Shan Xiuqi stood at the roadside hotel for a minute hesitating, before finally deciding to go and save Di Jiu. The most she could do was to be taken back to the Shan family, although to her, being taken back was almost as bad as taking her life, but if she didn’t go back, there would always be a thorn in her heart.
She cultivated the martial dao, not seeking to be like those peak powerhouses who could increase their life span by two or three hundred years after crossing the half-dan, but seeking to cultivate her own martial dao without any attachments.
Once there is a thorn in her heart, her martial dao path is terminated not to mention that her future days will not be happy.
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“That’s right, I’m Di Jiu.” As Di Jiu spoke, he had already walked to the middle of the hall.
“It looks like you have some backbone, in that case, let me, Shan Beihe, try and see if your mouth is as strong as your methods.” Shan Beihe naturally saw that Di Jiu had killed the Shan family members who had gone to arrest him before.
In his eyes, those guys who went to capture Di Jiu were just a bunch of dried rice eaters. They could only deal with people whose cultivation was far inferior to theirs, and those who were slightly stronger were helpless. He, Shan Beihe, could deal with an early earth level alone, those guys who went to capture Di Jiu, don’t look like they were of Xuan level cultivation, they were actually just a bunch of straw bags.
“Beihe back off, you’re no match for him.” Shan Youzhi stood up.
He saw more clearly than Shan Beihe, Shan sh*tang, who went to capture Di Jiu last night, must have died in Di Jiu’s hands. Shan sh*tang was a strong person with an Earth level cultivation, although he was far less powerful than him, but if Di Jiu could kill an Earth level strong person, then he must be an Earth level expert. Even though Shan Beihe was strong, he was not strong enough to deal with an Earth-level expert.
Without waiting for Shan Beihe to speak, Di Jiu already raised his hand and threw out four fireballs.
The four people, including Shan Beihe, were turned into flying ashes without even half a resistance under Di Jiu’s fireballs.
When Shan Youzhi saw Di Jiu’s tactics, his face appeared terrified. This was definitely a Half-Dan level powerhouse, otherwise, how could he raise his hand and use a fireball?
Even if he was at the late Earth level, he was still an ant in front of a Half-Dan powerhouse. His Shan family also had a near Half-Dan powerhouse, but that was only a near Half-Dan powerhouse, not yet able to lift his hand and throw a fireball.
“Senior ……,” Shan Youzhi said just two words before he sensed that something was wrong with Di Jiu.
Di Jiu stood in place with blood spilling out of the corners of his mouth and his face was flushed with blackness.
This man was injured? Soon Shan Youzhi was sure that Di Jiu was injured, and with wild joy in his heart, he grabbed the long knife at his side and frantically slashed down on Di Jiu.
At this moment, he did not have the heart to care about Shan Youzhi, but frantically fought against the poisonous pattern spreading in his body.
The boat was not stretched, and the stretcher was not added to the catty is what Di Jiu’s current situation is.
Earlier he had stayed at the Roadway Inn, and because of Shan Xiuzhi’s help, he had cultivated for a night without any precautions, and as a result, not only did he contain the poisonous dao lines that originally formed a balance with his rule circumference, but he also stripped them away a bit, allowing him to use a sliver of his divine thoughts.
The reason for this effect was simply because he had put the sliver of energy that he had originally put into being wary of his surroundings into dispelling the Poison Dao Ripples as well.
And now, after he had merely cast multiple fireballs in succession, the little upper hand he had managed to gain in his Rule Circumference and Poison Dao Pattern resistance had once again fallen. Not only that, but also because he had used too much of his divine thoughts, this balance had also been broken.
At this moment, his meridians began to grey out, and if he didn’t still have his Astral Vessel, he would be dead this time.
“Boom!” Shan Youzhi’s long blade struck Di Jiu’s neck, only bringing out a white mark.
Shan Youzhi looked at his long blade in a dumbfounded manner, his long blade was a top-notch weapon, and could even be called a divine weapon, cutting through steel with ease. Now his long knife did not cut through Di Jiu’s skin, what kind of skin was this?
Iron Cloth Shirt? Yes, it was definitely Iron Cloth Shirt.
It turned out that the legendary Iron Cloth Shirt really existed. Excitement flashed in Shan Youzhi’s eyes as he grabbed a three-pronged thorn and plunged it down looking at Di Jiu’s eyes.
He didn’t believe that Iron Cloth Shirt could be cultivated to the eyes, as long as he killed Di Jiu, he could slowly investigate the secrets in Di Jiu’s body.
Even if Di Jiu didn’t have half his mind divided to deal with Shan Youzhi at this moment, he couldn’t let Shan Youzhi stab himself in the eye with the three-pronged thorn.
He had to kill Shan Youzhi as soon as possible, the longer this matter was delayed, the more dangerous it would be.
As Shan Youzhi’s three-pronged thorn came out, Di Jiu barely constructed a law blade aura to slash down from Shan Youzhi’s brow.
“Poof!” Shan Youzhi’s eyebrow was torn in half by this Law Blade Aura from Di Jiu, his three-pronged stab stopped in a void, and he was still staring at Di Jiu in death before he fell to the ground. Because he didn’t understand how that invisible blade mane had come from.
“Poof!” Di Jiu similarly poofed out an arrow of blood, his face was getting greyer and greyer, and a hint of death lingered around his brow.
He was already at a disadvantage when he was fighting against the poison dao pattern inside him, and at this time, he dared to use the Law Blade Manifest to kill Shan Youzhi, which added to his resistance.
Di Jiu turned around with difficulty and rushed out from here, he had to get to his room first and then close up to heal his wounds.
“Boom!” Di Jiu had just rushed out of the door when he flopped to the ground, still far away from his goal of trying to get to the inn.
Di Jiu knew in his heart that he should never faint on the street, but that poisonous dao tattoo was so terrifying that he couldn’t control it at all.
Shan Xiuqi arrived just in time to see Di Jiu flopping down outside the door. She barely even considered it, rushing straight up, picking Di Jiu up on her back and turning around to flee.
Even the questions of why Di Jiu was able to escape and why the people of the Shan family didn’t catch up first were not even on her mind.
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It was only when it was completely dark and the sounds of raging beasts roared from the surroundings that Shan Xiuqi came to her senses from her previous frantic escape.
She then realized that she had long since rushed out of Dai Cheng City, and had even bypa*sed half of the Great Half Bend area and entered a truly dangerous area.
This was a place she had been before, infested with powerful ferocious beasts.
Before running all the way Shan Xiuki hadn’t felt it, but now once she stopped, she immediately felt scared. Even if she was a late Yellow-ranked martial artist, she was just as scared.
Shan Xiuki slowed her pace, she knew that there was an extremely hidden cave three miles away from her, where she had once escaped a powerful ferocious tiger chasing her.
At night, in the mostly curved area, apart from the roar of the beasts, there was only a whimpering cold wind. Luckily, the snow on the ground muffled the sound of Shan Xiuki’s footsteps.
It took Shan Xiuqi nearly two hours to walk the three miles before she arrived outside the cave.
Outside the cave was a pile of weeds, which had been covered with snow for a long time, but Shan Xiuki knew that behind the weeds there was a boulder, which blocked the entrance to the cave.
Shan Xiuqi plucked away the snow and the boulder did not move. She moved the boulder and carried Di Jiu into the cave before letting out a long breath of relief.
As long as the snow fell overnight, she should be safe tomorrow, at least the Shan family would not find her.
The cave was not very big, only five or six square feet in circumference, so for one person it was a bit spacious, but for two people it was a bit small.
Shan Xiuki put Di Jiu on the ground and turned around to cover up the boulder again.
When she was about to check on Di Jiu’s condition, something suddenly occurred to her that was not right. It was only logical that Di Jiu had escaped from the Shan family’s premises, so it was absolutely impossible for her to rescue him. Since the Shan family’s people had come to Dai Cheng City, how could they have let her escape so easily.
There was also the fact that the Shan family’s people had injured Di Jiu, so how could they have allowed Di Jiu to escape with serious injuries?
Unfortunately these were questions that no one could get the right answers to, even if Shan Xiuqi thought about them, and in the end she could only obey the heavens and follow the people. After cleaning the cave, she moved Di Jiu to a rock in the cave.
After carrying Di Jiu for so long in the snow, Shan Xiuki could not hold on and she leaned against the stone and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Shan Xiuqi woke up from the cold, even if she was a Yellow-ranked martial artist, she could not withstand the icy cold in this cave. She stood up and stomped her feet, puzzled in her heart. It was already March, and in previous years at this time of year, Dai Qing City would never have been this cold.
This year, it had been considered normal in Dai Cheng City, but the day before yesterday it had suddenly snowed, bringing the temperature down all of a sudden.
It looked like she couldn’t stay here any longer. If she stayed here, she, a Yellow-ranked martial artist, might also freeze to death.
Shan Xiuqi turned her head to look at Di Jiu, who was still unconscious. She reached out and felt her hand on Di Jiu’s nose, and there seemed to be a faint flow of breath.
She touched Di Jiu’s body and it wasn’t stiff, it looked like Di Jiu was still alive.
Shan Xiuqi sighed, since Di Jiu was alive, she could not leave. To take Di Jiu and escape would be a fool’s errand.
To go out and hunt a hare or two, otherwise, she herself would probably have to die before Di Jiu.