Chapter 138 Despair in the Valley

But he saw, Yuan Qi launched a strike, qi energy spurting from his fingertips.

Indeed, attacking the waves with fists can only destroy a single point in the tide, but sometimes… victory or defeat hinges on that point.

Du Ying possessed immense internal energy, like the sea, but he was powerless in the face of this momentary attack and defense…

Shhh—

After a soft whistle, the internal energy of the Ming Chen Xuan Gong burst forth from his fingertips.

At the last moment, Du Ying retracted and harmonized the internal energy of the Wuxi Gong, guarding his life gate.

However, the effect of this move was just… to prevent him from dying on the spot.

Du Ying’s name contained the character “win,” but that didn’t mean he would.

The winner… was Yuan Qi.

Alliance Leader Yuan’s aptitude was ordinary, but he had already comprehended his own fighting style in countless real battles. No matter what kind of opponent or martial art he encountered, he could almost instantly see through their weaknesses. And this… was his true magic weapon for standing at the pinnacle of the martial world.

“To be honest…” After one move, Yuan Qi calmly said, “…I’m disappointed.” Before he finished speaking, the look in his eyes changed, becoming the same as when he looked at others, “Someone like you, no matter how talented… shouldn’t practice martial arts, nor should you make a name for yourself in the martial world.” He paused, “Because… you lack the most basic fighting spirit that a martial artist should have.”

“Heh…” Hearing this, Du Ying smiled bitterly. At this moment, his Dantian qi gate was broken, causing his internal breath to be greatly disrupted. The seemingly endless true qi had dissipated, and it would be impossible to circulate his energy for a while… Knowing that he had become a lamb to the slaughter, Du Ying was no longer angry. He replied with relief, “A person in the martial world can't help himself… If I could have chosen from the beginning, I wouldn't have wanted to get involved in the martial world. Unfortunately… when I could ‘choose,’ I was already the Demon Cult’s leader with great mastery of divine skills.”

“‘Choose’?” Yuan Qi looked at the other party coldly, “What did you choose?”

“To retire to the mountains and forests, to withdraw from the martial world,” Du Ying replied.

“No, that’s not right,” Yuan Qi denied.

“Not right?” Du Ying asked suspiciously.

“Not right.” Yuan Qi said, raising his eyes to look at the thirty-odd people behind Du Ying, “You and these people who were forced to flee into Burial Heart Valley are no different… You think that coming here will abandon the ‘past,’ but on the contrary, it is because of your ‘past’ that you are trapped here. Regardless of whether you came here to retire, escape, or for some other reason, in the final analysis… it is all ‘self-deception’.”

At this point, Yuan Qi had already raised his palm, preparing to send Du Ying "on his way": "Wherever there are people, there is the martial world. If you really want to quit… then go to the underworld to meet the real Yama!"

With that, the palm struck.

Yuan Qi only used twenty percent of his power for this strike, it seems that he intended to leave the other party with a complete corpse.

Du Ying had also accepted his fate, he was just silently waiting for this not-very-strong palm to strike his heavenly spirit.

But! At this moment…

A flash of saber light suddenly appeared, like a thunderbolt, striking Yuan Qi’s right arm.

In that instant, surprise first appeared on Yuan Qi’s face!

“What’s going on?” Alliance Leader Yuan immediately thought, “This kind of saber energy… is not issued with internal force?”

While thinking, he hurriedly retracted his hand and retreated hastily… then looked warily at the sky.

Seconds later, the people of Burial Heart Valley and the martial heroes on both sides also showed surprise, and all looked up at the direction from which the saber light came.

What appeared in their eyes first was white.

Snow-like white.

White clothes fluttering, light breeze moving the hem.

Then it was red.

Blood-like red.

The blood cherry blossoms dotted on the white clothes swayed in the wind.

After a moment, a graceful figure landed gently.

At this time, what people saw… was still white and red.

Snow-white skin, stunning beauty, made everyone’s eyes focus on her.

At this moment, everyone present was stunned. Everyone was very sure… that they had never seen the heroine in front of them in their lives, because if they had, they would definitely remember her.

So, a question appeared in people’s minds—who is she?

“Who… is coming?” Yuan Qi was the first to come back to his senses.

It must be said that Alliance Leader Yuan’s temperament was more than one level higher than the others around him. Even if he was amazed by Xu Huai Shang's beauty in his heart, he would not allow himself to be shaken just because a beautiful woman appeared in front of him.

“Xu Huai Shang.” Xu Huai Shang reported her name.

“Girl.” Yuan Qi stared at her, “I have never seen you, nor have I heard of your name.” He glanced at the saber mark on the ground to his side, and continued, “I wonder… what is your intention in interfering with my duel with Du Ying?”

Xu Huai Shang’s answer was also concise: “We… are under Yama’s orders…”

When she said the word “we,” the other three members of the Red Cherry team [Blood Rose], [Hyacinth], and [Iron Begonia] also descended from the sky one after another, standing on the same front as the captain.

“…to take your lives.” After saying the second half of the sentence, Xu Huai Shang did not move.

The three of Red Cherry also followed closely behind, instantly killing their way out.

They didn’t seem to need the people in the valley to help. Relying on only four people, they charged towards the enemy formation of more than two hundred people in front.

“Be careful!” In the next second, Yuan Qi immediately shouted.

This was the first time he had directly issued instructions to the martial heroes in battle, because he knew… that the four opponents in front of him were extremely dangerous. If he didn’t say this, the group of people behind him might suffer heavy casualties in an instant.

Chi Ying—Chi Ying—

Two flashes of saber light, the sound of sabers rang out.

Xu Huai Shang came like an arrow, without hesitation making Yuan Qi the target of her first kill.

Yuan Qi’s reaction was also swift. He immediately drew his sword and channeled his energy, rolling his hand back to meet the opponent’s double blades.

Xu Huai Shang’s saber was very fast, because she was a player, and her physical fitness had already surpassed the limits of normal humans.

Previously, when fighting the Desert Saber King Di Hou, Yuan Qi could still avoid the saber with ease and defeat him with one blow. But facing Xu Huai Shang’s attack, Yuan Qi chose to “block”.

“Who exactly is she…” After one move, Yuan Qi’s doubts grew even stronger, “Looking at her appearance… she is at most twenty years old; but this kind of external martial arts cultivation is definitely not something that someone of this age can achieve…”

Clang—Clang—Clang—

Before Yuan Qi could settle his thoughts, Xu Huai Shang attacked with several more sabers.

Her double sabers were too fast. When a person’s saber is so fast, her saber is already omnipresent.

If Yuan Qi was not using a cloth sword, but a weapon with a fixed shape, he would probably have already been defeated.

“Why…” Yuan Qi became more and more frightened as he fought. He had not experienced this feeling of rolling on the tip of a knife for many years, “Why doesn’t she have any internal force flow when she uses this kind of lightness skill and saber technique?”

In fact, the answer to this question is very simple… because the energy system controlled by the players is different from theirs.

However, as an NPC in the script, it is impossible for Yuan Qi to transcend his own dimension to get this answer. Therefore, Alliance Leader Yuan, who couldn’t figure out the opponent’s moves and couldn’t feel the opponent’s true qi flow… could only rely on his pure five senses to judge the opponent’s next move.

Considering that the basic physical fitness of the two sides was not at the same level at all, it was only natural that Alliance Leader Yuan was at a disadvantage.

On the other hand, the battle of the other three members of Red Cherry had also begun.

Their method can be called barbaric, but it is very effective, to put it bluntly—random shooting.

Iron Begonia is a player specializing in weaponry and ranged attacks. The guns she usually carries in her luggage… are more than what Gu Xiao Ling carries. At this moment, she, Blood Rose, and Hyacinth each took two submachine guns and started shooting at the crowd.

Those martial artists did recognize firearms, but they didn’t know what to do with these guns, which were at least hundreds of years ahead of their time… even if they were placed in front of them.

As a result, in less than ten seconds, sixty or seventy people died in shock.

Watching the experts from various sects fall like wheat, the people on the Burial Heart Valley side were shocked. They deduced from the blood holes on the dead that… these people should have died from some kind of “hidden weapon”. But they couldn’t see the flight path of these hidden weapons at all, they could only hear the sound of “tutututu” firing.

“Ah… If Xiao Ling was here, we would have at least taken down one Red Cherry member with a sniper rifle by now, right?”

On the edge of the mountain, Hua Jian sighed as he looked at the scene in the distance.

“The rest of the Red Cherry members would also lose their composure due to their concerns about the sniper,” Ruo Yu replied, “The surrounding NPCs can become excellent assistants to us.”

Once again, he was hit by reasonable and well-founded demolition remarks, Feng Bu Jue responded with squinting eyes: “Are you two not done yet… Don’t you just want to say that I made a wrong decision?”

“Yes,” Ruo Yu and Hua Jian replied in unison.

“Okay!” Feng Bu Jue slapped his thigh, “I will use practical actions to prove… that it’s the same even without a sniper!”

With that, he didn’t care about his teammates’ reactions and jumped directly into the valley.

“Heh… This is going to be a good show.” Although Cao Qin couldn’t understand the words “sniper” and the like, he could still understand the context of these few from Hell Front, so he basically understood… what Feng Liao Zhu was going to do.

Bang—

Feng Bu Jue, who came into mid-air, stomped his feet with Moon Steps, consciously making a loud noise.

His actions naturally attracted the attention of many people.

Of course, these “many people” are basically from the Burial Heart Valley forces. The martial artists are all busy at the moment… Basically, 90% of the survivors are running around with their heads in their hands, and only a few more powerful people are using martial arts to resist bullets…

“Who is that again?”

“I don’t know… never seen him before.”

“Could it be that he is also a reinforcement sent by Yama?”

“Not necessarily… maybe he’s here to break into the valley too.”

“Are there really such outstanding juniors in the martial world?”

They said one after another, while Jue Ge was walking, step by step… in the air, rushing in with Moon Steps.

When Feng Bu Jue was only twenty meters away from the ground, he suddenly twisted his body and kicked out a string of cyan light towards the three members of Red Cherry.

At this time, the members of Red Cherry naturally noticed his movements. They immediately dispersed in three directions, avoiding the attack of the Lan Jiao, and turned their guns to start shooting at Feng Bu Jue.

“Ha! You want to hurt me with ordinary firearms?” Jue Ge, who was hovering in mid-air, didn’t even intend to dodge. Not only did he not dodge, but he also stopped in place and said sarcastically.

Obviously, he had absolute confidence that he could be unharmed in the hail of bullets. And the source of this confidence… was the two pieces of equipment on his body.

One is his belt—[i_wAnnA_Be_A_BeLt].

After the accumulation of n scripts, this “growth-type” equipment has begun to show its heaven-defying real power…

When he first got it, the defense power of this equipment was only “weak”, but over time… relying on the special effect of “every time it is attacked, the equipment will increase a little bit of defense power”, this thing’s defense has already been “raised” to “extremely strong”.

This is also why… in the last round of the competition with Knife Edge, the child-shaped Feng Bu Jue ate a [Shield Slam] from Long Ao Min, who was nearly an adult size, and was not killed in seconds.

In addition… he also has the second piece of divine equipment, [1320’s Mean Armor].

The special effect of “Ranged attacks with an intensity rating of ‘strong’ or lower are ineffective”, coupled with the defense power which is also at the “extremely strong” level, and the “buffer” attribute, can all be said to be the nemesis of bullets.

In terms of Feng Bu Jue’s current defense capabilities, technology-based ranged attacks… can only be effective with heavy firepower weapons and special ammunition.

“Tch… are you deliberately coming to disrupt the situation when we’re doing side quests…” Seeing that Jue Ge didn’t eat ordinary ammunition, Blood Rose immediately came up with a plan and said to her teammates, “Hyacinth, Iron Begonia, you continue to do the task… I will hold him back!”

Before she finished speaking, Blood Rose had already taken out a feather from her luggage and activated the summoning skill.

In the white light, a giant eagle was transformed. This change made all the NPCs looking here stand in shock… At this moment, most of them have attributed the sudden appearance of these men and women to “evil ways” or “immortals” and the like, and gave up further speculation.

“Although your growth-type summoned creature is very powerful…” Feng Bu Jue looked at Blood Rose on the back of the giant eagle and muttered, “But you want to hold me back with your own strength… isn’t that a bit too naive!”

With a shout, Lan Jiao came out again.

This time, Jue Ge used the aerial version of [Lan Jiao-Group Wolf Comet]; the sharp and chaotic offensive crisscrossed and窜向 the giant eagle that was about to take off, and it was impossible to avoid it.

Unexpectedly…

Just as Feng Bu Jue’s attack was about to succeed, a torrent of true qi suddenly rolled in from the side, actually causing the large pieces of attacks kicked out by Lan Jiao to change direction and deviate from the target.

Because of this change, Blood Rose’s giant eagle also successfully took off and came to hover higher than Jue Ge.

“Hoh~ Ben Liao Zhu didn’t come to provoke you, but you took the initiative to court death…” Feng Bu Jue’s expression changed, and he turned to look at Du Ying in the distance, “It seems that I can only solve you together…”