Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 545: Chapter 351: Nameless Temple_2

The Attendant Student had a youthful face, but his voice was exceedingly old and hoarse, as if he were an elderly man who had witnessed the vicissitudes of life.

“Something’s wrong, there’s noise outside!”

No sooner had his voice faded than Captain Jiang’s expression changed, and he suddenly burst from the ground, drawing his Magic Sword from his waist and holding it in front of him, all the while staring expressionlessly outside the temple door.

At that moment, the world outside the temple was deathly quiet, with no sign of anyone appearing.

But the next second, there was a sudden rustling noise outside the temple door, and the ground trembled slightly, as if a multitude of small animals were gathering and scurrying around the dilapidated temple at a rapid pace.

In the dim night, pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly materialized out of thin air in the gaps next to the door and through the wind-blown holes in the roof, their gaze filled with greed and hunger.

Seeing this, Captain Jiang’s sword eyebrows gradually stood on end, and abruptly the Magic Sword in his hand vibrated, sending out three streaks of white Sword Light, which flashed through the doorway in the blink of an eye.

The miserable squeals rang out immediately, and the blood-red eyes outside the temple vanished in an instant.

Meanwhile, the other Red Dragon Knights drew their weapons, their faces grave as they guarded the two pale-faced elders and retreated to the back of the Divine Platform,

After firing off a strike, Captain Jiang sharply turned his head and raised his sword towards the three scholars, shouting furiously, “Who are you curs to dare to attack a court official? Do you not fear the extermination of your nine clans?”

Seeing this, the Attendant Student jumped three feet high in anger, put his hands on his hips, and shouted back arrogantly, “Hey kid, quit trying to scare me with that crappy sword. Although I’m currently down on my luck, I’m not someone a mere Qi Refinement practitioner can bully. Plus, the one to take you down isn’t me alone, it’s that base wretch who recognizes a demon as his father.”

Captain Jiang’s face changed slightly at these words, and just then, the pale-faced elder who had been protected behind the Divine Platform suddenly spoke up, “Hmm, Captain Jiang, don’t be so quick to believe the ghostly tales of others. These three are suspicious and must be in league. Capture them all immediately.”

“Your lordship, please leave this place quickly,” Captain Jiang called out without looking back, his eyes fixed on the scholar, the Attendant Student, and the middle-aged doctor, while he continued to issue urgent commands.

“Heh heh, without my permission, none of you will leave this place alive,” remarked the middle-aged doctor with a chuckle, his quirky handlebar mustache twitching comically.

But as the rustling noise outside resumed and countless blood-red eyes appeared once again, most of the people present couldn’t bring themselves to laugh.

For at that moment, an evil stench, accompanied by bursts of cold wind, quickly pervaded the air inside the temple, filling it with a dense and foul smell.

Suddenly,

The middle-aged doctor threw himself to the ground, and his body swiftly grew thick, grey-black coarse hair, his head began to twist and deform, his lower jaw protruded forward, his prominent incisors jutted out from his lips, appearing huge and sharp, and his handlebar mustache suddenly flared out like rat whiskers.

At first glance, he looked just like a reincarnated rat spirit.

Squeak squeak squeak!

At this moment, countless cat-sized grey-haired rats flooded into the temple from every nook and cranny like a tidal wave.

Innumerable rats crowded together, and the ground and walls seemed to be covered with a large grey fur rug. From this rug, dense rats’ heads poked out, their bloodshot eyes blinking intensively.

The carpet of rats began to slowly writhe, inching closer to everyone inside. The open space within the temple visibly shrank before everyone’s eyes.

“My lord, step back!”

“Red Dragon Knights, form up—protect the lord and break through immediately!”

“Be wary of that man-rat, and keep an eye out for the Rat Demon outside! On my count of one, two, three, we break out together,” Captain Jiang directed calmly amidst the danger, quickly taking steps to the front of the group, his Magic Sword suddenly bursting with dazzling brilliance. In an instant, he made continuous slashes, with Sword Light being sprayed out.

This time, however, their target was not the mice in front of them, but rather the walls behind them.

As the temple walls came crashing down, the man-rat made a high-pitched and frantic squealing.

In the next instant, from all around the broken temple, a large number of grey-furred rats suddenly burst off the ground and walls, fearlessly leaping up and attacking all in their vicinity.

“Get the hell away from me!” At that moment, from another side of the temple, the Two-Horned Scholar shouted disgustedly, stretching out a tender fist and throwing a hard punch.

Boom!

A massive and bizarre fist light swept out, and countless gray rats bore the brunt of it, instantly ground into mincemeat by the surging fist power concealed within, clearing out a large open space in an instant.

However, these grey-furred giant rats, fearless of life and death, charged even more fiercely towards the Two-Horned Attendant Student under the leader’s control.

Hah!

Upon seeing this, the Two-Horned Attendant Student felt a surge of malicious energy, let out a strange laugh with a ‘hah’, sank his waist to his stance, and threw another punch. His fist light, like a massive column, stormed out irresistibly, clearing all the rats in front.

Not only that but even the entire temple wall was blasted open by the light column with a giant hole tall enough to accommodate a person. After breaking through the temple wall, the light column still had enough force left to plow a three-foot-wide trench into the ground while it disappeared into the deep night sky.

This punch seemed to have exhausted a great deal of the Two-Horned Attendant Student’s strength.

After the punch, his face suddenly turned pale, then he twisted his head towards the scholar and shouted, “Big Boss, I’ve only got one punch left in me. If you don’t release my prohibition now, you better take action quickly. Otherwise, we’re all going to die here tonight. And there’s a big fella outside!”

The handsome scholar listened, but he did not lift his head and replied, “You hold them off first. I’ve just started on this ‘Yin Mountain Locust Grandmother’, and I can’t put my pen down.”

“Bloody hell, I must have had terrible luck in my past eight lifetimes to have been fooled by you!” The Attendant Student cursed loudly as he involuntarily retreated step by step.

In contrast, the main battle was taking place on the other side, where the adult rat man’s target was none other than the Lord County Governor en route to his new post.

With a series of “boom” “boom” loud noises, the walls on both sides of the temple crumbled, and dense packs of grey-furred giant rats flooded in like a tidal wave through the gaps.

A very few of these rats were much larger than their peers, almost the size of ordinary wolves or hounds. They emanated faint Devil Qi—each was a First-stage Demon Rat.

As soon as these First-stage Demon Rats appeared, they went straight for the Red Dragon Knights, immediately engaging in combat.

The Red Dragon Knight, each being of the Innate Martial Sect, could barely manage to handle one or two First-stage Demon Rats, but any more would see them overwhelmed and turned into rat fodder.

Captain Jiang wielded his Magic Sword, with sword lights slashing out like blades—each sword capable of clearing a swath, but he was facing too many rats; no matter how many he killed, the number before him seemed undiminished.

At that moment, from the darkness near the dilapidated temple, suddenly came a high-pitched squeal of a rat.

Upon hearing this noise, the rats became more frenzied and recklessly ferocious.

A shadow flickered, and the humanoid rat itself pounced forward. This rat’s strength was not low, and it moved as swiftly as the wind, with claw shadows fluttering and demonic power accompanying its figure, managing to hold Captain Jiang at bay and even push him steadily back.

In the blink of an eye, the white-faced elder and others had to retreat back into the temple, the situation hanging by a thread.

Squeak squeak!

A black light broke through the night sky, landing outside the temple gate and transformed into a black-furred rat of about a foot long.

This rat was petite, with sly and agile eyes, its shiny black fur smooth as silk, and its body emanating a thick Devil Qi—indeed a Second Order Demon Rat comparable to Foundation Establishment.

As the true master made an appearance, Captain Jiang’s face drastically changed as he yelled, “Not good! Lord, take out the official seal quickly!”

At this moment, however, the white-faced elder seemed as if he hadn’t heard anything, standing emotionlessly still, not moving at all, yet he firmly grasped the woman in the gauze’s arm.

Seeing this, Captain Jiang became frantic, “Lord, there is no time, take out the official seal now! The official seal is protected by the nation’s fortune and is the nemesis of all demons and evil spirits.”

Just then, Zhao Sheng put down his brush, stood up, stretched languidly, and then spoke, “Stop shouting! You have been guarding all this way, didn’t you realize that woman is haunted? Your lord has long since become a plaything puppet under someone else’s control.”

As these words ended, a strong aura gradually rose from him, and a glint of red light shot out from his forehead. Ascending into the sky, it rapidly expanded countless times in an instant, morphing into a huge nine-petaled flame of red lotus, instantly capturing everyone’s attention.

“What?!”

“Squeak! Squeak!”

“Ah, it’s the Karma Fire Red Lotus!”

“Lord, we are saved! The scholar… no, the expert, he is actually a Red Lotus Walker from the state religion.”

As Zhao Sheng looked at the faces filled with joy, astonishment, and fear, he suddenly smiled slightly and directed his gaze at the silent woman in the gauze.

“Today, I was waiting for this little rat to fall into the trap on its own, but I didn’t expect to find another Ghost Cultivator coming to my door while hunting. Wonderful! The ways of fate are truly inexplicable!”