Chapter 295 294. Guards (Subscribe!)

"stop!"

Xu Qing raised his arm and asked the demon hunters behind him to stop.

There is a big murder ahead!
The murderous aura was so thick that it was almost condensed into substance. Just sensing it made him feel a stinging pain in his lungs.

It was as if the air had frozen into ice, and the ice crystals inhaled during breathing scratched the trachea, causing intense pain to spread throughout the limbs.

Clang Clang Clang.
Deng Deng Deng.
Under the gaze of Xu Qing and a group of demon hunters, the sounds of footsteps and the collision of armor suddenly rang out.

In the darkness, armored soldiers wearing black armor and dark animal-shaped helmets on their faces, with their hands on the long swords at their waists, ran towards them with unified and heavy steps.

The black-armored soldiers lined up in neat rows and stopped ten feet away from Xu Qing and the others. A murderous aura far stronger than before suddenly hit them.

The palace road, which was originally wide enough for several carriages to run side by side, suddenly became a bit crowded with the arrival of these black-armored soldiers.

It was like a tall and thick city wall rising out of thin air.

"Imperial Guard" Xu Qing's eyes were solemn.

Although the elite troops guarding the imperial palace were small in number, every soldier was at least a cultivator of the fourth realm.

There are twelve branches in total.

The leader of each group is a great monk of the fifth realm or a third-grade warrior.

The great commanders of the twelve zodiac signs are either practitioners of the sixth realm with great supernatural powers or second-grade warriors.

A group of black-armored Imperial Guards stopped in front of Xu Qing and others, with only a pair of eyes exposed under the beast-shaped helmets covering their faces.

Lightning flashed across the sky, and the instantaneous light illuminated a pair of eyes filled with murderous intent.

The demon hunter behind Xu Qing was not willing to be outdone. His blood and murderous spirit surged, crisscrossing and confronting the opponent's momentum.

Most of the demon hunters of the Arctic Exorcism Institute come from poor backgrounds, and they have fought their way up to their current status and strength step by step.

The killings and life-and-death crises they had experienced were definitely no less than those of the group of imperial guards in front of them, or even more!

Therefore, although there are fewer people, the aura they exude is just as great.

On a straight line along the palace road, two teams of people stood in front and behind, facing each other from a distance, with their swords drawn.

The aura they exuded crushed each other, neither giving in.

The tense and solemn atmosphere spread all around, full of oppression. Everyone felt the other's momentum and strength and their hearts unconsciously tensed.

The battle is about to break out!
Xu Qing mobilized the vital energy in his body to the maximum extent, his eyes ignited with golden flames as he examined the imperial guards in front of him.

They were all fourth-rank warriors, but the leader of the team did not seem to show up.

Xu Qing had a plan in mind. Without a leader, even though this army of armored soldiers had more soldiers, it shouldn't be a problem to kill them all.

"boom--!"

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, and electric branches grew thickly, covering the sky above the palace.

The light splashed down.

After a very brief period of silence, the rumbling sound of thunder rolled in from afar.

There was thunder, like the blast of a horn.

The frozen atmosphere in the palace was instantly broken, the silver bottle broke and water splashed out, the iron cavalry rushed out with swords and guns rang out!

"kill!"

"kill!"

next moment.

The two sides rushed towards each other.

It was like two armies launching a resolute charge.

The Royal Guards were composed of warriors, and the demon hunters of the Arctic Exorcism Institute were also mostly warriors, with only a few being disciples of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Therefore, the first confrontation between the two sides was extremely rough and simple, without any fancy magic tricks.

There is only the collision of blades and the collision of qi and blood.

The murderous intent is boiling!
clank clank——

Long swords were raised and lowered one after another.

The sky was filled with sword shadows, layer upon layer, like a violent storm, like a surging wave.

The two torrents of sword light collided violently.

The powerful energy exploded in circles, like a lake in a rainstorm, with ripples spreading uncontrollably.

The four guardian gods simultaneously crashed into the torrent of sword light on the opposite side.

The Jiazi God swung the axe that could split mountains and break peaks, and arcs of electricity and golden light splashed everywhere. The armor of all the guards who were touched by the golden light cracked into tiny cracks.

The eyes that revealed the beast-shaped helmet showed a look of horror.

The armor they were wearing was made by the Ministry of Works and was ranked as a medium-level magical weapon that could not be easily broken.

Even if the commander wanted to break the black armor on them, it was not a casual thing and he had to take it seriously.

But under the attack of this divine statue, cracks appeared at the first strike? !

On the other side, the pair of purple-gold air-shaking hammers of the Jiaxu God collided with each other, and dense cracks immediately surrounded the dozen armored guards on all sides.

It was like a thorny prison that trapped these guards.

Dozens of armored guards tried to mobilize their energy and blood to break free from the prison, but lightning continued to surge out from the cracks, crackling on them and slowing down their movements.

When they finally broke free from the prison, a huge hammer fell from the sky, carrying lightning and hitting them, knocking them into the ground.

The remaining two guardian gods, Ding Chou God and Ding Hai God, cooperate with each other to fight the enemy.

The buildings of the palace, including the ground, are protected by a large formation. The Ruyi Trident cannot control even a single brick and tile in the palace.

Therefore, the combat power of Ding Chou God was at least reduced by half, and he could only rely on the blessed Yin Fire and martial arts to deal with these armored guards.

The Ding Hai God flying in the air turned the colored glaze mirror, and the mirror light surrounded by Yin Fire shone down.

At the moment when the armored guards were immobilized, a halberd came out like a dragon, bringing with it a series of sharp whistles.

With a "bang", the armored soldier of the Royal Guard was knocked away, and the Yin Fire immediately climbed up and bit him.

The black armor of the Royal Guards was shining brightly, trying to extinguish the attached Yin Fire, but the nature of the Yin Fire was that once it was contaminated, it would not be easily extinguished.

The rest of the guardsmen saw this without any ripples in their eyes. They continued to charge forward, fearless of their own safety.

They formed a multi-man army formation and cooperated to encircle and suppress the four guardian gods.

But in this way, a large number of guards were tied up by the four guardian gods.

A royal guard has about two hundred people, and the four guardian gods alone account for more than 40% of them.

The rest fought with the demon hunters.

Xu Qing is no exception.

The first target of the Imperial Guards was Xu Qing, the inspector and the master of the four guardian gods.

He was inevitably attacked by concentrated fire.

"Die!" The eyes exposed in the beast-shaped helmet flickered with murderous light, and the look he gave Xu Qing was filled with strong murderous intent.

However, facing the sword beams coming from all directions and many auras locking onto him from afar, Xu Qing did not panic.

He leisurely formed the Red Emperor's Qi-nourishing Talisman, and myriad fires flowed out from the talisman.

The flames rolled around Xu Qing's body violently, and all the sword beams that touched the flames shattered in an instant, turning into light fragments all over the sky.

Xu Qing glanced around.

At the moment, the two sides were fighting in a melee, so it was inconvenient for him to use large-scale moves, so he simply condensed the fire energy on his fist. Under the blessing of the five elements and five qi melted into the Yuanqi, his body reached a terrifying state -

The Golden Lotus of Buddhism granted him a blessing called [Vajra], which made his body indestructible.

The thick soil gave him stability, making his muscles, bones, and tendons as solid as a mountain.

With the addition of the other three energies, his physical physique alone is strong enough to make him a third-rank warrior.

Of course, the physique of a third-rank warrior is among the best in all cultivation systems, but it is not just the physique that has the strongest killing power.

But facing these fourth-grade warriors, whose physiques are comparable to those of third-grade warriors, he is able to suppress them forcefully!

Xu Qing crouched slightly, and the lingering fiery energy around him outlined the shape of a tiger roaring towards the sky.

Liuhe Xinyiquan·Tiger Form!
The tiger has the courage to pounce and fight, it can shake the mountains and rivers and dominate the hills!

The Liuhe Xinyiquan, which Zhang Qing had almost abandoned since he entered the Qi Refining Realm, was picked up again by him.

He stamped his foot heavily on the ground.

With the sound of the ground shaking, his figure turned into a flash of red light and swept out. The huge sound of the air exploding was like a tiger's roar resounding through the mountains and forests.

Faced with this fierce momentum, the faces of the armored soldiers of the Imperial Guard all changed.

They are warriors and understand the horror of this momentum better than anyone else!
boom--

The red light flashed past quickly, and wherever it passed, the armored soldiers of the Imperial Guard flew backwards to both sides.

Click click
The dark beast-shaped helmet on the face of the armored guard who flew backwards broke apart, and pieces of debris flew everywhere, revealing the horrified face inside.

The armor on his body was cracking layer by layer, and the "cracking" sound continued.

The Ten Thousand Fires were born from the Ten Thousand Fires entangled on the Divine Fire Platform and possess extreme destructive power.

Even though the Royal Guards' armor is special, it cannot withstand the destructive power of Ten Thousand Fires.

The power of the pure Ten Thousand Fires is even greater than the Jiazi God's axe that splits mountains and breaks peaks.

Of course, this is also because Jiazi God’s strength is affected by Xu Qing’s own level of cultivation.

Since its birth, the quality of Wanhuo's fire energy has been the best in the world.

The noise Xu Qing made was really loud, even Feng Lingchen and the others who were fighting couldn't help but look sideways.

Even the battle on the palace road paused for a moment.

"Isn't the Inspector a Taoist practitioner? Could it be that the Inspector also takes into account both the talisman and inner alchemy schools?" Feng Lingchen's eyelids twitched.

Just one collision caused at least a dozen armored soldiers of the Imperial Guard to lose their combat effectiveness.

Qin Hongsheng, who was fighting alongside Feng Lingchen, had a complicated expression:

"The inspector is a disciple of the head of Yuanfu Temple. How could he practice the inner alchemy school? I didn't expect that the inspector's body could be tempered to this level. It's unbelievable!"

"How can a warrior like me feel ashamed of this?"

Bai Lele was the most adept at controlling a large number of poisonous insects among the crowd. She looked at the powerful Xu Qing, tilted her head, thought for a long time, and then said:

"Big brother, you are awesome!"

Zhong Neng Rat had been hiding in the scent bag early in the morning, but suddenly popped up at this moment, and exclaimed in amazement:

"The physical cultivation of this Taoist priest from the Fulu Sect is so much stronger than that of martial artists of the same level and Taoist priests from the Inner Alchemy Sect."

"I really don't know what he practices."

Li Ping'an's cultivation level is the lowest among those present, even though he has mastered the Dharma images of his ancestors and can exert power beyond his realm.

But this power can only be used for two or three strikes.

So he could only throw talismans on the side to assist.

"How come Xu Qing gets more abnormal as his realm gets higher? He used to be in the second realm beating those in the third realm, but now he can crush fourth-level warriors with just his physical body." Li Ping'an muttered.

"That doesn't mean that a Level 3 player can defeat a Level 5 player. If that's the case, it's too exaggerated!"

There is a difference between minor supernatural powers and medium supernatural powers between the third realm and the fourth and fifth realms.

Although the difference between the intermediate and great supernatural powers is not as great as in the past, there is still a gap between the realms.

But Xu Qing managed to cross these gaps.

Xu Qing didn't know what other people were thinking, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. He just wanted to get rid of this guard as soon as possible.

Rushing forward swiftly, Xu Qing twisted his waist and turned his body, and the flaming tiger surrounding him pounced on the nearest armored soldier of the Imperial Guard.

The tiger's mouth opened wide, its teeth clenched, and it swallowed the guard in one gulp, causing his armor to crack and send him flying backwards.

Bang bang bang!
Xu Qing was unlucky and used the advantages of his physical body to the limit.

He punched and kicked, making the air roar. None of the nearby guards could match him.

With the strength of one person, he overpowered nearly 20% of the Imperial Guards!

The demon-hunting envoys were shocked to see that Xu Qing was so ferocious and that together with the four Dharma images he released, he was able to tie up more than half of the guards here.

The Royal Guards are worthy of being the elite of the army. Faced with such an extreme disadvantage, they still remained determined and refused to retreat even a single step.

"Kill! Don't let them get through!"

Five armored soldiers formed a military formation, with their auras circulating among each other and converging on one person.

The blood and energy in this person's body rumbled and thundered.

Then a knife came slashing down, its sharp edge revealed, as if it was going to cut through the dark night.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly.

Facing the blade light, he raised his fist and smashed it, breaking it directly with force, crushing it with the simplest and crudest physical strength.

boom--

Xu Qing smashed the sword light with a punch and rushed out. He quickly changed from a tiger form to a bear form. He extended his fist, and the armored soldier who cut out the sword light flew backwards. The armor on his body broke, and he hit the palace wall and then slid down.

The battle in the palace entered a white-hot stage.

However, as time went on, the balance of victory gradually tilted towards Xu Qing.

In the end, the guards guarding the second palace gate were all defeated by Xu Qing and a group of demon hunters.

The second palace gate was thus captured by them.

"huhuhuhu"

Xu Qing was breathing slightly. He did not immediately lead the demon hunters to break through the second palace gate.

Instead, he took out a large number of Three Lights and Righteousness Talismans, Five Elements and Five Organs Talismans, and Qi and Blood Replenishing Pills.

He had a premonition that something big was going to happen, so it was impossible for him to be completely unprepared.

With the help of the Arctic Exorcism House's background, whenever he had free time during this period, he would draw a large number of talismans and store them.

As for the elixir, it was also obtained from the Arctic Exorcism House.

Unfortunately, apart from the standard swords and knives, there are no other powerful magical weapons in the Arctic Exorcism Institute.

This is the rule set by the royal family and the Arctic Exorcism House after a certain emperor once bargained with the Arctic Exorcism House.

The magical instruments in the hands of the Arctic Exorcism Institute are placed under the management of the royal family.

When the demon hunters need to use magic tools to deal with evil spirits, they will apply to the royal family for use.

This was the method that the emperor used to control the Arctic Exorcism House after realizing that the Arctic Exorcism House could not be moved.

"Let's go!"

After taking magic talismans and elixirs to recover a little, Xu Qing led a group of demon hunters to break through the second palace gate!

(End of this chapter)