When the enemies were seen entering the grand hall, Shen Feng impatiently rushed out from the shadows. His bare feet kicked a half-destroyed pillar. It was a wooden pillar, painted to prevent insect damage, but it was still wood, not as strong as reinforced concrete. With one kick from Shen Feng, it immediately snapped.
The grand hall stood on the ground entirely supported by the surrounding pillars. After Shen Feng destroyed many of them, the hall became precarious, and tiles from the roof began to fall. The five people hiding inside immediately sensed something was wrong.
"Run! This is a trap! The enemy didn't escape; they're hiding!" Lu Wen, seeing tiles falling from the roof, immediately realized they had fallen into a trap.
In their minds, Shen Fuyao had fled in panic because she couldn't defeat them. She'd rather crash into the fence with her body to escape. Now that the gravity field had disappeared, the enemy had likely left. Surrounded by dense forests, they could survive by simply disappearing into the woods.
However, the five people now realized they had underestimated the enemy's courage. Even in this situation, the enemy was still setting traps. Such boldness was unimaginable!
"Let's break out quickly!" The five men no longer mourned their companions; survival was the most important thing. They would escape the hall first.
But at this moment, Shen Feng blocked the entrance to the hall. Without a word, he unleashed a torrent of three thousand wind blades, firing them towards the group inside. The man in the lead remained unfazed, using his ability to gather countless sands around him, which condensed into a piece of glass. The wind blades struck the glass, creating many cracks, but the glass did not shatter.
"So, this is the invisible wall. It's an ability user who controls glass. But why couldn't I see the glass before? The glass shouldn't have been non-reflective then." Shen Feng figured out the reason: the wall that had blocked him earlier was glass.
As long as sand existed, glass could be formed. Moreover, with the enhancement of an ability user, the cracks on the glass would quickly be repaired. All the glass in the temple melted and flowed towards the hall, forming even thicker walls.
The five people held the glass in front of them and walked towards the hall's entrance. With every step, they faced dozens of wind blade attacks. Although the wind blades couldn't harm them, their powerful impact was not to be underestimated. Moving forward felt like facing a stormy sea.
Although the building was shaking, it was still some time before it collapsed. Shen Feng most wanted to prevent these five people from leaving the hall.
"Fierce East Wind!" Shen Feng summoned a strong wind and directed it towards the advancing five. They were already moving slowly with the glass in front of them, and now the wind blowing against them made it even more difficult to move.
"Quickly turn invisible, or all our movements will be seen!" someone shouted urgently.
Hearing his teammate's reminder, Lu Wen also quickly used her ability. A patch of shadow suddenly appeared on the ground, its form like flowing water. It quickly climbed onto everyone, and as the shadows covered all five, they instantly disappeared.
"Damn it, this isn't a light ability user; it's a dark matter ability user!" Shen Feng was startled. He had never encountered such an absurd ability user. This ability was too rare, as dark matter was mostly found in the universe. He never expected to find it on Earth.
Shen Feng could no longer see the movements of the five, but he continued to blow strong winds into the hall. The candles in the Buddhist hall had all been extinguished, and they lay scattered. It was impossible to exit through the main entrance!
However, at this moment, a side window was suddenly smashed open, and someone landed on the ground.
It wasn't just Shen Feng who could phase through walls; any ability user could use this ability in dangerous situations. Especially in wooden structures like this, an ability user could simply charge through and break it open.
Without a doubt, Shen Feng knew someone had broken out of the building. Although he couldn't see anyone, he could hear the sound of footsteps landing.
"Xiao Yue, act!" Shen Feng knew something was wrong. If someone escaped while invisible, he would still be in danger.
Upon hearing Shen Feng's shout, Yue Hengyi understood that it was time to fight desperately. He once again activated the five-times gravity field. The moment the gravity field appeared, the grand hall could no longer withstand it and collapsed. The taller the hall, the greater the damage when it fell. Beams and pillars weighed nearly a ton, and along with the tiles, the collapse sent dust flying everywhere.
"Raging Wind!" Shen Feng knew someone had escaped and immediately unleashed his ability. Ten thousand wind blades gathered above his head. After using this move, Shen Feng felt his stamina weakening. The greater the number of wind blades, the more severe the stamina consumption.
Transparent wind blades instantly descended from the sky. Shen Feng didn't know who had escaped the hall or where they were, but with absolute numbers, no amount of dodging would be useful, as ten thousand wind blades had already enveloped the entire temple. As the wind blades hit the ground, they made clanging sounds. Some wind blades shattered tiles, while others landed on the ground, splashing countless sparks.
Shen Feng had controlled the area where the wind blades fell. Yue Hengyi, who was hiding in a corner, was not to be hit by the wind blades. Apart from that, the wind blades covered all areas of the temple, from the living quarters to the areas for receiving visitors, cutting them to pieces.
The wind blades lasted for five minutes. When they stopped, Shen Feng let out a long sigh and muttered to himself, "The load is still too heavy. I can't go all out too often!"
After the wind blades stopped, Shen Feng saw bloodstains appearing in the courtyard. Blood flowed out from under a corner of the wall as if from nowhere, and there was no one there.
Shen Feng looked at the collapsed grand hall. There was no movement from inside; they were likely buried. And the escapee's location had been found.
"Now, do you reveal yourself, or do I drag you out? You choose!" Shen Feng pointed his dark long sword towards the corner of the wall. His meaning was clear: you've been found, so come out obediently.
"Hoo..." A sigh came from the corner of the wall. Then, the dark matter disappeared, and a woman in a leather suit appeared. She was injured in multiple places on her limbs and torso, and blood flowed uncontrollably. Even if she had evaded Shen Feng's sight, she likely wouldn't have survived.
"Tell me, where did you come from? Who ordered you to assassinate me?" Shen Feng asked directly.
Lu Wen couldn't understand Chinese, but that didn't prevent her from seeing the situation clearly. Of the eight people who had been on the assassination mission, only she was alive. She would likely face severe interrogation, and a more tragic fate awaited her.
Shen Feng slowly approached the corner of the wall when he suddenly felt his waist loosen. He looked down and saw that his belt was not fastened securely and had come loose.
Shen Feng then unfastened his belt, preparing to retie it.
However, this simple action caused Lu Wen's face to change drastically. She had heard before that the target of the assassination was a lecherous man, and now he was unfastening his belt, with his long, hairy legs exposed. What else could this mean? The enemy was definitely going to humiliate her!
Unable to bear the thought of being humiliated by the enemy, Lu Wen, with trembling hands, took out a pill from her body, bit it open, and died instantly.
Shen Feng retied his belt, muttering, "Damn it, I'm not used to wearing a Japanese yukata; the belt comes loose so easily. I haven't even been fighting for long."
After fastening his belt, Shen Feng looked up and saw that the last captured ability user was also dead, and it looked like suicide. Blackish-green liquid was flowing from her mouth, indicating she had taken poison. Neurotoxins acted very quickly, killing a person in a matter of seconds.
"Brother Feng, how's the situation?" Yue Hengyi emerged from the shadows, limping and using his dragon-binding mace as a cane. His right leg was fractured, and he couldn't walk. His current ability to walk was only through sheer willpower.
"They're all dead. I couldn't find out which organization they belonged to, but thinking about it, these people could only have come from Tokyo!" Shen Feng said calmly.
Yue Hengyi looked at the surrounding temple and sighed helplessly. When they arrived at the temple at dusk, it wasn't grand but was quiet. What was fortunate was that the temple was intact. But now, the temple was in ruins. First, the grand hall had collapsed, and then Shen Feng had covered the entire temple with ten thousand wind blades, leaving it in tatters. There were no intact tiles on the roof, and many doors and windows were destroyed, clearly indicating that this place was about to fall into decay.
"What a pity about Abbot Kawada. I had a pleasant conversation with him, and now he's dead!" Yue Hengyi lamented.
"There's nothing to regret. Do you really think our encounter with the attackers has nothing to do with them?" Shen Feng said unceremoniously, "These monks were all accomplices. Otherwise, why would they have tricked you into drinking?"
Yue Hengyi thought about it and realized it was true. If he hadn't been drunk, he wouldn't have been so severely injured in the subsequent battle.
"What do we do next?" Yue Hengyi asked.
"Of course, we go on a killing spree! First, it's revenge! Find the mastermind and kill them to our heart's content. Once they know pain, they'll surely surrender!" Shen Feng said directly.
Being assassinated was something Shen Feng had never expected. He hadn't intended to do anything to these people, but now, they had tried to assassinate him while he was off guard, threatening his life. He could not forgive them easily.
Although Shen Feng knew that this nation never repented, it had only been about ten days, and these people were already eager to fight again. Clearly, the previous battle hadn't hurt them enough. To make them never dare to have any ideas again, they had to be shown his strength.
"I don't have any objections to you going on a killing spree, but I'm injured and can't walk. This battle can only be yours alone!" Yue Hengyi pointed to his legs.
Shen Feng nodded and said, "No problem. You just hide to the side. I'll go settle the score with those bastards. But now, I have something more important to do!"
After saying that, Shen Feng immediately began to dig through the ruins of the grand hall, as if he wanted to dig out those who had been buried.
"Brother Feng, they're all basically dead. What else do you want to do? Desecrate their corpses?" Yue Hengyi couldn't help but ask.
Shen Feng explained as he dug through the rubble and broken stones, "The heads of these ability users are valuable things. Making them into ability potions, wouldn't that be great?"
Yue Hengyi sat on the ground, watching Shen Feng laboriously dig through the corpses, and couldn't help but shake his head. Wasn't he supposed to be taking revenge? Now he was delaying the time because of the ability users' heads. It would be bad if something unexpected happened.
Yue Hengyi looked up at the sky. There were still dark clouds, and occasionally they would pass by, blocking the moonlight, indicating that it would rain soon, hence the frequent appearance of dark clouds.
"Boom..." At that moment, a rumbling sound came from a distance. Although faint, Yue Hengyi and Shen Feng both heard it. As they were wondering, a flash of fire suddenly appeared overhead, and then a shell exploded in the air!