ambush

As night gradually fell, Su Ming and the others lay in wait within a pre-prepared Formation.

Everyone focused intently on sensing their surroundings, fearing that the people from the Blood Sword Tower might slip away unnoticed.

Beside them was Jin Yuanshan, who had been tied up securely.

It was Su Ming's suggestion that led to him being in this state.

"This Sect Master Jin was injured by me, so he will inevitably harbor resentment, which might be detrimental to our upcoming suppression of the Blood Sword Tower."

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After Su Ming said this, the Liu Family Head immediately took a stand, capturing Jin Yuanshan on the spot and binding him.

After being caught, Jin Yuanshan immediately began to hurl abuse, his words as foul as could be.

In response, the Liu Family Head gagged him.

Jin Yuanshan indeed had his own plans, but they had now been thoroughly nipped in the bud.

Since Su Ming had spared his life, he naturally prepared to prevent any backstabbing.

To spare someone's life without thorough preparation—isn't that just asking to be backstabbed?

Thus, Jin Yuanshan could only glare at everyone with incredibly venomous eyes, cursing their operation to fail and for them all to die at the hands of the Blood Sword Tower.

"Someone is coming from the east," Hu Xing spoke up to warn them.

Everyone immediately focused their attention to the east, and sure enough, they faintly sensed a group of people approaching.

"It's not yet certain if they are from the Blood Sword Tower. Don't alert them," Su Ming reminded.

After waiting for another stick of incense to burn, the group and the items they were escorting were fully revealed to everyone's sight.

Looking at their attire, the Liu Family Head narrowed his eyes.

"They have the Blood Sword Tower's blood cloud tokens, and they have four blood clouds."

Only core members of the Blood Sword Tower are granted Blood Cloud Tokens; the more blood clouds on the token, the higher the member's status.

A blood cloud token with five blood clouds can only be held by the Tower Master of the Blood Sword Tower.

In other words, core members second only to the Tower Master were now exposed before them.

If they could be eliminated, it would certainly deal a heavy blow to the Blood Sword Tower.

However, the strength of this group was also not to be underestimated.

The leader's cultivation was comparable to Hu Xing's, also at the seventh layer of the Samsara Realm. Besides him, there were two other Sword Cultivators at the fourth layer of the Samsara Realm.

Three Samsara Realm Sword Cultivators would be a force to be reckoned with anywhere.

But now, they were merely members of an escort team.

This was enough to show how important the person they were escorting was.

"Lord Su, this operation will depend on you," the Liu Family Head said with a bitter smile.

His cultivation was the same as Jin Yuanshan's, only at the third layer of the Samsara Realm.

Su Ming nodded slightly to show he understood.

At the same time, he marveled inwardly at Hu Xing's audacity.

To dare to block someone even when their own side's combat power was insufficient.

If he hadn't appeared, this ambush would have been like a flock of sheep ambushing a pack of wolves—purely delivering themselves to the slaughter.

What Su Ming didn't know was that Hu Xing was also feeling fortunate at this moment.

He had previously notified the Sword Pavilion, but the distance was too great for reinforcements to arrive in time.

According to the original plan, they would stall the Blood Sword Tower's Samsara Realm Sword Cultivators until the Sword Pavilion's reinforcements arrived.

But after thinking it over, Hu Xing decided to have a backup plan and immediately sent Chen Chuan to notify Su Ming.

Fortunately, he had managed to invite him; otherwise, they could only have watched helplessly as the people from the Blood Sword Tower left.

As the Blood Sword Tower's people stepped into the designated position, the Formation Hu Xing had prepared was immediately activated. He then led the charge, catching the Blood Sword Tower's people off guard.

After blocking the first wave of the offensive, the three Samsara Realm Sword Cultivators from the Blood Sword Tower immediately organized a counterattack.

The surrounding ground cracked under the clash of the four men's Sword Qi. If not for the support of the Formation, this area would likely have turned into a wasteland.

Seeing this, the Liu Family Head immediately stepped forward to help Hu Xing share the pressure.

However, this scene appeared laughable to the people of the Blood Sword Tower.

"A seventh-layer Samsara Realm with a third-layer Samsara Realm dares to ambush us? Truly ridiculous!"

The seventh-layer Samsara Realm from the Blood Sword Tower immediately stalled Hu Xing, letting his companions besiege the Liu Family Head.

These two Sword Cultivators were already stronger than the Liu Family Head, not to mention it was a two-on-one situation.

After only a few breaths of engagement, several sword wounds had already appeared on the Liu Family Head's body.

Feeling that the time was right, Su Ming finally stepped out from his previous hiding place.

Seeing Su Ming appear, the Blood Sword Tower Sword Cultivator fighting Hu Xing burst out laughing.

"You set an ambush and actually brought a Nirvana Realm along?"

Amidst his mockery, he took advantage of a gap in the fight to slash a wave of Sword Qi toward Su Ming's position.

In the next instant, a terrifying counter-shock force struck the Blood Sword Tower Sword Cultivator. Seeing this, Hu Xing immediately followed up, his greatsword infused with his own Guicang Sword Intent as he struck the opponent with full force.

The pre-arranged Formation showed slight cracks under this strike, while the Blood Sword Tower Sword Cultivator was severely injured and lost his ability to fight.

Seeing that the opponent could no longer fight, Hu Xing immediately went to support the Liu Family Head, and Su Ming also took action at this time.

He immediately approached the heavily injured Blood Sword Tower Sword Cultivator and, with a swing of the heaven-destroying whip, completely crushed the man's head.

After he was completely dead, his clenched hand slowly relaxed, and a Medicinal Pill rolled onto the ground.

Su Ming couldn't see this, but he knew very well that one must always deliver the finishing blow in a fight.

A seventh-layer Samsara Realm Sword Cultivator having his head smashed by a Nirvana Realm with a single strike was simply inconceivable to the other two surviving Blood Sword Tower Sword Cultivators.

Su Ming continued to lean on his heaven-destroying whip, walking into the fray while withstanding the terrifying Sword Qi and Sword Intent around him.

He raised the heaven-destroying whip high and swung it down gently.

With two "bang" sounds, two heads exploded like ripe watermelons, and the two headless corpses fell to the ground.

Although they had seen Su Ming take action before, this scene still left a deep impression on Hu Xing and the Liu Family Head.

At this moment, Su Ming's strength had reached an unfathomable level in their hearts.

Perhaps only the Sword Pavilion Master, who had not drawn his sword for many years, would be qualified to rival Su Ming.

Meanwhile, Jin Yuanshan, who had witnessed the entire process of this battle from afar, was completely stunned in place.

At this moment, he was utterly terrified.

After all, less than a stick of incense's time had passed since the start of the battle, and Su Ming had already concluded it cleanly and efficiently.

Jin Yuanshan really wanted to wail in complaint.

"With your strength being so high, why do you keep your cultivation stabilized at the Nirvana Realm for no reason?"

"Even when pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, you shouldn't be like this."

However, Su Ming couldn't hear his inner thoughts at all; he simply walked silently toward the items the Blood Sword Tower had been escorting.

He wanted to see exactly what the variable the System had twisted was.