Liang Yi, hiding in the grass, held his breath and looked towards the direction the noise came from.
"Stop right there! Where have you taken my senior brother?" A woman's voice, full of anger, sounded.
"You still have the time to chase after me? I lured a Wind Cloud Leopard to your senior brother a while ago, by now he's probably become that beast's excrement! Ahahaha!" An old and bizarre voice replied.
"You! Courting death!"
"Boom!"
An explosion sounded, and the intense vibrations nearly caused Liang Yi to reveal himself.
"Wind Cloud Leopard? Could it be the one that I killed? What a coincidence?" Liang Yi was somewhat puzzled.
He shifted his gaze not far off, where a figure fully cloaked in a black robe had been slashed to the ground by a graceful silhouette.
"Cough cough, truly worthy of being Chen Hua's disciple, so strong at such a young age." The man in the black robe seemed seriously injured, constantly coughing up blood.
"If I can't find my senior brother today, I'll make sure you live a life worse than death!" The silhouette, with her back towards Liang Yi, pointed her sword at the man in the black robe.
"Fairy Su, why bother chasing me relentlessly? I'm just a minor character. If you had spent the time used to chase after me looking for your senior brother, perhaps you would have found him by now." The man in the black robe advised; he never expected this girl to be so tenacious, clinging to him and not letting go, and at such a young age, she had already reached Level 8 in refining the heart, unable to be defeated by him.
Upon hearing this news, Su Youyi closed her eyes in pain. When she opened them again, there was a calmness as if her heart had been extinguished.
"If I let you go, I might not be able to find my senior brother. But by eliminating you and your backing forces, I can surely avenge my senior brother." It wasn't that she wasn't angry, but she knew that she couldn't hope to find her senior brother at this point, and only wished to capture this person before her to extract the backing forces, and report directly to her master to annihilate the opposition completely, to avenge her senior brother.
Thinking of her senior brother, who wasn't much older than her and whom she had admired since childhood, now no longer of this world, Su Youyi's rage almost became uncontrollable.
She directly raised her sword and charged at the person before her.
Watching the two of them entangled in battle, with Liang Yi's discerning eye, he estimated that the girl whose back was visible was probably close to Level 40, while the sneaky looking man in the black robe appeared just over Level 30.
"If it wasn't for the girl's mercy, trying to capture him alive, it would only take three moves to kill the man in the black robe," Liang Yi judged.
The man in the black robe also felt that the only reason he was alive was because of her mercy, but he neither wanted to be captured nor to die. Being captured would mean once he considered revealing the information of his sect, the prohibitions within his body would trigger, destroying his Sea of Consciousness and turning him completely into an idiot.
"To escape from this wretched woman, I have to pay a price," the man in the black robe gritted his teeth, no longer hesitating. Whether he could escape or not depended on this move.
He viciously forced Su Youyi back with a push from his palm, and the man in the black robe directly spat out a mass of black air, enveloping his entire body.
This wasn't a turn-based game; naturally, Su Youyi wouldn't stand still waiting for him to finish his move.
But she had never seen this black fog before, and to be safe, she swung out a powerful Sword Qi at the black air.
Oddly enough, even though the man in the black robe was enveloped by the black air, when the Sword Qi sliced the black air in two, the man inside was nowhere to be seen.
"Hahaha, don't waste your energy. This black fog cannot be damaged by you, and of course, you can't hurt me inside it either." The black air that had been sliced in half merged back together, and the smug taunting laugh of the man in the black robe came from within.
Su Youyi switched to a few other attack methods, but all were futile against the black fog, angering her until her little face turned red.
"Fairy Su, there will be a time when we meet again on different paths. I remember today's injury, and I will seek lessons again another day. I'm off! Hahahaha!" The arrogant and proud laugh echoed from the black fog.
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Immediately, the group of black fog flew swiftly towards the outside of the battlefield.
"Great Dark Escape Technique?" Liang Yi, who was hiding and observing the situation, wore a strange expression. This thing hasn't become extinct yet?
The man in the black robe was right; Su Fairy wouldn't be able to deal any damage to this group of black fog. Because the most awesome and shitty thing about this Escape Skill is that it cannot be intercepted by attacks containing Spiritual Power.
In the past, no one knew from which NPC a bunch of players learned this Escape Technique, but it certainly caused quite a stir.
No matter who they fought against, if they were losing, they'd just exhale, turn around and run, and players could even curse and taunt others like crazy while in the black fog to mess with their Mental State.
There were even those completely insane players who, risking their own lives, wouldn't run after using the Escape Technique but just circle around the opponent, spouting insults from the black fog, which was truly disgusting.
Even Liang Yi, who took on a bounty, was helpless against a target who used this kind of Escape Technique and could only jot down their names in his little notebook under the target's furious cursing, waiting for a later reckoning.
Under such circumstances, only one type of person remained unaffected: the legendary hunters from Zaun.
Players inside the black fog not only couldn't out-talk them but also ran into Zaunites whose taunts could break their Mental State, leading them to delete their accounts.
Of course, if the Zaunites also used this kind of Escape Technique, Liang Yi would suggest just logging off directly.
The reason the commotion eventually settled was also very dramatic: the method to counter the Escape Technique was discovered. The solution was incredibly simple and effective, and it even changed players' buying habits for a while.
A player who was using the Great Dark Escape Technique was messing with a girl's Mental State, and out of anger, she abandoned all Skills, took out a wooden stick from her bag, and started swinging wildly at the black fog. The fog was directly dispersed, and the player was exposed, with predictable results.
Everyone had an epiphany; this cloud of black fog could block any attack with Spiritual Power, but it couldn't block pure physical hits.
Thus, every player in the game would purchase a wooden stick to keep in their bag just in case, and that group of players were killed off and deleted their accounts, many of which were taken care of by the handsome and kind-hearted Liang Yi.
Under such circumstances, no one used the Great Dark Escape Technique anymore.
Now, seeing this Escape Technique, Liang Yi felt it was quite rare, after all, it was very old.
But what caused his expression to become strange was the path the black fog took as it rushed out dodging tree branches to escape—it happened to pass right where Liang Yi was. And coincidentally, Liang Yi had an incredibly hard ordinary rolling pin in his hand.
Once he broke through the Escape Technique, the backlash of the technique would reveal itself.
"Ah, the loneliness of being a Heavenly Destiny king!"
The man in the black robe was focusing intently on what was behind him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Su Youyi didn't chase after him; he couldn't help feeling smug: Although the Escape Technique had a high price, being able to escape from the disciple of Banished Immortal Chen Hua was worth it.
The man in the black robe leisurely dodged through the trees in the forest, making his escape into the distance.
Could it be a misperception due to his severe injuries that the grass seemed to have moved up ahead?
"Impossible, when carrying out the plan, I was told there are only beast monsters in this area, no humans. It might be a rabbit," thought the man in the black robe secretly.
But just as he thought about floating a bit higher to bypass the bush, someone he couldn't even imagine came crawling out holding a rolling pin-shaped wooden stick.
"Surprise, motherfucker!"
Liang Yi exclaimed in words that the man in the black robe couldn't understand, and with a standard home run pose, he struck the black fog.
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