Fierce Reputation 1

Chapter 45: Fierce Reputation 1

Han Yi followed behind the others. The three daggers on his body began to tremble lightly, poised to strike.

Faced with such a critical moment.

Han Yi did not dare let down his guard in the slightest.

If they encountered enemies, he would definitely go all out and blast them with a few volleys first.

Beside him was a cultivator also at Qi Refining Layer 6, though he had been selected into the Inner Peak four years ago.

"Junior Brother, don't be nervous. Stay by my side later. We'll follow Senior Brother Cui. With his Pill Sword Technique, killing their people will be like chopping vegetables and slicing melons."

"Whatever you do, don't get nervous—especially don't attack your fellow senior and junior brothers."

During everyone's introductions earlier, Han Yi had learned that this man was called Tao Shouhua. He was a few years older than Han Yi. Han Yi had memorized the names of everyone in this small team, along with the spells they excelled at, including Tao Shouhua.

At this moment.

Han Yi looked at Tao Shouhua and found himself rather speechless.

The other man was clearly overly nervous, so much so that he had begun trying to distract himself from his anxiety by talking.

Han Yi swiftly cut him off. "All right, Senior Brother Tao, I understand. You should be careful too."

The moment his voice fell.

Whoosh!

A blaze descended from the sky, plunging straight toward the middle of the group.

"Watch out!"

Lu Su gave a low shout and raised both hands. A magic artifact in his palms expanded against the wind. With a surge of spiritual power, the Earth Shield Technique activated through the artifact condensed into form, blocking the flames.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

The flames scattered, giving off scorching sounds.

A Blood God Sect Cultivator flickered forward, moving at an absurd speed. Almost in an instant, he had arrived above Lu Su's head. Then he threw out a magic artifact resembling a piece of bloody cloth.

The artifact instantly enlarged, about to envelop and trap Lu Su.

Just then.

A piercing whistle split the air. A streak of sword light flashed past in an instant, cutting a gash into the bloody-cloth artifact. Lu Su narrowly escaped.

The one who had drawn his sword was Cui Xingchen of Qi Refining Layer 7.

The sword light turned gently, circling once before returning to hover before him in midair, where it transformed into a round Sword Pellet.

At first glance, the Sword Pellet was only half the size of a fist, round and golden, like an enormous golden pill.

Pill Sword Technique.

Standing behind the others, Han Yi was seeing the Pill Sword Technique in action for the first time, and his eyes lit up.

This Pill Sword Technique used a pill as a sword. Most crucially, the Sword Pellet could be absorbed into the body and nurtured within the dantian. It required no deliberate refining, yet could blend seamlessly with one's spiritual power like milk and water, without the slightest gap.

"Good! Senior Brother Cui is incredible!" Tao Shouhua shouted softly. His tense face was now brimming with excitement.

The others also looked exhilarated.

Just then, Lu Su, who had escaped the trap, underwent a drastic change in expression.

"Watch out!"

Boom!!

A golden radiance suddenly flared, tearing through the night like an arrow as it shot straight at Cui Xingchen.

Cui Xingchen's face changed dramatically. Instinctively, the Sword Pellet hovering beside him transformed into a pill sword and blocked before him, stopping the golden light.

But.

The power contained within that golden light was simply too immense.

In an instant.

Crack!!

A fissure appeared on the pill sword. The crisp sound made Cui Xingchen's pupils contract violently.

Before he could react, a terrifying force had already driven the pill sword and his body in a straight line, smashing through more than a dozen houses and vanishing from everyone's sight.

In the blink of an eye, Cui Xingchen, whose Pill Sword Technique made him one of the strongest fighters in the team, had been instantly defeated. Whether he lived or died was unknown.

The golden light sprang out from the ruins and returned to its owner's hand.

A youth with a cold smile on his face gripped the golden light, whereupon it turned into an utterly ordinary-looking golden shuttle.

"Top-grade Magic Artifact, Golden Light Shuttle."

"Damn it!!"

Lu Su's face turned ashen as he roared, "Run!!"

The instant the words left his mouth, he did not turn and flee. Instead, he charged head-on, spiritual power surging throughout his body and pouring into his Mid-grade Magic Artifact. He intended to fight this coldly smiling youth from the Blood God Sect to the death.

"You're courting death!"

"I'll grant your wish."

The Icy Youth was actually only at Qi Refining Layer 8 as well. However, the Golden Light Shuttle in his hand was a Top-grade Magic Artifact.

This was a Top-grade Magic Artifact. Most cultivators at Qi Refining Peak used nothing better than high-grade magic artifacts, while Top-grade Magic Artifacts were generally wielded by Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Yet now, a cultivator at Qi Refining Layer 8 wielded a Top-grade Magic Artifact. Its power was so overwhelming that against other cultivators at Qi Refining Layer 7 or 8, he was like a wolf among sheep, utterly crushing them.

Although each activation of a Top-grade Magic Artifact required an enormous amount of spiritual power and divine sense from a Qi Refining cultivator, even without fully activating it, it could still instantly kill swathes of junior brothers at Qi Refining Layer 7 and even Qi Refining Layer 6.

Only by stepping forward himself and desperately holding the enemy back could he buy time for the many junior brothers to escape.

Perhaps he might even seize the chance, before the man could properly command the Golden Light Shuttle, to kill him against the odds.

He had to risk it all.

Meanwhile.

As early as one breath ago, when the golden light had suddenly appeared and streaked toward them at tremendous speed, Han Yi's heart had jolted.

Danger.

Deadly danger.

When the golden light struck Cui Xingchen and sent him flying, Han Yi instinctively sidestepped, dragging the frozen Tao Shouhua aside to avoid Cui Xingchen's path and escape being struck.

When Lu Su shouted "Run," he instantly turned and darted to the rear. Before fleeing, he did not forget to yank Tao Shouhua, whose face was blank and who had not reacted at all, pulling him into a stumble before immediately letting go.

"Run!"

Han Yi shouted heavily. He could no longer spare any attention for Tao Shouhua or the others. He pushed the Body Lightening Technique to its limit, his figure merging into the night like a wisp of wind, swaying and flickering before disappearing.

"B-but..."

Before Tao Shouhua could finish, the other senior and junior brothers at Qi Refining Layer 6 and 7 had already scattered in an instant, each using their movement techniques to flee beyond the encampment.

He gritted his teeth and chased after Han Yi in the direction he had gone.

Before leaving, he turned to look behind him. His stunned, despairing eyes brightened slightly.

Behind him, Lu Su had already begun fighting the youth wielding the Top-grade Magic Artifact Golden Light Shuttle.

The youth's Top-grade Magic Artifact Golden Light Shuttle could not be activated twice in quick succession. For a brief time, Lu Su actually had him on the defensive.

But at the final instant before Tao Shouhua turned back, he suddenly saw a Blood God Sect Cultivator in fluttering robes boldly charge into the battle. A Fan-shaped Silver Light swept past.

Lu Su, who had been pressing the Icy Youth hard, instantly stiffened.

Tao Shouhua saw the scene of battle split out of alignment into two halves, like a broken mirror.

No, it was not the entire battlefield—it was only where Lu Su stood.

Lu Su's body had clearly been severed. That fan-shaped silver light must have been some kind of sharp magic artifact, slicing Lu Su into two pieces in an instant.

He was so frightened that his soul nearly flew out of him.

"Dead, dead, Senior Brother Lu is dead??"

"Quick, run, run, run, run..."

"Run!!"

(End of Chapter)