Naked Sword Art

Xiao Fang waited patiently for the right time to strike. When the time finally came, he made his move.

[ Stealth ]

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Meanwhile, the Supreme Elder was attempting to flee from the abnormal beast. She made illusory clones, illusory terrain, and attacked the abnormal beast as she ran, but no matter what she did she was unable to get away.

Even though her battle power was at the peak of the Divine Realm, the abnormal beast seemed to be in a different league than her. The most frightening thing about it was that it was getting stronger the longer it fought. It still hadn't gotten used to its new strength yet.

Watching from afar, Xiao Fang assumed the fight would be over soon, so he got closer under [ Stealth ] and prepared to step in before anything bad could happen to her. However, just before he could make a move, the Supreme Elder suddenly took out a small golden metallic bird from her spatial pouch.

It seemed harmless at first, but the moment she circulated her qi through it, it suddenly began to emit an ancient aura.

'What is that?' Xiao Fang thought.

He wasn't the only one to stop, even the abnormal beast stopped as well.

In the next moment, Supreme Elder Quan threw it up into the air, then it grew into a massive golden bird with wings made of blue fire.

The abnormal beast was cautious at first, but as soon as it saw her flying away on top of the giant metal bird the abnormal beast resumed its chase.

The golden bird was fast, so fast not even Xiao Fang could keep up with it.

'It seems she's going to get away after all,' Xiao Fang thought.

However, a few moments later the abnormal beast changed directions. When Supreme Elder Quan saw this she sighed in relief.

'It's finally over,' she thought.

Even though she got away, her heart still aches after using such a valuable item.

Meanwhile, Xiao Fang was watching the beast carefully to see where it was going, but it didn't take long for him to figure out what it was planning to do.

'It's going towards the forest,' he thought, then panic quickly kicked in.

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the beast already arrived at the forest and cut down a tree. Xiao Fang finally looked back up at the sky and shouted in warning.

"Look out!"

Supreme Elder Quan heard his voice, then immediately looked back down at the abnormal beast. Her eyes widened when she saw it carrying the tree with a large grin on its face.

She knew what it was going to do, but before she could properly react in time. The beast threw the tree up as hard as it could, making it zip threw the air with a frightening velocity. When the tree collided with the bird it knocked it off course. It wasn't strong enough to damage the bird, but it was enough to knock Supreme Elder Quan off of it.

Falling from nearly 100 meters up, she grabbed at the air as she desperately tried to call the bird back to catch her before she hit the ground, but the bird was unresponsive.

'Is this it. Is this how I die?'

The fall wouldn't be enough to kill her, but she wouldn't be able to run from the abnormal beast once she hit the ground.

Only seconds away from reaching the ground another thought suddenly popped into her head.

'Someone else is here. A man's voice. But how can there be a man here?'

Finally, there was a loud thunderous boom when her body hit the ground. She groaned as she tried to get up, but too many of her bones were broken and her mind and vision was hazy.

Blood streamed down her face and she found it difficult to breath. She didn't have enough qi to escape and she wasn't fast enough to outrun it without her movement technique.

'I need to run... I need to get out of here.'

She tried to get up with every ounce of her strength, but she could barely keep her eyes open much less move the rest of her body.

Eventually, the abnormal beast could be seen walking towards her from a 100 meters away, but since her mind was in a haze, she could only see it frame by frame. She felt like she was going to blackout before it could get to her.

'Elder Sister. help me. I don't want to die.'

The closer it got, the more frightened she became, but from the looks of it she was only moments away from passing out.

Suddenly, the abnormal beast stopped walking then quickly turned around. In that exact moment a silver flash rushed past him, leaving a deep cut wound across its chest.

"Gah!" The beast screamed.

The attack was too sudden so it couldn't block it in time, but with its new strength the surprise attack wasn't strong enough to kill it in one hit.

The silver flash was none other than Xiao Fang. His hair was white, his aura had sparks of lightning in it, and his blade was as dark as death. 

'It failed to block my attack but I still failed to kill it. Just how much stronger did it get while I was gone,' Xiao Fang thought.

He had been watching it fight against the Supreme Elder closely so he assumed he could kill it in one go if there was an opening, it turned out he had underestimated it.

"Fang, look at its eyes, it's a cannibal," Xiao Hei said after climbing off of his back.

Since Xiao Fang wasn't wearing his blindfold he could see the red in the abnormal beast's eyes too, so it all started to make sense.

"Elder sister, is that you?" Supreme Elder Quan suddenly spoke.

Xiao Fang turned his head to look down at the Supreme Elder. His eyes were bright violet, his black robes were clean, and his glowing white hair was tied back into a neat ponytail.

When Xiao Fang looked down at her, the image of her elder sister slowly faded away, leaving behind a blurry image of Xiao Fang's face.

Although she couldn't make out his face, she could clearly see the violet in his eyes.

"Who are you?" she struggled to say.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get a good look at who her mysterious benefactor was. In the next moment, she finally passed out.

Xiao Fang sighed in relief. For a moment he thought he underestimated her injuries, but it seemed she was just thinking about her elder sister.

"Xiao Hei, take her somewhere safe," Xiao Fang said.

Xiao Hei was reluctant to save the supreme elder considering what happened during the inner court exam, but since Xiao Fang went to great lengths to help her, she didn't want to let him down.

Xiao Hei nodded obediently then picked the supreme elder up before going into [ Stealth ].

Xiao Fang finally turned to look at the abnormal beast and confirmed it with his own eye. The abnormal beast standing before him was the same abnormal beast he fought at the lake. There was still lingering fear in its eyes, so he knew it recognized him.

Xiao Fang flicked his wrist, removing the beast's blood that coated his sword.

"It seems you got a lot stronger since we last met. Come, let's see how long you can last against my sword."