Chapter 140: Follow

Wu Tie and Tie Da Jian stood outside the camp, solemnly watching the rolling black‑red mist before them.

The mist carried a faint fluorescence, flickering on and off.

The mist's texture was strange, like countless thin mica sheets, impossibly thin, layered and pieced together; when the fluorescence flickered, the mist shrouding the entire camp felt like a thundercloud about to spawn lightning.

"Not a good thing." Wu Tie furrowed his brow and gave a cold snort.

"It's a bit like, mirage..." Wu Nu happily tapped her two short legs, holding a roasted lizard leg and eating it with great delight. Her small mouth was stuffed with roasted meat, she managed to utter these few words with difficulty.

Wu Tie nodded, he didn't care how Wu Nu knew what this was.

This girl's background was mysterious, but Wu Tie had already preliminarily accepted her way of addressing him in his heart…… Well, his own little girl, no matter how strange, he had to keep her.

Mirage?

In the knowledge inherited from Old Iron, some superficial related records flowed out.

Wu Tie nodded, this seemed not merely mirage; mirage only creates illusions, while this dense mist seemed to harbor even worse power.

It seemed like poison gas, anyway, not a good thing.

A figure stepped out with heavy footsteps, the camp silent, no sound at all; when this figure emerged, his steps landed heavily, yet made no sound at all.

Wu Tie raised his spear.

Tie Da Jian gripped his sword tightly.

The Demon Chapter King stepped out of the mist‑shrouded range with a strange smile, step by step.

Even when he was within the mist, even if he was only an inch from its edge, Wu Tie's eyes emitted specks of firelight, yet he still could not see his face through that thin mist.

But as soon as he stepped out of the mist's range, Wu Tie instantly saw the Demon Chapter King's appearance.

With a strange smile, tears streamed down his face like rain; he was laughing and also crying, a feeling of despair and heart‑wrenching sorrow pierced Wu Tie's heart, making his emotions also become extraordinarily tearful.

"Help me." The Demon Chapter King 'thud' knelt before Wu Tie, heavily knocking his head on the ground.

"How can I help you?" Wu Tie looked at the Demon Chapter King solemnly.

"Kill everyone inside." The Demon Chapter King wept lowly: "Kill them all, help me kill them all…… I have hidden from them for so many years, they have tried to kill me several times, I have hidden from them for so many years……"

"Why would they kill me, yet slaughter so many innocents? Why kill the commander? Why kill…… kill those poor, harmless children?" The Demon Chapter King hoarsely wailed: "They…… all deserve to die……"

The skin and muscles on his face tore apart violently, his eye corners pulled to his ears, his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.

He screamed hoarsely, his whole body writhing violently, like the tentacles of a dying octopus writhing: "They…… all deserve to die……"

Wu Nu's movement stopped, she struggled to swallow a big piece of meat in her mouth, hands holding the roasted meat, staring blankly at the Demon Chapter King. After a long while, she finally let out a low sigh, a deep sigh.

"Ask the world, what is love, that makes one pledge life and death……" Wu Nu chanted a line of extraordinarily beautiful verse in a low voice, then continued to gnaw on the roasted meat: "You adults' world…… really……"

Wu Tie curled his finger and struck Wu Nu's head hard.

This was the first time he had struck Wu Nu so hard.

Little brat, what are you pretending to be deep for?

If you want to pretend deep, you should pretend to be your senior master…… why pretend to be a child acting cute…… Wu Tie cannot tolerate this.

"We can't get in." Wu Tie did not ask the Demon Chapter King's origins or right and wrong, only asked how to enter this mass of mist to kill.

Time passed, Wu Tie had become much more mature.

In his heart, the Demon Chapter King belonged to his own people…… Since he is one of us, when he is bullied, we protect him first, then discuss principles.

Moreover, he did not think these folks from Triple Linked City were good people.

If they were good people, why would they ally with the Six Paths Palace to besiege Wu Tie?

Regardless of whether it's related to these unlucky folks from Triple Linked City, anyway Wu Tie has already counted the bill of being besieged earlier on their heads, regardless of whether they are related, anyway it must be related to them.

"What a dog‑shit world." Wu Tie let out a low sigh…… This kind of sigh, he had often heard people mention in the past few years.

The Demon Chapter King pointed a finger, his finger suddenly elongated to several meters long, his soft finger lightly touched Wu Tie, Tie Da Jian, and Wu Nu's shoulders; a strand of fluorescence twined around their shoulders, quickly covering their whole bodies.

"With my mark, the poison mist I spew will not harm you." The Demon Chapter King looked at Wu Tie with a half‑smile, blood‑tears continually streaming from his eye corners: "I first learned that I actually still have such ability……"

"I was fed a bottle of Beauty's Pastry, and I can actually spit out poison mist of similar nature…… hehe, next time I'll try, taking more deadly venom, will I also be able to spit out something similar?" The Demon Chapter King lightly shook his head, turned and walked into the mist.

Wu Tie pressed his palm against Tie Da Jian, signaling him to keep watch outside.

Wu Nu swayed the Wind and Cloud Banner, strands of yin wind silently entwined around Wu Tie and herself; with this yin‑wind barrier, even if the mist is harmful…… it should not be able to approach Wu Tie and Wu Nu.

Wu Tie entered the mist.

As the Demon Chapter King said, the mist contacting the fluorescence on Wu Tie's body surface instantly decomposed, unable to cause him any harm at all.

Wu Tie felt relieved, he strode into the interior of the troupe's encampment.

Along the way, many soldiers wearing silver armor and draped in blood‑red capes lay on the ground, their faces flushed, each groaning softly, they struggled to exert themselves, some moved their limbs with difficulty, but they simply could not stand up.

The poison mist exhaled by the Demon Chapter King, when his divine ability awakened, was stimulated by Beauty's Pastry and emitted a neuro‑paralytic toxin of similar nature; these warriors whose cultivation was in the Perceiving Mystery Realm had the toxin invade their bodies, their bodily functions completely paralyzed.

A foul smell permeated the surroundings.

The neurotoxin made these warriors' functions run wild, waste in their bellies sprayed up and down, this stench can be imagined.

Wu Tie did not want to dirty White Tiger Rend, he picked up two long swords discarded by Triple Linked City soldiers from the ground, wielding his swords like wind, continuously cutting the necks of the lying warriors.

The bloody smell gradually grew strong, quickly spreading in the mist.

The mist exhaled by the Demon Chapter King has extremely strong hallucinatory power and also strongly blocks vision; when Wu Tie was outside the camp, he could not even see through an inch‑thick mist.

But with the fluorescence added by the Demon Chapter King, Wu Tie could see tens of meters inside the mist.

He darted through the mist, cutting down one Triple Linked City soldier after another along his path.

An invisible force field gently rolled, the mist exhaled by the Demon Chapter King even had a certain distorting and hallucinatory effect on the invisible force field; fortunately, the fluorescence he added weakened the mist's power, Wu Tie ran around the camp's outer perimeter for a lap, and more than half of the Triple Linked City soldiers had already been slain by him.

Afterwards Wu Tie headed toward the interior of the camp.

In the mist, the Perceiving Mystery Realm warriors were paralyzed and unable to rise, while the Chonglou Realm warriors fared much better.

They were like drunkards staggering, constantly standing up, swaying a few steps in all directions, then collapsing again; the stronger the cultivation, the better their condition, a few half‑step Life Pool Realm warriors could even stand back‑to‑back with their bodies straightened.

Wu Tie said nothing, walked over, and with dual swords in hand slew each struggling warrior one by one.

Besides Wu Tie, the Demon Chapter King himself was also striving to kill these warriors; his arms elongated like octopus tentacles to seven or eight meters, both hands gripping swords tightly, with a grim face he continually slit another warrior's throat.

You shouldn't have killed her.

She and they are all innocent.

You only want to kill me, just me alone.

You shouldn't do this, you can't do this.

Having done that, you might as well go die, die, die.

Anyway, everything of mine has already been destroyed by you, completely destroyed; you might as well follow everything into destruction.

Mozhang Wang muttered on and on, his killing speed even faster than Wu Tie's. In this mass of mist, his movements faced no hindrance, indeed receiving a certain boost.

Two people, four swords, they walked around the camp in circles, gradually approaching the camp's center.

Several Half-step Life Pool Realm warriors stood back-to-back there, trembling as they watched Wu Tie and Mozhang Wang fight their way in.

Wu Tie dropped the long sword in his hand and grasped the White Tiger Fissure that had been hovering beside him, giving it a light shake.

With a booming roar, the air violently trembled; the earth before Wu Tie shook violently, split open into a fissure tens of meters long and about a meter deep.

Mozhang Wang laughed 'ge ge', like a hysterical madman, brandishing his long sword as he advanced toward the several Half-step Life Pool Realm warriors.

His long arms swayed, like two spirit snakes slashing past.

Several Half-step Life Pool Realm warriors let out a low shout; although their limbs had gone soft from the poison gas and their vision swam with darkness, their cultivation foundation remained.

The sword light flashed, a 'ding' rang out, Mozhang Wang's long sword shattered piece by piece; his body swayed, he staggered back dozens of steps and sat heavily on the ground, unable to get up for a while.

The difference in cultivation is too great, too great.

Mozhang Wang is only at the Foundation Establishment level now; even if the Half-step Life Pool Realm warriors were further weakened, they are still beyond his ability to handle.

Wu Tie stepped forward, pointed his spear, and several piercing white lights, accompanied by a shrill whistle, stabbed out; the several Half-step Life Pool Realm warriors didn't even grunt, both person and armor blown apart by Wu Tie into a blood mist.

'Ha, ha, ha.' Mozhang Wang laughed wildly a few times, then he shouted sternly: 'Three escaped, there are three masters, they escaped.'

'We are the Triple Link City Palace Guard Commander, General Ge Luo Jin, he is the one leading the troops.' Mozhang Wang pointed in a direction: 'They, of Life Pool Realm cultivation, have escaped.'

Wu Tie swayed, grabbed Mozhang Wang in one hand, and dashed with him out of the mist.

Just as they rushed out of the mist's coverage, Wu Tie heard the piercing clang of metal. Three burly men clad in golden armor, with blood-red capes on their backs, surrounded Tie Da Jian alone; as four heavy swords swung, they brought forth trails of cold light, like four whirlwinds wildly colliding and tearing.

Wu Tie and Mozhang Wang had just rushed out of the mist when a clashing of metal rang out; Tie Da Jian's heavy sword in his hand exploded with a 'pa', metal fragments dragging white traces across his body.

Three heavy swords enveloped in bright light tore through the air, all chopping toward Tie Da Jian.

Tie Da Jian dropped the hilt of his sword, retreated in a sorry state, not daring to let his body touch the three obviously extraordinary heavy swords of the enemy.

Wu Tie let out a cold snort; this was clearly because the casting technology of Triple Link City was too superb, the quality of Tie Da Jian's heavy sword lagging far behind theirs.

He patted the brocade carp at his waist; with a 'susu' sound, twenty-four nimble little carp fish leapt out lively, and under Wu Tie's magical empowerment, they instantly traced hundreds of meters, encircling Tie Da Jian to form a dense net of light.

Tie Da Jian let out a cold snort; with Wu Tie's distant support granting him defense, he did not retreat but advanced, striding forward to charge at the three Ge Luo Jin.

The three heavy swords ruthlessly hacked at the light net formed from the brocade carp, a constant 'ding ding' ringing in the ears; yet it was obvious that the three Ge Luo Jin's steps were a bit unsteady, and they had so far employed only the simplest close-quarters killing, without using any divine abilities or secret techniques.

Tie Da Jian bumped his shoulder into a golden-armored burly man, grabbed the man's waist and ribs with both hands, hoisted him up, then slammed him down hard.

The bearded Ge Luo Jin let out a hoarse strange cry; he and the other golden-armored burly man, not bothering with their companion, even dropped their long swords, their steps a bit wobbly as they fled toward Great Dragon City.

Wu Tie happened to be blocking their escape route; seeing the two Ge Luo Jin fleeing head-on, he took a deep breath, then unleashed his Divine Strength Magic to the fullest, spewing a golden light from his mouth onto the White Tiger Fissure.

The White Tiger Fissure's weight surged to one hundred million catties; Wu Tie activated his Divine Strength Magic, exerting all his strength to hurl the White Tiger Fissure.

Ge Luo Jin and the other golden-armored burly man simultaneously reached out, grabbing for the White Tiger Fissure.

In their view, how heavy could a spear be?

In the next instant, both bodies jolted violently; with a 'bang' roar, both arms twisted simultaneously into pretzel shapes. They stared in disbelief at Wu Tie, their steps staggering backward repeatedly, yet the two of them working together actually managed to catch the White Tiger Fissure that Wu Tie had hurled with all his might.

'Truly worthy of a Life Pool Realm master…… even if poisoned, a Life Pool Realm master……' Wu Tie praised loudly.

The Witch Maiden flicked her small hand; the Moon Trace shot out, a 'puff' piercing the necks of Ge Luo Jin and the other golden-armored burly man.

With a 'dong' sound……

From within Great Dragon City came the shrill toll of alarm bells. Li Meng's death, the news spread.