Chapter 261 - 169: Breakthrough

Chapter 261: Chapter 169: Breakthrough

A piercing whistle.

A flash of sword light appeared as if from nowhere, striking a demon with perfect accuracy in the heart.

Amid the clear clang of metal, Xue Shan’s figure materialized in mid-air.

The longsword’s blade bent into an almost perfect right angle before violently snapping straight again.

Xue Shan was thrown back in a somersault. He stared at the demon’s scales and spat a curse.

"Come on! Come and get me!"

Xue Shan raised his middle finger at the Tier Three Demon and shouted.

’Just as I’d expect from a Tier Three Demon,’ he cursed inwardly. ’Its scales are unbelievably tough. I put everything I had into that strike, and I couldn’t even break one.’

"Dammit, I picked the wrong one. This thing is a job for Wu the Second."

Xue Shan grumbled under his breath, but now that he was in it, he didn’t turn tail and run.

"Get over here!"

He taunted the Tier Three Demon.

A flash of human-like fury crossed the Tier Three Demon’s eyes, and it let out a furious roar.

The next moment, it lunged toward Xue Shan as if soaring on clouds.

Xue Shan turned and fled.

With one in pursuit and the other fleeing, they quickly vanished into the mountain forest.

At almost the exact same moment, Wu Yiqi appeared nearby.

He raised his right hand, casually pointing his index finger at two of the Tier Three Demons by the cave entrance.

"You two. Follow me, if you dare," he said slowly.

His face remained impassive as he spoke.

Watching from his hiding spot, even Su Mu found Wu Yiqi’s behavior infuriatingly arrogant.

Just as expected, the two demons Wu Yiqi had pointed to let out furious roars and charged toward him.

Even though three of the Tier Three Demons had been lured away, three more remained at the cave entrance, along with over forty Tier Two Demons. The horde had no fear of the people inside breaking out.

Once Wu Yiqi had led the two Tier Three Demons away, Su Mu let out a long cry.

He leaped into the treetops, aimed at the cave entrance, drew his bow into a full moon, and loosed an arrow.

WHOOSH!

The blood-red arrow, wreathed in five-colored flames, landed right at the cave’s entrance.

BOOM!

The five-colored flames erupted violently, blasting outward in every direction.

The demons blocking the entrance roared and scrambled backward to escape.

The three remaining Tier Three Demons were enraged and retaliated.

One of the Tier Three Demons opened its maw and spat a torrent of water that crashed into the five-colored flames.

As water and fire met, they instantly transformed into a dense white steam.

In an instant, both water and fire vanished. The dense steam immediately enveloped an area dozens of yards across, obscuring the vision of all the demons.

A faint, mocking smile touched Su Mu’s lips.

’This Tier Three Demon outsmarted itself.’

’Water can extinguish fire, sure, but the resulting steam just ended up blinding them.’

’This is my chance!’

TWANG!

TWANG!

TWANG!

Without hesitation, Su Mu fired three consecutive arrows, each aimed at one of the three Tier Three Demons.

Within the white steam, the three Tier Three Demons let out sky-shaking roars of fury.

Several blinding flashes of light flared up.

A cacophony of sounds erupted: collisions, screeches, the roar of flames, and the blast of Qi Force from the demons’ bodies.

A look of surprise flashed across Su Mu’s face.

He had once used the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow to kill a Tier Three Demon.

At that time, his Cultivation was only at the Blood Transformation Realm.

Now he was at the Rebirth Realm and had even comprehended the Li Fire Realm. Logically, the power of the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow should be even greater.

But this time, not a single one of the three Tier Three Demons had died.

’They actually managed to block the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow!’

Even among Tier Three Demons, the difference in strength could be worlds apart.

It was just like with Martial Artists in the True Essence Realm; there was a world of difference between the Initial-Tier and the High-Tier.

The Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow could kill someone at the Initial-Tier True Essence Realm, but it struggled against those at the High-Tier True Essence Realm.

These three Tier Three Demons were clearly far stronger than the one that had attacked Wuling City. Each was equivalent to a master at the High-Tier True Essence Realm.

With such strength, they were no longer something the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow could kill so easily.

Even though Su Mu’s current strength was much greater than before, it was still very difficult to directly kill an existence on par with the High-Tier True Essence Realm.

In the blink of an eye, Su Mu loosed another three arrows.

Although the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow couldn’t kill them with a single arrow, it still possessed the power to injure them.

Pinning them down was no problem at all.

Three blood-red arrows shot toward the Tier Three Demons, forcing them back dozens of yards.

As the three Tier Three Demons were occupied with fending off the arrows from the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow, Zhao Poni was the first to charge out of the cave.

Following closely behind him was Taiping Captain Lin Qi Huan.

"Kill!"

Lin Qi Huan roared, sending a Tier Two Demon flying with a slash of his saber.

At that moment, he also saw Su Mu in the distance, standing on the treetops.

Su Mu stood poised on the treetop, his robes fluttering in the wind. His archery stance was the very image of perfection Lin Qi Huan had always dreamed of achieving.

’He’s almost as cool as me,’ he muttered to himself.

Zhao Poni kicked a demon away and barked, "This is a battlefield! Stop daydreaming! Let’s go! Break out and head south! Su Mu said we have reinforcements about fifteen miles out!"

The Taiping Captains led the charge, with the Martial Artists from the various other powers following close behind.

With the Tier Three Demons occupied, the Tier Two Demons were no match for them.

It happened in an instant. They shattered the encirclement of Tier Two Demons and sprinted south.

"Boss, I’m going to help Su Mu!"