Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  "Oh no!"

  "Save him!"

  The people behind Flame Wolf finally noticed that the situation was off. They did not expect that the unfamiliar middle-aged man's casual slash would contain so much power. They had the expressions of them underestimating him fall away. The two people closest to Flame Wolf attacked at the same time, and they were prepared to negate the two subsequent slashes from the middle-aged man.

  But Happy was prepared for it since a long time ago.

  After three slashes, Flame Wolf already had his organs shift because he was caught off guard. He was struggling for breath now, and Happy delivered a hidden force in secret.

  The pitiful Flame Wolf had not even gotten to identify his enemy before he had his organs destroyed by Happy while his head was still in a fog. His soul returned to Guanlin Temple.

  The group of Wild Wolves elites were unable to hold themselves back any longer.

  When they saw that Flame Wolf was cut down soon into the exchange, their unyielding spirit as mercenaries and loyalty to each other instantly burned. They did not even need to communicate with each other. A thick wave of killing intent instantly infected all their spirits.

  "Take revenge for Flame Wolf!"

  Once they put down Flame Wolf's corpses, the group drew their weapons and surrounded Happy from the left and right.

  "Perfect timing!"

  Whoosh!

  Full Winds in Long Skies!

  Only when the group surrounded him did he activate his true origin aura. His Recondite Steel Heavy Sword instantly replaced the fourth-echelon masterpiece, and he swung it horizontally.

  When Wild Wolves saw the large black sword appear in the middle-aged man's hands, they looked as if they had been struck by lightning.

  "Damn it!"

  "It's Happy!"

  "Run!"

  The group shouted in fear.

  But those warnings were already not enough to help them from getting out of the battlefield.

  There were more than twenty of them, and all of them were thrown off the ground before they crashed against the ground. The one closest to Happy was killed by the shock on the spot and died. The remaining few felt their organs, qi, and blood tumble. They had a hard time gathering their qi together, and their bodies felt as if they had been crushed by stones weighing tens of thousands of pounds. They could barely move, and they could only watch Happy get closer to them. Their faces gradually turned pale.

  *****

  When he arrived in front of the people, Happy did not attack immediately.

  He pointed his longsword at a person's eyes diagonally.

  When he stared at Happy's sword tip, he s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath, gnashed his teeth and cursed, "Someone will take revenge for us!"

  Then, a cold flash flashed past his eyes.

  Happy moved very quickly and decisively. His gaze was so calm that it was terrifying.

  The people beside them watched the entire process. When they saw their companion's corpse fall into the dust with a loud thud, they felt chills down their bodies.

  When the longsword moved to the second person, the person clearly hesitated for a while, and he did not immediately do something to anger Happy.

  Happy's voice crept into the Wild Wolves' ears. "Tell Evil Emperor that this is just a small warning. From today onwards, each of the people who stays in the Chinese server must be prepared to lose their heads at any moment."

  "Did you hear me?" Happy raised his chin while he looked down at them.

  The Wild Wolves looked at each other before they s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths. They nodded at the same time.

  "Very good." Once Happy finished speaking, he drew his longsword back slowly.

  These Wild Wolves thought that they had just survived…

  "You can die now."

  Before these people could gather their qi together and recover, a cold glare that was like lightning flashed past their eyes.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Their bodies shuddered at the same time. It was as if all the air in their lungs were s.u.c.k.e.d out of them, and they fell against the ground.

  *****

  After readily and smoothly killing all twenty-seven Wild Wolves as well as picking the equipment they dropped, Happy did not linger around. He left the scene of the crime without stopping. He did not want to waste time with Evil Emperor when he came back in anger. With his current strength, it was practically impossible for him to kill Evil Emperor while he had that mental pressure and ability to largely reduce a person's speed.

  Whoosh!

  He activated Wave-like Subtle Steps fully.

  When he listened to the sound of the wind pouring into his ears, Happy quickly thought about what he should do.

  'Evil Emperor didn't bring a lot of elites into Beijing this time. There're only about thirty of them. This time, I got rid of thirty Wild Wolves in one go, and this will surely make Evil Emperor be in a foul mood for a while. Right now, he can't go into the city, just like me. I have a human skin mask too, and the Prophet can't find me.

  'Before I show up and attack again, it's impossible for Evil Emperor to know about my whereabouts. Once I do, Evil Emperor will definitely rush over without stopping.

  'This period of time should last for quite a long while, and I should be able to use it to create a chance for Wind Assault Tower to make a break.'

  When he thought of this, Happy remembered the large area that Ji Feng and his group logged off while they were in the midst of their break out.

  That was a place to the east of Beijing, and it was in the direction to the mountains.

  'If I can attract Evil Emperor and Class One Hall's attention, then Wind Assault Tower's chance in breaking out will increase by at least thirty percent!'

  *****

  Evil Emperor only received Flame Wolf's messenger pigeon five minutes after he left. He learned that they were ambushed by Happy in disguise after they split up, and the remaining Wild Wolves were all killed. Not a single one of them was left. At that moment, no one knew just how dark was Evil Emperor's expression.

  Dream Clouds only learned of this news a few minutes after Evil Emperor, and that was because her people had been keeping close watch over Guanlin Temple. In the end, her subordinates noticed a large group of Wild Wolves coming out from inside, and her subordinates quickly wrote a letter to notify her of this.

  "The ambush failed, and we lost all the Wild Wolves we sent over there. This guy…" When Dream Clouds learned of this, her expression was very dark. She frowned with a grave expression, and her gaze sparkled. No one knew what she was thinking about.

  "Evil Emperor is right. If we can't kill him during the period of time he's hunted and lock him up for a month, there will be a long period of time where Happy will be a thorn in the flesh for Class One Hall." Someone reminded her by the side.

  Dream Clouds looked up. "Who can kill him?"

  That one sentence was enough to make the people around her shut up simultaneously. Even Evil Emperor had failed in killing when he brought over a large group of people to encircle and kill him. They did indeed not have an even more effective plan or suggestion to kill Happy.

  "As of current, our most important plan is to completely destroy Wind Assault Tower and absolutely vanquish Phantasmal Shadow's morale. As for Happy, we can temporarily ignore him."

  She stopped talking for a moment before Happy had her subordinates send her orders. "Inform all our members in the hall. If they see Happy, they are not to fight against him head on. They are to immediately log off to avoid fighting against him aside from the time he appears with the people who want to break out from Beijing."

  Class One Hall's elders were prepared to send this order out when one of the elders suddenly received a messenger pigeon.

  Once he skimmed through the letter, he quickly turned to Dream Clouds.

  "One Emperor has appeared to the west of Beijing, and he killed all the members in two of our training spots. We lost more than one hun
dred of our people."

  Dream Clouds felt her spirits lift. "Looks like Phantasmal Shadow is prepared to make a break… Hmph. Have the people over tighten their defense! Notify Blood Robes and Monk With Thick Eyebrows to prepare to aid them."

  Before her voice faded away, another messenger pigeon landed in the elder's hand.

  A few seconds later, he stated an information that caused Dream Clouds to be shocked and bewildered.

  "A mysterious player has appeared to the west of Beijing. He has no sect emblem on his c.h.e.s.t, and he's attacking the people who are surrounding Ji Feng. Right now, more than five hundred of our people have died, and the number of casualties is still increasing drastically…"

  Chapter 1079 - Maple Leaves Fall in World of Martial Arts

  Maple Leaves Fall in World of Martial Arts was a private website that Ji Feng set up on short notice two days ago. The registered accounts quickly grew to one hundred thousand, and it was a website for players in Ji Feng's sect.

  The reason behind why Maple Leaves Fall in World of Martial Arts was created was very simple. Since the sect Ji Feng created and the other three Beijing sects were destroyed within a short two days, the management of the sect decided to set up this website temporarily to keep track of all the members' records, and Ji Feng as well as a lot of higher ups spent a lot of blood, sweat, and tears creating it. The website was created for the purpose of gathering together all these members who had fought with them for nearly two years after the sect was destroyed and retaining all their contact information.

  Of course, it had another purpose right now.

  It was used for the ease of Ji Feng's orders being able to be sent in time to all the members of the sect so that they could break out of Beijing, kill their enemies, gain ground, and find a place so that they could regain their footing.

  It had to be said that Ji Feng's plan was great.

  While Dream Clouds used her full strength to be on a lookout against the breakout group from Wind Assault Tower and started gathering a large number of soldiers to lock down the coastal area while also setting up another sect, more than fifty thousand people would break out of the encirclement Dream Clouds set up from another side.

  Unfortunately, Dream Clouds had just casually sent some people and crushed Ji Feng's plan to pieces. In the end, he lost half of his members, and Class One Hall guarded the spot where the other half logged off. When they logged in, they would be trapped in the awkward situation where they would immediately die.

  In just one die, two-thirds of the people who were logged into Maple Leaves Fall in World of Martial Arts disappeared.

  The forum started cursing up a storm.

  Some of the people scolded Ji Feng, because his breakout plan was incredibly reckless.

  Some people cursed Class One Hall for not showing any mercy and for their d.e.s.i.r.e of killing their enemies as soon as possible.

  Now, among the core group of Maple Leaves Fall in World of Martial Arts, more than twenty people held a video conference in great nervousness.

  "Big Brother Ji, we can't go on like this."

  "That's right. If we don't think of a plan to solve our current predicament, in less than three days, we'll be the only ones left in the forum, and we won't have any members left under us."

  There was a person's face in the middle, and the face belonged to a man who was nearing his thirties. He had his head tilted to the side, and as the group urged him to give an answer while they gave him suggestions, he continued rubbing his forehead. After some time, he forced these words out of his throat. "It's my fault for the breakout this time. I was indeed a little too rash and impatient. I didn't care about Phantasmal Shadow's advice and Wandering Know-it-all's warning, and I ended up causing our members to die and be sent back to Beijing."

  "Big Brother Ji, this is not the time to be criticizing yourself. Our headquarters has already been destroyed, and if we don't come up with a plan to change our current situation, our members will no longer be united. The longer we drag this out, the lower the possibility of us uniting them once more."

  The former vice sect master was clearly a short-tempered man. He could no longer wait patiently. Hence, he said, "I say that we might as well set a time and log in together to fight against those bastards. We might be able to slaughter our way out—"

  Someone immediately spoke up to refute his words. "Stop coming up with stupid ideas. My classmate is from Class One Hall, and he told me that we currently have nearly fifty thousand people waiting for us to log in. It'll be strange if we can get out with just a little over ten thousand people! Even if some of us manage to escape, we are surrounded by Class One Hall members. How far exactly do you think we can go?"

  The former vice sect master instantly flew into a rage. "If you think it's not possible, then come up with a plan!"

  "Aren't I thinking right now?"

  "Enough!"

  When he saw that the two had started to argue, Ji Feng finally spoke. He stared at the twenty or so pairs of eyes who stared at him from the screen. His expression was grave and dark, and he spoke slowly, "I've thought about this. This time, Dream Clouds has already made up her mind to completely crush us and Wind Assault Tower. Right now, we've also lost our chance to gather together with Wind Assault Tower and the people from the other two sects, and it's basically impossible for us to break out of this place to run to safety. That's why, I've come to a decision…"

  When they heard this, the group of people realized from Ji Feng's grave and dejected tone as well as expression that he might be making an incredibly difficult decision. They said nothing.

  "I will dissolve the sect."

  When these five words came out of Ji Feng's mouth, while the group had been expecting it, they still s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths, because they were not prepared for it. They sank into a short period of dead silence.

  "Are we giving up just like this?"

  "Big Brother Ji…"

  Ji Feng continued with a grave tone. "I know that all of you are reluctant to give up. Before I made this decision, I thought about many things, and my heart aches just as much as yours. But the situation is forcing us to do this. The Chinese server is completely under Class One Hall's control, and the five sects in Beijing had never been able to break out with only nearly one hundred thousand people. Now, the numbers have shrunk even further. In the future, as Class One Hall continues suppressing us, it's impossible for us to improve our situation. Even if we don't dissolve now, we will crumble sooner or later. Instead of continuing to delay all our members' training progress, it's better for us to disband right now. It's better to suffer for only a short period of time rather than a long period of time, right?"

  Ji Feng's grave and slow talking speed as well as his anguished expression deeply affected everyone. They fell silent.

  All twenty or so people's eyes became dull and dispirited on the screen.

  Even the vice sect master who suggested for them to fight against Class One Hall in a life and death struggle fell silent. Ji Feng was right, but this was a reality that they did not want to admit.

  In the silence, Ji Feng announced the disbandment of the sect once more, and he told the webmaster to announce this news at an eye-catching spot in the website.

  At that moment, someone on the screen suddenly picked up his phone and left the screen.

  The group could see the person's back after he stood up. He seemed to be talking to someone, but no one paid much attention to him.

  In less than ten seconds, that person suddenly turned around and sat down in his seat with great enthusiasm. There was crazed delight and excitement on his face. He said to the mic, "Big Brother Ji, stop being busy with dissolving the sec! Something has happened!"

  No one said anything, but in his despair, he seized this bit of light bringing him hope.

  Ji Feng was not the only one. The other people on the screen also became much more spirited at that moment. They put on attentive expressions.

  "Speak up!
"

  "What happened?!"

  "Wind Assault Tower is prepared to make a break! A large group of people in Beijing and the people from the other two sects have gathered together. It seems like they're prepared to attack the lockdown in the direction of the coastal area, and One Emperor is serving as the vanguard!"

  'Wind Assault Tower and the other two sects are finally taking action?!'

  The group first had their eyes light up, but immediately afterward, Ji Feng and the others became disheartened.

  Even though Wind Assault Tower had finally decided to take action, the direction in which they decided to make a break was the lockdown at the coastal area, just as they expected. It was in the opposite direction of the direction they chose to breakout. It would be impossible for them to meet up.

  "Let's hope that they can succeed in their operation."

  "Big Brother Ji, perhaps Dream Clouds will send a group over, and when the pressure on our side is reduced, we can have a chance."

  "There are a few hundred thousand people standing guard in Beijing, and Beijing has always been careful and thorough when she does things. She will not move any of her forces over here. Stop letting your mind run wild."

  Once Ji Feng finished speaking, the person who had his hand on the phone and was still receiving information still looked incredibly excited. When he heard Ji Feng's words, he quickly explained, "That side isn't the only place making a break right now. I heard from my classmate that an elite has suddenly appeared at the place we logged off, and he's really good. Right now, he has already killed more than one thousand people. Someone suspects that he is Happy, but he's using a human skin mask."

  "What did you say?!"

  Ji Feng's eyes lit up, and he suddenly became much more spirited. He pushed his hands against the table, and he looked as if he wanted to stuff himself into the screen to reach the side of the person with the phone.

  "Happy? Are you sure it's Happy?"

  "They can't identify him, but he came alone, and he's really strong. He has already sent a lot of the enemies surrounding us scattering. Boss, what do you think?!"