Now, Evil Emperor had perfected Great Dao Heart Demonic Seed Art, and he was unprecedentedly stronger. If he rejected the invitation before every player in the world, he would just be making himself less imposing.
But if he really entered a life and death match against Happy, Evil Emperor must face this seriously, because he had lost twice to Happy, and he even lost horribly to him! He had to fairly get over his humiliation with a proper fight.
When Howling Moon said this, the people understood.
"But…" At this moment, his companion, who had been grumbling nonstop, frowned. He used his chin to gesture at the valley. "I know that the battle in West Region is very important, but what about the people inside? The sect master delayed our departure and asked us to stay here to escort both of them. That's not very responsible of him, is it? No matter what, we're supreme-class elites."
"How could you say that?!" Howling Moon glared at him. "That's the disciple of Six-fingered Demonic Zither. You won't be able to win against her, and even if all of us go against her, we might not be able to win against her."
"That's right. She also has Nine Yin Blocked Pulses. During the fight against Dream Clouds, she was the main trump card. But she shouldn't show up during our fight away from the Chinese plains."
"He's right."
"I agree. What if something happens to Wind Chimes outside West Region? Who's going to take responsibility at that time? Instead of having so many of us protect her, it would be better if she doesn't go at all."
Even though Wind Chimes' strength was publicly acknowledged, there were just too many limitations a person with Nine Yin Blocked Pulses faced. Many people felt that it was not a good idea to have Wind Chimes head to West Region, and she was too fragile.
"The sect master should have his own considerations." Howling Moon might also be puzzled by the idea of sending Wind Chimes to West Region, when he recalled how Happy had succeeded in every plan, he chose to trust Happy, and he chose to do it with great seriousness.
However, this explanation could not convince the others.
Besides, this time, among the people they had to escort, there was one who was not famous and was said to be Sect Master Happy's girlfriend a long time ago. This caused the group to have a lot of words to say about this.
They felt that Happy was going overboard by asking them to protect these two women, causing them to be unable to be involved in the fight in West Region normally.
As he faced the group's discussion, Howling Moon spoke in Happy's defense a few more times, but his words did not hold weight.
Their voices traveled faintly into the valley and entered Wind Chimes and Xu Yao's ears.
But against expectations, the two girls did not react. They continued playing their pieces.
Those who practiced the qi cultivation techniques and martial arts of the art of the zither must have good temperaments. Only those who did not seek wealth or fame and were not bothered by anything in the world would be able to succeed in this path.
Also, Xu Yao knew her situation very well. She knew that these people were prideful and displeased, and what they did was understandable. So, she turned the pressure into motivation to continue training. It was not for herself, but for Happy and Wind Chimes. She could not spend her time seething in anger.
When she saw how calm Xu Yao managed to be, Wind Chimes had admiration shine in her eyes.
As she plucked the strings, she continuously showed the gestures for circling, plucking, fl.i.c.k.i.n.g, shaking, swinging, pushing, and lifting.
Her fingers danced, making them look like butterflies moving around each other on the zither strings.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Occasionally, dozens of sound waves that were difficult to locate would turn into invisible arrows. With one shake, they left the zither strings and quietly shot to the area across them.
Every time they reached an area 165 feet away from Xu Yao, they would look like droplets crashing into a gentle wave. In an instant, they were dissolved completely, and not a single ripple could be stirred up.
The zither sounds from Six-fingered Demonic Zither were formed based on the dao of slaughter, and it placed a major emphasis on momentum. Its damage was incredible, and the sound waves that came from Wind Chimes could usually subjugate their enemies through sheer numbers and pressure.
But after learning some things from the sect master of Zither Sect, Wind Chimes learned a pretty decent technique.
If she expressed love through zither sounds, she could lower her enemies' guard, and she could discreetly set up her enemies. Besides, the power in her attacks was great, so it would catch them off guard.
The zither sounds just now were a product of her lessons.
But Xu Yao practiced zither forces, which was a zither technique that could provide protection in all aspects, and it could break Wind Chimes' lingering notes.
Even though she spent qi this way, Zither Sect's martial arts allowed the players to be able to restore their qi quickly when they played. It could also restore their minds in the process.
Although she withstood an attack that dealt quite a lot of damage, Xu Yao was still able to recover part of her strength in just a short time. She continued executing the zither forces and dealt with the attacks at ease.
"Good!"
Wind Chimes was originally not very confident with the thought of Xu Yao protecting her, but when she saw how Xu Yao had calmly parried her strongest killing move, she could not help but look at her in a new light. She became a little interested and reminded Xu Yao by saying, "From now on, I will gradually increase the strength of my offense!"
Xu Yao did not answer. She just played while she nodded to express that she understood.
Clang!
Wind Chimes' aura changed.
Her zither sounds suddenly turned from gentle notes to excited notes! Her gaze turned fierce, and a murderous, domineering presence spread in the air in the valley. For a period of time, the valley seemed to have turned into a battlefield where intense fights were going on.
The sect master was currently applying fertilizer and watering his plants in his garden. When he heard this, he stopped moving and looked in their direction.
Even though the moves he taught Wind Chimes could increase her strength, when it came to continuous explosive attacks, Six-fingered Demonic Zither's style was still more outstanding. After all, that was a zither sound that was born to kill.
When an endless wave of murderous sounds gathered together, even those in the dao of heaven had to face them seriously.
The sect master of Zither Sect was not the only one who noticed this. The supreme-class elites who waited at the entrance of the valley quickly noticed the chance in the valley as well.
When they noticed that Wind Chimes had started throwing murderous sounds at Xu Yao without hiding her murderous aura in the slightest. Their expressions changed!
"What's going on?"
"I thought that Sect Master Happy's girlfriend has only just recently returned to the game."
"Judging by Wind Chimes stance, she looks like… she's sparring with her with everything she has!"
"Hiss…"
When he heard the cries of surprise from his companions beside him, Howling Moon frowned, and in disbelief, he looked at Wind Chimes and Xu Yao.
But he did not speak. Instead, he kept a close eye on Wind Chimes and Xu Yao's expressions while he watched them quietly.
A mighty river of sound blades quickly left Wind Chimes' zither sounds. The sound blade river quickly swelled up to reach a diameter of 32 feet. With a domineering presence that charged forward to devour the mountains and rivers, it rose to the air in the valley and charged down at Xu Yao.
Xue Yao's expression became stern.
But her hands never stopped moving.
Her fingers moved even slower than before.
Every time she plucked the strings, it would be accompanied by a thick tremolo.
When the sound blade
river reached an area 16 feet away from Xu Yao, a silver white, crystalline circle that was about 2 feet long appeared in front of her.
The zither force rose!
In an instant, countless fierce sound blades rang and charged at the zither force in a nonstop wave.
Shatter! Shatter!
The sound blades seemed to have become real weapons with physical shape. They crashed against the zither force clearly and let out sharp sounds.
Ten! Twenty! Thirty!
In the blink of an eye, one-third of the river of sound blades crashed against the zither force.
As time passed, more sound blades shattered. Wind Chimes' expression turned even more complicated and strange. She looked happy as well as dejected.
She did not hold back in the attack just now!
Even though she did not use the Nine Golden Needle Transformative Acupressure Technique, when she attacked at full strength, all her attacks would not lose to someone at the peak of Inaction Realm. Even the normal supreme-class elite would find himself coughing up blood from internal injuries if he had ten blows land on him.
But the successor of Zither Sect's master had only trained for a few days, and within such a short time, she had managed to turn from a nobody to someone who could withstand half of the damage from the sound blade river.
Xu Yao slowly stopped and put her hands on the zither strings. The silver white zither force in front of her was already in tatters. Wind Chimes knew that Xu Yao would not be able to last much longer.
Just when she was about to cancel the remaining half of her attack, she saw Xu Yao suddenly make a motion that she found very familiar!
Bang!
Xu Yao quickly pulled a zither string taut.
Wind Chimes was shocked.
Boom!
A loud sound rose, and the heavily damaged silver white zither force exploded!
The zither force looked like something with physical form. It exploded outward and turned into countless sharp sounds. An astonishing power came out of it, and it effortlessly shattered the remaining of the sound blade river.
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Boom!
Countless thin sound waves crashed against each other. The shattered sound waves spilled in every direction, and they blew at the valley until it was a disorderly mess.
Howling Moon and the others stood up in shock. They stared at Wind Chimes and Xu Yao, who remained in the valley with calm expressions. They could not believe their eyes.
They could sense the terrifying, endless damage from the sound blade river Wind Chimes created just now. Wind Chimes had not held back in her attack just now, and she attacked with her full strength. That meant that ten normal supreme-class elites had attacked at the same time, and all of them believed that they could not handle it.
But Xu Yao, to whom they had been underestimating all this while, faced the pressure calmly and coolly neutralized Wind Chimes' powerful attack.
Even though Xu Yao's face was pale after she withstood the attack, what they saw just now was still enough to make Howling Moon and the others stop underestimating her. They now regarded her in a new light.
"That's amazing!" Wind Chimes' eyes shone. She stopped playing her zither and praised Xu Yao. "Zither Sect's skills are indeed unique. In just a short time, you manage to take down a full-powered strike from me. That's great! When we're in the battlefield, with you around, that means that I will constantly have more than ten supreme-class elites protecting me. As long as we don't run into Evil Emperor, the Wild Wolves won't be able to do anything to us…"
"Yes."
After she managed to fend against Wind Chimes' attack, Xu Yao was also very excited.
Death of the Zither was the most domineering defensive measure in the martial art she practiced. At the moment her zither force shattered, she could reflect all the damage her zither force absorbed using a unique method. Withstanding half of the sound blade river already caused her to be near her limit, but if she reflected the damage she absorbed, she could create an attack that would catch her enemies off guard.
"Once Happy sends the Fire Qilin Blood over, my qi will increase by twenty points, and if I train for a period of time while we're on the way, once I reach West Region, my zither force will become even stronger." While Xu Yao enjoyed Wind Chimes' praise, she came to the decision that she could not remain idle on the road either.
The two girls did not notice that the supreme-class elites at the entrance of the valley had already stood up, and they were watching them with strange and shocked gazes. Even after a long time had passed, they could not calm down.
But it was no wonder why they could not.
Wind Chimes was strong because she had Nine Yin Blocked Pulses, and she did not need to be afraid of anyone aside from Evil Emperor working together to fight against her, but due to her frail body, she always gave off the feeling that she was fragile and in danger. She did not seem reliable.
But the appearance of Xu Yao, the second zither master, gave Holwing Moon and the others an unprecedented shock.
The fight just now might not be able to show much, but Howling Moon and the rest were not foolish people. They could guess that once Xu Yao's qi realm increased, she would definitely become a zither master who did not lose to Wind Chimes in the slightest. In fact, she did not need to lose all her qi cultivation after she died!
It was at that moment that Howling Moon and the rest understood.
They now knew why Happy had deliberately asked them to come to the valley to escort Wind Chimes and Xu Yao.
Once these two zither masters entered West Region, they would definitely form a power that was not to be underestimated. In fact, they would become pillars that could determine the direction of the fight.
When they thought of this, Howling Moon and the rest instantly had their gazes turn intense.
Howling Moon composed himself and quickly summoned the group to his side. He began seriously mobilizing the forces to defend the two girls while he mapped out their path to the west.
Now, they understood how important the two girls were, so Howling Moon and the others naturally did not dare to be inattentive to them. Howling Moon began to carefully make plans.
"Why isn't Happy here yet?
"Judging by the time, he should have arrived two hours ago.
"Did something happen to him?"
While Wind Chimes and Xu Yao trained, they sent private messages to each other.
"Don't worry, with Happy's current strength, no one can cause trouble to him. He must have noticed something on his way, that's why he can't come.
"If he's not here yet, we should seize the time to train a little more. When we're in West Region, our chances of survival will also increase."
"Yeah."
The two girls got rid of all unnecessary thoughts and focused on continuing their sparring. They forgot about everything else.
Wind Chimes and Xu Yao did not know that Happy was currently in a mountain not very far from Zither Sect's valley, and he was being suppressed by Sword Sect's sect protection formation.
Right now, things were very lively in Sword Sect.
The sword nets that symbolized death overlapped with each other densely. They tightly locked down on the entire space in every direction.
With each breath, hundreds of sword qis would shoot forward from all directions, releasing destruction in their wake.
The sword formation itself contained a destructive presence that could destroy everything, and if a mosquito entered the formation, it would definitely be shredded to pieces.
'As expected of a sect protecting formation that is as famous as the sect protection items in the other sects…'
Happy was currently feeling a little regretful.
Even though he had used Wild Fights in All Directions and Full Winds in Long Skies in the beginning to easily push the One Thousand Sword Formation away as well as tear open a gap for Thousand-faced Human Fox to escape, at that time, the fo
rmation had not been fully activated.
Even after dozens of people were injured or killed, the Sword Sect disciples would just continuously fill up their positions. Each person had stopped underestimating him, and their attacks became very meticulous.
Now, more than one thousand Inaction Realm Sword Sect disciples attacked at full force, and the damage of the formation instantly increased by leaps and bounds.
In the beginning, he could still use Petite Dragon to handle it, but they just kept modifying the formation.
He could no longer avoid it with Petite Dragon!
If it were not because he had Heavenly Demon Armor with him and could reduce the damage by half and also had Tendon Changing Classic as well as Marrow Cleansing Classic protecting him, even if he had his true origin aura, he might not be able to survive.
Every time the sword qis came down at him like a clamp, it would take away nearly one-third of Happy's true origin aura.
Happy was so shocked that he was actually terrified.
Dragon Swings Its Tail!
He instantly vanished from the spot and delivered dozens of palm-generated gusts.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A group of Sword Sect disciples grunted and fell down while coughing up blood.
But after they activated the One Thousand Sword Formation, the Sword Sect disciples became used to Happy's methods. Soon, they locked down on him again. As their qi activity guided them, countless sword qis charged forward like shooting tails with long, dazzling tails trailing behind them. They shot forward from all directions and arrived around him once more.
"Damn it!"
It was only at that moment that Happy finally understood just how frightening the sect protection formation was!
Wave-like Subtle Steps!
Even though he increased his speed to the max, he could not avoid having some of the sword qis touch him. His true origin aura became weaker.
This happened a few times, and his true origin aura immediately became incredibly weak.
Happy took some time to check his Supreme Technique of the World and found that it leveled up really quickly in the sect protecting formation. Each palm strike he delivered, he could push it up by another 0.1 level, and in one go, he managed to make it level up by two levels. However, after a few rounds of attacks, his qi had dropped to a dangerously low level, and even so, the Supreme Technique of the World had only increased by three realms.
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