Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 156 - 151: Must Kill the Mage First in a PK_1

Chapter 156: Chapter 151: Must Kill the Mage First in a PK_1

Li Xuan had a bad feeling from the moment the sound of horse hooves rang out.

The several individuals behind him, with a tacit understanding, each gripped various talismans within their sleeves.

When the eyes of the sword-wielding woman fell upon him, Li Xuan decisively activated a Godspeed Talisman from within his sleeve. With a kick, he launched Shopkeeper Han towards the sword-wielding woman.

He knew this was an important individual. If he could bring him back to the Liudao Division, they could extract many clues from him. He would make an excellent informant.

However, at this point, survival took precedence, and he couldn’t afford to carry around this burden while fleeing.

Therefore, Li Xuan’s kick was especially ruthless, a lethal Ice Power penetrating into the inward parts of Shopkeeper Han.

If no one present intervened, the proprietor of Xuanyi House would be frozen to death instantly, beyond any hope of revival.

As expected, countless vine tendrils sprang from the ground beneath them, wrapping around Shopkeeper Han, like a gargantuan Venus flytrap.

A Spellcaster draped in a large cloak performed a spell, simultaneously flying into the temple from outside the gate.

The sword-wielding woman scowled. She hesitated for a moment then pressed her hand to Shopkeeper Han’s chest.

She was not a fire-style cultivator, but from her right hand a talisman quickly produced a fire. The energy of the flames converged in her palm.

"I will cover our retreat with Luo Yan, everyone retreat towards the river!"

Li Xuan reached out and picked up the Double Layer Hollow Gold Plate laid not far away. He used a piece of cloth torn from his clothes to bind this item to his back. With the help of the flowing blood strands emitted by the red ghost, it was tied securely.

At the same time, behind the sword-wielding woman, two long swords sprang out and flew towards Li Xuan and his company.

"Since you all are already here, why leave? Stay here with us!"

The two flying swords crossed the void, leaving two streaks of light, resembling a whirling rainbow. They looked unusually beautiful but were extremely deadly. The Sword Qi emanating from them reached nearly a meter, pulverizing all they encountered.

Luo Yan waved two whips out of her sleeve, heavily smashing them onto the flying swords. A sound of suffocation escaped from her lips, and a hint of red stained the corner of her mouth.

The momentum of the swords remained unabated, with just a slight decay in the splurging Sword Qi.

Li Xuan, who had already activated a divine talisman, repeatedly slashed his long knife, blocking and fending, as he forced the flying swords to retreat for a moment.

By this time, he and Luo Yan had already retreated over fifty meters and left the area of Huanglin Temple.

As they were about to accelerate their pace, hundreds of flying daggers stormed out of the temple, shooting over like a violent storm. Within this storm, the two three-foot long swords continued to chop through with ferocious Sword Qi, spewing almost a meter ahead.

Li Xuan and Luo Yan, who were responsible for the rearguard, found it incredibly difficult to dodge. Luo Yan’s shapeshifting was nimble like a wandering dragon, which allowed her to have extra time to deflect those flying daggers that posed a significant threat to Peng Fulai and Yue Qianqian behind them. Even though Zhang Yue’s large shield was protecting them, he inevitably struggled to provide complete protection as he himself was in full retreat.

Especially the one controlling the flying daggers, not only did they possess astonishing strength but their skill was exceedingly exquisite.

Over on Li Xuan’s end, he could barely take care of himself. He had only recently acquired the complete set of ’Unsettling Divine Thunder’, and he had less than a month of training in the Thunder Style Body Technique.

On normal days, he could rely on his understanding of the Thunder Style to make up for it.

However, at this moment, under the onslaught of dozens or even hundreds of flying daggers, Li Xuan’s inherently weak basic skills were exposed without mercy, making it extremely hard for him to dodge or evade, making him look amateur.

Yet, he alone attracted around forty percent of those flying daggers.

What truly put him in danger, though, were those two flying swords, chopping from above and below, whipping left and right, left him running ragged.

Even when no one was controlling these swords, the power dwelled within them far surpassed Li Xuan. Each block, each collision of his long knife and the flying swords, left a sweet taste in his mouth, throwing off his balance, making it almost impossible for him to stand stable.

He also had to use extra focus to deal with the wooden vines sprouting beneath him. Yue Qianqian had already utilized her ’Descendence’, invoking the presence of Lady Longji. Using the technique of petrification, she turned the hundred-yard radius around them into a stone surface.

But this only slightly affected those vines. The creepers still sprouted wildly—converging together, chasing after them, either constricting or whipping about.

"Be careful, Qianzhi!" Suddenly shouted Peng Fulai, who was employing his coin darts, making an effort to restrain the opponents. "That’s a ten-stone strong bow!"

Li Xuan was already on alert when Peng Fulai shouted. Suddenly exerting his strength, the thunder on his long knife burst with a flash, deflecting one of the flying swords slightly. Then his figure blinked behind the colossal stone man that Yue Qianqian had summoned. He managed, by the skin of his teeth, to evade the powerful arrow that shot towards him.

Those arrows, heavy with immense force, brushed past Li Xuan, shooting back several hundred yards before their momentum finally lessened.

In front of Li Xuan, the gargantuan Yellow Scarf Lishi also took two arrows. Its body made of two-feet-thick stone was pierced through by the arrows, forcing Li Xuan to pivot like a plank of iron, his body almost bending in half as he narrowly avoided them.

By then, those two flying swords had already ascended thirty yards into the air, then, with an aura of terrifying sharpness, they abruptly slashed downward. Sensing the danger, Li Xuan’s body exploded with lightning, and he retreated ten yards with his knife. But the Yellow Scarf Lishi was not so fortunate, it was cleaved into three parts by the flying swords.

More terrifyingly, a giant made entirely of vines suddenly rose behind them.

The Yellow Scarf Lishi that Yue Qianqian had summoned through the Descendence technique was already thirty feet tall and extremely imposing, but this vine giant was a staggering ten heights tall. It reached out with one hand, pressing down on Yue Qianqian and Peng Fulai like a mountain, its hand budding with countless deadly tendrils.

Yue Qianqian’s face dramatically changed. She slammed a talisman, summoning a thirty feet tall Yellow Scarf Lishi that just managed to hold back the shadowing hand of the vine giant.

Peng Fulai also summoned a huge Purplish-Blue Thunderbolt using a Purple Gold talisman, setting the vine giant ablaze.

However, they were delayed by the vine giant and their momentum in retreating was lost. Four Wu cultivators had surrounded them from behind, blocking their retreat.

From their auras, they were all cultivators of the fifth house level, armed with shields and knives, cold-blooded and vicious. Red-eye marks in the corner of their eyes - a clear indication of evil cultivators.

Evil cultivators are typically those who rely on unorthodox cultivation methods or even devouring souls to ascend, their burst of power far exceeded that of normal cultivators.

Meanwhile, the sword-wielding woman in the rubble of the temple had moved away from Shopkeeper Han. She casually waved her hand, releasing the vines wrapping around the old man.

"Shouldn’t Mr. Han explain to me? I was almost fooled just now."

"Explain what? If it wasn’t for your stubbornness in selling these things, why would this misfortune befall us?"

After getting up, Shopkeeper Han glared furiously at the towering Yellow Scarf Lishi outside the temple: "I almost lost my life this time. I even lost a finger. These brats are really ruthless."

"We had no choice but to sell these. We are critically short of Silver Coins," said the female sword cultivator with slightly furrowed brows, "but you should have warned us. How could you cooperate—"

Her voice abruptly halted because Shopkeeper Han had raised his hand before her, revealing a fiery mark on the back of his hand.

The woman’s pupils dilated in disbelief. "How is this possible?"

"I thought it was strange too."

Shopkeeper Han huffed: "So, don’t let that most good-looking one get away later. And the leader, I swear not to rest until I torment him to the point of wishing for death."

At that moment, Li Xuan began to feel uneasy.

Except for the seventh house level female sword cultivator who rode a sword, fourteen fifth house level Wu cultivators from all directions in the forest emerged. They were either armed with weapons or longbows.

There was also a sixth house level spell cultivator, who flew into the air and landed next to the female sword cultivator. She was masked and cloaked, floating in the air, a massive viny giant taking shape beside her - also a staggering ten feet tall.

Peng Fulai’s face turned pale, "Qianzhi, it seems like we are done for!"

"Shut up!" Zhang Yue held a shield in one hand and an axe in the other, his eyes cold, "We are but to face death, just fight them! Throw all the usable talismans on your body later and bet your life on it!"

Luo Yan frowned slightly, a purple flame silently igniting within his sleeve, beginning to stretch along the whip.

Just as he prepared to act further, he heard Li Xuan speak abruptly, "We can still get out. I need your cooperation."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yan couldn’t help but glance at Li Xuan. He then saw the latter use the ’Taiyi Golden Talisman’, ’Divine Power Talisman’, ’Vajra Talisman’ on himself, and then a dagger slid out of his left sleeve.

Luo Yan’s pupils shrank slightly, recognizing a trace of extraordinary Thunderbolt divine temperament on that flying dagger.

"That wood element spell cultivator is too troublesome, we need to cut her down first!" Li Xuan squinted, cold light flashing in his eyes, "Luo Yan, can you manage to contain that female sword cultivator for three breaths’ time?"

Without hesitation, Luo Yan replied, "Not to mention three breaths, I can hold her back for ten."

A faint smile appeared on Li Xuan’s lips. This was not only because of Luo Yan’s response, but also because Li Xuan had full confidence in himself.

Just now, he was testing out the ability of the red-clothed female ghost, ’Weakness Insight’, and he was successful! At this moment, thousands of red threads unfolded within his field of vision.