Desperate Fight (2)

Man I think this is the first time in a long time that I've posted two days in a row '-'

Btw I would also like to recommend you all to read Reverand Insanity- True Freedom written by Moist_BedBugs because it's really good and has an even better cover art :)

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"....but this fight has only just begun, so don't think it will end anytime soon..."

Chen Wei says as his wounds, which had previously been horrendous and seemed capable of incapacitating any normal person, now heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, as quickly as water evaporating on a hot plate.

In an instant, the body that was once covered in cuts and burns from head to toe now stands proudly as if it had never suffered even the slightest injury.

"Unless it's by my hands..."

"How is this possible?! Is this the effect of a Rank 3 Gu?!" Huo Lee's eyes widen in shock as he runs with difficulty, noticing cuts on his thighs made by Chen Wei that he hadn't realized before.

And this shock is shared by everyone, as none of them imagined that Chen Wei would possess a Rank 3 Gu of any kind, given the way he fought and the words of Huo Tie.

Even Huo Tie himself, who had deduced and assumed—along with everyone else—that Chen Wei shouldn't have any Rank 3 Gu at this moment, now shares in the shock as he looks at Chen Wei.

In fact, just a moment ago, if someone had asked him to bet his life on the fact that Chen Wei didn't have any Rank 3 Gu, he would have gladly done so, as all the evidence and clues left in the Yu villa and along the path they followed indicated this, but now it all seems like a grand scheme.

"Retreat quickly!!" Huo Tie shouts a bit desperately, feeling his heart trembling with fear.

He quickly uses his movement Gu to create blue flames under his feet and moves towards his lizard, from which everyone had dismounted earlier after seeing what happened to Huo Hei, wanting to avoid that fate and preferring to fight on their own feet. But now, it seems to have been a fatal mistake.

"You should have run a long time ago if you wanted to escape successfully..." Chen Wei, who saw the entire scene and the desperate orders that took no more than three breaths, murmurs calmly.

Saying this, Chen Wei fluidly and precisely swings his hand, a motion anyone would describe as pure artistry in the form of an attack, as countless blood blades are launched toward Huo Tie and Huo Tan, who try to flee while running toward their lizards.

"Shit!!" Huo Tie roars, seeing the countless blood blades, much larger and faster than those he faced earlier.

And to make his situation worse, they are not just random blood blades flying chaotically; each one of them is precisely targeting him with a specific purpose—either to impede his movement or to hit the weak points of his flame armor.

Additionally, slower blood blades are aimed at his vital organs after his flame armor breaks under the intense attack of the first blades on its weak points.

"Argh..." Huo Tie bites the bullet as he tries to dodge as many blood blades as possible, but without success.

When he dodges one aimed at his leg, another hits his arm; when he dodges one aimed at his head, another strikes his chest, and so on, multiple times, causing him to feel more than two dozen deep cuts slicing through his body, making his once-strong and imposing armor collapse in an instant.

"How is this possible?! Is this the power of a Rank 3 Gu Master?!" Huo Tie feels the numerous blades cutting through his body cruelly, throwing him pathetically to the ground as his heart sinks in despair and shock.

Mainly shock, as even the glorious elders or clan leaders couldn't compare to such an explosive display of power in his eyes at this moment.

"...Huo Tan... help--!" He turns his head towards the area where Huo Tan was retreating, but to his shock, he finds him in a situation only slightly better than his own.

He sees Huo Tan surrounded by volcanic rocks and red crystals that glow like a flame in the darkness, which had made his defensive capabilities renowned throughout the clan.

But at this moment, these once-proud volcanic rocks and red crystals are now pathetically shattered and collapsed in the mud, while Huo Tan, bleeding profusely, desperately crawls, trying to escape to his lizard, which at this point, like Huo Tie's, has already run far away due to the blood blades that struck them too.

Seeing this, Huo Tie is deeply shocked, just as any member of the Huo clan would be, but he quickly thinks of his own, even worse, situation, which causes the despair in his chest to be replaced by pure terror.

Soon, he feels a putrid-smelling and slightly warm liquid compared to the swampy water around him, wrapping around his limbs and body before squeezing and restraining him with such force that he can't move a single muscle.

Simultaneously, while the desperate fight of Huo Tie and Huo Tan was reaching its peak of intensity and pain, ending in the pathetic defeat of the two once-proud team leaders, Chen Wei didn't remain idle, his gaze fixed on Huo Lee.

'Damn it... even if I abandon my comrades, I have to get out of here!!' Huo Lee screams internally, trying to force his increasingly weak legs to run faster.

'Even if I'm punished by the clan, my life is more valuable!!' He grits his teeth—more like lizard fangs—while tears of pain stream from his eyes as he continues to force his legs to move.

But to his despair, he continues to hear the calm, composed footsteps of Chen Wei, who walks leisurely through the swamp without saying a word or seeming in any hurry to catch up to him, like a predator confident it has already caught its prey.

But he doesn't dare even to turn his head back as he feels his heart pounding so hard it might burst from his chest, while his eyes scan the battlefield quickly.

In front of him, he sees Huo Hou Hui running like a headless chicken after giving up treating the pale Huo Hei, who only avoided bleeding to death due to Huo Hou Hui's brief treatment, but from what he sees, he isn't far from death.

Or Huo Ni Ma, who thrashes on the ground desperately, crying in fear and pain after having both his arms brutally severed, causing them to pour out liters of blood nonstop.

Additionally, he sees both Huo Tie and Huo Tan desperately trying to flee from the blood blades that he imagines are being continuously launched by Chen Wei, who slowly follows him.

But it's only a few moments later that this fight proves futile and irrelevant, as both are left lying pathetically on the ground, their defenses completely destroyed as if they were nothing.

'Damn it, how come none of these bastards have a trump card to save us now?!?!' Huo Lee cries in indignation in his heart.

Mainly because his trump card is the Reptilian Regeneration Gu, which allows him to regenerate any lost limb within an hour.

It's a great ability that could cause great envy in any veteran Gu Master who has been in brutal combat and is accustomed to seeing comrades amputated due to severe injuries caused by losing arms or legs, making them unable to continue fighting but now in front of Chen Wei it is completely useless.

'Maybe I should surrender? That might avoid the torture, especially if I cooperate and tell him what he wants...' Huo Lee, a mess of fear, despair, and the desire to escape, thinks to himself.

But before he can say anything or continue his desperate thoughts, he feels a deep, painful cut pulling and twisting his achilles heels, causing him, who was already struggling to walk, to fall face-first into the ground.

At that moment, as he struggles on the ground, trying to escape the Door of life and death, he hears the sound of Chen Wei's footsteps, now advancing with intense determination—a stark contrast to the calm and slow pace he had before, which Huo Lee imagines was due to Chen Wei having to divide his attention to deal with Huo Tie and Huo Tan earlier.

"Argh!!! Please, have mercy!!!" Huo Lee hears a desperate scream coming from Huo Hou Hui's voice before he feels a foot stomp forcefully on his head, pressing it deep into the swampy mud.

As he is humiliated, his head being stomped into the ground, he sees with the corner of his eyes Huo Hou Hui being relentlessly slashed, attacked from all sides as if he were nothing more than an animal for slaughter by numerous lines of putrid black blood that resemble the claws of monsters from horror tales in action right in front of him.

Meanwhile, he sees Huo Ni Ma, —who hadn't stopped screaming in pain while tears ran from his fear-stricken eyes—being immobilized and silenced, and his wounds being closed effortlessly by the same putrid black blood that seems endless.

Seeing this, Huo Lee feels his heart completely sink as he abandons the plans he had to try to catch Chen Wei by surprise, taking advantage of his exaggerated overconfidence to bite and tear off his foot, and using the distraction from the pain and shock he caused in Chen Wei to run for his life.

"I can tell you everything you want!!" Huo Lee says with difficulty, as his face is pressed into the ground, but his desperation allows him to move his mouth enough to utter these words. "I swear I won't try to attack you!"

"What do you want to know? You don't need to act violently to find out, hahaha!" Huo Lee speaks more desperately when he receives no response from Chen Wei.

"I'm satisfied simply with you being unable to attack me without saying anything... since I doubt I can have both," Chen Wei says lightly, his voice slightly hoarse.

"What-" Before Huo Lee can ask what he means, he feels his body being violently pulled by a large amount of putrid black blood.

"Argh!! Arrr! Arghhhgh!!"

And before he can even react, a large amount of black blood grasps and tears his lower jaw, which seems to belong to a fierce lizard-like creature, the black blood acting like a wild, violent beast would do.

To Huo Lee's terror, it doesn't stop there, with Chen Wei seemingly unsatisfied with the suffering he's already caused. The putrid black blood crushes and tears his hand with force, completely removing his two greatest weapons.

Huo Lee, by some miracle still conscious, has a vacant and lifeless look in his eyes as his body trembles weakly, having lost all strength to resist.

"See, now I can be sure you won't fight back," Chen Wei says as he lightly heals Huo Lee, ensuring he won't die from his wounds. "In my opinion, this is a much safer arrangement for me."

After saying this, he controls the putrid black blood to gather the bodies of the seven members of the Huo clan, who are pathetically defeated on the ground, with varying degrees of severe to nearly fatal injuries.

"Well, who would have thought the fight would end so quickly..."

"...and it seems I won, fortunately."

Chen Wei only sighs lightly as he begins to meticulously heal everyone to the point where their lives are no longer at death's door but not enough to allow them to move a single muscle to attack him.

Meanwhile, he looks around at the battlefield full of burn marks, mud scattered by cuts, and holes in the swampy ground, as well as a dead lizard, which gives the scene of the desperate battle that took place here.

The commotion reached such a level that not a single animal or insect could be seen within a hundred meters, except for one animal.

A large lizard with dark red scales, as hard as rocks, stands still in the middle of the battlefield, its tongue hanging out, and its eyes so crossed that Chen Wei can't even tell if the creature is looking at him or not.

This is the lizard that belonged to Huo Xue, who hasn't moved a muscle from the spot Chen Wei left it after killing its owner suddenly!

"...."

Chen Wei is left speechless, seeing the lizard still calmly basking in the swamp's sun as if nothing had happened.