Chapter 39: Enemy Attack

“Lu Yuanchun! You bastard!.”

Seeing a breach torn open in the market’s grand formation, Fairy Feixia’s eyes split with rage. Immediately after, she took an action completely opposite to Lu Yuanchun’s.

“Junior Brother, let’s join hands!”

With a flash of light, Fairy Feixia landed directly in the market, then turned around to defend the breach in the grand formation to the death. “We absolutely cannot let the Divine Martial Sect rush into the market…”

Lu Yang glanced at Fairy Feixia upon hearing this, his opinion of her changing considerably. After all, looking at her appearance—her vermilion lips stained with blood, her aura withered—she had clearly suffered significant injuries. If she ran with Lu Yuanchun, there might be a hope of escaping with her life, yet she chose to stay in the market.

Could she be the mole?

Adhering to the idea that there are no good people in the Saint Sect, Lu Yang immediately suspected Fairy Feixia. The latter also noticed his vigilant gaze.

“We can’t escape!”

Fairy Feixia sighed helplessly, actually guessing Lu Yang’s thoughts. She whispered, “The Divine Martial Sect has planned this for a long time. Fleeing is a dead end.”

“Only by staying to defend and waiting for reinforcements is there a glimmer of hope for survival!”

Lu Yang still had doubts upon hearing this. “Senior Sister understands this principle— how could that Senior Brother Lu not know? Since that’s the case, why did he flee?”

“Because the precious jade is with him!”

Speaking of this, Fairy Feixia instantly became flustered and exasperated. “The Divine Martial Sect used that [Mystic Yin Sacred Jade] as bait to set an ambush. But Lu Yuanchun coveted the precious jade and forcibly seized it. Not only did he implicate us all in the trap, but he also disregarded Senior Brother Chen’s life and death, leaving us behind to flee by himself!”

“So, he is fleeing to escape punishment?”

Lu Yang suddenly realized. Clearly, Lu Yuanchun also knew what he did was unethical. If he really stayed in the market, sooner or later Fairy Feixia would settle the score with him.

That was why he chose such extreme measures.

In this way, it was reasonable that Fairy Feixia didn’t run away with Lu Yuanchun. If she really did that, there was no guarantee she wouldn’t be killed by him to silence her.

“Demons, today is the day you die!”

Brilliant blood and Qi illuminated the dome of the sky, rolling through the air like clusters of burning clouds. Finally, a burly man clad in armor and wielding sharp weapons appeared. The leader looked ferocious.

“It’s ‘Divine Fist’ Wu Zhichong!”

Fairy Feixia’s pretty face was solemn as she whispered, “This person is already at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, only one step away from Great Perfection. Junior Brother, be extremely careful.”

“Senior Brother Chen was hit by one of his punches, causing his body to collapse and die…”

Before Fairy Feixia’s voice fell, the burly man named Wu Zhichong had already arrived riding a streak of light. He raised his arm high above his head, pulling it back as if drawing a bow.

“Die!”

In the next second, a punch was thrown!

An ear-piercing sonic boom instantly resounded everywhere. The square fist imprint struck straight at the vital point. In an instant, Lu Yang felt as if a mountain was crashing down on his face!

BOOM!

At the critical moment, Fairy Feixia stepped forward. Her cloud sleeves fluttered, and clusters of clear Qi-wreathed light clouds spewed out, catching Wu Zhichong’s punch.

Instantly, the rosy clouds and smoke exploded cluster by cluster, finally blocking Wu Zhichong outside the market. However, the rosy clouds also lost most of their treasure light because of this.

Seeing this scene, a trace of pain flashed through Fairy Feixia’s eyes.

These rosy clouds and smoke were one of her Artifacts, named “[Rosy Cloud Smoke Net].” It was refined through her painstaking efforts over many years, but now it was damaged repeatedly.

At the same time, another streak of light fell from the sky.

After revealing his figure, it was surprisingly Lu Yuanchun who had just fled. At this moment, his face looked extremely ugly. At the same time, another cultivator was actually following behind him.

“‘Daoist Mountain-Mover’ Duanmu Yuan…”

Fairy Feixia frowned tightly, recognizing the person intercepting Lu Yuanchun. It was another Late Stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Martial Sect. In terms of strength, he was not weaker than her in the slightest.

“Lu Yuanchun, come back if you want to live. Let’s join forces!”

Fairy Feixia said in a deep voice. Although the Divine Martial Sect came aggressively, in her view, their side still had three Late Stage Qi Refining cultivators, so victory wasn’t hopeless.

Even if Lu Yang came from an ordinary disciple background and didn’t possess any Divine Abilities, dealing with Initial and Middle Stage Qi Refining cultivators shouldn’t be a problem. As long as she and Lu Yuanchun could hold off Wu Zhichong and Duanmu Yuan, allowing Lu Yang to free up his hands to deal with the other Divine Martial Sect disciples, there might still be a chance to defend the market!

“…Fine! Then let’s fight to the death. Buy me time!”

As his voice fell, Lu Yuanchun took a deep breath. He actually burned his Blood Essence directly, spewing clusters of blood light from the top of his skull. His aura instantly surged several times over.

Seeing this scene, Fairy Feixia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This person is after all a disciple of the Heaven-Mending Peak Master. Perhaps he has some powerful methods. With my assistance, we should be able to hold the market…

Thinking of this, Fairy Feixia didn’t hold back anymore. She sacrificed the “[Rosy Cloud Smoke Net]” again, attempting to buy time.

“Interrupt him!”

Although Wu Zhichong didn’t know Lu Yuanchun’s Divine Ability, he couldn’t possibly let him perform it freely. He immediately rode a streak of light to charge towards Lu Yuanchun’s direction.

Seeing this, Fairy Feixia forcefully raised her True Qi, using all her skills to intercept the other Late Stage Qi Refining cultivator of the Divine Martial Sect, Daoist Mountain-Mover Duanmu Yuan. At the same time, she shouted loudly to Lu Yang beside her, “Junior Brother Lu, attack quickly! As long as we hold off 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?”

Lu Yuanchun glanced at Lu Yang and sneered in his heart.

In his eyes, Lu Yang was nothing more than a nobody, a minor character who struck luck to break through to the Late Stage. He couldn’t compare to a disciple of a Foundation Establishment like himself.

Thinking of this, he became even more resolute in his thoughts.

Fairy Feixia felt there was still a chance of winning, but Lu Yuanchun didn’t think so. Because in his view, Fairy Feixia obviously overlooked a decisive factor.

That was the corpse tide!

Even if they could truly block the Divine Martial Sect members, as long as the breach in the formation remained, when the corpse tide arrived, the outcome would still be total annihilation!

Therefore, Lu Yuanchun made his move in the next second.

“Witness my divine might!”

As his voice fell, Fairy Feixia’s spirit was instantly lifted, watching the blood light around Lu Yuanchun condense, manifesting a magnificent demonic shadow with a fierce and malicious appearance.

She didn’t ask Lu Yuanchun to kill Wu Zhichong directly—as long as he inflicted heavy damage, there was hope…

“[Blood Shadow Sky-Escape Great Art]!”

With a flash of the demonic shadow, Lu Yuanchun’s figure vanished instantly, transforming into a streak of blood light appearing hundreds of meters away, speeding away out of [Skull Mountain].

For a moment, Fairy Feixia watched dumbfounded.

She had clearly underestimated Lu Yuanchun’s shamelessness. She completely hadn’t expected that Lu Yuanchun feigned cooperation with her, but in reality, actually used her as a shield.

However, just then, the sky outside [Skull Mountain] suddenly darkened.

“Trying to leave? Better stay behind!”

With a sneer, the blood-colored flight light transformed from Lu Yuanchun was actually struck and broken in the middle, forced to return to [Skull Mountain]. Lu Yuanchun’s terrified scream came from within—

“Qi Refining Great Perfection!?”

The Blood Escape he performed by burning more than half of his Blood Essence—absolutely no one at the Late Stage of Qi Refining could intercept it. The only ones who could intercept it were at the Perfection of Qi Refining!

“Heaven wants me dead…”

Lu Yuanchun’s heart was filled with unwillingness. He had snatched the [Mystic Yin Sacred Jade] with great difficulty. As long as he escaped with his life, he would definitely gain the regard of the Heaven-Mending Peak Master.

Especially now that Zhao Xuhe had been abandoned by the Heaven-Mending Peak Master, it was his opportunity!

But now, everything came to naught.

Just then, Lu Yang’s voice suddenly came to Lu Yuanchun’s ears— “Senior Brother Lu, return to the market first…”

“What use is it now that things have come to this?”

Lu Yuanchun was utterly disheartened, not even interested in responding to Lu Yang. After all, in his view, the difference between him and Lu Yang now was just dying sooner or dying later…

In the next second, Lu Yang, who had been silent until now, suddenly took a step forward. His large sleeves fluttered, and his ten fingers flicked repeatedly. In an instant, he scattered dozens of Formation Patterns around the market, breaking the miniature small formation the Divine Martial Sect used to fix the breach in the grand formation. Immediately after, he manipulated the formation to close abruptly.

BOOM!

Instantly, densely packed Formation Patterns emerged, transforming into a light screen enveloping the inside and outside of the market. The grand formation actually re-sealed just like that, restored to completeness!

“…Huh?”

Lu Yuanchun’s eyes widened instantly upon seeing this. Then, with a shudder, he hurriedly manipulated the blood light to fly back, shouting loudly— “Brother Lu, save me!!!”

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