Sword Among Us

The hidden weapons technique the twenty or so Tang Sect elites possessed were rather astonishing. With the protection provided by their companions with Abstruse Gold Cloaks, they swung their arms around like wheels and quickly sent out waves of sonic booms. All sorts of sharp metallic hidden weapons moved as if they were sentient. They seemed to be moving around in disorder, but in truth, the hidden weapons masters used different methods to attack the Class One Hall members below them. The speed of the weapons were different, and it caught all of them off guard.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Countless hidden weapons intersected with each other in the air in a dazzling manner. They filled the air like raindrops, causing the people below them to feel chills down their spines.

“Where did all these elites come from?! Tang Sect’s Buddha’s Sacred Hand is also here…”

When they faced the hidden weapons that came at them from every direction, quite a number of people were able to block them in the beginning, but soon, they were unable to catch up to the rhythm. The group of Tang Sect elites worked like machines. They continuously threw hidden weapons out. When their left hands were flinging out weapons, their right hands would be pulled in to draw more weapons, and they were so fast that it was ridiculous. Their actions were also so fast that it was dazzling. In just the span of a breath, hundreds of the people who were attacking the corridors at the flanks died.

They worked together with Wind Assault Tower when they launched their counterattack, and gradually, Class One Hall was unable to bear with the pressure. They were forced dozens of feet back, and soon, all of them left the hall.

“You did good!”

“Haha! Get them all out!”

Just when multiple Wind Assault Tower members were so excited that they were ready to charge forward and force back all their enemies, Wu Kuo gave an order cautiously, “Do not move your defense line! Stay where you are!”

Even though morale was incredibly important when two armies fought against each other, the two hundred top-class elites in the hall could not be suppressed with just this momentum.

The people in the area were all elites from Wind Assault Tower, and they were still disciplined enough to stop moving when they heard Wu Kuo’s order. Even though they felt slightly indignant, they still fell back, formed their formation, and perfected their defense line.

When the group of Tang Sect elites saw that there were no longer any enemies in the area, they cast their gazes on the area where the top-class elites fought at the center of the hall.

In truth, when they jumped to the roof, they had long since noticed that the people fighting over there all possessed extraordinary skill, and they were eager to take action against them. Without needing Wu Kuo to tell them, the group had already seized a large number of hidden weapons and locked down on their targets.

*****

“Hall master! A group of Tang Sect hidden weapons elites have appeared inside Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters, and they have sent our forces on retreat! The person in the lead is Buddha’s Sacred Hand Yan Biwu, and he is famous on Dragon Rank. He and his group of people have all recently cleared the top-class hidden weapons clan quest from Tang Sect.” Someone charged back from Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters to report to Dream Clouds, and he also asked her whether they should carry out a plan to target them and kill them.

“Have Xie Lingyun, Luo Jing, and Shi Huasheng returned?” Dream Clouds calmly turned her head around to ask.

Right when she finished asking that question, three people walked out from the back of the group. There was regret on their faces, and they wrapped their fists in their palms. “Hall master.”

“Be careful next time. Go and take Yan Biwu and Wind Chimes’ heads to me.” Dream Clouds were still very confident with the strength of the three top-class elites she personally chose, and she ordered them calmly.

The trio looked at each other. “Understood!”

“There’s no need for that.”

The three people were prepared to take action when these words were suddenly spoken faintly by their side. An invisible might spread out and forced these people to stop in their tracks.

The people in the area were all shocked.

Evil Emperor continued speaking indifferently, “If Happy can kill you once, he can kill you twice. None of the people inside can kill him, and even if you go, you’ll be of no help to the matter. I’ll personally attack. Stay here and protect your hall master in case she’s attacked and killed.”

As he spoke, Evil Emperor cast an aloof glance at a direction at a street nearby. Then, as many people watched him, his feet left the roof, and he flew from it in an incredibly unimaginable manner. He rushed to Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters, and he traveled the entire 328 feet while airborne.

“Hiss…”

Many people on the streets below looked up and stared at Evil Emperor while his white hair drifted behind him as he flew. Their eyes were filled with disbelief, and they were so shocked that they could not speak even after a long time had passed.

Dream Clouds and her group were also stunned for a few seconds.

But Dream Clouds soon remembered what Evil Emperor mentioned. She scowled and turned around to look at the direction Evil Emperor previously glanced at, and she was just in time to see a few unfamiliar faces standing in a restaurant nearby. They were not from Class One Hall and the twelve Beijing sects, and they were staring at the sky with dumbfounded gazes.

She scowled even more, and Dream Clouds felt slightly threatened by the fact that these players did not have any emblems on their chests.

She sent all her aces to the frontlines, and while she had many Class One Hall elites surrounding her, if Evil Emperor could personally speak up about them, then these people were definitely very strong.

“Hall master?”

When she saw Xie Lingyun and the other two put on puzzled expressions once more, Dream Clouds frowned and ordered them, “Stay here for the time being.”

“Yes.”

*****

The Tang Sect elites’ outstanding hidden weapons technique had indeed reduced quite a lot of pressure within Wind Assault Tower.

Even top-class elites would be distracted when they faced top-tier hidden weapons elites and the various hidden weapons that circled above them to search for various angles to attack them. Hence, they would occasionally reveal openings for attack.

Besides, there were Happy and Wind Chimes in the crowd as well. One of them forced them to be in a nervous state as they fought against him, and the other kept sending an endless stream of zither notes to attack or bother multiple people.

With pressure from three sides, all two hundred or so elites gradually descended into a disadvantage, and this was the first time it happened since they joined the battle.

*****

“Careful!”

Thud!

Another elite from a Beijing sect had his defense broken by multiple hidden weapons when he was busy fighting against his enemy. He had his throat pierced from a difficult angle, and his blood gushed out like a stream.

“Damn it! It’s poisoned!”

“Duh! Tang Sect has always commanded the world with hidden weapons and poison, you know?!” Once Yan Biwu killed one person, he released a derisive snort. He did not even bother to look at the two darts intersecting with each other. One of them was larger than the other. They caught everyone off guard when they ruthlessly killed the person who warned the others that their weapons were poisoned from a difficult angle after they spun a few times in the air.

The people behind him cheered!

The fifth!

This was already the fifth top-class elite he killed using hidden weapons.

However, Yan Biwu did not feel satisfied or proud about it.

He redirected his glance and looked at the figure who was moving around the most dangerous region in the headquarters, and he sighed in his heart.

Killing five top-class elites in succession was an impressive result, even for a Tang Sect hidden weapons elite, but all this was not due to his efforts alone.

If that person had not used himself to attract most of the people’s attention, if the dozens of Wind Assault Tower aces had not been fighting at the frontlines, and if it were not for Demonic Zither, the damage from their hidden weapons would not be able to bring out their damage so fully.

Also, quietly attacking and using the most high-end hidden weapons to scheme against people while there were so many outside factors interfering with the enemies’ concentration would not bring him much joy.

In comparison, Happy moved around in the crowd and was capable of attracting most of the top-class players’ firepower in an orderly fashion, and he did so while he was surrounded by all these powerful players. He could even easily kill these players, to whom many people in the game viewed as untouchable. This was what was considered true strength.

This was the true reason why Wind Assault Tower was still able to struggle at their last breath even when Dream Clouds dealt such a powerful blow at them.

“Careful!”

“Evil Emperor is here!”

“Archers, get ready!”

Just when Yan Biwu swiftly searched for his next target, he suddenly heard nervous and panicked screams rise behind him.

His heart trembled. Yan Biwu and his group looked up swiftly, and just as they expected, they saw a dazzling figure charge at them with the wind and with supreme, awe-inspiring might as well as an imposing momentum.

Before he got closer, a pressure that was bordering on destructive enveloped the entire Wind Assault Tower from above. Evil Emperor had personally arrived in the area, and he quickly stirred up unprecedented panic and nervousness in the headquarters.

Wu Kuo and the others were incredibly tense. They stared at the white-haried Evil Emperor who came airborne from afar, and they released various orders swiftly.

“Fire!”

“Don’t let him get close to the headquarters!”

Wu Kuo was Phantasmal Shadow’s older brother, and he was currently the one who knew Evil Emperor’s strength the best in the headquarters. He knew very clearly that Great Dao Heart Demonic Seed Art was a martial art that had surpassed the boundaries of the current martial arts in the game. It was a supreme martial art, and every action Evil Emperor did was fused with a strange mental power. The pressure he released was one directed at the mind, and no matter what sort of martial art he used, he could magnify its power by several fold, which was just plain ridiculous. It would be incredibly difficult for a person to withstand it. One Emperor had refined his willpower because he had had extraordinary encounters during his time in the game, which was why he could last through more than one hundred moves under Evil Emperor.

A normal person would have a hard time even attacking Evil Emperor!

With just one glance, he could make a person feel as if he was caught in a nightmare. It would be difficult for the person to even circulate his true qi, and if Evil Emperor took the initiative to attack, they could not even fight back against him.

Right now, Evil Emperor had not even entered Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters, and the mental suppression from Great Dao Heart Demonic Seed Art had already caused many of them to feel that their movements were restricted. If Evil Emperor drew even closer, their defense lines would crumble straightaway, and the headquarters would soon face a destructive attack, which would be a disaster to them. Perhaps before their tower master came back to provide reinforcements, Wind Assault Tower would have already collapsed.

‘No! I have to think of everything I can to stop Evil Emperor and stall for as much time as possible!’

Under Wu Kuo’s orders, a large number of archers surged out from the hall. Many of them drew their bows fully, and their arrows were quickly placed on their bows.

An arrow shower charged forward.

However, at the same time they attacked, a pressure that filled the entire area swiftly descended on them!

Boom!

The group of people felt their bodies sink. Their arrows instantly lost their target. They shivered as they passed by Evil Emperor, and they could not pose as any degree of threat or damage to Evil Emperor at all.

“Just a group of ants.”

Evil Emperor stood in the air. With the wind behind him, he flew over the walls and main door of the headquarters. The powerful pressure that came with him pushed down on the group of archers on the stairs so greatly that they could practically not fire the second wave of arrows. The scorn in Evil Emperor’s eyes became even clearer.

Since a group of Tang Sect elites had joined the fight in the hall in the headquarters, more than eighty top-class elites died. Now, there were fewer than one hundred and sixty top-class elites left.

Right now, Evil Emperor had personally joined the battle, and Wind Assault Tower’s momentum was reduced once more.

However, what caused them to feel resigned was that the mental pressure from Great Dao Heart Demonic Seed Art affected everyone in its area of effect. Those from Class One Hall did not appear to be more relaxed because Evil Emperor arrived, or else, once Evil Emperor showed up, it would be impossible for Wind Assault Tower to continue defending their headquarters.

Zither sounds, hidden weapons, and arrow showers all lost the element that made them intimidating at that moment.

It seemed as if only Evil Emperor could walk in the air alone in the world right now, and under countless people’s respectful gazes, he leisurely walked around while he released an awe-inspiring might that spread far and wide.

But at that moment, a few screams of pain rose from Class One Hall’s crowd. It was so abrupt that it attracted everyone’s attention within the headquarters, including Evil Emperor. Even he showed a hint of surprise, and when he looked down from above, he saw a person who still managed to swing his Recondite Steel Heavy Sword with the same agile movements and the same speed under Evil Emperor’s mental suppression. Evil Emperor frowned a little before he released a cold snort. Crackling sounds rose in the air, and a storm with a mental suppression that was much stronger than before was instantly formed before it charged toward Happy.