Badass Celestial Emperor Returns!

(25) Terrifying Death

It was another dark night expedition. Zi Yingjun leapt through many branches when he concluded something different. The Shadow Asura have been silent and everywhere he goes, there are no signs of its presence. He used the Hundred Frost Bow to hunt for today and it was kind of fun for him. The process of killing a rank four and five beasts got easier. His profits have grown too and he can sell a whole body of the beasts without much problem. Flesh, horn, hides, every part of a beast is valuable and the payment he receives reached up to near a thousand within a week.

However, there is also another problem. His spiritual sea got drained easier within ten shots of arrows and sometimes it can reach to eight. He have no choice but to use a single arrow to take down one beast, a fifth rank is a trouble for him though.

The night sky suddenly turned darker, he thought it was common and turned his divine sense into a ball of Tempering Flame that is floating to provide light. Zi Yingjun spotted a Spear Antelope in the fourth rank, he came to a stop and aimed the arrow.

Aoooo!!!

A deafening roar resounded. Zi Yingjun's ears bled as he quickly covered them and placed the bow back to his qiankun bag. "Crap! What is that?!" he cursed and used all the left qi to surround himself and avoid the pressure. It was so strong that the barrier he created shattered like a fragile piece of glass. At this moment, his life was on stake and he quickly went as far as he could.

While he was running for his life, a person in black went in front of him. Zi Yingjun went to a stop with an annoyed face. First, his ears received a powerful blow that it bled and it was still painful. Second, he met a man that is surely here for something and the murderous aura spreading out of him is a sign he will kill Zi Yingjun.

"Ye Feng, why'd you stop?" a girl dropped down from a tree, wearing the same dark clothes with both their face covered in veil.

"Ye Feng?" Zi Yingjun thought. The two were clearly from the Ye Royal Family! Why are they here?

"A witness." Ye Feng pointed to Zi Yingjun. His other hand drew a sword out of nowhere.

"Then have your way." the girl stepped back. She glanced at Zi Yingjun and from her clear black irises were hints of sympathy.

Ye Feng only went closer in few steps, he raised the sword and an oppressive aura enveloped Zi Yingjun. His face paled in realizing how tricky the situation he is in. As everything turned hopeless, the girl behind them suddenly shrieked.

"Ye Jie?!" Ye Feng turned behind but before he can even say another word, a dark sword pierced through his chest. It went out of his back. Zi Yingjun used the dim light of moon to discern the dark and disorderly sharp object that assaulted Ye Feng. It was a menacing black object and its borders were in the shade of blue green color. The sharp object dispersed into a black gas and Ye Feng slumped down. His body corroding quickly until all that was left were white bones.

Zi Yingjun broke into cold sweat from the monster standing before Ye Feng's bones. It was a black shadow in the shape of a man with few outlines of martial robes. The shadow has black hair that are long, floating in groups that turned to sharp weapons. Its eyes have no irises but all in plain blue green colour, it has no lips nor nose or eyebrow.

It stared at Zi Yingjun when a small gap was created. The monster smiled to him, revealing black sharp lips but there is nothingness within its mouth. "Reborn...." the hoarse and deep voice of the monster said. Its smile grew wider as if laughing at Zi Yingjun.

He was taken aback upon hearing that word from the monster. Zi Yingjun took a step back. He had secretly refined spirit crystals behind his back and replenished his spiritual sea with enough qi to help him escape. Although the chance is slim, as long as there is hope, he can continue.

The monster raised his hand and opened it as the white bones turned into a black gas and he devoured it easily then turned his back to Zi Yingjun. The girl called Ye Jie is still screaming in pain. A black gas corroded her body starting from her knee and upwards. She only have half of her body left and upon seeing the monster, she got more fearful.

Zi Yingjun watched the monster approach Ye Jie when it suddenly used one hand to hold her face. The monster is no longer smiling as its face turned stoic like before. He raised Ye Jie's body by holding her head. She was crying in pain that she screamed and begged to die. It was not long, either the monster got annoyed or her time has arrived, he easily crushed Ye Jie's head with one hand. Her whole body turned into dark gases and the monster opened its mouth to eat it. He turned to Zi Yingjun but after a long silence, left him alone and went deeper to the forest again.

"A Shadow Asura is that powerful?" Zi Yingjun pondered when he glanced at the empty place where the two experts are standing previously. He turned around and left the hunting ground quickly. The Shadow Asura let go of him and even indirectly killed a threat to his life. That is already luck for him being spared. From the looks of it, the Shadow Asura only hunted preys in the Foundation Building Stage and since Zi Yingjun is only a Qi Refinement cultivator, it was useless in the Shadow Asura's eyes.

What made him doubt its existence is that, Shadow Asura are not that ferocious nor they have the ability to devour. Also, the shape of that beast was in a man which meant it was more powerful than normal Shadow Asura. The terrifying death of those two experts made him thirst to overpower the Shadow Asura but it needs proper preparation that'll take a long time.