbelievable. If I am not very much mistaken, this palm belonged to the Wave-making Master…”
As he uttered those words, he looked even more appalled than Qiu Yin.
“Who else could believe the da*n thing?”
The Wave-making Master from the Great River was one of the Nine Superbs in the World, a man who had risen above the ma.s.ses. Yet, he just got half of his hand bitten by a dog… That sounded as far-fetched as an elephant tripping on an ant.
“Have you found any signs of Ting’er?” Li Mu inquired. He had scanned the place with his Third Eye and his spiritual force but spotted nothing.
As to the dog, he had no interest in it.
He once kept a dog back on Earth, so he was well aware of how horrible it could be when the dog decided to rely on its own wits.
Qiu Yin shook his head.
So did Guo Yuqing.
Neither of them had discovered any clue leading to that girl.
Upon seeing Li Mu was so worried about that girl, an up-welling of mixed feelings stole over the G.o.ddess of Martial Arts. And she just stood there in silence.
Guo Yuqing added, “Based on the scenes of the two battles, Jiang Qiubai seemed to be grievously injured, perhaps got one arm and one leg chopped off. But he had a dog as his helper, which maimed the Wave-making Master and Gu Bansheng. After that, Jiang Qiubai might have escaped with Ting’er and the dog by taking advantage of the layout of the Wolf Temple… We must hurry on. If not, Jiang Qiubai might soon die. After all, the two going after him are two of the Nine Superbs in the World.”
Qiu Yin nodded in agreement.
Each of the Nine Superbs was at the peak of martial arts practice. No miracle could save Jiang Qiubai in the two-on-one game.
But there came another question: how did the Wave-making Master and Gu Bansheng get into the Wolf Temple and why were they so familiar with the internal construction of the Wolf Temple?