NABC Chapter 14 Old man, your health bar is almost empty.
Chapter 14 Old man, your health bar is almost empty.
The three of them passed through the poisonous miasma forest, and suddenly the view ahead opened up.
On the open ground, Li Yun and Li Lin were working together to kill a flying scaled ape. They were covered in blood and had exhausted a lot of their divine power.
Previously, the two had been tracking Li Xian and his two companions.
They were clearly up to no good; otherwise, they wouldn't have met here.
Li Xian landed, sheathed his ring-shaped sword, and waved to the two of them:
"Gentlemen, we meet again someday. Here's a big gift for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed Ye Fan and Pang Bo, turned around, and disappeared into the dense forest on the right.
Li Yun hadn't reacted yet.
The tree canopy overhead shattered with a deafening roar—
The Scaled Ape King's massive body crashed onto the open ground, its blood-red eyes fixed on Li Yun and Li Lin on the ground.
"The Beast King of the Other Shore!"
Li Lin screamed, her legs went weak, and she almost collapsed to the ground.
The Scaled Ape King roared, its massive paw sweeping across the ground, sending shockwaves ripping up the earth and sending dirt flying everywhere.
Li Yun gritted his teeth and summoned his flying sword to parry.
With a "crack," the flying sword shattered, and he crashed into the tree trunk, spitting out blood and his ribs caved in.
Li Lin was terrified.
He quickly pulled out a jade pendant from his pocket and crushed it.
The jade pendant exploded, and a blinding green light shot into the sky, repelling the Scaled Ape King.
"Who has harmed my disciple!"
From a distant cliff, a green light shot out, piercing the sky, and a figure arrived riding a divine rainbow—it was Han Yishui.
His gaunt face was full of gloom.
Staring at the Scaled Ape King, he showed no fear, but rather a hostile gaze.
Feeling threatened, the Scaled Ape King abandoned Li Lin, swung the thick stone pillar, and smashed it down on Han Yishui, who was in mid-air.
"You beast!"
Han Yishui snorted coldly and spat out twelve green wooden swords.
Although he was only at the Divine Bridge Realm, he cultivated and refined a forbidden technique in his later years, which allowed him to kill beast kings at the Other Shore Realm, even if he was at a higher level.
The green wooden sword grew longer in the wind, transforming into twelve emerald green sword beams that formed a green wooden sword array, trapping the Scaled Ape King in the center.
Sword energy crisscrossed, cutting into the scales of the Scaled Ape King, sparks flying everywhere.
The demonic beasts at the peak of the other shore possess extremely strong physical defenses, which the sword formation could not break through for a time, instead arousing their ferocity.
The Scaled Ape King was incredibly ferocious, ignoring the sword energy and charging straight through the defenses, punching the sword array's light barrier.
The light screen shook violently.
Han Yishui's body trembled, and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
He was already nearing the end of his lifespan and his vital energy was declining. At this moment, he was enduring the brute force of the beast king from the other shore realm, and his internal organs were churning.
"You're forcing me to use my very essence!"
A fierce glint flashed in Han Yishui's eyes.
He bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood.
As the essence blood fell into the sword formation, the twelve green wooden swords shone brightly, and strange blood-red patterns appeared on their blades.
"go!"
The twelve swords soared into the sky, merged into one, and transformed into a gigantic sword that pierced through the chest of the Scaled Ape King, pinning it firmly to the ground.
The Scaled Ape King, its vitality undiminished, let out a mournful cry, while the Green Wood Greatsword writhed like a snake, constantly absorbing blood essence, making the sword body increasingly crystal clear.
Victory secured.
Han Yishui fell from mid-air.
He staggered back two steps, his face ashen.
He coughed violently, coughing up blood clots mixed with fragments of internal organs. His already thinning hair fell out in clumps, and his skin became even drier and more withered.
This battle cost him at least five years of his lifespan, and he didn't have many years left to live anyway.
Li Yun and Li Lin crawled over and knelt on the ground:
"Thank you so much, Master, for saving my life!"
Han Yishui didn't even glance at the two of them, turning his gaze to the dense forest on his right.
Li Xian, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo were standing on a boulder a hundred meters away.
Han Yishui's gaze.
It was firmly fixed on Ye Fan.
Originally, he wanted to raise Ye Fan in the Spirit Ruins Cave Heaven and then take the Sacred Body Origin when Ye Fan's cultivation level was higher.
But now, I can't wait any longer.
"The Ancient Sacred Body..." Han Yishui's voice was hoarse, filled with crazed greed, "My lifespan is exhausted, I can't care about anything else. Today I'll take your essence, combine it with the Ape King's, and refine a batch of human pills to extend my life by another ten years!"
He raised his hand and grabbed, his divine power transforming into a large cyan hand that reached out to grab Ye Fan.
Li Xian drew his ring knife and shattered the divine hand with a single strike.
"Old man, your health bar is almost empty." Li Xian shook his numb wrist. "Let's retreat."
The three of them turned and ran.
"Can they escape?"
Han Yishui roared, but did not pursue. Instead, he calmly dealt with the Scaled Ape King.
He took out a green wooden ruler, cut into the ape king's chest, and with his bird-claw-like fingers, he reached into the chest cavity, grabbed out the heart, which was the size of a human head and kept beating, and bent down to gnaw on it.
"Although it smells fishy, it's a great tonic for my body that's almost losing its life force."
He swallowed it whole, skin and tendons, blood and foam hanging from his chin, like a starving corpse in the wilderness slumping over rotting flesh.
After finishing eating, the Scaled Ape King's life force was completely cut off.
The twelve green wooden swords, saturated with thick blood essence, returned, resembling twelve leeches that had sucked their fill of blood.
"Let's not refine the Beast King's Blood Essence extracted from this Bloodwood Sword for now; we'll keep it as an auxiliary ingredient for the Human Elixir." Han Yishui smiled sinisterly. "The Sacred Body Origin is the main ingredient, and the Ape King's Blood Essence is the auxiliary ingredient. If this batch of pills is completed, it will be more than ten years—a hundred years of lifespan will be within easy reach."
He looked in the direction where Li Xian and the other two had left, took a deep breath, and rode the rainbow to catch up.
The sky gradually darkened.
The night in the primitive ruins was extremely gloomy.
Following the map and memorizing it, Li Xian led the two of them on a frantic run, finally stopping in front of a sunken basin.
Inside the basin, a chilling wind howled, phosphorescent flames flickered, and countless dried corpses piled up, some glowing with a ghostly blue light—the result of years of accumulated corpse poison.
"Old Immortal, this place is eerie!"
Pang Bo stopped and gripped the plaque tightly.
"The dried corpse pit, the place with the heaviest yin energy." Li Xian turned around to face Han Yishui, who was chasing after him. "His qi and blood are weak, and he's most afraid of this kind of cold and gloomy place. Terrain-based killing, understand?"
Han Yishui landed, glanced at the dried corpse pit, his brows furrowed, but greed in his eyes outweighed his fear.
"Three ants dare to scheme against this old man."
Han Yishui once again summoned the Green Wood Sword. Only three remained; the others had been damaged when he killed the Scaled Ape King and were being nurtured in the Bitter Sea to receive blood essence.
The wooden sword transformed into a streak of light, aiming straight for the throats of the three men.
"Old Pang, hold on!"
Li Xian shouted loudly.
Pang Bo roared and raised the bronze plaque of the Great Thunderclap Temple with both hands to meet the Green Wood Sword.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
The Buddha's treasure was made of hard material, and the green wooden sword was deflected, but Pang Bo was also shaken and staggered back several steps, his tiger's mouth split open and blood spilled out.
Ye Fan activated the ancient bronze lamp, and a spark of light drifted out and landed on the edge of the dried corpse pit.
The flames, encountering the yin energy, instantly surged, transforming into a sea of fire that blocked Han Yishui's retreat.
The Buddhist firelight had a restraining effect on the yin energy, but it also forced out the cold, deathly energy from the bottom of the corpse pit, causing it all to surge towards Han Yishui.
Han Yishui felt icy cold all over his body, his blood and qi were sluggish, and most of the life force he had regained by eating the ape heart was washed away by the cold. The divine power in his meridians was intermittent.
He wanted to take off to avoid it.
"It's too late."
Li Xian used the Eight Extremes Steps, taking advantage of the yin energy as cover, to close in.
His life force surged forth, and divine power poured into the blade.
This knife was once imbued with Buddhist spirit.
At this moment, stimulated by the yin energy of the dried corpse pit, it emitted a dazzling purple light.
Han Yishui hastily formed a hand seal, and his divine power transformed into a shield.
The protective light barrier swayed precariously, riddled with holes by the yin energy of the dried corpse pit.
Li Xian slashed down with his sword.
"Click."
The shield shattered.
The dagger slashed down, severing Han Yishui's right arm.
"ah--!"
Han Yishui screamed, but his counterattack was swift. He formed a sword with his left hand and pointed it at Li Xian's brow.
Ye Fan attacked from the side, landing a punch on Han Yishui's ribs.
The physical strength of the Ancient Sacred Body was terrifying; it directly broke three of his ribs, and the bone fragments pierced his internal organs.
Pang Bo swung the bronze plaque, adding insult to injury, and smashed it into Han Yishui's back, burying him in a pile of bones.
The three worked together seamlessly.
This old monster from the Divine Bridge Realm was not given any chance to catch his breath.
Han Yishui coughed up mouthfuls of blood, his eyes finally filled with fear.
"I...am not reconciled!"
Li Xian stood in front of him.
"Old man, you're getting old."
With a flick of the wrist, the dagger is raised from bottom to top.
A head of white hair pointing skyward.
Fresh blood was sprayed onto the white bones in the pit of dried corpses.
Han Yishui's headless corpse swayed and fell to the ground.
Li Xian sheathed his sword and skillfully searched the corpse, quickly gathering a large number of treasures, old medicines, and spiritual materials from the sea of suffering, making him incredibly wealthy.
"Slaying an elite monster above my level yielded quite a lot of rewards."
Li Xian clapped his hands in satisfaction and looked at Ye Fan and Pang Bo: "Let's go find a place to divide the spoils."
The three were about to leave the dried corpse pit.
Two faint blue lights suddenly burst forth from the depths of the corpse pit.
"What is that?"
Pang Bo's eyes widened as he once again felt a heart-pounding fluctuation.
Li Xian looked in the direction from which the blue light was rising, and a smirk appeared on his lips.
"Old Pang, you're about to have a stroke of good luck."