Chapter 88 - The Ice Field Soaked in Blood (2/2)

Over fifty monster beasts were sprinting at full speed, howling and roaring as they wielded sabers in their hands, chasing after Jun Sixie who was on the Jiao Dragon's back. Under Zhong Yue's control, the Jiao Dragon condensed from his psyche ocean soared forward with unfathomable speed.

The monster beasts howled in anger, suddenly, the alpha wolf visualized a pair of wings that expanded to a span of a dozen feet as it soared into the winds. It's speed increased greatly as it flitted through the air towards Jun Sixie!

The monster wolf drew closer and closer and it clenched the saber, lifting it over its head. The next moment, the saber came crashing down fiercely directly at the young lady in green on the Jiao Dragon's back.

It was at this moment, that the sudden resonance of a zither string effused through the air. The monster wolf's expression would forever be etched with stupefaction as a thin line of blood extended from the top of its head to the bottom of its body until it directly split into two halves that fell away from each other. Not even the saber was spared from the severing intent of the zither string as it split into halves down its spine and stabbed into the ground harmlessly by the sides of the Jiao Dragon.

The silhouette of a human fell from the sky – Dong! The ground was stomped and shook vigorously, and a pit of a dozen feet in radius was formed.

"Manggg—!!"

A fearsome dragon whistle could be heard as a Jiao Dragon crawled out from the pit, Zhong Yue stood on the dragon's head and gazed at the surrounding monster hyenas and monster wolves.

Zheng zheng zheng zheng——

Sounds of metals colliding could be heard as Sword Qis slashed incessantly; the scarlet Coral Tree quivered and 18 rays of Sword Qi shot out from its branches. The fiery Xiang Dragon Sword Qi compressed into a thin thread of sword silk that brandished about at a speed even faster than the zither string sword silk.

Meanwhile, the Wooden Sword Qi turned into a small sapling and landed on the ground, annexing its territory in the soil.

Krong!

The monster beasts rushed over, a flurry of sabers waved and slashed about as their saber lights interweaved into an inescapable net that engulfed Zhong Yue.

A cacophony of dragon whistling, wolf howls, hyena barks, and Sword Qi clashing with the sabers reverberated in the air. Slowly, the ferocious sounds of weapons colliding and the enlivened battle cries of the beasts become infused with intermittent wails of pain accompanied by the sounds of splitting muscles and the cleaving of bones. Zhong Yue stood at the epicenter of the fray as he battled off the onslaught of attacks of the innumerable monster beasts. Sword Qi revolved around and the zither string loomed over the monsters like a portentous specter; blood blossomed on the ground like red spider lilies and severed limbs splattered in the air with blood spurting out like sanguine fireworks.

One after another, the huge barbarous heads spurted into the sky as they each launched a fountain of red. Blood-rusted and broken sabers were pierced into the ground, their upturned hilts quivering from the residual violence that killed their former owners.

In the middle of the battlefield, Zhong Yue stood atop the Jiao Dragon's head staunchly, his stalwart figure not moving an inch at all in the face of such adversity.

"Aohhhh——"

The howl was filled with grief and despair and was ruthlessly cut abruptly as the final wolf has succumbed to the same fate as its other brethren.

From start to end, Zhong Yue had not moved even a single inch. Severed limbs, wolf heads, hyena heads, and broken swords scattered across the ground. The warm blood of the beasts trickled into streams that deluged the trenches left behind the wanton destruction wreaked by the Sword Qi. The scene painted a vicious yet disquietingly beautiful landscape that was stained in wicked crimson.

A cold breeze blew past, bringing a surge of frosty sensation that could even rattle the bones, and yet, Zhong Yue remained fixed to his position – steadfast and immutable.

"*cough *cough*, Junior Martial Brother Zhong, are your injuries heavy?" The Jiao Dragon turned around with Jun Sixie on top of it as she gazed at Zhong Yue who held up a solemn face.

"Heavier than ever."

Zhong Yue dared not move a single fiber of muscle and cold sweat rushed down his forehead, "I don't even dare to breathe freely, any harder and my broken ribs will torment my nerves."

"We should leave, the further away the better."

Jun Sixie was obviously in a better condition than he was, she said, "Bei Shisong was considered to be a well-known figure in Gu Xia City, and here he is, dead. The other Qi Practitioners will be arriving anytime now; and with your current state, you simply can't afford to run into them anymore. If another monster Qi Practitioner comes, you and I ... both of us will be dead for sure!"

"May senior martial sister please wait for a moment, I need to clean up the battlefield."

Although Zhong Yue could not move, his psyche was not under the same condition, unlike Jun Sixie who was currently bereft of all her prowess. He erupted his psyche and turned it into tens of little Jiao Dragons disorderly crawling on the ground.

Jun Sixie could still move her body, she cast a gaze at the Jiao Dragons and moments later, the young lady's face darkened; the Jiao Dragons were collecting the broken sabers!

"Junior Martial Brother Zhong, is this necessary? There are so many sabers here and all of them were broken by you, they don't contain much power in it anymore, you can't even sell it off." Jun Sixie said cluelessly as she was lost on whether to laugh or cry?

Zhong Yue blushed with shame, his Primordial Spirit controlled the Jiao Dragons and plundered all the sabers away, only then was he willing to leave, "Senior martial sister, you are from one of the top ten clans and moreover, an innate spirit body holder. You are the pearl of Swords Gate; you can simply point at any treasure or medicinal pellet and they will come to you automatically. But I am a nobody, born from nothing, and brought up with nothing. If I want to continue on cultivating, I will have to find my own resources. These sabers are all soul weapons of high quality, I can extract Gold Qi from them and save myself an uncountable number of Jinyuan Pellets."

Jun Sixie said, "Junior martial brother, you have made a big mess while fighting with Bei Shisong, surely the other monster Qi Practitioners will be aware of it. Junior martial brother, we can't afford to leisurely proceed anymore, we need to get back to the Great Wilderness as fast as possible! So long as we've reached the Great Wilderness, we would have nothing to worry about anymore!"

Zhong Yue stiffened up his face and answered, "Give me half a day's time, I will definitely bring us back to the Great Wilderness!"

He stood on the Jiao Dragon's head, while Jun Sixie was on another Jiao Dragon's back; all of a sudden, the two Jiao Dragons were slowly transmuting, they turned into two Xiang Dragons, shaped like steeds with the heads and tails of a dragon, the furs of a horse, and emblazoned with tiger stripes. She was amazed at the transformation.

The two Xiang Dragons galvanized all their strength and bolted out — Krong krong krong — they sprinted towards Great Wilderness in great haste!