Ji Hao felt as if an electric current had passed through his body; there were goosebumps over his entire body and the tiny hairs on his body were all standing up. He detected all sorts of emotions contained in the shouts of Ji Ying and Ji Lang; tension, shock, and even a slight trace of fear.
Ji Lang and Ji Yang held their head high and their weapons tight, while taking three steps forward and faced the two clansmen of the Jia Clan bravely. They might not be aware of the fear buried deep inside their own hearts, but Ji Hao certainly was.
"Uncle Ji Ying, what the hell is the Jia Clan?" Ji Hao looked at the two four-eyed men walking quickly towards him and shouted to Ji Ying.
"Withdraw! Hao! Back!" Ji Ying gripped his spear and growled. Streams of fire spurted out from his body, his body turning almost translucent in the raging fire. "They're monsters from the Jia clan! Stay away from them!"
"Hehe...hehe..." The Jia Clan warriors curved their lips and chuckled in disdain.
Looking at the inhumane enemies, Ji Hao took a deep breath. The purple light spot which was condensed by his internal power appeared between his eyebrows and started rotating rapidly, continuously drawing the surrounding power of the nature into Ji Hao's body.
Ji Hao's body trembled a bit, after which he started reciting the [Nine Secret Words]. At that moment, Ji Hao's silhouette became hazy and indistinct. Followed by a muffled thunder in the air, Ji Hao pointed his left hand towards the sky and his right hand towards the earth. His pupils were shining with a chilling cold light. At the same time, a chilling wind blew across the air.
The ground under the feet of the two Ji Clan warriors started moving like water. Tens of arm-thick thorns of dirt thrusted out from the ground. The tips of these thorns were shining with the same chilling cold light as that in Ji Hao's eyes. Under the control of Ji Hao's power, the hardness of these thorns were greater than that of steel.
However, these sharp and hard thorns shattered into dust against the armours of the Jia Clan warriors. The Jia Clan warriors stood still, but their armours were shining without even a trace left by those thorns. Their mocking laughter turned louder and their eyes, colder.
"Ji!" Ji Hao snapped. All the plants in the vicinity began to shake suddenly. Hundreds of towering trees withered and collapsed, and large patches of grass were rapidly scorched. Only a few plants near the two Jia Clan warriors were wrapped by a green light and started growing madly; their leaves and vines expanded over hundreds of times in the blink of an eye. Under the influence of Ji Hao's magic power, these leaves and vines became as hard as rebar and coiled around the bodies of the Jia Clan warriors like serpents.
Those huge vines continued coiling around the Jia Clan warriors and wrapped them into a large green cocoon, after which it started wriggling and wringing, making a gravely raucous noise.
"Such a boring trick!" A cold and glib voice came from within the green cocoon. Just when the voice faded, the cocoon blasted open due to the power from the inside; countless pieces of leaves and vines were blown away by the power of the impact. The two Jia Clan warriors calmly broke loose from the cocoon and continued striding towards them.
"Hao! Step back!" Ji Lang growled. "These Jia Clan people are monsters! Only a Senior Magus can deal with them!"
Ji Hao didn't listen to Ji Lang. He interlocked his fingers together and channeled the [Nine Secret Words] in order. The power of the [Nine Secret Words] allowed Ji Hao to connect his own internal power to the power of nature. The nature power around him started rotating like an invisible whirlpool. A small spark emerged from the air then started a great fire around Ji Hao. Nine arm-thick and tens of feet long, fiery snakes darted out of the blazing fire and rushed towards the Jia Clan warriors, emanating great heat.
The fiery snakes hit right onto the chests of the Jia Clan warriors, but they didn't even blink when it happened. They only threw a mocking glance at Ji Hao and kept advancing. The nine fiery snakes exploded with a loud bang at the very next second, shedding sparks and smoke, and fell with a great splashes of fire near their heavy armours, failing to leave even a trace on them.
Ji Hao attacked the Jia Clan warriors over three times with all of his best sorceries. The lethality of his attack was even greater than that of an elite Junior Warrior's attack. However, the two Jia Clan warriors weren't harmed even a little bit. Ji Hao couldn't sense any magic power from the two Jia Clan warriors, which meant that they took all of attacks only with their strangely strong defensive capability.
"Shoot!"
Growls of a few Qing Yi Clan warriors came from behind Ji Hao. Tens of long arrows hurtled towards the Jia Clan warriors.
The Jia Clan warriors gave a scornful laugh, then closed their eyes. The Qing Yi Clan warriors were the best archers in the Southern Wasteland. The tens of arrows hit onto closed eyes of the Jia Clan warriors almost simultaneously, which gave Ji Hao a spurt of great joy. However, after less than one second, his heart sank heavily; he felt cold and hopeless like he was drowning in the Cold Stream in the middle of the valley.
All of the Qing Yi Clan warriors guarding the Cold Stream Valley were middle-level Junior Magi, even some elite Junior Magi. The arrows shot by them could easily puncture tens of towering trees over miles away. But just now, their arrows had clashed against the eyelids of the Jia Clan warriors!
The Jia Clan warriors blinked and shook off the dirt left by smashed arrows. After that, they took a few big steps forward, and walked up to Ji Ying and Ji Lang.
Ji Hao stared at the two Jia Clan warriors nervously. What kind of freaks were they? Even their eyelids were indestructible, like iron walls and had shattered the arrows of the best archers in the Southern Wasteland! Ji Hao thought.
Ji Ying rushed out ahead of Ji Lang. He leapt up from the ground, held his spear high and pierced towards one of the Jia Clan warrior's heart. At the same time, the spearhead spurted out a raging flame.
Ji Ying injected all of his power into his spear, causing a great might to be emitted from the spear. The earth started shaking intensely and the soil melted rapidly. Not long after, a thin layer of lava covered the ground near Ji Ying and spread towards the surrounding areas.
The Jia Clan warrior who was facing Ji Ying held the bola in his left hand and took a step sideways then twisted his body at a weird angle, and dodged Ji Ying's attack. The spearhead sliced through the air, an inch away from his face, but didn't touch even a hair of his.
Ji Ying had missed his target. Before he had landed back on the ground and was able to adjust his posture, the Jia Clan warrior threw a punch at his throat instantaneously. Ji Ying let out a very muffled moan, lost his breath and showed the whites of his eyes.
After that, the Jia Clan warrior raised the bola and heavily hit against the back of Ji Ying's head with it. Ji Ying shouted out in pain, fell hard on the ground, causing his body to tremble continuously.
"Ji Ying!" Ji Lang growled and jumped up, rushing towards the Jia Clan warrior who was standing in front of Ji Ying. The other Jia Clan warrior seemed to have already foreseen his plan; once Ji Lang moved his feet, he put a heavy shield, which had abruptly appeared from nowhere in front of his partner. Ji Lang hadn't seen this coming, he collided hard against the shield; his head broke instantly and blood spurted out.
Ji Hao's pupils constricted to the size of pinpoint when he saw what happened.
The attacks of these two Jia Clan warriors were so clean and straight. It seemed like they had practiced this thousands of times.
Ji Ying and Ji Lang, two powerful young Senior Magi were each knocked down by a single attack. Ji Hao felt as if the Jia Clan Warrior weren't even humans, they were instead akin to fighting machines!
"Ha! Hehe..."
"Yo hohoho!"
"Ho ho! Ho!"
Seeing Ji Ying and Ji Lang lying on the ground as they tried to struggle back up with faces covered in blood, all of the Savages who were badly frightened by Ji Hao's slaughter and dumbstruck by the death of their leader, started shouting and jumping for joy.
Due to the generally low intelligence of these Savages, their behaviour was completely animal-like. Once their leader was defeated, they would turn and flee right away. But if their leader gained the upper hand in a battle, they would become the most ferocious warriors and tear every single enemy into pieces!
The terrifying enemies that just killed their leader had been knocked down by their honoured guests, granting boundless courage to these scattered Savages who were just about to run. They picked up their weapons before turning around then glaring at Ji Hao and the Cold Stream Valley behind him while shouting and clamouring.
"Human! A lot of humans! Meat! Delicious meat!"
"Olds, chewy! Youngs, tasty!"
"And women! Hey! Women! Hehe...women, mine!"
The Savages were drooling and yelling as they cautiously approached Ji Hao. Their strides constantly widening and their courage ever so increasing. Suddenly, one of them growled. Thousands of Savages started rushing towards Ji Hao and the Cold Stream Valley with their weapons raised high.
"Hao! Step back! Quick!" A warrior of the Qing Yi clan shouted at Ji Hao from the top of the unfinished wall.
Tens of Qing Yi Clan warriors pulled their out bows and shot hundreds of arrows in the span of two breaths.
Wisps of arrows whistled through the air and flew into the crowd of Savages like an intense rain. The remarkable shooting skill of the Qing Yi Clan warriors allowed every single arrow to wind a unique path through the air like a wriggling snake.
The arrows went through one, then two, then three, then even more to the Savages' throats. Each of the arrows pierced, at least, three Savages' throats. One of them even punctured the throats of fifteen madly running Savages before finally falling to the ground slantingly.
Immediately, blood splashed everywhere, covering heaven and earth.
A few Savages who were running in front of the crowd fell to the ground. They howled and struggled painfully with their hands around their punctured necks, then died soon.
The momentary courage of the Savages was now gone without a trace. Those Savages that luckily survived the arrows started screaming terrifyingly; they dropped their weapons and fled in the opposite direction of the Cold Stream Valley with all of their remaining strength.
The two armoured Jia Clan warriors frowned and shook their heads.
"These useless wastes! These Savages are no better than animals! They're not even qualified to be slaves! We have to do this ourselves!" Said the Jia Clan warrior who held a bola in his hands. He then sneered and continued, "The two of us are enough to capture the entire valley!"
The Jia Clan warrior with heavy shield and sword let out a sneer as well, and said, "We still need these Savages to send all these captives out of the valley for us. We can't let those archers kill all of them!"
The Jia Clan Warrior hung his shield on his belt then held his sword with his left hand, and crooked his middle finger of his other hand towards Ji Hao. He slightly raised the left corner of his upper lip and said with a mocking smile, "Hey, little kid, such a young Maguspriest. you're really good! Come, let us see what else you got!"
Ji Hao took a deep breath. His black pupils suddenly turned into a golden-red colour; nine spell symbols of the [Nine Secret Words] emerged around both of his pupils. The power of the [Nine Secret Words] began to drag the nature power into Ji Hao's body, even darkened the sunlight tens of feet around Ji Hao.
The Jia Clan warriors curiously looked at Ji Hao and showed no signs of attacking. Obviously, they didn't take Ji Hao serious at all, they were just curious about what Ji Hao was going to 'perform' for them.
"Hao! Back! You can't deal with 'em!" Ji Ying shouted. He was hit hard on the back of the head by the bola warrior and almost lost his consciousness; he had now leapt from the ground and raised his blazing spear, and stabbed towards the Jia Clan warrior's neck. The spear left a huge arc of fiery light in the air.
The life force of the Senior Magi were extraordinarily strong. The heavy bola's punch might've smashed the head of an ordinary man; however, Ji Ying only felt dizzy after he was hit by the bola, and soon recovered from it; he rose and fought again with his full power.
At the same time, Ji Lang, whose forehead was cracked and broken with face covered in blood, leaped high in the air as well. He took out a black dagger and stabbed towards the other Jia Clan Warrior's face.
In the meanwhile, he also shouted to Ji Hao, "Hao, draw back! Quick! Everyone stay back! Back! Back!"
Ji Hao calmly looked at Ji Ying and Ji Lang, yet he didn't move.
Mr. Crow quietly stood on Ji Hao's shoulder and ruffled his feathers. He fixed his eyes onto the dense jungle, where all these enemies came from and totally ignored the two Jia Clan Warriors.
Ji Ying and Ji Lang made their counterattacks simultaneously. However, the two Jia Clan Warriors suddenly stretched out their arms at exactly the same moment, and grabbed the necks of Ji Ying and Ji Lang, smashing them hard to the ground.
The earth shook intensely; Ji Ying's and Ji Lang's body was deeply buried into the ground.
"Kill!" Ji Ying roared from the hundreds of feet deep hole his body buried into, then jumped out of the hole with his body wrapped by a blazing fire, and rushed towards the Jia Clan warrior again.
"We're Senior Magi from the Fire Crow Clan!" Ji Lang spat out a mouthful of blood and also jumped out of the other hole. His dagger had gone missing when he was pummeled into the ground; he had now clenched his fists and threw punches to the Jia Clan Warrior instead.
"They're way stronger than you! Way stronger!" Ji Hao gnashed his teeth and growled in a low voice. "Why're you have to be so stubborn? Do you have to risk your lives against these guys?!"
Both of the two Jia Clan warriors took a step aside and easily dodged the attacks of Ji Ying and Ji Lang. Their actions were so unified, which gave a weird feeling that was very hard to explain. They avoided Ji Ying and Ji Lang's attacks with merely a simple step; then crooked their arms and leaned their upper body forward, striking hard against Ji Ying and Ji Lang's lower bellies simultaneously with their hard, hammer-like elbows.
Ji Ying and Ji Lang were sent flying backward instantly like cannonballs; their body sliced through the air, started a sharp air steam even cut a tens of feet long and five feet wide ditch into the ground. The two of them then heavily fell to the ground near Ji Hao's feet; their eyes widened and blood gushed out of their mouths.
This time, they were seriously injured and couldn't rise again even with the strong life force of Senior Magi.
The Jia Clan warrior with a sword then crooked his finger and sneered at Ji Hao again: "Come on, little guy, let me see what you got!"
"You think I'm stupid?!" Ji Hao showed his middle finger to the Jia Clan warriors without caring whether they could understand the meaning of this hand gesture. He then grabbed Ji Ying and Ji Lang with both of his hands and resealed the power inside his body, transformed into a stream of fiery light and disappeared.
In the next second, Ji Hao appeared near the entrance of the valley with Ji Ying and Ji Lang held in his arms.
"Retreat!" Ji Hao shouted while running madly toward the end of the valley. "Uncles, retreat! The enemies are too powerful! We have to wait for Abba and the other warriors to come back! Retreat! Just leave these slaves here!"
Tens of Qing Yi clans warriors quickly drew close to Ji Hao; other Fire Crow Clan warriors who were guarding the valley followed Ji Hao and ran toward the end of the valley as well.
However, two figures then broke into the valley like a tornado. They bursted into the crowd of Fire Crow Clan and Qing Yi Clan warriors, sending tens of them flying; these warriors then fell hard on the ground thousands of feet away and coughed up blood ceaselessly.
Ji Hao stopped running; because he saw the Jia Clan warriors were waiting in front of him with that mocking sneer on their faces.
They moved too fast, Ji Hao didn't even clearly see how they broke into the valley.
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