Chapter 365

Chapter 365: Gao Wen Feng Still Stirring Trouble at Death’s Door

The Demonic Cult disciples waved flags and shouted: “Kill him! Kill him!”

Jiang Liu Yi’s expression turned oddly calm. Du Zi Heng also realized something and shot a strange look at the cult crowd. [Weren’t these people supposed to be crafty? Why do they look brainless right now? Haven’t they noticed the wind isn’t touching the people inside the alliance at all?]

To be fair, it wasn’t all their fault. In any battle line, the highest-ranked and strongest stand in front. Jiang Liu Yi and Jiang Liu Ting were famous young elites, and Du Zi Heng, who could barely fight Jiang Liu Yi to a draw, wasn’t weak either. The stronger one is, the deeper one’s inner power-and the better one can handle harsh weather. In winter you can warm yourself with inner power; in summer you can cool yourself. In a gale, you can hold your ground.

As for the crowd behind them: with the tall experts blocking the view, the cult didn’t see anything off. If they had, Qi Mei would’ve noticed sooner.

Sure of her killer move, she drove most of the wind to a single point. With the Formation Flag, she turned the gale on Jiang Liu Yi: “Brat, taste the power of nature!”

Under everyone’s eyes, the formless wind suddenly became a terrible vortex. The tornado twisted sideways like a dragon maw, the head of the whirlpool sweeping at Jiang Liu Yi to swallow him whole and grind him to bits.

Qi Mei smirked, already picturing her enemy’s son as a puddle of flesh.

Then… nothing happened.

Well, not nothing-the tornado looked grand. But it was all show. When it got within less than a meter of Jiang Liu Yi, it slammed into something unseen and vanished in an instant.

Qi Mei stared and blurted: “How is that possible!”

Jiang Liu Yi looked like he’d expected this. He smiled, gentle and confident, and said: “Senior’s killer move is spent. Now it’s my turn.”

A bad feeling rose in Qi Mei’s heart. Before she could place it, Jiang Liu Yi pulled out a yellow… sheet of paper?

Qi Mei blinked: [Is he serious? A piece of paper?]

What was he going to do-let the wind slap the paper into her face?

Most people had the same thought and snickered. Only a few who recognized talisman paper stiffened. Especially Jiang Liu Ting. He knew exactly what his second brother was holding. Thinking of its power, he quietly took one step back. [Better not get caught when the lightning falls.]

Others just thought Young Master Jiang was acting strange.

A heartbeat later, they learned how young they were.

Snap.

Rumble-rumble-rumble!

As Jiang Liu Yi tossed the yellow talisman paper, blinding white light forked across the sky. Many, caught off guard, were dazzled into momentary blindness. Then came the fearsome thunder, the ground splitting with booming cracks, and in between-screams and howls.

When the lightning faded, the people inside the Martial Alliance looked out in shock. Outside, there were no more cult fighters standing. To be exact, there were no whole cult fighters at all-only charred limbs scattered across scorched earth, and blood giving off a strange smell.

A hiss ran through the crowd as everyone sucked in a breath.

Someone whispered: “Is that some new cannon? The power is way too much!”

Du Zi Heng was more shaken than anyone. Others could guess; he knew. That wasn’t a cannon-it was a talisman. But the only talismans he knew were the Protective Talisman and the Winter-Warm Summer-Cool Talisman. When did Yi’er make an offensive talisman this deadly? [If we put these into the army, wouldn’t the Great Sheng Empire sweep the whole continent? That would be a feat for the ages.] His chest burned hot at the thought.

Jiang Liu Yi didn’t care what he was thinking. Pleased with the result, he watched the scene. When the Heavenly Thunder Talisman struck, the raging winds vanished at once.

Though he figured Qi Mei must be dead, he still walked out to check. He found a burned female corpse whose face still faintly matched Qi Mei’s beauty, and in her hand, a Formation Flag that, even under the Heavenly Thunder Talisman, hadn’t been blasted to bits. That sealed it-it was her.

Folding one hand behind his back, he swept a cold gaze over every face coming out of the Martial Alliance and said: “If anyone wants to taste the Heavenly Thunder Talisman for themselves, go on and keep spewing filth. I promise the next talisman will fall right on your head.”

People shivered, looking at the scorched bodies and the crater-dozens of meters wide and several meters deep-blasted into the ground.

Yu Zhi Yi, Jiang Yu Chuan, and the others returned to find the front of the Martial Alliance a mess.

“What happened?” someone asked.

Jiang Liu Ting hurried over and, face solemn, told them what had just occurred.

Hearing that the Demonic Cult had picked this moment-when the ones in charge weren’t around-to cause trouble and had set up such a big show, Jiang Yu Wei’s face sank as he snapped: “Those gutter rats always use dirty tricks!”

He let out a long breath, then looked at Yu Zhi Yi with relief as he said: “Good thing we had Jin’er. Otherwise that terrifying gale alone would’ve put everyone through the wringer. If the inside of the Martial Alliance had fallen into chaos, the Demonic Cult might really have used it to slaughter these young elites.”

The Earthly Ranking meet had both a strength cap and an age cap: under thirty, at least fourth stage. In other words, most gathered at the Martial Alliance were the backbone of the martial world-the key figures who would shape its future. If they all died in a cult plot, the martial world’s strength would drop back at least a hundred years. The Demonic Cult would seize the chance to wreak havoc, and the world would fall into disorder.

Yu Zhi Yi was surprised too. She had kept to herself these days, seeing almost no one except the Jiang Clan and Li Rou. The only outside visitor today, Ms. Wei, had shown no sign of trouble in her face, so even she hadn’t expected the Demonic Cult to raid-using a sinister formation at that.

She eyed the Formation Flag on the ground, thoughtful: [Didn’t Gao Wen Feng have something like this in his storage ring?] People from the Hidden Realm really couldn’t be underestimated, especially their hearts-small as pinholes.

Gao Wen Feng only wanted to avenge his son, yet plotting to kill her wasn’t enough; he also wanted to break everyone else, to wipe out the Martial Alliance in one go. That kind of ruthless heart only firmed her resolve. [Until I’m strong enough to wipe out the entire Gao Clan, I absolutely can’t let them learn about the tie between me and Gao Wen Feng and his son.]

[No-just that isn’t enough. There’s another hidden danger I have to remove!]