Chapter 96

At this moment, the scene was in chaos. In just a few moves, the vanguard of the lake bandits had almost reached the outer perimeter of the large cart defense formation. Xu Qian, leading the four iron shields at the forefront, was only a board away from the two overturned transport carts.

The elite troops of Zhongzhong had put away their crossbows and drawn their swords and sabers. Under the leadership of the swift-shooting lieutenant Chen Lei, they formed a circular formation to protect the three large carts and the injured crossbow general Ji Hu in the center.

Lu Mingzhong frowned, not expecting the situation to deteriorate so quickly, reaching this critical moment.

Although the three major lake bandits were not individually very strong, they numbered three to four hundred. A multitude of ants can kill an elephant! If they were allowed to act, they would be hard to control. Although he was not afraid, his other companions would likely not escape unscathed.

Lu Mingzhong gritted his teeth and made a decision.

He quickly sank his breath into his dantian, and within three breaths, he had moved a large amount of qi and blood energy to his feet.

If someone could see his lower body at this moment, they would notice that his two feet had swollen and enlarged, resembling elephant feet.

Lu Mingzhong lifted his giant foot!

He stomped down suddenly!

One foot stomped!

At a distance, over a hundred meters away, Tan Yu was still marveling at Shi Huang's powerful whip shadow, unaware of what had happened in the center.

However, he suddenly felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows, as if something major had gone wrong in his mind.

He was greatly startled and immediately immersed his mind in his mental sea.

The mental sea was in chaos.

The originally clear blue sea and white foam had all disappeared.

In the entire mental sea, only four huge red blood characters kept flashing.

Danger! Danger!

Danger! Danger!

Danger! Danger!

Tan Yu's mind couldn't react quickly enough, but he immediately reached back with his hand.

Fortunately, he grabbed the left arm of his junior brother Zhang Ren.

With the touch, Tan Yu's mood immediately calmed down, stabilizing his thoughts.

"Retreat!" Tan Yu shouted briefly and urgently. Zhang Ren understood and quickly retreated with his feet following Tan Yu's movement.

Their combined efforts greatly increased their speed. They had barely retreated a hundred meters when they heard an extremely heavy and deep shock wave rapidly chasing after them.

"Jump!"

The two brothers, like a future pair in a trampoline competition, moved in perfect coordination. They bent their knees together, leaped up, and flew out, holding hands.

Their target was a huge pine tree about four to five meters behind them.

The earth-shattering energy finally exploded, a mix of white and gray dust quickly rising at least three meters high, covering the entire area of several dozen meters.

Zhang Ren's foot had just landed on a thick branch of the giant tree, not yet steady, when a violent tremor captured him, nearly shaking him off the tree.

Zhang Ren hooked his foot and clung to the thick branch, stabilizing himself. He quickly grabbed Tan Yu's right arm with his other hand.

Two small crossbows fell from his body, but fortunately, they were tied to his waist with ropes, clanging and colliding in mid-air.

Tan Yu cursed, "Let go quickly!"

Zhang Ren shouted, "No way! Senior Brother, come up quickly!"

"Damn! If you keep holding me like this, I... will fall down!" Tan Yu said irritably.

Zhang Ren was stunned and looked up, only to realize that his senior brother's black spear had already pierced the center of the pine tree, but it was only about four meters from the ground. His own grip on his senior brother's arm made it impossible for him to use his strength.

Zhang Ren quickly let go. Tan Yu hung from the spear with his left arm, performed a beautiful single-arm large swing, leaped up, and stepped onto the black spear with both feet, grabbing the thick branch under Zhang Ren's feet with his right arm.

"Do you want to murder your senior brother?" Tan Yu looked up and laughed.

"Sorry, Senior Brother!" Zhang Ren's face turned red like the evening sky, "What happened? An earthquake?"

"At least an eight on the Richter scale." Tan Yu casually changed the subject, shading his eyes to look, his face darkening.

"Damn, this old man, worthy of being a realm master, what a powerful area-of-effect attack!"

Originally, a dense crowd of lake bandits was stepping on the black and white snow, in a chaotic rush to claim credit.

Now, they were all gone.

In that place, there was only a huge deep pit, about fifty meters in diameter and nearly ten meters deep.

From a distance, it looked like a giant trap.

Zhang Ren blinked, "Where are the people, those bandits?"

"They're all in the pit."

Zhang Ren's body trembled, and upon closer inspection, he indeed saw bloodstains and corpses scattered at the bottom of the pit.

The power of a realm master was truly not ordinary. Not only was the firepower fierce, but the control ability was also extremely abnormal. The impact area was limited to a fifty-meter ring in front of the Zhongzhong large cart defense formation. Over 90% of the bandits in this area were swallowed and buried alive by the cracked earth.

However, inside the large carts, there was no unusual movement. Apart from a few personnel who were shot dead or injured by the bandits, the Zhongzhong crossbowmen suffered minimal losses.

"Are... are they all dead?" Zhang Ren asked, "What about Master Shi... Master Shi?"

"Look up." Tan Yu said impatiently.

Zhang Ren looked up and indeed saw Shi Huang and Huainanzi fighting fiercely on the roof of a large cart.

The roof of the large cart was only about ten feet long, about three to four meters. Shi Huang's long whip was useless, but he somehow transformed it into a short whip about four feet long, with a hard grip of about one foot. He swung it up and down, left and right, still fighting Huainanzi fiercely.

Zhang Ren watched in amazement, "So Master Shi is also skilled with short weapons."

"Of course. An old thief, who doesn't have a few tricks up their sleeve?" Tan Yu looked around, searching for someone.

He was looking for Wang Yue.

For a moment, he couldn't find him.

He was puzzled. Wang Yue had only been a few seconds behind Lu Mingzhong, and by now should have landed on the ground.

Suddenly, his eyes widened in shock.

The air around him occasionally emitted a strange, sharp sound, like a sharp knife cutting through a large piece of coarse cloth.

Wang Yue's figure appeared and disappeared, the purple sword light like lightning, tightly chasing a short, old man. Although the old man was equally swift, his movements were quite awkward.

Fist Saint Lu Mingzhong!

Wang Yue, actually chasing and killing Lu Mingzhong?!!!

Tan Yu's eyes widened, thinking, "Am I seeing this right?"

"Junior Brother, help me look over there."

Zhang Ren followed his senior brother's finger and was also stunned.

"Ah... ah... that's... Master Wang, he... is killing who?"

"Get lost! You can see far, why ask me?"

"R-really... really..." Zhang Ren was incredulous, speechless.

Tan Yu's eyes darted, looking in another direction. Huang Zhong had completely suppressed Tianchanzi! Although their powers were evenly matched, Huang Zhong's technique was exactly what could counter Tianchanzi.

"Ha ha, an opportunity has come."

"What opportunity?"

"Idiot! Of course, the opportunity to grab treasures."