Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  "If he can't move, does it mean that we can use long-range attacks?" someone from Class One Hall asked.

  Lin Xiao shook his head without even turning around. "Just what sort of damage do we need to injure a Moksha Realm Boss with long-range attacks? Besides, do you actually think that Yao Hua's equipment is worse than ours?"

  Once he said those words, the group noticed that Yao Hua seemed to be wrapped up in a beautiful and tight-fitting fox coat that was a mixture of red, white, and black. It looked exquise, and he looked noble and graceful while wearing it. Everyone could tell at first glance that it was no ordinary item.

  "It should be made using the sturdiest pelts from the Red Foxes, White Foxes, and the She-wolf." Dream Clouds' words made everyone's hearts tense. "The value of the fox coat should not be below that divine vessel."

  "He has two divine vessels?!"

  The gazes of everyone in the chamber instantly became heated with greed.

  At that moment, one person requested for permission and used a high-tier bow technique to try and shoot at Yao Hua.

  They did not see Yao Hua raise his hand. They did not even see him using a body fortification technique, but the arrow missed its target and hit the wall like an afterimage.

  "A high-tier bow technique at Grandmaster Realm? Sister Dream, you do indeed have a lot of great power stored in Class One Hall."

  "Yao Hua looks like he's really difficult to deal with. Sister Wind Void, why don't we go and test things out first?"

  Dream Clouds turned to Wind Void with a smile.

  Wind Void rejected the offer firmly. "We are the ones who provided the key to the third level of Fox Cave. This important duty is something that we as the hosts cannot take off our shoulders."

  Even though Yao Hua's presence was incredibly strong, it was the second time they came to him. There was no way Chivalry Sect would run back in conceitedness to snatch the divine vessels without making any preparations.

  The other two sects had gotten to know of Yao Hua's fatal weakness: He could not move!

  Since Yao Hua could not move, no matter how strong he was, as long as he could not kill them all with one slash, they could slowly whittle down his HP. Also, they had heard that Yao Hua had been injured badly and could not leave Fox Cave. This was also one of the things they could rely upon.

  "If that's the case…" Dream Clouds' face became slightly dark.

  When she saw that the atmosphere had become grave again, Musical Note, who had not said a thing since the second level of the cave, spoke again. "Sisters, you're being hasty again. Yao Hua hasn't died yet. Besides, since he has two divine vessels on him, it's not impossible to distribute those items. This can satisfy everyone, but I, Musical Note, have an unreasonable demand."

  Dream Clouds and Wind Void did not say anything.

  For one, no one was certain whether Yao Hua would drop two divine vessels. On top of that, Class One Hall had not come to Fox Cave so that they could arrive at a satisfactory conclusion with Chivalry Sect.

  A messenger pigeon suddenly broke the silence in the chamber. It stopped on Vice Sect Master Barren Murderer's shoulder.

  Barren Murderer of Class One Hall frowned slightly. He took out the letter and cast it a glance. The words were very clear, but he still crushed the paper before many of the players' gazes without batting an eyelid. He then whispered in Dream Clouds' ear.

  Once Dream Clouds heard Barren Murderer's words, she was first stunned, then, against everyone's expectations, she agreed to Musical Note's suggestion. "We can also be fair. But what did you want to say, Sister Musical?"

  "I was wondering whether you can give a portion of the loot from Yao Hua that is not divine vessels to Towering Palace. Of course, we will also provide manpower in the fight for it."

  "I have no opinions regarding this. This will just depend on whether Sister Wind Void will allow it."

  Dream Clouds' answer took Chivalry Sect by surprise. When Wind Void saw Dream Clouds throw such a difficult question with a smile to her, her heart instantly sank.

  No matter how foolish Chivalry Sect could be, it was obvious that it would not be a good idea to offend Class One Hall and Towering Palace at the same time…

  A few seconds later, Wind Void exchanged a glance with Lin Xiao and Red Dust. Then, she nodded slowly. The three sects then cast their gazes on Yao Hua, whose blood was pooling around his feet and whose face had become even paler than before.

  Chapter 250 - When a Person is About to Die, the Light will Go off

  The sounds of air being torn rose, and a gray figure attracted many people's attention. It stopped at the entrance of Fox Cave. As cries of surprise rose and fell, countless gazes that were filled with surprise and delight landed on the NPC that they were quite familiar with.

  "Hmm? Why is she here?"

  "Isn't she the NPC that stands in Immortal Fox Village and sells ingredients for medicine?"

  "Could it be a hidden quest?"

  What astonished the players was that Hu Mu, who was an inconspicuous NPC, would actually appear at the entrance of Fox Cave. They were delighted because it might be a hidden quest. If they could trigger it…

  Many of the players gathered together, and the booming sound of horse hooves rang out in the air. Countless players rushed into the forest while riding on their horses and stopped in front of Hu Mu, who had an anxious look on her face. With incredibly affectionate voices, they asked, "Excuse me, is there anything we can help with?"

  Hu Mu ignored them and did not say a word. She only stood at the entrance and stared at the head of the beast and its single burning eye with a scowl on her face. The image she usually had while she was stationed in Immortal Fox Village was gone, and there was a strange light as well as anger shining in her eyes.

  "Do you have a family member who has run into trouble in Fox Cave? I'll help you find them!"

  More players surrounded Hu Mu. There were multiple circles of them around her, and their numbers just kept increasing. They kept asking all sorts of questions in hopes that they could trigger Hu Mu's hidden quest, but Hu Mu did not seem to want to bother with them.

  Yet even so, the players' enthusiasm did not decrease. They continued to chat up a storm…

  Time passed bit by bit.

  *****

  His attacks were domineering.

  Even top tier players had a hard time withstanding even one of them. Usually, after he swung his sword, that person would be sent flying. There was no chance for them to successfully block his attacks, but even more tragic was the fact that before they could even see Yao Hua's attacks clearly, they were already dead.

  The nine great players had only managed to go up against him slightly by taking turns and covering each other's weaknesses. Later on, they decided to take turns attacking in groups of three. One of the groups would be in charge of luring Yao Hua's attacks, while the other two searched for a chance to damage him.

  Half an hour later, bloody red marks could be found on Yao Hua's fox coat. The blood by his feet had also become a pool. His face had grown even paler. Every time he attacked, he would gasp for breath. Sometimes, he would even cough up blood. The signs of his weakness became very prominent!

  "We'll get him soon! Let's work a little harder!"

  Red Dust swallowed a Dew Pill before he joined his sword and sheath together. His aura instantly went up by leaps and bounds, and his range also increased by a large margin. He delivered several staff attacks within a short time, and they left behind a few wounds on Yao Hua's body at lightning speed.

  Yao Hua staggered nonstop. He could no longer hold the divine weapon in his hands tightly…

  The other eight people's eyes lit up.

  Yao Hua's attack had been interrupted! It was a good chance!

  The candle flame in the chamber shuddered violently, as if it was hinting that Yao Hua was about to die. When he did, the flame would go off.

  Everyone's attention was on Yao Hua, so they did not notice that a very clear change
had happened in the chamber.

  The smooth floorboards were beginning to lose their color. The walls around them were also beginning to resemble glue. While the three sects were distracted, the chamber's smooth appearance slid to the ground.

  Soon, the chamber began to shake violently!

  Everyone then noticed the changes in the area. As loud rumbling sounds rose, the expressions of the three great sects changed swiftly.

  "What's going on?"

  "Earthquake!"

  "Damn it! No way!"

  "It's not an earthquake, it's the effects of an illusion!" While Musical Note shook off Hai Dongqing, who used the opportunity to stretch his arm over and grab her hand to support her, she reminded everyone calmly, "Perhaps the area around Fox Cave is also under the effects of the illusion, we're going to—Oh no! Yao Hua's wife! We forgot about her existence!"

  When she said the last part of her sentence, the crowd's expression changed drastically.

  The rumors mentioned that Yao Hua had been injured badly, while the descriptions of his wife was that she suffered from qi deviation. Since she was not present, did that mean that her strength had actually not been reduced?

  "Forget it! Kill Yao Hua first!"

  Dream Clouds' gaze became determined. She stared at Yao Hua, who was at his last breath and smiled as if he had been freed from his burden. Without another word, she drew a dazzling sword glare in the air with her longsword. The chamber was suddenly filled with rolling heat waves, and a red fire wave went charging at Yao Hua like a waterfall.

  The elites of the other two great sects were also worried that more accidents could occur. They executed their strongest killing moves and sent them all charging at Yao Hua. They wanted to make Yao Hua drop the divine vessels before they settled everything else.

  However, right when everyone's attacks landed on Yao Hua, the dimension crumbled. Their surroundings began changing swiftly. The walls around them vanished, and the ceiling also disappeared! The space in the chamber became wider, and the night wind came blowing at them. They all found themselves in the forest under the empty night sky…

  The entrance! It was Fox Cave's entrance!

  The players used the sparse light provided by the moon to identify that the forest around them was rather familiar, but they were all curious as to why they had appeared at the entrance of Fox Cave. Then, they smelled a thick, bloody scent that even the wind could not blow away. They also felt a sticky substance under their feet, as if the ground had been dyed so much by a liquid that it had become wet.

  When they lowered their heads to look, cries of surprise rose and fell in the forest! Among them, the female players' hysterical screams were mixed in.

  Their voices attracted the attention of a ferocious beast that had an astonishing figure outside the forest. Its brutal and merciless eyes shone with a hint of red, and its nine fiery red tails rose into the air!

  *****

  Moonlight shone into the forest, and it coincidentally landed on Yao Hua's pale and fragile corpse on the ground. He lay among numerous player corpses, but he alone looked incredibly calm and at peace.

  Yao Hua held the divine weapon that seemed noble, domineering, and exuded a great chill in his limp hand. The weapon looked incredibly eye-catching, but none of the three great sects dared to go up and take it.

  Regardless of whether it was the charming and alluring Dream Clouds, the heroic Wind Void, or Musical Note, who had great wisdom and a gentle personality, they stayed far away from Yao Hua's corpse. They stared at the edge of the dark forest and did not even dare to breathe loudly. They did not seem to even notice the divine weapon in Yao Hua's hands.

  No one dared to even think about it!

  There were more than one thousand player corpses on the ground. The entire forest had turned into a hell on earth that would cause people's expressions to change when they heard of it. The bizarity of the event had already surpassed what the three great sects could accept. Their masters and vice masters were very clear that they had been dragged into an incredibly dangerous situation.

  At that moment, another group of people appeared out of the blue from another direction. Cries of surprise rose and fell as they headed over.

  "Wow!"

  "What happened?"

  "Haha! We're rich! No one touched these people's corpses!"

  "Look over there! That saber…"

  Yao Hua's weapon shone with a bewitching stream of blue light. It looked incredibly dazzling, and it quickly attracted the attention of the players. The next moment, the sounds of robes fluttering became much more rapid.

  The expressions of the people from the three great sects changed at the same time!

  The moment the newcomers got close to Yao Hua's corpse, two balls of light that were as red as the light of lamps lit up at the edge of the forest! They were the lights of a pair of brutal and cruel eyes. They seemed to belong to the King of Hell who had suddenly revealed itself under the night sky!

  Chapter 251 - Who Killed My Yao Hua?!

  Wuhu, Immortal Fox Village, along with the cities in the circular area around them could see a very dazzling and distinct red light in the sky. It covered most of the sky as if it was blood that could not be washed away.

  Once that phenomenon appeared, all the players who had been asking for a fortune telling from diviners were shocked to find that the old men who had been focused and calmly calculating with their fingers suddenly cast aside whatever they were doing and stand up abruptly with panic on their faces. They stared into the distant red clouds that seemed to be crying blood in the distance with quivering lips.

  "This is the blood light! Once it appears, a great disaster is bound to happen!"

  "How can this be?"

  "How can this be?!"

  Then, they lowered their heads and began calculating madly. The frown between their eyebrows grew deeper, and their facial expressions grew more unpleasant. The players on the streets were baffled.

  It would have been fine if only one diviner had acted this way, but all the diviners in the cities and near them acted in a similar manner. All of them abandoned the business they were conducting at that moment and paid attention only to the matter of the bloodlight!

  Soon, various rumors erupted in the cities!

  All the players began guessing that something major had to have happened.

  Many people then received a request from the diviners to vanquish a demon and protect the path of justice.

  "The fox monster has run wild! She will bring about disaster to all lives! The whole world must get ready to face the disaster of death! We call upon the heroes of the world to gather in Wuhu and work together to get rid of the fox monster who has entered the path of demons and prove that justice will prevail!"

  "Fox monster?"

  "As expected, something major has happened in Immortal Fox Village."

  An increasing number of people got to know what happened from the information they gathered from the diviners. The matter had started in Fox Cave, and there was a high possibility that it was related to the operation of the big sects!

  Cities went into commotion, and countless players sent messenger pigeons to each other! While the news spread, large groups of people formed parties and headed out to Immortal Fox Village and Fox Cave. There was a magnificent number of players outside the city, and not a single one could be found in the cities! Such a grand scene had never been seen before!

  More than one thousand players outside the Guanlin Temple in Immortal Fox Village became the first batch of players who suffered through the tribulation. They were mostly people who had come after Hu Mu to Fox Cave when she began to act strangely. They surrounded her and tried nonstop to find a chance to trigger the quest, but…

  A forlorn and piercing howl rose into the air, and Hu Mu suddenly turned into a married woman with a curvaceous body. Immediately after, a red demonic aura enveloped her body while her eyes turned red. Right under countless players' terrified gazes, she turned into
a coquettish but terrifying nine-tailed fox. The mighty momentum that broke through the limits posed on her by her body enveloped the entire forest, and it oppressed the players nearby so much that they could not move.

  Hu Mu struck the ground with all nine of her tails.

  The ground rumbled, and dirt flew everywhere. The stones that were sent flying did so with a powerful force and shot out in every direction. The numerous players spread in a wide area were shot full of holes by the sharp stones. Their bodies then resembled a mesh, and their blood poured continuously out of their bodies.

  The Nine-tailed Fox went completely berserk!

  All those who went near her were killed instantly. Even the people at the edge of the forest were not spared. She was so fast that even hearing about it was shocking. She instantly arrived behind the players, and her claws tore through their weapons. All those who came in contact with her were torn to shreds, as if the Nine-tailed Fox was a pair of scissors, and they were paper. They were easily ripped apart, and their blood sprayed everywhere. The Nine-tailed Fox's claws contained the power of Wind Spirit Spin, and it swept everywhere. Every single time the woman attacked, there were more than just one or two people who would fall. Instead, a large group of players would die.

  The Nine-tailed Fox was fast and brutal.

  She jumped into an area dense with players and struck out. Wherever she went, she did not stop to kill, because she could kill as she moved. Just like that, whenever Nine-tailed Fox approached an area inside or outside the forest, the players fell to the ground like harvested wheat.

  More than one thousand people died or were scattered in an instant. Only a few people were lucky enough to escape from that hell on earth. They stood one-third of a mile away while trembling and not daring to approach the forest.