Cultivation: Fortune by Lots-Chapter 383 - 221. Nine Lights Protection, Dragon-Tiger Talisman_2

Chapter 383: 221. Nine Lights Protection, Dragon-Tiger Talisman_2

He changed his moves abruptly, but Shangguan Yunbo, with his rich combat experience, immediately wielded his halberd to meet the challenge.

As the two engaged in close combat, Shangguan Yunbo didn’t rely solely on the power of his Divine Weapon to overpower and charge through. He, too, altered his tactics swiftly, pivoting to Yang Yuqi’s side. The dark halberd, flashing with golden light, was swung, seeming to split the very Void as if to divide Yang Yuqi’s body in two.

But at that moment, a cold gleam suddenly flickered from another direction.

A pinpoint of cold light, silent and stealthy, its force capable of effortlessly piercing mountains and seas.

The cold gleam seemed to have been lying in ambush all along. It was familiar with Shangguan Yunbo’s tactics and had been waiting specifically for him. Now, it attacked suddenly.

The attacker was familiar with Shangguan Yunbo.

Shangguan Yunbo was similarly familiar with the assailant.

Clad in Treasure Armor, Shangguan Grand General was a Cultivator at the Eighth Heavenly Layer of the Martial Tao. He would dare to face some attacks from Seventh Heavenly Layer Cultivators head-on, without dodging or evading.

But against this pinpoint of cold light, he couldn’t afford to be so careless.

A Weapon Strike martial expert, focusing all his power on a single point, could deliver a blow that ranked as the most lethal among all Cultivators within the same realm.

Shangguan Yunbo’s figure flickered, instantly dodging that pinpoint of cold light.

Yet the Expelling Invaders Halberd in his hands swung out, its moves changing rapidly, still aimed at Yang Yuqi’s vital points.

Yang Yuqi also decisively altered his tactics to counter.

Meanwhile, having missed with that stroke of cold light, the attacker immediately withdrew and went back into hiding.

But Shangguan Yunbo’s gaze had already locked onto it.

It was a similarly tall figure with a dark face and blood-red Witchcraft Sect charms emerging on its skin.

Still, one could vaguely make out its facial features.

And indeed, Shangguan Yunbo knew him all too well.

He was the most outstanding member of the Shangguan Clan’s younger generation, the previously missing Shangguan Peng!

This young master of the Shangguan Clan, after falling, had eventually been turned into a Walking Corpse by powerful practitioners of the Ghost Tao Lineage of the Witchcraft Sect.

The Walking Corpse that was Shangguan Peng retained most of his combat strength from life. Although he had lost his own thoughts, his combat habits and even some cognition remained.

In life, he had sparred with Shangguan Yunbo countless times.

Even without consciousness, through sheer habit, it could capture traces of Shangguan Yunbo’s movements and anticipate his positioning.

Now, there was no need for it to confront Shangguan Yunbo alone; it just needed to give Yang Yuqi a hand from the side.

In a clash between experts, the key to victory sometimes hinges on a fine line.

The occasional unexpected assaults from Shangguan Peng’s corpse greatly aided Yang Yuqi.

"Gao Pu," Shangguan Yunbo said, rage finally rising on his previously expressionless face.

In the distant woods, Gao Pu, an Elder of Golden City Stronghold, sat quietly under the trees, seeming to merge with the forest.

With one hand, he formed a strange spell, while the other hand reached out, its index finger adorned with a bizarre and eerie-looking bone needle.

At that moment, the tip of the bone needle gently wavered in the air. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The refinement time was still too short to achieve complete control, as if directing my own limbs, Gao Pu lamented internally.

He had not wished to participate in this battle, especially against Shangguan Yunbo.

At the moment, he even lacked other useful Evil Souls or Walking Corpses to protect him.

To say he was loyal to Wei Ancheng would be a lie.

But the crucial moment of the great war in the Southern Wilderness had indeed arrived.

And some things, once done, can’t be undone.

Fortunately, Martial Arts Experts, despite their fierce combative prowess, would struggle to find a Ghost Tao expert hiding nearby.

Yang Yuqi, having dragged Gao Pu into this, did not intend to use him as cannon fodder. At this moment, he was genuinely bearing the brunt of the pressure from restraining Shangguan Yunbo. Furthermore, he would not allow Shangguan Yunbo to search for and target Gao Pu. Gao Pu only needed to leverage the Walking Corpse he had refined to assist from the side in containing Shangguan Yunbo.

Indeed, the very existence of Shangguan Peng’s corpse served largely to psychologically impact and restrain Shangguan Yunbo.

It also served to restrain the other Shangguan Clan experts who had come with Shangguan Yunbo.

The members of the Shangguan Clan, upon seeing the Walking Corpse that was Shangguan Peng, were each infuriated to the extreme.

Some sought to intercept Shangguan Peng’s corpse, while others searched for the hidden Ghost Tao expert, Gao Pu.

On the Sui Dynasty’s side, remnants old and young had also accompanied Yang Yuqi.

The two sides were embroiled in a chaotic battle, fiercely contested and unresolved.

Gao Pu stayed concealed, with no intention of revealing himself, just sporadically manipulating Shangguan Peng’s corpse to continue disrupting Shangguan Yunbo.

The key to this battle isn’t actually here... Gao Pu glanced in the direction of Sleeping Dragon Lake.

If they could just pin down Shangguan Yunbo and the Expelling Invaders Halberd here, they would succeed.

And at Sleeping Dragon Lake, where Wei Ancheng himself was, no one would be his match. The only suspense lay in the duration and the final outcome of the battle...

"Huh?!"

Gao Pu suddenly started in surprise.

Copious amounts of black mist swirled around his body, encapsulating him in protection, while ghastly white skeletal hands emerged from the ground, providing both offense and defense.

Although the real potency of a Ghost Tao expert lay in the Evil Souls and Walking Corpses he had refined, the expert himself was not without other means—especially given Gao Pu’s Eightfold Heaven Cultivation.

But the aggressor truly maximized the Martial Artist’s rapid movement and lethal striking power.

Despite being at the Seventh Heavenly Layer, this person attacked even more fiercely and swiftly than Shangguan Peng as a Walking Corpse.

And with utter silence, the sudden onslaught caught Gao Pu completely off guard.

The flash of sword light penetrated straight through the skeletal claws and black mist Gao Pu had hastily conjured!

Although the barrier formed by the bone claws and the mist afforded Gao Pu a moment to dodge, the sword’s edge still struck him below the ribs.

Gao Pu turned in shock to see a young woman of peerless beauty, who had suddenly appeared behind him with her sword drawn.

Beauty like jade, sword like a rainbow... what bullshit!