Lightning Wolves II

"Bang, Crack"

The sound of heads clashing resonated out, followed by the sound of bones cracking. Xiao used his head to crash into one of the Wolves' head, but the result didn't turn out as he expected. Although the wolf's skull cracked, it didn't die immediately.

"Ouch" Xiao yelled in pain, "How can your head be this hard?" He complained before charging towards the already injured wolf.

On hearing this remark, Hao Ren chuckled. Both Xiao and the wolf clashed with heads, the wolf's skull cracked and nothing happened to Xiao, yet he was the one shamelessly complaining.

The wolf which clashed with Xiao whined in pain, it couldn't see clearly and was barely able to stand. When it heard Xiao's words, it staggered. If it could speak it would immediately start cursing Xiao.

It looked at the approaching Xiao in horror, if Xiao bashed into it again, it would definitely die. Despair appeared in its eyes, but the expected attack didn't come. Due to the pain, it forgot it wasn't alone.

As Xiao launched towards it, the other wolf attacked him from the side. Xiao blocked the attack and retreated a couple of steps.

"They're stronger than I thought. Luckily I was able to incapacitate one of them as soon as the fight started" If he were to face both of them, his chances of defeating them would drop to about sixty percent. But facing them one on one, he had full confidence in defeating them.

Xiao was only at the First stage of the Foundation Realm, while the wolves were both at the Second stage of the Foundation Realm. The first wolf he clashed with was confident in the strength of its head, this was why it dared to clashed with him.

A glint flashed past his eyes as he charged towards the wolf again, it opened his mouth and spat out a ray of light which blasted towards the wolf.

"Boom"

The wolf was sent flying after taking this hit, its fur was strong, so it didn't have any injuries on its body. But its inside felt like it moved from the normal position which caused it a lot of pain.

Xiao didn't stay idle, he charged towards the already injured wolf and rammed into him again. The already cracked skull of the wolf immediately shattered with blood and brain matter spilling all over the place. Xiao looked like an evil lord with all the blood in his body. He started emitting a savage and brutal aura.

Hao Ren face palmed when he saw Xiao's current look.

"Why do you have to use such savage methods in battling?. You can clearly kill the wolf cleanly, yet you decide on using this method" Hao Ren complained.

"That's the way I like to fight" Xiao retorted.

"I don't like it," Hao Ren said.

"How's it my business, I fight my way, and you fight your way," Xiao said.

They continued arguing before Hao Ren finally gave up, it was meaningless talking to Xiao about his fighting methods.

"Fine, fight however you like"

"Good"

The other wolf had been able to manage to get back on its feet during the time of their argument, when it saw its partner dead, it howled in pain before charging towards Xiao.

Lightning arrows suddenly appeared and struck towards Xiao. Due to not expecting it, he was struck by it. The lightning shocked him, and he started having a seizure. When the wolf saw Xiao convulsing, it immediately charged towards him clearly hoping to end Xiao's life.

As he got close, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of him and sent out a kick. The attack sent it flying, and it crashed into a tree nearby.

Hao Ren walked to the convulsing Xiao and gloated at his misfortune. Xiao soon stopped convulsing, the moment he was able to stand up, he charged towards the wolf which couldn't stand up due to the heaviness of Hao Ren's attack.

When the wolf saw him getting closer, it howled with its last strength.

"Awooo…"

The sound was suddenly cut short when Xiao opened his mouth and bit off the head of the wolf.

Hao Ren looked at Xiao and just shook his head, he thought the first way Xiao killed the first wolf was brutal, but the second one was far more terrifying.

Xiao spat out the blood in his mouth.

"Stupid wolf".

He was clearly infuriated by the attack the wolf did. It caught him by surprise hence he was struck, luckily Hao Ren was here to help him out. He felt fearful when he thought about the possible outcome if Hao Ren wasn't around.

He angrily stomped on the dead body of the wolf to release his anger. Hao Ren by the side was laughing on seeing Xiao's reaction.

"It's enough, its already dead so even if you stomp it from now till tomorrow, it's not going to change anything"

Xiao glared at him, he knew Hao Ren would use this to mock him during their journey. This infuriated him more, as he was about to stomp on it once more, he suddenly heard the howl of a wolf lightly.

He retreated and stood close to Hao Ren.

"Did you hear that?" Xiao asked.

"Hear what?" Hao Ren feigned ignorance, he clearly heard it, but he wanted to mess with Xiao a little.

"A wolf's howl," Xiao said.

"Nope," Hao Ren said.

"Could it be the wolf is planning to haunt you since it didn't like how you didn't even let its body go after killing it?" Hao Ren said thoughtfully.

Xiao felt a chill run down his spine when he heard what Hao Ren said.

"Awoooooo"

The howl sounded out again, this time much clearer than the previous one.

Xiao immediately knew Hao Ren was just messing with him, "Fu*k you" He cursed out.

Hao Ren laughed and looked into the forest, "The real battle is about to start. Try not to get electrocuted this time" He continued laughing.

"I knew they always moved in packs," Hao Ren said. He was puzzled when he first saw those two alone, now it all made sense. They were probably scouts, and the last howl the wolf did before dying was most likely a distress signal to call over the others.

They were not close by which resulted in the delay of their arrival.

"Are you ready?" Hao Ren asked Xiao.

"Yes" Xiao nodded, and they stood waiting for the wolves to come over. The lightning wolves usually end their growth at the Third stage of the Foundation Realm, only a few are lucky to break through to the Fourth stage.

This was the reason Hao Ren was confident and decided to stay behind. Although he wouldn't have a problem dealing with the leader who would be the strongest in the pack, but the advantage they had in numbers would make up for the lack of strength.

The wolves soon appeared...