Supreme Emperor of Mist

Chapter 125: Life and Death, Hu Jia (1)

**Bam!!!**

A sudden explosion on a scale entirely different shook the battlefield. Even Huang Ping and Wang Xun are unable to calm their heart from the aftermath.

"Your highness... Your highness!" Huang Ping's heart felt like it stopped beating when he noticed that the explosion came from Sun Wu Jian's position.

"Bai Yuan! Get the hell off from my way!" Huang Ping lost control over his choice of words for the first time. It was the first time for Wang Xun to witness the changes in Huang Ping's personality for failure to protect Sun Wu Jian.

"Country Protection Spear!" Huang Ping charged forward, no longer focusing on his own defense. Each of his attacks was a level deadlier than before as he neglected his own protection entirely.

Right now, there was only a concern of Sun Wu Jian's safety in his mind.

"White Ape Battling Aura! Explode!" Bai Yuan was unwilling to waver as he fought against Huang Ping in a stalemate battle. To them, a duel like this is worth risking their lives for.

Even Wang Xun was forced to remain at his position as he withness the seriousness of their battle.

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"Attack!" Wu You waved his hand down when he ordered the bandits working under him to fire a volley of arrows towards the hundred or so soldiers who remained under Expert Yi.

It was a sure-win tactic that managed to claim most of his victories in a battle.

"Protect Expert Yi! Protect our leader!" the soldiers struggles as they tried to block the crossbow bolts from turning them into a dead porcupine.

"Again!" Wu You repeated.

"Am I destined to die here like this? Unable to move away from here even a single step?" Expert Yi gritted his teeth as his men fell one after another from the long-ranged attack.

"Expert Yi, please tell my mother I'm sorry for unable to return home."

"Expert Yi... Please bring my copper token home and tell my father what I've done here."

"Expert Yi..."

"Expert Yi..."

"No!"

"No!!!"

"I will not be defeated by these! I am one of the six proud half-step Bone Cultivators of the ninth prince, Yi Xun Cheng!" under all those pressure, Expert Yi screamed. His spiritual energy poured out like a roaring wave as he charged toward where Wu You stands.

"Fifth Bandit leader, Wu You! Let's see who will remain alive at the end of this battle! Accept my attack!" Expert Yi delivered a punch out using a fraction of his spiritual energy.

"Great! It is one of my hobbies to trample on half-step cultivators like you. Let me see what kind of ability you have to become one of the prince's subjects!" Wu You threw his crossbow to one of his subordinates and went forward to fight against Expert Yi.

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**Zup!**

Another bandit fell from Qin Lan's Heavenly Flicking Finger.

"Something must be happening here. Or else, my heart won't be feeling uneasy like this..." Qin Lan picked up his pace as he moves closer to where Hu Jia and Lu Qing Yun is.

Meanwhile, the battle between Huo Zunjie and the eighth-level bandit is getting closer to its finale.

"How can this be?" the bandit retreated a few steps away as he tried to control the bleeding all over his body. Fighting against Huo Zunjie made him realized that cultivation levels were not everything when it comes to deciding the outcome of a battle.

"I don't believe this... I won't accept that I'll lose to a seventh-level cultivator..." the bandit rummaged his belonging in search of some treasure to use. 

But before he managed to do more, Huo Zunjie already came forward with his Yin Ling Jian. Swiftly, he immediately beheaded the eighth-level bandit before the criminal managed to do anything.

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The battle is almost ended where Qin Chan is as well.

**Ding! Ding! Ding!**

"Silver Willow Sword Technique!" Qin Chan's swift attack leaves ten or so cuts on her opponent before the bandit managed to retaliate.

"Aargh!" the bandit immediately swung his hammer upward. But it was for nothing because Qin Chan was long gone when his attack arrived. He's been repeating such a pointless move for some time now without able to create a difference.

"What's wrong? Did you get tired from all those fighting?" Qin Chan asked. She did not forget to keep taunting her opponent as they fight.

"Tired? I can even ravage girls like you for three days and three nights without stopping. There was no tired in my dictionary." the bandit said. Putting on a pill into his mouth, he raised his hammer once more and charged toward Qin Chan.

"Pervert like you should be circumcised. Let me do something on behalf of the heaven!" Qin Chan retaliates. With a sword in her hand, Qin Chan clashed against the long hammer a few more times before a scream is soon heard.

"Aargh!"

"You bitch!" the half-step Bone Cultivator's scream is heard all around the battlefield. Even Xiong Jie, who was fighting against one of the two Sun Wu Jian's experts, stopped. Feeling weird about what happened, he pays attention to what's going on over there.

"How dare you cut my genitals off! I'll make sure you will be ravaged the moment I capture you! I'll strip you naked, parade you all over the stronghold, and make sure that the old, young, and even child defile your body until you... Di...eee..."

The screaming bandit continued for a while, and before he managed to finish his words, Qin Chan swiftly stabbed her sword through the bandit's throat.

Blood spurted out from the wound as the hammer in the bandit's hand fell on the ground. Both of his hands quickly tries to cover the cut from bleeding, but it was useless.

Soon, the bandit fell on his knees as he breathed his last.

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"This is not good..." Xiong Jie took a glimpse around the battlefield. He had lost close to half of his men in this battle that lasted less than half a day.

But nothing hurts him more than the fact of losing two peak-level experts in a battle that hardly profitable.

"Where are you looking?" Expert Shun said as he delivered a fist attack at Xiong Jie.

**Bam!**

Another half-step Bone Cultivator appeared beside Xiong Jie. This cultivator effortlessly defended against the Expert Shun attack.

A whistle is then taken out from Xiong Jie's chest pocket as he gives it a blow.

Soon, all the experts in between eighth, ninth, and half-step levels all came to his side after hearing the sound of Xiong Jie's whistle. It was quite a formidable group because there are still seven experts here following Xiong Jie. And this is after deducting two experts killed by the Qin Faction.

"What's in your mind, second boss?" one of the seven experts around Xiong Jie asked.

"Prepare to leave. We'll be heading to the Ten Miles Plain. Let them follow if they want." Xiong Jie answered.

"Brother Shun." Expert Xie also came to expert Shun's side the moment their enemies gathered together.

"Are you doing alright?" Expert Shun asked.

"Still not dead yet. I can't believe that there are so many experts in the Hushan Bandits. Through what way do you think they're using to sustain themselves?" Expert Xie answered. He also brought up the question in his mind as he finds it hard to believe the size of this rumored Hushan Bandits Stronghold.

"Perhaps only his highness or Alchemist Qin know the answer behind this..." Expert Shun shook his head.

"Lan-Er!" Qin Chan immediately came to Qin Lan's side the moment she killed her opponent.

"Follow me as we go to where Hu Jia and Qing Yun are. I am a little worried about them." Qin Lan said as he held his second sister's wrist while they're walking.

The people from the Qin Faction slowly gathered into a big group the further Qin Lan move away from the core area of the middle convoy.

"Third young master... Don't you think we went too far from the main group?" Han Xue asked.

"That's why... From my understanding, Hu Jia and Qing Yun are the most attentive members of our factions. Even with my second sister is with them, they won't repeat a mistake like this." Qin Lan said.

"Han Xue... Move forward. Search around for Hu Jia and Lu Qing Yun." Qin Lan said. The feeling of uneasiness in his heart is getting stronger the further he went.

"Han Xue understands! Covert Operation Team, follow me! Let's search for Lady Hu Jia and senior sister Qing Yun's whereabout!" Han Xue and his five team members split into six directions to search for them.

By right, this location is considered almost out of the fighting perimeters. There are only escaped bandits lying around here, with some succumbed to their injury or too afraid to retaliates.

**Xiu! Xiu!**

"Bam!!!**

A firework that created a word of "Qin" exploded about three hundred meters further.

"Lan-Er... This!!!" Qin Chan was the first one to feel slight despair in her heart. This firework was an emergency signal used when a life and death issue happened within their group.

Furthermore, the life and death issue didn't apply to everyone, but only to Qin Chan, Qin Qin, Qin Huang, Hu Jia, and Qin Lan himself!

With Qin Qin and Qin Huang still with the middle convoy, Qin Chan and Qin Lan himself here... There's only one possibility...

"HU JIA! HU JIA!"