The circular transparent light blue shield broke, like a mirror. One of many Hell Lightning fell directly in the middle of the crowd, enveloping around twenty-five people. From which, thirteen of the twenty-five directly fell to the ground. The other twelve were injured badly.
The Hell Lightning didn't stop at that. It started to fall randomly, in random places at random times. But it only fell in the area that was covered by the clouds. This technique was powerful. This technique was so powerful that even Yang Zhai couldn't control it completely. He could only summon it. This technique didn't differentiate between anyone, not even the user, and would hit everyone.
Yang Zhai was safe because he was from the earth, he knew that the current was unable to affect the rubber. So, he created a material that covered him completely. He was not influenced by the Hell Lightning because he had created a Pseudo-Rank 9 material, known as the Hell Rubber. Because it was a defensive material, it could also be used to defend against other attacks. As for the others, they were trying to dodge. Only the people who could perceive the lightning— before it fell— could dodge. Some were lucky enough that the lightning didn't fall on them.
Even the ones that were of the same rank as Yang Zhai would be injured by this technique if not dead, even if they had activated their defensive techniques, except if the defensive technique was powerful as well, like Hell Lightning.
There were thousands of people in the sky. Some were getting injured and some were dying in Yang Zhai's hands, some were dying because of lightning and some were lucky enough to not be struck by the Hell Lightning. Yang Zhai took full advantage of this situation to kill as many people as he could. He was holding a sword and was appearing and disappearing beside the people in the sky. It looked like he was teleporting. He appeared beside an injured woman and stabbed his sword at her head. It pierced from behind her head and appeared from between her eyes. Yang Zhai pointed his hand at another injured person and shot a white light from his hand. The white light turned into an insect that entered the man's body from his right shoulder in an instant. There was no hole in his right shoulder at all.
After a while, the man started to wriggle crazily and shouted with a shrill voice. His body began to bleed from everywhere. After a while, his body shriveled and descended, and he died.
In due course, the clouds began to fade away, and the sky was clearing up.
Everyone took a breather. Many were injured and some even died. Of course, the ones that died were below Rank9. Some were badly injured. As for the cultivators on Rank9, they managed to survive, they were perfectly fine except for some injuries. Needless to say, these injuries were not ordinary, they were caused by the Hell Lightning even after their defensive methods were fully activated.
When Yang Zhai saw this, he tried to find a place with fewer people. If he was surrounded and attacked by many people at once from a close range, he would be at a disadvantage.
But suddenly, a punch landed on him from behind, sending him flying. He managed to balance himself after a few seconds. He didn't look back to see who was the one that attacked him because if he was distracted at this moment, he would be at an extremely high disadvantage. And besides, he only spurted a mouthful of blood, and from the attack's strength, he knew that the one who attacked him was a Rank8 cultivator. What he needed to focus on right now were the Rank9 cultivators and the ones that tried to attack him at once.
Almost at the exact time at which Yang Zhai balanced himself, a wood piece of one foot was coming flying at him. He knew that if he was hit by this wood, he would surely be injured badly. He hurriedly dodged to his right and evaded the wood. Yang Zhai didn't need to know what would happen to him if this wood had managed to land on him. He was unprepared, after all, so he was bound to get injured badly.
After evading the wood, Yang Zhai looked at the person who had attacked him. It was a woman with short purple hair, her eyes were also purple. She had an Aquiline nose. She was wearing a Red tight dress, completely revealing the shape of her slim body, which was curvy. Her figure was perfectly toned. Yang Zhai recognized the woman.
"So, it's Bao Lin. I didn't know you could also sneak attack a man in a dangerous situation."
He said while trying to increase the distance between her and himself. She was a Rank9 cultivator, so he wanted to avoid her. But how could that be easy? Bao Lin also began to chase after Yang Zhai.
"And where do you think you're running off to?"
Yang Zhai was just trying to get away from Bao Lin when a man's voice came from the front. He looked at the man and recognized him as well.
"Sang Xie?" Yang Zhai saw the man and said his name.
"So, the great Yang Zhai also knows my name. I am truly honored. I always wanted to compete with you, but after seeing your attacks, especially the first one, I now know that I am not your match at all. So, I hope you can forgive me for attacking you with another Rank9 cultivator," Even though he asked for forgiveness, he was smiling. It could be seen that he was just saying it and didn't actually mean it.
Yang Zhai stopped. He knew that he couldn't run from them and had to fight and kill these two before the other Rank9 cultivators appeared. Thus, he hurriedly shot his sword at Sang Xie and created a crystal ball in his hand. The crystal ball was transparent. He threw it at Bao Lin with extreme speed and created another crystal ball in his right hand. The second ball that was created in his right hand expanded. It expanded and enveloped Yang Zhai.
As for the first crystal ball that Yang Zhai had thrown at Bao Lin, it had already appeared close to her. The first crystal ball also expanded when it was close to Bao Lin. Then Yang Zhai teleported from the second crystal ball into the first and appeared near Bao Lin. This had all happened in an instance, from him shooting his sword at Sang Xie to teleporting between the crystal balls.
Because Bao Lin was ready to dodge and didn't expect that Yang Zhai would teleport from the second crystal ball to the first, she didn't run and stood still. But then Yang Zhai appeared in front of her all of a sudden, alarming her.
Regarding the sword that Yang Zhai had shot at Sang Xie, it had also crossed the distance between itself and Sang Xie in an instant. It was worth mentioning that Sang Xie and Bao Lin both were a few miles away from Yang Zhai when he shot the sword and the crystal ball at them. To them, this distance was just as close as a few meters. Sang Xie easily dodged the sword. But Yang Zhai was not concerned about it, he only wanted to buy a few seconds, which he did.
But they were also Rank 9 cultivators, even if they were weaker than Yang Zhai, they were not that easy to deal with either.
Bao Lin saw that there was no evading Yang Zhai, so she hurriedly crossed her arms in front of herself. Her defense was also fully active. A dark smoke started to appear around Yang Zhai's right hand. He closed his hand into a fist and struck Bao Lin. There was no sound or anything. After hitting Bao Lin with a punch, he flew back. On the other hand, Bao Lin stood still in the air without moving. That was because the move Yang Zhai used was not for attacking the physical body, but the aperture. This technique could destroy one's aperture, but because of Bao Lin's strong defense, the effect was far less than expected. But it still managed to hurt her aperture a little. This was enough to keep her occupied for a little while.
Yang Zhai suddenly felt a threat and turned around and saw a raven coming toward him. He moved his left arm in front of himself to minimize the damage. His defense was also active, and there was also the Hell Rubber covering him. So, he wasn't worried. But while he was defending himself against the raven, a blue fire— as big as a house— came towards him from his right side.
He was unable to do anything and was hit by the fire.
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