It was only after the icy arrow struck Han Huo that the archer slowly revealed himself from a dark corner. He was thin and tall. He stood silently as he stared at the injured Han Huo with his ice-cold and merciless eyes.
The attacker's face was as flat as a board, with the outlines of his mouth and nose not visible. Either he was incredibly ugly or he had disguised his features, because it did not look normal.
"Fuck!" It took a while for Han Huo to recover from the attack. Han Tu had stopped attacking the other enemies and started pulling Han Huo down to the safety of the underground.
The water energy cultivator that had suddenly appeared possessed Early-stage Highgod strength. Han Tu knew the difference in strength between Midgods and Highgods, so he did not fight him. He knew immediately that it was time to flee.
"That woman is still up there!" If it were any other midgod who suffered the attack, their divine body would have been shut down. Even if it didn't kill them, they would still be frozen. But Han Huo was quite unique. Since the Fire Lotus covering his body was a treasure naturally formed in the Extreme Fire Place over hundreds of thousands of years, more than half of the attacking cold divine energy was counteracted. Han Huo only needed to rest for a moment before his body returned to normal.
"We will wait for them," Han Tu replied as he pulled Han Huo completely into the earth. The two of them disappeared from the raiders' sight.
Then, while the raiders cursed loudly as they searched for Han Tu and Han Huo, the duo stealthily popped their heads out in another area and called out to Rose, who was fighting in the air, "Oi, woman, let's go! Stop dawdling with them!"
Rose was distracted by their shouts. The balance had shifted, and the Highgod of Lightning had gained the upper hand. Several serpentine lightning bolts crawled towards Rose and bit her. It made her long hair stand up straight.
The Thunder Cultivator's energy was in the same realm as Rose's and slightly stronger than hers. Not only had he taken over the high ground, but he had also filled the space beneath Rose with meandering electric dragons, making it impossible for Rose to descend to the ground.
At that moment, the other Highgod who had recently joined the fight gave up on attacking Han Tu and Han Huo and shot towards Rose.
This Water Highgod knew that it was unrealistic to kill Han Tu and Han Huo, who were hiding deep underground, in a short time. So he decided to attack Rose, who could not fly to the ground.
"What should we do?" Han Huo asked Han Tu worriedly when he saw that Rose was about to be surrounded by two gods.
""I don't know either. Should we save them?" Han Tu was much calmer than Han Huo, but just as indecisive. He knew that he and Han Huo could not defeat a Highgod. Even though they could form a partial Penta-Elemental Undead Formation, Han Tu wasn't sure if they would have enough power to fight the Highgod and feared that they would end up in greater danger.
"Just run, leave me behind!" shouted Rose as Han Tu and Han Huo hesitated. A blast of white, icy gas suddenly shot towards Rose. Using all her strength and attention to fight the Highgod of Thunder, she was unable to dodge the attack. The icy gas landed directly on her back.
"Damn it, I'll do it!" Han Huo made a decision immediately after hearing Rose's scream. Without asking for Han Tu's advice, he started screaming profanities and charged out of the hole, "You despicable asshole, is backstabbing all you know? Fucking coward! Come and fight me directly if you have the guts! Oi, fucker... "
When Han Tu saw Han Huo flying out of the ground while cursing, he let out a sigh, rose from the ground and chased after Han Huo. It was the first time in the battle that he was not underground.
Han Tu could escape without Rose, but he could not leave his brother behind. So when Han Huo decided to stay, Han Tu stayed.
Several mounds grew out of the earth as Han Tu flew out of the ground. As he flew towards Han Huo, he shouted, "Little Fire, form up!"
Han Huo stared distractedly for a split second before he began to smile maliciously, as if he had just remembered that he could fuse his energy with Han Tu's. As the mounds rose into the sky, great flames flew towards them and miraculously entered them. The yellow-brown mounds suddenly began to glow and burn like a ball of heated steel. The burning mounds flew furiously towards the Water Elemental Cultivator.
Only certain unique life forms that had been cultivated with the Five Elemental Yuan Energy could combine their energies like Han Huo and Han Tu were doing. The earth yuan energy and the fire yuan energy fused together perfectly in the mounds. Not only that the mounds had become much tougher, they were constantly emanating an astonishing amount of heat. There was no way that the Highgod of water would be unscathed if he was struck by one of those mounds.
"You are courting death!" groaned the person coldly before he blew a stream of icy-gas with his mouth.
The icy-gas assembled the element of water in the air and instantly formed a sparkling and translucent iced-spear. The iced-spear, emanating a great amount of frigid aura, shot towards the fiery mounds rapidly.
Ting Ting Ting! The sound of metals clashing reverberated from mid-air. The iced-spear did not shatter the mounds but only pushed them aside before continuing to shoot towards Han Huo and Han Tu.
""Huh!" the Water Elemental Cultivator cried softly. His eyes gleamed with the light of confusion and surprise, as if he had not expected his Ice Spear to fail to shatter the mounds. As far as he was concerned, even though the two Midgods possessed strange divine energy, it should be impossible for them to even come close to blocking his attacks.
He seemed to have become interested in Han Huo and Han Tu. Instead of targeting Rose, he turned to the two brothers, staring at them with his ice-cold eyes as he slowly marched towards the duo. As he stepped on the empty air, he used the element of water to congeal several water dragons in the air and sent them flying menacingly towards Han Huo and Han Tu.
Han Tu used his earth energy to form an earth wall, and Han Huo added his fire energy to the wall to defend against the Highgod's attacks. They wanted to distract the Highgod from Rose.
Although this expert only had Early-stage Highgod strength, he was still a Highgod. Even when Han Tu and Han Huo combined their energies, it was still very exhausting and difficult to defend against his attacks. As if things couldn't get any worse, the Midgod raiders took the opportunity to throw their divine weapons and other ranged attacks at their scorching earth wall.
Han Tu and Han Huo were feeling strained and helpless. While they suffered the bombardment from all directions, the thought of escaping without Rose echoed louder in their minds. Unlike a few moments ago, the duo were now completely passive and were showing signs of weariness.
The Highgod of water flew into a rage out of humiliation when his attacks had repeatedly failed to destroy the earth wall made by two Midgods. He congealed several water dragons and iced-spears, accumulated the power to its peak and blasted everything at the earth wall.
Boom!
An enormous explosion sounded. The earth-wall remained intact but Han Tu and Han Huo were sent flying away.
The earth-wall was sustained by both of them and the counteracting force of the earth-wall was directly connected to the duo. The all-out attack of the Highgod proved to be too much for the two. The enormous force that entered their bodies sent them flying out from the back of the earth-wall.
"Run!" Rose knew that Han Tu and Han Huo were there for her. She couldn't help but shout when she saw that they were in great danger.
By now the shopkeepers and the apothecary had realised that something wasn't right. They came out of their rooms and looked anxiously around the warehouse.
Although it wasn't unusual to hear fighting sounds at night, they would always end after a short time. The screams and cries were always from strangers. But on this night, they noticed that the sounds of fighting were unusually long and loud. They even heard Rose scream twice.
Knowing that things were going badly, they stopped what they were doing and looked at the battlefield.
These shop workers and pharmacists had mediocre strengths. Besides, seeing that Highgods were involved, they knew that there was nothing they could do to help. All that they could do was watch the battle anxiously.
Han Tu and Han Huo tumbled and rolled uncontrollably. They were sent flying quite some distance apart. This meant that after touching the ground, Han Tu could not immediately get Han Huo under the earth's protection. The Highgod of water seemed to realize this and therefore, instead of attacking Han Tu who could disappear underground in an instant, he went after Han Huo.
The force that entered Han Huo sent him into a daze and he had yet to come to his senses. He was still falling dizzily from the air. As soon as Han Tu touched the ground, he became conscious and immediately realized what was happening. He shouted, "Little Fire! Run! Run!"
Thud Thud Han Huo too had landed. He too had regained consciousness upon crashing onto the ground. He saw that the Highgod of water was a short distance away and Han Tu was very far away. Since Han Huo could not dive underground like Han Tu, there was no way for him to avoid the attack of the Water God.
Han Huo realised that he was in a terrible situation!
"Run! Run!" shouted Han Tu as he ran towards Han Huo as fast as he could. Although he knew that Han Huo wouldn't make it, he kept shouting at Han Huo to run because he was overcome with fear!
"Damn you! I'll get you! Even if I die, my father will avenge me!" When Han Huo saw that he could not run, he decided that he might as well fight. He gathered all his anger and rage and bravely charged at the Highgod.
"Well, die then!" shouted the Highgod Raider with a scornful grin.