novelapdf Chapter 141 A Den of Wolves and Tigers
Chapter 141 A Den of Wolves and Tigers
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The old camel's body was already in mid-air, revealing its true form: a two-headed, multi-humped camel over three zhang tall, resembling a small mountain of flesh.
With its feet treading on the void and supported by demonic clouds, it seemed to be running on the ground, creating an unstoppable force that shook the earth and mountains as it rushed forward at top speed.
In the direction of its pursuit, a large cart was covered in demonic clouds, from which a giant snake flew out. The snake had a single horn on its head, was blind in one eye, and was covered in terrifying wounds. Part of its body looked as if it had been crushed by a blunt object. It rode the clouds and charged towards the old camel.
This giant snake was the same venomous snake that had fought with the old camel for the yellow jade fruit; it was also a powerful demon.
Two great demons fought in the air, their demonic energy boiling and almost staining half the sky. The two enormous creatures could be vaguely seen colliding terrifyingly in the air, stirring up the clouds in the sky. The aftershocks of the battle spread in all directions, and gusts of evil wind blew!
on the ground.
Yang Silang and the others felt the carriage suddenly empty, the heavy burden on their shoulders vanishing in an instant. Almost simultaneously, the four of them let out a long breath and then collapsed to the ground.
The old camel shrunk in size while on the vehicle, but its weight did not decrease at all.
The four powerful martial arts masters, brimming with vitality, felt as if they were dragging a mountain of flesh along with difficulty, while their opponents were constantly forcing them to accelerate wildly.
"Ah..." Ji Jinliang was pale and trembling as he stretched out his hands to pull the rope, his palms already worn raw.
Su Zhixiu's eyes were filled with tears as she kept stroking her feet, feeling as if they didn't belong to her anymore, as if blisters had grown on them.
Pei Shihou had never suffered like this since birth. Yesterday, when he heard that he was to be warmed in bed, his eyes were bloodshot. Now, his eyes are just dull, his face is covered in dirt, and there are blood marks on his shoulders. He is almost stupid.
Yang Silang sat cross-legged on the ground, in the best condition, with no problems in his hands, shoulders and feet. After all, he was a porter by trade. He used to work as a dockworker, hauling goods before he became successful. Later, he practiced martial arts and hauled people on the battlefield. Now that he has made some progress in martial arts, hauling a demon is not a big problem.
Even so, I was quite exhausted.
However, he also appeared to be very tired.
Yang Silang mainly relied on his own strong blood and qi and the 20% recovery acceleration rune to hold on, without using his precious supernatural abilities, because it was not a good time and would have revealed his true strength.
As for why the other three were able to survive the night.
I mainly want to thank Miss Su Zhixiu and Pei Shihou.
One of them came from a wealthy merchant family, and the other was an illegitimate son of a prominent family. Both of them carried storage bags, which they had previously hidden very carefully.
After running all night, his internal energy and true qi were exhausted. After using up all the pills he carried, he could only take out a handful of pills from his storage bag to replenish his true qi and blood.
Moreover, it cannot be enjoyed alone; it must be shared with everyone.
After all, to pull the cart faster and get less whipped, four people have to work together. Reducing the number of people increases the difficulty, and reducing the number of people by two makes it absolutely impossible.
The first to collapse from exhaustion that night was the one counting the weights. At that time, the two hadn't yet changed their mindset. Only after being whipped several times on the body and face, and experiencing excruciating pain, did they understand the principle of sharing, and they were somewhat reluctant to give.
Su Zhixiu, used to doing business, still wanted to negotiate the price with everyone. So she started weighing the goods and arguing with Yang Silang. Su Zhixiu was whipped several times on the back, her clothes were almost torn to shreds, before she realized that it wasn't about the money and decided to give it away for free.
So this is where the two of them hid their storage bags...
Yang Silang looked somewhat disgusted.
Every time Su Zhixiu took out the pills, she would reach into her bosom, which was fine, since she was the one who blushed; but Pei Shihou had to sneakily reach into his crotch while walking, which was truly an eyesore and unbearable to watch.
So Yang Silang swallowed the pills that Su Zhixiu shared, and Pei Shihou simply passed the pills through his hands and put them into the grid.
It's truly baffling how two perfectly good storage bags, kept so close to each other's bodies, have been made to look so abstract.
They traveled at breakneck speed all night, continuously circulating their inner energy, and managed to deplete the two wealthy men's reserves. They barely managed to carry the rest of the journey on their own.
The four of them lay on the ground to rest for a while. The two demons in the sky were still fighting fiercely. They were not the ones they could watch, as the difference in their cultivation levels was too great.
Pei Shihou was a man of questionable character, but his insight was considerable.
He said that these two great demons were already able to levitate from the ground, speak human language, and generate clouds of demonic energy, which was probably equivalent to the level of a Grandmaster of Golden Marrow. Even though the two demons were injured, they were still stronger than ordinary Grandmasters of Mercury Blood.
Even if the four of them were tied together, they wouldn't be a match for him. Moreover, with golden rings around their necks, the old camel could easily separate their heads from their bodies with a single thought.
Unless powerful outside help arrives and kills the old camel on the spot, causing the golden ring to lose its master's control, the four might be safe. However, the old camel might try to take someone down with it before it dies, and if it decides to drag the four of them down with it, then things will be very bad.
"It's a pity that my Crimson Fire Fan was taken by that old demon..." Pei Shihou pounded his fist on the ground in resentment.
The old camel randomly assigned the four people to different roles: some were cooks, some were lead horses, and some were maids responsible for grooming. He was the only one chosen to be the head maid who warmed the bed. How could he not be anxious?
If he were to actually do this job, he would become the laughingstock of the entire Pei family, no, he might become the laughingstock of the aristocratic circles. How could the Pei family let him off the hook?
No matter how much his mother is favored, she can't protect him. She might even silence him to protect the Pei family's reputation.
Pei Shihou didn't want to die, so he looked at the other three with a somewhat unfriendly gaze—if this terrible thing really happened, and all the people who knew about it were dead, then it would be as if the matter had never happened.
Yang Silang and the other two remained silent and did not respond to Pei Shihou's words.
This kid hasn't even become the bed warmer yet, but his gaze and expression towards the three of them are already very unfriendly. If he really becomes the bed warmer, I'm afraid he'll blow a strong wind next to the old camel's pillow and kill the three of them.
It's best to stay away from him.
The four were each deep in thought, trying to seize the time to restore their vital energy and blood.
air.
Suddenly, several figures flashed by in quick succession, silently attacking the two demons while the protagonist was engrossed in reading Chapter 140, "The Wolf's Den and the Tiger's Lair."
One of them was clad in iron armor, from which two wings sprouted. He wielded a serrated halberd, and with each swing, scorching true energy was released. His blood and qi were like a furnace, dispelling the surrounding demonic energy. His appearance was somewhat similar to Pei Shihou's.
"Big brother!"
Pei Shihou on the ground was almost in tears; his savior had finally arrived.
His elder brother certainly couldn't fly, but the armor he wore was also an ancestral blood artifact, allowing him to take to the air and fight, and also providing a certain degree of combat power boost.
It was Pei Shiliang, the heir of the Pei family, who had reached the peak of the Grandmaster realm, the number one martial artist among the younger generation of the family, and also the half-brother of the Little Demon King Pei Shihou.
Of course, the two were not particularly close, after all, there was a difference in status between legitimate and illegitimate sons, but they were both named Pei, so Pei Shiliang would definitely help him.
Another man charged into the battlefield from the other side. He and his warhorse were clad in a one-piece suit of armor, which bound them tightly together. He held a long spear in his hand, and his horse was pure white with long wings growing from its ribs. He rushed into the battle like a bolt of lightning.
The newcomer was none other than Huang Shouren, the heir of the Huang family. He rode a white-winged horse demon, which was very agile in the air when it spread its wings.
Another demon also took to the air. Its skin was pitch black, and although its demonic aura was not as dense as the two old demons' cloud-like aura, it was still quite large. In particular, its two large, sharp horns gleamed with a cold light. It rushed toward the two demons at an extremely fast speed, like two blades plundering the ground, unstoppable!
This is Wu Shuying, the eldest daughter of the Wu family. She possessed the body of the Mighty Horned Bull Demon with her divine soul and charged over to fight. The woman's true form should be hiding in a secret place nearby.
The three attacked the one-horned red serpent demon simultaneously, their target clear: the Yellow Jade Fruit was on the serpent demon!
Pei Shiliang wielded a serrated guan dao and unleashed the Pei family's ultimate technique, the Nine Waves Slash. With the enhancement of his armor and magical artifacts, each strike was imbued with burning true energy, and a casual swing could quell a large mass of demonic energy around him!
He wielded the knife like a ball of light, crushing and shredding everything in its path!
The red unicorn serpent opened its mouth and spat out a colorful miasma of poison, but it couldn't even get within three feet of Pei Shiliang. With a loud roar, Pei Shiliang unleashed his surging blood and qi, which dispersed the poisonous mist.
Huang Shouren's martial arts skills were not outstanding among the princes of various families, but his armor connected him with the white-winged horse demon, and their blood and qi were condensed into one. When he thrust out his spear, it was as heavy and awe-inspiring as if he were carrying a mountain peak, almost puncturing the air!
Taking advantage of the moment when the one-horned red serpent opened its mouth to exhale, he raised his spear and stabbed the serpent's remaining good eye, scaring the serpent into lowering its head to avoid him.
Stab it!
The spear struck the scales of the one-horned red serpent, tearing a long gash that splattered blood everywhere!
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the powerful horned bull, controlled by Wu Shuying, lowered its head and charged viciously. As it ran, its two horns suddenly glowed and changed angle, like two sharp spears, covered with thick demonic energy, shining brightly, ready to deliver a fatal blow.
This is a state of perfect unity between human and demon. The two have already signed a master-servant contract. Wu Shuying calmly observes the weaknesses from the perspective of the Mighty Horned Bull and finally decides to burn the demonic energy of the Mighty Horned Bull to unleash its strongest attack.
The old camel was startled when it saw three powerful enemies suddenly appear and attack the one-horned red serpent. Seeing that no one was targeting it, it immediately retreated quietly.
If one such enemy were to come, it felt it could take on two; but with three outsiders, each a formidable opponent, it knew it couldn't fight four against one.
Forget it, if we can't win, we'll just run away. The Yellow Jade Fruit is good, but we have to be alive to enjoy it.
"Old Camel, I'll give you half!" Little did he know that the One-Horned Red Serpent was also a decisive and ruthless character. Knowing that things would eventually end in defeat, he decided to drag his old enemy down with him as the old camel was about to leave.
It lifted its tail and shook it, revealing a fist-sized yellow fruit. It turned out that it had snatched the yellow jade fruit with its agile movements, but had not yet had time to refine it after hiding for one night.
This fruit glows with a yellow light and emits a wonderful fragrance as soon as it appears.
A burst of demonic power flashed, and the fruit was swiftly thrown towards the old camel.
The old camel instinctively swayed its hump and steadily sucked the fruit into it.
The next moment, it realized something was wrong. Didn't we agree to only split it in half? Why are you giving me the whole thing?
boom!
Three murderous intents firmly locked onto him.
Huang Shouren turned around and used a counter-attack, switching his spear to his own, and thrusting it fiercely, unleashing hundreds of spear shadows that locked onto the body from top to bottom!
Pei Shiliang swung his serrated guan dao in a wide backhand slash, now targeting a different enemy; this strike seemed poised to cleave the very sky.
Wu Shuying skillfully maneuvered the Mighty Horned Bull, continuing its head-down charge, smashing and shattering even the mountains in front of it!
The three unleashed all their deadly moves against the unicorn red serpent onto the old camel.
At the same time, the one-horned red snake shrank rapidly, becoming a small snake about the thickness of a fist and half a meter long, and plummeted down from the sky to escape!
"You tricked me again!"
The old camel let out a deafening roar, unleashing its demonic energy. It had no choice but to take the three men's deadly attacks head-on. The three men, one demon and one monster, each used their own methods, and none of them could escape for the time being, turning the sky into a mess.
"We're saved!" Pei Shihou cried out excitedly from the ground. "Brother, kill it! Kill this beast!"
Finally, I don't have to be a bed warmer anymore!
"Oh no!" Before his tears could fall, he saw the one-horned red snake rushing straight towards them and landing on the cart.
"Run! Run!" Several beams of red light shot out from the sharp horn of the one-horned red serpent and landed on the golden rings around the necks of the four people.
The four of them felt a tightness around their necks, and they were about to suffocate.
"Quickly, take Grandma and run for your lives! If you're too slow, I'll crush your heads!" the one-horned red snake screamed repeatedly.
Left with no other choice, the four men put on the reins and sped away into the distance.
Pei Shihou kept turning back, his eyes filled with tears, especially reluctant to leave...
Yang Silang cursed his bad luck, thinking that he had just escaped one danger only to fall into another.
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