Chapter 2161: Ready To Go Home
Long Xiang took the jade slip and scanned it with his spiritual force. Then his eyes lit up. He turned towards everyone and said, “Fly to the left. We will meet a group of 500 Ghost Cultivators. After destroying that group, we will reach Flying Ghost City in 20 minutes.”
As soon as they heard this, everyone’s spirits shook. They were currently feeling great due to their recent rest. It wouldn’t be a problem for them to deal with 500 Ghost Cultivators.
Long Xiang said, “Alright, let’s depart. In front of us is the road to home. No matter who’s in front, we will knock them down.”
“Roar!” Everyone rumbled with cheers. Long Xiang laughed and said, “Let’s go!” As he said that, he rushed forward.
After an hour, Long Xiang waved his hand. Everyone knew that they were going to meet the enemy soon. They quickly took their weapons out and became alert.
Sure enough, after two minutes, they heard voices in front. Long Xiang immediately led the group forward. As soon as they moved, they heard a voice, “Who is it!”
Seeing that they had been discovered, Long Xiang immediately said, “Begin!” Then his figure moved and threw himself forward. The others also followed Long Xiang to kill the enemy.
The enemy Ghost Cultivator immediately became alert. He loudly ordered, “It’s the True Spirit Realm. Send the signal!”
Just as Long Xiang and the others rushed over, the Ghost Cultivators were already charging towards them. Before long, the two sides clashed with each other. Long Xiang found that this group of Ghost Cultivators were surprisingly powerful. A few of them were in the Diamond Stage. This surprised Long Xiang.
Something surprised Long Xiang even more. He found white lights flas.h.i.+ng from time to time. Long Xiang knew that these white lights were portable transmission formations. The light they emitted meant that portable transmission formations were being used.
Long Xiang immediately understood what was going on. At first, the Ghost Cultivators must have the area covered with a spatial confinement formation, disallowing any use of portable transmission formation. When Long Xiang and the others thought that portable transmission formations could no longer be used, the Ghost Cultivators lifted the formation. In this way, as long as Long Xiang’s group was spotted by the Ghost Cultivators, the Ghost Cultivators would hold them down while sending reinforcements.
Long Xiang looked at the Ghost Cultivators and roared, “Despicable!”
The Ghost Cultivator on the other side knew Long Xiang’s thoughts by looking at his expression. The Ghost Cultivator laughed and said, “You were fooled. Don’t even think of running away today.”
As he saw more and more Ghost Cultivators appearing, Long Xiang couldn’t help but despair. The number of Ghost Cultivators were almost equal to them. Moreover, the Diamond-stage Cultivators have reached the same number. In this case, victory and defeat has become difficult to estimate.
Most importantly, the more Long Xiang’s group were delayed, the more Ghost Cultivators would arrive. As time pa.s.sed, Long Xiang’s window of escape became narrower and narrower.
At this time, Long Xiang discovered that there were no longer any white lights. Then he saw an extremely powerful blade light cleaving Ghost Cultivators in half. Every time the blade light arrived, Ghost Cultivators would fall.
Seeing this method of killing, Long Xiang couldn’t help but stare. Then his expression lit up as he shouted, “Old Deng!”
Deng Wen’s voice was soon heard, “Hahaha. Old Man, I didn’t expect to see the day where I saved you. Hahaha.”
With Deng Wen’s arrival, as well as the lack of reinforcements, the Ghost Cultivators were beginning to collapse.
As he was cutting Ghost Cultivators, Deng Wen said, “You ghost b.a.s.t.a.r.ds, don’t expect that reinforcements would arrive. From now on, within ten thousand li (5000 km), n.o.body can use portable transmission formations. How long would it take for others to fly here from ten thousand li? Moreover, we have blocked their routes. I’m afraid they would die if they came here. Hahaha. Now, die!”
Deng Wen didn’t stop attacking while he boasted. Zhao Hai was also following behind. When n.o.body was paying attention, Zhao Hai sent Ghost Cultivator corpses to the s.p.a.ce.
The Ghost Cultivators resisted for an hour before 400 of them had been killed. Finally, they could no longer hold on and retreated.
Seeing the enemy getting routed, Long Xiang and the others began to hunt them down. The Ghost Cultivators finally couldn’t stand it, the retreat turned into a rout.
When Long Xiang was thinking of continuing the hunt, Deng Wen blocked him, “Stop chasing. Let’s leave immediately.”
Deng Wen stared, he looked at Deng Wen in confusion and said, “Even if we scattered them, their reinforcements would still arrive. Let’s rush to Flying Ghost City immediately. Otherwise, we’ll be in big trouble.”
Long Xiang stared, then he turned to look at Zhao Hai. Deng Wen laughed, “Your old man’s eyes are still sharp. Hahaha. Yes, this plan was created by Little Hai. Although I’m the team leader, the true person in charge is Little Hai. Now let’s go.”
Long Xiang nodded, “Let’s go back first, we can’t be stopped here.’ Deng Wen nodded and then led everyone straight to Flying Ghost City. Zhao Hai didn’t say a word the entire time. His presence was the lowest, but n.o.body dared to ignore him.
A distance of 20 li(10km) was nothing to cultivators. Before the time to drink a cup of tea pa.s.sed, the group arrived at Flying Ghost City.
There seems to be no change to Flying Ghost City. It still looked like a warzone. n.o.body would think that Zhao Hai and the others were staying here.
After arriving at Flying Ghost City, Deng Wen turned his head to Zhao Hai and said, “Alright, Little Hai. Let’s begin.” Zhao Hai complied and took out a few pieces of jade essence. Then he placed it on the core of the transmission formation.
Since there were too many people to teleport this time, Zhao Hai could only use jade essence to provide energy for the formation.
At this time, a large number of Ghost Cultivators were rus.h.i.+ng over. Seeing this, Long Xiang’s complexion couldn’t help but change. He took his weapon out and said, “Little Hai, how long will it take? I can lead people to delay those fellows.”
Deng Wen waved his hand and said, “There’s no need. Little Hai prepared defensive formations beforehand. As long as the formations are there, Little Hai will have enough time to activate the transmission formation.”
Long Xiang stared, he looked at Zhao Hai and sighed, “This kid is a monster. It would be a pity if we don’t recruit him.”
Deng Wen sneered and said, “You only realized this now? You even dared to make a move on Little Hai. Hmph. If it weren’t for Little Hai’s morals, we wouldn’t have bothered to save you.”
Hearing this, Long Xiang’s face couldn’t help but turn red, “This is my fault. But you should know the limits of my position. I need to compromise on some things. Actually, I have no intentions of injuring Little Hai. I just want to catch him and bring him back to the True Spirit Realm.”
Deng Wen coldly snorted and said, “Who knows if you’re telling the truth. Forget it, if you didn’t remind me at that time, I would have fought you.”
Long Xiang looked around and saw Lei Jian and the others far from him. The three sects have lost a lot this time. Only one out of ten disciples survived from the three sects. It must be known that these disciples were true elites. After losing so many disciples in the underground world, the Sword Hegemon Sect and the others would certainly feel the burn.
As the two were talking, the Ghost Cultivators finally arrived at Flying Ghost City. They surrounded the city and attacked.
However, a layer of energy kept the attacks from entering the city. Seeing the protective layer, the Ghost Cultivators couldn’t help but stare. Then their complexions couldn’t help but change. They immediately attacked the protective layer with more frequency. However, the s.h.i.+eld only shook lightly without showing signs of disappearing.
The Ghost Cultivators were stunned once more. Then they attacked the s.h.i.+eld even harder. However, the s.h.i.+elds were still standing. At this time, Zhao Hai went to Deng Wen’s side and said, “Elder Deng, Elder Long, the transmission formation is primed. We can go at any time.”
Long Xiang nodded, he looked at the huge transmission formation and said, “Where does this transmission formation lead to? We don’t want this to be used by the Ghost Cultivators.”
Zhao Hai replied, “rest a.s.sured, the transmission formations will self-destruct after we use it. At the same time, the defensive formation will automatically explore. When the time comes, the explosion of the transmission formation will bring some losses to the Ghost Cultivators. Nothing will be left behind in Flying Ghost City other than a huge hole.”
Long Xiang nodded, “That’s good.”
Zhao Hai smiled faintly and said, “Elder Long is too polite.”
Long Xiang nodded and didn’t say anything. However, he could hear a tone of alienation when Zhao Hai talked to him. Long Xiang could only sigh inside. He knew that he had offended Zhao Hai. This would also affect Zhao Hai’s impression on the Long Clan. Long Xiang couldn’t do anything other than make it up to Zhao Hai in the future.
Thinking of this, Long Xiang couldn’t help but hate Lei Jian and the others even more. If it weren’t for Lei Jian and the others, Zhao Hai wouldn’t have suffered. Long Xiang couldn’t help but blame them.
However, Long Xiang didn’t display anything on his face. He looked at everyone and said, “Everyone, prepare yourselves. We’re going back.”
Everyone happily complied and gathered beside Long Xiang. As they prepared to return, everyone’s mood couldn’t help but sink. There were around 1000 people in their team in the beginning, but now only less than 600 remain. The group has been reduced by half. Their hearts couldn’t help but sigh.