Chapter 31: The Sun
Sure enough, Feitan, who had been charging at Su Xiao, suddenly changed direction, rushing toward the gang members on the ceiling and bursting into full speed. Su Xiao had no way to stop him.
Seeing this, Su Xiao’s pupils contracted as he slashed out several times in the air.
“He’s coming!”
“Open fire!”
Rat-a-tat-tat, bang, bang…
A dense hail of bullets rained toward Feitan. Just as these gang members opened fire, blade auras flew in.
Puchi, puchi. Blood splattered as the group of gang members were cleanly slain. Su Xiao was decisive enough, but unfortunately, it was already too late.
“Not bad.”
Feitan raised an eyebrow at the sight of the shattered corpses. If he had been in that position, he would have done the same.
Dozens of bullets shot toward Feitan. He swung his long blade repeatedly, and with a few crisp clangs, the bullets aimed at his head, heart, and other vital points were deflected.
Aside from Enhancers, when other Nen-type users deactivate the Nen covering their bodies, their physical durability is only slightly better than an ordinary person’s.
Feitan was a Transmuter, so after he dropped his Nen defense, most of the bullets lodged into his body, and some even passed clean through.
Midair, Feitan spat out a mouthful of blood, but his face was filled with a gleeful smile.
The veins on Su Xiao’s hand gripping his sword bulged. An extremely ominous feeling arose.
In the original story, when Feitan used his ultimate move, he wasn’t too severely injured—at least he could move freely and even lift a large rock after the fight.
But now, Feitan had been riddled with bullets. He looked critically wounded, the kind that might kill him. In this state, how powerful would Feitan’s ultimate move be?
Feitan was about to demonstrate the answer to this question for Su Xiao.
Feitan, his body full of bullet holes, staggered back a few steps. A surge of grayish-blue Nen energy erupted from within him, radiating nothing but ill omen.
This Nen energy vanished in an instant. Feitan had somehow changed into a different set of clothes—a black-and-red outfit that covered his entire body except for his eyes, wrapping him tightly.
This was Feitan’s preparation for using his ultimate move. His ability was too strong; without this “Pain Packer” protecting him, he would be burned to a crisp himself.
While Feitan was preparing to unleash his ultimate move, Su Xiao certainly wasn’t going to stand idly by. He had already closed to within three meters of Feitan.
Feitan squinted his eyes. “Pain Packer” not only insulated against heat but also had extremely strong defensive capabilities. He wouldn’t be in danger for a short time. As long as he released that move, the enemy at this distance was as good as dead.
Su Xiao had two choices. One was to go all out with a single slash. That slash might kill Feitan, but whether it could interrupt his ultimate move was unknown. If it couldn’t, even killing Feitan would mean Su Xiao died with him.
The second was to kick Feitan away, as far as possible. This would greatly reduce the power of Feitan’s ultimate move. Outside this semi-enclosed environment, Feitan’s ultimate move wasn’t too terrifying.
After a moment’s hesitation, Su Xiao made his decision. He slightly crouched, using his left foot as a pivot, and kicked Feitan with all his strength using his right leg.
“I’ll give you back the pain…”
Feitan had just muttered a sentence only he could understand when Su Xiao’s full-power side kick arrived.
Bang!
The kick landed on Feitan’s side. Su Xiao clearly heard Feitan let out a pained “Oof!”
Feitan shot diagonally toward the ceiling like a rocket. With Su Xiao’s 55 points in Strength, it could already be called monstrous strength. Feitan, flying through the air, even broke through a shockwave.
Boom!
The ceiling was smashed through. Not only that, but Feitan, still flying, crashed through the outer wall of the auction house and flew diagonally out of the building.
Midair, a grayish-blue energy sphere emerged from Feitan’s body, finally stopping beside the auction house building.
“Turn pain into heat. Suffer the scorching of the sun!”
Whoosh! The energy sphere expanded, turning into a miniature sun about a dozen meters in diameter.
In the original story, Feitan’s manifested miniature sun was only five meters in size. Now, it was a full dozen meters, related to the severity of his injuries.
This sun illuminated the night sky, turning half of Yorknew City a fiery red. Terrifying heat radiated outward.
Feitan landed, standing beneath the miniature sun, wearing the special outfit manifested from his Nen energy. He felt no heat at all.
“Hehehe~”
Feitan let out a strange laugh. The miniature sun continuously released high temperatures. The surrounding buildings instantly caught fire. Concrete slabs collapsed in large sections like melted cake.
Within a few hundred meters, both gang members and civilians suffered. They didn’t even feel pain—the miniature sun’s temperature was so high that it instantly roasted them to charcoal.
The asphalt road caught fire. For reference, asphalt’s ignition point is around 670°C.
Not only the road was burning; everything within the miniature sun’s range was ablaze. Steel melted like candles. Feitan was too severely injured, making the miniature sun’s temperature even more terrifying.
Inside the auction house’s basement, a hole had appeared in the floor, pitch black within. Su Xiao had already descended to the lowest level, the -3rd floor.
Even here, he could still feel waves of heat gradually approaching from above.
As for Bubu Wang’s safety, Su Xiao had already notified him to retreat before Feitan used his ultimate move. Now, that goof was far away “warming himself by the fire,” much safer than Su Xiao.
The blazing sun continued to scorch. The miniature sun’s temperature wasn’t the only thing that increased with Feitan’s injuries; its duration also lengthened accordingly.
It lasted a full three minutes before the miniature sun began to dim and finally disappear.
By then, Feitan was nowhere to be seen. Because Su Xiao had kicked him away, he wasn’t sure if Su Xiao was alive or dead, so after unleashing his sun and cackling for a while, he fled.
Within three hundred meters of the auction house, everything was pitch black. Red embers could still be seen on the ground. Numerous surrounding buildings had collapsed, burned to charcoal.
The streets, once bustling with people, were now empty of the living. Piles of white powder were all that remained of those gang members.
Due to the high temperature igniting flammable and explosive materials, the entire block was riddled with holes.
Inside the -3rd floor of the auction house, although it wasn’t close to the miniature sun and had building obstruction, the temperature was still high.
Bang! A fire-warped iron door was kicked open. Su Xiao, steam rising from his body, stepped out from behind it.
When the heat had spread to the -3rd floor, Su Xiao had already entered a large cold storage room meant for storing ingredients. He had seen the auction house’s map. The reason he fought Feitan on the -1st basement level was precisely because of this cold storage on -3.
Before the heat could spread down, he had ducked into the cold storage and turned the temperature to its lowest. Who would have thought he set it too low? Although he wasn’t roasted by the miniature sun, he ended up freezing quite badly.
As Su Xiao stepped out of the cold storage, a thick smell of burning filled the air. He closed his eyes to sense Feitan’s aura. As expected, Feitan had already escaped.
After this engagement, Su Xiao had a rough grasp of the Phantom Troupe’s strength. The answer was that they weren’t as strong as he had imagined. Feitan’s close-combat ability wasn’t weak, but it relied heavily on his speed advantage—after all, Feitan’s speed was definitely the best in the Troupe.