Sword Among Us

Chapter 1166: Danger Hidden in the Sand River

“Damn it!”

“It’s another deadend!”

“Bastard!”

“So many of us have died on the way here, and we finally reached this place, but it’s a deadend… Just which sinister jerk designed these traps?!”

In another narrow tunnel that was exactly the same as the one Happy and his party traveled, dozens of Myth Realm elites were blocked in a deadend. They looked panicked as they drew their weapons and left behind countless gashes on the walls around them. The thickness of the walls were clearly extraordinary, and even if the Myth Realm elites attacked them in turns, they showed no signs of breaking.

The group instantly fell into despair. The wall was sturdy.

When they turned around, rolling sand surged at them like a monster with its mouth wide open to devour them!

Red blood and torn corpses were mixed in the yellow sand. When the Myth Realm elites saw this, they broke into cold sweat, and they were enveloped by an unprecedented threat of death.

“No!”

“I don’t want to die here! I DON’T WANT TO DIE HERE!”

Some of the ones who did not have great mental strength nearly broke down before this despairing situation. They let out hysterical, panicked cries. The blood and corpses in the yellow sand came from their companions who perished because of the various traps they encountered along the way. Due to the sand closing in on them, they had only been able to advance to this place by sacrificing loads of human lives.

Aside from deaths, there were just more deaths!

It was no wonder why everyone one of them broke down when they saw that this was a deadend as well.

“Sigh…” Ye Gucheng watched coldly as these people, who were at the level of sect masters, lost their composure before death. With a calm expression, he sighed and slowly drew his longsword. A cold glare shot out of his sword sheath.

Within a moment, the tunnel fell silent.

Heavenly Flying Immortal…

The Myth Realm elites in the tunnel looked as if they fell into a dream. They saw a dazzling, white sword glare, and within it were graceful immortals who moved past them. Then, their minds were swiftly destroyed.

Thud!

Streams of hot, red blood gushed into the air. They sprayed on the cold, rolling sand and on Ye Gucheng’s indifferent face. The man continued standing with his sword in hand.

Ye Gucheng and Happy were not the only ones who descended into a despairing situation.

Compared to Ye Gucheng, Dongfang Bubai was even more cold-hearted.

When they fell into the tunnel, yellow sand poured in.

Dongfang Bubai did not even look at the servants behind him. He just shot forward alone.

With the inborn instinct elites in the dao of heaven had toward threats and their superhuman reaction, Dongfang Bubai flew through many traps without running into any danger.

However, the servants who served him did not have such a good fate.

“Ah!”

“Cult Master!”

“Cult Master, save us!”

Pained screams rose frequently behind him.

Dongfang Bubai turned his head around and saw that some of his servants, who had great qi realms, were cut to pieces by wild silk. He only let out a cold huff that contained no emotions before he turned around and left into the distance quickly. He never stopped.

When the yellow sand reached a deadend, only three servants returned to Dongfang Bubai’s side. Each of them were covered in wounds as well, and they appeared to be swaying.

“You demon!”

“I’ll kill you!”

These three servants had struggled and survived through multiple death threats, and the fear caused them to suffer through quite a lot of shock to their minds. When they saw Dongfang Bubai, they no longer went to him sweetly. Instead, they drew their weapons and looked enraged, as if they wanted to devour Dongfang Bubai whole.

Dongfang Bubai coolly brought out a brocade handkerchief and covered his mouth gently.

Thud! Thud!

The two servants who were closer to him were instantly pierced through by embroidery needles. They were suspended in the air out of the blue, and their blood poured down. Parts of their corpses fell down nonstop, delivering such a huge blow to the last servant that her mind completely broke down.

“AAAHHH!!!”

Two of her companions who stayed day and night with her died horribly before her, and it became the final straw that broke her mind. Her longsword fell to the ground with a clang, and the pitiful servant sat down on the ground limply.

“Hmph.”

Dongfang Bubai naturally knew that even if she managed to leave this place alive, she would end up as trash. He did not take any action to make his hands dirtier, so he just watched the rolling sand charging at him fiercely. He scowled.

“The path we took here is blocked, and the path forward is sealed. It’s a deadend.

“A certain death trap, hmm? What a trap…”

Even when he faced a situation promising certain death, Dongfang Bubai still did not show any signs of panic. Instead, he looked up and stared at the area above the path he took to this place. “Since this place is blocked, I’ll look for another path. I refuse to believe that a small palace can stop me.”

He flung his hand, and an embroidery needle shot out.

Boom!

Yellow sand that filled the air buried the servant. At the same time it charged into the deadend, Dongfang Bubai put forth a little strength, and at lightning speed, he rose up. He jumped to a higher spot.

He spun twice, and Dongfang Bubai arrived at a spot 328 feet above ground.

He swept over the area from above. The entire tunnel underneath had already been completely blocked. Sand continued pouring forth in endless streams, and it looked as if they were pouring out of a huge funnel. It flowed from a higher spot to a lower spot.

In the blink of an eye, the sand at the deadend rose by ninety-eight feet to chase after Dongfang Bubai.

Dongfang Bubai said nothing, but he frowned slightly.

The wall was like a steep slope, and it was difficult for him to use it as a platform to assist him in exerting force, but to Dongfang Bubai, flying in the air was much easier than moving on the ground.

As he continued linking his embroidery needles together, in an instant, he jumped hundreds of feet away.

Yet soon, Dongfang Bubai realized a problem!

The closer he got to the entrance of the trap, the more the place would be completely by sand.

Yellow sand filled the entire area, as if it had connected the sky and earth together, the entrance could not be seen at all. To make it worse, yellow sand was still pouring into the tunnel continuously.

When he saw this, Dongfang Bubai’s expression changed drastically.

Even elites in the dao of heaven would not be able to break through flowing sand and exit. He did not even know how thick the sand was…

Also, he did not know what the situation was either.

Just when Dongfang Bubai put on a solemn expression for the first time since he came here, he suddenly heard movement from the tunnel below him!

“Hmm?”

While he was airborne, Dongfang Bubai noticed through keen senses that the flowing sand below was swiftly sinking!

When he looked carefully, sand whirlpools had appeared in the tunnel full of flowing sand. The endless flowing sand seemed to have found ways to get out of the tunnel, and it started to sink in frenzy.

Dongfang Bubai’s eyes lit up.

Thousand Pound Drop!

He fell down like a shooting star into the flowing sand, and he sped up as he fell.

When an abnormality appeared in the tunnel full of flowing sand, Thousand-faced Human Fox immediately noticed it. Delight flashed on his face, and he shouted, “Remember that I said only one can remain alive within an area of ten steps?! That one sliver of chance that will allow us to remain alive has appeared! What are we waiting for?!” Once he finished speaking, he was the first to use the wall as his platform and reduced his momentum in jumping up. He started falling down.

Happy and Osaya exchanged relieved glances. They changed the direction in which their true qi circulated simultaneously and made preparations to fall down.

But at that moment, a faint sound suddenly traveled forth from the flowing sand.

“Careful!” Happy reacted really quickly.

His spirit sense instantly locked down on a thick, black shadow that shot out swiftly of the flowing sand. He saw it heading straight to Thousand-faced Human Fox, who was the first to fall, and by pure instinct, he delivered a slash.

Whoosh!

Full Winds in Long Skies!

Stars Fall!

Just like a shooting star that swiftly tore through the sky, his slash traveled forth with an unstoppable force and struck the thick and black shadow before Thousand-faced Human Fox could react to it.

“Hiss!”

The huge, black shadow that shot out of the flowing sand had its path blocked by the slash delivered in the air. It froze and let out a strange, surprised screech, and the air it puffed out smelled foul. Its large, black figure was presented before Thousand-faced Human Fox, Happy, and Osaya.

It was a large scorpion!

Its left pincer was huge and terrifying, and that slash had left behind a huge gash on it. It staggered and started rolling about in the air while it fell down toward the rolling sand.

No one knew whether the tunnel was too narrow, because even if the scorpion started falling down while tumbling about, it was still positioned coincidentally right above Thousand-faced Human Fox!

The shadow of death had lingered for a moment on Thousand-faced Human Fox, and he broke out in cold sweat out of fear. Right now, when he saw the scorpion falling on from the sky, he quickly retreated. With a flick of his wrist, he delivered a series of sword forces and struck the giant scorpion’s sturdy shell.

Cling cling clang clang!

When the attacks of the elite in the later stage of Myth Realm landed on the giant scorpion, it only caused a series of sparks that flew everywhere. Then, with a loud bang, the giant scorpion turned on its stomach and crashed into the rolling sand.

“Be careful.”

At this moment, Happy had already executed a Thousand Pound Drop so that he could increase his speed falling down. He arrived near Thousand-faced Human Fox and stared at the sand whirlpool the giant scorpion sank into. He cautioned Thousand-faced Human Fox. “As expected, the traps in the desert palace are extraordinary. The defense of that huge scorpion is already on par with an elite in the dao of heaven. Follow behind me afterwards, and use every bit of your power to protect yourself.” Happy’s thoughts raced. He could tell with just one glance that this sort of creature did not exist in the desert, so the only possibility was that the danger in this trap was not over yet.

Happy had the best equipment and also the best abilities to protect himself in the chaos. His only worry was Thousand-faced Human Fox.

Thousand-faced Human Fox was touched. “Understood, Master!”

“Osaya, open the path!”

Happy did not spare Thousand-faced Human Fox another glance. He boldly ordered Osaya to open the path ahead of them.

He would be far too stupid to not use a bodyguard who was One with the World in such a harsh environment.

Osaya might not be pleased by how ungentlemanly Happy was toward her, but when she saw how the giant scorpion performed just now, her expression became solemn as well. Without another word, she led the charge in dropping into the sand whirlpool beneath them.

Boom!

The injured giant scorpion clearly did not become pleasant after it suffered that momentary loss. Soon after it sank into the sand whirlpool, it quickly shot out of the flowing sand again. But this time, it did not send its body, which was more than 6.5 feet wide, and more than thirty feet long, high into the air again.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Right before Happy and Osaya’s astonished gazes, three streams of yellow sand shot out from within the flowing sand, and shot at the airborne trio.

The giant scorpion stuck to one side of the wall and quickly crawled on it. Its tail was curled up high, and the scorpion furled it a little before it sent dozens of black things flying at them, and strong, fiery gusts flew at the trio.

The big creature had learned its lesson, and it no longer tried to clash head on against them recklessly. Instead, it decided to harass them from the distance.

However, the people in the area were not easy to deal with.

A white gauze flew in the air, and it spread out before it formed a spiral. Then, as it danced in the air, it protected the trio behind it.

The three streams of yellow sand were all blocked by the seemingly frail white gauze. However, it did not manage to block the black things.

At the instant the white gauze was pierced through, Osaya quirked her eyebrows, and in slight surprise, she reached out to grab one of the small, round, black balls.

“It’s a black sand crystal! This is a Black Sandstorm Scorpion that has existed since ancient times, and sand is its main diet.”