The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 397: A Crane with Wings on Its Back in the Clouds.
"Your boss, who is utterly wicked, when will he arrive?"

Amidst Ye Erniang's sobbing and wailing at his feet, Xu Xingchen suddenly spoke up and asked.

Yue Laosan and Yun Zhonghe, who were arguing, stopped talking at the same time and turned to look at each other. Yue Laosan scratched his big, hairy head and said in a gruff voice, "The boss told the three of us to wait for him here for seven days. Within seven days, he will come to meet us!"

Hearing these words, Xu Xingchen sighed and said with some regret, "It seems that I won't be able to wait for him for the time being!"

Then, looking down at the woman still wailing at his feet, he calmly asked, "Ye Erniang, I am not the one who took your child away, but I know where your child is. If you want to see him, what price are you willing to pay?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Erniang, with her hair disheveled, immediately raised her head in delight and said eagerly, "Uh, young master, whatever you say! As long as I can see my child, I, Ye Erniang, will do anything."

Xu Xingchen squinted at the other person's face, which was filled with joy, tension, worry, and urgency, and said coldly, "Over the years, you have killed so many babies. Even dying a thousand times or ten thousand times cannot atone for your sins. If I were to forbid you from killing innocent people indiscriminately again, and to kill yourself after seeing your son, could you do it?"

Ye Erniang trembled slightly and stood there stunned.

Yue Laosan spoke up at this moment: "Hey, kid surnamed Xu, killing is commonplace for us Four Evils. You're telling Ye San Niang not to kill anyone, which is like telling someone not to eat, defecate, or fart. Would we Four Evils do something like that? Absolutely not!"

Yun Zhonghe also said, "Yue Laosan is right. We, the Four Evils, can kill whomever we want. Even if the Heavenly King himself came, he couldn't stop us."

Xu Xingchen gave Ye Erniang time to consider, then turned to look at Yun Zhonghe on the treetop and said with a cold smile, "Yun Zhonghe, your crimes are no less serious; you ruined the innocence of women, at best causing them to weep all day and their families to be in turmoil; at worst, causing them to die and their beautiful lives to end; therefore, you deserve to die too!"

Yun Zhonghe raised an eyebrow and shouted, "All my life I've had a thing for is that kind of thing. I have no interest in anything else. You righteous martial arts practitioners will have to catch me before you can even kill me, hahahaha!"

Xu Xingchen was inherently righteous and hated evil. In the first two worlds, he fought fiercely and hunted down countless scoundrels of the martial arts world.

Having encountered three of these four villains today, I am once again filled with murderous intent!
As for Yue Laosan, the Crocodile God of the South China Sea, he mostly killed his enemies in the martial arts world, and did not cause much harm to ordinary people.

Therefore, we can spare his life for now!
Hearing Yun Zhonghe's arrogant laughter, Xu Xingchen flashed and disappeared in front of Ye Erniang.

A whirlwind of speed and shadow leaped into the air, bouncing twice among the rocks and trees, and arrived with unparalleled speed above the canopy of the large tree where Yun Zhonghe was.

"Such speed!" Yun Zhonghe exclaimed in surprise, his figure transforming into a wisp of clear wind and a soaring crane, instantly leaving the tree beneath his feet.

Xu Xingchen lightly touched the treetops with both feet, and leaped up again as if walking on snow, chasing after Yun Zhonghe, who had already escaped several feet away.

Two swift figures moved rapidly through the mountains and forests, leaping and bounding back and forth.
The speed was so fast, like a gust of wind and lightning, that it dazzled the three who had regained their senses, leaving them unable to keep up.

However, everyone present could clearly see that although the figure in front was fast, the figure chasing behind was incredibly fast.

During the chase, the distance between the two is closing at a visible speed.

As Yun Zhonghe fled, he cried out in surprise, "Who are you, kid? How do you possess such superb lightness skills?"

Xu Xingchen's voice, calm and deliberate, clearly reached Yun Zhonghe's ears: "With your evil deeds, you are not worthy of knowing my name; therefore, please die!"

The words fell.

Xu Xingchen suddenly accelerated again, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived behind Yun Zhonghe.

A broad, thick hand reached forward and grabbed at his back.

Yun Zhonghe, standing ahead, sensed the astonishing aura approaching from behind. His scalp tingled, his back went cold, and his heart pounded wildly in his chest. He immediately unleashed all his power.
Bang!
A burst of energy erupted from his body, forcing Xu Xingchen's palm away, while simultaneously condensing a pair of enormous black and white wings on his back.

Its main body is white, with each feather as white as snow; its tail feathers are black, shiny black, like ornaments carved from obsidian.

The white feathers and black tail feathers form two enormous crane wings, shimmering with iridescent light, making them clearly extraordinary.

next moment.
With a flap of its wings, Yun Zhonghe's speed increased dramatically!

In a flash, it darted several feet away.

And there's no need to step on the rocks and trees below with your toes to move freely in the air, soaring and flying.

At that moment, he seemed to have truly transformed into a great bird, soaring freely in the air, as graceful as the wind.
At this point, Yun Zhonghe's strength was clearly revealed!

During the ensuing chase
Even when Xu Xingchen used all her strength, she could only keep the distance between the two within a certain range, preventing it from widening too much.

Shortening the distance seems to have become an impossible task!
However, the cloud crane seemed to have its limit in terms of flight height. It flew and roamed in the air several feet above the ground, but never once soared to a height of ten feet.

The others around them stared in stunned silence at the winged man soaring through the trees and the blurry figure chasing after him like lightning in the treetops.

The lightness skills of these two were beyond the reach of the others, far exceeding the imagination of Mu Wanqing, Zhong Ling, and Duan Yu.

Yue Laosan looked at the two figures chasing each other and couldn't help but curl his lips and mutter, "These two guys are really fast. I can't catch either of them. What bad luck!" Ye Erniang was still kneeling there in a daze. In her mind, there were two little people fighting and blaming each other, and it was hard to determine a winner.

After chasing for a few laps, Xu Xingchen's sigh echoed once again in the sky above the mountains and forests.

"I haven't yet condensed the Talisman of Mystic Arts, so I really can't catch up with a master like you at the Earth Realm!"

"Forget it, I'm not playing anymore!"

Upon hearing the last sentence, the crane flying ahead felt a chill run down its spine, a cold wind whistling past its back, and a sense of dread washed over it.

next moment.
Then came the rapid whooshing sound of something breaking through the air.

Several pebbles, which Xu Xingchen had somehow managed to grab, shot out like lightning to a distance of about ten feet behind Yun Zhonghe.

The crane in the clouds immediately flapped its wings and abruptly changed direction, barely avoiding the stones that came from behind.

However, other pebbles came flying again, covering Yun Zhonghe's entire body and enveloping every possible space where he could dodge.
This time, he had no way to dodge again.

He could only turn his body over, face backward, and stretch his hands outward, with black and white air currents flowing and swirling around his fingertips and palms.

A claw flashed!
Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
All three pebbles were crushed into powder and slowly dissipated into the air.

Although Yun Zhonghe blocked the attack of the stone, he was also impacted by the powerful force of the stone.

With its body violently shaken, it could no longer maintain its balance in flight, tumbling and somersaulting in the air in a series of chaotic and irregular motions.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
Then another sharp, piercing sound rang out.

Three pebbles shot towards Yun Zhonghe again, only to be crushed into even greater pieces by him!
As a result, his tumbling body was more affected, and he couldn't even maintain the most basic balance in flight, so he crashed diagonally into the canopy of a large tree to his lower right.

Crackling!

Countless lush branches and leaves were broken off.

Countless green leaves shot into the sky, scattering and falling like rain.

Boom!

A burst of black and white energy erupted, shattering the dense canopy and sending it flying everywhere.

Yun Zhonghe's figure transformed into a blurry afterimage, bursting forth from the sky.

But at that very moment...
Xu Xingchen's figure had already appeared ahead of Yun Zhonghe as he shot out.

A punch was thrown out with a bang.

Bang!
A ring of energy, about ten feet in size, exploded in the air.

Yun Zhonghe's figure transformed into a tumbling meteorite, crashing heavily onto the grass below.

The ground trembled, grass clippings flew, and soil splashed and scattered like rain.

Amidst the billowing dust, a crater about ten feet deep appeared on the ground.

Yun Zhonghe lay at the bottom of the deep pit, his body twisted and his clothes tattered. His pair of black and white crane wings on his back were turning into wisps of wind and clouds, slowly dissipating into the air.

pat!

Xu Xingchen gently landed on the grass beside the pit, looked down at Yun Zhonghe at the bottom of the pit, whose face was pale and whose mouth was bleeding, and said calmly, "Yun Zhonghe, your double-wing technique is not bad; however, from today onwards, I'm afraid it will be lost!"

Upon hearing this, Yue Laosan, who was watching the commotion from a nearby rock, immediately jumped up, shouting, "Xu boy, wait! You can't kill him!"

Xu Xingchen paid no heed to Yue Laosan's obstruction. With a flick of her finger, three more pebbles pierced the sky and shot straight at Yun Zhonghe's forehead in the pit.

Yun Zhonghe was struck by Xu Xingchen's powerful punch. The force was so strong that it not only caused him internal injuries but also disrupted the circulation of qi within his body.

therefore
The pair of crane wings on his back disappeared into the air, and even his entire body was temporarily unable to move.

Faced with Xu Xingchen's merciless and deadly pebbles, his eyes were filled with a variety of emotions, including resentment, frustration, fear, and anger.

(End of this chapter)