Free Web NovelChapter 1684: Chapter 1686: As Elusive as a Ghost
The Exploration Team over there was about to have a mental breakdown.
Was this lord using this place as his personal practice field or what?
How come he looks like a different person every few minutes, and every version is stupidly overpowered—Nascent Soul Stage blood-men don’t even count as enemies to you guys?!
And you’re doing it while reciting poetry and trading verses!
Could you be any more badass?!
How about this, I’ll go back and tell our Alliance Hierarch you alone cleared this whole area, how’s that?
Don’t worry, we’ll handle the soundtrack and score for you, okay?!
"Captain, are we... still going?" a team member asked, gulping nonstop.
"Anyone know where to find a good poetry troupe?" the captain asked blankly.
Team member: "..." It’s over! It’s over! The captain is definitely broken!
On the battlefield.
"As expected, he’s doing way better than me!" Xiang Yu said with an awkward laugh.
Look at this guy—not playing any fancy flashy tricks. Sure, it’s not like Xiang Yu’s "one swing wipes half the screen" kind of visual shock, but this guy is just going one Knife at a time, heading straight for the objective!
"Indeed, in terms of practicality, I’m not as good as he is!" Li Bai sighed in genuine admiration.
Whether it was his own fancy flourish or Xiang Yu’s fancy flourish, when it came to advancing distance, neither could compare to this seemingly plain, straightforward Xin Qiji!
"I’m just a bit more honest, that’s all," Xin Qiji said modestly.
"However, here’s the problem: if we just keep killing our way forward like this, even with our young friend’s incredibly tough body, he won’t last until the end, will he?" Li Bai said aloud.
"Yeah, I was just thinking about that as well. Even though our methods differ, in the end what we’re burning through is our young friend’s stamina!" Xin Qiji said as he swung his Knife again and chopped down another person.
"But if we don’t cut them down, there’s no way we can get through this dense wall of bodies!" Xiang Yu scratched his head.
He’d made the biggest fuss earlier, so he felt a little embarrassed now!
"Maybe... we can."
A slightly sharp voice drifted over.
"Zheng He, little bro, you’re here!" Xiang Yu laughed heartily when he saw Zheng He.
Li Bai also nodded in greeting, then immediately asked about what Zheng He had just said: "So Master Zheng means it can be done?"
"How about we give it a try?" Zheng He smiled slightly, not making any guarantees.
"All right then, you take over." Xin Qiji handed over control of the body.
"My apologies, young friend!" Zheng He immediately took over command of the body.
Earlier, before Xiang Yu and Xin Qiji took control, there had still been a moment for a few words, but with him there wasn’t.
Simple reason: Li Bai and Xiang Yu were using area-of-effect attacks, so there was a window while fresh blood-men refilled the gaps. But Xin Qiji was a straight single-target rush, so Zheng He had no time to waste on chatter.
Zheng He knew he had to seize every second, and even the Exploration Team members all tensed up along with him.
They’d already gotten used to this guy pausing for a moment after every big round of slaughter.
But this time was different. If he paused as long as he had in the previous rounds, something bad was definitely going to happen!
However—
Just as they stared unblinkingly in this direction—
Suddenly!
Their vision blurred— that person actually disappeared?!
Yes, disappeared, just like that, vanished right before their eyes!
The Exploration Team practically pissed themselves!
"Captain, uh, that... that’s not a ghost, right?" The team member’s scalp was tingling; his whole body felt wrong.
This was a solid mass of blood-men packed shoulder to shoulder; how could a living person just vanish into thin air?
The captain’s hair was standing on end too!
What the hell?!
In an environment like this, no matter how fast you are, you can’t just dash out, right?!
Where’d he go?
Where the hell did he go?!
"Captain, look—up ahead! In front of where he was just now!" a team member said in shock.
"What!? Up ahead?! Those blood-men aren’t dead! How did he get in front of them?!" The captain saw it too!
But right after that, Lu Xiaobu’s figure vanished from his sight again!
He instinctively looked even farther ahead, and sure enough, that person appeared again, further up!
How is that possible?!
In a crowd this packed, how could someone appear and disappear out of nowhere like that?!
"Captain! Captain!" a team member yelled again!
"What now? I’m watching! He’s just in front, isn’t he!" The captain said, a little impatient.
He was still busy trying to figure out how this guy was doing it!
"I’m not talking about him, I mean us! Us!" The team member’s voice was almost breaking into tears!
"What on—"
The captain got two words out and then stopped!
Because he suddenly realized what was happening!
God damn it!
After that person drifted away without a sound, the attention of the blood-men wasn’t as concentrated anymore!
So now, they’d turned their eyes on the Exploration Team too!
"Run!" the captain shouted immediately.
The whole group took off like their lives depended on it—because they did.
But they weren’t Lu Xiaobu—or rather, they weren’t Zheng He—so how could they possibly get past this human wall?
They could only kill as they ran!
Fortunately, the distance wasn’t far!
Even so, they still paid the price of three deaths and a gravely injured captain!
Once they left the grassland and re-entered the forest, the blood-men calmed down a bit; only a portion chased after them!
"Move, head for the entrance!" the captain coughed up blood as he was helped along—this time something big was going to blow up!
But he still couldn’t help turning his head for one last look, wanting to find that silhouette!
But how could he see anything now?!
Back in the blood-man horde.
Zheng He, in control of Lu Xiaobu’s body, was still gliding and drifting nonstop.
"Good heavens! Master Zheng, how are you doing this?!" Even Li Bai was stunned: "Passing through a sea of flowers, not a single leaf sticking to you?"
"This is insane!" Xiang Yu was a little freaked out too.
He could actually weave through a crowd this dense?!
This level of body movement?!
It’s practically divine!
Drifting and twisting through the crowd, Zheng He laughed as he said, "It’s nothing. I spent my whole life drifting at sea; I’ve seen more than my share of storms, reefs, and undercurrents, naturally I developed a set of instincts."
"After coming to this world, I unconsciously integrated all that into my body movement techniques, and over these hundreds of years with nothing else to do, all I had left was to study this stuff!"
"But we should also thank the three of you for your earlier slaughter! It was your large-scale killing that forced these originally packed blood-men to start moving!"
"Once they move, gaps appear, and those gaps are the undercurrents in my eyes!"
"Besides, our young friend just happens to have a Five Elements Divine Body—no, a Seven Elements Divine Body. At critical moments, he can even use the ground itself to move forward; that’s how this is possible!"
Zheng He’s explanation made everyone suddenly see the light.
But understanding was one thing—they also knew that if it were them, they absolutely couldn’t pull this off!
Look at this guy: he didn’t kill a single blood-man, yet he advanced several hundred meters, unlike them—especially Xiang Yu—who slaughtered like mad and didn’t move an inch!
"That said, we can only advance a certain distance like this. Once we’re past this zone, there won’t be any of those gaps between the blood-men who weren’t affected by your earlier killing, so there’ll be no seams for me to slip through. When that happens, I’ll have to ask you three to take the field again!" Zheng He said with a cheerful smile.
"But of course!" the three replied at once.
They knew Zheng He was just being polite. Otherwise, with him being the grand admiral who dominated the seas, how could he not know how to kill?
