Chapter 137: Chapter 135: Never Thought to Reach the Summit, Just Teaching that Affairs Don't Match the Heart_1
But as soon as the Leader of Nightfall arrived, cracks suddenly appeared in the Formation. Mid-stage Xuanyang realm… just one move could turn rivers upside down and split mountains, truly no exaggeration.
"Come with me! The Leader doesn't know there are other Practitioners alive over here!"
As Jian Qi'er spoke, she immediately pulled Fang Ren along and flew toward the tunnel leading outside. Fang Ren looked at the constantly splitting Formation and said, "We probably can't get through the central battlefield."
"I'll handle it when the time comes. You find a place to rest!"
Saying this, the two of them rushed out of the underground world.
When the two emerged above, the entire scene had undergone a tremendous transformation!
The high-level battle zone, once filled with lightning and thunder, had now turned into ruins, with a two-mile-wide crater continuously releasing lightning. Countless Practitioners were scattered around the perimeter, still fighting fiercely.
Above that crater, a red-haired woman dressed in a black Night Walk Robe floated in mid-air, wielding a black long knife. Her body was enveloped by a black aura, and the oppressive aura emanating from her could be felt from thousands of meters away, a suffocating sensation!
Based on her attire, she was undoubtedly the Leader of Nightfall, Jiang Ling.
A hundred meters from Jiang Ling, a middle-aged man in white floated in mid-air, his gaze fixed on Jiang Ling. His body released lightning and thunder, ceaselessly striking a thousand-mile radius with a destructive aura that was particularly intense!
The strengths of the two were equally matched, both at the mid-stage Xuanyang realm Cultivation Level!
"They are both so powerful, how will you get over there?" Fang Ren asked.
"That's none of your business! Just rest up well, and don't you dare die on me!"
Jian Qi'er placed him in a small zone on the outskirts, turned around, and flew toward the center of the crater, continuously shouting at Jiang Ling, "Leader! There are still Practitioners alive down here! Please don't strike the ground!"
The middle-aged man in white in the sky saw Jian Qi'er flying over and casually hurled a lightning pillar at her. The lightning, mingled with the forces of heaven and earth, surged through mid-air, turning the ground it passed over completely scorched.
The red-haired woman's figure instantly moved in front of Jian Qi'er, her long knife cleaving a black crescent arc that split the surging lightning pillar. The black aura continued to corrode the severed lightning, preventing the thunder from reaching the outer zones of battle.
"Get back!"
The red-haired woman scolded Jian Qi'er.
"Leader! There are still some Practitioners down below who were captured, and they are still alive!" Jian Qi'er shouted.
"Why haven't you rescued them yet!" the red-haired woman demanded.
"The enemy is too numerous! Far beyond our expectations! It took a lot of time to break through!" Jian Qi'er explained.
"Dammit!"
The red-haired woman clenched her teeth, a streak of fresh blood at the corner of her mouth: "Who would've thought, just for this one lab, Tianjiang would actually send a Great General from the central battle zone!"
"Leader, are you injured!?" exclaimed Jian Qi'er in shock upon seeing the disordered breath of the red-haired woman.
"I fell into a trap. My meridians are blocked by poison, otherwise this guy wouldn't be able to hurt me!" the red-haired woman gritted her teeth: "Hurry and lead people to rescue those Practitioners! I'll try to shift the battlefield!"
"Yes!"
Upon hearing this, Jian Qi'er immediately flew back.
"Wild Sky Thunder Roar!"
At that moment, the Great General of Tianjiang exploded with True Qi, numerous bolts of wild thunder gathering from a thousand meters in the sky, aimed at Jian Qi'er.
"Dark Law! Dark Moon Slash!"
The black aura surrounding the red-haired woman also surged instantaneously, with blackness coiling around the long knife. She swung her hands down from the air, and a colossal black Dark Moon, a thousand meters in size, erupted from her long knife, slamming into hundreds and thousands of lightning bolts in the sky.
The battlefield's destructive impact stunned countless low-level Practitioners into unconsciousness. The earth sank further, and a huge gap was torn through the clouds in the sky from the center.
With Jian Qi'er's emergence, a large group of Tianjiang Investigation Group members charged at her frantically, and a group of Nightfall Organization members also began to protect her, plunging the scene into utter chaos once more.
Although Fang Ren stood on the outskirts, he still felt his head buzzing from the shock, and he quickly activated his Heart's Eye again. With just ten minutes before the effects of the medicinal pill would wear off, he immediately charged towards the members of Indra Sky with more than ninety sickles on his back.
This time, he no longer resembled a killing machine but rather a destroyer of life; wherever he passed, nothing was left except for corpses. From the Basic Qi Realm to below the Blue Sky Realm, no Practitioner could stand in his way.
Hum—
A massive silver blade swept across the sky, cutting off the path of the enemies chasing Jian Qi'er. A man clad in a black Night Walk Robe stood behind Jian Qi'er.
The man kept his eyes closed, holding a silver sickle, his aura wildly tumultuous. The enemies that continuously rushed towards him were all slain by his silver radiance. This person was at least at the Early Stage of the Yingyue Realm!
"You take them and go rescue the others. I'll hold them off here."
The man's face was devoid of expression as he spoke barely audible words, but his wildly raging sickle energy showed no mercy, slaughtering the enemies without hesitation.
Seeing the imminent arrival of several dozen foes at the Yingyue Realm, almost simultaneously, dozens of men and women dressed in Night Walk Robes appeared at the man's side, all at the Yingyue Realm.
For a moment, high-level warriors from both sides amassed together, igniting a battle of unprecedented intensity.
"Come with me!"
Jian Qi'er led two hundred peripheral practitioners and charged towards the entrance of the underground world.
Although the high-ranking enemies were blocked, the mid-ranking enemies were in hot pursuit right behind you.
"We'll hold them off! You go ahead!"
Another group of Xianyun Realm practitioners clad in black rushed out, blocking the mid-ranking enemies.
At this moment, Fang Ren's eyes once again turned bloodshot, and the ninety Blood Sickles on his back broke through and fused once more with the one in his hand.
Whoosh—
A gigantic sickle, over a hundred meters long, appeared in his hands. Anyone standing beside it seemed no larger than a small stone.
Fang Ren's hands were too far apart to grip the handle; he could only use True Qi to connect with the Blood Sickle. Holding onto the connecting True Qi, he wildly hacked at the enemies covering the ground.
Hum—
His figure, like a harvester, swept across a kilometer range, and all the peripheral Nightfall Members were dumbfounded by fear.
Because the enemies they had been fighting to the death a moment ago were sliced in half by the sickle in an instant, while they remained unharmed.
"Holy shit! This young man! What kind of weapon is that!"
"Damn! He's broken through again! The Peak of Chongshan Realm! Is he even human!"
"Motherfucker! I remember he just entered the battlefield as a Yuanxin Realm practitioner, didn't he!"
"Is Qi'er screwing with us? Is this guy really an Alchemist? Sure doesn't seem like anything but a human harvester!"
Watching Fang Ren wield a hundred-meter Big Blood Scythe from afar, cutting down the enemies at the periphery like a reaper, his comrades from the Nightfall couldn't help but curse out loud.
After more than five minutes, all the peripheral enemies had been reaped clean by Fang Ren wielding a giant scythe. Having done all this, he then charged alone towards the back of the intense mid-range battle with the Nightfall Organization's enemies.
By then, his hands were stained with the blood of tens of thousands; he was once again driven mad by the thrill of slaughter.
"Ahahaha..."
With a fierce expression, he laughed maniacally, continuously cleaving through the mid-ranking enemies, even as his abdomen and legs were nearly bone-only, stripped clean of flesh by the enemies, with blood continuously pouring out.
But none of that hindered his actions; he alone suppressed three Early Stage Xianyun Realm members in the fight. Every slash of the Blood Sickle took away bones and flesh, and no matter how they wounded him, he seemed immune to pain and utterly defenseless.
"Shit! That kid's coming!"
"He's not going to chop us up too, is he!"
A group of mid-ranking Nightfall Members, seeing the giant sickle waving in the sky and Fang Ren's crazed look with that ear-piercing laughter, began to panic.
"Our Alchemist is so frickin' badass! Stop chickening out! Everyone, attack!"
A middle-aged man dressed in black roared and rushed out, followed by a swarm of Nightfall Members who surged forward in a frenzy.
Ten minutes later...
The scene was a river of blood with mountains of corpses.
Sssch—
With the massive sickle taking away the last Early Stage Xianyun Realm enemy, all the Nightfall Members at the mid-ranking battlefield were stunned, staring at the man in black holding the Blood Sickle.
At this moment, Fang Ren stood atop a mountain of corpses, with the enormous Blood Sickle towering in midair, its shadow elongated by the sunlight.
He stopped moving entirely, his body brutally torn to shreds, nearly a semi-corpse, his bloodshot eyes fixated on the high-ranking Blue Sky Realm and Yingyue Realm practitioners, his frenzied expression yet to cease.
He had never thought he would be taking lives like this. He used to believe, even if someone was filled with sin, it was the law that should punish them. But he realized the law was flawed.
He had never thought of reaching the peak; merely that circumstances did not match his heart!
In the past, all he wanted was to live an ordinary life. Yet the world would not allow it. He had to reach the pinnacle of that world to gain the simple happiness he sought and to protect those he loved and who loved him.
Looking at the mountain of corpses beneath his feet, not an ounce of compassion arose in him.
He could tolerate others bullying him, but crossing his bottom line was unacceptable.
"This guy just took down over a thousand Xianyun Realm practitioners by himself... a monster!"
"A Peak Chongshan Realm tackling the Xianyun Realm like they're nothing! This cross-rank fighting is just too brutal!"
"Wait! Do I feel like this guy still wants to go after those high-ranking practitioners?"
"Damn! He's taken forbidden drugs! We can't let him fight any longer! Otherwise, he really might die!"
...
As the crowd spoke, Fang Ren, standing on the twenty-meter-high mountain of corpses, suddenly spurted blood from his mouth, his chest flesh burst flying, and he fell backward toward the rear.
"Quick, think of a way to save him!"