Chapter 720 Hunting
“Li Yidao?”
Huangfu Chengdao stood on the deck of the flying shuttle with a grim smile on his face.
“I finally got you.
“Looks like Witchcraft Saint’s calculation is correct.”
Behind Huangfu Chengdao, more than a dozen Heavenly Legends, who had swallowed their pride, were floating quietly in the void in a line. They just so happened to block all the possible directions Li Mu could escape from.
“Li Yidao, I’ve waited for you for a long time. Today, I will give you a chance to have a fair fight. Hahaha, stop running.”
Standing on the flying shuttle, Huangfu Chengdao looked towering, and his voice was mighty and thunderous.
Li Mu chuckled.
Of course, he would not stop.
In a desperate situation, the braver one would win.
If he stopped at this time, he would be bringing his doom on him.
He would battle at once.
Without hesitation, he slammed the broadsword case backhanded.
The Samsara Knife turned into 24 flying broadswords carrying the Broadsword Intent of 24 Solar Terms. Like divine cranes, the broadswords darted out and hacked straight at Huangfu Chengdao and the others.
In the void, the flying broadswords were too fast for the naked eye to capture.
“Swish, swish, swis.h.!.+”
One could only see the looming white lines the broadsword created when they moved.
“Haha.”
Huangfu Chengdao showed a derisive smile.
He unfolded the palm of his left hand and lightly pushed it forward. Three hexagonal s.h.i.+elds suddenly appeared in front of him. As glimmering Taoist figures spread, the s.h.i.+elds spun rapidly and turned into a blur of light. The naked eye could not see their moves. Eventually, the three s.h.i.+elds looked like one white, glowing s.h.i.+eld.
“Clank, clink, clank!”
With the dense sound made by pieces of metal being struck together, the flying broadswords bounced off.
“You’re displaying your cheap trick before an expert.”
Huangfu Chengdao gave a faint smile. His three hexagonal s.h.i.+elds stopped spinning.
Almost at the same time, cries of pain came from behind him.
The more than a dozen Heavenly Legends that had surrendered to him were in a muddle under the attack of the flying broadswords, for their strength was far inferior to his. The power of different Solar Terms burst out in the void. In an instant, all the phenomena of 24 Solar Terms appeared, forming extremely bizarre energy turbulence. Even the law of heaven and earth seemed to have been disturbed.
“Kill!”
As soon as Li Mu raised his right hand, the flying broadswords that scattered in the sky gathered together and instantly merged into the huge Samsara Knife.
The power of the right arm of white bones was fully activated without reservation.
In an instant, his right sleeve wrapping around his right arm blasted into pieces, revealing white bones as crystal clear as jade. His joints, flesh, and blood completely vanished. His arm now looked like the arm of a skeleton. The mysterious power in the Samsara Knife was turned on. Then, with a crack, silver flames enveloped half of Li Mu’s body.
He hacked!
At this time, Li Mu was already right in front of Huangfu Chengdao, the young master of the Heavenly Deity Clan. His broadsword light was like a devil’s. He himself looked like a deity. Without warning, he launched a sudden attack.
“Four Dragons Divine Sword… Defend!”
Huangfu Chengdao’s black hair fluttered in the wind. He advanced instead of retreating.
He had long wanted to duel with Li Yidao to decide who deserved the t.i.tle of the Number One Heavenly Legend in an open and aboveboard manner. Besides, he had made thorough preparations today. Believing that victory was guaranteed, he naturally would not give in at all.
Four rays of divine light flashed.
Then, four divine swords, which were respectively violet, cyan, black, and green in color, came into view. The design of these four swords was ancient and simple. It was as if they possessed intelligence. Divine radiance swirled around them as they floated before Huangfu Chengdao.
In a split second, he made a strange gesture with a hand and flicked each of the four swords.
“Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+”
Four jets of sword light in four different colors suddenly shot out from the four divine swords. Then, the four jets of sword light split into eight, sixteen, thirty-two… Finally, there was a sea of sword light. One by one, the numerous light beams dashed toward Li Mu.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble!”
The broadsword light and the Sword Intent collided frenetically.
“Haha, Li Yidao, this is the first time I’ve displayed my Four Dragons Sword Art since I mastered it. Today, I will offer you to the swords as a sacrifice. Hahahaha!”
Seeing that the overwhelming sword light had engulfed Li Yidao, Huangfu Chengdao laughed heartily.
He had absolute confidence in his strength and cultivation.
“Blaze!”
All of a sudden, Li Mu’s shout sounded.
A broadsword wrapped in silver flames cleaved the sea of sword light.
The Samsara Knife darted straight at Huangfu Chengdao.
“What? You destroyed my sword light?” Huangfu Chengdao was staggered.
Yet, he was a peerless Heavenly Legend, after all. He quickly came to his sense. The three hexagonal s.h.i.+elds appeared in front of him again. As the Taoist figures flashed, they began to rotate rapidly, trying to block the broadsword.
“Don’t… Watch out.”
A voice suddenly sounded beside him.
A shadow-like figure suddenly skimmed past him. With a casual pluck, the figure picked up the violet one out of the four swords suspended in front of Huangfu Chengdao.
With the sword in hand, this figure, with an imposing manner, rushed straight at Li Mu.
The blade split into 10, then merged into one again. It was extremely bizarre.
At the moment when the Samsara Knife penetrated the blurry light s.h.i.+eld formed by the spinning three hexagonal s.h.i.+elds and was about to cut Huangfu Chengdao into pieces, the violet sword held by this figure charged over and fended off the broadsword radiance of the Samsara Knife.
“Huh? There is such kind of swordsmans.h.i.+p?” Li Mu was taken aback.
He was sent flying backward.
A sense of extreme danger instantly enveloped him.
It was Huangfu Chengdao’s protector.
“How powerful this protector is! He is many times more powerful than the protector serving Duan Shenping the Seven Luminaries Divine Bell.
The moment when Li Mu realized he had met a terrible opponent, he naturally displayed his broadsword-using method. The styles he performed were exactly the moves in the nameless Broadsword Manual the Divine-winged Fox gave him that day.
“Clank, clink, clank!”
A series of sounds of swords colliding was heard, accompanied by cl.u.s.ters of sparks that splashed in the void like a meteorite shower.
The two figures left many vague shadows in the void. It was as if there were numerous spitting images of them.
“Pfft!”
Blood splattered everywhere.
Li Mu’s left shoulder was penetrated by the violet sword.
“Pfft!”
He opened his mouth and blood squirted out. His muscles tightened. His opponent wanted to pull out the sword, but he suddenly found that the violet sword seemed to be cast in Li Mu’s body and could not be extracted for the time being.
The Samsara Knife hacked out at the same time. The broadsword light swirled and left a b.l.o.o.d.y mark on the shoulder of the figure holding the violet sword on the opposite side.
The figure was forced to let go of the sword.
Li Mu turned tail and fled.
“You think you can escape?” the man growled. “Come and drop dead!”
Without saying a word, Li Mu directly pulled out the violet sword and flung it back with the skill of the Zhenwu Boxing.
The sword glowed with violet light.
The figure reached out for the sword. Yet, hardly had he grabbed the sword hilt than a tremendous force surged over and thrust his hand away. As his fingers loosened, the violet sword shot directly toward his heart.
He had no choice but to pinch the blade of the sword with his fingers and execute a secret skill before he was able to firmly hold onto the violet sword.
But his fingers were cut so deep that his bones were exposed.
Blood flowed down the blade of the sword.
“Uncle Guan, are you… all right?” Huangfu Chengdao hurried over at once and asked with concern.
The man shook his head with resignation and said, “I’m fine.”
It was not until this time that Li Mu had a clear view of the man. He had a short black beard, a slender figure, a fair-skinned face, deep eyes, and seemed to be middle-aged. He gave people a feeling that he was down and out but definitely could not be trifled with.
“Uncle Guan, what about Li Yidao’s injury?” Huangfu Chengdao asked in shock.
The middle-aged man he referred to as Uncle Guan shook his head and said, “It’s not a fatal injury… He won’t die. This person’s physique is very special. Even the remarkable power of my Mountain Quake failed to suppress him. In the end, I had to resort to my swordsmans.h.i.+p to defeat him…”
As he spoke, he closed his eyes and played the battle in his head. Then he added, “It’s unnerving. This is the first time I’ve seen such a young cultivator has such combat ability.”
Huangfu Chengdao looked slightly self-conscious and fl.u.s.tered when he heard this.
Just now, he carelessly used the three hexagonal s.h.i.+elds to block Li Yidao’s strike. But the s.h.i.+elds were destroyed in an instant and he almost got killed. “If it weren’t for Uncle Guan’s timely intervention at the critical moment, I’m afraid that… Well, didn’t this mean I’m inferior to Li Yidao?”
Before this battle, Huangfu Chengdao had privately disdained all the over-the-top praises people gave Li Yidao.
But at this moment, he finally discovered that it would not be over-the-top no matter how high the evaluations were.
Li Yidao was the kind of person that would only show others how horrifying he was when they were facing his broadsword.
“Moreover, Uncle Guan has spoken so highly of Li Yidao. He has practically given the t.i.tle of the Number One Heavenly Legend in the Ziwei Star Zone to Li Yidao.
“After all, those words were from Uncle Guan.”
Up to now, saying Uncle Guan’s full name was regarded as taboo in the entire Ziwei Star Zone.
Uncle Guan handed the violet sword back to Huangfu Chengdao. He looked at the wound on his palm, which gradually vanished. Still, he was actually slightly worried.
“Although Li Yidao escaped, the sword strike he took must have injured his internal organs. My Sword Intent has entered his body. He can’t have gone far. Let’s continue to hunt him… If we didn’t nip this scourge in the bud, we would be troubled in the future. We must kill him in the Heavenly Fox Secret Realm. Otherwise, when he becomes stronger later, he will definitely be a big threat to our Heavenly Deity Clan,” said Uncle Guan.
Huangfu Chengdao clenched his teeth and echoed, “Exactly. He and I are already mortal enemies. Only one of us can live.”
“D*mn. How unlucky I was today!”
Li Mu covered the wound on his left shoulder and fled helter-skelter.
This was the first time that he had cut such a sorry figure since he came to the Ziwei Star Zone.
The protector the Heavenly Deity Clan had chosen for Huangfu Chengdao was indeed powerful. He was many times mightier than Duan Shenping’s good-for-nothing protector. Even if that man had not reached the peak of the King Realm, he should at least gained the Full Completion of the King Realm. His swordsmans.h.i.+p was like a G.o.d’s. The Heavenly Deity Clan sure deserved to be one of the six major clans. Their foundation was so profound that it made people tremble.
After this battle, Li Mu could basically ascertain that if the power of the white-bone right arm and the Samsara Knife were fully exerted, he could fight against a Middle-stage King Realm cultivator.
But once he met an opponent above the middle stage, he would have basically zero chance of winning.
“Huangfu Chengdao is determined to kill me, so he will definitely chase after me. Now I’m wounded, I cannot drive the Somersault Cloud to the full speed. Thus, my speed is definitely not as fast as him and that protector who has gained the Full Completion of the King Realm.”
Li Mu brooded in his head.
He thought for a moment, then, directly activated the Seven Luminaries Divine Horse Battle Chariot he had s.n.a.t.c.hed from Duan Shenping.
“Rumble!”
The hooves of black horses shook the void.
The battle chariot crushed the heavens and quickly advanced.
About 300 miles behind him.
Huangfu Chengdao was slightly stunned. Then, he burst into laughter and said, “Haha, this Li Yidao is really badly frightened. Can’t believe he’s made such a stupid mistake. He wants to flee by riding the Seven Luminaries Divine Horse Battle Chariot. Yet, he didn’t know that although this treasure of the Seven Luminaries Clan is fast, it makes a big noise and has a special aura. Thus, it leaves traces wherever it goes. Haha, this time, Li Yidao has exposed his tracks completely.”
He started the flying shuttle and chased after the battle chariot.
Uncle Guan, the protector, also steered another flying shuttle carrying other Heavenly Legends who had already surrendered to the Heavenly Deity Clan and headed in the direction of Li Mu’s disappearance.
The two flying shuttles were treasures which the Heavenly Deity Clan had carefully selected. They were extremely fast, not at all inferior to the Seven Luminaries Divine Horse Battle Chariot.
Soon, Li Mu’s figure was already visible in the distance. He looked rather badly off and was running desperately.
“Li Yidao, you’ve never thought you would escape like a defeated dog one day, have you?” Huangfu Chengdao said with a booming laugh.