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Chapter 614: Hunting [V6C144 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]



Qianye stood calmly in place without the slightest of movements . The man who had crashed into him took several steps back before managing to find his footing . His vision turned blurry and some fresh blood seeped out of his mouth . This full-force collision felt as though he had crashed into a mountain, the complete rebound of force inflicting heavy injuries upon him .

“You dare bump into me? This daddy will kill you . . . ” That man looked up and rubbed his eyes . The profanities he was spitting out stopped midway as Qianye’s face came into view . He immediately bowed down with an awkward laugh and apologized repeatedly, “Sire, Qianye! This little one didn’t know it was you . ”

He edged back while speaking and then turned to flee .

Qianye remembered this person . He was a lone hunter from the Transcendent Continent, rank-eleven in origin power .

Qianye felt better after seeing the other party turn deferent and flee in defeat . It would seem the series of actions he had taken to establish his might—especially beating up Du Li—was fairly effective . The top seats of the aristocracy might not put this in their eyes, but these mercenaries and bounty hunters who licked blood from the blade on a daily basis would only submit to the strong .

On the way back, Qianye bumped into someone unexpected, Du Li . At this moment, the man was half lying in the back seat of a jeep, his face as pale as a ghost and his breathing irregular .

The jeep had come from the direction of the military hospital . It would seem Du Li had just completed his treatment, but his injuries were clearly not light seeing as how he needed a car to drive him back .

Du Li became quite tense when Qianye intercepted the car with a raise of his hand . He moved toward the other side subconsciously while staring at Qianye . “Y-You, what are you trying to do? We’ve already fought . ”

“Nothing, I just wanted to see if you’re doing okay . I didn’t go too hard on you back then . ” Qianye smiled .

Du Li squeezed out a smile, one that was even uglier than weeping . “I’m quite well . ”



How was that well? He had received a bunch of internal wounds when Qianye smashed him into the floor . Although it wasn’t enough to take his life, he would have to suffer for quite a while .

Qianye nodded in response and asked indifferently, “Where are my spoils?”

Du Li’s expression shifted, but this time, it was clearly due to the physical pain . He said through gritted teeth, “I gave all of my belongings to the Li family people and asked for them to be handed to you . I followed all the rules!”

“I was just asking . ” Qianye left with a smile .

Qianye cultivated for an entire night and day after returning to his residence . There, he purified the origin power he hadn’t yet refined with the Glory Chapter . At this point, Young Dragon had also been repaired . As such, Qianye collected his equipment and left the base once again .

No one knew whether it was a twist of fate or just pure coincidence . On the third day after entering Misty Wood, Qianye felt something in his heart while gazing at the mist in front of him—he knew he had encountered Eden yet again .

The Misty Wood was such a vast place . The battlefront between the two factions was incomparably long, now stretching thousands of kilometers after the connection of four warzones . Yet, these two had actually met again .

However, neither of them attacked right away . They only stood in silent confrontation with the Misty Wood between them .

Qianye knew that Eden had also found him . Up to this day, he still had no idea how the latter had been able to discover him . The same applied to Eden .

Qianye raised Thunderbolt but lowered it again after a moment of hesitation . He had already locked onto Eden’s location, but their reaction speed was enough to dodge a shot from around a hundred meters, to speak nothing of several hundred . The only way was to catch the other party unaware .



This shot would surely miss and once again initiate a battle with no definite end in sight .

Tangling with Eden came with great benefits despite the loss in contributions . At the very least, wrestling along the fine line between life and death improved Qianye’s combat strength significantly . There were even new revelations which became evident in his fight with Du Li .

Solely in terms of daybreak origin power, Du Li’s cultivation actually lived up to his rank . His origin power capacity was even greater than Qianye’s, but this minor advantage didn’t help him at all in battle . Qianye had beaten the man until he had no ability to retaliate—to be exact, he didn’t even manage to block a single attack .


However, the benefits weren’t without any sequelae . Qianye recalled the contract and two ranking papers Li Tianquan had brought out . He was naturally unwilling to withdraw for no reason amidst the criticisms . He decided to have a go at the rankings since he had no way around this matter anyway . Moreover, he was determined to take first place .

Qianye didn’t care much about politics, but he wasn’t ignorant about it . He had a vague feeling that Li Tianquan’s reason for targeting him so wantonly—in addition to someone pressuring him from behind—was that the Li family’s war situation was going too smoothly . They had exceeded their targets for contribution points with low casualty rates, and all of this was credited to Li Tianquan, further solidifying his position .

At least half of this was through Qianye’s efforts . He knew best how terrifying an expert with superior visual range and stealth proficiency was in this Misty Wood .

If he were to keep fighting against Eden here, he would have no opportunity at all on the rankings .

“What if…” Qianye shook his head . He didn’t continue thinking along this line, but he didn’t attack, either .

It was as though they had reached a tacit understanding . Eden made no move without any action from Qianye, but he was definitely still in the area .

Eden touched the Abyssal Tribute in his hand as his father’s words echoed in his ears .

“Tempering your combat strength is a good thing, but your current results in battle are unacceptable . I won’t be able to speak out for you in the next elder conference if you don’t produce good results in the next battle . Although I hope my direct descendant can obtain a higher candidate’s position, taking that seat without sufficient strength is just courting death . ”

Eden was greatly concerned about the elder conference at the Dark Abyss where the successors’ positions would be discussed every three years .

The elders would form a standard cut-off point according to the performance of all peers and remove those who contributed below that point from the successor’s list . This would shrink the pool of successors and allow resources to be focused on nurturing the remaining experts .

At this point, Eden was only ranked in the upper-middle among all the candidates . He was in a fairly dangerous region where he could be kicked out of the list at any moment . This was, of course, related to his young age and Elder Preston’s hands-off method with his descendants . But regardless of the reason, the successor cut-off point wouldn’t be reduced for anyone .

The floating continent was the only place where he could harvest enough contribution points before the conference . All the others in the list, apart from the first-ranked successor, had joined this battle, and Eden had unfortunately fallen to the bottom during this period of time .

Rage flickered in Eden’s eyes at the thought of this and threads of blood spread out continuously therein . If it wasn’t for the prolonged entanglement with Qianye, how could his arch-enemies have trampled over him? For a moment, Eden had the urge to blast Qianye with the Abyssal Tribute and snatch back the Carol of Shadows in passing .

But his rationality stopped the finger on the trigger . Eden knew very well that the opponent was outrageously powerful and growing at a rapid pace .

He had chased down Qianye during the first battle and nearly took the latter’s life . In the last battle, however, it was Eden running for his life . The circumstances back then were unusual, and Eden was quite sure that the other party couldn’t fire that inconceivably powerful shot at will . Despite all that and no matter how much he was loath to admit, the other party’s progress was indeed superior to his own .

This was a miracle often enjoyed by the frail human race . Those short-lived creatures would develop at a rapid pace during their brief lifespan . Even the gods of darkness couldn’t tell them the reason for this .

Eden slowly lowered his Abyssal Tribute and, after one last glance at Qianye’s direction, left toward another .

Qianye was somewhat surprised, but he had no intention of stopping the man . The Misty Wood was definitely big enough to hold the both of them . After Eden disappeared, Qianye picked up his Thunderbolt and headed in the direction of the central caverns .

He knew that things were different this time . The two of them might not start fighting even if they were to meet again on the battlefield . When they do engage in their next battle, it would likely be a fight to the death .

After being freed of Eden, Qianye’s fortune instantly took a turn for the better . He ran into a small dark race squad not long afterward .

This squad was well-equipped and consisted of over five hundred soldiers of mixed races . It was an elite hunting unit of the Evernight Faction, targeting small imperial parties and independent experts .

The leader was a third-rank arachne viscount . This was a reasonable lineup—those special scouts with over two hundred meters of visual range at the center prevented rank twelve or thirteen human experts from taking action . Only experienced hunters above rank-fourteen would be able to chew on this hard bone . Even then, they would have to plan everything out carefully .

But such rules were useless against Qianye . He had already locked onto the arachne viscount from five-hundred meters away . By the time Thunderbolt’s timber reached the dark race soldiers’ ears, that viscount’s waist had been blasted open . Its upper body had been largely disjointed from the impact, and only a small part remained connected to its trunk .

The arachne’s vitality was so powerful that it hadn’t yet died even after such an injury and might actually recover with timely intervention . However, Qianye’s shot was intentional—although the arachne wasn’t dead yet, it had been deprived of all fighting power .

Afterward, Qianye put the Thunderbolt away and rushed over . He roamed about within a hundred meters of this squad, firing continuously with his Twin Flowers and killing all high-ranking warriors . The separated revolvers possessed greater firing speed and minimal consumption, greatly suitable for dealing with such a situation . Even if he couldn’t kill some of them on the spot, it was enough to disable them temporarily .

One baron, three knights, and several esquires fell under the continuous bombardment . Qianye remained hidden within the mist all this time, denying them the opportunity to retaliate . That baron was a fierce character strong enough to challenge a viscount, yet he collapsed to the ground after taking three shots and could no longer clamber up .

The entire squad’s fighting capabilities collapsed within moments, and only at this point did Qianye draw East Peak and charge into the fray . With a flicker of his silhouette, he had arrived in the midst of the dark race warriors using Spatial Flash .





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