Chapter 245 Breakout
Chapter 245 Breakout
"Let's see the situation first." Xiao Hongchen cheered up and took the lead in activating the battle armor to complete the dressing.
Meng Hongchen saw this and immediately activated the battle armor. Arthas followed closely and quickly put on the old battle armor. As for the new battle armor, he had already thought of the upgrade idea, but due to his current cultivation level, he had not officially started making it. After all, some materials still needed Jing Hongchen's help to collect. If Jing Hongchen asked about it in advance, it would be a bit difficult to explain.
"Don't stay too far away from me for now." Jing Hongchen said.
He also re-conceived a battle armor that suits his own abilities according to the drawings given by Arthas, and it is of level nine. However, because the core materials are hard to find and the structure is more complicated, and he has been busy with his granddaughter's affairs recently, he has not started making it yet.
While he was thinking, Arthas and the other two had already approached, with their backs to him and facing the other three directions.
Soon, the surrounding bushes rustled and a wolf figure jumped out of the darkness.
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's expressions suddenly darkened.
Jing Hongchen's expression also changed. The leaders were actually three golden wolf kings with a cultivation base of 50,000 years. This was no longer something Arthas and his grandchildren could handle. He shouted without hesitation:
"Hurry up and take off. I'll cover you!"
After he finished speaking, his whole body glowed with light, and various soul guides appeared one by one.
Xiao Hongchen did not get cocky and immediately activated the propulsion flying soul guide behind him, and Xiao Hongchen did the same.
Arthas used all his mental strength to prepare for defense, and then activated the flying soul guide behind him.
However, just as his body floated into the air, a violent mental force suddenly attacked him, accompanied by a loud wolf howl.
Jing Hongchen's expression changed in shock, "Silver Moon Wolf King!?"
He subconsciously activated the ninth-level soul guide mental barrier he was carrying. The mental power of the 100,000-year-old Silver Moon Wolf King was extremely strong, even he was far inferior to him. If this innate skill, mental confusion, hit his grandchildren, their spirits would definitely be severely damaged.
Mental power is invisible and intangible. When the violent mental power sweeps past, the air ripples.
The Xiao Hongchen siblings deep inside the barrier breathed a sigh of relief, everything was fine.
"Silver Moon Wolf King, how dare you attack my Mingde Hall students? Don't you want to live?!" Jing Hongchen shouted.
"Humph!" A snort was heard in the air. "Human, I know that you are a Titled Douluo-level expert. In order to protect the safety of my people, I wanted to forgive you for trespassing and let you go. But I didn't expect that you would go deep into this place to hunt down my people. I heard everything you said just now."
"In that case, none of you can leave today!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a giant silver wolf swept across the sky from one side, carrying silver light and strong wind, and all the surrounding trees fell down.
"Ah!" It roared angrily, and in the blink of an eye, several fireballs condensed around its body, and then whizzed towards Jing Hongchen.
“This is trouble!” Xiao Hongchen smiled bitterly, “I didn’t expect to run into the Hundred Thousand Years Silver Moon Wolf King here.”
The ten thousand year old Silver Moon Wolf King could awaken the seven elements to control, not to mention the hundred thousand year old Wolf King. As far as he knew, the hundred thousand year old Silver Moon Wolf King not only had a strong mental power and the ability to control the seven elements, but also had first-class melee ability. After all, he could devour metal to grow, and after years of accumulation, his body was extremely hard, and his teeth and claws could cut iron like mud.
The key is that he can also fly with the wind by relying on his elemental control ability, and his speed is not slow, making him very difficult to deal with.
If nothing unexpected happens, this one should be at the overlord level of Jingyang Mountains.
Jing Hongchen's face was a little ugly. With his ability, it was not difficult to contain the Silver Moon Wolf King, but it was a bit difficult to take into account the safety of Arthas and his grandchildren. The opponent had more beasts and more power, and the current situation was quite unfavorable.
While thinking, he held up a range defense soul guide to block the incoming fireballs, and hot flames continued to burst out around him.
Just at this moment, the howls of wolves echoed all around.
Jing Hongchen's expression suddenly became even uglier. He didn't even need to guess, this was the response of other wolf packs in the territory to the Silver Moon Wolf King in the sky.
And this is enough to prove the Silver Moon Wolf King's dominant position in the Jingyang Mountains.
But this was not what he was most worried about. What he was most worried about now was whether there would be other hundred thousand year soul beasts coming to help the Wolf King.
“Master!” Arthas suddenly spoke in the light of the fire, “We must act decisively now! As long as you can contain the Silver Moon Wolf King, I guarantee that you will be able to bring Junior Brother Xiao and Junior Sister Meng out of the encirclement safely.”
"Then thank you for your help!" Jing Hongchen nodded decisively, then turned to look at his grandchildren.
“Don’t worry, Grandpa. With your abilities, there will be no problem escaping.” After saying that, he turned around and rushed out of the sea of fire, heading towards the Silver Moon Wolf King in the air.
"Grandpa, be careful!" Meng Hongchen shouted.
"Let's go!" Arthas said concisely, then rushed out of the sea of fire and flew towards the outside.
Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen followed closely behind.
Upon seeing this, the Silver Moon Wolf King immediately let out a long howl.
"Awooo" wolf howls were heard all around, and all the golden wolves present ran towards the direction where the three people flew away.
Jing Hongchen had a gloomy face, and thought to himself that when he returned safely, he would definitely gather people to kill the Silver Moon Wolf King, so as to improve his battle armor.
If he was lucky, he might be able to create a tenth-level soul guide like Kong Deming.
"Evil beast!" With this rage, he roared and continued to attack the Silver Moon Wolf King.
At the same time, on the other side, Arthas was flying quickly with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
Below, a large number of golden wolves and silver wolves followed closely behind.
"Arthas, we can't get rid of them like this." Xiao Hongchen said anxiously, "The golden wolf and the silver wolf have very good eyesight, not to mention those who have reached 50,000 years of cultivation. As long as there is no obstruction to their vision, they can see us even if we fly a thousand meters high."
As for landing, those who have practiced for a thousand years can smell it from several kilometers away, and they can't outrun the golden wolf.
Therefore, the current situation is that unless they get rid of the three 50,000-year-old golden wolves that are leading the way and commanding the way, and then increase their speed to fly out of the visual and olfactory perception range of the wolves with lower cultivation levels, otherwise, they will never be able to escape the pursuit of the wolves.
In terms of endurance, they cannot compete with soul beasts.
And once the soul power is exhausted and falls to the ground, it will be all over!
"I know." Arthas said calmly.
"Just follow me." After saying that, he swooped down towards a mountain below.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongchen and his sister had no choice but to trust and swooped down immediately.
Soon, the three of them landed on the top of the mountain.
There were constant howling sounds of wolves all around, and they were obviously gathering towards the mountain.
"Next, I need you to keep a secret for me!" Arthas said solemnly.
"Brother Arthas, you gave me a new life. I will never do anything ungrateful." Meng Hongchen said with care.
"Don't worry, I keep my mouth shut!" Xiao Hongchen followed.
Arthas nodded slightly and said decisively, "Then you guys step back."
The brother and sister immediately did as they were told and quickly took a few steps back.
Then they saw Arthas, who was standing in front of them, glowing green and chanting spells that they couldn't understand.
"Soul curse?" Xiao Hongchen couldn't help but guess.
Almost after a breath, Arthas' voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he said in a serious tone: "Sacrifice your life, and the door to the underworld will appear!" As soon as he finished speaking, a blood-red portal suddenly appeared not far in front of Arthas.
"The Gate of Hades, what is that?" Xiao Hongchen looked puzzled, and then he saw a piece of bone revealed in the gate, and after a blink of an eye, a complete skull was revealed.
Then came the entire body, the body of a giant bony dragon, with blue fire dancing in its eye sockets.
"Damn, a bone dragon!" Xiao Hongchen was shocked. He subconsciously shrank his neck and watched the bone dragon flying over his head.
Looking at the door again, many strange creatures came out one after another. There were skeleton soldiers, fat men with rotten bodies, and skeleton knights riding bone horses.
He couldn't name them, but from the looks of it, these creatures were all dead.
But they can all act like living people!
"What are these things!?" Xiao Hongchen swallowed and said in shock.
"Undead." Arthas said calmly, "In simple terms, they are creatures that are already dead."
"And I can summon them from the afterlife by sacrificing my own vitality. This is the ability I gained after my martial soul mutated."
"These are the limits of what I can summon at the moment. If I continue, what will be consumed is not my soul power, but my life."
"Do people really go to another world after they die?" Meng Hongchen murmured.
"Yes." Arthas nodded, "That place is called the Underworld."
Xiao Hongchen shuddered, "I don't want to become such an ugly thing after I die."
"People with pure souls won't." Arthas said seriously, "The undead are mutated creatures. Only those souls that are tainted, unable to reincarnate, and stranded in the underworld for a long time will change. As long as you don't do too much evil and accumulate resentment that pollutes your soul, or directly devour the souls of others and contaminate your own soul. Under normal circumstances, you won't change."
"Arthas, how do you know all this? Have you ever been to the underworld?" Xiao Hongchen couldn't help but ask.
"Yes." Arthas continued, "In fact, I have died once. I was actually killed in that war. I was exactly six years old at that time."
"I don't know why, but I came back to life and even awakened my martial spirit."
"It was during the time of my death that my soul went to the underworld."
“Is this possible?!” Xiao Hongchen was shocked.
Meng Hongchen was also surprised, and then guessed, "Could it be that the moment of death stimulated the body and caused the martial soul to awaken on its own? Brother Arthas, your martial soul is a healing one. The reason you are alive is probably due to the healing effect of your martial soul."
Arthas nodded. "That's what I guessed at the beginning. As for why I was able to obtain this special talent, it should be related to my soul's trip to the underworld. It is likely that I was contaminated by the aura that belongs to the underworld, which is why the mutation occurred."
"Brother, your ability is really weird. In the original three empires, you might really be classified as an evil soul master." Xiao Hongchen sighed and then said.
"But it should be fine on our side."
"Your ability is to summon dead people who committed serious sins in their previous lives from the underworld. It does not mean that you kill innocent people in the world and turn them into undead spirits. As a caster, you have not done anything bad."
"Just because a skill summons a dead person, it is considered an evil soul master, so as not to generalize."
"Some people don't think so." Arthas said helplessly.
“Prejudices in people’s hearts are sometimes like a mountain, and they are not so easy to move.”
"That's true." Xiao Hongchen said, "The people of the original three empires are very old-fashioned!"
"Also, I don't want to be used by evil soul masters." Arthas continued, "I know that some evil soul masters like to study souls, and even devour souls for cultivation. So, if my ability is exposed, it will probably cause big trouble."
"Don't worry, I promise not to tell anyone about what happened today." Xiao Hongchen said quickly, "It will be useless even if my grandfather comes to ask."
"Brother Arthas, it will be safe later and we can exchange words." Meng Hongchen followed.
"Yes." Arthas nodded and said, "Focus on fighting the enemy."
After saying that, he controlled the undead to gather in the direction of the three golden wolves with 50,000 years of cultivation who were climbing the mountain, and started a group fight right away.
"Boom boom boom!" The three of them concentrated their fire on one of them.
"Ahhh" there were continuous howling sounds of wolves around the top of the mountain. The first golden wolf with 50,000 years of cultivation that was enraged quickly fell down. Seeing this, the remaining two hurriedly relied on their strong physical defense to break free from the entanglement of the undead and retreated, hiding on the mountainside and commanding the other golden wolves to lead the front and start a group fight.
As time went by, more and more golden wolves and silver wolves followed, surrounding the mountain tightly.
The summoning power of the 100,000-year-old Silver Moon Wolf King is evident, and at the same time, it also shows the unity of soul beasts like wolves.
"Brother, this still won't work!" Xiao Hongchen was sweating profusely and put the bottle that had run out of energy back into the soul guide.
The undead summoned by Arthas were indeed powerful. They could continue fighting even when their bodies were falling apart. They were fearless and strong enough. But after all, there were fewer of them. He was so anxious as he watched the golden wolves tear off one of their bones and carry it away.
"Then let's fight!" Arthas's face was cold and he chanted the spell again without hesitation.
"Brother Arthas, no, let's think of another way!" Xiao Hongchen exclaimed.
"It's too late!" Arthas said in a deep voice, "Since I promised the master to bring you back safely, I must do what I said. Don't worry, I will be fine, and I won't be stupid enough to exhaust my vitality. Don't forget, I still have a family feud to avenge. As long as I can successfully absorb the sixth spirit ring next, I can immediately make up for the slight loss. As for the rest."
"I will ask the hall master to ask His Majesty for some herbs and medicine to make up for it."
Oh, I always cheat people in this world, and I feel a little guilty about it.
"Arthas, I, Xiao Hongchen, recognize you as my elder brother!" Xiao Hongchen said seriously.
"Don't worry, when we get back, I will convince Grandpa to compensate you."
"Let's solve the current crisis first." Arthas said, and continued to chant the spell, and soon opened another door of the dead. After a blink of an eye, a larger bone dragon flew out. He jumped on it without hesitation, and then turned around and said.
"Come up!"
Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen did not hesitate and quickly jumped onto the back of the bone dragon. Together with the undead controlled by Arthas, they broke out to one side and launched a fierce attack on the 50,000-year-old golden wolf guarding that side. Finally, they beat the golden wolf down when its soul power was almost exhausted.
Arthas naturally sensed that the two were about to run out of soul power, so he decisively said, "These undead cannot be too far away from me, otherwise I will completely lose control. Next, I will control the undead to pin down the other 50,000-year-old golden wolf. You guys seize the time and fly away first, and wait for me in the outer No. 1 test area. Don't worry, with the existing undead, I can still leave without any problem."
"Now that your soul power is running out and there is no replenishment, staying here will only be a burden to me."
Meng Hongchen's eyes suddenly turned red when he heard this.
Xiao Hongchen's eyes were a little red, but he also understood that what Arthas said was right, so he gritted his teeth and nodded.
"Brother Arthas, be careful!" Meng Hongchen said.
"Don't worry." Arthas smiled, "I won't die that easily."
After saying that, he controlled the undead to break out to the other side.
The three men threw the remaining soul-guiding shells of various types, causing a large amount of fire.
With the help of the firelight, Xiao Hongchen and his sister decisively flew away from the air.
Arthas watched the two people fly out of sight, lowered his head and murmured, "This show, it's time to end."
"Open!" He quickly chanted the spell, opening a door of the undead, and several dark shadows rushed out one after another.
(End of this chapter)