Happy rejected it without even thinking. He then said to All-powerful Medicinal Stone calmly, "We'll see how things go first. If Beautiful Robes Faction is really destroyed, we have the next stop to go to, unless you intend to withdraw from this. If Beautiful Robes Faction is fine, keep it, this small amount of items isn't enough for me to regard them of any value "
All-powerful Medicinal Stone instantly stopped persisting in it.
"Now, I'm beginning to wish that Beautiful Robes Faction will be destroyed…" When he noticed Happy's gaze, he quickly explained himself. "What I'm saying is that I quite like this feeling. We can slap Class One Hall's face, you know. Ahhhh, it feels so good!"
Happy really had nothing to say to that.
So, he bent down and began searching for loot in the Tang Sect disciples and Class One Hall members' corpses.
All-powerful Medicinal Stone soon caught up to him.
"By the way, Happy, what's going on with you? I feel as if I've been deceived."
"Deceived?"
"Didn't you die so your abilities were largely compromised? I don't think that your abilities have been impaired at all. I even think that you have become even more powerful." All-powerful Medicinal Stone sized up Happy with a very strange gaze.
Happy nodded. "This matter is very complicated, but your guess probably isn't too far off…"
Even though he did not provide a clear explanation, it was already enough to satisfy All-powerful Medicinal Stone.
"I knew it." His face filled with surprise and delight. "You sure are sinister, kid. You actually managed to trick Class One Hall and make them lose one branch out of the blue… and so many other things as well."
All-powerful Medicinal Stone had not just received hundreds of thousands taels of silver from the branch storage but a batch of masterpieces and herbs. Their value was nearly one million.
Happy did not answer again. Instead, he stopped and looked at the distant horizon with a profound gaze.
'If I had the choice, I wouldn't want to understand Old Swordsman's secret technique.'
He did not say that sentence, because Happy himself had not completely sorted out his thoughts regarding the matter, and he had also not completely woken up from the shock of his death.
Old Swordsman's breathtaking and unparalleled slash was unheard of in his previous life. It had never appeared in the game!
When Happy died in the royal mausoleum, he could sense that Old Swordsman's slash had surpassed the peak of Old Swordsman's qi realm. Upon his death, Happy could clearly see the details of Old Swordsman's secret technique. It was also at that moment that he received the inheritance.
However, he had never heard of anyone needing to pay with their lives to understand a secret technique!
It was a pity though that his qi realm was too low and he did not manage to withstand that slash.
Happy felt extremely gloomy since Old Swordsman's secret technique, Emperor Shocks World, was incredibly sharp. It instantly released two superbly powerful sword forces, one of which could be seen and the other not. It also had the effect of instantly tearing through defenses.
However, learning it had forced him to lose the one and only valuable sacred medicine that could allow him to recover from severe injuries. It had also resulted in Class One Hall going to war against Beautiful Robes Faction, which left it in peril.
It was hard to say whether it had been a lucky or unlucky encounter.
When Happy learned that Class One Hall had decided to attack Beautiful Robes Faction, the only thing that he could do was make Class One Hall's plan fall through while they were full of high spirits. He could also deal a direct blow to them.
Happy had to tell Class One Hall that he was still as strong as ever.
But it was useless to say it with his mouth. He had to do everything with his fists.
Because of that, Vast Martial City naturally became Happy's goal.
After that, the matter progressed very smoothly. Tang Feng's death was enough to explain everything.
Once that was done, it was time to witness Class One Hall's reaction.
Happy packed up the loot and walked out of Class One Hall's dilapidated branch with All-powerful Medicinal Stone by his side. They vanished from countless players' sights within Vast Martial City.
This time, not a single player from Vast Martial City dared to chase after them. Instead, they busily discussed Happy's feat of destroying Class One Hall's branch.
"How is that someone who died once?"
Quite a number of people had that thought.
"Even Tang Feng couldn't win against him. Now, he has already left Vast Martial City. There must have been some sort of mistake about him dying."
"You're right."
"As far as I can see it, this time, Class One Hall just got themselves a whole load of trouble!"
Chapter 382 - Battle!
Dragon Rank 7: Happy
Dragon Rank 8: Tang Feng
The change on the Dragon Rank quickly attracted countless players' attention. Happy had jumped to the top when he was previously more than one hundred ranks away from it, and it was even more shocking than him dying once.
It was as if a powerful bomb had been thrown into World of Martial Arts, and it swiftly attracted the attention from every corner of the world.
If Happy's death was a great mystery to all players, then the series of news that shot out with an even more powerful force when he displayed even more aggressive abilities than before his death while the effects of his death had not worn off almost caused the entire game to boil in excitement.
He killed more than two hundred people outside the city, then another hundred once he showed up in Class One Hall's branch in Vast Martial City!
Happy also killed the seventh ranked player on the Dragon Rank, Hall Master Tang Feng of Assassin Hall, and everyone could feel the light on Happy that would allow him to mow down all resistances.
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When everybody connected Class One Hall mobilizing a large number of forces to attack Beautiful Robes Faction's headquarters, they began discussing and speculating among themselves whether Class One Hall would give up on attacking Beautiful Robes Faction because of Happy's very blatant threat.
After all, Class One Hall had decisively decided on using force to settle matters and mobilized manpower from three branches to attack Beautiful Robes Faction because they received news that Happy had died.
However, Happy's abilities had not been reduced in the slightest.
That would be extremely bad for Class One Hall's development, especially when they needed to strengthen their position as the boss among the three great sects. Because of that, it was quite likely that they would retreat.
However, what no one expected was that Class One Hall did not show any signs of withdrawing their troops even after the branch in Vast Martial City had been destroyed for half an hour. The cities that were the closest to Vast Martial City quickly shrank their area of activity and entered an extreme state of nervousness.
All signs pointed to Class One Hall's reaction to Happy's action being: 'We will fight!'
*****
The battle at Beautiful Robes Faction had already reached its peak.
As Class One Hall pushed forward until they stood at the foot of the wall, they suddenly heard the sound of a flapping noise tearing through the air.
Whoosh! Whoooooosssh!
A black thread quickly and accurately sliced through one of the Class One Hall members' throat.
The first person of Class One Hall had finally died!
But since it was unavoidable for various sacrifices to be made when attacking a headquarters, that person's sacrifice did not attract much attention.
However, in an instant, the second and third corpses fell off from the air when trying to jump up, and the Class One Hall members swiftly noticed that a hint of a threatening presence had appeared in the air.
Beautiful Robes Faction's attack had also become much fiercer
.
With the effect of the boomerangs that tore through defense, the damage of the violent arrow shower increased by leaps and bounds, and the first wave killed dozens of people.
However, to Class One Hall, which had more than one thousand elites, such damage was as unnoticeable as trying to quench a fire with a cup of water—it was simply insignificant.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The first larger group of people jumped up, but while they were still in the sky, three golden arrows pierced through three people. Their faces quickly flushed red as if they were drunk. They coughed up blood and fell off the wall.
"Beautiful!"
Quite a number of people cast Xu Yao a glance, but no one was allowed to have their attention divided in this sort of situation.
Class One Hall officially scaled the walls and charged into the headquarters.
"Go!"
One Circle, Tea Words, Bum, Rampaging Dragon, Glutinous Rice, Puffy God, and the others led a group of more than one hundred students with equipment that did not lose to the people from Class One Hall and engaged them in battle.
Boom!
The gate was rammed opened, and the people from Class One Hall surged in like a tidal wave.
Both parties quickly engaged each other in a anxiety-wrecking battle.
However, a very clear, empty spot quickly formed on Beautiful Robes Faction's side.
All elites rushed to the front, but they left behind an empty spot that was around ninety-eight feet long behind them. The next moment, Beautiful Robes Faction's archers and knife throwers unleashed their full strength.
Splitting throwing knives and bows were used to their full potential against the people from Class One Hall.
Even though Class One Hall's attack was fierce, and their people had an advantage in numbers when it came to elites, they had been intercepted by the people on the frontline and all sorts of projectiles were concentrated on them. This threw quite a number of people off their feet, and they were soon pinned to the ground.
Silver Wolf was at the front. His parting hooks danced until they were like Wind and Fire Wheels while boomerangs flew at full might, attacking enemies on the walls in a frenzy.
"Thirty-seven… thirty-eight… forty-three… fifty-seven…"
The amount of people that died continued to increase rapidly!
However, with time passing by, Silver Wolf found it difficult to continue persevering. Controlling ten boomerangs in one go required a lot of mental energy and physical strength. He also had to make various calculations and pay attention to many things.
Cold sweat soaked through Silver Wolf's shirt. If it were not because Beautiful Robes Faction was in danger, he would have stopped a long time ago. Right then, however, he could only grit his teeth and continue fighting, even if his accuracy clearly dropped by a large degree.
*****
One Circle was dressed entirely in black, so much so that he was like ink or a black God of War. He held a purple-red greataxe and swung it madly while being as steady as a mountain. Axe shadows flickered, and no one dared to easily approach his fury. He stood firm at the gate of the headquarters and defended it with steadiness.
But the others were under great pressure.
When they had to face enemies that numbered several times more than them, they found themselves having a hard time persevering.
However, there were a few shadows who hid in the corners of the headquarters.
Once anyone tried to approach those corners, a black longsword would immediately shoot out from the air and viciously cut down the nearest Class One Hall member. Then, the ambusher would swiftly vanish into the chaotic crowd.
Quite a number of Class One Hall members had been ambushed and killed in mysterious ways, and it finally attracted quite a number of people's attention.
"Damn it!"
"Black Demon Sword! Shadow Sword Technique!"
"Everyone, be careful!"
When one person had revealed himself to launch an ambush, he was discovered by a member of Class One Hall. The player thrust his sword forward, and just as he expected, he pierced through the ambusher's body. A sinister smile bloomed on his face at that.
"Serves you right for ambushing."
But before his voice could fade away, two black shadows appeared behind him like phantoms, and two black longswords shot out at the same time. They charged through the air one after the other. One tore through his defense, and the other beheaded him.
"You jerk!"
"Young White, we've taken revenge for you."
*****
"Why are you still dilly-dallying?! Why are you taking such a long time to take down one measly Beautiful Robes Faction?!" Blood Robes stood by the door and watched the two hundred or so corpses belonging to his own people being cast down from the wall and ordered coldly, "Attack!"
All the archers outside the headquarters changed their weapons, activated their qi realms and body fortifications, and rushed to the headquarters.
*****
Phoenix Dances gritted her teeth and defended the rear of the headquarters. When she saw her brothers and sisters being drenched in blood from the fight, there were several times when she wanted to rush to the frontlines and battle alongside them, but when she remembered that someone needed to give orders, she could only harden her heart and continue staying in the rear.
She was looking at the frontlines when she noticed that the soldiers of Class One Hall seemed to become much more numerous.
"Soaring Eagle Swords!" Phoenix Dances released an urgent order.
A dozen or so knife throwers took out sets of exquisite and sharp Soaring Eagle Swords from their waists at the same time.
The dozen or so people who jumped down from the wall suddenly felt that the damage from the throwing knives had become much stronger. With just a few throwing knives, their body fortifications shattered, and before they could even take a few steps forward, they were pinned to the ground by arrows.
The knife throwers from Beautiful Robes Faction were filled with even more gustor!
A set of Soaring Eagle Swords cost thousands of taels of silver, and there they were, throwing them madly as if they were worth nothing.
Chapter 383 - Star S.u.c.k.i.n.g Great Skill [1]
The battle at Beautiful Robes Faction's headquarters went on like a raging fire!
Dozens of Soaring Eagle Swords intersected with each other in the sky before they split up. The throwing knives that suddenly split up to charge in all directions were much more powerful in their offense compared to those of the Knife-throwing Ninjas in the royal mausoleum. They were both faster and more lethal.
The continuous stream of Soaring Eagle Swords killed and injured Class One Hall disciples, and people screamed nonstop on the walls before they flipped over and fell to the ground.
The damage from the boomerangs might have been largely reduced, but their effect of tearing through defense was still around. Silver Wolf focused his attention to coordinating with the arrows, and he killed Class One Hall members very quickly.
But this did not stop Class One Hall from advancing.
More people surged in.
The Beautiful Robes Faction members fighting at the frontline instantly felt the pressure on them increasing exponentially.
Class One Hall members then decided to jump over their heads and went toward the archers and knife throwers behind them.
Even though Beautiful Robes Faction had the people on the roofs protecting them, they only managed to kill a few of the attackers.
When Phoenix Dances saw countless Class One Hall members charge over, she gritted her teeth.
'I have to fight!'
She brought out her second-echelon Silver Dragon Spear and jumped high into the air with a shout. The silver-white spear shadows were as dense as a forest in the air, and with the advantage of her weapon's length, she pushed down a few people with just one exchange. Then, a few Class One Hall members crashed into her so violently that she c
oughed up blood and retreated.
While the people from Beautiful Robes Faction cried out in surprise, Phoenix Dances performed a beautiful backthrust and resolutely pierced through a person's throat. Once she landed on the ground, she took a Dew Pill hastily. Then, not caring about her injuries, she charged into the enemy crowd as if she had become one with her spear.
"Kill them! Attack! Comrades! If we can kill one, it's one less man for them!"
Phoenix Dances stirred up the Beautiful Robes Faction members again, and the group roared before they jumped up or flew down from the roofs. Their robes fluttered, and their weapons shone when they went up against the Class One Hall members.
However, they were unlike One Circle and the others, who stood at the frontline. When they ran into the enemy, dozens of them died straight away while they only managed to kill a few of Class One Hall disciples.
The battlefield instantly became chaotic. Silver Wolf had to give up on his boomerangs, grab his parting hooks, and jump into the melee as well.
Two Class One Hall members recognized the mysterious elite, Silver Wolf, whom their higher ups had cautioned them to be careful of. When they saw that he seemed to be very tired, they exchanged a glance and pounced on him.
Silver Wolf had the silver hooks on his parting hooks draw a silver arc in the air.
He then smoothly and cleanly tugged and led his enemies' weapons. He swung his parting hooks at the spots where their equipment did not protect them, and the sharp hooks drew sharp cries from the two players. Silver Wolf tugged at them viciously and gravely injured both of them!
Phoenix Dances might not have been as strong as Silver Wolf, but with her second-echelon Silver Dragon Spear, which had more than 1,000 damage, and her extraordinary equipment, she managed to block a Class One Hall members' attacks, if only barely.
Her Silver Dragon Spear caused blood to spill everywhere.
With the weapon advantage as well as attack advantage of her Silver Dragon Spear and while being supported by Dew Pills, she attacked with her life on the line. Every single time she attacked, she definitely took one player's life.
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