In the rapidly dimming sunlight, Li Luo's and Wang Hejiu's light columns moved rapidly towards each other before finally halting.
They met at a long, narrow gorge between two enormous mountains, the singular passage through.
Waterfalls roared down the geographical marvel, spitting froth and water over greenery that bloomed in the humidity.
"Nice place. Hopefully, its beauty takes the sting out of your first defeat."
Wang Hejiu remarked to Li Luo and Bai Mengmeng as he looked around at the water-coated boulders. Xin Fu was already well-concealed.
"Normally," Li Luo said brightly, "once the villain says something like that, they lose."
"Villain?"
Wang Hejiu chuckled. "Do you think you're a hero?"
"His looks are very noble," Bai Mengmeng squeaked.
Wang Hejiu was taken aback. Were all these girls equally shallow? What did it matter if a guy was handsome? Was his nose not equally fragile before a fist?
"Enough," Duze Beixuan snapped. "Time for payback for the Choosing."
He stepped forward, and his resonant power surged forth, a tremendous force that made Li Luo's eyes widen.
"Pattern Genesis Tier?"
That was unexpected. He had thought that Duze Beixuan would need a little more time to get there. Seemed like his pure spite and fury after the Choosing had spurred him on really hard.
"That was too obvious. I told you to conceal it and lure him in," Wang Hejiu said tiredly to Duze Beixuan, his own poisonous, green power seeping forth. That had the toxic strength of a Pattern Genesis Tier cultivator too.
"Li Luo, we have two First Pattern cultivators here. Your strongest is the Upper Flowering Xin Fu. And you are a Lower Flowering..."
He smiled wide as a Cheshire cat. "Please tell me. What gives you confidence to fight this?
"Don't waste our time. Hand over your badges quietly. Wouldn't that be better?"
Shing.
His response was a quick unsheathing of Li Luo's shortswords, twin aqueous weapons of death gleaming with the keen, watery silver of Water Edge.
"Back off, Mengmeng," he said with an uncommon gravity. Taking on two Pattern Genesis Tier opponents wasn't going to be easy.
Xin Fu could only wait for his chance. He could not reveal himself casually, and even less so Bai Mengmeng, who would instantly be done in by the deadly pair.
Li Luo stood alone, the first and final bastion of his team.
That was his determined role.
"Leader, be careful!" Bai Mengmeng called out, her voice thick with worry. She knew how crucial he was. Perhaps no other Upper Flowering cultivator would be brave enough to stand against these two formidable opponents.
Li Luo nodded wordlessly. He shot forth with suddenness, spraying gravel behind him that skipped and hissed over the shallow waters.
Neither Wang Hejiu nor Duze Beixuan held any grand illusions of single combat. Both moved as one.
The three figures collided with incredible power on both sides, shaking the gorge walls with their impact.
Boom!
The nearby creek was shaken so hard that it slopped, sending pearly droplets of water spraying upwards.
Wang Hejiu and Duze Beixuan were left unmoving, while Li Luo was sent flying backwards, skidding across the watery surface.
He had been outclassed in this first clash.
Expected. He might have dual resonances, but he was facing two resonances as well, wielded by superior cultivators. This would be an uphill struggle.
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