The entire main hall violently shook as if it was experiencing an earthquake, shuddering and cracking, as visible gusts of wind blasted out from the spot where his foot landed. The bluish shockwaves flung the stones on the ground outwards and crashed on the arrows, snapping them into two. They also landed on the bandits that pounced towards him and the cold weapons approaching him, bouncing them back, causing them to fly across the ground and helplessly crash on the walls.
The bandits and their weapons fell to the ground, and then many of them coughed out one mouthful of blood after another.
A single look at the situation was enough to tell Xie Yang that Leader Ye's overpowering attack had shattered their bones and damaged their internal organs.
Lord Bo, on the other hand, felt the pressure acting on him decreasing by a wide margin, and he took this chance to approach the defenseless girl.
He wanted to take her hostage to escape this situation.
Leader Ye's attention was elsewhere, but Xie Yang had his eyes focused on him.
When he saw him heading towards Zhang Xiu, Xie Yang shouted, "Brother, that dirty rat is trying to take a hostage to threaten us to stop. Hurry and stop him."
Thanks to Xie Yang, Leader Ye realized what was going on, and he immediately stretched his hand towards the evil rat spirit. An immense amount of darkness surged out of his hand, taking the form of a mighty, roaring black dragon, and it came crashing down at Lord Bo.
Before it could hit him, black foul-smelling gas surged out of his body and enveloped every inch of his body.
The black dragon crashed on him, hurling him away from Zhang Xiu. Instead of chasing after him, the black dragon nudged the poor captive on its head, swiped its tail at the bandits near it, hitting their waist and legs, nearly shattering their bones, and causing them all to fall on their butts before returning back to Leader Ye's side.
Xie Yang beamed at the ugly lady. He was not the least bit offended by how she looked.
"You're now in safe hands."
"Thank you. Thank you so much. Wu, wu, wu."
After he said that to her, she felt reassured that no one would be disgracing her and that she didn't need to kill herself to escape hell; streams of tears surged out of Zhang Xiu's eyes, and as the mental burden on her decreased, she fell unconscious on the black dragon, entering a deep sleep.
"You're a spirit master! Why would a spirit master come to a small, worthless forest like this? How could you possibly be here?!" Lord Bo roared as he forced himself to stand up.
Although he had used a defensive spiritual technique, Leader Ye's attack had shattered all his bones. The vitality he had earned from killing 99 humans over the past three months helped him survive and also healed it enough that it was able to stand up on his two feet.
The bandits, Xie Yang, and Lord Bo, confirmed that Leader Ye was at least a spiritual master because the move he just used only a spiritual cultivator in the spirit master realm could use it.
"We were brought here by fate. Maybe the high heaven could no longer tolerate your viciousness and directed us here to put an end to you." Xie Yang said with a smile that was so not a smile.
"Bullshit! I don't believe you! I will make out of here alive! A mere spirit master can't take me down, " Lord Bo shouted, a vicious look on his face. His body started growing. He was already fat, but he became fatter and fatter, and the more his size increased, the uglier he became. His figure was somewhat rat-like and mostly human, but it changed to a giant black rat.
Lord Bo's true form was the size of a boulder. The rat claws were long and sharp, and his red eyes were like blood. Foul-smelling gas swirled around him, which touched the bandits near him. They dried up, dying in the blink of an eye and becoming skeletons!
Lord Bo viciously rushed towards Leader Ye, Xie Yang, and the little bitch that had escaped his grasp.
Leader Ye heard the words of the black spirit rat and, after a few moments, he chuckled dryly.
"Evil spirit, You think too lowly of me."
Did he ever say that he was only a spirit master? Nope!
He wasn't a mere spirit master!
Instead, spirit masters were like ants before him!
He alone was enough to take down a dozen spirit masters!
"Princess of rose, heed the call of your master. Take the spiritual gateway and step foot into the mortal realm. Come and aid me in battle."
Leader Ye chanted in a voice laced with thick coldness as he stretched out his thin, slender calloused forefinger. The image of swords shaped like a bouquet of rose flowers blossomed at his finger. He grabbed the bouquet and tossed it outwards. Instantly, the ribbon around them loosened, and the many steel weapons fell out, integrating into one, taking the shape of a door made out of swords.
The door appeared in between them and the black spirit rat, whose eyes widened like saucers!
Under the widened eyes of those present in the main hall, the door slid open, and from inside came out a magnificent beauty that looked otherworldly.
Her lips were red as blood. A petal-like mark was on her forehead. It didn't make him look ugly and only intensified her beauty. Her eyes were like humans, but in the center of her pupils was the image of red roses. She was in a beautiful dress that made her look like an immortal who had stepped out of a divine painting. Her long, slender legs, arms, and neck were pale and white. She was too beautiful a view for the unholy humans in this place.
"Spirit grandmaster?! Yi!"
Nearly everyone looked at Leader Ye in shock and surprise, even Xie Yang.
He couldn't believe that his stepbrother, who was following him and calling him young master, again and again, was a spirit grandmaster!
"You stern-faced jerk. Why have you disturbed us from our sleep and called us here?"
Leader Ye stared at her in silence for a moment before he said, "Kill them all."
"No!"
"Kill them all, and I will feed you."
Feed what exactly?
Xie Yang's ears perked up.
"You always say that, but after I do the dirty work for you, you undo the summoning without feeding me!" Princess of rose complained.
"I promise."
Leader Ye had always kept his promise, and as she knew that, she reluctantly agreed.
"You better keep your words!"
An instant after she said that, the black spirit rat pounced towards her. His wide-opened mouth revealed sharp teeth that it wanted to sink into her fair flesh! Her presence had made him go berserk!
He wanted to ear her, drink her blood, consume her flesh! He could innately tell that if he succeeded in doing that, he would become extremely powerful.
The Princess of Rose stretched her palm towards him and the other bandits as if she had all the tome in the world to death with her master's enemies. Numerous roses, hundred to thousand of them, manifested all around her and charged towards her enemies. Each of them reflected coldness and exuded sharpness.
"Swoosh!"
The petals moved so fast that they cut through the air, and due to friction or some kind of magic, they were all set ablaze.
They drilled many holes in the bodies of the black spirit rat and the many bandits. The next moment, the fire seeping out of it set them all ablaze, burning them at such a high temperature that their bodies turned to dust!
All the bandits and the evil spirit tormenting the captives here died.