Chapter 299: Mr. Hou came to help you.
Chapter 299: Mr. Hou came to help you.
Master Fanyin hovered above the city wall, like a bright lantern, emitting endless light filled with a mysterious chanting. Below her, all the soldiers attacking the city, including Lu Guanqing, who was locked in combat with Fan Longhe, stopped in their tracks, their gaze shifting to her.
Those who were originally engaged in a fierce battle with savage expressions, after hearing the chanting within the light, began to look peaceful, tranquil, and serene.
It was as if they heard something in Master Fanyin's cursed sound. Their faces first showed yearning, which then deepened, and finally morphed into obsession and madness...
Their hands reached out as if there was some rare treasure within the light waiting for them to grasp. If it were only one or two, it wouldn't matter, but the problem was the tens of thousands of soldiers attacking the city had mostly become like this, which was chillingly bizarre.
However, this was not even the most chilling part...
The Xuzhou soldiers closest to Master Fanyin held their obsessive and mad expressions for more than a dozen breaths. Then their pupils suddenly dilated, turning completely black. Their bodies also gradually swelled, becoming larger and larger, until they exploded on the spot.
Boom... Boom... Boom...
One by one, the Xuzhou soldiers atop the city walls burst open. They were like a succession of red flowers blossoming, a scene both beautiful and eerie. In just over a dozen breaths, hundreds perished, turning into a blood mist that filled the sky.
Even more bizarre was that the remaining soldiers, who had not exploded yet, faced this scene without any shade of emotion on their faces. Instead, they became even more fanatical, and the number of people dying from exploding bodies grew.
Inside the eastern gate, at the location of the five great experts, the disciples of the Ziqing Holy Sect behind Moxuzi showed horrified expressions and uttered exclamations of shock.
"What kind of cursed sound is this!"
"One doesn't need to lift a finger, and people just die?"
"The World-Purifying Evil Sound Mantra, it can stir the evil thoughts hidden deep within people's hearts, disturb the body's blood and the energy in the dantian, causing people to unwittingly fall into madness and explode to death!"
As Master Yuan Kong replied, his gaze towards Master Fanyin also grew colder. The Brahman Zen Sect, like the Buddhist Sect, inherited the same martial arts traditions. When the Brahman Sect defected from the Buddhist realm taking many martial arts with them, it became a significant reason for the decline of the Chan Sect, naturally, he held no fondness for Master Fanyin.
He sneered and said, "The enchantress of the Demon Sect merely shows off her power for a moment. Since Xuzhou sent forth an army of forty thousand, how could they be unprepared!"
As if to prove Master Yuan Kong's words, when nearly a hundred Xuzhou soldiers died, a righteous and angry shout came from the east.
"Enchantress, hold your tongue!"
A strong silver Sword Qi suddenly cut through the night sky for nearly ten miles, ferociously charging at Master Fanyin in the sky.
The silver Sword Qi from nearly ten miles away moved with extreme speed, bringing about a straight and dazzling streak of Sword Qi that illuminated the inside and outside of the eastern city, while directly targeting Master Fanyin's face.
The moment the sound appeared, Master Fanyin's expression had already turned cold. Seeing the Sword Qi approaching, she gained an even darker look. Sensing the threat the Sword Qi posed, she could only stop chanting and leap aside.
However, that Sword Qi was not so easily evaded. Just as Master Fanyin moved to dodge, the Sword Qi suddenly paused in mid-air, forcibly changing direction, targeting her back, and flying ruthlessly towards it.
The already dazzling Sword Qi turned even brighter after changing course, shining out intensely like the sun, and even the space was torn open by a fissure. On either side of the fissure, due to friction between the Sword Qi and the air, a substance like magma was formed.
Seeing the magma-like substance produced by the Sword Qi, the expressions of the five great experts, as well as the disciples of the Ziqing Holy Sect and Leiyin Temple, changed, except for Master Yuan Kong.
"Qi turned into Righteous Qi!"
"A swordsman from the Yin Yang Holy Realm, it must be someone from the Wanjian Holy Sect."
"Zhan Taiqing is in for misfortune, with only the Full Completion of Yuandan cultivation, there's no way to block this sword!"
Hearing Moxuzi's words, everyone had mixed expressions. Master Yuan Kong gazed downward, deep in thought, while Zhang Yuning and Lian Ningxue visibly appeared unsettled. Master Yuan Fa stood silently to the side, his expression unchanging.
If Master Fanyin couldn't withstand this attack from the Wanjian Holy Sect member, then the eastern gate was assuredly lost. If the eastern gate fell, Tongling would truly change hands...
But this did not align with the interests of the five of them.
The purpose of four of them traveling all the way to Tongling was to prevent Xuzhou from expanding into Yongzhou, while the sole Master Yuan Kong came for Leiyin Temple to take control of Tongling.
However, no matter how divergent it was from their interests, they couldn't possibly make a move to help Master Fanyin, as right and wrong were clearly defined. If they dared to openly assist Master Fanyin against the Wanjian Holy Sect in front of so many people, it would be tantamount to committing a great taboo and tarnishing their own reputation.
Watching the Sword Qi pierce through Master Fanyin's back, unlike the regretful expressions of the others, Master Yuan Kong showed no remorse, even sneering.
When the Sword Qi passed through her body, just when everyone thought she would be slain by this sword, she let out a light laugh as though it was nothing.
"I said so. How could these people be so bold? Ji Yanzhi of Bailu Academy surely doesn't have the capacity to command the Xuzhou army and initiate a large-scale war across provinces. So it was you!"