Chapter 118 - Black-Cloaked Men

"But boss, are you certain that Jun Nie possesses the Second Life Ka?" The person to the right asked boss Zu.

"Don't know about that. But that person was sad about his son missing and suspected that Jun Nie most likely killed his son for the Second Life Ka. After all, his son has gone missing for more than a month. And as elder Jun Nie had given him the Second Life Ka; thus, that person suspects that Jun Nie most likely killed his son to get the Second Life Ka back. After all, how could that person's son go missing all of a sudden, especially when nobody else had any enmity toward him?" Boss Zu said and continued,

"Forget about that, even if we don't find the Second Life Ka, we still have to kill them."

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At dusk time, the sun was setting. It was red and yellowish in the sky. 

A total of six hours had passed since the Ma clan guests and Bai clan members left the Bai village. They were already at the foot of the mountain and were resting.

Yang Zhai was cultivating in his tent when he heard a noise outside his tent. It was not someone's voice, but some footsteps. Yang Zhai felt strange as to who would walk around his tent like this. It could be someone from his group, but he still stood up and went out to check. But he saw nobody around. 

However, someone came at him with a punch. Yang Zhai hurriedly activated the Wooden Fists Ka to give his hands the power of the wood, and they turned brownish. After this, he counteracted the punch with his fist.

Yang Zhai did not stop at that, he hurriedly activated a low-level explosion-type technique with his left hand and threw it in the air. 

BOOM!!!

An explosion happened in the air, accompanied by a fire that spread and Yang Zhai also shouted loudly,

"We are under atttaaaack"

He had counteracted the punch with his right hand and activated the technique with his left hand. It did not even take him around two seconds to do both works. However, it was already too late because he saw that this place was already surrounded by a few people in black cloaks.

All of the six elders were the first ones to react as they hurriedly flew out of their tents. Qian Fa and Feng Qi were standing outside because they were the guards appointed by the elders.

Strange, how could Feng Qi and Qian Fa not notice these people? They are rank 3 cultivators after all. But, even if the elders could not notice the presence of these people, then there can only be one explanation and that is that they used some kind of method to hide their presence: Yang Zhai thought whilst his attention was fully on his opponent.

Even though the elders were in the tent, they could sense things outside their tents easily without even seeing. But they did not react, which could only mean that they also did not sense anything. Yang Zhai was lucky because he heard someone's footsteps and came outside to check.

"Impressive, you managed to counteract my punch. But I held back, and you are only a rank 1 third-stage cultivator, I am sure that even your arm must be hurting right now." Yang Zhai's opponent spoke. This person was at rank 2.

Yang Zhai did not ask the person who they were or what was their purpose, as he knew that they would not reveal their identities, and it was useless to ask.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Elder Jun Nie asked the people surrounding them.

However, nobody spoke and a person out of the crowd came attacking him with a black shadow-type attack. 

"Oh, so you even know my path and came prepared." Elder Jun Nie smiled and disappeared, leaving only a shadow of his behind. 

Elder Jun Nie was a Shadow path cultivator. And the opponent he was facing was also a shadow path cultivator, this was the reason Jun Nie said that his opponent came prepared.

"Hey you kids, stay close to me and Yu Ene." Elder Yu Ane said to the rank 1 cultivators. He said it because he was confident in his skills that he was sure that they could protect the disciples from the others and the impact of their fight. 

Including Si Kim and Ai Hao from the Bai clan and Jun Haru and Yen Hu from the Ma clan, there were a total of four rank 1 cultivators. With Yang Zhai, and Hyun Hae, as well as three rank 2 cultivators of the Ma clan, there were five rank 2 cultivators.

And in rank 3 cultivators, there were Feng Qi, Qian Fa, Til Gen, Bang Ju, and one of the Ma clan members, comprising five rank 3 cultivators. And then there were six elders who were higher in cultivation than rank 3, summing up to a total of twenty people combining both Bai clan and Ma clan members.

Elder Yu Ene and Yu Ane did not go to attack others because they had to stay to protect their disciples.

As for the rank 3 cultivators, they were already fighting. All of them were staying closer and were helping each other. Til Gen was good at defense, so he acted as the defense and built a wall of the earth whenever a powerful attack came at them. Even though these five people were fighting a total of six opponents, they still helped each other whenever possible.

Feng Qi was adept at the metal path. He summoned metal needles and shot them at his opponent. His opponent was a wind path cultivator, and he summoned a wall of wind to defend against the metal needles. 

Feng Qi did not stop at that and ordered the metal spears to appear from below the ground where his opponent was standing.

Qian Fa was a wood path cultivator. His attacks were related to the wood and such. He was surrounded by vines to protect him from the attacks of his opponents. The vines had almost built armor around his body. He was manipulating the vines and was attacking his opponent. The vines moved like snakes and were trying to envelop his opponent. However, the one facing Qian Fa was holding a blade and was continuously cutting the vines that came at him.

Whilst both Til Gen and Bang Ju worked together to fight three opponents. It was because one was an earth path cultivator and the other was a fire path cultivator. One was good at defense and the other one at attack. Til Gen used earth path Ka to build thin layers of armors around himself and Bang Ju; however, these thin layers of armors were powerful at defending. And Bang Ju attacked with fire path methods. It was not like Til Gen could only defend and could not attack, he also attacked. And it was also not like that Bang Ju did not have some kind of defending method, but both of them were fighting three opponents and had to stay focused and also decrease the use of their essence water. Thus, Til Gen mostly defended them both and Bang Ju attacked without any worries.

On the other hand, the rank 3 cultivator of the Ma clan was also adept in the shadow path, he would sometimes disappear and attack the opponents of his comrades before appearing again to fight his own opponent. It not only helped Qian Fa and the others, but also lessened the burden off them. And as he was attacking them from behind, it distracted the opponents of his teammates. 

As for his opponent, he could not do anything against the Ma clan rank 3 cultivating shadow path cultivator because he was not good at speed.

"Brother Neil Han is really skilled. Not only is he fighting his opponent, but is also helping us." Til Gen said to Bang Ju.

Neil Han was the shadow path rank 3 cultivator of the Ma clan.

"Yeah, you are right. Because of him, we are gaining an advantage over our opponents. At this rate, we would be able to win easily." Bang Ju replied.

On the other hand,

Four people were attacking elder Ane and elder Ene. However, both of the elders did not even move from their positions and stood firmly in the position. What was strange was that no attack or even their aftermath or impact passed through them. Thus, all of the cultivators behind them were safe from high-level attacks. 

"As expected from the academy leaders of the Bai clan. Your darkness knows no bounds." Boss Zu, who was also one of the four attackers, said. 

All four of the attackers were attacking Yu Ane and Yu Ene with long-range attacks. Even though this area was surrounded by black-cloaked men, it did not mean that everyone was close to each other. It could be seen from the fact that a rank 2 cultivator's normal attacks could reach the range of twenty to fifty meters, excluding the tracking-type attacks or top levels attacks of the rank. And a rank 4 normal attack could reach the range of half a kilometer or 500 meters.

And the four attackers were attacking from a distance of 150 meters.

Whilst all of the battles were taking place a distance from each other.


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Author's note: Sorry for the delayed releases. As I already said, please endure this for the month of November. I have to deal with something and am not getting enough free time. And I hope that after November, chapter releases will return to their normal routine.<°^°>