The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 795: Not Getting What You Want

Zero Hatred couldn’t move away in time. He quickly folded his elemental wings across his chest to block the attack.

Bam! The two long blades collided with Zero Hatred’s elemental wings with fierce aura, and instantly, the wild blade aura and scintillating elemental particles sputtered and scattered in all directions like tadpoles of firework.

If time stopped at this moment, the scene would resemble a religious painting from the Middle Ages on the fated battle between a battle god from hell and an angel with colorful wings from heaven.

Clink. After a three-second stalemate, Zero Hatred’s elemental wings shattered into countless particles. Zero Hatred felt numb. He was surprised by how powerful Qing Ling’s blade aura was.

In truth, that was the most Qing Ling could do with that attack. She plunged and made a backflip in the air, stepping back on her Butterfly Twin Blades.

She didn’t want to give Zero Hatred any fighting chance. Bending her knees, she was about to jump toward Zero Hatred again when she caught a cold red from the corner of her eye. Before she could figure out what it was, her wealth of experience and strong instinct compelled her to whirl sideways.

Six rays of cold red light strong enough to pierce through flesh and blood came at Qing Ling from all directions. With her flexible and agile body, Qing Ling narrowly dodged the six crisscrossing red rays like a gymnast completing a difficult move in midair.

Two seconds later, Qing Ling settled on her Butterfly Twin Blades and looked up.

The elemental wings behind Zero Hatred’s back had turned into ones consisting of only wind elements. Hovering above her, Zero Hatred splayed his hands with a small red light orb flickering at the tip of each of his hands\' forefinger, middle finger, and ring finger.

Qing Ling frowned. It seemed that the six rays of cold red light hadn’t disappeared. They had become living things, in a manner of speaking, by Zero Hatred’s impressive control over elements.

The six rays moved at high speed, folding and intersecting, as if drawing a complex geometric shape.

Zero Hatred started drumming his fingers like he was typing on an invisible keyboard.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—

The six intersecting red rays shot at Qing Ling after receiving an order. Clink. Clang. Qing Ling dodged and swung her two blades to face the agile and cunning red rays. Crimson light particles and cyan blade aura bloomed here and there as they clashed.

Gradually, Qing Ling was having trouble keeping up.

Whoosh.

A ray of light brushed past the back of her head, shooting through her black hair. Her ponytail loosened.

Two seconds later, another ray of red light went through her left arm, and her Xiu Dao fell from her hand.

Qing Ling started. Forcing down the pain, she curled her finger and sent the Xiu Dao flying toward Zero Hatred.

Zero Hatred’s wings of wind elements folded before his chest again to block the Xiu Dao, all the while manipulating the cold red light to go after Qing Ling. He was a moment away from putting more holes into her body.

Whistle

.

Ke Yo made a move. She used Strange Whistle for a second.

In an instant, the six red rays dissolved into countless particles, and the same happened to the wind element wings on Zero Hatred’s back. They lost their shape.

Zero Hatred’s thoughts skipped, and he forgot to control the elements.

Can’s Invisibility lost its effect as a result of that, and she and Ke Yo appeared. The two had been hiding behind the blown-up black coffin with their hands linked. They exchanged a glance.

A second later, Can and Ke Yo went invisible again.

Meanwhile, Zero Hatred and Qing Ling had recovered their attention.

With a back flip, Qing Ling landed and leaped to the side. The next second, the six rays of light chased her and shattered the stone on the ground.

Like six billiard balls, they bounced up and continued to pursue Qing Ling.

Once she made a landing, Qing Ling was much more mobile even though she could only wield one blade with an injured arm. Moreover, she was under attack from all three hundred and sixty degrees around her in the air. On land, the range where attacks could come from was much smaller.

Qing Ling wielded her Tang Dao smoothly, one move transitioning to the next like flowing water as she cut and parried the six rays. She and Zero Hatred entered a stalemate.

From afar, Qing Ling looked like a graceful and agile dancer who spun and jumped as the red light chased after her and surrounded her, but never really touched her. It was as if the red light were red ribbons following the movement of her dancing blade.

Shit!

Zero Hatred lost his patience.

He enjoyed torturing his prey and would want nothing but to prolong the torment over his target, but now, he was the one getting tormented.

The explosion left him seriously injured, and every part of his body hurt. His endurance and energy were quickly draining, too, while the woman was showing no sign of struggle and didn’t seem any close to collapsing.

Moreover, two dangerous venomous bugs lay in hiding, ready to attack him at any time. In fact, air blades had been thrown his way every once in a while as he fought Qing Ling, only he had dodged all of them. That prevented Zero Hatred from paying full attention to Qing Ling with the need to be on guard constantly.

I can’t drag this on.

“Hah!” Zero Hatred shouted and clenched his fists. Receiving his order, the six rays of light returned to him and started spinning quickly. In addition, the other four elemental powers—blue wind, cyan fire, purple lightning, and white ice—rushed out of his palms and turned into blinding light, swirling quickly around him.

The five elemental powers spun faster and faster until they formed a five-colored tornado. Zero Hatred was going to ravage the whole battlefield with the tornado by exhausting his power—no, by exhausting all the energy in his body.

The pit-like underground ruin gave him a geological advantage. Once the tornado formed, none would be able to run away.

A vicious, cruel smirk appeared on the side of Zero Hatred’s face that wasn’t disfigured by the explosion, but his smile quickly stiffened and morphed into confusion, then shock.

He realized that his elemental tornado was taking shape too slowly. Actually, the currents of elements were slowing down.

At some point, Can had shown herself and rode her wind to the air across from Zero Hatred on her own, aiming her hands at him with her ten fingers splayed to the limit.

Can’s eyes widened. The irises shone like two brilliant sapphires. Two trickles of blood came from her nostrils. Face pale, she said in a trembling voice, “You...are not getting what you want!”

Can unleashed her full energy and activated level 5 Gale, conjuring a tornado with reverse rotation around Zero Hatred’s elemental tornado to offset it.

Zero Hatred lost his composure. A mere single-element user dared to go head-to-head with my Elemental? What a joke!

“Aghhh!!”

Zero Hatred growled and activated his elemental tornado again. At that moment, the space seemed to distort, and countless colorful currents shot around with energy rippling out in waves.

After about seven seconds, Can lost the battle of will with Zero Hatred and threw up a mouthful of blood. With a shudder, she plunged from high in the air like a bird getting shot.

The moment she landed, Can looked at Zero Hatred and the tornado about to take shape around him in upside-down view. She grinned.

I did it.