"Evil Emperor has gone missing, and he should be coming to the Chinese server. Yet you're here, asking for time? Don't you think you're indulging in your fantasies a little too much?"
Phantasmal Shadow said those words with her qi, and those within a circular area of several miles could hear her clearly.
When she said those words, Beijing burst into an uproar once more.
"What?!"
"Evil Emperor is going to invade the Chinese server again?!"
"It's no wonder why Wind Assault Tower is so impatient in declaring war against Class One Hall, and they've even decided to attack Class One Hall at their base in foundation…"
Countless people came to a realization and flew into a rage.
The spokesperson from Class One Hall chuckled coldly. "What does Evil Emperor's disappearance have to do with us? If you have questions about it, go and ask Evil Emperor or Wandering Know-it-all. Could it be that everytime Evil Emperor kills, you're going to kill another to enforce justice? This time, it's Class One Hall. Next time, who will it be?"
Someone beside Phantasmal Shadow frowned and warned her. "Tower master, that guy is clearly stalling for time."
She nodded. She immediately cast a glance at the depths of the crowd before her cold voice spread through Class One Hall's headquarters.
"Dream Clouds, looks like there's already no room for negotiation between us."
Once she finished speaking, she turned around and left.
The Class One Hall members' expressions changed.
The group quickly sensed that the atmosphere outside had turned tense and solemn, as if some violent chemical reaction had begun!
Whoosh!
Suddenly, the crowd on a roof in a direction parted, and a group of people charged into the shield formation Wind Assault Tower set up.
The Class One Hall spokesperson had his pupils shrink.
He managed to recognize one of them within a moment.
"Demonic Zither Wind Chimes!
"Alright! Looks like the instigator behind this is indeed Wandering Know-it-all!
"You want to use Demonic Zither Wind Chimes to slaughter Class One Hall? Hmph! Dream on!"
As he spoke, the person haughtily jumped to the glazed roof above the door.
"Kill them!"
Before the zither sounds could rise, dozens of figures had already charged out from behind the shield formation. All of them charged to the shield formation with an indomitable spirit.
"Set up the formation!"
Boom!
Dozens of shield wielders surrounded Wind Chimes and her group at the center, forming a huge wall to encircle them inside tightly.
Clang!
Zither sounds rose.
The dozens of people who charged near the shield formation came to a halt.
Clang!
A purplish-black sword glare cut through the horizon like lightning, and the sky above Class One Hall seemed like it had darkened slightly.
Thud! Thud!
Before those dozens of Class One Hall assassins could get close to the shield formation, they already had sword glares tear apart their throats, and all of them fell to the ground.
The sword glare disappeared in a flash, and in an instant, Wind Assault Tower's momentum increased greatly!
"One Emperor!"
"It's him!"
The purplish black sword glare as well as unique domineering presence was One Emperor's trademark!
Many people on Class One Hall's side had their expressions turn incredibly dark.
With One Emperor and Wind Assault Tower protecting her at full force, who could break the shield formation and kill Wind Chimes?
Wind Chimes' destructive prowess was something well-known to everyone in Beijing. In fact, there was a saying circulating in Beijing.
'Once Demonic Zither Wind Chimes' notes sounded and she finished playing one song, she could kill more than one thousand people. She could easily decide who the victor is in a sect war.'
The intimidating force in her when she attacked a sect was even above One Emperor.
"Our hall master has indeed made the correct guess.
"But you actually had the strongest player in the Chinese server to protect a girl? Hmph! Don't you think you're overestimating Class One Hall?!"
Class One Hall's spokesperson gritted his teeth. His expression was dark.
When he thought about how he and his people were all exposed to the threat of the demonic zither's sound slaughter, he knew that it was impossible for them to maintain their original morale.
Many people could see that the scale of victory was tilting toward Wind Assault Tower before the battle even started, and they could already envision the scene of Class One Hall quickly crumbling!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Wind Chimes did not waste time. Her job was to aid Phantasmal Shadow in dissolving Class One Hall's fighting spirit. She destroyed the archers and forced them to engage Wind Assault Tower in close-quarters combat. Hence, she used one Sky Demon Tremor to work with One Emperor in killing dozens of Class One Hall elites. Then, she quickly arrived at the front row of the shield formation, sit down cross-legged, placed her zither on her knees, and began playing notes that were filled with a murderous tone.
Thousands of sound blades in the air buzzed and gathered together to form a terrifying river of murderous sound with a terrifying momentum. The notes intersected with each other in the air before they swept out of the encirclement of the shield formation. It was as if the galaxy was rolling backwards to crash into Class One Hall's headquarters with the force of a tidal wave.
Sound blades were things that could not be pierced through and weakened by physical items.
If Class One Hall's members wanted to fight against the damage from the sound blades, they needed to use hidden forces or remote forces. Because of it, they were forced to give up on using bows and arrows.
However, just when countless people from Wind Assault Tower looked forward to Class One Hall's members put away their bows and arrows to switch their weapons, they found that the people inside did not seem to want to switch their weapons at all.
Then, Phantasmal Shadow saw two people jump into the air at the entrance!
Those two people did not appear to be Chinese, but they each held a huge pair of cymbals in their hands.
Her heart tensed. "They are…"
Before Phantasmal Shadow could recognize those two, they had already landed on the roof. When they faced the majestic sound blade river, they ruthlessly rammed the golden cymbals together!
Clang!
A piercing sound wave with a force that could shock people's hearts formed invisible waves of force, and they completely crushed the sound blade river in the air.
Clang!
Wind Chimes' expression changed.
The two unidentified people were clearly also people who used sound wave attacks! And the AOE range in their sound waves was even wider, and the damage was even greater. They had not actually just crushed the core of the sound blade river, the sound wave had actually charged straight to her zither strings as well, interrupting her song.
The entire sound blade river was instantly crushed!
Wind Chimes resolutely stopped playing. She placed her fingers on the strings and scowled.
"It's no wonder why Dream Clouds only sent a subordinate to show up. Looks like she has been prepared for me a long time ago." Even though she felt a little dejected, she was not surprised by it, because Wandering Know-it-all and Phantasmal Shadow had already predicted all this.
One Emperor was not just there to protect her, but was also there to clear all obstructions in her way!
Chapter 1014 - Visitor under the Umbrella, Lion’s Roar
At Class One Hall's headquarters, as the conversation between Wind Assault Tower's Phantasmal Shadow and Class One Hall's spokesperson ended, the two greatest factions of power in the Chinese server began the preliminary stage of attacking each other tentatively to test w
aters. The atmosphere outside Class One Hall's headquarters became even more intense.
However, the momentum of attacks from both sides was great, and the scene of a horrifying battle instantly breaking out and Beijing falling to war, which the people expected, did not happen.
Wind Assault Tower might have brought out Demonic Zither Wind Chimes as the vanguard, but Class One Hall also had a lot of methods at hand. They had managed to find a pair of elites who knew how to use sound waves to attack from some unknown place, and they used their sound waves to counter Wind Chimes, preventing her from being able to use her skills, and stopping Wind Assault Tower from venturing deep into Class One Hall's headquarters.
However, the factions of power watching the battle knew that it was not easy to break into Class One Hall's headquarters.
Even so, as a man in a purplish-black brocade robe slowly walked out of the formation, the thought that Class One Hall would be difficult to break, which had just risen in many people's hearts instantly vanished.
"Perhaps…"
"With those two around, breaking into Class One Hall might not be so difficult."
When they saw One Emperor walk out, everyone realized what he was going to do.
However, Class One Hall seemed to have not reacted to the situation. Those two mysterious elites continued standing at the wall, and they showed no signs of backing down as they stared at One Emperor and Wind Chimes, who was surrounded by their shield formation. They seemed to be waiting for Wind Chimes' next attack and were prepared to attack at any moment.
"Die!"
When the fatal sword glare shot out of One Emperor's hands, a black shadow shot out like lightning and stood in front of the two mysterious elites.
With a smug smile, he spread his arms, and a spinning metallic umbrella appeared between them!
Dozens of black sword glares were crushed before the umbrella.
Quite a number of people in the crowd managed to recognize that person based on his weapon.
Five Elements Umbrella!
There was an elite in the game who obtained an incredibly amazing weapon through a hidden chain quest—Five Elements Umbrella, an umbrella created using materials from the five elements. It possessed various powerful abilities, and it had a very powerful defensive ability toward attacks like hidden forces and sword glares.
The person with the umbrella had once lasted for more than four umbrellas while he was encircled and attacked by more than one hundred elites. In the end, he was forced his way out of the encirclement, and he gained the mighty title of Visit under the Umbrella because of it.
"Hmph!"
When One Emperor saw that his attack had been blocked, his pride flared, and he moved more than thirty feet forward to execute two more sword slashes to cut through the air.
Boom!
It was as if a black bolt of lightning had descended from the sky.
With one loud sound, One Emperor destroyed the door to Class One Hall's headquarters with one sword glare.
Visitor under the Umbrella, Pure Wind was sent flying by the hidden force that erupted under his feet.
Thud!
A black sword glare swept at him horizontally.
A red sword gash swiftly appeared at Visitor under the Umbrella's neck.
Thud!
Since he had already caught One Emperor's eye, it was impossible for him to come out of the battle unscathed.
But just when One Emperor was prepared to kill the two mysterious elites who used those golden cymbals, his expression suddenly changed, and he quickly turned around.
When he looked in the direction behind him, he was just in time to find dozens of people charging into the shield formation from the street behind them!
This group of people were clearly much stronger than the group he killed before this.
Before the Wind Assault Tower elites who surrounded Wind Chimes to protect her could react to the situation, a deafening roar that resembled that of a lion shot out.
"ROAR!"
The wild, primitive, but solemn Lion's Roar was not something shields could withstand.
The group of Wind Assault Tower elites were instantly scattered by the abrupt attack, and their neat formation immediately crumbled.
Even Wind Chimes, who had been prepared to play her zither to stop the enemies, staggered because of that Lion's Roar. Her face turned pale, and she coughed up blood.
Thud thud thud thud!
The group moved quickly, as if they were flying!
Right after that Lion's Roar attack, the group of Class One Hall attackers attacked with their arms and opened the path f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y. Their gazes were dark.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Since they were in disarray, nearly one hundred Wind Assault Tower elites were instantly killed. A blood path was left behind the Class One Hall elites' wake, and soon, Wind Chimes was exposed to open fire.
"How dare you?!"
A furious roar rose, and a black bolt of lightning arrived.
One Emperor had finally come back at the critical moment.
With one slash, he destroyed multiple hidden weapons that shot at Wind Chimes, and the remaining force in his sword strike allowed his sword glare to charge forward like a rainbow cutting through the skies and send the two people right in front reeling back.
"Retreat!"
"Run!"
This group reacted very quickly.
When they saw that there was no way for them to kill Wind Chimes now, the Lion's Roar user quickly attacked to open a path. The group turned around and fled to rush out of the territory belonging to Class One Hall's headquarters.
Many people had their attention attracted by One Emperor and Visitor under the Umbrella, who had fought at the entrance of the headquarters, and they did not notice the change at the back. When they did, this group of people had already rushed back into the crowd in the streets under the protection of other Class One Hall elites.
But One Emperor was still the strongest player in the Chinese server. That head-on strike had allowed him to instantly kill the famous player Visitor under the Umbrella, and he was already partially successful in killing all the obstacles at the door.
But Class One Hall's lightning fast attack still kept the eyes fully occupied. They were deeply shocked by it.
Even though their ambush this time did not allow them to kill Wind Chimes, the mysterious Lion's Roar elite and the hidden weapons elites had instantly killed nearly one hundred Wind Assault Tower elites. The shield formation that seemed indestructible had actually not managed to block them at all, and the Wind Assault Tower members' expressions were incredibly dark.
And what they could not accept the most was that these people had come and go in a relaxed manner. Aside from the two people who had been killed by Wind Assault Tower members after they were struck down by One Emperor, the others all retreated to the protected zone under the protection of the other Class One Hall members in the street.
Silence fell among them.
Not only were the Wind Assault Tower members gloomy and angry because of this, even One Emperor's expression was incredibly dark.
An accident had nearly happened just now.
He cast Wind Chimes a glance, and One Emperor's eyes burned faintly.
This time, he had been given a task by Wandering Know-it-all, and he had promised him that he would prioritize protecting Wind Chimes' safety!
But during the few minutes since the battle began, Wind Chimes was already attacked twice by Class One Hall, and she was even injured and nearly killed.
If he had not reacted quickly, Wind Chimes would have died, and it would be even more difficult for Wind Assault Tower to destroy Class One Hall!
"Hmph! Wind Chimes, what a woman! As expected, she does have a lot of tricks up her sleeve!"
One Emperor returned to the encirclement formed by the group, turned around, and released a murderous huff in the direction of Class One Hall's headquarters. "You've actually used three elites as b
ait to seize a chance to kill Wind Chimes? When it comes to these sort of strategies, I do indeed lose to you. You nearly had your plan work just now."
His voice traveled clearly into Class One Hall's headquarters, and many people who had not paid attention to this scene were shocked. They started discussing among themselves.
Right when he finished speaking, a voice of similar intensity traveled out of Class One Hall's headquarters.
"One Emperor, I respect you as the strongest elite in the Chinese server and the fact that you have once fought against Evil Emperor on equal grounds. I don't want to become your enemy, but this time, you've gone overboard! Without discerning what is right and wrong, you helped Phantasmal Shadow in fighting against me, and to protect the home belonging to nearly one hundred thousand of my people, I must fight against you—"
"I can naturally tell what is real and fake. You don't have to say anything else."
One Emperor's voice was cold and possessed no emotion whatsoever.
Dream Clouds stopped talking for a moment. Then, her tone changed.
"Looks like you're determined to take down Class One Hall.
"But it won't be so easy for you to fight against my sect…
"Phantasmal Shadow!"
Dream Clouds suddenly shouted Phantasmal Shadow's name.
"Did you actually think that with Wind Chimes and One Emperor alone, you can easily break into Class One Hall's headquarters?"
Phantasmal Shadow said nothing.
"I know that you understand clearly that you will have to pay a devastating price if you want to destroy Class One Hall, and it is a price that you cannot withstand!"
"You want to try and minimize your damages as much as possible, but unfortunately for you, you're too naive. You want to rely on a swordsman and Demonic Zither to shake Class One Hall's foundation?! That's merely a pipe dream!"
Once she finished speaking, Dream Clouds' voice faded away completely.
Phantasmal Shadow and One Emperor's expressions were rather grave.
"As expected, Dream Clouds isn't easy to deal with. She has a lot of backups arranged. From now on, I cannot be too far away from Wind Chimes. I can only let you handle the task of clearing the obstacles, or else, you will have to fight against Class One Hall's headquarters head on."
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