Not just them!
With the addition of two thousand more servants, a few head-servants among them, the crowd following him was enough to kill any weak Core Formation Cultivator in seconds!
‘’SENIOR BROTHERS, SENIOR SISTERS, YOUR YOUNG COLLEAGUE HERE IS ABOUT TO GET MURDERED!’’
‘’SENIOR BROTHEEEEEEEERS...SENIOR SISTEEEEEERS...’’
Shouting screeching, Li Ao leaped from one room to another, gathering even more enemies on the way.
In a short fifteen minutes, the crowd behind him was ten thousand strong!
There were sixty armored spirits within them!
Among them, one even reached Foundation Establishment, carrying four arms and two heads!
If not for his Dark Foundation and Golden Maw’s shock absorption, Li Ao would long have been slaughtered like a chicken!
‘’SENIOR BROTHEEEEEEER, SENIOR SISTEEEER—’’
Crying out loud with all his might, Li Ao forced the flexibility of his body to shave off most of the strikes.
Some even purposefully aimed his butt to infuriate him!
Another ten minutes passed, and when Li Ao was at his wit’s end, a melodious voice rang out across the hallway.
‘’Your senior sister is here!’’
Suddenly, a figure rounded the corner in front of Li Ao.
‘’Senior sister...WHAT THE FUCK?’’
It was no sister!
The figure had a strange mechanical device behind ‘her’, spewing out large blue flames from two tubes to propel ‘her’ figure.
‘Her’ skin was purple, ‘her’ body quadrupedal, and looked like an amalgamation of a lion’s body and a goat’s head!
She was also at the sixth-level of Foundation Establishment...
His senior sister, with a smug smile on her face, was frozen solid at the charging group.
‘’HOLY MAGNETO!’’
She pulled on two chains behind her, turned her body around, then spat flames to fly away at top speed!
‘’SENIOR SISTER!’’
‘’Who the fuck is your senior sister!? Go away!’’
His eyes blazing, Li Ao grit his teeth and rounded the corner where she left!
The crowd followed him as well—and together they began to chase the goat-faced senior sister!
‘’I said go away!’’
‘’No, senior sister!’’
‘’Who the fuck is your sister!?’’
While they shouted, the foundation establishment armored spirit shot a purple slash towards the goat-faced senior sister!
Her face pale, she pushed her big claws towards the strike, then flew a hundred meters away!
White lines crackled around her body, then vanished.
She was attempting to retreat as well!
‘’Fuck, gravity magic!?’’
She cast a dark glare at the approaching Li Ao.
‘’HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET THIS CROWD!?’’
‘’I DON’T KNOW! JUST RUN!’’
Now, Li Ao began running with his senior sister. They ran through some other rooms, gathered a bit of a more crowd, and now it was a group of twenty-five thousand that came after them!
‘’SENIOR BROTHERS, SENIOR SISTERS, YOUR JUNIOR IS BEING MURDERED!’’
‘’What the fuck are you doing!?’’
‘’Look here, you goat sister—’’ Li Ao made a short leap and avoided another slash to his ankle. A shower of magical techniques flew over his head to shatter a wall to his right. ‘’If you want to fucking survive, shout!’’
She flew through the falling rubble without trouble. ‘’We will only be baiting shrimpy fellows!’’
‘’Then fucking bait until we get a shark!’’
Casting a glance at the chasing army of ghosts, the goat senior sister gulped. Her eyes turned steely, and a roar boomed out of her.
‘’SENIOR BROTHERS, SENIOR SISTERS, YOUR PRETTY JUNIOR SISTER IS BEING MURDERED!’’
Where was the previous melodious voice?
This was a lion’s roar!
‘’How the fuck are you pretty!?’’
‘’I am the 335th Miss Goatia, you little shit!’’
‘’What!?’’
‘’JUNIOR SISTER, I HAVE COME TO YOUR AID!’’
‘’...someone actually fell!’’
His jaw dropping, Li Ao watched another weird monster streak through another corner.
He was wearing thick brown leather armor over his green scales. Standing on two feet, flying by his own powers, this tongue-wagging lusty lizard man was at the Core Formation Realm!
Turning the corner, the lizard man’s eyes shrunk to a needle-point.
‘’HOLY LIZARDIA!’’
With a puff of smoke, he vanished.
‘’SENIOR BROTHER, DON’T ABANDON YOUR PRETTY JUNIOR SISTER HERE!’’
Goat senior sister cast a glare at Li Ao.
‘’Don’t steal my lines!’’
‘’Oh fuck off, you don’t sound any different!’’
While they leaped over to another room, Li Ao heard a voice in his head.
‘Don’t stop moving! Your senior brother will get Captain Karim and others to your location!’
His eyes sparkling, Li Ao looked at goat senior sister.
‘’You heard that!?’’
‘’I did!’’
‘’Then go!’’
‘’GO!’’
As if waiting for them to shout, another volley rained around them.
Goat senior sister seemed too agile for her stature. She kept pulling the chains to her device—her body turned left and right, swung as if uncontrolled, yet somehow evaded every single strike without ever looking where they came from.
Once in a while, Li Ao heard a faint buzz coming from her ear.
He, however, did not have much chance to pay attention.
Being on the ground, as well as the source of the commotion, most of the attacks aimed at where he stood.
At this point, even Golden Maw couldn’t resist everything.
Even then, Li Ao didn’t dare to take out Bubbles, his greatest defense.
If she were to be knocked away, he wouldn’t be able to retrieve her back.
As such, he kept leaping and rolling and stomping his way out of these attacks, Walls cracked around them, floor shattered, and the duo descended through several floors in a storm of light and deafening explosions.
Sliding over broken boulders, Li Ao leaped out of the way and rolled again. The Goat Senior Sister flew right after him into another hallway and pushed herself even higher in the sky.
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‘’Hey, senior sister, share some of the burden with me!’’
‘’I’m sharing enough!’’’
‘’It is not enough!’’
Growling, her lion-like claws began to extend in length.
A dark green aura appeared on them. They smelled like spring flowers.
‘’Here is your share of burden!’’
She swept her claws at the crowd.
From their tip, a single bud grew, then expanded a thousand times in length!
In two seconds it bloomed into a weird, four petaled violet flower. Pollens poured out of it and stuck on those leading the charge!
The pollen was sticky. In fact, the power was so strong that even some head servants and fair ladies couldn’t get rid of them in a few seconds!
They were quickly overrun by the rest of the servants, trampled to near death!
‘’Holy shit! Senior sister, do it again!’’
‘’I can only do it once!’’
Li Ao’s face flushed.
‘’What dogshit senior sister are you!?’’
‘’DON’T MAKE ME TALK YOU RETARD! WHO ATTRACTED THIS ARMY, HUH!?’’
‘’I didn’t do it on purpose!’’
‘’Shut up! Shut the fuck up!’’
Waltzing around another volley, Li Ao and the Goat Senior sister saw a golden light coming from their front.
It was a small sparkle first, but an instant later it turned into a moving golden sun!
Within the Sun, they saw two humanoid figures flying at them!
‘’WE HAVE ARRIVED!’’
Right behind them, both hands crossed before his puffed out scaly chest, the lizard senior appeared with two dozen cultivators!
There were all manner of creatures within the group—four were humans, six were humanoids, one a living ghost, the rest some manners of beasts and even a gigantic troll!
Yet, apart from six Core Formation cultivators, almost all of them were Nascent Soul!
Those leading the charge were the 3rd-rank Agents, Soul Formation Cultivators!
As fast as light, the golden sun shot past Li Ao and exploded right on top of the charging army!
The two sides met in a terrific collision. Bodies exploded left and right, walls caved around them, the ceiling cracked, and the entire army was thrown into instant disarray!
Covering his bleeding ears with Qi, Li Ao heard transmissions flowing in without stop.
‘’Impressive, junior brother!’’
‘’Junior brother, you are a kiting master! Your contribution points will be great!’’
‘’Little boy, are you a herding master? Are you a shepherd!?’’
‘’STUPID HUMAN, WHY NOT CARE LIFE!?’’
With them, the lizard senior appeared in a puff of smoke right beside them.
‘’You two—charge right back in! There are coins to be made!’’
‘’Let us clean up the scene!’’
The nascent soul cultivators flew overhead with his words. They went into the hell of a battlefield without hesitance and dived into action.
Each of their martial arts and spells tore through the crowd, and in turn thousands of magical arts exploded on their bodies.
Fifteen seconds into the fight, two nascent soul cultivators became heavily injured!
They escaped in a flash, popped some pills and weird medicine, then dashed right back in without healing completely!
‘’GO! NOW!’’
Li Ao looked at the bloodthirsty lizard man and nodded.
There was no more fear left in him. What he feared, after all, was dying helpless and in vain.
With the support here, what reason did he have to fear for his life?
Perhaps this wasn’t the first battlefield he thought he would be in.
Yet, it didn’t matter!
He grew up surrounded by life and death.
He survived seven exhausting years with Zhu Qiu in the wilderness, where every day was a battle for survival itself.
Now, with people backing him and a chance to fight, why would he cower?
Until it was hopeless, he would always fight back!
It was definitely not for the coins!
‘’LET’S GO!’’
His spirit bolstered, Li Ao turned right around and dashed back in.
In the middle of his charge, he took out the last of his simple 9th-grade pills and replenished his Qi.
Silver Mist poured out of his body and cloaked him in a half-sphere while Scarlet Path revolved to form a flaming spear in his hand.
This time, Silver Mist would be his outer shield.
‘’Get over here!’’
‘’Which one of you bastards slashed at my butt!?’’
The floors up and down turned chaotic.
The pair of Golden Suns began to shatter several floors and walls. Each of their strikes caused more and more of the spirits to be buried under heavy rubble.
Nascent Soul Cultivators whistled past Li Ao as he duelled with another armored spirit. The residual pressure made the ghost stumble—Li Ao shot forward, his eyes flashed deep blue, and stabbed at the gap between its sword’s handguard to pierce the helmet!
The spear cut through its hidden head and ash exploded out of his body.
Ignoring the blinking notifications, Li Ao ducked under several magical spells and cut at other servants in his way.
Random spells rained on him, swords and limbs shot his way, and he met them head on, laughing as he did!
Most strikes got caught within Silver Mist, so he rushed around, trying to reduce the number as much as he could. Slash, stab, sweep—bit by bit he got accustomed to manoeuvring within a crowd.
Above him, Goat Senior Sister fired another mechanical tool at the crowd, pouring out constant explosions over them in a frenzied laugh. Then, eyes glinting, she took out a one meter sphere and loaded it into another gigantic tube.
Laughing, her voice melodious, she shouted at him.
‘’Watch the floor!’’
‘’Huh—waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!’’
A black flash shot at the ground and exploded into a shower of fireworks!
The shockwave cleared a hundred servants and sent cracks running through the unstable floor.
With another shockwave from Nascent Soul cultivators, the floor shattered— Li Ao fell through it with three armored spirits!
They flew at the spinning Li Ao, swinging sharp arcs of their swords.
‘’You retard!’’
‘Did that motherfucker break the floor under me on purpose!?’
These people had no consideration for those on the ground!
Scalp tingling, Li Ao twisted his waist to avoid a slash.
Other two stabbed through silver mist into his shoulders, then a fourth strike appeared overhead.
Another eight armed lady had descended upon him, falling alongside the floor.
‘’Oh fuck—’’
Clenching his muscles, Li Ao trapped the blades within his shoulders and caught the armored spirits from their throats.
Pressured by constant booms and residual aura of strong cultivators, these skilled warriors couldn’t escape his superior speed that easily.
The bloody aura turned into a shower of vengeful, screeching ghosts.
Li Ao pushed the spirits in front of him, but before they met the strike, lizardman senior flashed past and crushed the eight-armed spirit into pieces!
Blood poured out of her orifices, then an instant later turned into ash.
Flashing next to him, the lizard senior cast a greedy look at his caught prey.
Even then, they were falling through a dozen floors carved by other agents.
‘’You’re killing them?’’
‘’...go on.’’
‘’Hehe, what a good junior you are!’’
Li Ao knew he couldn’t kill these two without a sharp weapon, so he let them go.
The lizard senior pierced their throats with two swipes of his hand. All ash poured on Li Ao, who got caught by the collar and thrown up to the main confrontation site.
It had taken four minutes for the group of two dozen cultivators to clear out the army of twenty thousand.
Of course, two Soul Formation and almost two dozen Nascent Soul and Core Formation Cultivators wasn’t something to be trifled with.
Also, the path was narrow, and the ghosts weren’t exactly coordinated.
A properly trained army of that size could contend with these agents on even field.
But this was no even field.
Sighing at the great destruction—the mountains of ash pouring down the cracked walls and holes, Li Ao glanced at the two suns hovering above, as well as the group of two dozen. Most were injured to some extent, but all of them bore wide smiles and kept wiping at the air like retards. Weird giggles and horrible belching sounds escaped the abominations among them...
Even the two third-rank agents were no exception...
‘’Captain Karim! Its this little fellow!’’
One of the duo turned towards the lizard senior and descended before Li Ao.
‘’Good work, Kertl.’’
‘’Oh, no, no no no, I just did what’s right!’’
‘’Surely you did, I believe.’’
Captain Karim’s voice was a little young, just shy of an adult man’s.
Still, the aura he commanded was magnificent. Under the golden halo, he stood a fearsome two and a half meters tall.
Not only that, he was perfectly human.
He had dark chocolate skin, long and lithe limbs, and wore a linen cap over long robes that covered all the way to his toes.
Eyes sharp, brows thick, nose aquiline, he was every bit the image of a strategist or commander on the field.
‘’Li Ao, First-Rank?’’
‘’Yes sir!’’
Li Ao stood straight and saluted the man.
‘’First-level Dark Foundation, Four Mountains realm?’’
‘’Yes sir!’’
‘’...I see.’’
His head low, Li Ao expected some harsh comment or criticism of his actions.
After all, what he did was possibly, nay, certainly a very big danger to all stray agents out there.
If there was someone just a tad bit slower than him, they would be torn to shreds in less than a second.
He could have led to horrible deaths.
But none of it happened.
Patting his head, Karim Shah let out a chuckle.
‘’Good thing you endured so long.’’
‘’...yes, sir.’’
‘’You fellows! Let us get back to the anchor!’’
‘’Yes, captain!’’
‘’Aye, captain!’’
‘’CAPTAIN, FOLLOW!’’
Li Ao shot a weird look at the five-meter tall blue troll, then at the lizard senior, Kertl.
Captain Karim cast him a solemn glance. ‘’Li Ao.’’
‘’Yes sir.’’
‘’Go back, recuperate. There will be a notice about the mission soon. Read it and follow the instructions.’’
‘’Yes sir!’’
Kertl put an arm around his shoulder. ‘’Boy, is that all you know to say?’’
‘’What else do I say?’’
Hissing in laughter, the man pointed at the group of high-looking—sorry looking wounded mighty cultivators.
‘’What about a thank you?’’
‘’Oh...’’