Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Mysterious Old Man

  "You young ones of the Blood Clan, didn't your ancestor, Blood Howl, ever tell you? This Forest of Death is not a place your clan can enter." An aged voice rang out.

  "Ah!" Zhang Huaming, who was originally waiting for death, heard the sudden appearance of this voice and was stunned for a moment. The next moment he opened his eyes to see an old man with white whiskers wearing a long white robe appearing in the scene.

  "Top-notch, the top-notch among top-notches." Zhang Huaming's mind involuntarily flashed with this phrase. Logically speaking, the old man present on the scene didn't have any aura of a strong expert from head to toe, but the feeling he gave off wasn't like that. If he had to express it, he could only say that the old man had reached an extremely high level, a realm of returning to simplicity and truth, only then could it be said to make sense.

  When Xue Wu Ying saw the old man suddenly appear in front of him, his shadow retreated three steps back, with a shocked expression he said: "You, how did you know my ancestor's name?"

  It's no wonder that Blood No Shadow was so flustered, after all, the ancestor of the Blood family who existed during the Warring States period of the Martial Continent was one of the ten survivors of the Great War between gods and demons. Unless it was these surviving people who knew about the existence of these ten people, outsiders had always thought that both the godly and demonic factions were completely annihilated after the Great War, how could Blood No Shadow not be shocked?

  The old man saw the blood without a shadow, so shocked that he stroked his white beard and smiled warmly: "Hehe! Do you know why it's strange to know the name of Blood Howl? I don't know if the old guy in your family has broken through the seventh layer of the Blood Demon God Technique?"

  "You..." Blood No Shadow said several "you"s in a row, before gradually calming down the shock and fear in his heart. Was the cultivation of the Martial God realm obtained through hard work? As for his state of mind, it didn't need to be said. After taking a few deep breaths, Blood No Shadow's face turned respectful as he bowed to the old man: "Elder, your body is very good. You have always instructed the younger generation of the Blood family not to enter the Forest of Death without permission. Today, I was only chasing after a wanted person and lost my manners. I hope you can forgive me."

  "Haha! I see that Blood Howl didn't tell you guys about these things, did he? It seems that this old man hasn't been out and about for many years, and many people have forgotten about me. Oh well! Since you're the descendant of that old Blood Howl, I won't make things difficult for you today. Hurry up and disappear from my sight!"

  "Elder, this..." Blood No Shadow heard the old man's words and a hesitant expression appeared on his face. After all, he didn't want to let go of the opportunity to kill Zhang Huaming. If he missed it and allowed this child to grow up, it would inevitably become a great calamity for the Blood family in the future. So, in his heart, he had already sentenced Zhang Huaming to death."

  The old man saw the bloodless appearance of the mother, and suddenly his eyes lit up, with a five-colored light flashing in his eyes. He said coldly: "Blood family boy, I've already been kind enough not to bother you, today this young man is under my protection, if you have any opinions, go back and tell that old guy Blood Howl, it's me, Xuan Tian Ba saying, if he wants people, let him come to my face to ask for people."

  "Xuān Tiān Bà!" Although Zhang Huaming's injuries were very severe, his mind remained clear and alert. When he heard the old man introduce himself, his heart still stirred slightly, because this name seemed quite mismatched with the old man! Looking at the old man's appearance, he looked just like a kindly old neighbor, so how could he have such an overbearing name? Logically speaking, someone with such an overbearing name should have a very violent temper!

  Xuantian saw that the little blood boy in front of him hadn't left after finishing speaking, and directly waved his sleeve. The next moment, a shocking scene appeared before Zhang Huaming's eyes.

  Only the top-notch Martial God Realm's Blood Wuying suddenly disappeared in an instant, as if he had vanished into thin air, like a magic trick that made people disappear.

  "Grandma drop, if I weren't constrained by my oath, this little guy really makes me want to pinch him to death, actually not giving me any face." Xuan Tianba muttered to himself.

  "Damn it!" Zhang Huaming heard Xuan Tianba's words, and he was stunned. He had never thought that Xuan Tianba would say such an unrefined phrase, which was completely different from the elegant impression he had given before.

  Xuantian Ba seemed to see through Zhang Huaming's thoughts, and after glancing at him up and down, he actually had a playful and irreverent expression on his face: "Kid, what's so strange? I'm originally just a rough person. Grandma's, always telling me to cultivate my nature and nurture my life. It's really annoying. Oh right, kid, who taught you your cultivation method? Grandma's, it's actually not inferior to my own One Qi Mixed Yuan Cultivation Method?"

  "Wait." Xuan Tian Ba finished speaking, and suddenly, as if he had seen a ghost, he flashed out of sight. No, it should be said that he vanished into thin air on the spot. The next moment, he appeared in front of Zhang Hua Ming. Three breaths later, Xuan Tian Ba seemed to have seen a ghost again, flashing out four or five steps away, his face shocked and speechless: "You little brat, how can there be a Destruction Pearl inside your body? How is this possible?"

  "Destroying Pearl?" Zhang Huaming's face showed a puzzled expression. He naturally knew that the Destroying Pearl mentioned by Xuan Tianba was the Chaos Pearl in his body, but he remembered that the old man had said that the Chaos Pearl also had another name, wasn't it called the Life Pearl? How did it become the Destroying Pearl?

  "Huh, no way. If you little brat has the Destruction Pearl inside you, then your current cultivation should have been destroyed by the destructive energy already and you wouldn't be in such a sorry state! But if it's not the Destruction Pearl inside you, then how can you have an aura similar to that of the Destruction Pearl? This is strange, this is eerie." Xuan Tian Ba muttered to himself.

  "Senior, can you tell me about the story of the Destruction Pearl?" Zhang Huaming asked.

  Xuantian Ba heard Zhang Huaming's words and put away the chaotic thoughts in his mind, with a resentful expression he scolded: "Nonsense! You don't even look at your own injuries now, even if you don't care about your own injuries, can't you consider the injuries of your companions?"

  Zhang Huaming heard Xuan Tianba say this, and suddenly remembered the uncertain situation of Karyn's life and death. He immediately asked anxiously: "Senior, is my partner's injury okay?"

  "Fortunately, you still have a bit of conscience. The kid is fine, just heavily injured, and then they used the White Tiger clan's escape technique to fall into a deep sleep. As long as they wake up later, their injuries should be okay. But your injuries are quite severe."

  "As long as Kayan is fine, seniors and juniors' injuries can heal on their own."

  "Heal himself?" Xuan Tian Ba, who had already put his hand into his sleeve, stopped his next move to take the medicine and looked at Zhang Hua Ming with a puzzled expression: "Are you sure?"

  "En." Zhang Huaming nodded with a confident expression, what joke, after cultivating the Longevity Technique to the extreme, he didn't dare say that he could revive people who had been dead for a long time, at least people who were dying on the spot could still be revived, although he had only successfully cultivated the first layer, treating injuries inside and outside his body was still not a big problem.

  "Alright, kiddo. I rarely play nice, but since I've started, I'll see it through. Let me help you with the law. You go treat your wounds first."

  "Thank you, senior." Zhang Huaming respectfully thanked him and then started to circulate the Long Life Technique with great difficulty. He was so bold and at ease in practicing his skills because he had considered many aspects of the situation. He believed that Xuan Tianba had no malicious intentions towards him and Karyn, otherwise he would not have intervened earlier when Blood No Shadow tried to kill them. If Xuan Tianba really had an ulterior motive, he could have waited for Blood No Shadow to kill Zhang Huaming first, and then taken everything from Blood No Shadow's hands, including his life. Since such a powerful master existed and didn't take advantage of the situation, that was that.

  "Huh!" Xuan Tianba was taken aback when he saw the cyan glow on Zhang Huaming's body, and in the next instant, his facial expression changed as many times as a weather forecast. If Xuan Tianba's current expression were to be seen by his old buddies, they would probably pop their eyes out, for he was known as the all-knowing person of ancient times, and there was nothing that happened in ancient times that he didn't know about.

  "How can it have such a strong life force? This kid's kung fu is really sinister." Xuan Tian Ba racked his brains but still couldn't think of any kung fu that had such a strong life force.

  Only to see Zhang Huaming's whole body surrounded by a green glow, the spiritual energy around him seemed to have found an exit, and rushed towards him, forming a small whirlpool above his head. The injuries on his body surface were slowly healing under the green light, and the spiritual energy absorbed from the outside world was repairing the damaged meridians in the seven meridians and eight veins of his dantian.

  "Good grief, he's actually absorbing spiritual energy at a rate five times faster than normal people! What kind of cultivation method is this kid using?! Xuan Tianba was getting more and more astonished. You see, the reason why he was feared in ancient times was mainly because of his self-created 'One Qi Mixed Yuan Cultivation Method', which absorbed spiritual energy three times faster than ordinary methods. Do you know what it means to absorb spiritual energy three times faster? It means that one year of cultivation is equivalent to three years of others' time, and more! And five times... I don't even need to say it, everyone knows."

  "Never mind, I'll ask him when he wakes up. First, let me help that little guy transform and then we can talk about it later. After this little guy recovers from his injuries, I'll have him help Xiaoka recover too, which will also save me a good pill." As soon as Xuantian said this, he waved his hand towards Xiaoyan's massive body tens of meters away. In an instant, Xiaoyan's massive body shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in less than ten breaths, Xiaoyan's human form appeared on the ground.