Chapter 222 - Interception
Late at night.
The sky was covered by a dense layer of cloud and the jungle was enshrouded by darkness. Only from a select few fissures of clouds, starlight poured down like streams of water directly on this primitive land in the form of multicoloured light columns.
The wind was blowing across the grassland. Suddenly, a deep yet terrifying roar of a wild beast came out from the tall and thick grassland, then soon spread out along with a blood scent.
A stream of starlight happened to shine on a weirdly-shaped, small blood-red coloured tree that looked quite vigorous. Seven fist-sized, milky-white buds were blooming silently and slowly under the starlight, quickly absorbing the starlight power. The multicoloured starlight even formed seven visible multicoloured swirls on top of each milky white flower.
Countless fierce wild beasts rushed towards this small tree. The beasts were fighting madly against each other, shedding blood that seeped quickly into the ground. The branches of the small tree started to sway happily. The blood of the beasts that had seeped into the ground was continuously being absorbed by the roots of this small tree, along with which the blood-red colour of the tree became even more vivid.
The seven milky-white buds started glowing brighter and brighter, emitting a nice sweet fragrance that grew more and more alluring. Those beasts, which had been fighting for these buds, grew crazier and crazier.
A gigantic eagle flew silently across the sky, while its wings were spurting out large clouds of black smoke.
Meng Ao stood on the eagle’s back, gnashed his teeth and yelled at the air, “They can’t blame me for this, those stupid kids pushed themselves into this situation. They have offended Prince Xu and Price Wuyou, they will certainly die for doing so.”
“No need to mention how powerful Prince Xu is, we all know about how influential the Lie Mountain Family is. As for Prince Wuyou, he has currently taken the place of the Water God, Gong Gong, holding all kinds of powers and rights that had belonged to the Water God. In the Pu Ban city, every single person who came from the Northern Wasteland has to follow every word of his. Since Prince Wuyou has already said that he can’t let those kids live, those few poor kids can only end up dying.”
Touching the new storage bag tied around his waist, Meng Ao turned his head back and looked at his two companions, then said, “Therefore, regarding this Rong Mountain Clan event, you should know what to say back at the Magi palace. Do Prince Wuyou a favour, although he is too powerful to ask us a favour, we won’t lose anything anyway. We have this one hundred highest-grade all-adapting magic crystal, which is enough to buy the lives of many people.”
The two young men, who were standing behind Meng Ao, glanced at each other, nodded and said, “Deacon Meng Ao, you’re absolutely right. We are not that stupid, we know what to say back at the Magi Palace.”
Meng Ao grinned satisfied, pointed his finger down at the grassland, where the small tree was emitting a nice alluring fragrance, then said with a sneer on his face, “See, the law of the jungle, the truth of nature. Those weak animals will all end up dead, nourish this spirit-growing tree with their blood, and eventually, only the most powerful seven beasts will be able to taste those beautiful flowers, and grow spirits and intelligence.”
“If you want to live a good life, you can’t be like those stupid animals that will end up as sacrifice for the purpose of others, instead, you have to…”
While Meng Ao was comparing human life to that spirit-growing tree and those beasts who had been fighting for it, and giving his speech regarding how to be a survivor, a long arrow silently darted up from the ground, accurately puncturing the head of the black eagle under the feet of Meng Ao and the two young men.
The night was so dark that you wouldn’t be even able to see your fingers properly and the eagle had been flying in the air, two thousand feet above the ground. If seen from the ground its head looked even smaller than the head of a fly. However, that arrow still punctured its head accurately through its beak and came out from the top of the skull.
The gigantic eagle didn’t even cry out, and began silently falling down while spinning in the air.
Meng Ao and the two young men, all screamed out instantly. They were only Senior Magi and were unable to fly in the air yet. Only powerful Magi who were Magus King or above, were capable of manipulating the natural power to fly through the air. Therefore, they could only fall straight to the ground together with the eagle, like three shooting stars with nothing to hold onto.
“Feng Xing, you get the younger two!”
While coldly giving an order to kill, Ji Hao rushed with big steps towards the place where the three people were about to fall.
Feng Xing’s fingers were slightly trembling, but Yu Mu, who was standing beside him growled out in a deep voice, “Go! Do it! During all these years, haven’t you had enough of these bloody cowards? Except ganging up with enemies to bully apprentices like us, what else can these bastards do?”
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