Chapter 1691: Start by Catching One Wei First
It seemed as if Jiangnan's words were still echoing in their ears, and everyone still hadn't snapped out of that display of power!
Uncertainty crept into their expressions.
If Jiangnan said something like that, and they ran into him inside, could they really survive?
However, Sen Luo was getting anxious. If none of them went in, wouldn't all his preparations be for nothing?
٩(ꐦ°᷄口°᷅)و "Life and death are fated, wealth and honor are in heaven's hands. No one's going to stop me from becoming king! Charge!"
With Sen Luo's roar, tens of thousands of spirit martial artists from the Wanxiang Alliance charged into the Rainforest Maze!
Sen Luo, along with Bracelet Wei and Ruiya, rushed in first, with the rest following closely behind.
Hope got anxious: "I don't give a damn what Jiangnan said! I'm taking that core!"
Then he led Gu Gua, Na Zha, and his underlings, roaring as they charged in.
And with the atmosphere stirred up by Bracelet Wei and the other actors, Jiangnan's words were completely ignored. Crowds surged into the Rainforest Maze like a tide.
"Brothers, charge! With so many people, can Jiangnan really kill us all? He'll be exhausted to death!"
"If you're afraid of this and that, always hesitating, then don't bother coming out into the world. Just stay home on the kang—safe and sound."
And Solomon led the Thugs into the mist, a smile on his lips.
I'm starting to look forward to meeting him in the maze.
That night, no one knew how many people flooded into the Rainforest Maze, making the ruins of Mountain City seem eerily quiet.
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Over on Jiangnan's side, a violent spatial fluctuation suddenly enveloped him and the others.
The entire Maya Rainforest's mist was filled with manic spatial waves, making it impossible for Jiangnan to sense the existence of any Space Gates.
A sharp dizziness hit them. When they opened their eyes again, the sunlight was almost blinding.
The sound of rushing water roared in their ears.
Jiangnan found himself on a Dragon Head Rock at the top of a waterfall.
The Void Chain had been severed!
Only Hairpin Wei, Ke Ji, Mo Tian, and Liu Mang remained by his side.
The others had been teleported elsewhere—who knew where, maybe not even in the same Spirit Ruin.
(͡°ก͡°) "We got separated after all, huh? Not even the Void Chain could hold us together? This is going to be a pain."
Jiangnan rested his chin on his hand, deep in thought.
Ke Ji's fur bristled: "Careful! A high-level spirit beast!"
A massive shadow swept over the waterfall, diving at Jiangnan and the others at an astonishing speed.
It was a Starlight One Wind Split Bird, which opened its beak and spat out a Wind Blade, terrifyingly fast.
But Jiangnan didn't even look up. A Spatial Barrier instantly formed, slashing upward toward the Wind Split Bird.
With a sharp "shiiing," the huge Wind Blade was cleaved in two, and the Wind Split Bird itself was split in half along with it.
Blood sprayed down like rain toward Jiangnan and the others.
Yet Jiangnan had already vanished with his group, reappearing on the other side of the cliff.
The two halves of the Wind Split Bird crashed into the deep pool, sending up a spray of water that even formed a rainbow.
Jiangnan's hand flicked, and a strand of Spiritual Silk retracted, with a Spirit Pearl wrapped in it. He casually pocketed it.
"Hairpin Wei, what's the situation with your other three clones? Are Xuexue and Shanmao okay?"
Hairpin Wei was still staring blankly at the Wind Split Bird that had been wiped out in an instant.
"(ºД.º*) Damn!
You just killed it? I didn't even see how it died!
Don't you ever take things seriously?"
Liu Mang: ∑(°口°◕)
Ke Ji: ﾞ━=͟͟͞͞(ଵᴥଵ‧̣̥̇)
Killing a Starlight One spirit beast in one move?
Then killing me would only take one move too?
Holy shit!
Mo Tian was equally stunned. She knew Jiangnan was strong, but she never imagined he was this monstrously powerful.
Even Xiao Zhen and the others—now Diamond rank and able to fight Starlight-level spirit beasts—had to do it in a team.
If they ran into a high-tier one, they'd be useless too.
But Jiangnan? Plucking a Spirit Pearl in three seconds—how was that possible?
Hairpin Wei shuddered.
(☍﹏.⁰。) "No... no problem. One of my clones is with Shanmao's team, Qin Shou and his brothers, and Wu Liang is there too. They have the most people."
"Another clone is with Xiong Er somewhere, and one more is with Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao."
Jiangnan scratched his head. That was pretty scattered. He didn't know where Mila and Xing Cheng were, but he didn't need to worry too much.
Everyone who came in with him was capable of standing on their own. Even if they were alone, they'd be fine.
"Let's look for the Spike first. Have any of your clones been to this Spirit Ruin?"
Hairpin Wei shook her head: "It's not in any Spirit Ruin I've cataloged. It should be a newly appeared one. I don't know if there's a Spike here."
Jiangnan sighed: "No choice. We'll have to sweep the whole thing."
Mo Tian looked troubled: (๑･᷄～･᷅) "The Spirit Ruin is huge. Just searching it will take a long time, right?"
Jiangnan grinned: (˶‾᷄⁻̫‾᷅˵) "That's easy."
As he spoke, his gaze involuntarily fell on Liu Mang.
Liu Mang flinched, a bad feeling creeping up on him.
A devilish smile spread across Jiangnan's face.
(΄◞ิ▿◟ิ‵) "Brother Liu Mang! Didn't you say before that you're not afraid of the dark anymore?"
With that, he pulled a basket of Black Garlic out from the Alternate Dimension and thumped it down on the ground.
Liu Mang started crying on the spot.
(●༎ຶᯅ༎ຶ`) "Me again? Can't you switch someone else to be the radar? If I eat a few more baskets of garlic this time, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to go back to being fair-skinned!"
"Why don't you feed it to Ke Ji? They say 'black feed dog,' right? It'd be perfect for him!"
"Besides, black dog blood wards off evil spirits."
Ke Ji: (̿▀̿ﻌ▀̿̿ꐦ) Tch...
Can I punch you?
Hairpin Wei was also shocked. So this black guy turned black from eating garlic?
Jiangnan coughed lightly: (￢ก￢) "Mang Mang! This is a critical mission to save Blue Star. I wouldn't let just anyone eat this. Have you forgotten the joy of being a radar?"
Liu Mang gritted his teeth. For the joy of being a radar!
(●꒦ິ益꒦ີ) "Mom! Just pretend you never had this son!"
With that, he squatted in front of the garlic basket and started wolfing it down.
After downing three baskets of garlic, Liu Mang burped, crying from the spiciness, but he had expanded his detection range to a whopping 300,000 meters.
It wasn't that he didn't want to go further—he just couldn't eat any more.
At this point, Liu Mang had turned so black he was like a black hole—not a single ray of light could reflect off him.
A human-shaped black hole, you know?
With the super-wide-range human radar set up, Jiangnan began teleporting frantically through the Spirit Ruin with Liu Mang.
At this rate, searching an entire Spirit Ruin wouldn't take long.
● "Seventeen o'clock! 210,000 meters away! There's a mercenary group, not small—a few hundred people."
Jiangnan: (≖_≖)...
"So why didn't you just say five o'clock? Do you have some kind of problem?"
Without delay, Jiangnan made 21 teleports and arrived on the scene.
A mercenary group of over 300 people was resting on the spot.
A girl with braids and a mole on her lip was holding a notebook, scribbling something down. She was at Diamond Peak level.
Hairpin Wei got excited.
(*･᷅ꇴ.･᷄) "That one! That's one of Bracelet Wei's clones!"
Braid Wei suddenly looked up, sensing Hairpin Wei's presence as well.
She flinched, a look of hatred on her face: "Damn you! Just you wait!"
Her aura began to surge wildly, clearly about to self-destruct.
Obviously, Bracelet Wei had already notified all her clones that Hairpin Wei had betrayed them.
And seeing Jiangnan and the others, Braid Wei knew her few hundred people were no match for him.
So she went straight for self-destruction.
That way, her levels would revert to Bracelet Wei.
Otherwise, if Hairpin Wei absorbed her, it would be a disaster.
But just as she was about to blow, Jiangnan appeared right in front of her.
(☛･᷄ὢ･᷅)☛ "Hundred Flowers Acupoint Strike!"
His hand shot out like lightning, tapping her body a dozen times.
Braid Wei was frozen in place, her rampaging aura falling away. Every time she tried to channel spiritual power, she coughed up blood.
And she started laughing uncontrollably.
(´థꇴథ) "Ahahaha! You... you'll die a horrible death, pfft haha, don't let me haha find you wahaha!"
[From Vivian: Resentment +1000!]
Jiangnan hoisted Braid Wei over his shoulder and brought her to Hairpin Wei.
Everyone stared at Braid Wei, who was laughing while coughing blood and cursing, dumbfounded.
"What... what did you do to her? Is this Wei broken?"
Jiangnan shrugged: ʅ(･´‸･｀)ʃ "Just hit some acupoints? Never heard of the Laughter Acupoint?"
Liu Mang's eyes went wide, and he grabbed Jiangnan's arm.
● "Holy crap! Acupoint striking is real? I want to learn! Teach me!"
Even Boss Nan knows these kinds of moves?
Jiangnan: (͡°͜ʖ͡°)✧
"Eat three more baskets of garlic, and I'll teach you."
Liu Mang: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿❢)...
I don't want to learn anymore!
Hairpin Wei didn't care whether this Wei was broken or not. She pressed her hand directly onto Braid Wei's face.
Then a miraculous thing happened: Braid Wei's entire body merged into Hairpin Wei.
Only an empty set of clothes fell to the ground.
Hairpin Wei's aura increased slightly, but not enough to level up—this was just a small Diamond Peak clone.
Hairpin Wei closed her eyes, organizing the information from the fusion.
She looked extremely excited. If things kept going like this, there was no way she couldn't eat up all of Bracelet Wei's clones in the Rainforest Maze.
But the few hundred mercenaries weren't about to let this slide.
They grabbed our girl and sucked her away? We can't take that!
They glared and cursed: (ꐦ°᷄Д°᷅) "You motherfu—"
Jiangnan raised his hand, forming a rapidly spinning Rift-Saw Blade, hanging like a Void Angle Grinder.
He casually swung it and rested it on his shoulder.
The space around it was torn into cracks.
(ꐦ°᷄◡°᷅) "What were you saying?"
The mercenaries' eyes went wide with terror.
=͟͟͞͞(꒪ㅂ꒪‧̣̥̇) "You... you're amazing! Really incredible! If... if there's nothing else, we'll... we'll be going now, okay?"