318: Is there anyone else?

Upon seeing this, Yokota Ichiro remained calm. He held his blade with both hands and slashed three times with lightning speed. "Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!" All three strikes landed on the trio's fists. "Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!" The three screamed as they were sent flying by a massive force, slamming hard into the ground and kicking up a large cloud of dust and fallen leaves...

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!" The others were stunned, their footsteps coming to a sudden halt.

No one had expected that three mecha pilots could not block a single strike from this man. This was simply unimaginable. Everyone knew the prowess of mecha pilots, whose combat power could reach the level of a Martial Commander. Yet, this man had taken on three at once, knocking them all away with three strikes. Such strength was definitely that of a Martial Commander, and a powerful one at that!

If it were them going up there, wouldn't that be a sure-fire way to die?

It was no wonder so many people had been killed by him before; it seemed they didn't die in vain...

"You?! Who exactly are you?!" Feng Guang asked, staring at Yokota Ichiro in shock.

Yokota Ichiro looked on with a disdainful gaze, yet he held his blade steady and did not continue to attack...

"A long blade? Strange robes... Could it be that you are the legendary Sword Saint from Fusang Country?" Feng Guang suddenly realized, asking with suspicion.

Yokota Ichiro was taken aback, then snorted, "You kid actually have some discernment. That's right, I am the Sword Saint himself!"

"The Sword Saint?!" "Good heavens!!!" These people could no longer remain calm. They hadn't expected the Sword Saint of Fusang Country to be here as well. He was one of the top experts of that country; how could the people present possibly compete with him?

Feng Guang took a deep breath and said, "Lord Sword Saint, we are not enemies. We came here to deal with those sluts from Shadow Moon Hall. They snatched this treasure mine from my hands, which is why I hired these experts to help me deal with them!"

Yokota Ichiro said disdainfully, "I don't care what grudges you have. From now on, this treasure mine is mine. If you don't want to die, stay here and mine for me. Otherwise, I'll kill you one by one—none of you will escape!"

"What?!" Everyone was stunned. The Sword Saint had brazenly claimed the gem mine right from the start and even demanded that they work like beasts of burden to mine for him. Such a Heaven-Defying move was simply outrageous. They were all people of some standing, after all; how could they possibly work for him?

Furthermore, mining would waste time. They only had at most three days left for Tiger Tooth Mountain, but if they started mining this treasure mine, it would be endless. No one knew when they would finish...

Feng Guang was so angry that his face turned livid. The treasure mine had originally been his, but the moment this Fusang person spoke, it became his. Wouldn't his own plans have all been for nothing?

This was absolutely unacceptable to him!

"Impossible! I discovered this mine first, and it is on the land of Great Ming, so how could it be yours? If you want to seize it by force, then don't blame us for being impolite!" Feng Guang said loudly.

"Haha! Hahahaha... In that case, let's see who is better in a fight. Whoever wins, it belongs to them!" Yokota Ichiro pointed his blade at the crowd and said with extreme arrogance.

The group looked at each other; no one wanted to be the first to rush up and die, so the situation became deadlocked for a moment...

Yokota Ichiro had no intention of making the first move either. In reality, he was secretly regulating his Qi. Although he had looked cool knocking away the three mecha pilots with three strikes, he had actually suffered a tremendous impact. Not only was his breath somewhat chaotic, but he had also sustained internal injuries. He had forced himself not to spit out blood. He knew clearly that if he spat blood, this group would pounce on him like mad wolves smelling fresh blood. Therefore, he forcibly swallowed the blood and used the opportunity while talking to adjust the slightly chaotic Qi within his body...

"Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!"...

Just at this moment, four screams rang out, attracting everyone's attention. The group looked toward the source of the sound and found it was coming from the direction where the three women and one Evil General had run off earlier. Had something happened to them?

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what had happened inside the dense forest...

"There's a ghost!" "Help!" "Someone come quickly..." "Let me go..."

The four people's cries for help were sharp and miserable, making one's hair stand on end in the dense forest, and goosebumps rose all over...

"Could there be someone else inside?" someone asked in shock.

"That's right, someone must be hiding in the shadows, just waiting for us to start fighting so they can profit from it!" Feng Guang realized.

Yokota Ichiro's expression also darkened. If it were truly as Feng Guang said, then if he exhausted his energy fighting this group and managed to win a pyrrhic victory in the end, he would just be letting the person in the forest pick the peaches. Wouldn't that be a waste of effort and dangerous as well?

He thought for a moment and snorted, "We will settle our score later. Let's eliminate the people inside first!"

"Agreed!" Feng Guang replied without hesitation.

He immediately recalled the three mecha pilots and discovered that their mechas had no major damage, just three relatively deep blade marks, which did not affect the integrity of the mechas. Of course, the people inside had suffered impact injuries and had already taken medicine and recovered slightly.

"Let's go, follow and take a look!" Feng Guang said with a wave of his hand.

The generals followed him, trailing behind Yokota Ichiro toward the depths of the dense forest...

On a large tree not far away, a figure gently poked their head out to look, a smile appearing on their face—it was Long Yuan!

He hadn't arrived long ago and had intended to watch a good show here. He didn't expect this group to enter the Wooden Vine Forest again. It was the Wood Vine Demons who had just taken action to capture those four; it seemed the Wood Vine Demons couldn't hold back anymore either...

"I'd better not show myself, lest the Wood Vine Demons think they are people I brought and dare not attack..." Long Yuan thought to himself. He decided not to follow them in. Anyway, he could see what was happening inside from here using his Divine Sense. If he went in, he feared the Wood Vine Demons would stop moving the moment they discovered him...

"Right, there are also the corpses of those dead martial generals; those are all top-tier waste materials..." As soon as this thought crossed his mind, Long Yuan immediately moved through the canopy layer. His Divine Sense locked onto the locations of those martial general corpses, and he went to collect them one by one...

Yokota Ichiro slowly walked into the Wooden Vine Forest. He unleashed his powerful aura, instantly stirring up a large cloud of dust and fallen leaves that flew far away; the scene looked quite grand!

The Wood Vine Demons did not take action immediately...

A look of suspicion appeared on Yokota Ichiro's face. He had not found the four people who had entered earlier, but their voices seemed to have sounded from right around here. Why couldn't he see even a shadow now?

"Sword Saint, where are they?" Feng Guang also arrived nearby and asked curiously.

"I don't see them!" Yokota Ichiro snorted.

Feng Guang carefully examined this somewhat strange forest and said to a mecha pilot, "You go in and see where they are!"

The mecha pilot said nothing; his body suddenly floated up and flew toward the depths of the dense forest...