Chapter 37: Bullet Time

The most worrying scenario still happened.

Han Kexin quickly calmed down.
She charged forward, grabbed and tore a goblin’s throat, then shouted loudly: “The goblin leader is on its way.
We are not its opponents; let’s retreat first, then we’ll make a plan once Xiao Yu wakes up!!”

After hearing her words, no one dared to linger around, yet the goblins refused to give up.
They grew more agitated when they heard the horn’s sound, actually increasing the frequency and intensity of their attacks and pressing forward step by step.

The battle earlier was too intense, and the human beings fought fiercely against the goblins in melee fights consuming lots of their energy.
But currently, the monsters grew more active as if the horn sound held miraculous powers, causing their might to also grow higher than before, and many were caught in this siege, finding no chance to escape for the time being. 

A shadow crept over everyone’s hearts as they were all aware of how powerful the goblin leader was.
At this point, all they could think about was getting out of there as soon as possible, they had no intention of fighting any longer, and their morale plummeted drastically.
As a result, goblin warriors were impaling several humans to death every few seconds.

Han Kexin spotted a person who was on the verge of evolving and just needed to defeat one or two more elementary monsters to advance.
During his escape, he was besieged by goblins from all sides and ended up dying with three to four short spears embedded in his body.
She couldn’t help but feel heaviness in her heart.
These were the team’s finest elite members.
Under Xiao Yu’s leadership, they turned into surviving warriors who had gone through several life-and-death battles.
Every death now was a huge loss to the entire team.

What would she tell Xiao Yu if they were all dead?

Han Kexin made a decision, gritted her teeth, and resolved herself, “Fight!”

She abandoned her intentions to retreat, waved her right arm, and the strong wolf claw’s winds directly chopped a goblin rushing toward her into pieces.
Right afterward, a goblin warrior surged forward to attack her.
However, Han Kexin’s plump and delicate body was as swift as springs.
And to evade the onslaught, she leapt and flipped over, her slender legs then hooked on the branches of a big tree, and her sharp wolf claw in her dangling arm quickly swung around.
The blood on the monster’s throat bloomed, and it roared in agony before it fell to the ground.

Han Kexin swung her legs, floated higher, and ripped apart another goblin as she dropped down.

Wang Chao witnessed Han Kexin’s heroism with his own eyes while his companions nearby fell one by one.
He, too, couldn’t endure it any longer and bellowed, “Since we can’t run, let’s kill some of them!”

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Jin Shi also made up his mind, stopped, and shouted to the people around him: “we will stall them for a while; you guys run now before it’s too late.” Then he lifted his huge rock fist and blasted into the crowd, directly smashing a goblin slave’s skull to pieces.
The wooden clubs and short spears fell on his rock-strewn arm in retaliation, leaving some small marks and cracks, but they couldn’t cause any serious damage at all.

“eat this!”

Jinshi growled and knocked multiple goblin warriors to the ground with one charge of his shield.

Everyone else took the opportunity to turn around and flee; only Yunyun stayed where she was, unmoved.
At this moment, she felt her heart in turmoil because she knew that she was only half a step away from that level, the realm that she so envied the others for.
She only needed to kill one more goblin warrior; yes! Only one more to achieve evolution.
What Xiao Yu said was not wrong; she could really control her own destiny.
A surge of courage erupted in this slender and beautiful girl.
At this point, she even forgot the threat and fear brought by the goblin leader.
She desired power, so she decided to take the risk and remained for a chance to kill an elementary monster!

Yun Yun lurked by and locked onto a goblin warrior, launching a sneak attack from the side.

This goblin warrior, though, was quite different from the others.
It looked taller and stronger, the short spear in its hand was sharper, and the wooden shield it grasped was much bigger and thicker, with a few spikes on its surface.
If Xiao Yu had been here, he would’ve immediately recognized it to be an elite goblin warrior, which was a very strong elementary monster, twice as powerful as an ordinary goblin warrior!

Once the elite goblin warrior heard a short spear thrusting toward its back, it became enraged, and then it twisted its head fiercely and easily knocked Yun Yun’s spear off.
As soon as it repelled the attack, it shot its hands back, and the short spear it grasped plunged into its assailant instantly.
Yun Yun’s slim and delicate frail body was pierced from the middle of her chest as red liquid gushed out, and the blood-stained spear tip protruded directly from her back.

“H….how?” Yunyun’s eyes widened.
And her beautiful eyes were full of unwillingness while she muttered to herself, “… so close, I was so close.”

“Whoosh!” A whistling noise resounded through the forest.

Everyone was stunned, and as they looked back, they saw a scorching flame shooting throughout the woods, leaving a brilliant trail behind before precisely bombarding the elite goblin warrior’s body, blasting a big hole in its chest.
Yun Yun was also wounded by the strong explosion, but it was this impact that brought her some time and gave her hope for survival.

Yunyun’s chest was pierced through, and the injury in her chest was definitely deadly.
She could only survive for so long, thanks to her strong physique.
She stumbled forward and exerted all of her remaining force to thrust out with a spear attack, stabbing into the severely wounded monster.
The elite goblin warrior couldn’t move away, and its heart was directly pierced through its chest before a massive amount of essence floated up and flew toward her.
Eventually, the energy in her body reached a bottleneck, and it was compressed and burst out.

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Golden silk threads stretched out, instantly wrapping her seriously injured body into a big golden cocoon.
Then, as the threads were gradually covering her vision, she saw a familiar figure not far away at the last moment.
A man who was neither tall nor muscular but was still extremely powerful.
“Xiao Yu…”

She evolved!

Another person in their team was advancing toward the elementary realm!

Han Kexin looked in the direction where the fireball came from, and then she spotted the two figures of Xiao Yu and Jiang Xiaowen.
She couldn’t help showing surprise and joy and shouted, “Xiao Yu, Xiaowen!”

Jiang Xiaowen raised her right hand, waved her green spear, and shouted back: “Teacher Han, Xiao Yu, and I are here to help…” Before she finished speaking, her expression suddenly froze as she noticed an incredibly agile figure leaping out of the trees.
The big machete it held was enveloped by a blue light aura; the monster then dragged its hand back and immediately shot a two feet long blue light, which directly struck Han Kexin.

Jiang Xiaowen shouted: “Teacher Han, watch out!”

Whoosh!

Before Jiang Xiaowen finished speaking, she felt a strong wind blowing by her side.
When she turned her head to look, she was surprised to find that Xiao Yu, who was originally standing by her side just now, was no longer there.
He rushed tens of meters away instantly and at an unimaginably fast speed.
A goblin warrior attempted to stop him, but just as it lifted its short spear, it was cleaved in half by a blade strike with no delay.

How did Xiao Yu make that move?’ 

She couldn’t even see it clearly.

Was this the speed a first-order warrior possesses?

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Her thoughts were racing.

A distance of more than one hundred meters, Xiao Yu, covered it in a blink of an eye, but he was still a bit far.
The goblin leader’s light streak had already been launched, and it was about to chop Han Kexin in half.
He was still at least ten meters away—with a single worry in his mind.

At this rate, I won’t catch up!

At this juncture, Xiao Yu’s eyes of insight had exceeded their limit, and he felt a bang go in his brain as if a bomb had exploded within.
Both of his pupils constricted abruptly, revealing a slew of bloodshot red eyes.

“Bullet time!”

His new innate skill was fully activated.

For a brief while, Xiao Yu’s ears went mute, and he was unable to hear any kind of sound.
He had the strange feeling that his mind had entered into an unheard-of ghostly state.
The feeling as if the whole world was moving away from him… Even his own breathing and heartbeats were not perceptible by his senses anymore, and a strange scene then happened.
The motion of everything around slowed down substantially until the entire world looked like it almost came to a standstill.
Everybody’s expressions were completely frozen, and their actions had slowed from ten to a hundred times, becoming almost completely immobile.

Everything was frozen in time!

Xiao Yu’s body was practically frozen in time and space, yet his thoughts were still racing.
He attempted to move his body, but it seemed like a heavy mountain was pressing down on him, and even moving his fingers required a great deal of effort.
Now, he was in a strange state, and everything around him was quiet.
He felt like a weightless astronaut in an unnatural space, taking one step at a time— one step forward, two steps, three steps…

The machete of the goblin leader in midair was falling at an extremely slow speed, and the cyan light was approaching Han Kexin’s head bit by bit.

Xiao Yu’s eyes dilated.
The redness in them grew rapidly, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his eyelids.
He gritted his teeth as it took all the strength in his body to forcefully swing the weapon that seemed to weigh a thousand catties.
The sharp blade wind slowly rose upwards, greeting the falling cyan blade light, and the two forces collided in midair. 

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Bullet time lifted!

The whole world returned to normal, and Xiao Yu could once again feel his breathing, heartbeats, and all kinds of noises resounding in his ears.
At that instant, an overwhelming force came crashing down against him, causing his hand to hurt.
His wrist must have been sprained as he realized how terrifying the goblin leader’s strength was!

Boom!

Right afterward, the long machete collided with the gray-white blade, and the two beings with first-order strength clashed head-on.
The two huge forces met in midair, creating sparks together, and the center of the clash formed the heart of a hurricane as blasts of harsh breeze continued to erupt in all directions.
The bushes and foliage swayed, and the fallen leaves on the ground were swept into the air and shattered one by one before floating away.

In the eyes of Wang Chao, Jin Shi, and the others, Xiao Yu’s already extremely fast speed suddenly increased by several times, and he moved to Han Kexin’s side almost instantly, swinging his blade to repel the attack of the goblin leader.

It was incredible!

Jiang Xiaowen had her eyes wide with amazement as she exclaimed, “This is nothing short of a miracle!”

Bullet time – Xiao Yu’s new innate skill.
When the eyes of insight are used to their limit, a powerful skill will then be activated.
The effect of the ability is to instantly make the brain’s cognitive and calculating abilities much more powerful than before, all while exerting the biggest impact from the eyes of insight, generating an effect that briefly halts time.
Where his consciousness could roam freely, forcing his body to perform various actions.

This ability was both useful and terrifying.
It is plausible to say that using “bullet time” suddenly while fighting against an individual is akin to pressing the pause button in a game.
Although it only lasted for a short period of time, it was enough to make many twists and turns in that brief period, with the potential of shifting the tide of battle altogether! 

Because to others, it was only a short moment that cannot be discerned, while Xiao Yu perceives a considerable amount of time passing, enough to see all of the opponent’s flaws clearly.
He can also move a few meters forward beyond the limit of his body, breaking through his stationary state and giving others the impression that he is teleporting.

(TN: so the difference is that eyes of insight can make him see things clearly, allowing him to see flaws, dodge, etc.
but still within his body’s capabilities, bullet time can make him see things slower and even move his body, so they are two different skills, but bullet time is still an evolved skill of the eyes of insight.)