A Brief Journey Through Time (4)

Rumble! Rumble! A massive spear streaked through the sky, wreathed in lightning as it shot toward the Evil Soul Emperor. Enraged, the Evil Soul Emperor unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, compressing all the evil Soul Power in his body into it in an attempt to block the attack.

Seeing this, Zhao Xiaotian leaped behind the spear, flashed a wicked smile, and swung his left leg. The spear shot forward at tremendous speed. The Evil Soul Emperor desperately blocked the blow, large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead as he roared furiously.

"Die!"

The spear instantly pierced through the Evil Soul Emperor's Martial Soul Avatar and his body, pinning him to the ground. Blood continued to pour from the wound.

Once Zhao Xiaotian saw that the Evil Soul Emperor had been completely slain, he finally let out a breath of relief. But before he could steady himself, he collapsed. In the instant he fell, Zhao Xiaotian only felt himself land on something very soft.

Flender entered the village with Yu Xiaogang, who had been scared out of his wits, and saw the Evil Soul Master leader whose chest had been pierced through. After calming himself, Yu Xiaogang looked up and saw Zhao Xiaotian unconscious in Liu Erlong's arms.

Yu Xiaogang's expression darkened. Liu Erlong was the woman he, Yu Xiaogang, the foremost authority on Soul Master theory, had set his sights on. Yet this brat had taken advantage of her, and Liu Erlong was even looking down at Zhao Xiaotian in her arms with such concern.

Flender merely frowned before stepping forward and asking worriedly, "Erlong, are you all right? How is little brother Xiaotian?"

He did not call Zhao Xiaotian "brother Xiaotian" because Zhao Xiaotian had risked his life to save his goddess. Moreover, after spending the past few days together, Flender felt that Zhao Xiaotian was someone worth befriending, which was why he showed him such goodwill.

Unlike Yu Xiaogang, Flender only loved money and Liu Erlong. Everything else was nothing but passing clouds to him. If anyone claimed that he also loved Soul Master Academies, they were thinking far too far ahead.

After all, the three of them had only just become friends, and Flender had not even founded Shrek Academy yet. How could he possibly speak of loving an academy?

Before long, Flender flew around the entire village, yet he did not see a single living villager. All he saw were corpses scattered across the ground, drained of blood and reduced to hollow husks without internal organs.

Flender placed the villagers' bodies into a huge pit, after which Liu Erlong unleashed Crimson Dragon Fire and cremated them.

Unable to bear watching the villagers' bodies burn, Liu Erlong turned away. At that moment, Yu Xiaogang walked over and said, "There are no villagers left in this village. I suppose we won't be able to get any vegetables here either."

Liu Erlong instantly became dissatisfied with Yu Xiaogang. The entire village had been slaughtered by Evil Soul Masters, yet this level-twenty-nine good-for-nothing was only thinking about a few vegetables.

Looking displeased, Liu Erlong left and headed toward the tent in the distance. By the light of the lamps, she had seen Zhao Xiaotian sit up.

Zhao Xiaotian was looking at the numbers above his head. They had already changed from 99 hours to 87 hours. He could remain in this timeline for another three days. He wondered whether the things he did in this timeline would alter his original one.

Just as his thoughts began to wander, Liu Erlong entered from outside the tent. She asked with concern, "Are you all right? You killed a Soul Emperor, so your Soul Power must have been exhausted, which is why you fainted. But it's fine. I already crushed that Soul Emperor's head."

Zhao Xiaotian smiled. "You said I killed that Soul Emperor, but then you said you crushed his head. What am I supposed to say to that?"

Liu Erlong blushed and snapped in embarrassment, "Don't worry about it!"

Zhao Xiaotian found that amusing. He no longer thought about how he could only remain in this timeline for three days. Right now, he only wanted to say that things would work themselves out naturally. One day, I'll find a way to return to this timeline.

Yet in Zhao Xiaotian's original timeline, a pair of eyes had been watching him through time from above. Zhao Xiaotian's current strength was simply too weak for him to notice that someone was observing him.

Zhao Xiaotian shrugged and walked out of the tent. "Let's go. Too many people died in this village. I want to burn incense and pay my respects to them."

Liu Erlong nodded and said gently, "Whatever you want to do, I'll agree to it."

Soon, Zhao Xiaotian arrived beside the large pit where flames were still burning. With a thud, he dropped to his knees. Flender and Yu Xiaogang looked at him in surprise.

Zhao Xiaotian took out a basin from his Soul Tool and placed some joss paper inside. Seeing this, Liu Erlong conjured a small flame in her hand and tossed it into the basin.

The paper in the basin quickly caught fire. Zhao Xiaotian kowtowed once and said, "Fellow villagers! We came too late and failed to save you from disaster. I, Zhao Xiaotian, swear that until all Evil Soul Masters in the world are eradicated, I will never speak of love between men and women again!"

Soon, not even ashes remained of the joss paper. The wind carried it into the burning pit. Seeing this, Zhao Xiaotian took out a dagger and sliced his wrist, scarlet blood flowing down from the wound.

Flender and Liu Erlong hurried forward, especially Liu Erlong, who took out her silk handkerchief and pressed it against Zhao Xiaotian's bleeding wound.

Flender tried to persuade him from the side. "Little brother Xiaotian! This isn't your fault, so you don't need to blame yourself. What you need to do now is slaughter all the evil in the world. If the villagers saw their benefactor doing this, they would stop you too!"

Although Yu Xiaogang appeared to agree with Flender, inwardly he was screaming, Hurry up and bleed to death. Then you won't be able to compete with me for Erlong!

After a while, Zhao Xiaotian stood up. The wound on his wrist was still wrapped in Liu Erlong's silk handkerchief. Afraid that he might do something foolish, Liu Erlong had tied a dead knot in it.

Zhao Xiaotian smiled. "Don't worry. I'm fine. What we need to do now is continue our training. Once it's over, we can go slay demons and eradicate evil."

Flender nodded. "All right! It's getting late. We should find a place to rest."

Because he was afraid, Yu Xiaogang suggested, "Let's go into the forest ahead and find a flat place to camp."

Flender thought it was a good suggestion, so the four of them headed into the forest ahead. Although there were no particularly powerful soul beasts in this forest, ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts were still unavoidable.

Zhao Xiaotian was not someone who liked slaughtering innocent soul beasts, but for the sake of their training and to fill their stomachs, he tearfully turned an entire Nether Wolf into roasted wolf.

Originally, Yu Xiaogang should have been the one preparing the food, but since what Zhao Xiaotian made was something none of the other three had ever seen, the task of cooking was handed over to Zhao Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaogang was quite pleased with this. On one hand, he did not have to work and could spend his time researching theoretical knowledge. On the other, seeing Zhao Xiaotian busy at work made him feel very satisfied.