Chapter 212 - 197: Blood Wolf Divine Guard

Chapter 212: Chapter 197: Blood Wolf Divine Guard

Bai Shasha was also a Soul Apprentice, though her physical conditioning seemed slightly inferior to the senior with the short dagger.

But what Li Heng saw was a scene of the two fighting on equal footing. He could also tell the senior wasn’t intentionally going easy on her; sweat was even beading on his forehead.

And so, Bai Shasha and the short senior continued to fight with all their might. After about ten minutes, Li Heng called a stop to the spar.

It wasn’t because either side had drawn blood. Instead, after their final clash, their weapons fell from their hands, and neither showed any intention of picking them up.

Although Bai Shasha still had a scimitar in her left hand, she chose not to press the attack, remaining motionless where she stood.

Upon seeing this, Li Heng called a stop to the spar and announced the final result: a draw.

"Thank you for the match, Senior!"

After Li Heng announced the result, Bai Shasha cupped her fist toward the senior with the short dagger. She offered her thanks before picking up her scimitar from the ground.

The senior with the short dagger returned the gesture to the petite girl. "You’re very skilled too, Junior! I hope we get the chance to spar again."

After a bit more small talk, Bai Shasha and Li Heng bid farewell to the two seniors. With that, the petite girl’s "ceremony" for moving into Xisha was concluded.

"Li Heng, thanks for showing me around. I can go introduce myself to the other seniors from here. I appreciate your help."

After leaving Laundry Lane, Bai Shasha thanked Li Heng and they parted ways.

Li Heng nodded, telling her to go on ahead. But then he remembered something and added a word of caution.

"Oh, right. I’m planning to do some training in seclusion, so I’ll probably be unavailable for the rest of the day. If you need anything, it’ll have to wait until tomorrow."

"Okay! You’ve already helped me a lot today, and I don’t have anything else for now. Thank you." Bai Shasha didn’t dawdle.

After exchanging a few more words, Li Heng returned to his private wooden cabin, locking both the courtyard gate and the cabin door from the inside.

After taking care of these trivial matters, Li Heng decided to head to the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain.

He’d unlocked the Divine-level Dungeon a while ago, but he had only been farming divinity points without making any real progress. Now that he could properly wield the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword and use the ten-meter blink from his Shangxue Flying Knife Technique, he felt he could finally make a solid attempt.

He spent one thousand Soul Energy points and arrived at the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain. After taking a deep breath, he drew the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword.

’I remember the first time I used Yun Han,’ he thought. ’The blade felt incredibly heavy, and the coldness that seeped into my body was bone-chilling. The frost poison’s backlash was fatal. This time...’

This time, as Li Heng held Yun Han, he didn’t feel the slightest chill. Instead, the sword felt like a natural extension of his own body.

The blade’s weight was perfect. With a light swing, he could not only hear the sound of tearing air but also see a flurry of snowflakes.

First, there were the stat bonuses. The sword added 25 points each to his Strength and Agility. In the Dungeon, he swapped it in for his Empty Cicada Longsword. With all his other gear equipped, his stats panel now showed 60 Strength and 61 Agility!

In terms of raw numbers, having both stats break the 60-point mark put him above a Tier Four High-Grade Soul Beast. In other words, these two attributes were now comparable to those of a Tier Five Soul Beast!

After a few practice swings with the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword, Li Heng’s confidence swelled. Beyond the stat boosts, he found that executing his sword techniques with Yun Han was far, far more fluid than with the Empty Cicada Longsword.

He had noticed this the first time he used Yun Han, but now that his Snow Affinity had reached a full 20 points, the sensation was even more distinct.

Following this train of thought, Li Heng executed his Ghost Butterfly Illusion Sword technique right where he stood. He discovered that the illusory butterflies were no longer bright silver, but had taken on a blue-white hue.

Furthermore, each butterfly illusion seemed to carry a touch of frost.

’A Mythic-grade Longsword really is something else!’ Li Heng thought. After just a couple of practice moves, the difference between it and his old Empty Cicada Longsword was night and day.

It was a Mythic-grade weapon, after all. After taking a moment to compose himself, Li Heng gripped Yun Han and began his ascent of the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain.

Blood Wolf: Blessed by the Blood Wolf God

Level: 10

Tier: Tier One Low-Grade Soul Beast

Strength: 21 (+9)

Agility: 21 (+9)

Spirit: 17 (+9)

Soul Energy: 15

Previously, when using the Empty Cicada Longsword against the Blessed Blood Wolves, he could take on five at most without sustaining more than minor injuries. After all, their stats were comparable to a Tier Two Soul Beast; the main issue was that it took a long time to defeat them.

But now, having switched to the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword, Li Heng was confident he could handle eight of them, using his Shangxue Flying Knife Technique as needed.

Typically, the Blessed Blood Wolves on the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain moved in packs of three, so the battles went much more smoothly than before. His sword strikes were now almost always fatal in a single blow.

In addition to the changes he’d already noticed, the Blessed Blood Wolves struck by Yun Han now had their wounds covered in a layer of frost. The blade remained clean, unstained by blood, and its tip pierced the wolves’ flesh with ease.

Because of this, Li Heng encountered no major difficulties in the first half of the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain. Packs of three or fewer Blessed Blood Wolves were little more than free experience; he cut them down as soon as he saw them.

At the foot of the mountain, he mostly found packs of three or fewer. He only encountered a group of five once, and it posed no real challenge, merely taking a bit more time.

But as he moved from the base of the mountain to its waist, Li Heng encountered a pack of ten Blessed Blood Wolves. This was the first time he had ever made it to the mountainside of the Divine-level Wolf King Mountain!

A full ten Blessed Blood Wolves!

Unlike when he faced packs of three or five, Li Heng now felt a strange sense of pressure, similar to what he’d felt when he first entered Wolf King Mountain.

Blood Wolf Divine Guard: Blessed by the Blood Wolf God

Level: 21

Tier: Tier Two Low-Grade Soul Beast

Strength: 31 (+9)

Agility: 31 (+9)

Spirit: 27 (+9)

Soul Energy: 200

Soul Energy Skills: Blood Rend, Blood Wolf God’s Aura, Blood Wolf God Illusion

Potential Drops: 3 Divinity, Blood Wolf Guard Cub, Blood Wolf Materials.

’A Blood Wolf Divine Guard?’

From about fifteen meters away, Li Heng spotted the ten Blood Wolves. Among them was one that looked particularly majestic. It was not only much larger than an ordinary Blood Wolf, but the blood-red mist coiling around its body was also noticeably thicker.

This was Li Heng’s first time seeing a Blood Wolf Divine Guard, and the pressure radiating from it was even greater than what he had felt from the Blessed Blood Wolves when he first entered this Dungeon.

Under this pressure, Li Heng subconsciously tightened his grip on the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword. After taking a deep breath, he drew two flying knives with his left hand.

Since the fifteen-meter gap was beyond the "blink" range of his flying knives, he took a few steps forward, then hurled one of them at the Blood Wolf Divine Guard.

Powered by the Shangxue Flying Knife Technique, the plain iron knife became coated in frost, leaving a trail of fluttering snowflakes in its wake. Li Heng gripped Yun Han tightly in his right hand. As the knife neared its target, he activated the skill with a thought, and his body blinked forward!

He blinked across ten meters, his figure materializing amidst the snowflakes. But even faster than his reappearing body was the Cloud Cold Treasure Sword in his hand!

The Blood Wolf Divine Guard was right before him. Without a moment’s hesitation, Li Heng unleashed a technique from his Ghost Butterfly Illusion Sword, aiming straight for the creature’s neck.

SQUELCH~

Feeling the tip of his Longsword, Yun Han, sink smoothly into the Blood Wolf Divine Guard’s neck, Li Heng didn’t bother to check if it was still combat-capable. He immediately withdrew his blade and his body, swinging at the nearest Blessed Blood Wolf. All the while, he kept a flying knife clutched in his left hand, ready to retreat and create some distance from the pack at a moment’s notice.

After all, even if he managed to take out two, there would still be eight Blessed Blood Wolves, each comparable to a Tier Two Soul Beast. If all eight attacked at once, Li Heng doubted he could completely fend them off in that initial onslaught.

"AWOOO~"

"AWOOO~"

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Just as Li Heng slashed at the nearest Soul Beast, the entire pack of Blessed Blood Wolves suddenly let out a volley of howls. From each of their bodies, a thick, blood-red mist began to rise...