Chapter 164: Chasing the Killer

Countdown.

10:00 PM.

Darkness has completely enveloped the forbidden land.

Qing Huai was running with a limp. One of his arms was gone and one of his legs was also disabled.

The open wound on the thigh continued to bleed. Fortunately, the Level C master’s self-healing ability was strong enough so that he could barely hold on.

Qing Huai still had a little hope left.

It was true that he had deceived the autumn hunting team before, but it was true that according to the map he had, they would indeed be able to get out of the forbidden land in another five hours.

And that was the calculated with the speed of walking.

Logically speaking, he should have escaped long ago as he ran North at full speed.

Guessing the time, Qing Huai felt that the troops coming to meet him from the Second Federal Army should have arrived outside the Forbidden Land.

That group was led by his uncle, so nothing could go wrong with that.

He was the one that’s late.

Qing Huai kept having to avid the strange plants in the Forbidden Land. The most annoying thing was that there were monkeys in the canopy threw fruits at him from time to time.

Those little monsters were so strong that if he got accidentally hit by a fruit, he would easily lose his balance.

Qing Huai thought to himself that the teenager he met just now was able to activate the Autumn Leaf Blade and mastered so many rules of the Forbidden Land 002. That teenager was undoubtedly a Knight.

It was said that Forbidden Land 002 was the Knights’ home. He was starting to think that the reason he hadn’t escaped was because this terrifying existence didn’t want him to leave?!

Just as he was getting more and more frightened as he thought about it, the young man appeared again, still running beside him in parallel, “You’re adopted.”

“Your wife sleeps with other men… I think I’ve said this one already. Your grandpa sleeps with men.”

Qing Huai: “???”

He almost coughed up a mouthful of blood on the spot. That kid’s not going to stop, is he?

However, something even more frightening happened the next second. The young man who could activate Autumn Leaf Blades… took out a thick pile of fallen leaves from his pocket.

So just now, you’ve disappeared to collect leaves?

But… Why so many?!

Even though the teenager was weak, and the power of the Autumn Leaf Blade wasn’t strong enough to inflict a fatal wound on him, the problem was that too many of them would still be able to do enough harm!

There were hundreds of leaves in that pile!

As Qing Chen was running side by side with him. Qing Chen suddenly pulled out a piece of leaf and threw it out with a flick of his wrist.

Qing Huai subconsciously dodged it, but soon he discovered that the fallen leaf that was thrown out did not turn into a blade at all, and was fluttering powerlessly in the sky.

Qing Huai’s face darkened. What’s up with this mockery?

In fact, Qing Chen had only just become a Knight. With the little amount of Qi that he had, he could only throw four or five Autumn Leaf Blades in an hour. Moreover, his strength was far behind that of Qing Huai so even if all five of them hit, he still wouldn’t be able to kill Qing Huai.

Moreover, it was too difficult to make all five hit the target.

Even with the injuries on his opponent’s body, Level C was Level C after all.

Therefore, the best strategy was to create the greatest impact at the lowest cost.

Qing Chen would throw one out every once in a while. The moment a leaf left his hand it would fly straight, but a second later, the leaf would start to catch the air resistance and lose its trajectory.

But Qing Huai still had to dodge!

And dodging would affect his speed!

At this moment, Qing Huai was having a headache. He wanted to focus and figure out the correct escape path, but Qing Chen kept breaking his thoughts with the occasional leaves!

Now that Qing Chen had tossed more than twenty leaves toward him, there had yet to be a real Autumn Leaf Blade. Instead, his speed became slower and slower from dodging the trajectory of Autumn Leaf Blades, and he saw the dark clouds behind him were about to come over his head!

This was so irritating.

From the corner of his eye, Qing Huai saw the young man’s wrist flick again, but he did not try to dodge it this time because the dark clouds behind him were too close. He couldn’t afford to waste any more time!

Slash!

The leaf struck his waist.

This time, it was a real Autumn Leaf Blade.

“Hiss!” Qing Huai suddenly gasped, and his whole body tensed up.

It hurt so much!

The waist muscles were the most difficult to strengthen, especially near the back waist. He wanted to use his muscles to clamp the Autumn Leaf Blade, but he failed.

Fortunately, his C-rank physique was indeed strong, and the Autumn Leaf Blade could only pierce through less than half an inch of his flesh.

But Qing Huai knew that the teenager’s goal was not to kill himself with the Autumn Leaf Blade but to slow down his speed.

As time passed, more and more poisonous insects followed Qing Huai. The dark cloud was just a small clump at first, but now it looked like a huge thunderstorm cloud, making it seem extremely terrifying.

Hearing the buzzing sound approaching from behind, Qing Huai felt that he might have attracted all the poisonous insects from the edge of the Forbidden Land!

He bent down all of a sudden. His thighs, calves, and feet activated like a burning machine.

As a C-level master, this was his last potential!

He could feel the very little amount of fat in his body being burnt, turning into fuel for his body.

A leap forward.

Like an arrow taking off, he quickly broke away from the giant cluster of insects around him.

However…

This was the moment that Qing Chen was waiting for.

Qing Chen, who had been keeping a steady distance, looked calm, calm as the surface of a lake, and his eyes were crystal clear like the water in the lake.

Just as Qing Huai was about to land from his leap forward…

Qing Chen released dozens of leaves on his left hand. The leaves fell down slowly as if they were sending Qing Huai off, at the same time, they blocked Qing Huai’s view.

As the leaves were falling, Qing Chen’s right hand which was behind his back the whole time suddenly exerted power on three Autumn Leaf Blades.

At the speed of lightning…

In Qing Huai’s eyes, three Autumn Leaf Blades pierced through the gaps of the falling leaves and locked onto three vital points on his body.

Heart, spleen, and abdomen!

Qing Huai started leveraging the strength of his waist and hips again, trying to turn his body so he could use his stronger muscular groups to take the hits.

But just as he turned his back to Qing Chen, Qing Chen picked out another piece of leaf from his hair and shot it toward Qing Huai’s neck!

This was exactly what Qing Chen wanted.

Mom Ye once said that if not protected, one’s carotid arteries on either side of the neck would be the weakest part. It was being exposed to the open air and only protected by a thin layer of skin.

Once pierced, within seconds the brain would stop functioning from lack of oxygen.

An enemy would generally subconsciously protect there, but if one day you could learn to let your enemies open their vital points to you, the neck would be a fine choice.

Time seemed to have slowed down.

No, time couldn’t actually slow down.

But just as Qing Chen released his Autumn Leaf Blade, the cloud chasing after Qing Huai stopped and slowly dispersed.

They didn’t seem to need to check whether the Autumn Leaf Blade would hit Qing Huai or not. The terrifying Forbidden Land already knew the result.

The person who broke the rules would die soon, and there was no need to chase further.

Qing Chen’s pupils shrunk into a vertical oval, like a beast’s His eyes tracked the Autumn Leaf Blade as it left a clear trace among the falling leaves.

Then, it also left a thin line of blood on Qing Huai’s neck.

Translated by: Summit