"Skinny Monkey, this...?! Isn't this going way too far?!"
Shi Hao backed into a corner, swallowed, and watched the crowd of old men tugging at their collars, their eyes bloodshot.
Shi Hou grabbed the gray stone knife from the chopping block and bellowed, "Little One, don't hesitate! Quick! Open fire!"
Shi Hao's scalp prickled.
These were more than thirty of the Heaven Mending Pavilion's most formidable old fossils. If they really went on a rampage, the two boys would have more than they could handle.
But the arrow was already on the string. Without further hesitation, he snatched up Kang, aimed the pig's snout ahead, seized the pig's tail with his right hand, and yanked hard.
"Oink!"
Kang let out a shriek.
Blue light blazed.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"
A dense barrage of eerie blue projectiles strafed the entire courtyard indiscriminately.
Elder Xiong Fei, charging at the front, had barely pulled off half his outer robe when three blasts of blue light struck him head-on. The runes all over his body abruptly stalled, and his limbs went rigid. He crashed flat onto the bluestone paving, white foam spilling from his mouth.
The Pavilion Master had the highest cultivation. He dodged two blasts of blue light and tried to raise a defense, but Shi Hao seized the opening and shook the pig's tail furiously, concentrating seven or eight blasts on the Pavilion Master's face.
Thud.
The Pavilion Master went down too.
In just three breaths, more than thirty old fossils tormented by unbearable heat lay in neat formation on the ground, twitching together.
"Come help!"
Shi Hou wiped away his sweat, strode over to the Pavilion Master, bent down, and grabbed the back of his collar, dragging him onto the enormous meat-chopping block beside the Black Pot.
Though his body was paralyzed, the Pavilion