Chapter 1353: Critical Strike!
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
People were sometimes very difficult to divide into good and bad. Take Autumn Erudite, for instance. The annihilation of the 29th Place was inextricably linked to him, but he had also helped Xia Fei to a very large degree.
As one of the Five Ancient Apexes, Autumn Erudite had penetrating insight, and everything he was telling Xia Fei concerned the weaknesses of supreme experts!
Those at the level of the Five Ancient Apexes could harness unimaginable energy! Every strike was like celestial lightning descending upon the earth!
But there were side effects to harnessing too much energy. It would make a warrior’s offensive tempo slow, and there would be a gap between each attack.
Of course, for other warriors, such a gap would be useless. Even if they could notice this gap, they wouldn’t be fast enough to exploit it. But Xia Fei was different. He was currently the fastest existence in the universe! Faster than Skywing Grand Ancestor Xia Gucheng, and even faster than Broken Wing Sky Devil Paletooth’s Soul Familiar, Wing!
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Speed was supreme! So long as Xia Fei was fast enough, he might not even lose to one of the Five Ancient Apexes!
Time was the greatest enemy of Xia Fei and Autumn Erudite. The remaining four Apexes had only given them ten minutes. Trying to increase his combat power to the level where he could deal with Thunder, Vandez, and these other old monsters in ten minutes required both effort and comprehension.
Gradually, the four Apexes grew impatient. Autumn Erudite and Xia Fei had exchanged several thousand blows, but there was still no result. They hadn’t even injured each other. This was like a play, and while what was happening on the stage was very exciting, it was all fake.
“No, this is all wrong!” Vandez darkly said. “Even if the Autumn Erudite has been away from the battlefield for too long, he shouldn’t be wasting this much time on Xia Fei!”
The other three all expressed confusion. Even Thunder, who had been protecting the Autumn Erudite, had a gloomy face. It was clear that he also noticed that the Autumn Erudite’s motives were not entirely pure.
“No, I have to go over and take a look!” Vandez shouted..
The four Apexes began to approach slowly, their faces grim as they stared at Xia Fei and the Autumn Erudite.
“There’s no time,” the Autumn Erudite sternly said. “Use your speed to send me back!”
Autumn Erudite intentionally revealed a weakness to Xia Fei. As for Xia Fei, whether it was physically or mentally, he possessed heaven-defying speed! He suddenly exploded forward!
Bang! A punch slammed into Autumn Erudite’s belly, sending him flying!
Whoosh…
Thunder immediately jumped out and grabbed Autumn Erudite out of the air, placing him on the ground.
“Old Ye, what happened!?” Thunder said in shock.
At this level of cultivation, everyone had extremely sharp eyes. Autumn Erudite had clearly been distracted there, allowing Xia Fei to seize the weakness and get in a punch to the belly.
Secretly, the other Apexes had thoughts of killing Autumn Erudite! It was clear that they felt that Autumn Erudite was intentionally losing to Xia Fei!
Autumn Erudite was ready for this. He struggled to his feet and looked up helplessly at the sky. “All these events have had far too great of an impact on me. Even now, I still can’t believe that my brothers would deceive me for so many years!”
Thunder went red in the face, and the killing intent from the other three lessened.
Battle, especially against speed warriors, required focus, and Autumn Erudite’s excuse was quite believable. Of course, if he had said that he was no match for Xia Fei, the others would have immediately turned on him.
After saying this, Autumn Erudite inwardly grew anxious. There had been a very obvious opening just now. If Xia Fei had seized this chance where the four Apexes were distracted to attack, they could have worked together to kill one of them.
But Xia Fei didn’t do such a thing. He was staring in disbelief at his fist, as if he had comprehended him something.
At that moment, Xia Fei had received some sort of enlightenment. Autumn Erudite had been passing on a single concept to Xia Fei this entire time: he had to strike quickly, faster than ever before!
Everyone knew that speed couldn’t hit its maximum limit from the very start. There was a process of acceleration before that. This was why Xia Fei preferred oblique acceleration. Sprinting in a curved line allowed him to accelerate very quickly.
But at that moment, Xia Fei felt something very different. These changes came from the Chilled Ligament Ghost Valley. After what could be called a freakish physical stimulation and reinforcement, Xia Geng’s body was tougher than before, able to endure greater pressures.
And crucially, it seemed like spirit energy was acting as an accelerator!
Speed relied on physical cultivation, and spirit energy was mental energy, so the two should have been unrelated. But Xia Fei had just discovered that when his body was brimming with spirit energy and then he accelerated, his entire body felt like it had ignited!
“Xia Fei, what are you doing!?” Radix called out.
Xia Fei raised his head, his eyes inconceivably bright. “I think I’ve discovered a secret.”
“What secret?”
“The Chilled Ligament Ghost Valley doesn’t strengthen only the body!”
At this moment, the Five Ancient Apexes had already surrounded Xia Fei. The Autumn Erudite was secretly very concerned. He and Xia Fei were far weaker than their foes, and they had just missed out on an excellent opportunity. This made the battle very difficult!
Vandez looked at Xia Fei in disdain. “The Fiends have no right to continue living in this universe! Today, my old brothers and I will send you on your way. Xia Fei, you should feel fortunate to die at our hands.
“You have to understand that your ancestors died under the demonic talons of the Megadragon Race! Not only were their bodies pulverized, even their souls were violated. The Dragon Race has the ability to make puppets from the bodies of sapient lifeforms. Alas, the Fiend Race are not among them.
“I speculate that the Fiends must have been used by the Dragon Race in experiments and were violated over and over!”
“Hahahaha!” There was an explosion of laughter. They seemed to be very proud of the fact that they had sold out the Fiend Race.
Thunder glanced at the Autumn Erudite and said, “Out of respect for the Autumn Erudite, I will leave your corpse intact. Die!”
He had barely finished speaking when Xia Fei suddenly attacked! He wasn’t going to wait for death, instead rushing at Gregoryi, the weakest of the Five Ancient Apexes!
It was a fierce charge, as if Xia Fei had been set aflame!
In addition to the Fiend energy and the broken wings, he also began to unleash a ghostly green flame! As if he was riding a lightning bolt, Xia Fei shot forward!
Bang!
Gregoryi hadn’t expected Xia Fei’s attack to come that fast. He extended his fists to block, and instantly clashed with Xia Fei’s fist. which was infused with the power of the Law of Primal Chaos. There was a burst of crackling!
Whoosh!
The others reacted rather quickly, immediately accelerating so that they could surround Xia Fei. But after making this attack, Xia Fei had already retreated back to his original position!
It was the exact same position, as if he had never even moved!
Everyone was stunned. Xia Fei had attacked and returned with absurd speed! Like a bouncy ball, he had shot out and came back!
Gregory howled. Being taken by surprise by Xia Fei was utterly humiliating!
“Ode to Heaven! The white horse is king! The twin deer tread upon green snow!” Vandez took out a scroll and began to read loudly from it.
With a whoosh of energy, the scroll unfurled. Vandez’s right hand brushed lightly across the scroll, and three streams of energy emerged and transformed into three monsters!
This was the ultimate technique that Vandez was so proud of, applying his will and control to energy!
The exotic beasts created from this energy were even more formidable than Mythical Beasts and Holy Beasts! At Vandez’s cultivation, he could control three energy beasts at once. One was a white horse, and the other two were one-horned deers with green hides!
Just as the energy beasts were about to take form, Xia Fei suddenly attacked again!
He was traveling at more than a hundred million meters per second! Even more frightening was that Xia Fei didn’t need to accelerate! He was at maximum speed from the first step!
Just like before, Xia Fei’s body blazed with a crackling green flame. It pushed forward like a rocket, providing him with extra propulsion!
“Critical Strike!”
Xia Fei had even given this short-distance rocket attack a name!
Bang!
This punch slammed into Vandez’s scroll, instantly obliterating it!
After thwarting his enemy, Xia Fei fell back!
His Critical Strike was fast enough, an insane speed! And it wasn’t because Xia Fei was unwilling to use this combat technique to kill his enemies. Rather, it was because Xia Fei had only just discovered the secret of the Chilled Ligament Ghost Valley, so each strike was very light and couldn’t deal lethal damage.
Vandez was flabbergasted! As was everyone else!
Vandez threw down the destroyed scroll and roared, “With me!”
In truth, the scroll was just an act Vandez put on. By taking out the scroll and then creating the energy beasts, others would be mystified and awed. Alas, Xia Fei didn’t give him the chance to flaunt his power! With one punch, he had destroyed Vandez’s important prop!
The Five Ancient Apexes had surrounded Xia Fei, and so their power was many times greater than if they had been fighting individually. Autumn Erudite saw how bad the situation was, so he turned and lunged at the Si Zhe.
Autumn Erudite understood the special attributes of each of them. Si Zhe was also known as the Lurker of the Dark Night. He would normally not say anything, but his methods were the most insidious! He was skilled at sneaking around and striking from the shadows!
In open battle, speed types had the advantage, but masters of stealth like the Si Zhe could ambush their targets at any time. Thus, Autumn Erudite decided to deal with this silent old monster first!
“Autumn Erudite! Have you gone crazy!?” Thunder saw Autumn Erudite beginning to fight with the Si Zhe and cried out in shock.
“You don’t need to ask! Autumn Erudite is a traitor! Kill the two of them! They will die without a grave today!” Vandez bellowed.
Vandez, Gregoryi, and Thunder encircled Xia Fei.
“Iron Fir Slash!” Thunder roared. He took out a giant soul weapon, which looked a little like an iron fir tree. It was more than a hundred meters long!
Thunder raised this tree-like weapon savagely, and then he began swinging it crazily at Xia Fei, stirring up a storm!
But attacking a speed warrior like Xia Fei wasn’t easy, and that wasn’t even considering that Xia Fei had achieved a whole new level of speed. He just needed to move and he would create a series of explosions with his motion, akin to firecrackers. With this explosive speed, he was able to shoot all around the plaza!
He could appear on the left, and then on the right!
*Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Xia Fei was randomly bouncing all around, like a ball in a box, and he was getting faster and faster!
Xia Fei frequently collided into Vandez and the others, but as Xia Fei had only just begun to use the Critical Strike, all he had was speed. He was sorely lacking in strength, so the collisions dealt were not lethal.
Vandez waved his hand and said, “Ignore his speed! It’s all flash and no substance! There’s no offensive power to them!”His meaning was very clear. They needed to take Xia Fei’s attack and use the chance to counterattack!
After all, Xia Fei’s killing power had plunged when he became that fast.
That was exactly what Xia Fei wanted to see!
Upon hearing Vandez’s words, Xia Fei took out the Fiendish Blade Nirvana and Fiend King Scepter from his spatial ring!
