The Golden Page (IV)

The moon was still high in the sky. A gentle cold breeze blew in the desert.

Their journey back was going quite peacefully.

Wei Ren was pondering deeply. He thought silently about the upcoming attack from the Golden Crow Kingdom.

Liu Xin stood on his flying sword with Wei Ren in a heroic pose. Even though he was quite short, he still maintained the airs of an exalted cultivator. Their mission had gone so smoothly. His face held pride and happiness.

But suddenly it became extremely ugly to behold.

"HAN GE! SET UP A BARRIER!!" He yelled loudly and maneuvered his sword at a sharp angle and flew down as fast as he could.

The Han Brothers did the same. They all landed on the ground. Laid down a barrier formation. A blue hemispherical barrier was formed around them.

Wei Ren also had a serious face. He knew that the only reason Liu Xin was this tense was because the Golden Crow Kingdom must have been alerted and followed after them.

"It was an inevitable outcome…" He sighed with helplessness.

It was expected that they would be followed by the Golden Crow Kingdom but he didn't expect them to catch up with them so soon.

"What's happening…?" Wei Chen was baffled by this sudden change. But before he could finish his sentence the dark night abruptly turned into a bright day.

"What is happening?" Wei Chen asked the same question again. But no one answered.

"This is the SunBlaze attribute. The person who has this attribute can become a source of scorching sunlight and set his opponents on fire from miles away." Liu Xin broke the eerie silence and explained.

"There is only one man I know, who has this strange attribute...Feke, the River Expansion Expert of the Golden Crow Owl Division." He said with a helpless smile. It looked like he was cursing his luck for being this bad.

"It's good that you already know me. Now, I don't have to introduce myself when I kill you." A manly voice rang throughout the desert.

The blinding sunlight became ten times hotter. A human shaped torch came flying from the sky.

Along with this man were a dozen people standing on flying swords.

Feke was a tall bald man with a long scar on his face. The scar made him look like a blood thirsty devil. His skin was as white as a blank piece of paper. He wore a yellow long shirt and brown leather trousers.

This clothing was very common in the Golden Crow Kingdom.

"And you must be Lieutenant Liu Xin of the Bright Sun Division. You have a large bounty on your head. This trip was not a complete waste of time." Feke chuckled a few times. Every time he smiled his face twisted into a hideous expression.

"Now tell me. Why did you barge into my kingdom? If you have a death wish then you should have asked freely." Feke said plainly while standing a few hundred metres away from Wei Ren and all.

"Not at all Brother Feke. I was just taking my juniors for sightseeing. You see, the dunes of the Golden Crow Kingdom are very famous in my Blue Rose Kingdom." Liu Xin laughed kindly.

"Enough Feke! Get rid of all these ants. My father said that we can't allow any of these Blue Rose bastards to live. I detest their existence." A man in his late twenties, standing in the group, suddenly yelled at Feke.

It seemed this man was the leader here.

As soon as he finished speaking he unleashed his River Expansion cultivation base.

Booooom!

The sand dunes were blasted away.

Wei Ren lost all strength in his legs. This was his first time facing the brunt force of a higher level cultivator.

Sweat beads formed on his face in an instant. The pressure in the air was enough to crush a mortal's bones.

"Yes, young master." Feke bowed with respect to the man.

"Another River Expansion Expert!" Liu Xin's confidence suffered another blow.

"Two River Expansion Experts, four at River Formation and seven Qi Streams Experts…" Wei Ren counted the number of people they were facing. Even he couldn't forma plan to escape this danger.

"MEN, CHARGE!" Feke's loud and manly voice rang once more in the desert. His body turned into a hundred meters wide sphere of sunlight.

All of them charged at Wei Ren et al.

"Han Ge, Han Shu, Han Jie, confront the River Formation Experts. I will take care of Feke and the other person. Young Master Ren, Young Master Chen, please run. Leave right now." Liu Xin yelled orders and retrieved his double edged battle axe.

The Han Brothers also entered into a strange battle formation. They were all Formation Masters. Fighting was not something they excelled at. But this didn't mean that they were completely helpless in the face of danger.

Wei Chen and Wei Ren didn't know what to do. Death was right in front of them. There was no way that all of them would be able to survive this calamity.

Liu Xin turned into a green flash. Thousands of green leaves suddenly appeared out of nowhere around him. They were like small green blades.

"Attribute Manifestation…" Wei Ren watched with amazement as he saw Liu Xin cast a magical spell. He used this spell to produce actual leaves.

"Forest King's Hurricane." Liu Xin's leaves turned into a green hurricane made of leaves. Liu Xin floated on his flying sword in the middle of the hurricane.

His current appearance was comparable to a heavenly king who had been angered. His Axe was ready to unleash his wrath upon his opponents. No one would be able to call this short man amicable and kind anymore.

Liu Xin smiled at Feke with bloodlust. He knew that his chances of survival were slim. So he wanted to enjoy one last battle before dying. With his giant Battle Axe in his hand, he charged towards the giant sphere of sunlight in front of him

Feke's sphere of sunlight suddenly changed its form and intensified into a giant ring. Feke's body was in the middle of this ring.

One man inside a hurricane and the other inside a scorching ring made of sunlight.

The hurricane of leaves smashed into the ring made of sunlight.

Blast!

A heart shaking explosion occurred. Tremors of the explosion could be felt from miles away.

The hurricane weakened as soon as it touched the ring of sunlight. It's leaves were being burnt to ash by the ring of sunlight.

Feke had a big advantage. His SunBlaze attribute was stronger than Liu Xin's SpringLeaf attribute.

"I am at the Late stage of River Expansion. You're a mere mid stage River Expansion cultivator. How can you expect to defeat me? Hahaha." Feke's voice became even more arrogant when he saw that Liu Xin's Hurricane weakened after their first exchange.

"You...just watch what your grandpa is capable of." Liu Xin was not going to back down so easily. The hurricane moved back a little and then charged into the ring of light again.

Wei Ren watched the earth shaking battle. This kind of battle was way out of his current league.

Even the shockwaves of the battle were enough to cripple him for life.

"Wei Chen… let's run." He grabbed Wei Chen's arm and dragged him along.

Pain could be seen in Wei Chen's eyes. He didn't want to leave his comrades behind.

"We are close to the Blue Rose kingdom. If we rush back and ask for reinforcements then there is a chance that we will be able to save Lieutenant Xin and The Han Brothers." Seeing that Wei Chen was reluctant to leave, Wei Ren talked some sense into him.

Wei Ren also felt like he was ripping his own heart when he made this decision. But there was nothing he could do.

They both ran as fast as they could.

Wei Ren drew a dangerous amount of thunderbolts from his ThunderWolf Blood Symbol. He might even get injured by doing this. But he knew that it was time to throw caution aside.

The man whom Feke called the young master didn't join the battle. He just watched from above like an Emperor. He didn't want to get his hands dirty in these small skirmishes.

He noticed that Liu Xin addressed Wei Ren and Wei Chen as young masters. So it was obvious that their statuses were not simple.

"I should capture these two. Maybe we will have some use of them in the future." He thought to himself and decided to take action.

"Capture those two. If you let them escape. I will kill all of you." He arrogantly ordered the seven Qi Streams Experts who were standing and watching the battle between the high level cultivators.

"Yes, Young Master."

The Qi Streams Experts were terrified when they heard his words. This young Master of theirs was quite infamous in their kingdom. Murdering his subordinates was not a new thing for him. Complying with his orders was the only way to stay alive.

Seven Qi Streams Experts also entered the fray.

The Han Brothers were tied in a knot by the attacks from the four River Formation Experts. They were barely able to keep their formation intact.

Han Ge looked the most relaxed. After all, he was at the peak of the River Formation Stage. Han Jie and Han Shu were having a hard time compared to their elder brother.

Liu Xin watched from inside the hurricane. He saw the Seven soldiers chase after Wei Ren and Wei Chen.

"Who is this man?" He thought in frustration.

"I need to end this battle faster." His attacks became reckless. He attacked without caring for his life.

The hurricane hit the ring of sunlight one last time like a heavenly hammer and then collapsed.

The ring of sunlight caved in.

Feke watched with horror when his unbreakable ring was bent out of shape. Liu Xin caught him off-guard and showed his true might at the most appropriate moment.

Liu Xin flew towards Feke as soon as his hurricane spell collapsed. He held the Battle axe above his head and pulled it down with all his might. Just one slip up was all he needed to land a deathly blow.

In a battle of cultivators a single second is enough to kill the opponent dozens of times.

Feke watched as his death approached him. He cancelled his spell. The ring of sunlight vanished. His own spell barred him from running. When the ring vanished he rushed backwards.

At the same time, a long, claw shaped weapon appeared in Feke's right hand. He used the magical weapon to block Liu Xin's attack.

The axe landed on the claw.

Clank!

The sound of metal striking was heard by everyone.

"He survived!" Liu Xin cursed in his heart.

Feke's magical weapon saved his life but Liu Xin landed his Axe hard enough that the claw slammed into Feke's own chest.

Feke coughed a mouthful of blood and looked at Liu Xin with bloodshot eyes. His anger reached its peak. Getting injured by someone who was weaker than him made him lose all his face. He would become a laughing stock if other soldiers of the Golden Crow Kingdom came to know about this event.

"I will tear you apart." He bellowed like a wounded beast.

He lifted his longclaw high into the air and performed an incantation with his other hand.

The three blades of his longclaw expanded. Each blade became ten meters long.

"Sun Tears The Sky." Feke screamed.

He clawed at Liu Xin like a hungry wolf. Three rays of sunlight shot out of his longclaw.

The sky had completely turned into white world. No sign of the moon was there.

Three rays of sunlight pierced the sky.

With a wave of his hand, Feke brought the rays of light down.

Liu Xin lunged backwards and ran with great agility when he saw the three death rays falling on him.