Chapter 88 - Trust

"As I said, your opponent is me. No, it isn’t correct. Your opponent is the three of us."

As he said this, Hei smiled even more as he bared his teeth. Beside him, Ye and Xing were also doing the same hissing loudly against Chang Huan.

On hearing his words, Chang Huan smiled even more.

"Good. A beast tamer, eh? It's been a long time since I've faced one. Who will be stronger? My corpses or your spirit beasts?"

Meanwhile, Lian had also arrived near Hei, but he immediately sent her a spirit message.

‘Lian, listen to me well. Help the others moving from here and when they are at a minimum distance, go directly into the flower, do you understand?’

'Hei?'

‘Do as I told you. Even if you join us, I don't know if we can beat him. We both bring back wounds from our previous fights and consumed a lot of our spirit power.

I also don’t completely trust the promise of the other sects and families. As soon as this fight ends, probably some of them will take advantage of it to take their words back and take possession of the treasure. Before that happens, you must enter while everyone is still fighting.

I don't know if we can win, but we can hold it long enough to give you a chance to take the treasure. Don't argue now, go. We will be okay, I promise you.’

Lian nodded her head and grabbed Cao Su and Zan, who were on the ground. Despite his slender figure, carrying them was no problem. In no time, they had left the battlefield.

"They're running away, but it doesn’t matter. Now I have found something better to play with. In any case, there is plenty of time to take them back. Do you know, kid? The minimum time to wait to reopen the Secret Dimension passage is one week. Before then, it isn’t possible because opening the passage means creating a hole in space, and it needs time to regenerate the fracture. If they were to open it earlier, there is a big risk that everything will collapse. However, do you think that all the sects and other families will be satisfied with only a week? No, in all probability, they will wait until at least two weeks have passed. So, after settling this fight, I have a whole week to take back my bodies that are running away."

The words Chang Huan said seemed sincere. With all the advantages he possessed, it made no sense to invent such a lie. Moreover, his explanation seemed plausible. The sects and other families would never have settled for just one week of exploration after all the sacrifices they had made.

"I believe you. But there is one thing that is bothering me. That is, you are assuming that you will win without a doubt. In that case, don't blame me if you find yourself dead. "

"Ahahaha, you are hilarious. Well, then, I'll show you my secret card."

At that point, Chang Huan waved his hand, and a two-meter humanoid corpse appeared from his space ring. The face belonged to a middle-refined aged man, but the rest of the body had been modified.

The arms and legs had been replaced with limbs of different spirit beasts, while, to the back, other limbs had been sewn on, for a total of six humanoid arms. On the chest, instead, there were multiple scars, and the skin was sewn back.

"I present to you the strongest corpse available to me. It is a spirit soldier killed by the Tremor Sect. Because of the Secret Dimension opening, I was given his body. Unfortunately, I couldn't restore his entire battle potential, but it's still comparable to a seventh stage, near the bottleneck to the second rank. Are you still sure you can win with those spirit beast of you after seeing this?"

Hearing the words spirit soldier, Hei's eyebrows furrowed. An enemy of that level was infeasible for them to face. Fortunately, its original strength hadn’t been completely restored, but it was still an insidious enemy to face.

With that corpse present, the enemies in the seventh stage had risen to two: Chang Huan and his corpse. Although Chang Huan was confining himself to maneuvering it at a distance, Hei believed that there was no way he couldn’t fight close-up. His mother had explained to him that the Ghost Law wasn’t only limited to manipulating bodies, but it allowed its users to have a strong body comparable to those of the Law of Metal to a certain extent.

Without responding to Chang Huan, Hei prepared to fight. His spear swayed suspended in the air, held by his hair. At his side, Ye and Xing were ready.

"Let's begin."

Hei and his two sisters left their positions with a sprint towards their enemy. The corpse of that spirit soldier appeared immediately before them. Its arms fell on them with a lightning-fast storm of punches.

Peng, peng, peng

His fists made Hei, Xing, and Ye back off at the same time, and they looked astonished that they had all been pushed back together. The physical strength of that corpse was more significant than what they had thought.

‘Ye, Xing, if I leave this to you, you think you can block it?’

’Sure big brother. But what are you planning to do?’ (Ye)

‘If we think exclusively about his corpses, we will never finish this fight. We must also aim at him. In that way, his concentration will be divided, and he won’t be able to maneuver this body properly. However, be careful. I do not think he is so unprepared to the point of not having countermeasures for this type of situation.’

’Yes, I agree. Be careful big brother.’ (Xing)

After communicating with each other, Hei and his two little sisters tried again with another attack. As before, the corpse in front of them swung its large and powerful arms as it hurled a burst of swift punches.

This time, however, Ye and Xing didn’t retreat. Taking the full impact and ignoring the pain that was flowing in their bodies, the two of them went to block three arms each, dragging the corpse to the ground vehemently.

Taking advantage of that situation, Hei continued his running toward Chang Huan, who had his forehead slightly contracted due to the unexpected action of those two spirit beasts.

"Ghost Law, Corpse Fury. Ghost Law, Multiple Manipulation."

Suddenly, the corpse held down by Xing, and Ye gave a heartbreaking squeal as it rose to the ground, lifting the two spirit beasts with just its physical strength and threw them into the air. Meanwhile, ten corpses had appeared around Chang Huan.

None of them was in the sixth stage, but they were all between the fifth and fourth stage. But since there were ten of those bodies, it didn't change the fact that they were a threat to Hei. Although he was a sixth stage, he was still just one person, and at the same time, he was injured, not to mention the fatigue that was making itself be felt.

"As I imagined. You had a card for situations like these. All right, if it is so, then, I just have to destroy these corpses one by one."

That said, the ten bodies all rushed together against Hei. He responded by swinging his spear with his hair in all directions. At the same time, his fists and kicks were incessantly moving, while his claws and fangs were tearing the flesh of those lifeless bodies. He was fighting regardless of the damage he was taking, but entirely concentrating on attacking.

Being surrounded on all sides and numerically at a disadvantage, without counting his spirit power that wasn’t in its peak condition, it was suicidal to try to move the fight towards an endurance contest. The best thing he could do was attacking to destroy the highest amount of corpses so as to leave Ye and Xing more freedom to maneuver.

Hei had no doubts about his two little sisters. Sooner or later, they would tear apart the corpse of that spirit soldier, comparable to a seventh stage, and therefore they would rush to him, ending Chang Huan definitively.

*

Meanwhile, Lian had carried out Hei's order and had taken the Flower Sect members who had come with her and Hei to a safe place. Although injured, none of them was life-threatening.

"Lian, go now. There is no need for you to stay with us. Go and help Hei," Mei said with a trembling voice.

Despite having defeated her enemy, who was none other than the number one genius in the Frozen Sect, she was feeling so frustrated that she had to be reduced to that state to win.

In a certain sense, she envied Hei. Not only he defeated Ren, an adversary comparable to the one she had fought, but he still had the energy to fight against the number one genius of the whole Rainbow Island younger generation.

With such an undertaking, there was no way they could deny the evidence. The boy who had always been behind them, regarding cultivation and power, had finally reached and surpassed them. And it wasn't just him, even the girl in front of her, Lian, had reached a similar level of strength.

With two martial artists younger than her and with such an exceptional talent, how could Mei not feel frustrated? The same was true of all her other companions. But now wasn’t the time to get frustrated, they had to defeat their enemies first.

Lian nodded her head at Mei's request and instantly turned back to the battlefield where Hei, Xing, and Ye were fighting. But although she seemed about to be reunited with them, Lian still had the words Hei had told her in her mind - taking possession of the treasure inside the flower at all costs.

She knew how important the thing inside the giant flower was to him, Ye, and Xing. Yet he still had remained back to give her a chance to recover it. This action was the irrefutable proof of the trust Hei and his entire family felt towards Lian.

At that thought, Lian's heart started pounding as she clutched her chest. She wouldn’t disappoint them. She would surely conquer the treasure inside the flower and verified if there were any signs referring to Hei's father. Like that, she could partly repay the infinite debt she had towards that family.

Once she reached the flower, Lian quickly looked around. The middle sects and other families were fighting away from that place. The only ones present near the flower were the unconscious martial artists who had lost against the Flower Sect, as well as Hei and his little sisters who were fighting against the corpses of Chang Huan.

No one else had noticed that the Flower Sect young girl had arrived near the flower and was being swallowed inside. Suddenly, as soon as she entered, the petals of the flower began to close, causing a stir among the martial artists who were fighting with ferocity.

"What happens? Is the flower closing again?"

"How it is possible? Did someone come in?"

"But how? Chang Huan is still standing... how did they get in or it was some hidden participant?"

Chang Huan, who was fighting Hei, glared at the closing of the flower.

"Bastard... and I thought you sent her away to treat your friends and then get her back to give you a hand. Okay, I understand. But it doesn’t matter. Even if she gets that treasure, I have a whole week to get it back. Do you think she could escape this one, Chang Huan the Genius, for an entire week? Until that bitch comes out, I'll kill you to expose your body in front of her."

Hearing his words, Hei smiled.

"I'm sorry, but I doubt that even with a whole year, you will be able to reach her."

Then he began again to hit without mercy the corpses that were still surrounding him. The wounds on his body were increasing every minute he was continuing this fight, and the loss of blood was starting to be felt as his complexion grew paler, and his breathing became more intense. But it didn't matter. He had succeeded. Lian was inside the flower, now what was hidden there belonged to them, to his family. And nothing and nobody could take it from their hands.