Gore stepped forward, and the ground shook beneath him.
His rock-like fists clenched with cracking sounds.
His massive body turned into a gray cannonball, carrying terrifying force as he charged straight at Long Xuanye.
But just as his heavy fist was about to fall—
A soft sigh sounded in the field.
A white-robed figure appeared in front of Long Xuanye at some unknown time.
He casually raised a hand and easily blocked Rock Demon Gore’s mountain-splitting punch.
Boom!
A wave of air exploded, sending dust flying everywhere.
The white-robed man did not move at all.
Rock Demon Gore, however, was shaken back several steps.
The white-robed man ignored the shocked Gore and turned around, looking at the staggering boy behind him.
His voice was steady.
“You should understand now.”
“With only the two of you, there is no way for you to live together peacefully.”
“You are too weak.
So weak that even the slightest disturbance could send you into eternal ruin.”
He paused, then continued, “I can help you deal with this fifth-rank Rock Demon.
But after that, you must separate from Cai’er.”
Long Xuanye did not speak.
He only looked silently at the man before him.
Then he reached out and pushed away the arm protecting him.
Little by little.
Firmly.
The white-robed man fell silent.
Why go this far?
In that brief moment of hesitation, Rock Demon Gore seized the chance.
“Die, human!”
He roared, his fists smashing down like a storm.
Every punch carried the power of the earth.
Kill this human genius!
Even if he died…
It would still be worth it!
Long Xuanye’s pupils shrank.
He reversed his grip on his blade and blocked.
Clang!
A terrifying force struck him.
The short blade in his hand was almost knocked away, and his entire body was blasted backward, crashing heavily into the wall of the thatched hut.
“Puh—”
The gap in strength was too great.
Gore’s attacks came one after another, giving him no chance to breathe, let alone activate Primordial Chaos Opening.
He could only rely on battle instinct, rolling and dodging in a miserable state, barely holding on.
Every block made his bones groan under the strain.
The white-robed man stood to the side, frowning tightly as he watched.
Several times, he raised his hand.
Several times, he lowered it again.
Just as Long Xuanye was swept by a punch and sent flying like a kite with its string cut, about to be finished by Gore’s next blow—
The white-robed man finally made up his mind and prepared to act.
But at that moment—
“Xuanye!”
An anxious yet clear shout came from the direction of the forest path.
A gray afterimage rushed into the battlefield at a speed almost impossible to catch with the naked eye.
It was Cai’er.
A faint halo of Samsara surrounded her body.
Her gray-white eyes were hollow.
Yet killing intent emerged within them.
Almost at the same time she appeared, Long Xuanye, who was already extremely weak and whose consciousness had begun to blur, made the most perfect response through the muscle memory formed from their previous cooperation.
He forced his body to roll to the side, opening the best attack path for Cai’er.
No words were needed.
No eye contact was needed.
Sheng Cai’er’s figure approached Rock Demon Gore like a ghost.
The gray dagger in her hand, the primal form of the Samsara Holy Sword, lightly swept across him.
Where the dagger passed, Gore’s proud rock defense melted away silently like words erased by an eraser, exposing a fatal opening.
Now!
A final light suddenly erupted in Long Xuanye’s black eyes.
He poured the last trace of spiritual power inside his body, along with his overdrawn life force, into the Chaos Spiritual Stove.
“Primordial Chaos Opening!”
An extremely condensed force of chaos gathered in his right hand.
Following the opening torn apart by the Samsara Holy Sword, he slammed it inside.
“Urgh…”
Rock Demon Gore’s massive body suddenly stiffened.
He lowered his head and looked at the hand pressed against his chest.
In the next second, with that hand as the center, black cracks began spreading wildly across his rock-like body.
The power of chaos completely erupted inside him.
It drained his spiritual power, turned it into countless sharp blades, and pierced through him.
Boom!
The fifth-rank Rock Demon Gore turned into countless pieces of shattered stone and rained down.
The world before Long Xuanye’s eyes began to spin.
Only a buzzing remained in his ears.
His last trace of strength, along with the last trace of light, was completely swallowed by darkness. The source of this chapter is g.com.
His body went soft and fell forward.
A pair of slender but strong arms caught him steadily.
It was Cai’er.
She held him tightly in her arms.
On her usually calm little face, there was panic and heartache.
“Xuanye…”
The boy could no longer hear her.
He had completely fallen into a half-unconscious state.
Only the faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still alive.
At this moment, two figures flashed out from the forest and landed beside the white-robed man.
They were the two assassins who had followed Sheng Cai’er earlier.
One of them was just about to speak, but his expression suddenly changed as he looked toward the distant forest.
Several demon auras were rapidly surrounding them from all directions.
“Trouble,” one assassin said in a low voice.
The white-robed man guarding Cai’er, who was also their companion, only sighed helplessly.
He raised his hand and casually waved through the air toward the direction where those auras were rushing from.
In the distant forest, several running figures suddenly froze.
Then they silently turned into ash.
Instant kill.
After doing all of that, he turned back and looked at the boy and girl holding each other, then shook his head.
“Why did you two have to do this?”
“Even if you can deal with this fifth-rank Rock Demon…”
Another assassin continued, his voice carrying a trace of regret.
“You still cannot deal with stronger enemies.
You should know, there is still a sixth-rank demon watching you.”
The moment he said that, the white-robed man guarding Cai’er’s mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.
A sixth-rank demon?
Long before he came to look for Cai’er, that sixth-rank demon, along with all the surrounding demon squads searching the area, had already been silently dealt with by him.
His original intention had only been to use the pressure from this fifth-rank Rock Demon to force these two children to recognize reality and make Cai’er obediently return with him.
He would never have truly let anything happen to them.
But now, it seemed the result was about the same.
After experiencing this life-and-death battle, they should finally understand what a true desperate situation was.
The white-robed man stepped forward, took a jade bottle from his robes, and poured out a pill that released a fresh fragrance.
He crouched down and prepared to feed it to Long Xuanye.
This time, Sheng Cai’er did not stop him.
She only held the boy in her arms and quietly looked at him.
In her gray-white eyes, Long Xuanye’s figure was reflected.
The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth.
Gentle medicinal power quickly spread through Long Xuanye’s limbs and bones, repairing his damaged meridians and internal organs.
The boy’s tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.