Chapter 127

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Anshan Street, four Dao Foundation stage powerhouses fought into a ball; shops on the street collapsed one after another, and one large pit after another appeared on the stone-paved ground.

People around all hid far away, not daring to approach this battlefield, so as not to be accidentally injured.

Only the three registered martial masters brought by Yan Yichen from the Zhige Academy guarded the periphery, ready to take action at any time.

On the battlefield where Dao Foundation stage powerhouses fought, registered martial masters were barely qualified to intervene and provide support.

Three Dao Foundation powerhouses joined forces to fight Shangguan Xiao alone, and there were registered martial masters guarding the periphery; Yu Hu and the others had absolutely no intention of leaving Shangguan Xiao a way to live!

Because on the surface, the people of the Anshen Sect and Qingyuan Fist Village were accomplices, so the people of the Hudao Gang also blocked the horse bandits brought by Zhao Yu.

However, both sides had a "tacit understanding" and fought very tacitly, firing a few shots at the opposite side from time to time; the gunfire sounded intense, but not a single person died.

In this situation, the people of Qingyuan Fist Village brought by Shangguan Xiao would soon be unable to hold on, and Shangguan Xiao, besieged by three Dao Foundation powerhouses, would also soon be unable to hold on!

Her cultivation was actually even lower than Yan Yichen's; she had only incorporated two types of implants, but both of her implants were mutated attributes, which made her combat power far exceed her cultivation.

But fighting one against three did indeed exceed her ability limit.

Similarly, the troop of Qingyuan Fist Village had to face the siege of the Hudao Gang and the Zhige Academy elites at the same time, which also far exceeded their limits.

Just when the situation was about to collapse, suddenly, a troop killed their way over.

It was the Inspection Academy that had arrived!

After successfully seizing power, Li Lei and Lu Sheng led over two hundred fully armed inspectors to rush to the Kaiping District and joined the battlefield in time.

This troop was chasing Zhao Yu and the others, so they appeared behind Zhao Yu and the others.

"The evil cult villains are right in front; brothers, charge with me!"

Li Lei shouted loudly and was about to take the lead in the charge.

"Old Li, you stay in the rear to command; I'll lead the charge!"

Lu Sheng grabbed Li Lei.

"But..."

"No buts, I want to take revenge personally!"

Lu Sheng said with bloodshot eyes.

"Fine, you must take care."

Li Lei looked into the other's eyes and nodded.

"First Brigade, follow me!"

Lu Sheng took a Tiger-style rifle and led the people of the First Brigade to charge out first.

At this moment, he seemed to have become that captain he once was.

Before Lu Sheng became the captain, the combat power of the three brigades of the Inspection Academy was actually about the same; it was only after Lu Sheng took over the First Brigade that the combat power of the First Brigade gradually became the strongest in the Inspection Academy.

This First Brigade with the strongest combat power could almost be said to have been trained by Lu Sheng single-handedly; now that he personally led the charge, his teammates were all full of momentum and cooperated tacitly under his command!

Soon, the defensive line formed by the horse bandits was broken layer by layer.

Although they won the battle against the city guards earlier, Zhao Yu's side also paid a not-so-small price.

The elites Yu Hu sent to Zhao Yu were almost completely lost, and the demonic martial master Zhao Yu sent out was also seriously injured and had no combat power left.

In this situation, the only people Zhao Yu could use were a few Anshen Sect sorcerers and one demonic martial master.

The demonic martial master needed to guard Zhao Yu's side at all times to protect his safety, while he himself had to concentrate fully on controlling the Dao Foundation avatar to fight Shangguan Xiao, because the rhythm of the fight was too fast, and he couldn't spare the energy to cast spells like before.

So Zhao Yu could only send out a few Anshen Sect sorcerers to assist the horse bandits in resisting the Inspection Academy's attack.

But each time the few Body-Breaking stage sorcerers cast spells, they could only influence one person; even with their assistance, the horse bandits still found it difficult to resist the Inspection Academy's people.

Whether it was equipment, morale, marksmanship, or cooperation, these horse bandits were not as good as the First Brigade led by Lu Sheng!

Watching the Inspection Academy's people about to kill their way in front of him, Zhao Yu couldn't help but feel somewhat irritable:

"This Yu Hu, without Zhang Mingze, really does things with errors and omissions; he spoke with such certainty beforehand that he could definitely trap the Inspection Academy, but it turns out the Inspection Academy's people killed their way out so quickly, and they are even hitting with lethal force!"

Since they were putting on a show, the people from the Hudao Gang and the Zhige Academy couldn't openly help Zhao Yu's side, nor could they openly take action against the Inspection Academy's people, so Zhao Yu could only block the Inspection Academy's people himself.

Just when Zhao Yu couldn't help but want to first call back his Dao Foundation avatar to slaughter the Inspection Academy's people, and then directly behead the leader, Li Lei, a voice suddenly came from afar:

"Li Lei—"

"Your son is in my hands! Still not stopping?!"

Hearing this voice, Lu Sheng, who was leading the charge, immediately made a gesture, and the First Brigade's offensive paused.

Li Lei, sitting in the rear, also looked up upon hearing this.

He saw that on the roof of a house in the distance, a person wearing a black robe and a green ghost mask was holding a person covered in blood and filth with one hand.

Being too far away, he couldn't see what the person held in the other's hand looked like, only vaguely seeing that the person was wearing the uniform of a Martial Arts Hall student.

"Green-Faced Ghost?"

The newcomer's attire made everyone on the scene recognize him immediately.

The name Green-Faced Ghost could be said to be deafening in Xingcheng today!

"Green-Faced Ghost, I didn't expect you to actually collude with the evil cult!"

Li Lei's roar rang out.

The Green-Faced Ghost immediately shouted: "I was originally ordered by the Sect Leader to eradicate the evil in the city and return Xingcheng to innocence!"

Zhao Yu, not far away, listened to this dialogue and sneered in his heart.

He naturally knew that this "Green-Faced Ghost" was impersonated by someone Yu Hu found, just to drive a wedge between the Green-Faced Ghost and Qingyuan Fist Village, and also to make the whole thing look more reasonable.

Arranging the Green-Faced Ghost as a person of the Anshen Sect could better explain why the Hudao Gang would take the initiative to stand up and deal with the Anshen Sect.

Because the Green-Faced Ghost had killed the Hudao Gang's secretary Zhang Mingze before, the Hudao Gang taking action was both for righteousness and for revenge.

And more importantly, the Green-Faced Ghost was originally a person of Qingyuan Fist Village, and when he killed Zhang Mingze, the Great Dragon Head even helped the Green-Faced Ghost take action, and the two had cooperated together.

This was ironclad evidence that many people could testify to.

In this way, it further confirmed that Qingyuan Fist Village and the Anshen Sect were colluding!

Everything seemed reasonable.

Although there were many errors and omissions in today's plan, Zhao Yu had to admit that Yu Hu's move of having someone impersonate the Green-Faced Ghost was very clever.

Even if the real Green-Faced Ghost jumped out at this time, it wouldn't matter; at worst, he would just be killed.

Only the one who lives to the end is the real one, and can stand up to tell the world the so-called "truth."

"Li Lei, if you don't want your son to die, have your people stop immediately!"

The Green-Faced Ghost shouted loudly toward the direction where Li Lei was.

However, he was not that "water-goods" Force-Training martial master from before; his spiritual power and willpower were much stronger, and he wasn't influenced by 【Blood Might】 for too long.

So the Green-Faced Ghost jumped off the roof and ran quickly toward Zhao Yu's side.

The horse bandits along the way saw that it was their own person and did not block him; Zhao Yu's side also did not choose to change positions, just letting the Green-Faced Ghost get close.

At this time, Zhao Yu had over a dozen armed horse bandits and one demonic martial master as guards by his side.

"Sect Leader, it's one of our own!"

The Green-Faced Ghost shouted while getting closer.

"What are you coming over for?"

Zhao Yu saw the Inspection Academy stop firing and refocused most of his attention on Shangguan Xiao's side, not paying attention to the Green-Faced Ghost; it was the demonic martial master beside him who stepped forward and asked.

"I'll hand the hostage over to you all to use to threaten the Inspection Academy; I need to rush over there to help deal with the Great Dragon Head!"

The Green-Faced Ghost said in a deep voice.

At this time, he had already walked to the front of the horse bandits guarding the periphery, less than twenty meters away from Zhao Yu, who was surrounded and protected.

The demonic martial master acting as a guard felt there was nothing wrong with this upon hearing it, so he ordered the horse bandits on the periphery to take the hostage from the Green-Faced Ghost's hand.

Two horse bandits stepped forward to take the hostage the Green-Faced Ghost was holding.

The Green-Faced Ghost handed the hostage to the two.

The next second.

Shua—

Almost at the same time the sound of drawing a blade rang out, a dark golden blade light also flashed by.

The Green-Faced Ghost drew his blade and charged toward the position where Zhao Yu was!

Several horse bandits blocking the Green-Faced Ghost's path didn't react to anything at all; they were cut into two halves along with the rifles in their hands!

Severed bodies, arms, and firearms flew into the air, blood appeared, and internal organs flowed out.

In just the blink of an eye, the figure wearing the ghost mask brought hell to the human world!

The demonic martial master acting as a guard was also startled, but still took the initiative to step forward, fully exploding the force within his body.

A layer of cyan force enveloped his whole body.

This was Cyan Gang Force condensed from Yi-wood Gang Qi, both offensive and defensive.

But what first attacked him was not the blade light, but an invisible shockwave.

The next second, this demonic martial master's spirit was shaken, feeling the world before his eyes suddenly darken, and a monstrous sea of blood came sweeping toward him from all directions!

Soon, he was completely submerged by the boundless sea of blood, and an intense feeling of suffocation and fear filled his heart.

Before he could break free from the illusion, a dark golden blade light cut through his protective Cyan Gang Force like a hot knife through butter, finally cutting across his neck.

The next second, this demonic martial master's head was dancing in the air!

The one who took action was naturally Li Fei; from his sudden burst to killing this demonic martial master with Qi-Transformation mid-stage cultivation at this moment, the whole process took no more than three seconds.

This was partly due to the sneak attack, and partly due to the newly unlocked Blood Soul Skill 【Blood Might】.

The upper limit of this Blood Soul Skill is consuming 10% of one's own maximum total blood souls; currently, Li Fei's maximum total blood souls is 161, so the maximum limit is 16.1 blood souls, and Li Fei just consumed 10 blood souls in one go to unleash 【Blood Might】.

This demonic martial master had been promoted directly from the late stage of Body-Breaking to the mid-stage of Qi-Transformation by plundering the demonic means of others' implants; this was fast, but the disadvantage was that the foundation was unstable, and the spiritual power was far inferior to a martial master who had broken through normally, so this person couldn't handle Li Fei's 【Blood Might】 at all.

After killing this guard beside Zhao Yu in one move, Li Fei continued to step forward and charge toward Zhao Yu.

Now, there were no more obstacles in front of him!

Although Zhao Yu was remotely controlling the Dao Foundation avatar to besiege Shangguan Xiao, he still kept a portion of his spirit here just in case. When Li Fei killed that demonic martial master, Zhao Yu reacted in time, pointed at Li Fei, and roared:

"Suppress!"

A mage at the Spirit-Transformation stage could cast spells directly without materials and rituals, and a Great Mage at the Possession stage would only cast spells even faster.

Theoretically speaking, sorcery cast by a Possession-stage Great Mage could even influence Dao Foundation stage powerhouses, let alone just a martial master at the Qi-Transformation stage.

However, this sorcery had absolutely no influence on Li Fei; his movements unchanged, he rushed to Zhao Yu's side and slashed out with his blade.

Shua—

Zhao Yu's head flew up, and a Possession-stage Great Mage comparable to a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse died just like that!

This blade cut off all of Zhao Yu's delusions about the future!

Li Fei caught Zhao Yu's falling head and turned around to look at the group of horse bandits remaining around.

These horse bandits only reacted now; in front of them was already a pool of blood.

"Ghost—"

Someone screamed and turned to run.

The rest, upon hearing this, were also frightened and fled in all directions.

Li Fei exerted force under his feet and leaped easily onto the roof of a nearby shop.

He held Zhao Yu's head high and used force to push his voice:

"Zhao Yu has been beheaded!!!"

This voice spread far away, letting everyone in this battlefield hear it.

Li Lei, in the distance, saw this scene and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He immediately ordered:

"Continue the attack!"

The few Anshen Sect sorcerers, after seeing Zhao Yu's head clearly, had their spirits collapse.

Someone shouted crazily and rushed out of the cover toward the direction where Li Fei was, only to be shot dead by nearby inspectors.

Someone knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately toward the place where Li Fei was, tears streaming down their face.

The reaction of these sorcerers also caused the morale of the remaining horse bandits to vanish; seeing the Inspection Academy's people rushing up again, the horse bandits had no more will to resist and fled one after another!

On the other side, on the battlefield of the four Dao Foundation stage powerhouses.

The moment Zhao Yu was beheaded, the Dao Foundation avatar, which had been attacking fiercely, suddenly shook and stopped directly.

Shangguan Xiao naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity; she struck with both palms, hitting the avatar's chest with the momentum of wind and thunder, causing the avatar's chest to cave downward, and it was sent flying backward.

Yu Hu and Yan Yichen, seeing this, hurriedly stepped forward to force back Shangguan Xiao, avoiding her taking advantage of the victory to pursue.

Just as Yu Hu was wondering what Zhao Yu was doing, the Green-Faced Ghost's voice came.

"How is it possible?!"

Yu Hu turned his head fiercely to look at the Green-Faced Ghost holding Zhao Yu's head high on the roof in the distance, unable to help but have his eyes split with rage!

He arranged for people to kidnap Li Fei; this matter was very secret, how could the Green-Faced Ghost possibly know about it in advance?

And his people, after succeeding, sent back intelligence with the agreed-upon secret code and transferred to a safe location; how did the Green-Faced Ghost find them?

He had thought in advance that the Green-Faced Ghost would jump out to stir up trouble, but he hadn't expected the other side to smash the chessboard directly again!

What Li Fei's blade cut off was more than just Zhao Yu's delusions?

"Hahahaha!"

Shangguan Xiao, seeing this, burst into laughter, "Yu Hu, I said that without Zhang Mingze, your calculations can only make people laugh, how about it?"

Yan Yichen, seeing this, also began to hesitate.

At this time, the Inspection Academy's people were killing their way over here; if the Zhige Academy's people directly clashed with the Inspection Academy, it would be very difficult to explain afterward.

And Zhao Yu was dead; with one less Dao Foundation stage powerhouse taking action, there would be many more variables in wanting to kill Shangguan Xiao.

"It's not over yet!"

Just at this moment, a voice suddenly rang out.

This was not said by Yu Hu, but by the Dao Foundation avatar that had just stopped moving.

This Dao Foundation avatar restored its mobility and killed its way toward Shangguan Xiao!

(End of chapter)