Chapter 242 Is He Dead!?



As the crowd watched the dust cloud eagerly, three lights shot out of the dust cloud and were sent flying into the distance.

The dust cleared and all anyone could see was a lone figure standing in the center of the dust cloud with a sword in his hand. The figure's back was straight and there was murderousness exuding from it in waves.

The onlookers couldn't help but gulp in fear looking at the figure.

In the distance, the trio rolled to a stop and sat up groaning. Even though they had utilized their best attacks, none of them were a match for Duncan's sword without their trump card. It disheartened them massively and they couldn't help but be afraid of the direction the fight was heading in.

The moment the clash occurred, they could intuitively feel the difference in power between them and Duncan. Duncan wasn't like a Spirit Sea realm cultivator at all. They all felt that he was akin to a Violet Palace realm cultivator.

If it was any other fight, they wouldn't have been this disheartened. They had initially thought that they could take on Duncan individually. Then, after seeing Duncan's power, they changed their strategy and decided to fight him by ganging up on him. They did that because this fight was very important to their future.

But now, Duncan had dismantled all their attacks and rebuffed even their trump card. They, at best, had one another shot with their trump cards. They wouldn't be able to use it continuously. Their bodies wouldn't be able to take it. And their qi reserve was also running low. This has already spelled their doom.

Jiang Chen, in particular, felt aggrieved. He had used everything he had and had only come up short. Furthermore, the premonition he had earlier about the fight would not go their way seemed to be coming true. They were all out of cards. And he didn't know if anything more was possible.

Lu Tianxin was more irate than disheartened. He couldn't believe that Duncan had mastered swordlight to this degree. After clashing with Duncan multiple times and seeing him using sword light so casually, made him seeth in anger.

He didn't know how Duncan was able to do something he couldn't. He refused to believe that Duncan was more talented when it came to sword cultivation than him. He refused it even after seeing it with his own eyes.

All his life, he had been hailed as a prodigy of the sword. Now, someone had come along and slapped him in the face. He felt humiliated and insulted beyond anything else. He just couldn't stand Duncan at all. What was once a desire to kill had now become an obsession to destroy.

Wu Dongmin wasn't any better either. He had always been arrogant and domineering. Duncan had trod upon his pride repetitively ever since they began to fight. While he wasn't as obsessed as Lu Tianxin, Wu Dongmin still harbored some resentment towards Duncan.

Silence engulfed the entire battlefield as everyone saw the trio rise up with varying states of injuries on them. Strangely enough, Jiang Chen was the only one who was injured a little less. The states of the other two were really bad.

Multiple lacerations and wounds were dotted all over their body. Their body was covered in blood everywhere. They were even vomiting blood as they struggled to stand up. They looked very miserable to look at.

Jiang Chen, being the least injured, was the first to steady himself. Duncan watched the trio rise to their feet with varying emotions on their faces. The viciousness that was deeply hidden in the hearts of Lu Tianxin and Wu Dongmin was visible to everyone. They looked at Duncan as if they wanted to cut him into a million pieces. Lu Tianxin, in particular, looked spitting mad.

Duncan watched them calmly without any particular emotion on his face. Looking at their states, he knew the fight was over. Taking a deep breath, Duncan decided to end this fight and do what he should have done in the first place – collect slaughter qi.

Just as Duncan prepared to attack the trio, a sudden scream of rage and anger interrupted everyone and made everyone look over.

"Aaargh!"

With a primal scream, Lu Tianxin dashed towards Duncan with a mad look on his face. His resentment for Duncan had reached its peak and he wasn't thinking anymore. The only thing he wanted to do was to kill Duncan and split his body into a million pieces.

Jiang Chen was taken aback and tried to stop him. He knew that none of them were a match for him. But, he was too late and Lu Tianxin had already dashed toward Duncan like a madman. What took him by surprise was what Wu Dongmin did immediately following that. He expected such behavior from Lu Tianxin, but Wu Dongmin was not like this in his opinion.

"Kill him! Everyone! Attack him and kill him! We can't let this demon walk away after killing so many good men!"

Wu Dongmin screamed inciting the crowd.

When a person is afraid there are two things he is most likely to do. Either fight with all he had or flee with everything he had. Under Wu Dongmin's incitement, the resentment the other cultivators had towards Duncan was stoked to a new height.

With a collective roar, those who were surrounding Duncan to prevent him from escaping immediately started attacking Duncan. When the numbers favor people, a strange sort of courage is born and it would make people act in a way that they wouldn't do normally.

Hearing Wu Dongmin's shout, everyone was incited and wanted to kill this demon who was becoming a nightmare to them. Everyone knew that if they didn't take care of Duncan today, he would become their heart demon after this. They didn't have the courage to face the heart demon and overcome it.

What it meant was that their cultivation path would end after this. Their breakthroughs will become harder until they defeat their heart demon. For people who have bright futures, how can they let something like that happen?

If they were alone, they would have tried to escape at all costs. However, they now surrounded the demon. They had a numerical advantage over their opponent. And the opponent wasn't unbeatable either. He was already injured. If they didn't take this chance, were they going to defeat the heart demon on their own?

With the courage provided by the group, fueled by the resentment towards Duncan, and incited to further heights by Wu Dongmin's words, the surrounding cultivators started attacking Duncan collectively.

Duncan's face became dignified. He understood that this was the most dangerous moment he faced in today's battle. How he handled it will determine his fate. Without a second's delay, Duncan began to utilize his <Wind Chasing Steps> to the utmost to evade most of the attacks.

Just then, Lu Tianxin reached Duncan with a sword in his hand.

"DIE!!!"

Lu Tianxin roared madly and slashed at Duncan. Duncan squinted his eyes seeing the incoming attack. He knew that if he got delayed by dealing with this attack, he would be bogged down by the surrounding cultivators.

So, Duncan evaded without hesitation and closed in on Lu Tianxin. Lu Tianxin seemed to have expected this. He was waiting for Duncan to close in on him. The moment Duncan got close, he mobilized his qi and sent the small sword to attack Duncan one last time.

Duncan cursed himself for falling into the trap. There wasn't much he could do at this moment. He braced himself and defended with his sword. But, the attack unleashed by the small sword was not something that he could defend against easily.

The attack slammed into Duncan like a boulder running down a hill. Duncan felt his breath escape. His entire torso burned unbearably. He could feel small sword lights wreaking havoc on his body. Duncan was sent flying once again without exception.

Duncan's body rolled several times and came to a stop at a distance. He lay there unmoving for a second before coughing out a lot of blood. He felt pain course through every inch of his body. The attack he had taken head-on was very powerful. If not for his strong body, he would have been cut down at the very instant the sword light connected.

Even now, he was severely injured. The sword lights were digging into his flesh and burrowing deep in them. Duncan felt as if his entire body was being sliced by a sword repeatedly. He groaned in pain and barely was able to roll over and lie on his back.

"DIE!!!"

Another shout echoed and Wu Dongmin appeared with his small saber. The saber beam from the small saber landed right on Duncan burying him deep into the ground. Saber beams joined the sword lights in wreaking havoc in his body.

At the last moment before the saber beam landed, Duncan instinctively curled up causing him to evade death by a hairsbreath. No matter how strong his body was, it wouldn't be able to tank two attacks that were an entire realm higher than his cultivation. By curling up, Duncan took the saber beam on other parts of his body causing the damage to be limited.

Still, Duncan's body was seriously injured by taking the two attacks head-on. Duncan felt as if his entire world was filled with pain. He felt his body being hacked and pierced over and over by the residual sword lights and saber beams. Duncan gritted his teeth refusing to cry out in pain. His eyes turned bloodshot as he struggled to stay conscious.

"Is he dead?" Lu Tianxin spat and looked at Wu Dongmin who was near Duncan.

Everyone seemed to wait for Wu Dongmin's confirmation.

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