488: Chapter 146 You Have Fists, I Have a Sword_1 488: Chapter 146 You Have Fists, I Have a Sword_1 He crouched down, following the directions of Qinghuo Qiming and dipped his right hand into the totem pool.
Qinghuo Qiming, now wearing that exaggerated mask again, circled around the totem pool, muttering incantations as he walked.
Jiang Wang still couldn’t understand what he was chanting, but as the ritual proceeded, a faint fiery red mist began to form in the otherwise empty totem pool.
It was extrely thin, but it was there.
Like fish chasing bait, the fiery red mist gathered towards Jiang Wang’s hand, clinging to his palm, climbing upwards, and “swimming” along the surface of his body towards his back with a very specific target in mind.
This fiery red mist was undoubtedly the Totem Power manifesting in the environnt of the totem pool.
Jiang Wang could feel it— with the infusion of the fiery red mist, the fla totem on his back began to emit a slight heat, and then…
That was it.
The sensation stopped at a faint warmth.
Because the fiery red mist in the totem pool had been completely exhausted.
Qinghuo Qiming finished the prayer, removed his mask, his face flushed red—it was unclear whether from overexertion or re embarrassnt.
Jiang Wang gave him a resentful glance.
That was it?
Was this the pure and genuine Totem Power you promised ?
Pure or not, genuine or not, it was certainly too little.
I was just starting to feel sothing!
“You can’t bla for this,” Qinghuo Qiming hurriedly explained.
“How much Totem Power is stored in the totem pool and how it’s used is up to the Clan Leader, not .”
Then a voice ca from outside.
“Yes, don’t bla the Wu Zhu.
If the distinguished visitor from Celestial Sky holds any grievances, I, Qinghuo Gaozhi, will take full responsibility!”
The tall and burly Qinghuo Gaozhi entered the dark room, his expression calm.
“Why has the Clan Leader co?” Qinghuo Qiming quickly went to et him.
“I have brought the Chess players, Chess phase, and Chess Pawns of the Celebrating Fire Division to be reviewed by the Chess player.” Qinghuo Gaozhi said, looking at Jiang Wang: “Honored guest, please forgive the inadequate hospitality of the Qinghuo Tribe.”
“It’s indeed not very considerate,” Jiang Wang said bluntly, but he didn’t linger on the issue of the amount of Totem Power.
Instead, he went straight to the point: “Show the people.”
“They are outside,” said Qinghuo Gaozhi.
Qinghuo Qiming looked at him with so surprise.
Being outside ant that these people didn’t even qualify to enter the temple of fire.
One could imagine their strength.
The three of them left the temple of fire again.
Outside the fire temple, sixteen people stood.
Sixteen people, on the verge of turning into wood, with wrinkles deep enough to catch flies, all trembling and seemingly as if a gust of wind could blow them down in a single go.
Jiang Wang turned to Qinghuo Gaozhi: “Have you given up?”
“How could we?” Qinghuo Gaozhi said.
“Though these people are a bit old, they are all battle-hardened warriors!”
Indeed, seasoned soldiers are a hundred tis better than recruits.
But seasoned soldiers shouldn’t be old n.
In a life-and-death chess ga where Totem Power is forbidden, for an ordinary person, the adage that the young and strong are to be feared is the truth.
Jiang Wang kept a neutral expression on his face and asked, “Are you trying to tell that I shouldn’t have signed that contract with you?
That I’ve made the wrong choice, that I’ve misjudged people, huh?”
His tone had beco stern.
Among the many tribes of Floating Land, he truly didn’t have to rely on the Qinghuo Tribe.
Even if it ant fighting for a spot, it wasn’t like he couldn’t get one.
Aside from a few people like Lei Zhanqian, who could stop him?
Qinghuo Gaozhi’s face showed sha; indeed, he hadn’t handled this matter properly.
But he still said, “Totem Power can’t be used in the life-and-death chess ga, so it’s almost useless there.
Our warriors are struggling in the town guard with insufficient Totem Power supplies.
Though it’s regrettable, there’s nothing more we can do.”
If it weren’t for the fact that visitors from Celestial Sky needed Totem Power to “deceive” the chess ga, he would’ve been even less willing to provide that little bit of Totem Power.
“What about these n?” Jiang Wang asked.
“Are you asking to compete in the chess ga with them?”
“It’s again the issue with guarding the town,” Qinghuo Gaozhi said.
“The Qinghuo Tribe has diocre strength, and it’s difficult to hold our ground in the town guard.
Most of our young and strong warriors are rotating there.
Only these warriors are left…”
“Can be used as cannon fodder, saving your tribe’s provisions, right?” Jiang Wang interrupted him.
The sixteen elders, their expressions all very calm, apparently had long known what they would face and were sufficiently prepared psychologically.
From Qinghuo Qiming’s mouth, it was known that the red lines on the faces of the Qinghuo Tribe people represented the external manifestation of the Totem Power levels.
With eight red lines on his face, Qinghuo Gaozhi’s strength was undoubtedly the greatest in the Celebrating Fire Division.
But these elders had nothing on their faces.
Qinghuo Gaozhi didn’t obfuscate and said directly, “They are not being sent to their deaths, but rather to fill the places and make up the numbers entering the Chess phase of life and death.
Of course, if you can keep them alive, that would be best.
If not, it’s their fate.
Our Qinghuo Division needs to survive, we can no longer let the young and strong make this sacrifice.”
As a Clan Leader, his words demonstrated helplessness.
From this conversation, it was clear that the living environnt of the Qinghuo Tribe was even harsher than imagined.
But as long as Qinghuo only mixed in a dozen or so nas, they would be satisfied.
Once they reached the level of Chess player, their mission would be accomplished.
They lacked ambition, but Jiang Wang could not afford this attitude.
He had co to this world deliberately after achieving his goal, not to be the last one standing, not to mingle with the Qinghuo Tribe as a re Chess Pawn.
“What if I say that I could help you fight for victory?” Jiang Wang asked.
He emphasized, “I’m talking about fighting for victory, not ranking sixteenth, seventeenth, or eighteenth.”
Qinghuo Gaozhi’s spirit instantly perked up, “Among these visitors from the Celestial Sky, you have the strength to take first place?”
Those who ca from above the Celestial Sky often knew each other and understood each other’s strength, a fact that he wouldn’t question.
Jiang Wang confidently said, “I dare not claim first place.
I am absolutely confident of the top five.”
His words were full of vigor and indeed not false.
Qinghuo Gaozhi looked at him, still sowhat hesitant, “Historically, the visitors from the Celestial Sky who co later are always inferior to those who arrive earlier.”
“It’s simple.” Jiang Wang said with ease, “You have fists, I have a sword.
Why not try it out firsthand?”
He was not only giving the Qinghuo Tribe confidence, but also aiming to understand the cultivation system of the Floating Land and gauge the strength of the Qinghuo Tribe, achieving multiple objectives in one action.
Qinghuo Gaozhi laughed, obviously very satisfied with Jiang Wang’s response.
“Right now then?”
“Right now.”
Qinghuo Gaozhi’s smile disappeared and without any more pleasantries.
With a straightforward and clean direct punch, he aid it at Jiang Wang’s chest.
Jiang Wang simply raised his hand and used the sheath of the Divine Dragon Wood sword to et Qinghuo Gaozhi’s fist.
He wanted to first test the man’s strength.
The mont the sword sheath touched the fist, Jiang Wang realized he was overpowered and imdiately switched his energy from resistance to using the montum, gracefully flying back.
As he flew backward, the sword sheath cut across like an eyebrow.
Taking advantage of the montum, he drew his sword, and the blade sang!
A cold light flashed, slicing before him like the rise of a new moon.
Without any visible move, Qinghuo Gaozhi’s fist suddenly turned into fire.
It wasn’t clothed in fla nor was it a blindness spell.
With his exceptional perception of fire elental force, Jiang Wang could clearly sense that Qinghuo Gaozhi’s fist had lost its flesh and blood, becoming fire itself!
The sword passed, but the fire remained.
This fiery fist struck towards the face.
Jiang Wang held a palm up in front of him, and a fla flower blood in his palm, touching Qinghuo Gaozhi’s fiery fist.
The expected explosion did not occur.
Before he could control the fla flower to burst open, it dissolved ahead of ti.
Jiang Wang felt a sudden “consciousness” born within the fire elental force he controlled, sabotaging just right, causing the fla flower to collapse.
Boom boom boom boom boom.
Jiang Wang’s body, like a fla teor, exploded.
At that mont, Qinghuo Gaozhi’s fiery fist suddenly unfurled its five fingers, grasped in the air, and pulled down sharply!
The rapidly fleeing fla teor instantly stopped its escape, beginning to plumt uncontrollably!
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