Chapter 250: Immortal Wu Xiong, Give Up

"Ah..."

"Woo woo woo... so painful, save me, save me!"

"Ah ah ah... save me!"

"Woo woo woo, save me!"

"Jie jie jie jie jie..."

From the four wooden houses swallowed by blue flames, countless shrill screams and painful howls came. Figures covered in blue flames rushed out from the four doorways, fleeing in panic.

Under the night sky, it was like thousands of evil ghosts squeezing out of the gates of hell.

Above the wooden houses, at the intersection of the four blue flames, Wu Xiong's strange and crazy cruel laughter made everyone's hearts skip a beat.

"Longshan large army, retreat!"

"Retreat to outside the valley."

"Don't be stunned, retreat!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling shouted three times in succession, waking everyone up.

Hearing the sound, the crowd fled in panic, all turning to run toward the rear outside the valley.

But Wu Xiong in the sky moved at this time.

*Hong*...

Wu Xiong turned into a blue fireball, suddenly pouncing from the sky. A giant blade condensed from flames quietly appeared in its hand, and the fire arc it brought slashed dozens of people instantly.

Several people reacted relatively quickly, using weapons to parry and block in advance, but without exception, their weapons were instantly melted and broken the moment they touched the blue-flame giant blade.

What was even stranger was that the people slashed by the blue-flame giant blade were not cut into two halves, but a large string of white dew drops emerged from the wounds, and then the dew drops were ignited by the flames, the body was covered by flames, and they immediately let out screams.

"Jie jie jie... jie jie jie..."

If the thousands of people in the four wooden houses just now only made Wu Xiong emit successful cruel laughter, then at this moment, killing dozens of people who were fleeing with one blade, Wu Xiong's emotions were clearly a bit crazy.

"Kill... kill!"

Wu Xiong's eyes were blood-red, his pupils gradually contracted, and his face was full of bloodthirsty, twisted smiles. Looking at the crowd that was even more terrified than before, he rushed up again, and the blue flames on his head soared up by a large margin again.

Keng...

Only this time, it wasn't so smooth.

A silver long sword blocked the back of an Earth-Digging Realm expert, fiercely colliding with the fire blade in Wu Xiong's hand.

What was surprising was that the silver long sword was not only not melted and broken, but after the two collided, it even slashed off a section of Wu Xiong's fire blade.

"Take silver utensils, block it, otherwise people will die!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling's words fell, and Li Ying Xuan Yan, Li Xuandu, Meng Ying, and Zhou Yuan, the four Longshan Cold-Resisting Realm experts, all took out a silver dagger from their bosoms and rushed toward Wu Xiong.

Hou Tong and the six Cold-Resisting Realm experts of Zhaoyang first exchanged glances, and Hou Tong took out a silver dagger from his bosom first.

Seeing this, the other five immediately took them out as well.

"Young Lady, strange monster is in front, join forces!"

"Don't talk nonsense, deal with it first."

Li Ying Xuan Ling took the lead and had already killed her way to Wu Xiong's side.

Shiu...

"Hmph!"

A silver sword arc galloped suddenly. Wu Xiong, who was rushing toward the crowd, immediately lowered his head to dodge. Although he successfully dodged, the sword arc slashed past, and the blue flames that had originally shrouded a length of his body immediately lowered by more than ten centimeters.

Wu Xiong held the blue blade high, looking at the long sword in Li Ying Xuan Ling's hand, a trace of wariness flashed in his eyes, and ten silver lights suddenly surrounded and attacked him from all directions.

The ten silver lights were naturally the two groups of people from Longshan and Zhaoyang who had quickly reached a consensus.

Ten Frost-Resistance level experts attacked simultaneously, all using light, portable weapons like daggers. The violent power poured out, and the gale alone was enough to make the blue flames enveloping Wu Xiong crackle and snap.

Shiu...

Wu Xiong had already found a direction to break out, but Li Ying Xuan Ling quickly swapped positions with that person, using her silver long sword to block his breakout direction tightly.

Puchi!

Only four people successfully inserted silver daggers into Wu Xiong's body: Li Ying Xuan Ling, Li Ying Xuan Yan, Li Xuandu, and Hou Tong.

This was not surprising, as they were the four strongest among the eleven people present.

Moreover, Li Ying Xuan Ling's long sword was inserted directly from the brow, piercing through Wu Xiong's head.

The suppressing effect of silver utensils on strange monsters was known to all.

So the faces of all eleven people, including Li Ying Xuan Ling, instantly revealed smiles.

Only, this smile quickly transferred to Wu Xiong's body.

"Jie jie jie jie..."

Wu Xiong suddenly raised his head, his pupils occupied by dew drops making people feel a chill, and the laughter he emitted was like it was squeezed from his throat, making people feel their hearts go numb.

"Want to kill me? It's not that easy!"

*Hong*...

As Wu Xiong's words fell, the blue flames on his body soared into the sky, and then suddenly transformed into a thick smoke, disappearing directly before everyone's eyes.

"Puchi..."

"Help, help!"

"Ah..."

Accompanied by Wu Xiong's disappearance, at the valley entrance iron gate position, one after another shrill screams sounded.

Li Ying Xuan Ling and the eleven didn't even think about it, and turned back to rush toward outside the valley.

Wu Xiong, who had just been hit by their silver utensils, was actually as if no one was there outside the valley, starting a crazy slaughter.

The blue fire giant blade in his hand had already become more than two meters, and the blue flames covering his body had also soared from the original one length to one and a half lengths, and with his slaughter, it was still growing upward.

"Fight for your life! If you don't fight for your life, you'll all die! It will keep getting stronger!"

This time, the one speaking was Li Xuandu.

He looked at the silver dagger in his hand, which was an inch shorter than just now, his gaze full of horror, and he continued to exclaim: "It can start consuming silver utensils. This is a characteristic of evolving into a high-level strange monster! Can't let it continue!"

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up."

Li Ying Xuan Ling turned into a silver light, instantly swept past the crowd, and stuck to Wu Xiong. The whistling sword light raised a large piece of snow mist, and the other ten people who followed up immediately joined the battle.

Keng...

Once again, Li Ying Xuan Ling saved an Earth-Digging Realm expert, but the price was her body flying backward seven or eight meters. After forcibly stabilizing her body, she spat out a mouthful of reverse blood.

Although she also successfully pressed Wu Xiong's blue fire giant blade down by a few centimeters, Li Ying Xuan Ling's pupils were full of solemnity, adding a few more points of horror than the first fight just now.

"It only had 12 *zong* just now, now it's about 18 *zong*!"

18 *zong*, that was basically the strongest strength in Longyou currently.

Li Ying Xuan Ling could judge it because of Xia Hong.

Second Uncle Li Tiancheng had fought Xia Hong. He had said that Xia Hong's strength was above 17 *zong*. Just now, in that collision, she could clearly sense that the strength Wu Xiong erupted with had already surpassed Xia Hong'

This is a Strange; it hasn't even used its methods yet, and its raw physical strength alone is enough to crush the entire Longyou region.

It's over!

Only Li Ying Xuan Ling knew about the change in Wu Xiong's strength, while the others, Li Ying Xuan Yan and Hou Tong, who were oblivious, charged up again.

"Don't engage head-on; it has at least the strength of eighteen manes."

Seeing this, Li Ying Xuan Ling immediately shouted a warning.

Unfortunately, this warning came a bit too late.

Li Ying Xuan Yan, who charged in first, found himself face-to-face with Wu Xiong's grinning visage; hearing Li Ying Xuan Ling's words, he tried to retreat in a panic.

But how could Wu Xiong let him have his way?

Whoosh...

The blue-flame great blade slashed down suddenly, and the terrifying force swept up a massive cloud of snow, instantly enveloping Li Ying Xuan Yan's body as the blade sliced straight across his waist.

Sss...

Unlike when Wu Xiong killed those Earth-Digging level experts earlier, where countless white dewdrops would emerge from the wound the moment the blade passed through, when Li Ying Xuan Yan was struck by the blue-flame blade, a wound appeared first, and only then did the white dewdrops slowly emerge.

The body of a Frost-Resistance level expert is clearly much stronger. "That blue-flame great blade is just an illusory object condensed from its flames; it can only be used to spread the plague and has no physical form, so no matter how strong its power is, it cannot cause us any substantial harm!"

Hearing Li Xuandu's words, the crowd was initially still a bit skeptical.

But the next second, they believed it immediately.

Because Wu Xiong used his left hand to draw in something from the ground and casually picked up another great blade.

Whoosh...

This time, he slashed at Li Ying Xuan Yan with a real blade.

"Big brother, watch out!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling and Li Xuandu charged up one after the other.

The latter parried Wu Xiong's left-hand blade;

The former used a silver longsword to parry Wu Xiong's right-hand blue-flame blade;

Li Ying Xuan Yan took the opportunity to immediately retreat while clutching his waist wound.

!

Clack... Whoosh...

Wu Xiong's right-hand blade struck Li Ying Xuan Ling's longsword, and the blue flames on his body shrank by more than half; meanwhile, the blade in his left hand was snapped directly by Li Xuandu's dagger.

"A hundred-forged great blade has no comparison to my silver weapon!"

Seeing this, Li Xuandu immediately showed a hint of joy, then withdrew his ready-to-strike dagger and stabbed fiercely at the top of Wu Xiong's head again.

At the same time, Li Ying Xuan Ling's sword also drew an arc, bypassing Wu Xiong's neck with the clear intent of decapitation.

Hou Tong and the other eight Earth-Digging level experts weren't stupid either; their daggers simultaneously pierced into the back of Wu Xiong's skull, passing right through.

Sss...

"It's working, but why can he just turn into smoke and escape!"

It was the exact same scene as before.

Wu Xiong turned into a trail of white smoke and disappeared before them again, and then, more shrill screams came from the direction of the iron gate at the valley entrance.

This meant that a new round of slaughter had begun.

Li Xuandu roared out his confusion while rushing toward the iron gate with Li Ying Xuan Ling.

When the silver weapons were inserted into Wu Xiong's body, they had a very clear feeling that it was indeed being burned, which proved that the silver weapons did have a suppressing and eradicating effect on it.

But every time he turned into smoke and escaped, what was this...

In just this short while, a total of one-third of the five thousand Earth-Digging level experts from the Longshan and Zhaoyang families had died; if they let it continue killing, neither family would be able to bear the final losses.

"What should we do?"

Hearing Li Xuandu's low inquiry, Li Ying Xuan Ling's expression turned slightly cold.

Seeing the intent to retreat in Li Xuandu's eyes, she naturally understood the meaning behind his words.

They couldn't handle this Strange.

If they stayed here, they might even lose their own lives.

"Hold on a little longer!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling didn't speak, only signaling with her eyes.

Li Xuandu followed her gaze and discovered that most of those currently stuck at the iron gate at the valley entrance were Longyou Army soldiers clad in black iron armor; he immediately understood Li Ying Xuan Ling's meaning and nodded heavily.

Their silent exchange did not delay their encirclement of Wu Xiong.

Killing Wu Xiong was already impossible, but letting him continue this slaughter was even less of an option.

His strength would grow stronger as he killed more people; once he truly reached a certain level, not only would the Longyou Army be unable to be saved, but even they themselves...

Bang...

Li Ying Xuan Ling's worries, accompanied by another clash with Wu Xiong, were completely transformed into reality.

Her sword had already saved someone for the third time.

This time, the rescue failed.

Wu Xiong's blue-flame great blade sent her flying dozens of meters away; the webs between her thumbs and forefingers split, her body trembled uncontrollably, and not only did she vomit blood, but the Earth-Digging level expert behind her was also blasted into pulp.

"He's even stronger than that Xia Hong; over twenty-four manes, already more than double my own!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling no longer had the heart to care about the Earth-Digging level expert killed behind her; she kept observing the Longyou Army soldiers at the iron gate with her peripheral vision while coordinating with Li Xuandu and the other nine Frost-Resistance level experts to frantically entangle Wu Xiong, simply refusing to give him the opportunity to slaughter at will.

"Ants and vermin, die for me!"

Wu Xiong, or rather that White Dew Strange, seemed to be annoyed now.

With a low, deep roar, the blue-flame great blade bypassed Li Ying Xuan Ling and slashed furiously at Meng Ying in the crowd.

The reason for choosing Meng Ying was simple: among the ten Frost-Resistance level experts, he was the one whose silver dagger was most deeply depleted.

The others had the heart to step forward and rescue him, but their speed had long since failed to keep up with Wu Xiong's constantly increasing strength.

Meng Ying hadn't expected the opponent to pick him, and while trying to dodge in a panic, he suddenly received a look from Li Ying Xuan Ling.

He immediately understood, gritted his teeth, drew the great blade at his waist, and chose to take Wu Xiong's strike head-on.

Whoosh...

The blade edge was menacing, its violent force combined with the roaring blue flames.

The snow on the ground was frantically kicked up dozens of meters, the other ten Frost-Resistance level experts in the vicinity were all shrouded in snow mist, and the earth seemed to have collapsed downward slightly from the impact of the flames.

Wu Xiong's strike was terrifying to the extreme.

Whoosh...

Just as Li Xuandu had guessed earlier, Wu Xiong's blue-flame great blade had no physical form and only reacted when colliding with silver weapons; it passed directly through the thousand-forged great blade Meng Ying had temporarily brought out.

Boom...

The blue flames pierced straight through Meng Ying's chest, and he reacted just like Li Ying Xuan Yan had after being struck by that blade.

Sss!

Strings of white dewdrops suddenly grew from his chest, and as the dewdrops were scorched by the flames, their temperature gradually rose.

An unnatural flush also rose on Meng Ying's face.

"Hehehehe..."

Whoosh...

Having severely wounded another Frost-Resistance level expert, Wu Xiong once again emitted that same manic, smug, sadistic laughter, but the laughter soon came to an abrupt end, accompanied by the sound of a swift iron arrow piercing the air.

A silver iron arrow shot straight in from above, happening almost simultaneously with Wu Xiong striking Meng Ying; the two events were likely separated by only the briefest gap of Wu Xiong's laughter.

Pfft!

Sss...

The master archer from Longshan, who had been hiding in mid-air, had made his move.

Li Ying Xuan Ling had kept him from revealing himself for so long precisely for this moment.

The sound of the iron arrow piercing the skull was exceptionally clear.

Not only Li Ying Xuan Ling, but Li Xuandu, Li Ying Xuan Yan, Hou Tong, and the other Frost-Resistance level experts all heard it clearly.

They turned to look at Wu Xiong, their eyes full of hope.

But as billowing thick smoke rose from Wu Xiong's body, the hope in their eyes instantly turned into disappointment, and even... despair.

Strength over twenty-four manes, the characteristic of being unkillable, and the ability to keep growing stronger by killing—this Strange was simply unsolvable...

"Run!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling finally gave up.

Li Xuandu and Li Ying Xuan Yan reacted the fastest, immediately following behind her and darting toward the outside of the iron gate.

Next was Hou Tong; looking at the crowd of Zhaoyang's Earth-Digging level experts near the iron gate who hadn't been able to escape yet, he gritted his teeth and nodded to the few Frost-Resistance level experts beside him.

The meaning was clear: they had to run!

Li Ying Xuan Ling, along with the ten Frost-Resistance level experts, all ran away.

The Earth-Digging level experts who hadn't escaped yet inside the outer valley of the Gourd Valley, including the few survivors in the Hanqiong camp, instantly fell into despair.

"Save me, my lord."

"Don't leave us behind, my lord, save us."

"I don't want to die, save me, save me, wuwuwu..."

"Run, we can't run anymore, we can't run!"

(End of chapter)