16 Fighting with Red Wolf Bandits

For several hours Xia Tian and Shen Xue searched the rooms on the periphery of the city, but they not able to find anything useful. The only thing Xia Tian found is an ordinary refined spear, which is very light and he is able to use it with his strength, he found that spear in a ruined weapon craftsmen shop.

They decided to move to the inner areas of the city, where are the residences of the large families are situated. Shen Xue is moving bit faster than Xia Tian and he is not able to catch up with her and is very tired, noticing that Xia Tian is exhausted, she decided to find a room and rest for a bit.

They found a room and ate the rations, they brought with them. Xia Tian asked Shen Xue, " you are definitely from a rich family with good talent, you can gain experience just by fighting with the experts in your family, why do you want to do this dangerous tasks?"

Shen Xue smiled and said, " I am bored to stay at home, I want to see the remaining world and I wish to temper myself in the real world."

"the outside world is more dangerous to a beautiful lady like you than me, I will just be killed if defeated by someone, but if you got into the hands of someone stronger than you, I think, I don't need to explain what fate will be waiting for you" Shen Xue is irritated by Xia Tian words, she said "you don't have to worry about that, I will just take my own life before they able to touch me, if you have regained enough strength we can move now" she doesn't want to be advised by Xia Tian who has strength much lower than her, she doesn't mention it directly to Xia Tian hurting his self-pride. So, she diverted the topic and prepared to move outside.

Xia Tian guessed her thoughts and bitterly laughed, he just wants to advice her out of good will but he remembered strength is everything in this world and nobody wants to listen to the advice of the people who are weaker than themselves, he did not continue speaking and moved out with her.

After they crossed some distance, they encountered a group of four martial cultivators in the nascent soul opening realm. They all saw Shen Xue, Xia Tian and laughed elatedly, they also obscene looks on their faces when they looked at Shen Xue but they did not try to conceal it.

One of them said,"hey beauty, give all the valuables you have and accompany our brothers in this ancient ruins, we may consider to spare your life if you do so. This ancient ruin is completely surrounded by our Red Wolf members, don't even try to think of escaping from our hands and you boy leave the valuables you have here and you will get a swift death."

Shen Xue said to Xia Tian "It is bad, they have got two sixth level nascent soul martial cultivators and two fifth level nascent soul, martial cultivators, I may not able to defeat all of them, I will stall them for you, you escape first then I will escape later."

She did not wait for the reply of Xia Tian and attacked them first, Xia Tian is not willing to leave because of his pride as a man but he knows he can't help her with anything and can only be a burden if he stays here, so he escaped into a street in the side and after running around he came to a corner in the alley and silently watched the fight from the back.

Shen Xue is very fast and took down a sixth level nascent soul cultivator at the first attack with her sword slashing his throat without giving them time to think what is happening, which gained her an advantage.

she fought other three at the same time and deftly blocked all the attacks, she tried to back down from them and escape afterward but she was surrounded by the other three on all the sides with her at center.

They all collectively attacked her but she is quickly able to gain the battle momentum by killing a fifth level nascent soul cultivator, he was stabbed decisively through the back when is about to retreat after an attack.

The other sixth level nascent soul cultivator got incensed by this and threw some powder at her, at that time she used her movement technique and slashed the throat of another fifth level nascent soul realm cultivator who is blocking her path to escape and not able to dodge the powder thrown at her.

After the powder touched her body, her movements became slower. Shen Xue countenance changed as her body movement is getting slower and slower, she felt like running in water. she decided only by killing the last person she will be able to escape from this situation.

she increased her qi output to the full and fought ferociously with the last person making grievous injuries to him but not able to kill him, after some time her movement completely stopped and fell to the ground.

she is even not able to open her mouth, the last person remaining, laughed at her and said " I threw bone-chilling powder at you, it will paralyze all your body movements, even spirit level martial cultivator needs two hours to recover from its effects, I will torture and humiliate you in this ruins, I will administer justice for killing my friends."

The man went towards to Shen Xue to pick her up, Shen Xue glared at him fiercely, she even cannot circulate the profound qi in her body, thinking about her fate in that man's hands her heartfelt very cold. her heartfelt very agonized she is not able to accept her fate from now onwards.

Xia Tian who is watching from the back is struggling to make the decision, he doesn't have enough strength to fight that man but that man is seriously injured by Shen Xue, there is still small chance for him to kill that man by sneak attack.

He finally decided that he can't leave the woman who helped him so much in this journey, he took his spear and lounged at the man pointing the spear at his neck, the man sensed someone is charging at him from the back and quickly turned around waving his sword. The sword made a cut in the shoulder of Xia Tian, but his spear entered the throat of the man, the man struggled for some time shrieking in pain and died.

Xia Tian felt an unbearable pain from his shoulder, he staggeringly walked towards Shen Xue and picked her up and began to run from the place and after running for some time he entered into a building and placed down Shen Xue. He also sat and leaned against the wall, he gasped and slowly lost his consciousness due to pain and exhaustion.

Shen Xue looked at Xia Tian, she thought that Xia Tian left, as he has the very low strength. She didn't expect Xia Tian to come and save her. Gratitude filled her eyes when she looked at Xia Tian.

The wound on Xia Tian shoulder stopped bleeding, a cultivator wound will recover quickly because of transfer of profound energy.

Xia Tian regained consciousness after some time, he looked at Shen Xue and he found out that she is closing her eyes and still trying to get rid of the effect of bone-chilling powder. He felt pain from his shoulder, he took some medicinal powder from the spatial ring and applied on it and closed his eyes and circulated his profound qi near his wounds for a quick recovery.

They both started to recuperate and recover from their wounds in that room, quite a while later Xia Tian wounds are almost recovered, he stood up and with crystal lamp, and started searching the house to find anything useful, Shen Xue is still closing her eyes, indicating the strong effectiveness of the bone-chilling powder in restricting enemies.

In an office like a room in that building, Xia Tian found the large map of the city clearly indicating all the places, the map is made from a different material, so it is not completely decayed. The building should be an administrative building of the city. thinking like this he wants to show that map to Shen Xue.

When he returned to the room Shen Xue is already awake and seeing Xia Tian, she smiled at him and said: "Thank you for saving me before, I can't imagine my fate if I have fallen into the hands of that bandits."

"No need to say thanks, I already owe you a lot and I also consider you as my friend, so helping you when you are in a danger is natural. I found an interesting thing in this building let's look at it." Saying this Xia Tian took out the map and place it on the ground.

Seeing the map for a bit Shen Xue is very happy and said: "This is a detailed map of this city, with this map it is very easy for us to travel this city and we can save a lot of time." Shen Xue remembered the direction they ran and seeing the map for a while, they able to find out their current position on the map, they also learned from the title of the map the city is called 'Training crystal city'.

They able to find some important places where they can get some treasures. Two of the most important places are the center of the city where the main palace, treasure house are located and another place is some distance from the center with a pyramid picture, it is marked by four stars and the place is called crystal training palace.

After some discussion they both decided to go to the center of the city, because of the map even though it is dark, they followed the shortcut and arrived at the center, but they stopped after nearing that place as they can see many martial cultivators are already searching there, it will tough for them to get anything here.

Xia Tian said Shen Xue " seems like we are late, even we get anything valuable here we may be not able to keep it, let's go to the other place, it is marked by four stars, we may find something interesting there." Shen Xue also nodded her head after thinking for a bit.

They traveled using the map and arrived at the place with a pyramid picture and four stars on the map. They both dumbstruck to find a huge wall in the visible area they can see using the lamp. Shen Xue doesn't have any idea why a wall is there in this place and how to trespass it, but Xia Tian who came from the earth saw the step-like wall structure and image on the map and confirmed it to be a huge pyramid.

He saw a small entrance like thing on the figure of the pyramid on the map and from his knowledge on earth, he knows that entrance to the pyramid will be at the middle of the pyramid. So, he turned at said Shen Xue "I know how to find the entrance here, you just follow me" saying that he began to climb wall-like structures. Shen Xue wants to ask Xia Tian some questions but seeing his confident look, she just followed him. There is nobody in this place as it is still not explored by anyone and all are concentrated at the main palace in the city center.

Xia Tian is climbing the walls of the pyramid and Shen Xue is following him at the back, he saw climbing Shen Xue, as she leaned forward to climb the wall, he can see a very small part of her white cleavage combined with her petite body and valiant demeanor it is a wonderful scene, Xia Tian said to himself not have wrong thoughts and started climbing the wall but that scene keeps on flashing in his head. He pinched himself and regained his tranquil mood and began to climb without looking backward and after climbing for about three hours they reached the entrance at the middle of the pyramid.