Starting as dockworkers, they swept through Chongqing.

Chapter 146 The Sixth Shot Rings Out, Counterattack

She pushed her hands forward sharply, constantly urging the fire line to burn.

The fire line twisted in mid-air like a living thing, and each time it collided with Susie's golden shield, it made a piercing "sizzle" sound.

After the collision, a small burning end of the wire will fall off.

The loose threads fell to the ground, instantly burning small, charred holes in the damp soil and withered leaves, demonstrating just how high the temperature was.

The sounds of magic exploding and crackling echoed continuously between Huma and Susie.

Hugh looked at Susie's trembling arm and sneered, "How long can you hold on? A minute? Once your magic is exhausted, I'll let this fire burn through your heart bit by bit."

Susie gritted her teeth, her once rosy face now appearing somewhat pale due to the exhaustion of her magic.

Another burst of brilliant golden light appeared before her, severely slowing the approach of the fire line.

"You're so mean!"

Susie huffed and puffed, her voice still childish, but her eyes were unusually firm.

Upon hearing this childlike curse, Shuma couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Bad? In this world, only those who survive have the right to judge good and bad!"

Huma's eyes turned extremely cruel. "As for those two idiots I lured to kill the wild boar, don't even think they can come to our aid."

That wild boar smelled my incense; it won't rest until it tears that brat named Xilun to pieces.

As he spoke, just in case, Huma flicked his right wrist.

Two dark red spiritual ropes left her wrists like venomous snakes emerging from their holes, silently disappearing into the bushes nearby.

Huma glanced casually in the direction of the wild boar out of the corner of his eye.

This sight, however, made her suddenly pause in surprise.

In the shadows cast by the tree canopy, Xilun was not entangled by the wild boars, but was instead rapidly approaching the camp at an extremely terrifying speed!

"How is that possible? How did he get rid of that beast?" Huma was horrified.

But her extensive combat experience allowed her to make a quick judgment. She immediately issued commands to the two magical ropes through her mental power.

"Go! Tie that man's hands and feet! You don't need to kill him, just delay him for one minute!"

Currently, Xilun is about fifteen meters away from the camp.

Huma quickly calculated in his mind: with two magic ropes blocking the way, even if this Xilun is very strong, he will definitely be tripped up.

One minute is enough time for me to completely shatter the little girl's defenses and kill both of them.

After killing them, I can free up my hands to use the strongest spell to deal with Xilun, who is trapped by ropes.

Finally, return to the earthen slope and take down the exhausted wild boar mutant and the bodyguard named Green!

This is an unprecedented bumper harvest!

As a mystical scholar of the Raven School, Huma has always lived in extreme poverty due to being ostracized by the orthodox school.

When she stumbled upon the wild boar mutant today and saw this flock of fat sheep, a perfect plan to make a fortune and eliminate the disciple of her old enemy took shape in her mind.

She had been patiently pretending and planning all this, and now she absolutely could not afford to fail at the last moment!

After giving his instructions, Xiuma took a deep breath and took out a semi-circular jade pendant that radiated a warm luster from his bosom.

She infused it with magic, and the jade pendant was instantly activated, emitting a faint, extremely subtle light.

She wore the jade pendant close to her chest; it was her most treasured possession, a raven feather pendant, which served as her life-saving keepsake.

After doing all this, Huma looked at Susie again.

She estimated the depletion of both sides' magic power, a cruel smile curving her lips: "Killing this little girl will probably take another ten seconds."

She looked at Susie and laughed, "If you want to hate, hate your mentor!"

Who told that old man to be so arrogant, not even taking a genius like me in the field of mysticism seriously, and even joining forces with others to expel me from the exchange meeting!

"The son pays for the father's debts, and you, the disciple, will pay for the master's debts!"

Susie gritted her teeth, desperately maintaining her golden protective shield, and angrily retorted, "You have wicked intentions, you deserve to be expelled! How could you be so evil!"

At the same time, Xilun had already rushed to within ten meters of the camp.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Two dark red magic ropes, like venomous snakes leaping from the grass, coiled around Xilun's legs with extreme cunning, one on the left and one on the right.

As Xilun raced at high speed, his eyes were as cold as ice.

He stared at the two tangled magic ropes in front of him, showing no intention of slowing down or dodging them.

His right hand instantly drew the Resentment Revolver from his waist.

Without aiming, relying entirely on intuition.

"Bang!"

The first shot fell.

The gun spat out a scorching tongue of fire, and the bullet accurately struck Huma's chest, attempting to divert attention from her predicament and force her to retract the rope.

However, a strange scene happened.

Just as the bullet was about to hit Huma, the jade pendant on her chest suddenly burst into a dazzling light.

That bullet, imbued with powerful kinetic energy and fire element, seemed to have punched into the deep sea.

The bullet was embedded half an inch into the air beside Huma, but it did not explode violently as before.

The muzzle flash and kinetic energy attached to the bullet were silently absorbed and extinguished by that faint light, eventually turning into a piece of scrap metal that fell to the ground.

When Huma heard the gunshot, his eyelids twitched slightly.

She turned her head and gave Xilen a disdainful look.

"Don't rush, young man."

Huma gave Xiren a sinister smile. "I'll deal with you properly after these two girls are dead. Your gun is useless against me."

As they spoke, because Xilun paused very slightly the moment he fired the gun, the two magic ropes had already wrapped around him like a shadow.

Xilun's brain was racing: "What's going on? The light from that jade pendant—it seems to be able to forcibly absorb kinetic energy and elemental damage? The bullets aren't exploding at all, which negates the resentment revolver's greatest destructive power."

"Bang!"

Xilun refused to believe it and raised his hand to fire another shot.

The shot was aimed straight at Huma's head.

Unsurprisingly, as the bullet approached Huma's face, it was once again caught by that faint light, its kinetic energy instantly drained, and it fell to the ground limply.

In those two seconds of delay, Xilun's feet were already tightly bound by a rope.

He lost his balance and fell forward. But as he fell, he used the powerful core strength of the "Great Ocean Whale Guiding Technique" to forcefully twist his body and brace himself with his hands.

Another rope, like a venomous snake, slithered upwards.

Xiren immediately spread his hands to try to block, but the rope seemed to have a life of its own, wrapping around his left hand and tightly binding his right wrist and neck!

The immense contraction force came instantly, and Xilun's breath caught in his throat.

His body was forcibly pulled into an extremely awkward position, his right hand was tied to his neck, and the gun was almost impossible to aim at.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Despite the excruciating pain of suffocation, Xilun managed to pull the trigger three more times with a slight twist of his wrist.

Three bullets whistled out, but due to the distorted posture, only one hit Huma, while the other two hit the soil at Huma's feet.

The bullet aimed at Huma was once again absorbed by the Moon Invitation Pendant without any doubt.

The gun barrel emitted a hollow, mechanical sound.

Xilun's heart sank.

The Resentful Revolver only has six cylinders, and now, there's only one bullet left in the gun.

Huma felt the warmth emanating from the jade pendant, but she didn't even bother to turn her head, completely ignoring Xilun.

"It has the absolute defense of the Raven Feather Pendant, plus the binding of the Magic Rope."

Huma felt much more confident. "That's enough to buy me ten or so seconds. Ten or so seconds is enough for me to deal with these two girls!"

She let out a sudden, low shout, unleashing all her gray magic power without reservation.

Fireline seemed to have taken a powerful tonic, instantly growing larger and continuing to approach Susie's body with overwhelming force.

Susie gritted her teeth, while Daisy followed behind, activating a magic talisman. However, having not yet advanced to the level of a junior scholar, she was unable to participate in the battle.

"Snap!"

With a crisp cracking sound, the fire line finally broke through the last layer of golden shield in front of Susie.

The blazing flames, like the scythe of death, were about to pierce directly into Susie's clear pupils!

Daisy screamed in panic from behind.

A triumphant laugh had already spread across Huma's face.

At this critical moment.

A glint of mad ruthlessness flashed in Xilun's eyes.

He abandoned all defense and poured all the remaining blood and energy in his body into his right hand.

He stubbornly endured the ligature marks on his neck that were enough to sever his trachea, and kept the gun firmly pointed at Huma's back.

He recalled Lord Wall's description of the gun.

"The Resentful Revolver, the last bullet, carries an extremely strong psychological impact. But after it is fired, the gun will fall into a one-hour period of silence."

Xilun's index finger slammed into the trigger.

"Bang-!!!"

The sixth shot rang out.

This gunshot was completely different from the previous five.

It had no deafening explosion, nor any blazing flames.

Along with a visible plume of black resentment emanating from the gun barrel, an invisible yet tangible mental shriek instantly traversed ten meters and slammed into the back of Huma's head!

The Raven Feather Pendant can absorb physical kinetic energy and elemental damage, but it cannot withstand pure mental attacks!

Huma's maniacal laughter froze instantly.

Her pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints in an instant, and her brain felt as if it had been struck hard by a heavy hammer.

Huma let out an extremely shrill scream, and black blood instantly flowed from his seven orifices.

Her mind went completely out of control at that moment, and her previously effortless magic went out of control in an instant.

The line of fire that was about to pierce Susie's pupils, having lost its magical support, dissipated into countless sparks less than an inch from her eyeballs, like water without a source.

The invisible mental shriek, like a tangible hammer, pierced through the faint light without hindrance and slammed into the depths of Huma's mind.

Huma's face, which had been filled with fanaticism and cruelty, froze instantly. His pupils, which reflected the firelight, contracted violently in an instant, shrinking to the size of extremely dangerous pinpoints.

Her body trembled violently as if her spine had been removed, and glaring black blood slowly seeped from her seven orifices.

"what!"

The momentary mental disturbance caused her to completely lose control of her magic.

The deadly line of fire, which was only inches away from Susie's eyeball, disintegrated silently in mid-air like a dead tree that had lost its fuel, turning into countless dim sparks flying everywhere.

In that extremely brief moment when Huma was lost in a daze, Xilun keenly sensed a turning point.

He felt the dark red magic rope that had been tightly constricting his neck and ankles suddenly lose its suffocating tension.

The rope, which was originally as taut as an iron wire, now drooped limply.

A chilling glint flashed in Xilun's eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed the Giant Whale Guiding Technique, which circulated wildly within his body. Powerful blood and qi surged through his limbs and bones like a raging sea, instantly erasing the muscle soreness caused by the restraints.

The soil beneath his feet made a dull thud, as he stomped a deep crater into the ground.

Xilun was like a heavy cannonball, whistling through the air as he instantly covered the last few meters.

The wind howled in his ears, and his right fist, fully infused with blood and qi, slammed into Huma's abdomen with terrifying, destructive power.

"Bang!"

A dull thud that made your teeth ache echoed through the woods.

Huma's body was as if it had been hit head-on by a speeding steam train, and he instantly curled up into a shrimp-like shape.

Her internal organs seemed to have completely shifted under that punch, and the intense pain completely distorted her face, which was etched with black totems.

She collapsed in agony onto the muddy ground covered with withered leaves, opened her mouth, and vomited mouthfuls of blood mixed with pieces of her internal organs.

Xilun looked down at the woman from his high vantage point.

He keenly confirmed a fact: the seemingly mysterious scholar with unpredictable and bizarre methods was indeed pitifully weak in physical condition.

They may be stronger than ordinary people, but they have definitely not experienced the transformation of blood and energy that comes with baptism.

Once someone gets close, she becomes as fragile as a sheet of paper.

Huma felt the shadow of death looming over his entire body.

She struggled to lift her head, her eyes finally filled with extreme fear.

She reached out her muddy hands, trembling, trying to grab Xilen's trouser leg.

"No—don't kill me—" Huma's throat squeezed out a broken and desperate plea for mercy, "I can—I can use the Raven School's—"

Xilun's eyes remained unmoved; he had no intention of listening to this woman's nonsense.

He had already experienced the unpredictable and bizarre methods of the mysterious scholar; who knew if this woman would try to take him down with her as she lay dying?

In a life-or-death struggle, any excessive pity is cruelty to oneself.

The flow of qi and blood within his body instantly changed, and the "Dorok Dark Claw Technique" was activated with a roar.

A series of cracking sounds came from the bones of Xilun's right hand, his skin and flesh receded rapidly, and pale bone claws burst out of his body.

The bone claw, its surface shimmering with a dark golden light and exuding an abyssal, corrupting aura, mercilessly gripped Huma's throat.

His five fingers suddenly clenched together.

"Click."

The crisp sound of bones cracking was exceptionally clear in the silent woodland.