Chapter 298: Attacks Again

After hearing Xuan Che's words, Yu Sheng couldn't help but think a bit more, and his heart grew with speculation regarding the activities of the Holy Hidden Cult in the Borderlands.

But a sudden, faint sound emerging from the mist interrupted his thoughts.

"Plop," it sounded like a foot stepping into standing water.

Yu Sheng instantly looked toward the direction the sound came from, but saw only milky-white mist slowly undulating and flowing not far away.

The surroundings had only dry ground; there was absolutely no standing water, let alone anyone stepping through puddles walking in the mist.

Yet the more this was the case, the more Yu Sheng raised his guard.

An abnormal sound appearing in the visible environment could only mean that some "unreasonable" thing was gradually approaching.

"The sky is getting dark," Hu Li muttered softly beside him.

At the fox-girl's reminder, Yu Sheng immediately noticed the change in the sky.

When they went out, the real Border City was still broad daylight, so this "Mist City," which always "corresponded" to the real Border City, was also daytime; although thick mist filled the air, the sky still showed obvious brightness, yet at some unknown time, that bright sky was rapidly turning dim.

It was as if thick dark clouds were shrouding the top of this thick mist.

Yu Sheng frowned, and just then, he heard that strange sound again: Plop.

The sound of footsteps stepping on standing water appeared again, and this time it was closer!

And almost at the same moment this footstep appeared, he heard a second, a third sound!

Plop, plop, the consecutive footsteps instantly became dense, coming from multiple different directions, some far and some near.

A strange intuition rose from the bottom of his heart; Yu Sheng suddenly turned his head to look at the mist several meters away, and another footstep came from that direction almost simultaneously; this time, he finally saw some traces.

Nearly transparent water splashes rose in the mist, as if a creature from another dimension was stepping on invisible standing water, and the splashed water wetted the mist of the current dimension.

Just as Yu Sheng saw those faint traces, a faint sound of something breaking through the air suddenly came, and something pounced fiercely.

Yu Sheng only saw a nearly transparent shadow slightly distorted in the mist.

In his haste, he raised the mace in his hand, swung it horizontally forward, then immediately sidestepped; relying solely on that afterimage he had just seen, he lifted his leg and kicked toward the half-air!

The spiked mace seemed to hit something; he saw bright sparks shooting out in the air, a huge recoil made the base of his thumb numb, but he successfully blocked that fierce pouncing enemy; the latter's figure hesitated for a moment, then had no choice but to be kicked by Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng felt as if he had kicked a piece of metal.

The next second, he found his judgment was correct—the attacker, struck by his heavy and powerful blow, broke through some "invisible" state; a "knight" entirely wrapped in heavy brass armor suddenly appeared in the air, flew horizontally through the half-air, and upon landing made a huge "Bang!" sound, directly smashing into scattered armor parts all over the ground.

Seeing this scene, Yu Sheng was instantly shocked: "Holy crap! What the hell is that?!"

And what happened next was even more bizarre.

After that brass armor, smashed into a pile of parts, hit the ground and remained silent for less than a few seconds, a large amount of pitch-black, sticky, swamp-mud-like black foul-smelling substance suddenly flowed out from within; huge clumps of "sludge" writhed violently like some kind of soft-bodied animal, and after detaching from the armor, while emitting nauseating sounds, quickly aggregated, swaying as they stood up, becoming some kind of hunched humanoid body, and then—

Then a Fox-Radish Big Fireball (a super-large clump of fox fire) whistled and smashed over, burning that clump of humanoid sludge to ashes.

"What the hell is this thing!" the small doll on Yu Sheng's shoulder also screamed, "Something disgusting flowed out from that shell!"

"How would I know what this is," Yu Sheng said loudly, while keeping a close eye on the brass armor that seemed no longer moving and that clump of sludge burned to ashes, constantly adjusting his posture to prepare for the next attack, "I should have brought Little Red Riding Hood out; she knows more!"

"She's in class right now—she's in Gao San!"

Yu Sheng had just wanted to say something else when the suddenly murderous footsteps around him interrupted his words; immediately, sounds of things breaking through the air tore through the mist all around. Seemingly angered by the death of the first attacker, these "Brass Knights" hiding invisibly in the mist, which had only been adjusting their encirclement, finally launched a dense attack; accompanied by illusory water splashes rising from the mist, nearly transparent figures pounced from all sides!

Yu Sheng only had time to shout "Be careful" before he had to wield the spiked mace in his hand, focusing entirely on dealing with the enemies coming before him.

And the next instant, dense black threads like a net suddenly erupted from his side; those threads silently shuttled through the mist, covering all directions where enemy auras or strange movements appeared from all four sides.

The spider webs spreading everywhere swept through the air indiscriminately; even though the enemies were in an invisible state, they were all touched and entangled by the sweeping spider silk, and as long as there was one contact, Erin could at least cause them a few seconds of interference and delay; the disturbed "Brass Knights" were immediately blocked on their charge, some stumbling and falling, others suddenly freezing in place, and accompanied by this interference, their concealment effect was instantly weakened, and one by one, semi-transparent shadows like glass sculptures covered with a water film appeared successively in the air.

Yu Sheng did not miss this excellent opportunity, directly swung the spiked mace and smashed an enemy that suddenly delayed in front of him away.

The heavy and solid brass armor disintegrated in the air, and the viscous black substance exploded and scattered like sludge being squeezed out of a container.

Hu Li fiercely pounced on another armor appearing in mid-air; first she kicked it flying, then rushed forward, grabbed the armor's arm and yanked it hard, then the helmet, the heavy chest plate, the legs... she almost instantly completely dismantled that armor into fragments relying solely on beast-like brute force; then fox fire exploded and rose behind her, and the fierce flames burned all the sludge substances around her to ashes.

And a cold, sharp aura suddenly appeared on the battlefield, accompanied by a clear sound of metal ringing.

Yu Sheng subconsciously looked toward the direction the sound came from, just seeing Xuan Che take a step forward, while a sharp sword constantly emitting faint blue cold air appeared in his hand at some unknown time; the sword blade sliced through the air, and even the thick mist around instantly congealed, turning into countless fine ice crystals that fell to the ground.

Frost overflowed, and the icy cold air spread through the entire mist with Xuan Che as the center.

!

Yu Sheng was instantly attracted by this scene, and a sentence subconsciously popped into his mind—No wonder he cultivates the Dao; look at those special effects!

Then he saw Xuan Che step forward, casually flicked his wrist, and that sharp sword emitting cold air left his hand, but did not fly toward the enemy; instead, floating behind him as if it had sentience, then he raised his hand and formed a hand seal, quickly drawing several golden talismanic seals in the air; with his other hand he flipped it in mid-air, but at some unknown time grabbed out more than ten various pills, and threw them into his mouth one after another...

Yu Sheng: "……?"

The next moment, he saw various lights rise successively from Xuan Che's body; with every pill entering his mouth, the light condensed beside him seemed to grow stronger; then the other party quickly conjured out strips of talisman paper from somewhere unknown, casually scattered them into the half-air, the talisman paper spontaneously ignited in mid-air, turning into streams of light that circled his body; then before those talisman papers finished burning, he pulled out another handful of pills and threw them into his mouth as if they were free of charge...

After fidgeting for several rounds in the blink of an eye, he finally stopped, and stopped in front of a Brass Knight restrained by spider silk in mid-air; then he slightly lowered his waist, raised his hand, gathered his Qi, and threw out a... plain and unadorned straight punch.

Yu Sheng heard a very dull "Pfft" sound, sounding like someone blowing a handful of dust away by puffing up their cheeks, followed by a strange and low hum.

The thick mist lingering over the entire block vanished in an instant; a gentle breeze brushed his face, and the seven or eight Brass Knights in front of Xuan Che, along with a building further away, were blown away and vanished.

Yu Sheng even suspected the space in the distance had twisted along with it, because he saw vague and suspicious crack patterns appearing in the air.

But he had no time to marvel at the other party's ridiculously cool straight punch.

Because just as the surrounding mist dissipated and a large number of Brass Knights became visible from the air due to the aftereffect of that punch, he suddenly felt an aura—that was the small amount of blood he had separated earlier.

It was that "Artificial Saintess"!

This aura approached at an astonishing speed, almost teleporting from some hiding place to nearby; Yu Sheng only had time to look up toward the direction the aura came from, and saw a pitch-black shadow suddenly appear in the air more than ten meters away, and that familiar, tall and slender "steel" doll leaped directly out of the shadow, as light as a dance, yet as swift as lightning, suddenly thrusting toward Xuan Che who hadn't yet retracted his fist.

As the saying goes, slow to speak but fast to act; Xuan Che's figure swayed before those sharp and deadly blades reached his back, then he actually turned into a flash of lightning and instantly appeared more than ten meters away; and almost at the same time, several dazzling and scorching beams shot out from beside Yu Sheng's face, fiercely sweeping toward that "Artificial Saintess" who had launched a surprise attack.

Erin (Pro Version) had not acted since the beginning because she knew those Brass Knights, although strange, were not opponents for Yu Sheng and Hu Li; moreover, there was Xuan Che on the scene who should be very capable of fighting; and since Yu Sheng had said the "Artificial Saintess" might be lingering nearby, she knew very well that the energy of her current body was limited, so she forcibly held back until now.

Facing this sudden and unfamiliar attack, the Artificial Saintess reacted extremely fast—she instantly sidestepped, bending her joints to the extreme limit of near-breaking, and actually forcibly dodged most of the beams.

But one ray still hit her side abdomen.

Even fox fire could only leave a black mark on it; the armor shell that could withstand various small and medium-caliber firepower and was immune to most spells was directly pierced through by this one "Erin Ray."

(End of Chapter)