Tai Qi stopped using detection methods. When this happened, his attacks became clumsy and Yang Zhai was dodging his attacks easily now.
Let's test him: Yang Zhai had a thought.
"Tai Qi, do you think you have the ability to defeat me?! I am just a rank 4 cultivator who just advanced and you still can't touch me!!"
Yang Zhai was dodging and shouting. He was testing Tai Qi by provoking him.
Suddenly, when Tai Qi was close to the black fog, The Last One came out and kicked Tai Qi. After that, it returned.
Yang Zhai also takes advantage of the situation and enters the black fog.
It was dissipating, so Yang Zhai activated A Dark Day again, and the fog denses.
Tai Qi hurriedly runs after Yang Zhai but doesn't follow him into the fog. After a bit of hesitation, he decides to follow Yang Zhai.
Yang Zhai comes out of the other side of the fog. After a while, Tai Qi also appears.
So, he did hesitate, hahaha: Yang Zhai was even laughing in his thoughts now.
When he noticed that Tai Qi took much longer than usual to emerge from the fog, he realized that Tai Qi had hesitated before entering the black fog.
Yang Zhai didn't battle Tai Qi and entered the fog again.
"This ba*tard Yang Zhai, how dare he play with me?!!!" Tai Qi is finally getting annoyed by Yang Zhai.
Yang Zhai repeats this two more times. Yang Zhai signals The Last One, it runs towards a certain direction.
"What's he up to now?"
Tai Qi also sees this and considers.
Yang Zhai, for the first time in this battle, activates the Earth Burial Ka, and a pit appears below Tai Qi. However, Tai Qi jumps and manages to keep himself balanced. He was not like other inexperienced cultivators.
Yang Zhai throws the Corpse collector on the ground and is absorbed into it.
After that, he shouts
"Jun Haru, get ready!!!!" After that, he shot himself at Tai Qi.
"Yang Zhai, you are really bold! You really dare to attack me head-on!!!"
Tai Qi smiles evilly and prepares to attack. He just moves his hand forward when he senses the sand below him move, he hurriedly tries to jump, but his leg is grabbed by a hand.
Tai Qi wanted to free himself but saw Yang Zhai getting close. Left with no choice, he shoots a fire at Yang Zhai and ignores the corpse.
However, he feels something piercing his right leg. This piercing feeling soon turns into a pain that reaches his thigh. His ire was not activated.
He was already running low on the purified rays. This was the reason he stopped using any detection methods to continuously sense Yang Zhai on this particularly dark night. As a result, his last attacks were mostly missing Yang Zhai.
Not only that, he even stopped using his ire. He was trying to limit the use of the void power to the minimum. He was also confident that he could now catch Yang Zhai.
"How is he still able to fight?!" Tai Qi was confused.
He thought that Yang Zhai had been continuously using some kind of detection and physical-strength-increasing methods. Otherwise, how was he able to dodge even in this dark night and also had his body strength boosted? What he didn't know was that Yang Zhai was not using void power, but the orange and the yellow lines.
This was what Yang Zhai had been making Tai Qi and Wan Liu believe as well. This was the reason both of them didn't hold back and used their cultivation methods recklessly to forcefully defeat Yang Zhai. They believed that Yang Zhai would run out of the rays before them.
Yang Zhai understood that winning a head-on battle against Tai Qi or Wan Liu was impossible.
He also made them angry right after seeing Cu Gil. He wanted them to attack him furiously, thinking that he was an easy target.
Even though Yang Zhai was injured, he had enough physical strength to keep himself going.
Tai Qi had just balanced himself when he was kicked by The Last One. He was sent flying. However, he had not even landed on the ground when a wind spear came and pierced Tai Qi's right leg.
"Did you get it?!!" Yang Zhai shouted.
The Last One nodded.
"Good, let's go!!!"
Yang Zhai grabs the Corpse Collector and runs. Jun Haru and The Last One start to follow him.
"Father, this hysterical state is more torturous for you than death!!!! Goodbye!"
Jun Haru spared his father.
"Where are you running off to?!!! Do you think I would let you go?!!!"
When Tai Qi saw them running, he tried to follow them but fell down. His right leg was severely injured.
Yang Zhai had used the Earth Burial Ka to bury the Corpse Collector in the ground. After that, he activated it and a corpse came out of it and grabbed Tai Qi's right leg. After that, he used the Blood Demon Ka to create a blood spear from the corpse's blood and pierced Tai Qi's leg.
This was an aggregate move Yang Zhai came up with what he had. This was the reason Yang Zhai had asked for the Earth Burial Ka from Tai Qi.
His rays were nearly depleted, so he couldn't heal himself, use detection methods, or increase his speed altogether.
"This bast*rd really got me!! Don't tell me this was also done by him on purpose?!!!"
When he thought of this, his heart was horrified.
Yang Zhai didn't know how many rays Tai Qi had left. Cornering a rank 5 cultivator without many cultivation methods was not a wise move.
A cornered animal is the most dangerous. He might be holding onto something for the last-ditch effort. So, it's best if I leave when I have the chance. Only if I had an ire for defense, I definitely wouldn't leave a dangerous man like him alive. Not to mention that I am also too injured to endure any of his attacks now: Yang Zhai was contemplating while running.
Yang Zhai's left palm had a small, one-inch chunk of flesh missing, and his clothes were completely torn. The veins in his arms were also torn from the pain of advancing to rank 4. His body bore injuries from the attacks of rank 3 cultivators, as well as from Tai Qi and Wan Liu's scrapes. The use of top-tier techniques had taken a heavy toll, leaving black and purplish marks on his body.
Yang Zhai could see clearly this night, so he didn't have any difficulties while running. He made sure to avoid any kind of beast, even if it was a rank 1.
The Last One and Jun Haru followed him silently.
Right now, they have only one purpose: get out of here and reach their planned destination as soon as possible.
Yang Zhai went deeper into the forest even though it was extremely dangerous. The deeper he went, the more dangerous beasts he would encounter.
On the outskirts of the forest lived cultivators; thus, beasts avoided them, and humans avoided beasts. This was a natural division.
Yang Zhai was running when his mind went black for less the a mere second. As fast as someone blinks.
He came to a stop. He looked around and saw nobody. He orders Jun Haru and The Last One to look around while he himself begins to dig a pit.
Tonight, he dug a pit as deep as thirty meters and left a small hole for air. After that, he entered the pit with Jun Nie and The Last One before closing the entrance shut.
He looked at his hands and his body.
"What happened to me? Why… did I go and kill the rank 3 cultivators myself?!" Yang Zhai mutters.
I know that I did everything of my own accord. I killed them because I wanted to. Every thought was made by myself. Every action was decided by me. Nothing out of my mind appeared that I didn't think of. However, I originally didn't want to massacre the rank 3 cultivators, nor did I plan to attack Tai Qi like I did. What's happening to me: Yang Zhai thought.
Even though he did everything according to the plan he had made, the process he chose for accomplishing his plan was slightly different. He originally didn't plan to kill the rank 3 cultivators but had something else in mind. However, he started a massacre.
He wasted more than a fourth of his rays there.
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