Chapter 266 - Chapter 266: Chapter 259: Breaking the Maze_1 (2/2)
Whoosh!
A blade slashed out swiftly.
Compared to last time, Qin Niu had gained some experience.
This time, he specifically sought out that white worm.
After cleaving through the fog, a streak of white emerged, and Qin Niu switched to a sweeping strike.
He nearly sealed off the escape route of the worm.
He didn’t understand those overly sophisticated blade techniques and had only mastered two of the simplest blade skills.
One was a chopping strike, and the other was a sweeping strike.
Pfft!
“Ow…”
A cry of agony rang out, a man’s voice.
It sounded like that of a middle-aged man.
Qin Niu’s sweeping strike failed to hit the white worm but instead cut a man.
More precisely, it severed a man’s arm.
A bloody arm lay on the ground.
The man had gotten in the way to save the white worm and ended up being cut.
The severed arm still trembled non-stop as it lay on the ground.
Blood gushed from the cut wound.
“Fourth, lock onto the enemy’s position and keep reporting back to me,”
Qin Niu was always ruthless when dealing with enemies.
Strike when they’re down and take their lives.
The man who just had an arm chopped off could possibly be Nie Kun, the greatest disciple of Master Jiu Yin.
But the man’s strength seemed very weak!
How could he have had an arm so easily severed?
“I can’t sense it anymore,”
Fourth’s perceptive range was limited; the enemy had vanished so quickly, what method could they have used?
From that brief clash, Qin Niu was certain that the man was at best in the initial stage of the Innate Realm.
How could someone of that level disappear in an instant?
He likely used some special life-saving item.
For example, the Invisibility Talisman that Bei Bing, the mute girl, had given to Qin Niu, which, when used, could make him vanish immediately.
Now that the enemy had run away, the first step was to burn the enemy’s ships.
He hurried forward at an extremely fast pace, but due to the heavy fog, he could see no one else.
However, he could hear the sounds of combat.
After running forward for a while, Qin Niu noticed something was off.
Because he saw that severed arm again.
It indicated that he might have entered one of the enemy’s mazes. He had run in a circle and ended up back at the starting point.
He was trapped by the enemy.
“Fourth, do you have a way to discern the direction?”
When it came to breaking mazes, Fourth was the most skilled.
“Yes.”
This time, Fourth answered with extreme confidence.
“Where is the direction we came from?”
“It’s to the front on the left-hand side.”
“I’m now moving toward the back, you guide the way. I’ll just watch your antennae,”
Qin Niu asked Fourth to guide him.
There was no other way as he couldn’t find his way out in the fog.
Under normal circumstances, the ships would be just two to three hundred meters ahead by the riverside. But now, these two to three hundred meters had become an insurmountable gap.
If he couldn’t break the maze, he would still be wandering in circles until dawn.
With Fourth guiding him, Qin Niu didn’t get lost again, and in a short time, he arrived at the riverbank beside the ships.
No one attacked him again on this path.
Only some bloodsucking leeches would occasionally jump out to meet their death.
Qin Niu could vaguely see several ships moored at the riverbank, but the area behind them was empty.
“It’s impossible that there are only these few ships, it seems I’ve been deceived.”
But having found the enemy ships, he was certainly not going to be polite.
He set them on fire with a toss of his torch.
Suddenly, flames soared to the sky, and the fog gradually dissipated.
Master He Shan and the surviving personal guards gradually appeared, each one of them looking extremely bedraggled.
They were either fighting each other or, like Qin Niu, had been trapped there going around in circles.