Chapter 624: 582 Take Action 2
"It’s quite simple," Aurelon replied calmly. "Back then, when my White Ten Sect was banished and slaughtered, the Great Spirit expeditionary army invaded our West Yi Church State territory. Now, it’s only fitting for us to retaliate. As you Great Spirit folks say, an eye for an eye."
"All forces related to the Great Dao Teaching must be killed, that’s my condition," said the Yuan Master coldly.
"Agreed. Exterminating heretics is God’s will," Aurelon nodded again.
Just then, a lightly-armored soldier rushed over from not far away, kneeling on one knee.
"Reporting to the judge, our tracking team has found alliance-associated trade league groups in three directions. Additionally, there are two more alliance-associated forces.
These five force groups are resisting fiercely, and we’ve lost quite a few men because of it.
The groups are named: Black Ten Sect Squad, Celestial Lock Teaching, Taiqing Sect, Human Immortal Temple."
"Order the Holy Cross Star to send more men to track them down. Make sure to kill them all!" Aurelon said coldly.
"Yes." The soldier quickly withdrew.
"Let’s see if Yue Dewen dares to make a move now," the Yuan Master observed with a sharp smile at the corner of his mouth.
"We will force him to act," Aurelon replied. "The more they move, the greater the damage."
If it weren’t for receiving precise secret intelligence, they wouldn’t have deployed the White Cross Army to invade the Great Spirit at this time.
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BANG!!
In the mountain forest, on the official road.
A heavy double-handed sword slammed into a Human Immortal Temple guard, knocking him far back against the left tree trunk.
The tree trunk shook violently, shedding countless leaves.
Thud.
The double-handed sword landed heavily, piercing the ground, then was swiftly picked up by the following knight, Andora, who grasped it in his hand.
"Kill!"
He continued to charge towards the two Human Immortal Temple guards approaching from the opposite side.
"Accelerate!"
In an instant, Andora’s blade flashed, and his speed increased several folds, slashing past the two men’s waists in a blink.
With a swish.
The two misjudged and failed to block, immediately sliced in half, collapsing motionless.
But their strong vitality ensured their upper bodies still shouted, wielding short swords to stab at Andora.
With two thuds, they were kicked away forcefully, their heads bent backward, finally lifeless.
"Truly a demon!" Andora looked up ahead, spotting Sun Chaoyue, Ye Bai, and others still fleeing.
This Human Immortal Temple team was one of the key targets the upper command wanted tracked and exterminated.
So... not one left alive!
"Charge!" With a wave of Andora’s hand, five knights behind him sprinted forward in pursuit.
He also glanced up at the sky.
"The spoils are yours to enjoy, but we must return before nightfall."
The knights in front let out excited roars.
The vanguard White Cross Army knights he led were mainly robust death-row prisoners pulled from dungeons to increase the number of strong warriors.
Without sufficient incentives, they would hardly move. Therefore, Andora was accustomed to such an operational mode.
With a quick step, he chased forward at high speed.
In the mountain forest, behind Sun Chaoyue, only Ye Bai and the master-servant duo of Lu Luo remained.
The rest of the guards were killed in the preceding skirmish.
The trio sprinted desperately, frequently glancing back at the pursuing white knights.
Each of these white knights wasn’t particularly strong, but their armor was extremely hard, and they would abruptly burst forth with extreme speed.
In the previous hasty engagement, even two of the super-grade external medicine guards were killed swiftly.
Sun Chaoyue understood that if she joined the fray, she would only be sending herself to death.
"Don’t be afraid! Up ahead... at the Guandu River, we have a guild branch! We’ll be safe once we reach there!"
She panted, sprinting at full speed.
If not for the speed of her Bloodline physique, she would have been caught by the pursuing knights long ago.
As she witnessed her long-standing guards fall tragically along the way, her eyes had turned red.
She gritted her teeth and cursed, "Destroying my medicine ship, killing my guards, this news has already been sent back ahead. Just wait! He’s doomed!!"
Ye Bai, however, was not as optimistic.
In the brief skirmish earlier, she assessed the level of the pursuing knight.
Judging by the explosive speed and power, the opponent was at least at the Three Emptiness Level.
They were clearly out of their league.
Unfortunately, during their breakout, their commotion attracted high-level forces of the White Ten Sect.
’We must find a way to shake him off!!’ Ye Bai’s heart was anxious as she glanced back again, shocked.
That person vanished!?
The area was empty, and the knight who had been closing in fast had disappeared without a trace.
"Are you looking for me?"
Suddenly, a voice unexpectedly sounded from behind Ye Bai.
Without glancing around, she fully activated the Golden Roc Secret Record, spread her arms, and accelerated forward, gaining significant distance.
That just avoided the heavy sword swing from the man behind.
She was able to reach beyond the opponent’s explosive speed thanks to the Golden Roc Secret Record.
However, her guard Lu Luo didn’t have the same ability.
Soon, there were a few short, crisp sounds.
Ah!
With a scream from Lu Luo, Ye Bai’s eyes instantly reddened.
"Miss, run!!" Lu Luo’s voice shouted from behind.
Thud.
A gory sound soon followed, abruptly cutting off.
Ye Bai dared not look back, sprinting forward with all her might.
She never expected that she would fall to such a state, that Lu Luo, who had been following her for so many years, would end up dying in a place like this?!
Thump.
Suddenly there was another dull thud behind her.
Sun Chaoyue leapt forward, dodging the heavy sword flying from behind. But her hasty evasion caused her to slam into a large tree ahead.
She tumbled to the ground, got up immediately, but it was already too late.
"Demon!"
An iron hand clad in a glove reached out from behind to grab her neck.
Clang.
In an instant, the iron hand was grasped by another equally robust hand, suspended in mid-air.
"Are you alright, Miss Yue."
A deep voice.
Sun Chaoyue hurriedly rolled forward a distance, got up, and looked up.
In front of her, a group of red-clad riders, led by a woman in a short skirt, were rushing towards her.
Behind her, a red-eyed brawny man was fiercely battling the sacred knight Andora.
"Kill them all!" The short-skirted woman leading the charge was Chang Yuqing, who had just arrived from Wushan.
Her beautiful eyes were cold and fierce, pointing towards the White Cross Army knights charging up behind Andora.
Laughter echoed as bloodline members from the Human Character Institute charged out swiftly. Even the weakest of them had Ninth Grade speed, while the stronger ones had reached the level of External Medicine.
With their leader entangled, within less than half a minute, most of the knights present were dead.
Only Andora remained, increasingly grim, fighting and retreating.
"You all... are from the Human Immortal Temple?!" At this time, Ye Bai also recognized Chang Yuqing and the others, his eyes widening.
"Make sure to leave no survivors to return and report!" Chang Yuqing ignored her but also drew her sword and rushed in to join the fray.
Soon, with a scream, the last knight was cut down, leaving Andora alone surrounded in the center.
Shadows of blood converged from all directions, attacking and overwhelming him.
Each blood shadow that grazed him siphoned some blood away.
This bizarre attack left Andora ever weaker.
"Holy Judgment!!!" Suddenly, Andora roared in anger, his body rapidly inflated, stepping backward, trying to break through the siege.
Thud!
At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared behind him, the same burly man who had been fighting him earlier.
The two collided, lost their balance, and rolled to the ground.
When the rolling stopped, Andora had completely lost all movement, his skin turned ghastly pale, devoid of any blood color.
Crunch.
The brawny man chopped down with a palm on Andora’s neck, slicing him and his armor into two.
"Without blood, these monsters are quite easy to kill."
He stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and smiled.
As a top fighter from the Earth Character Institute, ranked fourteenth, handling this situation was manageable.
Just as he smugly stood, suddenly two white figures rapidly approached from afar.
Even from a kilometer away, they exuded a presence that shook the spirit, like two massive ships charging this way.
"Experts! More are coming! Let’s go!!"
Everyone sensed their aura and turned pale.
"I’ll test their mettle!" The brawny man from the Earth Character Institute shouted and charged towards the two.
Whoosh!
Chang Yuqing lifted her hand, sending a flare shooting into the sky.
It was a call for reinforcements.
Her beautiful eyes were icy cold. This time, in preparation for any possible pursuit, she didn’t come alone.
After all, her purpose was not only to rescue but also to seize the opportunity to reclaim the medicinal materials while the other side was engaged with the Spiritual Army.
Soon people started approaching rapidly from behind her.
Those were high-ranking bloodline experts from the Human Character Institute and the Earth Character Institute!
Looking down from a high vantage point.
You could clearly see one after another, the white-armored knights continually joining the forest battlefield ahead.
On the opposite side, bloody figures were rapidly converging from various directions, similarly joining the forest battlefield.
The slaughter between the two sides was rapidly escalating.
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"The White Ten Sect’s White Cross Army??"
Inside the Human Immortal Cave.
Zhang Rongfang sat cross-legged, looking at Qingsu who came to report, slightly puzzled.
"The White Ten Sect..." He fell into memories.
Back when he was in Citong, he dealt with the White Ten Sect and even participated in the campaign to exterminate them.
Now, it seems this faction has returned...
"Patriarch, according to the message, after Miss Qing’s team rescued people, everyone has joined the battle. But the opposing side seems to be continually getting reinforcements. With the Spiritual Army’s encirclement, Miss Qing hopes for reinforcements from your side as well to help ultimately reclaim the medicinal materials." The messenger Daoist respectfully bowed.
"Those shipments of medicinal herbs and materials cost most of the funds within the temple, they are indeed very important, it’s no wonder she is so concerned." Zhang Rongfang calmly remarked.
"Yes, that’s exactly what Miss Qing is expressing. If we arrive late and the Spiritual Army retakes the port, retrieving our medicinal materials could be as hard as ascending the heavens." The messenger Daoist explained.
"Then dispatch those from the Celestial Character Institute. Anyone who participates in reclaiming the ships successfully will earn a hundred merits each." Zhang Rongfang casually said.
Merits, within the Human Immortal Temple, were used as exchange currency. Their greatest use was to exchange for Zhang Rongfang’s own essence blood.
Accumulating enough essence blood could elevate one from a third generation bloodline to a second generation, or even a first generation bloodline.
The Ancestral Essence Blood of the Blood Race, no one ever had enough of it, after all, even if one was already a first generation bloodline, there would always be others in need around them.
As the development of the Human Immortal Temple grew faster and more complete, the trade of bloodline essence blood gradually emerged in the black market.
Zhang Rongfang not only didn’t stop it but rather was pleased to see it.
After all, he could produce a large amount of essence blood at any time, truly endless.
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