Coiling Dragon

by welyjesch

  “Hey, Aches, hurry up and go closer and let us take a look?” Immediately, everyone began to urge him.

  In the Infernal Realm, everyone worshipped strong experts. Someone who dared to stand in the middle of a Fogsea Storm and actually draw lightning bolts down upon himself was definitely someone worthy of adoration. Aches said magnanimously, “Fine, I’ll immediately direct the metallic lifeform over. However…at most, we’ll draw within one kilometer. Any closer, and we’ll probably irritate that lord.”

  As he spoke, the metallic lifeform headed closer towards that location.

  One kilometer’s distance, for Deities, was extremely close. Deities could clearly see an ant at that distance.

  Currently, bolts of thunder that seemed as thick as a hundred lightning bolts combined were constantly crashing down upon that person in the sea. That person was thin, but he stood there, ramrod straight. His pitch black long hair fell to his shoulders, and it casually fluttered in the wind.

  Linley could clearly tell that this person was carrying a warblade, and his head was raised as he stared towards the lightning.

  “Crackle…”

  Countless bolts of lightning crashed viciously upon his forehead, and then crackled across his entire body. However, the man just stood there unmoving like a mountain. Occasionally, his eyes would emit two rays of cold, netherworldly scarlet lightning which would crash into the fogs up above, causing the lightning descending from the fog to grow even stronger.

  “So powerful!” Linley’s heart clenched.

  The power of the crashing lightning caused even space itself to shudder, but that person was completely unharmed.

  Everyone in the metallic lifeform was holding their breaths. An expert like this was too frightening.

  “Firing lightning from his eyes?” Linley began to understand. This person should be a person who trained in the Laws of Lightning.

  “He should be someone who trains in the Laws of Lightning.” The calm Olivier spoke out.

  The others were all startled into wakefulness, and the big-bearded Bates nodded as well. “Lightning, after crashing down, would normally dissipate, but this person is constantly attacking the sea of fogs, drawing down ‘punishment’ from the sea of fogs time and time again…but as far as I can tell, he seems to be enjoying the punishment.”

  “He is training.” The bald youth, Boff, said.

  Everyone nodded.

  For someone who trained in the Laws of Lightning to come personally experience the powerful lightning bolts of a Fogsea Storm was indeed an excellent training method. However, this sort of training method was generally only doable by a powerful expert.

  “Let’s go.” The employer, Aches, laughed hurriedly. “All we are doing is watching him as he stands there. If his lordship finishes his training and sees us here, if he is angry, we’ll all be in trouble.” As he spoke, Aches ordered his metallic lifeform to leave.

  Everyone began to laugh.

  Experts had their own pride. Unless there was some sort of special situation, they would rarely vent their anger on weaker people.

  The light of the Blood Sun slightly penetrated the thin fog, shining downwards. The waves billowed, and the metallic lifeform rode the wind, breaking through the waves and advancing.

  Linley and Delia were seated at the head of the ship.

  “It’s been two years since we’ve entered the sea. In the sea, there are far fewer bandits than on the continents.” Linley sighed. “On the Redbud Continent, every so often, we’ll run into bandit teams. In the Starmist Sea, however, we’ll only run into them once every two months.”

  Delia nodded.

  And then, Delia laughed. “Linley, you really are such a jinx. Whatever you mention ends up happening.”

  “What?” Linley turned to look as well.

  Indeed, in the distance, beneath the waters of the sea, there were figures floating. At the same time, an enormous, fierce green python that would require three or four men to wrap their arms around it broke out of the surface of the sea. It was at least a hundred meters along. This giant python, comparable to the size of a massive dragon, came smashing towards the metallic lifeform, which immediately halted.

  Linley couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head. With a flip of his hand…

  “Roaaaar!” A ten meter high earthen yellow bear appeared out of nowhere. The great bear grabbed that green python, bellowing as it ripped the python into two pieces.

  Actually, the only reason why the opponents had created this elemental construct was to make the metallic lifeform come to a halt.

  “Heh heh, I didn’t expect us to encounter bandits. The Starmist Sea is incredibly boring. Finally, something interesting has come.” Laughter rang out from within the metallic lifeform as quite a few Fiends came running out.

  An entire group of Fiends were outside the metallic lifeform.

  Right at this moment, a hundred figures were hovering in front of the metallic lifeform. Only, they immediately noticed Delia.

  “A Highgod Fiend?” The hundred bandits immediately felt that the situation had become thorny.

  “Hey, why are you afraid? Are you afraid just because you saw we have two Highgod Fiends?” The big-bearded Bates was the type of person who only feared the world was too orderly, and thus he called loudly.

  Linley’s group of four was very relaxed. These hundred plus figures didn’t have a single Highgod amongst them. They posed no threat at all.

  “Disperse.” The leader, a balding man with fish scales on his forehead growled.

  Right at this moment…

  Linley and quite a few others could sense a terrifying power, and they immediately turned to look. Only, Linley’s group only saw a bolt of lightning crash down from the heavens, surrounding a person. Linley found out, to his amazement, “It is him!” It was the expert whom they had encountered a year ago, who had taken on the lightning bolts of the Fogsea Storm head on.

  At the same instant this figure descended, his right fist smashed down hard from the air.

  “Bang!”

  The fist smashed into the empty air, but a terrifying explosive sound rang out, while at the same time, with the fist at the center, circles of ripples spread out, forming curved lines which twisted, passing by Linley’s group and striking that group of bandits who had wanted to flee.

  Silently…

  All of the bandits who were struck trembled, and then fell down and slowly sank into the water.

  With one attack, over a hundred bandits had all died!

  Aches, Bates, and the others all stared, slack-jawed. Linley had seen Elquin, Bluefire, the juvenile amethyst beast, and other powerful experts, and so he had quite a bit more experience than them. Naturally, he wasn’t too shocked. Only, Linley was puzzled. “In the Infernal Realm, there are an uncountable number of bandits. Generally speaking, experts can’t be bothered to deal with them. But this person…why?”

  This was indeed puzzling.

  At the same time, Linley took a careful look at this person, who was now close to them. His face seemed to have been sculpted by a carving knife, and his gaze was as fierce as a blade. He himself gave off a baleful, sharp aura, and every single strand of hair seemed like a thin strand of steel. As they fluttered in the wind, they actually carried a strange sound with them.

  The man lowered his head, glancing down at the sinking corpses of the bandits, sneering coldly. “Bandits and thieves all deserve death!”

  After speaking, the man moved, once more flying into the fog above and moving at high speed through the fog. Everyone who entered the fog would suffer the attack of lightning bolts, and so wherever this figure passed, countless lightning bolts flashed.

  “His speed is so fast. He is so powerful.” Olivier said softly.

  The group of Fiends came to their senses moments later.

  “Ahhh! All those bandit corpses are sinking. So many divine sparks and interspatial rings!” The big-bearded Bates immediately howled in grief, and all th
e other Fiends only now realized this as well. However, all of the corpses had sunk down long ago.

  There were quite a few people living at the bottom of the seas as well. To Deities, being in the water or on the land didn’t make much of a difference.

  The Fiends immediately began to regret it.

  “Haha, if they’re gone, then forget about them. Look at all of you. Haha, let’s head off.” Aches laughed. “The sea region up ahead has an extremely powerful bandit force. They live there, on Knifeblade Island. Let’s make sure we take a roundabout path away from that damn place.”

  As he spoke, Aches once more took control over the metallic lifeform, which headed out at high speed!

  Right now, though, Linley was still thinking about that man’s appearance. “This expert who trains in the Laws of Lightning should have the power of a Seven Star Fiend.” Linley calculated silently.

  Book 16, Starmist Sea– Chapter 6, Knifeblade Island

  Knifeblade Island. Its circumference was nearly ten thousand kilometers. On the island, a single mountain peak stood by itself, appearing like the blade of a knife rising into the heavens. Thus, this island was named Knifeblade Island.

  Knifeblade Island was the lair of an extremely powerful group of bandits. Everyone passing through the Starmist Sea would actively move away from it. But despite that…the forces of Knifeblade Island were spread out and on the prowl. Upon finding a target, they would immediately lead a group of people to attack in unison.

  “Rumble…” The waters of the ocean bellowed as they struck upon the beaches of the island.

  A bolt of lightning crashed down. After the electric sparks dissipated, a person appeared standing at the beach. It was the grim looking man who carried the warblade.

  The grim eyes of the man came to a rest on the distant, eye-catching mountain peak. He murmured, “Knifeblade Island. This is the second place!” And then, the man strode forward, his body flashing with each step which took him hundreds of meters as he instantly entered the depths of the island.

  The mountain peak had a large number of bandits living there.

  This grim looking man was dressed in a long black robe, and he strode forward boldly, seeming to not care at all about the power of these bandits.

  “Who is it!” Within the mountain forests, someone shouted loudly.

  A very large number of bandits lived here at Knifeblade Island. Naturally, people would discover this black haired man, but the black haired man didn’t even look at the person who had shouted, continuing to move hundreds of meters with each step.

  The bandit’s face changed, and he immediately shouted loudly, “Someone is invading the mountain!”

  “Someone is invading the mountain!”

  That ringing roar filled the entire mount peak. The bandits who had been resting or training were all startled awake, and the entire Knifeblade Island became a hubbub of activity. Immediately, quite a few pirates began to move towards the sound. Naturally, some of them would run into the black haired man.

  But the black haired man still didn’t care at all, continuing to move forward.

  “Over there!” Immediately, people discovered him.

  “Halt!” Others shouted.

  But the black haired man still travelled hundreds of meters per step, constantly moving towards the mountain peak.

  “Kill!” Not hesitating at all, the many bandits gathered in the surrounding areas all immediately bellowed, brandishing their cruel, merciless weapons. Flashes of fiery red light, earthen yellow light…all sorts of elemental Law based attacks began.

  The black haired man’s facial expression didn’t change at all.

  “Crackle…”

  A strange sound rang out. The black haired man’s speed didn’t slow down at all, moving a thousand meters in three steps.

  “Hey? How come this person isn’t reacting at all?” Quite a few bandits didn’t understand at all.

  “BANG!”

  Very suddenly, thirty bandits suddenly exploded, their flesh and blood splattering everywhere and their divine sparks landing to one side. The lucky survivors were so terrified, their faces turned white. Only now did they realize that the person had attacked just now.

  Only, the speed was too fast. They hadn’t seen it at all.

  The Elemental Laws of the Wind, Lightning, and Light were all very suited for speed. How fast someone would be depended on their accomplishments.

  But to reach a level of speed where not even these Gods could sense anything at all was simply terrifying.

  From the base of the mountain to the gates of that castle within Knifeblade Island, he only took, in total, twenty eight steps. He killed six hundred and twenty eight people. Given the amount of chaos he was creating, the three leaders of Knifeblade Island naturally came out as well, and the elites of Knifeblade Island were currently all on the walls of the castle.

  Knifeblade Island had in total three leaders, a hundred Highgods, and over ten thousand Gods. In the society of bandits, they could be considered a supersized power.

  At this moment, those hundred Highgods were all surrounding the three leaders. They were on top of the walls of the castle, staring down at the black haired man.

  “Who are you, that you have come here to wantonly commit slaughter here?” A grim silver haired man said in an icy voice. He was the chief leader of Knifeblade Island, ‘Acketts’ (A’ke’ci), and was also the number one expert of the entire Knifeblade Island. Acketts could already tell that the black haired man was not easy to deal with.

  “Why has this person come to make trouble for us bandits?” Acketts didn’t understand.

  The ultimate experts of the Infernal Realm generally didn’t want to bother with bandits.

  The black haired man slowly raised his head. His face was pale, and his eyes stared at Acketts like daggers. “My name is Lomio Bornesen [Lu’miao Bo’er’nuo’sen]!”

  Acketts frowned. Lomio Bornesen?

  He hadn’t heard of this name before.

  The black haired man said calmly, “I heard that Mr. Acketts, the leader of Knifeblade Island, had already become a Six Star Fiend long ago. Today, I have two reasons for coming to Knifeblade Island. The first reason is to challenge you, Mr. Acketts!”

  Acketts couldn’t help but narrow his eyes as he weighed this Lomio with a viperous gaze.

  Him being a Six Star Fiend was back before he became a bandit. After so many years had passed, not many people knew whether or not he now had the power of a Seven Star Fiend. This was also the reason why nobody in Knifeblade Island dared to offend him. Nobody wanted to offend someone who was possibly a Seven Star Fiend.”

  “This person dares to challenge me. Then…he most likely is confident in being able to challenge a Seven Star Fiend!” Acketts was calculating mentally.

  Moments later…

  “Brothers, join forces and kill him!” Acketts instantly spread out his divine sense to the hundred Highgods nearby, including the other two leaders. The group of Highgods simultaneously drew out their weapons and immediately used their most powerful attacks.

  “Swoosh!”

  The black haired man instantly rose into the heavens.

  “Acketts, you truly disappoint me!” A cold voice rang out from the skies, while at the same time, countless bolts of lightning appeared, and countless electric serpents actually began to swirl about as though in a vortex. The eye-catching electric serpents radiated light, glowing on the faces of each person of the castle.

  Acketts and the others were all shocked.

  “Boss, this looks like a Fogsea Storm.” The second leader, ‘Dimon’ (Dai’man) said in alarm by Acketts’ side.

  Indeed, this was the scene of the Fogsea Storm, with countless lightning bolts appearing and circling about.

  “Boss, what should we do?” The third leader, ‘Nieles’ (Ni’li’si), was worried as well.

  Acketts face was sinister. He knew that once those countless lightning bolts snaked down, most likely ninety percent
or more of the hundred Highgods present would all be killed. These were the elites of Knifeblade Island. Acketts immediately shouted loudly, “Lomio, since you’ve challenged me, then come!”

  As he spoke, a pair of short, deep green awls appeared in his hands.

  “This is the saber attack I have just developed. If you can withstand this blade, I will spare your life!” The cold voice rang out from the heavens, where many lightning bolts snaked around in the vortex. Seeing this, Acketts only let out a cold snort, his entire body faintly beginning to gleam with a green light.

  At the same time, Acketts’ entire body began to turn bizarrely blurred as a fog enveloped his entire body.

  “So you have some ability.” The calm voice rang down from the vortex above.

  “Boom!”

  The vortex from the large amount of lightning bolts suddenly began to spin, and a large amount of lightning concentrated at one point. Instantly, from that point, a ray of fierce electric saber light blasted out, carrying boundless power as it ripped through the skies and chopped downwards.

  Acketts’ entire body was enveloped by that fog, and on the surface of the fog, a strange wind-wheel appeared, frantically spinning.

  “Crackle…” One crack after another was appearing in space.

  “The most powerful defense of the Boss.” The second leader, ‘Dimon’, and the third leader, ‘Nieles’, watched this from afar in nervousness. Their Boss trained in the Elemental Laws of Water. The defensive power of the Elemental Laws of Water was that it was both unyielding and soft, and could definitely be considered amongst the most powerful of defensive Laws.

  “Boom!”

  The lightning saber flashed, chopping down upon the foggy wind-wheel.

  “Bang!” The wind-wheel exploded, transforming into two deep green awls which fell to one side. The fog dissipated as well. The faint green light covering Acketts body swiveled like a protective membrane over Acketts. He wanted to flee, but the speed of that lightning saber was simply too fast, and it directly chopped onto his body.