Chapter 37: Five Against One

Reaching my teammates on time, the Mount Fuan's had already gotten hold of our artifacts and planned on sneaking away with it.

"Oh no you don't!" I drew out my whip and the four tails advanced at the mount Fuan's wrapping itself steadily around one of the disciples who struggled to free herself.

"Xuan!" The girl among them called out to one of her teammates and they all turned around in unison, a gasp escaping their lips at the sight of me.

"I knew there was person lacking amongst them!" They glared at me, drawing their swords out the same time and I released the disciple from my whips hold, I glanced at my teammates who were still sound asleep, really?!

"You guys?!"

I called out to them but they weren't answering or showing any sign of waking up, are all of them really that deep in sleep?!

The Mount Fuan disciples suddenly laughed at me and I stared alarmingly at them, why the sudden laughter??

"Oh my, don't bother yourself cause they won't wake up for another hour." One of the disciples blatantly said to me and I didn't understand what she meant by that.

"Meaning?"

"What she means is we put a spell on them, they won't wake up until an hour or so." He smirked making the inside of my tummy twist like it was being tied with a knot.

My eyes widened at the revelation and I gazed at my teammates unable to believe it.

"Zhangjie? Bai QingQing?" I called out softly but still got no response. I frowned deeply at the mount Fuan's, this has totally gotten out of hand.

"What did you do that for?!"

One of them raised the sack we had kept all our artifacts showing it to me with an irritating smug on his face.

"For this, you were mostly sent to the most dangerous places so your artifacts are bound to be worth stealing."

"Don't you have any shame, admitting something like this?!"

"Well if you don't let us go in peace, we'll just have to take care of you too."

"Of course we will, she's the one who dared to throw water at us!"

Well it was technically five against one so I'm overpowered at the moment but that doesn't mean I was going to run away from a fight! Since they chose to actually put a spell on my teammates, I'll have to get those artifact on my own.

They had me surrounded leaving no space for an escape route, my grip tightened around the handle of my whip and the first one out of them lunged his sword at me but I leapt into the air evading his hit while staying on the defensive side. Another disciple followed my footstep trying to gain which seemed like an overhead attack on me. Raising my whip, the four tails encircled his blade before he could strike me and with full force, he was thrown to the other side of the field landing hard on his butt.

They gazed at their teammate with a bit of shock, clearly angered I just dealt with one of them. They lunged at me countering forward and I evaded all hits, their mode of fighting was quite different, Mount Xuandu was known for speed but the mount Fuan's seem to focus more on timing and distance, a simple techniques, slow but once they make the right strike, enough to deliver a full blow that'll definitely hurt!

I remember this move very well even though my weapon had nothing to do with sword but I'm glad I gained knowledge of it because an idea struck me. Studying their pace, one seems to be a lot faster than the other and it was meant to confuse me but luckily, I just had the best master who thought me an escape route for it all.

I kept a distance from them, letting the wind help with my lifting and landing silently at the other side, the four tails made it's advance once again, wrapping four of the disciples and slamming them against each other before letting go.

From the corner of my eyes, a disciple from another sect was getting away with my teams artifact, great now which sect could that possibly have come from??

"Hey, bring that back!" One of the Mount Fuan disciples had caught up with the him, snatching the sack from him and easily dealing with the disciple landing a heavy blow straight at his face even I myself couldn't ignore the impact of that hit.

"Don't mess with a mount Fuan!" He glared at the boy who remained on the floor and I wasn't done with him yet, sending my whip after him I snatched the sack from him but he was equally strong, evading the hit and lunging a powerful blast at me, how I managed to evade the hit, I had no clue but a strange force swept through me it collided with the Mount Fuan disciples sending them falling to their knees, the sack slipping from his grip and all our artifacts falling to the ground.

A purple crystal gem headed my way and I caught it out of involuntary measures. I quickly planned on dropping it when the purple crystal glowed brightly in my hands dancing with sparkles, I could feel it's powers pulsating through me and I wanted to drop it but I couldn't, the rest of the Mount Fuan gazed at me in awe but it only lasted for a couple of minutes before that angry glare returned to their faces and the five of them at once sent a powerful blast straight at me, just when I thought it was probably the end for me, the purple crystal formed a solidifying shield around me and the blast couldn't penetrate through it, immediately deteriorating. The energy pulsating through me was too strong, my body shook, the power inside of me was becoming too much I didn't need more! Relentlessly, the energy flowed straight to my whip and it glowed in a golden and purple light.

To my dismay, a portal was starting to open and my eyes grew wider at the sight, dashing a quick glance at my teammates, they haven't woken up yet, enough to clarify how strong the spell actually was. Why now??

The Mount Fuan smirked with truimph and gathered the artifacts back into the sack.

"See yah losers." They mocked me and that's when I had it!

The shield dissolved right after and a purple light from my whip lashed out at the mount Fuan's before they could get to the portal, only one of them was able to avoid getting hit and he was heading straight into the portal with the artifacts!

"Stop!" Without thinking, I rushed over to him wanting to drag the sack from him but he wouldn't let go.

"Get your hands of it!" He raged at me.

"No you let go!" We kept dragging and ended up slipping,I yelped as we fell straight into the portal together.