Chapter 1338: Online Again
Baldr was about to go crazy. I'm the one killing Jiangnan, what the hell does it have to do with you?
You've already become a dog for the Holy Star, so don't meddle in other people's business!
But Li Mingshan clearly hadn't had his fill yet—every move was lethal!
A top-tier space-type clash couldn't afford any carelessness, or you'd die without even knowing how!
Baldr's focus was razor-sharp; it had been ages since he'd fought such an intense battle!
The two figures flickered rapidly across the Sahara Desert, impossible to track!
They fought from the desert into the dimensional gap, from the gap to the stratosphere, and from the stratosphere into a spirit ruin!
The desert was littered with beast corpses, but the shockwaves from the fight made the entire desert tremble, with billions of tons of sand dunes rising and falling like ocean waves!
The sandstorm they kicked up blotted out the sun and sky!
Even the mercenary town outside the desert could feel the tremors clearly!
People stared in horror toward the desert center, none daring to enter!
They thought it was some disaster on par with a massive spirit ruin eruption!
And this sandstorm lasted over three hours before finally ending!
At the desert's center, Baldr knelt on one knee, clutching his stomach!
"Pwah—"
A large mouthful of blood mixed with organ fragments spewed out. The wound on his stomach gushed blood, pooling into a small puddle beneath him, staining the yellow sand crimson!
His body was covered in hundreds of wounds, big and small, turning him into a bloody gourd!
Coughing up blood heavily, panting violently, he glared at Li Mingshan with a twisted expression!
"Cough—pwah! Now... have you had enough fun?"
Li Mingshan wasn't in much better shape either—his chest was a mess of mangled flesh, with even exposed ribs visible!
His back and thighs were covered in scars, and he was missing an ear!
Crimson blood dripped incessantly from between his fingers onto the ground, his eyes icy cold!
"Not really."
Baldr was furious. Still want to fight?
"You can't do anything to me, and I can't kill you. We're both ceiling-level space-types, with not much difference. We can't actually finish each other off!"
"You know that, and you still fight? Are you sick? Satisfied now?"
"Don't push me! If I want to mess with Huaxia, you can't stop me!"
Li Mingshan's iron fists clenched, a murderous intent flashing in his eyes!
"The gap isn't big, but that's now! Don't forget, I'm opening the door, and you're smashing it!"
"I'm faster than you! Maybe I really can't stop you, but afterwards, you won't survive either!"
Baldr gritted his steel teeth, his eyes flickering with a look of disgust.
"Are you threatening me?"
Li Mingshan glanced at Baldr indifferently: "The road is under your own feet—how you walk it is up to you."
"But remember, my mood hasn't been very good."
As he spoke, he turned and walked away into the distance, limping slightly, his gait not very steady.
In the wind and sand, Li Mingshan's aged back looked a bit lonely...
Turning his back to Baldr, Li Mingshan clenched his steel teeth, his eyes bloodshot!
If that little rabbit bastard were still alive, how wonderful that would be...
He left a trail of blood-soaked footprints on the sand, disappearing into the wind and dust.
Seeing Li Mingshan leave, Baldr finally couldn't hold on anymore, collapsing to sit on the ground, spitting up blood.
(།#།།ʘ̆ཀʘ̥̆།#།།) "Damn it! That old bastard's tough enough—keeps saying his mood hasn't been good?"
Clearly, Li Mingshan's meaning was straightforward: you can go cause trouble in Huaxia, I can't stop you.
But if you do, I'll come after you. If I can't kill you, I'll keep at it.
When I break through the Dao Heaven limit, I'll be able to kill you then. Think it over yourself.
Baldr looked utterly disgusted. Just touching Huaxia meant asking for trouble?
Killing just Jiangnan, and I end up taking a beating? Even though Li Mingshan was badly hurt too, Baldr still felt he'd come out on the losing end.
"***!"
[From Baldr: Resentment +1001!]
[From Baldr...]
Frustrated, Baldr was about to go find the Life Goddess Freya for recovery!
Just then, a flash of Bose light appeared over the desert!
Jiangning had actually brought Mi Ye all the way from He Guo to chase him here!
The moment they arrived at Sahara, both Jiangning and Mi Ye were stunned.
(๐꒪꒫꒪) (๐╹□╹)
The entire desert had been pounded into a lunar surface—shattered dunes crisscrossed with gaping cut marks!
Thousands of vicious spatial cracks hung in the void, still unhealed even now.
The whole space was like tattered cloth, with massive amounts of space energy lingering in the air.
Then they saw Baldr sitting on the ground like a bloody gourd, spitting up blood.
Across from him was a trail of bloody footprints leading away.
Mi Ye was shocked: (*ﾟﾛﾟ) "Who did this? Could wound the Heavenly God Baldr like this? Is there such a person on Blue Star?"
Baldr was a top-tier space-type, a ceiling-level combatant on Blue Star!
Jiangning gritted her teeth!
(งᵒ̌～ᵒ̌)ง "Who cares! Let's take the kill!"
Mi Ye clenched her fists!
(ꐦ͡ᵔ◠͡ᵔ) "This king will kill you!"
Baldr exploded!
Damn it, you two chased me all the way from He Guo?
Just sent one away, and here come two more?
(#乛།།益།乛།) "What the hell!"
With that, he turned and teleported into a space crack. He was heavily wounded and had no intention of fighting these two women again.
Jiangning led Mi Ye in hot pursuit: "Where do you think you're running?"
But just as they chased a little way, Jiangning's body jerked, looking eastward.
A little dazed, she then seemed to figure something out, two veins bulging on her forehead.
(ꐦ°᷄◡°᷅)
[From Jiangning: Resentment +1001!]
[From Jiangning...]
Mi Ye was confused: (๑•̌.•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Why aren't we chasing? Don't let him get away!"
Jiangning's eye twitched: "No... it's nothing. Let's keep going."
With that, she resumed the chase!
Jiangning didn't sense anything else—just noticed that the star marker she'd placed in Jiangnan's alternate dimension had changed spatial nodes again after being stationary for 24 hours.
That said a lot.
[From Jiangning: Resentment +1001!]
Stinky Little Nan...
...
Deep in the silent night!
"Bang!"
The corpse of Jiang lying flat in the coffin suddenly opened his eyes, taking a deep breath.
He instinctively tried to sit up, but bumped into the coffin lid with a "thump".
He rubbed his head in pain.
୧(˘･᷄～･᷅)୨
At that moment, a few Pocket Rabbits gathered around the grave mound were startled by the sound from inside, teleporting behind trees to peek.
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Twenty-four hours had passed. The Jiang corpse went offline, and Jiangnan came back online!
With a teleport, he popped out of the coffin, stretched hard, took a big gulp of fresh air, his complexion unusually ruddy.
He looked down at the tombstone, and his eye twitched.
Holy crap, "I'll just die for now, then." Big Guy, you really don't do human things, do you?
But at least there were no typos.
Looking at his own grave, Jiangnan felt a bit weird, but then a sly grin spread across his face.
(΄◞ิᗜ◟ิ‵) Ha~
Opening a space wormhole, he put some interesting stuff inside the coffin, then patted his hands in satisfaction.
Just then, Jiangning's off-the-charts resentment value came flooding in!
It startled Jiangnan badly. Good grief!
She knew the moment I came back alive? Because of that star marker?
Jiangnan swallowed nervously, looking troubled.
If just Sister Ningning is like this, how am I supposed to survive?
(･᷄～･᷅)
(づ๑ど) "Gurgle~"
After not eating all day, his stomach started growling again.
Jiangnan looked toward the Maple Grove Villa. Snowy and the others should be asleep. Maybe he could sneak back and grab some food without getting caught?
Hungry, Jiangnan wanted something good to eat. So he tiptoed, teleporting to the living room fridge to see if there were any leftovers.
But when he opened the fridge, he realized he was overthinking—there was nothing inside.
Snowy and the others hadn't even eaten dinner.
Left with no choice, Jiangnan grabbed a big apple and a carton of milk from the fridge, taking huge bites.
The whole villa was eerily quiet. Little did Jiangnan know, no one inside—human or beast—was asleep.
Hearing the noise in the living room, Zhong Yingxue slipped on her slippers and opened her door with a creak.
She froze instantly.
The first thing she saw was Jiangnan beside the fridge, munching on a big apple.
Jiangnan's movements froze, cold sweat pouring down his forehead as he stiffly turned toward Zhong Yingxue on the second floor.
(‧̣̥̇‧̣̥̇･᷄ㅂ･᷅) "S-Snowy? Still up this late, huh?"
Panicking inside, his calves were already trembling.
Zhong Yingxue paused for a moment, then seemed to understand everything.
"Goat crackers?"
Jiangnan guiltily hummed in acknowledgment, his gaze shifting like a child caught doing something wrong.
(๑◔‸◔ิ๑) "Mm~"
Zhong Yingxue trotted down the stairs in her slippers without saying anything else, heading straight to the kitchen.
She skillfully lit the gas stove, poured in olive oil, and took two eggs from the fridge, frying them in the pan, like a gentle little wife.
"You must be hungry? Let me make you some fried eggs..."
Her tone was calm. The firelight shone on her face, which looked so haggard.
Jiangnan swallowed. Snowy didn't send any resentment value at all?
Why couldn't she yell at me or hit me? No reaction? Had she figured it out already? No way?
The more she acted like this, the more scared Jiangnan became.
He leaned over beside Zhong Yingxue's shoulder, looking at her profile.
"Snowy? Are you mad?"
Zhong Yingxue shook her head: "I'm not."
Jiangnan: !!!
You're lying! This is exactly how you were when we were kids!
When she was angry, she wouldn't cry or make a fuss—would just ignore you. Back then, when little Snowy ignored him, little Jiangnan would panic and always try to cheer her up.
Jiangnan put on a serious expression.
(๑•̀◠•́)و "Snowy, you know? It was so dark in the coffin. That Ruiya came to check if I was dead, but my breath chased her away!"
"She even said I had really bad breath!"
Zhong Yingxue: "Oh~"
She just stared at the eggs in the pan, not looking at him.
Jiangnan was completely panicked now. He hadn't even managed to cheer her up!
(ʃƪᵒ̴̶̷﹏ᵒ̴̶̷) "Snowy, please don't be mad, okay? Talk to me?"
Zhong Yingxue's lips quivered, tears welling in her eyes—big, fat drops falling onto the frying eggs.
(๐ᵒ̴̶̷̥́◠ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀)
Jiangnan: !!!
Damn it, damn it, things are really bad—Snowy's crying!
This kind of silent crying was the most heartbreaking!