Chapter 127: The Fate Calculator Was Bad At Math
The first time Shen Kai learned to appreciate the frequent backstabbing from his peers in the sect was when he had survived his first-ever ambush, solely relying on an instinct honed through suffering surprise attacks.
Today was no different. Because of that extensive past experience, he had been careful enough to lock his senses on the trio who had hid behind him and launched the attacks. Otherwise, it would have been quite difficult to evade all the spells in time.
The confused cultivators saw their spells hitting nothing but thin air, completely missing the target. The moment the effects of the spells wore off, a dark shadow popped out from behind one of the four cultivators near his original position.
Before the cultivator could react, Shen Kai’s hand hit the back of his head with the hilt of a dagger. The force behind the hit knocked him out instantly, making his body go limp in Shen Kai’s arms.
Three more flashy spells whizzed toward Shen Kai while two silent spells were sent toward the ground and the sky. Shen Kai’s shadowy figure had vanished by the time the first spells reached his position.
But while he tried to appear behind another cultivator, he found the air around him suddenly becoming heavy as a rock and his feet refusing to leave the ground like a magnet stuck on a large metallic object.
Cursing silently, Shen Kai executed another technique and spread a disturbance among the qi fuelling the spells binding him. The attraction force of the ground loosened for half a second, and he took that chance to vanish off again.
This time taking a defensive measure, he reappeared behind the cultivator he had knocked unconscious earlier and raised his body up as a shield. His dagger snaked toward the cultivator’s neck and pressed on the skin there.
"If you don’t want him to die, you should reconsider your stance. If I detect another spell activating, you’ll be carrying his corpse back to your sect," Shen Kai said while backing up in a safer direction.