Chapter 440: Chapter 271 Heroic Spirit Spreads, A Hero Is To Kill! (Please Subscribe)_2
Duan Yun, wielding his Blood Shadow Mad Blade, slashed a bloody streak of Sword Light, instantly tearing a gash through the surging ant tide.
He swiftly darted out, wanting to check on the camels.
At that moment, he saw the three camels, frightened, had scurried about ten steps away—only about ten steps.
Because at this instant, their bodies were already covered by ants, turning from camel-colored to black.
The crimson flesh stained the ants, and the ants continued to swarm, looking like a flowing river of blood.
When the first camel fell, its skull was already exposed.
The ability of these ants to devour flesh was horrifying!
Suddenly, Duan Yun felt a darkness above his head as a large clump of ants, like a cloud, fell from the boat straight onto his head.
Just as the ants were about to bite through his hair and into his scalp, a sudden sharp piercing noise arose.
A layer of white, Breaking Body Sword Energy, erupted from the top of Duan Yun’s head and shoulders, stabbing the ants to death.
"Breaking Body Sword Energy!"
Simultaneously, he emanated a silk-like Sword Qi all over his body, including his cheeks, looking like a Sword Man enveloped in Sword Qi.
This Breaking Body Sword Energy, excellent at killing mosquitos, now proved just as effective against ants.
Inside the boat, Fist Power and Sword Qi crisscrossed.
Shen Ying and Feng Ling’er each displayed their Divine Skills, and with the roaring Fist Power and winding Sword Qi, slaughtering ants tore the boat apart, much like using cannonballs to swat mosquitos.
Unfortunately, the ants were literally everywhere, seemingly endless, with some seizing the gaps to rush towards Shen Ying and Feng Ling’er.
The next moment, with a boom,
Duan Yun landed, standing in front of the two women, causing a ripple-like swirl of black Breaking Body Sword Energy.
Due to frequently slaying mosquitos, Duan Yun’s mastery over manipulating Breaking Body Sword Energy had become ever more effortless, effortlessly forming rippling circles of energy.
Feng Ling’er and Shen Ying both leapt aside, dodging the rippling Sword Qi, while the ants on the ground were churned over.
These ants were not small, and blood quickly poured out, reeking unbearably.
However, the ants were densely packed; slaughtering one circle, another surged forward in an instant, even gnawing holes through the boat’s deck, falling through.
Shen Ying swung a furious punch, the ants above with the Fist Power shooting skyward, shattering into a mix of black and crimson mist.
"I’ve got this!"
"Damn it, give me back my camel!"
In his rage, Duan Yun referred to the camels as horses.
That moment, he held a Yuxiao in his hands, his Sword Qi falling like frenzied shadows, the Yuxiao emitting sounds, spattering numerous sparks of electricity.
"Endless Electric Sword!"
Duan Yun’s Endless Electric Sword excelled in ricocheting and linking, creating wild electricity upon connection.
Now, amidst the densely crowded ant swarm, this essentially maximized the features of the Endless Electric Sword.
Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!
The electricity linked up wherever the Electric Sword passed, the sound of electricity nonstop.
Groups of ants were electrocuted en masse, bellies turned skywards, emitting a burning stench.
For a moment, Duan Yun recaptured the exhilarating feeling from his childhood of frying ants with a lighter.
No, a thousand times more exhilarating.
Back then, he could only electrocute one at a time; now, it was tens of thousands.
The Electric Sword wildly linked and ricocheted through the ant swarm, turning the surroundings into a sea of thunder and lightning, dazzling Shen Ying and Feng Ling’er.
The numbers of this ant swarm were shocking, like a raging tide.
Even the large and resilient camels could be devoured in a few breaths’ time.
It could be said that they were a moving natural disaster in this desert, virtually without natural enemies.
But in this moment, they met their match.
This man, radiating electricity and Sword Qi, with every move, caused swathes of ants to fall.
These ricocheting Electric Swords were much more efficient than the spread of a plague.
In less than the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the once majestic swarm of ants couldn’t withstand his continued assault.
Midway, the ant swarm felt something was amiss and began to scatter and flee.
But Young Hero Duan, when he acts, always aims to cut off future generations.
Thus, the expressions of Feng Ling’er and Shen Ying were very rich.
At first, they were panicked and disgusted by the swarming ants, instinctively repulsed and frightened by such dense creatures, but as soon as Duan Yun’s sword light flashed, they breathed a sigh of relief, believing themselves to be safe and their expressions relaxed considerably. Then came the display of the Endless Electric Sword’s divine might, making their eyes dazzle, unable to help squinting.
At this moment, they watched, wide-eyed, as Duan Yun, having already crushed the ant swarm, surprisingly picked up his sword and chased after them, which seemed a bit foolish.
Even the ants have to have their entire families killed?
He chased them down for a full seven miles, killing every remaining ant that still presented some threat, even using Sword Qi in the east to break open a huge hole in the yellow sand, annihilating all the ants that had fled underground before Duan Yun returned.
When he left, the ground was strewn with the charred bodies of ants. Upon his return, the scent of slaughter was even thicker, as if he had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
In the eyes of Shen Ying and Feng Ling’er, if the lives of ants count as lives, then he was probably now carrying countless ant spirits with him.
The entire ant family had been cleanly wiped out, and the cold desert wind was noisy, unable to disperse the stench of the ant corpses for a while.
Even though this batch of ants could be said to have been annihilated, Young Hero Duan was still cursing.
Because the desert camels he had paid a heavy price for were all dead.
Worse, most of the water bags and alcohol placed on the camels were gone too.
In the desert to prevent evaporation of moisture, both alcohol and water were carried in sheepskin bags.
But the ants’ corrosive power was extremely strong, having punctured all the sheepskin bags, so the water and alcohol were also lost.
Now, they only had the three sheepskin bags they carried with them.
Of these three sheepskin bags, Feng Ling’er’s contained less than a third of the alcohol, while Duan Yun and Shen Ying’s only had half left.
Who could have anticipated that on their first night in the desert, they would suffer such heavy losses because of the ants?
The three began to consider whether to return to Crescent Bay to resupply.
Normally, people would definitely go back to resupply, because in this desert, such a small amount of water was not enough to survive.
Duan Yun analyzed: "These mud figures must have been purposely placed by someone, harboring these man-eating ants specifically to harm people."
"Although the ants have been wiped out, the person raising the ants is still out there."
"Jade Guanyin, raising ants in the desert to harm people and damage the ecological environment, this crime is of the first degree."
Naturally, Duan Yun placed this crime on Jade Guanyin’s head.
He decided not to go back but to directly head to the Guanyin Monastery in Devil City.
This amount of water might be insufficient for ordinary people to survive, but they were not ordinary people.
As martial arts experts, this amount of alcohol was enough for them to last for half a month, albeit the journey would require them to be frugal and endure hardship.
As long as it’s for slaying demons and eliminating evil, the Young Hero never fears hardship.
Duan Yun even gave a very convincing reason.
"Lack of water and food is temporary, Jade Guanyin’s crimes are extremely severe, all her things should be confiscated by justice. Her water is our water, her grain is our grain."
Although there was no concrete evidence to prove that the mud figures and ants were Jade Guanyin’s doing, Duan Yun, as the leader of the Yuzhu heroes, always spoke convincingly.
In no time, Feng Ling’er and Shen Ying also empathized, thinking of their camels and water that had been plundered by Jade Guanyin, and they too wanted to quickly find Jade Guanyin and exterminate her whole family.
Although the two were not as confident as Duan Yun, after all, Jade Guanyin was no easy target, even Feng Ling’er’s mother hadn’t fared well against her.
However, the heroic spirit is infectious.
Unconsciously, their confidence, although not inflated, was entirely focused on slaying Jade Guanyin’s entire family.
The heroic spirit was intensified!
The hero is all about slaying!
Just as dawn was breaking, the three heroes from Yuzhu set out.
Despite having lost their camels and most of their alcohol and food, they did not feel the slightest bit defeated; instead, their morale was high.
Heroes by nature are battle-crazed, destined to become ever more fierce the more they fight.
Feng Ling’er was also stimulated, the compass worked, they could determine directions, and she even found a nearly dried-up spring where they barely managed to replenish some water, showing quite the professional handling.
On the fourth day, the sandstorm raged.
Passing through the pervasive sandstorm, the sky became impeccably blue without a single cloud, and they finally saw the vast expanse of Devil City.
Truly a city like a devil.
Standing there, just looking at it was incredibly thrilling.