Chapter 377

Chapter 377: Sorry, This Time I’m Dragging You Down
The Divine Transformation old fiend’s sudden attack caught everyone off guard.

Everyone lowered their heads and eyes, held their breath, and tried their best to reduce their sense of presence.

Xue Tong Zi regretted even more that he had not left earlier and had gotten himself dragged into trouble.

Yu Zhao’s eyelashes trembled slightly, but her body did not move at all.

Long Fei Fei felt like all her internal organs had been crushed. Her mouth was full of the taste of blood.

She forced her eyes up and said in broken words, “I… I don’t… know her…”

“You still dare to lie!”

The sect master’s sharp eyes cut across Long Fei Fei like ice knives, and his voice carried an irresistible pressure.

Long Fei Fei’s raised head was pushed back into the ground again. Her body kept shaking under the strong pressure.

“If you dare to lay a hand on someone from the Heavenfire Divine Sect, then kiss these hands goodbye!”

Before his words fell, a blinding light suddenly burst out from Long Fei Fei’s body.

Everyone squinted without thinking.

“A Protective Spirit Treasure? No wonder you acted so fearless. So you were carrying a supreme treasure on you.”

The casual look in the sect master’s eyes turned into sudden understanding.

A Protective Spirit Treasure was a top defensive artifact that only Divine Transformation cultivators could make. It could block three fatal attacks.

And making a Protective Spirit Treasure not only consumed a huge amount of rare heavenly materials, it also required a trace of the maker’s own soul force. Very few people in the Cultivation World would make them, so they were very rare.

The sect master was only surprised for a moment before a proud smile appeared on his face again.

“A Protective Spirit Treasure may be rare, but it is still a dead thing and can only block three attacks. After three strikes, this person who dared to challenge the Heavenfire Divine Sect will still die!”

Bang.

Bang.

The blinding light burst out around Long Fei Fei again, and this time it lasted even longer.

Everyone’s hearts bled.

A perfectly good Protective Spirit Treasure was being wasted just like that.

What a pity.

Long Fei Fei bit her lower lip hard to stop the cries of pain from escaping her throat.

She was good at hiding and long distance raids. What she feared most was a head on clash with an enemy.

Yet today her bad luck had reached the sky. She had run into an enemy she could not run from or hide from, and they had even seen through her identity first.

[Is the Lightfinger Sect’s inheritance of dozens of generations really going to be ruined in my hands?]

Long Fei Fei’s mind raced as she tried to find a way to escape, but the more she thought, the more hopeless she felt.

Unless her master crawled out from underground, she was doomed today!

“Three chances are gone. You must die…”

The sect master had not finished speaking when Long Fei Fei’s figure suddenly disappeared from where she lay.

No, to be exact, her figure and Yu Zhao’s figure together appeared behind Elder Oblivion.

Elder Oblivion got a fright. He dodged in a panic and shouted, “This old man does not know them at all. I beg Senior to see clearly!”

Xue Tong Zi, Zhang Yifan, and the others also hurried to scatter in all directions, afraid of being dragged in.

The sect master was just about to sneer when his eyes suddenly narrowed.

No.

These two were fake.

He spread out his divine sense, and anger appeared on his face.

Yu Zhao and Long Fei Fei had not run away. Instead, they had jumped down toward the gorge beneath Chaozong Gorge.

Ridiculously, the bottom of the gorge was blocked by an invisible barrier, so the two of them dropped less than ten zhang before they were stopped.

They dared to use illusion arts to toy with him. They were looking for death!

A sea of black flames appeared behind him at once. The space could not bear the terrible heat and twisted out of shape, sending waves of hot air rolling out. Large parts of the sky were stained a dark purple black.

With a wave of his sleeve, a huge fireball howled toward Yu Zhao and Long Fei Fei down below.

Yu Zhao was holding Long Fei Fei in her arms. Long Fei Fei’s mind was a bit blurry.

But the instant the fireball approached, a sharp sense of danger woke her up. She pushed Yu Zhao weakly with her arm and cried in panic, “Run!”

Yu Zhao said in a deep voice, “It is already too late.”

The Mirror of Fleeting Lives, the Heart-Guard Mirror, the Joyous Union Seed, and countless other magical artifacts rose up at once and wrapped her and Long Fei Fei tightly.

At the same time, an angry roar sounded above, and a black beam shot straight into the sky.

Xue Tong Zi and the others had not yet recovered from the shock that the Yu Zhao and Long Fei Fei in front of them were an illusion when a gaudy, extra fat leopard slammed down on their heads.

“Ouch!”

“Ah!”

“Meow meow meow!”

The leopard had his eyes squeezed shut and kept screaming, when he suddenly felt something poking his butt.

He carefully opened one eye and tested the pain. When he found it was within a level he could accept, he twisted his butt again. Pained curses and groans came from below at once.

Only then did he realize that several unlucky human cultivators had become his landing cushion.

[No wonder it did not hurt as much as he had imagined!]

He hurriedly jumped up from the ground and squeezed back into the crowd of demonic beasts, then looked worriedly toward the bottom of the gorge. When he saw that Yu Zhao and Long Fei Fei were battered and only had a few magical artifacts left protecting them, but had no limbs missing, he barely let out a breath of relief.

By now, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Fire Divine Sect was getting angry.

He had thought they were just two tiny ants he could crush at will, but their will to live was frighteningly strong. They had blocked several waves of his attacks in a row.

Luckily, his cult followers were not here. Otherwise, the authority he had worked so hard to build would be shattered in a day.

One accident after another also made him realize that the two were no ordinary people. If he did not kill them today, they would surely become a huge threat in the future.

As for that fat leopard who had caused trouble halfway, he would deal with it after he finished off the two of them.

“Being able to die by my hand is your blessing.”

He lifted his right hand, and several fireballs split off from the sea of fire at once.

The energy in each fireball was enough to make a person tremble in fear with a single glance.

Even Hua Tu, usually bold to the point of madness, was shaking in his legs now.

His demonic beast instincts told him that if he so much as brushed against a single spark, his glossy, silky top grade fur would turn to charcoal at once.

[Long Fei Fei, your black hand is really going to get me killed this time!]

“Yu Zhao, I’m sorry. This time I am dragging you down…”

Long Fei Fei’s voice was barely audible. A mist of water rose in her eyes.

She rarely cried.

Because from the day her master picked her up, her master had told her that people who loved to cry could not become the successor of the Lightfinger Sect.

So even when she was caught, cursed and spat at to her face, and someone tried to rip off her clothes by force, she had not cried.

But she did not know if it was because she was about to die. She could not hold it back anymore, and she did not want to.

If she had known she would die, she should have given the gift to Yu Zhao earlier.

She had prepared it a long time ago but had never found a reason to give it.

Oh right, there was also that silly leopard Hua Tu.

She actually had quite a few storybooks inside her storage space too.

Hua Tu liked them. She should have given them to him long ago.

What a pity she would never have the chance…

As Long Fei Fei closed her eyes, her last thought was, [Dying together with Yu Zhao is not so bad.]

In this life she owed Yu Zhao a life.

In the next life, she would be reborn early, then find Yu Zhao as soon as possible and pay her back double.

“Amitabha Buddha, this humble monk is late.”