Chapter 54

The tracking sorcery mastered by the mages of the Sifa Academy needed to be cast within a certain distance. At this time, the Anshen Sect people were close enough to him, and there were many of them, so he could perceive the general direction of these people.

This meant that Li Fei didn't need to lead the way next.

"Xiao Fei, your mission is already completed; you don't need to participate next."

Cao Mu said to Li Fei.

His address to Li Fei had also changed to 'Xiao Fei'.

Li Fei said without hesitation: "If possible, I want to participate in the next operation."

He had already charged up in a losing situation; there was no reason to shrink back now that it was a winning situation. He didn't want to miss the opportunity to make a contribution next.

Cao Mu glanced at Hao Yi and nodded: "Good, then you participate."

He gave this favor without hesitation.

Subsequently, the group quickly chased in the due east direction.

Not long after, they saw the Anshen Sect members running away in the jungle ahead.

"Old Wu, Brother Jiang, Brother Wang, you have people carry the mages and go around, surround this batch of people, and then let the mages cast spells."

Cao Mu said to the other official martial artists accompanying him.

Several people nodded, each taking several martial artists and martial practitioners, as well as a mage, and left.

After Lu Sheng brought people back, although they didn't know how the four official martial artists were defeated, they themselves were indeed hit by sorcery before falling unconscious, so this time the people from the Zhige Academy applied to the above to bring the mages from the Sifa Academy along.

The several mages brought along not only helped search for the Anshen Sect's trail but could also guard against the other side casting the same means as last time.

Besides this, the several mages could also deal with a large number of ordinary followers.

The young mage with patterns on his brow who stayed by Cao Mu's side began to get busy. He walked to the front alone, took out a sandalwood box from the backpack he carried, then took out blue talisman papers one by one from the box, and pasted these talisman papers on the trees one by one.

After pasting about fifty talisman papers, the young mage stopped, put away the wooden box, and retreated back to Cao Mu's side again.

A few minutes later, the crowd several hundred meters ahead suddenly became restless, and bursts of exclamations rang out.

Soon, those Anshen Sect followers ahead actually turned around and ran toward Li Fei and the others, everyone holding guns in their hands, carrying many things in large and small bags.

When these people passed through the area where the talisman papers were pasted, the young mage beside Cao Mu pointed toward the front and shouted loudly:

"Stop!"

The next second, the talisman papers on the trees burned without fire, and the Anshen Sect followers who were running toward this side seemed to have encountered something extremely terrifying, everyone widening their eyes, revealing expressions of fear.

"Ah ah ah ah ah—"

People screamed and fled in other directions.

This scene was very shocking to Li Fei, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at his teacher, hoping to get an explanation.

Hao Yi indeed spoke to explain to him: "This is the Fear Technique, a unique sorcery of the Great Lan Dynasty's Sifa Academy. It can make the target feel huge terror; some people with weak willpower might even have a mental breakdown and become fools or lunatics!"

Li Fei suddenly understood. It turned out that Cao Mu letting the others take the other mages to go around was to surround those Anshen Sect followers ahead, and then cast the Fear Technique on these people from all directions at the same time.

With the Fear Technique on all sides, the over a hundred Anshen Sect followers were like flies trapped in a cage, bumping into walls everywhere, and their psychological defenses gradually collapsed.

Seeing that the situation was almost over, Cao Mu waved his hand:

"Go!"

Then he rushed up with several martial artists and seven or eight martial practitioners.

"Drop your guns, hold your heads and squat down, otherwise die!"

Cao Mu's voice was like a knife chopping and an axe cutting, resounding in the jungle.

"Drop your guns, hold your heads and squat down, otherwise die!"

The others also shouted one after another.

At the same time, the same shouting came from other directions.

The Anshen Sect followers in the jungle were already on the verge of psychological collapse; hearing these shouts, the vast majority of them cried and followed suit, putting down the guns in their hands and squatting down with their heads held.

A very small number of followers with strong willpower wanted to resist, and gunshots rang out constantly in the jungle, but they were quickly solved by Cao Mu and the others.

Li Fei had originally thought that by following along, he could grab a few kills, but now he found that he only needed to shout '666' on the side.

Over a hundred cult followers with guns, if no mages had taken action, and they had to rely on martial practitioners like Cao Mu to solve them, they certainly wouldn't have been able to subdue so many people so cleanly, and Cao Mu's side might have even suffered casualties.

However, with several mages taking action, these Anshen Sect followers were easily solved.

"Is sorcery really inferior to martial arts?"

Doubts arose in Li Fei's heart.

Hao Yi seemed to see what Li Fei was thinking and said:

"Such sorcery is useless against a truly elite army. If they were on the battlefield, being hit by blood Qi, evil Qi, and killing Qi, many sorceries couldn't even be used. The true enemies of a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand in this world still depend on martial artists.

Our Great Lan Dynasty established the Sifa Academy mainly to refine evil weapons for the Imperial Guard Army, so they could form army formations and army evil Qi. If it weren't for the fact that the case committed by the Anshen Sect was too big, these Sifa Academy mages wouldn't have come out. Their time is very precious, and they have to complete the refining tasks assigned by the imperial court; fighting with others was not their mission to begin with."

Li Fei nodded: "Student understands."

Hao Yi looked at the battle that was about to end:

"It seems that the Anshen Sect leader is quite sharp; he has already taken the elites and run away in advance, and those left behind are all abandoned pieces."

If there were martial artists, sorcerers, and mages in this Anshen Sect team, Cao Mu and the others wouldn't have ended the battle so easily.

Next, Li Fei finally had something to do: help collect the firearms thrown on the ground.

Under the deterrence of sorcery and powerful martial force, Cao Mu and the others easily controlled the situation, gathered all the Anshen Sect followers together, squatted down with their heads held, and took away all their firearms.

"The Anshen Sect leader ran away with a group of elites and also took away Junior Brother Wang Ping and the others. I plan to take people to continue chasing."

Cao Mu walked to Hao Yi and Li Fei and said:

"Brother Hao, and Xiao Fei, you don't need to follow next."

"Good."

Hao Yi nodded.

He came here this time to save Li Fei; now that the person was saved, he didn't care about the rest.

Li Fei didn't intend to chase anymore either; the merit he made this time was already enough.

"The people from the Inspectorate are still behind. Please let them come here to take all these Anshen Sect followers back when you see them."

Cao Mu continued.

"Good."

"Then we part ways here, see you later."

Cao Mu clasped his fists to Hao Yi, nodded to Li Fei, left half of the manpower to guard the over a hundred Anshen Sect followers, and the rest continued to track Zhao Yu and the others.

"Let's go, you should go back to receive the reward."

A rare smile appeared on Hao Yi's face; he patted Li Fei and said with a smile.

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