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Chapter 82 Escape (Please subscribe!)

"boom-!!!"

The powerful aftershocks swept across the area like a raging tide.

Xu Tian and Liu Yu didn't even have time to cry out before they were struck in the chest as if by a giant hammer, slamming hard against the cave wall behind them!

"puff"

Blood mist gushed out.

His back slammed into several hanging stalagmites, sending fragments flying and the crisp sound of bones breaking echoing clearly in the cave.

Xu Tian's right arm twisted at an eerie angle, the white bone fragments piercing his flesh, and the spear slipped from his hand, clattering to the ground.

Liu Yu fared even worse.

He had at least three broken ribs and was embedded in a crater in the rock wall. He struggled several times but could not slide down.

The two trusted disciples of the Golden Pivot Academy didn't even have time to scream.

Black Wolf swung his left claw horizontally, his powerful energy condensing into a tangible blade that swept across the waists and abdomens of the two men.

The blood mist exploded.

Half of the body slid to the ground, its internal organs spilling out, steaming hot.

Sun Hongyao was the first to be affected.

A gilded spear lay horizontally in front of him, its shaft curved like a bow.

Her sleeves were torn to shreds, her hands were split open, and blood slid down the gun barrel, dripping onto the bluestone at the bottom of the cave.

Three breaths.

She only lasted three breaths.

"Click!"

The gilded spear, a standard weapon of the Golden Pivot Academy, was made of finely forged iron capable of withstanding the force of ten thousand jin. It broke in two.

Sun Hongyao's pupils contracted sharply, and her excited face was finally swallowed by a bone-chilling fear.

She turned around.

escape.

He unleashed a burst of power from his feet, his figure flashing like a startled shadow as he lunged towards the cave entrance!

Just then, she caught a glimpse of the figure in green who had been wandering outside.

"Chen Jianghe!"

Sun Hongyao screamed hoarsely, her voice piercing the cavern with terror: "Get behind me! Protect me! This is the steward's order—!!!"

She made a grasping motion with her right hand, as if trying to pull the figure from afar and place it between herself and the wild beast behind her.

Chen Jianghe made a move.

He did not back down.

He pushed the Phantom Step to its limit, his figure transforming into a blur as he hurtled toward Sun Hongyao!

In the flickering firelight, his face was solemn, and his eyes seemed resolute.

"Manager Sun! I'm here to save you!"

The sound was not loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the cave.

A glint flashed in Sun Hongyao's eyes—

It wasn't gratitude, but a ruthless sense of relief.

Yes. That's how it should be.

You, a piece of trash from Lingmu Academy, are fortunate enough to have saved this calamity for me.

She kept moving, even slowing down slightly by half a step, so that Chen Jianghe could get in front of her and meet the ferocious beast that had pounced within three zhang behind her.

However, it was only 13 zhang (approximately 33 meters).

Two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters).

One zhang (approximately 3.3 meters).

The fleeting moment when Chen Jianghe and she passed each other.

His right sleeve fluttered slightly.

The movement was extremely light and fast, hidden in the gust of wind stirred up by the intertwined figures, and hidden in the fear that Sun Hongyao was focused on as she was completely absorbed by the pursuers behind her.

It was hidden in the last glimmer of hope in her life.

Three silver needles.

It is as fine as a cow's hair, no more than an inch and two-tenths of an inch long, and its entire body is dark black, without any reflection under the firelight.

It is the "Traceless Needle" hidden weapon described in the appendix of "Falling Willow Leaves".

The moment the silver needle slipped from his sleeve, Chen Jianghe's wrist twitched slightly.

The three needles, arranged in a triangular pattern, silently pierced the back of Sun Hongyao's right knee.

Sun Hongyao's right leg suddenly went weak.

The force she had channeled to seventy percent, the force she was about to unleash as she lunged forward, dissipated instantly like a kite with a broken string.

Before she could even look down, she lost her balance and fell forward!

"ah--!"

A mixture of screams and rage erupted as she slammed her right palm against the ground, cracking the bluestone, in an attempt to use the force to turn herself over.

But it was too late.

The powerful pressure from behind her was like Mount Tai pressing down, enveloping her entirely.

The black wolf's powerful claws pierced through her back and emerged from her chest.

"Pfft!"

The claw blades were still covered with tattered clothing, flesh, and several severed ribs.

Sun Hongyao looked down, staring incredulously at the three blood-stained claw tips protruding from her chest.

Her lips trembled violently. She wanted to turn around, to see the狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious/hideous) face behind her, and even more so, to see that—

The figure in green who had just passed by him had now drifted back three zhang away.

Her lips moved, but only large mouthfuls of bloody foam gushed out.

"You—you dare—"

The sound was muffled, broken, and drowned out by blood.

The black wolf pulled out its claws.

Sun Hongyao's body collapsed to the ground like a rag doll. In her eyes, which remained wide open until her death, there was still fear, resentment, and a bewilderment that remained until her last breath.

She doesn't understand.

What makes that good-for-nothing from Lingmu Academy dare to do that?

What gives them the right to lay such a vicious hand on a fellow disciple who is a manager of the Golden Pivot Academy and a peak-level cultivator?

pity.

No one will answer her anymore.

Black Wolf flicked the blood off his claws, not even glancing at the still-convulsing corpse at his feet. His gaze swept past the mess on the ground, past the barely alive Xu Tian and Liu Yu embedded in the cave wall, past the two cold, mangled bodies—

It landed on the back of the blue-clad figure who had already reached the edge of the cave hall.

"interesting."

He spoke softly, licking the blood splattered on his lips, and a genuine interest finally flickered in his crimson eyes.

"I spent half a day baiting the hook, and all I caught was a mad dog, a wild dog, and two useless dogs."

He paused, his smile deepening: "So the real fangs were hidden there."

Chen Jianghe did not turn back.

The Shadow Step, mastered.

At this moment, he exerted all his strength. His afterimage remained in place, but his true body had already darted three zhang away.

One step, two steps, three steps—each step on the jagged, protruding rock ridges of the cave wall felt like walking on flat ground.

With each step, the distance between them and the rapidly approaching, oppressive force behind them widened by half an inch, an inch, or three inches.

fast.

Not fast enough.

Chen Jianghe felt no fear or panic, only utmost clarity.

He clearly sensed the killing intent behind him;

They sensed the subtle popping sounds as the black wolf shattered the rocks at the bottom of the cave with each step it took;

He was still eighty feet away from the cave entrance.

Behind them, the black wolf had already caught up to within ten feet.

"Kid."

Black Wolf's voice came from behind, unhurried, even with a hint of cat-and-mouse composure: "Your needlework just now was quite good. From Lingmu Academy?"

Chen Jianghe did not answer.

He pressed on with his feet, his body twisting and turning three times in the narrow passage, each time briefly cutting into the black wolf's blind spot.

After mastering the Phantom Step, he gradually grasped the true essence of this footwork.

It's not about running faster.

It runs even more "unpredictably".

Make it impossible for the enemy to predict your next move.

Black Wolf raised an eyebrow slightly.

He chased for thirty zhang.

At a distance of thirty zhang, with his newly formed internal strength and his qi and blood flowing like a great river, he should have been able to catch a junior who had reached the peak of the transformation realm within three breaths.

But three breaths passed, then five breaths passed.

The figure in blue remained ten feet away from his claws.

Chen Jianghe kept changing direction and leaping, each step landing on the rhythm that was most unfavorable to his own, forcing him to adjust his pursuit angle again and again, and repeatedly dissipating the claw force he had gathered.

"Good footwork."

Instead of getting angry, Black Wolf laughed, his voice filled with both killing intent and admiration: "Unfortunately, a Transcendent Realm expert is still just a Transcendent Realm expert."

He suddenly stopped.

Its right claw retracted to its waist, and the crimson veins all over its body suddenly shone brightly!

The blood moon that had been slowly rotating deep within his pupils suddenly increased its speed!

"Sun and Moon Demonic Arts, Blood Moon Soul Chaser."

He murmured.

The right claw is swung out from a distance!

A dark red burst of energy shot out from his body, like a blood-red crescent moon, slashing sharply towards the figure about to disappear into the cave entrance thirty feet away!

Chen Jianghe's back hair stood on end!

Without any hesitation, the instant he heard the shriek, he abruptly changed direction, no longer charging forward.

It was a side-fall!

He was like a thrown stone, crashing hard into a protruding boulder on the left side of the cave!

"boom!!!"

The crimson energy grazed his right shoulder and struck the mountain wall at the end of the cave!

Stone chips exploded, and rubble flew everywhere. A hideous crack, more than three feet deep and over ten feet long, was torn open as if by the claws of a giant beast!

Chen Jianghe groaned, his right shoulder throbbing with pain.

Although he wasn't directly hit, the aftershock of the force tore a deep, bone-revealing wound in his shoulder blade, and blood instantly soaked half of his clothes.

But he couldn't care less.

Using the momentum of his side lunge, he continued rolling and tumbling without stopping, finally slamming his palm into the ground and shooting out of the cave like an arrow!

The moment Chen Jianghe burst out of the Black Wind Cave, he was greeted by endless dark forests and a steep, rocky slope beneath his feet.

Without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed his full power with the Shadow Step and sped towards the dense forest below the mountain!

Behind them, in the shadows of the cave entrance.

The black wolf slowly stepped out.

He looked up at the night sky.

He looked down again, watching the figure that was already a hundred feet away and about to disappear into the forest.

"interesting."

He uttered those three words for the third time.

The right claw was raised, and the bloodstains from Chen Jianghe's shoulder still remained on the claw blade, which gleamed eerily dark red in the moonlight.

He licked it.

"Xingyi School—it turns out there are such interesting people hidden here."

He paused, his blood-red eyes surging with killing intent: "But since you know I cultivate the Sun and Moon Demonic Art—"

"I cannot keep you here."

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