Tang Bai Li

Volume 3 Chapter 132 The Boy's Saber and Arrow

Xu Mu raised his saber and once again slashed toward Xian'er Jiu.

Xian'er Jiu was stunned. She didn't understand how this young human cultivator could break free from her dark magic time and time again. After all, according to the human realm classification, she was at the Upper Stage of the Fourth Realm, while this boy in front of her was only at the Third Realm. Their strength was vastly different, especially with her using dark magic.

Yet, despite this immense disparity, Xu Mu had thwarted her attacks repeatedly and now had his saber hanging over her head. What could be the reason for this?

With no time to ponder, Xian'er Jiu instinctively raised her hand, intending to use her dark energy to block Xu Mu's strike, and then unleash her truly powerful magic to kill this human completely.

However, Xian'er Jiu did not expect her dark magic to fail in stopping Xu Mu's hunter saber.

It was because Xu Mu's saber was darker than the dark magic.

As if tearing through cloth, Xu Mu's blade sank into the dark energy, which was both soft and as hard as steel. The dark magic sought to annihilate the blade before it, but it faced the Horn of the Demon God, which even Emperor Fuxi could not destroy.

And the reason the Demon God was called a Demon God was because he was the darkest existence in the world.

The dark magic could not destroy it, but it still infiltrated it. Thus, the dark magic became chaotic due to an unspeakable reaction, and was ultimately destroyed by the saber.

Xu Mu shattered all blockades and struck Xian'er Jiu's neck. However, Xian'er Jiu did not die. This was because her skin was inscribed with ancient and evil dark magic incantations, which had hardened her elven body enough to withstand the blow.

But the force of Xu Mu's strike still sent tremors through her internal organs.

"Pfft!"

Xian'er Jiu transformed into a mass of black mist and instantly shifted a hundred meters away, spitting out a mouthful of thick blood. She leaned against a large tree, her eyes wide with terror as she stared at Xu Mu.

"Why can you survive!"

"How can you ignore my dark magic!"

"What kind of saber is that!"

"Who exactly are you!"

Four questions in rapid succession accompanied her dark magic, bombarding Xu Mu's mind in an attempt to shatter his spiritual sea. But in that boundless ocean, it only stirred a tiny ripple.

Xu Mu did not answer Xian'er Jiu's questions, merely tightening his grip on the hunter saber.

He was in pain, and this was literal, physical pain. Although he had used the saber to break through the collapse and subsequent explosion of the dark magic energy sphere, he had inevitably endured immense backlash.

Had it been an ordinary person's physique, it would have likely shattered and died from such backlash. But his physical body had been tempered by the Great Dao of Gravity, and with his glass-like heart, he could naturally survive, though he was pushed to his limit.

In the ensuing battle, he had to be extremely cautious. For although Xian'er Jiu was also injured, she was, after all, a member of the mysterious and unfathomable dark elves, and her cultivation realm was higher than his.

Xu Mu knew clearly that even the slightest mistake could lead to his death. Therefore, he would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen!

"If I hadn't spoken to you before, I'd really suspect you were mute."

Xian'er Jiu glared at Xu Mu in anger, unaware of his internal calculations on how to win.

With a soft sound, Xian'er Jiu's pupils turned completely dark, and her simple robes vanished, replaced by dull gray scales covering her entire body, like ashen serpents. They elegantly concealed certain sacred parts. Dark magic flowed incessantly from the wings on her back, reminiscent of fallen angels from mythology.

Immediately after, a scepter embedded with a red crystal appeared in her palm.

"You are not the strongest human I have ever seen, but you are the one who has given me the most surprises."

"To express my respect for you, I have decided to use this scepter of an elder of the Fire Elves to imprison your physical body in a cage forged from the hellfire of dark magic. Your body and your soul shall suffer torment for eternity, until the day the darkness of the world dissipates and you find release."

"But regardless of the era, darkness has always been an indispensable part of intelligent life's existence. Therefore, you will never be freed from my dark magic."

While Xian'er Jiu spoke, the scepter inlaid with a fiery red crystal in her hand suddenly lit up. Just as she said, the heat emanating from it caused the sand on the ground to ignite from a distance, and Xu Mu's clothes, a hundred meters away, instantly turned to dust.

His clean body was also instantly burned, leaving marks of varying depths.

Xu Mu reacted swiftly. The Eight Trigrams Formation Disk of Innate Principle operated to the position of Li (fire). Endless complex characters combined and instantly formed a fire elemental formation, absorbing all the searing heat that surged from the scepter and transforming it into streams of fire dragons that counterattacked.

Xian'er Jiu still did not expect Xu Mu to possess such a means, but she did not hesitate. She simply brandished her scepter and summoned a horizontally flying fiery meteor from the spatial curtain, which crashed down with the force of a planetary impact. Those fire dragons were like mantises attempting to block a chariot in comparison.

And Xu Mu's great fire formation could not possibly convert such powerful fire elemental magic. Even before the fiery meteor struck, it could not withstand the pressure and collapsed!

Xu Mu knew he could not block this fiery meteor. This had nothing to do with how many Dao techniques he mastered, but solely with his cultivation realm.

Even if he occupied the most advantageous terrain and used the most exquisite abilities and Dao techniques, with the heavenly timing and earthly advantage, his cultivation realm was still a major realm lower than Xian'er Jiu's. The attacks launched by the two were completely on different levels, and the lack of human harmony rendered all resistance seemingly futile.

Was he to die like this, or find a way to escape?

Xu Mu knew escape was the best option. His speed was very fast. It couldn't be said he could definitely dodge the impact of the fiery meteor, but at the very least, he could escape the fatal blast radius, just as he had dodged the chaotic energy fluctuations at the city gate.

But he did not want to.

He did not want to compromise with elves. Because he had once entered the elven kingdom, ambushed and killed several elves who could be called great kings, and even snatched holy relics from their hands in the end.

He was proud, an eagle that had flown to the clouds. Once he had seen the scenery on the other shore, he could never compromise with the ground. Therefore, with Xu Mu's pride, his pride in chasing hundreds of miles to this point, he would not choose to flee when facing an ordinary dark elf. He would only fight!

Facing this monstrous fireball, Xu Mu held his hunter saber in his mouth. Terrifying wails and roars, like those from hell, thundered, and a colossal, divine phantom-like image appeared behind him, gazing at Xian'er Jiu.

Xian'er Jiu's heart pounded, her expression turning to fear. Voices urging her to kneel echoed in her mind. But with the activation of a certain spiritual artifact, she instantly protected her spiritual sea, refusing to yield to the faint divine pressure of the demon god. Instead, she gritted her teeth and activated her dark magic, causing the fireball to become even brighter.

But Xu Mu was not afraid.

Because his hunter saber was in his mouth, he now held a bow and arrow in his hands.

It was a very strange bow and arrow. Its entire body was covered with many eyes, each of which seemed to possess its own life, blinking rhythmically, greedily and curiously gazing at the surrounding air.

The moment this bow appeared, Xian'er Jiu's body, which had just calmed down, trembled violently once more, as if an unclothed ordinary person were walking in a blizzard.

The dark magic around her instantly weakened and, as if fleeing, retreated into her body. Even the light of the fiery red meteor spell dissipated, its oppressive aura gone.

There was no arrow on the bow, but Xu Mu drew the string.

This bow was called the Fairy Bow, Sylph.

Sylph was the name of this fairy. And fairies were called fairies not only because this species was an exotic breed that had traveled from the Western Continent, but also because fairies fed on elves.

Fairies, consumed elves.

Countless years ago, the powerful elven tribes had engaged in a protracted, world-ending war with the fairies. In the end, the elves, with the support of other intelligent races, won the war and sealed the Fairy King Sylph of that era into a bow and arrow.

Therefore, this bow and arrow had a natural restraining effect on elves, and it was now in Xu Mu's possession.

Coupled with the indestructible Horn of the Demon God.

Thus, even though Xian'er Jiu was a major realm higher than him and her dark magic was terrifying to the extreme, Xu Mu still felt that he could kill her now.

Because his bow and arrow had already been shot.

Sylph's dozens of eyes were blood-red!

He wanted to devour Xian'er Jiu!

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