Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  "Bah!"

  A gloomy and enraged roar suddenly came from above the headquarters. It was followed by a shout filled with incredible anger.

  "You bastards from Class One Hall! DIE!"

  That roar which came from the sky was like the embodiment of encouragement. The eyes of countless Jade Fox Palace members who had been fighting desperately brightened up, and their spirits rose!

  "Palace master!"

  "The palace master is back!"

  Just as countless Jade Fox Palace members cheered happily in surprise, Absolute Nonsense's purplish-red cloak descended in an extremely awesome manner from the roof of the headquarters with loud fluttering sounds.

  When he landed among hundreds of Jade Fox Palace members' corpses, Absolute Nonsense's fierce eyes seemed to have started burning. He glared at Jade Fox Palace's fighters.

  "Kill him!"

  Class One Hall was careless. When they saw that Absolute Nonsense was alone, around a dozen members immediately pounced on him at the same time.

  Whoosh, whoosh…

  The clear sound of wind being swept away could be heard continuously from above the headquarters. Figures appeared one after another, and they swiftly descended in the headquarters like shooting stars. They all appeared beside Absolute Nonsense.

  The group of powerful players who had went to the crystal mine with Absolute Nonsense, who was also the strongest player in Jade Fox Palace, had all returned during the moment the foundation faced an extreme crisis!

  Monk with Thick Eyebrows shuddered. He knew that things were about to go bad.

  "Archers, come with me!"

  "Destroy the sect's foundation!"

  "I'd like to see you try!"

  Absolute Nonsense's eyes burned with anger. He jumped up like a large bird and instantly appeared above Evil Wolf.

  Evil Wolf felt warning bells ring in his head.

  Clang, clang!

  Violent sparks spread out swiftly in the air. Absolute Nonsense was sent backwards by the force of Evil Wolf's attack.

  However, Evil Wolf was not much better. He tapped against the ground continuously as he was forced to retreat several feet backwards. He had been struck seven-eight times. Absolute Nonsense was also on the Dragon Rank, and he was ranked higher than him. His full-powered strike was not easy to fend against.

  "Evil Wolf! Focus your full strength on destroying the sect's foundation!"

  The monk's loud voice drew swiftly closer. He moved like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived behind Jade Fox Palace's reinforcements. He charged toward the sect's foundation without slowing down, and his monk robes fluttered madly. Two Jade Fox Palace members' weapons grazed past his robes, but their attacks deviated to the side.

  "Careful!"

  The appearance of Monk with Thick Eyebrows made Absolute Nonsense go on high alert. He dissolved the remaining force from Evil Wolf's attack, and his sword changed direction. He chased after the monk.

  Shing! Shing!

  The monk's body fortification could only allow him to negate all attacks from around him with his qi. But when he faced the full-powered strike from a powerful player on Dragon Rank, he could not just ignore it. Sweat quickly broke out on his face. He was forced to stop for a moment, but he soon used the shoulder of a person who was on the ground to land near the foundation.

  Boom!

  With an enraged palm strike under the Jade Fox Palace members' livid gazes, he struck the black foundation which looked quite sturdy…

  A loud bang rose, and even the headquarters trembled slightly, but the sect's foundation remained unharmed.

  The monk did not show any surprise.

  A sect's foundation was not a piece of tofu. It would naturally not be destroyed so easily.

  Twenty palm strikes. With twenty palm strikes, he could destroy it.

  "Evil Wolf, protect me!"

  Monk with Thick Eyebrows swiftly swallowed a green Small Reversion Pill to restore his stamina, heal his wounds, and replenish his qi. With a fierce gaze, he then delivered another palm strike to the sect foundation.

  Evil Wolf did not care about the normal players who attacked the monk. He just cut in and blocked Absolute Nonsense, whose eyes were filled with rage. Evil Wolf's sabers moved as if they were dragons flying in the sky, and he actually managed to make Absolute Nonsense, who was ranked ahead of him, unable to move forward for a short period of time.

  Absolute Nonsense felt so anxious as if there was fire burning in his body!

  When he saw the monk deliver palm strike after palm strike to the sect foundation that was about to be destroyed, he felt his heart bleed!

  But Evil Wolf and the other elites of Class One Hall players were being an obstacle, and they simply did not give him and his brothers the chance to break free.

  At that moment, Absolute Nonsense shouted a name that no one expected!

  "HAPPY!"

  Evil Wolf was stunned for a moment while he faced him.

  The monk froze as well while at the top of the stairs in the headquarters. His gaze became still, but he quickly raised his palm high and struck the foundation with incredible resolve.

  Yet right when his palms were about to land on the foundation, which sported cracks, wind blew beside him, and his palm was forced to stop in the air.

  The sounds around him also disappeared at that moment!

  The people from Jade Fox Palace saw that a person had appeared next to Monk with Thick Eyebrows. He was a young man, and under countless incredulous gazes, he had one hand extended outwards, holding the monk's wrist with a grip so steady that he seemed to be able to hold a mountain without shaking. He stared straight at the monk's eyes with calm and indifference.

  Chapter 328 - Demon Subduing True Qi

  A few cracks had already appeared on the black foundation on top of the square stairs of the headquarters. It swayed, and it looked as if it was about to be completely destroyed!

  However, when the blue-robed young man appeared, the monk's momentum, which made it seem like he was a one-man army, was finally broken.

  Happy executed Dragon Capture with one hand, and his grip was so steady that it seemed like he could hold a mountain with no problem!

  Monk with Thick Eyebrows stared at the person in front of him with a solemn expression and a heart full of shock.

  He felt his body going numb. The full-powered strike he delivered with all his qi had been easily parried, and the strength in his body instantly flowed away. No matter how hard he tried, he could not push his palm down anymore.

  Yet only a few more hits were left before Jade Fox Palace's foundation crumbled.

  'I can't accept this!'

  Even though the person in front of the monk was very famous, he could not just give up like. He shuddered, gritted his teeth, and stomped on the ground!

  "AH!" he roared loudly!

  He recovered his strength quickly, and it allowed him to break free from Happy's grasp. Then, he swiftly pushed his palms together!

  Boom!

  His monk robes moved without the wind and fluttered madly around him! A violent surge of qi flowed through him, and wind howled in the headquarters! The people around him looked as if they had run into a fierce storm. As they cried out in surprise, they were blown away and could not stand up.

  He quickly recognized the technique the moment the monk executed it: Demon Subduing True Qi.

  The most important part of Demon Subduing True Qi was not its offense, but a release of the user's qi outwards. It created a qi whirlwind around the user, which affected the balance of all the people around them!

  If someone used brute force to try to fight against Demon Subduing True Qi, they would still get hit and be moved slightly. The monk wanted to take advantage of that moment when no one could protect the sect's foundation to strike it down.

  Happy understood straight away that the monk chose to use up all his strength and risk everything to destroy Jade Fox Palace's sect foundation!

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sp; Boom!

  A gentle wave of qi left Happy's body to form a whirlwind that spun around him on its own. It negated the effects of the monk's Demon Subduing True Qi, and he did not move, just stared straight in the eyes of the monk.

  "Amitabha! You do live up to your name as the top ranked player on the Famous People Rank!"

  Even though Jade Fox Palace members were affected by Demon Subduing True Qi and were sent rolling into a pile, Monk with Thick Eyebrows did not see the effects he had been expecting, and he sighed in his heart. Happy had been able to easily withstand his killing move, which he had executed with the determination to subdue him. Clearly, Happy had even more unfathomable strength than he thought. After understanding that, the monk's heart sank even further.

  "But sir, you have no ties with Jade Fox Palace. Why did you take the initiative to get involved in this mess? Patron Happy, if you have a grudge against Class One Hall, I will have to ask you to provide an explanation."

  "You are wrong in that regard." Happy's expression was calm, and his smile did not diminish. "This is the first time I entered Baokang, and Brother Absolute of Jade Gate Palace regards me highly, so we formed an alliance that pledged us to fight together. Sir, if you lead people to destroy Jade Fox Palace and I stay out of the matter, I will definitely be regarded with scorn by the people."

  The monk said nothing, but when he heard that Happy had formed an alliance with Jade Fox Palace, his expression changed repeatedly.

  "Patron Happy, looks like you are determined to go against Class One Hall by abusing the fact that our hall master and vice hall masters are not around."

  "Master, you are being unreasonable. It is perfectly justified that I help Jade Fox Palace defend their place. If I truly was going against your hall, master, do you think that you would have the chance to talk to me using the name of Buddha?" Happy was quiet for a moment after saying that, then his voice turned cold. "Withdraw your forces. You might have to ask your hall master and your vice hall masters to personally lead an army to Baokang. You and Evil Wolf cannot take down Jade Fox Palace."

  Boom!

  When the monk heard Happy's final words, he scowled. He could not believe that Happy would publicly provoke Class One Hall for Jade Fox Palace.

  "Very well!" Monk with Thick Eyebrows sneered coldly in indignation before pushing his palms together. "I will surely convey your words to my hall master as you have told me."

  Once he finished speaking, he glared at the sect foundation in front of Happy. He then gritted his teeth and jumped over the group of people to come beside Evil Wolf.

  "Let's go!"

  Evil Wolf and Absolute Nonsense swiftly stopped fighting at the foot of the stairs. Jade Fox Palace elites who had returned to provide reinforcements were fighting tit-for-tat against the elites from Class One Hall quickly pulled themselves out of the battlefield as well.

  "You're thinking of leaving?!"

  At least five hundred of Jade Fox Palace's members had died. When they saw that the people from Class One Hall wanted to leave, there was no way they would allow it to happen.

  However, the people who stood guard outside the door switched to bows, and a volley of arrows forced the pursuers from Jade Fox Palace back into the headquarters.

  Absolute Nonsense was worried about even more deaths and quickly ordered his men to pull back before helplessly watching the people from Class One Hall form an orderly team to retreat through Baokang County Town's streets and entered the safety zone.

  "Bastards!"

  "Boss, just give an order and I will immediately lead some men to lock down the city gates. We'll keep them here in Baokang!"

  Lu Zhentian rushed before Absolute Nonsense with his blood boiling. The deaths of hundreds of his sect members had upset him quite a bit. Just like many of the other Jade Fox Palace members, he had a burning ball of flames in his heart that was in urgent need to be vented!

  Absolute Nonsense looked around him.

  There was sadness and anger on his face. However, he did not let anger affect his judgment. Once he took a deep breath, he went to stand in front of Happy.

  "Brother Happy, it's all thanks to you that Jade Fox Palace was protected. On behalf of all my eight thousand members, I thank you for helping us in the name of a righteous cause."

  They still did not know how things had progressed in such a manner. Everyone knew that the elites had been assembled to help Blood River Sect kill Happy's brother, Thunderous Battle, so how did Happy end up becoming Jade Fox Palace's ally? And he even saved Jade Fox Palace right on time!

  Happy could sense the strange atmosphere in Jade Fox Palace and Absolute Nonsense's sincerity through his tone. He smiled faintly. "Brother Absolute, you're embarrassing me, as your ally, I only did what I was supposed to do. Besides, I'm afraid that this matter will not end here. Brother Absolute, you will have to be careful. I still need to go to Blood River Sect."

  "You're right!"

  It was only then that Absolute Nonsense remembered that aside from Jade Fox Palace, Baokang's second greatest sect, Righteous Sect, and third greatest sect, Blood River Sect, had been attacked by Towering Palace and Cold Moon Palace. The fight there might not have ended just yet.

  His expression became stern, and he turned to Lu Zhentian without hesitation. "Brother Lu, placate our sect members' emotions for the time being. Don't leave the headquarters unless there's something really important. I will go with Happy to help our brothers from Righteous Sect and Blood River Sect!"

  "Something happened to Righteous Sect and Blood River Sect as well?" Lu Zhentian's expression changed. He finally realized that something was amiss, and he nodded vigorously. "Alright, don't worry!"

  They looked at each other and quickly moved out of Jade Fox Palace's headquarters.

  "Big Brother Absolute, I'll go to Blood River Sect. Please lead your people to Righteous Sect!"

  "Alright!" Absolute Nonsense knew that Blood River Sect had always been lacking a top-class martial artist, which meant that their situation had to be more dire. Once he nodded without hesitation, they parted ways and headed to the headquarters of the other great sects in Baokang.

  'He's here again!'

  Chapter 329 - Fight Against Sunflower Once More

  The situation at Blood River Sect was not good!

  The death of around ten or so elites the day before had already damaged Blood River Sect slightly. Earlier in the day, they had also summoned all the elites in the sect to forcefully retrieve the crystal mine that belonged to them, which left their headquarters empty. They did not have anyone who could hold the fort.

  Fortunately, they were up against Cold Moon Palace, who was the weakest among the three great sects.

  Even though it had Lu Mingyue, who was a superb player, they lacked top-class players and good equipment, so in reality they were just a small, second-rate sect. Hence, they spent quite a lot of time while attacking Blood River Sect's headquarters.

  If it were not for the fact that Lu Mingyue simply could not watch anymore and gave his people a little bit of pressure, Cold Moon Palace might not have even been able to get past Blood River Sect's bow formation.

  Lu Mingyue seemed to want to use that battle to train his forces. He rarely attacked and just watched his people. The bloody battle was absolutely unlike Class One Hall's extreme style of destroying a sect's foundation.

  The people from Blood River Sect returned in time to provide reinforcements.

  They were earlier than Lu Mingyue had expected, but unfortunately for them, they were faced with a lunatic. Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens could only be said to be a really unlucky person.

  Regardless of whether it was Sunflower Manual's Needle Tide, Soft Palm Strike, or Sunflower Aura, all these techniques were very suitable for group fights. In the blink of an eye, a quarter of more than two hundred elites were killed. Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens felt his heart ache at the sight of it, and he was forced to switch from counterattacking to limited defense. He stalled for time wh
ile hoping that Jade Fox Palace would soon finish the fight on their side.

  Such a move was somewhat effective against Lu Mingyue. After all, Area of Effect skills from ultimate techniques had to be supported by a great amount of qi. If he failed once, Lu Mingyue needed to use quite a number of medicinal pills to restore his qi. Gradually, he was forced to use his people to charge against Blood River Sect's formation while he himself killed during the chaos.

  However, they still did not become any faster.

  Slowly, Lu Mingyue grew mad. "Hmph! You're just a group of trapped beasts struggling on the brink of death!"

  He moved the tip of his thumb to touch his middle finger and placed his hand by his face. His eyes sparkled brilliantly, just like a beautiful woman's; they shone in a manner that could cause people's imaginations wander. Then, he crashed violently into Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens, who stood in the crowd.

  Bang!

  His Soft Palm Strike could be seen, but the attack itself was intangible. His palm moved through the chaotic crowd and attacked Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens' c.h.e.s.t, who had been giving tactical orders!

  Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens looked as if he had been struck by lightning. He took a few steps back, and blood trickled down his lips. He bared his teeth, revealing the red on them. "Quick! Send a signal for help! Jade Fox Palace should be done by now! Defend the place with your life!"

  "Why do you still have time for so much nonsense?"

  There was a blush and eyeshadow on Lu Mingyue's face. His feminine qualities could easily be detected when he looked down from high above at Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens with a cold glare in his eyes.

  "You just keep yammering on and on!"

  He flicked his wrist once he placed his thumb against his middle finger, and a crystal needle shot out without a sound

  Shick!

  A faint hint of red appeared on his face, but Lu Mingyue soon covered it with his sleeve.