Chapter 919 921. Besieged (III)

“Good,” Chen Wentian said, putting on a more friendly smile.

With Xuan Xina’s agreement, being trapped here wasn’t a complete loss. He didn’t dislike her. Her intentions toward Long Yifei were honest, albeit misguided.

He could have forced his way out with his disciples before the enemy encirclement was completed. But he didn’t choose to do that. He let himself and his disciples be besieged inside the city so that he could figure out Xuan Xina’s bottom line. Now that he had a good idea about it, it was time for their counterattack.

“Ziyun, you are in charge of the protective array. Qiu Chuyi, Tie Buqun, Xina… let’s go see if these guys want to sit around all day and stare at us or if they want to fight.”

“Yes, master.”

“Yes, Lord Chen.”

Chen Wentian flew up with the three Spirit Lords. The topmost portion of the protective array opened a small hole. They slipped out and the opening closed behind them.

Seeing this, the ten enemy immortals didn’t react. They remained at their original positions, looking up at Chen Wentian as if waiting for him to do something.

“Strange, what are they doing?” Tie Buqun asked.

“Can’t we just leave if they aren’t going to stop us?” Qiu Chuyi said.

Xuan Xina narrowed her eyes, “Idiots…”

Ignoring their dissatisfied expressions, she flew up and raised a hand toward the sky. Icy energy erupted and flew a distance before colliding with an invisible barrier. Her attack was blocked and the energy spread out harmlessly in all directions before falling back down like snow.

“What is this?” Tie Buqun asked.

“A besieging spiritual array,” Xuan Xina replied, “While you guys were busy doing nothing, the enemies prepared this for us. Now we can’t leave. And the besieging array will soon start pressing our city protection array until it is destroyed. When that happens, it will be over for us.”

“Ridiculous!” Qiu Chuyi retorted.

His hand partially transformed and grew a long sword-like claw. He gathered his sword intent and slashed upward. An arc of bright light flew up and smashed into the barrier. The sky trembled, but only for a little while.

“So strong!” Qiu Chuyi blurted.

“Don’t bother, the top part will be the strongest since it is supported by all the anchors together. We have to attack the enemy immortals. That’s where the anchors will be,” Xuan Xina said.

“Then let’s go,” Chen Wentian said, “You three cover my rear.”

Chen Wentian flew toward the group with Yang Gehu and Du Minghuo with the other three in tow.

“Are we fighting them first?” Tie Buqun asked uncertainly, “Why not the cloud siblings, they are just two of them by themselves.”

Chen Wentian waved his hand, “Since they appear the weakest, then they will naturally be well-defended. It doesn’t matter, I’ve been itching to beat up Yang Gehu again.”

Soon, they reached Yang Gehu’s position. The man didn’t react to Chen Wentian’s arrival, seemingly content with staying outside of the boundary of the besieging array.

Chen Wentian started immediately, not bothering to wait for another long diatribe. His two hands filled with blue flames and fireballs erupted.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In a few breaths, countless fireballs exploded against the spiritual barrier. The air burned. The ground shook and the sky tremored powerfully.

Chen Wentian didn’t stop. His entire figure became engulfed in flames as he increased the intensity of his attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Blue fire blossomed and spread in all directions. Explosion after explosion crashed against the array. The ferociousness of the flames could be felt in the city, even through the defensive array. Such power was enough to kill a Spirit Lord several times over and turn their body to dust.

Behind him, Xuan Xina couldn’t help but stare. She had watched his noble acolyte duel during the Gift Giving Ceremony from afar. His flames were even stronger now. She didn’t know how that was possible.

“Lord Chen, the array is wavering, keep going!” Tie Buqun shouted.

True to his words, the whole sky seemed to shake as if a bubble was about to pop. The waves of spiritual energy that were emitted were chaotic and became even more unstable with each explosion.

“Haha, such a trashy array can’t hope to trap our lord!” Tie Buqun shouted again.

Chen Wentian snorted. That wasn’t quite true. It wasn’t that the besieging array was weak. It was just that his flames were overpowering.

He wasn’t using his Spirit King Realm strength but his blue dragon flames had still improved in quality and profoundness after the blue dragon soul broke through to the Spirit King Realm. Even when he suppressed it to the Spirit Lord Realm, it was basically without equal in the same realm. Combine that with what seemed like an endless reserve of spiritual energy and he became the perfect array-wrecking instrument.

On the other side of the array, the enemies soon reacted. Du Minghuo started waving his arms about, reinforcing the inscriptions of the array and creating new ones on the fly with his spiritual energy. Yang Gehu drew out a glaive and swept aside his outer robe to reveal a set of armor.

Then, without a shout, he charged through a small opening in the array, directly at Chen Wentian.

Kang!

His slash was blocked by Qiu Chuyi who had already transformed into a clawed badger beast.

Kang! Kang!

Within a split second, they traded several blows.

“Gah!” Qiu Chuyi let out a pained shout as a surging wave that followed the last blow knocked him away.

“Brother! Let me!” Tie Buqun shouted, summoning wind and sand.

The two beast cultivators clashed furiously with Yang Gehu, trading move for move. However, the Yang Clan of Great Waves wasn’t just a name. Their Great Wave Art was extremely powerful. Qiu Chuyi and Tie Buqun were already struggling after a short while.

Xuan Xina saw this and was about to go and help. However, she was blocked by Yang Gehu’s two servants who had also sneaked through the array. Immediately, two waves of water rushed toward her.

She dodged away easily with several elegant steps and then deflected the waves with a wall of ice that was as clear as glass. However, one of the waves moved erratically like a giant snake and once again came at her. The other wave which was red like blood quickly started corroding the ice wall she had put up.

Chen Wentian looked around and found the situation concerning. Qiu Chuyi and Tie Buqun were getting beaten up like stray dogs. Xuan Xina could hold off the two attendants but she couldn’t do much else.

On top of that, Liu Bang of the Four Evils of the Black Forest also came into the space between the two arrays to have some fun. He brought along his pet eagle and the ugly fire imp. They were all not easy opponents.

“Let’s go, hurry!” Chen Wentian said as he sent a jet of blue flames at Yang Gehu’s face.

“Bastard!” Yang Gehu shouted, hurriedly dodging.

“Where do you think you are running?” Liu Bang shouted.

His muscular figure seemed to glow with a dark, ominous aura. He drew back his fist and launched several strikes at Chen Wentian’s party. His attacks turned into giant black fists that sought to smash them into pieces.

Chen Wentian raised his own fist, sending a huge fist of blue flames which directly collided with the black fist with a burst of spiritual energy.

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