Chapter 410 - 168: A Frenzied Assault—Die! Die! Die! Who Is He?
The Lai family members who just rushed out were immediately bombarded by countless lightning strikes.
"Ah~!"
"Damn it!"
"Uncle, save me..."
...
Their screams echoed.
This wave of lightning attacks was too swift.
Coupled with the fact that the Lai family members harbored some inherent disdain, especially with Lai Yongsheng, a Foundation Establishment powerhouse, overseeing the situation, almost no one took Zhou Changwang and his group seriously.
Even Lai Yongsheng himself felt the same way.
Therefore, when they saw Zhou Changwang directly consuming the Sacred Flame Fruits, and saw Lu Yun, Fang Zhiqing, Xu Ying, and lastly Shen Xinyi consuming all five Sacred Flame Fruits one after another, they were dumbfounded, followed by an endless anger rising in their hearts.
It was as if things that originally belonged to them were forcibly snatched away.
Unable to suppress their anger, they charged forward, intending to tear them to pieces...
Thus, they were hardly prepared. Even the alert ones with defensive magical artifacts couldn’t withstand the barrage of dozens of lightning strikes.
Of the ten or so members of the Lai family, seven or eight were instantly turned into charcoal, falling dead on the spot.
The remaining five or six were all wounded and in a terrible state.
Even Lai Yongsheng had a scorched black mark on his dharma robe, with a hole burnt through it.
On the other hand, Zhang Shihu and his companions, who were forced to come along, already knew the Sacred Flame Fruits were irrelevant to them, so they naturally didn’t get angry or charge forward, thereby avoiding disaster.
"Die! Die! Die!
All of you must die for me!"
Lai Yongsheng was furious to the extreme.
Especially seeing so many of the Lai family’s elite injured or killed, his anger boiled over.
He leapt forward, swiftly pursuing Zhou Changwang and the others.
"Ah..."
But he had just flown halfway when he suddenly heard a scream.
It turned out that Zhou Changwang and the others, while throwing out the Sealing Thunder Talismans, had also tossed countless Summoning Talismans.
Hairless zombies, evil-faced ghosts, and mountain ghosts all rushed towards the Lai family.
Even though one or two posed little threat,
after all, whether it’s a hairless zombie, evil-faced ghost, or mountain ghost, they are at most equivalent to practitioners at the fourth or fifth layer of Qi cultivation.
But in large numbers, it was a different story.
Moreover, the remaining Lai family members were already injured from the lightning strikes.
As soon as they encountered them, one severely injured cultivator was surrounded by several hairless zombies, had his mind bewitched by two evil-faced ghosts, and then a mountain ghost pierced his neck with its arm, quickly tearing him apart with others.
Other cultivators were also panicked, hurriedly summoning defensive magical artifacts to shield themselves and attack.
They were in an utter state of fear and disarray.
In desperation, Lai Yongsheng who had just rushed out, had to turn back and control his flying sword to swiftly kill the summoned creatures.
With such a delay, ten or more breaths had passed.
When he turned around, Zhou Changwang and his team had run over a hundred meters away.
But to simply let it go, he was not willing, so he continued to chase them down without stopping.
"I knew from the start, this trip to Shuiyun Pavilion was not simple.
I didn’t expect everyone to have a stack of spirit talismans, and they were made by that mysterious talisman maker, Ascendant Feng Hua."
Behind, Zhang Shihu was dumbfounded seeing such a scene.
"Fortunately, Brother Zhang was wise and anticipated this in advance.
Otherwise, if we had a conflict with them before, our end wouldn’t have been much better than the Lai family members."
A cultivator beside him couldn’t help but say with a bit of lingering fear.
Others nodded in agreement.
Truly, the earlier scene was terrifying.
Spirit talismans flew, and tens of bolts of lightning struck down almost simultaneously, nearly impossible to withstand by any late-stage Qi cultivation practitioner.
They naturally couldn’t either.
Not to mention, there were so many summoning talismans.
Hairless zombies comparable to a third-level Qi cultivation practitioner, evil-faced ghosts comparable to the fourth layer, mountain ghosts comparable to the fifth layer... One or two were manageable.
Nearly a hundred together?
They had to flee as far away as possible.
Now they looked at the Lai family members.
Initially with fifteen people including the Foundation Establishment True Cultivator Lai Yongsheng, now only five were left, and all were wounded, in a very sorry state.
This was thanks to Lai Yongsheng, who, seeing the situation turn unfavorable, rushed to assist.
Otherwise, the casualties would have been even greater.
"With so many spirit talismans, you could overwhelm someone to death just by piling them on.
Is Shuiyun Pavilion really this wealthy?"
"Indeed.
I calculated a bit just now, and these spirit talismans were worth at least fifty thousand lower-grade Spirit Stones if converted.
Each person seemed to have thrown out the equivalent of five thousand lower-grade Spirit Stones.
They really spared no expense, something not just any cultivator or force could manage."
"That many?"
The hunting team members clicked their tongues, then shifted their gaze to Jiang Yu and Zhang Shao Han, curiously asking, "Is your Shuiyun Pavilion really this generous? Are the benefits really that good?"
Their eyes carried a hint of disbelief, wondering what kind of relationship they had to let them abandon such a ’big thigh’ like Shuiyun Pavilion to work with a hunting squad?
Both exchanged glances, and said bitterly, "We don’t know either.
We also want to know about these spirit talismans."
If they had known earlier, would they have rejected Shen Xinyue’s invitation in the first place and joined this thankless Stone Tiger Squad?