The Devil Sword Swordsman
Ch. 244 - Fire Lantern Fortress
A sharp eye gaze led to the leader of the Devil Cult, the man glared furiously between annoyance and worry. All mixed together, it happened for a while before finally laughter came out of his mouth later. Sounds a little like forced laughter.
"Your head is big too, hahahaha. Threaten me with such a thing? You really want to die!"
Soon after the fight between Xin Fai and the Demon Cult Leader began, the two weapons clashed together resulting in a whirlwind of strong winds. Alternately appearing a strange force surrounding the leader of the Demon Cult, he turned his face to a point, unexpectedly having just seen a hand emerge from void space.
"What the fuck-!?" The leader of the Demon Cult retreated in panic, he leaped far away while looking at Xin Fai standing before and could not find the young man anywhere.
Just as this fight came to the attention of most white swordsmen, no wonder they were so surprised that there was a young man with this kind of strength on their side. For many years the younger generation that was considered to have great potential to become the Empire's heroines were Lan An, Xiu Juan and Shen Xuemei.
No one expected that three seconds after that, a vacuum created behind the back of the Demon Cult Leader made him reflexively fend off the sword aiming at his neck, the man glanced at the left right quickly after Xin Fai disappeared again, trying to guess where the young man would appear next by sensing the air of existence.
Yet not a single hint of the man being able to sense the presence of his opponent, he became extremely wary after realizing what Xin Fai said was true, the young man did not brag at all. It is he who underestimates the power of man.
"You-you! Stop hiding like a loser! Show yourself right now or not I'll kill everyone here!" The man shouted loudly, his heavy breathing sounding irregular.
"Talking about losers, I thought you were better suited to that name." The whirlwind again appeared and after that it was seen Xin Fai standing not far from him. "You absorb the power of your opponent, make him weak slowly and use it to win yourself over. That's what you're doing in secret, you're thinking again aren't you more of a loser?"
"Shut your mouth!"
"Hahaha, eating your own words, you look really embarrassing. To the extent that I can see your face is shining bright."
The leader of the Demon Cult could no longer bear the patience, he stuck a sword on the floor with a so powerful thump.
Afterwards the man ran after Xin Fai, the sword was unsheathed then moved agilely splitting the opponent's body but unexpectedly after releasing so much energy in the favor of the attack this time, it was unexpected, all of that was useless in the face of his opponent. Xin Fai's body was translucent untouched, making people stare at each other in astonishment.
No exception to the leader of the Devil Cult, he fell silent not moving his sword again after that. His eyeballs focused in one direction trying to guess who this young man in front of him was and how he could possess this strange strength that was quite shocking.
"Have you heard about the assault incident at the Young Swordsman Tournament 7 years ago?" Xin Fai said calmly, touching the opponent's sword blade along with his killing aura.
"There was a little boy who was targeted by your group, he ran into the Fog Forest to save himself. Who would have thought that day he almost ran out of breath while on the way."
"So you-?"
"I came back from the second death, to take the lives of all of you. Now..."
An heirloom sword appeared in his hand all of a sudden, the leader of the Devil Cult had no time to pull his sword from Xin Fai's hand. He realized that a demonic force was about to eat him alive.
"You're gonna have to die paying for it all."
In less than a second the head of the Demon Cult leader was split apart when the heirloom sword that was fed with slight changes in electrical energy struck him, too quickly it happened making his headless body still twitch. Xin Fai took out a chain of hellfire, the three chains moved fiercely through the man's skin and stuck into the wall of the hall.
The body of the leader of the Demon Cult emitted a blood-red aura from the demon possessing him, Xin Fai did not spend any longer to deal with the man's miserable death. He immediately turned his body to face Yong Tao who could only be dumbfounded in silence. He gasped as Xin Fai called out to him.
Yong Tao had yet to nod his head in understanding and Xin Fai had gone as fast as lightning from his sight.
Arriving outside the room he first saw was a very tragic fighting arena, hundreds of white and black warriors lying lifeless along the road. The bow and sword arrows scattered everywhere depicted the fierce battle in this White Mist Valley.
Xin Fai clasped tightly onto the weapon in his hand as he saw one of the men in the Holy Sword Alliance uniform had fallen sprawled on the ground, he was dying. Without thinking much more, he immediately approached the man intending to help him heal the wound.
Unfortunately the time was not enough, had not had time to channel his inner energy, the man had already exhaled his last breath. Making Xin Fai unable to do much more, the young man thrust his angry gaze at the remaining group of warriors before him.
Xin Fai stood up straight raising his weapon, in one powerful jolt the young man ran until he reached the enemy's place. Just about to slash the head of one of them suddenly another sword fended off his attack.
"Hey, what are you doing!?"
There was the sound of a beautiful girl beside him, Xin Fai glanced towards the girl with a puzzled look.
"You want to kill your own friend?"
"I–"
"They're not your enemies, they're our side."
Xin Fai was silent for a moment while recognizing this figure of the girl before him, feeling familiar in his eyes. Realizing that gaze his interlocutor could only waste a long breath.
"You really don't know me?"
"Sorry, I don't remember. Can you tell me your name?"
"Xiu Juan, now remember?"
"Oh..."
That brief response left Xiu Juan a little astonished, he realized Xin Fai did not care so much about his identity. Though from the beginning he was quite sure Xin Fai would at least ask more about him.
"Who are they then? Why did they kill their own friends?"
Xiu Juan turned his gaze towards Xin Fai looking, he seemed hesitant to say this but on the other hand had no choice. Xin Fai was not a person who easily believed people's words.
"They are from the Fire Lantern Fortress. Lately Senior Yong ordered me to cooperate with them, unexpectedly on the way instead seeing his own sect being attacked by enemies."
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