The Geared Immortal

A New Quest Part 4

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The scent of blood permeated through the air because of the many dead bodies which litter the ground. The dead guards and assassins are mixed together making the whole scenery of carnage and bloodshed unbearable to those weak and powerless.

In the middle of this thing stood some figures, two of them are currently surrounded by the remaining guards, and one has already been stabbed by a sword from his back.

Li Yan Xi can feel the cold blade piercing his body, while his warm blood can be seen at the swords razor-sharp blade after passing through his body.

Yun Bo Xi is rooted to the ground with disbelief clearly written on her face. Qian Li and the other sniper watches through the scope of their rifles with their eyes wide open in disbelief. Their reaction can also be seen among the remaining guards surrounding the two princes.

Nobody expected to see this scene because the two brothers are very close and supported each other throughout the whole campaign against the beast-men and the demons.

However, Shin Jiao is the only one who is showing a calm expression as he observes the situation.

The wound on Li Yan Xi's stomach is big, but it is not fatal enough to take his life in an instant. He can just take a rapid hemostatic pill and then his wounds will immediately close in just a few seconds or minutes.

But what concerns him at this time is the expression of the crown prince.

And when he looks into his eyes, he immediately noticed what's happening.

"Keke… Brother… It seems that this is your weakness. No matter how powerful you are, your family ties would still hold you down… Keke…" a raspy voice like a cold tone from hell came out of the crown prince's mouth.

"Who… who are… you? You… you're not... my… brother." Li Yan Xi forcefully said.

Suddenly the crown prince moved and the sword came out of the 2nd prince's body along with blood bursting out of the deep wound.

Arrgghh!!!

The guards are unable to move as they didn't know who they would protect of serve. If they will try to save the 2nd prince they would offend the crown prince and maybe suffer death. And if they would try to stop the crown prince, or fight against the already wounded second prince then they would still suffer death.

So no matter what's their choice is, they would still die. However, the guards are already familiar with the royal family and the infighting. So at this time, they have to choose.

"All of you get out!" the 2nd prince suddenly shouted.

Although they were a little taken aback, the guards are still thankful. They knew that the 2nd prince is worried about them and didn't want to drag them to this mess.

As they walked out, the guards dragged the bodies lying on the ground along with them. This made the room devoid of the corpses, yet the thick scent of blood is still present as the ground already has a pool of blood.

The crown prince confidently stood on the center while looking at Li Yan Xi's slowly weakening stance.

"Any last words… brother?"

"Who… what are you?" Li Yan Xi asked.

The crown prince showed a disdainful look on his eyes as he suddenly grinned.

"You'll never know that answer in this lifetime. Just blame your fate for having the sign of God's blessing within you… Keke."

After saying that the figure of the crown prince suddenly vanished from where he stood and immediately appear in front of the 2nd prince with his sword already swinging towards Li Yan Xi's head.

"No!"

A loud scream of a woman was heard as Yun Bo Xi whom they didn't notice is still standing in a daze not too far from the main door of the large hall.

Clang!

The loud sound of two metals clashing together was heard as Li Yan Xi lifted his weapon to block the strike from the crown prince.

But right at this time, the eyes of the crown prince which was once dilated suddenly turned back to normal and a confused look in his expression was suddenly displayed.

Yet before the two are able to react, a large shadow of a dark creature suddenly materialized from thin air beside them. They were caught off guard as a long black scythe-like claw of around 3 meters, was suddenly swung towards their heads.

From the trajectory, it is clear that the creature's target is to cut the two prince's heads together.

Swoosh!

Clang!

Another loud sound of metal clashing against metal reverberated through the air.

This time, Shin Jiao's figure suddenly appears between the creature's longclaw and the head of the crown prince, who seems to be stunned and unable to move.

"Now!"

Peng! Peng!

Two holes suddenly appear from the creature's chest which burst out in black blood. Then Shin Jiao saw the creature falling to the ground.

But then something unbelievable happened.

Before the dark creature's body hit the ground it actually broke apart like black water hitting a solid surface. Then the black water-like particles started to float through the air as it slowly forms an image of the creature.

"Keke… that was too careless of me… However, I still got what I came for… Keke…" the dark creature said as it suddenly tugged something in the air and a small speck of particle came out of the 2nd price's body.

Li Yan Xi suddenly cried in agony as if he is feeling a soul tearing pain all over his body.

Right now, Li Yan Xi feels a bit of regret because he didn't head his father's warning. His father already warned him not to get too close to any of his siblings because it would cause him to be put down his guard.

As his body felt the soul tearing pain, he gritted his teeth and tried so hard not to faint from the pain. He knew that once he fainted, then his life would be over.

Shin Jiao didn't wait for things to go south, so he immediately tried to snatch the small speck that is slowly floating away from the 2nd prince's body. However, once he touched that tiny thing Shin Jiao noticed that it suddenly enters his body.

It seems that the speck of light was attracted by Shin Jiao's hands as it immediately rushed in his palms.

When this happened, Li Yan Shi immediately shouted in pain and fainted.

And the dark creature suddenly howled in anger.

"You dare to absorb the holy dragon's soul! I will kill you!" the dark creature shouted as it suddenly rushed towards Shin Jiao.

However, since its body has not recovered completely, its speed is not that fast.

Shin Jiao at this time felt his mind go blank as a strong force bombarded his mind dantian. He suddenly felt that his head is about to break from that huge amount of force making him fall to the ground almost fainting.

Luckily for him, he fell to the ground as the long dark claws of the creature pass by his head.

Swoosh!

Then all of a sudden, the creature's eyes went wide in disbelief.

It suddenly felt its body unable to move while it was locked down by strong pressure.

"Oh, what do we have here! Is this a surprise… An already weakened Shadow Void creature! This old man's luck is truly great! Haha…"

The voice of an old man suddenly appears followed by a figure floating through the air as he enters the hall. The old man is followed by a middle-aged man who has the bearing of a king. These two people are the current Ancestor of the Wu clan and the current King of the Wu kingdom, Sun Wu.

When the Shadow Void saw the old man it began to shake in fear. It can sense that the old man's cultivation is deep and that he is very powerful. It didn't expect that a mere kingdom has the protection of a very powerful cultivator.

But of course, the Shadow Void creature named Majin Black is not aware of this. It has spent its whole life inside the innermost part of the Daemon forest and is not aware that the humans outside has already reached such great lengths when it comes to cultivation realms. Hence it felt fear and regret playing and underestimating humans.

Majin Black actually has the power to already take the two dragon souls inside of Li Yan Xi, but it decided to play hide and seek with its prey when it noticed and heard about the demon's strategy.

It disdained those weak demons who tried to hide among the human masses because that was its expertise, to hide in the shadows and kill in silence.

However, it didn't expect to be ambushed and became weakened.

When it was shot, its cultivation base was already broken and it needed time to recuperate after taking at least one of the souls. As long as it could take one of the dragon souls, sooner or later, the other one would follow and its host's soul would be consumed as it goes out of the host's body.

But now, everything is too late.

And this happened because of one insignificant ant.

The eyes of Majin Black throws fiery gazes of anger towards the figure of Shin Jiao who is currently on the ground writhing in pain along with the 2nd prince.

Then suddenly an old descript palm suddenly extended and absorbed the black shadow which is the body of Majin Black in its weakened state.

"Nooo!"

The Shadow Void shouted as it was absorbed by the old man without resistance.

Then the old man smiled as he feels contented with his harvest. Then his gaze went towards the two young men on the ground.

"Brother!" two voices suddenly shouted as two figures approached the 2nd prince.

However, before the crown prince can approach, Yun Bo Xi hugged Li Yan Xi in her bosom as she glared at the crown prince. She quickly gave the 2nd prince some pills and saw his wounds closing. But still, the 2nd prince continually squirms in pain within her arms.

Two streaks of tears fell down on Yun Bo Xi's beautiful eyes as she could not take the pain her brother is suffering.