Sword Among Us

The thousands of people escorting the elites from the six great system-allocated sects were from the imperial court. They had a vast and mighty caravan, and it was impossible for them to not leave behind any tracks. Happy and Zhou Zhiruo soon heard rumors in the streets and went along the path through a river to chase after the imperial court until they arrived at Eternal Peace Temple at Mount Kun.

“It’s this place.” It was the same place as in the original novel.

Happy felt at ease.

If they acted together later, they would be in danger, so he convinced Zhou Zhiruo to settle down in an inn while he logged off. When he returned, it was already midnight, and he snuck into Eternal Peace Temple alone.

The defense of Eternal Peace Temple was incredibly tight.

However, Happy was rather at ease, because based on what he knew, Zhao Min should have gone to meet Zhang Wuji, and with her were the famous Xuanming Elders. Hence, even though the defense was tight, it was not impossible for Happy to do something.

Sneaking into a place at night was something that he had done before. With familiar ease, he brought out the traveling clothes for night time, which he had bought while he was in the city. He changed into them, then quietly jumped into Eternal Peace Temple over the heads of two squads of Yuan Dynasty soldiers.

Changing into traveling clothes for night allowed him to get rid of the sounds from his robes. He wanted to become one with the night and not be discovered. The better the craftsmanship of such clothes, the worse the visibility would be. This meant that as long as the enemy was a certain distance away, they would not notice their target dressed in night traveling clothes.

Eternal Peace Temple was a small temple, and it occupied only a small space.

However, once the monks inside it were called up by the imperial court, they were contained within a small courtyard behind the mountain, and they were not allowed to move about as they liked. The elites from the six factions were hidden in the tall tower.

*****

At night, a black puff of smoke moved about various shadows as swiftly as lightning. It avoided the Yuan Dynasty soldiers who intersected with each other as they patrolled around the area and moved back and forth repeatedly. The puff of smoke gradually approached the Mahavira Hall in Eternal Peace Temple. It was just one wall away from the tall tower of Eternal Peace Temple.

The clouds were dark and the wind strong, but Happy did not dare take another step forward.

There was a sentry every three steps from the Mahavira Hall to the tall tower. Quite a number of Yuan Dynasty soldiers were equipped with heavy armor and Divine Crossbows as well. There were a lot of them, and they looked like steel monsters!

The defense of those with heavy armor was incredibly great. They could easily withstand the attacks from a Moksha Realm fighter and not suffer a lot of damage. Only if the attacks were from an elite from Inaction Realm could a palm strike seep through the heavy armor and injure the person protected by it.

Divine Crossbows had the effect of piercing through defense, and their bolts could be released repeatedly. They intimidated all the martial artists in the world!

Even if the teachers from the six great system-allocated sects moved over those people’s heads, once ten thousand arrows were released in one go, they would lose at least half their of their life.

‘This won’t be easy.’

Zhou Yu quietly scowled at the tall tower that was 164 feet away while hidden in a dark corner behind a broken tower where he could not be discovered by Yuan Dynasty soldiers.

He was the player with the highest accumulated points among the Ming Cult disciples, and he had also received approval from Zhang Wuji to search for the whereabouts of the elites from the six great system-allocated sects. Even though he arrived later than Happy, he still managed to enter Eternal Peace Temple once night arrived.

At the same time, he also noticed that the people from Shaolin Temple and Kunlun Sect had snuck in as well. They were hidden in two other shadows near the tall tower, but since it was night and he was dressed in night traveling clothes, the other two did not notice him.

Zhou Yu said nothing.

He sized up the situation at the tall tower. It was clear that if he tried to force his way in, he would die. He settled down then and carefully surveyed the area as well as paid attention to the other two people’s actions.

The other two had clearly noticed the great killing intent near the tall tower and stayed obediently in their place. They did not dare to get close.

However, before they could locate the elites from the six sects, they could not be certain that the people from the six great system-allocated sects were detained in Eternal Peace Temple, which meant that they could not complete their quest.

It was the final day, and it was also their last chance. Their intuition told them that the system would not be so cruel as to give them no chance to succeed.

The trio waited.

Whoosh!

At that moment, a violent gust blew past them!

The chill stimulated the trio.

The hundreds of heavy armored warriors near the tall tower stood quietly in their original positions, but at that moment, Zhou Yu clearly heard a faint noise!

Since he was located closer to the tower and Mahavira Hall, he could clearly hear a barely audible sound mixed in with the mountain gust. It seemed to be the sound of hidden weapons.

‘There’s someone else in Eternal Peace Temple!’

Zhou Yu frowned and moved past a squad of Yuan Dynasty soldiers who approached him. A few seconds later, he returned to the spot from which he used to observe the situation just then.

At that moment, he discovered a black shadow moving above Mahavira Hall as lightly as a swallow under the dazzling light near the tall tower. He walked on ropes as if he was walking on even ground, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived above the tall tower.

When Zhou Yu saw that person boldly enter the tall tower from above the heads of the heavy-armored Yuan Dynasty soldiers, he was shocked and could not help but admire the person for seizing the chance provided by the mountain gust and leaving with the smallest jump.

When Zhou Yu saw that person reach the tower and how it was impossible for the Yuan Dynasty soldiers to notice him, he suddenly had a question.

‘Who is that person?’

Zhou Yu was certain of who the other two people in Eternal Peace Temple was. One of them was Shaolin Temple’s Heaven Does Not Forget, and the other was Kunlun Sect’s Lonesome Wind.

There were only two more people who had yet to appear—Blood Robes and Happy!

‘It’s him!’

Zhou Yu swiftly figured out the identity of the person in the tower, and he could not help but feel shocked. He scowled, and a strange sense of disappointment filled his chest.

Happy had managed to successfully injure Zhang Wuji while Zhang Wuji was under their protection during the battle at Light Summit, and Zhou Yu could be considered to have lost.

Right then, Happy seemed to have also gone ahead of him in the quest to find the elites from the six great system-allocated sects.

As Zhou Yu stared at the figure who shot into the tall tower, his gaze became complicated.

*****

Happy had relied on quietly placing hooks and linking ropes to them to open up a path in the sky that led from Mahavira Hall to the tall tower. He then blended into the sky like a nocturnal bird and landed on the third floor of the tall tower.

‘Success!’

At that moment, Happy knew that as long as he could ascertain that the elites from the six sects were detained there, he could go back and report to Zhang Wuji. Then, he would finish his quest.

He carefully stood outside the tower and peaked inside through the side of a small window. There were two Yuan Dynasty soldiers having a drinking competition beside a small table.

When he looked further inside, he saw steel bars that were formed within a short time.

The group of people in white sitting inside… were Emei Sect disciples?

Happy felt his heart tremble and was stunned for a moment. He did not think that such a coincidence would happen that he would actually arrive in the floor detaining the Emei Sect disciples. When he looked further inside, he did recognized Ding Minjun, Bei Jinyi, and Mistress Annihilation, who looked dejected but still wild and angry.

Just when Happy was prepared to leave, the system notification suddenly reached his ears.

“Ding!

“Noticed Mistress Annihilation.

“Will you kill the Yuan Dynasty soldiers and sneak into the tower to release Mistress Annihilation?”

‘I’d have a few screws loose in my head if I saved her.’ Happy was filled with contempt toward the quest the system spontaneously gave him.

Anyone with a brain knew that Mistress Annihilation did not have any strength right then, and it was impossible for him to bring her out of the tower. It was clearly a trap, and he was not so rash and emotional that he would lose his senses.

But when he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard a commotion downstairs.

“We captured another one!”

“Hehe, this girl is rather beautiful…”

“Let me go!”

Zhou Zhiruo’s voice was like an invisible hand that pinned Happy firmly on the tall tower right when he was about to leave.

In the end, Zhou Zhiruo still ended up being captured and sent into the tall tower.

When Happy remembered that Zhou Zhiruo would be forced to swear a serious oath by Mistress Annihilation, he instantly calmed down and quietly brought out a hidden weapon from his Universe Bag. It was the one that was specially designed to deal with normal mooks—Wind Blowing Needle.