Chapter 1535 - 595: Living Bait
Faced with such a shocking scene, the remaining children were too frightened to even cry.
At this moment, a child stepped forward and shouted loudly.
"Everyone, don’t panic. Those who are good swimmers, help those who aren’t. Let’s head upstream; there’s a waterfall there, and perhaps a chance for escape."
On the shore, Dongfang Liuli heard the child’s words and couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows, taking a few more glances at the child.
The child seemed to be around ten years old, dressed in very ordinary clothes, and his little face was so dirty that his features couldn’t be clearly seen. But a pair of big, blue eyes sparkled with a hint of spiritual energy.
Unexpectedly, among the children randomly caught from the city, there was one with considerable courage.
Indeed, at the very upstream of the river, there was a waterfall not far from here.
Beneath the waterfall, although the water was rapid, there was a sandbank where they could stand, and a cave there. If they could hide inside, they might truly have a chance to escape.
But did these children really think they could make it to the waterfall?
With a playful mindset, Dongfang Liuli watched the children.
The children were young and ignorant. Suddenly, when someone stood up at such a moment, it was undoubtedly like a guiding light. They hesitated no more and, like headless flies, followed that child upstream.
They endured the icy river water and terrifying fear, struggling through the river.
The human scent, like the fragrance of poppies, was even more delicious to the dangerous creatures underwater than the blood and flesh of demon beasts.
The river surface, which had been relatively calm, once more saw demon crocodiles emerging.
Seeing the demon crocodiles in the water, the children started crying out in fear.
The Azure Dragon Crocodile, why hasn’t it appeared yet!
Dongfang Liuli watched the children being slowly surrounded by the demon crocodiles without a hint of sympathy, instead growing more impatient.
She wanted the Azure Dragon Crocodile; could it be that the bait was insufficient?
Hurry and eat those little ones, use their fresh blood and flesh to lure out the Azure Dragon Crocodile.
Dongfang Liuli’s eyes gleamed eagerly.
Seeing the demon crocodiles, a child stumbled and fell into the water with a splash, as a demon crocodile swam rapidly towards him.
The blue-eyed boy who had spoken earlier rushed over through the water.
His baby-blue eyes suddenly emitted a cold, chilling light, and from his small body came the sound of cracking bones.
A mark resembling a blood drop appeared on his dirty, indistinguishable forehead.
A low growl came from the boy’s throat.
The demon crocodile charging towards him seemed to sense something, its opened mouth freezing suddenly. It shivered, whipped its tail, stopped eating humans, and swam away in panic.
It wasn’t just that one demon crocodile; those following the children, ready for a feast, also sensed something. They uniformly retreated a mile away, their bodies still trembling.
It was as if an invisible barrier existed in front of them, preventing them from harming the children.
"I’ll carry you."
Without a word, the blue-eyed boy carried the child who was too scared to move on his back, striding forward to catch up.
"Why don’t they eat them!"
Dongfang Liuli saw the children getting farther away, and the demon crocodiles suddenly behaving as if transformed, all retreating to a distance.
"Someone, kill them all for me. I refuse to believe this won’t draw out the Azure Dragon Crocodile."
Dongfang Liuli gritted her teeth.
Today, no matter what, she would lure out the Azure Dragon Crocodile.
"Captain... kill so many?"
In the Liu Guang Team, the few remaining Alchemists all showed signs of reluctance.
Killing one child might be fine, but there were more than a dozen here, all living souls.
After all, they weren’t the Half-Beast Demon Hunters trained by Dongfang Liuli with Soul-breaking Elixirs, and killing these defenseless children seemed excessively cruel.
"Do you intend to defy me? Anyone who refuses to act will be the first I kill!"
Dongfang Liuli’s eyes flashed fiercely.
The team members had to raise their arrows, aiming at the children moving further away.
"Dongfang Liuli, you viper, using live bait against humans!"
As they were about to shoot, Tang Tiansong, leading more than a dozen members of the Tang City Team in a rage, rushed over.
Earlier, Tang Tiansong had released live demon beasts but failed to lure out the Azure Dragon Crocodile. In his disappointment, he found that the nearby demon crocodiles had all disappeared.
Realizing something was amiss, he followed the river and unexpectedly witnessed Dongfang Liuli preparing to shoot the living children.
"Tang Tiansong, what I use for bait is my business. This is a public mission; every team relies on their skills. What right do you have to interfere with our team’s decisions?"
"Who’s got time to meddle with a crazy woman’s decisions? I’m standing up for these children. Men, get in the river and rescue the children."
Tang Tiansong immediately spotted the corpse of the first child shot, floating in the river.
All his bloodlust was ignited.
He had never hated someone as much as he did now.
No, Dongfang Liuli wasn’t even worthy of being called a person.
"Ha ha, Tang Tiansong, you think you’re my opponent? Since you want to save them, I’ll make sure you won’t."
Dongfang Liuli laughed, raised her sleeve, and ascended into the air,
Multiple black spiritual forces suddenly gathered at her fingertips, like countless cold arrows, aimed at the children’s backs.
Tang Tiansong snorted coldly.
His gaze changed abruptly, and with a grit of his teeth, he unleashed the Power of Reincarnation from within without reservation.
Unexpectedly, someone as seemingly fierce as Tang Tiansong also cultivated Reincarnation Water Power.
But upon closer inspection, one would notice that his Reincarnation Water Power was somewhat different, infused with a hint of variant Reincarnation Wind Power.
The combination of the two spiritual powers created towering waves on the river, forming a water wall that blocked Dongfang Liuli’s spiritual power attack.
Bang——
Unexpectedly, the black spiritual power was peculiarly odd that when it hit the water wall, the water wall immediately collapsed.
Tang Tiansong’s body trembled. He hadn’t anticipated Dongfang Liuli’s spiritual power being so destructively potent.
"Tang Tiansong, did you think it was ordinary spiritual power?"
Dongfang Liuli smirked.
This special black spiritual power of hers was Cauldron Breath.
She had obtained it after nearly a century of cultivation following her acquisition of a half piece of a Tri-footed Cauldron Base Fragment.
She named it "Yama Breath," possessing astonishing destructive power and, when fused with spiritual power, could be manipulated at will.
Seeing the black Cauldron Breath closing in on the children.
Tang Tiansong’s eyes turned bloodshot with anger.
But just then, a terrifying roar of a Fierce Beast echoed from the riverbed.
In the river, the water parted into two like a broken stream.
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