Chapter 44 Escaping with Hu Shenwei (1/2)
”Stop him!” Nanhong Yechang shouted from behind Hu Shenwei.
This order was directed towards the demon who had been taking on Lu Tianzi. Right now, he was the only one standing between Hu Shenwei and the rest of the team.
However, instead of acting as instructed, the demon actually dodged to the side in panic, allowing Hu Shenwei to pass by freely!
Even Hu Shenwei was surprised as he directly ran past the demon.
”What are you doing?!” Nanhong Yechang roared in rage.
As if it was not enough that the demon still had not beaten this bunch of Essence Building realm martial artists after so long, the demon actually dared to disobey his orders?
But at that moment, Nanhong Yechang's eyes suddenly sharpened in suspicion. After taking a second look, Nanhong Yechang noticed that the demon's breathing was erratic, as though he had just been straining himself in combat!
He actually ended up in such a state against a bunch of Essence Building realm human martial artists?
Nanhong Yechang was clear on the strength of his subordinate, and the demon was no weakling.
If even he managed to end up like this against a bunch of Essence Building realm martial artists, then that meant the human martial artists probably had more up their sleeves than he thought!
With that in mind, Nanhong Yechang stopped to give the group of humans in front of him a good lookover, just in time to see Hu Shenwei rejoin the ranks of his team.
”Are you guys all right?” Hu Shenwei asked in concern immediately after rejoining them.
”We are fine for now,” Instructor Nie broke out of his daze and answered, but quickly turned his attention to the huge gash on Hu Shenwei's back. ”But what about you? Your wound looks serious.”
”That is not important. Right now, we need to focus on getting out of here!” Hu Shenwei turned around to face the demons.
”Give it up already! None of you are going to get out of here alive!” Nanhong Yechang brandished his sword as he faced Hu Shenwei confidently.
The calm and composure from before could no longer be seen on his face. In fact, thanks to the attack from the paper talisman before, he seemed to be in an even more miserable state than the injured Hu Shenwei.
Still, his current strength could not be underestimated.
Nanhong Yechang pointed his sword towards the group of human martial artists as he drove his Slaughter Essence to the extreme.
As if responding to his call, a gust promptly picked up around him, causing his clothes and hair to sway in the wind. The trees rustled and the fallen leaves were pushed away, clearing up a small space around him where no fallen leaves or twigs could profane.
Lu Tianzi could feel power surging up from within Nanhong Yechang, as though it was a volcano right about to erupt!
Without a doubt, the next attack would be extremely dangerous!
”This has gone far enough! With this, it shall all end!” Nanhong Yechang sneered. ”Be honoured, you bunch of human trash! When you go to hell, you will at least be able to boast that you died at the hands of my strongest skill, Blades of Darkness!”
With that, Nanhong Yechang raised his sword up high.
At this moment, Lu Tianzi could feel all the power within Nanhong Yechang travelling up to the very tip of his sword.
”Support me!” Hu Shenwei stepped in front valiantly, raising his sword as he braced for the incoming attack.
Every human martial artist stepped behind him, channelling their Spiritual Essence as they prepared for the incoming attack!
”Die!” Nanhong Yechang slashed down with a loud roar.
A dark light flashed at the tip of his sword, drawing a black line in the air that followed the trajectory of the slash.
This black line did not dissipate.
On the contrary, it materialised before erupting towards the human martial artists. Just like its name, the projectile was like a blade of darkness that headed straight for them!
It looked like a simple attack, but the human marial artists were not nearly foolish enough to underestimate an attack that Nanhong Yechang had such confidence in.
”Here it comes!” Hu Shenwei shouted as he slashed forward with his sword as well.
Following his lead, the other human martial artists similarly followed, and so did Lu Tianzi.
Since Hu Shenwei wanted to take the lead, Lu Tianzi would not mind supporting the man from behind. After all, he would not be the one taking the brunt of the force.
Bang-!
When the human martial artists' attacks struck the black line simultaneously, all of their faces stiffened in shock!
Heavy!
That was the thought on everyone's mind.
Despite being a thin black line, it was actually heavy enough to push everyone back despite their joint efforts.
However, if Nanhong Yechang wanted to completely overwhelm them with just this, then it was still not enough!
With a powerful bellow, Hu Shenwei forcibly altered the direction of the black line, pushing it into the skies.
Seeing that, the human martial artists were relieved.
In the end, they still managed to prevail!
But when they turned their attention back to the demons, the human martial artists actually saw Nanhong Yechang continue to slash out again and again, forming multiple black lines in the air.
They only barely managed to deflect just a single blade of darkness, so how could they ever defend against this many of them?
”Shit! Scatter and run!”
The human martial artists no longer held any hopes of resisting, choosing to run as the multiple slashes of darkness erupted towards them!
Hu Shenwei had turned to retreat even before he shouted out the order. However, the moment he turned around, Hu Shenwei almost vomited blood as he saw Lu Tianzi already a distance away.
Lu Tianzi had actually retreated even before he did!
This sneaky bastard!
Hu Shenwei cursed in his heart as he chose to run in Lu Tianzi's direction.