The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 369 Used to It

This was a hunt destined to be inconclusive. Li Ye slipped away quickly. Although he was definitely not as fast as Feihong Bodhisattva, when it came to agility, he had the upper hand. He ran into the woods and beat around the bushes. And Feihong Bodhisattva could do nothing about it.

Feihong Bodhisattva felt weird about pursuing the chase and had to choose to give up. However, in order to save a little face, she stared at Li Ye fiercely in the end, which was to convey the message, ‘I would definitely kill you next time if you courted death again.’

However, this murderous look had no effect to Li Ye obviously. He straightened up his neck with a stern righteous look. As if to tell her that, ‘Show me what you’ve got, otherwise stop with the nonsense’, which had made Feihong Bodhisattva furious.

All in all, Feihong Bodhisattva’s stable state of mind was broken. Although the extent of which was limited, the calm lake had ripples after all. The beginning of everything was difficult, and now it had begun.

They didn’t have much time to foam with rage, because a change was quickly happening at the mountain peak.

The violent wind rose, and the forest was rattling. Countless leaves were forced out of the branches, and drifted like snowflakes. The cloud-like white mist around the mountain peak quickly began moving and the whirring sound was endless. The whole world seemed to be spinning and turning, making people dizzy and unstable.

Li Ye took out the Luke Sword, and took precautions attentively with Feihong Bodhisattva, looking around vigilantly.

The increasingly thick white mist surrounded them, almost to the point where they could not see their hands or fingers. Fortunately, they didn’t wait too long, before a strange noise came from the dense fog. It was heavy footsteps stomping on the ground, and the ground seemed to be shaking.

As soon as the footsteps appeared, they became denser. After listening to the sounds, Li Ye found the footsteps on all sides and approached quickly. Li Ye could feel the murderous sense in the air, which was the cultivator’s instinct for danger.

His intuition told him that the imminent presence was extremely dangerous.

Li Ye calmed his spiritual Qi and began to move. The Feihong Bodhisattva did so as well. The two originally stood about a dozen steps apart. As they began moving, the distance between them was shortened.

When danger approached, the two of them simultaneously chose to get close to each other.

Soon, the outline of the dark shadow emerged from the dense fog, what quickly followed was his attack. Li Ye’s eyes froze. It was a large black figure that was taller than three meters, and looked a bit like a beast. Without saying a word, he wielded his sword vertically.

With a bang, the dark shadow broke through the dense fog. It came fiercely, and even the surrounding mist was forced to spread. It was a strong black bear, dressed in armor, holding a tomahawk in his hand, and ran like a man. He attacked Li Ye with a growl.

The Luke Sword hacked on the tomahawk, making a crisp sound. And the Spiritual Qi separated the space, making a short whistling wind. Li Ye’s hands were numb, and he felt great pain in his arm. Li Ye was a little taken aback.

The black bear was surprisingly powerful. Even the cultivators of the Ground Immortal Realm came would be able to hold on if they were here.

Instead of retracting his sword, Li Ye pressed forward, launching a fierce attack on the black bear.

Because his early sword attack had force the black bear a few steps backwards.

When the black bear stood firm, it roared with anger. Seeing Li Ye’s unrelentingly pressing forward, its eyes turned red. As though it felt its sovereignty was being challenged. Its fierce nature made him desperate, waving its axe towards Li Ye.

There was no suspense in the fight.

After a few rounds, the black bear fell down on the ground while bleeding, then it died in painful sobs. Li Ye stood with his sword, and there was also a considerable wound on his left arm. It was not caused by the axe, but the slip of the black bear’s claws.

Li Ye didn’t have time to rest, he couldn’t even slow his breath. The black bears rushed out from the thick fog one after another, and he had to take them on with his sword.

Soon, Li Ye was surrounded by dark shadows and fell into the dangerous situation of being under siege. These black bears had very even fighting powers, similar to the first one, which meant that they had no weaknesses. Once he was surrounded, it was difficult to find a weak point to rush out.

Li Ye could no longer reserve his strength, the Dragon Qi continued to pour into the Luke Sword. The blade was lingered by the flame-like Spiritual Qi, and became a sharp weapon. As long as it cut on the part of the black bear that was not protected by armor, it was easy to break their hands and feet.

But this was not easy.

Li Ye’s eyes were determined and his murderous sense was boiling. He kept moving and shifting as much as possible, so as not to avoid being piled on by a group of black bears.

More and more corpses of the black bears had fallen at his feet, and his robes were gradually stained with blood of the black bears and his own.

Finally, he got rid of them temporarily, and leaned on a warm and solid place.

That was Feihong Bodhisattva’s back.

The two stood back to back, facing the dark shadows that came out of the dense fog. There was a sea of dense shadows in front of them that they couldn’t see the end.

The Feihong Bodhisattva also had many wounds and blood on her body, but she was a lot better than Li Ye.

This meant that Li Ye was already seriously injured.

Fortunately at this moment, someone was taking care of his back, and he was not being attacked from all sides. Be it Li Ye or Feihong Bodhisattva, now that their pressure was reduced, they had more room to exhibit their combat skills.

Feihong Bodhisattva’s voice passed into Li Ye’s ears. “You were full of energy just before, now it seems like you are dying.”

Li Ye smiled and added, “I am still full of vigour, and can continue to fight until dawn. But is exhaustion catching up to you? I can understand it if you are exhausted, after all, you are a woman, and your physical constitution is weaker.”

Feihong Bodhisattva secretly gritted her teeth, but her face was calm, just her voice was a little cold. “You are such a chauvinist. I hope that you don’t need me to save you later.”

Li Ye immediately replied decisively, “Don’t be like that. You must not hesitate when the time comes to save me!”

Feihong Bodhisattva was speechless, “...”

A fierce battle erupted again.

Both of them broke out of their superior combat power and launched an attack on the serried black bears. They embodied the saying, ‘when a man works with a woman, he knows not the meaning of exhaustion’. But the black bears were all fierce, the word retreat was unbeknownst to them. So they advanced in waves.

Thus the killing was even more ferocious than before.

The black bears were falling more frequently, and more and more wounds appeared on Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva. Fortunately, both of them had good combat skills. Most of the injuries were only skin deep, and it never hurt their muscles or bones. So they were still able to hold on.

However, even minor injuries would affect their stamina because of the loss of blood. Then Li Ye realized something strange. The Dragon Qi in his body began to part, and entered the Spiritual Qi that was around in his body to help control the wound.

The amount of bleeding was greatly reduced for any wounds that the Dragon Qi surrounded. Some lighter wounds could stop bleeding quickly. Such a strong healing ability made Li Ye feel ecstatic.

But he was not surprised.

Since he comprehended the second realm of the Way of Emperor, his Dragon Qi had advanced again. His had become more powerful and the vitality contained in it had become even more magnificent. When he battled in the ruins, the Dragon Qi would automatically repair the wound every time when he was injured.

Because of this, coupled with incomparable combat skills, Li Ye could continue to fight and keep up with Feihong Bodhisattva.

Feihong Bodhisattva took a moment to turn her head and saw Li Ye plunging forward attacking from both the left and right sides with a fierce look. Her eyes revealed a strong sense of surprise. She expected that Li Ye should be bleeding so much by now that he needed her support.

After all, Li Ye’s cultivation was much weaker than her.

Even she was feeling a lot of pressure now, and the battle was getting arduous, so Li Ye should not be able to hold on.

But that was obviously not the case. She saw that Li Ye seemed able to fight for another 300 rounds.

“This guy is not bad,” thought Feihong Bodhisattva. She didn’t know the details of Dragon Qi, thus she could only assume that Li Ye was really extraordinary.

As the fight continued, countless black bears fell under their swords. They had already changed countless positions, otherwise the corpses of the black bears would be piled up into hills.

Finally, when Li Ye stabbed into the black bear’s body in front of him, because of a slight deviation in the position, the sword got stuck in its bones. He couldn’t pull it out straight away because he was close to exhaustion. At this moment, Li Ye’s heart suddenly felt a chill like a pot of cold water was poured onto his head.

As expected, a black bear’s tomahawk slammed down on him.

Li Ye knew that the giant axe would come down on him. He thought that he should have time to dodge it, but he was delayed for a moment as he was not able to pull the sword out. This was a devastating disaster.

Seeing the Tomahawk falling, Li Ye’s eyes were cold.

But the Tomahawk did not fall, but fly upwards.

Along with the arm holding the tomahawk.

In the nick of time, Feihong Bodhisattva pricked away the black bear’s arm with her sword.

Li Ye had pulled out his Luke Sword, and he turned around and sliced.

A black bear rushed toward Feihong Bodhisattva from another direction was about to split Feihong Bodhisattva’s back with an axe. He just blocked the attack with his sword.

It was like a clash between the speed of a spark and a light.

If he hesitated, or acted slightly slower, then Feihong Bodhisattva would be seriously injured, or worse, die.

When Li Ye stood on his back again, the weird feelings only then seemed to have caught up with him. He didn’t hesitate when he attacked just moments ago. This was very different from the situation when Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan attacked Feihong Bodhisattva, who was pretending to be hurt and he was about to get up and cooperate with her. At that time, he had a fleeting hesitation.

Li Ye smiled. “Thank you, Bodhisattva for your help.”

Unexpectedly, Feihong Bodhisattva replied lightly, “I have gotten used to it.”

Li Ye was speechless, “...”

He continued, “You have rescued me several times, why?”

He certainly didn’t ask Feihong Bodhisattva to give the answer. They had already discussed this question before. He just wanted Feihong Bodhisattva to think of the answer he had given before.

Feihong Bodhisattva answered, “I don’t want you to die in others’ hands...”

Without waiting for Feihong Bodhisattva to finish speaking, Li Ye who knew what she was going to say interrupted. “It’ll be an honor to die in your hands, at least I’ll die a happy death!”

Feihong Bodhisattva was quiet for a while, then her red lips twitched. “Go to hell!”

She drew her sword and wielded it out.

Although she asked Li Ye to go to hell, her blade wielded towards the black bear.

Li Ye smiled and continued to fight.

The fight had finally ended.

Li Ye stooped his sieve like bleeding body and leaned his weight on the sword. He looked around and saw that the corpses of the black bears had covered the ground and not one bear was left standing.

It was a tough battle and they were lucky to have gotten out of it alive. And it was a miracle to have persisted until the end.

In the meantime, he and Feihong Bodhisattva didn’t know how many times they had helped each other and blocked the tomahawks for each other. They could only hold on to the end with mutual support.

Feihong Bodhisattva put away her sword, took out the flagon and raised her head to drink.

The wine spilled on her blood-stained white robes. And it flowed down her chest with the blood, which was a sight for sore eyes.

Li Ye looked envious and couldn’t help swallowing.

Feihong Bodhisattva glanced at him.

Then the flagon flew over.

Li Ye caught it, raised his head and drank for a while. He then laughed three times, feeling satisfied. This time Li Ye didn’t play tricks, and obediently returned the flagon to Feihong Bodhisattva. Any extra behavior and language would have destroyed the atmosphere at this moment.

The dense fog gradually dissipated.

The black bear corpses disappeared at the same time.

When the fog all dispersed and they could see clearly, Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva were stunned.