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Chapter 60: The Final Boss (3)
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This! It cannot be!
BOOM!
The gigantic creature landed on the ground with a loud 'boom', causing the whole ground to be cracked open.
"A greater species! Supreme Salamander!" exclaimed the sword with horrified voice.
If the Molten Komodosaurus was a one star monster, then this Supreme Salamander was of the two star monster. In other words, a pinnacle stage core formation realm creature!
"This is overkill! We cannot dream to even beat this thing! Hurry up young master! We must escape from this maze!" shouted the sword as it turned panic.
Duan Li nodded grimly as he could also make out the extremely dire situation they were in right now. To think that the maze would send in a creature of a 2 star rank against them!
BAM!
The Supreme Salamander slapped its long tail onto the Komodo as the latter was pinned to the ground. With a terrified expression, the Komodo closed its eyes as it lost all hope and was about to be devoured whole by the Salamander!
This Salamander was also a monster from the second region and was its natural predator that they had to run away from. But now that it was right in front of the Komodo, the latter naturally could only resign to its pitiful fate.
After all, in this place and in such a state it was in right now, even if his binding with the maze has been nulled, how could it even run away?
Damn it..
Hais..
However right now, just as it expected to be eaten alive, the most unpredictable thing happened.
Peng! Peng! Peng!
The long javellin spears attacked at the Salamander's eyes as Duan Li threw the palm art with an even greater force behind it towards the Salamander's tail that had pinned down the Komodo.
Pah!!
Taking this opportunity, the Komodo was able to skid away freely from the grasp of the Salamander. The electric shocks within its body was also cancelled by Duan Li as it recovered most of its speed.
Arriving by the side of Duan Li with a blank look, he could not understand just what was the human beside him was thinking when the latter suddenly spoke out, "Enemy of yesterday could become today's ally! For the sake of survival, let us cooperate!"
When the Komodo heard this, it was naturally about to refuse. Being a reptilian creature that possesses a sliver of the dragon bloodline within it, its dignity and pride was unquestionable.
However, when he gazed towards that deep eye's of Duan Li. He could not help but to nod. Somehow, there was something about the latter's disposition that evoked its obedience.
What was it?
The Salamander had managed to block Duan Li's sudden attack by quickly closing its eyelids. Thus, when Duan Li saw this, he couldn't help but to curse a little, "Damn it! Even its eyelids was that thick?!"
He quickly gathered back all 60 of the javellin spears to float above him. However, now that he had decided to cooperate with the Komodo, naturally he had to boost its battle prowess as well.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
With a thought, Duan Li transformed 30 of the javellin spears into body armours that equipped itself around the body of the Komodo.
The Komodo was surprised by this supportive gesture of Duan Li as it had not expected for the latter to even provide him with a body armour!
This gesture of Duan Li commended a trace of respect within the Komodo's heart as it nodded towards Duan Li.
Seeing this, Duan Li smiled in return as he transformed another 10 of the javellin spears into a full suit of body armour for himself as well.
And then, he willed yet another 10 of the javellin spears to morph and become floating shields around him. With a single thought of his, these shields would be able to block any incoming attack from the Salamander, or so he hoped.
The Salamander right now was still gauging its entire surrounding as it was quite surprised to be sent onto another place so suddenly.
However, it didn't took long for the Salamander to completely lose interest in its new surrounding and locked its focus onto Duan Li that had dared to initiate an attack against him!
As a proud creature of the 2 star rank, how could it endure to be assaulted by a mere human at the Foundation establishment realm?
Thus, lifting its right arm, the Salamander slashed its claws towards the front, creating streams of four arcs slicing through the air, as they flew towards Duan Li with extreme speeds and lethality behind them!
Peng! Peng! Peng! Peng!
It was fortunate that Duan Li had formed the shields earlier on. Otherwise, he would definitely have to take some damage!
"A skill art? The Salamander was able to use skill arts?" exclaimed Duan Li in astonishment.
Seeming amused by the little human figure that was able to block its claw attack, the Salamander slashed repeatedly towards Duan Li as the latter continued to block.
Although this appeared to look like Duan Li was able to hold his ground, in reality, this was not the case. Because with each block, the shields would use a substantial amount of Duan Li's spiritual Qi to diffuse away the damages!
Not to mention, the Salamander did not seemed to intent on taking them seriously!
"This can't go on! I need to finish the maze!" turning his head towards the Komodo, Duan Li spoke out "Go and distract him away from me! I will need to finish the puzzle so we can escape from this maze!"
The Komodo nodded its head as its eyes gleamed with seriousness, "Its either die trying, or die regretting!". Its throat then bulged out to spit the molten lava at the Salamander.
Bam!
This attack caused the Salamander to stop its claw assault on Duan Li as its focus shifted onto the Komodo and attacked the latter instead.
"Damned food! You dare to rebel against me?! DIE!!"
Psheww! Psheww!
...
With Duan Li free from the barrage of assault, he quickly breathed in to replenish his spiritual Qi reserves as he constantly vanishes and reappears onto the remaining stone pedestal to snatch the treasure boxes away.
Noticing this peculiar situation, the Salamander could naturally predict that something was amiss. Eventhough it didn't know what the human in front of it was planning along with the Komodo, the Salamander knew that it should stop Duan Li from succeeding whatever it was he was trying to do.
'Skill art: Supreme Salamander's Flame!'
The Salamander sweep out blazes of streaming hot flames from its mouth towards the Komodo and Duan Li. With the material they were using as protection has an extreme weakness against fire, their spiritual Qi quickly plummeted.
'Skill art: Salamander's Lava Field!'
BOOM!
The ground began to burn up like crazy as they turned to glow hot red as if standing atop of lava. Furthermore, the surrounding air began to heats up considerably to a scalding temperature level that could burn up the human body to a second degree burn with prolonged exposure to it.
Left with no other choice, Duan Li had to float in the air as the ground was burning his feet. Eventhough the air was also hot, his physical body could handle it for awhile, but he had to stop breathing or else his internal organs will be cooked!
Unable to either absorb spiritual Qi nor breath, the situation right now could be considered to be extremely precarious!
Just as the situation was turning to become worse, the Komodo shook off the armours it was using. This was because its body could withstand such heat as it was part of its natural traits.
However, with the armours gone, the Komodo was now exposed to physical damage. Thus, the Salamander quickly took this opportunity and uses its skill arts to claw at the latter continuously, as if playing around with its food.
ROAARR!!
The Komodo began to become injured with the torrential assault from the Salamander.
Witnessing this scene, the pressure building upon Duan Li caused his state of self to slowly degrade away.
"No! No! What should I do? Damn it!!"
Right now, Duan Li was struck by multiple emotions - fear, anxiousness, panic, desperation and... anger! With all these emotions bubbling up within him, slowly, his memories began to reel in towards the moment where he had witnessed the fall of the Jiu empire, the corpses of his friends and the death of his mother.
"This weakness! I will not let.. such a thing.. such a scene! To happen ever again!"
Duan Li's face slowly contorted to become extremely hideous as blood dripped down from his palm from clenching his fist too tightly that the nails began to puncture through the skin.
"NEVER.AGAIN!!"
"ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Duan Li howled out with an extremely tyrannical hoarse voice that immediately attracted both the attention of the Salamander and the Komodo as the former stopped its attacks on the latter.
"Dangerous!" the Salamander leaped backwards with utmost apprehension as its instinct roared out that a premonition of death was looming over the whole area right now.
Duan Li's aura continued to become sharper and deadlier, as he eventually radiated out streams of dark gold and crimson aura entangling between each other. On the middle of his chest, both the golden and the red mysterious pearl had glowed brightly.
"Y-young master! What happened to you?!" exclaimed the sword as it palpitated in fear. Even the little cub was shivering, feeling extremely scared.
Right now, Duan Li's consciousness had ignored all sorts of logical reasoning as he began to churn out and cycle his spiritual Qi with extreme speeds even surpassing during the time when he had fought the Earthly golem!
Bzztt.. Bzztt... BAZZTTTTTTT!!
The thunder essence that laid dormant within Duan Li began to activate at this moment. Duan Li's whole body was now shrouded with blue sparks all over, as his hair rose upwards like the peaks of Mountain Tai and his pupils turned golden!
...
Above the clouds of region one, within the humble abode of the Guardian, a 'crash' sound could be heard as the old man dropped his cup of tea that he was enjoying leisurely before onto the floor and stood up suddenly.
"What.. this feeling?! The spiritual Qi fluctuations of the whole environment was being pulled in forcefully..." the face of the old man turned grim as he used his heavenly sense to trace the origin of this cause.
When he had finally found the source, his eyes turned wide as he couldn't help but to be surprised and his little heart jolted in apprehension.
"Its the location of the third maze! Damn it! What the hell is that brat doing again right now!"
Whooshh!
...
Somewhere within the area of the One Hundred Thousand Graveyard lake..
"Eh? The thunders within me.. are agitated?" said the mother wolf as it turned its head towards the direction of the first region.
"Its that human... has something happened?"
...
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Chapter 60: The Final Boss (3)
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This! It cannot be!
BOOM!
The gigantic creature landed on the ground with a loud 'boom', causing the whole ground to be cracked open.
"A greater species! Supreme Salamander!" exclaimed the sword with horrified voice.
If the Molten Komodosaurus was a one star monster, then this Supreme Salamander was of the two star monster. In other words, a pinnacle stage core formation realm creature!
"This is overkill! We cannot dream to even beat this thing! Hurry up young master! We must escape from this maze!" shouted the sword as it turned panic.
Duan Li nodded grimly as he could also make out the extremely dire situation they were in right now. To think that the maze would send in a creature of a 2 star rank against them!
BAM!
The Supreme Salamander slapped its long tail onto the Komodo as the latter was pinned to the ground. With a terrified expression, the Komodo closed its eyes as it lost all hope and was about to be devoured whole by the Salamander!
This Salamander was also a monster from the second region and was its natural predator that they had to run away from. But now that it was right in front of the Komodo, the latter naturally could only resign to its pitiful fate.
After all, in this place and in such a state it was in right now, even if his binding with the maze has been nulled, how could it even run away?
Damn it..
Hais..
However right now, just as it expected to be eaten alive, the most unpredictable thing happened.
Peng! Peng! Peng!
The long javellin spears attacked at the Salamander's eyes as Duan Li threw the palm art with an even greater force behind it towards the Salamander's tail that had pinned down the Komodo.
Pah!!
Taking this opportunity, the Komodo was able to skid away freely from the grasp of the Salamander. The electric shocks within its body was also cancelled by Duan Li as it recovered most of its speed.
Arriving by the side of Duan Li with a blank look, he could not understand just what was the human beside him was thinking when the latter suddenly spoke out, "Enemy of yesterday could become today's ally! For the sake of survival, let us cooperate!"
When the Komodo heard this, it was naturally about to refuse. Being a reptilian creature that possesses a sliver of the dragon bloodline within it, its dignity and pride was unquestionable.
However, when he gazed towards that deep eye's of Duan Li. He could not help but to nod. Somehow, there was something about the latter's disposition that evoked its obedience.
What was it?
The Salamander had managed to block Duan Li's sudden attack by quickly closing its eyelids. Thus, when Duan Li saw this, he couldn't help but to curse a little, "Damn it! Even its eyelids was that thick?!"
He quickly gathered back all 60 of the javellin spears to float above him. However, now that he had decided to cooperate with the Komodo, naturally he had to boost its battle prowess as well.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
With a thought, Duan Li transformed 30 of the javellin spears into body armours that equipped itself around the body of the Komodo.
The Komodo was surprised by this supportive gesture of Duan Li as it had not expected for the latter to even provide him with a body armour!
This gesture of Duan Li commended a trace of respect within the Komodo's heart as it nodded towards Duan Li.
Seeing this, Duan Li smiled in return as he transformed another 10 of the javellin spears into a full suit of body armour for himself as well.
And then, he willed yet another 10 of the javellin spears to morph and become floating shields around him. With a single thought of his, these shields would be able to block any incoming attack from the Salamander, or so he hoped.
The Salamander right now was still gauging its entire surrounding as it was quite surprised to be sent onto another place so suddenly.
However, it didn't took long for the Salamander to completely lose interest in its new surrounding and locked its focus onto Duan Li that had dared to initiate an attack against him!
As a proud creature of the 2 star rank, how could it endure to be assaulted by a mere human at the Foundation establishment realm?
Thus, lifting its right arm, the Salamander slashed its claws towards the front, creating streams of four arcs slicing through the air, as they flew towards Duan Li with extreme speeds and lethality behind them!
Peng! Peng! Peng! Peng!
It was fortunate that Duan Li had formed the shields earlier on. Otherwise, he would definitely have to take some damage!
"A skill art? The Salamander was able to use skill arts?" exclaimed Duan Li in astonishment.
Seeming amused by the little human figure that was able to block its claw attack, the Salamander slashed repeatedly towards Duan Li as the latter continued to block.
Although this appeared to look like Duan Li was able to hold his ground, in reality, this was not the case. Because with each block, the shields would use a substantial amount of Duan Li's spiritual Qi to diffuse away the damages!
Not to mention, the Salamander did not seemed to intent on taking them seriously!
"This can't go on! I need to finish the maze!" turning his head towards the Komodo, Duan Li spoke out "Go and distract him away from me! I will need to finish the puzzle so we can escape from this maze!"
The Komodo nodded its head as its eyes gleamed with seriousness, "Its either die trying, or die regretting!". Its throat then bulged out to spit the molten lava at the Salamander.
Bam!
This attack caused the Salamander to stop its claw assault on Duan Li as its focus shifted onto the Komodo and attacked the latter instead.
"Damned food! You dare to rebel against me?! DIE!!"
Psheww! Psheww!
...
With Duan Li free from the barrage of assault, he quickly breathed in to replenish his spiritual Qi reserves as he constantly vanishes and reappears onto the remaining stone pedestal to snatch the treasure boxes away.
Noticing this peculiar situation, the Salamander could naturally predict that something was amiss. Eventhough it didn't know what the human in front of it was planning along with the Komodo, the Salamander knew that it should stop Duan Li from succeeding whatever it was he was trying to do.
'Skill art: Supreme Salamander's Flame!'
The Salamander sweep out blazes of streaming hot flames from its mouth towards the Komodo and Duan Li. With the material they were using as protection has an extreme weakness against fire, their spiritual Qi quickly plummeted.
'Skill art: Salamander's Lava Field!'
BOOM!
The ground began to burn up like crazy as they turned to glow hot red as if standing atop of lava. Furthermore, the surrounding air began to heats up considerably to a scalding temperature level that could burn up the human body to a second degree burn with prolonged exposure to it.
Left with no other choice, Duan Li had to float in the air as the ground was burning his feet. Eventhough the air was also hot, his physical body could handle it for awhile, but he had to stop breathing or else his internal organs will be cooked!
Unable to either absorb spiritual Qi nor breath, the situation right now could be considered to be extremely precarious!
Just as the situation was turning to become worse, the Komodo shook off the armours it was using. This was because its body could withstand such heat as it was part of its natural traits.
However, with the armours gone, the Komodo was now exposed to physical damage. Thus, the Salamander quickly took this opportunity and uses its skill arts to claw at the latter continuously, as if playing around with its food.
ROAARR!!
The Komodo began to become injured with the torrential assault from the Salamander.
Witnessing this scene, the pressure building upon Duan Li caused his state of self to slowly degrade away.
"No! No! What should I do? Damn it!!"
Right now, Duan Li was struck by multiple emotions - fear, anxiousness, panic, desperation and... anger! With all these emotions bubbling up within him, slowly, his memories began to reel in towards the moment where he had witnessed the fall of the Jiu empire, the corpses of his friends and the death of his mother.
"This weakness! I will not let.. such a thing.. such a scene! To happen ever again!"
Duan Li's face slowly contorted to become extremely hideous as blood dripped down from his palm from clenching his fist too tightly that the nails began to puncture through the skin.
"NEVER.AGAIN!!"
"ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Duan Li howled out with an extremely tyrannical hoarse voice that immediately attracted both the attention of the Salamander and the Komodo as the former stopped its attacks on the latter.
"Dangerous!" the Salamander leaped backwards with utmost apprehension as its instinct roared out that a premonition of death was looming over the whole area right now.
Duan Li's aura continued to become sharper and deadlier, as he eventually radiated out streams of dark gold and crimson aura entangling between each other. On the middle of his chest, both the golden and the red mysterious pearl had glowed brightly.
"Y-young master! What happened to you?!" exclaimed the sword as it palpitated in fear. Even the little cub was shivering, feeling extremely scared.
Right now, Duan Li's consciousness had ignored all sorts of logical reasoning as he began to churn out and cycle his spiritual Qi with extreme speeds even surpassing during the time when he had fought the Earthly golem!
Bzztt.. Bzztt... BAZZTTTTTTT!!
The thunder essence that laid dormant within Duan Li began to activate at this moment. Duan Li's whole body was now shrouded with blue sparks all over, as his hair rose upwards like the peaks of Mountain Tai and his pupils turned golden!
...
Above the clouds of region one, within the humble abode of the Guardian, a 'crash' sound could be heard as the old man dropped his cup of tea that he was enjoying leisurely before onto the floor and stood up suddenly.
"What.. this feeling?! The spiritual Qi fluctuations of the whole environment was being pulled in forcefully..." the face of the old man turned grim as he used his heavenly sense to trace the origin of this cause.
When he had finally found the source, his eyes turned wide as he couldn't help but to be surprised and his little heart jolted in apprehension.
"Its the location of the third maze! Damn it! What the hell is that brat doing again right now!"
Whooshh!
...
Somewhere within the area of the One Hundred Thousand Graveyard lake..
"Eh? The thunders within me.. are agitated?" said the mother wolf as it turned its head towards the direction of the first region.
"Its that human... has something happened?"
...
Chapter 60: The Final Boss 3 ####PATREON#### Visit my patreon to support this novel at www.patreon.com/ramzeyramzo Tier 1 Fans of UIU = $2.00 -Entitled to basic contents. Tier 2 Loyal Reader = $5.00 -Entitled to early release. Tier 3 Noble Reader = $10.00 -Entitled to early & double release. Tier 4 Quasi Aurthor = $50.00 -Submit one chapter worth story plot with your name on it. Tier 5 Half Author = $200.00 -Submit ten chapter worth story plot with your name on it. #################### This! It cannot be! BOOM! The gigantic creature landed on the ground with a loud 'boom', causing the whole ground to be cracked open. "A greater species! Supreme Salamander!" exclaimed the sword with horrified voice. If the Molten Komodosaurus was a one star monster, then this Supreme Salamander was of the two star monster. In other words, a pinnacle stage core formation realm creature! "This is overkill! We cannot dream to even beat this thing! Hurry up young master! We must escape from this maze!" shouted the sword as it turned panic. Duan Li nodded grimly as he could also make out the extremely dire situation they were in right now. To think that the maze would send in a creature of a 2 star rank against them! BAM! The Supreme Salamander slapped its long tail onto the Komodo as the latter was pinned to the ground. With a terrified expression, the Komodo closed its eyes as it lost all hope and was about to be devoured whole by the Salamander! This Salamander was also a monster from the second region and was its natural predator that they had to run away from. But now that it was right in front of the Komodo, the latter naturally could only resign to its pitiful fate. After all, in this place and in such a state it was in right now, even if his binding with the maze has been nulled, how could it even run away? Damn it.. Hais.. However right now, just as it expected to be eaten alive, the most unpredictable thing happened. Peng! Peng! Peng! The long javellin spears attacked at the Salamander's eyes as Duan Li threw the palm art with an even greater force behind it towards the Salamander's tail that had pinned down the Komodo. Pah!! Taking this opportunity, the Komodo was able to skid away freely from the grasp of the Salamander. The electric shocks within its body was also cancelled by Duan Li as it recovered most of its speed. Arriving by the side of Duan Li with a blank look, he could not understand just what was the human beside him was thinking when the latter suddenly spoke out, "Enemy of yesterday could become today's ally! For the sake of survival, let us cooperate!" When the Komodo heard this, it was naturally about to refuse. Being a reptilian creature that possesses a sliver of the dragon bloodline within it, its dignity and pride was unquestionable. However, when he gazed towards that deep eye's of Duan Li. He could not help but to nod. Somehow, there was something about the latter's disposition that evoked its obedience. What was it? The Salamander had managed to block Duan Li's sudden attack by quickly closing its eyelids. Thus, when Duan Li saw this, he couldn't help but to curse a little, "Damn it! Even its eyelids was that thick?!" He quickly gathered back all 60 of the javellin spears to float above him. However, now that he had decided to cooperate with the Komodo, naturally he had to boost its battle prowess as well. Clang! Clang! Clang! With a thought, Duan Li transformed 30 of the javellin spears into body armours that equipped itself around the body of the Komodo. The Komodo was surprised by this supportive gesture of Duan Li as it had not expected for the latter to even provide him with a body armour! This gesture of Duan Li commended a trace of respect within the Komodo's heart as it nodded towards Duan Li. Seeing this, Duan Li smiled in return as he transformed another 10 of the javellin spears into a full suit of body armour for himself as well. And then, he willed yet another 10 of the javellin spears to morph and become floating shields around him. With a single thought of his, these shields would be able to block any incoming attack from the Salamander, or so he hoped. The Salamander right now was still gauging its entire surrounding as it was quite surprised to be sent onto another place so suddenly. However, it didn't took long for the Salamander to completely lose interest in its new surrounding and locked its focus onto Duan Li that had dared to initiate an attack against him! As a proud creature of the 2 star rank, how could it endure to be assaulted by a mere human at the Foundation establishment realm? Thus, lifting its right arm, the Salamander slashed its claws towards the front, creating streams of four arcs slicing through the air, as they flew towards Duan Li with extreme speeds and lethality behind them! Peng! Peng! Peng! Peng! It was fortunate that Duan Li had formed the shields earlier on. Otherwise, he would definitely have to take some damage! "A skill art? The Salamander was able to use skill arts?" exclaimed Duan Li in astonishment. Seeming amused by the little human figure that was able to block its claw attack, the Salamander slashed repeatedly towards Duan Li as the latter continued to block. Although this appeared to look like Duan Li was able to hold his ground, in reality, this was not the case. Because with each block, the shields would use a substantial amount of Duan Li's spiritual Qi to diffuse away the damages! Not to mention, the Salamander did not seemed to intent on taking them seriously! "This can't go on! I need to finish the maze!" turning his head towards the Komodo, Duan Li spoke out "Go and distract him away from me! I will need to finish the puzzle so we can escape from this maze!" The Komodo nodded its head as its eyes gleamed with seriousness, "Its either die trying, or die regretting!". Its throat then bulged out to spit the molten lava at the Salamander. Bam! This attack caused the Salamander to stop its claw assault on Duan Li as its focus shifted onto the Komodo and attacked the latter instead. "Damned food! You dare to rebel against me?! DIE!!" Psheww! Psheww! ... With Duan Li free from the barrage of assault, he quickly breathed in to replenish his spiritual Qi reserves as he constantly vanishes and reappears onto the remaining stone pedestal to snatch the treasure boxes away. Noticing this peculiar situation, the Salamander could naturally predict that something was amiss. Eventhough it didn't know what the human in front of it was planning along with the Komodo, the Salamander knew that it should stop Duan Li from succeeding whatever it was he was trying to do. 'Skill art: Supreme Salamander's Flame!' The Salamander sweep out blazes of streaming hot flames from its mouth towards the Komodo and Duan Li. With the material they were using as protection has an extreme weakness against fire, their spiritual Qi quickly plummeted. 'Skill art: Salamander's Lava Field!' BOOM! The ground began to burn up like crazy as they turned to glow hot red as if standing atop of lava. Furthermore, the surrounding air began to heats up considerably to a scalding temperature level that could burn up the human body to a second degree burn with prolonged exposure to it. Left with no other choice, Duan Li had to float in the air as the ground was burning his feet. Eventhough the air was also hot, his physical body could handle it for awhile, but he had to stop breathing or else his internal organs will be cooked! Unable to either absorb spiritual Qi nor breath, the situation right now could be considered to be extremely precarious! Just as the situation was turning to become worse, the Komodo shook off the armours it was using. This was because its body could withstand such heat as it was part of its natural traits. However, with the armours gone, the Komodo was now exposed to physical damage. Thus, the Salamander quickly took this opportunity and uses its skill arts to claw at the latter continuously, as if playing around with its food. ROAARR!! The Komodo began to become injured with the torrential assault from the Salamander. Witnessing this scene, the pressure building upon Duan Li caused his state of self to slowly degrade away. "No! No! What should I do? Damn it!!" Right now, Duan Li was struck by multiple emotions - fear, anxiousness, panic, desperation and... anger! With all these emotions bubbling up within him, slowly, his memories began to reel in towards the moment where he had witnessed the fall of the Jiu empire, the corpses of his friends and the death of his mother. "This weakness! I will not let.. such a thing.. such a scene! To happen ever again!" Duan Li's face slowly contorted to become extremely hideous as blood dripped down from his palm from clenching his fist too tightly that the nails began to puncture through the skin. "NEVER.AGAIN!!" "ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Duan Li howled out with an extremely tyrannical hoarse voice that immediately attracted both the attention of the Salamander and the Komodo as the former stopped its attacks on the latter. "Dangerous!" the Salamander leaped backwards with utmost apprehension as its instinct roared out that a premonition of death was looming over the whole area right now. Duan Li's aura continued to become sharper and deadlier, as he eventually radiated out streams of dark gold and crimson aura entangling between each other. On the middle of his chest, both the golden and the red mysterious pearl had glowed brightly. "Y-young master! What happened to you?!" exclaimed the sword as it palpitated in fear. Even the little cub was shivering, feeling extremely scared. Right now, Duan Li's consciousness had ignored all sorts of logical reasoning as he began to churn out and cycle his spiritual Qi with extreme speeds even surpassing during the time when he had fought the Earthly golem! Bzztt.. Bzztt... BAZZTTTTTTT!! The thunder essence that laid dormant within Duan Li began to activate at this moment. Duan Li's whole body was now shrouded with blue sparks all over, as his hair rose upwards like the peaks of Mountain Tai and his pupils turned golden! ... Above the clouds of region one, within the humble abode of the Guardian, a 'crash' sound could be heard as the old man dropped his cup of tea that he was enjoying leisurely before onto the floor and stood up suddenly. "What.. this feeling?! The spiritual Qi fluctuations of the whole environment was being pulled in forcefully..." the face of the old man turned grim as he used his heavenly sense to trace the origin of this cause. When he had finally found the source, his eyes turned wide as he couldn't help but to be surprised and his little heart jolted in apprehension. "Its the location of the third maze! Damn it! What the hell is that brat doing again right now!" Whooshh! ... Somewhere within the area of the One Hundred Thousand Graveyard lake.. "Eh? The thunders within me.. are agitated?" said the mother wolf as it turned its head towards the direction of the first region. "Its that human... has something happened?" ...
