Chapter 38: Time of Carnage (Three)

  In the deepest part of the forest, towering trees grew to the sky, and the ground was covered with thick green moss. Some places emitted a faint phosphorescence, which was also the only light in the dark night.

  A man walked slowly in the dark night, his leather boots treading on the wet moss and thick fallen leaves, making no sound at all.

  He had already killed seven people, including a beautiful young girl in her prime. At the time, he felt some reluctance, but ultimately, under her terrified gaze, he used the broadsword on his back to cut off her slender neck.

  This is the forest outside the entrance of Blood Color Narrow Valley, not elsewhere. Every person who appears here is a top-notch in various professions. At this moment, being soft-hearted to someone may just get a knife from behind by that person next moment. After all, there are only ten places available, and who doesn't want to seize this opportunity?

  It was already late at night, and Gena's nose was filled with the stench of rotting leaves. He found a towering tree, jumped up lightly, and sat down on a thick branch. Just as he closed his eyes to rest for a while, his eyes suddenly snapped open, and he crouched down quietly.

  "Whoosh!"

  In the distance, the rustling of leaves was heard in the forest, but at this time there was no wind.

  "Not just one person." Gerna's heart secretly trembled with fear as he heard several rustling sounds, and he carefully buried his body deeper into the dense foliage.

  Suddenly, the "whooshing" sound disappeared, and the forest returned to a dead silence.

  Gena became increasingly vigilant, holding her breath, and didn't dare move a muscle.

  I felt a slight chill on the back of my neck, as if something had fallen down. In an instant, my body arched violently and was enveloped in blue qi, like a sharp arrow shooting off the string. My body shot downwards towards the ground with a "whoosh".

  "Thud!" The deformed coccyx stabbed into the air, directly piercing a large hole in the thick tree trunk.

  A few meters from the ground, Gerna's body rolled over in mid-air. As soon as he landed, the broadsword on his back was already in his hand.

  With the blue sword energy surging indeterminately on the sword, Gena concentrated her mind and looked up at the tree, but saw no movement.

  At this time, behind Gerna, a moving deformed tailbone, like a poisonous snake, quietly approached him until it was almost by his side before suddenly stabbing.

  Gena seemed to have a premonition and didn't turn his body around, the broadsword in his hand swiftly slashing backwards.

  "A strange, mournful cry came from behind Gerna. He felt something spray onto his back and his clothes made a 'hiss' sound. Startled, he leapt forward and turned to look back."

  There stood a strange demon, with green blood spraying from its long tailbone, falling to the ground, and the fallen leaves suddenly made a "hissing" sound as black smoke burst out.

  "It's a good thing I was wearing the top-notch Black Iron Battle Armor under my outer robe, and it's also fortunate that it didn't spray onto my skin." Gerna saw this scene and felt both shocked and relieved.

  Before he could dodge, the demon beast vanished, and if it weren't for the black smoke corroding the ground, it would have seemed as though it had never appeared at all.

  "Get out!" Gerna suddenly roared, and the blue aura wrapped figure left a dazzling afterimage in the air as it flew straight towards the tree trunk behind him.

  That place was where Li Junshan lay in ambush.

  When the other party discovered himself, Li Junshan was greatly shocked and immediately got on the back of the strange creature beside him and rushed towards the giant tree next to him.

  "Boom!" A loud noise, the giant tree that Li Junshan had been hiding behind was chopped into two segments by a blue aura and crashed down.

  Gena missed a blow and quickly leaped towards Li Junshan in pursuit.

  "But when the alien was injured, my heart tightened and my breathing became disordered. I've been discovered!" Li Junshan sat on the back of the alien, dodging the branches that were rapidly approaching him, secretly cursing his bad luck.

  The Xenomorph assassin was a formidable opponent, but facing the blue aura-wielding warrior head-on might not be as deadly, especially since the enemy wore a suit of armor resistant to Xenomorph blood corrosion.

  While directing the other two deformed creatures to harass the Great War Master from time to time, Li Junshan rode on a deformed creature that changed direction unpredictably, jumping and dodging between giant trees.

  Suddenly, the spiritual sense felt that another alien was injured. Li Junshan turned back in a hurry and saw an alien falling from the tree, so he had to recall the spiritual space.

  "The other deformed eggs did not react, and now the loss of one is one less. This turmoil cannot be endured any longer. In this darkness, it's unknown how many masters are hiding, so a quick battle must be fought, and it can't be delayed any further." Li Junshan thought to himself as he commanded the deformed creature to land on the ground.

  Gena's eyes narrowed tightly, seeing the opponent fall to the ground, a cold smile in his heart, the broadsword in his hand shook out blue sword aura, arriving with a swift wind.

  Suddenly, Gerna saw that in front of the young man who was coldly smiling at him, there were five identical magical beasts that had appeared out of nowhere, and he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart.

  "How can there be so many?" Gena's mind buzzed, his sword energy had already been released and couldn't be withdrawn in time. Gnashing his teeth, he urged the sword energy to make a slanted slash in the air with his broadsword, and the blue sword energy, over five meters long, shot towards the five demonic beasts.

  Li Junshan had already urged the ordinary heteromorphic to jump away, and the other five heteromorphs would not stand still and take a beating. Their agile bodies drew out residual shadows as they rapidly leapt towards the surrounding thickets of bushes.

  Gern's sword tip struck empty air, carving out a deep trench over five meters long in the soft and wet ground. He steadied himself, landing firmly on the ground, remaining unchanged to adapt to all changes, looking towards the five strange creatures falling from the sky.

  Suddenly, a bright light appeared before his eyes. Ge Nuo stared at the strange creature in shock as it spat out a beam of light. He quickly mobilized his internal energy and swung his broadsword to deflect the beam, then followed up with another slash to disperse the fireball that another creature had spat out. His body rapidly rose several meters into the air, barely avoiding the black mist that the creatures sprayed out as he leapt towards another creature hovering above his head.

  "Zhirr!" The grotesque body twisted and dodged the tip of Gerna's sword while simultaneously spewing out paralyzing lightning that struck the sword.

  The opponent's monsters emerged one after another, and Gena deliberately conserved his energy, but he didn't channel it to the sword blade. He only felt a strange numbness in his body, and that was when he realized that this insignificant flash of lightning was actually a paralyzing thunderbolt, causing his heart and gall to shatter.

  For a fleeting moment, even less than the time it takes to blink an eye, this was enough for this pair of swift and strange creatures.

  "Pfft......"

  One after another, the Gerns were still in mid-air when they were pierced by the alien tailbone and turned into sieves. A strange tailbone burst out of the back of their heads, splashing brain matter everywhere, not even having time to let out a scream.

  Li Junshan let out a breath, withdrew the five magical creatures, and quickly ran to Gena's side, skillfully feeling around. With Gena's fingers on top of his, he unexpectedly obtained eight space rings this time, which made him feel a wave of excitement.

  He didn't let the opponent's close-fitting armor go either, stripped it off and took a look, the dark thin armor was made of unknown material, and inside the armor were actually two small magic beast crystal nuclei.

  "It's not afraid of the corrosive power of alien blood, perhaps it has a great relationship with these two crystal nuclei, and I'll have the opportunity to ask someone later."

  Li Junshan thought to himself, put it on and tried it out, feeling a bit loose, so he threw it into the spatial ring.

  Two ordinary heteromorphs, one in front and one behind, opened the way. Li Junshan rode on one of them, swiftly running deeper into the forest.

  He ran for a long time, but Li Junshan didn't meet another person. To say nothing of his own energy being somewhat depleted, those three strange creatures were also getting tired from his repeated riding.

  The Xenomorph's killing power in the dark was several times stronger than during the day. Seeing the eastern sky gradually whitening, Li Junshan stopped and found a giant tree that pierced the sky, climbing to the top of the tree to find a relatively flat branch to lean against. He gripped the black sharp blade tightly, and soon relaxed his spirit and fell into sleep.

  On either side of him, crouched in the branches of trees, were two alert and grotesque creatures.

  In a daze, he didn't know how long he had slept. Li Junshan suddenly felt an unusual spiritual communication and woke up with a start to find that the sky was already bright and the sun was overhead.

  Carefully poking his head out, he saw that there were five people walking past under the tree. The one in front was wearing a leather armor and holding a giant axe that could compare to a door panel, with muscles bulging all over his body, looking like a big ball of meat from above.

  On the left, a purple-robed girl was walking, holding a silver rod in her hand, just like the high-ranking shepherd's silver rod that Li Junshan had seen in the Viscount Mansion of Florence. All that could be seen was a bun and a misty hairpin, but her face couldn't be made out.

  On the right is a magician holding a black magic wand, with a gray magic robe that is spotless and a slightly thin body.

  The one behind was even more lean and thin, wearing all black clothes, walking in a very peculiar way, constantly looking around left and right, appearing extremely vigilant.

  In the middle was a person wearing light armor, with their entire body covered in gray light armor. Li Junshan couldn't even tell if the other party was male or female.

  "Those four people around him seem to be protecting the one in the middle." Li Junshan couldn't help but feel a little strange.

  Those who can come to this bloody valley are not weaklings. Who would be willing to protect others?

  As they walked further and further away, Li Junshan let a strange creature quietly follow them, while he himself hid between the trees, not daring to make any sudden movements.

  If he were alone, he would have killed him mercilessly, but since there were five of them, he had to be careful.

  Until the strange creature crawling in the woods disappeared from Li Junshan's line of sight, he carefully climbed down from the tree. Jumping on branches in broad daylight is absolutely a moving target, and the ground is relatively safer.

  Just as he landed on the ground, Li Junshan's feet had not yet stabilized when he suddenly felt the information wave fluctuations transmitted by the lurking and tracking alien spirit, and was severely injured in an instant.

  Li Junshan quickly climbed to the top of the tree, and when he reached halfway up the trunk, his spiritual connection with that strange creature was completely cut off.

  The summoned beast must be by the summoner's side, and when recalling the summoned beast to the spiritual space, it must be within the summoner's field of vision. Li Junshan, despite having a heaven-defying shape-shifting summoned beast, cannot escape this law either.

  Without thinking much, Li Junshan quickly climbed to the top of the tree and hid quietly.

  At this time, the five people who had just passed by quickly appeared in Li Junshan's line of sight. They were vigilant and looked around, even lifting their heads to look up at the trees.

  Although he knew they couldn't see him, Li Junshan's heart still tightened involuntarily, and he held his breath.

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