Witch Wind

Chapter 40: Hitting the Storm (Part )

Pinghai City, Cathedral of Our Lady.

Before the Touno Ronin blew up the gate and broke into the cathedral, a one-sided massacre was taking place at the top of the cathedral, under the spire in the middle where the statue of the Virgin Mary stood.

With blond hair and red eyes, he wore an exquisite silver armor with gorgeous light gold patterns on it. The key parts of the armor were inlaid with many gems. Disi, who was covered in jewels, was wearing a light gold archbishop's robe. His left hand was behind his back, and his right hand was lightly playing with a two-handed heavy sword that was nearly six feet long.

The heavy sword was like a reed, rolling and making fancy sword flowers in Disi's hand.

The sun shone on the half-foot-wide, palm-thick alloy sword, and the smooth water ripples on the sword's edge reflected a dazzling light. The sword's edge cut through the air, making a humming sound that made people's scalps tighten.

"Come on, attack me!" Di Si smiled and nodded at a burly and bearded man several feet in front of him, wearing traditional Dayu Dynasty military armor and nearly six feet tall. "Attack with all your strength and defeat me, or die here!"

The bearded man was sweating profusely, and the sweat was flowing down the three tiny braids behind his head. The tiny, two-foot-long braids stuck to his back in a comical way.

In both hands, he tightly grasped a goose-feather knife with traces of rust on the edge. His thick legs, which were more fat than muscle, were shaking uncontrollably.

His pupils contracted, and he looked at Di Si nervously. Suddenly, he dropped the long knife in his hand, and knelt on the ground with a thud: "Foreign sir, please have pity on me and let me go... I, I have an 80-year-old mother and a crying child..."

"You, you, you just treat it as a fart and let it go, okay?"

"Even if I had a little courage, I wouldn't dare to fight you..."

Di Si's expression changed slightly, he whistled in anger, and his right hand shook, causing the heavy sword to vibrate. A sharp sword wind whistled out with a terrifyingly high temperature, cutting off the bearded man with three braids, who was obviously an official of the Dayu Dynasty.

Strands of blood mixed with light blue flames visible to the naked eye spurted out, and in an instant the blood plasma turned into a solid mass. The bearded man's body burned fiercely, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a ball of black ash. With a wave of Emperor Si's sleeves, a gust of wind blew the black ash away without a trace.

Disi frowned in dissatisfaction and looked at the two middle-aged men around him who were wearing white robes with two silver lines on their cuffs.

"That's it?"

A middle-aged man bowed deeply to Di Si with great fear and trepidation: "Respected Lord Di Si, this is the highest-ranking military commander from the East that we can find in Jieshi County. He is the guerrilla general in charge of the local garrison in Jieshi County, and he has three thousand soldiers under his command!"

"Too weak!"

Di Si frowned and murmured in a low voice: "The so-called Jianghu masters and martial arts masters you brought in the past two days were very weak... But I can understand. A strong ruling body, all the elites must be concentrated in the official forces."

"So, I asked you to find this guy."

"But, he is so weak?"

Gently shaking his head, Di Si raised his head, his scarlet eyes flashing with a cold light, staring straight at the blue sun rising in the east: "Are the records of our ancestors a joke? These weak guys who don't even dare to swing their knives at me, are they worthy of being called 'catastrophes'?"

Another man in a white robe blinked his eyes and said softly, "Respected Lord Di Si, six hundred years ago, the people who ruled this 'Shenzhou Continent' were not the current Fen Clan, nor the current Dayu Dynasty... Perhaps, the so-called 'catastrophe' you mentioned was someone else?"

"According to our research on the history of the East Country over the years, the rulers of this land were just 'mountain slaves' who helped the royal family of the previous dynasty grow medicinal herbs and hunt rare animals in the mountains and forests of the Northeast six hundred years ago!"

Di Si nodded slowly: "'Mountain slaves'? Slaves? That's right... The real owner of this land is missing, and a group of slaves took advantage of the master's weakness and suddenly rose up and turned against the master... This makes sense!"

With a sneer, Di Si smiled at the other blond and red-eyed companions standing beside him: "I hope they can bring back the guy named Li Li... I suspect, he might be!"

Several blond, red-eyed guys had strange lights flashing in their eyes at the same time. One of them whispered, "I hope so. If he really is, then he couldn't have jumped out of a stone. He must have relatives and family. They will be our prey."

Everyone in the group grinned.

Then, earth-shattering explosions were heard from under their feet. The Touno Ronin blew up the door of the cathedral, shattered countless French windows, and rushed into the cathedral waving guns, swords, and grenades at will, like a tide.

Di Si's face suddenly stiffened.

He and several of his companions looked at the group of stunned missionaries at the same time.

"You said that the Holy Mother Church has a very high status in the East Country, and even the Queen Mother of the Great Jade Dynasty has almost become your believer..."

The two men in white robes saluted to Di Si with gloomy faces, and rushed into the spire with their men, gritting their teeth, and rushed down the steep spiral staircase. As they rushed, they screamed in anger: "Come on, come on, completely eliminate these blasphemers, completely eliminate these damned heretics!"

A blond man asked Di Si with a smile: "Di Si, do you need us to help?"

Disi waved his hand gently: "Just enjoy it quietly. What is the purpose of raising a dog?"

Several guys with blond hair and red eyes laughed at the same time. They slowly walked down the stairs, ready to watch the life-and-death fight between the missionaries and the attackers from a close distance.

Di Si said dimly, "It should be the Yingji people who took action, right? A bunch of incompetent trash. When they let Li Li go, I knew something like this would happen... Unless all these trash are dead, we don't need to take action. Death is the punishment they deserve!"

The blond, red-eyed guys all sneered, not taking the attack on the cathedral and the screams of the missionaries of the Holy Mother Church seriously. As Di Si said, "raising dogs", aren't these missionaries of the Holy Mother Church just a group of dogs to them?
"Nothing will happen to them, right?" Suddenly someone remembered the two companions who led people to chase Xing Tianli.

"What could possibly happen?" Di Si shook his head disapprovingly, but after thinking for a moment, he nodded again: "However, just in case, why don't you send two people with a Purple Eyes team to support them? After all, I am the person in charge of this group, and I don't want to leave any ugly records on my resume."

"By the way, kill that guy just now, what's his name, what... Guerrilla General? Kill his entire family! What a difficult title to pronounce!" Di Si waved his hand disapprovingly: "An eighty-year-old mother? A child still breastfeeding? What a mess... This kind of garbage that occupies a high position but is useless and takes up too many resources should be cleared out as soon as possible."

"All the resources of this land belong to us, every wisp of sweet air, every drop of clean water, every piece of fertile and unpolluted soil, every green and vibrant flower, plant and tree, all belong to us."

"Those lowly civilians can enjoy their little share, since they don't have much to begin with."

"But if we find these wastes occupying high positions, we can clean them up. It will be good for the world!"

Di Si curled his lips: "They have too much!"

The two blond, red-eyed men agreed with a smile. One of them had green wind force visible to the naked eye on the surface of his skin, and another had rolling clouds under his feet. Both of them left several afterimages at the same time, and disappeared without a trace in a few flashes.

Di Si waved the heavy sword in his hand and said softly, "Get your equipment ready and be prepared for any eventuality. As I said before, I am the person in charge of this group. I will not allow any accidents to happen. Any accident that may tarnish my resume, I will never allow it to happen!"

Huaigong Ridge.

At the foot of the hill.

Nearly a thousand Dongyun ronin screamed at the top of their lungs, their eyes slightly reddened, and they hysterically pulled the trigger at the two transformed blond men suspended in the air. Kumayama Jiro perfectly demonstrated the "potential talent" of the Dongyun people to be "unhuman". Before launching the attack, all of his men took a certain mushroom extract from Black Borneo. This stuff has a strong hallucinogenic effect. Even a coward as timid as a rabbit can become a reckless "man" after taking it!
These originally crazy Dongyun ronin who did not take their own lives seriously, after taking this deadly stuff, all turned into "fearless warriors"!
They pulled the trigger frantically, and at the same time, in the Dongyun dialect, the Dayu Dynasty official language, and some even spoke the language of the Far West Hundred Countries that they had learned from nowhere, hysterically greeting the two men's maternal elders up to eighteen generations.

Xing Tianli then retreated quietly.

He didn't care about the lives of these Dongyun ronin.

He had already given Jiro Kumayama a sum of money, and he had spent the money, so it was only natural for these Dongyun people to work for him.

As for those Yidoli people, Xing Tianli was even happy to give them some extra pension.

But these Dongyun people, huh!

Xing Tianli whistled softly, and those clever Yidoli villains hurriedly followed him and retreated.

Jiro Xiongshan, along with a group of leaders and a number of trusted subordinates, also followed Xing Tianli stealthily - this guy was also very smart, after all, he was the leader of a gang. When he saw the two blond men floating in the air, he knew that no matter whether these two guys were 'gods and demons' or 'evil spirits', they were not something that mortals could deal with.

Then, run away quickly!

As for the fact that these ronin will suffer heavy casualties?
Bah, the more they die, the better... It would be best if all of them died, then he wouldn’t have to share the money with these guys!

The two blond men understood the abuses of the Dongyun people. They originally wanted to make trouble for Xing Tianli, after all, Xing Tianli was their first target - but when they heard that these Dongyun dwarfs, who were even more despicable than ants, actually insulted their mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and so many maternal elders...

On their beetle-like visors, fist-sized scarlet eyes burst out with dazzling red light. The dense red light illuminated the mountains and forests within a radius of several miles. This red light had extremely strong penetrating and rendering power, so that the miscellaneous trees and weeds illuminated by the red light all turned into a terrifying blood color.

The thick carapaces behind the two men suddenly opened, and dozens of black tentacles as thick as little fingers suddenly stretched out, just like the tentacles of longhorn beetles. At first, these tentacles were only a few feet long, but they suddenly stretched out inexplicably, reaching about a hundred feet in an instant.

Accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, dozens of black tentacles flew around in the sky, leaving behind countless black afterimages.

A terrible scene appeared. Right below the two men, within a radius of a hundred feet, hundreds of Touno Ronin who were screaming, cursing, and pulling the triggers hysterically were easily torn into pieces by these tentacles.

The striking force of each tentacle is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds. Each tentacle lashes and hits around with a piercing whistle. Limbs are easily broken like tofu, and large amounts of blood are even splashed a mile away.

Blood mist rose, and the mountains and forests turned blood red.

The sparse bullets hit the two men's bodies, but only splashed sparks on their gorgeous shells, without leaving even the slightest trace.

"Lowly creature!" A blond man roared in a low voice. He clasped his hands together in front of his chest and made a strange hand seal. The high temperature lingering in his body suddenly subsided, and a purple-red fireball the size of a human head emerged from the air above his hand seal.

"Die!" The man roared in a low voice and pressed his hands downward. A fireball the size of a human head fell to the ground like a heavy artillery shell. There was a muffled roar, and the air within a few miles shook violently. A large flame swept in all directions with a shock wave visible to the naked eye. Dozens of acres of forest were evaporated by the high temperature in an instant, and countless plants and trees turned to ashes.

The terrible explosion blasted a huge pit on the ground with a diameter of three meters and a depth of five or six feet.

The soil on the pit wall was burned red and almost half melted.

In the explosion area, hundreds of dismembered Touno ronin were burned to ashes, without any residue left.

Xing Tianli and the others had retreated more than a hundred feet away. The surging shock wave from behind them hit their backs hard with high temperatures. Only Xing Tianli stood firm, while the others all rolled to the ground. The Dongyun Ronin who fell behind was even roasted almost half-cooked by the high temperature. The air was filled with the greasy and nauseating smell of barbecue.

The invisible force field surrounding the two men slowly dissipated, and their huge bodies fell from the air.

The tentacles that were flailing all over the sky quickly retracted into the body, and the two of them turned to look at Xing Tianli at the same time.

In the dense woods in the distance, twelve double-barreled rapid-fire cannons were pushed out by a group of Dongyun people who moved cleanly and neatly, with a hint of firmness in their crazy expressions and a sense of well-trainedness as they ran.

They had already leveled the gun barrels and just aimed slightly at the two blond men who had fallen to the ground. Then they heard a series of "booms" of cannon fire, and twenty-four thick lines of fire hit the two men's huge bodies almost at the same time.

The two blond men noticed these Dongyun people when they pushed out the rapid-fire cannons, but when they saw that these were only twelve one-inch caliber (33mm) rapid-fire cannons, the red light in their eyes condensed slightly and they were too lazy to take another look.

Obviously, in their perception, this rapid-fire cannon could not pose any threat to them at all.

Dense shells fell on them, accompanied by dense explosions, and dense flames exploded on them. As expected, these rapid-fire cannon shells could not even shake their bodies.

A blond man shook his head slightly and muttered, "Damn bugs."

He stretched out his left hand, pointing his palm at the Dongyun people at the edge of the forest a hundred feet away. A ball of wind in his palm expanded rapidly, and a spark of fire in the wind quickly spread. Soon, a tornado the size of a water tank wrapped around a fireball the size of a human head had taken shape.

Just as he was about to ignite this ball of wind and fire, among the rapid-fire shells that fell on them, a dozen shells had strands of fine and strange patterns on their warheads that suddenly flashed a dazzling light.

The brass plating on the shell's surface suddenly fell off, revealing the translucent crystal-like bullet underneath.

These strange shells shone with a hazy glow, and their spinning speed soared a hundred times out of thin air, accompanied by the harsh sound of air friction. More than a dozen shells rubbed against their shells, producing large sparks and a high-frequency vibration sound that almost tore the eardrums.

"Damn it!" The two blond men roared in shock and anger at the same time.

When the rapid-fire cannons were firing, Xing Tianli and his companions ran forward wildly. They had already run to a small hill. Seeing the large sparks flying and hearing the harsh friction sound, Xing Tianli let out a long hissing sound, kicked the curly-haired man and made him roll off the small hill, and then he also rushed forward.

The Yiduoli men followed suit and rolled on the ground like balls of meat, madly rolling down the hillside. Some hit tree trunks, some hit rocks, and some hit thorn bushes. They were all covered in blood, but they continued to accelerate and roll down the hillside.

Jiro Kumayama and other leaders of the Kumayama Group also screamed and followed their example, rushing down the hillside.

They didn't know what happened, but they knew that following Xing Tianli, the "Highness" who was as powerful and terrifying as a "ghost or god", would definitely be the right thing to do.

However, the hundred or so trusted ronin who fled with them hesitated for a moment.

Why would you jump off a mountain for no reason?
It was just a brief hesitation, and more than a dozen crystal bullets that were rapidly rubbing against the armor of the two blond men disintegrated at once, turning into balls of dark blue the size of water tanks, strange energy bodies like plasma.

'Buzz'!
It was not very loud, but the frequency was extremely high, so high that it was almost inaudible to human ears. A sound wave so dull that it almost shattered people's internal organs burst out, and more than a dozen balls of faint blue light exploded. The faint energy wave turned into a hemispherical cover with a diameter of dozens of feet, covering the entire area.

The terrifying high temperature was surging and crashing inside the cover. The black armor on the two blond men seemed to be torn and pulled wildly by invisible sharp knives. The armor was shattered piece by piece, and the extremely strong high-temperature force field evaporated their shed armor and flesh into gas.

The next moment, the hemispherical cover suddenly collapsed, shrinking to a size of about ten feet, and then a terrible explosion erupted.

(End of this chapter)