Chapter 12: I Will Not Leave
Translator: Panda_Penn Editor: Chrissy
Once Lu Li had made up his mind, he ran like hell and followed the escorts of the Liu Family along the mountain trail. It was just that the escorts of the Liu Family were all riding Silver Wolves, so Lu Li eventually lost track of them because they were too fast.
“Go after them!”
Lady Yi was sent by the Liu Family to supervise the coffin carrying business. She should have been somewhere between the Cutting Blade Ridge and the Black Hawk Ridge. Lu Li wildly ran along the coffin carrying mountain trail to find Lady Yi for his Body Refinement Pellets.
“Shriek, shriek~”
After Lu Li had run for about three miles, he heard a noise of a fowl screaming from the Black Hawk Ridge. Lu Li looked back and vaguely saw hundreds of ferocious fowls attacking the blue shield on the top of the Black Hawk Ridge. But from the looks of it, these ferocious fowls weren’t high ranked Xuan Beasts since they couldn’t break through the blue shield.
The ice burial ground of the Liu Family was naturally for the escorts of the Liu Family to worry about. Lu Li didn’t care for it anymore, but just ran at the top of his speed along the mountain trail.
The night had completely fallen. The weather was good this night, with a hazy moonlight shining through. Lu Li remembered the trail very well as he had been running up and down it everyday carrying coffins. He ran in big strides without a second of pause.
Lu Li hurried on for another two miles before he stopped. From the front, there came a fowl shrieking and faint shouts of the warriors.
On second thoughts, Lu Li climbed onto a stone hill and looked into the distance over there. Surprisingly, there was some dim light over there. After several glances, Lu Li instantly realized that it was a glow from an Ancient Coffin of the Liu Family.
“Lady Yi is over there!”
Lu Li saw a pretty figure in purple that had a purple whip in her hand. She was covered with a white glow, and the whip glistened in a purple color. Clearly, the whip was a piece of Xuan Artifact.
There were seven or eight warriors with Lady Yi. The three escorts from the Black Hawk Ridge were right beside Lady Yi. They were all surrounded by a group of red birds, at least more than a hundred of them judging by the looks of it. Both parties were dauntlessly fighting, and two of the Escorts got injured with half of their body covered in blood.
The big red birds were clearly Xuan Beasts. Red feathers covered their entire bodies like scales, giving out a feeble red light. Their red iron claws were also glowing, as if they were heated red.
“The Red Phosphorus Hawks, first rank Xuan Beast!”
Lu Li knew this kind of Xuan Beast, for which he was a bit more at ease. He had encountered this kind of Xuan Beast before. They were too aggressive, but they possessed horrifying defense abilities. He was chased by a Red Phosphorus Hawk for about two years ago for more than three miles and only had his life spared at last because he ran into a forest.
Red Phosphorus Hawks were indeed not powerful, but the problem was there was too many of them. More than a hundred Red Phosphorus Hawks kept attacking, and with only seven or eight people by Lady Yi’s side, it was very difficult to defend.
“This Lady Yi seemed quite powerful. She should have made it to the peak of the Xuan Wu Realm.”
Lu Li secretly exclaimed and thought that Lady Yi might be just one or two years older than he was, but she was already at the peak of the Xuan Wu Realm. Regardless of the fact that she was born in a big family, she sure had some nice aptitudes.
“What to do?”
Lady Yi and the others were surrounded by the Red Phosphorus Hawks. If he were to come any closer, he would be attacked by the Red Phosphorus Hawks too. One careless move and he would eventually get himself killed.
“I should have taken the saber from Di Gu.”
Lu Li regretted a little bit. Lu Li would be at a disadvantage without any weapons to fight against the Red Phosphorus Hawks. Red Phosphorus Hawks’ attacks were not exactly dreadful, yet, if he were to be grabbed by the Red Phosphorus Hawk’s claws or to be pecked at by their’ beaks, he would be severely injured.
Lu Li was about 0.3 miles away from the battleground. He was hiding behind the stone hill at that moment, so the Red Phosphorus Hawks paid him no heed. It would not be a problem for him to retreat now.
“I’ll take the risk!”
At last, he shouted in a suppressed voice while clenching his teeth. It was too much for Lady Yi and the others to fight against more than a hundred Red Phosphorus Hawks.
They could all fight to death, but if all of them died, then where would Lu Li get the Body Refinement Pellets? The Liu Family would not admit the debt. Now that he was here, he would not leave willingly.
With a strength of more than 9900 pounds, Lu Li was filled with much confidence. He threw a few glances and spotted a stick the size of a person’s lap. He picked up the stick and quietly rushed towards the battleground.
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“Ouch~”
A painful scream came as one of the escorts of the Liu Family got his left shoulder grabbed by the hawk’s claws. A few holes instantly appeared on his shoulder as his blood gushed out. Should it not be for the fact that someone next to him offered help, his head would have been crushed.
“Hang on!”
Lady Yi waved her whip and sweepingly beat one Red Phosphorus Hawk after another. She shouted in a delicate yet harsh voice, “There’s a Beast Upheaval. Our family will surely detect this, and they will instantly send someone to rescue us. Hang in there!”
Even though Lady Yi thought that there would be someone to rescue them, she still became upset because there were about 25 miles between here and the Wu Ling County. It would take the warriors of the Xuan Wu Realm to run at the their top speed for about more than an hour to get here. With so many Red Phosphorus Hawks, could they make it then? It was very difficult for them to flee since it was an open land with no forests or caves.
“I shouldn't have let Liu Wu leave.”
Lady Yi felt remorse but kept it to herself. When the Family relocated Liu Wu, they asked for her opinion. She thought it was just supervising coffin carrying, so how could anything go wrong? Moreover, there was a vast amount of armies and warriors stationed outside of the Ice Abyss. Even if something were to happen over there, it would not have spread here.
Who would have thought that the abrupt roaring of a mighty Beast King would scared some Xuan Beasts of low ranks on the outside? It just happened that there was still a single Ancient Coffin that was not yet moved to the Black Hawk Ridge. In order to protect the Ancient Coffin, Lady Yi and the others became the target of the Red Phosphorus Hawks…
“Ah~”
Another escort was severely pecked by the Hawk’s beak, and a blood hole showed on his back. Besides Lady Yi and Patriarch Hong who could inflict any harm on the Red Phosphorus Hawks, the others found it hard to injure the Red Phosphorus Hawks. The situation had become more and more perilous.
The Red Phosphorus Hawks had a very strong defense abilities. The red glow on their body made their feathers as hard as cold iron. Normal knives or swords could not easily break their feathers.
Apart from Lady Yi and Patriarch Hong, the rest of the escorts were just in the mid-stage of the Xuan Wu Realm, and in their hands were only Xuan Artifacts of the lowest rank. Naturally, it was difficult for them to fend off the Red Phosphorus Hawks.
“Can it be that I am going to die here?”
On the thought of this, Lady Yi’s mind was even more weighed down by anxiety. She seemed to become feeble in her way of waving the purple whip.
“You feathered beasts, piss off!”
Right at that moment, there came a burst of roaring from afar, then a black shadow came running from the distance. In his hands was a huge stick, and he madly waved it left and right. Surprisingly, he actually smacked two Red Phosphorus Hawks away.
The rescue had come!
All their spirits had lifted, and Lady Yi’s pretty eyes glistened. But when they clearly saw who he was, they instantly rolled their eyes. They all knew who he was—the Coffin Carrier Lu Li.
They were even more speechless when they saw the stick in Lu Li’s hand. Lu Li could not cultivate the Mysterious Energy, and he was not even a warrior. Now that he was holding a stick. Was he seeking his doom?
“Kid, leave now. Don’t come any closer!”
One of the escorts could not help but to deeply shout at Lu Li. Lu Li turned a deaf ear to that and continued to charge forward like an agile leopard.
He waved the stick in his hands in a sweeping motion, and it consistently hit the Red Phosphorus Hawks diving down. They were all smacked away—Lu Li was unstoppable!
“Eh?”
Lady Yi and Patriarch Hong looked at each other and felt a bit uplifted. Lu Li was born with supernatural strength, and now that he had already consumed more than a dozen Body Refinement Pellets, he should at least have more than 10,000 pounds of strength which made him a good helper. Perhaps he could really help them today!
“Crack!”
But soon, the eyes of Lady Yi and Patriarch Hong dimmed again because Lu Li’s stick was smashed by a Red Phosphorus Hawk’s claws. That particular Red Phosphorus Hawk dived down, and Lu Li, in order to avoid its attack, had no other choice but to roll around and crawl on the mountain trail. It was particularly embarrassing.
“Kid, leave or you will die!”
At that moment, most of the Red Phosphorus Hawks had not yet noticed Lu Li; he still had a chance to flee. Another escort could not help but to shout at Lu Li again, trying to talk him out of risking his life.
“No, I will not leave!”
Lu Li rolled on the ground for a bit and then jumped up. He moved to the left and to the right, rolling on the ground and jumping up, trying to dodge the attacks of the Red Phosphorus Hawks. As he ran about with great difficulty, he had a firm expression on his face. Bit by bit, he was getting closer and closer.
“Kill them!”
All of the Escorts, including Lady Yi,were moved in a way that could not to be explained. They had not realized that this guy was loyal. He would risk his life to help them.
But what Lu Li said next made everyone roll their eyes again. Lu Li shouted, “Lady Yi, you haven’t paid me for coffin carrying. How can I leave?!”
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