"Speak your mind," Li Rong said, waving her hand.
Seventh Horse raised his head, stomped his muscular feet onto the ground, and said, "Ninth Monkey and Tenth Rooster will fight and distract them at the front. While Eighth Goat and I get to their back and surprise attack with our speed."
"Go ahead then," Li Rong replied.
She didn’t care much about them.
They were just pawns for the eventual resurrection of the Dark Lord.
As long as it could weaken the Qing Feng Sect before they reached the mountains, anything was worth a try.
Seventh Horse’s idea was much better than what they had done, waiting for the Qing Feng Sect to come to them like sitting ducks, giving up the first-mover advantage.
"Really? I will get to it immediately," Seventh Horse said as he glanced at the other Astrology Guards.
Even though the other Astrology Guards weren’t too pleased with Seventh Horse stealing the limelight with a plan, they begrudgingly obliged.
With their performance so far, they didn’t want to incur the wrath of the Lady Saint.
...
Next day.
The two teams tasked to scout ahead moved out as soon as daybreak arrived.
They were eager to kill some Dark Lotus disciples and get their rewards.
Lin Fan found a secluded corner at the campsite and started his cultivation for his Devouring Qi to Poison Transformation Technique.
Making use of the snakes he had gathered from the snake woman, he devoured the poison from the snakes and directed it to his poison glands.
Ho Ming was also busy cultivating his Qing Feng Sword technique outside their tent.
When Lee Xiao and Tai Lan saw how hardworking they were, they joined in with Ho Ming.
After all, there wasn’t much to do other than to wait for the scouting teams’ updates.
The scouting team had just encountered Ninth Monkey and Tenth Rooster at the foot of the Tai Mountains.
"Give up and we shall spare your lives," the team leader for one of the teams said with his sword pointing at Ninth Monkey and Tenth Rooster.
He looked at the two strange-looking men and waited for their answer.
"Gee... Gee... Give up?" Ninth Monkey laughed at what he had heard.
Tenth Rooster, however, wasted no time and lunged at the team leader.
Using his claw-like hands, Tenth Rooster clawed at the team leader’s wrist.
Plop.
Tenth Rooster was too fast for the team leader, and the team leader dropped his sword as he felt pain from his wrist.
It was slit open by Tenth Rooster’s claw-like hands.
Blood dripped onto the ground from the wound.
Tenth Rooster didn’t waste any time and used his forehead, which was pointed like a beak, to peck at the team leader’s head.
Crack.
It split the team leader’s skull open.
The last thought that the team leader had before he went unconscious was how they were so powerful.
How did that pale scholar-looking guy survive these Dark Lotus disciples?
He didn’t have the answer as the next moment, his mind went blank.
"Damn you!" The other disciples from Qing Feng Sect saw what happened and drew out their swords.
Ninth Monkey roared and showed his fangs before lunging at the disciples.
He was agile and dodged the attacks from the disciples with somersaults and rolls.
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With his hairy strong arms, Ninth Monkey tore the disciple’s arm from his shoulder.
"Argh! Let me go!" The disciple couldn’t do much and could only cry out in pain.
Other disciples tried to come to his rescue.
They thrust their swords at Ninth Monkey.
Thud.
Twirling winds shot at Ninth Monkey but dissipated after a while as the twirling wind wasn’t able to get through Ninth Monkey’s tough skin.
After the Twirling Wind Strike failed, the disciples used their swords and tried to stab Ninth Monkey with them instead.
Thud.
It wasn’t any better.
Their swords bent as the skin of Ninth Monkey was too tough for their blades to cut through.
"Gee. More toys for me to play with!" Ninth Monkey grabbed onto the swords with his hands and yanked them away from the disciples.
The sudden jerk was too powerful for the disciples, and they let go of their sword handles.
Ninth Monkey held the swords in a bunch and bent them with both his hands.
Clank.
Ninth Monkey threw the mangled bunch of swords onto the ground and said, "Useless toys."
Seeing the strength of Ninth Monkey, the disciples only had one thought in their minds.
They were too powerful to deal with.
The disciples wanted to turn and run but couldn’t.
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Fear had struck them and made their knees weak.
It was too late for them as they saw Ninth Monkey approaching them with his hairy strong arms.
"Stop fooling around and get it done quickly," Tenth Rooster said as he flicked the blood off his claw-like hands.
He was done with the other team of disciples.
...
Back at the campsite, the disciples stood and looked on as they saw two columns of smoke coming toward their location.
"The scouting teams are back so soon?"
"Huh. That must be it. Lee Xiao’s team had been wasting time and shirking so far."
"Wait. That might not be right. Can you feel it? The ground is shaking."
Disciples speculated on who was approaching.
They stopped as they felt the ground shaking.
Something was coming, and it was coming at them fast.
They drew out their swords and anticipated.
"Time for us to get our rewards."
One of them said and glanced over at Ho Ming, Lee Xiao, and Tai Lan.
Lin Fan was in his secluded corner cultivating his Devouring Qi to Poison Transformation Technique.
He noticed Lin Fan missing and said, "That pale scholar guy ran away? What a coward."
He turned and said, "Stay behind and watch how we do it."
Lee Xiao would have argued with him if it was a few days before.
But after going through so many near misses of life and death with Lin Fan, he knew what was more important.
The power to fight for yourself and those that matter to you.
Nothing else is important, and talk is cheap; they would be taken care of by reality.
Boom!
Horse carriages that were stacked as protective walls flew up into the air.