Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

Being cautious in every step was Happy’s situation at that moment. It was also most of the other players’ situation!

The main quest of the final battle at Light Summit could not be interfered with easily. Even though some people had gotten close to the teachers of the six great system-allocated sects as well as the leaders of Ming Cult, they were treading on thin ice.

Light Summit was Ming Cult’s headquarters.

No one, however, knew that it was already in peril, since everyone in the large hall had gone off to fight the war.

Zhou Dian was displeased with the way Yang Xiao led Ming Cult, and Yang Xiao flew into a rage, which resulted in the two men fighting fiercely. The other Five Wanderers were worried that Zhou Dian will suffer a setback, and they worked together with Black-winged Bat King Wei Yixiao to attack together.

But to their surprise, Yang Xiao had been practicing hard for more than ten years. His Heaven and Earth Great Shift had already reached the second realm. He sent everyone’s attacks back into their bodies as well as negated them.

He also sent Wei Yixiao’s unique martial art, Freezing Soft Palm, into everyone’s bodies. But fighting against six top-class elites at the same time exhausted Yang Xiao, so he did not have energy left to do anything else.

The fight entered a stalemate.

Worst still, Xiaozhao, who had snuck into the isolation grounds of Ming Cult’s master, had accidentally led Primordial Fusion Thunderbolt Hand Cheng Kun into Ming Cul just in time to witness that event.

With two Illusory Yin Fingers, Cheng Kun injured Yang Xiao and struck the Five Wanderers and Wei Yixiao with the force of his attack.

A smug and crazed laughter could be heard echoing in the large hall.

“If it were not for you seven fighting against each other at full strength, this humble monk wouldn’t have been able to succeed with one strike! You brought this on yourself! Hahahaha!”

The seven elites of King Cult were filled with regret.

However, just when Primordial Fusion Thunderbolt Hand was about to kill them, Yang Xiao used his Heaven and Earth Great Shift to transfer everyone’s qi into Leng Qian’s body. Leng Qian turned around and executed a palm strike. Since he had the power from seven top-class fighters in him, he managed to injure Cheng Kun with his attack, and the seven split up.

However, this did not dissolve Ming Cult’s crisis.

Compared to Yang Xiao and the others, Cheng Kun’s injuries were not that grave. At that moment, Zhang Wuji, who was trapped in Heaven and Earth in One Breath Bag, was prepared to stop Cheng Kun. But against his expectations, Cheng Kun still had strength left. With an Illusory Yin Finger, he injured Zhang Wuji.

When the seven elites from Ming Cult saw Zhang Wuji fall to the ground, they became even more nervous. They seized whatever time they had to recover from their wounds.

At that moment, something unexpected happened.

Two Ming Cult disciples in black shirts and pants rushed into the hall of the headquarters.

The seven elites of Ming Cult were delighted.

“Aren’t you Wei Yixiao’s disciples? Why are you here?”

Cheng Kun was also shocked, but his eyes sparkled.

Once the duo rushed into the hall, they swept a glance over the situation in the hall, and joy appeared on their faces when they looked at each other. Zhang Wuji was already on the ground, which meant that Cheng Kun had used up all his strength. That meant it was the perfect time to attack and gain the trust and favor of the seven elites of Ming Cult.

“Bright Left Messenger Yang, we were worried that someone had snuck in when we heard the sound of fighting here, which is why we came over to take a look.”

Yang Xiao and the others were smarter than the rest. Even though they suspected the duo because they went against their orders and returned to the headquarters, they would give them special treatment during special times. Without any hesitation, they told them to seize the chance to kill Cheng Kun.

The two players had actually been lurking outside the hall for quite some time. They eavesdropped patiently, and it was only when they heard Zhang Wuji’s voice that they showed up and approached the area.

Their timing was impeccable.

But they did not expect that Cheng Kun would laugh coldly at that moment and stand up.

“Hahahaha! When I came to this place, I noticed that there was someone outside. I did not intend to kill you since God loves all forms of life, but you just had to come in on your own. Don’t blame me for killing you now.”

The duo’s expressions changed, and their hearts filled up with fear.

“This is bad!”

“We have to leave!”

But unfortunately for them, before top class elites like Cheng Kun, their speed was nothing. After two Illusory Yin Fingers, the duo felt as if they fell into an ice cave that chilled them to the bone. Their consciousness swiftly became blurry.

The seven elites of Ming Cult sighed again.

Once Cheng Kun killed the two Ming Cult disciples, he became even more conceited. After seeing that the seven elites of Ming Cult were severely injured and would not recover anytime soon, he could not hold himself back and talked about his real identity and the secret he had kept hidden for many years, just as everyone expected.

And just as usual, Zhang Wuji, who was hidden in Heaven and Earth in One Breath Bag again while he tried to push his Nine Yang Divine Skill to improve, felt anger burn in him.

Everything continued to progress according to the original plot.

A few players looked at each other with somber expressions outside the hall.

“The system will not allow us to intervene and change the general plot.”

The person who spoke had a goatee. He had a long flute by his waist, and he looked like a scholar.

The other two had extraordinary presences. One of them had a cold gaze and an equally cold expression. There was no expression on his face. The longsword he held was flat and had no sharpened blade, which made it resemble a black metal rod. Even when he heard the other man’s statement, he still did not speak. He only stared calmly at the man in a white nylon robe across from him.

The latter nodded.

“That’s right. It won’t be so easy for us to exploit the loopholes in the plot. The system did warn us beforehand. Looks like we can only go with the flow. If we try to interfere blindly through force, we will just die. Those two can be considered to have given us a lesson.”

The man paused for a moment before he suddenly jumped up to the roof. The other two quickly jumped after him and landed beside him.

The man in the white nylon robe looked down at the mountain and said slowly, “It’s nearly time. The six sects have already reached the mountainside. Based on their speed, in at most an hour, they will break through Five Banner Division’s last two defense lines. It will then be the time for Ming Cult to engage in the final battle against the six sects.

“Let’s go down the mountain. Since we can’t get any benefits here, we should try and get points before the end of the event, or else, if we end up with nothing at all, we’ll look like idiots.”

The scholar with the goatee touched the long flute by his waist and said bitterly, “Yeah, we’re the ones who entered Light Summit before the others, so if obtain nothing, we’ll become the laughingstock of the world of martial artists.”

*****

As players disguised as Ming Cult disciples and Five Banner Division launched a pincer attack from the front and back of the six great system-allocated sects in the mountain, various great fighters from all parts of the land and people from the six great system-allocated sects perished. Once that happened, the battle finally descended into a real war, and both sides fought even more violently with each passing moment!

Once Five Banner Division’s methods grew old and the disciples from the six sects became experienced in dealing with their tactics, they no longer fought as defensively as before!

The moment Five Banner Division members appeared for an ambush, they immediately caught the attention of incredibly vigilant fighters, who cried out loudly upon spotting them, and all sorts of throwing knives as well as hidden weapons were thrown as if nobody knew the concept of money. The crowd suppressed the people in the tunnels so much that they could not come out.

Happy remained fearless while at Emei Sect’s side. He led the charge of a group of Emei Sect disciples straight ahead, and his golden figure was very eye-catching.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two Soaring Eagle Swords pierced two Great Log Banner members’ bodies while they were on the branches. At the same time Happy killed them and made them fall, a dazzling and breathtaking sword force crashed into the huge log that came charging over.

Boom!

A great force exploded inside the log, and an innumerable amount of thin and fine bits of wood spread out in the air. They then went flying at the Great Log Banner members up ahead like hidden weapons.

With his own power, Happy viciously suppressed the Five Banner Division members around him. Once he created a gap in the enemy formation, he turned his sword, and at the fastest speed possible, he went charging at the Five Banner Division member who was closest to him.