novelraw Chapter 599 - 251 New Team Member
Chapter 599 - 251 New Team Member
An eerie ancient castle, a swamp overgrown with twisted trees like snakes.
Jiuxiao Yun had just arrived at the entrance of the ancient castle, only to see that the castle’s gate was already open, with bodies of magic creatures being disassembled everywhere inside.
Deep within the castle, intense explosions could still be heard, with rays of light occasionally flashing through.
"I’m late... someone has already beaten me to the Queen of the Night Banquet’s party..." Jiuxiao Yun rode his Demon Shark further inside, wanting to see who got ahead of him and killed these magic creatures attending the queen’s night banquet.
"Actually fighting the Queen of the Night Banquet, which Light Base is it?" Jiuxiao Yun was startled when he realized that the sound of combat was coming from the rear garden.
Passing through layers of buildings, Jiuxiao Yun reached the queen’s rear garden and immediately saw two figures engaged in a frenetic battle.
One figure was that of the Queen of the Night Banquet herself, towering at three meters tall, clad in dark Night Armor, wearing a crown, with each hand holding a Serrated Greatsword resembling fish bones.
The Queen of the Night Banquet intermittently emitted an ear-piercing shriek, her body appearing and disappearing in the night due to the black Demonic Light almost merging with the darkness, and the sword lights from her strikes were barely visible.
The person fighting against the Queen of the Night Banquet wielded a Ghost Head Saber, which seemed cumbersome, but in his hands, it was incredibly swift, every move simple without any unnecessary actions, blocking and slashing, managing to fend off all the queen’s attacks, and chopping the almost invisible Night Sword Light to pieces.
"Jing Li!" Jiuxiao Yun immediately recognized him and was greatly astonished.
The Queen of the Night Banquet is a Light Base magic creature, rumored to be an eight-vein Light Base, impossible to defeat without being a Light Base.
Jiuxiao Yun had only come here to kill the lower-level magic creatures attending the queen’s night banquet and dared not provoke this Queen of the Night Banquet.
Jing Li, like him, was a Super Spirit Tester, though with stronger combat power, but could not be a match for the Queen of the Night Banquet.
Now Jing Li was actually holding his own against the Queen of the Night Banquet, which left Jiuxiao Yun very surprised.
"The four families have always suppressed Jing Li, not giving him a chance to advance to Light Base. How did he advance to Light Base..." Jiuxiao Yun examined carefully and found something amiss.
Jing Li’s saber was his Symbiotic Contract. If he had advanced to Light Base, that saber should have fused with his body, with some special transformation.
But the saber had not changed at all; it was still in the same Ghost Head Saber state as when Li Xiu fought him last time, proving Jing Li had not advanced to Light Base.
"Without advancing to Light Base, how could his Light Energy compete with the eight-vein Light Base Queen of the Night Banquet?" Jiuxiao Yun was full of doubt.
Suddenly, Jing Li swung a fierce slash, forcing the Queen of the Night Banquet to cross her twin swords to block his saber.
The swords blocked the saber, but Jing Li’s other hand suddenly turned a palm into a blade, with terrifying blade light, slashing the Queen of the Night Banquet in half with a wave.
"Condensed Light Blade, an ability only at Light Base level. Is Jing Li really a Light Base now?" Jiuxiao Yun was shocked.
Clearly, Jing Li had not advanced to Light Base level, so how could he have the ability to condense a light blade with his flesh?
"Jing Li, have you advanced to Light Base?" Seeing Jing Li pick up something that fell from the Queen of the Night Banquet and approach him, Jiuxiao Yun asked without fear.
"No." Jing Li glanced at Jiuxiao Yun and continued walking towards the rear garden’s exit, planning to leave.
"Without advancing to Light Base, how did you make a light blade with your flesh?" Jiuxiao Yun asked in astonishment.
Jing Li ignored Jiuxiao Yun, walked out of the rear garden, and disappeared.
Now was not the time to reveal the Light Planting Technique, and had he not been fighting the Queen of the Night Banquet just now, Jing Li would not have let Jiuxiao Yun see it.
Jiuxiao Yun suddenly shouted at Jing Li’s back: "Does Li Xiu really have a technique to condense veins before reaching Light Base?"
"How do you know?" Jing Li stopped, turned around, and stared coldly at Jiuxiao Yun.
"So it really exists!" Jiuxiao Yun was shocked. When Li Xiu told him this before, he thought Li Xiu was just fooling him, treating him like an idiot.
But now it seemed that Li Xiu wasn’t fooling him; there really was a Vein Condensation Technique before reaching Light Base.
What Jing Li’s level was before was very clear when he fought Li Xiu. Now he hadn’t advanced to Light Base, but was already able to kill a Light Base level creature, clearly having condensed veins.
Recently, Jing Li hadn’t done anything major other than joining the Technician group. The four families never gave him a chance before, and now that he joined the Technician group, they wouldn’t give him a chance either. His vein condensation was most likely related to Li Xiu.
"Damn, am I a pig? Would it have killed me to listen to Li Xiu a bit more back then?" Jiuxiao Yun felt extremely frustrated, seeing Jing Li exuding a murderous aura, he hurriedly said, "Don’t misunderstand, Li Xiu told me about this. He invited me to join the Technician group for the big competition, that’s why he told me. I didn’t agree at the time, still considering it."
Hearing this, Jing Li turned around and left, no longer paying attention to him.
Seeing Jing Li leave, Jiuxiao Yun lost interest in doing anything else, rode his Demon Shark and left, needing to ask Li Xiu if it was really possible to condense veins before reaching Light Base.