Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens only noticed that the situation was bad when the crystal needle appeared in front of him. His eyes went wide, but he was too late. A speck of red appeared at the center of his forehead before he could react.
His consciousness swiftly faded away!
The people around him did not even notice what had happened. It was only when Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens fell limply against two of his sect members that the players noticed the abnormality.
"Sect master!"
"Sect master!"
All of the sect members screamed while their eyes filled with grief.
"Kill them!"
"We have to go all out!"
Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens' death made Blood River Sect lose its final shred of patience. An unprecedented ferociousness and blood l.u.s.t rose in the sect members. They gave up on defense and pounced on the Cold Moon Palace people regardless of the cost.
Underneath their grief was great morale!
The people of Cold Moon Palace could not quite handle the attack. Dozens of players were killed the moment they went up against the Blood River Sect. They instantly showed signs of losing and began to be forced back.
"You bunch of useless garbage!"
With a coquettish shout, Lu Mingyue flicked his wrists in the air. Once he killed dozens of Blood River Sect elites, he took a Dew Pill, and a demonic sound echoed above Blood River Sect.
Sunflower Aura!
Since Lu Mingyue could differentiate his enemies from his allies, his Sunflower Aura only affected his enemies, and the scene of Blood River Sect suppressing Cold Moon Palace instantly changed.
The people of Blood River Sect felt as if they had sank into a swamp. Their mobility was reduced, and they felt as if there was a woman holding their arms. Their attack speed became slower, and all they could hear was the demonic sound that could control their souls. Their field of vision became very strange as well, and they could occasionally see graceful figures moving past them.
"Palace master, you're awesome!"
"Kill them!"
The situation in the battlefield instantly changed. In a flash, around a dozen elites of Blood River Sect were killed. The others only managed to not be killed for the time being because of their body fortification, which was of a pretty good standard.
"Everyone, be careful! It's Sunflower Aura, you have to circulate your qi to your eyes and ears— AH!"
A needle pierced the throat of the Blood River Sect elite who had spoken up. He did not even manage to finish his sentence.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Flying needles flew nonstop.
Lu Mingyue finally decided not to preserve his strength and used his full power to kill.
Sunflower Aura might be an ingenious technique, but it used up a lot of qi. He would need to use a few minutes to restore his stamina and qi later. If he did not end the fight quickly, during the period of time he couldn't defend his sect members, there was a high possibility that Cold Moon Palace would end up being completely wiped out.
Blood gushed into the air and pained screams rang in everyone's ears in Blood River Sect's headquarters.
Those were the signs of destruction.
When Lu Mingyue saw that the people behind him had approached the stairs of the headquarters, a shocking whistle that shook Baokang County Town came from afar.
Lu Mingyue said nothing, but his gaze focused, and he turned around as if he suddenly thought of something.
The shift in his field of vision allowed him to see a figure dressed in blue. That person had a face he was extremely familiar with, and there was a calm smile on it. The man looked elegant as he walked through the ground filled with corpses toward Lu Mingyue.
"It's you," Lu Mingyue said with a solemn expression.
Happy answered with a smile still on his face. "It has been a month since we met. Brother Lu, you are even more dazzling and charming than before."
There was no hint of mockery in his words. What he said was the truth. Lu Mingyue was dressed in a red robe and there was a blush on his face as well as blue eyeshadow. With his fiery red lips, those who did not know would never think that the person in front of them was a man.
"Hmph!" Even his voice had become feminine, and he sounded natural when he spoke that way. Happy did not know whether Lu Mingyue had gotten used to it or had simply accepted all of Dongfang Bubai's inheritance, but it did not matter much to him
"You're late. Blood River Sect already belongs to Cold Moon Palace."
Even though they had a grudge against each other, there was not a lot of bad blood between them. On top of that, Lu Mingyue knew that there was a rift between Blood River Sect and Thunderous Battle, so he thought that Happy had come because Thunderous Battle had died. In his eyes, Happy's goal for coming was the same as his.
But unfortunately for him…
"You haven't conquered it yet, have you?"
Happy smiled and swept his gaze over the area, but he did not find Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens in the crowd. He scowled at that.
"Where is your sect master?" he asked loudly.
In truth, when the people of Blood River Sect heard their conversation and learned that the person who came was Happy, they gave up on all hope in protecting their sect's foundation.
Yet at the same time, crazed delight appeared on the faces of the survivors who had come back with Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens.
"Boss Happy, our boss has just been killed by Lu Mingyue! You…"
The title the Blood River Sect members gave was not normal, and Lu Mingyue cast Happy an uneasy glance.
Happy's reaction was very strange.
He brought out his Noble Sword from his Universe Bag and drew it from its sheath without hesitation before sighing. "Brother Lu, looks like we can't avoid fighting against each other."
Lu Mingyue's expression turned incredibly unpleasant.
Chapter 330 - Shadowless Needle
Blood River Sect's headquarters were filled with corpses, and blood flowed down in rivers.
A faint bewitching laughter affected the circulation of qi and mobility of all Blood River Sect members. But the moment Happy drew his sword and stood in front of them, their morale increased, and they stopped Cold Moon Palace's advance even under Sunflower Aura's effect.
Countless pairs of eyes stared at Lu Mingyue, who hung in the air with an unpleasant expression. They also stared at Happy, who stood on the ground proudly with his sword and whose aura seemed rather monotonous in comparison.
A solemn atmosphere swiftly spread out between the two of them. It was especially strong around Lu Mingyue. When Happy made a clear stance and showed that he wanted to fight for Blood River Sect, his expression turned very dark. He retracted his long and pale palm back into his red robe, and the fierce look in his eyes became clearer.
At that moment, Lu Mingyue no longer sought to investigate the details behind why Happy and Blood River Sect had decided to reconcile. He believed that the two parties had to have formed an alliance based on some benefits. Otherwise, Blood River Sect's elites would not have rushed back so quickly to support their headquarters.
"If that's the case, then very well, I also want to witness just how much you've improved in a month."
While looking at Happy from high above, Lu Mingyue gently swiped at his lips with his sleeve. His long and narrow eyes, which were covered in eyeshadow, looked like two beacons of light that suddenly shone in the darkness.
Even though Happy was very famous and showed faint signs of surpassing those on the Dragon and Phoenix Ranks through the first person pay-to-view battle replay system, Lu Mingyue did not care about all that.
He had witnessed Happy's abilities in close-quarter combat before, and he knew that Happy had mastered an ultimate technique. Hence, during his experience in the first person battle, he was not shocked like the others. He had only analyzed the fight.
Happy's abilities seemed to have improved since the time they fought in the peach blossom
forest, but he did not seem to be too different. Aside from the final move that was rather eyecatching, the other small tricks were all things that Lu Mingyue himself could execute.
Meanwhile, over the past month or so, Lu Mingyue had practiced hard to completely inherit Dongfang Bubai's legacy. He even had his girlfriend help him put on makeup. Not only did his qi realm improve at an astonishing rate after that, his divine skill reached a much higher realm.
Hence, even if he faced Happy, Lu Mingyue did not feel too much pressure.
Suddenly, Happy frowned. He swiftly brought his Noble Sword up before him in a horizontal position without any prior sign that he was going to do so. His arm trembled, and the clear sound of metal clashing against metal rose. A spark shot out from Noble Sword.
Ding!
"Your Needle Tide has already went from being visible to invisible?" Happy frowned and looked up to cast Lu Mingyue a glance. He was shocked in his heart.
Lu Mingyue was also shocked.
The second profound secret of Needle Tide gave the user the ability to kill their enemies without a sound, especially when the target was in Sunflower Aura and under the effects of the user's demonic sound. The enemy would not be able to notice the needles at all, and even if they noticed them when they were about to touch them, they would be too slow to defend themselves.
Lu Mingyue's intention was to use Needle Tide to destroy Happy's Golden Bell Cocoon and injure Happy's qi. However, he did not expect Happy's sensitivity to have become so strong.
The clash caused both sides to increase their wariness in secret.
"It is impolite not to reciprocate! Take my attack as well!"
Happy laughed long and hard, and with a tap against the ground, he stepped on the corpses on the ground. In an incredibly strange manner that defied the laws of gravity, he rose slowly with his sword pointed at Lu Mingyue.
On his way, a qi whirlwind was formed. It quietly negated the effects of Sunflower Aura, and he became faster as he rose!
Lu Mingyue felt the dejected feeling of being targeted by the bane of his existence once more.
Every single time he executed Shadowless Needle, he would use up a lot of qi, and he could not use it repeatedly.
But he was forced to continue fighting.
Cold Moon Palace and Blood River Sect's members were all on the ground, so there was no way he could immediately avoid him when Happy had just attacked him.
Lu Mingyue snorted coldly and braced himself for going up against Happy. He intended to use his Sunflower Aura to fight against Happy for some time while the other's speed was affected. Once the situation turned chaotic, he would look for a chance to strike with his Shadowless Needle again.
But what he did not expect was that Happy's body would continue to speed up while he was in the air!
In the blink of an eye, he rushed close to Lu Mingyue as if he was completely unaffected by Sunflower Aura.
'This is bad!'
Panic flashed briefly in Lu Mingyue's eyes. When he realized what had happened, he no longer had time to retreat.
He flicked his wrists, and the sound of something rushing through the air rose. Around ten flying needles shot out like rain. Lu Mingyue cut off all the crystal threads behind them without hesitation, and they shot out just like normal hidden weapons.
'Haha!'
Naturally, Happy had long since seen through Lu Mingyue's weakness. He did not dodge, and he did not slow down either. He closed in on Lu Mingyue, and with a flip of his wrist, a layer of light was released from Noble Sword. It cut off Lu Mingyue's retreat, and at the same time, he formed his left hand into a claw.
He executed Dragon Capture with one hand!
'Knew it, it's this move!'
The situation was critical, but Lu Mingyue had prepared a method to handle it. At the moment he saw the change in Happy's left hand, he gritted his teeth, s.u.c.k.e.d in a breath, and delivered a Soft Palm Strike.
Since they were very close to each other, both of them moved incredibly quickly.
Bang!
Lu Mingyue's palm interrupted Happy's Dragon Capture, and even Happy could not help but praise him in his heart.
But unfortunately for him, if Happy could not execute Dragon Capture fully, he would not waste his qi on it.
He only paused for a moment before activating Petit Dragon to avoid Lu Mingyue's second palm strike. He forcefully executed Dragon Capture and caught Lu Mingyue's hand firmly in his grasp.
"Pardon me!" Happy shouted, and while Lu Mingyue did not have any power to fight back, his Noble Sword shone with a blue light that was as bright as the stars in the sky!
The eyes of the Blood River Sect people shone with excitement, and they felt all pumped up for a fight.
As for Cold Moon Palace, when the members saw their palace master being struck, they cried out in surprise and s.u.c.k.e.d in a breath. Worry appeared on their pale faces.
But Lu Mingyue was instantly killed, like some people might have expected.
After all, Lu Mingyue was a powerful player in possession of Sunflower Manual. Even though he was slightly inferior in terms of close-quarter combat, he had plenty of ways to protect himself, and the versatility of his attacks was very high.
He tugged at his flying needles, and they shot out with an astonishing speed to crash into Happy.
And they truly crashed into him.
The moment the flying needles shot out, Happy's third strike landed on Lu Mingyue, and the violent power caused Lu Mingyue to lose control over his body.
Bang!
Lu Mingyue could not control himself, and he crashed violently against the wall to the left of the headquarters. He looked incredibly pathetic, and all his prestige was gone.
In truth, Happy himself knew very well that with Lu Mingyue's strength and versatility, even if he had the full Ten True Dragon Styles, it would be impossible for him to kill him in a fight within a short period of time. If Lu Mingyue wanted to run, it was completely impossible for Happy to kill him.
If Lu Mingyue wanted to leave, no one in the same qi realm could kill him.
Happy had only seized the opening between Lu Mingyue's attacks when he executed Shadowless Needle to defeat Lu Mingyue with one attack.
The moment Lu Mingyue got up from the ground, he looked very dishevelled and glared at Happy viciously. "I've spent too much qi today, and it's not convenient for me to fight against you. I'll come for you again… Hmph! Retreat!"
The Cold Moon Palace members who saw that the situation was not right for them quickly withdrew from the battlefield like a tidal wave. They all left Blood River Sect.
Chapter 331 - Sweep! Silver Wolf Appears Again!
When Jade Fox Palace and Blood River Sect's battle came to an end, Happy received news that Righteous Sect was the one whose battle had ended the fastest, because when they were attacked, their sect master, Wu Qing, coincidentally finished his quest and returned to the headquarters. Towering Palace, who was in charge of it, was slightly inferior to Class One Hall in terms of battle power. And with Righteous Sect's master fighting and defending it, Towering Palace withdrew resolutely.
Hence, the three fierce battles launched against the local sects ended in a manner that was against everyone's expectations. Class One Hall was ambushed during the final moment, Cold Moon Palace's master Lu Mingyue was defeated with one attack, and Wu Qing's unexpected appearance protected his sect. All three local powers ended up surviving the ordeal.
However, they paid a huge and painful price for it.
There was no need to even mention Jade Fox Palace. Class One Hall had suppressed them through their mighty combat prowess, and they advanced until they reached the foundation. Their sect was almost destroyed, and they had more than eight hundred people who had died.
This meant that one-tenth of Jade Fox Palace members were going to be in a "pseudo healthy state" for a month. Fortunately, only a few elites had died in the battle. With time, they would recover pretty soon.
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t Blood River Sect was the most tragic.
Blood Rivers in Nine Heavens had died twice within a short period of time. His status dropped to a normal second-rate player, and the sect also lost quite a number of their elites. Nearly one hundred of them and more than seven hundred normal sect members had died when faced with Cold Moon Palace. Since they did not have as many members as Jade Fox Palace serving as their foundation, their strength plummeted, and they fell off the seat of the third greatest sect in Baokang.
Blood River Sect was in a perilous situation.
If they did not act carefully, the resource points they controlled would be snatched by other sects!
But the invasion of the three great sects gave the sects scattered in Baokang a warning. They all saw how they had stomped on the three great local sects' tails.
The painful lesson did not leave the three great local sects in pain. Instead, they filled up with hysterical anger, which was contrary to how people would usually behave.
On that day, the number of people from the three local sects who logged in shot up!
More than twenty thousand members from the three local sects took control of the four town gates in Baokang County Town. They closely monitored the members of Class One Hall, Towering Palace, and Cold Moon Palace who went to and fro the city.
If there was anyone insensible enough to go out of the town, they would say nothing, but just pick up their weapons as a group and kill that person!
The members from the three sects also appeared in various resource points in the depths of Shennongjia, patrolling the areas in a mighty manner.
Even though Class One Hall, Towering Palace, and Cold Moon Palace had great individual strength, they could not handle such a great number of people. The three local sects had mobilized nearly ten thousand men to kill their people in a frenzy.
The people from the three great sects could only flee!
In less than two hours, the losses Class One Hall, Towering Palace, and Cold Moon Palace suffered rose swiftly! Almost all the players who went out of town were killed, and when they died, they returned to Baokang County Town's Guanlin Temple.
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