Rumble rumble rumble….
Before anyone was able to speak out, the beasts had already arrived. The front was headed by a pack of red-eyed Barbarian Buffaloes that were built like small hills, their twin horns shaped like two sharpened spears. They dashed towards the disciples, and although this pack of Barbarian Buffaloes did not have a very strong overall combat prowess at just tier four, they did possess some extreme raw strength. With the power of their charge, their momentum was astonishing.
The disciples would only need to simply avoid the charge under ordinary circumstances, but such a thing wasn’t possible this time. Now that the disciples had been surrounded by various beasts, the best option was to stand back-to-back with one another in a circle in order to band together and face their mutual enemies. In this manner, not only would it prevent any sneak attacks from the flank, but it would also allow them to demonstrate their greatest potential. Alchemy, talismans, formations, and weaponry would allow them to improve their strength, recovery, and healing while together, but if they were separated, this effect would be greatly reduced.
If such a thing happened, not only would they not receive the added benefits, but they would also be more vulnerable to the beasts’ attacks. Because of this, no matter how powerful the charges from these Barbarian Buffalo, their only option was to endure.
As the Barbarian Buffaloes drew closer, three disciples from the Duanzhen Valley with shield-like spirit weapons signaled with their eyes and jumped in front of the group with their shields held in front. Even they did not know whether it would be enough to block the first round of collision from these buffaloes, but there was no other choice. Since they owned defensive-type weapons, it was imperative that they now stood forward; this was no time to hide.
It was not that the disciples weren’t afraid of death, it was just that if they didn’t stand forward at times like this, not only would their reputations be ruined, but the overall evaluation of this Duty Talisman mission would also be hindered. The disciples from the other branches might also refuse to help them in return in the future. Thinking on it, if they hadn’t been able to obtain the pellets from Danxia Valley, the talismans from Shuwen Valley, or the geographical aid from Shanhe Valley, wouldn’t every step in this place have been deadly? It was precisely because of this that—despite knowing how much danger they were putting themselves in—they had to accept the responsibility they had been given as a member of the group.
"Back off, you guys!" Fang Xing yelled deeply at that exact moment, his brows creasing. He knew that the three of them alone would not be able to fend off such an attack. These three Duanzhen Valley disciples, for their part, looked at him in confusion; did Fang Xing seriously want them to hide behind someone else? As disciples from the Duanzhen Valley, how could they be so irresponsible?
Woooosh….
There wasn’t any time for explanations. Fang Xing immediately held up his [Saber of Azure Dragon] and leapt out to the front where the buffaloes had already arrived. Their eyes were red like blood, their horns as sharp as spears, and their howls like that of thunder. Their force was unblockable.
But Fang Xing did not try to block any of it. He immediately jumped into the front with a single movement and—once Qi had been poured into the saber—he held his weapon with both hands and turned his body like a spinning top, slashing straight into the pack. In moments, only the white specks could be seen along the blade’s afterimage.
Accompanying the blade light was the blue-colored malicious energy and the gold-colored flame.
The Barbarian Buffaloes seemed to be intimidated by the saber’s blue malicious energy and their dashes seemed to slow somewhat. The saber Fang Xing had been swinging around suddenly arced towards the buffaloes and—along with a ‘woosh’ sound—the blade light followed a curved path towards the buffaloes at the front. All seven of them could only let out low grunts before their blood was splattered, their flesh flying in all directions.
Seven fourth-tier Barbarian Buffaloes were killed together in the exact same moment.
The Duanzhen Valley disciples inhaled sharply in surprise. These fierce buffaloes had been killed with only a single strike of his blade? Although these buffaloes were only just fourth-tier beasts, if seven of them charged together from afar, the combined force of the charge alone was frightening. Yet Fang Xing had faced and killed all seven of them with a single strike; such a display of power was much more than the average sixth-tier cultivator.
As for the three disciples with their shield-like tools, they were extremely grateful. The closer these buffaloes had gotten to them, the more pressure they had felt. They all clearly knew with this that there was no way they could have fended off the force of the charge with just the three of them, and it was highly likely that the first strike would have left them wounded or—even worse—dead. Simply put, Fang Xing doing this was the same as him saving their lives.
"Alright, kill it!" Once Fang Xing had broken through the first wave of danger, he dropped back with his saber in hand. The Duanzhen Valley disciples immediately parted for him and moved to protect Fang Xing in the middle.
"Nnngh…." Behind these Barbarian Buffaloes were numerous other beasts, but they didn’t pose a threat to the disciples’ formation.
"Duanzhen disciples, ready your weapons! Kill!" Wu Xiangtong commanded in a loud voice and summoned his Flying Sword at the same time. In an instant, an uncountable number of Flying Swords were summoned into the air with equally innumerable defensive tools activated as well. Blood and flesh filled the entire area in mere moments, and everyone had no choice but to entangle themselves in battle with the beasts.
It was a war. The battleground was filled with carnage.
The beasts were just as ferocious in front of the other branches, but each branch fortunately had the protection of their strongest lead disciple who would always resolve any situations where their formation was put in danger. It didn’t take long before they were all involved in close-range combat.
Every Qing-Yun disciple here aside from Fang Xing had a cultivation level of at least tier five, and there were at least ten that were in tier six. The leading disciples—Shanhe Valley’s Feng Qingwei and Shuwen Valley’s Pi Junzi—were even at the peak of tier six, literally a Nirvana Pellet away from tier seven; their abilities were even higher than Ye Tianlong. As for Xu Linyun, there was not much that needed to be said; she was well above everyone else and already in tier eight.
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