Bang...
A golden sheild was destroyed after being struck down by the thousands of the weapons descending from the sky as fragments were sent flying everywhere.
It was the golden sheild bestowed upon Dacre my his father after he became the successor of the Raymond family, which could block a single full powered struck from a peak martial soul realm cultivator. However, it was destroyed after a single attack of the formation.
It was already the thirty first attack that they have blocked from the formation. As they were exhausted after blocking each attack, the attacks however got stronger, to the extend that they were already equal in power to a full strike of a peak martial soul realm cultivator.
The battered and wounded body of Sam, Marvyn, Dacre and little Titi was revealed after the shield was destroyed. They were exhausted beyond measure after wistanding the attacks from the formation.
Sam had already exhausted his life essence energy healing himself and the group. Furthermore, they had already consumed the good healing medicines, the ones they had at hand took lengthy time for it to kick in, they might as well throw them like trash.
They could survive to this extend was all due to the defensive treasure like that golden sheild which were brought out Marvyn and Dacre. Sam had only had four treasures: Immortal slaying sword, Devil decapitating saber, his silver earring sword and the true feather which he had already used numerous times to defend them.
Sam had moves which could even kill martial soul realm cultivators but it was proven useless considering the situation they were in.
Sam, Dacre and little Titi had a few deep wounds but it was Marvyn who was at the worst condition. Considering that he could not move, it was difficult for the group to protect him to the end. To save his life, Sam and Dacre had even taken a few hit that was fatal to his life.
After exhausting all means at their disposal, the group were at their wits end. Despair was their only companion at this point.
"We promised to conquer and dominate the whole world if we could come out alive from this place but it turns out this is the end of our journey". Sam let out a mirthless chuckles at this point. However, the next moment it turned in a bright smile, "However, dying together with good brothers like you does not seem so bad after all. I don't have any regrets. We tried our best and gave it all".
"I don't have any regrets either". Dacre still had his signature sly smile on his face. Even before death, he still smiled,"we had a good run. Dying with my good brothers, sound like a good story to me. But, I want to break that damn barrier once before dying".
Marvyn smirked. He had already let go of his guilt after fighting all this while. If his brother didn't regret dying with him, why should he sulk and regret? He patted the shoulders of Sam and Dacre and said, "Should we go down gloriously? Like a falling star, shinning brightly once. Let's give our all and break this damn barrier".
"Lets do it. Let's break down this....". Sam halted his sentence as his eyes gleamed for a moment. He was sensitive to the death essence energy after he channeled death essence energy to his eyes, which had save their life numerous times.
"We won't have to die after all. Looks like even the heavens don't want us brothers to die". Laughing uproariously, he pointed his fingers to a part of the barrier. Small cracks were forming at that spot.
"Someone is assisting us from outside. Who could reach up-to here and even have the strength to make cracks in the barrier? " Marvyn said in a stupefied tone. He was both happy and confused at the same time; happy that they did not have to die and confuse as to who would assist them.
"Seems like we have luck on our side. This formation is meant for trapping people inside so, it is weaker on the outside. Considering the restriction of this place, it is still difficult to deal such damage to the barrier". Dacre commented while looking at the barrier.
They had already tried breaking the barrier but they could not even create a dent in the barrier even after attacking with their strongest move.
"I do have a person in mind who could help us". Sam said as a person's name appeared in his mind. But as he looked at the weapons slowly gathering in the air, a sense of urgency rose within him. He pointed at the cracks in the barrier as he said, "Since, the person is doing his best to help us, we can't let it all go to waste, can we? Leave that damn barrier to me, I will break it. But I will probably be unconscious after that, I will leave the rest to you. After all you guys are stronger, protect me well".
Sam smiled as he gave them no time to reply and jumped on Little Titi's back. "Bring me before that damn barrier. Today, I will show the greatest saber you have ever seen. Watch without blinking". Sam shouted.
He put his immortal slaying sword back into its sheath while he took out the Devil decapitating saber from his spatial ring, which he rarely used. The bloody edges of the weapons glinted like blood in this grey world.
Standing on little Titi's back with his bloody saber, an intense feeling to rend apart the heaven and earth else within him. As he channelled his essence energy into the saber, the death essence energy in the surrounding started to became chaotic.
The world became deathly silent at this moment as Sam raised his Devil decapitating saber high in the air it's tip pointing at the sky. Only the figure of Sam with his hair flying wildly and his saber pointing at the heaven could be seen.
Killing intent exploded wildly as the runes on the devil decapitating saber lit up with red light like flowing blood. The murders intent of the sword bore down on the whole barrier as even Dacre and Marvyn felt their body being locked down by this murderous intent, they even had difficulty moving.
"What kind of weapon is that? How many did it slaughter to release such killing intent just by activating it". Dacre muttered as he channeled his essence energy as broke free from the restriction of the murderous intent.
"Forget about that weapon, that saber technique. Even an martial soul realm cultivator would die without any chance of survival before this technique. That tyrannical might, like he is the ruler of the heavens. It so damn awesome". Marvin muttered as he stared at the figure of Sam in awe.
As the will to rend apart everything in sight rose within him, a tyrannical might filled with whole body. Sam felt like a tyrant with saber raised high, a tyrant to even heaven. If heaven does not obey, no big deal. Rend it apart.
"Tyrannical saber arts-Rend Earth apart".
As Sam cried out loudly, the technical might was transferred to his saber as he struck down, his saber whistled liking lighting as it crashed against the barrier.
A tyrannical might ravaged on the barrier, as his saber striked down against the cracks on the barrier. Then, the unexpected thing happened as Marvyn and Dare watched with struck expression.
Crack... Crack...
As the cracking sound was heard, the cracks got bigger as it spread around like spider webs to the whole formation barrier. Then, it shattered like a mirror, after mirror was hit by stone.
Sam watched with his eyes open as the barrier shattered before his eyes.
'I will leave the rest to you'.
Sam then closed his eyes as he slumped down on the back of little Titi as his consciousness faded into darkness. He was spent, as all of the essence energy in his Dantian was expended by this single strike. His Dantian was like desert devoid of any essence energy after executing this saber technique.
"He really did it. That bastard really did it". Marvyn exclaimed out loud in excitement as jumped up and carried Sam away from little Titi's back. After the thing that happened last time, he surely would not leave his defenseless and unconsciousness brother to the wicked perverted devil known as Little Titi. Only he was aware of the end result.
After carrying back Sam, he checked his pulse. He heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that Sam was only unconscious due to exhaustion of essence energy.
'That move was really like the falling start, shining brightly before dimming. I even felt reverence at that moment'.
Marvyn thought to himself me a while Dacre and Little Titi stood before him as he warily looked forward. Although, someone had assisted them, they still did not know if the person was an ally or a enemy.
"What is all this wariness? How about showing some gratitude to your benefactor? "
A cold voice rang out in their ear. As they looked towards the source of the voice, they saw a youth wearing black robes standing before them with his hand behind his back. He had deep eyes with black eyeball deep like abyss, a runes brimming with darkness was engraved on his forehead while his long hair was as black as night itself tied by a red ribbon. He was staring at them with a cold face without any emotion.
"Indeed we were lacking in our manners". Dacre said as he stepped forward and cupped his fist giving a slight bow. Still on guard, he said, "We thank you for saving our lives. We will definitely repay this immense debt back to you".
That youth however paid no attention to Dacre. Taking a step forward, he appeared infront of unconscious Sam like taking a walk in the park.
Dacre, Marvyn and Little titi were startled by his fast movement but they instantly sprayed into action.
That youth however threw a nonchalant glance at them. Darkness spiralled in his eyes as death essence energy spread out from his body covering all them. As the death essence energy covered them, they were locked in their place as felt their life energy leaving out from their body causing them to break out in cold sweat.
Good affinity with death essence energy. Although he is a bit weak,he could be useful". That youth commented after looking at Sam like he was out shopping for commodity. He then looked at Dacre, his face still devoid of emotion as he said, "I will be borrowing this kid for a bit. Consider this as payment for saving all of your life".
Death essence energy wrapped around Sam and himself creating a black sphere surrounding them. When the death essence energy scattered, he was gone and so was Sam. The group were all felt to the ground gasping for air as cold sweat dripped their back. Their life energy was also returned to them after he left but that left them when more furious.
Having their life in the hand of an unknown person and being able to live due to his whim was not a pleasant feeling at all.