Heroes Return

Chapter 21

"What's the point of turning that old man's face into a comical one? It doesn't affect his movements at all!" the bespectacled man shouted angrily at Xiao Zhan.

"What do you know! At least he's not scary anymore! Either way, it's a good thing for us."

At that moment, the old man below noticed the change in his facial expression. He stood still, trying to change his expression back using all his inner energy, but he failed. Instantly, the veins on his body bulged with anger.

"You two juniors, prepare to die!" the old man said, his body vanishing from the spot. The next second, he appeared beside Xiao Zhan and Thirteen. Then, he threw a horizontal punch, the force of which shattered all the buildings in the courtyard.

The punch came incredibly fast, even faster than the reaction speed of Glasses Brother and Xiao Zhan. However, the only thing they could be thankful for was that the old man's punch completely missed its mark.

It wasn't because Xiao Zhan and the guy with glasses used any special techniques; the key point was that the comical expression was done with a sideways gaze. In other words, the old man's eyes were currently focused on his right side. Not having adjusted to this sideways perspective, he unconsciously veered off course.

After the old man threw a punch, the two men disappeared from his sight once again.

"See! It works!" Xiao Zhan said happily.

"Let's figure out how to deal with this old monster!" the bespectacled man said, taking off his glasses and putting on another pair.

"Actually, I do have a way to deal with this old man!" Xiao Zhan said, taking out a radar-like device. "But I need time! The item to activate the ultimate move was in the room. However, it's now in ruins. So it will take some time to dig it out."

"Is it going to be some kind of rip-off prop again?" the bespectacled guy asked.

"I definitely have the ability to handle this old man in front of me!" Xiao Zhan said confidently, patting his chest.

"I understand. I'll try to buy some time." The bespectacled man said, walking towards the old man. It was time to witness the power of the legendary kung fu master, Glasses!

As he spoke, the bespectacled man left an afterimage in place before rushing towards the old man who had just turned to the side and locked his gaze on the two of them.

The old man was still adjusting to his current state.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bespectacled man launched a fierce attack on the old man. Each punch he threw created a long trail of afterimages.

The old man opposite him made no attempt to defend himself against the bespectacled man's attacks and was hit by dozens of punches in just a few seconds.

Just as Xiao Zhan, the bespectacled guy, was panting heavily from the fight, the old man suddenly turned his head and looked at him.

"Finished? Didn't it hurt at all! Judging from your movements just now, I thought you were some kind of expert!" The old man said, patting the dust off his clothes. "Even if you've managed to improve your martial arts level, your physical abilities are still a bit too weak!"

The old man extended a finger and flicked it. The man with glasses was instantly sent flying backwards into the distant ruins. At the same time, he spat out a mouthful of blood in mid-air.

"Where did I get the confidence to fight him directly after being strengthened?" the bespectacled man thought to himself as he flew backward, crashing directly into the ruins.

"Xiao Zhan, I can't go on! I'm counting on you from now on!" The bespectacled man said before lying down on the ground and not moving.

"Damn it! You were supposed to buy time, right? You didn't even gain twenty seconds!" Xiao Zhan suddenly stood up from the rubble beside him and shouted at the bespectacled man, "At least hold on a little longer!!!"

"The level suppression is just too severe!" the bespectacled man said weakly, and then he disappeared from Xiao Zhan's sight, leaving only his glasses behind.

"Damn it! You just ran away like that, what am I going to do all by myself?!" Xiao Zhan shouted, pointing to his eyes.

"Don't worry, he'll be going down there to keep you company soon." The old man's voice suddenly reached Xiao Zhan's ears.

Xiao Zhan stiffly turned his head to look. The old man was right next to him, looking at Xiao Zhan sideways and saying, "It's about time we dealt with you quickly."

As the old man spoke, he raised his palm and slashed down at Xiao Zhan, who was trying to escape. However, the moment the old man struck, he sensed something was wrong. His palm didn't feel like it had hit a person at all; instead, it felt like he had struck thin air.

"Hmph! Just a little trick." The old man scoffed disdainfully, then looked in another direction. The place the old man was looking at was actually just a pile of ruins. But just as the old man was looking at those ruins, Xiao Zhan's voice rang out from within them.

"Damn it! We've been spotted!"

"Glasses Death Ray Cannon!!" Glasses Guy's voice rang out at that moment.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of light shot directly towards the old man.

"Hmph!" The old man let out a disdainful snort upon seeing the energy. Then, he calmly raised his palm to meet the death ray that was shooting towards him.

Suddenly, a strong feeling arose in the middle of the ruins. The dust and fog made it impossible to see anything in the ruins.

When the dust settled, the old man was still standing there unharmed. The bespectacled man opposite him looked incredulous, because the old man had easily blocked the bespectacled man's powerful attack with just one palm.

"Hmph! Although you're strong, you still lost!!!" Xiao Zhan said with a cold smile, arms crossed, to the old man opposite him, "Now I've collected all the items needed to win!"

As he spoke, Xiao Zhan held up a pile of comical objects with both hands and said to the old man, "It's not too late for you to surrender now! Otherwise, I don't even know what will happen in a little while." Xiao Zhan said with a sneer.

"Hmph! Another cursed item like this?" The old man looked disdainfully at the comical objects in Xiao Zhan's hands.

"Is this the only winning prop you've been searching for all this time?" The bespectacled guy looked at Xiao Zhan with despair.

"How could you, as my partner, share the same thoughts as that guy over there who's clearly a bit senile!" Xiao Zhan said disdainfully to the bespectacled man. "Today, I'll show you the terrifying power of Seven Star Comics!!!"

That's when everyone noticed the difference between the seven comic figures in Xiao Zhan's hand and the others. He hadn't expected that each comic figure had stars on it, and that the number of stars on each comic figure was different.

"Come out! God of Comedy!" Xiao Zhan shouted directly at the comical figure in front of him.

Immediately following, to the astonishment of the old man and the bespectacled man, the comical objects in Xiao Zhan's hands simultaneously emitted a powerful light.

"What a joke!" At this moment, even the old man had to take a serious look at the comical figures in Xiao Zhan's hands, even though he saw Xiao Zhan looking at them with his head tilted. The powerful force emanating from the seven comical figures in Xiao Zhan's hands was enough to startle even the old man. He had to admit that he had been too arrogant.

However, the old man was a master after all, and he immediately intended to kill Xiao Zhan with a single palm strike. But to the old man's astonishment, he was suddenly affected by a powerful force, completely unable to attack Xiao Zhan. It was as if he were bound by an invisible force.

Immediately following Xiao Zhan's shout, the world underwent another transformation. The black curtain that had been shrouding the sky suddenly burst open, revealing a large hole. A beam of light enveloped the entire ruins.

"Good heavens!! This is ridiculous!!" The bespectacled man exclaimed in shock as he looked up at the scene in the sky. Only then did he realize that Xiao Zhan had truly developed a magical power.

While the bespectacled man was in shock and the old man was unable to move, Xiao Zhan shouted directly to the sky, "Help me deal with the enemy before me!"

As if hearing Xiao Zhan's shout, a huge comical figure plummeted downwards. Simultaneously, just as the massive comical figure fell, a handsome figure descended from the sky first. This person possessed horns on their head, horns that didn't belong to humans.

As if weightless, the handsome man fell directly into the ruins.

At that moment, a beautiful curtain of light appeared above him.

"You've come down." Old Wu's voice reached the man's ears.

"Elder Wu, I never imagined that the person I would see beside me in my final moments would be you," the man said weakly. Just moments ago, he had been injured by Lin Jie's Immortal-Slaying Sword Light. Now, his primordial spirit was constantly collapsing and dissipating.

"Why bother! You're just someone in my dream. Why would you be willing to give up your life for your own obsession? If you do, I'll lose another interesting person from my dream," Old Wu said calmly.

"Hehe! As expected of Elder Wu! You've seen through the mystery in just a few words." The man said to him with admiration, "You truly are the most mysterious among us who are imprisoned in the Bachelor Temple. If I weren't about to die, I would definitely have a long talk with you all night long."

As he spoke, the man's body gradually dissipated into the air.

At the same time, the enormous, comical object landed directly on the old man's head. For some unknown reason, the old man suddenly unleashed all his strength, his muscles bulging. He actually caught the falling object.

But it was only for a moment, and the huge, ridiculous thing rolled into the ruins.

When the old man opened his eyes again with difficulty, he actually saw Old Wu.

"You're right, I never imagined I'd fallen for the tricks of these two young men! Cough cough!" The old man said with difficulty to Old Wu, "As expected of Old Wu, you've hit the nail on the head. I've only ever admired three people in my life, and you, Old Wu, are definitely one of them."

“Your life is nothing more than a scene in my dream, so why do you care so much? Whether you admire me or not, in the end it’s all the same,” Old Wu said.

"You're right! It's a pity I couldn't understand these mysteries back then! Thank you for your guidance before you died." As the old man spoke, he struggled to raise his hand and reach for the light screen in the sky.

Then he breathed his last silently.

"He lived in the same courtyard for so long, I never imagined he would be gone as soon as he came out." Old Wu sighed as he looked at the old man's body.

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The giant comic disappeared shortly after it landed, and the Seven Star Comic in Xiao Zhan's hand flew off in different directions at that moment.

Meanwhile, in the sky, everyone only realized what had happened after they had comically landed on the ground. Lin Jie then looked once more at the three remaining people around him.

The enemies, who had originally planned to join forces, abandoned their fight after Lin Jie unleashed a powerful attack that killed one of them. As Lin Jie turned, they swiftly flew off in three different directions.

It's a joke; his powerful attacks were completely countered by the longsword in the opponent's hand. Of the four attackers, one is now dead and another is crippled. The remaining shadowy monster and the old man with the summoning banner are no fools either; they immediately decided to flee.

However, now that the war had begun, Lin Jie had no intention of giving them any chance to escape.

Lin Jie appeared beside the red-robed man first, his speed far exceeding the man's reaction time. His black longsword slammed down on the red-robed man.

"Wait...wait a minute...wait a minute..." This time, the man in red was truly terrified. Lin Jie's hand was raised quite quickly. But in his eyes, it seemed as if the longsword, which seemed to announce his impending death, was slowly raised in slow motion.

The black figure before him, resembling the Grim Reaper, didn't make a single unnecessary movement. The red light emanating from its eyes was as insignificant to him as facing an ant.

The fear of being annihilated gripped the man's heart at this moment, and at the same time, it made him unleash all his inner strength.

Suddenly, an endless sea of ​​blood swept towards Lin Jie. Driven by fear, the red-robed man recklessly unleashed all the power he could muster.

An inexplicable stench of blood permeated the air, and the terrifying, endless sea of ​​blood erupted with a power akin to the end of the world. This power, unleashed by the red-robed man's pent-up energy, sent a terrifying, blood-red giant hand reaching directly towards him and Lin Jie in the sky.

Facing this blood-red giant hand that seemed to possess the might of heaven, Lin Jie's figure remained completely unchanged. The terrifying, shadowy figure before him completely ignored the blood-red giant hand reaching for him, and instead slowly lowered the longsword in his hand.

The moment the longsword fell, there was no explosion, no clash of forces. It didn't even make a sound in the world; it simply fell, brushing past the ordinary red-robed man.

With just one sword strike, the giant crimson hand in the sky stopped just before it touched the two people. The world fell silent.

After that brief silence, the man in the red robe exhaled a breath of black gas and then plummeted straight down into the temple below.

What kind of powerful being was that? The red-robed man couldn't imagine. What kind of power did that person possess? The red-robed man couldn't imagine either. Why was there such a powerful being in this world? As the ground crumbled, this thought slowly crossed the red-robed man's mind. The only thing he knew was that the person before him was very strong, strong to an inconceivable degree. Strong enough that even if he used all his cultivation in his life, he couldn't stop this terrifyingly pure sword strike.

However, he no longer needed to consider these things, because his body had begun to dissipate rapidly.

The last thing he saw was the spectacular sight of the giant crimson hand he had summoned crumbling in the sky. The stench of blood in the air faded considerably as he disappeared. The enormous blood cloud that had hung in the sky had also vanished completely.

"Old Wu, you're right. I've dominated for millennia, but in the end, it's all just a dream." With these words spoken calmly, the man in red vanished into thin air.

After taking down two enemies who were more handsome than him, Lin Jie felt a great sense of satisfaction. He then turned his attention to the two figures fleeing outside the forest.

Speaking of which, what do men rely on in a fight? If Lin Jie were to answer, there would be no doubt that it's all about momentum! This is the belief Lin Jie has held even after several brushes with death.

The other two, however, clearly lost their usual imposing presence after Lin Jie killed them. They both started trying to distance themselves from Lin Jie.

"Hmph! You'd better think I can run fast!" The old man holding the soul-summoning banner appeared in the sky above J City. In just a moment, he had arrived: "Quickly collect those vengeful spirits, and then leave this hellish place."

As he spoke, he waved the soul-summoning banner in his hand, and immediately a large number of undead began to fly towards the banner. He had now abandoned his plan to join forces to deal with that thing.

In fact, the old man didn't consider Lin Jie human at all. He saw Lin Jie as someone who had casually killed several people of similar strength with a single sword strike. Coupled with the fact that Lin Jie was now shrouded in darkness, he didn't look human at all. The old man was more inclined to believe that Lin Jie was one of those evil spirits from the cycle of hell.

Although the old man had seen countless hideous demons, Lin Jie gave him a feeling that Lin Jie could enter his heart at any time.

Just as the old man was shaking the soul-summoning banner in his hand, Lin Jie's figure appeared in front of him once again, as if he were being stared at by the Grim Reaper, with a bunch of red-glowing eyes watching him.

"Wait... I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness. I hope you will forgive me!" The old man said to the black-robed man in front of him with some fear. The pressure from the black-robed man was far greater than the greatest pressure he had ever encountered in his life.

Lin Jie, however, had no intention of speaking to him. Instead, he simply raised his long sword at the old man.

"Wait! If you can forgive me, I will definitely give you a very valuable apology in the future!" the old man said to Lin Jie in a panic.

However, Lin Jie still ignored the old man's words. In fact, when Lin Jie recognized that the weapon in the old man's hand was the most vicious Yin Banner among the Soul-Summoning Banners, he had already sentenced the old man to death.

It's important to understand that the power of the Yin Ghost Banner is growth-oriented, and the only way to make it grow is to eternally enslave the spirits of the dead within it. And to quell the resentment of those vengeful ghosts, the Yin Ghost Banner's enslavement of the dead's souls will undoubtedly bring them endless suffering.