Chapter 1121, Strength as Unfathomable as the Deep Sea

Translator: Silavin

 

“How does it matter to you where the Slaughter Ancient God is!?” Yei Xiu shot back with a cold laugh, and then the flames upon his body erupted once more, his momentum reaching a new pinnacle.

 

He stamped a foot forward, lunging to kill Lu Fan. At the same time, he brought both fists crashing through the air. Two enormous fireballs then came hammering down towards Lu Fan in succession.

 

Lu Fan, seeing he had no intention of surrendering meekly, was not surprised.

 

Yei Xiu’s strength was, by any measure, truly transcendent. He could truly obliterate the entire Situ Family.

 

What a pity he had met Lu Fan.

 

A high-calibre expert of this sort would naturally never yield without a fight, even if the strength Lu Fan had displayed was already more than enough to crush him.

 

Faced with two fireballs, Lu Fan did not even look. He simply let Xiao Ye bear him forward in a direct charge.

 

*Rumble…*

 

Both fireballs were smashed apart by Xiao Ye with sheer brute force. As the fireballs burst, Lu Fan saw that Yei Xiu, wreathed entirely in flames, had seized the momentum to come killing towards him. He completely ignored Xiao Ye. His target was fixed squarely on Lu Fan himself, seated atop Xiao Ye’s back.

 

One could imagine that a Giant Dragon’s Attributes were certainly far superior to those of Lu Fan’s.

 

Normally, even a Knight in their Riding State could only acquire a portion of their Mount’s Attributes, and it would be around twenty or thirty percent.

 

With a better Saddle equipped, that ratio might reach fifty percent at most.

 

But Lu Fan was different. He possessed the Dragon Saddle, capable of combining his own Attributes and Xiao Ye’s Attributes.

 

Lu Fan in the Riding State, his Attributes were no different to Xiao Ye’s.

 

Yei Xiu’s targeting of Lu Fan could be said to have been logically misguided.

 

Lu Fan smiled faintly, thrust his spear forward, and activated Dragon Fang Strike.

 

Instantly, an attack far surpassing any before shot forward, startling Yei Xiu greatly.

 

Yet still he showed no intention of retreating or evading, choosing instead to clash head-on with Lu Fan.

 

The result was, naturally, all too predictable.

 

Yei Xiu was sent flying, half his body very nearly pulverised, turning into a mangled bloody mess.

 

Yet when he fell to the ground and struggled to his feet, the wounds upon his body healed rapidly once more, restoring themselves to their former state in the blink of an eye.

 

“His speed of recovery is faster than before…” Lu Fan was slightly surprised. He could clearly sense that it was the Ancient God Power within Yei Xiu hard at work. It was for this reason he was capable of such a miraculous feat, rendering Yei Xiu akin to a cockroach that simply could not be killed.

 

And there was more.

 

Fresh from the brink of death, Yei Xiu unleashed a string of low roars, and an even more powerful aura erupted from his body.

 

It seemed as though every time he was injured, the Ancient God Power within him was activated, making him even stronger.

 

This kind of power escalation certainly had an upper limit; once that limit was exceeded, Yei Xiu would inevitably die rather than heal ceaselessly without end.

 

For an ordinary person to kill Yei Xiu before reaching that upper limit, Lu Fan could only say that it would be exceedingly difficult.

 

Otherwise, Yei Xiu would not have had the audacity to come to the Situ Family alone and exterminate the entire Family.

 

Lu Fan formed a rough understanding of the Slaughter Ancient God’s Ancient God Power. It was an enhancement of strength, the possession of unparalleled self-regeneration, and the fierce growth after each exchange in battle.

 

This kind of ability was, indeed, born for slaughter.

 

Just as Lu Fan was musing on this, Yei Xiu had already gone berserk and came killing over once more.

 

Lu Fan let out an amused laugh, drove Xiao Ye forward to meet him, and called out with a grin. “Again! Let me see exactly how much you’ve got in you!”

 

With that, the two of them collided in mid-air once more.

 

This battle shook the entire Situ Family to its foundations. Situ Hengxing and the others were left utterly aghast, marvelling at how Lu Fan and Yei Xiu’s strength was truly too transcendent.

 

The battle between these two had long since surpassed the level of Sixth Profession Change.

 

Even a Divine Being thrust into the middle of them would long since have been beaten to fragments.

 

The entire Situ Family combined in one charge would likely be no match for either of them.

 

This made Situ Hengxing all the more thankful, that fortunately, Lu Fan had been present in the Situ Family. Otherwise, without even waiting for the Sacred Yei Family forces to arrive in rescue, the Situ Family would have been wiped out by Yei Xiu.

 

The battle did not last long, approximately ten minutes in total.

 

In those ten minutes, Lu Fan drove Yei Xiu to the brink of death three times.

 

Though each time Yei Xiu managed to restore his wounds through the Ancient God Power, the disparity in strength was stark. Even though his power had risen to nearly three times what it originally was, he was still never a match for Lu Fan.

 

To Yei Xiu, Lu Fan was like a vast ocean, truly bottomless. Lu Fan’s limits were completely beyond his reach.

 

Yei Xiu’s offensive momentum had clearly lost the ferocity of the opening exchanges. Whether because the Ancient God Power within him had been exhausted, or because Lu Fan’s strength had already filled him with despair, or both.

 

What meaning was there in continuing to battle an enemy one had no possibility of defeating?

 

Yei Xiu understood deeply that Lu Fan’s sudden appearance had rendered it absolutely impossible for him to complete the mission the Sacred Master had entrusted to him.

 

To remain here any longer was to invite his own destruction.

 

But his pride made him unwilling to turn tail like a deserter.

 

Yet he was equally unwilling to die here like this, meaninglessly.

 

[Flee! I must flee!]

 

There was a terrifying existence here, and this matter had to be reported back to the Sacred Jiang Family!

 

With this in mind, Yei Xiu ceased tangling with Lu Fan. The flames within him suddenly erupted in a burst, cutting off Lu Fan’s line of sight. Then his entire person shot out towards the direction of the outer reaches of the Situ Family Residence. He was akin to a stream of light, speed so rapid it was hair-raising!

 

As for the Situ Family’s barrier of light, it was utterly incapable of stopping him; he shattered two layers of it in an instant.

 

Only one more barrier remained. It was the most fortified shield outside the Situ Family Residence. Once that too was smashed through, he would be free.

 

In terms of speed, though it was not his strong suit, the Ancient God Power of the Slaughter Ancient God allowed him to possess extraordinarily powerful Concealment. He was confident that once outside the Situ Family, relying on his Concealment ability, he would still be able to escape Lu Fan’s pursuit.

 

What a pity he did not understand: the strength Lu Fan had displayed before him was no more than the tip of the iceberg.

 

Lu Fan was content to play a game of cat and mouse. However, if the mouse tried to run, the cat would never permit it.

 

Lu Fan swung his spear, shattered the flames, then glanced at the fleeing Yei Xiu. He had not the slightest intention of pursuing him himself.

 

“Ye Sha, go!” With a single command from Lu Fan, a flash of red light streaked past.

 

Before Yei Xiu could even comprehend what had happened, his body was already bisected in two and came crashing down from mid-air.

 

In the corner of his fading vision, Yei Xiu seemed to glimpse a Giant Dragon lurking within the shadows delivering a single strike against him, before disappearing from sight once more.

 

From beginning to end, this Giant Dragon had been at his side yet he had never sensed its presence at all.