"Fellow Daoists, today is the day to slay demons and vanquish evil! Don't let these wicked Unorthodox Cultivators who slaughtered mortal people escape! Charge with me!"
"Kill them and avenge the suffering people of Geng Lian Island!"
"You thieving dogs, give my clansmen their lives back!"
In a corner of the West Sea, in a trading company's market ward within a city formerly under Jade Lang Mountain's rule, more than a dozen Qi Refining Realm cultivators had gathered for various reasons and jointly attacked the trading company members there.
The trading company had hired numerous nonhuman warriors and sea demon guards. A black tide surged as great numbers of shrimp soldiers and crab generals formed ranks like an army, defending the place with its existing arrays and restrictions.
Meanwhile, the cultivators loyal to the trading company had already been organized and joined the battle against the attackers.
Most of the attackers were grassroots rogue cultivators, but there were also elite Night Watchers from the Misty Wave Kingdom among them. Several worked together to unleash the waves, raising an enormous surge straight from the sea and driving it like a wall toward the island's embankment.
Boom!
Amid a thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth, towering waves struck the shore and sent spray flying in all directions.
Someone rode the momentum and leaped inside, descending like a tiger among sheep and cutting through the shrimp soldiers and crab generals as though mowing grass.
More than a dozen flying swords flashed toward the attacker in multicolored light, slashing down out of thin air.
The attacker reacted swiftly, leaping aside to dodge before swinging a longsword to block them all amid a ringing clatter.
One of the trading company's Steward Elders watched from afar, standing there with a deep frown.
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