Chapter 156: Desperate Resistance

  The sky, the first ray of dawn broke through the dark night, heralding the start of a new day. However, Hu Gao did not see his own dawn, if it weren't for the pride of being a traverser in his bones, he would have knelt down by now.

  "Not planning on running anymore?" Lang Tien saw the scattered fear that Hu Gao was desperately trying to hide in his eyes, and he sneered, revealing his bloodstained sharp teeth.

  Only an idiot wouldn't run!

  Hu Gao didn't shout out the sentence directly, a cat with a gaming mentality might still give a mouse that's already in its grasp another chance, but if it angers the cat, all that awaits the mouse is being bitten to death.

  Hu Gao suddenly looked towards Lang Huan's back, his expression gradually changing from doubt to surprise.

  "Think you can lure me back? Child's play." Lang Zhong sneered with a smile.

  "Look! A UFO!" Hu Gao shouted loudly.

  Although Lang Zhong did not respond, he still asked subconsciously: "Oil? What oil Ah Fu... Oil Ah Fu..."

  Before he could finish speaking, Lang Zheng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right ankle, and his body lost balance, leaning forward. If not for him supporting himself with his arm on the ground, he would have fallen flat on his face. The pain of his fractured ankle quickly spread throughout his body, causing Lang Zheng's expression to twist slightly.

  With a successful hit, Hu Gao didn't even look back and took off running. Now wasn't the time to admire his handiwork, who knew if this man-eating creature had any quick healing methods, if it did, staying here would be suicidal.

  Hú Gāo pushed his speed to the limit while secretly rejoicing that he had already achieved perfect control over his strength. If he couldn't achieve perfect control over his strength, he wouldn't be able to gather the "Blood Light Assassination" power, which was originally aimed at the five internal organs, and redirect it to attack Lang Xuan's ankle, which wasn't protected by soft armor.

  The power of Bloodlight Assassination is intangible, but it cannot ignore physical defenses like Bloodlight Strike. Rather than attempting a nearly impossible fatal attack, it's better to redirect the energy towards destructive actions that disrupt the enemy's momentum. For Hu Gao, being able to escape is already a victory!

  "A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late! A good man does not suffer losses in front of his eyes!" Hu Gao comforted himself.

  Lying on the ground, Lang Zheng saw Hu Gao's distant back, his face no longer had a playful expression, and his eyes were dyed bright red with angry bloodshot!

  "You scoundrel! How dare you tease me!"

  Enduring the pain in his right ankle, he supported his body with only the strength of his left leg. Though standing on one foot, there was not a single wobble. Drawing his bow to its fullest extent, the blue spiritual energy arrows gathered all of Lang Zhong's anger and shot out! Vowing to take Hu Gao's life!

  Long-prepared Hu Gao heard the sharp, piercing sound behind him. The Blood Snake Diagram that had been condensed within his body suddenly burst out from the position of his heart towards the back!

  The blood light snake and blue arrow collided, didn't even last for a breath of time, before shattering into blood light dots, dispersing without a trace.

  This was the first time Hu Gao's Totem had been broken, and before he could even feel the backlash of his Totem, an even stronger and more lethal force had already coursed through his body! The blue arrow that still retained its momentum dragged Hu Gao's body forward for over a hundred meters, leaving behind a trail of blood in mid-air that was shocking to behold.

  "Wow..."

  Hu Gao felt that this mouthful of blood almost made him vomit out his five internal organs, his face was deathly pale and frightening.

  "It's okay, it's okay..." Hu Gao struggled to continue running forward. The impact of the Blood Light Snake Totem had not been able to stop the blue arrow from advancing, but it had made its aim slightly deviate by a little bit. What was originally supposed to be a fatal shot now only left him severely injured.

  Hú Gāo allowed the Blood Light Snake Talisman to burst forth from his heart and shoot backwards, because he was certain that Láng Zhēng's arrow would be heading straight for his heart. From the start, Hú Gāo had planned to use the Blood Light Snake Talisman to slightly deflect the direction of the arrow by two inches, turning a fatal wound into a severe injury.

  The blue arrow remained stuck in Hu Gao's chest, and the poisonous blood groove made Hu Gao quickly lose a lot of blood even if he didn't pull out the arrow.

  "Bang!"

  Hú Gāo used his right thumb and index finger to press down on the arrowhead in front of his chest, using all his might to snap the arrowhead off. Then with a slap of his palm, he knocked the arrow shaft out from inside his body. The penetrating wound left by the arrow's departure caused Hú Gāo to lose a large amount of blood in a short time, and his spirit began to become dizzy.

  "Damn it!" Hu Gaoyi's footsteps didn't stop as he desperately poured his spiritual energy into the mysterious jade pendant.

  This was the first time Hu Gao actively sent his spiritual power into the mysterious jade pendant. With Hu Gao's spiritual power infusion, a faint white light flashed on the mysterious jade pendant, and its healing ability was amplified by hundreds or even thousands of times. In an instant, his severely injured body had already recovered 99%.

  The reason why some injuries have not recovered is not because they cannot be cured, but because Hu Gao deliberately stopped them.

  Huguo, who had consumed most of his spiritual energy and lost a lot of blood, was extremely exhausted and could collapse at any moment. In order to maintain the last bit of clarity, Huguo deliberately left some wounds, using the pain to stimulate his dizzy brain.

  Watching the distant Hu Gao rolling and crawling but not stopping, Lang Xiang's angry fire almost turned into substance. However, Hu Gao had already left his bow and arrow shooting range, and he could only stare at Hu Gao's back blankly.

  "Sly fox... go ahead and run! I'll see how far you can run! Just wait a little while, just wait a little while and I'll catch up to you! Then I'll swallow you whole in one gulp!"

  Liang Zhen smiled and squatted down, his left leg kneeling on the ground, his right hand's fingertips shining with a layer of light like fireflies, lightly touching the shattered ankle of his right foot. The firefly light penetrated into the ankle, and the shattered and deformed ankle bone began to slowly recover in silence under the help of this power...

  When Hu Gao ran out of Ning City with his heavily injured body, and reached the edge of the dense forest outside the city, the sky had already been illuminated by the rising sun. Hu Gao leaned against a giant tree trunk as thick as three people's arms could reach around, taking big gulps of the fresh air in the forest.

  "It's probably safe now... I intentionally changed direction halfway, even if his foot injury recovers, he should not be able to find my location..." Hu Gao muttered uncertainly.

  Hú Gāo's uncertainty only lasted for about three breaths, when a thunderous roar in the sky shattered Hú Gāo's beautiful dream.

  "You dare to play with me, you scoundrel! Just wait and see, I'll devour you!"

  Hearing the sound, Hu Gao leaned against the tree trunk and turned his head around, only to see a black dot rising from afar in Ning City, flying straight towards him.

  "Woah, what the...?! That guy's got a dog nose or something?! How did he find me?!" Without even getting a chance to rest properly, Hu Gao didn't dare stay any longer and hastily stood up, dashing head-first into the dense forest. Hu Gao understood that only by relying on this dense thicket of trees would he have a thread of hope for survival.

  ……

  In another direction, Yun Feng carried the unconscious Hu Wu Shuang who had been shot by a poisoned arrow and was surrounded by Lang Zhong's two subordinates and more than twenty people from the Wei family on the barren plain north of the city.

  To ensure that nothing went wrong, Lang Zhong's two subordinates did not immediately chase and kill Yun Feng after receiving the order. Instead, one of them chased after him while the other mobilized more men from the Wei family to surround and intercept him from multiple directions. The overwhelming numerical advantage allowed them to do so, making it impossible for Yun Feng to escape despite his agility and quick thinking.

  Yun Feng, surrounded in the center, showed no signs of panic or fear. The sleeves on his hands had already been torn off and used to tie down Hu Wu Shuang's back. His right arm bulged with veins, tightly gripping the Xing Yu sword that had accompanied him for many years. A pair of blue eagle wing silhouettes were attached to his right arm, proof that the power of his totem, the sixth-order Blue Feathered Flying Eagle, was fully imbued!

  "Now you have no way to escape, do you still want to resist stubbornly?" The leader of the Wei family said with a smile, "I know you are not from Ning City, you don't need to get involved in this muddy water, put down your sword and let go of Hu Wushuang, we can spare your life."

  "Sorry! I, Yun Feng, do not wish to be despised as a coward and untrustworthy for the rest of my life! Your kindness, I, Yun Feng, cannot accept." Yun Feng's eyes were cold, his feet slightly turned, ready to face any enemy that might come from any angle.

  "Hey kid! Don't toast without drinking, you'll be punished with a penalty drink."

  "Have you been to Rain City?"

  "Rain City?" The leader of the Wei family didn't know why Yunfeng suddenly brought up something else, and subconsciously followed Yunfeng's question to answer, "No."

  Yun Feng stared at the leader of the Wei family, speaking in a tone as if chatting with friends, unhurried and continued: "In Rain City, there is a Wu Xu Sword Pavilion. Inside the pavilion, there are three large characters. The first one says 'Those who are weak and timid are not worthy of practicing swordsmanship'; the second one says 'Those who betray their promises and abandon righteousness are not worthy of practicing swordsmanship'; the third one says 'Those who humble themselves and yield are not worthy of practicing swordsmanship'! That place... is my home..."

  The leader of the Wei family finally understood Yunfeng's meaning and was furious: "You little brat are looking for death!"

  Compared with the Wei family's people, Lang Zhong's two subordinates had a much colder attitude.

  "The master wants this woman, as for this man... kill him!"

  As soon as the two men's voices fell, they flung out several flying darts with a flick of their wrists, producing a sharp whistling sound that pierced through the air!

  At the same time as the two men's movements, Yun Feng's eyes suddenly flashed a blue light, and his right hand, holding the Apricot Rain Sword, accurately and quickly deflected several flying darts, taking a small step back.

  Blue Winged Eagle is not a purely combat-type totem, its main function is to enhance the power of its master. Just like now, what it enhances is not only the speed of eagle wings, but also the sharpness of eagle eyes!

  Rubbing his slightly numb arm, Yun Feng secretly felt a chill: "Just a hidden weapon has such great power... it seems that both of them are in the middle stage of Tong Ti Jing... and adding to that the Wei family's group of low-stage Tong Ti Jing and high-stage Ning Ying Jing... Hu Gao, you've really given me a big headache. Once this is over, if you don't compensate me properly, I'll never let you off!"

  Yun Feng's ability to block the hidden weapon attack was clearly beyond the expectations of the two men. After a brief moment of stunned silence, one of them waved his hand and the Wei family members suddenly launched a fierce attack!

  "I have the dynamic cloud sword technique of the Void Sword Pavilion, but there's no such thing as retreating!"

  Facing the siege of the crowd, Yunfeng did not retreat but advanced, his sword intent soaring into the sky! The whole person was like a sharp sword out of its scabbard, charging forward without hesitation into the crowd of the Wei family!