Bone Demon's Surprise Attack

In his haste, Yan Yifei brought out a spiritual weapon to block, but before he could even react, the Junhua Sword following right behind the Sword Qi struck him. What surprised Zhang Wenhua, however, was that Yan Yifei was not cut down.

A ring of golden light suddenly rose from the Daoist robe Yan Yifei wore and blocked the Junhua Sword.

Zhang Wenhua froze at the sight, then shouted, "Golden Light Daoist Robe! How do you still have another spiritual weapon?"

Yan Yifei had also been scared half to death by Zhang Wenhua's sword. Thinking that if he had not still had another spiritual weapon protecting him, he would likely have died on the spot, he heard Zhang Wenhua's shout and instantly flew into a rage. "Zhang Wenhua, you actually dared to ambush me! I doubt you expected that I borrowed more than one spiritual weapon from Senior Brother Yun Jingtian, did you? Now let's see how you die." Then he turned to the two lackeys behind him and said, "Let's attack together and kill them. They struck first, so even if we kill them, we won't be punished when we return to the sect."

With that, he controlled the Heavenly Fire Bead and smashed it toward Zhang Wenhua. The Heavenly Fire Bead gave off scorching flames, a red ring of blaze nearly warping the very air. Zhang Wenhua did not dare be careless. He recalled the Junhua Sword and chopped straight at the Heavenly Fire Bead. In an instant, Sword Qi shot through the entire tunnel, firelight splashed everywhere, and the two senior and junior brothers at Zhang Wenhua and Yan Yifei's sides also clashed, each sending out their Magic Tools to bombard the other. The whole tunnel was dyed in a riot of colors.

By now, Wang Ding and the other three had quietly reached the tunnel entrance, less than a hundred meters from the six-person battlefield. But the four of them did not act rashly. They still lay patiently in ambush, waiting for the chance to take everyone down in one move.

"Zhang Wenhua, you actually dared to come kill me. Today, I will definitely kill you. I have the Golden Light Daoist Robe protecting me. You can't hurt me. Just wait to die." After saying this, he controlled the Heavenly Fire Bead and continuously sent flames surging toward Zhang Wenhua.

Not to be outdone, Zhang Wenhua said, "Don't get too pleased with yourself. Once Junior Brothers Song and Yang deal with your lackeys, the three of us will surround and attack you. Let's see what you do then."

When Yan Yifei heard this, he looked around. Sure enough, his two lackeys were already in imminent danger. Anxiety stirred faintly in his heart, and he shouted, "You two, hurry up and finish them off! Otherwise, watch your heads."

Yan Yifei and the other two were all from noble families of secular royal courts. Their cultivation had been piled up with pills, and they themselves possessed no particularly tenacious will. The fact that they could enter a great sect like the God Sect was entirely thanks to the fortunes of the dynasties they came from.

One had to know that in order to collect human-path merit, the various sects had all sought out the secular dynasties, thinking up every possible method to make those dynasties stable and prosperous, with the common people living and working in peace and contentment, thereby gaining human-path merit. Although the merit they obtained was very little and could not compare to the ancient royal courts, in order to draw in these dynasties, each sect granted them a certain number of quotas.

This Yan Yifei was the eldest grandson of the Yan clan, one of the four great families of the Yun Dynasty in Central Province. His status was exalted, and that was what gave him the opportunity to enter the God Sect.

This Yan Yifei has truly lost his head. As the saying goes, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster comes, each flies its own way. All the more so when these two are nothing but opportunists to begin with. And now he's still putting on airs from the secular world—he really doesn't know life from death, Zhang Wenhua sneered inwardly.

Sure enough, when those two heard Yan Yifei's shouting, they knew Yan Yifei was in bad shape as well. Their eyes began to dart about, and they started thinking of retreat. Their hands slowed by thirty percent.

Seeing this, Yang and Song knew the chance had come. They slowly maintained their attacks, gathering power as they prepared to slay the two in a single strike.

Just as the two were brewing their killing blow, rumbling vibrations suddenly came rolling toward them. Everyone could not help but freeze.

Wang Ding and the other three also felt the earth tremble. With a brief thought, Wang Ding understood what was happening. These past few days, who knew how many cultivators had come to the Million Earth Abyss and slain too many Formed Bone Demons. They must have provoked a counterattack from powerful existences among the Formed Bone Demons. Now that the commotion here was so great, it had surely drawn all the nearby Formed Bone Demons over.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen enormous black shadows rushed out of the tunnel and arrived at the six-person battlefield. Their shrill roars made everyone's whole body go numb.

As soon as the dozen-plus figures arrived, they immediately surrounded the six people in the middle. Seeing this, the six had no choice but to abandon their fight and begin drawing closer to one another.

"Yan Yifei, now is not the time for us to fight. Everyone, work together and kill these Formed Bone Demons first. Otherwise, all of us will die here today," Zhang Wenhua said, his expression ugly.

By now, Yan Yifei had also calmed down, his face just as unsightly. "Fine. Kill them all first, then we'll discuss the rest."

Among the dozen-plus Formed Bone Demons, one was especially tall, its entire body glossy black, reaching thirty feet in height. Its eyes glinted coldly as it roared at Yan Yifei and the other five, "Roar!" Then it charged over in a single step, swinging four enormous fists as it brought them down over Yan Yifei's head.

Once that bone demon moved, all the bone demons immediately launched a charge at the six together. The earth trembled. Among the six, the four without spiritual weapons in hand instantly turned pale. One had to know that what each of them used were top-grade Magic Tools. In a one-on-one fight, they might not necessarily lose to these Formed Bone Demons, but facing the siege of so many bone demons, the four could not help feeling deep despair.

The six formed a battle formation, each using every ounce of strength they had. They controlled their Magic Tools and shielded themselves so tightly that not even water could seep through. Among them, Yan Yifei and Zhang Wenhua each drove their own spiritual weapons and smashed them toward the charging Formed Bone Demons. The power of spiritual weapons was no empty boast. Yan Yifei achieved success with one strike. The flames on the Heavenly Fire Bead were Samadhi True Fire, burning all things, and were precisely the bane of this sort of demon.

A stream of flame struck one charging bone demon and immediately burned it until it howled without end, turning it into charred carbon. But before Yan Yifei could rejoice, that huge, dark Formed Bone Demon had already punched his protective golden light.

With a boom, it sent him flying straight out, and the six-person formation was instantly smashed apart.

Seeing this, Zhang Wenhua did not dare be careless. He still could not let Yan Yifei die right now, so he immediately used the Junhua Sword to force the huge bone demon back.

Enormous blue Sword Qi, carrying a sharp killing intent, came down over the bone demon. The bone demon did not dare take it head-on and retreated, avoiding the Sword Qi.

Yan Yifei had originally thought his Golden Light Daoist Robe would be enough to block that giant demon's attack, but unexpectedly, he had been sent flying by a single punch. Fortunately, he had only suffered light injuries. He hurriedly stood up and ran to Zhang Wenhua's side.

Yan Yifei and Zhang Wenhua suddenly heard two miserable screams. They turned back to look and saw that Yan Yifei's two lackeys had already been torn in half by four Formed Bone Demons. The bone demons were stuffing the two men's corpses into their mouths, their mouths full of fresh blood as they chewed with relish. The sight made both men's scalps tingle. Zhang Wenhua said, "Yan Yifei, you and Junior Brothers Song and Yang go intercept and kill those low-level bone demons. I'll hold back this high-level bone demon."

Although Yan Yifei was displeased with Zhang Wenhua's instructions, he also knew now was not the time to talk about such things. If they kept dragging this out, perhaps everyone really would die here. He immediately brought out the Heavenly Fire Bead and charged toward the bone demons surrounding Yang and Song.