The Mu Clan elites behind him imitated him. They put away their horses and rushed into the forest.
"Fire!"
The people in the forest clearly did not expect that their plan to ambush was seen through with just one glance by Happy. After two full seconds, hurried and alarmed roars in anger rose from the forest.
But to the elites, it was very difficult for arrow showers in the forest to threaten people when they lost their element of surprise.
Arrow showers flew over the place!
With the cover from the trees, this group of people charged down like fierce tigers descending the mountain, and they rushed into the forest fiercely!
Happy recognized their identities with just one glance.
Even though they did not wear any emblem from any sect, each of them were elites in concealment and assassination. Clearly, they were the subordinates of Assassin Hall's Tang Feng, who had gradually revealed himself in World of Martial Arts once more.
When Happy faced the enemy who was once allied with Dream Clouds, the anger that had been building up in Happy's c.h.e.s.t instantly exploded.
He activated Petite Dragon!
He charged into the depths of the forest without facing any danger and without any fear, and he drew his four-echelon Seventh Sword from its sheath with a clang.
A clear and mighty sword w.h.i.n.e rose in the forest, and it rang endlessly.
Universe's Lightning Destruction Style.
The people from Assassin Hall did not even see how Happy attacked with his sword. A white light just flashed in front of their eyes.
The final scene they saw was fixed on dozens of familiar people who also had their c.h.e.s.ts pierced through with just one sword, and they fell into the forest without any signs of life left in them.
Chapter 748 - Uneasy Presence
Assassin Hall's master, Tang Feng clearly remembered that when he first met Happy, he was ranked at the third of Dragon Rank at that time, and he was highly regarded at that time. He had forced Happy to wear his Golden Armor and fight with his full strength.
Even though he did not manage to become one of the greatest players in the Chinese server, that battle replay still had a lot of views.
It was also Tang Feng's proudest battle replay!
However, during their second meeting, Tang Feng could clearly remember that at that time, he already did not dare to fight against Happy head on. When it came to one on one, he did not have any hope in winning at all.
During then, Happy might not have done anything as shocking as killing Zhou Yu with just three moves, but he still revealed the madness he had burning underneath all that grace and elegance!
Blue-robed Noble Sword User had his name spread through the game because of the battles at Baokang and also for being the first person to be able to defeat Class One Hall while they launched their assault.
But now, when Tang Feng saw Happy and especially remembered how he had killed multiple people with one slash while the attacks from the Class One Hall members around him could not even catch up to him, he could not help but shudder.
Fear, excitement, and anticipation mixed together to form a very complicated emotion, and at that moment, that complicated emotion surged through Tang Feng's body madly!
Happy's strength had already reached a state where he could never hope to reach.
Even though he kept to a defensive stance right from the start to the end of the battle at Mount Tai, he still displayed dazzling abilities, especially when he executed the finger strike at the end that changed everything!
But…
If Happy had continuously held back his abilities at the battle at Mount Tai and only showed his abilities at the final moment to create a scene no one can ever forget, then the current Happy was like a sharp sword that did not hide its sharpness at all.
In the blink of an eye, nearly one hundred Assassin Hall elites were sent sprawling on the ground like leaves blown off a tree. They did not have the ability to fight back at all…
He set up the auto record function!
The elites of Assassin Hall had their weapons flash about. With their blood and lives, they created a path of death for Happy to tread about domineeringly and fiercely!
The stronger Happy was, the more excited he was!
Because that meant that the value of his battle replay will be higher!
This was what he needed.
Even if all five hundred Assassin Hall elites died in this place, it was worth it!
*****
Assassin Hall's ambush caused Happy to be incredibly angry. He used his momentum to charge into the forest and vent his anger as well as his killing intent.
Once Universe's Lightning Destruction Style entered the eighth realm, his speed also gained a terrifying increase. The damage in each slash reached a frightening 34,000 points, and even if someone had a defense worth ten thousand points in front of him, Happy could still pierce through that person's heart with one thrust.
But he could not afford to delay matters at Yangzhou City.
Happy only wanted to kill these people as fast as possible so that he can be on his way.
The group of Mu Clan elites who followed closely behind Happy were already dumbfounded.
They had just rushed into the forest, but the road ahead of them had already entered a bloody battlefield that was covered in corpses.
Whole corpses were strewn all over the place. Each person only suffered at most two slashes, and most of them had been stabbed to death before they even had the time to activate their body fortifications.
These Mu Clan disciples fell into silence, s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths, and looked at each other with wide eyes.
They could now somewhat understand what Happy told them on the road.
Indeed, just because one side the power of numbers, that did not mean they held the authority in the world of martial artists!
In less than three minutes, the ambush group from Assassin Hall were all killed, and a horrifyingly bloody red extended from the government-made road into the forest, and it went 328 feet deep within the forest. Beside this bloody road were Assassin Road elites, and their faces were pale while they retreated without stopping.
At least two hundred corpses decorated the road from where Happy came from.
"Tang Feng, are you going to continue running with your tail in between your legs?"
The reactions from those in Assassin Hall caused him to be slightly surprised.
Logically speaking, Assassin Hall was a high-class organization specializing in ambushes. They did the dirty business of setting traps and harming people behind their backs. They will not do attack head on like this.
But even though their hiding place was revealed and they lost half their men, the people from Assassin Hall still did not run after they lost their will to fight.
Happy said nothing. A faint hint of suspicion quickly grew in Happy's heart and spread out. He looked around himself, and when he looked over the Assassin Hall elites, he narrowed his eyes slightly.
Even when they faced Universe's Lightning Destruction Style at eighth realm and were in an absolute disadvantage where half of their people were instantly killed, while they looked alarmed, there was clearly something ruthless hidden under their actions.
Their morale had not been destroyed.
Happy said nothing. He frowned, and he finally felt a faint hint of unease.
He did not dare to be negligent. He began executing Nine Yang Divine Skill madly, and his spiritual senses spread out completely for him to detect any abnormalities around him.
'Hmm?'
They used the corpses all over the place as their cover and quickly drew closer.
'Fleeing Art?' Happy scowled, but the uneasiness in his heart faded slightly.
Even if Assassin Hall worked together with someone skilled with Fleeing Art or with Japanese ninjas, they were not much of a threat to him.
"Kill them!"
They seemed to have noti
ced that Happy had discovered them, and the elites from Assassin Hall noticed that the situation was bad. They offered no explanation to this and attacked at the same time by pouncing on Happy while facing death without blinking.
They did not react too slowly.
But in Happy's eyes, they were slow. He flicked his wrist, and his longsword came out of its sheath with a clang! A startling sword light was drawn, and the people at the front row had their true qi freeze at the same time.
Thud!
They paused in their movements, and blood gushed out from their c.h.e.s.ts. The blood that spilled out sprayed more than sixty-five feet away.
Happy's expression did not change.
While he attacked with the sword, he calmly observed the small earth bumps that were swiftly getting closer to him from underground. A faint smile appeared on his lips.
'What a low-class Fleeing Art, looks like there's no doubt about it, they're Japanese ninjas.'
Thud!
A few cold glares shot out from under his feet. At the instant the dirt on the ground also flew up, Happy moved ahead of them and spun around before he jumped up. The sword light that shot out everywhere tore all four people who jumped out into shreds. They did not have any protection from their body fortifications, and their bodies were no stronger than rags under Happy's sword.
But right when their bodies were shredded, Happy clearly saw that right when these people died, a large layer of black fog suddenly shot out of these ninjas' bodies.
His field of vision was instantly shrouded in black fog!
Happy was slightly shocked, but he became calm very soon, because high-levelled players will not be affected by this sort of low-levelled diversionary tactic. Besides, he still had his spiritual senses around.
But at that moment, a black object was suddenly thrown at him from the crowd. It was a small bullet, and it was very inconspicuous.
If this item were a hidden weapon, it was clearly not sharp enough, and it was slightly slower than any other conventional hidden weapon as well.
But when the item entered Happy's sights, he looked as if he had been struck by lightning. His pupils shrank a little.
Boom!
When that black bullet approached the area shrouded with black fog,it instantly exploded.
An astonishing explosion that formed a huge impact spread out and threw more than two hundred elites in the area off their feet. No one was able to remain standing!
At the same time the explosion rose, a large sea of fire touched the black fog, and as if it ran into flammable gas, it instantly turned into a huge flame cloud that enveloped a circular area of dozens of feet!
The Mu Clan elites who rushed over were forced to retreat by the heat wave that came charging at their faces.
Chapter 749 - Heavenly Lightning and Fire
Boom!
The impact formed by the loud bang practically blew down all the trees within a circular area of 328 feet. The powerful qi flow blew everyone off their feet.
The black fog that was touched by the fire instantly turned into flames that looked like sparks. With one whoosh, they ignited and immediately burned all the air around them. They began spreading outward like fireworks.
The flames engulfed the forests nearby.
The trees were immediately lit, and they were quickly scorched black. It was the same for the ground, and even when they were scorched black, the fire was not extinguished until a long time had passed.
Some of the unlucky assassins from Assassin Hall were touched by the phosphorescent sparks, and they were in so much pain because of it that they rolled around the ground and tried everything in their disposal to extinguish the flames, but it was all in vain.
The circular area of 328 feet was like world of smoke and flames after a great war, and it was a terrifying sight to behold! Screams and wails of pain could be heard frequently, and when the Mu Clan elites snapped out of their amazement toward the power in the impact, they saw this scene, and their faces were instantly drained of blood.
They could not find Happy no matter where they looked, but there was one place where they could not check because they could not see what was inside clearly—the large, burning patch of forest.
"Boss Happy!"
"Take revenge for Boss Happy!"
"Take revenge for the clan master!"
The group of people were indignant. They drew their weapons and pounced at the elites from Assassin Hall.
Neither side said anything.
When both sides clashed against each other, the shadows and glares from their weapons flashed.
But there was a group of people who did not move!
After that loud bang, Tang Feng disguised himself and hid in the dark while he watched the fireworks quickly form a large cloud of fire in the crowd. He finally put on an excited smile.
'I made it!'
The bullet was Heavenly Lightning and Fire, a creation of Tang Sect's Junior Tang Sect. The damage was astonishing, and no body fortification could hope to block it.
With the sinister Poisonous Black Phosphorous Fog that could expand the area of damage for a weapon from the ninjas, the bullet will immediately burst into flames right when it was lit! If a person was touched with even a single spark of poisonous phosphor, the poisonous fire inside will attack the heart, and those afflicted will be paralyzed. Even if the explosion did not manage to kill Happy, he will have died of poison!
He used the lives of hundreds of Tang Sect elites in exchange for this moment.
When Tang Feng saw the instant Happy was completely surrounded by poisonous fire, he felt pleased with himself, as if everything in the world was in his world. It was as if all the elites on Dragon Rank, Phoenix Rank, and the world were brought down under his feet at that moment!
"Mister Tang, (or Tang-kun, if we wanna make it sound more Japanese, just ctrl + H and replace) your Heavenly Lightning and Fire does indeed live up to its name!" There was a group of ninjas who were dressed uniquely beside Tang Feng. Each of them wore high-grade ninja gear, and if no one looked closely, they will think that Ninja King was among them.
One of them saw the power in Heavenly Lightning and Fire, as well as the damage it caused. A red spark instantly appeared in his eyes. "It's no wonder why Tang Sect has always occupied an important position in the Chinese world of martial artists. Tang Sect's hidden weapons do indeed have their fame spread through the land…"
He stopped talking for a moment, and as he stared at Tang Feng's ambitious smile, he added. "This time, after you kill Happy, all the people in the world will know of your name, Mister Tang!"
Right when he finished speaking, Tang Feng was finally unable to hold back from laughing smugly and loudly. "HAHAHA!!!"
His hearty laughter was mixed with the high spirits of a person after he stood head and shoulders above other people.
He had not just stationed his men over here, but had also stationed Assassin Hall's members at the Guanlin Temple nearby. Even if Happy came out from within in a good condition, he will be immediately killed again.
At that time, they might not even know whether Happy will dare leave Guanlin Temple.
His arrogant laughter became clearly with every passing moment. The wind in the forest howled, and the fire in the mountain was extinguished slightly. They seemed to have noticed Tang Feng's great ambitions and were a little fearful.
However, right when Tang Feng ordered his hall members next to him to send messenger pigeons to their friends at Guanlin Temple to begin preparations, an unexpected voice rose from the raging flames!
"What exactly could it be that caused you to be so happy, Brother Hang? Could you tell me so that I, Happy, could celebrate it with you?"
Whoosh!
The breeze blew into the forest.
Tang Feng's laughter came to a screeching halt!
The intense clashes between weapons in the forest also stopped quickly at that moment.
The people from both sides simultaneously retrea
ted from the battlefield with different expressions!
The people from Assassin Hall suddenly felt that the raging heat around them had become much colder after that voice rose, and the mountain breeze became a cold gust of wind.
They held their breaths. Everyone felt a chill run down their hearts, and with disbelieving, shocked, and hopeless eyes, they stared at the black figure that gradually became clearer in the flames.
"He's… not dead?"
The people who had personally witnessed Heavenly Lightning and Fire's damage could not accept this reality at all. After going through that fierce explosion and being burned by those phosphorous flames, that person did not die!
Tang Feng also swallowed his laughter through a great deal of effort. He stared at the person who walked out of the flames with surprise, bafflement, and disbelief.
That person still wore just a rather normal set of Golden Armor.
But there was something very strange about him.
When he walked out of the burning flames, everyone could clearly see those raging flames fleeing from Happy's side.
Wherever it went, the flames will automatically part ways, and those phosphorous flames could not deal any damage to Happy at all!
The Japanese ninja's subconsciously took a few steps back, because they had already noticed that when Happy walked out of the raging flames, there was already a grayish hue on his face, and there was also a cold look in his eyes while he stared at them as if he was looking at dead people.
These people were already used to seeing hatred from their enemies' eyes, but for the first time, they saw derision and scorn from that gaze, along with a hint of brutal coldness.
"Run!"
Japanese ninjas could not appear publicly in the Chinese world of martial artists, especially after the incident with Three Dragons Guild. The sects in the Chinese server no longer dared to have any contact with Japanese ninjas. Mu Clan's status and influence caused there to be no land in the Chinese server where they could possibly survive, and hence, they immediately thought about fleeing from the battlefield.
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