Chapter 57: Spare No One’s Life
Translator: Panda_Penn Editor: Chrissy
It was indeed much easier with Little White helping out. Lu Li climbed his way up the Red Stone Mountain. All the Red Phosphorus Hawks and Stone Rats he met wouldn’t dare to move, and they would all clear a way out for Lu Li.
The Red Stone Mountain was the lair for the Stone Rats. They were everywhere. By the looks of it, there must be at least several thousands of them. These were the ones Lu Li met. Who would know how many more were hiding in the Red Stone Mountain?
The number of Red Phosphorus Hawks was big as well. The inside of the Red Stone Mountain was the den of the Stone Rats, but the peak was the territory of the Red Phosphorus Hawks. The Red Phosphorus Hawks kept diving down, but they also retreated to the sides and stopped moving closer once they felt the influence of Little White’s qi and energy.
The Red Stone Mountain was big and steep. Of course, this was no problem for Lu Li at all. He just spent one hour to arrive at the peak.
"Wow, haha~~"
Lu Li’s eyes at once lit up as the peak was full of Red Phosphorus Hawks’ eggs. There were many eggs the size of a person’s head in those huge nests.
"One egg of the Red Phosphorus Hawks is 500 contribution points. There are several hundred of them here. If I can get all of them back, that would mean several hundreds of thousands of contribution points."
Lu Li’s spirit got worked up. Contribution points were precious because they could be traded for Xuan Artifacts, Blood Refinement Pellets, and high rank Xuan Skills. What Lu Li was looking at were not just eggs of Red Phosphorus Hawks, but pieces of Blood Refinement Pellets, and Xuan Artifacts…
"But how can I get them back?"
With Little White’s help, the more than one thousand Red Phosphorus Hawks at the peak would not move. He could easily get all the eggs. The problem was Lu Li couldn’t carry all of them…
The eggs were too big. Lu Li only brought with him several jute bags which could only carry about more than a dozen. He couldn’t get more.
"I’ll put some in first."
Lu Li thought about it and ordered Little White, "Let all the Red Phosphorus Hawks fly off the peak."
He was about steal eggs of the Red Phosphorus Hawks. That was no way he was going to do it in front of all the Red Phosphorus Hawks. What if the Red Phosphorus Hawks went into a riot?
"Squeak~"
Little White held up its head and cried out. All the Red Phosphorus Hawks flew up towards all directions. Every single one of them soon landed on a small hill down there.
"Good job, Little White!"
Lu Li smiled and started putting the Red Phosphorus Hawks’ eggs into the jute bags. As he expected, he could only put 15 in but not more.
Now with all those eggs, he had a hard time moving around. Who knew if the shells of the eggs were hard or not? What if they broke on some bumpy road?
"I can finish the quest and get 7500 contribution points. That is enough to sustain me for a long time."
Lu Li heaved a sigh of relief. Granted, he had been through a lot of suffering this time and was almost killed on several occasions. In the end, however, he did successfully get the eggs of the Red Phosphorus Hawks.
Nevertheless, getting the eggs was not the equivalent of being safe. He had to figure out a way back. It was already dangerous on the way here, so the way back would be even more so. Zhao Rui would not let him go back without a hitch.
Lu Li stood on the mountain top and looked around, about to go down and find a way back to the Wu Ling County. Lu Li had just covered several dozen feet when he saw numerous black shadows rushing towards here from the southeast side. These men were very fast. They were just some little dots a while ago, and now they had covered a couple of miles and were heading towards the Red Stone Mountain.
"Who are they? Are they here for me? Or are they just passing by?"
Lu Li took cover behind a boulder and looked at the dozens of people getting closer, feeling uneasy. After half an hour, he was able to see clearly the armor those guys were in. Instantly, Lu Li’s face clouded.
All of them were in the cyan armor of the Zhao Family. The foe had come.
"There are more than 30 of them, and three are at the Spirit Sea Realm."
Veins popped out on the hand that was holding the Heaven Kylin Sword. Lu Li felt his life was threatened, and his muscles tense. The Zhao Family warriors clearly had come towards the Red Stone Mountain to get revenge. This could be the last place he was alive.
Escaping? How to escape from the warriors at the Spirit Sea Realm? How could he be faster than warriors at the Spirit Sea Realm?
Fighting? How to fight against so many people? If there were only one warrior at the Spirit Sea Realm, it would be less of a problem with him releasing his Bloodline Skills and the help of Little White. But now there were three warriors at the Spirit Sea Realm, not to mention the dozens of warriors at the Xuan Wu Realm.
"Come on. If you want my life, then get it with your lives!"
As these warriors got closer and surrounded the Red Stone Mountain, Lu Li was ready to risk everything. Since he could not get out, then there was nothing to do but to fight to the last drop of his blood.
He put the jute bags with eggs on the ground and said to Little White that was on his shoulder, "Little White, later you go and hide. You attack anyone I tell you to. If I die here, you run away by yourself. Don’t get caught."
"Squeak, squeak~"
Little White was very intelligent. It screamed and a sense of coldness came into its eyes. Some kind of strange qi radiated from it. Its short manes were erected like a powerful lion in anger.
But Little White was so small. Lu Li didn’t feel a bit threatened, but instead found it kind of funny…
"Lu Li!"
Someone shouted down there. Lu Li looked towards it and saw a young man at the Spirit Sea Realm standing on a big boulder at the foot of the mountain while shouting, "I know you are up there. Get down!"
The young man was wearing a cyan armor with a black crossbow in his hands and a black sword carried diagonally across the back. He was awe-inspiring and looked splendid.
There were an elder at the Spirit Sea Ream and eight warriors at the Xuan Wu Realm by his side. Lu Li needn’t much thinking to understand who he was.
Lu Li looked around and noticed none of the warriors surrounding the foot of the mountain started attacking. He jumped onto a boulder and looked at the young man. "You are the Young Master of the Zhao Family, Zhao Rui?"
The young man haughtily nodded, "Yes, I am. You are quite good at running away. Not even Uncle Scar can kill you? Hum, I want to see where you can escape to this time."
Zhao Rui had no idea that Uncle Scar was killed by Lu Li. When Uncle Scar didn’t make it back that night, he dared not to look for him. Zhao Rui went to the base camp of the Zhao Family in the Frigid Cloud Mountain.
In the base camp, Zhao Rui assigned several scouts to look for Uncle Scar and Lu Li. The body of Uncle Scar probably was eaten by the Xuan Beasts as the scouts did not find it. But they did find the tracks of Lu Li. When they got the news, Zhao Rui immediately brought someone with him to hunt Lu Li down.
Lu Li did not reply. He looked around to all sides and tried to work out a way out of this. Lu Ling had told him not to give up even at the last moment. He had held the words dear to his heart.
"Patriarch Qi, why aren’t the Red Phosphorus Hawks and the Stone Rats attacking him?"
Zhao Rui asked the elder at the Spirit Sea Realm next to him. The reason that Zhao Rui didn’t order an attack when he arrived was because of this.
"I don’t know."
The elder frowned. He considered for a while and said, "Young Master Rui, how about we let Lao Piao bring someone with him and go up to check it out. We can support down here by coordinated actions."
"Okay!" Zhao Rui nodded. He turned to another powerful warrior at the Spirit Sea Realm and coldly ordered, "Patriarch Piao, you get some guys with you. Just kill on the spot, don’t leave anyone’s life spared."
"Kill!"
An elder with white hair on the west shouted out and ran along like a roaring beast. Numerous warriors at the Xuan Wu Realm at the foot of the mountain came swarming towards the mountain.
"They are here!"
Lu Li looked towards the west and saw an elder making his way up the mountain quickly. The Stone Rats that were blocking the way were smacked away by him. He was unstoppable.
"Only one at the Spirit Sea Realm?"
Lu Li glanced over Zhao Rui and his face reddened. If the three warriors of the Spirit Sea Realm were to attack at the same time, he would most likely die. But since they split out, Lu Li had seen some hope of surviving.
He had no fear of warriors at the peak of the Xuan Wu Realm. These dozens of people could not kill him. As long as he could kill the three warriors at the Spirit Sea Realm one by one, he could have a fair chance of living.
"Little White!"
He turned around, looked at Little White behind him and told it in a deep voice, "Control the Red Phosphorus Hawks and the Stone Rats to attack everyone climbing up the mountain, especially the old guy with white hair. Tell the Red Phosphorus Hawks and the Stone Rats to surround him."