Chapter 578: Challenge(II) (1/2)

Chapter 578: Challenge(II)

“Out of the question!” Without waiting for Long Haochen to reply, Chen Ying’er immediately rejected decisively. “Grandmother, we are already a Titled Demon Hunt Squad. You don’t have the authority to stop us anymore. I must follow Boss and the others, and go complete missions with them.”

Chen Hongyu’s eyes flashed, taking a deep tone, “Understood. Do as you please, but you will all have to prove your abilities of self-preservation to me for that, with your own strength.”

Chen Ying’er stared blankly, she didn’t expect her grandfather to give such a delightful response, “How should we prove it?”

Chen Hongbo declared, “As long as your comrades and you can manage to defeat me, I will admit that you are capable enough to defend yourselves.”

“That’s impossible!” Chen Ying’er immediately understood that her grandfather was telling them the same message in a roundabout way! On the surface, he agreed, but actually wanted to make things difficult for them in another way. Chen Hongbo was no one else but one of the top veterans of the Temple Alliance, a formidable Psychic Master of the third rank, whose spiritual energy reaches 300,000.

Of course, spiritual energy is in no way a decisive factor of strength for a summoner, because they mostly rely on their summons, making their spiritual energy their certain backup force. So actually, the Spiritual Temple is the one who has the most powerhouses of the ninth step out of the six. But their fighting strength isn’t the greatest: summoners ordinarily only train spiritual energy alongside of their summoning magic, and do not focus on any other skills or abilities. That makes their spiritual energy cultivation naturally more efficient.

Simply said, if Chen Hongyu with his 300,000 spiritual energy were to face Long Tianying who reaches 200,000, he would undoubtedly face defeat. But if that was in the battlefield, while facing myriads of enemies, Chen Hongyu would undoubtedly show far more use than Long Tianying.

Chen Hongyu declared, “Since things are that way, don’t think of leaving. Do you think I don’t know of your little scheme? If I let you return to your team, you’ll immediately go with them to Yang Wenzhao’s rescue.”

Yang Wenzhao? Long Haochen couldn’t help but feel alert hearing this name. At the time of their Demon Hunt Selection Competition, Yang Wenzhao, Duan Yi, and he were known as the three great hopes of the Knight Temple’s younger generation. But he hadn’t met Yang Wenzhao for a long time. And that Yang Wenzhao was not only Chen Ying’er’s fiancé, but also the grandson of the Divine Knight of Defense and Planning, Yang Haohan.

“Ying’er, what’s the matter? What about Yang Wenzhao?” Long Haochen asked Chen Ying’er in a haste.

Hearing his question, Chen Ying’er’s eyes reddened immediately, “He… has been caught by the demons. It’s unclear whether he’s still alive at this time.”

Originally, Yang Wenzhao and Duan Yi’s Demon Hunt Squad entered into demon territory to fight in the enemy rear after the start of the Holy War.

They were ranked among the best Demon Hunt Squad of the younger generations. As a whole, the talents forming their team weren’t much inferior to Haochen’s team. Having gone through incessant tempering in the battles against demons, their strength made enormous progress. And Yang Wenzhao and Duan Yi showed good cleverness, meticulous thinking and appropriate commanding abilities. So from the beginning, they have been performing actively in demon territory, and completed quite a good amount of challenging missions.

As time passed and their real combat abilities increased, this Demon Hunt Squad followed in the wake of Long Haochen’s group, becoming a commander grade Demon Hunt Squad.

Although they didn’t follow the same path, the Demon Hunt Squads of Long Haochen, Luc Xi, Yang Wenzhao, and Duan Yihad all already reached the commander grade by this day. Their four Demon Hunt Squads having all been established for less than five years, this was simply a miracle in the history of the Demon Hunt Squads.

But Yang Wenzhao’s and Duan Yi’s commander grade Demon Hunt Squads finally had an accident.

The Holy War had already gone on for close to two years, and they were fighting in demon territory all this time, returning almost only once a year. But a short time before, they attacked the demon troops in charge of transportation of supplies, with fully prepared plans and battle arrangements. Yet that absolutely safe mission ended up in failure, for the simple reason that they had the bad luck to encounter a demon god.

Speaking of which, this was related to Long Haochen. This demon god that they encountered was prepared to join the front, to reinforce the Exorcist Mountain Pass.

Of their troops stationed at the human forts, the Exorcist Mountain Pass had the weakest arrangement of demon gods, their commander was after all the Emo-demon god Sytry. At the time Long Haochen’s group came to the Exorcist Mountain Pass, contributing to killing two demon gods, Sytry also sustained significant wounds. In such circumstances, the demon side naturally became concerned with the situation implicating the Exorcist Mountain Pass, and immediately dispatched a demon god to reinforce the demon force assigned to the Exorcist Mountain Pass.

This demon god was ranked rather high, being among the top 24. Just so, a veteran amongst the demon powerhouses.