Chapter 101: Death's Envoy

As a bandit gang, Death's Hand's strength is undoubtedly far above standard.

Just the ones that have appeared already number three Soul Kings.

However, against these Heaven's Pride of Shrek's main team, their strength is far inferior, and they had no power to fight back throughout.

According to intelligence, the bandit leader should be a Soul King, evidently one of those three.

Seeing the situation settled, Wang Yan waved his hand and said: "Everyone, attack. Don't let any escape. Eliminate future trouble."

The enemies before us aren't that strong; the strongest are blocked by inner court disciples, the rest are at most two- or three-ring soul masters, and there are even ordinary bandits who aren't soul masters at all.

Upon his order, Bei Bei and Xu San Shi took the lead and charged forward.

At this point the importance of mindset shows: although Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong are the strongest in the reserve team and far more mature than their peers, when they actually need to kill, their faces turn pale involuntarily and they cannot act for a moment.

Just then, a sharp, long howl echoed from deep within the cave.

"Who dares oppose me, the Death's Envoy? You will all die and become my corpse slaves!"

Hearing that sound, the bandits not only did not get excited, they quickly retreated, and each trembled all over.

"Careful!"

Huo Yutong shouted loudly; within her spiritual detection range, the corpses on the ground were rapidly swelling and turning red at an astonishing speed.

"Boom—boom—boom—boom—boom——!"

Continuous loud booms rang in the cave, and countless flesh and blood flew everywhere amid the rising and falling screams.

The seven reserve team members, having just entered and being within Huo Yutong's spiritual detection range, reacted immediately, diving to places without corpses, and suffered no harm.

But the seven inner court disciples were unfortunate—they were all at the explosion's center.

Although Huo Yutong's loud warning prompted all main team members to raise defenses in time, it was useless; the terrifying corpse blast's power was beyond what they could block.

At the moment the explosion sounded, an old man with disheveled hair who had been sitting on the cave's outer top drinking alcohol blinked, then instantly turned into a stream of light and shot into the cave.

Xuanzi had been there all along, but he thought Shrek's main team could not possibly be defeated by a few Soul Kings, so he hid aside and began to fish leisurely.

He never expected the Evil Soul Master's strength to be so formidable; this attack power already exceeds that of Soul Kings and even Soul Emperors, and these children who don't even have Soul Saint rank cannot possibly block it.

At this moment the explosion in the cave has ceased, and the whole cave is filled with a thick blood mist.

Even though the main team members put up defenses in time, they still suffered varying degrees of severe injury from such a sudden powerful attack.

Dai Yaoheng was blown aside, severely injured, but fortunately his body-protecting soul skill shielded him, so he was not contaminated by the poisonous blood.

Ling Luochen had ice that could protect her whole body; although she was also blown away, she was originally at the rear, and with timely defense her condition wasn't too bad, her injuries similar to Dai Yaoheng's.

Zhang Zehao promptly activated his soul tool shield, but because his soul power level as a soul tool department member was actually the lowest in the main team at only fifty-two, his injuries ended up much worse than Ling Luochen's.

Chen Zifeng was blown completely to the side, his right leg gone, and he kept screaming as the deadly poison corroded him.

Gongyang Mo's chest, abdomen, and legs were still large masses of mangled flesh, with smoke even rising from his body, and he had fallen unconscious.

Likewise in a gruesome state was Yao Haoxuan, whose body was the largest and bore the strongest blast, half of his body blown away, evidently he could no longer survive.

Xixi's condition was slightly better, with lightning body protection and great speed, only her back was hit, but it too was a mass of mangled flesh; she lay on the ground gritting her teeth against the pain.

The seven main team members actually lost all combat ability in an instant; this result exceeded everyone's expectations. "Damn it!"

A hoarse roar suddenly rang out, shaking the entire cavern and making it tremble violently.

Xuanzi finally arrived; he reached out and pulled a figure from deep within the cavern.

That figure was surrounded by five soul rings, truly just a Soul King, yet it was this Soul King who had just wiped out the current generation of Shrek's Seven Monsters.

He was seized by Xuanzi and immediately let out a terrified scream; Yao Haoxuan's huge body lying on the ground swelled up again.

Xuanzi quickly used his own soul power to suppress him, but the Death's Envoy took advantage of his distraction, his fifth soul ring flaring, and he turned into purple mist and slipped from his grasp.

Seeing this, Tang Wulin went completely dumb; Shrek's main team he had just sparred with yesterday could each be said to be stronger than him alone, yet they were blown into severe injuries without any chance to fight back.

Moreover, even Xuanzi failed to catch him right away and let him escape; this overly fantastical development left his brain stalled.

He instinctively wanted to hold Huo Yutong's hand for comfort, but at that moment she suddenly loosened her grip on his hand, gently pushed him aside.

Tang Wulin turned his head toward her direction and saw a reassuring smile.

Huo Yutong's eyes flashed with charming light, the corners of her mouth curved into a lovely arc, her lips opened as if she wanted to say something.

But before she could speak, Huo Yutong's figure vanished from his sight, the Death's Envoy seized her and ran into the secret passage.

"No——!"

Tang Wulin never imagined he could utter such a mournful sound; he madly lunged forward, wanting to enter the secret passage together, but a huge boom rang out and the entrance collapsed under the corpse blast's effect.

In an instant he understood why Huo Yutong had pushed him away and why she showed that reassuring expression.

She wanted to be taken away alone.

"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard——!"

Since childhood Tang Wulin's parents taught him not to curse recklessly, but he can no longer restrain himself.

How ruthless the Death's Envoy is—just look at the scene in this cave to know.

No need to imagine how Huo Yutong would be treated if she fell into his hands.

Just thinking of the girl who always followed behind him, ready to give him a gentle smile at any moment, now destined to vanish forever, and to share the fate of those human skins hanging on the wall, Tang Wulin felt his stomach churn violently and he vomited everything inside.

He weakly pounded the ground, tears streaming down his face.

Unable to protect his beloved girlfriend, even needing her to save him instead, this self-blame made him unable to breathe.

He is simply too weak.

By the way, the Holy Spirit Sect's Supreme Elder completed the mission perfectly! After this incident, Tang Wulin's favorability toward the two parties dropped completely to negative.

One is the Ri Yue Di Guo, the other is Xuanzi. (Evil Soul Masters were already negative.) Originally the Ri Yue Di Guo held considerable weight in his heart, and Xuanzi was merely a harsh‑spoken old man in his mind, but after the most important person was nearly taken from him, he can no longer forgive these two abstract entities.

Back when I solicited ideas for Xuanzi's ending, many hoped he would grow up under the Death's Envoy and then be killed.

Such a route is impossible; in this book any Evil Soul Master who isn't the protagonist and can't win basically won't survive past ten chapters, the Death's Envoy will die next chapter, and if it weren't for Yutong fearing the noise of a fight affecting Wulin, this chapter he would have had to be sacrificed to heaven.

(End of chapter)