Chapter 37 - Ambush
Leaving the academy, Lin Haoxue and her sister quickly headed home.
It was now noon and the sun was in the center of the sky. The sun gave one a sense of warmth when its rays shine on you, however, Lin Haoxue was anxious and impatient so she wasn"t in the mood to feel it.
While she was walking, Lin Haoxue somehow felt that the road home was longer than usual. Even though the Lin family"s house wasn"t close to the academy at all, she figured that they would be home soon as they were traveling quickly. However, when she lifted her head to see the road, she noticed that they were still quite far away.
Lin Haoxue slowed down her pace. Faintly, she felt that something was wrong. She lifted her head and saw that the sun was still hanging high in the sky but its warmth had seemed to have vanished. Instead, there was a faint gloominess and coldness which seemed to be present in the air.
"Sister, wait." Suddenly, Lin Haoxue said, however, n.o.body answered. Now she realized that Lin Ruoxue wasn"t by her side. She could still see the streets of Taixing town, however, there wasn"t any other people around but her.
This kind of gloominess and coldness, Lin Haoxue was familiar with it. It was obviously the aura of an incantation array. She knew right away that she had been set up. Despite this, she kept on walking while at the same time she spread her willforce as far as possible looking for any traces.
Noticing that Lin Haoxue"s willforce was examining her surroundings, the gloomy aura started to let out an aura of death. This was an aura that was strong enough to threaten her life. Suddenly, the surroundings became silent and everything seemed like it was being covered by a thin cloth. Everything became blurred. Obviously, they had launched the incantation array.
Afterwards, a faint silhouette showed up ten meters in front of Lin Haoxue. It was a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance. He looked at Lin Haoxue and laughed coldly. His eyes were like a poisonous snake waiting for an opportunity to strike. His voice was gloomy and cold, "You deserve to be called a rare genius from the Lin family. You found out about it so quickly, huh? But what a shame you were still too late!"
"Was I too late? I"m not quite sure about that." Lin Haoxue mouth curved into a cold smile. Now since she already knew that this enemy was an incantation master, she didn"t have to worry about it much. Master Liao had taught her many ways to deal with incantation masters.
"Oh? You think you still have a chance? Give it a try then. Can you even use your profound power? As a profound cultivator you can only sit and wait for death if you don"t have any profound power." That man looked like he was definitely going to win.
She examined herself and found out that her profound power had indeed decreased a lot. In the end, she wasn"t even able to circulate her profound power at all. Examining things closer, she noticed there wasn"t even a speck of profound power in this tiny s.p.a.ce. It seemed like her profound power had been blocked and she was unable to draw in anything from her surroundings.
"Is this the Spirit Scattering incantation? No, the Spirit Scattering incantation doesn"t have the ability to confine profound power." Lin Haoxue didn"t understand what incantation array she was under at the moment. However, she didn"t panic as it wouldn"t be hard to figure that out as long as the master of the incantation array was present.
"Little girl, you won"t be able to escape easily. There hasn"t been anyone who was able to escape from my Forbidden Spirit incantation array. You can only wait for death!"
"At least tell me why I have to die?" Lin Haoxue looked at him calmly.
"Well, you can only blame yourself for being a part of the Lin family. Someone can"t bear you staying alive." Maybe in his eyes, Lin Haoxue was merely a dead person walking, therefore it didn"t matter whether she knew or not.
"The Wu family?" How could Lin Haoxue not know who the people that wanted to harm her most were?
"Even if that"s true, what can you do? It"s too difficult for you to escape from death anyways."
"Oh? Then, how do you plan to kill me?"
"You will know soon enough." As he was talking, his silhouette gradually became fuzzy and it seemed as if it would disappear.
"Wanna leave? Not that easy!"
Lin Haoxue came up with an idea and immediately shaped her willforce into a form. Something that was thinner than a needle shot out from between her eyebrows and shot into the enemy"s knowledge sea. Shaping her willforce into a form and attacking was a new skill Lin Haoxue had learned this time.
Her thoughts of the past just now took Lin Haoxue"s mind back to her previous life. The sense of all-out effort she used to have was her att.i.tude in her previous life and something that she was now feeling as well. Almost twenty years of devilish training which she went through step by step, how could she not be tough? Therefore, in a flash her willforce broke out and both its attack power or speed were astonishing.
"Ahhhhh!" A miserable shriek erupted.
The dense fog-like veil dissolved at this moment, and it was like clouds letting through the sun"s rays. Now everything was back to normal.
Lin Haoxue first saw her sister Lin Ruoxue laying down right next to her. After examining her, she knew that her sister had merely been knocked out, and she had no severe injuries. Afterwards, she saw there were three people standing by each other directly in front of her. The man in the middle looked ordinary, and at this moment, he was using his hands to cover the middle of his forehead as he was injured.
Lin Haoxue knew the other two people as well. One was butler Wu, the one who had witnessed Lin Haoxue beat up He Long and others. As for the last person it was Wu Shiyue, who had suffered a crushing defeat by Lin Haoxue.
"How the f.u.c.k did that happen?" Wu Shiyue looked at Lin Haoxue in horror not able to believe that even this strong person he hired was incapable of dealing with Lin Haoxue. Ever since he was defeated by her, he had suffered a great internal injury. Therefore he didn"t have a choice but to go home and get a lot of spirit medicine to recover his health. However, after recovering he was still insecure. Only by killing Lin Haoxue would he feel relieved.
He talked with his father about this issue and they hired an incantation master from outside of town for the job. The incantation master was merely at the First Nascent realm but after all he was an incantation master! How on earth did he get hurt by Lin Haoxue? How terrifying is she?
He absolutely never thought that Lin Haoxue could have been an incantation master as well, and that her willforce was so astonishing.
"Is it you?! Is it you who hurt my grandfather and then set up my sister and me?" Thinking about how her grandfather"s fate was unknown, Lin Haoxue couldn"t hold back her anger and hatred.
"Uncle Yuan." Seeing Lin Haoxue"s fierce expression, Wu Shiyue quickly hid behind the middle-aged man. He remembered the big price he had paid last time for provoking her, and even now, he still didn"t have the strength to deal with Lin Haoxue.
"She"s just a kid. It"s not like she can hurt us!" The one called Uncle Yuan had moved Wu Shiyue"s hand away from the middle of his eyebrows. The expression in his eyes looked arrogant, but when he looked at Lin Haoxue one could tell he was a tiny bit frightened. Earlier when their willforce had connected, he felt a powerful pressure from her. He felt dread from deep within from her tyrannical willforce which was at least a realm higher than his.
"And you who schemes against others, who do you think you are?" Lin Haoxue walked toward those three people step by step while laughing coldly. Now she was in a bad mood because everything was seemingly trying to keep her from her grandfather who she was very worried about.
"It was just luck that you were able to break my Forbidden Spirit incantation array so I"ll let you off. Get out of here right away otherwise, don"t blame me for not being nice.
"You will let me go? Ha! You should try using your profound power first. How much do you have left? Is it enough to form another incantation array?" Lin Haoxue"s eyes had turned red because her worries and hatred intertwined with each other. Therefore the desire to kill these people rose inside her mind, and all of a sudden, she seemed to have a fiendish aura, "You want to set up my family? You better be ready to go to h.e.l.l!"
"Haoxue!" Lin Ruoxue screamed.
Lin Haoxue"s appearance right now was too scary. Even Lin Ruoxue who had just woken up was greatly shocked, let alone Wu Shiyue and the others. Lin Ruoxue had never seen her sister go so crazy. As for Lin Haoxue, she didn"t seem to hear Lin Ruoxue"s screaming.
Lin Haoxue drew her fingers through the air, and soon twenty-one incantations appeared almost simultaneously and floated up into the air. Twenty-one closely-linked incantations fused into the air and soon an abnormally aggressive Scrawling Blood array had formed. This array would trap Wu Shiyue and the other two inside it. Once the incantation was activated and the profound power had gathered those people wouldn"t be able to escape.
The Scrawling Blood incantation array formed a very strong pressure which was able to draw out blood from humans. They wouldn"t be able to resist such an incantation, and in the end, they could only die from blood loss.
Soon, those people who were trapped in the incantation couldn"t bear the pain, and were all holding their heads and screaming in pain. Their eyes and nose leaked blood, not to mention their mouth. The skin on their arms and legs gradually started cracking and their flesh seemed as if it were unable to bear such pressure. They seemed as if they would burst apart soon.
"I let you go time and time again but you guys keep trying to harm me. What use is keeping you three alive? Die!" Lin Haoxue kept repeating these words and her violent emotions consumed her.
"Haoxue! What"s wrong with you?" The opponent"s devastation was so miserable that even Lin Ruoxue couldn"t bear seeing it anymore. Plus, she obviously felt that her sister didn"t seem normal. She ran over to her in order to stop her, but she was pulled back by an unknown power: a power which didn"t seem to be from Lin Haoxue.
"Hum"
A faint noise could be heard. It sounded very familiar as if the dragon from the Divine Dragon Stream had groaned. Suddenly, Lin Haoxue shivered and her red eyes returned to normal. Her desire to kill disappeared and when she saw those three covered in blood, she couldn"t bear to see them like that either. She waved her hands and her Scrawling Blood array dissolved.
"Sister, let"s go." Lin Haoxue had already calmed down and went to pick Lin Ruoxue up.
Seeing Wu Shiyue and those two looking horrible, she felt complicated about it. She wasn"t relieved, instead she was now scared of herself. Were it not for that faint groan, perhaps she might have lost her mind and simply slaughtered as she wished.
Today she acted like this was because the Wu family had found her weakness. But wasn"t that because her weakness was too obvious?
To Lin Haoxue, family was her weakness. Whoever dared to harm her family would feel her wrath.