novelonline Chapter 1014 Shao Hou
Chapter 1014 Shao Hou
Chapter 1014 Shao Hou
Sang Chifang's plan of using himself as bait was obviously successful.
If the Blood Profound Guards under his command fought the enemy head-on, they would surely die. Now, taking advantage of the fact that they had killed the Gray Rat Beast King first, causing the beast's internal momentum to become disordered, the three thousand Red Feather Spear Guards could charge in the front and then join forces with the Blood Profound Guards who had regrouped their morale. They could directly defeat a swarm of rats that was ten times their number!
For a moment, Hei Shisan and Bai Feisheng were both in the mood for killing. Facing the rat swarm that was in a state of panic and collapse, the joint army they formed was like a meat grinder, splashing blood all over the sky.
This also gave Xia Jinyu the opportunity to investigate carefully.
"Help me protect the law."
After Xia Jinyu approached the battlefield, he probed into the ground with his fingers again, and then spoke to Xue Wuxia with a serious expression.
Xue Wuxia nodded. She noticed that Xia Jinyu needed to concentrate on exploring the underground maze built by these vicious rats at this moment. If he found a suitable opportunity, he might be able to directly use magic to bury them all.
Then Xue Wuxia stood with the sword in his arms, guarding Xia Jinyu carefully.
During this time, some lone vicious rats attacked her, but they were all killed by her with a single, clean sword.
However, Xia Jinyu, who was exploring with his magic power, looked increasingly ugly.
This made Xue Wuxia frown subconsciously. After the other party took a deep breath and slowly stood up, she hurriedly stepped forward and asked:
"Is it bad?"
"Well, it's more troublesome than expected. First of all, these rats didn't just take the retreat route. I just used my magic power to conduct a long-distance exploration and confirmed that their main force had all moved underground. They chose a battlefield that was most advantageous to them."
"You mean, they didn't dig a tunnel, but took root directly underground? But this wasteland is full of mineral veins, and the underground material is originally very hard. Because the merit chain was unlocked, the hardness has risen to an extremely high level.
It is not easy to open a passage behind, and it is even more difficult to survive underground."
"We still know too little about the abilities of these rats." Xia Jinyu said solemnly, and then a ray of lightning condensed from his fingers. When he pointed it at the ground, the leaping power of thunder seemed to directly blast through the center of the earth, leaving a bottomless black hole in front of him and Xue Wuxia.
"Is this because the hardness of the underground material has changed?"
After Xue Wuxia used the power of his soul to investigate further, he discovered that Xia Jinyu's attack was right at the fork in a passage dug by those vicious rats. The initial thunder force only cleared it, but the remaining force blasted into the bottomless place in one fell swoop.
Xia Jinyu nodded and said:
"Before, at the fourth line of defense, we were too far away from the underground maze opened by these vicious rats, so we couldn't detect that the underground materials around the passage had become shattered at the touch of a button. However, this place is close to the exit they arranged, so the effect of probing is extremely obvious."
“This also means that the rats we are facing can not only move freely underground, but also launch sneak attacks on us at any time. The most troublesome thing is that if they deliberately create a deep pit that suddenly collapses, it may bury tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of our troops in one fell swoop.
Moreover, the entire underground maze passage is surrounded by a layer of light rule power."
"The power of rules? In addition to the Rat King, is there also a seventh-level vicious rat comparable to the Dharma Realm?"
“No, this should be similar to the Silver Winged Rat Guard I encountered before. It is originally level six, or even level five, but because of the tempering of its blood, it can instinctively use some means that are attached with the power of rules. This is the innate talent of the beast itself.
This also means that if I use magic, I can only bury the passage in a very small area, and because it directly changes the hardness of the material under the ground, for these mice, they only need to drill out from the soft soil, and they will hardly be hurt at all. "
"So the countermeasures you anticipated have already failed before they were even deployed."
Xia Jinyu sighed helplessly.
Just as he was about to speak again, his expression suddenly changed, and Xue Wuxia beside him jumped up!
The next second, swarms of ferocious rats rushed out from the ground!
Perhaps it was the lightning from Xia Jinyu just now, or it could be that this place was an indispensable part of the strategic plan of the Wasteland Beast Kingdom. After knowing that a gray rat king had died on the spot, an endless stream of ferocious rats came like a surging wave, rolling up endless dust from the ground, and slapping towards all the enemies on the scene!
“This number is a bit exaggerated.”
Xia Jinyu frowned, his spiritual power had been crushed by the magnificent force that was gathering again!
Finally, he vaguely discovered that within a fifty-mile radius from this place to the depths of the wasteland and desert, countless ferocious rats were gathering and ready to attack, and were rushing towards this location!
There are at least millions of them. What's more troublesome is that another gray rat beast king has begun to take over the ferocious power here. Even the defeated army on the ground that was repelled by the Red Feather Spear Guards and the Blood Black Guards has once again demonstrated its extremely strong combat effectiveness due to the gathering of ferocious power underground!
"We can't defend it with less than 50,000 people at the moment."
Xue Wuxia swung her sword, and the azure sword light was like a falling full moon, killing thousands of ferocious rats in an instant. But even if she was powerful, if she wanted to kill a million ferocious rats by herself, she still needed to swing the same thousand moves!
Not to mention a thousand swords, she would be exhausted of her strength by the enemy's ferocious momentum after only a hundred swords, and then be eaten by these dirty rats and turned into a pile of bones.
"We can't drag it on like this!"
Xue Wuxia took a deep breath and looked at Xia Jinyu with a serious expression. His meaning was very clear. If they continued fighting like this, this place would not be able to be defended at all, and even both of them might die. When it was confirmed that the rats had already dominated the underground, it also meant that they had the mobility to take full advantage.
You can use your fierce power to surround and kill at any time.
Fighting surrounded by a swarm of rats is a completely different concept from Xia Jinyu's previous head-on confrontation with them, and the difficulty of the battle is even greater.
The latter can advance or retreat, and while the fierce force has less impact on himself, he can even fly away directly. But the former, let alone fly, it is extremely difficult for him to even jump!
"It's time to cut it off! Now is not the time for you to hesitate!"
Xue Wuxia was very decisive at this time. She knew that the other party was considering whether he should abandon the Blood Profound Guards and the Red Feather Spear Guards and leave. But now the fierce forces were coming from all directions, so there was no time to think about the gains and losses.
For Xue Wuxia, there are no more than two people in the entire Ghost Market that she cares about. When faced with a crisis that could harm herself, it is impossible for her to be foolish enough to die on the spot for these nominal colleagues.
Then she looked at Xia Jinyu in silence and prepared to drag him away by force.
When she opened the domain again and cleared out all the vicious rats around, her expression became even more solemn, because the domain that had been spreading out was beginning to shrink rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
To be more precise, he had to retreat under the pressure of the ferocious forces all around. Even though this caused thousands or even tens of thousands of ferocious rats to die on the spot, once his territory was destroyed head-on, Xue Wuxia would find it difficult to use this trick again for at least three hours.
Looking at Xia Jinyu who seemed to be lost in thought and whose hands were subconsciously releasing small lightning bolts, Xue Wuxia became angry on the spot.
"(╬◣д◢), can you please change the time to be distracted!"
She held back her left hand and almost gave him a slap in the face.
Xia Jinyu raised his head and said as if he had just come back to life:
"My previous spiritual power was defeated by the evil force and suffered some backlash."
"(▼皿▼#) Your soul is injured! Your ears should not be deaf!"
Xia Jinyu looked at Xue Wuxia who was in a furious state. He did not dare to keep it a secret any longer and said quickly:
"Just now when I used my soul to investigate, I found that the ground was shaking violently."
"(〝▼皿▼)Get to the point!!!" Xue Wuxia slashed out with his sword, and with the field erupting again, a blizzard condensed by sword energy swept out, instantly killing all the vicious rats that gathered around.
But as one group died, another group came to replace them at a faster speed, which made him more irritable, especially when there was Xia Jinyu who acted as if nothing had happened beside him.
I'm really tired of living! I'm not afraid of death!
At this moment, not only was Xue Wuxia's left hand's big pocket about to be out of control, but she also had the urge to directly strike Xia Jinyu with a hundred or eighty swords with the Chao Xi Gui Xia clenched in her right hand!
Xia Jinyu touched the broken snow particles that covered his face. He knew that the sudden change in the celestial phenomena was partly due to Xue Wuxia's mood change.
This time, he really learned his lesson and said bluntly:
"The ground is shaking evenly. The part deep in the desert is shaking, and the direction leading to the entrance to the border of Xuanyang Territory is also shaking!"
"You mean there are reinforcements? But right now there are so many of these vicious rats that they are almost impossible to kill. If there are only a few thousand or tens of thousands of them..."
Xue Wuxia stopped talking before she finished her words, because she heard the sound that Xia Jinyu was talking about, which was the uniform sound of horse hooves, like a shocking wave, rolling up dust and forming a momentum that covered the sky and the sun!
The next second, a dragon roar resounded through the sky!
Breaking free from the cover of dust and sand, Xue Wuxia and Xia Jinyu looked from afar and saw a red dragon tearing a hole in the rat group head-on. Its sharp claws crushed countless rats, and a deafening sound mixed with a pressing storm gushed out of the dragon's mouth!
In a trance, the figure of the red dragon had disappeared, and when he looked carefully, he found that it was a well-equipped cavalry consisting of tens of thousands of people marching towards them!
The leader was a handsome young man wearing a red hair crown and a black fur coat draped over his shoulders, his face full of vigor and vitality!
"Shaohou Army, listen up! Eight Styles in the Well: Quick Fight!"
One of them pulled the reins, and the tall horse with red scales under its crotch neighed, followed by tens of thousands of cavalrymen behind him moving in unison. When the horses' hooves stepped out again, the army of tens of thousands of people seemed to have transformed into the savage dragon again!
The wildly swinging dragon's tail shattered the gathered rats into a bloody rain, and the galloping mighty body crushed to death all the ferocious rats that blocked the way!
It was not until the moment it met up with the Blood Profound Guards that the phantom of the red dragon disappeared again.
"This is truly a rare military genius, Young Marshal Kou Zhong."
Xia Jinyu was still sighing, when Xue Wuxia, who could no longer hold back, threw a big punch to the back of his head.
"(▼皿▼#) You still have the mood to brag, why don't you just join them soon!"
Xia Jinyu nodded repeatedly, then looked at the Shaohou Army behind Kou Zhong with some suspicion. He remembered that when he contacted Di Feijing not long ago, the other party said that in addition to the 70,000 Shaohou Army, he would also send a master to help, and repeatedly asked him to be more considerate.
There were too many things going on at the time, so he didn't ask in detail, but it's conceivable that he was probably a problem child.
Now he suddenly remembered this matter, and he felt infinite curiosity in his heart.
Then his pupils shrank and he turned to look at the sky, only to see death energy so thick that it turned into long black lines gathering above the dark clouds. Against the backdrop of tiny stars, it was almost completely blending into the gray sky!
Then, a half sentence of arrogant and domineering poetry resounded through the sky the moment the hundred-foot-long black sword condensed by death energy fell!
[Why do you laugh at the dragons fighting? My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of God! ]
A burly figure, laughing loudly, rushed into the center of the battlefield like a madman.
With blood flying and flesh torn apart, he used his fingers as swords, attacking without defending, and forcibly charged in front of Xue Wuxia and Xia Jinyu from the outside. His clothes were already torn, and there were countless scratches on his exposed muscles.
But he didn't care at all and first looked at Xue Wuxia with burning eyes.
Then he frowned again and whispered:
"Tsk, woman."
Then his gaze turned to Xia Jinyu, with fighting spirit in his eyes!
Just as he was about to speak, a fifth-level vicious rat suddenly attacked his crotch. He did not retreat or dodge, but kicked it directly with sword energy. Blood spurted out in an instant, and his arrogant face made him look like a living god or devil.
"Damn you, these little bastards deserve to die!"
He licked his lips subconsciously, and the pungent smell of blood made him frown. Then he pulled off the hanging cloth on his body and wiped his face clean with a few strokes.
Then he used an invisible sword energy to break through the body and clear out the rats that were approaching again from all around, and his eyes, filled with more fighting spirit, once again stared at Xia Jinyu.
"The pretty boy told me that there are experts here. Yes, you are really very strong."
"Who are you?" In fact, Xia Jinyu already had some guesses in his mind. To be able to reach the strength of the Dharma Realm at such a young age, it was mostly due to the foundation of the fateful body. And then there were the words "Cao your mother" and "I" one after another, and combined with the fact that Li Shizhou's side was equivalent to the base camp of the fateful body in Wen's novels.
So, the other party could only be that person.
"My name is Guan Mudan, but of course I prefer others to call me the invincible Guan Qi!"
As the words fell, a surging sword intent burst out from his whole body. At the tips of his eyebrows, in his hair, between his fingers, and in the protruding veins under his muscles, every part of his body condensed a beam of powerful sword energy!
The next second, sword energy flew out in all directions, not only chopping dozens of vicious rats that were about to attack him from behind into minced meat, but also encompassing Xia Jinyu and Xue Wuxia as well!
This is the innate invisible sword energy that has truly reached the highest level of perfection and can break through the body!
It is not limited to innate and acquired, nor is it limited to inside and outside the body!
Its name is - Sword Qi!
(End of this chapter)