167: Section 167

Jing Yuan controlled the scale disk to move beneath his feet, carrying his war blade as he flew downward.

Xu Tong, carrying Taciturn on his back, stepped onto his rocket skateboard and wobbled down after him.

"You look thin, but you're as heavy as Great Mountain!" Xu Tong couldn't help but complain to Taciturn.

Taciturn replied, "I'm well-built; he's just fat!"

"You should have let Jing Yuan take you down."

Xu Tong looked toward Jing Yuan.

Jing Yuan was very fast and had already reached the air above the Phage Beast swarm.

Jing Yuan observed the surroundings; this was a plain with no defensive positions to hold.

He could only land on the outskirts of the swarm.

Currently, he was still in the Returning to Origin state, so the Phage Beasts could not detect him.

Jing Yuan controlled the scale disk to form a shield behind his back while he faced the Phage Beasts head-on.

He deactivated Returning to Origin, and the nearest Phage Beast discovered him and immediately charged over.

With one strike of his blade, Jing Yuan split it in half.

Chapter 170: Another Coup on the Lighthouse

Jing Yuan entered his slaughter mode within the Phage Beast swarm.

These Phage Beasts were only Pan-genetic Type; their strength was average, as was their physical toughness.

Even if Jing Yuan had used his old plasma light blade battle saber, he could still have killed them with one strike each.

Furthermore, he was now using the even stronger fanged battle saber.

These Pan-genetic Type Phage Beasts had virtually no way to defend themselves against Jing Yuan.

However, their numbers were simply too great. Although Jing Yuan could simultaneously handle the attacks of four or five Phage Beasts from the front, many more were still attacking from behind.

Fortunately, Jing Yuan was charging from the outskirts inward, so only two or three Phage Beasts occasionally jumped behind him to attack.

On the other side, Star Shatterer and Bai Yuekui were also helping Jing Yuan clear the Phage Beasts behind him.

Bai Yuekui was using firearms, which did not require the use of potential, though the damage firearms dealt to Phage Beasts was quite limited.

However, they were sufficient to stall them for a moment.

Jing Yuan slaughtered with all his might below, and in a short while, he had killed a third of them!

"Boss, I've found the marked Phage Beast!"

"I have one here too!"

Xu Tong and Taciturn reported one after another.

"Bring them down!" Bai Yuekui commanded through the walkie-talkie. "Note! We only have these two bottles of biological toxin for the Phage Beasts left, so be extremely careful."

"Don't worry, Boss!" Xu Tong was currently within the Phage Beast swarm; he maintained his Returning to Origin state, so the Phage Beasts could not see him.

As Xu Tong was loading the biological toxin, a Phage Beast suddenly charged over and knocked him head over heels!

In his carelessness, the bottle in Xu Tong's hand dropped to the ground!

"Oh no!"

The very thing he worried about had happened.

That Phage Beast hadn't actually seen Xu Tong; after bumping into someone, it just shook its head and walked away.

It left only a dumbfounded Xu Tong standing frozen in place.

"Boss, I messed up!"

"Boss, I'm done!"

Bai Yuekui was also speechless, but she could only say, "Taciturn, bring your Phage Beast over first!"

At that moment, Jing Yuan was still below slaying Phage Beasts, having already slaughtered more than half!

"Xu Tong, follow that Phage Beast. Don't let Jing Yuan kill it. We need that Phage Beast alive!"

On Jing Yuan's side, his eyes were already red with slaughter!

After locking onto the spatial fluctuations, Jing Yuan immediately performed: "Space Whirlwind Slash!"

Swish swish swish!

This single strike could kill five Phage Beasts in an instant.

However, this strike needed to be combined with spatial fluctuations and was extremely taxing on his Mental Power.

Furthermore, he had to wait for the right moment.

In most cases, Jing Yuan still relied on pure strength to make his kills.

Xu Tong chased after that Phage Beast, seeing that it was about to get close to Jing Yuan.

In the current situation, it was virtually impossible to ask Jing Yuan to spare a single Phage Beast.

Because he was being besieged by so many Phage Beasts, Jing Yuan's attack route had already been planned several moves in advance!

As long as a Phage Beast got close to him, it was doomed to die!

Otherwise, the Phage Beast might injure Jing Yuan.

"Xu Tong, stop that Phage Beast!" Bai Yuekui ordered decisively.

She then glanced at Star Shatterer and said, "You continue to cover Jing Yuan!"

With that said, Bai Yuekui rushed down.

"Boss!" Star Shatterer knew what Bai Yuekui intended to do, but she could no longer call her back!

Xu Tong knew this was his mistake. Although stopping the Phage Beast would expose him to the surrounding swarm, he had no other choice.

Xu Tong immediately accelerated and knocked the Phage Beast down with a single blow.

Simultaneously, the other Phage Beasts in the vicinity began to swarm Xu Tong.

At that moment, Boss Bai arrived.

The two of them facing the Phage Beasts together was slightly better than being alone.

Bai Yuekui continued to attack the Phage Beasts with the rifle in her hand, but more and more Phage Beasts were gathering around them!

Once Phage Beasts sensed the aura of life source essence, they would run toward its direction.

For a time, there were more Phage Beasts besieging Bai Yuekui and Xu Tong than there were attacking Jing Yuan.

"Boss!" Xu Tong looked at Bai Yuekui and then took off his rocket skateboard. "Let's escape!"

"Don't talk nonsense! We've already come this far; we must bring this one piece of life source essence back!"

After saying that, Bai Yuekui drew her blade!

A flash of blade afterimages appeared, and the surrounding Phage Beasts were sliced into either two or three sections.

With just one strike, the Phage Beasts besieging Bai Yuekui perished instantly.

However, Bai Yuekui did not emerge unscathed.

She coughed up blood and knelt on the ground, using her blade to prop herself up so she wouldn't collapse completely.

"Boss!" Xu Tong hurriedly went over to support her.

"Xu Tong, hurry and control that Phage Beast!"

Only then did Xu Tong snap back to reality; his primary task was to control the Phage Beast that had absorbed the life source essence.

He immediately went over and used physical force to suppress it.

Bai Yuekui's strength was indeed terrifying; she had attacked so many Phage Beasts at once yet left this specific one alive.

Such precision with a blade was something Jing Yuan absolutely could not achieve.

Since Bai Yuekui's single strike had killed many Phage Beasts, Jing Yuan was also able to quickly finish clearing the rest.

He saw Xu Tong struggling with a Phage Beast, so he leaped forward and raised his war blade to strike it down.

"Jing Yuan, don't kill it!" Bai Yuekui hurriedly shouted. "Use your blade to pin it down while avoiding the spirit seed!"

Jing Yuan's eyes were red with fury, but hearing Bai Yuekui's voice brought him back to his senses. He quickly adjusted the direction of his blade and stabbed it into the Phage Beast's body.

By avoiding the spirit seed, the Phage Beast's life was not in danger.

However, pinned to the ground by Jing Yuan's war blade, it could not break free no matter how it struggled.

Seeing this scene, Jing Yuan understood that this war blade, like Bai Yuekui's Tang blade, possessed a suppressive power over low-level Phage Beasts.

Bai Yuekui stood up and said hurriedly, "We have to be quick. Some Phage Beasts didn't have their spirit seeds cut and will revive soon!"

"Don't worry, leave it to me. I won't let them revive!"

Jing Yuan controlled the scale disk to transform into six Flying Cones, which shot rapidly into the pile of Phage Beast corpses.

Though the previous attacks had killed the Phage Beasts, not every single one had its spirit seed struck!