Chapter 1443: Offering a Helping Hand! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”Save me! Save me! I don't want to die here…” A soft cry for help came from nearby.
Wang Chong was still controlling the blades in the air when he heard this plea for help and turned his head.
Not far away, a hole had been cut out of the wall by countless metal blades. It was littered with mangled bodies, and in the center of these bodies kneeled a beautiful female martial artist, her hair in disarray and her face panicked.
Her body was trembling fiercely as if she was immersed in a most terrifying nightmare.
Any martial artist who could reach this depth was no weakling, and that beautiful female martial artist was clearly a person with profound cultivation. Alas, in the face of the endless attacks from the metal storm, even the greatest cultivation level and the largest reserves of energy would be consumed.
Swishswishswish! Piercing whistles came from above as numerous blades once more shot down, and their attack range included that female martial artist who was trembling all over in fear, unaware of what was going on around her.
If no one intervened, she was doomed.
But a moment later, Wang Chong opened his hand, and those blades that were about to hurtle toward the woman immediately began to collide with each other. An invisible barrier seemed to form around the woman, making it so that those blades would fly past her and strike the wall ten-some meters away.
With a thunderous explosion, the walls for ten-some meters around the woman were pulverized, sending gravel and rocks tumbling into the depths and shaking the surrounding walls.
These fierce explosions finally shook the female martial artist out of her terror. She raised her head and saw Wang Chong's group above her.
”Save me!”
The woman's eyes erupted with an intense desire to live.
Without another word, Wang Chong borrowed power from the Energy Condensation Pearl to unleash a massive pull that brought the woman to his side.
”If you don't want to die, swallow this pill and recover as quickly as possible. I can only help you for a moment. You will have to rely on yourself for the rest.”
Wang Chong's voice resounded in her ear as he offered her a pill.
”Th-thank you…”
Having just recovered from her shock, the woman could hardly speak. She was still shaking as she took the pill and managed to get it into her mouth. She swiftly began to adjust her breathing, and a few moments later, a ruddy color had returned to her face.
Wang Chong simply grabbed her and rushed off in pursuit of his master.
These waves of metallic assaults inflicted damage that none of them could have ever imagined. As Wang Chong's group of three advanced, the smooth walls had been turned into an uneven and devastated mess decorated with human guts and limbs.
A rough estimate placed the number of people killed by the first wave in the thousands.
At this moment, many people understood what the stele meant by 'no gate to fortune or disaster'.
”Ah! My leg!”
”How could this be? I don't want to die here!”
”Save me! Hurry and save me!”
As Wang Chong pressed forward, he saw many bereft martial artists around him. These people had managed to survive the first wave purely through luck, but the shadow of death doggedly pursued them and they might die at any moment.
As long as Wang Chong saw one, he would do his best to save them and bring them to his side.
Wang Chong's group had started off with just three people, but after advancing several hundred meters, they had added forty to fifty unaffiliated martial artists to their number.
Four hundred meters, five hundred meters, eight hundred meters, one thousand meters… at this point, they were now eight to nine thousand meters from the surface. The air at this depth was extremely thin and there was no light to speak of. Eyes were useless here, and one could only rely on one's senses and Psychic Energy to advance.
Even so, those metal blades continued to howl overhead like sharks looking for prey, and they showed no signs of stopping.