Although Hei Gou managed to cut, slash and wound the berserker, the truth was that every injury was rather shallow.
Even though the berserker could see nothing, he still had his keen senses for fighting and his instincts and these two things managed to keep Xue Wei and Hei Gou at a distance.
He used his weapon to continuously push back both Hei Gou and Xue Wei, his attacks gaining momentum and picking up speed the more he fought.
Xue Wei was rather worried. He did not know how long it would take before Hei Gou's ability would run out – and when it did, they would be at an even bigger disadvantage.
Xue Wei transformed his arms and hands into dragon arms and claws. He dismissed the Inner Might sword and instead started fighting with his dragon-form hands.
His draconic, bare hands were far more lethal than the sword of Inner Might. The claws were as sharp, but there was an immense physical strength behind them, alongside the fact that hands were easier to control than a sword.
Groans of pain started to sound in the darkness as the claws scraped patches of flesh and skin off from the berserker’s body.
Blood flowed constantly from the berserker’s body, and his eyes were red as well, almost glowing in the darkness. He began gritting his teeth hard as he tried to make the Qi in his body flow faster to push back Hei Gou and Xue Wei. Unfortunately, it did not work out the way he planned it.
Xue Wei had gone all-in. He could feel the pressure emanating from the berserker. This berserker was a true Ordinary Knight. The strength that was hiding within his body was in no way as simple as what was seen on the outside, but because he had fallen into a disadvantage, it was impossible for him to break out from it, and releasing his true strength seemed impossible.
The berserker was constantly being pushed back. He did not have the time to launch any of his martial art techniques, all he could do was using the most basic Qi to infuse his weapon and create a barrier around his body.
Because both Xue Wei and Hei Gou were charging him relentlessly and pressuring him with everything they had, the berserker could not find the opportunity to reveal his true strength.
While the berserker was being pushed back, Bai Tianyi was fighting against the cheeky guy. Neither of them held the upper hand, but either had yet to reveal all their cards.
"So you can only use spiritual energy?" The cheeky man suddenly smiled after they had sounded each other out with a few attacks.
"No matter what I have thrown at you, you have replied to it with Spiritual Energy. You don’t have even the slightest trace of Qi within you!" The cheeky man laughed out loud, so loud that Bai Tianyi placed a finger in his ear and twisted it as if to show that he was bored.
"Done laughing?" Bai Tianyi asked with a smile on his face that was impossible to decipher.
"You are taking me too lightly just because I only use Spiritual Energy," Bai Tianyi continued, his smile widening slightly.
"I can only use Spiritual Energy. That is correct. But my Spiritual Energy is enough to deal with the likes of you!"
"Keep dreaming!" The cheeky guy was getting rather upset from listening to Bai Tianyi. It was as if this Bai Tianyi was telling him that no matter how he struggled, it would be useless in the end.
"Let us see who is dreaming, then!" Bai Tianyi laughed uproariously and took a step forward. His long white hair fluttered behind him as the band that had held it together became undone. His eyes glistened with light, and excitement was evident within every fiber of his body.
"Let us see you handling this!" Bai Tianyi smiled and slowly lifted his arm, pointing out one finger.
A strong fluctuation of energy appeared. It was clearly not Qi, but it still materialized in front of the cheeky guy and took the shape of a massive sword.
This sword consisted not only of spiritual energy, but there was also another energy present – the energy of the sword itself.
Bai Tianyi was a sword spirit. His energy, although primarily being spiritual energy, also contained sword energy.
Sword energy was an incredibly pure energy, it was one that was created when one started to embark upon the dao of the sword. There were many different kinds of daos in this world, but to understand a dao was as rare as finding a qilin’s horn or a phoenix’ feather.
The sword energy was so sharp that just breathing next to the massive materialized sword made you feel like you were breathing in daggers. This caused the cheeky man to feel like his throat was being sliced up from within.
"Just breathing makes this much damage?" He was stunned by the fact that he was at such a disadvantage from this fact alone. Once the materialized sword in front of him commences its attack, would he not be in an even more difficult situation?
While Bai Tianyi snickered, the cheeky opponent started feeling more and more uncomfortable. He retreated a few steps before he turned around and ran.
"You are trying to escape now?" Bai Tianyi raised an eyebrow in surprise. This cheeky man seemed to be only interested in fighting a winning battle; the moment he felt danger he turned around and tried to flee.
"As if I will let you," Bai Tianyi whispered, flicking his fingers. The sword that had been pointing at the cheeky opponent shot forward at a speed much faster than the cheeky man could run away, and before he noticed it, his leg had been cut off.
A scream cut through the darkness, a scream so shrill that it would make a shiver run down the back of any who heard it.
It was a clean cut. The leg had been cut right at the knee. The cheeky man could no longer run away, toppled over, and fell to the ground.
"Don't kill me, I beg you, don't kill me!" the cheeky man cried out loud. He covered his head with his arms and started sobbing uncontrollably.
He trembled with fear that had also spread to his voice, and he could not control himself as he felt death gripping his throat.
"Well, you came at me ready to kill," Bai Tianyi said casually as he looked at the cheeky man with a look of loathing. "When you are ready to kill, that means you have to accept being killed as well. Even monsters like my companions have accepted that every day might be their last," he continued with laughter.
"Anyway, you are a cripple now and your leg is gone. Even if you had some value, you have lost it all now. I have no reason to keep you alive so I might as well kill you off."
Having said his part, Bai Tianyi flicked his fingers again, causing the massive materialized sword to descend upon its victim. Blood splattered and a head rolled. The cut was clean, concluding the fight with ease, but Bai Tianyi suddenly felt a spell of dizziness hit him when he retracted the sword energy into his body. He felt all blood drain from his face, and he was very close to losing consciousness.
"Seems like it is still too big a strain to use Sword Energy," he muttered to himself and found a place in the darkness to sit down. Although he wanted to help Xue Wei and Hei Gou, right now he was not in a position to assist them at all. He would just drag them down if he got too close.
While Bai Tianyi had finished off the strongest of the Tiger Triplets, the fight between the berserker, Xue Wei, and Hei Gou was getting so much more intense.
Where Bai Tianyi had defeated the cheeky guy quite easily, the fight between the remaining three was incredibly bloody and bitter.
Xue Wei felt his scales crack open as he blocked one of the berserker’s attacks. Blood flowed out from the cracked scales, and pain made his arms throb.
Xue Wei had transformed his legs as well. "Catch him!" Xue Wei called out. Hei Gou, disregarding everything that the berserker threw at him, used his four strong legs to propel himself at the berserker, biting his strong jaws down on the berserker’s shoulder, his paws wrapping themselves around his body. Right then, Xue Wei had a glint in his eyes.
Xue Wei spun around himself to gather momentum. He did not hold back at all and swept his leg out like the tail of a flood dragon, which came crashing down on the enemy.
Kick of the Forgotten Kings!
A combination of Xue Wei’s three thousand Qi Dragons and his dragon shape’s strength amplification empowered the kick.
This was the strongest attack that Xue Wei had ever delivered. The berserker suddenly felt an acute sense of danger. He tried his very best to dodge, but the massive Hei Gou held him with all his power, pinning him down to a slow crawl.
The whip-like leg filled with roaring Qi dragons and physical strength came crashing down, landing on the berserker’s waist.
Xue Wei was gasping for air. His leg felt a sting, and as soon as he delivered the kick, he retreated as fast as he could.
"Let him go!" Xue Wei called out, in which Hei Gou let go of his shoulder and retreated as fast as he could.
The berserker was breathing hard. He could impossibly be completely fine after that attack, and he had received many wounds already. Furthermore, his shoulder ached from the wounds where Hei Gou's razor-like teeth had sunk into his flesh. Before Hei Gou had retreated, he had done everything to cause as much injury as possible, which was why the berserker’s entire shoulder was fully mutilated.
Not only this, his waist was broken. Where the kick had landed, all bones had broken. Although he was an Ordinary Knight, he could not simply withstand the full might of Xue Wei’s transformation and three thousand Qi dragons.
The darkness from Hei Gou’s domain ability still shrouded the entire area. Xue Wei was breathing heavily; he had used a massive amount of Qi and physical strength to deliver that attack, and his leg had not come out unscathed after the kick.
But the battle was not done yet. "Corner him!" Xue Wei growled, "We will use our last attack to end him. We really have to finish this. There will be someone soon who will try to reap the rewards of our battle if we don't hurry up!"
Hei Gou understood what Xue Wei was hinting at. Their battle had dragged on too long. The sun had also started rising, ever so slightly bringing with it dawn.
"Okay, I have this attack I've never tried before," Hei Gou said seriously. "Stay away, I don't want to kill you by accident!"
"Hah, you think that you can kill me? Wait with your skill, let me try something first!" Xue Wei laughed and brought out every scale in his body. This was a fully draconic shape, but not a full dragon transformation as he still resembled a human. However, all of his skin had been covered with scales.
A tail had appeared behind him, and horns protruded from his head. His eyes were red and their irises had become slitted.
"I have no innate abilities yet," Xue Wei muttered to himself, "but I do have something that might stop him for a moment."
Xue Wei briefly paused, and then he looked sharply at the berserker. A deep roar came out from deep within his chest that sounded like thunder had struck the entire city.
A deafening roar traveled through the entirety of Cloudsoar City. Every Primordial and Fierce Beast within the city started cowering, which greatly shocked their handlers and owners.
The Diviners, who were at the other end of town, could not help but widen their eyes in shock while their hearts palpitated with fear.
"What was that?" one of them asked with a trembling voice. "What was that roar?!"
The two strongest of the Diviners looked at one another, their eyes displaying deep shock and fear, but there was also excitement. Without paying attention to anything else, both of them rushed out of their lodgings.
"It came from the lawless area," one of the Diviners said. The other nodded his head.
"I can sense the energy," the other said seriously, and both of them rushed through town at the speed of a lightning strike, forgoing attention towards anything else.