70 Furious Tao Jian, and...
ZEN!
The Waves of mana began to spread out in every direction from Tao Jian as it's center.
"Ha, Ha, Ha, I CAN FEEL IT, THIS POWER!!!" Tao Jian's madman like laughter could be heard in the area as his cultivation began to increase.
5th Layer of ‹Black-Iron›…
6th Layer of ‹Black-Iron›…
…7th Layer of ‹Black-Iron›
…
His aura stabilized as he reached the advance phase of the ‹Black-Iron› rank.
7Th layer of ‹Black-Iron›.
The blood veins all over his body were visible as the blood in his body started to circulate at more then 2x the speed from prior.
"GOOD, GOOD, MY MANA VEINS ARE SO FULL OF MANA THAT I FEEL LIKE IT WILL EXPLODE"
CRACK!
CRACK!
The ground beneath his feet caved in as he released his aura without any restrain.
"HA, HA, HA, SO THIS IS THE FEELING OF REACHING 7TH LAYER OF BLACK-IRON RANK, THIS POWER I LIKE IT, I FEEL LIKE I CAN DESTROY A WHOLE BUILDING WITH A SINGLE PUNCH" for a moment Tao Jian even forgot about Long Shin and began to enjoy his new found power only to be rebuked in the next second…
"Are you done with your nonsense?" Just as he was admiring his newfound strength a calm voice made him remember his current situation, the fact that he was just pushed in to a corner not long ago, and the fact that this power he was feeling happy about came at a disastrous cost.
"YOU LITTLE BASTERD" each words that came out of Tao Jian's mouth were filled with unconcealed hatred for a person he didn't even know a few hours ago.
Even before he raised his head towards Long Shin, his eyes were dyed red by his hatred.
CRACK! CRACK!
As he tightly gripped the short swords in his hands, the sound of his bones cracking could be heard clearly.
His nails unconsciously dug deep in his skin which made a little amount of blood flow out.
His blood was very thick and even hot because of using Blood Exploder.
The hatred he has for Long Shin is imperishable, because of the latter he won't just lose half of his lifespan but also his painstakingly hard earned cultivation.
His talent was already dried.
Now he only has one route, he needs to kill Long Shin after that he will have to absorb Long Shin and others blood essence. Within the remaining lifespan that he has he not only need to recover the lost cultivation layer, but also breakthrough another layer. Only by doing this will he have a chance of prolonging his life.
"I WILL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE, AND RIGHT NOW!!!"
"I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BLOOD ESSENCE AND EAT YOUR FLESH!"
"YOU WILL BEG FOR DEATH BUT I WILL KEEP TORTURING YOU!!"
Tao Jian spoke out loud while steadily walking towards Long Shin.
His voice was high pitch while his words showed his hatred, anger, and cruelty.
Cold beads of sweat unconsciously fell down from Shao Zihao and Ding brothers four heads as their bodies trembled.
It's not that they haven't seen someone at 7th Layer of ‹Black-Iron› rank before, they are from Great Clans of Beijing having numerous experts in ‹Black-Iron rank and even a few at ‹BRONZE› rank, but..
They never felt afraid of them like they are feeling now, the reason for that is simple as the sons of the family heads of their respective families no one ever dared to show it even if they hated them, let alone looking at them with such hatred and anger, such murderous intention.
Indeed, Tao Jian was releasing not only his presence, his rank suppression, he was also emitting his hatred, his anger, and his years of accumulated killing intent.
The target of this killing intent wasn't only Long Shin but also Shao Zihao and Ding brothers.
They felt cold and dread as Tao Jian walked, and with each step he took this feeling only got even more intense.
…
Long Shin wasn't in any good condition either.
He wasn't afraid of Tao Jian's strength, nor was he afraid of his hatred and anger after all he was too powerful compare to the latter.
But the killing intent that was accumulated for many decades if not century was a different matter.
He was but a normal person a few days ago, never had he seen the true cruelty of the world, so the killing intent emitted by Tao Jian who had spent his whole life practically only killing in the underworld made his body unconsciously stiff.
His mind was telling to move but his body didn't wanted to listen.
'Damn, I didn't thought about this problem, and it came to but me right at this moment' he thought inwardly while frowning, he tried to move his body to no vail.
In the next moment as though feeling of discomfort and dread that he had was sensed by ‹Primordial Chaos Scripture› and ‹Primordial Dark Sovereign›
Both of the cultivation techniques began to circulate in his body on their own without him needing to command them to.
As the two peerless cultivation techniques circulated through his mana veins they rendered all the killing intent, hatred, and anger emitting by Tao Jian useless.
Both of the cultivation techniques weren't ordinary, even calling them extraordinary didn't do them any justice.
They are both supreme cultivation techniques with their own consciousness, pride, and arrogance.
Long Shin could feel disdain they were showing to Tao Jian as if saying 'who are you trying to kill with your messily strength'
Unbeknownst to him these emotions also began to cling onto his own subconscious.
"I WILL-"
"SHUT UP!!!"
Just as Tao Jian was about to continue a voice filled with unconcealed disdain and an incomprehensible authority sounded.
The voice seems to come from all four directions, Tao Jian subconsciously stopped running his mouth.
"Lowly Mongrel fight if you want, fart if you want. Stop wasting the time of this SOVEREIGN, you're really annoying me by all the barking you're throwing at me from sometime now" every person in the vicinity be it Tao Jian or Shao Zihao and others could feel the unconcealed disdain within the tone, and piercing coldness within Long Shin's eyes which had started to shine with blood-red luster at some point.
This wasn't Long Shin doing on his own, ‹Primordial Chaos Scripture› had stopped circulating after rendering the killing intent ineffective against him, but the ‹Primordial Dark Sovereign's Infinite Battle Tactics› was even more domineering as if an ancient beast was awakened from it's long slumber, it circulated with even more intensity supplying Long Shin with a huge amount of mana.
Unconsciously Long Shin was also absorbing the pitiful amount of aura of the Death that was lingering around the area from heavens knows how long.
"YOU BASTERD, DIE!" Tao Jian was enraged by the fact that he listened to Long Shin's command like a loyal dog after coming out of his daze.
In his anger he didn't even bother thinking about what had happened, and used Cloud Steps to it's fullest.
Whoosh!
He came in front of Long Shin in the next instant.
Using the Fury Demon Slash with all of his mana, he released a barrage of sword slash.
"DIE!!!!"
As if he had gone mad he slashed with his sword without caring about defense at all.
"Hump!"
Clang!
The sound of swords clashing was heard.
BOOM!
In the next second Tao Jian was sent flying out and crashed on the side of the bridge with a loud bang!
"Couch, cough!" as soon as his figure stopped he couched out a mouthful of blood.
"Who do you think you are?"
"You want to take the life of this SOVEREIGN with just your pitiful strength, know your place mongrel" not giving him any chance to stand up again Long Shin used Wind Steps to close the distance between them.
"This is for barking in front of me!" he raised the magic sword, the blood-red aura coated his sword as he slashed down at Tao Jian's foot.
"Agrgggh!!!" Tao Jian cried out feeling the pain of his tendons in his foot being severed ruthlessly as the blood red aura entered his body through the injured area and began to ravage his foot.
"This is for annoying me!!!" with another slash Long Shin's sword cut one of his kidneys.
"NOO, PLEASE STOP!" Tao Jian's painful scream ran throughout the whole bridge, it was a good thing that no one was near or they would've mistaken it for some animal's cry.
But Shao Zihao and Ding brothers who were lucky, or unlucky to be able to witness this scene from the front seat were staring at Long Shin with a stunned expression.
…
Ding Meng spoke "Is that really brother Shin?!"
The boy couldn't understand how the hell a man who had just been so quiet and a person of few words changed so much.
"Is brother Shin having a multi personality disorder?" he couldn't help but spoke out his doubt.
"What disorder be quite!" Ding Yun rebuked his brother, but both Shao Zihao and Ding Yun we're also thinking the same thing.
…
Long Shin didn't know about what the trio was thinking, he was busy beat- I mean defeating Tao Jian.
"This is for showing killing intent towards me" Long Shin raised Tai Jian with one hand.
BOOM!
In the next instance he slammed his head on the ground and then ruthlessly dragged him to the other side, gripping him by neck he punched him in the chest, causing the latter's chest to cave in.
"Agrh!" the punch wasn't enough to kill him but with all the beating he had to sustain with this punch it could be said that the latter was already half dead.
"Please forgive me…" Tao Jian pleaded in a low voice he could barely muster up.
"Forgiveness? Hump, the moment you decided to became the enemy of this SOVEREIGN you had signed your death warrant"
Long Shin picked the pair of short swords that Tao Jian had dropped as he said "you like to play with your little toy right?"
"This is for coveting my blood essence" he stabbed the short swords in the latter's shoulders.
"Arggh-"
"Stop barking" Just as Tao Jian was about to scream Long Shin ruthlessly stepped on his mouth, not letting a sound come out of it.
"Hump boring" saying that he kicked the latter's head causing him to fly out again.
"Please just forgive me…" Tao Jian's low plea could be heard, just with his voice one could imagine the pain he was suffering from.
Long Shin crouched down in front of him and said "This expression of fear on your face, I like it"
Tao Jian's eyes still had hatred for him, but even more so he was afraid of him, looking at Long Shin as though he was looking at some devil that came straight out of the hell.
If Long Shin had checked his ‹Emotions› it would show.
[Negative Emotion(s):: Extreme Fear and Dread]
Indeed all the anger he had went away with only fear and dread being the remaining emotions.
"For this priceless expression of yours. I will give you a chance" The sentence spoken by Long Shin was like some holy scriptures to Tao Jian's ears.
"Jump. If you're able to land safely after jumping down from this bridge. I will spare your dog life" saying that in a playful tone he signaled Tao Jian to jump.
'Jump' this was the only word in Tao Jian's mind, in his desperation Tai Jian even forgot to process the rest of his words.
"Argh!" with great difficulty he moved his body.
Desperate to stay alive. Tao Jian even forgot the pain coming from his whole body.
His body should've been immobile because of having his tendons severed, yet he still moved. The pain he should've felt was nowhere as though his mind had already turned off all of his pain perception.
Whoosh!
Not wasting a single second he jumped down the bridge, no matter how slim there might be some chances of him coming out of it alive if he jumped down, but if he stayed with this devil then death is but a matter of course…
‹Wind Steps›
Long Shin increased his speed to maximum using Wind Steps as he too jumped down after Tao Jian.
"Brother Shin!" the trio behind him were left stunned seeing him jumping down willingly.
…
Whoosh!
'Um?' Tao Jian heard a strange sound while falling, as he tilted his head a little he saw Long Shin was right beside him, both of them were free falling at the same speed.
'No-no-no, why the hell did this devil came here?' he though fearfully in his mind, he now understood that Long Shin didn't have any intention of leaving him even a slim chance of survival from the very beginning.
"Its time to end you" saying that Long Shin took a stance as though he was going to draw his sword.
His mana was poured in the sword, at the same time he also poured the aura of the Death that he had previously absorbed within his sword.
Although it was a pitiful amount, it was still not something to be underestimated.
ZEN!
Instead of glowing brightly, the blade of the sword was surrounded by hazy darkness containing death and decay, the whole blade became pitch-black as though the blade was devouring the surrounding light and vitality.
CRACK!
CRACK!
The magic sword couldn't withstand the overbearing aura of the death, even when the amount of aura was pitifully low, as the proof fine cracks began to appear on the sword's body, not only the blade, but also the hilt.
'No-no, please just let me go, please forgive me, spare me' Tao Jian felt like starting at the face of death itself when he saw the pitch-black sword.
"Die" flatly saying that Long Shin 'drew' the sword.
Whoosh!
‹Destruction Sword›
The Destruction sword skill was cast as the pitch-black sword ray which seem to be devouring the very life out of the surroundings flew towards Tao Jian.
"NO-!!" Tao Jian's scream didn't even last a moment as the sword ray passed by him.
Instead of destroying him, the sword ray cut threw his lifeline, his body began to rot with a speed visible to the naked eye.
Whoosh!
The sword ray didn't stopped after hitting Tao Jian, and continued on crashing in the mountains behind.
It devoured any and all traces of life in the mountain, filling it with death and decay.
CACHE!
As Long Shin landed lightly. The magic sword in Long Shin's hands also broke into fine powder, not being able to contain the backlash of the sword ray.
Finally the ‹Primordial Dark Sovereign› also stopped circulating as if it had calmed down with Tao Jian's death.
'Looks like this is the end' Long Shin thought as he glanced at the gloomy mountain with solemnity.
It's not like he didn't try to harness the power of life and death elements before, but no matter how much he tried he wasn't able to even see the two elements, yet in this fight he had mobilized a little amount of it, even just that little amount of aura had caused devastation.
"Let's go back" taking another look at the gloomy mountain he turned back.
‹Wind Steps›
Activating his Wind Steps he took advantage of the fact that the skill allowed him to hover in the air for a little time, he used the pillars and trees in the surroundings and climbed back up.
All this from the moment Tao Jian jumped took a lot of time to explain, but in reality only ten seconds had passed at most.
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AN: I have already edited Chapter 1-4 if you're interested in reading them again.
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