One Against Two, Thirteen Against Four

Aobei and Liers joined forces, trying to block the mountain-like boulder crashing down from the sky.

A surge of force followed the true energy into them, and both their expressions changed. They could not hold it back. With a thunderous BOOM, the small mountain slammed into the ground as if the earth itself were splitting apart.

The two were blasted away as well, crashing onto the ground with drastic changes in their expressions. This true energy was wrong!

But Zhu Wushi gave them no time to think. His fingers curled into a claw, and with a grasp through the air, countless rocks nearby gathered around him, forming a stone giant dozens of meters tall. Amid violent tremors, it charged at Liers, who was at the Ascension Realm Initial Stage.

"I'll handle these two Ascension Realm fighters. You take down those four women first. Alive."

With that, he charged straight at Aobei, who was in the Ascension Realm Middle Stage.

After hearing Zhu Wushi's words, Liers wanted to proceed according to the original plan, but the stone giant blocked her. Even when she managed to break away several times, Zhu Wushi stopped her.

As for Aobei, forget it. As an Ascension Realm Middle Stage fighter, there was even less chance he could break away.

While controlling the stone giant, Zhu Wushi continuously attacked Liers, leaving her no room to care about anything else. Three people and one pile of rocks descended into a chaotic melee, with none of them able to disengage.

For a time, Gale Force surged. Dust danced wildly around the battlefield, and wave after wave of violent energy swept outward like ocean tides.

Seeing this, the four foreign women tried to flee.

The Three Tigers Seven Fiends were all in the Manifestation Realm, with two at the Dharma Aspect Realm Peak. Cheng Shifei, Duan Tianya, and Guihai Yidao were all at the Dharma Aspect Realm Peak.

There was no way they could win. They would get wrecked.

Seeing the four trying to leave, Cheng Shifei, Duan Tianya, and the others all leaped into the air to cut off their escape.

Guihai Yidao drew his saber. True energy erupted from him as he raised the long blade over his head, and a massive blade phantom in the sky steadily expanded and solidified.

Overlord of the World

A forty-meter saber appeared. Let them run thirty-nine meters first.

With a deafening BANG, the enormous saber fell, carving a huge ravine dozens of meters long into the ground. Saber energy filled the air.

Guihai Yidao's massive saber blocked their path, while the Three Tigers Seven Fiends, Cheng Shifei, and the others closed in. There was no escaping now.

The thirteen-against-four situation was fully formed. The four women trembled slightly. This was not how the plan was supposed to go.

Cheng Shifei looked at the four women surrounded in the middle. His arms were folded across his chest, his entire body glittered with golden light, and he bared his big teeth in eerie laughter.

It looked like thirteen big bad wolves surrounding four helpless little lambs.

Dharma Aspects appeared above the four women's heads, their auras connecting to form a huge barrier of protective force in an attempt to resist.

But as everyone attacked together, Phantom Sword, Hegemon Blade, and the Five Elements Technique were unleashed at once. The protective barrier shattered instantly.

Endless Gale Force raged and churned, while terrifying energy radiated in every direction.

All four women were sent flying.

One was instantly pinned to the ground by Black Tiger White Tiger. The two giant black-and-white tiger Dharma Aspects stood atop her, imposing and majestic.

One was bound by Wood Fiend's phantom wooden vines, while Earth Fiend pressed her flat against the ground with rock and soil. The Yin Yang Twin Fiends' Dharma Aspects intertwined like a taiji symbol, and beneath their feet was another woman, completely unable to move.

The Little Golden Man struck one woman in the abdomen, then performed a backflip and kicked her in the back, sending her flying. Gold Fiend's golden greatsword smacked her across the back, knocking her back again. She coughed up blood and passed out.

As Duan Tianya's Phantom Sword flashed, he severed the tendons in all four women's hands and feet.

Yin Fiend took out a small bottle from his robes and fed each of the four women an unknown pill. Then the Yin Yang Twin Fiends tapped the air with their fingers, sealing all the women's meridians.

The group stopped. The job was done.

The place where the four women had been was now a huge pit dozens of meters wide. Inside it, the Three Tigers Seven Fiends, Duan Tianya, Cheng Shifei, and Guihai Yidao formed a circle.

Haitang and several disciples arrived at the edge of the pit, staring down with strange expressions.

As a woman, she felt a trace of pity for the four. As enemies, though, they would have to be interrogated properly later.

Your Highness had handed these elite men over to them without them even doing anything. The six had barely arrived before attacking the manor, openly stomping on Dragon Guard Manor's face. They were courting death.

The four foreign women lay in the pit with disheveled hair, tattered clothes, and hollow eyes.

The tendons in their hands and feet had all been severed. Their wounds were deep enough to expose bone, and blood kept pouring out.

Well, they were still alive for now.

One of the foreign women looked toward Zhu Wushi's battlefield, and a tear rolled down from the corner of her eye.

Lord Aobei, Lady Liers, this was not how the script was written! (˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅)

According to their plan, Lord Aobei was supposed to hold off that Ascension Realm Middle Stage fighter. The four of them were meant to assist Lady Liers in dealing with these Manifestation Realm fighters, then join her in besieging that Ascension Realm expert.

They were only here to make up the numbers. They were only supposed to deal with some small fry! Of the four of them, only one was at the Dharma Aspect Realm Peak. How were the four of them supposed to face thirteen Manifestation Realm experts, including five at the Dharma Aspect Realm Peak?

The plan was not wrong, but ideals were plump while reality was bony.

Zhu Wushi fought one against two, holding back both Aobei and Liers, two Ascension Realm experts, all by himself—and he even held a slight advantage.

The two tried repeatedly to break away, but Zhu Wushi covered his whole body in true energy. Combined with the stone giant under his control and the Great Absorption Technique in one hand, he stuck to them tightly and gave them no chance to disengage.

Meanwhile, Aobei and Liers, who were fighting him, could only groan inwardly.

Zhu Wushi's cultivation technique was far too strange. It was like a black-hole vortex. Whenever their true energy attacks collided with it, their power constantly weakened.

They simply could not fight him.

Liers in particular was already struggling desperately. Zhu Wushi's cultivation was far too profound. She had long since been injured in their clashes of true energy, and a streak of blood hung from the corner of her mouth.

Aobei felt the same way.

This is the Ascension Realm Middle Stage?

He was also in the Ascension Realm Middle Stage, so why did he not possess such overwhelming power?

Seeing the four women knocked down in just a few moves, the two had no options. They could not leave even if they wanted to.

When Liers looked toward Cheng Shifei and the others and was momentarily distracted, Zhu Wushi seized the opportunity.

Shaolin Flower-Picking Finger.

A colorless force shot from Zhu Wushi's fingertip like lightning, striking Liers directly. As the true energy sliced through the air, it left behind only a howl faster than everything else.

The true energy pierced through Liers's body from the front and burst out her back before striking the ground. The earth exploded violently, leaving behind a small crater over ten meters wide.

Liers spat out blood. A finger-sized bloody hole ran through her right breast, front to back, while violent true energy rampaged through her body.

Without pressing the attack, Zhu Wushi turned and sent a vast surge of true energy toward Aobei, blocking his fierce incoming palm strike.

As they fought chaotically, Duan Tianya and the others also turned their attention toward Zhu Wushi's battlefield.

"Come on, let's help."

After speaking, Duan Tianya shot into the air. Cheng Shifei and the others followed close behind.

Kick a cripple's good leg. When squeezing a persimmon, pick the soft one.

The Little Golden Man condensed a Vajra Phantom over ten meters tall around himself and charged straight at Liers. Wrapped in true energy, he slammed into her, spread his arms, and grabbed her with enormous golden hands.

The Vajra Phantom advanced step by step, smashing her backward and shoving her nearly a hundred meters away from Zhu Wushi's battlefield.

Duan Tianya and Guihai Yidao attacked together with sword and saber.

The forty-meter saber appeared once more, and the enormous blood-colored blade phantom solidified.

Avici Path Three Blades

Boundless killing intent surged forth, transforming into bloody fiendish energy that coiled around the blade. It sent chills down one's spine, as though it had come to claim a life.

This blade was even more terrifying than the last. Before, they needed her alive and feared cutting her to death. This time, they feared failing to cut her down.

Duan Tianya held his sword and flew forward. Dozens of sword-energy phantoms emerged around him, stabbing straight toward Liers's heart from behind.

Sensing the cold threat at her back, a phantom water droplet appeared around Liers's body, slowly forcing apart Cheng Shifei's golden hands.