Chapter 1035 - 1135: One-Hit Kill

Ye Tianfan knew there were several different versions of the Fire Butcher.

And the records in the documents didn't actually describe the Fire Butcher's specific strength. The first version of the Fire Butcher was like the little Demons in games, with Fire Books everywhere, extremely weak. As long as you killed one Fire Butcher, the other Fire Butchers would flee in terror.

But the memory of these Fire Butchers was like that of a goldfish, only seven seconds. Once they ran a certain distance, it was as if nothing had happened, and they would rush at you again, raising the big cleaver in their hands, trying to kill you!

This was just the first version Ye Tianfan had heard of. The second version said the Fire Butcher was bloodthirsty like a Demon, often slaughtering remote small towns, then using an evil ritual to turn all the townsfolk into delicious blood energy and devouring it completely. This version of the Fire Butcher wasn't considered too strong either, but the more towns it slaughtered, the stronger it became!

Another version of the Fire Butcher said they lived inside a stone stele. Once someone entered their habitat, they would resurrect from within the stele, kill all intruders, then return to the stele to continue resting!

This version of the Fire Butcher was mostly used to guard important things!

There was yet another version of the Fire Butcher, also the last version. It was said they were creatures from beyond the wall, but after adapting to the cultivation world they became Demon Beasts that were half outside the wall and half inside. If they truly took an enemy seriously, their entire body would release a massive amount of Demonic Qi. And this Demonic Qi was different from ordinary Demonic Qi—it would rapidly corrode their enemies.

Looking at the Fire Butcher in front of him, Ye Tianfan ruled out the first version, since that one was a gregarious type, whereas right now there was only a single Fire Butcher before him.

So Ye Tianfan excluded the first possibility. He felt this Fire Butcher was very likely the second or third version, but he hadn't found any stone stele nearby, so the third version was also unlikely!

However, Ye Tianfan also felt the second version was not very likely, because that version of the Fire Butcher mainly relied on fresh blood energy to increase its strength. Yet here, there didn't seem to be any blood energy at all, hardly even any life.

Besides, most importantly, Ye Tianfan did not sense any particularly powerful strength from this Fire Butcher. Yet this Fire Butcher gave him an extremely dangerous feeling, so Ye Tianfan felt its strength should actually surpass his own!

At this moment, Ye Tianfan stared at this Fire Butcher somewhat dazed. The feeling it gave him was that it could be easily wiped out, but the dangerous aura on it made Ye Tianfan's hair stand on end!

But he had already come this far, and Ye Tianfan would not give up on rushing through here. Even if this Fire Butcher gave him an extremely dangerous feeling, Ye Tianfan would not run away. As long as he didn't die, he had ways to recover!

Besides, the Fire Butcher didn't seem to have any technique that could damage someone's foundation. In other words, being injured by a Fire Butcher was mostly external wounds or internal injuries. Such injuries were easy to heal; internal injuries might be a bit troublesome but not too difficult, and external wounds were even simpler!

Ye Tianfan watched the Fire Butcher that had just gotten up. Before it could fully stand, he flashed forward, rushing past the Fire Butcher's side!

Ye Tianfan thought he could take advantage of the moment before the Fire Butcher found its footing to rush past its side and reach that exit, thus avoiding a fight with the Fire Butcher and saving time!

That would also let Ye Tianfan preserve enough Spiritual Power to face the next scene!

But what Ye Tianfan didn't expect was that just as he reached the Fire Butcher's side, his vision went black, and then he saw a sharp streak of light slashing toward him.

Because Ye Tianfan was charging too fast, and that sharp streak of light came so suddenly, he had no way to dodge. So he directly did a clumsy roll, barely managing to avoid it?

Even so, Ye Tianfan was still struck on the arm by that big cleaver!

Then Ye Tianfan quickly retreated, backing off to a short distance and going on guard. He hadn't expected this Fire Butcher to be so fast. It was completely at odds with the impression given by its bulky body!

Moreover, Ye Tianfan could feel that the Fire Butcher's big cleaver was extremely heavy. Just now he had taken that blow head-on. For such a heavy cleaver, the Fire Butcher could still lift it with ease and slash at Ye Tianfan so quickly. This showed that the Fire Butcher's strength was also astonishing!

Right after, while Ye Tianfan was still on guard, he felt a burning pain in his arm, and from the wound there came a searing sensation that followed the meridians of his arm, rushing straight toward Ye Tianfan's Dantian!

Ye Tianfan hurriedly used his Spiritual Power to block that searing aura, but he only managed to slow its advance and could not actually stop it!

And that burning aura could even devour all of Ye Tianfan's Spiritual Power, turning that Spiritual Power into its own, becoming an even stronger searing force!

Ye Tianfan immediately sealed the meridians in his arm, and even used the medical techniques from his previous life, tapping several points on the arm to completely seal off the arm's tendons and veins. Although he temporarily sealed the meridians—

Ye Tianfan had used a "dead seal". This kind of seal would completely block the flow of the meridians, and if it wasn't undone in a short time, all the meridians in that arm would wither and die. At that point, trying to reopen them would be as hard as ascending to heaven, unless he cut off the arm and regenerated a new one!

Right now Ye Tianfan was drenched in cold sweat, staring in some fear at the Fire Butcher still standing where it was. He hadn't expected this Fire Butcher to abolish one of his arms with just a single strike—and it was even him doing it to himself.

The most important thing was that if he didn't cripple this arm, Ye Tianfan felt he would most likely die here directly. Because if he hadn't guessed wrong, that scorching aura from before was Fire Poison. Once Fire Poison invaded the heart, there would be no way to save him. The moment Fire Poison reached the heart would be the moment he was executed!

By then Ye Tianfan would be burned alive, without even a chance to turn around, because the Fire Poison would burn his soul along with his body!

So after weighing the options, Ye Tianfan chose to seal his arm to death.

Losing an arm was better than losing his life!