CHAPTER 623: CHAPTER 169: DESPERATE BATTLE AT THIRD RANK (REQUESTING MONTHLY PASS)_3

Jingwei Filling the Sea!

Xu Shu was still holding on!

But the First Master’s hook was extremely sharp, after withstanding five strikes, the shield of Jingwei Filling the Sea was broken.

The hook pierced into the flesh, but couldn’t penetrate through the bone, making a clang sound, the hook chain broke again.

"Iron Bone? This is Iron Armor."

"I’ve never seen Iron Armor this formidable."

"Tsks, good, good, good! This time, the main meeting will be very pleased!"

The three Masters had cheerful expressions on their faces.

Followers flocked behind them, flattering with obsequious laughter.

Demons ran riot.

Xu Shu clenched his teeth, holding the "Wuwei Hourglass" in his hand, unsure who to throw it to.

Would it be useful?

Useless.

Three Third-Rankers teaming up, with dozens to hundreds of First and Second Rankers backing them up, so many people ganging up on him, a Second Raker—it was already a miracle among miracles that he had lasted up to this point!

Fourth Master put on a pair of black gloves and said, "This kid is too slippery; let’s kill him and turn him into mincemeat, lest we have troubles if the night drags on and it affects the upcoming ritual."

"Sound reasoning."

The First Master nodded, summoning ten hook chains;

Second Master flipped open a book, pulling out a short blade gleaming with silvery light.

Xu Shu gritted his teeth, attempting to struggle, but the characteristic of the "Cage" was that the longer one was trapped, the tighter the lock.

He was now completely immobilized, absolutely unable to escape, at a dead end.

At this moment, scenes flashed before his eyes like a torrent, the arduous survival when begging on the streets after losing his parents at a young age, the regret and anger when Senior Sister Xinyi fell into another’s embrace, the pride when he became a Transcendent after containing the Curse Seal...

My life has been on thin ice!

Xu Shu’s eyes widened as he watched the hook aim for his face.

Even in death, he refused to close his eyes.

Crack!

The hook shattered into pieces, the short blade snapped in half.

"My Execution Blade...!" Second Master cried out in pain, collapsing to the ground as if dealt a heavy blow, continuously spitting blood.

The First Master, too, paled, turning to look together with Fourth Master.

Yu Mingluan sat on the ground; he was no longer breathing heavily, but instead had a satisfied look on his face.

"Little Five, what are you doing?" First Master roared.

Xu Shu quietly watched, his mind suddenly clearing, no wonder Yu Mingluan had referred to the Third Master as ’little three’ before, it turns out he had also joined the Heroic Society.

Yu Mingluan looked at the three Masters with a joyous expression, clearly stating, "You can’t kill him."

"What did you say?" all three Masters asked at once, wary of Yu Mingluan.

"The main told me, the world is fair, he is a Second Ranker, so only a Second Ranker can kill him; you are not allowed to intervene. Little Three didn’t understand the rules; I’ve educated him."

As he spoke, Yu Mingluan coughed and retched, then suddenly vomited out a head that had been digested until it was a bloody mush, with an expression of shock and fear still lingering on the face.

First and Second Masters’ eyes widened suddenly: "Little Three!"

The head on the ground was none other than the "Grandmaster" recently trapped by Xu Shu’s ’Path of Absolute Eradication’, the Heroic Society’s Third Master.

The Archbishop’s state was strange; he seemed to have shifted from his previous state into another...

Xu Shu blinked, realizing why the Third Master had not been able to catch up; it turned out he had died.

"Yu Mingluan, have you gone mad? Are you ill in the head or what? You brought the person here, you said to kill him, now what’s gotten into you?!" Fourth Master cursed loudly, retreating step by step while swearing, after four or five sentences he had backed up seven or eight steps.

Suddenly he fell to the ground, a chain appearing around his neck, his face turning red as if he were choking, his head grotesquely deforming as if about to transform into a sheep!

The Head of the house wasn’t a man fond of speaking. His massive frame pushed forward, becoming even more gargantuan as if inflating before their eyes.

The criminal pathway skill, "Furious People"!

The Second Master’s face turned grim, his complexion fading to a deathly, unsettling pallor as his skin hardened, losing all traces of blood.

"Gatekeeper", ghoulification!

They launched their attack on Yu Mingluan simultaneously. At such close range, they both opted for melee tactics from their respective Transcendent paths.

Unlike the "lawyer" pathway, both the "criminal" and "Spirit Communicator" had means of significantly enhancing their physical bodies!

Facing the attack of two of his peers, Yu Mingluan lifted his head and declared indifferently,

"I came, I saw, I conquered!"

Boom!

The limbs of the Head of the house suddenly detached, sprouting fleshy, furry hooves as he transformed into a sheep.

The Second Master turned into a ghoul, his body harder than steel; he became a stiff, dead sheep.

The Fourth Master’s head had also completely deformed, emitting an exultant bleat: "Meh~ Meh!!"

In just an instant, all three leaders of the Heroic Society had turned into sheep.

Yu Mingluan looked back and asked, "Who else wants to become a sheep?"

The nearby "heroes" all retreated.

They didn’t want to be sheep.

"Meh~ Crap! Yu Mingluan, what are you doing? Have you lost your mind?"

The Head and the Second Master bleated and cursed in anger.

Yu Mingluan watched them, tilting his head with a smile tugging at his lips, his face occasionally showing traces of obsession as he seriously inquired:

"Who allowed you to speak to me this way?"

"I am here in search of my master. What are you here for?"

Head, Second Master, Fourth Master: "..."

The three defeated leaders of the Heroic Society no longer talked back.

One had become a chubby black sheep, another a tender white lamb, and a third a rigid sheep corpse.

In the entire hall, the atmosphere had swiftly shifted from the fiery battle to a silence so deep you could hear a pin drop, with no one daring to speak another word.

The "Cage" that once encompassed Xu Shu had long disappeared.

But he didn’t know whether he should run now or not.

Yu Mingluan’s condition seemed very strange!

He was madder than before, plunged deeper into lunacy!

But Xu Shu felt it was good that he had gone mad; if he hadn’t, Xu Shu would have died just then.

But what now?

Xu Shu glanced at the door, contemplating whether to run.

But where could he run to?

If the entrance to the underground ruins didn’t open, he couldn’t leave!

At that moment, Yu Mingluan stood up, dragging strange cords of luminescent rope, ushering the three sheep to one side and tying them to a door in a small compartment.

He looked at Xu Shu and said, "You should go now. You gave me the news of my master, and I thank you for it. I won’t stop you. But I can only help you this much; otherwise, my master would be angry."

I gave you news? When did that happen?

Xu Shu was bewildered, but you can’t reason with a lunatic. Hesitating, he said, "Archbishop, aren’t you leaving?"

Hearing the title, Yu Mingluan smiled, picking up a bone that looked like a piece of white jade from the ground, cradling it in his arms, and said obsessedly, "I can’t leave, I have to wait for someone to return, I need to get things clear."

After speaking, Yu Mingluan closed his eyes, emitting a rhythmic snoring sound.

He had fallen asleep!