Chapter 464

Wu Tie came too fast.

The strange people's great formation focused all its attention on Long Long, Jin Mang, and the dozens of sturdy men guarding the village.

Spear light rained down across the sky, one after another the strange people spurted large amounts of blood from their chests, they cried out in pain, and the speed of the wings flapping behind them suddenly slowed.

But their aura hadn't weakened much; though wounded in the chest, it didn't affect them greatly.

Wu Tie stared wide-eyed in shock.

Hundreds of the strange people simultaneously rose into the air, abandoning Long Long and the others, forming a strange array as they marched toward Wu Tie. Their great formation resembled bird wings, left and right arrays echoing each other, quite lively and divine.

'Boom—' thunder rumbled continuously, bolts of lightning flickered across the strange people's wings, the electric light like water flowing from each strange person's body, quickly gathering in the hands of the two strange people at the front of the bird-wing formation.

Thus lightning poured down across the sky, enveloping everything like a heavy rain.

Wu Tie emerged from the clear wind, standing amidst countless lightning bolts, allowing the lightning to strike his body; the starlight on his Heavenly Stars Armor flowed, the lightning these strange people unleashed was quite powerful, yet it could not even stir a flicker of light on the surface of his armor.

'Spear!' Wu Tie formed seals with both hands, pointing at the swiftly piercing stellar spear in the air.

'Hum!' the spear trembled, instantly splitting into myriad fragments, like flashing electric light, darting rapidly through the void.

Thousands of bird-headed strange people cried out in pain as they each took a spear thrust; some unlucky ones with poor positioning were even pierced dozens of times in an instant. Feathers rained down across the sky, and large patches of bluish‑green blood with a foul stench sprayed out.

Long Long saw Wu Tie's attack and couldn't help shouting: 'These thunderbird demons are tenacious; to kill them completely we must shatter the thunder core within them that moves with their demonic power!'

Otherwise, even if we break their hearts and blast their brains, they can keep fighting for a long, long time.

A sharp whistle sounded; over a thousand thunderbird demons holding children and teenagers in their arms laughed 'ge ge', flapped their wings, and shot up into the sky, rushing swiftly upward.

Jin Mang and the other sturdy men were furious, raising their heavy weapons to attack, but upon seeing the children and teenagers in the thunderbird demons' hands, they hesitated, fearful to strike.

The Wu Man tribe's attack style is broad and sweeping, extremely brutal.

Sometimes these fellows just want to kill a grain‑stealing mouse, but they often accidentally smash their own wooden houses with a single punch; they are overly violent and utterly inept at controlling their strength.

Precisely for this reason, when facing an enemy holding a child, they dare not attack.

They feared that a careless blow would smash both the enemy and their own little ones.

'Long Long, think smarter, come up with a plan!' Jin Mang shouted in frustration: 'The village's shaman was also lured away by them, damn it… the old shaman is so muddle‑headed, he actually let himself be tricked out!'

Long Long let out a long whistle to the heavens, after several successive whistles she stomped her foot and snapped: 'Where is Xiao Ya? Where did Xiao Ya run off to again?'

Wu Tie's mind flashed with the image of that three‑thousand‑zhang‑long giant antlion.

Long Long suddenly leapt into the air, lunging with a palm at a thunderbird demon holding a little girl in its arms.

But that thunderbird demon swiftly drew a bone dagger and slammed it against the little girl's neck; Long Long hastily withdrew her hand, retreating in embarrassment, too afraid to strike again.

Wu Tie shook his head, let out a long whistle, stepped on the flowing wind, shook off the hundreds of thunderbird demons surrounding him, and in a few flashes caught up to the group of thunderbird demons carrying their prey and trying to flee.

'Freeze!' A simple immobilization spell took effect; the bodies of over a thousand thunderbird demons stiffened instantly, each suspended in mid‑air, unable to move a muscle. Their eyeballs twitched slightly, each showing a look of inexplicable terror.

They could clearly sense their own bodies, but no matter how hard they tried, even a finger was difficult to move.

Their souls remained active, they could clearly feel the demonic power surging rapidly within them, yet their souls and demonic power had become completely distinct; no matter how wildly they raged in their hearts, they could not summon even a trace of that power.

'You don't cultivate any spell or supernatural ability at all?' Wu Tie glanced at Long Long in surprise.

This guy is a monster who can fight on equal footing with that terrifying Zhu Que; an ordinary Embryo Storage cultivator would surely be blown apart by one of her punches, right?

Such a fearsome fellow, and yet he doesn't even know a minor trick like the immobilization spell?

Long Long's face was flushed with embarrassment; she glared at Wu Tie angrily: 'What's the point of all those supernatural arts? If I can shatter a mountain with one punch, if I can shatter the stars with one punch, if one punch can rend this heaven and earth, why would I bother training those low‑grade spell techniques?'

Long Long violently swung her fists at Wu Tie: 'Fists are the foundation… everything else external is not worth relying on.'

Long Long roared 'ah‑ah': 'I want to possess the supreme strength of the legendary ancestors, shatter the cosmos with a single punch, and become the strongest Wu Man warrior!'

Wu Tie's ears ached from the shock of Long Long's roar.

He helplessly stepped back a few paces, shaking his head at Long Long.

It's clear he is a pure supremacist of violence—not just Long Long, but Jin Mang and the other sturdy men are the same.

In the battle against the thunderbird demons, we never saw them employ any secret supernatural arts; they relied entirely on pure brute strength, crushing, crushing, crushing… they smashed the demons' lightning with their fists, smashed their gale winds, smashed their bodies, using pure violence to destroy everything!

But sometimes pure brute force really isn't very effective.

For example, when the enemy threatens you with a hostage's life.

With Long Long's strength, she could completely strike down the enemy before the thunderbird demons poison their hands and rescue the child.

But she held back…

Wu Tie curled his lip, flicked the wide sleeve of his battle robe, and a gust of wind lifted the thousands of captured children and teenagers, carrying them gently down toward the village below.

Below, great numbers of thunderbird demons wounded by the stellar spear, their bodies drenched in blood, let out unwilling howls, struggling to rise into the air, flapping their wings as they swooped down to attack Wu Tie and Long Long.

'We painstakingly captured these little ones; you want to take them back? Not so easy!' the strongest thunderbird demon let out a hoarse, long whistle, spewing streaks of bloody lightning from its mouth at Wu Tie and Long Long.

This thunderbird demon was hysterical; its strikes on Wu Tie and Long Long felt like a breeze brushing the face, causing no harm whatsoever. The bloody lightning exploded on their bodies, blasting the surrounding air into turmoil; tiny shattered lightning fell to the ground, instantly blasting out huge holes—such a mighty assault could not even make Wu Tie and Long Long's bodies tremble the slightest.

'Freeze!' Wu Tie shouted repeatedly, tossing out dozens of immobilization spells with casual flicks.

These thunderbird demons look ferocious and frightening, but their true strength is merely ordinary; the vast majority are at the Life Pool realm, with only a dozen or so leaders at the Embryo Storage realm, and even there they are quite average.

If it weren't for their schemes entangling Long Long and Jin Mang—these violent Wu Man who cultivate no supernatural arts—and if they weren't born with wings, innately able to command wind and lightning, with flight speed terrifyingly fast, then given Long Long's power she would have smashed them all to pieces on the spot long ago.

Even if they flew as fast as possible, they still couldn't match Wu Tie's speed.

Their magical cultivation is even less comparable to Wu Tie's.

Dozens of immobilization spells slammed down, directly imprisoning these thunderbird demons, leaving each one dazed and stiff in mid‑air, unable to move at all.

Long Long suddenly shouted, grabbed Wu Tie's wrist, and violently dragged him as they sprinted toward a hill: 'Quick, quick, quick—not just this village, but several others have also been attacked. Hurry and help us capture all these thunderbird demons alive, hey.'

Long Long's running speed made Wu Tie dizzy.

A deafening 'boom' sounded in his ears; Wu Tie nearly teleported, instantly shooting out several hundred li to arrive at another village beyond the mountain.

The fighting here was also quite fierce.

Hundreds of thunderbird demons, clutching captured children and teenagers, were rapidly rising into the air to escape the battlefield.

Dozens of burly men wielded strong bows and heavy crossbows, volley after volley of fierce arrows striking the thunderbird demons arrayed in the sky; however, as long as their thunder cores remain unshattered, their vitality is extraordinarily tenacious.

Several thunderbird demons had their skulls pierced by arrows, yet they remained suspended in the air, roaring loudly, continuously unleashing wind‑and‑lightning attacks on the great wooden house at the village's center.

Many elderly, weak women and children hid in the wooden houses, while dozens of strong men could only frantically block these attacks, causing their archery attacks to stop.

Wu Tie rushed over, waving his hand to throw out immobilization spells one after another, quickly immobilizing these Thunderbird Demons in midair, unable to move.

Dozens of strong men stared blankly, then overjoyed leapt into the air, swinging heavy fists that pounded these Thunderbird Demons until their bones broke and tendons snapped, nearly tearing them apart right in midair.

Wu Tie grinned widely.

As he had expected, these Thunderbird Demons relied on their racial advantage and some petty, underhanded tricks to bully these simple-minded Shaman Barbarians.

Speaking of combat ability, if these Thunderbird Demons fell into the hands of the Shaman Barbarians, their fate would truly be miserable.

The sound of breaking bones rang out like frying beans, as large numbers of Shaman Barbarians continually fell from the sky, each still immobilized by the immobilization spell, unable to move despite their loud shouts.

Chenlong laughed "hahaha", violently yanking Wu Tie, and in just a few moments they arrived at the neighboring village that had been attacked; Wu Tie then unleashed another barrage of immobilization spells.

The Thunderbird Demons were immobilized in midair, unable to move, while the Shaman Barbarian strongmen laughed as they shot into the sky, violently thrashing these Thunderbird Demons almost into white-cut chicken.

In just the time it takes to finish a cup of tea, relying on Chenlong's outrageous speed, Wu Tie battled across twenty-four attacked villages; all invading Thunderbird Demons were wiped out in one sweep, none escaping. All the captured children and youths were also rescued, and the villages echoed with cheers.

The villagers did not know Wu Tie; seeing his splendid armor, they assumed he belonged to the Eastern Palace under Bai Ying and Zhu Hui, and many elders stepped forward, warmly expressing their gratitude to Wu Tie.

Chenlong stared blankly, then suddenly pushed through the crowd and rushed forward, loudly proclaiming Wu Tie's origins.

"He's not someone of Bai Yatou and Hong Yatou; he's their enemy… Wow, how did you come out?" Chenlong had his hands on his hips, glaring fiercely at Wu Tie.

The atmosphere in the village suddenly stiffened.

The elderly, weak women and children quickly kept their distance from Wu Tie, while dozens of sturdy men built like old bears, holding heavy steel spears, slowly closed in. Although their faces still bore grateful smiles, their eyes were already filled with vigilance.

Wu Tie silently raised his hands, and the two bronze bracelets on his wrists gave a crisp "ding-ding" sound.

Chenlong stared blankly, then let out a cold snort: "Well? So you're saying Bai Yatou and Hong Yatou sent you to help us?"

From behind came a faint tearing-through-the-air sound; several mighty-looking giant airships, with dragon heads, phoenix tails, and black tortoise bodies, entirely reddish-purple, swept around several towering mountains, trailing long clouds as they flew toward this side.

These strangely shaped giant airships were still dozens of li away when a red figure flashed—Zhu Hui leading hundreds of youths clad in heavy armor, whose stances were somewhat odd, swiftly rushed forward on clouds of light.

Chenlong couldn't help but complain: "They arrived really fast. Hmph, last time I brought people to help them capture someone, it wasn't this slow."

Wu Tie remained silent.

Zhu Hui and the others arrived quickly; soon they descended from the light clouds, and as some youths landed, their postures were somewhat odd, several of them baring their teeth and glaring at Wu Tie with knife-like eyes.

Wu Tie smiled and nodded at those youths.

It seemed that Su He's punishment of three hundred military strokes had already been carried out; these youths were clearly beaten badly, their gaits now strangely altered.

"All right? Hmm, all right?" Zhu Hui smiled, her eyes narrowing, the mountain wind fluttering her red long skirt, her lips like flames, exuding a heart-stopping charm.

In the village, dozens of nearly grown youths stared blankly at Zhu Hui, saliva faintly trickling from the corners of their mouths.

Chenlong's face grew ever uglier, as if a thunderstorm might erupt on his visage at any moment.

Zhu Hui snorted coldly: "It's fine, not a single child was taken this time… Well, although I'm reluctant, I still have to say, the reinforcements you sent this time are quite effective, far stronger than that effeminate bunch behind you."

Wu Tie smiled and gave Chenlong a friendly nod.

Zhu Hui glanced at Wu Tie dismissively and said arrogantly: "It's just that he's a bit stronger and his bones are a bit harder—does that really give him such a big advantage?"

The youths brought by Zhu Hui stared at Wu Tie, furious, their pupils tinged red, almost as if blood could drip from them.

Chenlong's single remark easily earned Wu Tie hundreds of mortal enemies!

Wu Tie spread his hands and sighed helplessly: "I want to know, these feathered beasts, why do they snatch these children… for blood food? Is there a shortage of food in the mountains and forests?"

Zhu Hui and Chenlong fell silent together for a moment.

After a while, Zhu Hui slowly said: "The demon race's bloodline is incomplete, making it hard for them to reach the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth… The Shaman Barbarians' bloodline is richer and more explicit than that of humans, especially the Shaman Barbarian children, whose bloodline aura is strong yet they lack sufficient power to protect its essence."

"Therefore, by preying on Shaman Barbarian children, they can complete their demon bloodline, causing their talent to skyrocket and their cultivation to advance a thousand miles in a day, leaping forward by leaps and bounds."

"Incomplete and complete?"

Wu Tie narrowed his eyes at those Thunderbird Demons lying on the ground, their bones broken and tendons snapped from the beating.