Chapter 329 – Truths and Lies (XV)

Chapter 329

Truths and Lies (XV)

Dai Xiu felt a bit peeved; Xi Zhao got all the glory of killing that wretched woman so swiftly, while the rest of them just stood about like statues.

Though she would never say it, when she saw that ugly man who dared bicker with Master pull the woman back together like he was sawing a broken doll up, and when she saw the woman wake… she was a bit happy.

That banshee roar, despite being the worst sound Dai Xiu had ever heard in her life, was also a melody; now, she would have the chance to fight her, too!

But when the shadows began to emerge from the sides, and the woman still remained far up in the sky… she got angry. Though she was strong, she couldn’t fly yet! Couldn’t even jump half the distance between the two of them!

Luckily, she grinned, there were a lot of punching bags that delivered themselves to her.

She sprung from her feet to the side, gauntlets already churning with Qi, and punched. A soft explosion displaced air visibly as her punch tore open a gaping hole in the cloaked figure’s chest, the edges flaring up in a strange, multi-colored embossing that continued to eat away at the decaying flesh while the body flew backward and over the edge of the arena, back into the lake.

“Thank you.” She turned to the side, where she saw Xi Zhao popping some pills. Frowning, she spat words back at him.

“That was quite an attack. How come you never attacked me with it? Huh?”

“Uhm…” he stuttered; the look in his eyes told the entire story, but his lips never moved.

“Because you’d die and Master would be sad,” Light added from the side in her usual, dismissive tone. Dai Xiu felt her muscles twitch, but all she did was shoot the shorthead a dirty look.

She felt a dagger from her side, weaving forward for a moment before sending out a punch, squaring off against the shadow’s head.

A frown on her face deepened; whoever these people were… they were weak. Per their Qi, they all looked to be between the peak of the Foundation Establishment and the peak of the Spirit Manifestation Realm, but there was hardly any difference.

They all died in one hit, not just from her but Wan Lan, too.

An abrupt burst of golden light startled her slightly, though she quickly realized it was Rayce; she watched hair-thin strands of light shoot off into the distance and saw them latch onto the still-emerging, cloaked figures before obliterating their flesh and ripping it free from their skeletons.

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Even she winced at a rather gnarly sight, looking over at Rayce, who had a blissful expression, his lips mumbling words Dai Xiu could understand greatly.

“Master… is really one of a kind…”

Just then, she felt something in her… change. It scared her for a moment, thinking it was some trick, but that wasn’t it. It came from her Master, she could tell–just like how she felt breathing and cultivating was far easier when next to him, she could tell that this, too, came from him. It was like a knot loosening in the depths of her dantian; even though she remained at the peak of the Foundation Establishment, she felt that the breakthrough would be… different.