Chapter 449 - 313: Forces Stir from 4 Directions, Elites Gather from 8

Chapter 449: Chapter 313: Forces Stir from 4 Directions, Elites Gather from 8

"Song Xi, you old scoundrel! I’ll fight you to the death!"

Zhe Wanqian grew furious at Song Xi’s relentless pursuit and the mockery in his eyes. His temper flared. With a slight tilt of his head, he allowed Song Xi’s sword to graze his scalp. The power of a Sword Venerable Realm attack made every hair on his body stand on end, but he didn’t hesitate in the slightest. After letting the blade pass, he fiercely thrust his own sword toward Song Xi’s abdomen!

SQUELCH! Zhe Wanqian’s sword pierced Song Xi’s abdomen, and he immediately broke into a crazed laugh. "Haha, you didn’t expect that, did you, you old scoundrel! You were no match for me in the past, and you still aren’t my opponent now! Die!!"

Zhe Wanqian laughed wildly as he yanked his sword free, watching Song Xi’s body slowly crumple. Suddenly, his eyes shot wide. He whipped his head around to see Song Xi standing behind him, completely unharmed, a faint, mocking look in his eyes. At that moment, Zhe Wanqian felt as if a hand had viciously seized his heart, about to crush it to a pulp.

His gaze locked onto Song Xi’s eyes, then darted down to the corpse still lying on the ground. For the first time, an immense wave of fear washed over Zhe Wanqian!

"You... who in the world are you? What’s going on? Didn’t I just kill you?"

The only answer he received was another swift, clean sword strike from Song Xi. This time, the technique was different...

...

A solemn silence had fallen over Penzes City. Ling Wu and his soldiers from the Lightning Legion were quietly cleaning up half a long street that had been torn asunder by Zhe Wanqian’s powerful mental attack. Worry was etched on every face. They had never seen such a powerful Martial Artist. They had never even heard of such a powerful Martial Artist!

He hadn’t even used Sword Qi—he just stood in the air above the city walls, and a street over a hundred meters wide was destroyed just like that!

Ling Wu glanced down at the trench at his feet, which was over ten meters deep. Water was already beginning to seep through in some places. The city was near a swamp; at a depth of over ten meters, you could already dig a well.

Zhang Danian glanced toward the Inner City. From their vantage point, they couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. But they all knew that the absence of anything unusual was the most unusual thing of all.

They had watched with their own eyes as the two peerless experts arrived in the sky above the Inner City. Then, in the blink of an eye, both figures had vanished.

"Chief, can you tell me... how did the Young Master make those two disappear?" Zhang Danian sidled up to Ling Wu and asked in a hushed voice.

Zhang Danian was a Tier Two Demon Swordsman, a full tier higher than Ling Wu. Therefore, although Zhang Danian had voluntarily joined the Lightning Legion and was under Ling Wu’s command, Ling Wu greatly admired and respected this young man whom the Young Master had personally brought back.

Ling Wu sighed softly. The hot sun beating down made his skin sticky and uncomfortable. He squinted, glancing toward the utterly still Inner City before speaking slowly. "The Young Master’s Divine Powers are beyond our comprehension. I just know that his strength is increasing incredibly fast! Frighteningly fast! What’s more, a Sword Emperor and two members of the Sword Sect once came looking for trouble. The Young Master didn’t even lift a finger, and they all ended up dead. Miss Yezi said it was an Array." Ling Wu scratched his head of spiky hair, adding with a baffled expression, "I don’t get it."

Zhang Danian felt an urge to spit blood. ’If you don’t get it, why say anything at all?!’ he thought. ’But... an Array?’ He didn’t understand it either. He shook his head, a thought running through his mind. ’Following him all the way from the north to here... it looks like that was the best decision of my life!’

’The benefits in the Lightning Legion are definitely second to none!’

At that moment, Ling Wu roared at the soldiers under his command, "Alright, everyone, put your backs into it! Let’s get this thing filled! Damn it... that son of a bitch! We worked so hard to pave this beautiful street, and he ruined it just like that!"

The soldiers all broke out in roaring laughter. In their hearts, their trust in Ling Xiao had reached the level of absolute faith, so they weren’t the least bit worried.

In contrast, the soldiers of Guan Ben’s Tiger Roar Assault Team stared at the men of the Lightning Legion, baffled. They couldn’t understand how the legionnaires could look so unconcerned when such a powerful enemy had appeared.

Of course, many of them were also envious. Only after arriving here had they heard about the benefits afforded to the soldiers of the Lightning Legion. In fact, many in the Lightning Legion were former comrades-in-arms of the Tiger Roar Assault Team’s soldiers, and they knew each other well.

They hadn’t seen each other in over a year, and those who were once their equals in strength had now completely surpassed them—and not just by a little bit.

Thus, the soldiers who had assumed their former comrades who’d split off from the Tiger Roar Assault Team were surely suffering were left completely dumbfounded. The next moment, they were practically drooling with envy.

They all started thinking about when they might be able to join the Lightning Legion themselves. After all, even their own Captain Lingzhi had said that now that they were here, they were all one big family!

’And if we’re one family, why draw lines between ’us’ and ’them’?’

More than a few of them shared this thought. However, after witnessing the Lightning Legion’s training methods, they all shut their mouths, not daring to spout such nonsense again. Lingzhi’s training was already brutal to the extreme, earning the Tiger Roar Assault Team its reputation as an Iron Army. But this Ling Wu’s training was actually even more vicious than Lingzhi’s! It was a good thing the soldiers of the Lightning Legion were so formidable; if the same methods were used on the men of the Tiger Roar Assault Team, a few of them would probably die every single day!