Chapter 226: Seeing Ghosts?
Yun Ce finished eating that beast leg, but Shen Tingyu’s reinforcements still hadn’t come, so he simply spread a blanket on the ground, lay down on it, hadn’t slept much last night, and with the sunlight just right at this moment, he could rest for a while.
This sleep lasted until dusk.
Yun Ce got up and stretched lazily. It seemed Shen Tingyu’s reinforcements weren’t coming.
He packed up the blanket, fed water to the Red Date Horse, and prepared to find a sheltered spot to set up camp. Although he wasn’t worried about heat or cold, the Gobi Desert would get windy at night, and the wind sounds were extremely noisy.
He rode up a high slope, looked out to the four horizons. The sun was on the horizon, so it became the dividing line between heaven and earth. At this moment, heaven and earth weren’t much different, both half dark and half pale yellow.
Yun Ce dismounted, stuck his head under his crotch and looked back. Sure enough, as he thought, heaven and earth weren’t much different. If he had to say there was, it was a point of firelight in one corner of the ground.
At this moment, Yun Ce was very fond of making friends, especially friends from the Gui Fang people. Moreover, the higher their martial art, the more he liked them. Only such friends were worth his good treatment.
Worried about scaring away the stranger friend across the way, Yun Ce hummed a desolate Northwest folk tune and slowly rode the Red Date Horse over.
Getting closer, Yun Ce saw a burly Gui Fang great han sitting by the fire, roasting a beast leg. To be precise, he was using charcoal to roast the beast leg.
This showed the man was a gourmet who loved food, unlike other Gui Fang people who impatiently roasted meat before the firewood turned to charcoal, ending up with meat that was pitch black and hard to swallow.
1 Yun Ce took out some wine from the Dragon Pearl, filled the wine gourd. No matter what, making friends without wine wouldn’t do.
1 Just as he was about to speak, the strong man roasting the beast leg said, “Wait a moment, the blood hasn’t drained completely yet.”
1 Yun Ce obediently sat across from the strong man. The strong man looked up, grinned at Yun Ce, and said, “Less than a day apart, and we meet again.”
1 Yun Ce blinked his eyes, looked at the lively Shen Tingyu in front of him, nodded, and said, “Hope you’ve been well?”
1 Shen Tingyu bared a mouth of big white teeth and laughed, “Chopped to pieces by you, how well could I be?”
1 Yun Ce’s nerves were always thick, but the current appearance of Shen Tingyu still surprised him somewhat. At first glance, he thought it was a twin trick.
1 After confirming the appearance and voice now, Yun Ce wasn’t so sure. He always observed people minutely, focusing on details others overlooked when looking at people, rather than the overall appearance.
1 As it stood now, many details on this person’s body were identical to the earlier Shen Tingyu, especially the grain-sized wart at the junction of his jaw and neck, the position and color exactly the same.
1 “So, you’ve been waiting for me.”
1 “Yeah, the wasteland is too vast and empty. Meeting a human world talent like Brother Chang’an is my honor.”
2 “What relation is Shen Lexi to you? When I slept with her, I was just busy spreading her legs and forgot to ask her background.”
2 Shen Tingyu burst out laughing upon hearing this. “Brother Chang’an, you’ve had quite the fortune. My little sister has always been arrogant, clearly of marriageable age yet looks down on the fine men of my Gui Fang people.
2 Now, for Brother Chang’an to spend over twenty large fish maws on her body, that’s wish fulfilled.”
2 The meteor hammer appeared in Yun Ce’s hand without warning. The next moment, the meteor hammer swept over the charcoal fire pile, carrying a few sparks straight at Shen Tingyu’s face.
2 Two great axes suddenly appeared behind the roasting beast leg, steadily clamping the incoming meteor hammer. The force on the meteor hammer dissipated, and it fell limply to the ground.
2 Across the fire pile, Shen Tingyu still grinned with a mouth of big white teeth and said, “Last time I was careless. This time, please appraise it again, Brother Chang’an.”
2 The great axe crossed over the fire pile straight at Yun Ce’s head. He yanked the chain of the chain hammer. Before the fallen meteor hammer could start moving, he viciously smashed out the chain hammer in his hand.
2 With a “clang,” the great axe certainly flew back, and the meteor hammer was also bounced back. The shock from the axe and hammer collision scattered the charcoal fire pile flickering uncertainly in the night wind, sending sparks flying everywhere.
2 Across the sparks dancing through the sky, Yun Ce’s gaze at Shen Tingyu began to turn serious.
2 This Shen Tingyu was far more formidable than the earlier one encountered. Just that axe alone had smashed back Yun Ce’s meteor hammer, something the previous Shen Tingyu couldn’t have done.
3 This couldn’t be the same person, let alone someone resurrected from the dead.
3 Yun Ce remembered clearly: Shen Tingyu had half his body smashed by his hammer, then Doggy sucked dry his useful essence and blood. His skin and flesh at death resembled a mummy, and finally, he was chopped into over a dozen pieces with his great axe. Resurrection was absolutely impossible.
3 Thinking of this, to bolster his resolve, Yun Ce sent the meteor hammer flying out again. No matter what thing was across, under the meteor hammer’s immense force, the living must become dead.
3 Yun Ce’s chain hammer flew out, and Shen Tingyu’s great axe followed. This time, the chain hammer and great axe didn’t collide but went straight for their respective enemies.
3 By now, the sun had completely sunk below the ground, with only a trace of fish belly white on the horizon stubbornly indicating that this world’s operation was still normal.
3 Yun Ce’s chain hammer carried a gale smashing down on Shen Tingyu’s head. Shen Tingyu tossed out the great axe with one hand. The hammer and axe met in midair, let out another huge clang, then flew back. Before the hammer head returned to Yun Ce, the hammer in his other hand silently thrust straight at Shen Tingyu’s chest.
3 Shen Tingyu chuckled darkly, his thick arm holding the axe single-handedly swept a semicircle, and the great axe’s blade accurately chopped onto the meteor hammer. The iron chain dragging the meteor hammer immediately went limp, while Shen Tingyu’s great axe didn’t retreat but advanced, heading straight for Yun Ce’s chest after leaving his hand.
3 In haste, Yun Ce yanked back the other hammer head to block. Before hammer and axe met, above Yun Ce’s head, another great axe came chopping down at his left shoulder with mountain-splitting force.
3 In panic, Yun Ce stepped right. That great axe nearly grazed his arm as it chopped down, finally landing ferociously, sinking over a foot into the ground.
3 Shen Tingyu chuckled, “This move I learned from Brother Chang’an. It’ll be my killing move from now on. Brother Chang’an wouldn’t fail to recognize it, right?
4 Heh heh heh, after learning Brother Chang’an’s killing move, I’ll also learn Brother Chang’an’s prowess on the bed. You used over twenty large fish maws on my little sister. When I meet Sister-in-law later, I humbly think thirty large fish maws might just barely suffice for me. Just wondering if Sister-in-law can withstand it.”
4 Yun Ce flew into a rage, swung the meteor hammer and smashed over. This time, he didn’t fling the meteor hammer out but gripped the iron chain near the hammer head, letting the meteor hammer smash down like heavy rain.
4 Shen Tingyu also gripped the great axe handle, meeting Yun Ce’s hammer head-on without fancy moves.
4 “Ding ding dang dang, ding ding dang dang”
4 “Ding ding dang dang, ding ding dang dang.”
4 “Ding ding dang dang…”
4 Yun Ce smashed without pause, Shen Tingyu blocked without rest. Up close, with little reaction time, whether smashing or blocking, once started, there was no chance for other thoughts.
4 This smashing and blocking lasted a full half hour. Yun Ce only felt his arms burning with pain like fire, but the more it hurt, the more excited he got, smashing even harder. He refused to believe his body, enhanced by the Dragon Clan and Shehuo, couldn’t outlast a ghost in endurance.
4 Yun Ce’s speed didn’t slow, but Shen Tingyu’s force weakened each time. When Yun Ce’s heavy hammer smashed onto Shen Tingyu’s great axe, the great axe had no spare force to protect his body. It flew back from the hammer strike, landing on his left shoulder with a “crack,” instantly collapsing the shoulder blade.
4 Yun Ce’s other hammer swiftly followed, one strike to his chest and abdomen. Shen Tingyu’s body flew back, and Doggy’s tentacles eagerly drilled into his body, gulping down large mouthfuls.
5 Shen Tingyu’s organs were already gravely damaged. If not quick, many good things would lose activity and become waste.
5 Yun Ce came before the still vomiting blood Shen Tingyu, squatted down, and asked, “What thing are you?”
5 Shen Tingyu opened his mouth; the big white teeth stained with blood somehow made the guy look oddly attractive.
5 “I’ll come back.”
5 Yun Ce shook his head. “Until today, only a guy called Gray Wolf has managed ‘I’ll come back.’ The rest can’t, and you can’t either.”
5 Shen Tingyu laughed miserably. “Good. Next time I come, I’ll tell you I’m stronger than that guy called Gray Tarou…”
5 Doggy’s tentacles wriggled out from Shen Tingyu’s body, finally shrinking bit by bit back into the wristband.
5 This time, Doggy didn’t suck the guy’s corpse into a mummy. Though a bit deflated compared to when alive, his features and expression were still roughly recognizable.
5 Too bizarre. Yun Ce thought while burning Shen Tingyu’s second corpse.
5 “Internal breath the same, blood type the same. Verifying DNA takes time, but I still have to say, that Shen Tingyu and this Shen Tingyu have internal breath similarity too high. High enough that I could mix their body essences together, or classify them as one.
6 Also, this Shen Tingyu is far stronger than the first one you met.”
6 Yun Ce stood up and looked around, finding everywhere pitch black, then said to Doggy, “Infuse me with the first Shen Tingyu’s internal breath.”
6 Doggy snickered. “You really think there’ll be an even stronger Shen Tingyu coming for you?”
6 Yun Ce sighed. “Though I really don’t want to believe it, this guy was too sincere when speaking to me before dying. I can’t help but believe.”
6 Doggy laughed. “Nothing that strange. I can judge these two Shen Tingyu are actually identical twin brothers.”
6 Yun Ce shook his head. “First make me stronger, that’s the proper thing.”
