The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1042: Widow

Gao Yang’s keen six senses picked up on the minute warning signs around him—Heavenly Dog’s power move, Spatial Shards!

Although Qilin had ordered Heavenly Dog to seek out Qing Ling, he could still extract Spatial Dissection for his own use. Moreover, he had hidden a small amount of poisonous wind in the distorting space.

Qilin doesn’t care about War Tiger’s safety if it means killing me!

He knew War Tiger alone wouldn’t kill me. This has always been his plan!

Midair, Gao Yang was exchanging blows with War Tiger a few dozen times per second. He barely had time to teleport away on his own, let alone think about saving War Tiger.

Shit!

Gao Yang had no other choice. His eyes flashed with a gray-blue light.

Spirit Domain!

Instantly, the world around Gao Yang’s twenty-meter radius turned a strange gray-blue. Swathes of light particles hovered in the air like a strange beaded curtain without strings. War Tiger slowed down by two-thirds. While he was still a blur of motion in regular people’s eyes, to Gao Yang, it looked as if he was in slow motion.

The shattering space and the creeping poisonous wind, too, were slowed.

Sorry, Uncle Tiger!

Gao Yang easily dodged the downward swing and twirled his long blade to slice the tendon in War Tiger’s right wrist.

War Tiger’s grip around the Green Dog Demon Blade loosened. The blood splattered in slow motion in Gao Yang’s eyes.

While disarming War Tiger, Gao Yang conjured golden energy from under his feet. It moved tremendously fast relative to everything else.

War Tiger didn’t stop attacking. His left hand reached toward his waist to draw his short sword. Gao Yang seized it before he could.

Realizing that he was a step too slow once more, War Tiger still didn’t give up. His great experience and instinct compelled him to knock his head hard against Gao Yang’s.

If War Tiger hadn’t been slowed down, Gao Yang would’ve been caught off guard.

With a short teleportation, Gao Yang appeared right behind War Tiger, locking his neck and stabbing at his forehead with the shortsword in a backhanded grip.

The blade cut into the embedded green vertical eye; it didn’t simply break the skin and flesh, but reached the bone.

Gao Yang had to go that deep to make sure that he destroyed Lonesome Emperor’s brand. At the same time, a small impenetrable Absolute Barrier had formed around him and War Tiger.

All that took only a second.

A second later, the space around them shattered into pieces covered in brown spots, while Gao Yang and War Tiger remained intact inside the barrier.

War Tiger, having his forehead stabbed, lost consciousness, breaking free of Puppeteer’s control. Without delay, Gao Yang extracted the dagger from War Tiger’s abdomen and administered an adrenaline shot and Medicine C.

Qilin’s green eyes darkened as he watched everything play out from a short distance.

It would seem to mundane eyes that a glitch had occurred. The flurry of slashes was suddenly gone, and then the two men were put in a golden barrier without warning.

But Qilin had seen it: in that second, Gao Yang had sped up and done what should’ve taken him three seconds to do.

Time-Space Spirit.

Gao Yang must have acquired Time-Space Spirit and very likely reached level 7 with it. The strange disappearance and reappearance must have been a forced time travel.

Qilin knew about Gao Yang’s chance meeting with Huai Wei, so he immediately came to the conclusion.

Meanwhile, the golden barrier slowly made a landing. Inside, War Tiger remained unconscious in Gao Yang’s arms.

Gao Yang laid him down, picking up the Green Dog Demon Blade and looking at Qilin through the golden barrier.

Qilin met Gao Yang’s eyes. At the same time, numerous puppets returned to Qilin’s side like the loyal soldiers they were.

They held each other’s gaze for three seconds on the quiet street under the dim moonlight.

Clink.

Gao Yang vanished. The golden barrier alone scattered into energy particles.

He had used Teleportation the moment he dissolved the Absolute Barrier, dodging the poisonous wind circling the barrier.

...

Water screen theater near the eastern entrance, Green Lotus Park.

Qing Ling stood by the fountain with her Tang Dao, eyes possessed and glinting green. She kept muttering, “Go, don’t mind me... Live...”

“Qing Ling!”

Zhang Wei was drenched in sweat after rushing all the way here. “Wake up! Stop dreaming! Wake up!”

Qing Ling didn’t react.

Zhang Wei had the experience of waking Gao Yang, so he immediately launched into a verbal barrage. “Qing Ling! Gao Yang’s dying! Save him!”

Qing Ling’s eyebrows twitched.

Zhang Wei perked up. It’s working!

“Qing Ling, it’s Gao Yang. I’m dying! I’m a mess. I don’t wanna die. Wake up and save me!”

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Qing Ling didn’t react at all.

Zhang Wei paused before slapping himself. Brother Yang would never say that! It’s too fake! Not even I would fucking buy it. This is Qing Ling!

“Ahem.” Zhang Wei cleared his throat and thought back to how Gao Yang usually talked.

Then he heard something flying above his head.

He turned around to see Heavenly Dog rushing their way.

Shit, there’s no time! Heavenly Dog could kill me like a bug!

“Fuck!”

Zhang Wei suddenly had an idea. He drew one of the Butterfly Twin Blades from Qing Ling’s sheath and stabbed at his thigh. Blood gushed out.

Sensing the injury, the golden energy concentrated into a spot on his forehead unfurled into a small Absolute Barrier, holding both him and Qing Ling.

“Agh, it hurts! It fucking hurts...”

Zhang Wei cast the blade aside and held onto his bleeding thigh.

Enduring the pain, he shouted at her, “Wake up, Qing Ling! Or your husband’s really gonna die! You’re gonna be a fucking widow!”