Enemy Attack

"Lu Yuanchun! You bastard!"

Seeing a breach torn open in the Marketplace's grand formation, Fairy Feixia's eyes nearly split with rage. Yet immediately afterward, she made the exact opposite choice from Lu Yuanchun.

"Junior Brother, join forces with me!"

Her escaping light flashed, and Fairy Feixia dropped directly into the Marketplace. She then turned and held the breach in the formation at all costs. "We absolutely cannot let the Divine Martial Sect rush into the Marketplace."

Hearing this, Lu Yang glanced at Fairy Feixia and found his impression of her improving considerably. Her crimson lips were stained with blood, her aura weak and listless; she had clearly suffered no minor injuries. If she had fled alongside Lu Yuanchun, she might still have had a chance to escape alive. Yet she had chosen to remain in the Marketplace instead.

Could she be an insider?

Holding to the belief that there were no good people in the Sacred Sect, Lu Yang's first suspicion fell on Fairy Feixia. She also noticed the wariness in his gaze.

"You can't escape!"

Fairy Feixia sighed helplessly. She had actually guessed Lu Yang's thoughts and said softly, "The Divine Martial Sect has plotted this for a long time. Trying to flee is a road that leads straight to death."

"Only by staying behind, holding the line, and waiting for reinforcements do we have a sliver of hope!"

Lu Yang was still doubtful. "Senior Sister understands this reasoning. Would that Senior Brother Lu not understand it? If so, why did he run?"

"Because the jade is with him!"

At this, Fairy Feixia flew into a rage. "The Divine Martial Sect used that Mysterious Female Yin Jade as bait and laid an ambush. Yet Lu Yuanchun coveted the jade and forcibly seized it. Not only did he drag all of us into this trap, he disregarded Senior Brother Chen's life and death, abandoned us, and fled alone!"

"So he fled out of fear of being held accountable?"

Lu Yang suddenly understood. Lu Yuanchun clearly knew that what he had done was beneath contempt. If he truly remained in the Marketplace, Fairy Feixia would sooner or later settle the score with him after autumn.

That was why he had chosen such an extreme method.

With that, it was only natural that Fairy Feixia had not fled with Lu Yuanchun. Had she truly done so, there was no guarantee he would not have silenced her forever.

"Demons, today is the day you die!"

Magnificent qi and blood lit up the heavens, like clusters of burning clouds rolling across the sky. At last, they revealed a burly man clad in armor and armed to the teeth, his expression vicious and savage.

"It's Divine Fist Wu Zhichong!"

Fairy Feixia's pretty face turned solemn. She said in a low voice, "This man is already at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, only one step away from the Great Perfection Stage. Junior Brother, you must be careful."

"Senior Brother Chen died because he took one punch from him, his dharma body shattering apart."

Before Fairy Feixia had finished speaking, the burly man named Wu Zhichong had already ridden his escaping light toward them. He raised his arm over his head and drew it back like a bow.

"Die!"

The next second, he threw a punch!

A piercing explosion instantly rang out in every direction. The square fist seal drove straight for the heart of the enemy. In that instant, Lu Yang felt as though a mountain were crushing down upon him head-on!

Boom!

At the critical moment, Fairy Feixia stepped forward. Her cloud-like sleeves fluttered, and clusters of luminous clouds wreathed in clear qi surged forth, catching Wu Zhichong's punch.

In an instant, clouds of rosy haze exploded apart in all directions, finally blocking Wu Zhichong outside the Marketplace. However, the rosy haze lost more than half of its Precious Light as a result.

At the sight, a flash of heartache crossed Fairy Feixia's eyes.

That rosy haze was one of her magical treasures, called the Rosy Mist Veil. She had painstakingly refined it for many years, yet it had suffered repeated damage during this battle.

At the same time, another escaping light descended from the sky.

Once the figure revealed himself, it was unmistakably Lu Yuanchun, who had just fled. His expression was incomparably ugly, and a cultivator was actually following behind him.

"Mountain-Moving Daoist Duanmu Yuan."

Fairy Feixia frowned tightly. She recognized the man intercepting Lu Yuanchun: another Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator of the Divine Martial Sect, whose strength was not the least bit inferior to hers.

"Lu Yuanchun, if you want to live, come back. You and I will join forces!"

Fairy Feixia spoke gravely. Though the Divine Martial Sect had come with overwhelming force, she believed they still had three Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators on their side. They were not without a chance of victory.

Even if Lu Yang came from the ordinary disciples and possessed no great divine abilities, dealing with Early and middle Qi Refining Stage cultivators would not be a problem. So long as she and Lu Yuanchun could hold back Wu Zhichong and Mountain-Moving Daoist, allowing Lu Yang to free up his hands against the other Divine Martial Sect disciples, they might still have a chance to defend the Marketplace!

".Fine! Then we'll fight to the death. Buy time for me!"

As his words fell, Lu Yuanchun drew a deep breath and directly burned his blood essence. Clusters of Blood Light erupted from the crown of his head, and his aura instantly surged severalfold.

Seeing this, Fairy Feixia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He is, after all, a disciple of the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, under a Foundation Establishment master. Perhaps he has some formidable method yet. With my assistance, we should be able to defend the Marketplace.

With that thought, Fairy Feixia stopped holding back. She raised the Rosy Mist Veil once more, attempting to buy time.

"Stop him!"

Wu Zhichong did not know what divine ability Lu Yuanchun possessed, but there was no way he would allow him to unleash it. He immediately rose on an escaping light and charged toward Lu Yuanchun.

Fairy Feixia saw this and, on one hand, forcibly gathered her true qi and used every trick up her sleeve to hold back the Divine Martial Sect's other Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator, Mountain-Moving Daoist Duanmu Yuan. On the other, she shouted to Lu Yang beside her, "Junior Brother Lu, act quickly! So long as we stop Wu Zhichong, we still have a chance to turn the tables!"

"Lu Yang? An ordinary disciple. So what if he broke through to the Qi Refining Late Stage?"

Lu Yuanchun glanced at Lu Yang and sneered inwardly.

In his eyes, Lu Yang was merely an obscure nobody, a minor figure who had struck it lucky and broken through to the late stage. How could he compare with a Foundation Establishment disciple like him?

Thinking of this, he became even more resolute in his decision.

Fairy Feixia believed they still had a chance of winning, but Lu Yuanchun did not think so. In his view, Fairy Feixia had clearly overlooked one decisive factor.

That was the Corpse Tide!

Even if they truly managed to hold back the Divine Martial Sect, so long as the breach in the formation remained, once the Corpse Tide arrived, they would still be wiped out to the last man!

Thus, Lu Yuanchun made his move the next second.

"Witness my divine might!"

As his words fell, Fairy Feixia's spirits immediately rose. She watched the Blood Light around Lu Yuanchun condense, manifesting a colossal demonic shadow with a ferocious visage.

She did not ask Lu Yuanchun to directly kill Wu Zhichong. So long as he could severely wound him, there would be hope.

"Blood Shadow Heaven-Escaping Technique!"

The demonic shadow flashed, and Lu Yuanchun's figure instantly vanished. He transformed into a streak of Blood Light that appeared several hundred meters away, speeding toward the outside of Skull Mountain.

For a moment, Fairy Feixia was utterly dumbfounded.

She had clearly underestimated Lu Yuanchun's shamelessness. She had never imagined that he had only pretended to cooperate with her, while in truth using her as a shield.

Yet just then, the sky outside Skull Mountain suddenly darkened.

"Trying to leave? Stay behind instead!"

With a cold laugh, the blood-red escaping light Lu Yuanchun had transformed into was struck in half at the waist, forcing him back into Skull Mountain. Lu Yuanchun's terrified cry rang out from within it:

"Qi Refining Great Perfection!?"

He had burned more than half his blood essence to use that blood escape. No Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator could possibly stop it. The only one who could was someone at Qi Refining Great Perfection!

Heaven wants me dead.

Lu Yuanchun was filled with unwillingness. He had finally seized the Mysterious Female Yin Jade. So long as he escaped alive, he would surely earn the favor of the Peak Master of Heaven Mending.

Especially now that Zhao Xuhe had been abandoned by the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, this should have been his opportunity!

Yet now, everything had come to nothing.

Just then, Lu Yang's voice suddenly sounded by Lu Yuanchun's ear. "Senior Brother Lu, return to the Marketplace first."

"What use is there now?"

Lu Yuanchun was utterly despairing and had no interest in answering Lu Yang. In his eyes, there was now no difference between him and Lu Yang except dying sooner or dying later.

The next second, Lu Yang, who had remained silent until then, suddenly stepped forward. His great sleeves billowed as all ten fingers flicked in succession. In the blink of an eye, he scattered dozens of formation patterns around the Marketplace, breaking the small formation the Divine Martial Sect had used to lock the breach in place. Then he controlled the formation and abruptly closed it.

Boom!

In an instant, countless formation patterns emerged, transforming into a curtain of light that enveloped the Marketplace inside and out. The grand formation actually sealed itself again, returning to its complete state!

".Ah?"

Lu Yuanchun's eyes instantly widened. Then he shuddered and hurriedly controlled his Blood Light to flee back, shouting at the top of his voice, "Brother Lu, save me!!!"