Chapter 47: Failure


    In the other valley, the Three-Legged Fire Crow was soaring in the air, spewing me, which was as pure as coloured ze, towards the gigantic horned serpent. The great heat of the me melted the mountains thatid aside and burned pieces of the jungle into ashes.


    The horned serpent was currently coiled on the ground，emitting a blue light from its horn and fending against the Fire Crow’s me. In the meanwhile, gusts of dark-blue, cold wind blew out from the horned serpent’s mouth, attacking the Fire Crow from every direction.


    The Fire Crow quietly floated in the air with a looming red light emerging from its ck feathers. On the edges of every single feather, a few spell symbols shed and sshed fire sparks, then disappeared quickly. Only with the heat emitted from those feathers, was the Fire Crow able to disperse all of those cold winds.


    “Haha!”


    Ji Zhuoughed out loud. He was holding an oddly-shaped shield, made of a beast’s skull, in his left hand and a huge bone cane in his right hand. His body was wrapped in zing me, which made him look like a fiery god; every single move of his produced a monstrous me.


    “ck Water Gui, haha, you’re one of my old friends. Do you remember your Abba and uncle? It was me who killed them!” Ji Zhuo waved his bone cane and cast streams of mes randomly, while provoking his enemy.


    The deathly pale face of ck Water Gui had almost turned blue. In his hands, was a ck, short bone cane; and on his skin numerous snake tattoos wriggled as if they were alive. A huge gust of wind blew out from his body, soon after which, arge cloud of dark-blue ice crystals quickly emerged from the air and immediately condensed into several ice walls in front of him.


    Usually, ck Water Gui’s ice walls were iparably firm; even tens of ordinary Senior Magi with theirbined power couldn’t harm even a little bit of his ice walls.


    However, Ji Zhuo was way too powerful. With only a slight hit, Ji Zhuo shattered several tens-of-feet-thick ice walls. Every moment, ck Water Gui released hundreds of ice walls and shielded himself in every direction, however, Ji Zhuo waved his bone cane for a thousand times within the same moment.


    Ice walls were continuously shattering. Ji Zhuo was excited, even starting to roar and curse. Lava-like thick mes started circting through his body, emitting an eye-piercing light and producing an even greater heat. He was stimted by the fight and released all of his power, even his sturdy body swelled bigger.


    Followed by a muffled bang, the huge bone cane broke through tens of ice walls and directly hit ck Water Gui’s chest.


    Instantly, Gui let out a howl. His scrawny body was sent flying and his chest was hollowed. His pale skin quickly turned red, and wisps ofva gushed out from every one of his pores.


    “Hah, ck Water, you...” Ji Zhuo raised the bone cane andughed proudly. But in the next moment, hisughter suddenly stopped and his expression changed; his body intensely shook and he staggered a few steps back.


    With a tiny swishing sound, a ck, jade knife, which was only as thick as a bean and as long as a finger, rapidly rose high into the air, transforming into a beam of ck light, and flew back to ck Water Gui’s hand. Just now, the jade knife had pierced the Ji Zhuo’s left ankle. A ck line rose from his left ankle towards his thigh; where it passed, the me wrapping Ji Zhuo’s body quickly subsided; a thickyer of ice appeared on his left leg, recing the me.


    “This again!” Ji Zhuo mumbled annoyingly. “You neverunched a frontal attack, you bastard! I hate you vile bugs! One day, I’ll destroy you all!”


    ck Water Gui grinned wanly, grabbed the jade knife, and let out a sharp roar. Following his voice, the horned serpent, which was fighting against the Fire Crow, turned around and dashed up to Gui, carrying him on its head and fleeing towards the deep jungle at its highest speed.


    The Three-Legged Fire Crow cawed sharply, attempting to chase them. Ji Zhuo sat down on the ground, gasping, and said feebly,“Don’t bother... That old bastard was injured quite seriously. He won’t be able toe out and make trouble for quite a while... My old friend, haven’t you realised that I too am badly hurt?”


    Ji Zhuo patted his frozen thigh and said with a weird smile on his face, “I’m badly injured and can’t make it back to the Gold ck Mountain. The nearest Fire Crow n territory is the Cold Stream Valley; I’m going there to take a rest!”


    Ji Zhuo then let out a caw-like shout and hopped onto the Fire Crow’s head. The Fire Crow pped its enormous wings and rushed high into the air, leaving a beam of fiery light behind it. It then hovered around, diving towards Cold Stream Valley.


    In the Cold Stream Valley, Toao threw a punch toward Ji Hao’s spear, which was about to pierce Di Luo’s back. The spear shook intensely, and nearly broke from the great power hidden in Toao’s punch. Ji Hao’s arms quivered, and he quickly retreated inrge strides.


    With his current power, Ji Hao couldn’t hold off the strength of a Senior Magi yet. A slight punch from Toao nearly ruptured his internal organs. A stream of blood gushed out from his throat, and he couldn’t help but to spit out a wisp of blood.


    In his lower belly, the multicoloured me was quietly zing. Part of the Senior Magi blood released from Ji Kui’s magic-seal while Ji Hao was in aa, was now quickly turning into beams of multicoloured light and being absorbed by Ji Hao’s body.


    Soon, Ji Hao’s internal wounds were healed by the multicoloured light. He took a deep breath, stretching his neck and cracking his bone joints. His strength had just improved ‘ten thousand stones’ after being nourished by the Senior Magi Blood.


    “Break!” Ji Hao didn’t risk fighting against Toba and Toao closely. He hid in the dense fog and locked his hands together; he gathered natural power and sent it towards them.


    At this moment, Ji Xia was surrounded by Di Luo, Toba and Toao, in addition to ck Water Jiao and his serpent. The four of themunched their attacks towards Ji Xia simultaneously. Punches, daggers, wind-knifes, poisoned gas, and cold air; all kinds of attacks were thrown at Ji Xia, hitting his body like drops in a rainstorm. Within the span of a few breaths, Ji Xia was beaten ck and blue.


    However, a sphere of white-cyan light slowly rose from Ji Xia’s head. Within the light, the Mu Sheng Pearl, Qing Fu’s inherited Magus Treasure, appeared and quickly released arge amount of life force energy, which was then absorbed by Ji Xia’s body and started to heal him. With the energy released by the Mu Sheng Pearl and the strong life force of a powerful Senior Magus, Ji Xia’s wounds quickly healed. All of the attacks casted by the four people and horned serpent seemed to have failed to cause any harm to Ji Xia.


    Once Ji Xia was healed, Ji Hao rushed over, along with the vast power of the ‘Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words.’ Followed by the rumbling of thunder, tens of fist-thick lightning bolts abruptly fell on the four people’s heads.


    Besiegement from the four people was interrupted by the lightning. Di Luo fled backward, frightened; but once he turned around, he noticed a skeleton monster standing right in front of him. The skeleton gave a horrible grin and pressed Di Luo on the ground with its huge bone paw.


    Under the skeleton’s paw, all of Di Luo’s bones started creaking. He was then sent flying by the skeleton and hit arge tree nearly a mile away, falling unconscious.


    Toba and Toao instantly stopped attacking Ji Xia, turned around, and rushed toward Di Luo.


    ck Water Jiao showed hesitation, and took a few steps back subconsciously. By then, he was the only one left to deal with Ji Xia.


    A sharp caw came from the jungle farther away. ck Water Jiao’s face suddenly turned deathly pale when he heard the caw. “Did Granddaddy lose? To whom? Whom!? Retreat! Retreat! This is a trap! Damn Ji Mu! How dare you lie to me!” yelled ck Water Jiao.


    ck Water Jiao then jumped onto the serpent’s head and tried to flee; however, before he could make it into the jungle, three ck ‘thorns of life and death’ shed across the dense fog,and pierced through the bodies of ck Water Jiao and his horned serpent. ck Water Jiao let out a great howl, and his face turned dark immediately.


    “Re..re..retreat!” He screamed out of panic, and then ran into the jungle with the hundreds of remaining ck Water Serpent warriors.


    By now, a well-nned ambush had failedpletely. Ji Hao shouted, chasing into the jungle under the cover of Mr.Crow.