Chapter 890 - Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum
After reading the letter of challenge, Han Wu requested that the Sun family bring every captured White Lotus Sect member to the courtyard where he was staying. The Sun family witnessed the terrifying power of the Kunpeng Divine Art that night.
The following morning, Han Wu’s group of four set out for the location marked on the letter: White Lotus Peak. At Han Wu’s firm insistence, the Sun family sent no one with them.
Sun Fuqiang and Sun Fubao were worried for them and tried to follow in secret, but their father caught and grounded them.
After half a day of travel, the four arrived at White Lotus Peak, named for its resemblance to a blooming white lotus. None of its beauty mattered to Han Wu and the others, however. Their priority was rescuing Qin Shuang’s family.
Four people were waiting for them at the peak: the White Lotus Sect’s founding pillars, the Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum elders. These four had built the sect from the ground up and had fought to establish branch after branch.
Only after the White Lotus Sect had been established as a major sect did the four retire to headquarters. None of them had anticipated that there would one day be a situation that required all four of them at once.
Neither side bothered with pleasantries.
“Where are the hostages?” Han Wu demanded.
Qin Shuang desperately scanned the surrounding area for any sign of her family. He Xu and Jia Gui, on the other hand, kept an eye out for ambushes.
The eldest of the four, Elder Plum, clapped his hands, and a group of White Lotus Sect members led out a line of people in white prisoner garb. The hoods on their heads were removed. Qin Shuang’s family was all present.
“Mom, Dad!” Qin Shuang cried out.
Her family tried to respond, but the guards behind them struck with clubs and silenced them. Furious electricity crackled across Qin Shuang’s body. How dare they hit her family in front of her!
Han Wu grabbed her arm and signaled her to hold back. Whether they could save her family depended on the White Lotus Sect’s demands.
“Name your terms,” Han Wu demanded.
“Our Holy Mother wishes to test you,” Elder Plum said. “If you can entertain her, releasing these people is a trivial matter.”
“Holy Mother?” Han Wu had never heard of this person. From the Sun family’s intelligence, he knew the four elders were the sect’s strongest. Nobody had mentioned a Holy Mother.
At that moment, he recalled the True Martial God King’s words, “Try not to die at that madwoman’s hands.”
The madwoman in question was likely the Holy Mother.
“Fine. Bring her out. We’ll settle this face-to-face,” Han Wu said.
Elder Bamboo, the most hot-tempered of the four, snapped at him, “Who do you think you are? You don’t deserve a personal audience with the Holy Mother.”
Han Wu’s eyes grew cold. “If she won’t come to me, how are we supposed to fight?”
“You go to her,” said Elder Orchid, gesturing toward the courtyard at the summit of the mountain.
Han Wu scoffed. A fight was a fight. Did it really need this many annoying rules? He stepped forward, but the four elders blocked his path.
“What now?” Han Wu glared.
Elder Chrysanthemum broke his silence. “You need to go through us first if you want to see the Holy Mother. If you can’t even get past us, don’t bother.”
“Fine. Let’s go then,” Han Wu snapped. “I don’t have all day.”
Elder Plum signaled for the sect members to take Qin Shuang’s family up to the courtyard. The four elders then spread out and surrounded Han Wu from four sides.
“Why bother? All four of you together aren’t enough to defeat me,” Han Wu taunted, feigning arrogance while secretly studying which elder had the biggest opening.
The four elders exchanged glances, then activated their power simultaneously. Their internal energy took the form of plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo, and chrysanthemums that encircled Han Wu’s group.
Han Wu immediately recognized it as a variation of the Lotus Heart Sage’s Thousand Lotus Bloom, materializing internal energy to create devastating explosions. Of course, the combined power of four Top-tier fighters meant this version would be incomparably stronger.
Without hesitation, Han Wu unleashed Skyshell using Peerless. He burned through massive amounts of internal energy to form a Black Tortoise dome, shielding all four of them just as the Thousand Lotus Bloom detonated.
The explosion was colossal. It cracked the mountainside and blasted a crater five meters deep into the ground. Han Wu’s Skyshell took heavy damage, but he poured internal energy into it and held it together through the final wave.
The four elders, by contrast, hardly even looked tired.
So this is the power of Top-tier fighters? Four Top-tier fighters working together with perfect coordination could probably decimate the White Lotus Peak on their own, Han Wu thought to himself.
“Impressive. As expected of the one who caught the attention of the Holy Mother. Surviving our combined Thousand Lotus Bloom without a scratch is a rare feat, especially for outsiders like you,” Elder Plum praised.
Han Wu had no interest in chatting. He needed to rescue Qin Shuang’s family, and only the Holy Mother could grant that wish. If he wanted to reach the Holy Mother, he would have to get past these four elders—and fast.
“Each of us takes one. Whatever you do, don’t let them combine their internal energy again!” Han Wu called out.
The four elders’ internal energy appeared linked, and combining their powers produced a force many times stronger than any of them could muster alone. Han Wu’s side likely would not survive another combined attack.
Knowing this, the best way to deal with them naturally became to separate the four elders. This would make it easier to defeat them.
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