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Chapter 258 Returning to the Village
"Emperor Flame Blade!"

Wu Zhe took the lead, charging towards the camp. He gripped his longsword with both hands, and with a roar, unleashed his full power, slashing out a blazing golden light that swept horizontally forward.

At the same time, five blood-red flying swords protected him on both sides, rotating around him. Behind him was a team composed of Zhu He and others. At this moment, the entire team was like a drill, and Wu Zhe was the sharpest point on the drill.

"Gah!"

The Fire Ape clan, who were besieging the camp, immediately noticed Wu Zhe and his group's attack. They roared and turned around abruptly, launching a frenzied attack to block Wu Zhe and his group.

These fire apes either condensed blazing fireballs in their palms and hurled them, or suddenly stretched out their arms, turning into magma, and lunged straight at the group of people.

At this time,
The people in the camp did not stand idly by either. They also took action. Due to the attacks and suppression from all sides by the molten creatures, they could only spare a small number of troops. They could only manage to send six people to help Wu Zhe and the others return. However, with the six people fighting with all their might, they still managed to entangle the six closest fire apes from behind, preventing them from paying attention to Wu Zhe and the others.

The Fire Ape team consisted of eighteen apes in total. Six were blocked, leaving twelve remaining. These twelve Fire Apes were not a significant threat to Wu Zhe and his group. Even if they were to fight them head-on, they would still be the victors.

The problem is that Wu Zhe and the others don't have time to defeat these twelve fire apes. What they need to do is rush over as quickly as possible, enter the camp, and join up with the others. Otherwise, if they are blocked for even a few breaths, other molten life forms will likely arrive to provide support. If they are surrounded by a large number of molten life forms, their fate will be uncertain!

Such a fierce battle could be a matter of life and death hanging by a thread!
"kill!"

Wu Zhe kept his eyes straight ahead. The light from his sword shattered the two fireballs. He then leaped into the air, wielding his long sword, and severed the two giant magma hands that were grabbing at him.

With him leading the charge, the group rushed towards the camp.

Despite the twelve fire apes' furious attacks, they couldn't stop Wu Zhe's charge. They could only watch helplessly as Wu Zhe and his men advanced towards the camp. However, their subsequent bursts of power caused some trouble for the group, making their advance seem like they were stuck in quagmire, slowing them down.

They were still less than a hundred feet away from the camp. For a grandmaster, a hundred feet was an instant, but with the attack and interference from the twelve fire apes, it would take six to seven breaths.

Six to seven breaths—it's short, but in the context of such a battle, it can feel quite long.

"Fizz!"

Adjacent to the area attacked by the Fire Ape Clan is the Fiery Horned Serpent Clan. They are not on good terms with the Fire Ape Clan, and only barely joined forces under the suppression of the three-headed, eighth-tier Molten Lifeform.

At this moment, they noticed the situation on the Fire Ape clan's side. Instead of coming to their aid immediately, they each let out a hiss and hesitated for a moment.

"hiss!!!"

At that moment, among the three eighth-tier molten fire beings in the sky, the Fiery Horned Serpent suddenly let out a long hiss.

It was as if it were conveying some kind of command.

The Fire Horned Serpent clan, which was adjacent to the Fire Ape clan, finally moved and flanked from the right, attacking Wu Zhe and Wu Ming. At the same time, the 'Lava Monsters' on the left side of the Fire Ape clan also started to move under the pressure.

They were all quite fast. As seventh-tier molten fire beings comparable to grandmasters, they could reach Wu Zhe and Wu Ming in a breath or two and then launch a fierce attack.

The three groups of Molten Lifeforms, numbering forty or fifty in total, would surely face certain death if they were surrounded.

Li Shoucheng, who was guarding the camp, had anticipated this situation. A glint flashed in his eyes. Due to the attack and interference of Wu Zhe and others, the attention of the three forces in the north—the Fire Ape, the Fiery Horned Serpent, and the Lava Monster—was drawn away, which greatly reduced the pressure on the northern formation, giving him some time to recover.

"town!"

Li Shoucheng gave a deep shout.

The light barrier of the northern array, which had been holding its ground, suddenly shone brightly, and a beam of crimson flame spread out in an instant, transforming into a vast and oppressive force that suppressed the dozen or so Fiery Horned Serpents and the dozen or so Lava Monsters.

hum.

The power of the formation was extraordinary; it was a suppression formed by harnessing the power of heaven and earth. In an instant, it slowed down the Fire Horned Serpent and the Lava Monster. By the time they managed to break free from this brief suppression, six breaths had already passed.

When they finally arrived late and caught up with Wu Zhe and the others, Wu Zhe had already stepped into the camp with one foot. He chuckled, turned around, and slashed out with his sword, directly repelling two Fiery Horned Serpents.

Zhu He and the others behind him immediately filed in and rushed into the camp.

Wu Ming was positioned at the very back. Because his five flying swords were assisting Wu Zhe in his charge, he appeared to have no strength left. Everyone then did their best to protect him at the back. However, after everyone arrived at the camp and filed in, Wu Ming's figure fell to the very back, making him the most dangerous person.

Although Wu Zhe, Zhu He, and the others who rushed into the camp immediately turned back and did their best to defend against the molten lifeforms attacking from both sides, four fiery horned serpents still suddenly sprang up from behind and attacked Wu Ming's back in the blink of an eye!

Despite the sudden attack, Wu Ming remained completely calm.

With a flick of his sleeve, he instantly retrieved five flying swords, which transformed into a blood-red rainbow behind him, forming a sword array that blocked all four fiery horned serpents attacking from behind.

At that moment, two more fiery horned serpents approached from the left and right sides. Judging from the distance, they were still about thirty feet away from Wu Ming, and it was too late to launch a surprise attack before Wu Ming entered the camp. However, they did not force their way in. Instead, they stopped about twenty feet away, opened their mouths, and in an instant, two fiery streaks attacked Wu Ming's left and right sides!

These two fiery streaks, like rockets and rainbows, were incredibly fast. They arrived right next to Wu Ming the moment he stepped halfway into the camp's perimeter.

Seeing that Wu Ming was manipulating five flying swords to defend against the four fiery horned serpents behind him, and that he seemed to have no time to deal with the attacks coming from the left and right, Zhu He and the others all showed anxious expressions.

They were also focused on fighting other molten lifeforms, and in the blink of an eye, they had no spare strength.

however,
Wu Ming remained completely calm, as if he had expected it. He flicked his sleeves with both hands, and two blazing bolts of lightning suddenly shot out from his sleeves to meet the two streams of fire.

"Shenxiao." Boom!!!
Lightning exploded, arcs of lightning splattered, and the power of thunder and fire collided, directly forming a violent explosion. In the midst of this explosion, Wu Ming's other half of his foot had already quietly stepped over the edge of the camp and completely entered the camp. He was completely unharmed, and not even the hem of his clothes was torn.

He took a few more steps forward without changing his expression. Then, five blood-red streaks flew through the air behind him, their blood-red light dissipating before transforming into five small swords that quietly disappeared into his sleeves.

"it is good!"

Seeing that Wu Ming had entered the camp safely, Wu Zhe and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

The others in the camp, such as Chu Xuan and Li Shoucheng, also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the situation just now was indeed dangerous, and it was undoubtedly a fortunate thing that Wu Zhe and the others were able to return to the camp unharmed.

If someone falls behind and gets surrounded and engulfed by the molten lifeforms, they may never be able to come back.

"Fellow disciples, I won't say anything more. I'll leave the northern area to you to guard."

Li Shoucheng, who was in charge of manipulating the formation, had just forcibly suppressed a round of molten life on the outer edge of the formation. At this moment, he also showed some fatigue on his face, but he still forced himself to speak in a deep voice to Wu Zhe and the others.

Wu Zhe and the others had just returned from battle and had experienced a thrilling battle to rush back to the camp. They were all somewhat exhausted, but no one complained at this moment. Everyone understood the importance and urgency of the matter and immediately responded.

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Li."

"no problem."

"Leave the north to us."

Wu Zhe quickly regulated his breathing, took out a pill to replenish his blood and qi from his pocket, swallowed it, then shouldered his greatsword, turned around, and relying on the formation, suddenly swung his sword at a fire ape outside.

Zhu He and the others were in a similar situation. They adjusted their state as quickly as possible, then spread out and stood with their backs to the formation, attacking the molten lifeforms on the outside to defend themselves.

With the protection of the formation, the situation is completely different from before.

Although the northern direction was still besieged by more than forty molten creatures from the Fire Ape Clan, the Fiery Horned Serpent Clan, and the Lava Monster Clan, the attacks of these molten creatures were mostly weakened by the formation behind the camp. Many of their moves were often reduced by more than 70%, leaving only 20% or 30% of their power.

More than forty molten creatures, their attacks weakened by 70%, were still enough for Wu Zhe and his companions to withstand, even in their large numbers.

In fact, the camp's formation is not a hard-blocking formation, because the camp here is not a city and has no city walls. The formation's characteristic is more about suppression. If the molten life forms from the outside forcefully rush into the formation's inner range, the suppression they will experience will be even stronger.

Although these molten lifeforms are not very intelligent, they have an innate instinct to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. They will not directly step into the interior of the formation, but will instead surround the camp and continuously spew flames into it from the outside, releasing various innate supernatural abilities.

Although the light barrier of the camp's formation would weaken these moves by more than 70%, this weakening was not unlimited. Such attacks were actually colliding with the formation and consuming its power.

It can be said,
Before the formation is broken, the entire battlefield situation is an invisible war of attrition.

After Wu Zhe, Zhu He, Wu Ming, and others returned to the camp, the camp's defensive strength was greatly enhanced. This war of attrition was no longer disadvantageous to the camp. At least for now, Li Shoucheng was much more relaxed. He only needed to focus on dealing with the three eighth-tier Molten Lifeforms. He no longer needed to deliberately divert his attention to mobilize the power of the formations to assist in other battles. As long as he relied on the basic power of the formations, Wu Zhe, Chu Xuan, and others were able to hold off the Molten Lifeforms outside.

in the air,

The three eighth-tier molten fire creatures roared repeatedly, but they were helpless against the situation. They had been forcibly suppressed by Li Shoucheng and could not break free to prevent Wu Ming and the others from returning to the camp.

……

It was about several dozen miles away from the Great Jin camp.

On a raised slope, two figures stood amidst the raging flames, gazing into the distance toward the Great Jin camp.

"They went in safely without a single casualty; they certainly have some skill."

One of them wore a gray robe and had indifferent eyes. His aura was completely concealed, and he could not be sensed from a distance. However, if you got close, you could feel the blood energy inside his body that was difficult to suppress.

That blood energy was far stronger than that of the Seven Bloods, reaching the level of the Eighth Blood Coagulation, clearly indicating that he was a Grandmaster of Martial Arts!

There are only three factions in the Molten Realm. Among them, only two are human. A martial arts grandmaster does not belong to the Great Jin, so he naturally belongs to only one faction, which is the Great Yu.

He is Cao Hou, a Grandmaster of the Eight Bloods, who is also a protector of the Fengshen Hall within the Great Yu Mitian Sect!
Cao Hou gazed at the battle near the Great Jin camp from afar, then glanced at another figure beside him and said, "We just let them in like that?"

The figure beside him, clad in a purple-gold Daoist robe, was also a protector of the Fengshen Hall of the Great Yu Mitian Sect. He was Chi Yingbo, a Daoist master who had reached the eighth level of Yuan Shen refinement.

Chi Yingbo remained calm and said, "Those molten creatures are all foolish beings. Even if the two of us lend them a hand, we will only be attacked by them together. Moreover, if we take action and wipe out that group of people, Li Shoucheng's camp will be breached in no time. At that time, the situation will be in chaos. If we want to take advantage of the situation, we will have to fight these molten creatures."

"The current situation is actually better. Those molten creatures cannot break through the Great Jin's camp in a short time, and Li Shoucheng cannot repel them in a short time either. Let them fight each other and wear each other down. It will not be too late for us to make a move when both sides are greatly weakened."

After hearing Chi Yingbo's words, Lord Cao chuckled and said:
"That's true."

Although the Great Yu and the Great Jin are not sworn enemies, they have many conflicts with each other. This time, they unexpectedly discovered three harmonious eighth-tier molten fire beings that were not far from the Great Jin's camp. So they secretly made arrangements to guide the three eighth-tier molten fire beings to lead their forces to besiege the Great Jin's camp.

As long as they rely on the Molten Life to break through the Great Jin's camp, they can plunder all the resources and rare items that the Grandmasters of the Great Jin side have accumulated over the years!
As for the inevitable retaliation from the Great Jin Dynasty, it doesn't matter, because they had no intention of staying in the Molten Realm any longer. After finishing this last job, they would return to the Great Yu Dynasty together, and they couldn't be bothered with anything else afterward.

(End of this chapter)