Chapter 1364 Deceiving Himself 1364 Deceiving Himself 'Xiao Li, listen to me. While I try to block them, you need to run away as fast as possible.' Tian Yang said to Huang Xiao Li through divine sense. 'What?! No way! I will not leave you here to die alone! If you're going to stay here and fight, so will I!' She immediately rejected his plan. 'Damn it! This isn't the time to be stubborn! I promised to protect you, so just listen to me and let me protect you!' Despite telling her to run away, Tian Yang knew there was essentially no chance he could block them long enough for her to escape and he was only trying to deceive himself. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞 "Do you seriously think you can escape in this situation?" The leader suddenly laughed out loud, almost as if he could hear their conversation. "Why do you want to kill us? We've never done anything to offend you!" Huang Xiao Li shouted. "But you killed several of my men though?" "That's self-defense!" "Then you can consider this as self-defense, too." The leader laughed maniacally. Tian Yang closed his eyes and took a deep breath. 'Xiao Li, I'm sorry.' 'W-Why are you apologizing to me?' 'Because I have failed to keep my promise. I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you.' 'N-Nonsense! We can survive this! Just as we'd survived until now!' Tian Yang didn't respond. "Talking between yourselves again? Go ahead. I'll let you say your goodbyes since I am a good person." The leader said. In the following moment, Tian Yang suddenly moved. However, he didn't move to attack the bandits. He appeared right beside Huang Xiao Li and grabbed her hand. "I love you," he muttered to her in a low and gentle voice. "I lov—" The moment Huang Xiao Li opened her mouth to respond, Tian Yang, using all his strength, tossed her into the air and away from the bandits. "RUN!" He shouted at her. The leader sneered at his pointless attempt and spoke in a commanding tone, "Half of you go hunt that escaped rat." Seeing this, Tian Yang tried his best to block them. However, he wasn't able to block a single one from chasing after Huang Xiao Li. "What can a powerless man like you do?" The leader of the gang blocked Tian Yang from his attempt. "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Tian Yang unleashed all of his cultivation and attacked the leader. "Why struggle when you know it'll be in vain?" The leader casually deflected his attack. The difference between Spirit Lord and Spirit King was like heaven and earth. There was simply no chance for a talentless person like Tian Yang to overcome such a hurdle. However, the leader didn't immediately kill Tian Yang and toyed with him by giving him minor injuries, almost as if the leader wanted his opponent to bleed to death. Many minutes of struggling later, the other bandits returned, and in their grasp was Huang Xiao Li's lifeless body. Tian Yang lost his strength when he saw her corpse. "Oh! Took you guys long enough!" The leader said to them. The bandit carrying her corpse tossed her body onto the ground like trash and said, "The bastard was stronger than expected and even managed to kill two of us." The leader raised an eyebrow when he saw Huang Xiao Li's appearance. "Huh? Who is this woman?" "Ah, she was a woman disguised as a man. We didn't realize it until we killed her." The bandit sighed. "Truly a pity. We could've had so much fun with a beauty like her." The leader shook his head. He continued, "Whatever, I'm sure some of the guys back at the base are into this kind of stuff. Keep her corpse for now." "Roger!" "..." Tian Yang remained frozen, almost as though he had turned into stone, his eyes void of light. "Hey, are you still alive?" The leader suddenly pierced his sword into Tian Yang's stomach. "..." Seeing not even the slightest reaction from Tian Yang, the leader sighed, "How boring." He raised his arm in preparation to behead Tian Yang. Right as the leader pulled his sword back, one of the bandits suddenly screamed in a terrified voice, "Leader! Behind you!" "Huh?" The leader turned around to see a massive ball of flames flying towards them. "What the fu—" BOOM! The ball of flames landed near them, exploding viciously. The leader and half of the bandits there instantly turned to charcoal from the flames while everyone else was blown away by the explosion, including Tian Yang, who barely managed to escape the flames because the leader had stood in front of him and blocked most of it. Unbeknownst to them, the ball of flames had been launched by one of the experts fighting the Colossal. Upon missing its target, the ball of flame disappeared into the horizon and happened to land by Tian Yang. "F-Fuck! The leader's dead!" "Run before another attack comes!" The surviving bandits scrambled away, ignoring Tian Yang, who looked as good as dead anyway. Several days later, someone approached Tian Yang's corpse- like body cautiously. "Wow, how is this bastard still alive with such injuries?" A young man's voice exclaimed in a surprised tone. After a moment of silence, the young man spoke again, "Your determination to live must be quite impressive! I cannot allow such a warrior to die like this!" The young man proceeded to retrieve a vial of an unknown substance and poured it into Tian Yang's mouth. Within moments, the injuries on Tian Yang's body started recovering at a rapid rate. A few minutes later, Tian Yang slowly opened his eyes. When he sensed something next to him, Tian Yang subconsciously attacked. "Get your dirty hands off her, your bastards!" Tian Yang roared. "Whoa!" The young man swiftly evaded his attack and distanced from Tian Yang. "Calm down, buddy. I'm not here to hurt you." After coming to his senses, Tian Yang looked around frantically. "Where are the bandits?! Where's Xiao Li?!" "I haven't seen any bandits, nor do I know who this Xiao Li is." The young man shrugged. "Who are you?" Tian Yang asked the young man with gold- colored hair. "Where are your manners? You should introduce yourself first before asking for another's identity. Whatever, I am in a good mood so I will look past it." "I'm Kulas, what about you?" The young man introduced himself.