The Ground was covered in red, the air was filled with blood stench, blood was flowing like a river, more than hundreds of demon beasts's corpses were scattered all over the ground, in the middle of the corpses, was a young man, painting. He was breathing heavily, his whole body wet with blood, drops of blood falling from his eyebrows opened sharp eyes and investigated his surroundings, holding the sword in hand, ready to swing any moment a gentle divine sense spread while merging with the environment, merging with heaven and earth, no one could feel it even a nascent soul expert couldn't, examing surrounding ten miles, investigating every inch of earth and sky. It was Lestes, he was suspicious about the demon beasts's attack, so he still stood vigilantly ready to defend himself from sneak attacks, in case, his suspicion proved to be true that some had loured demon Beasts here. For half an hour, there was no moment.
'Was I over cautious' Lestes had doubt still, but up to ten miles there were only a few weak demon beasts of early tier two. He examines again, but the result yields nothing 'Forget it, Let's recover spiritual qi'
Lestes sat down and glanced at the tents, the phenomena were weakening slowly, it was a sign that Ning Waner and others would come out of seclusion very soon. He started mediation to spiritual qi. He still didn't let down his guard, divine sense still spread to the full extent up to ten miles, and a part of his consciousness was still guarding his surroundings.
In this fight Lestes had spent all of his qi, he was completely tired, and he didn't have a bit of energy, was still holding because of his will to survive partially awoken. But this battle was not without benefit, he gained many things, his instincts, battlefield awareness, survival, etc. that had been sleeping were partially awoken, and his sword intent was in rudimentary form he would soon, be able to form a sword intent. For one hour there were still no moments. Lestes fully concentrated on recovering spiritual qi.
Sharp~
A sword stabbed Lestes back, Pearce out his chest, Lestes still meditating as if he could not feel the sword stabbing him, a strange scene appeared, Lestes was stabbed with a sword neither he was in pain nor blood spilt. The sword passed through his chest and stabbed the ground, Lestes faded, an after-image.
It was just an after-image, although it appeared that he Let down his guard he still had spread his gentle divine sense, that had merged with heaven and earth. And with his divine sense, he felt a silently approaching sword from afar. He activated his Lightning mirage dance and left that place.
'An afterimage' the one who attacked Lestes, a young man around twenty years old who had the cultivation of the seventh stage of the qi condensing realm, exclaimed with shock in his heart. He was a professional assassin, 'how did I miss? How could I not see his movement? When did he move?'
He was standing 100 meters away from Lestes, stealthily. He calmed down himself, He became cautious, retracted his gaze and became a statue but suddenly a chill rushed through his spine, and his body trembled in fear, he wanted to turn back and take a look but he couldn't rotate his head. Some had grabbed his neck from behind completely locking him.
"I have to say you are a professional assassin. Some had completed several missions. It was very hard to track you, You are patient. I waited for you to take action for a full two hours. Even I had run out of patience. Professional" Lestes said as he sealed Assissin's cultivation.
When Lestes gasped direction of the approaching sword, he already gasped at Assessian's position, first, He activated Lightning Mirage Dance Left Assessian's line of sight and then silently approached him, he didn't use Lightning Mirage Dance, the sound of Lightning discharge would sell him out. He had already recovered twenty per cent of his qi, enough to deal with a seventh stage of qi condensing stage cultivator. Assassin didn't have a chance to defend himself and was caught by Lestes.
Lestes through him on the ground and asked "Why don't you call your campainan for help? You see I have already lost my strength that I had recovered"
"I am alone, I am weak, I know, I can't defeat you so I loured demon beasts," Assessian said in his defence.
"I don't think to show, you see there are four tents and I am only out which means there are other three people inside the tent you might able to defeat or kill me after I am exhausted according to your plan but you won't able to fight other three alone," Lestes said.
"No! They would be exhausted after refining treasures, and it would be easy for me to take down them with my skills" the assassin said.
"Treasure?" Lestes was shocked. He suddenly comes to understanding why would put so much effort just to kill a stranger. He glanced at vertices above tents, what Assesian said was right, the phenomena was comparable to the refinement of a Xuan-level treasure weapon.
On the Martial continent, weapons were divided into four tiers namely, Huang, Xuan, Di and Tian, Huang Level weapons were suitable for the body refining realm and qi condensing realm cultivators and Xuan level were suitable for the late stage of qi condensing realm and foundation realm cultivators, Di tier for core formation realm and tian was for nascent soul cultivators.
Assassin's strength was the seventh stage of the Qi condensing realm, this make him suitable to use a Xuan-tier weapon. Lestes was not convinced by the assassin, he believed that the assassin was lying because to lour a large number of demon beasts, couldn't done by a single person in such a short period, but to give him false hope he made his face, look like he was total convenience. He didn't correct the assassin, for fear that his companions would be attacked on the formation and disturb Ning Waner and other's seclusion although the formation wouldn't be broken that easily, the commotion would disturb their focus and disrupt transformation.
Watching Lestes face the assassin signed in relief, he didn't sell out his companions. This didn't escape Lestes's eyes, but he pretended not to see.
Slaped~
Lestes slapped the assassin and said "Because of you I almost lost my life. Let me vent my frustration before I kill you"
With that, Lestes relentlessly slapped him several times, The assassin lay on the ground motionless, and both chicks had Lestes ' handprint. This was most humiliating for him, being slapped in the face.
"Because of you I almost lost my life. Get on your knees, beg for my forgiveness. I might kill you in one shot, but you better don't beg. This way I would have reason to torture you, after that even if you asked me to kill you I wouldn't do" Lestes wanted to humiliate him.
This was his plan, he knew that if his companions saw him being humiliated they wouldn't be able to hold and infuriated they would attack him.