Starting with a Super Five-Star Hotel-Chapter 544: Lead Us into Battle (Part Two)_1
"Senior Brother, save me!"
Ying Lan hadn’t expected such danger to greet her the moment she entered the sinkhole. Her treasured blue peacock was instantly blasted into a mist of blue blood by a tentacle!
She, however, was fortunate enough to survive, though her body was plummeting downwards.
"I’m here!" a familiar voice suddenly rang out beside her.
Diving down, Su Xuan appeared beside Ying Lan, wrapping an arm around her slender waist.
The two of them fell together.
"Senior Brother, are we... going to die?" Ying Lan clung tightly to Su Xuan, the wind whistling past her ears as tentacles occasionally brushed by them.
"Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered."
Su Xuan freed one hand and summoned the Ruyi Sword, slashing a tentacle to pieces. At the same time, he took out the Golden Body Mystic Armor he had received from the Yu Xian Sect and put it on Ying Lan.
He no longer needed the mystic armor. The system had already rewarded him with an Indestructible Golden Body!
The situation was perilous and urgent. Ying Lan had no time to ask where Su Xuan got the Ruyi Sword and mystic armor from, praying only that the terrifying tentacles would leave them alone.
SWISH!
Just as Su Xuan was contemplating how to land safely, a graceful figure suddenly appeared before him—it was Gongsun Miao Tong.
"Feng Zhengyuan, hold on tight with your junior sister!"
Gongsun Miao Tong, controlling her mount, appeared below Su Xuan and reached out to pull him. Then, carrying Su Xuan and Ying Lan, she dodged several aggressively attacking tentacles and brought the two safely to the ground.
"Miss Miao Tong..."
The moment his feet touched the ground, Su Xuan wanted to thank the girl who had once snatched his shoe.
"Cut the chatter and go save the other disciples!" Gongsun Miao Tong snapped. "And give me back my shoe later!" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
With those words, she spurred her mount into the sky and flew off to rescue others. Tears were welling in her eyes. She, too, had never anticipated that what she thought would be a simple task would begin so tragically. She had just watched helplessly as more than a dozen of her fellow disciples fell before her very eyes!
"Senior Brother, we should..."
On the ground, Ying Lan was about to ask Su Xuan where to start helping, when she heard a dull thud. A fellow disciple had fallen from the sky, smashing heavily onto the ground not far away.
"Save me..."
The disciple was only half a body; the other half had likely been obliterated by the tentacles. He crawled on the ground with his hands, his eyes fixed on Su Xuan and Ying Lan, filled with an overwhelming will to live.
"We’re coming!"
Su Xuan and Ying Lan rushed toward the disciple almost simultaneously. At a time like this, regardless of their relationships or whether they even knew each other, they were all on the same side, beyond any competition. Su Xuan had already taken out a Hemostasis Elixir. He’ll probably need a wheelchair from the world below the mountains for the rest of his life...
BOOM!
Suddenly, the ground behind the wounded disciple exploded!
A figure wielding a large blade burst from the earth, bringing its weapon down upon the cultivator!
It was a corpse soldier! Exactly like the ones Su Xuan had seen at the bottom of the Yu Xian Sect’s pit!
"A corpse soldier! Be careful!" Ying Lan cried out in alarm. Despair filled her eyes; it was already too late to save their fellow disciple!
But in the next instant, something astonishing happened.
Su Xuan’s aura surged, his speed suddenly doubling. Moving as if he had teleported, he appeared in front of the disciple. He grabbed the man, threw him backward, and simultaneously struck the corpse soldier with his palm!
SCRAPE! SCRAPE! SCRAPE!
BANG! BANG!
The corpse soldier staggered back several steps as a few muffled pops sounded from its body, and then it suddenly burst apart! Black fragments showered the ground.
Ying Lan had already caught the injured disciple, gently placing him on the ground.
"Thank... you!" the disciple managed to say before falling unconscious.
Su Xuan tossed the elixir to Ying Lan and narrowed his eyes at the black shards on the ground. I didn’t hold back when I used Seven Star Burst this time! I thought a single burst would be enough to annihilate the corpse soldier, but it took two! And I’m at the Great Perfection of the Late Stage of Longevity! The resilience of these corpse soldiers... it far exceeds those from the bottom of the Yu Xian Sect’s pit! Something isn’t right. This pit, under the watch of the Immortal Mountain, is extremely strange!
"Senior brother, don’t worry about me! Go save the others!" Ying Lan said solemnly to Su Xuan after feeding the elixir to their sect-mate.
Disciples were still falling from the sky, a tragic sight, and the area was filled with cries of agony.
"I can’t worry about all that now!"
Su Xuan grabbed Ying Lan with one hand and the injured disciple with the other. He strode to a nearby hill and used his Ruyi Sword to hollow out a small cave. After pushing the two of them inside, he blocked the entrance with a boulder.
"Junior sister, stay inside and be safe," Su Xuan said to the cave entrance. "Don’t come out until the danger has passed, no matter what!"
"Senior brother, I won’t let you go alone..." Ying Lan pushed against the stone, trying to get out, but Su Xuan’s voice stopped her. "If you want me to save others, don’t hold me back!"
"Senior brother..." Ying Lan lowered her hand and murmured, "Be careful..."
"Don’t worry!"
Su Xuan immediately turned and sped away into the distance...
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RUMBLE!
Outside the formation’s barrier, the Elders had realized the crisis within the sinkhole. They were working together to open the formation to let their disciples retreat, but to their shock, the barrier was beyond their control. They couldn’t open a path to let anyone out, nor could they enter themselves!
They had no choice but to attack the barrier in unison, focusing all their power on a single point, hoping to break a small opening. Every life they could save would count. But the barrier was so resilient that even after a long time, they hadn’t managed to create a single crack!
What was happening? What in the world was going on? This had never happened before!
An expression of deep sorrow spread across every Elder’s face.
CRASH!
Inside the sinkhole, a slender figure plummeted from the sky, her body drenched in blood.
Gongsun Miao Tong pushed herself to her feet and wiped her face with her sleeve. Large tears rolled down her cheeks.
Her mount had fallen in battle. She herself had nearly perished. The longsword in her hand trembled uncontrollably.
"Why?" she murmured to herself, her lips quivering. "How could this happen?"
SWISH!
Suddenly, a freshly emerged corpse soldier swung a large blade, slashing at her from behind! Still lost in shock, Gongsun Miao Tong had no time to dodge or counterattack.
CLANG!
Fortunately, a fellow disciple rushed to her aid just in time, clashing his sword with the corpse soldier’s and knocking it back.
"Senior Sister Miao Tong, lead us! We have to fight!" that disciple shouted, spitting out a mouthful of blood. "If we don’t fight, we’ll all die here!"
"Right, right!"
Gongsun Miao Tong took a deep breath. Her form flickering like a wisp of supersonic smoke, she appeared in front of the corpse soldier and brought her sword down on its head. Then, pressing down hard on the blade, she sliced the creature in two!
She murmured, "A corpse soldier at the Middle Stage of the Longevity Realm! Do they want us all to die?"
