30 - Lucky

"Just leave. This isn't your fight, and it isn't mine either."

When they heard this, they could not help being confused. What did he mean it wasn't their fight? And what did he mean by it wasn't his either? And why the hell was he smiling with such a kind face?

But as confused as they were, they weren't going to listen to the words of a young boy.

Without another word, the woman signaled to the other high tier and instantly attacked Su Tao.

But things did not go according to her plan when he instantly reacted before she even had the chance to actually attack. Such reaction speed was incredible. He charged at them at exactly the same time as them.

They had both launched at Su Tao, and a green glow appeared on the woman's arm, while a yellow glow appeared on the arms of the man next to her. These inner energies were of the poison type and lightning type respectively.

When Su Tao saw this, he could not help but let out a bright smile. He countered these people perfectly. His green lightning could neutralize the lightning of the lightning man while the healing of his purple eye could counter poison. On top of that, they were injured already. He was very lucky.

When the two people saw his smile, however, they were weirded out. Instead of backing off and trying to escape, this boy charged directly at them and had a bright and lovely smile on his face? Just what was he thinking?

He originally thought it would be a hard fight, but now he was completely confident, and the smile on his face grew wider as he clashed with them.

Five minutes later, the outcome of the fight was decided, and the poisonous woman was dead while the lightning man had managed to escape based on the speed that the lightning element bestowed on its user.

All silver ranks could use inner energy through their entire body to increase their strength, speed, and other things. However, they could only surface it on their body on their hands and fists. This was why the lightning man was able to use the lightning inner energy in his legs to increase his speed and escape.

Su Tao could have killed them both possibly, but he didn't because he wanted to save some of the power of his eyes in case the peak tier came.

He never would have thought of this being possible before, and it normally *would* be impossible, but not only had the size of the marbles containing the power of his eyes gotten bigger, he also perfectly countered these two people. And them being injured played no small part in their defeat.

After this battle, he was certainly not arrogant enough to think that he was the match of two people at the high tier one star silver rank, but he had only beat these people because he got lucky.

He had also learned something through this battle. He could use the black heart and the black blood to dissolve the inner energy left in his body just like he could with Qi, it just wasn't as efficient.

This meant that he would counter anyone who's inner energy required going into the enemy's body to do damage. So stacked with the healing ability of his left eye, he was perfectly able to counter poison, corrosive, and disruptive inner energy types.

Of course, this was not overpowered to the point where it was useless against him. He was just more resistant.

He had taken considerable damage during this fight, and there were some oozing wounds on his body that were seemingly rotten, while other parts of his body were burnt and slightly unresponsive.

The purple flower tattoos were visible on his body, and they covered a third of his chest and went a bit down his arms. Everywhere the tattoos touched healed faster than elsewhere, and he had only just now noticed this.

He had used about three quarters of the power of his right eye and a quarter of the power of his left eye in the fight just now, while the black blood in his body seemed to absorb the inner energy that went into his body, so he did not know if it had depleted or not.

He had used the black blood energy barrier in this fight, but he was only able to block four blows, which only made a little difference. However, it still helped in the fight, and this was something that he certainly could not ignore.

But he discovered that, even though he had used all the black blood in his body in the form of the barrier, it still replenished fast enough that he could use it to dissolve some of the inner energy left in his body during the fight. At least, it replenished much faster than the power of his eyes.

Su Tao then quickly used the black blood across his whole body and tried to dissolve as much of the inner energy left behind as possible while running away from this area. After all, the lightning man might come back with the peak rank one star silver rank, and there was currently no chance of Su Tao beating him in his current condition.

Luckily, the peak tier yellow-eyed man did not come, and no one else came either.

...

At this moment, the lightning man got back to the peak tier yellow-eyed man in the spot where Li Lan had broken through. At this time, the yellow-eyed man was sitting in the lotus position on the ground, recovering. His wounds had healed a bit from earlier, and he was already looking better than before.

At this moment, the yellow-eyed man sensed the aura of lightning coming towards him and looked over. However, he was shocked at what he saw.

The lightning man, who had previously been only mildly injured, was coming over with an expression of fear on his face, while both his arms hung limply at his side. Part of his arms had been scorched, and there was an occasional spark of green that surfaced on them.

His robe had been burned, and he had ripped it off during the fight, showing that his wounds he previously sustained had opened up during the fight. There was also a scorch mark on the middle of his chest, right in front of his heart.

The yellow-eyed man instantly stood up and looked around, but he couldn't find the poisonous woman. Then, he spoke. "What the hell happened to you? Did you run into an expert?"

Then, the lightning man could not help lowering his head in defeat. He spoke through gritted teeth. "It was just a brat, but he is extremely weird. He has three separate types of power, and none of them are inner energy, but it is even stronger than inner energy. She's gone. I barely escaped myself."

The yellow-eyed man listened in shock as the lightning man continued to explain what happened to him. The middle tiers behind him also listened in shock. They couldn't even understand how such a thing could happen.

After listening to the lightning man's explanation, the yellow-eyed man fell into thought. He could tell that this boy perfectly countered the two of them, which is why he was able to win and even kill one of them.

However, the fact that they could not sense his aura at all weirded him out, because none of those powers were inner energy, showing that he was not at the silver rank. Otherwise, he would have just killed the lightning man with inner energy instead of letting him escape when he clearly knew that there was a peak tier nearby.

He himself was curious as to who this boy was, but he quickly made a decision.

"That boy sounds too weird. It's better not to make an enemy out of him since we know he's already not on our side. Plus, he did give you a warning, showing that he is not our direct enemy even though he's not on our side.

Our main objective is still to get Li Lan, and we can't afford to lose anyone else due to carelessness. Heal up, then we're going after her. If we have the time later, we can report this to the upper levels and let them deal with it. Like the boy said, this is not our fight to fight."

The yellow-eyed man's decision stunned them all. They thought that he would definitely chase after and kill that brat, but it seemed like he was just going to let this go? They could not understand why he chose to do this.

However, the yellow-eyed man was the leader, and what he said was what happened.

They were not too concerned about the death of the poisonous woman since she was just one of the very weakest people in the Yin Moon Sect. Only those at the peak tier second silver star or third silver star could even be considered to be middle level people.

These people were just some disciples sent on a mission by the sect to kill Li Lan because of the fight at the middle and upper levels at the moment. This was why there was only one second silver star sent after Li Lan. After all, she was just a third bronze star, and even if she broke through, she wouldn't be much threat to a party of this strength.

However, the two star silver rank from their group had died from the sacrifice of Li Lan's group's second silver star member. As they were too far away, they couldn't report to the Yin Moon Sect, and there was no way for them to track her if they went back to report it anyway, leaving only them to chase her.

In conclusion, she was only being chased by the bottom levels of the Yin Moon Sect as a disciple mission, but she was able to get too far away too quickly for them to request help. If they let her go, they would be severely punished by the sect, so that was simply not an option.

It could be said that they were stuck between a rock and a hard place regarding Su Tao, so the yellow-eyed man just decided to let him go for now and report it later to the higher levels.

With this, they sat down and started to heal up while keeping their guard up against Su Tao. Because even though it was unlikely, it was not impossible for him to attack them. Little did they know that Su Tao was ten miles away from them, just cultivating while watching them.

He was also wondering how they managed to find him earlier, but then he considered that maybe the power of his eyes also gave off an aura that they could follow. After all, they weren't looking for his aura and they therefore couldn't track his life aura or his body's aura.

This meant that they were tracking something that was more powerful than his body's aura, and he could only think of the power of his eyes that fit that description. As for the black blood, it seemed like it wouldn't leave an aura since it instead absorbed inner energy.

'It seems like I underestimated people's abilities to track. I wonder if the black blood can absorb the aura of my eyes to make it harder to track me?'

'After all, the black blood absorbs inner energy and Qi, so why can't it absorb aura?' He thought to himself with a snicker.