Chapter 184 - Goat Head Mountain
“Why can’t I hear anything?!” The overwhelming pressure was about to drive some of the young martial artists crazy; one young martial artist, because he was too nervous, began blabbering to give himself courage.
“Be quiet!”
A Long Blade Martial School elder standing to the side said in a low voice and glared at him.
Silently, a cyan and red vine thrust out from the ground and immediately ripped the elder’s protective Zhen Qi apart, deeply piercing his body. The body of the arm-thick vine swelled from time to time, as if it was swallowing the elder’s flesh and blood quickly.
“No!!”
Watching his own body rapidly get drained, this elder could no longer remain calm, and he let out a despairing howl.
In the next moment, the battle formation formed by the Long Blade Martial School’s people fell into chaos.
“Vines are coming up from the ground!!”
“Damn it! They’re in my pants!”
“Help! Someone help me!!”
Waves of screams and howls spread out from the battle formation while despair flooded the minds of these people. Many of them instantly felt their limbs become numb, and they found it difficult to breathe.
The school Leader whose name was Li Yuan, clenched his fists and took a deep breath; he growled harshly, “Split up! Every ten people to a team and each team form a small battle formation! Hack every vine in your sight as hard as you can! Remember! Every time you chop down a vine, you have a better chance of living!”
In this short period of time, thirty more people had died, and among them, around thirty percent was due to martial artists mistakenly killing their own people. If this situation was allowed persist, everyone would break down and go crazy.
In front of the despair and fear, the school Leader’s orders were not too effective; only a few people had listened to him, while the majority entered a state of madness, where with their eyes reddened they hacked away at anything that neared them, without a thought.
The weakness of humankind was completely exposed at this very moment.
“I can’t take it anymore! I want to leave! I’m leaving this bloody shit hole!!”
“If this goes on, we’re all gonna die!!”
As increasingly more people were killed by the vines, a young martial artist finally lost his mind and desperately rushed out of the group, attempting to flee. As the first one make his move, more and more young martial artists followed suit. It was like a virus infection, too rapid to be stopped.
“Ah!!”
“No!!”
None of the young martial artists actually managed to get away; they were all sucked dry by the vines. Facing these monster like vines, their protective Qi were as fragile as Tofu, easily shattering with a slight stab.
“Leader! We’re all going to die soon if this keeps up! Let’s just run! At least some of us will survive if we run, It’s still better than total destruction!” At this moment, they had already lost two to three elders, thus the other elders couldn’t help but yell this out. All the Long Blade Martial School’s elders were Clasping Yuan Realm martial artists with great defensive Zhen Qi; however, attacks launched by the vines were far too swift and frequent, and those vines would always find the weakest spot in their defensive Zhen Qi to attack.
Li Yuan was a peak-level late Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist, and under the protection of his powerful defensive Zhen Qi, he had managed to chop off quite a number of vines. However, even he was beginning to feel like he was strong in will but weak in power as even more vines ceaselessly thrust out from the ground. Each time he chopped off a vine, more vines would immediately squeeze out from the ground and dart towards him, and he couldn’t stop fighting for even a single second.
With a dark expression and a slightly pale face, Li Yuan imbued his voice with Zhen Qi, projecting his orders out with a voice that resonated.
“Everybody, retreat! Don’t panic!”
Before his voice faded, another elder said in a trembling voice full of despair, “Leader, we can’t retreat, the vines are everywhere and we’re surrounded.”
‘Bloody hell! Is our Long Blade Martial School going to perish right here?’
They couldn’t help it but that was exactly what Li Yuan and all the other elders had been thinking of at that particular moment.
“They’re coming!! Mama!!”
Countless numbers of cyan and red vines resembling an enormous group of snakes swamped them; wherever it swept across, one after another martial artists would fall, their bodies completely drained and reduced to only skin and bones.
Hearing the loud, ear-piercing laughter like noise, Li Yuan for the very first time felt helpless. Only one thought remained in his mind— kill. To kill as many as he could. A fierce blade Qi radiated out from the center of his body, and crushing countless vines, it shot towards the area where the vines were most concentrated to continue killing.
Ye Chen had stopped observing the Long Blade Martial School’s people, as he had been discovered by tens of vines as well. These vines had no eyes or nose and had only a mouth, but their perception seemed to be incredibly sharp; easily finding the weakest spot in Ye Chen’s defensive Zhen Qi.
In the unsheathing of the Dragon Spring Sword, three vines were cut off and red and green streams of liquid flew in all directions.
‘Fortunately, I’ve already reached the ninth-level of the Great Mystery Art, and the quantity and quality of my Zhen Qi is now much greater than when I was still cultivating low-ranked Earth Realm arts. Additionally, this low-ranked great light armour I’m wearing now, can improve my defensive power by around ten percent. My defensive power is now generally as high as a peak-level medium Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist’s. Ye Chen thought about how lucky he was as he moved swiftly around in cutting those vines.
Soon, the tens of vines were all cut down by Ye Chen while he remained perfectly unharmed.
However, Ye Chen’s eyebrows furrowed even further.
Perhaps because the vines perceived Ye Chen to be too great a treat, countless vines began gathering from all directions, gradually circling around him and leaving no gaps in between.
Ye Chen’s look remained unchanged. As a possessor of the sword intent, he would not be affected by any kind of negative emotions, instead, he would only be even more calm than usual when facing deadly dangers.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
When launching their attacks, the vines did not make even the slightest sound. They were completely silent, and facing Ye Chen’s attacks, the attack speed of these vines reached a whole new level; rapidly launching themselves at Ye Chen with a speed that was almost as fast as lightning.
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