Witch Wind

Chapter 41: Hitting the Storm (Part )

There was no fire, no smoke, only extremely pure air shock waves, which rolled up countless dust and broken grass, like a slowly blooming white mushroom, slowly spreading out in all directions.

The gas explosion passed over the hill where Xing Tianli and others rolled down. With violent shockwaves, the hill, which was about a hundred feet high, roared as if it could not bear the heavy weight. A section of the hill, which was thirty feet high, collapsed and shattered, and was blown away without a trace by the shock wave.

Looking down from the sky, at the huge ambush site, except for Xing Tianli and others who rolled down in advance, everyone within a five-mile radius, including the Saint Norman soldiers who resolutely launched a charge in the river and the Dongyun elite who operated the rapid-fire cannons, were all swept away by the shock wave and turned into nothingness.

Within a radius of five miles, half of the hilltops were cut off, leaving smooth fractures. The soil, sand and gravel were all melted, and the molten high-temperature magma spewed out a faint red light. It was swept away by the shock wave and turned into a large rain of fire that poured down on the earth.

Xing Tianli jumped off a small hill that was no more than a hundred feet high and landed in a clump of weeds. He turned around in shock and looked up at the shock wave that swept across the hill. Although he had been reminded by Augustus and had made timely evasive moves, Xing Tianli still couldn't help but want to utter a thousand dirty words in his heart after witnessing the terrible killing power.

There were only a dozen or so small shells with a one-inch caliber, but they caused such terrible damage.

What if the caliber is enlarged to the level of naval guns?
Would the entire International Concession be razed to the ground with one shot?

Xing Tianli suddenly understood what Augustus meant when he said that they had signed a 'truce agreement' (Chapter 17).

With such terrible destructive power, they signed an "armistice agreement" on their own territory, but the effectiveness of the agreement did not cover the continent where the Dayu Dynasty was located... So, they acted recklessly!
When you start a war on someone else's territory, of course you can do whatever you want and act recklessly!
"What kind of weapon is this!" A group of bloodied and bruised Yidori people looked at the shock wave passing overhead. There were dense and tiny drops of magma, which scared these guys and made them dodge quickly. There were still some unlucky ones who were hit by soybean-sized magma, which directly burned through their skin and flesh, causing them to scream in pain and curse.

"I don't know either!" Xing Tianli shook his head slightly.

The power of this shell was beyond his knowledge structure. Of course, in Taoism, there were naturally more powerful lethal spells, and some "thunder beads", "yin thunder", "immortal thunder" and the like that required special materials to be refined would be smaller in size and more powerful, but Xing Tianli today, whether in terms of cultivation or resources, was not enough to refine those treasures!
"What the hell!" Xing Tianli exhaled and said in a deep voice: "However, the matter can be considered as a success, right? Perhaps, there are too many casualties!"

The curly-haired man's hands were trembling as he took out a handful of tobacco, stuffed it into his mouth, and began to chew it with big mouthfuls.

He looked at the stunned Xiongshan Jiro and others with contempt, and sneered: "The casualties of our brothers are not serious... As for these Dongyun ronin... Ugh! Are they also considered human beings?"

The curly-haired man spat heavily and curled his lips fiercely.

Even though they were all scumbags in the underworld, the gang members of Yidoli also looked down on their counterparts from Dongyun. These villains of Yidoli were at most "scumbags", while these Dongyun ronin were simply "scum that had been fermenting in a cesspool for a hundred years". They were simply an insult to the word "scumbag"!

Xing Tianli also looked at Xiongshan Jilang and his group.

Well, if it weren't for the fact that cannon fodder was needed later... oh, no, if it weren't for the fact that 'brave and fearless warriors who are willing to sacrifice' were needed, Xing Tianli really wanted to take action himself right now and wipe out these dwarfs.

In this way, there is no need to pay subsequent payments!

And he can also report the money to Oger, Augustus and others, right? After all, it's okay for Xing Tianli to practice now, and he can use any scrap copper or iron, but if he wants to quickly restore his mana, that will cost real money!

Besides, even if it’s scrap metal, doesn’t it cost money to buy it?
Countless evil thoughts were swirling in his mind, and Xing Tianli felt that his Tao heart was about to be obscured. His fingers were itching, and he couldn't help but want to swing the "Sword Eighteen" at Xiongshan Jilang, when suddenly a hot wind blew above his head.

The two shells were completely shattered, the clothes on the body were torn to pieces, revealing large limbs, and large pieces of flesh and blood on the body collapsed, revealing a human figure with bronze bones. Step by step, against the surging hot wind, he walked to the top of the mountain.

They looked down at Xing Tianli and the others from a high position. On their heads where their hair was burnt to ashes, high-temperature dirty blood kept dripping from their burnt scalps. Their scarlet eyes flashed with ferocity, but their eyes were no longer as bright as before, flickering from time to time, as if they could go out at any time.

"You two are still alive?" Xing Tianli asked in surprise, "How unreliable! The explosion just now didn't kill you?"

The two of them staggered, walking down the hillside step by step.

One of them walked away while shouting in a fierce voice: "Luckily, we have brought with us strong enough defensive equipment; unfortunately, you are going to be in trouble. Damn you, even if you were someone that the Emperor specifically wanted to capture alive, I would still tear you to pieces!"

The two walked slowly, and from their wounds, dirty blood wrapped in pieces of flesh and internal organs continued to flow out. From their bodies, a low whistling sound like a jet of hot air came out. Along with this piercing whistling sound, extremely powerful vitality continued to surge out of their bodies. Their wounds were wriggling rapidly, and flesh was growing out. Even on their burned scalps, strands of brilliant golden hair were constantly growing out.

Xing Tianli took a deep breath.

These damn monsters... are real monsters. The power of the soul enveloped the bodies of the two people, and Xing Tianli discovered that the surging life energy in their bodies came from a strange structure near their hearts that was closely connected to their hearts, their blood vessels, and their entire body's internal circulation tissues through countless tiny veins.

Half crystal, half flesh.

This strange structure, as big as a fist and as large as a heart, stores an extremely huge amount of energy in the form of semi-solid crystal liquid.

Xing Tianli inexplicably recalled the Taoist scriptures from his previous life, which mentioned the 'demon pills' in the bodies of some great demons in ancient times...Aren't the things next to the hearts of these two blond men exactly the same as the legendary 'demon pills'?

Unfortunately, the earth in the previous life had fallen into the Dharma Ending Age, and Xing Tianli did not encounter any powerful "monster".

This world is also in the Dharma Ending Age. It has been almost fifteen years, and he has not encountered a real "monster" in this world!
"You are really lucky!" Xing Tianli tightly grasped the Tongtian Magic Bamboo and nodded at the two of them with a smile.

"You lowly creatures, how can you, who are trapped in a primitive state and have not evolved, understand the greatness of life?" The blond man shouted, "How dare you use dirty means to harm our noble bodies?"

The physical injuries of the two men were almost healed, and their damaged facial features had also grown back.

The two were so angry that they were shaking all over, their facial features were twisted, and the blood in their eyes almost solidified and was about to burst out of their eye sockets. One of them roared: "Do you know how many merit points our genetically adapted armor is worth? Do you know how much time it took us to exchange for the defensive equipment we just wasted?"

"Also, our bodies are so badly injured. Do you know how much of our life energy has been consumed?"

"In this damned, backward, primitive world... do you know how much it costs to replenish the life energy we consumed today?"

The two men, who were originally quite handsome, roared angrily, and their faces were distorted and they looked as ugly as evil spirits.

Inexplicably, Xing Tianli thought of the time when he gambled everything in the casino but lost the last bet. He looked at the two people approaching step by step and smiled gently, "Uh, you, are bankrupt?"

The two of them stopped walking suddenly, and their eyes suddenly became dull.

They looked at each other and nodded slowly.

"Yes, we are bankrupt!" The two gritted their teeth and yelled at the top of their lungs: "We are going to tear you into pieces... Damn it!"

A slight sound of breaking through the air was heard, and a huge shadow was cast in the sky. A hard-shelled olive-shaped airship, more than ten feet long, made a sharp sound of air jets and descended rapidly from the sky. When it was still several dozen feet above the ground, dozens of figures suddenly jumped out of the airship's hanging basket, and landed on the ground very lightly with a "swish, swish, swish".

Augustus, six other men with blond hair and gold eyes, and more than twenty men with silver hair and silver eyes, wearing gorgeous fully enclosed metal armor, fell from the sky and surrounded the two men with blond hair and red eyes.

"What a coincidence, I actually met you in this far east country!" Augustus smiled so hard that his two rows of big teeth were exposed. He waved enthusiastically at the two blond and red-eyed men whose faces suddenly changed. "Well, if I remember correctly, you are the lackeys of Emperor? The last time I saw you, or, let me think... was it when we were exploring the ruins numbered 33793?"

The two blond, red-eyed men gritted their teeth and uttered Augustus' name at the same time. "Why are you here?"

Xing Tianli raised his left hand and gently drew two circles. The Yidoli people and the Dongyun ronin led by Xiongshan Jiro hurriedly and tiptoed away.

Damn it.

What did they see today?
There are armored monsters that can fly, there are terrible explosions, and there are these weirdos that ride "flying man-made objects" and land from high altitudes!

Among the gang members present, even the Dongyun Ronin, who had the lowest IQ, knew that they were caught in an unavoidable vortex.

They seemed to have seen some unknown 'truths' in this world!
Having been in the gray area for many years, they knew very well that sometimes, the "truth" would eat people. So they ran silently, but tried their best to stay away from the scene before Augustus and others paid attention to them.

Augustus and the others were too lazy to even look at them.

The two blond, red-eyed men who were surrounded in the center let out a long howl. Their hearts suddenly made a low "thumping" sound, and the fist-sized semi-crystalline structures next to their hearts burst into dazzling light. The strong light even penetrated through their chests, so bright that it was blinding.

Their bodies swelled, heat waves rolled around them, large flames rose, and raging flames surged, immediately spraying out more than ten feet away.

Xing Tianli stepped on the Yu Step and slid back dozens of feet. He looked at the two blond men with interest and asked leisurely, "Lord Augustus, do you need help?"

In his heart, he kept complaining - Augustus shouldn't be here at this time. Why did he come here to join in the fun? Could it be that he was so excited to see the prey that he couldn't help but want to take advantage of it?
Augustus smiled, shook his head, and said loudly: "No need, they are our old friends. They seem to be in a state of genetic collapse and rampage now. We have an obligation to help them stabilize it."

The group of people laughed strangely, and several men with blond hair and gold eyes retreated slowly, while the group of men wearing armor, with silver hair and silver eyes, put down their armor together. A faint light floated on the surface of the armor. They worked in groups of three, drew strange arcs, and launched wave after wave of continuous attacks like a tide towards the two men with blond hair and red eyes who had exploded with a stunning combination formation.

These men with silver hair and silver eyes advanced and retreated as fast as the wind, and their punches were as fast as lightning. When they swung their fists, it was like the roar of heavy artillery, stirring the air and making terrifying noises. Each punch contained terrifying power, which made Xing Tianli, who was watching the fight at the side, his eyes twitch!

Xing Tianli couldn't tell how strong these men were at the moment, but every punch they threw was obviously greatly amplified by the armor they were wearing. The power of each punch was enough to easily penetrate and tear apart Xing Tianli's body!
Xing Tianli was secretly calculating.

If he was besieged by these guys... if he used other means, he could instantly kill these men with silver hair and silver eyes. Even if they were wearing armor, they could not withstand Xing Tianli's witchcraft attacks.

But once they use those terrible weapons, Xing Tianli will have no choice but to die with them!

Shaking his head slightly, Xing Tianli retreated another dozen steps and stood at the bend of a hill, ready to rush forward and hide behind the hill at any time to prevent the besieged blond, red-eyed man from desperately using some deadly moves and implicate himself.

In just a few breaths, more than twenty men with silver hair and silver eyes had launched nearly a hundred waves of attacks.

The two blond, red-eyed men supported each other back to back, resisting wave after wave of attacks. The heartbeats in their chests became louder and louder, and the light under their chests became more and more dazzling.

Suddenly, they all shouted together, the air around them shook violently, and waves of purple-red flames gushed out of their bodies, turning into huge pillars of fire that shot straight into the sky. The swirling tornado rolled up high-temperature flames and swept wildly towards the silver-haired man who was surrounding them.

The silver-haired men had anticipated this move long ago. They shouted in unison, and the armor on their bodies emitted a dazzling dim light. The armor on their left arms turned into liquid flowing like mercury, condensing into small diamond-shaped shields about a foot square.

The small shields shone like crystals, with thin rays of light emitting from their edges. The light emitted by more than twenty small shields condensed into one, forming a wall of light that blocked the high-temperature fire pillars emitted by the two blond, red-eyed men.

The next moment, the two blond, red-eyed men shouted together, their back muscles split open, and dozens of black tentacles spewed out, with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, spraying a trace of high-temperature flames, like a fire knife, slashing towards the light wall. The tentacles and the light wall collided heavily, making a terrible loud noise, and more than 20 silver-haired men were shaken to the point that their bodies tilted and staggered backwards.

The two blond, red-eyed men roared in unison, and using the recoil force of the collision between the tentacles and the light wall, their bodies suddenly leaped up, turned into two lines of fire, and fled at full speed in the direction of the International Concession.

From the side, a few faint lights flashed by.

Augustus, along with six of his companions, had anticipated their movements and suddenly stood in front of them.

The heavy punch was like a cannon, hitting him in the face.

The two blond, red-eyed men crossed their arms and stood in front of them.

Heavy punches hit their arms, and loud noises continued. The two men were beaten so hard that their bodies shook repeatedly, and hot blood kept gushing out of their mouths. As soon as the blood fell to the ground, it quickly burned, burning the soil with a hissing sound.

However, the two blond, red-eyed men seemed to have anticipated Augustus and his men's interception. After they were hit by a round of heavy punches, they opened their mouths at the same time, and dazzling red light with terrifying high temperature gushed out of their mouths. The thin tentacles behind them, which were nearly a hundred feet long, rolled fiercely and whistled down. From the tip to the root where they were connected to the body, the tentacles exploded inch by inch, and the power of each inch of explosion was equivalent to a heavy artillery shell!
Xing Tianli pounced like a tiger, bringing up a gust of breeze, and pounced behind the hill.

The earth was shaking, and huge cracks appeared on the hills. A lot of earth and rocks splashed down. The heat was surging, and flames shot up into the sky. Xing Tianli felt the air passing by him, which was as hot as molten iron, and he couldn't help shaking his head.

As soon as they met, they fought so fiercely. These two groups must have had a grudge against each other!

In the distance, there was a subtle sound of breaking through the air, and someone was shouting in a language that Xing Tianli could not understand. Xing Tianli jumped up quickly, climbed up the hill and looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw two blond and red-eyed men wearing golden robes, and fifty burly men wearing heavy armor and white robes running towards them.

These fifty burly men all had short golden hair, but their eyes were deep purple!
Augustus let out a long roar and quickly retreated with a few companions.

More than twenty men with silver hair and silver eyes also put away the diamond-shaped shields in their hands, flashed behind Augustus, and lined up in a row, breathing slightly.

In the air, the hard-shelled airship quickly took off. A slight mechanical sound came from the pod below, and more than a dozen gun barrels flashing with a faint glow quickly extended out from the armor plate that slid open under the pod.

The two blond, red-eyed men, covered in wounds, emitting high temperatures and with blood flowing from their seven orifices, quickly joined the reinforcements that had arrived from Pinghai City. They almost fell into the arms of the two blond, purple-eyed men, their muscles cramping and twitching, and they no longer had the strength to stand on their own.

The two blond, red-eyed men who came to help took a deep breath, their skin squirmed, and a black, semi-crystalline liquid mixed with strands of gold, like mercury, flowed out of their pores rapidly and quickly condensed into thick armor on their bodies.

"Augustus!" A red-eyed man growled in a low voice, "You, want to start a war?"

Augustus sneered: "Start a war? Aren't you already preparing for it?"

Both sides were silent. After a long while, Augustus coughed softly and said, "You, misunderstood. We just heard some noise over here and came to investigate. We found that your people were being attacked by the natives, so we came to help!"

"Since you are here, I believe you can take good care of your companions. Then, we will take our leave."

"Well, we helped them suppress the violence brought about by genetic collapse. It was just a simple matter. You don't have to be too grateful to us!" Augustus put his hands on his chest, performed a strange salute to the other party, and then whistled. The group soared into the sky and flew back to the airship cabin together.

Xing Tianli curled his lips and stomped his feet lightly. The mud under his feet rolled up and he sank into the rolling mud like a fish into water.

(End of this chapter)