Light Cultivation
Eps. 39 — Golden Dragon Faction
As Jian Chen stepped closer, he then realized the masked leader's gaze felt strange.
Jian Chen became suspicious, as he found out the cause of an arrow darting towards his head. Although it was too late to realize Jian Chen still had time to react so he shifted a little his head making the arrow pass through and stick it on the ground.
The arrows were again released and this time more. Jian Chen moved backwards while dodging the arrow with the minimum possible movement.
The smile of the masked leader faded away instantly seeing how nimble Jian Chen's movements were, he did not expect that Jian Chen's body could be as flexible as it was not to mention that Jian Chen's movements looked supple and smooth.
Jian Chen looked at the source of the arrow and he found many masked people standing on top of the tree branch holding a bow that pointed at him.
Feeling his movement space become narrow Jian Chen whipped out the white fang sword then slashed at the arrows.
The sight was enough to leave the masked group stunned, not the slightest bit of them thinking the opponent could split the arrow in half.
“Sial! His fighting ability is also very high!”
The leader of the masked group clasped his teeth in annoyance, if it was like this he was sure that if he mobilized all his subordinates even though his side would definitely lose.
As Jian Chen was busy taking care of himself there was suddenly an arrow pointing at the three women behind him.
Jian Chen clucked then moved quickly to protect the 3 women as well as smashing the arrows that were pointing at them.
“The three of you focus on protecting yourself, I will take care of the arrows that move on your fainted members!”
The archers were extremely intelligent, when they could not injure Jian Chen, they changed the target on the unconscious faction members so Jian Chen had no choice but to welcome the arrow.
The dozens of arrows continued on and during that as well Jian Chen could destroy everything without anyone escaping in the slightest.
The three women were also fortunately able to survive despite some scratches on her clothes.
After some time, the number of darting arrows began to decrease and upon realizing that Jian Chen no longer destroyed them but instead caught the arrow and threw it back.
The arrow Jian Chen threw was much faster and more accurate so it hit the masked archer decisively. The archer obviously did not expect to be attacked with his own arrow.
The throws Jian Chen released did not kill his archers but instead injured his hands so they could not release any more arrows.
Jian Chen did not stop there, he continued to do the same to injure his opponents.
Watching that masked leader break out in cold sweat, catching arrows and counterattacking was something that could not be done even for those in the high realm though was quite difficult.
“Wire-! He's not an ordinary man!” The masked leader then gave instructions to his subordinates. “We will retreat, prepare to leave..”.
“But the Chairman, the three women already know our identity, if allowed to escape they will tell this secret to others.” Answer one of his subordinates.
“I know but the young man is not a random person, if the arrows run out then he will target us next.” The masked leader was clearly dissatisfied that his condition would be like this.
Jian Chen was focused on catching the arrows when he suddenly felt the temperature around him rise.
Jian Chen's gaze was fixed on the direction of the masked leader and found the 8 people nearby starting to pour a deep force into his mouth, preparing to use the elemental stance.
“Elemental Fire ~ Breath Fire!”
The flames moved quickly towards the 3 women who were in the front position, the women were focused on avoiding the arrow so late to realize there was a fire moving towards him.
Jian Chen clenched his teeth, he could not get to where the woman was because the arrows pointing at her alone were still numerous.
Feeling that there was no choice Jian Chen then drained a large amount of profound energy on his sword as well as from his two lips created white steam.
“Crescent Sword Technique ~ Ocean Storm Vibration!”
Jian Chen swung his sword horizontally then created a violent gale from his sword like a storm. The wind immediately split the flames while eliminating them.
It was then that Jian Chen realized that the arrows pointing at him had stopped and the masked men had disappeared.
‘They made a blaze hoping to kill the 3 women while fleeing from me.’.
Jian Chen's gaze pointed forward, although it was already very far away yet Jian Chen still saw masked people moving away from him.
Jian Chen did not pursue it, precisely he had to save the members of this female faction first. Jian Chen put his hand to feel their pulse.
“This... They fell asleep?”
Jian Chen asked the woman in astonishment, he thought the female members were either fainting or some were dead but did not expect them all to be asleep.
The female leader nodded. “They were exposed to sleeping poison as a result of hitting the weapon scratches of the masked group.”.
The leader of the faction then recognized his name as Yun Mei who led the Night Flower faction.
The Night Flower faction was the 15th ranked faction of the Academy but their members already numbered in the hundreds. The Night Flower faction only included a third of its members in this competition, if its members were not poisoned they might be able to repel the masked group earlier.
“Young master, before that I would like to thank you for saving the three of us as well as the members of our faction.” Yun Mei bowed with respect to Jian Chen followed by her two female subordinates.
“I just happened to pass by, no need to hesitate.” Jian Chen replied with a smile then realized something. “By the way why did the masked group want to kill you?”
“This...” The three women looked at each other before finally explaining to Jian Chen.
“They are from the Golden Dragon faction which hid its identity by using a mask. His initial intention of the Golden Dragon faction was not to kill his opponent but rather to steal the gems of the other factions.
“Because of this theft incident our faction investigated who the masked group was and managed to find out its identity but it turns out that our investigation was known by the Golden Dragon faction so they were angry and wanted to kill us in order to identity the masked group it was not spread out.”
Jian Chen stroked his chin. “Don't stealing gems from other people's participants banned in this competition?”
“Yes, maybe that's why they have to finish us off so that the name of the Golden Dragon faction is not tainted.”.
Yun Mei explained at the competition last year there was also the same masked group and the possibility of the mastermind behind it was the same. Yun Mei also did not expect that the Golden Dragon faction that they were proud of and admired turned out to have such despicable deeds.
Jian Chen listened to the story of the woman to the end, his face was not surprised in the least. According to Jian Chen this was the way the Golden Dragon faction had done in his previous life.
That faction was indeed very fraudulent let alone its leader, Liu Yanyi, which was why Jian Chen hated the Golden Dragon faction so much.