Chapter Ninety-Four: I Will Let You Take Three Moves

Hearing that voice, Qin Chuan sprang several meters forward and looked toward the end of the passage.

From the darkness, a vaguely humanoid figure emerged.

Ahead of them stood a blue spirit beast with two long, powerful legs and a supple, muscular body. Its head was huge and crescent-shaped, with a pair of blue eyes like brass bells and a green spirit bead set in its forehead.

Its mouth was rather large, with a long upper jaw and a short lower one, both lined with sharp teeth that looked brutally keen.

Its upper limbs were nimble as well, each ending in a pair of blue, curved blades that looked exactly like twin crescent sabers.

"Alert! Third-tier upper-grade Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast discovered. Rare quality. Level 28."

"Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast? What kind of beast is that? I have never even heard of it. It must be deeply tied to the Five-Color Poison Miasma."

"And it doesn't even have an elite title. That is truly odd."

Qin Chuan could not help muttering to himself, while growing several degrees more cautious.

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast was nurtured by the Five-Color Poison Miasma, and there was only one such creature in the entire Illusion Forest.

As a unique spirit beast, lacking a title was not strange at all.

It normally liked to inhale and exhale the blue poisonous mist within the Five-Color Poison Miasma to strengthen itself, and would occasionally devour spirit beings attempting the trial.

On this road of life and death, as long as the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast did not appear, passage was guaranteed. Once it did, the chance of success fell to zero.

In other words, for the spirit beings in the four-star region, reaching the five-star region was entirely a matter of luck.

Clearly, Qin Chuan and the others had not been especially fortunate. They had run into this Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast, whose methods were brutally vicious and left no grass alive in its wake.

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast belonged to the agility branch, and its skills were both practical and dazzling.

Punishment, active: prevents all targets within five meters from using skills. Each level extends the duration by 0.2 seconds. Current level: 9.

Blue Spirit Mirage, exclusive passive: sharpness equals 120 percent of speed. No level.

Agility, passive: each level increases speed and toughness by 5 percent. Current level: 9.

Blade Storm, active: extend the upper limbs and spin at high speed in place, forming a blade storm with a radius of three meters. Each level reduces cooldown by one second. Duration: three seconds. Cooldown: 20 seconds. Current level: 5.

Blue Spirit Miasma, active: releases blue poison mist within a ten-meter radius, dealing damage over three seconds. Damage is proportional to the target's toughness. Each level extends the duration by 0.5 seconds. Current level: 5.

Judging from its skills, this Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast had clearly spent money to buy a VIP pass, because it actually possessed an absurdly powerful exclusive passive.

Its attributes were equally impressive, even a little ferocious.

Sharpness 1100+ (including passive), toughness 700+ (including passive), speed 800+.

Every one of the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast's attributes utterly outclassed Qin Chuan's. Against numbers like these, all Qin Chuan could possibly do was break through its defense.

With the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast's perverse attributes, for spirit beings in the four-star region to cross the road of life and death was like trying to reach the heavens.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. There's even a demon of the upper plane here. How rare."

"Ha ha, today's luck is looking rather good!"

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast stared at Violet and began to salivate uncontrollably, completely ignoring Qin Chuan.

In its eyes, all spirit beings from the four-star region were not worth mentioning.

"Violet, fall back a little. Sleepyhead, protect Violet."

Sleepyhead hurriedly replied, "Mm-hmm, big brother, don't worry."

Violet also realized that the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast was no ordinary opponent, and might even be more formidable than the Dragon-Binding Cold Jade Pillar. She could not help but say worriedly, "Qin Chuan, you must be careful!"

"Mm."

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast looked at the three of them with mocking eyes, not the least bit worried that its prey might escape from its grasp.

It was utterly confident that it could tear the three of them apart easily without even using a single skill.

After so many years on the road of life and death, the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast had long since grown used to crushing victories.

A sword cry rang out, and with it came a faint orange glow that nearly blinded the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast.

"This... this is an orange spirit weapon?!"

"That is even rarer than that girl!"

"This is not merely luck anymore. It is a complete explosion of fortune!"

Like the other spirit beings, the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast shifted from shock to ecstasy, its brass-bell eyes filled with excitement and greed.

At that moment, it slowly stepped forward, staring at Qin Chuan with a hostile gaze. "As a reward for your orange spirit weapon, you may choose your manner of death. Do you want to die lying down, or standing up?"

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast had already decided that Qin Chuan would die either way, so its words were full of confidence and domineering contempt.

Facing the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast, Qin Chuan still felt considerable pressure.

Do not be fooled by the way the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast lifted its foot; it seemed slow enough.

Its movement speed, however, was astonishingly fast. In the blink of an eye, it could cover five or six meters.

Qin Chuan knew this fellow was absolutely a formidable enemy, and he had to be fully focused.

"Heh. You're not the first one to want me dead, and you won't be the last."

Qin Chuan remained as calm and composed as ever, and that was a necessary quality for a true expert.

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast bared its teeth, making its vicious fangs look even more sinister. "Heh heh, I rather admire you... I admire your arrogance and ignorance."

Qin Chuan's sword body trembled slightly as he prepared for battle. "Death will teach you that fear is real."

What is fear?

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast could not help bursting into laughter.

"Haha! I have to admit, you have successfully amused me."

"There has never been a spirit being capable of making me feel fear. There wasn't one before, there isn't one now, and there certainly won't be one in the future."

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast stopped ten meters from Qin Chuan.

To it, ten meters was nothing more than the blink of an eye.

At that moment, the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast looked at Qin Chuan with complete confidence, grinding the two blue blades on its upper limbs together.

The squealing, scraping sound seemed to foretell that death was about to descend.

However, the next instant, Qin Chuan's words shocked and enraged the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast beyond measure.

With a faint curl of his lips, Qin Chuan said indifferently, "I'll let you have three moves. Come at me."

What?!

Not only the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast, but even Violet and Sleepyhead were stunned.

"Qin Chuan, have you gone crazy?!"

"Big brother, do you really have to be this reckless?!"

Violet and Sleepyhead both cried out in alarm, feeling that Qin Chuan was courting death.

Being looked down upon by a spirit being weaker than itself was almost more than the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast could tolerate.

The spirit beings it encountered always panicked, even trembling with fear.

A spirit being like Qin Chuan, who not only stayed calm but even looked down on it in return, was truly unprecedented.

"I was planning to play with you a little longer, but you have successfully angered me, so... go to hell!"

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast roared, a cruel light flashing in its eyes.

In the space of a single blink, it had already lunged in front of Qin Chuan and raised its curved blades.

How long is a blink? Only about 0.12 to 0.2 seconds.

In such a brief instant, it had crossed ten meters, nearly becoming a streak of afterimage.

Violet cried out again, agitated, "No, Qin Chuan, dodge!"

From the moment the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast charged to the moment it launched its attack, only about 0.2 seconds had passed.

In such a short span, almost no spirit being could evade it.

So before Violet's words had even faded, the attack was already over.

The Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast had viciously swept through the place where Qin Chuan had been standing, and finally came to a stop ten meters beyond him.

Qin Chuan, however, was still standing where he had been, apparently never having moved at all, as though he had been cleaved apart and was merely waiting for the final fall.

Yet the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast felt something was wrong.

Its blades had passed through, but it had not made even the slightest sound.

No matter how fast a blade moved, even if it were slicing vegetables, there should still be a faint sensation of contact.

For that reason, the Five-Color Blue Spirit Beast assumed it must be an illusion.

Violet stood dazed, her heart aching as she murmured, "Qin Chuan... is he dead?"

While everyone remained in doubt, Qin Chuan's calm voice sounded once more.

"One move."