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.
"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.