Chapter 1025: I’m Hitting You
A single strike inflicted heavy damage, making the Martial Artists from those small sects and families all retreat in fear, not daring to step forward even half a pace!
Seeing this, Jiang Yunxuan and the others grew visibly anxious. "What the hell did Zixuan go off to do!"
Tiger clenched his teeth. "We can’t just rely on Zixuan. We’ve got to help shoulder some of this too."
"Then we all move together. If we can block them for a bit, we block them for a bit!"
Xiao Hu muttered heavily, then directly brought out two Iron Hammers, stepped in front of everyone, faced those forty-odd men, and let out a roar as he charged in first.
Jiang Yunxuan, Tiger, and the Shi Family ancestor saw this and didn’t hesitate in the slightest, all bringing out their own trump cards.
At this moment, they didn’t dare hold anything back. Otherwise, with the slightest mistake, it would be a situation of either death or crippling injury.
This was a decisive battle to begin with; in the end, one side would inevitably be completely defeated, with corpses all over the ground.
They’d struggled all the way to this point. There was no way they’d resign themselves to letting the Celestial Dao Alliance continue to run rampant in the Star Sea Martial Realm!
Four Innate Emperor Realm experts attacked together, and their power was nothing to scoff at.
Venerable Wen glanced that way and laughed casually. "Those forty elites have all taken the Elixir personally refined by my father. Right now each of them is an Emperor Realm expert, and with the Primordial Battle Array supporting them, how could four Emperors possibly stop them?"
Yafei, who was fighting him, wore an icy expression. "It’s nothing but sinister methods! You really think you’re that impressive?"
"Sinister?" Venerable Wen sneered. "In Martial Arts, the strong are revered. History is written by the victors. Tell me, once we win, who’ll still dare stand on Liu Zixuan’s side and talk about ’justice’?"
"Watch your tongue before the wind twists it!" Yafei cursed.
Venerable Wen smiled coldly. "You’d better worry about yourselves first. If the Seven-Color True Body had come, I might fear him a little. But with just you lot? You’re far too lacking."
All of a sudden, Venerable Wen let out a shout. The weapon in his hand burst with a dark radiance and lunged straight toward the Seven-Color silk ribbons to devour them.
Yafei saw this. "You actually cultivated the Nether Realm Emperor’s Domain!"
"Only realizing it now... a bit too late, isn’t it!"
Bang bang!
Pfft!
Pfft!
Two consecutive blows fell. The two beauties wielding silk ribbons both spat out mouthfuls of blood, and the Array shattered right after!
Venerable Wen smiled in triumph. "I told you, with just you few, you’re far from enough."
"Retreat!"
Yafei hurriedly gave the order, and a few beauties quickly supported the two injured ones as they retreated at full speed.
By now, the four Emperor Realm experts led by Jiang Yunxuan had already been defeated by the forty-odd experts within the Battle Array, each bearing injuries of varying severity.
In other words, the advantage their side had originally held had been completely seized away by Venerable Wen and his people.
Right now, what they faced was a dead end!
For the moment, Liu Zixuan’s people had all been forced back to the left side of the courtyard, gathering together and staring warily at Venerable Wen and the others.
The Willow Association ancestor watched this scene, swaggered over smugly, and said, "Weren’t you all pretty arrogant just now? Saying you were going to slap our faces, one by one. And now?"
"Arrogant my ass. You’re just someone’s dog, that’s all!" Tiger cursed through gritted teeth.
The Willow Association ancestor glared at him. "Where’s Liu Zixuan? Don’t tell me he ditched you and ran off alone?"
"Oh? So Liu Zixuan isn’t here?" Venerable Wen asked.
"In the midst of the earlier melee, Liu Zixuan went out. No idea where he went," the Willow Association ancestor replied respectfully.
Venerable Wen narrowed his eyes slightly. "I don’t think he’d run. But since I, the True Body, have already arrived and he’s not here, we might as well prepare a grand gift for him before he gets back."
"You mean..." The viciousness on the Willow Association ancestor’s face grew even more intense.
"Kill these people and pile their corpses into a mountain. When he returns, let him have a good look at the fate of those who oppose us!"
With that, Venerable Wen turned and ordered the forty-odd men, "Make it quick when you strike. I don’t want to hear them begging for mercy!"
"Yes!" A deafening chorus rang out as the forty-plus men stepped toward them.
As for Jiang Yunxuan and the others, they truly were out of options now. At this moment, they deeply felt just how important Liu Zixuan was.
In the past, whenever they faced something like this, Liu Zixuan would always bring them surprise after surprise and drag them back from the brink.
But now... with Liu Zixuan absent, were they just going to let these people slaughter them?
Dragging their wounded bodies, gripping their weapons, perhaps the only thing left they could do was a final life-or-death struggle!
"Hahaha, seeing you in this state really is satisfying!" The Willow Association ancestor laughed, basking in his own smugness, and said to Venerable Wen, "Honestly, it’d be perfect if Liu Zixuan were here right now too. Let him see just how worthless this group he’s so proud of really is!"
"He..."
Venerable Wen had just opened his mouth when a terrifying fluctuation surged in from outside the gate. A blurred figure flashed in front of the Willow Association ancestor, raising a hand and swinging a slap straight at him.
"Liu... Liu Zixuan!" When he saw the figure clearly, the Willow Association ancestor immediately flew into a rage.
Liu Zixuan’s appearance didn’t surprise him. Just as Venerable Wen had said, Liu Zixuan wouldn’t run.
Showing up was one thing, but he’d actually slapped him!
Which meant that today, the Willow Association ancestor had taken two slaps to the face in front of the whole Martial Realm.
Getting hit by Venerable Wen was one thing; he relied on Venerable Wen, after all. But getting slapped by Liu Zixuan—how was he supposed to swallow that!
"You dare hit me?"
"You’re exactly who I’m hitting." Liu Zixuan cast him a glance. "Damn, I could hear you yapping away from hundreds of miles off. First time I’ve seen a dog that dares bark this loud while wagging its tail for someone."
With that, Liu Zixuan turned and walked over to Jiang Yunxuan and the others.
His return rekindled hope in their hearts. Their main pillar was back!
"Zixuan, where did you go? That Venerable Wen is terrifying!" Tiger muttered.
Liu Zixuan waved his hand. "I’ve got a way to deal with him."
"You, an Emperor Realm First Heaven brat, dare talk that big?" Venerable Wen mocked with a laugh. "If you really had run, I might not have had time to hunt you down. But you came back. So what? It just means there’ll be one more soul under my blade."
Liu Zixuan lifted his deep gaze, staring at Venerable Wen for a moment. Then his palm turned, and the Relic Pearl suddenly appeared in his hand. He tossed it into the air and shouted to the people behind him, "You all go into the mini world first. I’ll handle things here!"
Those from the small sects didn’t say a word and directly entered the Relic Mini World. It wasn’t that they feared death, but staying here would not only be useless, it would just drag Liu Zixuan down.
A short while later, only Liu Zixuan’s brothers, Yafei, and their opponents—Venerable Wen and the Willow Association ancestor—remained here.
Strictly speaking, this was finally a proper cleared battlefield!
The Peak battle was about to begin!