Chapter 28: Fight For the Village (3)

In actuality, Guo Huo hadn’t planned on stopping the Zhao

family head from the beginning. He saw this entire situation as a test for Jia

Yuan. Was Jia Yuan truly as strong as he had seemed at Guo Huo’s office? Did he

have the proper determination and resolve required to reach the peak of martial

cultivation?

Back at the village center, the combatants noticed the

arrival of Zhao Yue. The Zhao family stopped fighting and made way for their

patriarch to approach Jia Yuan.

Seeing that the Zhao family had backed down, Jia Yuan also

lowered his wall of flame. After all, fighting with one’s Song for an extended

amount of time greatly exhausted both the body and the mind.

After a few seconds, the two stood at a distance of about 10

feet facing each other.

Zhao Yue looked Jia Yuan up and down. “You slave brat, I

never would have though you would grow so strong… but it is unfortunate that

you decided to anger my Zhao family. Today, I will show you that you are

overreaching!”

At this moment, Jia Yuan was panicking a little. Why the hell isn’t that old geezer

intervening? He said I just needed to deal with the other people!

But what he said did not reflect his true feelings. “HA! You

disgusting Zhao family Patriarch, this is the day where everyone in your family

dies!

“Ha. Killed by who? You? Let’s see if you have the power!”

Despite his strong words, Zhao Yue was rather nervous. After

all, the technique exhibited by Jia Yuan earlier had been quite exquisite.

Zhao Yue knew that if he, as the patriarch of the strongest

family in the village, could not win over this 11 year old child, it would

likely mean the extermination of his family… Just to be forced to this point

already meant that his family had lost face.

With the overbearing aura of the 7th level of Absorption

surrounding him, Zhao Yue gripped his axe tightly in his right hand, and walked

within 6 feet of Jia Yuan, just beyond Jia Yuan’s zone of control. Along the

way, he let his full song play out, the axe in his hand began to burn.

After reaching the distance of 6 feet, he stopped, and diagonally

swung his axe toward Jia Yuan. The flame that had been burning around his axe condensed

during the slash and flew towards Jia Yuan as a dense ball of fire.

This was no more than an initial probing attack. After all,

Zhao Yue had felt Jia Yuan exhibiting the aura of the 3rd level of Absorption,

but he power Jia Yuan had shown previously had been closer to that of the 5th

or 6th level of Absorption.

As such, he sent out the ball of fire to see what level of

power Jia Yuan would respond with.

Jia Yuan had already been prepared for this. Just as

ridiculously as he had done earlier, he withdrew a pot from his ring, which effectively

ate the ball of fire. After being hit by the ball of fire, the pot quickly

heated up and was propelled toward Jia Yuan, but Jia Yuan again returned the

pot back into his ring.

However, Zhao Yue was no novice to fighting. He had already

seen Jia Yuan pull this trick before, so when he saw the pot appear, he

immediately dashed toward Jia Yuan and raised in axe in preparation for a blow.

From what he had seen earlier, the using the trick with the pot meant that Jia

Yuan temporarily blocked his own field of vision.

And Zhao Yue was correct. Although, Jia Yuan had been able

to defend himself from the ball of fire with minimal effort, he didn’t even see

Zhao Yue dashing toward him until he had drawn the pot back into the ring.

At this point, ZhaoYue was less than a foot from Jia Yuan.

With a start, Jia Yuan quickly shifted to the second basic

stance of the Song of Swords. This was the stance that provided the most

fluidity for movement, and as such, was the most suited for dodging.

However, even though Jia Yuan reacted to Zhao Yue’s

advancement, he was unable to dodge completely. After all, not only was Zhao Yue’s

body strong, but he was also supported by the 7th level of Absorption.

As such, despite his old age, he was just as fast as Jia Yuan. Furthermore, the

speed at which one can attack with weapons is far faster than that of one

moving their entire body.

As Zhao Yue finished his attack and his dash propelled him

past Jia Yuan, Jia Yuan was left with a large gash on his left shoulder. Even

though he had been able to dodge the majority of the blow, he had been by the

side of the axe, and had even been burned by the fiery aura surrounding Zhao Yue’s

axe.