"Who are you?"
Gu Shaoshang frowned at the black-armored middle-aged man who had suddenly appeared. This man carried an indescribable aura, and the moment Gu Shaoshang saw him, he felt instinctive disgust and wariness.
"Mmm... what a delicious scent!" Sun Hailong took a deep breath, an exaggeratedly deranged smile appearing on his face.
"I really! Really! Can't wait... to kill you!" Sun Hailong laughed maniacally!
He stomped down fiercely, his body shooting forward like an agile cheetah. In one step, he crossed several yards, and cracks burst across the solid mountain stone beneath his feet. Carrying a rolling gust of air, he charged at Gu Shaoshang! The surrounding grass and trees bent low. The advance of a single man gave Gu Shaoshang the terrifying pressure of a cavalry charge!
With Gu Shaoshang's eyesight, he could vaguely see the black-armored man's thigh muscles violently swell, instantly stretching his loose trousers taut as if they would split! His entire spine was driven by force, trembling violently like a hidden dragon about to soar into the heavens!
"An expert!" Gu Shaoshang's pupils contracted. An absolute expert! He had no time to think. Though this man's momentum could not compare to Gu Ji's, he was at least an expert of the Five Stages of Foundation Establishment!
"Ha!"
"Whoosh!"
Gu Shaoshang shouted, pouring inner strength into a flying dagger and launching it before Sun Hailong drew near. At the same time, he retreated explosively! With his martial arts attainments, if he fought head-on, he would likely be beaten to death within a few moves!
Only his nearly perfected Flying Dagger Technique gave him a chance!
Gu Shaoshang understood this clearly. Even as he retreated, his mind remained calm, and he found a sliver of victory!
"Pfft!" The familiar sound rang out, bringing a trace of a smile to Gu Shaoshang's lips. The flying dagger had clearly struck its target.
Gu Shaoshang sprang up like a fish leaping from water, both hands exerting force at once.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
One flying dagger after another shot out!
Though the daggers had clearly been launched one after another, they almost simultaneously sealed off every path Sun Hailong had to take to reach Gu Shaoshang! They even locked down the directions in which Sun Hailong could dodge!
"Pfft!"
The familiar sound kept ringing out, yet Gu Shaoshang's expression changed drastically!
Sun Hailong's speed did not decrease; instead, it increased. He wrapped both arms around his head, dragging up a long trail of dust as he came charging over!
Sun Hailong completely ignored the several flying daggers deeply embedded in his arms, lower abdomen, shoulders, and thighs!
"What fine daggers! What a fine boy! But! You still have to die!"
Sun Hailong strode forward and threw a punch!
A chain of violent explosions rang through the air. It was the sound of the air being brutally compressed and forced aside by fierce, unmatched, pure strength and speed!
Gu Shaoshang's expression shifted. He stamped his foot, twisted his hips, and swung his arm! His body spun and leaped like a top!
"Whoosh!"
The flying dagger tore through the airflow, producing a shrill sound as it Pierced the Void!
"Hm?" Sun Hailong's ears twitched, and his eyelids jumped as he sensed danger! His fist thrust upward like a great spear, fierce fist force sweeping up a violent current of air directly toward the flying dagger!
"Bang!"
The flying dagger had barely touched the violent airflow before it instantly shattered into seven or eight iron fragments. The trajectories of those steel fragments changed slightly, yet they still shot toward Sun Hailong at incredible speed!
"Not good!" Sun Hailong's eyelids twitched violently, and his face spasmed!
"Damn it! How could this happen?!" Sun Hailong roared madly in his heart! He could never have imagined that this youth, who looked barely more than a teenager, had mastered such an advanced flying dagger technique!
"Ah!"
Sun Hailong let out a savage howl as a surge of blood qi suddenly erupted from his body! The exposed skin all over him turned crimson, as if engorged with blood!
"Urgh!" Sun Hailong was about to activate a secret art when his expression suddenly stiffened. His internal organs burned with agonizing pain!
"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"
"This is... the injury from Chief Qi Gang's Buddha's Wrath Palm acting up!" A flash of relief appeared in Sun Hailong's eyes as flying dagger fragments pierced through his head!
"Rumble!"
Sun Hailong crashed heavily to the ground, gouging out a long trench through the mountain forest.
"I'm such a useless bastard, deserving of death, unable even to protect my little brother!" Sun Hailong's body twitched as blood flowed from him. His savage gaze gradually calmed, becoming filled with longing.
"Little brother, I'm coming to find you." Then he stopped breathing.
He was dead.
Gu Shaoshang shook his numb wrist, feeling rather baffled. Some lunatic had appeared out of nowhere and started screaming about killing him the moment they met. If he had not had his flying daggers, he might have died at this man's hands.
Source Power detected... Absorb? Main World Projection Sun Hailong detected. Record?
"...Absorb! Record!" Gu Shaoshang's body stiffened, then he replied as if nothing had happened.
A streak of purple light, visible only to Gu Shaoshang, swept a thin stream back into his body.
Absorption successful. Absorbed 9 points of Source Power! Main World Projection recorded! Mirror Master may challenge him at any time!
"This man was nearly comparable to the demon beast Silver Wolf King! He was probably only one step away from the Establish Fate Realm! And yet he died by my hand!" Gu Shaoshang was surprised, but he did not dwell on it.
"Hm?" Gu Shaoshang's body suddenly trembled.
"This is... my Golden-Eyed Eagle is about to hatch!" Gu Shaoshang felt a stirring in his heart. He glanced at Sun Hailong's corpse, vaguely sensing that something extremely dangerous was on him.
Remembering that challenging him could drop all his items anyway, he did not rashly search the body. He rose and hurried away.
The ferocious beasts of the mountains, drawn by the scent of blood, would naturally deal with the corpse for him.
"Good that he died! Good that he died!..." In a patch of grass some distance away, Gu Shaoyou's eyes were red as he clenched his teeth tightly!
"Damn it!" Gu Shaoyou gritted his teeth as he walked up to Sun Hailong.
"Bastard! Bastard!"
He pulled a flying dagger from the corpse and began frenziedly stabbing it over and over!
"What's this?" A red light flashed over Sun Hailong's corpse.
Gu Shaoyou stepped forward and found something like a birthmark on Sun Hailong's belly. He casually tore it off.
"'Blood Hell Divine Demonic Great Law'! This is a manual! Drink blood to cultivate! Take the essence blood of five hundred martial artists to achieve Life Establishment! Ten thousand to enter the Qi Sect Realm! Slaughter a million martial artists to become a god!" Gu Shaoyou's entire body trembled. There was actually such an evil manual in this world!
After a long while, an eerie red light flashed through Gu Shaoyou's eyes.
"I'll never be this weak again..." Gu Shaoyou clutched the manual tightly as madness spread through his heart!
"It's about to hatch! My Golden-Eyed Eagle!" Gu Shaoshang looked at the silver-white beast egg in his hand. A faint golden light flowed across its shell as it trembled slightly.
For over two months, Gu Shaoshang had nurtured the beast egg every day with his own blood. It was finally about to hatch!
This stirring would only last a short time. If he missed it, he would need to nurture it with blood for several more months at the very least!
"Lin Yu Flower!" Gu Shaoshang hurried to a hot spring he had investigated long ago. He picked Lin Yu Flowers, each dark red all over and shaped like upraised palms.
Lin Yu Flowers grew in geothermally heated environments and were an indispensable medicine for artificially hatching beast eggs.
Gu Shaoshang placed the fist-sized silver-white beast egg on the ground. He arranged the Lin Yu Flowers around it.
"Hiss!"
His fingernail sliced across his palm, and drops of bright red blood tinged with faint gold fell down.
"Boom!"
As the blood dripped onto the Lin Yu Flowers, red light flashed! Numerous golden spots appeared over the silver-white beast egg! The spots glowed like tiny suns, radiating blazing brilliance and surging with vigorous life force. Even more intricate, incomprehensible patterns emerged around them, dazzling to the extreme!
Gu Shaoshang's spirits lifted. Those golden spots that had appeared should be his Primordial Ancient Sacred Body Bloodline!
Though it had not yet awakened, it had already begun to reveal its extraordinary nature! His blood contained the immense vitality Gu Shaoshang had accumulated!
It might even awaken the Golden-Eyed Eagle's ancient bloodline!
"Crack!"
The eggshell split open! Golden light first burst from the cracks, then the hard egg suddenly shattered completely into powder, Divine Radiance blazing there.
A tiny hatchling appeared. It had no Lin Yu feathers, yet it shimmered with flowing light like a ball of burning golden flame!
"Cry!"
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