Sword Among Us

The words of the man in the back freed the players from being stuck in their rigid thought process!

They swiftly mobilized their forces and moved. A group of people were in charge of blocking the throwing knives that were flying wantonly in the hall of the royal mausoleum. The other group of people hid behind a stone pillar with an engraving of a dragon entwined around it. They drew their bows madly or threw hidden weapons at the ninjas in the tunnel. Even though most of them only had low-tier hidden weapon or bow techniques, their numerical and geographical advantage gradually came to show.

The hall was wide, and once the throwing knives split up, the damage the people had to suffer was largely reduced.

On the contrary, the arrows, throwing knives, and hidden weapons that shot through the tunnel from different directions gathered together to form a dense shower of projectiles. Their momentum was incredibly astonishing.

The defense of the ninjas was clearly not very good. After one round of attacks, more than half of the first row was injured, and their fierce offense swiftly lowered in intensity.

Once the pressure lessened, the seven great sects instantly became even more excited.

The players would either fire two arrows in one draw or constantly send throwing knives over. They did not need to aim when throwing their hidden weapons or firing their arrows into the tunnel. They attacked with the might of a storm and caught the ninjas off guard.

There was a continuous stream of them being hit and staggering back. They were stabbed with an assortment of hidden weapons, and they looked incredibly miserable and wretched. Hence, the throwing knives that flew out of the tunnel reduced in number.

“Haha! We made it! They’re going to run!”

“After them!”

“They might have high-tier throwing knife manuals with them…”

When they saw that their strategy worked and that the threat in the hall was completely resolved, the people from the seven sects instantly became excited. They walked out from behind the stone pillar with the entwining dragon engraving while continuing to throw hidden weapons and firing arrows into the tunnel.

Unfortunately for them, the ninjas were very fast. They instantly went out of the range of the hidden weapons. They ran into the tunnel to avoid being shot while luring people after them.

“Careful! Don’t go in!”

Some of the people from the seven sects soon noticed that something off. Once they entered the tunnel, their firepower was clearly reduced, so they reminded those in the front to be careful.

Unfortunately for them, the corpses of the ninjas who threw the throwing knives at them in the tunnel served as an impossible to resist temptation to many people. They did not even hear the warning. All they saw were the corpses of the ninjas, and they charged forward in impatience.

Soaring Tiger Sect showed the greatest impatience. A few of the disciples from Beggar’s Sect and Hidden Soul Sect were also like that.

Right after the shouted out warnings, the retreating ninjas suddenly stopped at the same time, and dozens of throwing knives split up in the tunnel, filling it. They intertwined with each other and shot at the disciples from the seven sects who were charging at the front.

In the narrow tunnel, the players simply could not dodge. Their eyes filled with shock when they saw the countless throwing knives charging at their faces.

The sounds of bodies being shot full of holes and the screams of pain rose and fell in the tunnel.

“Damn it!”

“Retreat!”

A few seconds later, a group of people moved out of the tunnel in a flurry and looking very pathetic.

More than twenty had fallen in the tunnel in a horrifying manner.

The ninjas closed in on them again.

“Damn it! I can’t push in…”

Since Wudang Sect and Shaolin Temple had fewer people who were skilled in hidden weapons, they were at the back of the group, which was why they were not injured. Emei Sect and Beautiful Robes Faction had always lingered further back, which was a relatively safe region, and hence, they were not injured as well. Soaring Tiger Sect, Hidden Soul Guild, and Beggar’s Sect were the ones who were injured.

Their numbers were continuously reduced, and the three sects at that moment had less than half the numbers with which they had come. Soaring Tiger Sect was the one who suffered the most. They had more than one hundred people dead. When they turned their heads around to look at the number of corpses in the hall—they numbered to more than two hundred—an invisible, cold chill enveloped their hearts.

And they were still just in the royal mausoleum’s hall. If so many of them died in the first level, they could already imagine just how much danger they would have to face further inside!

Some of the people thought of the possibility that they might die without gaining any benefits, and their hearts began to beat faster. They considered retreating.

Wudang Sect’s Ouyang Qing felt incredibly indignant. He gritted his teeth and spoke loudly in order to stir up the group’s energy and make them feel positive.

“They’re coming up again! Everyone, shoot them together!”

At that moment, there were only a few who could fight back. Even the thirteen staff-using monks were forced to protect themselves. Beggar’s Sect and Hidden Soul Guild suffered great losses, and they had many injured members who circulated their qi and healed their wounds while under the protection of their sect members. Aside from Soaring Tiger Sect, who had the largest group of people, only Emei Sect and Beautiful Robes Faction had the power to fight back.

When Emei Sect saw the other sects struggling on their last breath, they finally cast aside the discord between them and Soaring Tiger Sect. They charged past the corpses that filled the ground and moved to the front with bows and arrows, throwing knives, and other hidden weapons in their hands, just like Beautiful Robes Faction and Wudang Sect.

There was another person from Beautiful Robes Sect who attracted quite a lot of attention at that moment!

Little Jade held a golden bow whose top and bottom resembled wings. She looked like Immortal Yao Chi[1]. Three exquisite and small arrows were nocked on the bowstring tied to the six wings on the golden bow. She easily drew the bow until it formed the shape of a full moon.

When a faint explosion erupted in the air, the three arrows shot forth like shooting stars chasing after the moon. A dazzling white trail followed behind the arrows, and a few grunts resounded in the tunnel.

Even though Little Jade only used a low-tier bow technique, because of the additional stats granted by Yellow Dragon Bow, her damage did not lose to a normal high-tier martial art. It killed a Knife-throwing Ninja inside the tunnel.

The players were stunned speechless.

With sparkling eyes, the people from Soaring Tiger Sect stared at Little Jade’s pretty and ethereal face. They also stared at the Yellow Dragon Bow in her hands, and no one could say what they were thinking.

“Yellow Dragon Bow is a middle-grade masterpiece. It can be sold for more than two million taels of silver in the market…”

“That fatty as well! The weapon in his hands is very extraordinary. He also managed to tank so many throwing knives and still come out alive. If we can get him to drop that weapon, we’ll be rich!”

A few people discussed what was on their minds in low whispers.

“But Beautiful Robes Faction doesn’t seem easy to deal with.”

“Yeah, it’s clear that they’re just a group of students, so how did they get so much good stuff? Even large guilds might not have such remarkable resources and power.”

“Tsk. They might be rich and have decided to spend all their family’s money.”

“Don’t think too much into it. Just keep an eye on them. Once we clear the tunnel and go further, we’ll definitely have a chance. At that time, hmph…”

Clear killing intent shone in those people’s eyes.

But they did not notice that a blue-robed young man who did not belong to any of the seven sects stood in a corner that was not too far away from them. His ears were twitching slightly. He pretended to be indifferent while casting them a glance and put to memory the faces of those Soaring Tiger Sect members.

The shooting in the hall continued.

Even though the momentum of the three sects’s offense was rather small, they had geographical advantage, and they managed to oppress the firepower of the ninjas in the tunnel. Some of the ninjas died, and they had to retreat further into the tunnel.

This time, the people from the three sects did not chase after them. Instead, they stayed where they were. Some sat down cross-legged and circulated their qi to restore it as well as to cure their injuries.

“They’re here again!”

“Everyone, be careful!”

When they saw that the people from the seven sects did not chase after them, the ninjas, whose numbers had been reduced slightly, stopped in the tunnel before they came back again. The throwing knives entered the hall with the sound of air being sliced.

However, there were much fewer of them right then, and the players appeared very relaxed and at ease in the face of them.

The people from the seven sects attacked at the same time, throwing their hidden weapons or firing arrows with the force of a storm. Another seven or eight ninja corpses were added to the tunnel, and the remaining two survivors could not withstand the pressure and fled.

The tunnel was finally open!