Absolute Death Game-Chapter 423 - 40 Curse Sword VS Curse Sword_3
Xiao Buli realized that passively taking hits was not a solution. Noting that those flashes of sword energy were mere illusions and suspecting their attack power was average, he thought he had no choice but to risk it all. Thus, he moved slightly and charged towards a spot that had been weakened by the Heart of Ice, but as soon as he came into contact with the sword light, he immediately realized his mistake. The light, solid as reality, hit Xiao Buli several times—-73,-80,-93—the consecutive symbols for decreasing health made Xiao Buli retreat immediately. Considering his own high defenses, he had thought he was invincible. To his surprise, the sword light had easily broken through his defenses, and each strike caused him to lose a significant amount of health. If all those flashes of light had truly hit him, he didn’t know if he would have been instantly killed. Filled with immense fear, he could no longer see Jingci through the coverage of sword light, nor could he tell how many such lights surrounded the periphery.
"These Sword Qi are formed from my True Qi. Although your treasured sword can easily break them, the damage they inflict on you is no less than if the sword itself directly struck you. Junior brother, we are from the same sect. Even though you were momentarily confused and entered the Demon Dao, I don’t want to completely exterminate you," Jingci continued to dance with his treasured sword, releasing sword light while persuading Xiao Buli, who was engulfed by the sword light. From his position, his sword light had already formed a thick cocoon. If he had not been reluctant to do so, he could have tightened the encirclement and killed Xiao Buli then and there, "If you just admit defeat and let me out to save our master, I promise I won’t kill you. I will even plead for you in front of our master. What do you say, junior brother?"
"Senior brother, our master is a Heart Demon incarnate; he is the true Demon Dao. Although he raised you to adulthood, from the beginning, his plan was to cultivate you into experts and then seize your bodies to continue living. Can’t the words of our eldest brother and Qingfeng Mingyue awaken you?" Xiao Buli’s voice sounded slightly panicked, and although he was at his wit’s end, he seemed unwilling to submit to execution, shouting out to Jingci.
"A master for life is akin to a father. No matter what our master has done before, he is still the one who raised and taught me. Since you, junior brother, remain so obstinately misled, don’t blame your senior brother for being ruthless," Jingci said, speeding up his hand movements. Suddenly, the sword light appeared to go crazy, converging towards the center of the light sphere. These Sword Qi were incorporeal and unlike a real treasured sword, they would vanish upon contact with an object. Therefore, the encirclement both closed in and shrank rapidly. Jingci couldn’t bear to see Xiao Buli’s body dispersed by the sword light, so as soon as he initiated the spell, he turned his body away and tried hard to regulate his breathing. Having spent so many years in Mystic Hollow Palace under the protection of their master, he had spent his days studying animals he was fond of and practicing martial arts. At most, he had exchanged moves with his fellow disciples or hunted wild beasts outside, making Jingci’s soul extraordinarily pure. This was the first time he had experienced fratricide, let alone personally killing Xiao Buli, who used to call him senior brother so affectionately.
"Senior brother." Jingci suddenly heard that familiar voice behind him. Was he hallucinating? Before Jingci could react, he felt a massive force hit his back, followed by a burning pain. The impact sent him flying.
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Struggling to get up from the ground, he turned around. Xiao Buli was holding a giant Magic Sphere in his hand, looking at Jingci with a mischievous smile. The Sunfire Spellball that Xiao Buli had just thrown hadn’t used his full power, so its strength was only a fifth of its usual potency. He believed Jingci surely could withstand it. Jingci had refrained from killing Xiao Buli, but was it not the same for Xiao Buli? Since learning that the characters in the game had their own wills, at times he had begun to treat some NPCs as if they were real people, especially Jingci, whom he had the most contact with since entering Mystic Hollow Palace.
Jingci’s reluctance to witness his death also pained Xiao Buli’s heart.
"You... you’re not dead?" Jingci was more astonished than hurt, finding it hard to believe that Xiao Buli was unharmed behind him. He was sure that Xiao Buli had been amidst the sword light, he was sure that he had initiated the spell, he was sure that the Magic Damage he had inflicted was large enough that even if Xiao Buli wore the ancient Divine Armor, he should have lost half of his life, yet there he stood, with no loss of blood and no injury.
"Just missed it by a little bit," Xiao Buli exaggeratedly motioned with his left hand, the one not holding the Magic Sphere, "just that tiny bit. Senior brother, you really have a fierce heart indeed." He took two steps towards Jingci’s front: "Luckily, your junior brother here can perform Earth Escape like none other. You thought you sealed off all my paths, but you didn’t know I could also escape through the earth."
"Earth Escape? Nonsense, the ground in this space isn’t even made of soil," Jingci refused to believe it.
"True, aside from soil I can’t escape through other surfaces, but it just so happens my Earth Escape Skills have just leveled up. Senior brother, just now you couldn’t bring yourself to kill me, and neither could I. How about we call a truce, sit here for a while, and wait for that calamity outside to submit to the spell, then we can leave without any hard feelings. What do you say?" Xiao Buli proposed earnestly.
