Stranger Danger

Chapter 461: I Regret Nothing

Chapter 461: I Regret Nothing

Although the elite cavalrymen were already dead, they continued to travel toward Duan Zipao due to inertia. They slammed full force into him and sent him flying through the air.

His consciousness was flickering, and blood was spilling through his lips. Before Duan Zipao could recover his wits, a gigantic silhouette reached him with surprising agility and swung its palm. The silhouette was, of course, Ye Qing.

Red lotuses began appearing in Duan Zipao’s headspace. Demonic hellfire burned his mind and seeped out of his pores.

Unfortunately, Duan Zipao was a late-stage Spirit Master who had forged his Yin God. There was a burst of spiritual power, and the Ghost Leopard of Winnowing Waters let out a mighty roar. Both the red lotuses attempting to take root in his mind and the hellfire spreading throughout his body were annihilated in an instant. At the same time, Duan Zipao snapped back to reality.

That wasn’t the only move Ye Qing had prepared for him, however. The second he regained his consciousness, Duan Zipao found a slender saber flying straight toward his neck. It was as red as it was lethal.

Pssh!

Blade sank into flesh, and for a moment, it looked like Ye Qing had won. However, the young man’s expression darkened. It was because the killer move that should’ve beheaded Duan Zipao was blocked. Somehow, the Leopard Commander’s armor had melted into streams of liquid and blocked his attack.

“Hahahaha! You think you can kill me?”

Duan Zipao let out a mad laugh, but his eyes were overflowing with murder and just a hint of fear.

At this point, even he had to admit that Ye Qing possessed outstanding intelligence, cunning, and adaptability. First, he used the fog to obstruct his spiritual senses. Then, he tricked him into killing against his own cavalrymen and incurring some serious damage as a result of it.

Although he was a Spirit Master, he wasn’t a body-tempering warrior. Not even he could take the cavalry charge of a guard of elite cavalrymen[1] head on.

As if that wasn’t enough, Ye Qing had launched his ambush right after his energies were scattered, and before new energy was born. His planning, his decision-making, and his timing were definitely praiseworthy. If it wasn’t for the fact that the armor he was wearing was a Strange Artifact called Black Water, he could very well be dead already.

Anger and fear joined together to form a sea of bloodthirst. Duan Zipao’s palm abruptly turned as black as ink, and he aimed a cold, vicious, and destructive palm strike at Ye Qing’s chest.

Bang!

There was a low, dull sound of impact, and the yin and yang energies protecting Ye Qing were completely destroyed. Not only that, the palm continued forward and struck Ye Qing right on the chest.

Pop pop pop!

Ye Qing’s insides began popping and cracking incessantly like fireworks. Duan Zipao was surprised for an instant before he burst out laughing, “You actually took my Black Sky Divine Palm head on? What a fool!”

He just wanted to force Ye Qing away when he executed the move. He never thought that Ye Qing would choose to bear the attack. An ultimate technique of the Black Sky Divine Palace, the Black Sky Divine Palm was an insidious, vicious palm strike that injected soft, cold poison into the target’s body. It spread quickly throughout the body and broke the bones, destroyed the internal organs, damaged the bodily points, and threw one’s pulse into complete disarray.

Debris flew everywhere as Duan Zipao sank deeper and deeper into the wall. His eyes were bulging, blood was pouring out of every orifice, and his energies kept growing weaker and weaker.

Dozens of punches later, Ye Qing abruptly stopped his assault. As if on cue, his energies suddenly plummeted like an avalanche.

If someone were to look at the exposed parts of his arms and neck, they would notice that his skin had turned bluish black in color. His eyebrows and hair were also frozen as if he was standing in the coldest winter. His aura was beyond chilly, and a pool of ice was spreading underneath his feet.

“Cough! Cough!”

Ye Qing covered his mouth and coughed a little. Despite this, he couldn’t stop a trickle of black blood from pouring through his fingers. Every part of his body was hurting like a bitch.

Duan Zipao’s palm strike hadn’t just jolted his internal organs out of position, broke his muscles and bones, and damaged his veins. The insidious palm force had also spread throughout his body and made him feel like he was standing naked in the coldest winterland. To say he was beyond uncomfortable would be the understatement of the century.

Even so, Ye Qing didn’t regret taking the palm strike. Everything he had done until this point was to kill Duan Zipao.

Duan Zipao was the greatest obstacle standing between him and freedom. He could never escape unless the commander was taken out of the picture. That was why he had been searching for a way to kill Duan Zipao from the moment he used the Child of Blood Demon.

First, he used the original fog to obstruct his enemies’ senses and pit them against each other. While Duan Zipao was at his weakest state, he would ambush the commander and hopefully kill him.

Everything had gone perfectly until Duan Zipao’s armor suddenly came to life and blocked what should’ve been a killing blow. The lull gave Duan Zipao just enough breathing room to unleash the Black Sky Divine Palm.

Ye Qing could’ve dodged the attack, but he knew that Duan Zipao just wanted to drive him away and buy himself even more time to recover. That was precisely why he couldn’t back off.

If he retreated, Duan Zipao would be able to recover his strength, and as a late-stage Spirit Master, the commander had all the tools he needed to turn this into a battle of attrition. There were only two possible outcomes if the fight did turn into a battle of attrition. One, he runs out of strength and dies. Two, reinforcements show up, save Duan Zipao and kill him.

Duan Zipao could afford to drag out the battle, but not him. That was why he could only bear the attack head on and fight with his life on the line. Moreover, Dan Zipao wasn’t a body-tempering warrior. His astral qi and spirit were powerful, but his body was perfectly average. He of all people feared trading wound for wound, life for life.

Ye Qing was the opposite. His body was strong, but his astral qi and spirit were weaker than Duan Zipao’s.

In a battle between warriors, the only path to victory was to attack the enemy’s weakness with your strength. Besides, Ye Qing was confident he could take the Black Sky Divine Palm and still defeat Duan Zipao.

In the end, he won, and Duan Zipao lost. So, he regretted nothing.

1. Reminder that “a guard” here is over 100 people. ☜

2. Never say that the MC can’t pick up skills from his foes. This one is contributed by Zhao Lan. ☜