Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 5420: Chapter 5418-exchanging shadows for bones

Translator: 549690339

No matter how surprised Chu Wenshang was, the reality was that Chu Tianlu had indeed broken free from his shadow bind. He had even taken out a spiritual fruit from his pocket and was about to stuff it into his mouth.

Crazy! Chu Wenshang was shocked. Although the spiritual fruit was not a poison, the more powerful the effect of the heavenly treasure, the more careful one had to be before taking it. Otherwise, it was better than poison. Not to mention that the whole process of taking the fruit would be a huge fatal flaw, it was not impossible to die on the spot.

Without time to think, Chu Wenshang quickly used the pasted shadow steps again. This was the only way he could stop his opponent. According to common sense, pasted shadow steps couldn’t be used directly. First, the shadow requirements might not be met. Second, even if there were enough shadows, the traces were too obvious. Without the element of surprise, if he rashly sent himself to the enemy, he would hit the muzzle if he was not careful.

If it wasn’t for the fact that his strength was much higher than the other party ‘s, Chu Wenshang would never take such a risk. He wasn’t a person who liked to take risks, but he was determined to get the spiritual awareness fruit, so he had such a reaction.

Unexpectedly, Chu Tianlu was already prepared for this. His act of eating the spiritual fruit was just a pretense. He would only eat the spiritual fruit under Chu Wenshang and Chu tianliang’s covetous eyes if he wanted to. He did this to lure the other party into taking the bait.

As soon as Chu Wenshang used the pasted shadow steps, Chu Tianlu took the lead. His target was not Chu Wenshang, but Chu tianliang.

He knew very well that he was no match for Chu Wenshang. In the short time that he had been trapped by shadow bind, he had already figured out that his only chance of survival was to kill Chu tianliang!

Judging from the situation just now, Chu Wenshang and Chu tianliang were not completely on the same side. After Chu tianliang was really killed, this guy might not target him after weighing the pros and cons.

Lin Yi only realized now that Chu Tianlu had reached a certain level of late-realization in his eyes, but it was still better than dying without realizing it. Besides, Chu Tianlu wasn’t very smart or talented, but he had courage. To be more precise, he carried out his decisions and pressed forward.

Just like now, he charged towards Chu tianliang with no regard for his own life. All his strength was concentrated on the tip of his blade, and he did not hesitate to give up his own defense. Everything he did was to kill Chu tianliang in one strike.

It must be known that he hadn’t completely gotten rid of Chu Wenshang at this time. He had only caught the other party off guard. Chu Wenshang was also going all out like him, and it was completely possible for him to catch up with him by relying on the strength of the early jiedan stage.

Moreover, he had used the pasted shadow steps head-on, taking the same risk as Chu Wenshang. The difference in strength between Chu tianliang and him was not as insurmountable as the gap between him and Chu Wenshang. They were only a small level. As long as he made preparations in the instant he realized the other party’s intentions, it was entirely possible for him to kill Chu Tianlu!

Chu Tianlu knew better than anyone the risks involved, but he couldn’t care less. In today’s situation, either Chu tianliang or he would die. There was no possibility of the two of them existing together.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Tianlu was only one step away from Chu tianliang. Just as the short blade in his hand was about to touch Chu tianliang’s throat again, a silent howl suddenly came from behind him. Chu Tianlu’s scalp turned numb. This voice was all too familiar. He did not even need to turn around to know that it was the shadow arrow, one of the Chu clan’s strongest shadow-type martial arts techniques!

Chu Wen was still left behind by him. The fastest technique, the pasted shadow steps, not only required a variety of harsh conditions but also needed to store energy. This was a hard limit. Even a Jindan stage master could only shorten this time at most, but could not completely erase it, so it was impossible to use it continuously.

However, just because Chu Wenshang himself couldn’t catch up, it didn’t mean that he could rest easy. A shadow arrow from a long distance was enough to take his life!

The speed of the shadow arrow was extremely fast. Almost at the same time as Chu Wenshang raised his hand, the shadow arrow had already caught up with Chu Tianlu, who was 100 feet away. If Chu Tianlu hadn’t noticed it in advance and forced himself to move half a body away, this arrow would have directly pierced his throat.

In the end, the shadow arrow sank into Chu Tianlu’s right shoulder and disappeared into thin air. However, it left behind an extremely bloody and huge wound, which was a ghastly sight.

Chu Wenshang frowned when he saw this. Although he had been fooled by Chu Tianlu just now, he didn’t panic at all with the shadow arrow as his trump card. He had always been very confident that as long as he wanted to, he could take Chu Tianlu’s life at any time. It would be as easy as turning his hand.

However, the scene before his eyes was far beyond his expectations. It was not strange that Chu Tianlu had been on guard against his shadow arrow, nor was it strange that he had dodged half a body’s distance in advance. However, this fellow’s right shoulder had clearly been blasted with such a hideous and bloody hole. To outsiders, it looked as if his entire right arm was about to fall off. Yet, at this moment, he did not fall. Instead, he did not move an inch.

How was that possible? How could he withstand the powerful impact of the shadow arrow?

Chu Wenshang was stunned for a moment. He finally found a layer of vague lines between the joints of the other party’s hands and feet. At first glance, it seemed to be a complicated and profound pattern formed by some kind of extremely fine black lines. If he looked carefully, he would find that these were not black lines at all, but shadows.

“Bone exchange with shadow!” Chu Wenshang blurted out in shock. As the name suggested, it replaced the joints with a shadow in a short period of time. In this way, it was almost half a shadow. Unless the source of the shadow could be eliminated directly, it was almost impossible to defeat it, because the shadow could not be defeated.

Of course, the damage caused by the shadow arrow was real. The only effect of bone swapping was to allow the user to maintain sufficient mobility even after being severely injured. It didn’t matter even if the joints were shattered, unless the time limit was up.

This was definitely an unorthodox martial art of the Chu family. It was even more unorthodox than the unmoving shadow. At least there were still people who practiced the unmoving shadow, but the bone swapping technique had almost been lost. According to Chu Wenshang’s knowledge, even the current patriarch, who had recently advanced to the nascent Soul Stage, did not know it. It was only recorded in the secret manual of the Chu family’s martial arts.

The reason for this was not that the actual combat value of changing bones like a shadow was not enough. On the contrary, its actual combat value was very high, at least far above the unmoving shadow. The problem was that this martial art technique was too difficult. Looking at all the ancestors of the Chu clan, the number of people who could truly understand its essence could be counted on one’s fingers. In addition, its actual combat effect was far less outstanding than the offensive and defensive martial arts techniques such as the shadow arrow, so naturally, no one was interested in it.

He had never expected that Chu Tianlu, a young junior, would not only specialize in the unorthodox unmoving shadow, but he had even mastered the technique of exchanging bones with shadows. He was simply an out-and-out weirdo.