“In this place, you dare to speak arrogantly with just the cultivation of the eighth rank? You’re not afraid to die, are you?” The old man said as he unleashed a powerful wave of energy.
Boom! The attacks from both sides collided, and the old man slid back a hundred meters before finally coming to a stop, his aura in disarray.
“How is this possible?!” After stabilizing his figure, he looked at Billy with a shocked expression. Clearly, he didn’t expect Billy to force him back so far.
“Surprised?” Billy narrowed his eyes. “Let me show you what despair truly means!” As he spoke, his aura surged once again, and he wielded his domineering blade, unleashing the Domineering Blade Art. In no time, the crimson blade aura turned the surrounding void into a sea of red.
“Die!” Billy’s voice echoed as he swung his wrist, causing the blade aura to descend.
“You shameless brat!” The old man roared in anger as he activated his twelvefold power, charging towards the blade aura. However, in the next moment, he realized just how wrong he was. Even if he had reached the level of a Half-Step Saint, he wouldn’t be able to withstand this attack, let alone if he had officially broken through to the genuine Saint realm.
Swoosh!
The blade descended straight from above his head, leaving a terrifying crack on the hard icy ground.
“So powerful…” The old man’s mouth hung open as his body split in half, falling to the ground in a gory mess.
At the same time, the heavily armored woman was sent flying several hundred meters away by the powerful shockwave. After crashing onto the ice, she slid another hundred meters, with more than half of her bones shattered and copious amounts of blood flowing from her mouth.
The woman opened her mouth, but not a single word came out. Her head tilted to the side, and she immediately ceased to breathe. Billy glanced at the two corpses before turning around and walking towards the valley from before.
Rewinding time a few minutes back, just as Billy charged up the right side of the hill. Hundreds of polar snow leopards rushed down towards the valley with the momentum of a stampede, even more ferocious than the previous wave.
“Everyone, hold your ground! We should be able to end this wave soon!” Ernest Shepherd shouted loudly.
“Kill!” Everyone shouted in unison, their auras reaching their peak as they activated their full strength and attacked.
The first batch of polar snow leopards charging at the front fell one after another, lying motionless on the ground. However, these polar snow leopards were like machines, showing no signs of fear. They kept coming in waves, disregarding their own lives as they charged towards the group. The continuous expenditure of energy caused everyone’s combat power to decrease significantly. The young people selected from the city, who were at the Sovereign Realm, were the most affected and were already showing signs of exhaustion.
At that moment, two muscular polar snow leopards with crimson mouths lunged at a young man simultaneously, their imposing presence terrifying. The young man was a Second-rank Sovereign and was already struggling to hold on after the previous battles. Faced with the simultaneous attack of two polar snow leopards, he trembled and, without thinking much, turned around and fled towards the direction of the snow carriage behind him. And as the two snow leopards missed their target, they didn’t hesitate at all. They kicked their legs and swiftly chased after him.
“What are you doing? Get back here and close the gap!” Harleen caught sight of this scene from the corner of her eye and immediately shouted.
However, the man was already terrified and couldn’t care less. He just wanted to hide inside the carriage as soon as possible. Due to the gap in defense, the people on the left and right sides were too occupied to deal with it, resulting in over a dozen polar snow leopards charging towards the snow carriage. At the same time, the man had already reached the side of the first snow carriage. Seeing the situation inside the carriage, the people inside were also terrified, their faces turning pale.
“Get down! Block them for me!”
The man snatched a woman’s wrist and threw her towards two approaching snow leopards.
“Darn it, you bastard!” Harleen shouted angrily.
“Ah–”
The woman let out a scream. Originally, with the cultivation level of a War God-Emperor, the woman could have dealt with the two polar snow leopards to some extent. However, on one hand, the situation happened suddenly, and she didn’t react in time. On the other hand, there were more than ten snow leopards coming from behind, which scared her quite a bit. So, she stood there, watching helplessly as the two snow leopards pounced towards her.
Just as the two snow leopards were about to knock the woman down, a sharp sword flashed past their bodies. In the next moment, the two snow leopards split in half and fell to the ground, blood splattering all over the woman.
“Ah!” The woman screamed again.
“Get back into the carriage quickly!” Harleen shouted loudly. After saying that, she turned to Ivy on the right and said, “Ivy, cover me for a while!”
“Alright!” Ivy replied loudly. She also saw the situation here.
Then, Harleen quickly rushed towards the snow carriage, constantly flipping her wrist, sending sword towards the dozen or so snow leopards attacking.
In less than a minute, all the snow leopards that charged in had fallen.
“Stay in there, don’t come out!” Harleen told the people in the car before quickly rushing towards the gap where the man was.
Just as she ran to her position, ready to make a move, the remaining hundreds of snow leopards around them roared at the same time. Immediately, without any pause, they all ran away in all directions. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared from everyone’s sight.
“What’s going on?” Stout asked.
“These polar snow leopards were likely controlled by Beast Masters. They probably lost control and ran away for their lives.” Ivy replied.
“Did boss went to find the Beast Master?” Soul Chaser spoke up.
“Most likely!” Ivy nodded. “Otherwise, these polar snow leopards wouldn’t have suddenly run away!”
“Boss is coming back!” At this moment, Ian pointed to Billy, who was walking back from the hillside.
“Are you okay, Billy?” Harleen hurriedly walked up, followed closely by the others.
“I’m fine!” Billy smiled.
“Boss, were those polar snow leopards really controlled by Beast Masters?” Night Orchid asked.
“Yes.” Billy nodded.
“Lord Dragon, who could be behind this?” Otis Hum asked. “Could it be someone from Northfortia?”
“That’s right!” Billy nodded again.
“Darn! It’s Northfortia again?” Black Tortoise cursed. “They’re everywhere!”
“Enough, it’s fine now. Let’s continue on our way!” Billy said, waving his hand.
“Boss, before we continue, there’s something we might need to deal with first,” Casey spoke up.
He and Azure Dragon and the others also saw what happened with the man earlier. With their personalities, they couldn’t just turn a blind eye to scum like that in the team.
“What is it?” Billy raised an eyebrow.
“Ms Knight knows best,” Casey replied.
“What’s going on, Harleen?” Billy turned to Harleen.
“There was indeed a close call just now!” Harleen then briefly described the situation.
“Hmm?” A chill emanated from Billy. Then, he walked towards the first snow carriage. When he reached the car, he first looked at the woman. At this moment, she still hadn’t fully recovered from the previous shock, covered in blood from the snow leopards, trembling slightly.
“Are you okay?” Billy asked.
“I… I’m fine.” The woman shook her head.
“Rest for a while!” After nodding slightly, Billy turned to the man and said calmly, “Did you do this?”
“It was not intentional. I did it in a moment of desperation!” The man defended himself. “I can apologize to her!” After speaking, he turned to the woman with a disdainful tone, “Sorry, it won’t happen again!”
“Casey, behead him!” Before the man’s words could fall, Billy spoke in a deep voice.
“Are you daring to kill me?” The man shouted after a moment of shock. “I am the eldest son of the Hill family. If you dare to kill me, none of you will survive!”