Chapter 1161

The force of that sudden howl was mostly absorbed by the formation.

Only a small portion of it remained, and it nearly knocked the heavily wounded mute slave into unconsciousness.

The others, Tian Hu and the rest, still came at Hearing Sheng Qi to kill.

Hearing Sheng Qi had no time to block, and was stabbed in the waist and ribs by Tian Hu and Bone Demon in one strike.

At once, blood gushed out like a fountain!

"Die!"

Hearing Sheng Qi cried out in pain, his face instantly twisting into a ferocious mask.

He poured out all his Wu Gong, raised the Juque Sword, and swept it out horizontally.

This move was another great killing stroke among his sword techniques.

It looked like nothing more than a horizontal sweep, but in truth it used his domineering true essence as a guide to draw in everything around him.

Sure enough, the moment the sweep came out, a wild wind inexplicably rose up around Hearing Sheng Qi.

The tremendous suction nearly pinned Tian Hu and Bone Demon firmly in place.

"Hall Master, run!"

Bone Demon sensed something was wrong, and the instant the suction arose, he immediately struck Tian Hu with a palm.

With Bone Demon's help, Tian Hu barely managed to escape from the wild wind.

Bone Demon, on the other hand, was not so lucky.

After whipping up the wild wind, Hearing Sheng Qi suddenly plunged the Juque into the ground.

Two great hands, like fans spreading, one before and one behind, seized Bone Demon's skull and feet respectively.

"Die!"

Then he let out a great roar, preparing to tear Bone Demon apart alive.

But this Bone Demon had learned the strange arts of Baiyue of Great Qin.

His body was incomparably supple, straight as a spirit snake.

Though at this moment his skull and feet were clamped by Hearing Sheng Qi,

he was not the least flustered; he activated his strange art, making his body stretch out like a noodle as Hearing Sheng Qi pulled him long.

Until Hearing Sheng Qi ran out of strength, he still could not snap Bone Demon in two.

Taking advantage of the moment when Hearing Sheng Qi's old strength had faded and new strength had yet to be born,

Bone Demon, truly like a spirit snake, slipped past Hearing Sheng Qi's arms, coiled entirely around them, and thrust toward Hearing Sheng Qi's eyeballs.

Only now did Hearing Sheng Qi realize with a shock that Bone Demon's strange art was truly a nuisance to deal with.

He would never give him the chance; he directly activated the domineering true essence in his body and gave a violent shake!

With that, Bone Demon could no longer cling to Hearing Sheng Qi's arms and was sent flying.

Although Bone Demon's attack had missed, he still borrowed the force of that shake.

He performed his lightness Wu Gong to retreat, scooped up the unconscious mute slave in one grab, and withdrew from Hearing Sheng Qi's sword Qi.

Hearing Sheng Qi had paid for this with two wounds at the waist and ribs, and a slash across his face.

Apart from taking out one mute slave, he had no other gains to his name.

Furious, he let out another wild roar and charged once more at the Farmer's experts coming at him.

In an instant, it was another vicious fight.

Hearing Gai Nie watched this perilous scene and immediately shook his head, saying to Tian Mi,

"No! If I leave, Brother Sheng Qi will most likely die here."

"Fine!"

Seeing this, Tian Mi knew Hearing Gai Nie's mind was made up; she stopped trying to persuade him, and instead said calmly,

"Since Hero Gai wishes to enter the formation, count Tian Mi in as well.

Though my Wu Gong is humble, and compared to Hero Gai and Sheng Qi I count for nothing,

since I've turned coat all the same, I ought to offer some pledge of loyalty, oughtn't I?"

"Mm!"

Hearing Gai Nie truly did not want to keep chattering with Tian Mi any longer.

He merely gave a flat "mm" in reply, then took up the Yuan Hong Sword and charged into the formation.

At this moment, the Earth Blessing Twenty-Four was short one mute slave.

Yet among those besieging, one more top expert had been added: Hearing Gai Nie.

In an instant, the pressure on the Farmer's experts maintaining the formation greatly increased.

After a good stretch of fighting, Tian Mi truly came in waving her smoking-pipe weapon.

At this point, it was three against eight.

Though they were still at a numerical disadvantage, it was nothing like the deadly peril of Hearing Sheng Qi fighting nine experts alone just now.

Hearing Gai Nie's Vertical Sword Art was, moreover, a sword technique adept at defense.

Under his dense, layered sword strokes, though the Earth Blessing Twenty-Four's offensive remained surging and overwhelming, it could at last no longer inflict any great harm.

Tian Yan saw this and spoke up,

"Hero Gai, why must you come wade into these muddy waters?

We set up the formation, and were blocked by Sheng Qi — that already counts as having done our best.

If you abandon us and leave, when the Village Chief questions us later, we'll have an answer to give him, won't we?"

Hearing Gai Nie heard this, and only now understood the meaning behind Tian Mi's earlier words.

So these people of the Farmer's faction had already developed a fence-sitting intention.

He had actually been thinking of letting Hearing Sheng Qi block them, then letting himself pass.

Afterward, regardless of whether Cheng Jiao or Great Qin won or lost, they could say they had done their best.

Only that Hearing Gai Nie had already entered the formation now, and moreover he was a man of noble character, so he immediately replied,

"Young Lady Tian, you are already the most brilliant person of the Agricultural Family. Do you not know the principle that those who go against the heavens shall die?

Great Qin today is at the height of its power. Under the whole heavens, apart from the Qinglong Society, what other force can be mentioned in the same breath as Great Qin?

At this moment, relying on a completely fabricated War God Demon, you are thinking of rebelling with Cheng Jiao.

If things go badly, Great Qin breaks through the War God Demon, but I wonder how your Agricultural Family's hundred thousand disciples will fend for themselves!

If you turn back now, it is still not too late.

As long as you lay down your weapons and withdraw the grand formation.

Let Brother Hearing Sheng Qi and me enter this palace to stop Cheng Jiao's evil deeds.

Afterward, His Majesty Qin Huang will be magnanimous and certainly will not blame you."

"Rumble rumble…"

Just as Hearing Gai Nie's words blossomed like lotus flowers, persuading the Agricultural Family's experts to give up resistance.

Suddenly, the mountain body this palace relied on gave a violent tremor.

In an instant, sand and stone flew sideways, falling like rain.

Faced with this might of heaven and earth, the gathered experts naturally did not dare be careless.

The Agricultural Family's several great experts could only withdraw the Twenty-Four Earth Marshes, carrying the unconscious mute slave and dodging to one side.

Hearing Gai Nie, Hearing Sheng Qi, and Tian Mi, the three of them, also smashed the continuously falling flying stones and dodged toward another spot.

After a good while, this rain of sand and stone slowly came to a stop.

It could be seen that the palace that had originally been on a high mountain had now suffered considerable damage.

Above the palace, one could even faintly see a mountain body that seemed to have turned into a hideous stone face.

Just as Hearing Gai Nie was feeling astonished, Tian Yan had already opened her mouth to explain,

"Hero Gai, that is the War God Demon!

Legend has it that in the primordial era, the Demon God Chiyou, with the power of the Jiuli tribe, forged a War God Demon roughly a hundred zhang tall.

Only before it was completed, Chiyou had already been defeated by Huang Di.

This War God Demon also vanished from the world.

Now this War God Demon is about to reappear in the world under the Manor Lord's manipulation.

With such divine might, do you still feel your Great Qin has any chance of winning?"

This Gaoshan was at least several hundred zhang tall!

If what Tian Yan said was true, this War God Demon would also have to be a hundred zhang in size!