The Villain Doesn’t Want To Get Entangled With the Beautiful Girl After Rebirth - Chapter 184
184. The World-Ending Bird Hunter
Lang Yu led the beasts back through the dark portal, encountering the old wizard with the skull-topped staff.
“Lang Yu, why have you returned so soon?” the old wizard asked, puzzled.
“Enough talk, master. We encountered two people, a man and a woman. That woman alone annihilated all my beasts, and the man didn’t even lift a finger.”
“The Righteous Alliance’s strength is so formidable?”
The old wizard listened in astonishment. This woman, standing guard alone, held back the beasts. How could the Soul Fragment Bombardment proceed?
Lang Yu continued with concern: “I’ve seen it, that woman used demonic techniques. Our beasts resist yang but not yin; under the demonic techniques, they’re utterly defenseless. There’s actually a practitioner of demonic arts within the Righteous Alliance. Our plan might fail.”
The old wizard stroked his beard, feeling the situation growing stranger. The Righteous Alliance, by its name, should be upright and righteous. How could there be practitioners of demonic arts among them?
Could this be an unexpected victory?
Suddenly, a black crow flew in and landed on the old wizard’s shoulder. The crow made no sound, but it conveyed the battlefield’s information to the old wizard.
The old wizard nodded at the crow, his rough left hand caressing the crow’s forehead, and then the crow flew back into the sky.
The old wizard turned to Lang Yu, draped in beast skins, and asked: “The ones who stopped you, were they a man and a woman wearing pale grey cloaks?”
Lang Yu nodded: “Yes, master.”
“My black crow observed the battlefield. Apart from the man and woman you attacked, everything else is as planned. The Righteous Alliance members are desperately blocking the beasts, and most of them have collected Soul Fragments from within the beasts, not concentrating them on just one or two individuals.
As for the man and woman you encountered, they seem to have clashed with Duran of the Righteous Alliance and killed them.”
“Killed?” Lang Yu listened in surprise, “Then they can’t be considered allies, or perhaps they are spies infiltrated into the Righteous Alliance.”
“If that’s the case, then that’s great. Their unity is weak, and we can strike easily.”
The old wizard stroked his beard and smiled, “Now go and support Huti. It’s a good time to attack there.”
“Alright.”
Beastmaster Lang Yu obeyed, then took his beasts to support his comrades elsewhere.
After a long while, the old wizard, leaning on his staff, walked to the array stones he had laid out, gazing into the distance, watching the thick smoke of gunpowder, listening to the wails filling the sky, thinking that the Soul Fragment Bombardment ritual was about to begin.
As for the man and woman in pale grey cloaks, Black Crow has already flown to observe their whereabouts. Should there be any anomalies, Black Crow will cry out in the sky to relay the message, allowing him to be on guard and not caught off guard.
However, suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his heart.
“Black Crow, my Black Crow…?!”
The old wizard clenched his teeth and clutched his chest, sensing that Black Crow was in trouble!
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Linuo, accompanied by Lingmeng, returned near the sanctuary. As they ran, Linuo came to a stop.
“Master, what’s wrong?”
Lingmeng also stopped, asking with confusion.
“I’m feeling a bit out of breath; I need to adjust my energy.”
Linuo then sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to regulate his spiritual energy.
Lingmeng, having just expended a lot of energy herself and not having had the chance to adjust, followed Linuo’s lead, sitting opposite him and also began to regulate her own spiritual energy.
If the spiritual energy within is well-adjusted, then the next use of spirit techniques will be much smoother, also preparing for the next battle.
Lingmeng naively thought her master was adjusting his spiritual energy, forgetting that aside from harvesting a few fierce beasts’ soul shards, her master had no other need to use spiritual power. Adjust energy? More like twiddling thumbs.
Suddenly, a strong malevolent aura surged from Linuo’s head, reaching for the heavens, and in a moment, a black crow fell from the sky.
Lingmeng, hearing the sound of the crow landing, opened her eyes and saw a dark bird beside her.
“What is this…?”
“This crow’s flesh is poisonous, not fit for consumption; I suggest we cremate it right here.”
“Master, this doesn’t seem like an ordinary crow.”
Lingmeng took a closer look at the fallen crow, feeling something eerie about it.
“It’s not ordinary indeed; this is a sentient crow, if I remember the term correctly, it’s called Black Crow, raised by wizards from ancient tribes.”
Linuo spoke nonchalantly, as if he had just brought down a common crow, “It was watching us, probably because we fought the fierce beasts too fiercely and drew special attention.”
“How did it fall down? It seemed like there was a surge of energy reaching for the sky just now, was that you, Master?”
“Don’t worry about that, I have a task for you now, cremate it.”
Linuo pointed at the Black Crow, his own Sky-Piercing Surge technique was not for show, a fine hand at downing birds.
Linuo stood up and quickly moved away from the Black Crow, unsure of what method Lingmeng would use to cremate it. Perhaps she might unleash a devastating magic fire, burning him as well, thinking he was strong enough to withstand it. That would be quite embarrassing if he perished.
Fortunately, Lingmeng didn’t use any apocalyptic magic to send the crow to the heavens, but simply used a fire technique to burn it.
The cautious Linuo kept an eye on the sky, ensuring no other Black Crows were around, before he felt somewhat at ease.
“Let’s go.”
Linuo continued to lead Lingmeng in their retreat, and as they walked, they encountered Liushuqin and Sukexin returning from the retreat, along with other members of the righteous faction, resisting hundreds of fierce beasts.
“Don’t go out.”
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Linuo pulled Lingmeng back, hiding to observe the situation with Suke Xin and the others.
Recalling the secret observations from years past, back in Fenghailin, he too had waited for the right moment, watching Suke Xin get beaten by a group of demonic cultivators, then suddenly turning the tables and counterattacking. After the outburst, he was ready to move in for the kill.
As for what followed, it wasn’t something to be proud of. Linuo stopped his reminiscing, lingering in the glorious memories of a major villain, from stalking to assassination.
This time, he had the chance to force Suke Xin into an explosive state, and he had already anticipated the next developments.
A group of righteous clan members would slay the beasts, then extract the soul fragments from their bodies. A huge pile of soul fragments would accumulate, and then some unknown sorcerer would detonate it, causing most of the group to die or get injured. Suke Xin would likely be forced into an explosive state, narrowly escaping disaster. But after her outburst, she would fall into a weakened state, and he, along with Lingmeng, would move in pretending to offer support, only to deliver the final blow, sending Suke Xin to the heavens.
“Excellent,” he thought. “There was a minor mishap last time in Fenghailin, but there won’t be any accidents now. Plus, with the demonic fairy Lingmeng, Suke Xin could at most burst out a second time. Lingmeng would then unleash her power, leaving Suke Xin severely weakened, and then I’ll move in for the kill. She’ll definitely die.”
“Very good. All the days of enduring humiliation, being treated as various heroes and champions, were all for this final moment of glory!”
But as he watched, something about the way the story unfolded seemed off.
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