Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Just like the last group battle, this battle, in the opinion of most of the martial artists of Elysium and Inferno, started and ended in an instant as well. How did these five people lose in the hands of Qin Fen alone? Almost no one saw it clearly.
Last time, two Elysium members ended up dead. This time, two of Inferno members ended up dying. Only the Inferno powerhouses had managed to escape.
At this moment, there was no wind blowing in the natural cemetery, but everyone could feel a chill seeping down into their bones. Everyone looked at each other, asking each other what to do in this situation. Qin Fen was like the invincible demon lord from the legend, whereas the Eight Immortals and Inferno Kings were like the knights from the legends.
Unfortunately, their ending this time wasn’t like in fairy tales, where the knights killed the demon lord using their wits and guts, the weak overcoming the strong.
Today, the demon lord-like Qin Fen was still standing at the center of the battlefield. Slowly, he raised his legs and advanced towards the dark forest, like the demon lord wanting to kill the last defeated knight.
God knows who whispered ‘escape’ first, but almost two hundred Elysium and Inferno martial artists, who trod between the lines of life and death, scattered about with weapons in their hands. If they ran in the same direction, they would only be caught and silenced. Only by scattering would they have more chances of escaping.
Du Peng watched everyone escaping calmly, without any intention of chasing them. If Qin Fen wanted to silence everyone, he would have killed them already. Since he had no intention of silencing them, why would he arbitrarily kill these martial artists? They, too, had families to support, they, too, had relatives. They were just standing on opposing sides in this fight.
“Strong..”
“Bro Zhanpeng… can you beat him?”
“Yeah…”The Jungle Ranger standing in the forefront moved its metal head slowly. The words spoken next were full of endless lament, without the slightest sense of any hypocrisy. “I really hadn’t expected that he would be this strong. I had been training with Big Bro Zhan for so long, but I know now that I can’t defeat this person, whom I could beat back then, after having not seen him all these years.”
“It’s not just his star-class and earth aura energy that is strong, but the foundations of his martial art is very strong as well! In this fight, apart from the final confrontation with Lu Dongbin with the firm and fierce martial dao, it has been a real competition of martial skills. In the face of these seniors who have extremely rich experience, it’s even harder to win in technique than to forcefully suppress with the strength of star-class. But Qin Fen did it. Furthermore, it’s very difficult to do in one-on-one situations but Qin Fen did in a one-vs-many situation… I’m afraid he is really the top expert in the current younger generation…”
After the big fight, the forest of the natural cemetery regained its peace. Qin Fen broke the gloomy silence of the forest as he stepped on the branches that had fallen onto the ground; he slowly made his way towards the sobbing woman in the forest.
He Xiangu was lacking the calmness she showed even when her clothes had been ripped. Tears were pouring out her eyes faster than the blood dripping down her arms. Her neat hair was now a mess. Very soon, the biochemical beast controlled her bleeding, but it was unable to control the tears flowing out her eyes.
Pills, one after another were stuffed into Lu Dongbin’s mouth. He Xiangu kept staring at Lu Dongbin nervously as if she hadn’t noticed Qin Fen’s appearance.
In the last round, Lu Dongbin’s biochemical beast was dispersed temporarily. Although it was a level-four fusion biochemical beast, it was in a state of dormancy. Without the assistance of the biochemical beast, Lu Dongbin’s life was passing by with his crushed sternum and injured internal organs, bit by bit.
“My biochemical beast was actually forced into dormancy…” Lying on the ground and looking at the sky through the thick canopy of the forest, Lu Dongbin let out the self-deprecating words in his heart. As it turned out, I wasn’t the first expert of the firm and fierce martial dao in the world. Only the rising star Qin Fen is qualified to carry this title.
Although it was a short battle, his harvest was very rich. Furthermore, he had never fought a battle this happily as he had done today.
“Unfortunately… unfortunately…”
Lu Dongbin opened his mouth and sighed in lament. Meanwhile, blood kept pouring out of his mouth like a fountain, flowing down his neck and to the ground from the corner of his lips.
“Dong Bin… don’t talk anymore… just take care of your wounds…”
He Xiangu hurriedly and carefully wiped the corner of Lu Dongbin’s lips. Her green camouflage uniform was spotted in blood.
Lu Dongbin’s body had already regained its normal appearance. His handsome face barely smiled at He Xiangu. The pain from the injuries was making it harder for him to give a perfect smile.
“Don’t stay here, you must leave.” Lu Dongbin continued speaking, aggravating his internal injuries more and more. “Go, go before Qin Fen comes to silence us.”
Qin Fen was standing not too far away from them, gazing at the two in the ruins of the battlefield. Suddenly, He Xiangu felt that someone was here. She quickly turned around and spread her arms before Lu Dongbin, staring at Qin Fen with vigilance, like an angry hen trying to protect its chick.
“This…”
Qin Fen felt his vision turning a little blurry. At this moment, he saw a familiar image in He Xiangu: Song Jia’s image.
It wasn’t that He Xiangu looked like Song Jia. Rather, it was that their temperament rooted in their bones was overlapping at this moment.
They will protect their beloved even if that meant that they would end up dead! Qin Fen had felt this same temperament from Song Jia not just once. But unfortunately, in the face of Qilin’s strength, Song Jia didn’t even have a chance to show this desperation.
“If it was me there…” Qin Fen looked at He Xiangu before looking at the sky calmly. “If I had suffered such serious injuries and Song Jia was present here, would she have been like He Xiangu as well?”
The expert and ordinary Elysium and Inferno martial artists were different.
Qin Fen could let those martial artists go but he didn’t want to let the two before him go. Their destructive power was too strong! They could easily threaten many people. This kind of potential was too dangerous.
Had it been before, when Qin Fen had walked into the forest, he would not have hesitated to kill them for sure. It wasn’t that he was killing the two in order to safeguard the secret as to whose hands the new energy and new metal fell into, he had wanted to cut the roots just to be on the safe side.
As for the new energy, isn’t it better to let Tathagata know about it? It was too difficult to find Tathagata for Qin Fen. Not even Inferno members were aware of the location of Elysium’s base. Perhaps only the core members of Elysium knew about it.
But if the news of the owner of new energy disseminated, Qin Fen believed that he would be able to fish out Tathagata someday. At that time, he could settle the matters of Gun King with the other party.
Qin Fen raised his arm slowly as the earth aura true energy of eighteen-star level gathered in his palm; his entire palm began to turn into white jade.
“Wait a minute! Ke… ke…” Lu Dongbin shouted hard, affecting his injuries. Lying on the ground, he kept staring at Qin Fen. “I know, I am about to die. In other words, I don’t have the qualifications to negotiate with you, but… I hope you will let Xiangu go. I promise that Xiangu will never try to take revenge on you or on your people in the future. She will retire. Okay?”
Qin Fen looked at Lu Dongbin calmly. If someone else had said this, he would have struck him down without a moment of hesitation. But this opponent was somewhat different. A follower of the extreme firm martial dao would absolutely keep his words.
Killing someone was anything but pleasant. Qin Fen didn’t like killing people. If he could have no future trouble without killing anyone, then why would he kill anyone?
“Can you?” Lu Dongbin stared at Qin Fen. He wouldn’t have asked this if his opponent was someone else. But because his opponent was a follower of the firm and fierce martial dao, he could raise such an extravagant hope in his heart. Only a true firm and fierce martial artist could understand another firm and fierce martial artist. “This is not a martial artist’s request but a man’s request to save his woman. Please let her go.”
“Lu Dongbin!” He Xiangu let out a tender cry as she looked back at Lu Dongbin with widened eyes before turning her gaze at Qin Fen. “Do it.”
Looking at He Xiangu and Lu Dongbin, in a scene from a third-rate drama series, Qin Fen would not have felt anything but the need to vomiting if he had seen it on tv. But when facing this kind of scene in real life, he was a bit touched. Live and die together, countless lovers might have said such words but only a few could really do it when it was time to die together.
“Do it!” He Xiangu raised her head and closed her eyes. “Since Dongbin can’t survive, then do it.”
None of the medicine was really treating Lu Dongbin’s condition. And having lost the biochemical beast’s treatment, He Xiangu was already in despair.
“Your punches are very clean.” Qin Fen raised his right arm and stared at Lu Dongbin. “I want to know, that if I don’t kill you, what will you do if you meet me or my people in the future?”
Lu Dongbin stared at Qin Fen. This was a really stupid question. He was already dying, what else was there in the future?
“If they don’t attack me, I won’t attack them. Even if Elysium orders me to attack, I will refuse.” Lu Dongbin thought for a while and added. “The premise is that Xiangu is alive.”
“I have never helped my enemy. My principle has always been to cut the grass by the roots.” Qin Fen’s voice turned colder suddenly. “I have suffered many times just because I didn’t cut the grass by the roots. Therefore, this principle of mine had become an iron rule of life.”
“Normally…” Lu Dongbin coughed a mouthful of blood. “It’s the same for me too.”
“Your punches are very clean, I liked it very much. Your firm and fierce martial dao is peerless in the world!” Qin Fen exclaimed this from the bottom of his heart. “I believe that you are not a despicable person. A despicable person can’t display extremely firm and fierce boxing. To be honest, I look forward to fighting with you again. I have benefited a lot from this battle just now.”
Lu Dongbin stared at Qin Fen in a daze. He wasn’t stupid. If he couldn’t tell that Qin fen was planning on letting the two live after hearing all this, he might have wandered in Jianghu in vain.
With his serious injuries, his death was certain. But Lu Dongbin was happy for He Xiangu as she could live on.
“Woman.” Qin Fen took out a pill from the dragon-shaped belt and threw it to He Xiangu. “To be honest, if it’s only you who lives on, I don’t believe Lu Dongbin’s words can constrain you. The best way is to make sure Lu Dongbin remains alive, only then will you not go crazy. Give him this pill and try your luck.”
“This!?” He Xiangu looked at the pill in her hand skeptically.
“My friend made it. It’s a life-or-death pill.” Qin Fen looked at the last remaining pill in the belt. Enzo Rota gave him one when he saw him last time, saying that there was one for each team member. And as Qin Fen had many enemies, he gave an extra one just to be on the safe side. Although it may not necessarily save lives, there was always a chance.
“Life-or-death pill?” He Xiangu and Lu Dongbin were stunned for a moment. The current Federation indeed had this pill’s name but it had always remained a fantasy. Various experts were still discussing its effectiveness and how to make it. There was no such pill in the world.
