Chapter 552 - 174: [Tacit Understanding]
At this moment, a sudden gust of wind swept in from the front. Chen Yan immediately felt alert, abruptly took a backward step, twisted his waist, turned around, and under the effect of inertia, rushed forward to the right.
With a loud boom, a red light appeared within the gale, and then a monstrous tree ahead in the direction of their run suddenly got cut in half at the waist, the thick trunk along with the huge canopy crashed down, blocking the path of Chen Yan and the other runner!
Chen Yan thrust forward to the right, while Golden Armor beside him, reacting just as swiftly, suddenly kicked the ground with both feet, leaping into the air, stepping nimbly, and even after glancing his toes lightly on the tree canopy, managed to leap over it.
Then a red light came hurtling toward him from the front!
Golden Armor cursed and could only tuck his head and roll to the ground, and with a loud boom, the red light scraped past Golden Armor’s head, plowing a seven or eight-meter long trench into the forest monster ground behind him!
Golden Armor saw Chen Yan about to keep running, then suddenly raised his sword and swung it forward—a bastard, cutting toward the front of Chen Yan with his sword. After a slash of sword light, a monstrous tree trunk in front of Chen Yan was severed, causing the tree to collapse and block Chen Yan’s way.
Chen Yan cursed, and had to turn again, only to be met head-on by a red light shooting out from the woods, forcing him to retreat backward.
After dodging the red light, Chen Yan retreated to almost shoulder to shoulder with Golden Armor.
He helplessly glanced at Golden Armor, "Fellow Daoist, you are so despicable!"
"You flatter me!" Golden Armor laughed heartily.
At this moment, a figure slowly walked out from the forest monster in front of them!
This was unmistakably a warrior of the Fierce Beast Race, dressed in fur, but with an exposed upper body in front, on his strong and robust chest, was covered in scars.
This monster from the Fierce Beast Race was tall, nearly three meters, appearing even taller than the leader monster in the village killed by Chen Yan earlier.
Nevertheless, the figure was similar, both being sturdy and robust, yet with an elongated figure.
Just by looking at this Fierce Beast Race individual’s physique, it’s evident that he’s not an easy adversary—their size imbues an impression of sheer force, while also giving off a fierce and agile aura!
Besides, generally, Fierce Beast Race folks had sparse hair—even someone like Wooden Bowl, a ten-year-old girl, was almost half-bald.
However, this guy’s head was full of hair, even braided into several little braids swinging behind him.
A wide, sunken nose bridge, eyes both narrow and long, yet the ears were large.
His skin didn’t have the usual grey-brown color of ordinary Fierce Beast Race, instead had a darker, nearly dark blue hue.
His arms were very long, almost reaching the knees when hanging down.
In each of his hands, he gripped a long weapon that looked like sabers or swords, but they weren’t edged, just hooked at the end.
Golden Armor sighed, saying, "Iron Hook, how did you end up ahead of me?"
The Fierce Beast Race warrior called "Iron Hook" shook his head, "I knew you would definitely run west, so after being tricked last time, I stopped tracking you and just headed west straight away. I ran ahead of you, used the night hawk to find your tracks, and then turned around to block you."
Golden Armor snorted, "You’ve gotten smarter."
"Thanks to you," Iron Hook’s face remained indifferent, his eyes shifting between Golden Armor and Chen Yan, "You killed one of my brothers, so I learned to be smarter."
He paused, then his gaze fell on Chen Yan, nodded, and said, "Is this your companion? The fellow who broke into the Divine Tree Cave?"
Chen Yan immediately stepped back, "Don’t get it wrong! I’m not well acquainted with this guy next to me! I just happened upon him in the woods."
Golden Armor, however, laughed heartily, "A jar of Divine Tree Juice is in his backpack."
Upon hearing these two individuals speaking, Iron Hook couldn’t help but squint, frowning silently, turning the pair of long iron hooks lightly in his hands, shook his head and said, "You humans are so cunning, uttering confusing words that are hard for me to understand. Regardless of what you say, you both shall stay here!"
With these words, he slowly approached the two of them.
Golden Armor sighed, "Fellow Daoist, there’s no other way but to fight, this guy is quite formidable."
"Just how formidable?"
"Slightly stronger than I am now," Golden Armor replied quickly, "Let’s really team up this time."
"... Alright!" Chen Yan nodded.
With Chen Yan’s agreement, Golden Armor already grinned fiercely, abruptly shot forward like an arrow, with his sword thrust straight toward Iron Hook’s chest!
Almost simultaneously, Chen Yan suddenly leapt backward, somersaulting onto the top of a monstrous tree, drawing a bow and arrow aimed at Iron Hook!
Whoosh!
An arrow shot out, Iron Hook sneered, suddenly lifting the long hook in his left hand, with a clang, it deflected the flying arrow.
Meanwhile, Golden Armor had already charged right in front of him!
Clang!
Golden Armor’s thrusting attack was surprisingly parried by Iron Hook, as his weapon struck down onto the sword blade!
Golden Armor’s sword immediately skewed—this was the first time since Chen Yan witnessed Golden Armor’s swordsmanship fail in their couple of collaborative encounters!
As Golden Armor’s sword blade was deflected, Iron Hook rapidly stepped forward, his body erupted into a burst of red light!
The intensity of that red light clearly surpassed that of the previous Fierce Beast Race monsters!
Clang!
Iron Hook lifted his weapon and brought it down on Golden Armor, who raised his sword to block it.