54 In the face of death I will not retreat

Bro, I'm the unluckiest person in the world, the only day I'm not going to watch F1 because I think "Ah, Verstapen is going to win anyway" Lando Norris wins for the first time... bro, even I'm a Redbull fan is happy for the guy...this is my punishment for leaving the house and going outside i think ...damn you fate

And also fuck Sony trying to do that shit with Helldivers 2 but happily DEMOCRACY won in the end

Also, what is your rating for this chapter? In my opinion, it is one of the best I have ever written

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This moment of high tension, where two enemy camps stared at each other with hatred and determination, seemed to last for years for those elders and clan leaders. But for those regular gu masters who looked on from the outside, it was just a brief moment before being shattered by one side quickly.

This break was executed by an elder of the Feng Zhi clan named Yu Xin, who in less than a moment rose from his position on the ground amidst the other elders to fly swiftly at high speed towards the island in the middle of the lake without hesitation.

"Zhang Ning, stop him from getting far! Peng Du, the clan as a whole relies on you to reach the island first before we enter battle to defend the inheritance!" The clan leader swiftly orders both the Diplomacy Hall Elder and the Training Hall Elder to follow the plan that had been intensively formulated and discussed previously in the presence of all the elders.

Of course, even before the clan leader's words, both elders had sprung into action. Zhang Ning, after activating a gu, began to punch and kick through the air, seemingly practicing some form of Kung Fu, while reacting to her movements. The lake's water took the form of punches and kicks as it advanced like a jet of water against Yu Xin.

Thus, Yu Xin's heroic and swift advance quickly slowed down significantly as he now had to take a much less direct and linear path to escape the attacks since his defense was not particularly strong to withstand the attacks directly. His specialty lies in using the Wind Wings gu and Wind Speed gu, being renowned as the fastest gu master of the entire Longhua Shan mountain.

Meanwhile, Peng Du, who was a crucial part of the He An clan's plan, didn't stand idly by witnessing all this unfold. By this point, he had advanced hundreds of meters and was on the brink of the lake. Using a rapid wave under his feet, he swiftly advanced before jumping into the lake, where the wave took the form of a shark, advancing at twice the speed.

Amidst all this, the Xiong Mao clan also made their move, as a female gu master ran on the ground as fast as a bear, while the spirit of a panda appeared behind her body, roaring cheerfully.

"Now it's your turn, Chen Wei—" Before the clan leader could finish his instruction, Chen Wei was already advancing continuously while continuously launching blood spears in the path of the Xiong Mao clan's elder to hinder her swift movement towards the inheritance lake.

"Ah, you must be Elder Bie Cin. You'd better prepare for a cruel and slow death like that of the Piercer of the Heavens, hahaha!" Chen Wei spoke with conviction, but all his words were just a ploy to lure the Feng Zhi clan leader, who probably hated him, into attacking prematurely and making a mistake.

"You men of the He An clan are all brutes who only think of killing and robbing!" Seeing that she could no longer escape Chen Wei's pursuit, Bie Cin quickly advanced towards him, as a strength cultivator needing to fight close against her enemies.

"You'll have to change your opinion quickly when you women of the Xiong Mao clan serve only to warm our beds!" Chen Wei continued to provoke her while maintaining a medium distance between them, from where he could continuously attack her using blood spears and piercing blood, but she couldn't do anything against him.

"...stop running and fight like a man, you coward." Chen Wei's words left Bie Cin quite irritated, but mostly worried because unlike the other two clans, which are governed in a more patriarchal manner, the Xiong Mao clan is a matriarchy. So it would be an even bigger shock for them if they were to lose the war and had to all serve the sinful desires of the He An gu masters.

"Well, if you insist..." Chen Wei murmured before quickly activating the Bloody Sword Killer Cut to severely injure the elder fighting him.

But a furious roar, seeming to have the strength to destroy the world, echoed throughout the battlefield, causing him to pause in his movements as he and Bie Cin simultaneously looked towards the island in the middle of the lake, where the roar originated.

"...this is truly unexpected," Chen Wei muttered, seeing the Water Dragon advancing furiously towards Yu Xin at a speed even he couldn't keep up with, making the world within several kilometers tremble under its pressure.

"Argh sh--" Yu Xin could only utter a few words, not having time to even move a mere centimeter before the Water Dragon fiercely bit into his abdomen, destroying all his defenses as if they didn't exist, ripping his body apart, instantly killing him.

"Damn, that was close!" Peng Du, who was in the water a few meters away from Yu Xin's location, shouted in horror as he looked at the once proud elder of the Feng Zhi clan, who was now just a body cut in half into two pieces floating in the water after being killed as easily as a child kills an insect.

"So, he really wants us to battle for this..." Chen Wei murmured after receiving a set of information in his mind that came from the inheritance in the middle of the lake.

These pieces of information basically declare that to obtain the inheritance, those clans or lone gu masters present here must fight against each other until only one clan or lone gu master remains in the waters of the lake. This can be achieved either by killing all competitors, making them retreat, or forming alliances among themselves, which is at the discretion of those seeking the inheritance.

"But why did the legendary immortal wait until one of the elders of my Feng Zhi clan died to reveal this crucial information..." A gu master of the Feng Zhi Clan muttered, quickly making everyone around him look at him as if he were a fool because after seeing what happened, everyone, except fools, could reach the same conclusion. This inheritance was left by a demonic path cultivator.

"Quickly, everyone advance to the lake!" Wang Xi, the leader of the He An clan, gives his orders, which are promptly executed by all the members of the He An clan, who are now prepared for a massive advance towards the lake.

Seeing the He An clan's advance, the other two clans do the same without hesitation, trying not to lose an advantage to the He An clan, which is already the strongest of the three clans, besides fighting in their natural habitat amidst this lake.

"Shu Yang, quickly create our battlefield!" Wang Xi, the leader of the clan, speaks rapidly while looking at the other two clans, which are rapidly approaching, while Shu Yang, the Unity Hall Elder, places his hands on the lake waters, which previously, although calm, still formed small waves as they moved. But in just a moment, all this movement stops as the water becomes a smooth surface.

"Quickly, take defensive positions!! The other two clans are advancing rapidly," Chen Wei, who quickly approached the group of gu masters, declared with a calm expression on his face after retreating from the battle against the Xiong Mao clan elder because he saw the sudden change in the battlefield that could leave him surrounded by enemies if he insisted on fighting.

Thus, soon all the gu masters of the He An clan took their positions to have the great advantage of being on the defensive in their natural habitat when the gu masters of the other two clans arrive to attack like a furious horde determined to break through the He An clan's defense lines and obtain the Immortal's inheritance.

"Stop hiding, Wang Xi, you coward! Come out and fight like a man!" Liu Bai shouts angrily, advancing against Wang Xi while the confrontation between the elders and the rank 2 gu masters of the two clans begins.

"I will break your fragile body, Wang Xi, for the outrage of abducting the proud women of the Xiong Mao clan!" Ye Nui advances, shouting angrily as if she had all the justification in the world to fight, even though the He An clan rarely does what she says with women of the Xiong Mao clan, as bringing a strength cultivator that cannot be easily contained to the clan is a problem they don't like to deal with.

"Do you think just because you're two, you can win against me? It seems I'll have to show you Mt. Tai!" Wang Xi advances with confidence, as among the gu masters of Longhua Shan Mountain, he is recognized as having the highest cultivation, being a Rank 4 middle stage gu master, which is enough to put him in the top 1% strongest in this world in his eyes.

But his confidence wanes a bit after his first confrontation with his two enemies. "Liu Bai... so that's why you've aged so much, what cursed gu did you use?!" He speaks as he attacks Liu Bai, who, after exchanging a few blows, also realizes he's at Rank 4 middle stage.

"A dead man doesn't need to know what I did!" Liu Bai continues the fight, not bothering to respond to Wang Xi, knowing he used the Rank 3 A Life for a Chance Gu, which allowed him to sacrifice thirty years of his life to gain significant help in his breakthrough to a small cultivation realm.

Amidst these words, an intense battle between three Rank 4 gu masters, which is rare to see, continues, reaching its climax and maintaining the same suffocating intensity for anyone watching from the outside.

Thus, an area of hundreds of meters is created on the battlefield where only three people are fighting, creating furious waves that seem to have the power to flood the world in a deluge capable of killing all living beings, or furious and fast winds that have an imposing area as if they could count all the seas of the world in half or the wild and animalistic aura that originates incessantly when blows of great force make the air tremble as if an earthquake were approaching.

But for most gu masters here now, this impressive battle that could shock anyone is merely background noise because the most important battles for them are their own personal battles, which, although on a much smaller scale, are infinitely more important to their lives for now.

Mortal Killer Move - Heaven-Piercing Blood.

"Ah... ahhh, shit, my primeval essence is reaching critical levels, I need to get out of this fight!" Just as for those mere Rank 2 gu masters, the same goes for Chen Wei, who is now being surrounded by three Rank 3 gu masters since the Feng Zhi and Xiong Mao clans decided to use their numerical advantage to try to get rid of the greatest talent of the He An clan.

Mortal Killer Move - Elegant Fox Fury.

An Rank 3 elder woman of the Xiong Mao clan with fox ears amidst her red hair advances against Chen Wei like a fox hunting prey, and as the spirit of a fox appears behind her back, strengthening her with enough force to crush a normal person with a punch.

Mortal Killer Move - Flames of Infinite Chaos.

An elder of the Feng Zhi clan with black hair and a common face but who would be considered abnormal by anyone who saw him because his entire torso is engulfed in flames advances in the battle naked as his clothes have been burned by the furious fire.

Mortal Killer Move - Hurricane of Torment.

A gu master who is in the middle of a hurricane so his appearance cannot be seen, only his voice shouting how he will make Chen Wei suffer for all the gu masters of the Feng Zhi clan he killed as he advances surrounded by the hurricane to kill Chen Wei.

This is the reality of the world because this is not a kind of RPG game where enemies attack in turns or a place where people who fight take honor seriously, especially for Chen Wei, who is on the hit list of the Feng Zhi and Xiong Mao clans to be killed.

And now that they finally got this opportunity, especially with Chen Wang trapped in a battle with a great enemy of his, who is a Rank 3 peak stage gu master of the Feng Zhi clan, how could they let this golden opportunity pass?

"I am in a life or death situation again..." Chen Wei thinks as he tries to find escape routes or something similar, but for now, he is completely without choice since even his Rank 3 defensive killer move would not be able to withstand three Rank 3 enemy killer moves at the same time.

But as soon as he sees his desperate situation, melancholy and despair begin to arise in Chen Wei's heart, they are quickly killed when his blood begins to boil with the intention to kill, which now dominates his heart as he puts a determined expression on his face while thinking, "...I determined to myself that not even the Heavens could put me in a life or death situation again... let alone these mere Rank 3 gu masters!"

So Chen Wei's next actions leave everyone attacking him shocked because instead of trying to retreat or defend himself, he advances with a macabre smile on his face as if he could already taste their death.

Mortal Killer Move - Bloody Sword Killer Cut.

Chen Wei's first target is the gu master with fox ears, so he advances against her head-on without even bothering to defend himself since he spent all his primeval essence to perform the Killer move, so when he reaches her attack range, he quickly feels her thrusting her hand into his chest, tearing his body like a furious animal.

But this dominance of the gu master with fox ears did not last long when the lower part of her body fell to the ground, separated from the upper part of her body, which has a complete expression of shock since after fighting repeatedly against Chen Wei, she knew the strength of his attacks, but this killer move now was much stronger than before, as if it were already on the threshold of Rank 4 killer moves.

But Chen Wei, who just killed the Rank 3 gu master with just one blow, doesn't waste his time contemplating that or trying to heal himself, he just uses the Rank 2 Fierce Leech gu to use the blood of the dead gu master to recover his own primeval essence to the point where he can use the killer move, then he advances with the blood sword in his hands towards the fire path gu master.

"Die, you piece of shit, don't even think about getting close to me!" He directs all the force of the black flames created by his killer move at Chen Wei, who advances towards him with his body covered in blood but without even the slightest intention of defending himself in any way.

"Die burned to ashes—Argh!!!" Emerging amidst the endless black flames, the gu master sees a blood sword carrying a suffocating killing aura before in less than a moment cutting him into eight parts as if breaking his defense instantly as if cutting butter.

"So, just one left!" Chen Wei thinks, his body completely burned to a point where he would be unrecognizable even to his wife and family, but this is not even a small concern in Chen Wei's mind as he quickly uses the blood of the Fire path gu master to recover his primeval essence.

But as soon as he obtains enough primeval essence to use the killer move once again, he feels a strong wind attacking from his back, so he quickly dodges while putting his left arm in the path of the attack so his right arm would have more time to react and cut down the one who attacked him.

"Damn it, someone help me plea---" The Wind path gu master screams in desperation after seeing that the only result of his killer move was Chen Wei's severed arm, but this was not the arm holding the sword that cut through the Wind path gu master's chest, splitting him in half.

"In the heavens or on earth, before even the great Venerables,

If they dare to face me, they will only cry out in despair.

For in this life, firm in my conviction,

No one has the power to make me retreat."

Chen Wei declares aloud as a wave of emotions washes over him, reciting a simple poem that came to his mind to describe the emotions he feels.

Silence is the only thing left in the battlefield that was once filled with the sound of battle, as now everyone's attention is on Chen Wei, who despite having several cuts, his body completely burned to the point of being unrecognizable, and even with an arm that was severed, is still capable of making even the leaders of the Rank 4 clan tremble with fear with just one look.

Killing three Rank 3 gu masters in succession with just one blow each is something that not even one of the clan leaders could do, but now Chen Wei has done all that, and while not even attempting to defend himself, which in the eyes of everyone, and even himself, should be impossible.

But of course, unlike those looking from the outside, Chen Wei has justification for this because he now feels the aura of one of his most special gu, the Blood Killer Gu, but this aura is different from before because now it presents something that is characteristic of Rank 2 gu, instead of the aura of a Rank 1 gu that he emitted before.

"Hahah... ahahahh... ahahahahahah, incredible, as expected of the future Venerable with the greatest killing strength!" As if to break the silence, a low chuckle began until it turned into a loud laughter coming from an old man with a crazy appearance who is standing right in front of Chen Wei.

"Lou Co!" All the gu masters of the Feng Zhi clan think in unison when they recognize the old man with the crazy appearance who is an external elder of the Feng Zhi clan and who somehow appeared in front of Chen Wei without anyone noticing him, not even Chen Wei himself.

"Ahahah, the aura of someone born to kill is so terrifying..." Lou Co quickly places his hand on Chen Wei's chest before the latter could react against it.

At the moment they made contact, the previously nonexistent waves of the lake reappear while the water, which was crystal clear like a wonder of nature, begins to take on a dark red color of blood as the water level starts to rise rapidly until the island in the middle no longer exists, and the lake, which previously had an irregular shape, now takes on the shape resembling that of a blood skull.

"Future Venerable—?!" These are the last words that come out of Chen Wei's mouth before he completely loses consciousness, and for those outside, his body along with Lou Co's were completely surrounded by the blood of the lake that was previously water, and when the blood returned to the lake level, both Chen Wei and Lou Co had disappeared as if they had never existed.