574 We Got The Wrong Person (1/2)
The Demonic Man slowly shifted his gaze from Qian Wu to Fang Zhengzhi, then veered towards Ping Yang struggling profusely in Fang Zhengzhi's arms.
The ferocious beast crouching beside the Demonic Man also felt a disturbance and abruptly opened its eyes, its icy cold pupils shimmering with a frigid glimmer.
”Roar!”
Its gargantuan body shifted as it plunged its razor-sharp claws into the ground, tearing and shattering the rocks. It opened its gaping mouth and lunged straight at Fang Zhengzhi and Ping Yang without any hesitation.
”Your Highness, get out of here!” In the instant when the beast lunged towards Ping Yang, a figure leapt out at top speed and shieldedher. He was a commander of the Royal Guards clad in a coat of golden armor.
”Crash!” The beast's razor-sharp claws swiped the commander's chest armor, instantly blowing him backwards diagonally. He then plummeted to the ground and rolled over.
A Royal Guards commander has been killed with a single swipe.
But the beast did not stop there. After swiping a Royal Guards commander to death, it bounded into the air and pounced towards Ping Yang and Fang Zhengzhi in midair.
”This is …” Ping Yang finally stopped struggling. Her crystal-clear eyes gazed up at the unbelievably enormous figure looming over her head as her delicate little mouth opened up subconsciously.
She certainly saw the three ferocious beasts crouching in front of the Demonic Man. It was a strange sight indeed.
But in the spur of the moment, she could not ponder about this peculiar scene carefully. Only when the beast lunged towards her did she finally sense the menacing aura emanating from the beast and take in the sheer size of its body, capable of obscuring every bit of moonlight.
Instinctively, Ping Yang began struggling against, attempting to break free of Fang Zhengzhi's grasp, but she then realized that Fang Zhengzhi's hands had no intention of letting her go - and it wasn't just his hands.
Fang Zhengzhi had no intention of dodging the incoming attack at all. He simply held onto Fang Zhengzhi in resignation, as though he could not hear the beast's roars thundering from behind him at all.
”We're doomed. Her Highness is about to be killed by that shameless scoundrel!” Ping Yang grew hopeless as she stared at the pair of lethal claws right in front of her eyes.
But suddenly, a hellish and murderous surge of bloodlust rose up from behind her, sending chills down her spine.
And then … a blood-red ray of light lit up behind her, instantly travelling in front of her. There was a human figure cloaked in the blood-red radiance, his ink-colored robes drifted softly in the night wind.
He held a dagger-like ray of red light, sparkling and clear yet brittle like a cicada's wing, but surging with ferocity.
”Stab!”
As the blood-red light flashed through the air, the giant beast became suspended in midair, its icy pupils in its eyes glaring at the man cloaked in the red light. It was an expression of disbelief.
Following that, a pitiful shriek reverberated through the air.
”Ow …”
The giant beast's heat plummeted to the ground while its two severed claws remained suspended in midair. Two arrows of blood propelled out from the beast's legs, dripping to the ground. It was too quick.
It took less than a blink of an eye from the time the beast launched its attack to the time the red light flashed through the air. The result was blatantly obvious - another beast has fallen.
Silence!
Unparalleled silence!
The various Palace Guards gazed at the new participant on the battlefield and the shower of blood-red light cloaking him, as well as the giant beast sprawled on the ground.
”It's Yan Xiu!”
”He can actually …”
”Could Yan Xiu have already reached the Rebirth State?”
Flabbergasted, they were completely flabbergasted, especially the Dragon Protection Squad and the Royal Guards. They had personally witnessed the sheer ferocity of these beasts, but now …
It lost both its claws with a single strike from Yan Xiu!
Yan Xiu? Just which Enlightenment State was he in?
”The Dao of Asura?” Qian Wu's gaze turned cold as he gazed at the hostile figure standing in front of Fang Zhengzhi and Ping Yang. ”Are you Yan Xiu from the Western Liang?”
Yan Xiu ignored Qian Wu, not even sparing him a glance. He merely took a step forward and stopped in front of the moaning beast.
He clenched his right hand and the blood-red light began flashing again.
”Boom!”
He pummeled right through the giant beast's skull. The already cracked ground could no longer withstand the tremendous impact of his fist, sending debris and dust flying in all directions.
The beast's moans stopped. Fresh blood poured out from its mouth, staining the ground.
Another beast has died!
Qian Wu finally clenched his fist tightly. As the person who dominated the battlefield all this while, his presence has been consecutively disregarded by Fang Zhengzhi and Yan Xiu.
Furthermore, among the five beasts that emerged from the Near-Life Gate, three of them have died consecutively after Lin Mubai and Chen Feihua slaughtered two more. And it took Qian Wu painstaking effort to locate these beasts.
Yet, they perished one after the other right in front of his eyes.
How could he endure it any longer?
Just as he wanted to say something, he was interrupted by another voice.