I Am the True Lord of Running Away

Chapter 171: Chapter 171: Saving People

If it were just that, it would have been one thing. But as it happened, Jiang Xu knew one of them—and knew her quite well.

It was the female cultivator who had told the other to run, the one who had spoken at the very beginning—Shan Lanlan.

Her Cultivation had now reached the Qi Cultivation Late Stage, and her Swordsmanship was masterfully executed. The average Demon Cultivator couldn’t even get close to her.

However, with more Demon Cultivators harassing her from the sides, Shan Lanlan was overwhelmed and completely unable to escape.

"Hmph, that Senior Sister Yan you’re all talking about—is she that detestable Yan Chunyu?!"

one of the Demon Cultivators said coldly.

"That woman has slaughtered countless brothers from our Biluo Demon Sect. You people are just a small down payment on her blood debt. Once the Yellow Springs Ascendant of our Biluo Demon Sect makes his move, he’ll utterly crush that little bitch Yan Chunyu and make her pay for her blood debt with her own flesh!"

Another Demon Cultivator beside him snickered.

"She might even get sold off to the Joyful Tower. Then us brothers can have some fun with her!"

"You know, now that you mention it, these four little ladies in front of us are pretty hot, too. How about we don’t kill them right away?"

"Doesn’t matter if we kill them. We can just do it while they’re still warm!"

At this, the dozen or so Demon Cultivators all burst into raucous laughter, causing the four women to become so enraged that they nearly faltered and sustained even more injuries.

Hearing this, Jiang Xu’s expression turned cold.

Although Jiang Xu had no real friendship with Yan Chunyu—in fact, she had even forced him once—he still knew her. Besides, Jiang Xu had a good impression of Shan Lanlan. A fire ignited in his heart.

’These bastards are really courting death. I just happen to have a new Magic I haven’t properly tested yet. Perfect. I’ll use you lot to break it in!’

Then, Jiang Xu strolled casually, using Stealth to approach the edge of the battlefield, his consciousness sinking into his Sea of Consciousness.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, his Divine Sense gathered Spiritual Power into a phantom, spike-like form. He locked his consciousness onto a Demon Cultivator fighting the four women not far ahead, controlled the spiritual spike, and fiercely unleashed it!

The spiritual spike, invisible to the naked eye, shot across the battlefield like a bolt of lightning, heading straight for the target Demon Cultivator.

PFFT—

A faint sound echoed on the spiritual plane. Jiang Xu sensed the opponent’s consciousness completely dissipate!

Shan Lanlan herself was struggling to parry, her heart slowly sinking into endless despair. She could see no future and was even on the verge of giving up.

But just then, Shan Lanlan saw the Demon Cultivator she was fighting inexplicably freeze for a moment.

Shan Lanlan couldn’t believe her eyes, but thanks to muscle memory, her hands moved faster than her thoughts. With a single horizontal slash, she easily lopped off the head of the man before her.

Even as the Demon Cultivator’s corpse collapsed into a pool of blood, Shan Lanlan couldn’t believe such a miracle had occurred.

"Old Dog!"

"Huang!"

The surrounding Demon Cultivators cried out in alarm, just as dumbfounded.

How could they lose one person when a dozen of them were besieging just four?

They were using extremely cautious tactics!

They were stunned, but Jiang Xu wasn’t about to let them off the hook.

Jiang Xu fired another Master Level Spiritual Sense Needle, which shot out and instantly crushed another Demon Cultivator’s consciousness.

Another of the Female Cultivators took the opportunity to kill her opponent as well.

By now, all the Demon Cultivators knew something was wrong.

’What the hell is going on?!’

’How did the situation change so drastically in an instant?’

"Who is it!"

"Who dares to interfere!"

"The Biluo Demon Sect is at work! Don’t be blind to your own doom!"

The remaining seven or eight continued to engage the four Female Cultivators, while the others turned to face outward, bluffing to hide their fear.

Jiang Xu paid them no mind and continued to fire Spiritual Sense Needles from his mind.

This time he struck three at once. Instantly, three more Demon Cultivators perished.

Seizing the opportunity, the four Female Cultivators used their own strength to jointly take down another Demon Cultivator.

With that, six Demon Cultivators had been killed.

Now, only seven or eight Demon Cultivators remained.

These Demon Cultivators were panicking now.

Anyone in their position would panic.

They couldn’t even see their attacker, yet nearly half their number had died for no apparent reason.

If they kept fighting...

wouldn’t they all be wiped out?

At that thought, the Demon Cultivators abandoned any idea of making their enemies pay. They exchanged a look, cast one final Magic to hold the women back, and then shouted as they turned and fled.

The four remaining Female Cultivators, battered and with their Magical Power nearly depleted, blinked and stared at each other in disbelief.

"They... they ran away?"

"Yeah, did we... survive?"

"For real? Are we already dead? Is everything we’re seeing just a hallucination we’re imagining?"

"Hmm, now that you mention it, that’s possible. Let me pinch my face to see if it hurts... Hmm, it doesn’t. Looks like it really is a hallucination."

"Of course it doesn’t hurt you! You’re pinching my face!"

...

"Doggy, what do we do now?"

The seven or eight Demon Cultivators who had fled gathered together, one of them speaking with extreme reluctance.

"What else can we do? We go back like this!" the Demon Cultivator called Doggy said, his face dark. He spat on the ground.

"Just go back like this? We lost so many brothers. Won’t the Elder feed us all to his poison insects?!" another Demon Cultivator said, still shaken.

"What else? Desert the Sect? Don’t you forget, our Lifebound Poison Insects were given to us by the Sect!"

At these words, the men fell silent.

"Forget it. We’ll just say we ran into a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Righteous Dao. Our lives were hanging by a thread, and we barely escaped with our lives. As for whether they believe us... we’ll just have to leave it to fate."

"Looks like that’s the only way."

"You all look like you’re in a tough spot," Jiang Xu asked softly from the side.

"You have no idea. We couldn’t even handle four little women. When we get back..."

As he spoke, the Demon Cultivators realized something was off. Who was that who just spoke?

"!!!"

The Demon Cultivators leaped up with a shout, about to attack Jiang Xu.

But they never expected that thousands of terrifying, strange insects would suddenly appear around Jiang Xu. In an instant, the insects swarmed over their bodies. Before they could even cast the slightest bit of Magic, they were devoured.

...

After cleaning up the battlefield, Jiang Xu recalled the recent battle, very satisfied with the effectiveness of his Spiritual Sense Needle.

’The Spiritual Sense Needle specifically attacks the enemy’s Sea of Consciousness. As long as the opponent hasn’t formed their own Divine Sense, or lacks a corresponding Defensive Spiritual Artifact, they have no way to resist it.’

The power of the Spiritual Sense Needle was also determined by the strength of one’s Divine Sense.

Because Jiang Xu had already reached Qi Cultivation Great Perfection, coupled with three years of cultivating the Divine Forging Technique, his Divine Sense now had a range of twenty zhang.

One had to understand that an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator Early Stage only had a range of thirty zhang.

One could imagine that once Jiang Xu broke through to Foundation Establishment, the strength of his Divine Sense would surely be even greater than that of a typical Early Stage Cultivator.

At that point, the Spiritual Sense Needle would be highly effective even against Early Stage Cultivators.