Chapter 448: Against the Lords

Xiao Nanfeng, equipped in arhat armor, had nothing to fear against the two Yanluo Lords' avatars. His threats greatly angered the two Yanluo Lords.

The rabbit-headed humanoids who had regenerated didn't attempt to push toward Xiao Nanfeng any longer. Rather, they stayed on guard by the fog.

"King, what should we do?" a rabbit-headed humanoid shouted into the fog.

However, the Rabbit Yanluo's main body didn't respond. The cursed effigies glanced at each other uncertainly.

Meanwhile, twenty golden arhats emerged from the mouth of the abyss. They released an overwhelming aura. They were subordinates that Yin Tianci had summoned from aboveworld.

"We greet His Highness," the golden arhats said, bowing.

"Come on. Follow me. Take down Xiao Nanfeng immediately!" Yin Tianci commanded.

Then, he too dressed himself in a suit of arhat armor.

"Understood!" the twenty golden arhats replied.

They shot straight to Xiao Nanfeng.

In the distance, as Xiao Nanfeng continued to threaten the two Yanluo Lords' avatars, he suddenly felt surging killing intent headed straight for him. He turned his head to see a group of golden arhats leaping forward. One among them was particularly fast and had thrown a punch at him, forcing him to leap back.

"Kill him!" Yin Tianci commanded.

"Understood!" The twenty-one golden arhats leapt toward Xiao Nanfeng simultaneously as killing intent billowed from them.

"If you dare do it, I'll cause this suit of arhat armor to explode!" Xiao Nanfeng shouted.

"Be careful! Retreat!" Yin Tianci cried out in fear.

The golden arhats hesitated and turned back toward Yin Tianci.

"Your Highness, if he self-destructs, wouldn't it only kill him faster? Don't trust him."

"Right, Your Highness, you don't have to worry."

"He wouldn't dare!"

The golden arhats surrounded Xiao Nanfeng as Yin Tianci grimaced. "He just exploded a suit of arhat armor. This is his second set."

The golden arhats widened their eyes as they retreated in fear.

"Yin Tianci, I'm in discussions with the two Yanluo Lords. You'd better not bother me," Xiao Nanfeng warned.

Yin Tianci frowned. Things weren't going according to plan. If he dragged this out any longer, he would lose out on his opportunity to claim Holy Maiden Yaoguang. How could he leave things be?

He gritted his teeth. "Don't worry too much. This is his last suit of arhat armor, and he can't kill you even if the armor explodes. Split up into two batches. If he really destroys his armor, he won't be able to protect himself."

"Understood!" everyone replied.

The golden arhats shot toward Xiao Nanfeng again.

Xiao Nanfeng frowned. He knocked aside two of the golden arhats, charging straight at Yin and the Ox Yanluo.

"What are you doing, Xiao Nanfeng?" the Ox Yanluo exclaimed.

"If they want to take me down, I'll take the two of you down," Xiao Nanfeng replied.

He punched at the Ox Yanluo.

"Xiao Nanfeng, are you crazy?!" the Ox Yanluo's avatar howled in despair.

The Ox Yanluo's avatar, which was only at the level of a Wingform-realm cultivator, exploded in a flash.

Xiao Nanfeng didn't stop there. Disregarding the assault of the golden arhats behind him, he punched Yin. With a crash, Yin was sent flying as well.

"Die, Xiao Nanfeng!" Yin cursed.

"I've already killed you once. So what if I do it again? Die!" Xiao Nanfeng demanded.

The battlefield was particularly chaotic. A group of golden arhats chased after Xiao Nanfeng even as Xiao Nanfeng himself chased after Yin.

Yin Tianci, standing to the back, gaped.

"His Highness, is something wrong with Xiao Nanfeng's head?" one of his subordinates asked.

Yin Tianci also felt as though there were something wrong with Xiao Nanfeng's actions. The next moment, he blanched. "Xiao Nanfeng's deliberately provoking the two Yanluo Lords and forcing them to approach with their main bodies. We have to make a move, quickly!"

He knew that his subordinates could hardly do anything against the two Yanluo Lords in person, rather than through their weaker avatars. At that point, he would lose any chance of catching Xiao Nanfeng or Holy Maiden Yaoguang.

"Xiao Nanfeng, you really are crazy. What benefit could you derive from luring the two Yanluo Lords' main bodies here? You're just going to kill yourself!" Yin Tianci roared.

Xiao Nanfeng ignored him and continued to attack Yin. Not long later, two beacons of intense strength approached by the horizon, moving so quickly that sonic booms radiated from them. They scattered the golden arhats like bowling pins.

The Tiger and Ox Yanluos had arrived in person, black smoke curling up from their bodies. They were completely enraged.

"Die, you wretched fool!" the two Yanluo Lords howled as one.

The remaining golden arhats were sent flying, while Xiao Nanfeng was smashed into the ground by the combined force of two palm strikes. A pit formed; rubble and dust rose up into the air.

The fighting immediately subsided with the arrival of the two Yanluo Lords.

The golden arhats hurriedly clustered by Yin Tianci's side.

"Xiao Nanfeng, you dare ruin my avatar? Die!" the Ox Yanluo bellowed, black smoke drifting out from his mouth. Killing intent surged all around him.

"If I hadn't done that, would the two of you have made it here this quickly? Even if you did, you might have lain in wait somewhere secret," Xiao Nanfeng replied, climbing out of the pit arduously. He didn't sound afraid at all.

"Oh? And did you want to force us here to kill you even more quickly?" the Ox Yanluo retorted.

The Tiger Yanluo suddenly asked, "Xiao Nanfeng, the Rabbit Yanluo's main body is within those clouds of fog, isn't it?"

The Ox Yanluo blinked. He gave up on pursuing Xiao Nanfeng and rushed straight into the fog.

The Tiger Yanluo narrowed his eyes and did the same, as though worried that the Ox Yanluo would gain the upper hand.

The rabbit-headed humanoids by the side of the fog tried to stop them, but the two Yanluo Lords easily barged forward and overcame any obstruction.

A huge storm formed within the fog, forcing the two Yanluo Lords back out.

"Two Yanluo Courts!" the Tiger Yanluo exclaimed. "One must be the Rabbit Yanluo's."

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"And the other... is the Snake Yanluo's?" The Ox Yanluo was taken by surprise.

The two Yanluo Lords' eyes widened in greed. They hadn't expected to find everything that they were looking for within.

Then, the two Yanluo Lords suddenly stared at each other, as though they were about to start fighting then and there.

Not far away, Xiao Nanfeng shouted, "Yin Tianci, you must have prepared plenty of subordinates outside the mouth of the abyss. When the Tiger and Ox Yanluos wound each other, you'll be able to jump in and deal them a killing blow with peerless treasure from Dayin and seize all their possessions. Isn't that so?"

The two Yanluo Lords, who were about to fight to the death, stiffened. They began to turn toward the golden arhats in the distance.

Yin Tianci and his subordinates, poised to attack and capture Xiao Nanfeng, blanched upon hearing what he was shouting.

Yin Tianci turned to see the two Yanluo Lords heading over.

"Yanluo Lords, don't let Xiao Nanfeng trick you. He's trying to incite us to turn on each other!" Yin Tianci exclaimed.

The Ox Yanluo demanded coldly, "Turning on each other? I suspect that he's telling the truth. Are you intending to benefit from my fight with the Tiger Yanluo? How dare you."

The Tiger Yanluo said, "Ox Yanluo, our fight can wait. Why don't we deal with this threat first?"

"Very well!" the Ox Yanluo replied.

Yin Tianci blanched. "Flee!"

The golden arhats immediately escorted Yin Tianci toward the mouth of the abyss.

"Stay right here!" the two Yanluo Lords called out.

They each punched a golden arhat into oblivion.

"Flee!" The remaining golden arhats escaped even more quickly.

"Kill them!" the two Yanluo Lords howled.

They slaughtered their way straight to Yin Tianci. By the time Yin Tianci made it to the mouth of the abyss, almost ten of the golden arhats had been killed.

"Xiao Nanfeng, for ruining my plans, I curse you to a wretched death!" Yin Tianci roared in rage as he escaped through the mouth of the abyss.

Because of Xiao Nanfeng, he had gained nothing from his ventures down below. He was so mad he was about to vomit blood.

Within the pit, Xiao Nanfeng brushed off the dust from his battered golden arhat as he stood up. He sneered. "You're the one who should die a wretched death. I dare you not to run!"

With a huff, Yin Tianci and his remaining subordinates made it out of the abyss, fleeing for their lives.

The two Yanluo Lords rushed up to the mouth of the abyss and looked out, frustrated. They clearly feared Heaven's Hand, and didn't dare rush out by force.

They turned back to Xiao Nanfeng.

"Xiao Nanfeng, are the Snake and Rabbit Yanluos attacking each other within this cloud of fog? When did the Snake Yanluo return? Shouldn't she be in an extremely weak state? How could she be fighting on par with the Rabbit Yanluo?" the Ox Yanluo demanded, flying toward him.

The Tiger Yanluo did the same.

They were unable to enter the fog, so all they could do was interrogate Xiao Nanfeng for details.

The arhat armor that was protecting Xiao Nanfeng had broken. Even so, he didn't seem to fear the two Yanluo Lords. He only smiled. "Yanluo Lords, I advise you to leave immediately before you're trapped here."

The two Yanluo Lords gave Xiao Nanfeng an odd look. Was Xiao Nanfeng so scared that he had lost all his wits? They would be able to kill him with just a single hand, but Xiao Nanfeng was still threatening them!

Tiger- and ox-headed humanoids continued to fly toward them from afar, strengthening the two Yanluo Lords' bases of power.

"Our subordinates alone can take down those cultivators from beyond the mouth of the abyss. You're all our prey. Do you really think that I and the Ox Yanluo will fight each other now while you lurk in the dark and await our spoils? Even if I were to fight with the Ox Yanluo, we'd only do that after killing you. If you refuse to tell us what we want to know, I'll crush you to death!" the Tiger Yanluo threatened.

"Right! If you don't tell us anything, we'll kill you!" the Ox Yanluo added.

"I don't have to say anything. Just look over there. My reinforcements have arrived." Xiao Nanfeng pointed toward the horizon.

The two Yanluo Lords looked into the distance to see Lady Yaoguang flying over, tossing the corpses of cursed effigies away from her as she flew.

The next moment, three Heaven's Hands poked out from the blood-colored clouds of annihilation in the air, heading straight for the cursed effigies and tearing them apart.

"That woman's luring three clouds of annihilation over!" the Tiger Yanluo exclaimed.

"She brought three Heaven's Hands over?!" the Ox Yanluo cursed.

Then, as though sensing something, the three Heaven's Hands stopped short. They sped up as they charged straight for the two Yanluo Lords.

"No!" the Yanluo Lords shouted.