Chapter 54

Chen Yi He, Wu Rong, and the Young Palace Master, three people, were in a mutually supporting position, backs to each other, leaning on each other.

How long ago was it that Chen Yi He and his two other companions protected each other like this, merely wondering whether those two companions were still alright?

The skeleton army is essentially endless; these are the corpses of people who died inside the Thousand Layer Gate over thousands of years—Heaven knows how many died!!

They are just like the zombies in a Korean zombie movie, endless, giving no chance or space at all!

"By the way, I've been wanting to ask you, why do you know the 'Flying Flower Dance Sword'?" Wu Rong asked Chen Yi He. He didn't know how many skeleton people he had killed with his own hands. Six months ago he already had this doubt, but never had the chance to ask.

Chen Yi He had just finished a set of the "Mountain River Sword Technique", so he simply took out the God Sword Mountain Villa's "Flying Flower Dance Sword" to play with! Moreover, this kind of group-fighting scenario, the "Flying Flower Dance Sword" is very practical, with all-around lethality, both offense and defense, effective against skeleton people. "Just look once and you'll get it!"

"You're just joking!" Wu Rong laughed and said. After saying that, he punched and turned another twenty or thirty skeletons to ash!

Indeed, how could there be a martial art that you can master after just one look? Unless one's original ability is exceeded many times over, such a possibility exists. Clearly, Chen Yi He has not exceeded Huang Gao Yu's ability by many times.

"Or maybe we should think about what to do now?" The Young Palace Master had killed the most skeletons; her solidified lightning true qi was like a machine gun, or rather like endless bullet sweeping, such powerful lethality was the most merciless. What's even more frightening is that the Young Palace Master won't be held back.

If one truly fought against such a person on the same level, there would basically be no chance to win.

Indeed, Chen Yi He and the three of them are now trapped in a predicament, surrounded on all sides, unless they go to heaven or earth. Their strength is strong, but facing the skeleton army's despicable fighting style, they are also helpless.

They simply can't kill them all; by the time they finish, they'll be exhausted to death.

Chen Yi He suddenly said, "Capture the bandit by capturing their leader! They have no souls; they must be controlled by someone. If we find that person, we should be able to break the situation!"

"Where is that person then?" Wu Rong asked, "It's just a mass of skeleton people."

"It's not necessarily a person; it could be their 'Skeleton King'!"

"Skeleton King?" Wu Rong felt Chen Yi He was just joking.

"Yes!" Chen Yi He said firmly.

"How do we find it?" Having been stuck like this, the Young Palace Master grew irritable; what she couldn't accept most was that a piece of the sleeve of her big red skirt had been torn by skeleton people! Fortunately, the torn part was the skirt hem, so she wouldn't be exposed; otherwise she would surely go berserk.

Chen Yi He, while using his sword to protect himself without making a strong thrust, raised his head to look around, and also used his divine sense to search. Chen Yi He didn't know when he had developed this 'divine sense'—a latent ability formed by true qi combining with the mind, mutually supplementing. If he had to explain it specifically, Chen Yi He couldn't.

Divine sense is many times stronger than pure mind; it can both aid cultivation and explore the unknown within the body, but Chen Yi He merely used it as an exploration tool……

"Where exactly is it?" Not to the east.

"Where exactly is it?" Not to the west.

"Damn, where did it hide?" Not to the south either.

Sure enough, among the tens of thousands of skeleton soldiers, Chen Yi He found the most distinctive skeleton—it was the Skeleton King. It was surrounded by all the skeleton soldiers; if you look closely, it certainly differs from other skeletons, being more solid, whiter, and stronger. More importantly, within its skull, two faint purple ghost fires flickered in the eye sockets.

But it was far away, safe enough. Flames couldn't burn it, lightning couldn't strike it, even a divine sword couldn't cut it; Chen Yi He seemed to see it laughing there.

"I've found it; can you clear a path for me?" Chen Yi He asked his two companions.

"No problem!" Wu Rong replied.

"Good." The Young Palace Master replied.

The three of them were neither friends nor enemies; at the very least, in this enclosed area, they all shared the desire to get out. They could also be considered to have fought side by side.

"I'll count to three, concentrate fire, and clear a path to the north for me!" Chen Yi He shouted, adjusting his true qi so that all his power gathered in the Purple Tempered Sword.

The Purple Tempered Sword did not disappoint him; no matter how strong the force, it could withstand it!

"One..." Wu Rong's hands were like torches, sparks flying, his "Hellfire Hand" pushed to the extreme!

"Two..." Between the Young Palace Master's skirt sleeves, light flashed; when the pale yellow lightning combined with the deep red skirt sleeve, that was her full-force strike!

From start to finish, Chen Yi He's resolute gaze never wavered; he feared that even a moment's distraction would let the Skeleton King dodge this impending fatal blow.

The Skeleton King seemed to suddenly see the killing intent in Chen Yi He's gaze and tried to flee! But how could Chen Yi He give it that chance?

"Three!" Uttered clearly, with decisive force.

Wu Rong opened the left path, the Young Palace Master opened the right path! Flames cleared the way, lightning cleared the way! Two straight lines formed a straight road for Chen Yi He! All skeleton people on the road turned to dust!

But how could these endless skeleton people allow anyone to harm their king? It might also be the king's command; they suddenly changed direction, madly surging toward Chen Yi He. They had to focus fire on Chen Yi He!

The road was too far, and with the skeleton people's full-force flanking attack, the path opened by Wu Rong and the Young Palace Master could barely hold!

If he charged straight ahead, there would be no ending. Chen Yi He made a quick decision, stepped forward, leapt high, his figure light as a fledgling swallow, accompanied by the bursting sounds of the two surrounding true qi striking the skeleton people; his wrist lightly turned, and the Purple Tempered Sword rotated as fast as lightning, its light flashing, straight for the Skeleton King!

The white-purple sword light traced a long arc in the air, Chen Yi He held the sword steady.

But the distance was still too far!

"Crack!" A skeleton actually grabbed Chen Yi He's ankle! The same ankle that had just been bitten by a skeleton skull!

"Oh no!" Wu Rong exclaimed in shock.

Immediately afterwards, countless skeleton people swarmed up, engulfing Chen Yi He! In that short moment, there was no time to react or rescue!

"Chen Yi He!" Wu Rong shouted.

The Young Palace Master shook her head, feeling helpless.

……

Still, it was in that darkness.

"Old Seven has quite the trick." The Grand Elder faced the bronze mirror alone, "The game is getting more and more exciting."

Beside the Grand Elder was another person, the Fifth Elder, "Like a cat catching a mouse, you must play enough before striking."

……

"Uwaaaah!" At that moment, Chen Yi He felt he was done; indeed, he was done, his body being torn apart by the skeleton people, he would be torn apart by five horses.

"If I die, so be it, but what about Wu Rong and the Young Palace Master? What if the Dragon King and Dongfang Xing are still alive?"

Give it one last effort! Before being completely submerged by the skeleton people, Chen Yi He exerted all his strength to throw the Purple Tempered Sword in his hand!

Only he saw it—a huge black hand gripping his hand, throwing the Purple Tempered Sword for him!

But to others, that huge hand was invisible.

Chen Yi He didn't need to look toward the Skeleton King's direction, nor worry about how many skeleton people blocked the way.

Only one sword, piercing through everything! So fast it's unimaginable!

The white-purple sword light pierced through everything, shattering countless skeletons, striking the skull king's head. The purple ghost fire suddenly went out!

Boom rumble… bang! In that instant, the skeleton people were completely shattered, turned to bone ash, and fell into the cracks of the earth…… the skeleton people army, annihilated.

It was also like experiencing a great earthquake! Like a shuffle on a mahjong table! 'Whoosh…' the tiles were finally shuffled, the previous round had already been settled.