Chapter 401 - Li Mu's Strike

Divine Beggar was dead?

In an instant, Li Mu and the two grand elders caught on the situation, so did the other experts of the Beggar Gang.

Some people turned to look at Liang Zhi.

In the past half a year, Liang Zhi had been praised and promoted many times by the imposter of Divine Beggar. A short while ago, the imposter was even going to pass on the title of Grand Master to Liang Zhi. And in the face of that imminent peril, Liang Zhi launched a sneak attack upon Ming Yue… All that implied that Liang Zhi was not really on their side.

“Hahaha…” Liang Zhi lowered his head and burst out laughing.

His laughter sounded like the rasping howls of a dying beast. Streams of crimson mist came out under his clothes. Then, he slowly raised his head. Blood-red light welled out of his eyes, as though blood was gurgling out. At the same time, he started giving off the qi of pure slaughter, vile, and violence.

A pair of scarlet horns shaped as machetes sprouted from his scalp.

Sure enough, he was not a human being.

Standing among the crowd, Li Mu felt his jaw drop despite himself.

Unlike previous circumstances, this time, it was the real Extra-terrestrial Devils that descended upon the planet. Before, he had indirectly encountered the Extra-terrestrial Devils when dealing with Huang Shengyi and the second prince. As a matter of fact, they were human beings who had gained extra help by accepting the injection of the Extra-terrestrial Devils’ power. But this time… the real Extra-terrestrial Devils had come to that planet!

They had made a breakthrough.

To that planet, it was undoubtedly a piece of rather unpleasant news.

“Tonight, our Beggar Gang will hunt down the devils!” Guo Bu’er the Miraculous Fist laughed coldly. The devilish power in his wounds was quickly outcast. In a few seconds, all his wounds healed and the majesty of a Sage streaked across the field.

He was the man who had once penetrated mountains within 500 kilometers with one punch. In good old days, he was a famous fearless fighter. So, how could he shrink back before those devils?

Meanwhile, Sun Changfeng the Shadowless Roamer gradually melted into the void. His ghostly voice sounded from all sides. “Even if you are Extra-terrestrial Devils, so what? Now that you dare invade our Beggar Gang, you shall know you will be wiped out. After all, when did our members fear anything?”

After the two grand elders declared where they stood, the rest of the Beggar Gang immediately rose in a united resistance against the foreign aggressors with a boosted morale.

Li Mu nodded with the others. Indeed, although both the devil wrapped in black smoke that controlled Divine Beggar and Liang Zhi had a strong aura, their powers had limits, too. To crush the entire Beggar Gang, the two alone could never succeed.

However, just at that point, the beatings of military drums were heard from all sides of Beggar Island. Next, odd hoots sounded from all directions.

“It’s Bloody-moon Faction!” A leader of a gang branch shrieked.

But a second later, a blood-red arrow swooshed down from the sky and penetrated his chest. Eerie blood-red quickly spread out and swallowed him whole, reducing him into a pool of sticky blood.

At the same time, the twin moons hanging in the dark sky began to change. As the blood-red mist started spreading, the white twin moons were dyed blood-red, shedding boundless blood-red light on the entire Beggar Island.

Silhouetted against the blood-red twin moons, many scarlet shadows assuming the shape of huge bats hovered in the sky and produced spooky hoots.

“Haha, today, the Beggar Gang will be doomed!”

“Kill!”

“Sacrifice the blood of the Beggar Gang as the offering to Master!”

“The era of our dominance is here!”

Monsters and demons began to descend. All sorts of creepy evil cackles rang from the sky. Meanwhile, a flood of various forms came to view. Some were people, some were beasts or monsters. Even the assorted water beasts living in the nearby waters kept crawling out from the mountain tunnels and cliffs and charged at them in droves.

All of a sudden, the situation took a turn for the worse.

“Hahaha, the blood-red moons blossomed in the massacre. Tonight is our party time!” The devil issuing black smoke howled with laughter. His voice reverberated in all directions.

He wasted no time to join the fight.

After getting rid of Divine Beggar’s skin, he finally did not need to suppress his powers. His aura instantly became a millionfold fiercer. With that, he alone effortlessly curbed the two Sages named Sun Changfeng and Guo Bu’er.

“Switch on the deployments and kill the devils!”

The voice of Sun Changfeng the Shadowless Roamer sounded.

The Beggar Island where the Beggar Gang’s headquarters sat for over a thousand years was strewn with all kinds of tactical deployments and endless traps. Under Sun Changfeng’s order, those deployments and traps began to attack those invaders.

Nevertheless, during the days the devil issuing black smoke disguised as Divine Beggar, he had already destroyed most of the hallucinating deployments and the killing deployments in secret. Therefore, the entire Beggar Island was a defenseless headquarters. As soon as the war started, the death toll of the Beggar Gang was striking.

Thankfully, on that night, most of Beggar Gang’s best fighters had also gathered on that island.

A brutal war was waged.

Li Mu was deeply astounded at that. He never knew the event could take so many turns and eventually develop into a bout of fierce fighting between two factions. The fight was equally fierce as a war between two trained armies, if not more. The relentless strikes of so many martial arts experts immediately ruined Beggar Island. Howls, snarls, hoots, and mad cries were heard everywhere.

Shots of Taoist patterns spun around Li Mu, isolating him and his company from the battlefield. So far, no one attacked them.

The disciples of the Beggar Gang who had stayed to protect Li Mu and his men under Lu Changfu’s order now lunged toward the enemies with infuriated looks.

Every pore of the demonized Liang Zhi was spilling glinting, blood-red, liquid. His eyes appeared to have turned into two mouths of a spring, from which blood-red liquid continuously gurgled down. The moment the fight was on, he rushed once again toward Ming Yue and launched a series of feverish attacks.

Clearly, he was an irritable Extra-terrestrial Devil who bore a grudge. In the previous battle, to avoid exposing his true identity, the devil did not display his complete power and lost to Ming Yue. For that matter, he already harbored a bitter grudge against Ming Yue. Not that he had assumed his original form and regained his complete strength, he certainly wanted to seek revenge.

Ming Yue conjured up the white lotus without hesitation and threw herself into the new battle.

Seeing that Ming Yue was not at a disadvantage for the time being, Li Mu did not hurry to back the girl up. Anyway, it would not hurt to let Ming Yue accumulate battling experience.

Lu Changfu, the honest man, led his trusted subordinates to dash to Li Yuntao the Dragon Punch. They soon took the cultivation-less Li Yuntao under their protection.

Li Mu looked about the battlefield.

Indisputably, the fight he was witnessing was the most massive and tragic battle he had ever seen since he came to that world. Although several fierce battles had broken out in the Western Qin, such as the war against Lord Zhenxi initiated by Li Gang and the five provincial armies and the battles at the border areas, Li Mu had not witnessed one with his own eyes. And unlike the battle between well-trained armies, the one between large factions involved high-ranking martial arts experts. The destruction they created was more alarming, and the battlefield seemed more chaotic.

Endless beasts and water monsters flooded out from the secret tunnels through the mountains and the peaks. They all shared one thing in common—their eyes no longer reflected normal emotions but shone scarlet. Once catching sight of a human being, they launched suicidal attacks.

“They’ve lost their mind. Seems that they’ve been affected by the power of the blood-red moons. They might be bewitched by some kind of secret method…” Li Mu pondered.

Then, he discovered another weird phenomenon.

Many experts and disciples of the Bloody-moon Faction also showed signs of madness, and their eyes were also gleaming feverish scarlet. As though having turned into wild beasts, those people galloped at the disciples of the Beggar Gang without stop. The level of their internal qi might not be very impressive, for most of them were in the Joint-thoughts level or the Master Realm and only a few were Great Masters and Natural Experts, but the resilience of their corporeal bodies was strikingly high. When the weapons of the Beggar Gang’s members cut into their flesh, there was no difference from cutting decayed wood or leather. Even when the limbs of the disciples of the Bloody-moon Faction were chopped, the wound did not seem to hurt at all. Instead, the injured men got crazier and even started to bite their opponents…

In such a desperate battle, the Beggar Gang gradually sank to the disadvantageous position.

All by himself, the devil issuing black smoke had taken the upper hand over the two grand elders, while the demonized Liang Zhi was fighting Ming Yue neck to neck. The blood-red spring gurgling from Liang Zhi’s eyes had inexplicable powers, which could withstand the illusion of the white lotus Ming Yue conjured up.

The blood of those dead Beggar Gang’s experts and disciples began to rise in the air, as though gravity had just disappeared or rain of blood had been pouring reversely. The scene looked extremely weird and frightening.

As the fight went on, the twin moons became more and more scarlet, as though they had been soaked in blood.

Suddenly, a jet of blood-red light shot out from a scarlet moon and landed on the demonized Liang Zhi. In no time, Liang Zhi was enveloped by dreadful blood-red light, as if he was being burnt. His body began to swell, his muscles bulged, his face more ferocious than ever. The fair-complexioned scholar instantly transformed into a blood-red giant. What was more, his aura became two times stronger than before.

“Kaboom!”

He thrust a fist. The blood-red light raged, and the fist flames shot skyward.

The pretty girl called Ming Yue let loose a muffled groan and was sent flying backward. The illusion of that white lotus behind her became fuzzy, as though it would disappear at any time.

On the other end of the battlefield, the Shadowless Roamer and the Miraculous Fist were steadily losing ground. They almost had no way to fight back against the devil issuing black smoke. And the darker the blood-red moons became, the stronger the power of the devil was.

On Beggar Island, the mountains collapsed, the land caved in, the seawater back flowed. It felt like doomsday.

“Yuan, take care of Qing Feng and the Countess.”

Leaving behind that remark, Li Mu leaped up and landed at the center of the stone stage.

With a stir of his mind, innumerable intangible Broadsword Intent whipped out in the void.

“Um? Who is it?” As the devil issuing black smoke was about to kill Guo Bu’er the Miraculous Fist, he suddenly sensed several jets of blood-curdling killing intent racing toward him. The detection of dire danger made his heart thump in fear. He whipped around, held up his arms. The Taoist Patterns on his arms sprang to life, and the devilish qi started swirling.

“Boom!”

His enormous body was tossed to the sky.

In the void, a beam of broadsword light abruptly burst out.

Magma-like blood gushed. The devil issuing black smoke gazed at his injured arms, petrified. “Who is it? How dare you sneak attack me! And even cut open my Taoist Figure?”

“Drop dead!”

Li Mu did not spend time arguing. He executed his next move, and the Broadsword Intent rose again.

The air started shivering. The void was filled with boundless killing intent.

The devil’s ugly face began to change again.

He was surprised to see that such a fearful expert was hiding among the members of the Beggar Gang. He looked no more than fifteen, but his first strike already imposed him an oppressing sensation. The devil wondered why he had never seen such a boy when he disguised as the Grand Master of the Beggar Gang.

“Is he actually a senior member of the Beggar Gang?”