Chapter 105 – Invincible Kernel
(Mustang: Hey guys, this is the fourth Chapter for this week, and the second for the day.
Ps: Don’t leave shut of your screens just yet; I’m doing a final proofing of the next one, so you can expect it to be out soon enough.)
Li Xuan Feng’s team stood halted in their steads, as a crowd of strong Devil’s Race beasts charged towards them.
Moments ago, they were on the verge of killing the Abyss Dragon, and now they were faced with a large group of powerful trouble makers; so naturally, they were quite furious.
Previously, these beasts hadn’t receded far away from the pool, and had been patiently watching the humans slaughter the Abyss Dragon. At this point, they weren’t afraid of charging back in.
The Abyss Dragon was on the verge of his death, so naturally, the Devil’s Race wanted to dip their hands in the pie. On top of that, they really wouldn’t allow a bunch of humans to kill the monster that had been tormenting them so long.
Anyway, at present, the Abyss Dragon was stuck, heavily injured, so the rest of the Devil’s Race beasts weren’t really afraid of it anymore. As far as the humans were concerned, the Devil’s Race beasts had never known to fear them, and were always likely to die fighting, than run.
Since the Devil’s Race beasts had decided to join the fray, Li Xuan Feng’s team was left no other option, but to deal with them first, owing to which, they were unable to kill off the Abyss Dragon.
There were about ten ‘transformation’ layer beasts in this group, as opposed to four in Li Xuan Feng’s team, so obviously, they were in a tight spot.
If they withdrew, then, all of their hard work would go in vain, which is why, they were quite reluctant to do the same. But now that they were faced with so many, such powerful beasts, they really didn’t have any chance of winning.
They had already consumed a significant amount of their energies while trying to kill the Abyss Dragon, and now that they were faced with so many beasts of the Devil’s Race, they were practically on the proverbial ‘ropes’.
“Kill them!” Li Xuan Feng wasn’t willing to resign to defeat just yet, and so, he ordered his team to kill the Devil’s Race.
Li Xuan Feng and his team were worthy of being called ‘leaders of the young’ generation; their martial arts, and equipment, were top notch. They started casting out their best moves, and managed to kill several beasts in quick succession.
After witnessing causalities on their end, the Devil’s Race became even more fired up to kill the humans. The ten leaders of the different beast groups, divided themselves into four different teams, with each team being at least three times stronger than each of the personnel in Li Xuan Feng’s team, and started to engage them individually.
With an advantage of three-is-to-one, in terms strength, the Devil’s Race was naturally bound to prevail.
“It appears that Li Xuan Feng’s team has no chance now, what are we going to do about it?” w.a.n.g Zhong wondered.
If they allowed Li Xuan Feng’s team to leave, then the rest of the Devil’s Abyss will treat the Abyss Dragon as food, and it would become very difficult for Bi Fan’s team to gain anything from his carca.s.s.
At present, Bi Fan’s team was faced with a critical decision, and they had to act quickly, since it was obvious that Li Xuan Feng’s team would end up quitting pretty soon.
If Bi Fan’s team showed up to provide a.s.sistance, then the tables would turn in a matter of moments, and Li Xuan Feng’s team would definitely stay on.
It would appear that working with Li Xuan Feng’s side would best serve their goals, at least temporarily. Even though the advantage would be marginal, but it was one that they needed to bank on.
“We will show up to provide a.s.sistance, but we’ll wait till they agree to accommodate us in the loot division as well.” Bi Fan made the call.
At present, his friends had blind faith in his decision making ability, owing to which, he had absolute authority in such matters.
“Let’s go!” Lone Leaf was already ready.
There was no need to discuss the obvious, as they charged on to the battlefield; they were simply here by chance.
Bi Fan’s team didn’t launch into the action straight away. w.a.n.g Zhong laughed: “Aren’t you guys from the Zheng Qi Sect (Zheng Qi stands for righteous energy), need a hand there?”
Li Xuan Feng’s team was preparing to withdraw, but now that four strong men had arrived on the scene, their hopes on notching a victory were already reviving.
“There are too many of them, we’d be very grateful for your help on this. In return, we’ll give you a portion from our loot.” Li Xuan Feng said.
“That’s good, ah, I like that. But let’s come to an agreement before hand.” w.a.n.g Zhong was being fairly objective.
Li Xuan Feng was quite anxious, as he really needed a.s.sistance.
“How about fifty-fifty?” Li Xuan Feng offered.
His mind was thinking something entirely different: “d.a.m.n it. First, you’ll help us kill these beasts, and then I’ll kill you all. So don’t think that you’ll get away with taking our bounty.”
Bi Fan’s team was looking straight into Li Xuan Feng’s eyes, and they could make out that he was unlikely to hold up his word. But anyway, the four of them didn’t really mind the idea of going to war with the other side either.
“Good! That’s pretty generous! Let’s kill these beasts first; together.” w.a.n.g Zhong smiled.
Blue Dragon and the others launched into action, and started killing the Devil’s Race beasts.
Even though the beasts that Li Xuan Feng’s team was tangling with were fairly strong, killing, most of these beasts, was quite easy for Bi Fan’s team, since most of these beasts were below the ‘transformation’ layer.
Lone Leaf and w.a.n.g Zhong were doing most of the hard work. Since Bi Fan and Blue Dragon’s main strength was hidden to the unsuspecting, which is why they had decided to keep it that way.
If Bi Fan and Blue Dragon decided to expose their true strengths, then Li Xuan Feng’s team would prepare themselves, which would make things more difficult for the four of them.
Moreover, in order to gain the tag of the ‘righteous’, Lone Leaf had been recording all of these exchanges in his recording stone (There isn’t a description in the novel. It just mentions a stone which has the ability to record images, so it’s probably like a video camera. We’ll just refer to this object as the recording stone.). Now, even if Li Xuan Feng’s side defected from their promise and Bi Fan’s team decided to kill them in return, then the Zheng Qi Sect wouldn’t be able to say much on the matter.
Owing to their strength and expertise, w.a.n.g Zhong and Lone Leaf were able to kill the Devil’s Race beasts quite comfortably.
Li Xuan Feng, w.a.n.g Zhong, and Lone Leaf, had even started fighting together to kill the chiefs of the packs in order to resolve the fighting quickly. After all said and done, at the moment, they were all on the same team.
A little while later, after losing several more of their companions to Lone Leaf and w.a.n.g Zhong, the leaders of the Devil’s Race groups, decided to divide their teams into two more squads, in order to deal with w.a.n.g Zhong, and Lone Leaf, directly.
In fact, now that victory was finally in sight, Li Xuan Feng started tactically diverting the strongest beasts towards w.a.n.g Zhong and Lone Leaf, with the purpose of depleting their energy.
The Devil’s Race beasts weren’t stupid either, and had already realized that since the new arrivals hadn’t engaged with the Abyss Dragon, they were bound to pose more of a threat. So naturally, the strongest of the Devil’s Race were trying to concentrate on Lone Leaf and w.a.n.g Zhong only.
As for Bi Fan and Blue Dragon, they were having it fairly easy. They weren’t making any effort to take more charge either, and were plainly resorting to defending against the beasts that they were faced with.
Their team wasn’t interested in resolving the battle quickly, since their first objective was to make sure that they consumed lesser energy than Li Xuan Feng’s team, so dealing with them would be a lot easier; if need be.
In case Li Xuan Feng’s team help up their end of the bargain, then Bi Fan’s team wouldn’t really be able to say much, as they weren’t comfortable attacking the other side first.
However, judging by the general manner in which Li Xuan Feng’s team had been acting so far, it was obvious that the four of them weren’t interested in sharing the spoils of war with anyone; so, another battle was pretty much on the cards here.
Both sides were playing a calculated game; a game of who gets to frame the other side.
Li Xuan Feng was dealing with two ‘transformation’ layer beasts by himself, and seemed capable of coping with them, with a fair bit of ease.
“Invincible Kernel!” Li Xuan Feng, finally, cast out the Zheng Qi Sect’s trade mark technique.
The Invincible Kernel was the Zheng Qi Sect’s secret skill; but unlike most, it wasn’t just designed to kill; it was designed to punish and kill.
This martial technique was far more powerful than Bi Fan’s ‘fufeng double-edged sword’; in fact, it was even more powerful than Bi Fan’s ‘rainy-fly sword technique’.
Tian Long Yu, Yan Ren, and Ling Long, also casted out ‘the invincible kernel’ skill, as they prepared to kill off the beasts in a single swoop.
The longer the battle dragged on, the more unfavorable the circ.u.mstances were bound to get for them; so naturally, they wanted to end this as quickly as possible.
They cast out their attacks with all their strength, and the total output of their attacks was nothing short of brutal.
It was getting difficult to judge whether the Zheng Qi team was really upright, or were just pretending to be for the time being.
“Boom!” Li Xuan Feng was the first to notch progress, as he managed to injure one of the chief beasts.
At present, he had already consumed a large amount of his energy; otherwise, he would have been able to kill the beast off in that one stroke itself.
He was already at the peak of the ‘transformation’ layer, and was equipped with excellent weaponry, which was making his attacks even more dangerous than usual.
Now that he had already injured the strongest of the beasts that he was faced with, finishing the fight off was going to be a lot easier for Li Xuan Feng.