Chapter 46: The Mysterious Old Man

  "Your attack is not bad, but it's still too early to deal with me. Even your master Tansan was unable to do anything to me. Do you think you can kill me?" Ha Tian stood proudly, his eyebrows filled with strong confidence.

  It wasn't until then that the white-robed elder remembered that in these three years, even his master, Tansan Jiu Xing Jian Huang, was unable to do anything about Hai Tian, let alone him, a small Sword King.

  "I didn't expect that in just three short years, you would grow to this extent. If I had known earlier, I should have killed you at the beginning." The old man in white was filled with regret, but now it's too late to say anything.

  "Do you still want to come and kill me now?" Ha Tian asked with a smile that was not quite a smile.

  The old man in white shook his head: "No, I couldn't kill you anyway. Just now when you continued to use that method of suddenly appearing and disappearing, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to touch you. Continuing to fight would just be a waste of sword energy."

  The old man in white was still quite self-aware, although he didn't understand why Haitian hadn't dodged his previous move and instead took it head-on. But judging from Haitian's previous technique, he knew he couldn't do anything to him. He wouldn't do anything useless.

  Seeing the white-robed old man give up his attack on himself, Hai Tian finally let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

  Suddenly, his face turned quite strange and he quickly escaped into the underground.

  "Wait a minute, Patriarch Pa Li! We'll talk about this later!" Hai Tian's voice came from afar, leaving everyone present at a loss.

  "Senior, what's going on with Haitian..." asked Pali in confusion.

  The old man in white robes sneered, "Although he withstood my strongest blow just now, it's already not bad that he can still stand. If I'm right, he must have been seriously injured and was about to be overwhelmed by his internal injuries, which is why he ran away to find a quiet place to treat his wounds immediately."

  "So you're saying he's lost his ability to fight now?" Parry's eyes lit up instantly.

  The old man in white scanned Parry with a glance, instantly understanding the thoughts in his mind. Thinking of Hai Tian's situation on Jianlan Mountain, he suddenly shook his head: "I know you want to take advantage of Hai Tian's injuries to kill him, but I advise you not to do so."

  "Why?" Parry was taken aback, never expecting the old man in white to stop him.

  "Even if he is seriously injured, it's not something you can capture. I advise you to dispel this idea as soon as possible. Once his anger is aroused, the entire Saru family may cease to exist." The old man in white said and left immediately.

  As the Sword King, he clearly felt the horror of Haitian's move, and he also found that Haitian didn't release even a bit of sword spirit energy, and his sword sense couldn't detect it at all.

  In conjunction with that sudden appearance and disappearance of sword technique, even the Sword King may not be able to withstand it. Moreover, he has no personal grudge against Haitian, but only wants to kill him for the sake of his sect's reputation.

  Realizing he couldn't kill Haitian, he gave up decisively.

  But Parri was different; Hai Tian had killed his eldest son, how could he be willing to give up?

  Seeing the old man in white clothes leave quickly, Pari's gaze gradually cooled down. If Hai Tian didn't die, then they would always have to be on tenterhooks; he extremely disliked this feeling.

  "Gather all of you! Search the entire Blackstone City, we must find Haitian! Once found, report to me immediately." Pa Li gave the order coldly.

  "Yes!" The guards of the Salu family instantly dispersed in all directions, searching for Haitian.

  At this time, Hai Tian had only escaped a short distance underground before crawling back up. The sword spirit energy within his body was almost depleted and he could no longer continue to use the Five Elements Escape Technique.

  Covering his chest, Haitian coughed up a mouthful of thick blood phlegm, and his face turned even paler.

  "No wonder he's the Sword King, his attack power is incredibly strong." Hai Tian revealed a wry smile, lowering his head to glance at his chest, where the yellow high-grade battle armor was also starting to shatter.

  If it weren't for the protection of this armor, Haitian would have been killed just now.

  Originally, Hai Tian wanted to retreat immediately to treat his injuries, but he couldn't stand the arrogant appearance of the white-robed old man, so he rushed up again, just to severely strike down that white-robed old man.

  But just now, after suppressing it for a moment, the internal injuries became even more severe.

  The whirlpool in his dantian actually showed signs of dissipating, and Hai Tian understood that he had been too impulsive this time. Once the whirlpool dissipated, all the sword spirit energy he had cultivated for over three years would be lost.

  "Hurry! Find that kid quickly, the clan leader said to report immediately after finding him." Just then, a panicked cry suddenly came from the street not far away.

  The sea and sky were shocked, and he hid behind a small house. His sword sense spread out instantly, and he found that the person who had just spoken was actually the sword master of the Salu family.

  And by his side were many guards of the Salu family, most of whom were swordsmen.

  "Are they here to catch me?" Hai Tian's mind turned, and he immediately realized that Pali was trying to take advantage of his serious injury to kill him. "Despicable guy, hasn't he learned his lesson yet?"

  A commotion broke out on the main street, and more than a dozen guards from the Salu family passed by the house in front of Haitian, all searching around.

  "Come and take a look in this alley, quickly!" The swordsman suddenly ordered several swordsmen to enter the alley where Haitian was hiding to search.

  "Damn it!" Ha Tian carefully hid his body, his current sword spirit power was not much, and he could no longer use the Five Elements Escape Technique.

  Even if he could kill these few swordsmen now, he would definitely provoke more guards to come, and at that time, no matter how powerful he was, he would not be able to escape.

  "What to do?" Hai Tian was anxious and turned around in circles. He regretted his impulsive behavior earlier, which had almost pushed him into a desperate situation.

  Several swordsmen cautiously entered the alley, which was not very long but looked extremely dilapidated. Those swordsmen all furrowed their brows, seemingly reluctant to enter such an environment.

  The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Hai Tian's heart was almost in his throat.

  Suddenly! Haitian found that his right hand was actually held by someone, and he immediately gathered the remaining sword spirit power. However, when he turned around, he found that the person holding his right hand was actually the little boy he had saved on the street earlier.

  "You..." Hai Tian didn't even have time to speak, when the little boy pointed behind him.

  Haitian immediately understood and followed the little boy as he moved backwards, and when he turned around the corner, he found that there was actually a door here.

  The footsteps were getting closer and closer, Hai Tian didn't have time to speak, and directly entered the room with that little boy.

  At this time, those guards also arrived at the place where Hai Tian was hiding earlier, but they didn't find any trace of him. They nodded to each other and quickly left afterwards.

  Jian Zhen noticed that the few swordsmen were getting farther and farther away, and Hai Tian's heart finally relaxed.

  "Little brother, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have had a tough time getting through this today." Hai Tian smiled and patted the little boy's head, he hadn't expected that just a day after saving this little boy, he was actually rescued by him in return.

  "Big brother, I recognize those guys' clothes, they're all bad people from the Saru family." The little boy clenched his small fist tightly, "My parents were killed by them, one day, I will definitely avenge them."

  "Huh?" Hai Tian didn't expect this little boy to have such a story on him.

  "Hey young man, is your injury okay?" Suddenly, a hoarse voice entered Haitian's ears.

  Haitian was shocked and raised his head, only to find that there was another person in this small room. The person's face looked extremely old, with fish-tail wrinkles all over his forehead.

  A long silver hair scattered on the shoulder, both arms looked extremely weak, and it was not an exaggeration to describe them as bony.

  "Grandpa!" The little boy affectionately threw himself into the old man's arms.

  The old man also fondly touched the little boy's forehead, his eyes filled with kindness. Haitian originally thought this was just an ordinary old man, but his sword sense discovered that this old man's soul power was abnormally strong, far exceeding that of ordinary people.

  It seemed as if he had sensed the inquiry of the sea and sky, so the old man raised his head to gaze at the sea and sky. A strange glint flashed in his eyes: "Youngster, stop investigating, I'm just an ordinary old man now."

  When his face was pierced, Hai Tian felt a bit embarrassed, but he also raised doubts in his heart. He wanted to ask, but the injuries in his body had become more severe.

  "Little one, if you don't hurry up and heal, I'm afraid your whirlpool sea will disperse." The old man said suddenly with a frown.

  As soon as he heard this, Hai Tian's gaze towards the old man became even more astonished. His sword sense clearly told him that there was not a single thread of sword energy on the old man's body, but how did the old man see through his internal situation?

  One after another question came flooding in, but Hai Tian didn't have time to think about these now, the situation inside his body had become urgent.

  Hurry up and sit down, Hai Tian's mind sank into the dantian, the swirling vortex sea slowed down more and more, and the sword spirit inside also showed signs of dispersing.

  Taking a deep breath, Ha Tian's body was like a black hole, frantically absorbing the nearby heavenly spiritual energy.

  In Haitian's body, those heavenly spiritual energies all transformed into sword spirit power and were supplemented by Haitian to the Swirling Sea.

  Under the deliberate promotion of Haitian, the rotating speed of the whirlpool finally stopped slowing down and slowly increased. The refined sword spirit power spread from the whirlpool to all parts of Haitian's body.

  Every inch of muscle beneath him had the power of sword spirit flowing through it, and originally slender Haotian looked more and more robust, full of explosive power.

  After losing the sword spirit, Hai Tian discovered that he was able to manipulate the sword spirit's power more quickly. Ordinary people had to use the sword spirit to absorb the sword spirit's power from the whirlpool sea in order to perform sword techniques.

  However, Hai Tian was able to skip this step and directly extract the sword spirit energy from the Whirlpool Sea to perform his sword techniques, which saved him a lot of time compared to others.

  Just no sword spirit, what will the future cultivation become? This made Haitian somewhat worried.

  After a brief recovery, Haitian finally suppressed the injuries in his body. Although he had not fully recovered yet, ordinary battles were no longer a problem.

  As soon as he opened his eyes, Hai Tian stared at the old man in front of him with a faint smile: "What are you?"

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