Chapter 328 : 323: Am I Really Going to Die Like This?_1
Engulfed in this massacre, his realm surged rapidly. The number of void beasts that had died under his sickle was close to a million, if not over.
The vast death aura of such a large number of creatures had expanded the sea of blood behind him to tens of thousands of meters. It looked like a bloodstained mouth opened by the heavens under the setting sun, eerily horrifying.
Because he had killed so many void beasts, his realm had climbed to a solid mid-stage Xuanyang realm. The side effects of the Slaughter Heaven Pill on his body could no longer occur at his current realm, which meant he didn\'t have to worry about his body exploding after the effects of the pill wore off.
However, the drawback that came with this was that the boost to his realm from the Slaughter Heaven Pill was no longer as substantial, and with the effect of the pill nearing its end, his realm would quickly fall from the peak of the Xuanyang realm to the mid-stage.
If he were to consume another pill, his realm would probably only be elevated to the peak within the mid-stage of the Xuanyang realm; the Heaven Pills were useless for stepping into the next stage. Real strength was required for such advancement.
Countless corpses fell from the sky, and in a moment of madness, Fang Ren suddenly felt as if his consciousness had somewhat cleared. He was now able to control the manic expression on his face.
With the recovery of his consciousness accompanying the increase in his enemy kills, his clarity grew stronger.
He felt the frenzy within him gradually subside; his body became more controlled. Each move was no longer as chaotic and desperate as before. Now, every strike was controlled just enough to slay the void beasts without wasting any excess energy.
"It seems like the Killing Art has broken through again."
The return of his consciousness in such a state made it obvious that he had reached the Seventh Level of the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat, allowing him to control his emotions.
"The Seventh Level!"
With another breakthrough, using the Seven Levels of the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat to bolster himself, his combat strength became even more formidable before the effects of the pills dissipated.
But he could also distinctly sense that he could not completely control his consciousness yet; sometimes he still couldn\'t resist going on a frenzied killing spree, his attacks reverting to being disordered and his offensive methods even more ferocious.
After all, it was only a recent breakthrough, and it would take a lot of time to stabilize.
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Above the sky, two hundred meters outside the Fang Family Estate.
Liu Qianqian had exhausted the Heaven and Earth\'s Qi within her body, and she was still fighting several void beasts in the sky.
Devoid of any Heaven and Earth\'s Qi, her combat now relied solely on the last vestiges of energy left after her Spirit Embryo shattered, but this energy was supposed to protect the integrity of her body now missing its Spirit Embryo. Being born with her Spirit Embryo, without it, she was no longer whole.
But if this last bit of energy meant to protect her body was also gone, then she would die from her internal organs shattering.
"Ah!"
She screamed, her fists pounding against the head of a void beast – her eyes continuously bleeding, the complete image of a madwoman.
The energy was about to deplete, and her internal organs would start rupturing from the head down; she was on the verge of cerebral hemorrhage.
"Teacher! We\'re almost at the Fang Family\'s territory!" a student yelled, looking towards the Fang Family Estate not far away.
"Thank goodness! We\'re saved!"
"Everyone, run for your lives! Don\'t fall behind!" Teacher Huang shouted, "Liu Qianqian, go to the Fang Family! Don\'t hold on any longer!"
While the group frantically fled, they kept calling out to Liu Qianqian behind them to get moving, but Liu Qianqian continued to fend off the last two void beasts nearby.
Once these two were killed, everyone could safely enter the Fang Family Estate.
But contrary to her wishes, just as she saw hope, the void beast she had nearly beaten to death suddenly caught up from the ground, opened its maw, and lunged for her shoulder from behind.
At this point, she no longer possessed the mobility she had before and couldn\'t afford to defend herself.
As she was about to have her shoulder bitten off by the void beast, a wind blade sliced through from afar, turning the two void beasts in front of her into a mist of blood.
Buzz—
A figure arrived on the wind, catching the blood-soaked Liu Qianqian.
"Sister Liu?"
Fang Tong caught the woman drenched in blood, and only then did she realize this person, who had been protecting the students below all this time, was none other than the eldest miss of the Liu Family.
After seeing the person who had caught her, Liu Qianqian\'s mind instantly relaxed.
They were all going to be saved.
"Thank you..." Liu Qianqian swallowed a mouthful of blood before barely managing to utter two words.
"Don\'t talk, I\'ll get you all to safety," Fang Tong said, tossing out a current of wind that formed a barrier about a dozen meters wide on the ground. She shouted to the students below, "Quick, get on!"
Everyone saw this and immediately ran toward the small barrier.
Fang Tong looked back at the sky filled with the Void Beast Group, which was only a few hundred meters away from reaching their side. She had never been on a battlefield before, nor had she seen such a bloody and cruel scene. At this moment, her hands trembled with fear.
People quickly climbed onto Fang Tong\'s small barrier, and Fang Tong immediately circulated her True Qi to fly desperately toward the Fang Family Estate.
The speed of the Void Beast Group behind her was too fast, and she felt she could be bitten into corpses at any moment. However, what made her even more nervous was that the Large Formation of the Fang Family Estate not far away was about to completely come down. If she couldn\'t get into the Formation before it fell, she would be doomed.
"Ah..."
Just then, several students standing on the barrier suddenly lost their footing and were swept off by the rapid airflow. Fang Tong saw this and urgently turned around to grab the students.
"Everyone hold on tight! Don\'t fall off!"
After tossing the few students back onto the barrier, she turned her head and continued to fly toward the Formation.
Boom—
But before they could fly a few dozen meters, a loud bang suddenly came from inside the Fang Family Estate.
With the sound of that bang, Fang Tong\'s entire being became chaotic. She paused for a moment, staring blankly at the Fang Family Estate, her face ashen.
The Fang Family\'s Large Formation... had fallen!
They could no longer enter.
Feeling the barrier\'s pause and glancing once more toward the Fang Family Estate, they could see that it was now completely covered with a layer of golden, transparent barrier.
"This... are they not letting us in..." a student slumped to the ground.
"How can they do this... isn\'t the young miss of the Fang Family still out here? They won\'t even save their own now?"
"There was still time... why do this..."
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Upon seeing the situation, everyone had given up hope; their last glimmer had gone.
Fang Tong quickly brought everyone to the front of the barrier, and she desperately pounded on the Formation\'s barrier, crying out, "Grandfather! Open the barrier quickly!"
"Tongtong!"
Kong Yingshu cried as she ran to the edge of the barrier. Her realm was too low, and she hadn\'t been able to run out of the estate when the barrier fell. She could only stand at the edge of the barrier, watching her daughter\'s anxious appearance, her heart like it was being cut with a knife.
"Father! We mustn\'t open this barrier!" Fang Ye, seeing this, quickly said to Fang Yuanhao, "The beast group is already so close! There\'s simply not enough time if the Formation opens and closes! Please prioritize the greater good!"
"Grandfather! Please prioritize the greater good!" Fang Liqun also immediately said.
Fang Yuanhao at this time was frowning and bowing his head, silent.
Fang Tong, seeing her second uncle and second brother, knew she couldn\'t count on them and immediately shouted toward Fang Lizhong in the distance, "Third brother! Your fiancée is also here! Qianqian is here too! Open the Formation!"
Fang Lizhong inside, upon hearing this, subconsciously looked toward the woman in Fang Tong\'s arms—that was Liu Qianqian. However, Liu Qianqian was now disheveled, her hair in disarray, blood flowing from her seven orifices, barely breathing heavily, and looked extremely terrifying.
Seeing this, Fang Lizhong immediately turned his back to everyone, similarly frowning and remaining silent.
Although not saving these people would make him feel guilty, when compared to his own life and the lives of so many in the Fang Family, what were these people? Besides, his fiancée, Liu Qianqian whom he, Fang Lizhong, had almost never interacted with—what fiancée at this moment? He had no intention of paying any attention to her.
Watching Fang Lizhong remain silent too, Fang Tong was completely despondent.
The once close blood ties now seemed so indifferent and cold.
Kong Yingshu inside the barrier saw the Void Beast Group swiftly approaching and felt on the verge of fainting. Her daughter was on the outside, and in the next moment, she could be trampled into a bloody mess by a swarm of Void beasts. As a mother facing such a scene, she was nearly crying to death.
Liu Qianqian, held by Fang Tong, looked at the people inside the Fang Family Estate and felt no surprise. To her, the Fang Family, just like any large clan, lacked a sense of humanity.
She turned her head and glanced at Fang Tong, who was kneeling on the ground with a despairing expression, and murmured, "I\'m sorry for dragging you down..."
Fang Tong looked at her but said nothing, only thinking to herself, Was it also a mistake to have saved someone…
Liu Qianqian, watching the plethora of beasts in the sky, smiled and said at the end, "I should never have been so willful with your brother... I should have understood earlier, since I loved to the point of obsession, I should have been fearless in death…"
"Are you talking about Fang Liqun?" Fang Tong scoffed coldly.
Liu Qianqian smiled and shook her head, her voice hoarse, "His name is Fang Ren…"
If everything had started with her and Fang Ren being together, there wouldn\'t have been so many sad departures, and he wouldn\'t have ended up with Mu Huanqing.
She believed that, with Fang Ren\'s personality, once she had agreed to him, he would never have betrayed her.
After hearing this name, Fang Tong turned her head and glanced at the Void beast opening its gaping maw toward her, her expression desolate, "Fang Ren, huh… I never got to call him brother even in death…"