Calamity Messenger

Chapter 373 - 306: Murong Hui

"Don’t stop the Resentful Soul Guide, she can’t escape!"

On the street illuminated by the Demon Dragon’s Evil Flame, a three-story building was broken from the inside, and colorful candies spilled out. A dark figure emerged from the candy pile. Her skin was a caramel-like tan, and she had a scythe-shaped ponytail that reached her waist, wearing a body-hugging Black Scale Full Body Armor. With a single bounce, she leaped to a lamppost on the opposite side of the street, like a captivating shadow carelessly brushed by a god.

But the bracelets on her wrists that sparked with arcs of electricity, and the powerful grip that left five deep impressions on the lamppost, all proved she could transform into a predatory beast hunting in the Mortal World at any moment!

With a crack of thunder, a Fine Iron Arrow pierced through the rubble of the candy house and shot accurately at the position of the dark-skinned beauty. She stepped on the lamppost and continued to leap, but then transparent ghost hand phantoms appeared on her legs, as if stepping into a quagmire mid-air, making her land softly, her speed reduced to an extreme!

"Finally, the Resentful Soul Guide has entangled her, now is the time!"

Zheng Zheng Zheng! More than six Fine Iron Arrows tore through the sky simultaneously, their strings resonating like the roar of steel, because it was indeed so, as this was the Qi Kingdom’s top weapon, the Barbarian Bull Great Bow. The bow’s body was made from Secret Realm Refined Steel, and the bowstring was crafted from the leg tendons of the Third-Turn Demon King ’Barbarian Bull King’. Though not a Rare Treasure Token, the Barbarian Bull Great Bow could only be drawn by a Third-Turn Messenger, and paired with Fine Iron Arrows, each arrow’s power was equivalent to the strongest strike of a Third-Turn Messenger!

The Barbarian Bull King had a deadly move: after locking eyes on an enemy, it would suddenly charge with a force that was both destructive and imbued with a deathly aura. If hit by the Barbarian Bull King, even a Third-Turn Messenger would undoubtedly die. The Barbarian Bull Great Bow originates from the Barbarian Bull King, thus every shot is called ’Barbaric Bull’s Eye’.

Once watched by the ’Barbaric Bull’s Eye’, you’ve got one foot in the Ghost Gate!

Early on, being targeted, the dark-skinned beauty felt a chilling dread, her every hair screamed with the urge to flee. Even with the defensive Rare Treasure Token of a Third-Transformation Curiosity, it was impossible to withstand the six shots of ’Barbaric Bull’s Eye’, a divine weapon of the Qi Kingdom that could shatter iron castle gates in one strike! In the past, Ying Le Commander swept the Central Plains with Baibao Guards, countless Third-Turn Powerhouses fell under the onslaught of nearly a hundred Barbarian Bull Great Bows!

But dodging was out of the question, as the materialized Resentful Soul Guide enveloped her legs, as if thousands of resentful souls were trying to drag her into Hell!

Long-range strikes and Token limitations, though a simple tactical combo, were more than enough to deal with a Third-Turn Messenger.

In this life-and-death moment, the dark-skinned beauty remained extremely calm. She suddenly squatted, her index fingers sparking with electricity, tracing a circle, forming two blue arc rings. With a flick of her hands, the blue arc rings flew out like two crescent moons, precisely cutting the incoming Fine Iron Arrows!

Even though she thwarted the simultaneous assault of six ’Barbaric Bull’s Eyes’, the broken arrowheads still blasted her into the wall. She had no time to take a Blood Replenishing Pill, as the pursuer was already atop the candy store ruins, drawing bow and arrow again. Their right hand bled from the bowstring, for firing ’Barbaric Bull’s Eye’ consecutively requires a hefty price even for a Third-Turn Messenger!

The dark-skinned beauty’s index fingers rotated rapidly, drawing two shrieking, whistling blue arc rings, launching a counterattack before the enemy could shoot. Upon release, lightning suddenly exploded, creating a piercing ’snap’ sound!

Killing Move: Lightning Battle Saber!

This killing move, the Lightning Battle Saber, is unrivaled even in the Three Central Plains Kingdoms, let alone the Outer Realm Four Desolates. It combines core elements like the Thunder Punishment Bracelet, Featherless Arrow, Secret Technique of Finger-Entwining Softness, and Secret Technique Rotating Lamp. Its formidable formulation aside, almost without flaws. Its complexity is not its flaw, but the flaw of the Messenger.

Due to its long-range, high damage, broad impact area, and additional lightning damage, facing the dark-skinned beauty one on one was fatal for any Third-Turn individual. Even if ganged up on, she feared none, as the lightning could penetrate defense barriers and directly inflict paralysis damage on a Messenger.

Such a perfect killing move had only one fatal weakness.

With a cracking sound, the Lightning Battle Saber left only a dark mark on the pursuer’s special armor without causing any paralysis damage.

"Useless." The assassin wearing a Yaksha Mask spoke in a voice devoid of joy or sorrow, like a herald of fate: "Murong Hui, when you overwhelmed the Qi Kingdom’s powerhouses with the Lightning Battle Saber, how could we not prepare? The killing move tailored by Purple Tribulation Zhenren is indeed powerful, but because of that, you rely too much on the Lightning Battle Saber."

Murong Hui felt a chill in her heart; from the very moment of the attack, she realized the peculiar attire of the assailants was highly suspicious, reminiscent of the ’Thunderproof Glue’ described by ancestors, characterized by its highly elastic and non-conductive properties, being the greatest bane to the Murong Family’s Thunder Dao System.

But the Central Plains Secret Realm doesn’t produce Thunderproof Glue. Only the Outer Realm’s East Sea has it, and any commercial exchange between the Central Plains and East Sea would see profits beyond tenfold compared to Thunderproof Glue. No sane merchant would bring it back.

Yet these people were all clad entirely in armor made of Thunderproof Glue...