Chapter 131: Surrender To Me (1/2)

”Hm”, Kuang Li looked at the direction of where Zuo Er was.

”So he wants to start now”, he said.

Walking towards the formation flag, he reached out to remove it from it's position. Doing so would render the barriers ineffective and allow the forces of the Tao Feng to converge on the mountain.

”Stop! Don't do this!” the disciples begged.

They could not do anything to stop him, unable to even move. Kuang Li paid no attention to their pleas.

Suddenly, he turned away from the flag and stepped back, avoiding a wind needle that was aimed for his head. There was a faint whistling sound that came and passed. Following the first attack, Kuang Li was bombarded with wave of a hundred of them.

He crossed his arms and formed a golden bagua in front of him. The bagua circle acted like an impenetrable wall as the needles bounced off like pebbles.

”Get out here!” he shouted out, ”There's no point in hiding, I know who you are!”

He looked around him, through the many trees that surrounded him. There was only one person that used such a technique, Ming Yue!

This girl who he had not seen in his life, never heard of before. Younger than him, weaker than him, yet out of all of his opponents, she gave him fear. Why was it so?

He had cultivated and worked his life to achieve the apex of power. Nothing mattered to him in the pursuit of strength, he was barely bothered from having to lie, to betray, to kill. It did not faze him one bit that he was going to destroy the place he's resided in for years. Not even the fact that what he would do could end in endless amounts of bloodshed.

All he cared for was further improving himself, even if it meant having to act despicable.

Now she was in his way. If Kuang Li did not take care of her now, her existence would leave a stain on his soul.

He looked around carefully, trying to determine where she was.

A twig snapped and he immediately turned towards the right. In almost an instant, his face was met with Ming Yue's foot and his body flew several feet. She immediately pinned him to the ground with her sword pressed tightly onto his neck.

In a environment such as this, Ming Yue had the advantage here!

Kuang Li chuckled before laughing wildly.

”Did you think I would not know what you were trying to do?” he grinned at her with his right cheek purple and swollen.

A tooth or two had been knocked out and his face had streaks of blood. Despite this, he was smiling.

”What?” asked Ming Yue.

She turned around and found the flag removed. Then she looked up and watched as the barriers slowly withered away, turning into motes of light.

Looking back at Kuang Li, she found the flag gripped tightly in his hands.

”It's too late!” he said, ”You cannot stop anything.”

Ming Yue turned solemn, this situation had gone out of control. Should she escape?

In that moment of thought, she had lowered her guard and Kuang Li took full advantage of it. He threw her off of him and immediately ran. His objective had been completed, there was no reason to stay any longer. With the flag in his hands, he broke it in half and tossed it away.

Ming Yue turned to chase but stopped, fixing the barrier was more important than catching Kuang Li. As unhappy as she was, she could not give in to her own thoughts.

She rushed back to the disciples in charge of protecting this spot, asking if there was a way to fix it. But fixing such a complex formation was not an easy task.

”The formation flag can be replaced easily but we need one of the elders to personally place the flag. A formation such as this requires a specific method of setting up the barriers”, one of the disciples explained.

If that was all she needed, then all was not lost. After all, she had sent Xiao Yin to alert the elders. But was there enough time to do such a thing?

As for the elders, the arena was in a very tense atmosphere. Zuo Er stood at the center of it all, smiling proudly.