For a period of time, everyone had their blood burn with passion!
"We'll take the mission!"
Silver Wolf stated his decision with absolute certainty.
Knife, Bar, and Thunder stared at Happy with resolute and intense gazes to show that they were willing to act together with Silver Wolf.
Happy was not in a hurry. He coolly tasted the snow lotus tea. "This is a mission that will give you four contribution rewards for a top-grade sect quest, which means that the difficulty will be very great. Aren't you going to think about it carefully?"
Silver Wolf answered, "We wouldn't take a mission that isn't dangerous. Since you chose the four of us, it means that you should be confident in us. Besides… our lives are not worth much. Since you're not afraid, why should we? At most, we just have to go back to train for an extra month. What is the mission? Sect Master, just tell us."
"Sect Master, do you want us to help you hold back the elites in the dao of heaven so that you can have the chance to seize Tiger Soul?" Knife's mind worked quickly, and he was also very courageous in his words.
Happy shook his head and smiled. "It's more or less along those lines, but Tiger Soul isn't that attractive to me. Aside from this, you have something else even more important to do."
"..."
All four of them instantly gained a somber air.
Based on Happy's tone, seizing Tiger Soul isn't their most important task, but just one part of the task. By the looks of it, this mission was indeed not something trivial.
"Since you want to snatch Tiger Soul, why did you come here? After all, it's very far away from the battlefield. With your strength…" When he said this, Silver Wolf frowned and cast a glance at the mysterious old servant behind Happy. He continued, "You should have a high chance in getting Tiger Soul."
"My main goal this time isn't Tiger Soul. That divine weapon isn't something normal people can get. First, I will need your scouting skills to figure out where those Wild Wolves are."
"Wild Wolves?!"
Silver Wolf and his party had their expressions change, and they s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths.
Silver Wolf quickly understood what was going on.
Wild Wolves had definitely figured out the importance of the desert palace, and they must have definitely sent out a lot of members. If Happy were the only one from Lovely Land in the desert, it would be very difficult for him to kill all of them, and it would also be difficult for him to pay attention to the overall situation.
But Happy wanted to utilize just the attraction posed by Tiger Soul to cut off the claws that Wild Wolves had extended into the desert and the Chinese plains. He wanted to intimidate Wild Wolves once more, and it was only par for the course that he would need to use them, because even Wandering Know-it-all could not pinpoint a person's precise location in the desert. Happy could not use it as a reference.
Without another word, Silver Wolf went straight to the point and asked Happy about how they should take action and when they should carry out their mission.
"We're not in a hurry right now," Happy replied faintly.
Silver Wolf and his party were stunned. They did not understand what he meant.
"I've already witnessed Tiger Soul's might in the desert palace. This weapon is a destructive weapon in the hands of all those in the dao of heaven. Right now, it's in Dongfang Bubai's hands. Most of the thousands of Embroidered Uniform Guards have already been heavily injured, and Tsao Suiyan is wounded as well. Even the alliance master of Heaven and Earth Alliance can forget about snatching Tiger Soul from Dongfang Bubai's hands while remaining unscatched. And if he can't do it, Wild Wolves will have an even lesser chance in getting Tiger Soul from his hands."
"Sect Master, are you saying…?"
Silver Wolf became even more confused as to what Happy was trying to say now.
Happy smiled and tapped against the table in a relaxed manner.
"Regardless of whether Wild Wolves has any contingency plans or whether they have the ability to seize Tiger Soul, at the end of the day, they must move past Flame Town if they want to leave the Chinese plains. I don't care whether they have Tiger Soul in their hands or not, they will die in Flame Town. If they have Tiger Soul, it's fine. By then, just help me clear out the area. I will first grab Tiger Soul. Then, I will kill them." His words carried no killing intent whatsoever, but it managed to shock Silver Wolf and the others deeply.
"If Tiger Soul isn't in their hands, what should we do?"
Knife suddenly butted in.
Bar and Thunder also put on attentive expressions.
No matter what, Tiger Soul was the strongest demon vessel during ancient times, and it had astonishing power. Whosoever was in possession of the item would have their strength increase by leaps and bounds, and they did not want Tiger Soul to land in anyone else's hands.
Thud! Thud!
Happy tapped against the stone table lightly and instructed them once more, "As long as Tiger Soul remains in the Chinese plains, it will not be able to escape from Wandering Know-it-all's eyes. Your most important task is to handle Wild Wolves and make sure that they don't leave with it." When he said this, he stopped talking for a moment. Then, his tone turned solemn. "I'm not afraid of whoever gets Tiger Soul, except Evil Emperor. If he does get the strongest catastrophic weapon during ancient times, it will be troublesome."
Based on the information that Wandering Know-it-all had obtained from Universe Secrets Inkstone, Evil Emperor had been practicing the martial arts he obtained from Sky Demon Slip hard over this period of time, and he had improved once more. If he obtained Tiger Soul, he would become even stronger, and his plan to send his army out of the borders might have to change.
"..."
Silver Wolf and his party nodded with contemplative expressions on their faces.
Chapter 1197 - The Desert, The Blood Red Setting Sun
"Hiss…"
When a large group of players arrived at the battlefield from Dragon Gate Inn, all of them s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths. They were deeply shocked by the scene before their eyes.
"This is the desert palace?"
"What a huge pit!"
"I heard that the people from the dao of heaven came out of this pit, but by the looks of it, the desert palace has already been buried by quicksand. You'll only be able to enter the desert palace in your dreams now."
More people arrived at the high spots on the sand hills. They looked down at the big quicksand pit that was several miles wide and thousands of feet deep. They could not stop the chills crawling down their spines, and neither could they stop sighing about it.
A long time had passed since they obtained the news, even so, the quicksand had still not managed to fill up the palace under the palace completely, and this just showed how large was the palace hidden under the desert.
Many people began wondering how the desert palace looked like.
But they would not be able to guess just how brutal and insane the death traps in the desert palace were. At most, they could only sigh at the huge pit before them like normal people while they began to let their imaginations run free, though it was absolutely pointless to do so.
"Look!"
"Look over there!"
The temperature in the desert was extremely high, and no one could see far ahead. Heatwaves rose from the land far into the distance, and they could not see what was around.
But many people still looked over in the direction of the sound, and they could see something piled up under the sand across the magnificent quicksand. They were packed densely together, and they looked like tiny sand bumps.
"Let's go over and look!"
"There's saber glares over there. Tiger Soul might be in that direction! Let's go!"
Many people in the crowd instantly became restless.
A lot of them did not even say a word. They just executed their lightness skills and stepped on the soft, rolling sand to circ.u.mnavigate the quicksand pit to get closer to the battlefield.
They traveled 22 feet or 26 feet with each step they took.
As these people took the lead and stimulated them, a dense wave of people charged down the sandhills. Some of them tried to gain an advantage ahead of the others and even ignored their companions' advice. They used their lightness skill to charge in a straight line, going above the quicksand. When they were near the center of the quicksand, they were struck by a strange fog, and without making a single sound, they fell into the quicksand. Then, slowly, those who had the thought of going over the quicksand gave up on that thought.
"This is…"
Before them was a few miles of flat land, and it was now like a rag cloth that was a mix of red and yellow colors, because the blood that had spilled on the ground had not completely dyed the yellow sand red. A thick scent of blood wafted in the air, and it was extremely pungent.
As for the dense bumps they saw just now that stretched out for miles? Naturally, they belonged to the Embroidered Uniform Guards who died in battle.
Thousands of corpses filled their field of vision! Many of the visions were not even in complete shape. Torn limbs were exposed in the desert, and they were already covered in a layer of thin sand, but the blood from their wounds had not completely dried yet, and it still looked very horrifying.
When they walked over this place, which looked like a mass grave in the desert, even the courageous ones felt chills down their spines.
"This was all done by a single person?"
Those who were observant soon noticed that many people were cut in half when they were together, and the area of attack was very large. There were also times where multiple people were killed in a single line. The sand and wind were unable to immediately bury the trenches that were formed by the saber glare.
The trenches were dozens of feet wide, dozens of feet long, and dozens of feet deep. It was not difficult for them to sense the power in the slashes, and they knew just how difficult it would be to block them.
Further down were deep and long trenches intersecting with each other. They changed the layout of the desert.
The people in the crowd began whispering to each other.
"Tiger Soul! This is definitely the might of Tiger Soul!"
"I heard that even the people in the dao of heaven can't withstand the power of a slash from Tiger Soul. If we manage to snatch this peerless demon vessel over, it'll be even more effective than any ultimate technique."
"That's right!
"The alliance master of Heaven and Earth Alliance was shot down by a group of normal Embroidered Uniform Guards, and in the end, the owner of Tiger Soul changed. So why can't we snatch Tiger Soul from that stupid transgendered woman?"
"I refuse to believe that we won't be able to whittle him down with arrows and poison!"
"Let's go!"
There was a saying that went like this, "When something was repeated enough times, it would become the truth."
Once the first fearless person appeared, more people who did not fear death appeared. This was the perfect epitome of how people would die for money.
When more parties started heading to the dazzling and piercing lights from weapons closeby, many people knew that the sight of the corpses littered all over the ground could no longer stop these people.
Boom!
With one loud sound, a tiger-shaped saber glare that was more than 162 feet long brushed past the alliance master's body. It created a magnificent trench on the ground.
For a period of time, dust flew all over the air!
These two people were once again hidden by sand that danced in the air, and they became mere blurry figures.
Aside from seeing the remaining force from the saber glare that shot out from within the sand cloud occasionally, most of the people could not see what exactly was going on in the fight when they gathered in the place. They could only tell that it was really intense judging by the sounds they made when they fought.
As these two top-class martial artists in the dao of heaven fought, they caused a circular area of 328 feet around them to turn into an area where no living beings stood.
Phantasmal Shadow and her group had originally stayed in the area, but they had long since lost their courage because of how many people were killed. They retreated until they were behind a sand hill one-third of a mile away and cautiously looked out to watch the progress of the fight between these two people in the dao of heaven. They did not even dare to show their faces within Dongfang Bubai's field of vision.
The devastating sight of the Embroidered Uniform Guards and the players dying just now was fresh in their memories. They did not want to be torn to shreds by Dongfang Bubai.
"Tower Master, look! Over there…"
When a tower member informed her of this, Phantasmal Shadow quickly noticed that a black line had suddenly appeared at the horizon across them in the vast desert, and it was swiftly becoming thicker!
"Someone's coming."
"They should have come a long time ago. We've been causing a huge ruckus over here. Heh… there's quite a lot of them." The group had been hiding carefully to avoid Dongfang Bubai from finding them, and they had been very cautious. Now, when Wu Kuo saw the large group of dense black dots that suddenly appeared in the distance, his eyes lit up. His tone became relaxed as well. "Now, Dongfang Bubai is about to slaughter a large group of people again."
"It'll be good if he uses up more of his true qi…" Phantasmal Shadow said. Then, she instructed the tower members behind her. "Send a messenger pigeon to the members who are coming over. Have them stay as far away as possible. Don't get targeted by Dongfang Bubai, and tell them to gather with us here."
"Understood!"
The group understood that the only thing they could do right now was to gather together and organize their forces. It was only then that they would have the chance to take advantage of the situation and get Tiger Soul in the end.
The tens of thousands of players who were rushing into the battlefield from Dragon Gate Inn clearly did not know what sort of dangerous place they were about to enter. They were still thinking about having the people in the dao of heaven fight against each other while they launched ambushes by the side and took advantage of the situation in the end.
But before they could get close to the battlefield belonging to Dongfang Bubai, the alliance master, and Tsao Suiyan, suddenly, a violent stream shot out from the sand-covered battlefield.
Whoosh!
The wind traveled forward madly, and sand as well as wind danced everywhere.
Many players did not even know what had happened. They only saw a violent layer of wind suddenly surging out of the battlefield across them, and with it was sand that covered the entire area. It filled every inch of the air while it came rolling toward them.
Most of the people did not understand what happened.
In the end, the throwing knives entered the cloud of dust like mud dissolving in water. No reaction could be seen.
As the wind blew at the sand, in an instant, it traveled hundreds of feet forward.
When the sand arrived in front of them, the players saw the alliance master and Tsao Suiyan chasing after the sand hastily, and some of the players finally realized that the situation was not right.
"What's this thing?!"
"Careful!"
"Dongfang Bubai!"
"Tiger Soul is in his hands!"
Cries of surprise rose and fell…
But unfortunately, Dongfang Bubai had removed himself from the battlefield and escaped from fighting against the two people in the dao of heaven. He spent less than a breath to be able to arrive in front of the players, and the players did not have time to set up any other defenses.
"ROAR!"
As a low and brutal roar of a beast rose, and an incredibly callous and sinister presence charged at them from the raging sand.
Hiss!
The snow-white saber glare carried with an oppressive and despair-inducing momentum. Like a saber cutting at water, it cut into the
yellow sand in front of it. A tiger's head appeared before countless players' field of vision.
"Careful!"
"Ah!"
A warning cry rose, and many people lost their wits due to fear because of the might from Tiger Soul's saber glare. Right when they wanted to turn around, the sharp saber glare charged past their bodies.
The players in the distance saw this clearly.
A blood-red saber glare cut into more than one hundred players' bodies without any resistance, and it moved along the yellow sand.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Blood flew in the air, and corpses that had lost their vitality fell on the yellow sand like torn leather after they remained standing in the air for several seconds. Then, a thin layer of sand brought over by the wind covered their bodies.
At the moment their corpses fell on the ground, the red cloud had already jumped over the corpse-filled ground with a whistle. Saber glares intersected with each other, and they cut into another direction.
It was brutal, cruel, bloody, and ruthless!
Every time Dongfang Bubai attacked, the bewitching, red light contained in Tiger Soul would become brighter. Dongfang Bubai seemed to have become completely immersed in the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e of killing. He continued attacking nonstop. Time and again, he moved to places with lots of people and started executing long-distance slashes fearlessly.
Whoosh…
Wherever the howling wind went to, count people would die!
In the next moment, the Chinese players and West Region players who came from the former Dragon Gate Inn were intimidated by Dongfang Bubai's brutal methods. Their expressions turned stark pale, and without another word, they left. They did not dare to face the person in red robes who moved like a red cloud in the crowd.
"Why are you running?!"
"No matter how strong he is, he's just one man! Why are you scared of him—"
"Everyone, use your hidden weapons to fight against him! As long as we can block his attacks for a moment, the alliance master and Tsao Suiyan will arrive, and I refuse to believe that he will be able to parry our attacks by then!"
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