Mighty warrior

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Splinters flew from the shattered door and embedded themselves all around the room, a testament to the tremendous force they carried.

Under the moonlight, Lu Mingyue could make out the intruder's appearance without even releasing her Divine Sense.

He was an enormous man two meters tall, powerfully built and covered in pitch-black iron armor that exposed only his eyes, giving him the appearance of a puppet.

"A Mighty Warrior?"

Lu Mingyue narrowed her eyes. This armored giant was dressed just like the corpse she had handled on her first day, and afterward, she had asked Deng Yuan about these unusual people.

Mighty Warriors were deathsworn trained by the cultivation Aristocratic Clans of Taiping City. Every one of them possessed the strength to fight cultivators below the sixth layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

The strongest among them could even contend with cultivators at the sixth layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

The Mighty Warrior whose corpse Lu Mingyue had handled that day had been a deathsworn trained by a cultivation Aristocratic Clan. He had taken his masters' place on the Deathmatch Platform against a cultivator.

Although he had died, the cultivator had not come away unscathed either, suffering considerable injuries. That cultivator would not dare leave Taiping City anytime soon, or the cultivation Aristocratic Clan would easily kill them!

This showed that Mighty Warriors were more than mere deathsworn.

They truly possessed the strength to threaten cultivators!

"Kill!"

The moment Lu Mingyue recognized what he was, the Mighty Warrior spotted her. He charged up to her in a few strides and swung the Mountain-Splitting Axes in his hands down at her with tremendous force.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Before the two Mountain-Splitting Axes even landed, the flagstones beneath the Mighty Warrior's feet shattered inch by inch. Clearly, he intended to kill Lu Mingyue in a single blow.

"I am a corpse collector of the City Patrol Office! Which Household's Mighty Warrior are you? How dare you attack me?"

Lu Mingyue rebuked him sharply while forming a hand seal, and a fireball burst from her mouth.

"Boom-"

The fireball instantly swelled to over a meter across. Although it failed to ignite the Mighty Warrior's iron armor, it made him instinctively close his eyes.

In that brief moment, his descending axes faltered, and Lu Mingyue immediately changed her hand seal again.

"Splash-"

The next instant, a mirror formed from flowing water appeared before Lu Mingyue, blocking the Mighty Warrior's descending axes.

"Bam! Bam!"

Despite the tremendous force behind the axes, the softness of Lu Mingyue's Water Mirror Shield overcame their hardness. They sank into it before rebounding, striking the Mighty Warrior's faceplate heavily.

"Clang! Clang!"

Although this Mighty Warrior was powerful enough to hold a pass against ten thousand ordinary men single-handedly, the recoil of his axes still left his head spinning. He staggered backward, losing his chance to press the attack against Lu Mingyue.

And Lu Mingyue's next counterattack arrived.

"Wooden Caltrops!"

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"

Wild grass sprouted madly through the cracks in the flagstones shattered beneath the Mighty Warrior's feet, binding him tightly in the blink of an eye. Though he flailed his arms and snapped stalk after stalk, his movements were still restricted.

"Boom-"

Just then, the fireball Lu Mingyue had spat out at the start suddenly expanded to over ten feet across and engulfed the Mighty Warrior, igniting the grass covering him.

Among the five elements of heaven and earth, wood fed fire, so Wooden Caltrops increased the power of Lu Mingyue's Fireball Technique by more than a single level.

At that very moment, Lu Mingyue formed another hand seal and cast a new spell.

"Wind Array Wall!"

Of the spells she had obtained from Guo Yang and his companion, only Wind Array Wall was not a crooked, unorthodox art, and it was the first one Lu Mingyue had practiced.

Although only a few days had passed and Lu Mingyue had not attained much proficiency in Wind Array Wall, she had gained some grasp of its workings.

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"

As Lu Mingyue formed her seals and cast the spell, swirling gusts appeared around the Mighty Warrior, raising the flames' power another level.

"Aah!"

Although this Mighty Warrior was a deathsworn trained by a cultivation Lineage, he was no block of wood insensible to life, death, and pain. Enveloped in roaring flames, the iron armor he wore finally failed to withstand the layered power of Lu Mingyue's spells. It roasted him like a furnace, drawing shrill screams of agony.

"Go!"

Seeing that he could no longer resist, Lu Mingyue immediately formed another seal, directing stalks of wild grass to bind him before flinging him out of the room into the courtyard.

The instant he landed in the courtyard, more wild grass sprouted and buried him beneath it.

Wood fed the blaze, and wind strengthened its fury!

"Aah!"

"Sizzle-sizzle-sizzle-"

This Mighty Warrior was probably strong enough to fight a cultivator at the third layer of Qi Refining. Lu Mingyue, however, had already broken through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining. Her unending stream of spells caught him completely off guard, stripping him of any chance to resist.

The scorched smell of roasting flesh wafted over. Although the Mighty Warrior's iron armor had spirit-sealing stone incorporated into it, it too lost its ability to withstand spells under the roasting flames.

Only a few breaths had passed before Lu Mingyue swept him with her Divine Sense and confirmed that he was utterly dead.

"Boom!"

But just then, another fierce gust rushed toward Lu Mingyue from her left.

"Hm?"

Lu Mingyue's brows drew down. In fact, the moment she released her Divine Sense, she had detected this second Mighty Warrior.

Thus, when this second Mighty Warrior thrust his sword at her, Lu Mingyue had already finished forming her seal and pointed at him from a distance.

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"

Wild grass grew madly in the courtyard, seeking to stop this Mighty Warrior.

Yet his strength gave Lu Mingyue a slight inward shock.

"Slash! Slash! Slash!"

With a single turn of the palm-wide longsword in his hand, he sliced through all the grass reaching to bind him. He rushed up to Lu Mingyue with incredible speed, his greatsword sweeping with the momentum to mow down a thousand troops, intent on sending her head flying.

"Water Mirror Shield!"

Lu Mingyue changed her hand seal, repeating her earlier trick to form a shield of flowing water before her. This time, however, the shield could not stop the sweeping greatsword.

"Riiip-"

"Splash-"

The greatsword swept through, shattering the Water Mirror Shield instantly without even giving Lu Mingyue a chance to cast another spell!

No! This man can contend with a cultivator at the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

Lu Mingyue was deeply shocked. Only now did she fully understand what Deng Yuan had meant by those words.

Even among mortals, there were those who could slaughter immortals!

Because right now, she was the immortal about to be slaughtered by a mortal!

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