Right then, he had not yet found Red Dust. Situ Luoyu did not want the appearance of Happy's party to complicate things and cause even more unexpected accidents.
But right as he finished speaking, an accident happened.
Bang!
The person Happy captured had suffered dozens of violent attacks continuously, and his mouth was full of blood. The final attack then sent him crashing into Perpetual Joy Sect's people.
The group's formation was thrown into chaos, and Little North seized the chance. With Ten Thousand Poisonous Palms, he struck a powerful player who was busy avoiding his zombies. His poisonous black claw appeared above that person's head without a sound.
"How dare you?!"
Solitary Perpetual Joy's eyes flashed fiercely. He raised his hand swiftly and without any flourish.
Bang!
With a thunderous boom, he decided to attack first and seize the initiative with his own palm strike.
Bang! Bang!
A black figure flashed past him.
A zombie moved to his side and withstood Solitary Perpetual Joy's palm strike. It was then sent flying horizontally and crashed into Little North like a log of rotten wood.
However, the people from Perpetual Joy Sect were also successfully ambushed by Little North. Five wounds that contained black aura had been torn open on the elite's shoulder. He tumbled from the force of the attack while spinning.
Shick!
Right after Little North succeeded in his attack, the person All-powerful Medicinal Stone had been eyeing finally revealed a weakness. He swiftly and decisively stabbed him in the back. The unfortunate player's blood died part of the second level of Fox Cave red.
When it came to individual fights, Little North only managed to not lose by relying on his two zombie puppets' reckless fighting methods. However, the people from Perpetual Joy Sect had mainly focused their attention on Happy and Thunderous Battle, so it was only natural that they would suffer losses from Little North and All-powerful Medicinal Stone sneak attacks because of it.
On the other hand, Thunderous Battle, who fought by the book and had an extraordinary presence did not manage to get himself any kills.
In total however, within the short period of time the two sides had fought, one person from Perpetual Joy Sect had died, and two were heavily injured.
As for Happy's side, only one insignificant zombie had been heavily injured. Little North had been struck too, but his injury was light.
Such achievements surpassed Fallen Feathers Sect's expectation, and it also made Perpetual Joy Sect suffer an unprecedented humiliation. They felt challenged!
Solitary Perpetual Joy did not care about Situ Luoyu's words, despite the man trying his best to be a mediator. He gritted his teeth and swiftly flung aside the two zombies, formed his palm into the shape of claws, and exchanged blows with Little North head on.
He was a Mystical Realm player who had a high-tier body fortification technique and a high-tier lightness skill. There was no way Little North could go up against him.
"Cough!"
Little North's body trembled. His face turned as pale as a sheet of paper, and he coughed up blood before being sent flying.
One of his own had died, so Solitary Perpetual Joy made the decision to kill one person to retain his prestige. He had to rebuild his dignity before anything else. He could care less about the others and just kept his gaze fixed on Little North while delivering another palm strike.
"Let's go!"
Fortunately, All-powerful Medicinal Stone extracted himself quickly. When he saw that Little North was in danger, his white sword glare sliced through the air like a sheet of silk. It temporarily blocked Solitary Perpetual Joy. With a low cry, he delivered a few slashes and protected Little North so that he could leave.
"Hmph!"
Solitary Perpetual Joy snorted loudly. With his high-tier body fortification technique, he struck away All-powerful Medicinal Stone's longsword and pounced on Little North like a huge bird while the latter staggered backwards.
At that moment, a clear and cold voice echoed from the entrance to the chamber.
"Enough!"
Whoosh!
The sound of robes fluttering could be heard, and a person tossed Little North into the air at an incredible speed. He then delivered kicks to Solitary Perpetual Joy that made it seem as if there were springs attached to his feet and multiple shadows trailed behind his legs.
Solitary Perpetual Joy's expression changed when he felt sharp and fierce wind charging at his face. Before the kicks touched him, the aura of his body fortification technique formed multiple ripples around him. They looked like the surface of a lake when a violent gust of wind blew against it.
When a certain someone saw that the duo were about to crash against each other, he summoned an every stronger aura and forced himself between the two.
Boom!
Three forces of power that were about the same crashed into each other! The violent wave of air that erupted from the crash pushed the trio into opposite directions at the same time.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Solitary Perpetual Joy took two steps backwards before he managed to gain his footing. With his power of Mystical Realm, he did not suffer any damage from the crash.
The last to land was Situ Luoyu.
While it might have seemed like he had forced himself into the middle as a mediator in an attempt to stop the duo from clashing head on, something strange had happened the moment he attacked. He became the person who faced the most pressure and received Solitary Perpetual Joy and Happy's attacks head on.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
His body was sent flying horizontally, and he crashed into the sturdy wall. An abnormal shade of red appeared on his face before it turned pale. He stared at Happy in shock and surprise.
"I didn't expect that you would have this sort of hobby, sect master of Fallen Master Sect," Happy said with mockery in his voice.
Chapter 200 - Wipe Out
When Situ Luoyu heard Happy's words, he finally put away the mannerisms of a mediator and good person. His expression turned cold and indifferent, and a hint of wariness appeared on his face.
"As expected of the third in place on the Famous Person Rank, you live up to your name."
"Hmph."
When Solitary Perpetual Joy landed on the ground, his hands were still slightly numb. He cast Situ Luoyu a glance before he glared at Happy in anger. The derision in his eyes had already disappeared, replaced by great wariness and solemnity.
In truth, when Situ Luoyu attacked, he had also thought that Situ Luoyu wanted to stop the fighting. But one of the two palm strikes Situ Luoyu delivered was fake, and the other genuine. The palm strike toward him was weak and powerless while the palm strike toward Happy might have seemed weak as well, but at the moment before he struck, Situ Luoyu had revealed fatal killing intent!
This meant that the entire act of Situ Luoyu trying to mediate the fight had been fake. In reality, he had wanted to use the chance to work with him to injure Happy, and perhaps even kill him. Once Happy was badly hurt, the elites of the two sects could work together and easily kill him.
But Situ Luoyu had not expected that Happy would actually notice such a hidden move.
The moment Situ Luoyu attacked, Solitary Perpetual Joy lost control over his body, and he was f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y moved to take Situ Luoyu's palm strike in Happy's place.
And Situ Luoyu was also very unlucky.
Not only was he struck by Solitary Perpetual Joy's palm strike, but Happy had changed the direction of his attacks and executed a few Stormy Shadowless Kicks on him. He was caught off guard and suffered internal injuries on the spot because of it. He was then sent flying into the distance.
Many people did not manage to see all of that clearly.
However, it was not difficult for them to guess based on two's expressions that Situ Luoyu's shady actions had been dissolved by Happy in a timely manner.
"Sect Mas
ter Perpetual Joy is arrogant and conceited, and Sect Master Situ is diabolical and a schemer. They're actually birds of a feather..."
All-powerful Medicinal Stone had noticed what Situ Luoyu had wanted to do. He smiled coldly and took two steps forward at an opportune moment. "Judging by the looks of it, Chivalry Sect must have been set up by you lot, right?"
He swept his gaze over the elites of the two great sects, and quite a number of people sported regretful and ashamed looks.
They said nothing.
When they sensed the disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e from the sect members behind them, Situ Luoyu and Solitary Perpetual Joy frowned.
"A man who is destined for great things will not bother himself with small matters." Situ Luoyu's tone was dark. "You will experience all of this if you become a sect master in the future, but there are also things that you will never be able to understand!"
Right when he said his final phrase, his gaze turned cold. He raised his arms high and brought them down without any hesitation, causing wind to roar. He then gave his order in a firm tone. "Kill them!"
"Let's go!"
Happy had been prepared for Situ Luoyu to turn on them. Before the people from the two sects could act, he hissed words of caution, and his party retreated together.
"Thinking of leaving?"
Situ Luoyu smiled coldly. Since he had decided to fall out with Happy, he should at least make sure that the other party died once so that they would not pose a threat to him for some time. Hence, he made the decision to ensure their death in Fox Cave! Right away, a messenger pigeon was sent to the other people in the second level to surround Happy and his party.
Only the unfamiliar middle-aged man seemed to possess a high-tier lightness skill in Happy's party, so it was basically impossible for them to shake off the pursuit.
Twenty or so strong players dashed out of the chamber and chased after them like a swarm of bees.
'This is bad!'
All-powerful Medicinal Stone felt like ants were crawling all over his skin.
He had not expected that Perpetual Joy Sect and Fallen Feathers Sect would have such deep ties with each other, to the point that they would take the initiative to cause them trouble. He was incredibly uneasy when he saw things progress to such a state.
He was the only one in their party who could move about at ease among their enemies. He could not be held back, but Happy, Little North, and Thunderous Battle only had normal low-tier lightness skills at Grandmaster Realm. It was practically impossible for them to escape.
"Go first! I'll hold them back for some time."
All-powerful Medicinal Stone whispered to Happy, but what he saw before him was a face that was not alarmed or panicked at all.
Happy calmly threw two throwing knives behind him before he cast a glance at an exit ahead of them. It was not too far away. An amused look flashed briefly through his eyes, and he softly said, "Listen, once we go there, split into two groups. Head either left or right, and hide behind the wall!"
The trio was stunned silent, but when they saw Happy's confident gaze, they nodded vigorously at the same time.
Twenty or so powerful players chased after them, and the distance between them became shorter bit by bit.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
When they arrived at the tunnel that was so narrow that it was less than sixteen feet wide, All-powerful Medicinal Stone and Thunderous Battle listened to Happy and shifted to the left while Little North moved to the right. They vanished from the sight of the elites of the two sects who were thirty-two feet away from them.
"After them!"
"Don't let them escape!"
While Situ Luoyu was saying that, the two of them suddenly noticed Happy toss something behind him. The object looked round and shone with a dim, metallic shine. It did not seem to be a hidden weapon.
However, the two of them still instinctively became wary and uneasy. They turned to the side and let the metallic machine that looked like a fruit move past them.
'It's a machine!'
When the object flew past them, their uneasiness grew by one hundred fold. The next moment, they heard the clear sound of a metallic trigger being activated inside the machine.
"This is bad!"
"DODGE!"
Shocked, the two sect leaders urged their qi to circulate faster in order to restore the strength of the true qi around them protecting their bodies.
The people behind them all activated their body fortification techniques!
Thud!
At the instant it landed on the ground, some sort of mechanism seemed to have been activated. With a clear sound, it opened up and revealed… densely packed black needles!
Bang!
The ground trembled, and sphere-shaped black light flashed in the cave.
In just an instant, the countless black needles that were as thin as the hair on a cow vanished from inside the pear-shaped metallic object without a trace.
The elites from Perpetual Joy Sect and Fallen Feathers Sect only saw black light shine before they were stung by countless mosquitoes. Instantly, their bodies felt light and numb.
'What's going on?'
The group felt that their bodies had turned stiff. The true qi that protected their bodies was all automatically dissolved.
They looked at each other at a loss. Blood dripped down from their bodies, and soon, countless tiny red dots appeared on their faces. They looked absolutely horrifying!
The twenty or so people soon became twenty bloody people!
No one knew who was the first to be unable to stand.
Bang!
The person fell to the ground face-first, showing no signs of life. Soon, all the elites of the two great sects seemed to have been infected by some kind of fatal virus. They fell to the ground one after another, and that included Situ Luoyu and Solitary Perpetual Joy, whose faces had become stiff and cold!
Chapter 201 - Pear Blossom Storm Needles
"What a close call!"
After All-powerful Medicinal Stone, Thunderous Battle, and Little North listened to Happy's orders and ran into the other cave, they found that there was no one who actually chased after them. They released breaths of relief, but at the same time, they felt that there was something really strange about the situation.
Why did it suddenly become quiet behind them? It was so quiet that it was a little weird.
In the beginning, the trio thought that the people from the two sects were just worried that they would use the terrain to launch an ambush on them, but as time passed, they finally sensed that something was off.
Little North reacted the fastest.
When he linked the situation to the metallic item Happy had thrown behind him and Happy's relaxed and contented expression, his eyes lit up slightly, and a hint of surprise and delight showed up on his face.
"Pear Blossom Storm Needles!"
"What?"
All-powerful Medicinal Stone and Thunderous Battle were both stunned. They looked at the duo in puzzlement.
Happy smiled faintly.
"Pear Blossom Storm Needles are Tang Sect's top-grade hidden weapon. They can easily destroy the true qi that protects the body, but they're only effective on martial artists that are below Life and Death Realm. It covers an area of 164 feet, and in such a small room, even Universal Golden Immortal wouldn't be able to save them[1]!"
While speaking, Happy walked out from behind a wall and returned to the previous cave under the trio's shocked gazes.
The trio followed behind him with puzzlement. Then, they were instantly stunned. There were twenty or so corpses left in the cave, and they were in all sorts of postures from before they had died. The ground was covered in streams of blood.
There were also black, fine needles as thin as cow's hair covering the walls like a carpet. The walls and ceiling shone with a dark light, creating an incredibly strange and terrifying sight.
Disbelief and shock showed up on the trio's faces.
A g
roup of elites at the peak of Blessed Realm and a few Mystical Realm players who were in Dragon Rank were all killed without a sound by one hidden weapon…
"Are the hidden weapons from Tang Sect so good?!"
When he noticed that he was safe, All-powerful Medicinal Stone regained his usual wild and unruly mannerisms. With an exaggerated expression, he reached out to touch the fine needles on the wall, but the next moment, he retracted his hand.
"This thing isn't poisonous, right?"
"You can try and touch it, then you'll know."
Happy smiled and crouched down near a corpse. He searched through their Universe Bag and took out a bunch of gold notes. The smile on his face grew brighter.
The corpse belonged to Solitary Perpetual Joy. As the leader of a famous sect, he had quite a lot of gold notes on his person. Even though he would only drop 50% of his money after he died, Happy still received forty thousand taels of gold crumbs, which meant that it was equivalent to four hundred thousand taels of silver crumbs. He had earned big.
"Tsk, tsk. He sure is rich."
"Don't think of me as someone who is easily moved by money. As the first generation successor of Marvelous-handed Sect, I will only steal from the living, never the dead. I still have that amount of pride."
Little North stared at All-powerful Medicinal Stone in wordless admiration.
Thunderous Battle said that they had only been able to defeat all these elites from the two great sects because of Pear Blossom Storm Needles. He would not divide the spoils of war that were earned by Happy alone.
Happy did not force them.
In truth, he had made preparations to use Pear Blossom Storm Needles since the start, since he saw that the sect masters of Fallen Feathers Sect and Perpetual Joy Sect had decided to take action personally. They also led a group of elites who had extraordinary abilities. The four of them alone would be in a dangerous situation if they wanted to fight against them, so they could only rely on external help.
Besides, even though Pear Blossom Storm Needles were incredibly rare and valuable, it managed to get him more than one million taels of silver crumbs by killing the leaders of the two sects. If he counted the money he gained from killing a bunch of elites as well, he had not only obtained more than two million taels of silver crumbs, he had also gained a few equipment pieces that were quite good. All in all, the trade was rather worthwhile.
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