The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1271 - 676: You Should Call Me Master! (Part 2)
At this moment, everyone was like bait trapped on a small boat, while a bloody great white shark circled around them, swimming in the water, searching for a chance to attack.
The hunter seemed very patient, or perhaps naturally unfamiliar with humans, hesitant to make any sudden moves.
For the next two quarters of an hour, that sense of danger lingered near and far, hovering around the four, and as time passed, Zhao Douan found himself unable to focus as he did at the start, feeling tired, distracted.
Everyone who fights often knows that the real drain on energy is not the few rounds of combat, but the tension of being constantly vigilant against the enemy.
"This thing is waiting for us to tire! It wants to attack when we’re worn out!" Zhao Douan’s face was grim.
But Zhang Yan Yi reminded him: "Don’t rush! This is their territory, we are too suppressed. Rashly attacking may expose a flaw and be breached."
These words made sense, but continuing like this would not lead to a favorable outcome.
The Empress suddenly gritted her teeth and said: "We can’t keep waiting, we need to feign a weakness to lure it out, that’s our only chance."
"Alright!"
The four were decisive, as Zhao Douan stomped his boot into the ground, suddenly kicking up a pile of snow and snuffing out the burning campfire.
In the flickering moment of the campfire, he seemed to lose his strength, stumbling unsteadily.
This was the moment!
Beneath everyone’s feet, a strong tremor approached rapidly at an alarming speed!
"Boom!"
The earth, frozen like steel, suddenly cracked apart, exploding, and beneath the frozen ground, flashes of yellow light shone. A creature nearly ten meters long, covered in scales and without eyes, triangular-headed, crawled out like a great white shark leaping from the sea, opening its bloody maw towards Zhao Douan!
"Woo!"
The stench blew straight at them!
"It’s here!" Zhao Douan shouted, and as he was about to draw his saber, he saw a black shadow like a meteor streaking towards them.
It was Tuoba Weizhi.
The Black-skinned Priestess fiercely charged, her elbow pulled back in mid-air, fist smashing towards the monster with maximum force.
Though heavily suppressed, her special punch was still powerful enough to shatter rocks. Yet, her beautiful fist hit the thick scales with a dull thud, and Tuoba Weizhi’s face went pale, her chest struck hard by the creature’s claw, sending her flying back faster than she had come!
"Die!" The Empress was a step behind, the sharp longsword from the Imperial Palace treasury unsheathed, even as a puppet, she was confident she could tear through the creature’s defenses with the sword’s armor-breaking effect. Yet the sword that could cut through metal like thread only sparked a burst of fireworks on the monster’s scales. Her expression changed as she attempted to retreat but was caught by the creature’s tail, flung high and slammed down hard!
"Your Majesty, be careful!" Zhao Douan shouted in shock, crouching with knees bent, blocking the tail with his Chasing Saber, channeling layered energy into the creature. The monster winced in pain, releasing its tail, and Zhao Douan rescued the Empress from being slammed to death, retreating frantically: "This thing is at least high-grade... Zhang! Use spells to get us out! Do not linger!"
Zhang Yan Yi stood behind, his expression changing at the words. This fierce creature, if outside, would be easily slain by those present, but in this cursed place, just one move had nearly trapped them.
"Go!" The Old Heavenly Master’s beard and hair flew, Qingyun surged around him. He pointed at the ground, a phantom Teleportation Array gradually took shape.
Yet the monster seemed to predict their intentions, as its raised tail suddenly slammed into the ground.
With a loud boom, circles of yellow ripples spread, the Qingyun array showed signs of collapse, unable to form.
"Damn!" The Old Heavenly Master was moved, horrified: "This beast knows Demon Art too!"
Its power equals high-grade even in Demon Art.
They had just reached the edge of the forest’s center, how did they encounter such a powerful creature?
Does this forest harbor many terrifying beings like this?
"Roar—" The grotesque monster succeeded, opening its bloody mouth, blowing foul breath mixed with eerie laughter, as if mocking.
Then, twisting its massive form, it crawled toward the gathered ones, earth shaking, Zhao Douan held the Empress, feeling a huge black mountain pressing down to crush them.
Despair!
Who could have thought this place would be so perilous? No wonder almost no one survived these thousand years of entering.
But just as Zhao Douan went numb, his brow suddenly sprouted red threads, Pei Niannu slowly stepped out from the air. However, this senior did not look at the monster, but stared fixedly at the nearby pitch-black forest.
Suddenly, the looming monster halted, sensing some imminent danger, it abandoned its easily caught prey, frantically clawing at the earth, trying to burrow underground!
Yet from within the dark forest, the sound of breaking wind already approached.
Zhao Douan and the others looked up, gazed upward, and at this moment, the sky above the forest split open amidst thin clouds, revealing a gigantic full moon hanging high.
Suddenly, a slender and agile figure leapt from the forest, standing atop a tall tree at the center of the moon wheel.
That shadow also seemed to be a woman, though she wore a loose robe unsuitable for movement, with a hat-like item on her head. In the darkness, a hint of silver light flashed by.
As if... she wore some kind of mask.
At the moment the mysterious woman appeared, she began chanting mysterious incantations in a low voice, extraordinary mana gathering in the air around.
Then, the mysterious sorceress suddenly reached out, grasping a short sword wrapped in brilliant silver light like a meteor, which then crashed heavily down on the fleeing monster.
"Boom!!"
In the midst of the huge explosion, the monster that had driven the Empress and Old Heavenly Master to the brink was blasted to bits, flesh and blood flying.
In a blink, only the half of the body burrowed into the dirt pit was left twitching instinctively, utterly dead.
Silence!
A profound silence.
Zhao Douan and the others stared blankly at the divine weapon falling from the sky, momentarily lost.
How could such a powerful magician be living here? With such potency, she was likely not just high-grade but Half-step Celestial.
Then, amid the quiet, the shadow jumped down from the towering tree, arrived beside the bloody pit, raised a hand to summon the short sword back into her grasp, wiped the blade with a handful of snow, cleaning away the blood. Only then did the mysterious sorceress walk over, under the moonlight above and the nearby firelight not yet extinguished, the four first saw the ancient silver-white mask covering the sorceress’s face under the hat, then the fierce bright eyes exposed through the mask’s holes, sharp as cold blades on a snowy night!
"Are you alright?" the sorceress asked coldly.
Zhao Douan’s face showed shock, blurting out: "Senior... Senior Pei?!"
The sorceress before them was indeed Pei Niannu!
No!
To be precise, she was the younger version of Pei Niannu from six hundred years ago that he had seen in the Big Dream Scroll!
Instinctively, he looked at Pei Niannu’s phantom with the dark-gold mask, only to find that sometime her body faded away, quietly turned into stardust, merging into the brow of the silver-armored Pei Niannu before him.
And the latter seemed utterly unaffected, merely casting him a faint glance, displeased: "You should call me, Master."
Instinctively, he looked at Pei Niannu’s phantom with the dark-gold mask, only to find that sometime her body faded away, quietly turned into stardust, merging into the brow of the silver-armored Pei Niannu before him.
And the latter seemed utterly unaffected, merely casting him a faint glance, displeased: "You should call me, Master."
Instinctively, he looked at Pei Niannu’s phantom with the dark-gold mask, only to find that sometime her body faded away, quietly turned into stardust, merging into the brow of the silver-armored Pei Niannu before him.
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