Chapter 393: Sudden Attack

Actually, Yu Sheng wasn't entirely sure if this world even had the concept of a Tibetan fox, but the "Great-Uncle" of the red-clothed maiden before him did indeed look square-headed—if that head hadn't been beaten into that shape, then this six-tailed fox demon could only be a Tibetan fox that had attained sentience...

Of course, now was not the time to pursue such details.

With Profound Heaven Immortal Yuan Hao personally intervening, the Tibetan fox lying on the ground, who had originally been barely breathing, finally gradually stabilized.

However, just as the situation seemed to be improving, a strange noise, as if glass were being squeezed and shattering, suddenly came from an unknown direction, sounding particularly grating in the rain.

Hu Li heard this strange sound first; her ears instantly twitched, she turned her head to look at the sky above a nearby building, her gold-red eyes flashing with a sharp, eerie light beneath the umbrella, a threatening low growl simultaneously emanating from her throat, and immediately, countless faint fox fires spread through the air beside her in the blink of an eye.

And at almost the same moment, Luna suddenly stepped forward, her sharp fingertip blades slicing lightly through the rain, raising a cold gleam: "Radar, there's a reaction!"

The next second, crackling sounds rang out in succession; Yu Sheng saw strange rifts suddenly appear in the sky hundreds of meters away, fine patterns spreading rapidly along the direction of the falling rain like a shattered mirror, and phantom figures appeared between those rifts, quickly becoming clear as the spatial channels opened!

"Oh my god, people are here!!" Erin instantly cried out, turning her head to shout at Immortal Yuan Hao who was saving the injured, "Can you pause for a second, damn it!"

Yu Sheng almost spat out upon hearing this: "Do you even hear yourself speaking?!"

Immortal Yuan Hao indeed twitched his face, but at least he knew that was Erin's speaking style, so he simply replied without looking up: "The injured cannot move yet, and help me hold them off for a moment!"

Without a second word, Yu Sheng turned and walked toward the direction where the rifts had opened, simultaneously grabbing the still-dazed Great Nephew beside him: "You hide near Immortal Yuan Hao."

The next second, he saw the center of that spreading rifts area bulge violently, accompanied by a grating tearing sound that made teeth ache; all the rifts shattered simultaneously, and the entire space collapsed as if rolling back down—beneath the collapse, the surrounding rain curtain suddenly took on a strangely transparent and fake texture for some reason, even nearby buildings and the towering ancient refining tower not far away suddenly became illusory and blurred, and within that vague illusion, it seemed as if a desolate wasteland covered in jagged rocks lay beyond the city district.

However, Yu Sheng had no time to ponder what was happening with this scene, because figure after figure had already rushed out from the collapsing spatial rifts, charging straight at them!

Leading the charge was a group of evil path cultivators wearing black robes and strange masks, followed closely by many fierce beasts, obviously demonic creatures controlled by those black-robed cultivators.

"It's them!" the red-skirted maiden shouted immediately, "My Great-Uncle was injured by them!"

As she spoke, a blinding flash of lightning suddenly tore through the sky, illuminating the rain curtain; several strange demonic beasts had already pounced down in this flash of light.

Yu Sheng casually tossed aside the somewhat obstructive bamboo hat, holding a spiked club he had just retrieved from the basement in his right hand, dragging Erin (Reinforced Steel) he had just picked up from the living room in his left hand, and carrying an Erin (Black Iron Turret) poised and ready on his shoulder, he strode forward to meet them.

Black spider silk grew wildly in the rain; a winged demonic beast touched by the silk stiffened in the air for just a moment before Yu Sheng's Tetanus Staff struck it squarely on the head, its head retracting directly into its body cavity, and immediately after, several more blinding beams sliced through the sky; the turret-Erin on Yu Sheng's shoulder took out another demonic beast attempting to ambush from the side, the latter's body pierced and torn apart by the beams, falling to the ground as several pieces of charred remains.

However, this loss seemed insignificant to those black-robed cultivators; more demonic beasts rushed out from the rifts in mid-air, and then those black-robed cultivators silently descended from the sky one by one, various magical treasures flashing with spiritual light, unleashing all their killing moves.

"Why fight without saying a word?" Erin, sitting on Yu Sheng's shoulder and rubbing the heat beams, suddenly shouted loudly, "Under normal circumstances, shouldn't they drop some trash talk and recite a few opening lines before acting?"

Hearing Erin's outburst, before Yu Sheng could speak, the red-skirted maiden beside him shouted loudly: "They didn't speak when fighting us either! As soon as they appeared, they attacked directly, which is why my Great-Uncle and I were caught off guard and injured by them!"

As she spoke, this Jade-Faced Golden Fox suddenly retreated two steps, dodging a pounce from a demonic beast, simultaneously flipping her wrist to pull out an iron-colored long flute emitting a cold glow from somewhere unknown; the next second, the long flute sounded—

A mournful, sobbing flute sound echoed out; every melodic turn seemed to tightly grip people's meridians and organs; ripples visible to the naked eye spread through the falling rain curtain; within those ripples, the movements of all demonic creatures seemed to slow by half a beat; the red-skirted maiden then lightly leaped backward, her golden fox tail swaying gently, creating one after another of real-and-illusory clone phantoms within the rain ripples.

Two demonic beasts, confused by this flute sound and the surrounding illusions, momentarily acted in a daze and were directly slain on the spot by Luna.

Erin turned her head in surprise to look at the Jade-Faced Golden Fox holding the long flute and leaping in mid-air, dancing gracefully in the rain; immediately after, she turned to look at Hu Li who was setting fires everywhere: "Oh my! So this is how local foxes fight—stupid fox, look at their style! And then look at you!"

Hu Li looked up at Erin and the red-skirted maiden, bared her teeth without saying anything, turned around, and immediately fired eight Fox Radish Missiles with a thunderous boom; eight silver-white fox tails behind her spewed blinding flames, shockwaves dispersing the surrounding rain curtain, exploding thunderously among the black-robed cultivators commanding the demonic beasts.

The local cultivators had never seen such a move; a group of silent black-robed men finally cried out in surprise; caught off guard, they hastily raised protective spiritual energy and life-saving magical treasures, but several with shallow cultivation levels had their shields blown through directly, engulfed by fireballs before they could land and burned to ash.

The flute sound echoing in the rain stopped instantly; Yu Sheng heard a short, grating noise within that sound, sounding like someone blowing out of tune; immediately after, he turned his head and saw the red-skirted maiden coughing vigorously while staring wide-eyed in Hu Li's direction, her golden fox tail behind her bristling like a sword graveyard.

Local fox, greatly alarmed and losing color. JPG.

"Immortal!" the red-skirted maiden finally caught her breath after coughing violently for a long time, pointing her finger at the clusters of fox fire remaining and falling from the sky after the fox tails exploded, her entire fox form looking as if it were about to split open, "Your tail!!"

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Hu Li turn around; accompanied by a "hum," eight more tails reappeared behind her; after a brief warm-up, a series of propulsion flame explosion sounds occurred, and eight Fox Radish Missiles traced blinding arcs, shooting straight into the sky...

The sky was filled with tails fired by the nine-tailed silver fox—interspersed with high-energy lasers randomly biu-ed out by a certain doll.

The red-skirted maiden stood in mid-air, dumbfounded; suddenly she felt as if her cultivation over the past few hundred years had gone wrong; she picked up the iron flute in her hand but momentarily forgot how to play the melody; then, hesitating for a few seconds, she turned her head to look at the five golden fox tails behind her.

After a moment of thought, she reached out, grabbed one of those tails, and pulled hard.

Immediately, she gritted her teeth in pain, howling and whimpering, tears even coming to her eyes.

At this time, Yu Sheng was busy fighting and had no time to look back; of course, he knew even less about how that local fox in the red skirt suddenly started howling and darting wildly in the air—his attention was entirely focused on those black-robed cultivators and the demonic beasts they controlled, and as the fight progressed, he began to feel something was wrong.

It seemed as if a faint, elusive gaze was hiding behind those black-robed cultivators and their demonic beasts, watching this battlefield from a dark corner that no one could perceive.

A black-robed cultivator attacked; Yu Sheng instinctively raised his Tetanus Staff, but before they could engage, a ghostly figure suddenly materialized beside that black-robed cultivator; Luna stepped lightly and swiftly across the darkness, her fingertip blades slicing an elegant arc through the rain curtain, precisely piercing the black-robed man's neck.

That feeling of being watched appeared again.

Yu Sheng instinctively frowned, looking at Luna: "Did you scan for any hidden enemies?"

Luna paused, slowly raising her head, her "gaze" sweeping over the entire battlefield.

"Radar, no reaction."

Hearing this Artificial Saintess's response, Yu Sheng did not relax at all, because he could be certain that the feeling of being watched just now was not his illusion: something was really hiding in this place.

But it was not some conventional "stealth" method, because if it were just some concealment technique, it would not have escaped Luna's multi-frequency enemy-search radar and Immortal Yuan Hao's divine sense.

Suddenly, Yu Sheng recalled the moment those spatial rifts disintegrated just now, recalling the strange scene where, as those cracks rapidly expanded, all surrounding buildings appeared illusory and transparent, and even that magnificent ancient refining tower seemed to vanish instantly.

And there was also a desolate wasteland covered in jagged rocks lying beyond the city district—that scene was as if two spaces were overlapping here.

Yu Sheng's heart stirred, as if he had thought of something; and at almost the same moment, he heard Zheng Zhi's shout coming from behind: "Brother Yu!"

He immediately turned his head and saw his Great Nephew, who was hiding beside Immortal Yuan Hao, pointing his finger at a corner of the sky.

"There's someone over there staring at you constantly," Zheng Zhi said casually, "feels like they have bad intentions."

Yu Sheng: "...?!"

(Still unable to restore stable double updates for now, but feeling that single updates are too long, so I tried hard today...)

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