Chapter 4416 — First Sit Down and Rest
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Though the events of each iteration of the Southern Continent Escort Agency Grand Assembly differed in detail, their essence remained the same: there was always a group-versus-group contest. This was because such a situation was the most common one encountered in real escort work, and no matter how the format changed, it could not deviate much from that. Thus the Yongxing Escort Agency's preparations could well be called a blood-costing investment.
Executed jointly by two experts at the peak of late Golden Core and two more experts of late Golden Core, and drilled together for a full year besides, this move, Blazing City Inferno, was utterly invincible at the Golden Core level. Whatever the enemy tried was futile; to think of breaking through their defensive line was sheer delusion!
The four from the Yongxing Escort Agency had now, after that first exchange, fully entered their zone. Faint ripples of true qi passed between them, clearly linking them into a single whole. The scorching heat radiating from their bodies seemed ready at any moment to swallow a person whole, filling the air with an ominous sense of extreme danger.
Compared with before, the probing assault of the four from the Qingtian Escort Agency this time was noticeably more cautious. Once again the Golden Core Perfection cultivator led the charge, and once again they chose the same late Golden Core opponent as their point of attack. The only difference was that this time their formation was tighter, making it easier to support one another and harder for the enemy to cut them apart.
Blazing City Inferno! Once more four walls of fire surged into the sky, and this time it was not only the leading Golden Core Perfection cultivator who suffered, but the other three of the Qingtian Escort Agency as well. Though they did in the end break through the ring of fire, every one of them reeked of scorching, in a most sorry state.
The onlookers could not help but point and whisper. The Qingtian Escort Agency was one of the five great agencies, and they had assumed it would at least hold the upper hand. But judging by this, hold the upper hand—what upper hand? This was nothing short of being comprehensively crushed by the Yongxing Escort Agency.
It looked as though, this year, the Yongxing Escort Agency might well prove a dark horse and take the Qingtian Escort Agency's place!
"Hmph hmph, reckless fools. I advise the four of you to just hide away obediently and not move at all. Otherwise, once you're all burned to black ash, you'll be saying we from the Yongxing Escort Agency went too far, and then everyone will lose face—won't they?" Seeing this, the woman chattered on all the more, needling everyone's nerves as always—the classic type who, once she had the advantage, would never let it go.
"What do we do?" The four from the Qingtian Escort Agency ground their teeth. They could not swallow this humiliation, yet did not dare act rashly. They had already suffered two losses in a row. The first time, one could still call it underestimating the enemy; but the second time surely not. At this rate, they truly had not the slightest hope of winning!
"Di the Second, can you really pull it off? Are you confident you can take out that shorty Number Four?" The group all turned to look at the Golden Core Perfection cultivator. This man's surname was Di, and he was the second son in his family, so everyone in the agency called him Di the Second.
As for the "shorty Number Four" they spoke of, that was precisely the Number Four whom Wei Zhao had named and numbered just now—the weakest late Golden Core cultivator on the opposing side.
"Very difficult. This shorty Number Four may not be much himself, but joined with the other three, their coordination is exceptionally smooth. To go after him means taking on all four at once. If we really tried to force him, at least two of us would have to die first." Di the Second shook his head helplessly.