BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1224: Struggle
Chapter 1224: Struggle
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
For two hours, Lu Li changed direction three times and had been thinking. Finally, he calmed down and cleared his mind.
First of all, he must survive the coming pursuit of him. There should be two groups. The first would be a team sent by Commander Ye, and the second should the hunting teams of the prefecture.
If Lu Li had just run away without killing Li Qiang, then Commander Ye probably wouldn’t initiate a large-scale search. However, Lu Li did kill Li Qiang, a prefecture warrior. Therefore, Commander Ye would never spare Lu Li. At the very least, he would dispatch someone to go after Lu Li or else Commander Ye could not answer to his leaders.
The hunting teams sent by the prefecture wouldn’t come so soon. By the time the news was delivered to the prefecture and the hunting teams were organized, it would be half a month later. For the time being, Lu Li’s pursuit was organized by Commander Ye. After all, the Beasts of the Void were fast.
“I must find a place to hide!”
Lu Li thought to himself. He wanted to find a suitable location. He knew that the normal places wouldn’t work because prefecture warriors had strong psychic power. They would go and search in some mountain caves as well.
“Roar, roar~”
While Lu Li was deep in his thought, he heard a low howl coming from the canal ahead of him. Then, a huge beast stood up. It was as tall as the mountain.
It was an ape-like beast but with the head of a lion and had two white horns. There were sharp spikes on its shoulders. The beast’s tusks were long, and it had spikes on its elbows and fingers as well. The cold glare on the spikes would terrify people.
Lu Li would not be intimidated if the beast only had terrifying looks. What was scary about the beast was its energy. The beast was so powerful that though Lu Li was thirty miles always, he was already struggling for breath.
“Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing!”
Without any hesitation, Lu Li let out a dozen Stone Golems he made on the way from the right and let them spread out and charge toward the wild beast.
Just now, on the way, he had been contemplating how to deal with the wild beast. Wild beasts were not intelligent. When attacked by Stone Golems, the wild beasts would be angered and go after the Stone Golems. Taking such chances, Lu Li could run away.
As he had expected!
Two of the Stone Golems charged toward the wild beast. Since Stone Golems were not living beings, at first, the wild beast did not pay attention. Its ferocious gaze was focused on Lu Li until a Stone Golem punched at its head.
The Stone Golems, though not quite horrifying, were capable as average immortals with enough strength. This Stone Golem’s punch did not harm the wild beast, but it did hurt the wild beast.
“Roar, roar~”
The wild beast flew into rage and smashed at the Stone Golem with its huge paws. Strong as the Stone Golem was, it was ripped into a pile of rocks.
“Whoosh, whoosh~”
More Stone Golems rushed toward the wild beast from three different sides. The wild beast was target fixed on the Stone Golems and Lu Li was no longer noticed.
“Move!”
Lu Li had the immortal’s body to take him and stay close to the mountain. They took many detours. By the time the Stone Golems were completely smashed into pieces, the immortal’s body had already taken Lu Li away from that beast.
“Blood Fairy, take the Wicked Bead. I need to go inside and make more Stone Golems.”
Lu Li took out the Wicked Bead and went in. Immortal’s body grabbed the Wicked Bead and hurried on. Fortunately, with Blood Fairy inside the immortal’s body, he had a soul now. Otherwise, without Lu Li’s control, there was no telling where the immortal’s body could go...
“Buzzing~”
Inside the Wicked Bead, Lu Li let out the Deaf Taoist and told him to consume Spring Gold as well as to take care of Little White.
Lu Li threw hundreds of pieces of Spring Gold to the Deaf Taoist. They didn’t have to return to the Valley of Vicissitudes any longer. Lu Li didn’t need the Spring Gold. But the Deaf Taoist could consume them to improve his abilities to help Lu Li out.
Lu Li checked Little White before he began to make Stone Golems. When one was made, he would send it to the outer hall. His intention was to fill the outer hall completely with Stone Golems. This way, at critical times, he could release the Stone Golems which could distract enemies and wild beasts, though they were not capable fighters.
Practice makes perfection. Lu Li made quick progress in making Stone Golems. He did not stop at one hundred. He made three hundred of them until the space in the outer hall was completely filled.
In the old days, Lu Li could only make one hundred Stone Golems because more would exhaust his soul. Now, it was different. He had the soul of an immortal, much stronger. It was a piece of cake for him to make two to three hundred Stone Golems.
“Alright now!”
This took Lu Li half a day. During that time, he rested for the time for one incense stick to burn. He did not leave the Wicked Bead. “Is everything fine along the way?” He asked Blood Fairy.
“Yes. There was a wild beast, but I got rid of it!”
Blood Fairy continued, “But I didn’t find any good hiding spots. We must find a place soon or the warriors will catch up with us.”
It had been half a day. The fight at the Sect of Supernatural Beings must have ended. Commander Ye would mobilize Beasts of the Void to go after Lu Li. By this account, in a day at most, there would be Beasts of the Void coming to Lu Li.
Previously, Lu Li had tried to sense the speed of the Beasts of the Void. They were at least over 10 times as fast as the immortal’s body. At this rate, Lu Li would be caught up with.
Lu Li was just about to go out and check the surroundings when Blood Fairy suddenly sent a message, “Oh no. There is a lair of wild beasts. So many beasts are there. Master... we are in big trouble!”
Lu Li checked with psychic power at once. Ahead of him was a spooky basin with dozens of shadows hovering above the basin. All of the beasts had wings. They were like birds but with feathers in the color of blue and four eyes.
“Do not panic.”
Lu Li gathered himself soon. He had over three hundred Stone Golems at his disposal. He could easily distract the dozens of wild beasts.
For wild beasts, it was a mishap that they were not intelligent. Lu Li was inside the Wicked Bead and the immortal’s body was not breathing. Therefore, as far as the wild beasts could tell, there was no distinction between the Stone Golems and the immortal’s body.
“This is a nice place!”
Lu Li checked the basin which was enveloped by some dark fog that could isolate psychic power.
“I’ll risk it. This shall determine if I can stay alive!”
Lu Li thought. Suddenly, he did something strange. He cut himself on the chest and tainted his own robe with his blood.
Then, he dashed out and threw his ripped robe on the ground. The Wicked Bead light up at the moment. Over thirty Stone Golems rushed toward the wild beasts and more ran to different sides.
“Let’s go!”
When everything was done, Lu Li took the immortal’s body with him and came back to the Wicked Bead. He let the Wicked Bead shrink to the size of a rock and then fell into the grass quietly.
“Bang, bang, bang~”
The Stone Golems soon were ripped apart by the huge birds. Lu Li was pleased that—those birds were not smart indeed. None of them paid attention to the Wicked Bead and all were focused on the Stone Golems.
“Okay!”
Lu Li was filled with ecstasy. He let the Wicked Bead roll on the ground and moved into the basin.
He decided to take the risk and he wagered that the wild beasts could not tell the existence of the Wicked Bead. If the wild beasts did not notice the Wicked Bead, then... he could hide in the basin.
This basin was filled with wild beasts. Theoretically speaking, when the pursuing forces sent by Commander Ye arrived, they would only check the area casually and wouldn’t get into a bloody battle with the wild beasts.
The Stone Golems were his signature move and he tore a part of it with his own blood-tainted robe. The pursuing forces, when they found the robe and the smashed Stone Golems, then they would assume that Lu Li had been eaten by the wild beasts and wouldn’t go into the basin to check.
Besides, the black fog in the basin could isolate psychic power. The Wicked Bead could take the shape of a pebble. Nobody would notice the Inhibition Formation on the Wicked Bead without a closer look.
In this way, Lu Li could practice deception and lie in hiding here. When Commander Ye bought the assumption that he was dead, he could run away and leave the Vicissitude House.
Of course, the premise was that the wild beasts would not notice the Wicked Bead.
If they did and strike it, Lu Li would have to run away again. If a powerful wild beast were to crack the Wicked Bead, then he could lose his life easily.