Chapter 1051 - Balderdash Statements (2/2)

Tang Xiu entered the array step by step and issued his order with a serious expression. The array he just arranged didn’t have attacking power and only had two functions. One was to trap demonic beasts, and the other was to isolate auras from leaking out. After he entered this array, he didn’t proactively attack but just observed the figures of the others as they quickly flew towards the demonic beasts. His divine sword, however, slightly rose and hovered above his hand.

Killing these demonic beasts was not his only purpose since he was using them to train his sect’s disciples so as to make them grow faster.

While observing with rapt attention, he occasionally acted whenever a disciple was in a crisis. Although he didn’t kill the demonic beasts straightly, he left it to the disciple to kill them after striking a heavy blow to it. Nevertheless, the person he had to help most often was the ten-years-old Gu Yin, who still had an appalling combat sense and skills, which led her to a perilous situation every so often even despite her mid-stage Golden Core cultivation.

Having gone through a lot of fighting, however, Gu Yin’s practical experience was also progressing rapidly. She was even able to kill two demonic beasts when half of the sixty-plus demonic beasts had been killed, despite the fact that she herself had many wounds, and traces of bloodstain could be seen on the corner of her mouth.

Whoosh…

Tang Xiu instantly appeared at the side of a disciple of his sect. As his sword cleaved the demonic beast into two halves, he hurriedly reached out to support the nearly falling disciple. This particular disciple left him with a deep impression since he was one among the few that rarely needed him to act.

At this time, this disciple had been seriously injured. His back was badly injured and his clothes were drenched by his own blood, while he also suffered a serious internal injury. If Tang Xiu didn’t help him, he would’ve died under the claws of the demonic beasts a moment ago.

“Take this!”

Taking out a Holy Healing pill and handing it over to him, Tang Xiu then straightly grabbed his hand and took him outside of the array to heal.

Puff…

“KILL…”

Blood was splashed to accompany the brutal slaughter, creating a dreadful scene.

The following battle lasted for a long time. But in just nearly half an hour, 12 disciples were gravely injured and Tang Xiu had to escort them out, while the rest finally killed the last demonic beast.

Of the dozens of people, only Tang Xiu was not injured, while the rest were soaked in blood and each had varying degrees of injuries. Some were serious and some only had minor injuries.

Tang Xiu then looked around and saw Xue Sha coming towards him. He nodded to him and ordered. “Collect all the Demon Cores and their corpses. We may have arranged a geomancy array here, but if any demonic beast with higher wisdom comes, it would still be able to detect something amiss with this place. That’s why we need to retreat fast and return to the encampment to cultivate and recuperate.”

“Understood!” Xue Sha nodded and began collecting Demon Cores and demonic beasts’ corpses.

Soon after, Tang Xiu broke the geomancy array and used a spell to wash everyone’s bodies. He then led them back to the periphery of the Himalayas. On the way back, they bumped into several waves of fierce beasts and even had many encounters with other groups of two or three demonic beasts, although they were able to easily clean them up.

Half an hour later.

Two distressed figures suddenly appeared in the valley—Hun Sen and Jiang Shuisheng—whose bodies were now decorated with many wounds. The latter even had a visible bloody wound on his torn back which he, fortunately, had stopped the bleeding and didn’t pose a big problem.

“Goddammit! How the hell does that surnamed Tang move so fast? We’ve been pursuing them and yet we couldn’t even catch up with their shadows until now?!” Hun Sen cursed angrily after spitting out saliva mixed with his blood.

A scowl was also apparent on Jiang Shuisheng’s face. “We can’t say that they are that fast, per se. It’s just this mountain is so damn big that we’ve been pursuing them in the wrong direction several times. But I admit that they do have some abilities. They should’ve killed some demonic beasts given the traces we saw from the places we passed by.”

“Heh, do we kill a fewer number of demonic beasts following them?” Hun Sen sneered. “We killed 16! One of them was even on par with cultivators at the mid-stage of Golden Core. Fortunately, you’re at the Golden Core Stage yourself, while I still have my clan’s divine weapon—otherwise, we’d have died here.”

“True that.” Jiang Shuisheng nodded. “Let’s stop pursuing them, alright? Maybe they’re already in the stomach of those demonic beasts. Anyways, let’s just hurry and find a hidden spot to hide and heal ourselves. Then, we’ll return immediately…”

His speech came to an abrupt stop and a look of panic filled his eyes. He looked at the valley in the distance where dozens of demonic beasts appeared, apparently rushing to the place where the bloody smell fluttered.

‘The smell of blood?!’

‘How can there be the smell of blood here? Did a battle occur here previously? Like, between some humans and demonic beasts?’

‘Was it Tang Xiu?’