Chapter 233: Lu Yang! Come Out!

As the sun set behind the western mountains, by the time Miaoyin realized something was wrong, the distant sun had already completely vanished, leaving a sky full of stars hanging directly above her head.

"Fellow Daoist Seeing Suo Huan?"

Miaoyin turned to look at Seeing Suo Huan beside her, only to discover that he had somehow already begun manipulating an array, laying out line after line of array patterns.

What is he doing?

Before True Person Miaoyin could react, a signal flare shot up into the distant sky, exploding into a brilliant burst of fireworks accompanied by shouts.

"Found them!"

"We found them!"

The rising and falling shouts were like an invisible giant wave, overwhelming and utterly unmasked, while the starry sky above simultaneously erupted in brilliant light.

The next second, True Person Miaoyin felt the ground trembling slightly; she almost instinctively tried to mount her escape light to flee, yet at that very moment, streaks of blood-red qi surged skyward from all around, connecting with the stars, and instantly an invisible pressure crashed down, forcibly extinguishing her escape light!

"Something's wrong! We're surrounded!"

True Person Miaoyin's pupils contracted sharply in an instant as she finally understood everything: "Duanmu Yuan Tu... he actually plans to kill me? Did he lure all these people here?"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Soon, the slight trembling of the ground turned into violent thunder; True Person Miaoyin could no longer float in the air and could only leap onto a large tree to gaze into the distance, where she saw the distant horizon gradually dyed black, then rapidly solidifying into a black tide that surged toward her, covering heaven and earth!

This was the first time True Person Miaoyin felt truly shocked by the sheer "number of people."

Thinking of this, she immediately turned to look at Seeing Suo Huan, only to find he had already finished setting up the array and had stepped into the formation swirling with brilliant light.

"Is this... a teleportation array?"

True Person Miaoyin's face instantly lit up with joy; she hastily brushed the hair from her forehead, her beautiful eyes flowing with emotion as she quickly walked toward Seeing Suo Huan: "Fellow Daoist truly plans ahead..."

However, the response she received was Seeing Suo Huan's icy gaze.

"Goodbye."

The next second, the brilliant light vanished, Seeing Suo Huan's figure disappeared instantly, and the array, stripped of the Great True Person status enhancement, consequently lost its proper radiance.

True Person Miaoyin's smile completely froze on her pretty face; looking around again, an unprecedented sense of dread finally surged into her heart, a feeling she had not experienced since becoming Master Master Chongguang's dual cultivation partner, compelling her to involuntarily grit her silver teeth.

'If only Master Master Chongguang were still here...'

Thinking of this, her resentment toward Master Master Chongguang increased another notch, but she quickly cast aside these distracting thoughts and began to examine her surroundings.

"Fortunately, I was secluded in the mountainous region."

Although she had not anticipated such a massive scale, True Person Miaoyin had indeed considered the possibility of being discovered by the armies of the Wan Wu Jie and coming under siege.

That was why she had specifically chosen the mountainous area.

With its terrain filled with numerous trees, this environment was perfect for guerrilla warfare; for her alone to break out of the army's encirclement within it would not be difficult.

However, she soon realized something was amiss.

Because every step forward taken by the surrounding armies gnawed at everything around them; they were eating tree bark, grass roots, and even the soil itself.

Before them lay dense mountain forests.

Behind them stretched barren wilderness.

Even with True Person Miaoyin's knowledge and experience, she stared dumbfounded; these were not humans at all, but a swarm of human-shaped locusts wreaking havoc!

"Lu Yang... how did he accomplish this?"

True Person Miaoyin had no time to think further, as the armies had already advanced to surround her, and the soldiers at the very front had already spotted her presence.

"That's the one!"

"That is the Heavenly Demon from beyond the heavens; the Immortal Masters have ordered the execution of the Heavenly Demon from beyond the heavens!"

"Kill! Kill!"

Shouts like mountains collapsing and seas roaring accompanied the charge of the frenzied soldiers, and immense power from the Fate Star crashed down upon True Person Miaoyin.

Under such terrifying suppression, the aura of True Person Miaoyin, who was at the perfect Mid Stage of Foundation Establishment, plummeted again and again, until she finally fell from the status of a Foundation Establishment True Person, unable to retain even a shred of her status, left with only true qi far exceeding the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation to face tens of thousands of vigorous soldiers alone!

"Are you kidding me..."

Gritting her teeth, True Person Miaoyin immediately formed a hand seal for a divine ability; her magic power strung like a bow, rippling out a sound of slaughter that instantly shredded the soldiers charging at the very front.

"Do you really think I fear you?"

Seeing True Person Miaoyin's ten fingers plucking continuously, her vast, sea-like magic power sprayed forth, instantly causing blossoms of blood to bloom amidst the surging crowd.

However, doing so was utterly meaningless.

Because although she had killed the hundreds or thousands charging at the very front, she had already consumed one-tenth of the magic power within her body and was forced to stop.

Yet, being within the Wan Wu Jie, where spiritual energy is toxic and rejects outsiders, unless she could restore her Foundation Establishment cultivation, she could not even inhale spiritual energy to recover her magic power; like water without a source, she could only watch helplessly as the tide-like soldiers surged toward her to completely swallow her whole!

"This cannot continue!"

"Where is Lu Yang?"

True Person Miaoyin looked around; the suppression of the Fate Star distinguished no one, and since she was suppressed to this wretched state, she refused to believe Lu Yang could remain unharmed!

At the same time, on a cliff several thousand meters away from the battlefield.

Lu Yang sat calmly in a tea pavilion, brewing tea, watching the changes on the battlefield from afar under the protection of over a hundred members of the Ding Qin Shu Army.

"Order Anmin to push the eighth formation forward by three meters."

"Yes."

Lu Yang's orders were transmitted one after another, and the army formation, which had become somewhat scattered under True Person Miaoyin's assault, quickly restored its complete and orderly structure.

Under their encirclement and suppression, True Person Miaoyin no longer resembled the noble lady she once was; instead, with disheveled hair and a palace skirt stained with blood, she looked incredulously at the crowd still swarming toward her, completely unable to comprehend these madmen... according to her experience, they should have been terrified into submission by now!

She had killed nearly ten thousand people!

Normally, even the largest army would have collapsed in morale after having ten thousand of its members ruthlessly killed like this, allowing her to escape in the chaos and fight her way to survival.

But the people before her were different.

Each one had eyes glowing red; they were not shaken in the least by the death of their comrades, but instead became even more frenzied, continuing to charge forward wave after wave.

Soon, another half-hour passed.

Once again, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood was left behind on the spot; True Person Miaoyin, standing amidst it all, had used every single magic treasure, dharma tool, and divine ability at her disposal.

'How many people have I killed?'

True Person Miaoyin herself felt somewhat bewildered; in the past, she might have been delighted, since those currently besieging her were all martial artists possessing Fate Stars.

After killing them, she could simply circulate her Qi Gathering Method to strip away the qi of the Wan Wu Jie, yet right now she did not even have the leisure to perform the Qi Gathering Method; she only felt darkness swimming before her eyes, the magic power within her body nearly exhausted, yet when she looked up, all she could see was still an endless sea of people.

"The Wu Zu are in position."

More than half of the thirty thousand elite troops within the army had been killed by True Person Miaoyin, yet at this moment, over one hundred thousand Wu Zu had already filled their vacancies.

Upon seeing this scene, a clear expression of despair finally appeared on True Person Miaoyin's face.

"Lu Yang! I know it's you!"

"Where are you?"

"Come out!"

True Person Miaoyin finally could not help but shout aloud; what frustrated her most was undoubtedly this... she had not seen Lu Yang even once from start to finish!

She completely failed to understand why Lu Yang had suddenly decided to kill her, mobilizing such a massive spectacle, which clearly indicated long-term premeditation; if it were because her plans had been exposed, that made no sense either, as she was very confident in her ability to conceal karma, making it absolutely impossible for Lu Yang to calculate the cause.

Therefore, she simply could not figure it out.

Yet how would Lu Yang meet her? If True Person Miaoyin still possessed some hidden means, and he rashly revealed himself, would that not allow her to turn the tables?

Thus, True Person Miaoyin's cries were destined to receive no response.

(End of Chapter)