Chapter 725: The Battle of

"Miss?!"

Mang Liuzi, who had long since been sprawled on the ground, cried out in alarm.

The others were more or less in the same situation now—under the oppressive weight of the enormous flesh wall, they couldn't even manage to stand.

They were like miners trapped deep underground, able only to wait for a miracle.

And that miracle was none other than that Ice Blade!

At the same time all this was happening, Fang Yue's Ice Blade had already extended at tremendous speed, piercing straight through the flesh wall. The instant it reached the ground, it froze the surface, and dozens of ice pillars immediately rose up from the earth!

The flesh wall over their section of the plaza was propped up by the ice pillars into an arching curve.

At the same time, under a punch from Fang Yue above, the blood-hole in the flesh wall burst open into a massive cavity of flesh and blood.

Light shone in once more, and Fang Yue, with the unconscious Captain Wu on his back, held his pose—one hand gripping the Ice Blade after its phase change, the other still extended from the punch—and shouted down at the people below.

"Climb up fast! My Frozen power can't hold much longer!"

Under the control of his inner force, the Ice Blade shifted into a series of steps.

Dou Hongyi reacted first, hauling the people beside him as he climbed up the steps.

After leaving the blood-hole and reaching the top of the flesh wall, standing on its surface and breathing the long-awaited air, Dou Hongyi felt as if he had been reborn.

"Senior Ye!"

Dou Hongyi looked at Fang Yue with excitement, but Fang Yue simply handed Captain Wu over to him and told him to rescue more people.

Under Fang Yue's freezing, any long arms that tried to burrow out of the flesh wall to repair the opening were frozen solid on the spot into ice sculptures, unable to move.

Only the ice pillars supporting things below were beginning to look a little unsteady.

Even for Fang Yue, creating ice pillars across such a wide area and doing so many things at once was stretching him thin; he couldn't keep up the strength.

His inner force was draining rapidly, and even as he kept stuffing pills into his mouth, he was only barely managing to keep income and expenditure in balance.

This irritated Fang Yue somewhat, because the Nuomian Gui hadn't truly attacked yet.

Once it really came at him, there would only be so much he could do—he couldn't keep splitting his attention to look after the people below.

Almost as if it could read Fang Yue's thoughts, the surface of the flesh wall before him rippled and writhed, and the Nuomian Gui, whose form perfectly mimicked his own, rose up out of the wall's surface.

It seemed a little puzzled, and the two-meter black blade in its right hand also shifted into a series of small step-shapes.

With a grin, it leapt straight up over the blood-hole cavity, perched atop the small steps in its right hand, and slammed down toward Fang Yue.

"Lord Ye, look out!!"

Seeing this, Dou Hongyi stepped forward without hesitation, raising his sword to block.

Clang!!

After a short, sharp burst of sound…

Boom!!

Dou Hongyi's long sword was smashed to pieces by the small steps, which then crashed straight into his chest, sending him flying backward. He tumbled across the ground several times before finally stopping.

He came to rest on the surface of the flesh wall in a half-kneeling pose, lowered his head to look at his broken sword, and his face darkened.

"The gap in strength… is actually this huge!"

Dou Hongyi felt a strange unease in his heart.

Before, he and Tian Wangchuan had joined forces to pursue the Nuomian Gui, and at that time the Nuomian Gui hadn't seemed nearly as powerful as it was now…

Could it really have grown to its current level in just those few short days?!

Dou Hongyi was shaken. A Weird with growth potential was rare to begin with, but one that grew this fast was even rarer!

"We have to kill the Nuomian Gui right here! Otherwise, if we let it keep growing, who knows—one day it might become a Transcendence-level Weird!"

Easier said than done—Dou Hongyi's heart was bitter, because he simply didn't have the strength to slay this Nuomian Gui.

Their only hope was Lord Ye.

But the trouble was, Lord Ye had to rescue people, so for the moment he couldn't move, let alone bring his full strength to bear against the enemy.

This was very bad for the situation!

Watching the Nuomian Gui gleefully look at the little staircase formed from the small steps in its hand, waving it around twice like a child with a new toy, and then swing it down toward Fang Yue's head, Dou Hongyi's eyes went wide. He was just about to charge forward when he stumbled and his face planted straight into the ground.

He looked back and saw a long arm that had, at some unknown moment, grown out of the flesh wall's surface and grabbed his ankle!

He raised his broken sword and cut it off, then looked back to see the Nuomian Gui sent flying backward, the small steps in its hand already snapped in two.

And Fang Yue himself stood as if he had never moved, without even the slightest interest in glancing at the Nuomian Gui.

Dou Hongyi was stunned, rooted to the spot.

"Lord Ye is… Lord Ye is way too strong!!"

He had wanted to help out, but now it seemed he was worrying over nothing?

Watching the Nuomian Gui land and stare forlornly at the small steps snapped in two, Dou Hongyi felt something was off.

All along, as the head of the Qing Division in Chunuan City, he had taken part in events big and small across the city. He might not have been at the center of every one, but at the very least he had been an important combatant taking part.

But in today's situation, he actually felt he was somewhat redundant, unable to insert himself into this terrifying battle at all.

And to think—he was a Ren-level powerhouse!

He might not be a Xian-level powerhouse, but in Qing Guo he was a figure who dominated his own corner of the world. Yet here on this battlefield, he couldn't play even the slightest role…

Dou Hongyi was unwilling to accept it, yet powerless to do anything.

At least when it came to facing the Nuomian Gui, he truly had no better option.

But when it came to rescuing the other civilians and easing Lord Ye's burden, there was still something he could do.

Despite the disappointment in his heart, Dou Hongyi quickly accepted reality, and had the earliest group of rescued people follow him to help pull the rest up from below.

"Gugu gu!"

Watching Dou Hongyi lead people over, the Nuomian Gui let out a threatening sound. Though Dou Hongyi and the others were a little afraid, once Fang Yue spoke up and told them to focus on rescuing people, they paid no more attention to the Nuomian Gui.

Seeing this, the Nuomian Gui flew into a rage as expected, and long human arms burrowed out all over the surface of the Renhou Juqiang—only to be frozen solid by the ice on the spot.

Only the human hands that burrowed out from farther positions were not frozen, but that was only because they were far away—Fang Yue hadn't wasted internal energy dealing with them.

Once those extended human hands approached within a certain distance of here, they would be frozen midair, becoming ice sculptures.

After realizing that such petty tricks could not threaten Fang Yue, 【Nuomian Gui】 immediately charged once more at the Fang Yue who could not move.

The broken small step in hand was also swapped back for the ordinary black blade.

The long blade fell toward Fang Yue, and that eerie sensation from before immediately welled up in his heart once again.

【Nuomian Gui】 felt that its movements, its actions, even the rise and fall of its body's structural organization—everything—had all slowed down.

And in opposition to this, Fang Yue's movements were very natural and normal as he turned, raised his foot, and without waiting for 【Nuomian Gui】's blade to fall, struck first with a kick to its chest.

In its stunned expression, intense pain spread out, an ice flower crystallized on its chest, and its entire body once again flew backward, hitting the ground heavily with a thud.

7562!

(End of this chapter)