Chapter 14: Escape

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Jiye was stunned to see the Tauren leader and his warriors surrounding him in all four directions. His situation was so precarious that any bad move could render him without any hope of reprieve. Fortunately, having been in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range for two whole weeks, he was much more powerful than before.

“Really? Why don’t I try it…?”

He stared into the blood-colored eyes of the Tauren leader and slightly pursed his lips. Right after he spoke, the Wind Element immediately surged all over his body, and turquoise light appeared at his feet. In the next second, his figure had charged in front of the sturdy Tauren leader. With nimble movements, he stuck out his right leg and kicked towards the Tauren leader’s Achilles heel, his abdomen.

After two weeks of continuous practice, Li Jiye’s physical strength was now more solid than his elemental realm. Once he summoned Godspeed Steps, he had whizzed forward like an unstoppable hurricane.

However, the Tauren leader was still more powerful than him. Excluding the fact that he was a Tier 3 martial artist, his physical strength was also naturally much more powerful than ordinary humans of the same level. Despite Li Jiye’s fierce and powerful Godspeed Steps, he was still blocked by the intertwined arms of his opponent.

“You’ve been fooled!”

Just as the Tauren leader snorted and was about to ridicule Li Jiye for overestimating himself, Li Jiye smirked at him.

In the next second, he poured a bottle of emerald green glowing liquid into his mouth. Immediately, his already fast and nimble figure became even more unpredictable.

“Agility potion? That’s your trump card?”

The Tauren leader narrowed his blood-colored eyes and glared hostilely at Li Jiye, who was summoning all the Wind Element in his body.

“This potion can only give you a speed boost for about ten minutes. Don’t forget, the Tauren clan is best at long-distance raids. You’ll never escape from us!”

Ignoring him and surveying his surroundings instead, Li Jiye immediately thought of a countermeasure against them. Indeed, the agility potion could only increase his speed for a short while. Furthermore, Glimmer City’s terrain wasn’t as complicated as the Demonic Beast Mountain Range’s; it was instead spacious and empty, like a wide expanse of flat land. The Tauren clan’s endurance was several times that of humans, and their explosive power was also unrivaled. Even with the agility potion and Shadow Wind Steps, Li Jiye knew he would eventually be captured by them.

But things weren’t so simple.

Taking advantage of the effectiveness of the agility potion, Li Jiye slammed into the corner of the Tauren warriors’ encirclement. He summoned Shadow Wind Steps and repeated his old technique without blinking an eye before kicking one of the inferior Tier 2 Tauren warriors head-on.

This Tauren was worlds apart from the Tauren leader in terms of cultivation and combat experience. Li Jiye’s Godspeed Steps hit the bullseye with its body-strength bonus. A muffled cry came from the Tauren, and he immediately knelt on the ground while coughing blood.

“Catch him!”

Upon seeing this, the Tauren leader’s nose flared in anger. Under his command, the Taurens once again lined up in the same formation that had injured Li Jiye before.

But how could Li Jiye suffer injuries again under the same attack? He had already anticipated their next move when they were changing formation. Although the horned formation was effective, it had one big flaw, which Li Jiye had come to understand after these few days of experiences. Making use of their tight formation, he flashed past each of them like a whirlwind and threw out “willow leaves” that were constructed purely with the Wind Element.

Having been made in a hurry, the power of the Falling Leaves Deadly Knives wasn’t too strong. However, some of the slightly inferior Taurens still fell prey to it and couldn’t defend against it. In an instant, their calf tendons and outer thighs had been sharply slashed open, creating deep gashes.

“See you again!”

With the mobility of the Tauren warriors successfully destroyed by his Falling Leaves Deadly Knives, Li Jiye smiled smugly and waved goodbye to the Tauren leader. He immediately summoned a turquoise wind under his feet and disappeared from the alleyway along with a strong gust of wind.

“Useless!”

The Tauren leader cast a dirty look at the Tauren warriors whose legs had been slashed by the Falling Leaves Deadly Knives martial art. An intermediate-level Tier 2 warrior turned to him.

“Odyssey, are we still chasing him?”

The Tauren leader, Odyssey, snorted coldly. He stared at the dark blue gashes cut by Li Jiye’s swift movements.

“Don’t forget how Andrew died… Although he’s merely the youngest son of our Kucha tribe’s chief, he cannot be beheaded by a human in vain! Charge! After him!”

With that said, Odyssey chased after Li Jiye on his two swift hooves. The Tauren warriors who had yet to be injured followed after him.

Instead of staying in Glimmer City, Li Jiye went straight out of the city gate and ran wildly towards the south side. After a few minutes, when the effectiveness of the agility potion had diminished, he turned around and stared at the Taurens chasing him, inevitably feeling resentful.

Now that he had severely injured the Taurens and even severed the tendons of several Tauren warriors, this Tauren leader should take them to the doctor if he cared about their lives. Instead, the Tauren leader had decided to continue chasing him. He didn’t expect the Tauren leader to completely disregard the safety of his warriors, and it seemed like the human mind couldn’t be used to speculate on an Orc’s actions.

“Wait, that’s— Hah! God is on my side!”

Just as he was feeling frustrated over the ebbing of the agility potion, he suddenly realized that the outline of a small city was gradually appearing not far away. He recognized this place as it was only a dozen kilometers from Glimmer City. This was Falling Maple City, a city at the borders of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range.

Falling Maple City was different from Glimmer City and was a formal human city. Orcs needed to obtain permission to enter, and the procedures were rather complicated as there were human soldiers stationed inside. Hope rekindled in Li Jiye’s heart when he saw this city. He kept pushing the Shadow Wind Steps forward and ran the course of several kilometers in five or six minutes.

On the other hand, the Tauren warriors all stopped in their tracks when they saw Li Jiye entering Falling Maple City.

“Odyssey, what should we do?”

Staring at Falling Maple City with blood-red eyes, the Tauren leader snorted coldly.

“Don’t forget, we’ve always been looking for a reason to fight humans. Andrew’s death will now be the biggest reason!”