It was still an extremely familiar bronze grimace mask, with a forced smile and a forced cry, containing an inexplicable weird aura. It was exactly alike the mask showing up in the sect relics of the antiquity times in the Western Rock Mountain Range, the one which that mysterious person was wearing.
Furthermore, the fluctuating aura of the flaming Qi was also extremely familiar. It meant that the red figure before him was the mysterious man with the bronze grimace mask who had singled out Ding Hao to kill him.
“Jie-jie-jie-jie, yes, it’s me. I come again, and so you must die today.” A husky voice like a night-owl seemed to come out of the h.e.l.l seam, containing an undisguised killing intent.
Ding Hao smiled faintly and said, “You’re unlucky, because I am in a bad mood. There is a way to heaven, but you don’t go there. There is no gate to h.e.l.l, but you choose to come. Last time you escaped. You should hide yourself honestly to save your humble life. Unexpectedly, you truly refuse to admit your failure before you are faced with grim reality. You dare to show up before me. All right. This time I will definitely kill you.”
Before his voice died away.
All of a sudden, Ding Hao disappeared on the back of the Lion-dragon Beast of Snow Province.
“Ding!”
A cl.u.s.ter of sparks burst in the tree tops tens of meters away.
The man with the bronze grimace mask exclaimed and moved back rapidly.
Like a ghost, Ding Hao showed up before him. Following him like his shadow and without taking any action of unsheathing his own sword, a red mist of sword light enshrouded the masked man.
“Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!”
The sound of clas.h.i.+ng weapons, like violent storms, was incessantly heard.
A cl.u.s.ters of sparks burst dramatically in the overcast air, blooming beautiful but fleeting patterns, which made two fast moving blurred figures even more mysterious.
A cl.u.s.ter of sparks fell and lit like a yellow leaf.
Then gradually the whole tree burned, followed by the dead trees around, and then the crazy fire swept through the vast woods.
The two people who were fighting were like immortals and their figures flickered in the burning flame.
Without any nonsense, Ding Hao’s sword movements were fast with killing intent.
That time, he made his mind to uncover the true ident.i.ty of the man with the bronze grimace mask. n.o.body wanted to have a killer with frightening strength eyeing him with hostility in the dark.
“Since you want to kill me, you should be prepared to be killed.”
The sword in his hand was like a storm. Ding Hao had currently experienced a surge in strength; even the ordinary swordsmans.h.i.+p like Rapid-Cross Sword displayed by him became extremely fearsome. Silver crosses changed magically and constantly in the void.
The dense net of swords made the man with the bronze grimace mask feel like a fish in a net, and its s.p.a.ce for struggling to survive was becoming smaller and smaller.
“Boom!”
The flames exploded in the air and the terrible energy overflew from the body of the man with the bronze grimace mask. The red flames almost covered half of the sky, and by the fire in the ground woods, he finally had a breathing spell.
The man with the bronze grimace mask moved back rapidly and got out of Ding Hao’s sword net in great confusion.
“You didn’t let me down, jie-jie, and you really got stronger, but you still have to die today…” The man with the bronze grimace mask kept a distance with Ding Hao and laughed weirdly.
He was thinking about a killing movement.
“f.u.c.k you!” Ding Hao snorted coldly. He flashed and in the next instant he showed up again in front of the man with the bronze grimace mask.
“I don’t like to talk to you.”
Ding Hao changed his sword movement to a skill of the Lightning-Chasing Central Swordsmans.h.i.+p. He struck out his sword and the rusted sword’s body trembled with a buzzing sound. With a drizzling intent, the sword’s movement was untraceable, a dreamlike illusion, and it gave people an unreal feeling.
“Whew!”
The blood light rose to the sky.
“Ah…” The man with the bronze grimace mask screamed.
Unexpectedly, he did not block Ding Hao’s sword so that his right hand with the long sword was cut off from the wrist. The cut-off hand and the long sword felt on the ground. He stumbled backwards. His pupils under the mask bloomed with incredible light.
“This is… sword intent. Have you mastered the sword intent?” With one hand holding the injured wrist, he used his flame power to seal the wound to avoid losing too much blood. The masked man with the bronze grimace trembled all over.
“You’re talking too much nonsense.” Ding Hao did not give him any breathing room. With another sword striking out, the reddish rusted sword became a mist of red light. The light was untraceable, still containing the half-step sword intent.
That day Ding Hao made his mind to kill that person. Even if he could not capture him alive, he would never let him escape.
The man with a bronze grimace mask smiled sadly. A silver light flashed on his body; he avoided that sword rapidly like a flash move and he appeared more than fifty meters away.
“It’s the same escaping skill.”
Last time in the Ghostly Illusion Formations of the sect’s underground relics from ancient times, he had gotten rid of Ding Hao’s killing of both sword and saber by depending on such a mysterious silver light with an instant ability.
Ding Hao could feel clearly that the strength of the man with the bronze grimace mask was countless times more powerful than the last time. That was why he was able to come to kill Ding Hao. Beyond his expectation, Ding Hao’s strength developed faster than his. He was forced to use the mysterious light to escape.
Calculating the distance between them, Ding Hao approached him slowly.
“What a good master Ding Hao! You’ve unexpectedly mastered the sword intent and I have made a mistake. However… jie-jie, you have put your cards on the table, but you still don’t know who I am. You’re in the open and I’m in the dark, hahaha. Today you cannot kill me, and I’ll definitely kill you another day.”
The man with the bronze grimace mask said hatefully like a cursing night owl.
“Another day? You may have no chances anymore.” Ding Hao sneered and suddenly disappeared where he was.
“What?” The pupils of the man with the bronze grimace mask shrunk.
The next instant, an unprecedented sense of danger shrouded him. He stirred up the mysterious light almost subconsciously. His body became blurred rapidly and it seemed to have disappeared by melting in the air.
But at the same time, a rusted sword showed up from nowhere and pierced his body.
The frightening sword Qi’s aftermath did not stop, opening a crack of one meter wide and more than ten meters deep on the ground next to the man with the bronze grimace mask.
However, in the next instant, the figure of the man with the bronze grimace mask melted and disappeared instantly.
Ding Hao’s figure appeared rapidly.
The rusted sword was held in his hand.
All was quicker than words could tell. Everything happened in a split second so that the fight was over, even before Fang Tianyi and Gao Xue’er who were watching from afar could understand what had happened.
Ding Hao bowed to look at the dropping blood in the rusted sword’s blade and got to know that his sword hit the target definitely.