409 Escalation

As they waited, soon about a dozen figures appeared in the distance, creating a massive trail of snow raised into the air behind them since they seemingly used a movement technique that created a lot of disturbance, and were not holding back.

A Core Formation Realm expert, and a dozen Foundation Building mercenaries stopped not far from where Wu Long and two beauties stood.

The eyes of the one with an executive badge narrowed at the messy field, the town in the distance eerily quiet as most of the residents either fled or hid, hoping this disaster will blow over without hitting them.

“You! I had to know it was you”

He then looked at Wu Long and though there was recognition and surprise in his eyes he was not as afraid as those he met earlier. His subordinates fared less impressively, but still maintained some semblance of confidence due to the presence of the one who lead them.

“Did you really think you could run wild without any repercussions?!

Not only are higher-ups moving here, you called a calamity over your head because you don’t even know what people you are dealing with!”

“See? This is why I call their main base the Bull** Training Camp, they teach this bull** to every single one of them”

Wu Long turned to his ladies with a light smile causing them to chuckle in response.

“Hah! Laugh while you still can!

I thought you got at least a little smarter since you didn’t go on a rampage again when you reappeared, only to cause this mess…

Well poor luck, boy! The thing that protected you, which you probably believed was luck or some ‘fate of chosen people’ has run out”

The man seemingly wanted to drive home the idea that before they were letting Wu Long off lightly, but Wu Long soon detected the same signs of betrayed anticipation as he once seen on Hong Yue’s face.

‘Hah, this one is prideful and a bit sadistic, huh’

He inwardly chuckled as he could more or less predict what the man wanted.

The mercenary first anticipated arguing and disbelief that would have set up the stage for even more entertaining spectacle later on.

It was that crushing of someone’s illusion of safety and confidence, and bringing down the worldview, that the mercenaries executive wanted to experience.

In other words he relished seeing someone realize they were only a frog in a well and everything they did or ever thought was on a palm of someone else’s hand.

But having not gotten the reaction he anticipated, he looked a little puzzled.

‘Hmm, it makes sense they didn’t really tell anything to someone of his level’

Wu Long at the same time was pondering the attitude of the mercenary. To play his minor role in all of what was happening, this one, or anyone of his level didn’t need to know that their higher ups were long since playing mind games with Wu Long.

And that they knew, or at least suspected to a high degree of certainty, that Wu Long was aware of their existence and was moving with that in mind.

The only one of his level who knew all that, was the one Wu Long met in the capital, since he was sent to negotiate. The rest really could just believe Wu Long was a clueless youngster who got in too deep, and it would not matter to the higher-ups as long as these people followed orders.

‘He probably doesn’t even know what it was that kept their higher cultivation base people at bay, only told that it was now not a problem’

Wu Long chuckled, somehow unnerving the mercenary executive.

“Cherish that time of being cheeky… it is now time of reckoning”

Wu Long stepped forward, not inclined to keep talking much longer and keep up the farce.

A spear appeared in his hand, and immediately started sparking with small arcs of electricity which only occasionally traveled the metal shaft.

“What the…”

The man widened his eyes at this sight but did not have time to finish his thought as he took out a saber to defend himself. The mercenaries behind him began taking out their weapons, among which saber was most abundant.

‘Hmm, it seems there is a saber user in their upper level’ .𝘦𝑎.𝒸ℴ

“Seventy Six Pillars of Light”

Wu Long noted as a hundred throwing spears made of Spiritual Qi appeared above his head, but since he used Lightning Qi, their shapes were made of lightning. The problem was that they were unstable and did not hold their form as well.

However, he still sent them flying forward intending to test out this application, yielding subpar results as they were quite volatile and had uneven trajectories that pulled them to the sides of their targets.

The rest were repelled quite easily but his spear point already reached the head of one mercenary by the time they were done defending the attack.

“Seventy Six Pillars of Light”

Wu Long repeated the motion while turning as a smirk appeared on the lips of the mercenaries, but they were then assaulted by furious spears made of Spiritual Qi instead of the flimsy Lightning Qi ones.

He did not give them time to regroup reducing their numbers as none of them could last in close combat while he held the others in place with a ranged technique.

“Brilliant Saber Rush Art!”

The executive and a few other mercenaries who held sabers simultaneously created a rush of hundreds of swirling Saber Qi blades to offset the throwing spears.

“Great Wall Palm”

Wu Long pushed his open palm forth and three human-sized Spiritual Qi palms side by side rushed toward the two mercenaries who just finished their technique, standing in the midst of crumbling shards of glowing Spear Qi and Saber Qi.

“Wa-Aaarh”

“Shi- ugh”

*crunch*

Their figures disappeared into the distance, but not before leaving a disturbing sound of crushed meat and bones, the final cries still lingering while Wu Long’s spear point already clashed with a sword of another mercenary.

“Great Mountain Saber Strike!!!”

“Fierce Tiger Claw!”

“…”

Three mercenaries and the executive launched a simultaneous attack but Wu Long simply pushed through, piercing the one he engaged in close combat and moving away from the strikes that met in the middle.

“Chains of Earth”

“What the…?”

“When did-…?”

“…”

Wu Long’s free hand went up and the remaining mercenaries except for the executive were bound by Spiritual Qi chains that sprang from the talismans right beneath their feet.

“Stop!!!”

As the executive cried out while rushing toward Wu Long with his saber held up high, the latter simply clenched his hand, and the chains pulled, creating a nauseating scene with repugnant sound and smell that left the former the only live mercenary, as his spear locked blades with the man’s saber.

“You-…!”

The man’s eyes became red with anger as his veins popped up, he took out something from a pouch and threw it into his mouth.

Sparks flew into the air as hundreds of strikes were exchanged between the mercenary executive and Wu Long. Saber Qi clashing against Spear Qi in a flurry of furious slashes.

The mercenary soon realized it was very hard to fight his opponent, as he was forced to block more and more, and each strike’s force was hurting muscles of his arm as if the weight of each attack targeted a specific point. The attacks also forced him to hold his weapon in an awkward pose by how the sequence was constructed, and he soon felt an unbearable pain cramp his muscles, as a spear-point snaked through his defense and arrived at his shoulder.

“Aaargh!!!”

He screamed out, clutching an injury with his other hand as the one holding the saber hung with not much force, barely holding on to the weapon while he took a big leap back.

“Hah, you’re good, you held out 342 strikes”

Wu Long nodded with approval, not expecting the man to last that long, though his opponent took it as an insult, glaring at him with hate.

‘What is this? His physical strength is almost as good as mine and his fighting technique…’

The mercenary could not comprehend what he was experiencing. He was a Core Formation Realm expert, and one that had superior techniques and legacy to almost anyone around here. There was never a time he believed something like this was possible.

“Stop!!!”

A new voice resounded from the side as a figure flew in the distant sky, rapidly approaching this location. There were also figures traveling on foot in the distance from the sound, much like the ones who arrived before, about 20 Foundation Building Experts and one more Core Formation Building expert, most likely from the Jurong Kingdom.

“Mortal Trascendence… not enough”

Wu Long looked at that flying figure and narrowed his eyes. It was good they had lured out one of the very few Mortal Transcendence Realm cultivators the other side had, but it was still not enough of a biting strike he hoped for.

“But its about the limit we should show them we can handle… so…”

As the suffocating pressure fell onto the area Wu Long turned and nodded.

A figure stepped out with a sonic boom as a beautiful lady appeared before the appearing Mortal Transcendence Realm cultivator.

“M-Madam Liang?! Wh-What is the meaning of this? Do you realize what you are doing?!”

The man who appeared widened his eyes as there was definitely no way for him to deal with her.

“Hah, clearly your side decided to pull all the stops so why should I sit and wait until I become that scum’s slave?”

Liang Zhiqiu snorted, raising her chin with a proud and defiant look. On the ground, dozens of Foundation Building Realm experts in bamboo hats with an eye emblem on their travel cloaks appeared near Wu Long and the two beauties.

“Be it as it may, did you think I was the only one to arrive? Soon… ah, just in time”

As he spoke another sonic boom resounded in the vicinity as two figures, one of which Wu Long already saw once, called Do Bishui, and a new face arrived in the air.

Seeing Madam Liang their eyes widened and Do Bishui took out a communication talisman.

“Are you insane? Do you want to start a war?”

The other Seven Profound Realms cultivator shouted at Madam Liang with shock and disbelief in his eyes.

Their mercenaries arriving from the south saw the situation and circled around to the side where their superiors came.

“It was you who wanted a war, was it not?”

She brightly smiled, puffing a cloud of herbal smoke into the crisp fresh air, as people of power started converging on the patch of insignificant land, since all of them could feel a lot more powerful auras rising and approaching the location.

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