Chapter Seventy: Longtooth Wolf

  Lu Qing and several others saw from a distance, in front of them a group of about a dozen villagers were running towards the village gate with their children, behind them, nearly ten swordsmen wearing thick shiny silver armor were waving their long swords, retreating while resisting a group of monsters.

  This is a pack of long-toothed wolves, with cyan-colored long hair shining brightly, a pair of blood-red eyes revealing fierce and naked killing intent, especially the pair of fangs protruding from their mouths, each over a foot long, still stained with threads of fresh red flesh.

  At this time, they were panting with hot breaths of blood-colored long tongues, slowly chasing behind them. For them, teasing prey before death was their usual practice.

  "Dad, mom, where are you? Little Jun is so scared..." Under a haystack at the village entrance, a little girl wearing a bright yellow jacket was curled up, about five or six years old. Her big eyes were filled with sparkling tears, her small nose twitching, and her two small hands tightly grasping one corner of the haystack.

  Obviously, the villagers who fled in panic were terrified, mostly the elderly, women and children, while many of the young men lay down in blood, they won time for their families to evacuate, unfortunately, there were too many wolves, although dozens of men in the village resisted with all their might, but still could not stop the wolf's attack, especially with three fierce beasts among them.

  No one paid attention to the little girl, and the two long-toothed wolves clearly discovered this small prey. After letting out a long howl towards the sky, they broke away from the pack and ran towards the little girl. A few steps later, they seemed to have smelled the fragrance of fresh blood and flesh, and the red glow in their eyes grew stronger. The transparent saliva dripped down from their mouths, sticky with red foam.

  The little girl who was crying out felt that things in front of her had dimmed a lot, and after rubbing her eyes with her small hands, she suddenly saw two tall black shadows appear in front of her. A pungent hot air sprayed on her face, and the two nightmare-like figures in front of her almost made her stop breathing. A strong sense of fear burst out in her heart.

  Wow!

  A blood-curdling scream pierced the air, and the two towering long-toothed wolves were taken aback for a moment before their eyes gleamed with excitement. Aaooo...

  "You dare——"

  When Lu Qing took the lead and saw this scene, he took a big step forward, his whole body rising like a large bird, flying over the village name that was fleeing in front of him. In the astonished gaze of the swordsmen who were resisting in front, Lian Xin's sword slashed horizontally across his chest, and suddenly a foot-long wind and thunder sword energy shot out from the sword, wrapped in purple electricity and whirlwind, slashing towards the two long-toothed wolves in mid-air.

  Pfft——

  In the astonished gaze of a swordsman wearing golden armor and with a six-inch long yellow sword aura extending from his longsword, the Wind Thunder Sword Aura suddenly entered one of the two Longtooth Wolves just as they were about to open their bloody mouths, piercing through it like a hot knife through butter, before entering the body of the other wolf.

  Bang!

  Two wolves let out a mournful long howl, their bodies split in two, blood flowing from the cut, as if frightened stiff, the little girl stared at the scene before her eyes, revealing deep confusion, she did not understand why the purple-blue light passed by, and the two ferocious wolves with sharp teeth were suddenly torn apart without any resistance.

  "With the arrival of the powerful ones from the inner sect, brothers hold on——" In the leading swordsman's surprised gaze, nearly ten figures flashed over their heads. At the same time, six or seven strong sword auras of different colors shot out, cutting down and destroying the dozen or so long-toothed wolves in front of them, slicing them in half.

  Village entrance, Ming Xue'er was left there by Yi Ruoyu, she who had never experienced slaughter before was stunned by the bloody scene of the whole village. The scattered wolf blood and dozens of Han men's mutilated corpses on the ground, with countless claw marks and bite wounds, made her feel like vomiting. She turned her back to try not to look, but the howling of wolves and the sound of swords clashing filled her ears, impossible to shake off.

  "Take good care of this little girl!" Suddenly, Lu Qing's voice sounded beside her.

  Ming Xue'er turned around to see Lu Qing walking towards her with a little girl in his arms, the little girl's tear-stained face evoking a deep sense of pity within her. She stretched out her hand and took the little girl into her own arms, while Lu Qing turned back and charged once more into the pack of wolves.

  The number of wolves is extremely large, and at a glance, there are probably two or three hundred of them. They fill the entire village's main road, densely packed together. The howling of wolves rises and falls in succession, and from time to time, the discovered livestock let out mournful cries.

  "You go to the village entrance and guard against any wolves that might escape, we'll take care of things here." With a pause, the leader of the swordsmen guarding the body, Lu Qinghua transformed into a flash of light and burst into the midst of the wolf pack.

  The leader of the swordsmen was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood Lu Qing's meaning. The group retreated to the village entrance to prevent any stray wolves from chasing out and putting the fleeing villagers in danger.

  Apart from Ming Xue, everyone else had already charged into the pack of wolves. Towards these beasts that killed without any humanity, Lu Qing and his group did not have any sympathy. Wielding their swords, Lu Qing took large strides into the pack of wolves. The powerful sword aura on his sword was overflowing, without any fancy moves. Although the biting and turning of the long-toothed wolves were extremely lethal, under Lu Qing's control, they were unable to escape his grasp.

  The massive sword body of Lian Xin swept across, and seven or eight long-toothed wolves were instantly knocked flying by the force of over a hundred kilograms, their chests caved in, their internal organs pierced, and they died. Those who weren't knocked flying were cut in half by the fierce wind and thunder sword energy attached to the blade of Lian Xin's sword.

  A group of people blocked the wolf pack's relentless slaughter, except for Duan Qingyun who was slightly restricted, everyone else were innate swordsmen. Not to mention, all of them were. Lu Qing's peripheral vision saw that the beautiful woman who had been quietly following behind Yi Ruoyu and Su Yun was also an innate swordsman. A long sword with frost spreading across it, pure white sword energy emitting a chilling aura that made one tremble. Every time she killed a wolf, the cold sword energy almost instantly froze its wound, and soon the entire wolf's body gradually appeared with white frost.

  What a powerful sword energy, Lu Qing thought secretly, the power of that sword energy seemed to not belong to the water element among the five elements, the water element did not have such great power.

  With the slaughter of several people, in an instant, the wolf pack left dozens to nearly a hundred corpses on the village path. Aooo...

  Suddenly, one of the long-toothed wolves let out a loud howl, and immediately the remaining nearly two hundred long-toothed wolves also started howling. The wolf pack stopped in its tracks, staring fixedly at the ten exceptionally powerful humans in front of them.

  Lu Qing and the others gathered together, with Luo Xinyu and Nie Qingtian standing in the middle. On one side, Zhao Qianye's expression turned solemn as he said, "They are summoning the Wolf King and the Wolf Guards."

  Everyone's heart tightened at the words, after all, a second-tier wolf king, especially one that was the ruler of a tribe, would almost certainly be much stronger than ordinary spiritual beasts of the same tier. They might even possess some special powers. If an ordinary mature second-tier spiritual beast was equivalent to a swordsman at the peak of their craft, then this wolf king might have power comparable to a beginner sword master or perhaps its attribute was not one of the five elements, making it even harder to deal with. Moreover, the wolf king's wolf guards were not just ordinary first-tier spiritual beasts either.

  In the gaze of the crowd, the wolf pack gradually split in two, and three long-toothed wolves emerged from the middle, twice as large as ordinary long-toothed wolves. The other long-toothed wolves had cyan-colored fur, roughly the size of a small calf, while these three long-toothed wolves were clearly led by the middle one, a giant white wolf. The two long-toothed wolves on either side had light blue fur, and their bodies were noticeably smaller than the central wolf king's.

  Eyes revealing a ruthless killing intent, the Wolf King's pair of crystal red eyes emitted a piercing gaze, staring fixedly at Lu Qing and his group. At the same time, around the Wolf King, waves of icy snow floated up, and a powerful chill followed the falling snow, pressing down on Lu Qing and the others.

  "Hmph——" The middle-aged man with the surname Luo let out a cold hum, and a layer of purple-golden sword energy floated up on his body. At the same time, an aura that seemed to want to incinerate everything melted the accumulated snow on the ground into a mark that countered the Wolf King's provocative aura.

  On the other side, Lu Qing also noticed for the first time Luo Xinxia's sword aura, which seemed to be as scorching hot as Huo Xuan's sword aura, but even more so. Moreover, it had a destructive aura that made Lu Qing's heart palpitate, and this destructive aura was not inferior to his own Fenglei Sword Aura, and at present, it seemed to be even stronger than his not yet fully merged Fenglei Sword Aura.

  Plop!

  Between the two, a three-zhang-square patch of accumulated snow was dispersed by their colliding auras, revealing the village's tawny-colored hempstone ground. It seemed that Luóxīn Yuè's aura was stronger by a notch; although the scorching destructive aura had dissipated somewhat, it still pressed down on the Wolf King's head.

  Roar!

  The two wolf guards beside the Wolf King let out a furious roar, and a blue glow suddenly burst forth from their bodies, floating several feet off the ground as they merged into a circular light screen that sealed off the space in front of the Wolf King.

  The remaining force of Luoxin Yu's attack hit the barrier, and under the astonished gaze of Lu Qing and others, the blue light screen only rippled slightly before deflecting it.

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