"Lu Yuanchun! You bastard."
Seeing the market's grand formation being torn open, Fairy Feixia's eyes were about to split with rage. Immediately after, however, she made a move completely opposite to Lu Yuanchun's. "Junior Brother, let's join forces!" With a flash of escaping light, Fairy Feixia landed directly in the market.
She then turned around to defend the breach in the grand formation to the death.
"We absolutely cannot let the Divine Martial Sect charge into the market."
Lu Yang glanced at Fairy Feixia upon hearing her words, and his impression of her improved considerably. After all, from her appearance, her vermilion lips were stained with blood and her aura was weak; she was clearly quite injured. If she had fled with Lu Yuanchun, she might have had a chance to escape with her life.
Yet, she chose to stay in the market. She's not an inside agent, is she? Adhering to the idea that there were no good people in the Saint Sect, Lu Yang's first thought was to suspect Fairy Feixia.
The latter also noticed his wary gaze.
"There's no escape!"
Fairy Feixia sighed helplessly. She had actually guessed Lu Yang's thoughts and said in a low voice, "The Divine Martial Sect has been planning this for a long time. Fleeing is a dead end."
"Only by staying to defend and wait for reinforcements is there a sliver of a chance to live!"
Lu Yang was still doubtful upon hearing this.
"If Senior Sister understands this reasoning, how could that Senior Brother Lu not know? If that's the case, why did he flee?"
"Because the treasured jade is with him!"
Speaking of this, Fairy Feixia suddenly became exasperated and said, "The Divine Martial Sect used that Profound Feminine Supreme Yin Treasured Jade as bait to set an ambush. But Lu Yuanchun coveted the treasured jade and seized it by force.
Not only did he drag us all into the trap with him, he even disregarded Senior Brother Chen's life and abandoned us to flee on his own!"
"So, you're saying he fled to escape punishment?"
Lu Yang came to a sudden realization. Apparently, Lu Yuanchun also knew that what he did was improper. If he really stayed in the market, he would sooner or later be held accountable by Fairy Feixia.
That's why he chose such an extreme method. In that case, it was only reasonable that Fairy Feixia didn't flee with Lu Yuanchun. If she had, there was no guarantee she wouldn't have been silenced by him.
"Demons, today is the day you die!"
Brilliant qi and blood illuminated the sky, like clusters of fiery clouds rolling through the air. Finally, a robust man in full armor appeared, the leader of the group, with a ferocious expression.
"It's 'Divine Fist' Wu Zhichong!"
Fairy Feixia's pretty face turned serious as she said in a low voice, "This person is already at the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm, only a step away from Perfection. Junior Brother, you must be extremely careful."
"Senior Brother Chen was struck by his fist, and that's why his magical body collapsed and he died."
Before Fairy Feixia could finish speaking, the robust man named Wu Zhichong was already speeding over on his escaping light. He raised his arm high above his head, pulling it back as if drawing a bow.
"Die!"
The next second, he threw a punch! A piercing sonic boom instantly echoed in all directions. The square fist imprint struck forward like a spearhead.
In that instant, Lu Yang felt as if a mountain was crashing down on him!
Boom!
At the critical moment, Fairy Feixia stepped forward. Her cloud-like sleeves fluttered, and she spat out clusters of glowing clouds wreathed in clear qi, catching Wu Zhichong's punch. In an instant, the rainbow-colored smoke and clouds burst apart.
She had finally managed to block Wu Zhichong outside the market, but the rainbow clouds had lost most of their treasured light as a result. Seeing this, a flash of pain and regret crossed Fairy Feixia's eyes. These rainbow-colored smoke and clouds were a magical artifact of hers called the "Rosy Cloud Gauze Hood."
She had painstakingly refined it for many years, but this time it had been damaged repeatedly. At the same time, another streak of escaping light descended from the sky. After his figure appeared, it was shockingly Lu Yuanchun, who had just fled.
His expression was extremely ugly at this moment, and surprisingly, a cultivator was following behind him.
"'Mountain-Moving Daoist' Duanmu Yuan."
Fairy Feixia's brows furrowed tightly. She recognized the person blocking Lu Yuanchun. It was another late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Martial Sect, whose strength was in no way inferior to hers.
"Lu Yuanchun, if you still want to live, come back! Let's join forces!"
Fairy Feixia said in a deep voice. Although the Divine Martial Sect had come menacingly, in her view, their side still had three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators. It was not a hopeless fight.
Even if Lu Yang came from an ordinary disciple background and had no great divine abilities, dealing with early and mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators would not be a problem.
As long as she and Lu Yuanchun could hold off Wu Zhichong and the Mountain-Moving Daoist, allowing Lu Yang to free his hands to deal with the other disciples from the Divine Martial Sect, there might still be a chance to defend the market!
"... Alright! Then let's fight to the death! Buy me some time!"
As his voice fell, Lu Yuanchun took a deep breath and actually burned his essence blood directly. Clumps of blood light erupted from the top of his head, and his aura instantly surged several times over. Seeing this, Fairy Feixia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
'This person is a disciple of the Heaven Mending Peak Master, after all, a subordinate of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Perhaps he has some powerful techniques. With my help, we should be able to defend the market.'
Thinking of this, Fairy Feixia no longer held back. She once again summoned the "Rosy Cloud Gauze Hood," trying to buy some time.
"Interrupt him!"
Although Wu Zhichong didn't know Lu Yuanchun's divine ability, he couldn't possibly let him use it freely. He immediately shot forward on a streak of escaping light, charging towards Lu Yuanchun.
Seeing this, Fairy Feixia forcefully gathered her True Qi and used every trick she had to block the other late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Martial Sect, the Mountain-Moving Daoist Duanmu Yuan. At the same time, she shouted to Lu Yang beside her, "Junior Brother Lu, act now!
As long as we stop Wu Zhichong, we still have a chance to turn the tables."
"Lu Yang? An ordinary disciple... so what if he broke through to the late-stage Qi Refining Realm?"
Lu Yuanchun glanced at Lu Yang, sneering in his heart. In his eyes, Lu Yang was just a nobody, a minor figure who had gotten lucky to break through to the late stage. He was incomparable to a disciple like himself, one under a Foundation Establishment master.
Thinking of this, he became even more resolute in his thoughts. Fairy Feixia thought there was still a chance to win, but Lu Yuanchun didn't think so. In his opinion, Fairy Feixia had clearly overlooked a decisive factor.
And that was the corpse tide! Even if they could really hold off the people from the Divine Martial Sect, as long as the breach in the formation remained, they would still face total annihilation when the corpse tide arrived! Therefore, in the next second, Lu Yuanchun made his move.
"Behold my divine might!"
As his voice fell, Fairy Feixia's spirits were instantly lifted. She watched as the blood light around Lu Yuanchun condensed, manifesting a magnificent, ferocious demonic shadow. She didn't expect Lu Yuanchun to kill Wu Zhichong outright.
As long as he could severely injure him, there would be hope...
"Blood Shadow Heaven-Escaping Great Art!"
The demonic shadow flashed, and Lu Yuanchun's figure vanished in an instant. He transformed into a streak of blood light, reappearing several hundred meters away and speeding off, away from Skull Mountain. For a moment, Fairy Feixia was completely stunned.
She had clearly underestimated Lu Yuanchun's shamelessness. She had never imagined that Lu Yuanchun was only pretending to cooperate with her, while in reality, he was using her as a shield. However, just at this moment, the sky outside Skull Mountain suddenly darkened.
"Trying to leave? You'd better stay!"
With a cold sneer, the crimson escaping light that Lu Yuanchun had transformed into was struck in half mid-air. He was forced back to Skull Mountain, and his terrified cry could be heard from within the light: "Qi Refining Perfection Realm!?"
His blood escape art, which he had used by burning more than half of his essence blood, could absolutely not be stopped by anyone in the late-stage Qi Refining Realm. The only one who could stop it was a cultivator at the Qi Refining Perfection Realm!
"The heavens want me dead."
Lu Yuanchun's heart was filled with unwillingness. He had gone through so much trouble to snatch the Profound Feminine Supreme Yin Treasured Jade. As long as he escaped with his life, he would surely gain the favor of the Heaven Mending Peak Master.
Especially now that Zhao Xuhe had been abandoned by the Heaven Mending Peak Master, this was his great opportunity! But now, everything had come to nothing. Just then, Lu Yang's voice suddenly sounded in Lu Yuanchun's ear, "Senior Brother Lu, come back to the market first."
"What's the use, now that it has come to this?"
Lu Yuanchun was utterly disheartened, not even having the interest to respond to Lu Yang. After all, in his view, the only difference between Lu Yang and himself at this moment was who would die sooner and who would die later. In the next second, however, Lu Yang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly took a step forward.
His wide sleeves fluttered as his ten fingers flicked continuously. In an instant, he had scattered dozens of formation patterns around the market, breaking the miniature formation the Divine Martial Sect had used to keep the grand formation's breach open. Immediately after, he controlled the formation, and it suddenly closed.
Boom!
In an instant, dense formation patterns emerged, transforming into a curtain of light that enveloped the inside and outside of the market. The grand formation had actually re-sealed itself and was whole once more!
"... Huh?"
Seeing this, Lu Yuanchun's eyes widened instantly. He then shivered and hurriedly controlled his blood light to fly back, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Brother Lu, save me!!!"
(End of this chapter)