“Hey! You crazy girl!”
Caught by surprise, Ji Hao fell hard on the ground. He threw a glance at that dagger; its surface was blue and sparkling; obviously, it had been dipped in some kind of poisonous liquid. Ji Hao numbed the pain, grabbed the girl’s wrist, and spun her around with a lightning speed, after which he flipped the girl’s wrist with his left hand. The girl’s wrist dislocated along with a click. In the meanwhile, Ji Hao’s right hand hit on the girl’s chest. He spread his fingers and sent a wisp of internal power towards the girl’s heart.
Followed by a loud bang, a flame spurted out from Ji Hao’s palm and burned the girl in the chest. She screamed in pain and spat a mouthful of blood out from her small, cherry-like mouth.
A lot of yellow spell-symbols appeared simultaneously on the surface of her armour. Ji Hao sensed a great earth power[1] had been released from the armour and wrapped around the girl’s body.
Ji Hao felt as if his fists were hitting on some kind of light-shield, even splashing sparks. His following attacks were all blocked by that invisible light-shield, and were unable to harm the girl again, not even for a little bit.
The girl quickly stepped back in a flurry. At the same time, Ji Hao leaped up and took big steps forward with his eyes fixed at her.
Every step of Ji Hao caused the ground to tremble within the radius of tens of feet, causing the girl to lose her balance and fall on the ground.
The girl looked down and cast a fearful glance at her burned armour.
“I am Jiang Xue! My father is Jiang Shu, an elder Magus of the Bi Fang Clan! How dare you wound me? You lowly kid!” She then looked up at Ji Hao and yelled at him aggressively.
Ji Hao didn’t slow his pace when he heard what Jiang Xue had said. He had even started to whisper a magic spell he had learned from those Fire Crow Clan’s elders.
In the Southern Wasteland, there were no any specific differences between Maguspriests and elder Magi of clans. Some of powerful Magi even served their clans as both. Generally speaking, Maguspriests were mostly those who were good at all kinds of mysterious and powerful sorceries. They also had the responsibility of communicating with their ancestors’ souls and ensure the bloodline inheritance. Almost every Maguspriest was psychic. Maguspriests could be seen as the most powerful force of a clan, while elder Magi were mainly responsible for dealing with all kinds of administrative affairs of their clans. Although Maguspriests had slightly higher status in the clan than elder Magi, elder Magi all still were powerful and influential beings among their own clansmen.
Was Jiang Xue’s father an elder Magus of the Bi Fang Clan?
“So...Your father is an elder Magus of the Bi Fang Clan...But...so what?” Ji Hao quickly walked up to her, looked down at her eyes and said harshly, “According to the rules of the Southern Wasteland, you broke into my house without any permission, which means it’ll still be reasonable even if I kill you!”
“Don’t you dare!” Jiang Xue screamed out of fear. But she then stood up and yelled at Ji Hao: “My father is Jiang Shu! One of the top ten elder Magi of the Bi Fang Clan! Don't you dare hurt me now!”
She gasped and continued: “You killed Ji Wu! I had just been engaged with him last year! It will be reasonable too if I kill you to take revenge for him!”
“Ha!” Ji Hao raised his eyebrows and laughed. He just had realized that this little girl was trying to take revenge for that dead kid, Ji Wu; that was why she had broken into his house and had attempted to kill him when he was talking to the mysterious man in his spiritual space.
“I didn't kill Ji Wu. It was his own father, Ji Shu. Ji Shu killed his own son! What does that have anything to do with me?” Ji Hao pointed at Jiang Xue and yelled back. “You crazy girl. Even revenge is not an excuse for you to break into my home! Even if I kill you now your elders can’t say that I was wrong.”
Jiang Xue’s facial expression changed fleetingly. But then she smiled.
Ji Hao acutely sensed that somebody was behind him. He quickly locked his hands together and cast a spell. His body suddenly exploded into countless fiery light dots that gathered together tens of feet away. Ji Hao’s body reappeared at the spot where are those light dots had gathered.
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[2] Bloodline Power: As we mentioned in the last few chapters, bloodline power is the internal power contained in a Magus’s blood, passed on along the bloodline. The bloodline power could only be triggered when a Magus has reached their top levels (level 11 and level l2) as a Novice Magus. We already know that Ji Hao was practicing as both a Maguspreist and a Magus warrior, and he was able to use his internal power at this stage. However, his internal power at this stage was not from his bloodline, but mainly from his daily practice and the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell]. This kind of internal power is weaker and more limited than the bloodline power.