Heroes and Villains: Chapter 10

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The whole area surrounding the Snowpeach town is now full of a mountain of rotting carca.s.ses . Everywhere one can see different kinds of beasts which are already rotting lying on the ground . While outside the town as tall as the wall, lays the dead bodies of the horde which were supposed to be besieging the town .

But no one knows why, when all of a sudden every single undead beast rampaging suddenly collapsed and stopped moving .

This bizarre phenomenon made the survivors dumbfounded . They didn't even know how to react as the undead creatures fell to the ground .

Inside the town mayor's mansion, the ground is already littered with bodies of both cultivators and undead beasts . The mansion itself has 2 huge bird-like creatures embedded on the roof and the walls; their black blood slowly oozes out of their rotting carca.s.ses . The mayor himself was not spared in this chaos, as his lifeless body is on the ground and half of it is inside the mouth of a fallen green three-eyed giant .

From the look of his expression, it seems that he died a horrible and painful death as his body was slowly chewed by the monster .

Through the town, almost all of the buildings are in ruins, except for those who have strong protective arrays like The Roc's eye merchant branch . Outside that building, many town folks can be seen s.h.i.+vering while hugging each other . Most of the survivors are women and children who were able to run towards this place .

In this apocalyptic like scenery, where cries of despair and sorrow echoing throughout the town, a single figure can be seen standing atop a two-story building . This figure is Jie Ye, and on her hand, she held a device that she slowly pointed towards the whole town while slowly turning around .

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"Master, the whole town is in ruin . " Jie Ye said while holding the camera and pinching her nose .

The mere whiff of the foul stench of the mountain of undead creatures can make one throw up . As a woman, Jie Ye has already thrown up when s.h.i.+n Jiao asked her to check the surroundings . When she was asked with this tasked she felt a little hesitant and scared . But when she saw the light of day and the unmoving creatures she heaves a sigh of relief .

But as soon as she opens the door, her stomach immediately churns and she lost control and threw up . She did not expect the a.s.sault of the foul stench, and then afterward she was able to regain her composure and jumped up to the roof .

As she calmly absorbs the natural energy in the spirit stones and beast core that s.h.i.+n Jiao gave her, she was able to improve her physique a little, just enough to the level of a primary stage body refining cultivator . But her mental power and mana control is truly terrifying . Right now she discovered that her mana capacity is still not enough to be compared to other mages at her age . But with her mana control, she is able to cast fist-sized fireball for a hundred times .

"Sigh… luckily the horde was stopped . How are you and the kids?" the voice of s.h.i.+n Jiao on the other line sounded with a tinge of worry .

"We are doing fine master . Thank you for your concern . " She replied feeling a bit touched .

"Okay, go in now and hide . I will try to finish this as soon as I can, we'll talk later . " s.h.i.+n Jiao said as his voice was cut off .

"Take care master, be careful… you are our only hope to live in this crazy world now . " Jie Ye muttered as her gaze turns towards some pitiful people who were able to survive this ordeal crying on the ground while their gaze roams around aimlessly .

Those who have survived are now trying to find someone to comfort them of their grief from the loss of many of their kin .

I was at this time also when suddenly many cultivators can be seen on the horizon outside of the ruined town . These are the surviving cultivators which s.h.i.+n Jiao met running outside of the forest . It took them too long to get to the town because they too faced a lot of undead beast on their way . And right now they number no more than a hundred people, which means many have already fallen .

"What?! What happened? The town! Oh no! Oh no!" suddenly someone from the crowd of cultivators shouted as a figure rushed out running with his full speed towards the town's gate .

The rest shook their heads and followed behind him .

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When Su Aw was caught in the explosion his connection to every undead creature was severed . This means that he didn't have any hold on their souls anymore . With that incident except he activates the soul mist to cover the town, he could not regain his control to those undead creatures anymore .

Su Aw didn't really expect that the trapped cultivators would still have this kind of trump card in their hands . This time, because he was too drunk with the power from the soul essence his confidence was too high and his vigilance became lax . Even his subordinate was too overconfident from winning their battles easily .

Well, it can't be blamed on them as their strength is really far greater than normal cultivators . If one would face them, then loosing is the only option . Aside from their strength, there is also the soul binding with Su Aw . If ever they die in battle they would automatically turn into an undead . This is due to the mist in their surroundings .

But when the explosion happened Su Aw was caught off guard and was wounded severely . This is because instead of getting saved by Mer Li, he actually moved his body to block those incoming fragments .

He didn't understand himself at that time, as when the explosion happens everything suddenly was in slow motion . He saw Mer Li running towards him to block the incoming fragments . Seeing the worried look on the woman who stayed by his side all this time, he instinctively hugs her and turns around making the debris. .h.i.t his back . Though he was able to send out his Qi field, yet, it was not strong enough to protect him from the blast .

Both of their figures were actually blasted off into an old house . When they come to everything is already in ruins . Accidentally he also saw Jester on the corner and he didn't seem to suffer that much . Because on top of him is the corpse one of the undead generals . The undead general is already not moving because his body is riddled with fist-sized holes . Almost the side of his body facing the blast was torn to shreds .

"Master! Master! Are you okay? Please stand up! We need to leave this place . " Mer Li's soft voice woke Su Aw in his stupor .

She quickly ran to his side and slowly helped him to get up . Then from his back, Mer Li saw the huge gashes of wounds .

"My… My power seems to be not responding… I… I need to go back to the cottage . " Su Aw muttered weakly .

When Mer Li heard his voice she felt a pang of pain in her heart . If Su Aw didn't save her, he would not have suffered those heavy wounds . Mer Li immediately takes out some healing pills and gave them to Su Aw, and then she even put some healing powder on his wounds .

"What… What happened, master?!" Jester's suddenly asked in a weak voice .

Though he was able to avert being wounded heavily except the impact and the force from the explosion made his head dizzy .

The three of them slowly walk towards the outskirts of the village where Su Aw's hut is . On their way, the three noticed that there seems to be something following them . The eerie feeling they get from that person or thing that's following them made the hair on their back stand on end . This just means that what's following them is a powerful ent.i.ty .

So they hasten their steps to the hut . This is because in that place there is a mid-grade protective array . If they can reach it then they would ensure their safety from whatever it is that's following them .

Since Su Aw can't use his ability right now, the three are blind like regular cultivators so they are not confident to face anyone as of this time .

Meanwhile, from a distance, s.h.i.+n Jiao carefully follows them while jumping from tree to tree . While following the group he actually noticed something .

"It seems that the huge shadow attached to that man is growing bigger . " s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered .

"Yes, I can feel a sinister aura coming from down below Master s.h.i.+n," Jiyi muttered while being held by s.h.i.+n Jiao .

She has now forgotten her shyness as it was suddenly replaced by an eerie and sinister feeling .

"Actually we are not the only one going towards them . It seems that the thing in that man is like a sinister or evil ghost . And…" s.h.i.+n Jiao said but stopped as an idea suddenly enter his mind .

Then he adjusted something in his goggles and the scenery in front of his eyes suddenly changed . Then he almost lost his footing and fell down after seeing the scenery in front of his eyes .

"d.a.m.n it! So that's what that thing is . It seems that we are going to face a more powerful enemy this time . " s.h.i.+n Jiao said as he looks at Jiyi with complicated eyes .