"Deal with this one. Don't kill him—I still have questions for him."
Brando released his grip, and the leader of the Goathead Cultists plummeted from midair, landing face-first in the mud.
He had already seen that the leader of the Goathead Cultists possessed the strength of Element Awakening, making him the perfect opponent for Huang Huo. Although Huang Huo was a level above the man, capturing him alive rather than killing him would still be a challenge for her.
Huang Huo clearly understood her teacher's intentions. Her dark eyes lit up slightly, and she drew her sword to meet him. The Goathead Cultist's fighting style was bizarre. His weapon was a flaming whip. He used it to force Huang Huo to keep her distance while chanting spells that summoned one red-skinned little demon after another.
Normally, Huang Huo could have taken the man's life in one or two moves with the Desert Wind Sword Style. As one of the Land of the Nine Phoenixes' supreme arts, the Desert Wind Sword Style was a top-tier sword technique that excelled at both close and long range. The man clearly thought that keeping his distance would prevent Huang Huo from doing anything to him, but he had made a serious miscalculation.
However, Brando had ordered Huang Huo to capture the Goathead Cultist rather than kill him, limiting the occasions on which she could use the Desert Wind Sword Style. After all, the Desert Wind Sword Style was the Crimson Lotus Sword of Karmic Fire, the most lethal of the three supreme sword styles of the Land of the Nine Phoenixes. If she was even slightly careless, forget capturing him alive—whether she could leave a complete corpse behind would be questionable.
On top of that, the little demons summoned by the Goathead Cultist were