Decaying World

Chapter 206 206 The Sound of the Wind

"Even so, Young Master Su isn't afraid, but what if we are targeted by High Priest Liu? What should we do then?" the girl asked worriedly, frowning.

"He doesn't have the time for that." His master shook his head slightly. "This scheme wasn't just orchestrated by Young Master Su. And us, do you think we had a choice? If we wanted, none of us would want to get involved in a game of this level. But think about it. When in this world can a person truly be free?"

The girl remained silent.

"Alright, stop overthinking it. Keep a close eye on everyone among the experts they've dispatched this time, especially those traveling with them. We need to keep an eye on all of them."

"What about Qingfeng Temple?" the girl asked again.

"That's not our responsibility. Liu Wujun's lineage is too powerful, and the Liu family can't sit still anymore. If we let it continue to develop, the future Liu family member will be in big trouble. So, what seems like a chance encounter is actually a preordained outcome." The white-haired old man chuckled.

The Su family and the main branch of the Liu family had actually joined forces to deal with Liu Wujun and his sister. Hearing this, the girl was momentarily at a loss for words.

Unbeknownst to them, many forces that had conflicts with Liu Wujun had actually joined forces.

“To capture Liu Shenglan, the mother of Liu Wujun of the Lin family, we must first break the Qingfeng Temple’s surveillance and arrangements around the Lin family. As long as the Qingfeng Temple’s power remains, no one can easily infiltrate the area around the Lin family to take action. After all, they have too many people and close ties with the Inspectorate. Unless the higher-ups directly mobilize experts, but every move of an expert is watched by a large number of eyes. Therefore, capturing a high-ranking official like Liu Xiao, which seems difficult, actually has a much greater chance than capturing Liu Shenglan. We, the middle-level officials, have become the key to starting the operation,” the girl’s master explained.

He slowly drew the long sword from his back.

"Alright. That one is about to come out. Everyone get ready. The relic needs to be activated in time, otherwise we alone won't be able to catch Liu Xiao, who is at the Divine Official level."

“I understand,” the white-haired old man nodded.

"Ling'er knows, Master, don't worry." The girl nodded in agreement.

At this moment, in the distant arena, a woman who had been disguised as an ordinary Qingfeng Temple disciple suddenly tore off her veil and pounced on the nearest Hongfei Sect martial artist like a tiger.

The woman had a slender figure, a pretty face with a heroic air, and her eyes were filled with intense killing intent. With one palm strike, she unleashed the Thunder Palm, a top-grade martial art from the Rain Palace.

This palm strike was swift and fierce, carrying the exaggerated power and speed of a high-ranking official. The ethereal force extending from the palm twisted and distorted, creating a cavity in the air wherever it passed, temporarily bringing up gusts of wind.

Just as the palm was about to strike the martial artist's chest, a dark figure flashed in from the side, striking Liu Xiao with the same posture and the same right palm, covered with a massive amount of internal energy.

Bang! !

Countless internal energies were broken through layer by layer by the illusory force, and the black shadow retreated accordingly, continuously setting up new internal energy palm shadows to block.

"Grandmaster!?" Liu Xiao's expression changed. He realized that his speed and strength were not superior, and he was even weaker than his opponent. He immediately knew that this was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but a premeditated one!

"Lord Liu, how have you been?" The gray-haired man who made the move held a knife in one hand and his other hand in a palm strike, calmly watching Liu Xiao.

“Fu Chunxing of Xiaoyao Pavilion? When did you come here to support Hongfei Sect?” Liu Xiao asked coldly.

The Grandmaster of the Lesser Three Realms is stronger and faster than the Divine Official. However, the Divine Official's infinite use of illusory power also surpasses that of the Grandmaster in terms of destructive power and lethality. Therefore, to determine the winner between these two realms, it still depends on their respective combat skills, secret techniques, environment, and state.

"Doesn't Lord Liu understand? The words your elder brother made at the tea party in the inner city last week already sealed the fate of today's battle," Fu Chunxing said calmly.

"My brother just drank too much and talked nonsense," Liu Xiao said, her expression slightly changing as she defended herself.

At the tea party, Liu Wujun sparred with someone and defeated them. The other person then pointed out that while Liu Wujun appeared gentle, he was actually cold-hearted and would remember and settle scores with anyone who opposed him. There was no possibility of reconciliation.

Liu Wujun did not refute this at the time.

This made Liu Xiao, who was present at the time, feel somewhat uneasy. However, everyone present was a top-tier expert in mental discipline, and it would be too easy for them to see through Liu Wujun's attempt to lie against his conscience.

So he remained silent.

Unexpectedly, that incident became the trigger.
Liu Xiao was momentarily distracted, and a figure suddenly appeared before his eyes. He was struck on the head by the person opposite him.

The immense internal energy of the Zhou family, as if it were free, formed a white palm shadow five or six meters in diameter, which struck her forehead hard.

Liu Xiao immediately snapped out of her daze and unleashed her illusory power to engage in a focused battle with her opponent.

It wasn't just here. In other parts of the Qingfeng Temple's group, they were actually showing signs of being pushed back step by step.

Although there were only six or seven attackers, fewer in number than them, each of them possessed perfect internal energy and seemed to have a considerable understanding of Qingfeng Temple's martial arts, even knowing their fighting habits perfectly.

This made the people from Qingfeng Temple feel extremely constrained and uncomfortable as soon as they started fighting.

In addition, the opponent's movement speed was extremely fast, and it seemed that he had trained specifically for this purpose. Some of the details were even similar to the Nine-Section Fast Sword of Qingfeng Temple.

This clearly indicates that the martial arts techniques of Qingfeng Temple have been leaked.

The two sides had only been fighting for less than half a minute.

Two disciples immediately groaned as they were injured and bled.

Seeing this, Liu Xiao grew increasingly anxious.

She was an impatient person to begin with, and now that she was being held back, plus she had just promised her younger brother Lin Hui that she would take care of the team before setting off.

The result was that it had only been out for a short time when...
The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became, and the more anxious she became, the more chaotic her actions became.

Fu Chunxing, who was fighting her, was a veteran master of Xiaoyao Pavilion with extremely rich combat experience. His actual combat record was much stronger than Liu Xiao's. When he noticed that his opponent was anxious, he immediately seized Liu Xiao's weaknesses several times and slashed Liu Xiao's back hard with three consecutive internal force sword energies.

Liu Xiao was immediately beaten until she bled as well.

Seeing that everyone was falling into a disadvantageous position, and if no other unexpected events occurred, the entire army would be wiped out.

Chen Sui knew something was wrong and roared.

"Stop hiding, everyone! The secret technique has been activated!"

He immediately stopped holding back, his leg muscles suddenly bulged, his aura changed slightly, and the flow of his internal energy increased dramatically.

In an instant, his movement speed also increased significantly compared to before.

With two sharp slashes, the opponent's internal energy martial artist's legs were bleeding.

The other Qingfeng Temple disciples also activated their secret techniques, greatly increasing the speed of their internal energy circulation and making their movements much faster, like ghosts.

The situation suddenly reversed completely.

But before they could continue their pursuit, an invisible force suddenly descended upon the open space within a radius of several hundred meters.

He forcibly suppressed the internal energy rotation speed of all Qingfeng Temple disciples by half.

At this moment, another white-haired old man also joined the battle, and together with Fu Chunxing, they began to besiege Liu Xiao.

Clearly, their purpose in coming here was to capture Liu Xiao.

The provocation of Qingfeng Temple was a pretense; their real intention was to keep an eye on Liu Xiao. If Liu Xiao didn't come out this time, they had other ways to lure him out. What they wanted was the opportunity during Liu Xiao's vacation.

Once the invisible relic's force field was activated, the disadvantage that Qingfeng Guan's audience could no longer reverse was immediately reversed.

The disciples were caught off guard and injured in the exchange. Without their speed advantage, their normal combat strength was actually somewhat inferior to their opponents.

After all, the opponent is at least at the peak of internal energy, and can freely expend internal energy as if it were free.

The strategy is to win by sheer numbers and exert pressure over a wide area.

Seeing this disadvantage, the internal martial arts masters who had been hired by Qingfeng Temple couldn't hold on any longer and turned to run away without saying a word.

They directly sold off the Qingfeng Temple disciples in the surrounding area.

This left Chen Sui utterly dumbfounded.

"I can't take it anymore! Senior Sister Xia!!"

He suddenly roared.

"Alright, I've heard you."

Suddenly, a beautiful girl with long black hair appeared out of nowhere, standing strangely behind Chen Sui's opponent.

The martial artist with internal energy looked horrified. It wasn't until he heard the voice that he realized there was someone behind him.

But before he could turn around...

laugh!
The girl gently gripped the sword.

An invisible wind blew by.

The martial artist froze, his entire body tilted and sliced ​​in two from shoulder to waist, crashing to the ground.

"Didn't I tell you to try not to expose me?" The girl looked helpless, her bright black eyes showing no emotion after killing someone, as if the sword strike she had just used was merely trimming a tree branch.

At this time, compared to a year ago, with ample nutrition, she had grown to 1.45 meters tall and had the slender figure that a normal young girl should have.

But what's somewhat contradictory is that Xia Si's face is always calm, smiling, and composed, no matter what trouble or danger she encounters.

Just like right now.

Even if she instantly cuts a person in two, she shows no emotional fluctuations that a normal person would have.

"Senior Sister Xia!!"

"Senior Sister Xia has made her move!!"

"Hurry up, senior sister, I can't hold on much longer!!"

"I love you, Senior Sister Xia!! I want to have your baby!" Before the female disciple could finish her sentence, she was struck by her opponent's palm and sent flying backward, spitting blood.

“It’s not good for you to always rely on me,” Xia Si said helplessly.

She gripped the sword hilt with her right hand once more.

She recalled the sword strike her master had shown her.

A gentle breeze blows, and all the monsters outside the window vanish like the wind.

That was incredibly fast.

How dazzling!

'I also want to be like my master, wielding a sword like that.'

She closed her eyes, a deep sense of anticipation rising within her.

'instinct.'

Tell me, what should I do?

Her grip on the sword tightened slowly.

call!
"wind!"

Suddenly, Xia Si spoke up.

The next moment, a gentle breeze arose again.

Xia Si's figure instantly appeared behind all the opposing martial artists present.

All the figures swung their swords at the same time.

laugh!
All the figures were cut in two by a single sword strike!
"I will be like the wind, destroying everything and annihilating everything!" Xia Si opened her bright, crystal-like black eyes, looked at the enemy's corpse that had been cut in two, and immediately revealed a sweet smile.

Oh! !

Except for Chen Sui, all the disciples of Qingfeng Temple present cheered in unison.

Although they had never seen the Qingfeng Swordplay include this move, nobody cared.

In reality, they couldn't possibly have seen it before. Because this move was definitely neither the Gentle Breeze Sword nor the Gale Sword.

It was an instinctive sword technique that Xia Si himself had come to understand.

Not far away, Fu Chunxing, who was fighting Liu Xiao, sensed the change here. His expression changed slightly, and his eyes met those of Xia Si, who was looking from afar.

Alarm bells rang in his mind instantly. He turned around and charged forward at full speed, disappearing into the dilapidated temple in the distance in the blink of an eye, taking his apprentice with him and vanishing from sight.

The other white-haired old man didn't have it so easy. He turned around and tried to run away, but Xia Si blocked his way.

Liu Xiao, who was behind him, also caught her breath and lunged at him with a sinister grin.

Moments later, the old man's body was split in two, blood flowed all over the ground, and he was lifeless.

Liu Xiao looked at Xia Si with a complicated expression. She didn't know where Lin Hui had found this genius, but her strength was indeed something she couldn't quite grasp.

This guy kills people like chickens, and always has a peaceful, warm smile on his face. It's unbelievable.
"Are you happy?" Liu Xiao asked.

"It's alright. I completed the task my master assigned me and did not let him down. Isn't that something to be happy about?" Xia Si asked rhetorically.

"." is a pervert.
Liu Xiao sighed inwardly.

She felt increasingly unable to understand Lin Hui.

(End of this chapter)