Chapter 176: Chapter 92: Sect War (First Update)
“Insect Control Technique!”
After leaving the mountain gate of Ghost Ridge Pce and entering the dense forest, Su Jie immediately initiated his reconnaissance vision, with dragonflies flying in all directions.
Reconnaissance is a very important part of warfare; whoever grasps the enemy’s movements first gains the initiative in the battle.
In addition to the Insect Control Technique, Su Jie also constantly expanded his Divine Sense for double reconnaissance.
Theyered peaks and the dense forest that blocked the sun created speckled patterns of light and shadow on the ground, where the sounds of insects and birds masked the traces of human presence.
In such a ce, having the upper hand in an encounter was extremely important. I knew your location while you were still clueless, leaving you no choice but to passively take hits.
…
Several hourster, after traversing mountains, streams, pine forests, and waterfalls, Su Jie suddenly stopped.
“To the southeast, 1500 meters away, six enemies: one at the Sixth Level of the Yunling Realm, one at the Ninth Level of the Yunling Realm, two at the Fifth Level, and two at the Fourth Level. Preliminary estimate, they are disciples from Guan Chao Pavilion.”
Su Jie dismounted and calmly reported the enemy’s information.
Upon hearing Su Jie’s precise report, Chen Yun immediately took action, releasing the low-grade poisonous insects and Ming Sheng Bats she was holding into the air.
The bats’ unique echolocation further pinned down the enemies’ positions and numbers.
“I’ll ambush from the front, Chen Yun, you create a diversion.”
As Su Jie spoke, he released the thousand-hand centipede from his robe, instructing it to conceal its presence and then lie in wait on the enemy’s path.
Seeing no role for herself, Ning Xinyue couldn’t help but ask, “What about me?”
“You are responsible for covering any slips and protecting my main body. You’re not needed right now.”
Su Jie nced at Ning Xinyue, indicating the significance of bringing her along.
“Are you treating me as a human shield?”
Ning Xinyue puffed her cheeks but still took out her Jade Heavenly Book, chanting Taoist scriptures and forming a protective barrier.
Time quietly passed, and a few minutester, when Su Jie once again sensed the location with his Divine Sense, he hesitated no further and pped his Sword Nourishing Gourd at his waist.
“Darling, please turn around.”
Streams of brilliant sword light burst forth from the mouth of the gourd.
Boom!
The thousand-hand centipede’s body suddenly erged, its split bone cheeks emitting beams of purple light rays. The first wave of dozens of high-temperature beams covered the team of Guan Chao Pavilion disciples.
These disciples of Guan Chao Pavilion were not slow to react. Being on alert already, they immediately took out Protective Talismans or used their movements to evade. But the high-temperature beams from the thousand-hand centipede were not only fast but also incredibly powerful, melting several disciples on the spot, including one at the Sixth Level of the Yunling Realm.
Buzz, buzz!
The Ming Sheng Bats opened their mouths, emitting an inaudible howl that, through resonance, affected the enemies’ innards and movements.
Immediately after, dozens of Flying Swords whizzed toward them, delivering a high-intensity barrage of firepower that decapitated several heads. In an instant, only one person was left alive.
“Nine Turns Crossing!”
Thest disciple at the Ninth Level of the Yunling Realm was terrified and attempted to flee, darting onto tree branches, covering a hundred meters in a single leap.
Boom!
Crack!
Suddenly, a bolt of Purple Cloud Heavenly Thunder struck the disciple, immobilizing him.
From below the woods, the massive body of the thousand-hand centipede leaped high, biting onto the disciple’s torso and bringing him back to the ground.
After two short screams, all was silent as the thousand-hand centipede chewed, leaving no further sound.
“So… so powerful.”
Chen Yun secretly stuck out her tongue, originally thinking there would be a drawn-out fight to the death, she had not expected the battle to be sopletely one-sided.
The disciples of Guan Chao Pavilion didn’t even see the shadows of those lying in ambush before they fell, one after another, to the relentless assault.
This hardly seemed like a battle; it could almost be called a massacre.
Ning Xinyue, bored, yawned and pouted, “There’s nothing for me to do.”
“Su Jie, we should clean up the battlefield now and withdraw as soon as possible,”
Chen Yun reminded him, having participated in such wars before, she knew too muchmotion could easily attract the righteous disciples.
“The battlefield needs to be cleaned, but we’re not withdrawing yet.”
Instead of going personally, Su Jiemanded the thousand-hand centipede to extend multiple pale corpse hands, gathering all the corpses and spoils of war.
Afterpleting these tasks, Su Jie took a bamboo tube out of the enemy’s storage bag.
“This should be the righteous disciples’ call for reinforcements with a smoke signal, right?”
Su Jie’s gaze turned towards Chen Yun.
“Yes, that’s right. You’re thinking of…”
Chen Yun nodded and then her face suddenly showed surprise.
“Hunting down the righteous disciples one by one is too inefficient; better to have theme to us,”
Twisting open the bamboo tube, a stream of yellow smoke spewed out, shooting straight up into the sky—so visible that it could be seen even from afar.
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Su Jie, with the thousand-hand centipede,y in ambush once more.
……
A dozen minutester.
A team from the Golden Sword Sect, one from the Purple Mist Sect, and one from the Guan Chao Pavilion hurried from different directions, aiming to rescue the allies who had sent up the smoke signal.
All three groups together numbered nearly twenty people, including five inner disciples—firepower enough to sweep through most of the defending teams of Ghost Ridge Pce.
However, unfortunately for them, they ran into Su Jie, who happened not to be part of that ‘most’.
“We need to support the front, hurry up,”
A disciple from the closest Golden Sword Sect shouted out, not knowing they were slowly stepping into the hunter’s trap.
The leading inner disciple, controlling a flying sword, was about to scout ahead when suddenly a thunderbolt as thick as a water barrel came crashing down from the heavens.
“What?”
The disciple’s face changed as he dodged byunching himself into an arc of light, but at that moment, a buzzing of pping wings came from the sky—swarms of human-faced moths descended like a storm, form a dense insect cloud that devoured everything in its path.
A few Golden Sword Sect disciples managed to defend themselves using flying swords only for a moment before hundreds of low-grade human-faced moths broke through the defense line, nting themselves on the disciples’ bodies to feast on flesh and blood.
The Golden Sword Sect inner disciple suffered the same fate, torn to pieces by three mid-grade human-faced moths, meeting his end on the spot.
Meanwhile, several other sides found themselves surrounded by dozens of flying swords encircling the disciples of Guan Chao Pavilion, while the disciples of Purple Mist Sect were ensnared within the Ten Thousand Yin Blood Nether Array, with screams of agony unceasinglying forth.
Amid the sounds of falling human remains, some were beheaded by flying swords, others had their souls swallowed by Yin Souls.
Ten minutester!
Su Jie once again cleaned up the battlefield, collecting a great number of spoils.
Atop the Sword Nourishing Gourd, some damaged flying swords were reced with those from the Golden Sword Sect, bringing the number of Su Jie’s flying swords to one hundred, reaching the current limit of the Sword Nourishing Gourd.
He also selected some suitable elixirs and talismans from the spoils, and afterpleting all this, Su Jie carefully gathered the corpses and then, apanied by Ning Xinyue and Chen Yun, calmly left in search of the next location from which tounch a rescue smoke signal.