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Chapter 148 Stealing the Star Pearl
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In keeping with the spirit of skewers, Jiang Xiao and Xia Yan took the lead, searching the tunnel for potential prey. To their disappointment, it seemed to truly be a rendezvous point for that wild man and woman, with no other wildlings residing there.
During their search, they roughly figured out that the tunnel had a total of 4 exits. The intense roars gradually faded into the distance, and everyone secretly rejoiced that they had hidden in the tunnel; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
After pausing for a while, the group ventured out of the cave again.
Finally, they felt the sun shining on the earth. Xia Yan flicked her hand, and the flame in her palm quietly extinguished.
From afar, they could still hear the roars of beasts, indicating that the battlefield wasn't too far away.
Hai Tianqing comforted them, "During the provincial league, there shouldn't be such a large-scale racial war. The experts from various groups in the province have already moved into the examination site and started modifying it, so you don't need to worry."
However, these kids didn't seem to be frightened.
Xia Yan suggested, "Let's go take a look. The sound is coming from over there?"
Han Jiangxue pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Be careful, let's go see. Maybe we can pick up a lot of unprocessed corpses."
Hai Tianqing: "......"
Under Han Jiangxue's command, the group quickly advanced in a 2-1-1 formation.
The forest was eerily quiet. They didn't know if the monsters that originally lived here had been summoned by their leader to join the battle, or if they had fled far away. In any case, the team proceeded very smoothly, climbing towards the mountaintop in the direction of the sound.
When they reached a small hill, they finally smelled a faint scent of blood and heard the increasingly clear sounds of fighting.
"Oh my god," Xia Yan subconsciously crouched down. After this action, she even lay down, hiding behind a giant rock and quietly looking into the distance.
Below was a small canyon. In this deep green forest, such a scenic spot was very special.
In the center of the canyon was a bare, dark brown boulder, a pillar reaching for the sky.
Surrounding the boulder was a river, flowing rapidly from west to east.
Even with the rapid flow, the originally clear river water was still dyed red, and thick blood filled the river. Large patches of corpses floated and lay limply in the water.
The canyon terrain seemed to interfere with the escaping army's progress, and the pursuing army converged with their prey here. Finally, the two legions began a brutal battle.
The pursuing army was, of course, the strong and healthy Ape Ghosts.
The escaping army was a Wildling Legion. Although the number of Wildlings far outnumbered the Ape Ghosts, they were still being chased and killed.
Jiang Xiao lay down and slowly crawled beside Xia Yan, peering diagonally downwards, and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.
Jiang Xiao had thought that the thousands of White Ghosts in the Holy Ruins of the Snow Plains were shocking enough, but this scene before him was also unforgettable.
Although the number of monsters here didn't reach "thousands upon thousands", there were still several hundred.
As far as the eye could see, there were Ape Ghosts flying and dodging, tearing Wildlings apart with their bare hands, and a Wildling Legion organizing its ranks, desperately resisting.
Of the nearly a hundred Ape Ghosts, at least half had entered a berserk state, activating their Berserk Star Techniques.
The hundreds of Wildlings didn't sit idly by. Various teams of male knife-wielders (nan dao) and male spear-wielders (nan qiang) formed up, resisting at the forefront of the battle line, while female archers (nü gong) in the rear drew their bows and shot arrows, with showers of arrows falling like rain, carrying specks of purple light.
In the center of the Wildling ranks were the most special people: the Wildling male witch (nan wu) and Wildling female witch (nü wu)!
The Wildling female witch roared madly, and dark golden halos appeared under the feet of the Wildling Legion, the hands of time rapidly spinning, bestowing the light of favor upon the Wildlings.
The Wildling male witch was even more remarkable...
"This is the correct way to use Corpse Explosion," Xia Yan murmured from beside him.
Jiang Xiao also saw an extremely bloody scene. An Ape Ghost was in a state of frenzy, allowing countless arrows and weapons to pierce its thick fur. Its powerful hands grabbed the body of a male knife-wielder, and with a strong hand, directly twisted off the man's head.
And that wasn't the end of it. The frantic fighting and heavy smell of blood stimulated the Ape Ghost's nerves. Even though it was still being attacked by the Wildlings, it seemed to feel no pain.
It grabbed the headless corpse in its hands, opened its bloody mouth, and bit down fiercely.
The Wildling male witch roared in anger, *peng!*
The corpse in front of the Ape Ghost and in its mouth suddenly exploded, and the thick-skinned Ape Ghost was blasted away. A group of male spear-wielders swarmed forward, madly piercing the Ape Ghost's body with stone spears and corpse spears.
Another behemoth descended from the sky, its broad shoulders wielding thick arms, and smashing two Wildlings into a bloody pulp upon landing.
The ideal formation was always male spear-wielders and male knife-wielders in the front, male and female Wildling witches protected in the middle, and female archers providing output from the rear.
However, in this small canyon, the chaotic battlefield made it impossible to distinguish between the front and the rear. The Ape Ghosts flew and dodged, as if entering an unpopulated territory, overturning everything around them.
Before they were completely subdued by the Wildlings' hatred, they could always inflict heavy casualties on the Wildling Legion.
This was the most terrifying thing.
Ape Ghosts feared not death.
"Lie down, everyone hide well," Han Jiangxue ordered from the hilltop.
Everyone looked at Han Jiangxue. They all knew that this kind of battle was not something they should participate in.
If the team were trapped in the canyon at this moment, all that awaited them was death.
There would be no so-called narrow escape from death, only absolute death without exception.
Han Jiangxue extended a finger and swiped in the air, and overlapping layers of space doors appeared to the left front.
"Xiao Xue, you..." Xia Yan's eyes lit up, but she was abruptly interrupted.
"Shut up, hide well, don't show your head," Han Jiangxue said softly, lying in the weeds, hiding behind a giant tree, revealing a small head, and aiming at the bloody battlefield below.
In the chaotic battlefield, a Wildling male witch suddenly had wind swirling under his feet, and his body rose into the air.
*Peng!*
The Wildling male witch screamed in panic. He had just flown less than three meters when he was slapped down by a huge figure. The Ape Ghost smashed the Wildling male witch's head, and its heavy body landed heavily, surrounded by a group of male spear-wielders.
"Hou!" The Ape Ghost roared to the sky, seeming to have activated its Berserk Star Technique.
Han Jiangxue was not discouraged. The canyon below was already littered with corpses, in utter chaos. In such fierce close-quarters combat, the strange scene just now didn't cause much of a stir.
Han Jiangxue locked onto her target, reached out her right hand, and slightly hooked her slender index finger.
This time, it was a corpse whose upper body was submerged in the river of blood.
Clearly, she was a female, with no bow and arrows in her hands, and no quiver on her back.
Was she the lowest-level female Wildling?
But she was wearing a set of leather armor, and leather boots on her feet.
The corpse floated in the air with blood streaming from it, swaying as it flew up the cliff, drawing a parabola in the air, and finally landed to the left of Xia Yan.
The momentum was great, and although the corpse had landed, it was still rolling into the distance.
"Go see if there are any Star Beads," Han Jiangxue said.
Xia Yan pouted, not knowing what had happened. Under Han Jiangxue's orders, she hadn't been watching the battlefield below, but suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object falling.
Looking back, she saw the corpse rolling into the distance.
Xia Yan put her hands on the ground, just about to get up.
When she heard Han Jiangxue's voice, "Crawl over there."
"Uh..." Xia Yan scratched her chestnut-colored short hair in distress, looked at Han Jiangxue's serious and cold profile, and finally crawled over.
Han Jiangxue turned a deaf ear to all of this, still searching for her prey.
In the canyon below, a Wildling female witch holding her arms high suddenly flew up. As the halos under the feet of the surrounding male knife-wielders and male spear-wielders quietly disappeared, her panicked cries attracted the attention of her surrounding small battle group, but were drowned out by the chaotic roaring battlefield.
The violently struggling Wildling female witch swayed in the air, following the trajectory Han Jiangxue had set, angrily screaming, and plunged headfirst into the Shattered Space.
Aside, Jiang Xiao said, "Take advantage of the opportunity, grab a few more male witches."
"Mm," Han Jiangxue stared unblinkingly at the battlefield, searching carefully.
Hai Tianqing advised from the side, "Han Jiangxue, stealing a few is okay, but pay attention to safety. Don't risk the lives of the team."
Han Jiangxue said, "Li Weiyi, you and Teacher Hai go back and collapse all the entrances to the tunnel, leaving one entrance. Set it up so that when the three of us enter the tunnel, the only entrance can be immediately blocked."
"Received," Li Weiyi immediately responded, and did not stand up, but crawled down.
Hai Tianqing: ???
I am your mentor,
Just being incorporated into the team, just being commanded?
Girl, are you rebelling?
Another corpse fell from the sky, but it wasn't thrown into the Shattered Space. Presumably, it was already dead.
Han Jiangxue said, "Xiao Pi, go take a look."
While speaking, Han Jiangxue turned her head and glanced at Hai Tianqing, and said, "Although there are no monsters on the road, there may be some that slipped through the net. It's never bad to be careful. You protect Li Weiyi."
With that, Han Jiangxue took out the thoroughly dead Wildling female witch from the Shattered Space and looked again at the sea of blood and mountains of corpses in the canyon below.
"Teacher Hai, hurry up!" From behind, came Li Weiyi's suppressed urging.
Hai Tianqing pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, hesitating slightly.
Jiang Xiao didn't know what Hai Tianqing's inner thoughts were, he just saw Hai Tianqing slowly crawling towards Li Weiyi.
Hai Tianqing!
You are our teacher!
You were once a member of the Night Watch Army!
You...are so obedient~
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