Chapter 132: Suffering a Setback

“Are they the ones who sold several thousand Golden-Armor Fruits in Desolate Qin City and earned at least six thousand dragon crystals?”

High above, one of the Red Sword Alliance’s Core Elixir experts questioned a thin man.

“That’s right. It’s them. They’ve been tainted with my Phantom Musk. No matter where they run, they cannot escape my search.”

The thin man spoke with smug pride.

Clearly, he had rendered outstanding service this time.

Yi Tian and the others were a fat prize. Several thousand dragon crystals would be a lucrative haul even for the Red Sword Alliance.

Of course, Yi Tian and his companions were not the Red Sword Alliance’s main objective. They were merely an opportunity encountered along the way. Otherwise, the alliance would never have dispatched three peak Core Elixir experts, along with more than twenty experts of the Law Essence and Astral Essence realms, merely to deal with a few young men.

The Red Sword Alliance made no attempt to conceal their conversation.

The expressions of Yi Tian and the others below changed at once.

Their enemies truly had come for them. To be targeted by the infamous Red Sword Alliance was no small matter.

“Kill!”

The leader of the Red Sword Alliance issued the command immediately.

In an instant, the alliance members hovering in the void unleashed their attacks. Some sneered viciously, some remained expressionless, and others looked cold and indifferent as various arcane arts and enormous hands of true essence came crashing down.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At that moment, a barrage of attacks blotted out the sky and engulfed the place where Yi Tian and the others stood.

Yet, at the critical instant, Yi Tian, Yi Shan, and the other six members of the Reincarnation Squad shifted several hundred yards away, emerging completely unharmed.

“Hmm?”

The few Core Elixir experts of the Red Sword Alliance were momentarily stunned.

Though the alliance members were surprised, their killing intent surged even higher. One after another, they charged toward Yi Tian and the others.

Ice arrows, fireballs, thunderbolts, and countless other forces swept through the sky once more. Some even activated magic treasures, unleashing terrifying attacks that tore through the void.

In the next moment, Yi Tian and his companions shifted away again.

The Red Sword Alliance’s attacks were immensely powerful and could strike targets hundreds or even thousands of yards away. Yi Shan and the others had no choice but to repeatedly use the Divine Shift technique to distance themselves from the barrage.

The members of the Reincarnation Squad executed the Divine Shift technique more than a dozen times in succession before finally maintaining a safe distance from their enemies.

At that moment, every member of the Reincarnation Squad produced a treasure bow.

However, only Yi Tian, Yi Li, and Yi Hong possessed low-grade transcendent treasure bows.

Whoosh!

Yi Tian circulated the Heaven-Shooting Sun Art. An arrow condensed from true essence transformed into a dazzling streak of light. In an instant, it pierced through layer upon layer of void and slammed into the body of a Law Essence expert, passing straight through him.

“Ah…”

Only then did the expert let out a shriek. His life force vanished, and his body fell from the sky.

At the same time, the arrows of true essence fired by Yi Feng and the others pierced through the bodies of one Red Sword Alliance member after another. Even those who promptly activated magic treasures to defend themselves could not escape their fate.

This was the current strength of the Reincarnation Squad.

After reaching the peak of the Astral Essence realm, their Heaven-Shooting Sun Art had become terrifyingly powerful. Even Law Essence experts could not withstand a single arrow.

Even peak human-rank Core Elixir experts might be shot dead if they were careless, placing their very lives in danger.

Arrow after arrow tore across the sky, carrying the aura of death and claiming the lives of Red Sword Alliance members one after another. The three Core Elixir experts who witnessed this were both enraged and astonished.

“Mountain-Sealing Palm!”

One of the Core Elixir experts could no longer hold himself back.

He struck out with his palm. Terrifying true essence surged, and a mountain several hundred yards high appeared in the sky.

As his palm descended, the mountain came crashing down upon Yi Tian and the others with unstoppable force, covering an area several miles wide. Even if Yi Feng and the others used the Divine Shift technique, they could not evade the attack.

Although their cultivation had reached the peak of the Astral Essence realm, the greatest distance Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the others could shift was only slightly more than a thousand yards. Once a Core Elixir expert unleashed a large-scale attack, evading it became extremely difficult.

Yi Tian’s mastery of the Divine Shift technique was profound enough for him to shift away with ease.

But the others could not do the same.

Faced with the Core Elixir expert’s attack, Yi Shan roared. A phantom of a heavenly bow suddenly appeared above his treasure bow, and the arrow gleamed with dazzling brilliance as a terrifying aura spread in every direction.

Whoosh!

A radiant divine light split the heavens and earth, smashing through the descending mountain. Terrifying energy erupted and swept across the surroundings.

Yet after releasing that arrow, a flush rose across Yi Shan’s face.

The arrow had consumed an enormous amount of energy. Even at full strength, he could unleash it only three times.

“Withdraw!”

Facing three Core Elixir experts and more than a dozen enemies of the Law Essence and Astral Essence realms, Yi Tian ordered the Reincarnation Squad to retreat without hesitation.

Upon hearing their captain’s command, Yi Feng and the others immediately used the Divine Shift technique to move into the distance. Their speed was even slightly faster than that of Core Elixir experts traversing the air.

“Trying to run?”

The three Core Elixir experts snorted coldly and pursued Yi Feng and the others.

But at that moment, Yi Tian blocked their path. His blazing Great Sun Fist thundered toward one of the Core Elixir experts.

The expert’s expression changed. In haste, he also threw a punch. Terrifying true essence exploded, and even the void trembled.

The next instant, the two earth-shaking fists collided, and a force capable of annihilating everything surged in all directions.

Yi Tian and the Core Elixir expert were both forced backward.

This exchange had ended in a draw.

The sight left the Red Sword Alliance members dumbfounded. Some even wondered whether their eyes had deceived them.

Slash!

Yi Tian vanished once more.

When he reappeared, he hurled another punch at the Red Sword Alliance leader, who was pursuing Yi Feng and the others.

Boom!

The leader abruptly turned around and raised a palm to block Yi Tian’s fist.

The earth-shattering punch struck his palm, yet the terrifying force merely drove him back several yards. His hand was completely unharmed.

Yi Tian’s gaze fell upon it. The man wore a pair of gloves, thin as cicada wings and glittering with treasure-light. Clearly, they were a pair of low-grade transcendent treasures.

Fight!

Yi Tian instantly engaged him in fierce combat.

At that moment, Yi Tian attacked with all his strength. The sixth-grade Great Sun Heavenly Art made his attacks extraordinarily powerful, and its searing force seemed to turn the surrounding void into a sea of flames.

While battling the leader, Yi Tian suddenly vanished and reappeared a moment later, sending another Core Elixir expert staggering backward with a single punch.

He was like an unbreakable wall, holding back all three of the Red Sword Alliance’s Core Elixir experts.

As for the Law Essence and Astral Essence experts, Yi Tian did not stop them. Nor could he have done so. Yet they posed little threat to Yi Feng and the others; the Reincarnation Squad might even severely wound them or wipe them out completely.

Only through the Divine Shift technique could Yi Tian restrain all three Core Elixir experts. The other members of the Reincarnation Squad soon disappeared from that stretch of sky and earth.

After battling the three Core Elixir experts for a short while, Yi Tian seized an opportunity to break away from the engagement. After shifting more than a dozen times in succession, he vanished into the endless mountain range, making it impossible for the three Red Sword Alliance experts to catch him.

“Damn it!”

The result left the three Core Elixir experts of the Red Sword Alliance deeply dissatisfied. For such a powerful force to suffer a setback at the hands of a few youngsters was simply unbelievable.

The strength of this squad had far exceeded their expectations.

Most astonishing of all, Yi Tian alone had been able to contend with them. For someone so young to possess such terrifying strength was truly frightening.

Yi Tian fled for dozens of miles before finally encountering Yi Feng and the others.

To prevent their pursuers from catching up again, they released their Astral Essence and completely concealed their auras. In the blink of an eye, they vanished into the mountains.

Not long afterward, the Red Sword Alliance’s airship appeared in the sky.

They searched the surrounding thousand-mile radius several times, but discovered nothing at all. Only then did they leave unwillingly.

The Red Sword Alliance had suffered a heavy loss in this operation. They had failed to butcher the fat sheep and had instead lost six or seven members of their own.

Yi Tian and the others emerged from behind a massive boulder.

This time, they had truly suffered an undeserved calamity by being targeted by the Red Sword Alliance. Although the Reincarnation Squad had grown far stronger, they still had little confidence when facing three Core Elixir experts and more than twenty human-rank experts of the Law Essence and Astral Essence realms.