Chapter 39: Enemy Attack
“Lu Yuanchun! Bastard!”
Upon seeing a breach torn open in the market's grand formation, Fairy Feixia's eyes widened with fury.
Immediately, she made a move completely opposite to Lu Yuanchun's.
“Junior Brother, let's join forces!”
With a flash of light, Fairy Feixia descended directly into the market.
She then turned around to guard the breach in the formation: “We absolutely cannot let the Divine Martial Sect charge into the market.”
Hearing this, Lü Yang glanced at Fairy Feixia, his opinion of her improving.
After all, judging by her appearance—blood staining her red lips and her energy waning—she had clearly sustained significant injuries.
If she had fled with Lu Yuanchun, she might have had a chance to escape.
Yet, she chose to stay within the market.
Could she be a traitor?
Holding onto the belief that there were no good people in the Saint Sect, Lü Yang immediately suspected Fairy Feixia.
She also noticed the wary look in his eyes.
“There's no escape!”
Fairy Feixia sighed helplessly, seemingly guessing Lü Yang's thoughts, and said softly, “The Divine Martial Sect has been plotting for a long time; fleeing would only lead to death.”
“Staying behind to hold the fort and await reinforcements offers a sliver of hope!”
Lü Yang still harbored doubts: “Senior Sister understands this reasoning; wouldn't Senior Brother Lu know it as well? If so, why did he choose to flee?”
“Because the precious jade is with him!”
At this, Fairy Feixia became furious: “The Divine Martial Sect used the mysterious Mysterious Female Taiyin Treasure Jade as bait to set an ambush. Lu Yuanchun, greedy for the jade, forcibly seized it, dragging us into the trap. He disregarded Senior Brother Chen's life and death, abandoning us to escape on his own!”
“So, he's fleeing to evade punishment?”
Lü Yang suddenly understood.
Clearly, Lu Yuanchun knew his actions were dishonorable.
If he stayed in the market, sooner or later, Fairy Feixia would hold him accountable.
Thus, he chose such an extreme method.
In this light, it was reasonable that Fairy Feixia didn't flee with Lu Yuanchun.
Had she done so, she might have been silenced by him.
“Demonic scum, today is your death day!”
A blazing aura illuminated the sky, resembling fiery clouds rolling through the air.
Finally, a burly man in armor appeared, leading the charge with a fierce expression.
“It's 'Divine Fist' Wu Zhichong!”
Fairy Feixia's face turned solemn, and she whispered, “This man is already at the ninth level of Qi Refining, just a step away from perfection. Junior Brother, be extremely careful.”
“Senior Brother Chen was destroyed by a single punch from him.”
Before Fairy Feixia finished speaking, the burly man named Wu Zhichong had already flown over, his arm raised high like drawing a bow.
“Die!”
In the next second, he threw a punch!
A piercing explosion echoed instantly in all directions.
The square-shaped fist imprint struck straight ahead.
In an instant, Lü Yang felt as if a mountain was crashing down upon him!
Boom!
At the critical moment, Fairy Feixia stepped forward, her cloud-like sleeves fluttering.
She emitted layers of clear, misty light clouds to catch Wu Zhichong's punch.
In an instant, colorful clouds and mist exploded, finally stopping Wu Zhichong outside the market.
However, the colorful clouds lost most of their brilliance as a result.
Seeing this, a trace of pain flashed in Fairy Feixia's eyes.
These colorful clouds were part of her magical treasure, the “Qixia Smoke Net Shield,” which she had painstakingly refined over many years.
Now, it had suffered repeated damage.
Meanwhile, another light descended from the sky.
After revealing himself, it was none other than Lu Yuanchun, who had just fled.
His face was extremely unsightly, and he was followed by another cultivator.
“'Mountain-Moving Daoist' Duanmu Yuan.”
Fairy Feixia frowned, recognizing the one intercepting Lu Yuanchun as another late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Martial Sect, whose strength was on par with hers.
“Lu Yuanchun, if you still want to live, come back and join forces with me!”
Fairy Feixia said in a deep voice.
Although the Divine Martial Sect was pressing aggressively, she believed that with three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators on their side, they still had a chance.
Even if Lü Yang was an ordinary disciple without any special abilities, he could handle early and mid-stage Qi Refining opponents.
As long as she and Lu Yuanchun could hold off Wu Zhichong and the Mountain-Moving Daoist, Lü Yang could deal with the other Divine Martial Sect disciples.
There might still be a chance to defend the market!
“Alright! Then let's fight to the death. Buy me some time!”
As he spoke, Lu Yuanchun took a deep breath and directly burned his essence blood.
Blood light surged from his crown, and his energy instantly skyrocketed several times.
Seeing this, Fairy Feixia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
'After all, this person is the disciple of the Mending Heaven Peak Lord, under the Foundation Establishment lineage. He might have some powerful techniques. With my assistance, we should be able to defend the market.'
Thinking this, Fairy Feixia held nothing back and once again summoned the “Qixia Smoke Net Shield,” trying to buy time.
“Stop him!”
Although Wu Zhichong didn't know Lu Yuanchun's abilities, he couldn't let him act freely.
He immediately launched a light towards Lu Yuanchun's direction to kill him.
Fairy Feixia, seeing this, mustered all her true energy to block the Mountain-Moving Daoist Duanmu Yuan, another late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Martial Sect.
At the same time, she shouted to Lü Yang beside her: “Junior Brother Lü, act quickly! As long as we stop Wu Zhichong, we still have a chance to turn the tables.”
“Lü Yang? An ordinary disciple... even if he broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, what use is that?”
Lu Yuanchun glanced at Lü Yang, sneering inwardly.
In his eyes, Lü Yang was just a nobody who had a stroke of luck to reach the late stage.
He couldn't compare to someone like him, a Foundation Establishment disciple.
Thinking this, he became more determined in his thoughts.
Fairy Feixia thought there was still hope, but Lu Yuanchun didn't think so.
Because in his view, Fairy Feixia had clearly overlooked a decisive factor.
That was the corpse tide!
Even if they could block the Divine Martial Sect members, as long as the formation's breach remained, once the corpse tide arrived, they would still be annihilated!
Therefore, in the next second, Lu Yuanchun made his move.
“Behold my divine power!”
As he spoke, Fairy Feixia's spirits lifted.
She saw blood light condense around Lu Yuanchun, manifesting a majestic demonic shadow.
She didn't expect Lu Yuanchun to kill Wu Zhichong outright; just severely injuring him would give them hope.
“Blood Shadow Sky Escape Technique!”
With a flash of the demonic shadow, Lu Yuanchun's figure instantly disappeared, transforming into a blood light that appeared hundreds of meters away, speeding towards the outside of Skeleton Mountain.
For a moment, Fairy Feixia was dumbfounded.
She had clearly underestimated Lu Yuanchun's shamelessness.
She never imagined that Lu Yuanchun would pretend to cooperate with her, only to use her as a shield.
However, at that moment, the sky outside Skeleton Mountain suddenly darkened.
“Trying to leave? Better stay!”
With a cold laugh, the blood-colored escape light that Lu Yuanchun had transformed into was suddenly cut off, forced to return to Skeleton Mountain.
From within came Lu Yuanchun's terrified shout:
“Qi Refining Perfection!?”
He had burned most of his essence blood to perform the blood escape.
No one in the late stage of Qi Refining could stop it.
Only someone at the perfection stage of Qi Refining could!
“Heaven wants me dead...”
Lu Yuanchun's heart was full of unwillingness.
He had finally seized the Mysterious Female Taiyin Treasure Jade.
If he could escape, he would surely gain the favor of the Mending Heaven Peak Lord.
Especially now that Zhao Xuhe had been abandoned by the Mending Heaven Peak Lord, this was his opportunity!
But now, everything was in vain.
At that moment, Lü Yang's voice suddenly came to Lu Yuanchun's ears: “Senior Brother Lu, return to the market first.”
“At this point, what's the use?”
Lu Yuanchun was utterly despondent, not even interested in responding to Lü Yang.
In his view, both he and Lü Yang were just facing death sooner or later.
In the next second, Lü Yang, who had been silent until now, suddenly stepped forward.
His sleeves fluttered, and his ten fingers flicked rapidly.
In an instant, he cast dozens of formation patterns around the market, breaking the micro-formation that fixed the breach in the Divine Martial Sect's grand formation.
He then manipulated the formation to merge it seamlessly.
Boom!
In an instant, dense formation patterns emerged, transforming into a light screen that enveloped the market inside and out.
The grand formation was thus restored to completeness!
“Ah?”
Seeing this, Lu Yuanchun's eyes widened instantly.
He shivered and quickly manipulated the blood light to escape back, shouting loudly: “Brother Lü, save me!!!”