Chapter Fifty-Seven: Brotherly Love

  It wasn't just a light rain, everyone present was stunned.

  No one had expected that a mysterious youth who suddenly ran out would say the word "death" to the most outstanding genius of the Gao Yu Mercenary Group in front of so many people.

  The atmosphere was awkward for a while, but suddenly everyone burst out laughing. Hai Tian looked even smaller than Rui Ka, and yet he wanted to kill him - this was simply a huge joke.

  Even Rika herself was amused by Haitian's words: "Little kid, haven't you woken up yet? Do you know who I am?"

  "You have one second left, you can choose to die or disappear!" Haitian coldly glanced at Rika and ignored her mockery.

  Rui Ka didn't expect Hai Tian to be so uncooperative, and just as he was about to severely punish Hai Tian, Hai Tian turned his body around, took out the Huo Yun Sword from his storage ring: "You won't leave, then you can only die!"

  As they spoke, a surge of sword energy suddenly burst out from the red fire cloud sword in Haitian's hand, and the fiery sword spirit instantly ignited, flying straight towards Ruika amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd.

  At this time, Rika was completely stunned. He didn't think that Haitian's words were actually true. The vast sword intent made him feel like he had nowhere to hide, and he couldn't move at all.

  Seeing Rica almost dying at the hands of Haitian, Shen Yushu, who had been standing still in the back, became anxious. He let out a cold hum and shot out a powerful white sword spirit energy from his palm, directly confronting Haitian's Huoyun Sword.

  "Hahahaha..." Two sword spirits were fiercely entwined in mid-air, their ear-piercing screams making everyone present react instantly. This was no joke, but reality!

  "Has this kid gone mad? He actually dares to fight with the captain!" The mercenaries of the Gao Xiong Mercenary Corps were all shocked, staring at Hai Tian. Most of them were much older than Hai Tian, but none of them dared to fight Shen Yu Shu.

  After being repeatedly reminded by others, Rika finally came to her senses, touched the back of her shirt, and found that it had already been soaked with sweat. Only now did she feel that she had just walked a circle around the gates of hell.

  "What kind of person is he? How can he put such immense pressure on me?" Rika fumed inwardly.

  The Ice and Fire Mercenary Corps were also shocked, especially Xiaoyu, who knew Shen Yushu's strength well. He was afraid that Haitian would not be a match for him, so he hastily called out to the Western Creek team leader: "Team Leader, quickly save Tian Ge, he is definitely no match for Shen Yushu."

  "Little Rain, is he your own brother?" Commander Xike didn't go to rescue him and instead asked back.

  Although Xiao Yu didn't know what the commander meant, he shook his head and said: "He's my elder brother, in our family, we get along best with each other. Commander, Tian Ge is about to collapse, you'd better hurry up and save him."

  "No rush. Xiao Yu, you're really worried sick. Can't you see that your Tian Ge hasn't fallen behind at all? Although his own strength isn't great, the Xuanjie sword in his hand has withstood most of the pressure." Commander Xi Ke was extremely surprised in his heart.

  Xiao Yu, this day Ge is truly mysterious, not only extremely bold, daring to directly attack Shen Yushu, the leader of the Gao Xiong mercenary group, whom he didn't even have confidence in defeating, and his hand also holds a Xuanjie sword that even he doesn't possess.

  Perhaps it was the reminder of Commander Xike that Xiaoyu looked towards the scene where Haitian and Shen Yushu were confronting each other, only to discover that Haitian was tightly gripping a fiery red long sword.

  "This is Huoyun Sword! Brother Tian actually took it back!" Xiaoyu immediately exclaimed in surprise, while still worrying about Haitian, "Brother Tian, are you okay?"

  At this time, although Hai Tian couldn't move, he had heard every word that Xiao Yu and Commander Xi Ke said. He was deeply moved and even more determined to protect Xiao Yu well.

  "Little Rain, don't worry! He's just a three-star swordmaster, he can't even kill me!" Ha Tian's face had a hint of cold smile, his eyes slightly narrowed, as if he hadn't gone all out yet.

  After hearing Hai Tian's words, Shen Yushu's face changed in an instant: "You little brat, although I don't know where you got that Xuanjie sword from, but I clearly feel that your strength is far inferior to mine. If you want to die, I'll fulfill your wish."

  As he spoke, Shen Yushu's other hand also rose, and the palm of his hand once again emitted a terrifying sword spirit energy.

  "Be careful, Tian Ge!" Xiaoyu saw the situation and immediately shouted loudly in tension.

  In fact, without Xiaoyu's reminder, Haitian had already noticed Shen Yushu's movements. With a cold laugh, his figure immediately dived underground, but in the eyes of the crowd, Haitian suddenly disappeared.

  "What about him? Where did that kid go?" Haitian's sudden disappearance left everyone stunned, especially Shen Yushu, who began searching around but still couldn't find Haitian.

  The surging sword spirit lost its target and went straight in the predetermined direction, Xike slightly furrowed his brow, there were still many of his team members over there. He let out a cold hum and immediately dodged out, also swinging out a palm to completely neutralize the sword spirit released by Shen Yushu.

  "Old Shen! I hope you don't get too smart for your own good, or else I wouldn't mind joining forces with this young brother to attack. If that palm had succeeded in striking just now, many of the Ice Fire Mercenary Corps members would have been injured. As the leader, Xie Ke naturally wasn't pleased and could see Shen Yushu's intentions, so he deliberately issued a warning here."

  Seeing his own tricks being exposed, Shen Yushu's face was somewhat unsightly. But what he cared more about was Hai Tian's whereabouts, and he had already probed it out earlier - Hai Tian's strength was still a big gap away from his, as long as he used the sword to identify him, that would be enough.

  With a confident smile, Shen Yu's sword intent immediately spread out, but he soon discovered that his sword intent had not detected any trace of Hai Tian.

  "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" To know that a sword master's sword sense can also be tens of meters in diameter, how could Haitian run so far in such a short instant.

  "It must be that I missed something! It must be like this!" Unbelieving, Shen Yushu once again used his sword to investigate thoroughly, but the result was the same as before, and he still didn't find any trace of Haitian.

  "What's going on? Why didn't my Sword Intent detect that kid?" Shen Yushu was shocked, his mouth agape as he couldn't speak. He had just clearly felt that Haitian's strength was inferior to his, but now he suddenly couldn't detect him.

  It's not just Shen Yu Shu, Xike is also the same.

  When he felt Shen Yu's sword intent spreading out, he already understood the meaning of Shen Yu's words. Similarly, he spread his own sword intent to search for Hai Tian's trail, but still didn't find Hai Tian.

  The whole street was silent, with both sides staring at each other.

  Ordinary team members still thought their captain was seriously searching for Haitian, but they were probably unaware that with their captain's ability, they couldn't find any trace of Haitian.

  Stillness, still a vast stillness.

  At this time, the sea and sky were no longer in another place, but happened to be on that piece of land under Shen Yu's feet. The sword master was indeed a sword master, he had just consumed too much sword spirit power, now he must hurry up and recover, as for Shen Yu above, let him wait for now.

  Time was ticking away second by second, Shen Yu and Xike were staring at each other with wide eyes, both of them could see the astonishment in each other's eyes.

  A teenager in his teens was able to disappear from under their eyelids without a trace, which is really unthinkable.

  Underground, Haitian was rushing to recover his sword spirit power. After losing the sword spirit, Haitian's speed of recovering his sword spirit power had increased significantly compared to before, and the speed of transforming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was also unprecedented.

  The battles of the past few days have caused his sword spirit energy to be constantly consumed and replenished, which seems to be beneficial for his cultivation. At least he has found that his cultivation is much faster than in his previous life.

  However, just as Hai Tian was about to come out, he suddenly felt that the vortex in his body had accelerated its rotation speed, and more and more heavenly spiritual energy began to crazily surge towards his body.

  "It's actually going to break through at this time!" Haitian himself didn't expect that he would start breaking through.

  He hastily sat down cross-legged and carefully adjusted the sword's spiritual energy. If one adjustment was off, it could cause the sword's spiritual energy to lose control, leading to an explosion of the vortex within his body.

  By then, Hai Tian would be crippled even if he didn't die.

  To avoid such a situation, Hai Tian carefully guided the sword spirit energy in his body and completely withdrew his own sword consciousness. The situation on the ground was something he wouldn't deal with for the time being.

  The long silence of Haitian made the people on the ground gradually lose their patience, especially Shen Yushu, who thought that Haitian had probably escaped.

  "Xī Kè, that kid is probably gone already. Shall we continue our duel from earlier?" Shen Yu Shu fixed his gaze on Xī Kè, this was a crucial battle that would determine which of the two mercenary groups could stay in Yangguang Town.

  Xī Kè hesitated for a moment, seeing that Hǎi Tiān still hadn't appeared, and then nodded: "Alright, so our side will still have Xiǎo Yǔ fight, and your side is still Ruì Kǎ?"

  "This is natural! Rica, it's your turn!" Shen Yushu nodded and immediately called out to Rica.

  However, what surprised him was that Rika didn't respond to him. This made him call out again: "Rika, what are you doing? Didn't you hear me?"

  "Huh?" Rika came to under the reminder of her companion beside her, "Sorry."

  "Hmph! Sorry, we'll talk about it later. For now, let's continue where we left off in the battle." Shen Yushu said coldly.

  Rui Ka nodded and walked a few steps forward, but as soon as he saw Xiao Yu's eyes, he couldn't help but think of Hai Tian's fierce and intimidating gaze from earlier, the feeling of being completely seen through made him feel extremely uneasy.

  Xiaoyu was also very worried about Haitian's safety at this time, and he had not appeared for such a long time, definitely something was wrong, his face showed some anxiety.

  "Alright, let's get the third battle started quickly!" With Sieg's order, the fight began once again.

  However, unexpectedly, neither Xiaoyu nor Rika made the first move, as if they both had something on their minds.

  "What are you still standing there for, you idiot? Hurry up and get over here, kill that little brat!" Shen Yushu shouted in anger from behind, seeing Rui Ka's stunned expression.

  Scolded by Shen Yu's words, Rui Ka gritted her teeth and let out a low growl. With a flick of her right hand, the palm suddenly turned bright red, and a surge of sword spirit energy burst forth.

  At this time, Xiaoyu was still thinking about Haitian's situation with his head down, and he didn't notice that the other side had already launched a preemptive attack.

  Xiqi beside him shouted loudly: "Xiayu! Counterattack quickly!"

  Having been called out like that, Xiaoyu also reacted immediately, but it was already too late by then. Rika's red sword energy had already reached right in front of Xiaoyu's eyes.

  "Damn it!" Xike cursed under his breath, just as he was about to rush out to rescue Xiaoyu, but was stopped by Shen Yushu.

  "What do you want to do? You're not thinking of breaking the rules, are you?"

  "YOU!" Xike glared at Shen Yushu with a huff.

  The red sword spirit instantly hit Xiaoyu, producing a fierce explosion sound, and the smoke and dust flew into the sky.

  "Xiaoyu!" Xike exclaimed, for Xiaoyu was the most talented swordsman of their Ice and Fire Mercenary Group, yet he was about to fall here.

  Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the smoke and dust: "Don't worry, with me here, Xiaoyu will be absolutely fine!"

  "Who are you?" Not only Xi Ke, but also Shen Yushu was stunned at this moment. No one had expected that someone would suddenly appear at this time.

  The smoke gradually dispersed, and people outside could see that a young man was holding Xiaoyu behind him, his clothes covered in dust from the explosion.

  "Brother Tian! Thank you!" Xiaoyu said with a sob, seeing Haitian blocking in front of her.

  No, the young man who just saved Xiaoyu is Haitian. He had just made a breakthrough and immediately sensed that Xiaoyu was in danger, so he rushed over using his Earth Escape Technique. If he had been a moment later, Xiaoyu would probably have become a soul in the afterlife.

  Chong Nian patted Xiao Yu's shoulder and a happy smile appeared on Hai Tian's face: "Who made us brothers? If I don't protect you, who will?"

  "Brother!" Xiaoyu muttered a few words to himself, suddenly lifted his head and laughed loudly, "Right, Tian Ge, we are brothers!"