Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  They were stunned silent.

  Not a single sign of that wind coming had appeared, but the three arrows had instantly disappeared when they got close to a stone plate.

  They were dumbfounded for half a second.

  The first thing they thought of was whether this was the doing of the Arhat Buddha statues nearby, and that these Arhat Buddha statues were stopping them from destroying the stone plates.

  But in the next second, a figure that caused the trio's faces to turn stark pale appeared near the stone plate. He was a middle-aged man, and his movements were elegant. He only lowered his head to cast a glance at the stone plates for a moment, and a strange, evil smile bloomed on his lips.

  "I've been searching for them everywhere, and in the end, I got them without any effort at all."

  The trio's faces turned even paler.

  'Evil King!'

  Shi Zhixuan had actually returned at this moment.

  The trio received the notification that they failed their quest at the same time.

  Just when they thought that the situation was about to turn bad, the Arhat Formation suddenly moved.

  The Arhat Buddha statue closest to Shi Zhixuan suddenly opened its eyes, as if it could suddenly focus its gaze. It swung its sturdy arm fiercely with a mighty force.

  This happened very suddenly.

  When it attacked, it was as if thunder had crackled, and there was no sound of wind at all!

  At the same time, the other Arhat Buddha statues in the area attacked from everywhere at the same time. The force in their palms could cut through air, and their movements brought about the dull sounds of air being torn. In an instant, their palms arrived in front of Shi Zhixuan, and he was instantly caught in a situation guaranteeing certain death.

  "This is great!"

  When they saw that Shi Zhixuan had caused the Arhat Formation to attack him after he obtained the stone plates, the trio had their eyes light up, because they felt as if they just saw light in a desperate situation.

  At the same time, the system told these three people that if they seized the stone plates from Evil King, they could still turn the situation around!

  "Attack!"

  The three players were ecstatic!

  *****

  Shi Zhixuan's attention was originally on the other stone plate around thirty feet away. He did not expect that the Arhat Buddha statues would suddenly attack, even though they had been causing no trouble just now. During that instant, he was also shocked.

  However, Evil King lived up to his name. When he faced the offense from so many Arhat Buddha statues at Myth Realm, he did not panic. An astonishing and great qi instantly exploded from his body.

  Boom!

  A powerful qi force charged out violently.

  The attack from dozens of Arhat Buddha statues instantly looked as if they had crashed into an invisible wall of air, and their momentum came to a screeching halt.

  "Begone!"

  His shout was like thunder in spring. Palm-generated wind that filled the entire area charged out of Shi Zhixuan's body, and the Arhat Buddha statues nearby looked as if they had been cut by sharp weapons. Their hands and feet began to crumble, and they quickly turned into broken Arhat Buddha statues. The qi on their bodies also vanished without a trace.

  The female trap master and her companions' arrows and hidden weapons could not even get closer to Evil King, since they were fired from the center of the formation. All their weapons were sent flying back by the violent qi force.

  When they saw Shi Zhixuan destroying so many Arhat Buddha statues as easily as breathing, the three players had their faces turn pale with helplessness and dejectedness again.

  "Hahahaha!"

  Shi Zhixuan arrived near the second stone plate and easily dissolved the Arhat Buddha statues' offense. With a flip of his palm, he destroyed the Arhat Buddha statues he ran into on his way, and he grabbed the second stone plate. The evil sneer on his face gradually grew wider, and his wild as well as ruthless presence started showing signs of spilling out of his body because he could no longer control it.

  "This is the second piece. Since you helped me search for the four stone plates, hand over the other two stone plates, and I can show you mercy!" Shi Zhixuan whipped his head around and had his eyes land on the female trap master's two other companions.

  They were shocked. When they faced Evil King's evil and monstrous presence, they could not help but take two steps back and subconsciously grab the stone plates in their hands.

  Bang!

  Another two Arhat Buddha statues were destroyed in Shi Zhixuan's hands. The man slowly walked to the center of the formation and gradually drew closer to the trio while he faced the attacks launched by the group of Arhat Buddha statues.

  The awe-inspiring might of a superior person as well as a wild, monstrous, and untameable presence surging madly intersected with each other, making Shi Zhixuan look like a demon who could not be matched. It caused the female trap master and her companions to have their expressions turn even graver. Their breathing also became rapid, and they felt as if they were about to suffocate under this pressure.

  Chapter 1028 - Just Happened to be There, Stone Plates in Hand

  Even though the female trap master had tried her best to set up traps around them, they were just party tricks to Evil King, and they could not stop him at all.

  There were more than one thousand Arhat Buddha statues around, and they could not leave with the stone plates in hand.

  The trio could only watch as Evil King arrived in front of them.

  Bang!

  Evil King attacked without batting an eyelid. With just one move, the female trap master was instantly struck so violently that she flew into the Arhat Formation. Her body fortification immediately shattered, and she crashed against an Arhat Buddha statue, destroying it before she fell to the ground, and she did not move even after a long time.

  The other two said nothing. Their hearts pounded in greater fear, and in a show of great alertness, they split up to run left and right. They held the stone plates tightly while their eyes sparkled as their minds held a fierce battle between whether they should protect their own lives or protect the stone plates.

  'Die!'

  Evil King Shi Zhixuan's ruthless and evil personality had no patience whatsoever in him. When he saw how these two were still hesitant, he immediately snorted and arrived at the back of the person to the left.

  Before he could reach, a palm pressed down gently against his back, right where his heart was.

  Evil King's Undying Seals was strange and domineering. It was filled with an evil but gentle air, and when he attacked with his hands and legs, he could give off a different kind of gentle aesthetic. When he moved, not a hint of killing intent could be felt.

  However, its real damage was the direct opposite of its gentle movements.

  Thud!

  At the moment the power contained in the palm-generated wind touched his body, it instantly surged into him and ran rampant within him. The force in Undying Seals charged into his organs through his meridian system. The man coughed up blood, and he even coughed up some of the fragments of his organs.

  Inaction Realm elites were actually not supposed to be so powerless in front of Evil King, but Shi Zhixuan was too infamous, and his might as well as imposing presence had already been deeply embedded in the people's hearts, causing the people to subconsciously lose their ability to fight against him. If the player had the chance to block his attack, he would not have lost his life in just one move.

  But now, two were dead, and one was injured.

  The third stone plate rolled in the dust.

  The last person's face was stark pale. He could only watch helplessly as Evil King Shi Zhixuan chose not to immediately retrieve the third stone plate. Instead, he turned around and headed toward him, because the last stone plate was with him.

  This person was not an idiot, at least. When he saw that he was the only one left and that Shi
Zhixuan did not show any sign to stop, he immediately shouted in rage, and with all his strength, he pushed his hands together.

  His qi filled his arms, and he used his full strength to press down on the stone place in his hands.

  Evil King just stared at him with a mocking look. He did not bother stopping him.

  In the end, even though the person's face turned red and his veins popped up on his neck, the stone plate in his hands was still not damaged in the slightest.

  Shi Zhixuan said nothing, but his lips curled up into a scornful sneer.

  When he saw this, the player was instantly frustrated.

  "You want it?! Well, I'm not giving it to you!" he shouted, and while he retreated, he suddenly exerted force in his hands and tossed the stone plate high above into the air in the direction of the Buddha statues.

  Whoosh!

  The stone plate flew out with a loud whistle.

  'I'd like to see what you can do.'

  When the man threw the stone plate among the thousand Buddha statues, the thought that he had just vented his rage rose in his him, but when he turned his head around, he felt pain in his neck, and his head was then twisted one hundred and eighty degrees in a bizarre fashion. He looked into a pair of livid eyes burning with ice cold rage, and in the next second, his consciousness swiftly faded away.

  Evil King had finally attacked.

  Once this man vented his anger by throwing the stone plate, he finally flew into a rage, and he snapped the man's neck without hesitation.

  Bang!

  The man's corpse fell on the floor limp.

  "Hmph."

  When Evil King pulled his hand back to retrieve the stone plate on the floor, his pupils suddenly shrank, because the stone plate on the floor was suddenly s.u.c.k.e.d to another direction by a force that appeared out of nowhere.

  Slap!

  Someone shot out of the Arhat Formation, and a young and powerful palm grabbed the stone plate before the person landed on the ground. His movements were done in one breath.

  Evil King Shi Zhixuan's expression turned dark once more.

  The first surprise he encountered was when the man just now had recklessly thrown the stone plate out of the Arhat Formation, and he had to spend time rushing into the formation to search for it later.

  Right now, the third stone plate had been snatched away by a person who charged into the Arhat Formation by surprise. Things had not been going his way, and it caused the d.e.s.i.r.e for cruelty in Shi Zhixuan to grow even stronger. A dark killing intent spilled out of him even more prominently than before.

  "Hand over the stone plate, and I'll let you die in one piece!"

  Evil King stared at the man in front of him with a fierce look. This person was someone he had met once in the Arhat Formation.

  "As expected of the strongest in the evil cult. You are indeed mighty and domineering, Evil King."

  This person was Happy, who had quickly recovered to the peak of his condition with Fire Qilin Blood. Even that Grieving Needle had also been forced out of his c.h.e.s.t, and he was even stronger than before.

  1,167 qi points!

  He had now reached his peak.

  With Happy's current strength, he did not feel diffident even when he faced Evil King!

  At the moment the stone plate fell into his grasp, a system notification immediately rang in his mind.

  "Obtained one of the four stone plates left behind by an ancient divine monk in Dafo Temple. If you understand the profound message in it, you can understand the four ultimate techniques left behind by the ancient divine monk."

  'There's something so good lying around?!'

  Happy had also heard about how there was an ancient divine monk in Dafo Temple before, but because it had sounded too amazing to be true, he never paid too much attention to it. He did not expect that he would see something rather interesting after he escaped from death—one of the ultimate techniques the ancient divine monk left behind!

  Happy's blood surged madly!

  Even if he was threatened by the strongest person in the evil cult, Happy would not hand over this treasure he gained entirely by accident.

  Besides, once Happy admired the stone plate in his hands, his eyes lit up, and he was deeply attracted by the two stone plates in Shi Zhixuan's hands. "Senior Shi, why don't I take the two stone plates from your hands as well?"

  These were ultimate techniques left behind by a divine monk who was One with the World, and even Happy could not help but feel d.e.s.i.r.e for them. He noticed that he had intruded upon a great quest and ran into a rare chance. Naturally, he could not help but have his emotions surge, and he wanted to get all of the divine monk's ultimate techniques.

  Shi Zhixuan said nothing at first. He just raised his chin in a mocking manner. "You want these two stone plates in my hands?"

  "If you don't mind." It was only then that Happy noticed he might have been a little too naive.

  This man was Evil King.

  Even if he used his full strength to fight against him, he would still be considered very lucky to be able to escape from Evil King unscathed, and here he was, in a moment of impulse, he had actually wanted to snatch those two stone plates from Evil King?

  The atmosphere in the Arhat Formation instantly became strange.

  Evil King Shi Zhixuan looked dumbfounded, before a cold smile bloomed on his face as he stared at Happy, who had a strange expression on his face.

  "I mind. A lot. I've made up my mind now. When I retrieve the stone plate from your corpse, I will hang your corpse at the entrance of Dafo Temple."

  "That'll be my p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e."

  Happy had already snapped out of his conceited daydream in an instant, and he was certain that it would already be very impressive of him to be able to keep even one. Once he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and activated Wave-like Subtle Steps without hesitation to rush into the Arhat Formation.

  Evil King laughed contemptuously while he stared at Happy's back as he rushed into the formation.

  And just as Evil King expected, cries of surprise rose.

  Happy was quickly attacked by quite a lot of Arhat Buddha statues during his journey outside. Powerful attacks at the level of those at the beginning stage of Myth Realm locked down the entire area ahead of Happy.

  "What the heck?!"

  Happy quickly recovered from the shocking change.

  Boom!

  He activated Indestructible Body.

  Petite Dragon!

  Happy squeezed through the gaps of three Arhat Buddha statues like a slippery eel.

  But this good condition did not last long.

  There were multiple Arhat Buddha statues along the way, and their numbers just kept growing.

  Evil King stood in the formation and watched Happy descending into an increasingly dangerous situation while he himself remained relaxed. His gaze was dark and cold, as if he could already see the scene of Happy being pummeled by those Arhat Buddha statues.

  But Evil King's confident smile, as if he had everything in his control, soon vanished.

  As Happy faced eight Arhat Buddha statues' attacks, a thick true origin aura rose from the Arhat Formation ahead of Evil King.

  Then, a howling black sword glare instantly tore down quite a number of Arhat Buddha statues around it.

  Rumble…

  Shattered stones scattered on the ground.

  A shocked expression he could not suppress finally showed up on Shi Zhixuan's face.

  This person, who was as insignificant as an ant, had not only survived under the Arhat Buddha statues' offense, he had also cut down the Arhat Buddha statues around him with a slash before he instantly traveled more than one hundred feet forward.

  Wherever he went, none of the Arhat Buddha statues could stop him.

  "Interesting."

  Evil King's expression finally turned completely dark.

  With a cold snort, he vanished from the spot like a phantom.

  The Arhat B
uddha statues continued turning and moving around in the Arhat Formation, and they quickly stopped in front of Evil King to block his path.

  But Evil King's offense was even faster.

  Before these Arhat Buddha statues could attack him, his Undying Seals had already easily destroyed these Arhat Buddha statues. He ventured deep into the Arhat Formation, as if there was nothing in his path, and he quickly caught up to Happy.

  "Leave the stone plate behind, and I'll spare you."

  Shi Zhixuan's expression turned graver while he chased behind Happy. because he could clearly see that while Happy was just a Moksha Realm martial artist, his strength was incredibly shocking. Not only was his sword technique extraordinary, his offense was also timely. His breathing was also long, and while his attacks were not as fast as Shi Zhixuan's, it was already very shocking. With this strength, even Shi Zhixuan could declare with certainty that he could kill him within a short period of time.

  But his words were produced as much of an effect as hoping a stone thrown into an ocean could produce a wave. The person in front of him not only did not answer him, he even charged forward even faster.

  Shi Zhixuan's expression turned even more unpleasant.

  *****

  'This is bad.'

  While Happy charged forward to open the path, he grumbled in his heart.

  The pressure he faced when he faced the extraordinary Arhat Buddha statues was already great, and if Evil King caught up to him, it was practically impossible for him to safely leave with the stone plate.

  It was difficult for him to run into such a rare chance. If Evil King snatched the stone plate, Happy would naturally find himself unable to accept the situation. His mind raced to think of a way for him to swiftly get out of the situation.

  In the next moment, Happy grabbed a hidden weapon at the level of a demon vessel.

  It was the hair stick he obtained while he was at the treasure house in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts. If he wanted to leave Dafo Temple with the stone plate, it would be worthy to use this demon-vessel-grade hidden weapon, which was worth cities, and it was still worth it for Happy to use this thing even if he could only hold back Evil King for a while.