I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

e the best way to do it.

After all, it was the masked man he was dealing with there.
If the masked man were to get angry enough to ignore his injuries and retaliate, Xu Xiaoshou might just get snuffed out before he knew what was happening!

Xu Xiaoshou wondered how he should go about it.

He turned around and looked at the long path in the woods behind him, then pondered.

The masked man had just convinced Xiao Qixiu to drop his sword and was walking around the corner before he immediately noticed that something did not look right.

There was another masked man right in front of him, and he was charging out of the woods.
That in itself was bad enough, but there was more…

Not only was the man charging at him wearing a mask, but he had also covered his eyes.

What looked even more frightening was how the man was holding a black sword high, running as he practiced his techniques while muttering some words.

“White Cloud Sword Techniques, Dark Cloud Sword Techniques…”

What the hell?

What was wrong with the fellow?

Why would there be someone like that in the Spirit Palace?

The masked man looked utterly baffled.

His powers had deteriorated so much that he had even lost his spiritual sense, which naturally meant that he could not detect the lunatic in advance.

He had just finished taking on Su Qianqian’s Sword Will, and his injuries got worse.
It was a painstaking effort to talk to Xiao Qixiu until he fell to his knees.
It meant that he had nothing left to take on the lunatic in front of him.

So, he stepped aside and made way for the lunatic to pass.
It was the first time in his life that he gave way to another person.

His reasoning was simple.
The passerby was but a madman, and it was not worth it.

“Huh? Someone is around here?” muttered the lunatic.

The lunatic unexpectedly halted and quickly made way for the masked man in an exceedingly polite manner.

Suddenly, they came face to face with each other.

No one said a word for that fleeting moment…

The masked man was flustered and did his best to avoid the path of the lunatic’s attack.

Both of them gradually closed in on each other, and the lunatic muttered something again.

“It is not right that guy should move out of the way for me.
I cannot hurt him.”

The lunatic then shifted to the side with his sword after muttering those words, then suddenly swung his sword in a flamboyant arc at the masked man.

The masked man almost spat blood right there and then.
He wanted to move, yet the distance between the two of them was too close for him to move out of the way.

Instantly, the lunatic stabbed his black sword mercilessly into the masked man’s chest.
The force of the strike was akin to a charging bull, almost crushing every bone in his body.

BOOM!

The masked man dropped to the ground and clutched at the sword sticking in his chest, never expecting to fall into the hands of a running lunatic in the dead of night.

…

Xu Xiaoshou continued to pretend to act like a lunatic, then tilted his head as if he could not understand why he ran into someone.

He then squatted down before the masked man, who was lying on the ground.

“Sorry, I did not mean to do it.”

Xu Xiaoshou wrapped his face as tightly as he could.
He wanted to prevent the masked man from identifying him.
He even changed the tone of his voice, hoping that it would make it difficult to establish his identity.

“Cough!”

The masked man spat blood right away, panting hard as he stared at the sword stuck in his chest.

Did the lunatic say he did not mean to do it? How could he stick a sword into someone and then said that?

The masked man then took out a piece of communication jade.

Xu Xiaoshou was fast enough to detect it and took the jade away.
He said, “Dude, I honestly did not mean to do this.
Do not call anyone, okay? I am scared.”

The masked man was speechless.

His body went into violent spasms from his wound, and blood was gushing out.

: Cursed, Passive Points +1.

Xu Xiaoshou could see blood continuing to ooze out of the masked man.
He could finally confirm that the masked man was indeed in a very weakened state.
Xu Xiaoshou then continued to chatter away.

“We are both night joggers.
I am sure we can come to an understanding.”

Pfftt!

“Oops, my bad.
I forgot my sword is still stuck in your body.
Let me get it out first.”

“You…” muttered the masked man.

“Just stop moving!”

Xu Xiaoshou leaned down to pull the sword.
He deliberately moved it quite a few times as he pretended to remove it.
It almost killed the masked man on the spot.

But before Xu Xiaoshou could pull out the black sword, the masked man endured the pain and unexpectedly picked himself up off the ground.
He tore off half of the mask that Xu Xiaoshou used to cover his face.

Both of them looked surprised, and the scene looked like someone had just pressed the pause button in the middle of a play, freezing the frame.

Xu Xiaoshou, stunned, forgot to keep babbling away like a lunatic, and the masked man was too shocked to release the tension of his body.

Drip!

Drip!

Trickle!

The black sword was still dripping blood, and a puddle of blood formed on the ground.
The pupils of the masked man dilated quickly.

: Doubted, Passive Points +1.

: Begrudged, Passive Points +1.

Gulp!

Xu Xiaoshou swallowed hard and felt his lips drying up.
His face was as white as a sheet.