Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable-Chapter 142: A Lifelong Shadow

The expression on Wan Xuegui’s face twisted into a ferocious snarl.

"AHHH—"

He roared, a powerful Sword Spirit Power blasting out in all directions.

The terrifying Sword Spirit continuously bore down on the Blood-Colored Ice Lake, causing massive waves to surge as if the lake were caught in a storm.

"Ye Tianling, I’m going to seal you! I’m going to torture you!"

Wan Xuegui howled in fury.

His voice echoed between Heaven and Earth, as if it were a direct mockery of himself.

"Torture you... torture you... torture you..."

The sound surrounded him, echoing endlessly.

"PFFT—"

Wan Xuegui was so enraged he spat out a mouthful of blood.

This time, although he hadn’t been tricked out of the very clothes on his back, everything he owned was gone except for the Battle Armor he wore and his sheathed Treasure Sword!

He had exhausted all his efforts and finally managed to build up some trump cards, but now he was flat broke again.

"My good little grandson Wan Xuegui, thank you for the gifts. You’re so filial, your grandpa is truly gratified."

Ye Tianling’s voice drifted over from a distance; it seemed he hadn’t fled very far.

Hearing this, Wan Xuegui’s eyes instantly turned crimson. He roared, "Ye Tianling, your disciple Que Xinyan has already been sealed in a latrine by me, Wan Xuegui! He won’t be getting out for a few hundred years! I’ll catch you, seal you in there with him, and let you and your disciple have a good taste of a latrine!"

Ye Tianling’s voice came again from within the Blood-Colored Ice Lake: "My good little grandson, your grandpa couldn’t stand the sight of that wretched rat anyway. The fact that you sealed him in a latrine is incredibly satisfying. Grandpa thanks you for doing me such a huge favor."

"PFFT—"

Hearing this, Wan Xuegui couldn’t catch his breath and almost fainted from rage.

But he still forced himself to calm down. With a slight movement, his figure flew toward the source of the voice.

His speed was immense.

As he got closer, his speed increased severalfold. His Bloodline Power erupted completely, and he shot forward like a bolt of lightning.

"SWOOSH—"

Wan Xuegui activated the Spiritual Power of the Longsword in his hand. Gathering his Sword Spirit, he thrust his sword toward a black afterimage in the Blood-Colored Ice Lake area.

"POOF—"

The sword thrust out, and the black afterimage instantly burst apart.

But Ye Tianling’s figure wasn’t inside. Instead, there was only a single Thunderous Pearl, hovering quietly in the Void.

"BOOM—"

The instant he saw the Thunderous Pearl, Wan Xuegui’s face twitched violently—his sword had already struck it.

At that moment, the Thunderous Pearl exploded.

The massive explosion, combined with the lack of any obstacles in the area, caused Wan Xuegui’s Battle Armor to flare with a blinding golden defensive light.

"PFFT—"

Wan Xuegui spat out a large mouthful of blood. Hit head-on by the force of the Thunderous Pearl’s explosion, he was sent flying like a cannonball.

Even though the Defense Power of his Battle Armor was astonishing, the direct, point-blank blast meant the full power of the Thunderous Pearl was unleashed.

Wan Xuegui tumbled a dozen times in the air before crashing face-first into the ground.

He felt as if his organs had been shattered. Blood began to stream from all seven of his orifices, and he couldn’t catch his breath for a long while.

"My good little grandson, your grandpa has returned another Thunderous Pearl to you. Do you want more? Your grandpa can return two more to you!"

Ye Tianling’s voice came from the distance, filled with playful mockery and a hint of ridicule.

Ye Tianling’s attitude, as if he were just watching a show, was enough to make Wan Xuegui die from sheer rage.

Wan Xuegui spat out a few mouthfuls of bloody saliva, gritted his teeth, and stood up. Step by step, he walked back toward the Blood-Colored Ice Lake.

Ye Tianling waited for a moment in the middle of the lake. Sensing that Wan Xuegui was continuing his pursuit, silent and with a face as black as charcoal, he was in no hurry.

"Ye Tianling! I’ll fight you to the death! I don’t care what your background is—if I don’t suppress you today, then I’m not Wan Xuegui!"

Wan Xuegui snarled, enunciating every single word.

"It doesn’t matter if you’re not Wan Xuegui, but you have to be my good little grandson! Be careful, grandson, don’t step on a Thunderous Pearl—there’s one in the area three meters in front of your right foot!"

Ye Tianling chuckled deviously.

The distance between them was only six hundred meters.

Wan Xuegui sneered. He was only slightly wary of the three-meter area Ye Tianling had mentioned.

He then walked forward two meters and even tried Sensing the area, but he discovered nothing out of the ordinary, nor did he feel any sense of crisis.

’I’m such an idiot. If he really had planted a Thunderous Pearl, he definitely wouldn’t tell me the exact location! He’s just trying to trick me, make me paranoid, and laugh at me!’

Wan Xuegui thought, and then stomped his foot right on the spot Ye Tianling had pointed out.

’I’ll be damned if I fall for this!’

Wan Xuegui thought to himself.

The moment his foot landed, the sense of crisis that had been absent a moment ago instantly erupted.

And then...

Two Thunderous Pearls exploded. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"BOOM—"

The entire Blood-Colored Ice Lake area seemed to blow apart, and the ground shook as if from a Ninth Level earthquake.

Ye Tianling was thrown back by the immense force, staggering several steps before managing to steady himself.

As for Wan Xuegui...

Ye Tianling only saw a bloody streak get blasted into the air—Wan Xuegui was living up to his name.

Ye Tianling chuckled deviously, his figure flickering as he chased after the streak of blood.

Wan Xuegui was blasted a full three thousand seven hundred meters before he slammed violently into a distant cliff face.

"RUMBLE—"

The massive rocks on the cliff shattered and tumbled down, burying him.

Ye Tianling gave chase and directly summoned the ’Elemental Magnetic Evil-cutting Sword’, preparing to capture Wan Xuegui. Then he would force the whereabouts of Que Xinyan out of him and rescue that pitiful rat.

Just then, from within the pile of rubble, a bloody light shot into the sky. Wan Xuegui transformed into a streak of blood and fled into the distance.

His speed was extreme, and without uttering a single threat, he escaped with incredible haste.

"You’re smart to run! Otherwise, your grandpa would have caught you and sealed you in that latrine for a hundred thousand years!"

Ye Tianling shouted, his hands on his hips.

The fleeing streak of blood in the distance shuddered, and a cloud of blood mist appeared in the sky—spat out by Wan Xuegui in his fury.

However, the blood streak only paused for less than a hundredth of a breath before fleeing once more.

’He probably won’t dare to come back here again. He’ll be scarred for life... What a pity, I wasted three Thunderous Pearls. Now I only have one left...’

Ye Tianling said regretfully, feeling the sting of the loss.

Then, Ye Tianling took a moment for Sensing his recent gains and was extremely satisfied.

’I can’t stay here any longer. After getting burned twice, it doesn’t matter if it’s that Fang Qingxue or Wan Xuegui; if they come back, they’ll most likely bring powerful backup.’

Thinking this, Ye Tianling’s figure flickered. He reverted to his original appearance and then immediately left the Blood-Colored Ice Lake area, reappearing in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

Ye Tianling continued deeper into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, venturing further into the Desolate Mountain.

In a canyon, Ye Tianling used Profound Crystal Stones to set up a Chaotic Stone Array and a Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation to guard him while he cultivated.

Ye Tianling took out the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword, preparing to let it Devour the Divinity within the ’Elemental Magnetic Evil-cutting Sword’.

At that moment, from between his eyebrows, the childlike voice of the little girl suddenly Manifested.

"Detected the aura of Long Tianyu’s Life Force, which is about to break. Judgment: Long Tianyu is critically injured and near death. Summon?"