Chapter 144: Northern Retreat (Please Subscribe)

In the deathly silent outpost camp.

Du En moved and watched from the shadows.

He saw the transmission talisman he had sent fly to the central building, which had already become ruins; it hesitated and acted lost like a child returning home but unable to find its mother, finally landing on a stone, quietly retracting its spiritual light, waiting for a later arrival to pick it up and read it.

He saw that the slaughter occurring throughout the camp had covered the ground in blood, soaking corpse after corpse with wide-open eyes; the vast majority were camp patrols, a very small minority were evil cultivators, and a more intense evil nature was spreading on the evil corpses—all the corpses of the dead had been tainted.

He saw that there were no living figures left in the camp, as if both sides had perished together, making this place abnormally quiet, where the drop of a needle could be heard, as if it were a land of death and a forbidden zone.

Finally, he saw the logistics warehouse, which was barely still intact.

"Xiang Tao..."

Du En pondered the various situations that might have occurred.

It was fortunate he ran fast; at this moment, he held the initiative.

"Die for me!"

"Evil scum! Don't force me to breakthrough right here!"

Great Completion against Great Completion, full state against severely wounded—the result was naturally clear at a glance!

"What?!"

"Don't you f***ing push me too far! Don't press me too hard!"

Following closely behind was Xiang Tao's desperate and furious roar.

Debris flew everywhere, spiritual objects shattered.

Earth Cannon Art!

A thick earth cannon two zhang in diameter, simple and unadorned, hard and powerful, roared as it shot out!

Spirit stones, spirit herbs, spirit materials...

From Xiang Tao's perspective, Du En was that evil cultivator's bait; now that he was still alive and had run back within the border, it was clearly the evil cultivator's conspiracy!

Although that person had suffered a heavy blow, he struggled to stand up the moment he landed, assuming a defensive posture that appeared impeccable, then, spitting blood, he looked up and saw a pair of calm eyes through the smoke and dust, and could not help but be stunned.

Inside, there were no people, no corpses, and no abnormalities, only various inventories scattered about.

"It's me."

Not seeing a living evil cultivator, they were likely chasing him.

Even if he could only shift a little bit of the blame, it was good, so you damn fellow, just serve as the evil cultivator's inside man!

Upon reaching this point, Du En turned toward the north.

But immediately, amidst the surging intense pain, blood-colored roots spread from the severed part, beginning to reconstruct bone and flesh.

Hahaha!

His mouth could not help but curl up; though he had not yet laughed out loud, his heart was already laughing.

"I also have a trump card! The reason I have never dared to breakthrough to Golden Core is not because I cannot, but because once I breakthrough, I will be transferred away to serve as cannon fodder!"

Seeing his tide of wood spikes smashed head-on by a terrifying earth cannon, Xiang Tao opened his eyes in disbelief, his brain paused for a moment, and he instinctively made an emergency evasion, letting the earth cannon graze him and tear off one of his arms.

Du En did not hesitate at all and slipped through the gap.

"Did that evil cultivator notice me?"

"F***! If I can't kill the evil cultivator, can't I kill you?!"

Du En did not see the corpse of this camp master, so he should not be dead yet.

As for now, it was naturally time to fill his bags and take things cleanly!

Anyway, the camp had already been breached by evil cultivators; even if Du En didn't take the things here away, when the evil cultivators got free time to come back and take them, it would just be providing supplies to the enemy.

Before long, he had quietly crossed the border, left that wretched land, and returned to ordinary mountains and forests that were still hot but had beautiful scenery.

Shifting blame, venting anger... his belly was full of rage with nowhere to release it, and just as a hateful person bumped into him, Xiang Tao didn't care whether he was innocent or not, and immediately grinned hideously.

Facing such a roar, the evil cultivator he faced only had a simple response: "Hehehe! If you dare to breakthrough, then breakthrough and show me!"

No finished magical artifacts, talismans, pills, or other items were seen; clearly, before the evil cultivators attacked, various usable supplies had been gathered, and judging from some scattered signs, there might have been people here when the evil cultivators broke the formation.

Xiang Tao therefore came back to his senses, gritting his teeth, his cheek muscles twitching.

Bang!

A crashing sound appeared not far in front of Du En.

At the same time, he had always disliked Du En, and now he had just suffered a great loss at the hands of an evil cultivator of the same rank, and with the camp currently breached, he could not escape his responsibility!

He ran and circled through the mountains and forests, his speed as fast as a fleeting shadow.

When it was time to retreat, he must retreat!

By the time he spent two breaths of time to quickly leave the camp, the battlefield over there had also descended upon the logistics warehouse area.

The commotion behind him was soon left behind, becoming very, very small.

The deliberately exaggerated laughter and the calm, confident words left Xiang Tao speechless.

Just at this moment.

Just as he was thinking this, a sudden explosion burst forth from the near side of the south of the camp.

Once here, with the border behind him as a barrier, the situation should be much better; he wouldn't fear a large group of Foundation Establishment evil cultivators suddenly raiding...

Sure enough, in the next moment, Xiang Tao rose up directly.

Because there were other defensive arrangements here, the structure was overall quite solid and hard, so although it was affected and became shaky, it could ultimately still support a frame that was relatively intact.

"It's you?! It wasn't evil cultivators causing chaos before, it was you causing chaos!"

And, getting closer and closer?

Du En suddenly stopped his movements, did not hesitate, darted out directly, and left without looking back.

The dust quickly settled, and he could see the person in his eyes even more clearly.

The outpost camp had been breached; in terms of reason and sentiment, he should head north and return to the border city to report, lest he be inexplicably saddled with a black pot.

"Of course, even if I go back to report it, there is a high probability that I will still be wronged, but at least this way there is still room for maneuver,..."

In this situation, it was obvious that there was a scheme by evil cultivators, so Du En's tone and manner of speaking became direct, while simultaneously making all kinds of preparations.

Du En felt that this was no coincidence, especially since the battlefield was still moving afterward, generally closing in toward his side.

The fierce battle between the two sides grew increasingly intense, and one could only hear a continuous series of sounds of the mountain forest collapsing.

It would be better to let our own people benefit from it!

"I hope Xiang Tao can hold on a little longer..."

A person arrived directly by breaking through the air, moving very fast, passing straight through Du En's divine sense range, and then landing within this distance visible to the naked eye.

Spike Surge Art!

Raising a hand was a lethal strike!

The clusters of wooden spikes emerging from the earth surged forward like a tide, wanting to submerge Du En and skewer him into a hedgehog, piercing him until he was tattered!

Regarding this situation, Du En calmly raised his hand.

"Du En?"

The sound of Du En's reply appeared before him.

The ten-foot earth armor wrapped around him like a divine statue, having already surged close and arrived, terrifying Xiang Tao so that his pupils constricted and his footsteps retreated in a rush, yet he could not shake it off at all, only seeing an earth-armored arm hammer down fiercely.

(End of this chapter)