Chapter 159: My Plan Failed, It Is Fate

The voice of Ye Lin's clone rang out with conviction, and his eyes burned with soaring fighting spirit.

Just as the crowd remained immersed in shock, they suddenly felt as if a gust of wind had brushed across their faces.

Shortly after, a figure appeared on the battlefield below.

That figure held two short daggers, moving with a speed that made one's heart race; as he danced about, he actually dismembered several monsters in one go!

"Young ladies of Qingcheng, rest assured! When there is no danger, I, Guo Qin, am the greatest danger, but when there is danger, I, Guo Qin, will come to protect you all!"

With Guo Qin's speed, the monsters below were dead before they even realized what had happened.

This sudden appearance of two people left everyone in Qingcheng in a state of shock.

"These two... what terrifying strength; they are probably top-tier even across all of Qingcheng, right? Why haven't we seen them before?"

"That scarred man said he was entrusted by Mr. Zhuge... Is Mr. Zhuge still looking out for Qingcheng even after his death?"

"Are we... are we saved?"

A glimmer appeared in everyone's eyes; the name of that glimmer was hope!

After Guo Qin and Ye Lin's clone appeared, they didn't say a word and charged straight into the center of the beast tide.

Guo Qin's form was like the wind and his blades like light, carving a bloody path through the monster horde, while the tip of Ye Lin's Crimson Flame Staff ignited with purple-red karmic fire, which he unleashed directly as a Karmic Fire Burning the Heavens.

Once touched by the karmic fire, there was no escape; many monsters, stung by the pain, charged about wildly, spreading the karmic fire to the monsters beside them.

The addition of these two was like an adrenaline shot to everyone present; the crowd instantly reignited their fighting spirit and began to strike back.

The people of Qingcheng actually showed signs of faintly suppressing the monster horde!

And after these two appeared, Xie Hong's men were also keeping an eye on this side.

"Are you sure it's them?" Xie Hong asked in a cold voice.

"That's right! The files retrieved from the Qingcheng Investigation Bureau record that this Ling Ye is extremely proficient in fire-type spells and can even summon karmic fire; a small-time thug in Qingcheng named Kensen died at Ling Ye's hands." The person wearing a rat-faced mask nodded.

"Move!"

"Yes!"

Twelve black-robed figures wearing masks instantly charged out from behind Xie Hong!

If any outsider were to see this scene, they would surely be stunned, because the speed of these twelve people was not much slower than Guo Qin's!

The twelve people were like twelve meteors, charging straight toward the dense mass of monsters.

And when those terrifying monsters faced these twelve people, they were actually sent flying into the sky, unable to block them in the slightest!

This shocking scene instantly drew gasps of amazement from the people of Qingcheng.

"Who are those dozen people? Are they also a contingency left behind by Mr. Zhuge before he passed?"

"I don't know! But they look terrifyingly strong!"

"No! Look! Those dozen people aren't even attacking the monsters; they are just using their own raw power to bash the monsters aside!"

"What on earth are they trying to do?"

The suddenly appearing mysterious people left everyone in Qingcheng completely bewildered, and Ye Lin's true self on the city wall couldn't help but narrow his eyes; the strength of these guys was even more terrifying than he had anticipated—no wonder Guo Qin was so opposed to this at the start!

Relying on his vantage point atop the city wall, Ye Lin began to control his clone to play hide-and-seek with the twelve mysterious people amidst the dense monster horde.

Before this clone completely vanished, he had to use these twelve people to exhaust as many monsters as possible!

What Guo Qin was doing at this moment was similar to Ye Lin; he didn't have Ye Lin's vision, so he dove straight into the deepest part of the monster horde.

They had planned this from the beginning: Guo Qin would not return to Qingcheng, but would charge straight into the wilderness.

At his speed, returning to Qingcheng would only make it easier to be caught like a turtle in a jar.

Under the sweep of the twelve mysterious people, the dense monster horde was instantly scattered, and the pressure on the people of Qingcheng plummeted.

The monsters could only let out angry roars, yet they had no way to deal with those twelve people.

But good times didn't last long; soon, Ye Lin's clone was the first to have all his escape routes cut off, as six masked men surrounded him within the monster horde.

"You were pretty good at running and hiding, weren't you? Why not keep running and hiding?" The rat-faced masked man sneered coldly.

"Hmph! Do you think you can catch me?"

A look of madness appeared in the depths of Ye Lin's clone's eyes, and then strands of star-chains connected to his body; his body began to swell like a balloon being constantly inflated.

"My plan failed, it is fate! Mr. Zhuge, Ling Ye has failed your trust! Guo Qin, everything is left to you!" Ye Lin's clone roared out.

"What the hell! Is a worker's life not a life?"

On the other side, Guo Qin, who was being chased around by the other six masked men, nearly got so angry upon hearing this that he wanted to turn back and punch Ye Lin; wasn't this just drawing aggro for him?

"Not good, he's going to self-destruct, stop him!" The rat-faced masked man exclaimed, preparing to intervene.

Unfortunately, he was not Zhuge Qianxing; the rat-faced masked man could not stop this self-destruction!

A blinding pillar of light shot into the sky, evaporating all the surrounding clouds; after the crowd saw the blinding glare, a deafening boom followed immediately after!

The terrifying explosion annihilated everything in the vicinity; monsters that were too close were blown to pieces, and a circular crater dozens of meters deep was left in the ground.

Yet even so, when the dust and smoke cleared, the six masked men, aside from being covered in dust and looking a bit disheveled, hadn't sustained any injuries at all.

"Damn it... this kid is so unafraid of death! Let's go! Chase the one who's afraid of dying!"

The six masked men who had taken the blast from the clone's self-destruction cursed, then turned directly to chase after Guo Qin.

The crowd finally realized that these masked men were not here to help them at all! One could even say that these masked men were their enemies too!

Ye Lin's true self on the city wall couldn't help but narrow his eyes; a level 43 Forbidden Spellcaster's full-power self-destruction couldn't even injure a single one of them? Just how terrifying was the strength of these guys?

However, the first step of the plan had been achieved; next, he had to assist Guo Qin in escaping, as Guo Qin was about to face the encirclement and interception of twelve masked men!

But Ye Lin had confidence in Guo Qin; as long as he had his clone self-destruct to carve out a path for Guo Qin, those twelve people couldn't possibly catch a Guo Qin who was determined to flee. As a Forbidden Spellcaster, Ye Lin was proficient in several types of self-destruction techniques.

Just as Ye Lin was preparing to take action and have another clone rush out to meet Guo Qin, a hysterical roar rang out.

"Ling Ye!!!"

"I want all of you to be buried with him!"