Boom!
With a resonant roar of surging blood energy, Xu Mu’s physique bulged, his muscles expanding. He charged towards Wei Daolin, a hundred meters away, like a tiger pouncing.
“Who dares!” Instantly, Wei Daolin’s eyes snapped open. He saw Xu Mu, his eyes streaming with a dark golden divine radiance, charging towards him with a clenched fist, exuding immense power.
This punch was perilous.
Wei Daolin’s first reaction was to flee, or at least evade. He couldn’t take the punch head-on, so he immediately tried to get up, but found he couldn’t move from the bamboo chair.
A shadow, darker than the night, had ensnared his own, rendering him immobile.
“Soul-Seizing Curse!” Wei Daolin’s eyes turned completely black, his whites replaced by an inky darkness. With a furious roar, a towering, five-zhang-tall ghost with white, long hair materialized behind him. Gaunt and holding a scythe, it lunged towards Xu Mu’s fist with a fierce whistle.
At that moment, the long-haired ghost swung its scythe as if to sever Xu Mu’s soul.
Xu Mu’s pupils constricted. Without hesitation, he employed the Innate Eight Trigrams technique to alter his position, then used his divine soul power combined with fire arts to instantly incinerate the ghostly apparition.
“What!” Wei Daolin’s face paled in shock. He hadn’t expected his ability to be so easily countered.
Simultaneously, Qian Qian’s figure emerged from the side, cutting off their escape route!
“So it was you, you scoundrel!” Wei Daolin roared in enraged disbelief. Terrifying black ghostly energy surged skyward, eclipsing the moonlight. He transformed into a formless mist and instantly enveloped Qian Qian.
Qian Qian’s expression turned grave. His bow and arrows, imbued with the energy of heaven and earth, shot out instantly, but were all corroded and dissolved by the mist. Even the hardest metal couldn’t withstand it.
Let alone his physical body.
Therefore, Qian Qian’s first thought was to escape, knowing he couldn’t counter Wei Daolin’s ability. Going forward would only be suicide.
But there was no choice. Xu Mu had asked him to hold Wei Daolin, so he couldn’t let him get away.
“Wei Daolin, today is your death day!” Qian Qian roared, mobilizing all his abilities and channeling them to his skin. He then charged fearlessly into the mist, attempting to buy time for Xu Mu with his own body.
“No!” Xu Mu’s pupils constricted. He instantly used the Lian Shan technique to lift stones from the ground, separating Qian Qian’s body from Wei Daolin.
Qian Qian was saved, but Wei Daolin also broke free from their encirclement.
He glanced back at Xu Mu, then let out a sinister roar: “Enemy attack!”
The cry was piercing, like a ghost’s wail, turning Qian Qian’s face ashen.
Xu Mu, realizing their assassination attempt had failed, quickly rushed to Qian Qian’s side, grabbed him, and fled.
At this moment, countless ability users, Wei Daolin’s subordinates, with immensely powerful auras, poured out from all directions around the Earth Spirit Spring.
“Two of you dare to come and kill me? You won’t be leaving today! All of you, stay here!” Wei Daolin manifested his true form, spat out a gray pearl, and hurled it to the ground. A colossal monster with a ghost’s head and an elephant’s body then emerged from the space.
Wei Daolin mounted the monster, and leading countless ability users, charged towards Xu Mu and Qian Qian.
“Everyone, give it your all! Those are Wan Yan Zhenyao’s people, don’t let them escape!” Wei Daolin bellowed. A swarm of ability users surged forward, unleashing a torrent of diverse abilities that illuminated the dark night sky.
“Careful!”
Xu Mu, dragging Qian Qian, narrowly dodged the impact of a fire dragon. However, his own shirt was incinerated by the terrifying explosion.
At this moment, Qian Qian finally regained his senses and also exerted his full strength to flee.
“There’s trouble, hurry back!” Not far from the Earth Spirit Spring’s eye, the Four Great Ghost Generals who had left with Wen Boye heard the distant sounds of fighting and their faces changed drastically. They immediately turned back.
“Hey, you!” Wen Boye’s expression froze. He then realized something had gone wrong and, after some hesitation, also ordered his subordinates to take him back to the spring eye.
In their coming and going, Xu Mu and Qian Qian ran straight into them.
“It’s you!” Wen Boye exclaimed, staring at Xu Mu with sheer terror.
He would never forget the figure that descended from the heavens and crushed his waist bones when he was at his most arrogant and his aura was at its peak.
Now, Xu Mu had reappeared before him.
Wen Boye dared not move.
But the Four Great Ghost Generals dared. They glanced at Wei Daolin, then at Qian Qian and Xu Mu, instantly understanding what had transpired. They immediately transformed into four streaks of black shadow and lunged forward.
“Get lost!”
Xu Mu gritted his teeth, blocking Qian Qian. Dao Yuan climbed onto his arm, and wisps of death energy followed his sweeping punches, instantly repelling three of the Four Great Ghost Generals dozens of meters back.
The remaining one was, in a flash, had his arm restrained by Qian Qian and was then kicked away.
Xu Mu and Qian Qian exchanged glances, then, ignoring Wen Boye, continued their escape.
“Damn it, chase them!” Wei Daolin, seeing the Ghost Generals fail to stop Xu Mu, became furious and somewhat unnerved.
Even he wouldn’t find it easy to face the encirclement of the Four Great Ghost Generals. Yet Xu Mu had just managed to repel three with a single punch, indicating his physical strength was definitely superior to his own.
“Lord Ghost King, he’s the guy I told you about who descended from the sky! He’s the one who crushed my waist!” At this moment, Wen Boye hurriedly spoke, informing Wei Daolin of Xu Mu’s identity, at which point Wei Daolin instantly understood.
“So that’s it. He chose to ally with Wan Yan Zhenyao to come and kill me, eh?” Wei Daolin’s expression turned cold as he pursued Xu Mu.
Wan Yan Zhenyao’s influence was something even he had to fear. It was for this reason he had not yet acted against Qian Qian.
But now, his ranks had gained a powerhouse of equal caliber, which was a serious problem that could threaten his position.
“He absolutely cannot be allowed to return.”
With this thought, Wei Daolin took out an ancient sheepskin scroll from his embrace, bit his finger, and dripped blood onto it.
A five-pointed star burst forth with evil darkness. A ghostly howl emanated from the sheepskin scroll, like an abyss, making all the ability users present feel their scalps tingle and their limbs go weak, as if they were about to die. Even Wen Boye, who was not involved in the fighting, trembled.
However, this negative fear quickly vanished. Countless ghostly figures surged from the sheepskin scroll and attached themselves to the bodies of the hundreds of ability users present. They all felt an energy surge into their bodies, making them more agile, their abilities stronger, and their thirst for blood greater.
“A collective buff ability, truly troublesome,” Xu Mu sighed inwardly. He could only watch helplessly as the speed of the pursuing enemies increased and their abilities grew fiercer, but he had no effective way to block them.
He could only step on the Xun trigram and desperately drag Qian Qian as they fled.
“This is dangerous now.” Qian Qian, pulled by Xu Mu and borrowing his speed, couldn’t shake off their pursuers. The distance between them was actually shrinking.
He now regretted not persuading Xu Mu. If they truly wanted to kill Wei Daolin, they should have brought more people, at least deployed the entire army!
“If we’re caught, you run first. I have my own ways of surviving,” Xu Mu said to Qian Qian with a grave expression.
“You have ways to survive? Don’t joke!” Qian Qian looked at Xu Mu helplessly. “That’s over three hundred people, at our level. How will you survive?”
“With my blade.” Xu Mu replied silently in his heart.
He glanced back at the pursuing army, a hint of killing intent gradually appearing in his eyes.
The Demon Bow was powerful but also consumed a lot of energy. He couldn’t deal with so many enemies simultaneously.
Therefore, if they really couldn’t escape, his blade would have to be drawn.
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