บท 29: Showdown at the Pool
With the Hunter Instinct ability activated, a trail illuminated in Lin Fan's vision.
Lin Fan waved at Bai Qiao and said, "Come, follow me."
In his state of anxiety, worrying about the fate of his brother Bai Ti, Bai Qiao followed suit.
To his astonishment, Lin Fan's pace was unusually fast, much faster than an average hunter.
At first, they could only see a line etched in the soil, most likely made by Bai Ti's sword while trying to slow it down.
After a hundred meters, they could see leaves slowly floating down, as if something that unsettled them had just left.
They were getting closer and closer.
Rustle.
A few seconds later, the sounds of leaves rustling ten meters in front of Lin Fan and Bai Qiao could be heard.
Finally, they could see Bai Ti right ahead.
From where they were standing, the trees had become sparse, leading up to an open area that was about a hundred meters wide.
In the borders of the area, eight stilts were erected in the corners like a Bagua, red-colored ropes coiled around the stilts and connected them together.
Attached all over on the ropes were black-colored talismans with scriptures written in blood on them.
Right in the middle of it was a pool, ten meters wide, filled with blood.
Bits of carcasses, body parts from dead beasts, randomly popped up and floated in the blood pool.
Strewn around the pool were bodies of vagrants and wanderers.
All of them looked pale white and their skin wrinkled, with their blood gone from their bodies.
Standing between the pool and Lin Fan was a man with dark tentacles coming out of his body.
"How dare you trespass! Now, let your blood be a sacrifice to the blood pool."
The man shouted and his voice echoed loudly in the air.
Lin Fan recognized this voice from before.
Master Tan!
But somehow, his looks had changed, totally different from what Lin Fan could gather from his memories.
From a plump old man with an abdomen as big as a ball, he was now muscular and fit, contours of his six-pack abs showing through his thin silk robe.
His gray hair had turned black, the wrinkles from his forehead and face were gone.
Now, he looked just like a thirty-year-old man.
Four dark tentacles coming out of his body, dipping into the blood pool and smudging dark crimson bloodied marks on his body, gave him an aura of death.
However, Lin Fan didn't have much time to figure out what was behind Master Tan's transformation.
Bai Ti, with one of his legs being held by Master Tan's tentacles, was lifted, with his chest facing toward Master Tan.
Master Tan raised his hand, shaping it as a claw, ready to strike at Bai Ti's chest.
Lin Fan jumped to Master Tan's left, trying to get a better angle to shoot at him.
He immediately armed his bow and aimed at Master Tan.
Sensing his aim, Master Tan turned and stared at him.
A familiar sound erupted in his mind.
[Ding!]
[Detected soul with malevolent intent incoming!]
[Terminate person with malevolent intent for 100 vengeance points.]
Lin Fan was shocked at the vengeance points, two times higher than the Boulder Bear.
However, it was too late now for Lin Fan to back out.
Whoosh!
Lin Fan let go of the bowstring, the arrow flew at Master Tan's head.
A tentacle immediately shot at the arrow, deflecting it away.
The tentacle continued its trajectory, and the next moment it was already in front of Lin Fan's face, striking at his forehead.
Swoosh!
With his Magnificent Leap, Lin Fan jumped further to the left by fifty meters.
"You, Lin Fan! I remember you now. Disrupting my plan for so many times! You shall die here today."
Master Tan, recalling what Lin Fan did earlier, started to get agitated and focused his anger at Lin Fan.
The rest of his three tentacles all shot toward Lin Fan.
Bai Ti, hanging upside down, with his face now red due to the blood flowing to his head, threw his sword at Master Tan.
Master Tan flicked it away and got frustrated with Bai Ti.
He gave Bai Ti a palm strike and using his tentacle threw Bai Ti aside.
Bai Ti tumbled across to Master Tan's right side, like a stone skipping on water, and finally stopped.
Dust filled the air along the trail Bai Ti left.
"Damn you!" Bai Qiao lunged at Master Tan and thrust his sword at him with his twirling wind strike.
Tentacles coming for Lin Fan snapped back and covered Master Tan's body.
Dust formed like a tornado sucked in by the twirling wind strike, but it was not enough to penetrate the tentacles covering Master Tan.
It all died down after a few moments and the tentacles came at Bai Qiao one after another.
Bai Qiao leaped and the first one missed.
But the next tentacle was already waiting.
It shot through Bai Qiao's right arm.
"Argh!" Bai Qiao cried out in pain and dropped his sword.
The other two tentacles aiming at Bai Qiao's head shot at his head.
Suddenly, the tentacles stopped.
Lin Fan used his Magnificent Leap and carried Bai Qiao away.
In the next moment, the tentacles moved again and missed.
One second was all Lin Fan could control with his Leader of the Pack ability for someone as strong as Master Tan.
Both of them fell onto the ground when they landed.
Lin Fan was now out of energy.
The usage of his abilities had drained him out.
Bai Qiao wasn't any better; his arm was bleeding and the flesh around the wound had turned black.
The tentacles were poisonous.
Sensing his consciousness slowly going away, Bai Qiao took out a bottle, popped it open and swallowed a pill from it.
He subsequently passed a pill from it over to Lin Fan.
"Take it, it's the Blood and Qi restoration pill."
Lin Fan swallowed the pill without hesitation; he needed his energy back to use his abilities.
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