Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 219 – Rescue (continued)

The number of people on both sides was still seven against seven, but it was obvious that the third team had already unleashed their Qi after killing five of their opponents consecutively and only paying the price of one serious injury to one party.

Moreover, An Qingniang had already stopped his pain after being treated by Fang Zhonghui’s healing pills. Aside from the difficulty of walking on his feet, his cultivation base had not been affected in the slightest.

However, although the previous battle had been short, it had been extremely fierce. Almost everyone had used their own abilities. Although it seemed like they were confronting each other, they were actually trying to gain some breathing room for themselves.

When Fang Zhonghui saw the scene before him, he hurriedly urged An Qingniang to come forward and help. However, An Qingniang shook his head and said: “I can’t move, but I’m afraid that if I go, I’ll drag everyone back. Moreover, Brother Luo is unconscious and injured, Miss Fang, you go first.”

Although Fang Zhonghui was not happy, An Qingniao’s words made sense. With a frown, he nodded and with a few quick steps, he moved several hundred feet away, joining the standoff between the two parties.

“Retreat!”

When the cultivators leading the Sirius Gate saw that they no longer had any advantages left, although their side was steadily holding the upper hand against the fifth group, the other group had already managed to shock them by killing five of their own group in a short period of time. Thus, they orderly retreated along with the Sirius Gate cultivators, and after reuniting with the Sirius Gate cultivators that took the initiative to leave the battle, they quickly left towards the south.

Seeing the Sirius Gate cultivators leave, the cultivators who were fighting with the seventh squad quickly left the battle and retreated towards the Huyao County.

The three squads finally reunited, and Squad Five’s leader Chilling Ben, who was completely drenched in blood and was flying towards Liu Zhifei, revealed an ugly smile on his face, opening his mouth as if he wanted to say something. However, the blood that was flowing from the previous fight, instantly turned around and fell down, while the few remaining cultivators of Squad Five rushed forward, only to see that Chestnut Ben had already fainted.

Seeing this, Ji Chenglin from the seventh squad said, “Brother Liu, let’s go back to the stronghold first.”

Liu Zhifei gave an ugly smile and nodded. Then, his expression changed, as he spat out a mouthful of blood, and said hoarsely, “I’ll have to trouble Junior Brother Ji to take care of what happens next.”

Ji Chenglin obviously did not expect that Liu Zhifei had also been severely injured. He could not help but say to everyone in a loud voice, “Everyone, return to the stronghold first. Team Seven is in charge of covering the rear.”

Previously, third team seemed to be brave and fearless, but in reality, all of the opportunities were actually exchanged for Liu Zhifei, Xiong Xiyi and Ning Ran using themselves as bait. Among them, the pressure was the greatest one on Liu Zhifei.

In this battle, Team Five was attacked by two Sirius Gate cultivators, although the team was fighting with all they had, waiting for the reinforcements from the Heaven-Shaken Sect to arrive, Team Five still paid a heavy price, with five of the ten cultivators dead and five wounded, two of them seriously injured, while most of the team were already crippled.

In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that the two Sirius Gate cultivators that surrounded and attacked Squad Five at the beginning wanted to recover their full strength and wipe them out without losing a single person, it was simply impossible for Squads Five to survive the arrival of Squads Three and Seven.

Opening Spirit School had merely come here with the intention of taking advantage of the situation, and had not made up his mind to fight to the death with Heaven-Shaken Sect. The battle between the two sides seemed to be bustling, but in the end, only two people from both sides were slightly injured.

However, at this time, whether it was the crippled fifth group or the basically unharmed seventh group, all of them looked at third team witint of admiration. third team, under the situation where both sides were almost on par with one another, had killed five of their opponents consecutively, and almost completely turned the situation around with one squad.

If not for the fact that the third team had scared the cultivators of Sirius Gate, the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s side could be considered to have suffered a terrible loss. From the looks of it, the battle that happened today was still the one that caused serious losses to the Heaven-Shaken Sect, but the Sirius Gate had also lost five cultivators, and the Heaven-Shaken Sect was also a middle tier cultivator.

After returning to the stronghold, Liu Zhifei forcefully endured his injuries and reported what had happened to Ji Chenglin, who was in charge of the seventh squad. When he returned, Liu Zhifei’s face was still pale, but the chaotic aura around him had calmed down.

Luo Bingkun had already been sent to Sha Tian Village. His injuries were relatively serious and the fiery energy from the Fire Waterfall Spirit Technique had already penetrated deep into his internal organs. He needed to ask the alchemists from the Heaven-Shaken Sect in Sha Tian Village to refine a kind of fire pill for him to get rid of it.

When the members of the third team were gathered together, the expressions of the nine people were not very good. Although the previous battle with the third team looked impressive, in reality, in order to obtain the victory, they had already expended seventy to eighty percent of their spirit energy. Although they were not directly injured like Liu Zhifei, they were all at the end of their wits.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for him to speak, Liu Zhifei said in a deep voice: “This time, we suffered a huge loss, we never thought that the Sirius Gate would dare to attack so viciously, and luckily we did not let the Sirius Gate off easily, but Squad Five is already disabled, and have retreated to Sha Tian Village to rest, there will soon be a new squad to take over.”

Qi Zhou eagerly asked, “Senior brother Liu, what should we do next?”

Liu Zhifei glanced at him, then laughed: “Recuperate and recover your spirit energy, continue to patrol the border.”

Qi Zhou panicked and said, “Senior brother Liu, I am not talking about this...”

“Alright, alright,” Liu Zhifei laughed: “You brat, you can’t even joke around, let’s talk about the distribution of the spoils of war.”

Sure enough, upon hearing that, everyone’s originally dispirited look became excited, and they heard Liu Zhifei continue to speak: “According to the method we discussed previously, for the human head contribution and the spoils of war, the ones directly killed can be given priority one, the remaining will be shared equally.”

Seeing everyone nod their heads in acknowledgement, Liu Zhifei said: “Alright, let’s talk about the first stage Sirius Gate cultivator killed by Guangyu and Qing Nian together. You two should choose between the contestants or the spoils of war.”

Hearing Liu Zhifei say that the two of them had killed them together, both Zhuang Guangyu and An Qingniang were stunned. An Qingniang’s expression became anxious, and just as he said “No …” But when Liu Zhifei glared at him, he felt weak from the bottom of his heart, and was stumped to the point of being unable to say a word.

In fact, at that time everyone knew that Zhuang Guangyu had already knocked the Sirius Gate cultivator out, but An Qing Nian was the one who attacked him earlier, this was not really too moral, Liu Zhifei said that the two of them had killed each other together, although An Qing Nian was not willing, but he knew that he had done the same, and could not help but accept Liu Zhifei’s words, as for Zhuang Guangyu, he had no objections.

However, that Sirius Gate cultivator did not even have a single storage bag on him, and the things he had found in his waist pouch were scattered. Aesult, the two of them did not hesitate to split the items between each of them.

Because it waeam collaboration, in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, the Heaven-Shaken Sect set up a human head contribution reward. Under a human head, there was another third of the human head, another half of the human head, and another two-thirds of the human head contribution reward.

However, one should not underestimate the contribution of only a third of a human head, as this was able to exchange for two pieces of low-grade Dharma material from the Heaven-Shaken Sect, and a half of a human head could be exchanged for a mid-grade Dharma material, and two heads could even be exchanged foigh-grade Dharma material.

Although Zhuang Guangyu and An Qingniang only had half a head each, they could still exchange for mid-grade magic rank spirit materials or three low-grade spirit materials. For the two of them, this was quitarvest.

Although this Sirius Gate cultivator’s background was poor, Liu Zhifei still solemnly divided the points into eight parts, and handed them over to all the members other than Zhuang Guangyu and An Qingniang. Luo Bingkun’s portion, on the other hand, was temporarily kept by him.

After that, it was the second stage human realm cultivator that had been smashed into pieces by Yang Junshan’s Mountain Monarch Seal. When he said this, the crowd’s gaze towards Yang Junshan was a little strange, because the way Yang Junshan used his artifact was too violent. Fang Zhonghui, who was responsible for taking back his spoils of war, complained even more, saying that when she went to pick up the spoils of war, she looked aile of rotten meat and bones and puked up a few times.

Fortunately, this person had a storage bag on him, if not the items on his body would have been smashed apart by the Mountain Monarch Seal. After looking through the items on the storage bag, Yang Junshan chose to use the human head combat skill without hesitation.

The remaining items were similarly divided into nine parts by Liu Zhifei, but it was only one storage bag that took up half of the value of all the items, and in the end, Qi Zhou took a liking to this storage bag, so he gave another portion of the Jade Coins to the rest, and this storage bag landed in his hands.

The remaining Wang Zong and Qi Zhou each killed one of their own. The two of them also chose the human head battle achievement, but these two Sirius Gate cultivators were only first stage cultivators, so Wang Zong only had a third of the human head battle achievement, while Qi Zhou had a complete human head battle achievement.

When it was time for the person with the highest cultivation to be beheaded, the third stage cultivator had his head smashed by Liu Zhifei’s hammer, and because his cultivation was lower than Liu Zhifei’s by one level, he only had a third of his human head left.

Liu Zhifei shook his head regretfully, and said: “Whaity, if I had shown mercy and let Xiao Yang kill me, then it would have been two heads worth of meritorious service!”

“Let’s do it this way,” Liu Zhifei continued: “These one third of our heads aren’t really of much use to me, for us to be able to obtain sucuge victory in this battle, the most important thing is that Xiao Yang was able to kill that Sirius Gate cultivator the first moment, which allowed us to quickly gain an advantage, thus giving it to Xiao Yang.”

Yang Junshan was startled when he heard it, and ignored the admiration on everyone’s faces, and immediately replied: “How can that be!”