Ambushed on All Sides!

Yang Yu's furious roar rolled like ocean waves on the night wind, carrying thousands of meters in every direction!

At the same time, he plunged like a cannonball onto an open patch of ground over a hundred meters from the apartment building.

Boom!

Amid the thunderous crash, Yang Yu landed firmly on both feet. The tremendous force shattered the concrete beneath him, smashing a crater into the ground!

The instant he landed, Yang Yu sprinted away from the apartment building.

Whoosh—

He raced like an arrow loosed from a bow, covering dozens of meters almost every second. Each footfall shook and shattered the ground, kicking up clouds of gray dust.

In that fleeting moment, he was already about to vanish into the thick darkness of the night!

Naturally, the Ghost Shadow Gate's pursuit force would not let Yang Yu have his way.

Inside Yang Yu's rented apartment, seven acquired human rank experts with powerful auras appeared before the hole in the wall.

"After him!"

A muscular giant of a man roared. His torso was bare, and enormous flaming fist phantoms wreathed his massive fists. Clearly, he was the one who had launched the surprise attack on Yang Yu at the last moment!

Of all the acquired human rank cultivators involved in this assassination attempt, he was the strongest in a head-on fight!

His name was Hong Tao!

He was the Ghost Infant Sect expert most likely to break through to Earth Rank and become a new elder within the next ten years!

Hong Tao gave the order.

Immediately... a crowd of black-clad men and the other six acquired human rank cultivators smashed through the walls and windows, dropped to the ground below, and charged after the fleeing Yang Yu.

In the dark shadows below the building, Elder Xu narrowed his eyes.

He quietly watched Yang Yu flee, his expression still calm and unperturbed... because everything remained within his control.

"What a slippery little eel."

"Running?"

"Let's see how much longer you can run!"

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~~

A chill gust swept past, and Elder Xu's body turned into a streak of azure light, vanishing from the spot.

With his Earth Rank power, once he unleashed his full speed... catching Yang Yu would be effortless, even with the head start!

Earth Rank and Human Tier were only one rank apart.

Yet the difference in power was immense!

Strength, speed, reflexes... the acuity of their senses—every aspect differed severalfold.

Depending on their cultivation methods and the results of their training, that gap could even widen to four or five times, five or six times... or higher still!

At the acquired stage, physical strength was already astonishing.

Double that?

The improvement would be staggering!

Even a slight difference in strength between two acquired experts could seem terrifying to ordinary mortals!

Besides, since he had already laid out an encirclement in advance...

How could Elder Xu have failed to consider the possibility of Yang Yu fleeing?

Under his command, the Ghost Infant Sect disciples had already cast an inescapable net across a broad area around the apartment building!

Escape?

There was absolutely no way to escape alive!

If Yang Yu wanted to survive tonight, he would have to carve a bloody path through life and death with the blade in his hand!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

With a large force pursuing him, Yang Yu fled at full speed... in less than a minute, he had already left his residential neighborhood far behind.

This was the outskirts of the city. Beyond the residential area lay sparsely inhabited wilderness!

Rumble~~~~~~~~

In the distance, the gloomy rain clouds overhead seemed drawn by the astonishing killing intent on the ground. A dazzling bolt of lightning descended, as though it would tear the world apart.

For a second or two, the whole world lit up, followed by an utterly terrifying thunderclap!

Splash!

After the thunder cracked, raindrops the size of beans pounded onto Yang Yu as he ran!

It was raining—

Rain poured from the sky in torrents. In just over ten seconds, it soaked the dirt of the wilderness, turning the ground slick and muddy.

"Damn it!" Yang Yu's expression darkened.

Even the weather was against him. When luck turned bad, nothing went right.

This downpour could not have come at a worse time.

Behind him, the sounds of pursuit drew ever closer.

As he fled, Yang Yu suddenly sensed a terrifying threat erupt a short distance ahead. His sense of danger surged!

Danger!

Killing intent!

An ambush? Yang Yu's pupils contracted. He checked his stride and stopped running.

The instant he stopped...

The ground over a hundred meters ahead suddenly trembled. Then... a terrifying burst of fire shot one or two hundred meters into the sky!

Boom!!

It was a massive explosion!

Even a small mushroom cloud rose into the air...

Goose bumps prickled across Yang Yu's back, and cold sweat broke out all over him. Had he not stopped in time, his speed of dozens of meters per second would probably have carried him straight into the heart of the blast!

An explosion of that magnitude would have left him severely injured, if not dead!

A large force was pursuing him, including experts at the same Human Tier as him... if he suffered serious injuries under these circumstances, his life would be in even greater danger!

"Damn Ghost Infant Sect. They've laid a viciously thorough trap."

Yang Yu scanned the wilderness on either side.

He could faintly sense danger from several directions, prickling against his skin like needles.

There... ambushes were probably waiting in all those places!

He was surrounded on every side.

This was a watertight encirclement...

Yang Yu's thoughts raced, and in an instant, he understood his situation.

"Here, then."

"It's open and deserted here, perfect for a fight to the death... here, I won't have anything holding me back." Yang Yu understood that simply escaping was no longer possible.

To survive this ordeal, he had to carve a bloody path with the battle blade in his hand!

Pitter-patter!

Amid the torrential rain, Yang Yu regulated the energy throughout his body, and the Yama Battle Blade in his hand shone with bloody light once more.

The wait passed in a flash.

In less than ten seconds, the footsteps that had been far away drew close.

A clamor rose.

A large crowd of Ghost Infant Sect disciples charged into view.

Before they even reached him, they raised their guns and opened fire!

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Gunshots rang out in an unbroken barrage, like firecrackers during a festival.

Around Yang Yu, the muddy ground tore apart, spraying black soil... crater after crater appeared as bullets struck with tremendous kinetic force.

"Come on!"

"Kill!" Yang Yu turned and charged toward the Ghost Infant Sect disciples. The Yama Battle Blade danced wildly in his hand, shredding countless incoming bullets from the metallic storm.

Amid the hail of bullets, a few slipped through his guard. Driven by terrifying kinetic force, they struck Yang Yu directly.

The power of Yang Yu's full set of Mortal Shedding Treasures activated completely.

Ring after ring of multicolored defensive light rippled outward!

The instant the bullets entered those defensive lights, they seemed to sink into a mire.

They smashed through barrier after barrier, but after passing through two or three layers of defensive light, their power was greatly diminished... by the time they finally struck Yang Yu's body, they could only cause him some pain, not injure him!

The set of Mortal Shedding Treasures Yang Yu had bought at great expense proved crucial.

His defensive power was now four or five times what it had been before his visit to the Ten Thousand Layers Tower!

Otherwise, this storm of bullets alone would have given him plenty of trouble.

"Kill!"

Soon, Yang Yu broke through the layers of gunfire and finally reached the crowd.

He was like a savage tiger.

The next instant, he leaped with all his strength, becoming a streak of bloody light as he plunged straight into their ranks!

"Surround him and kill him!"

At the same time, a furious roar rang out from within the crowd!

Seven mighty Human Tier experts stopped concealing their auras and sprang into action together!

Their auras erupted as they launched fierce attacks at Yang Yu from three directions!

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