270: Chapter 270 Push him directly in front of me

"Get out."

With a wave of Wu Li's hand, a demonic light shot out from his palm, rapidly advancing along the ground.

Wherever it passed, the weeds were flattened, the soil was churned up, and a shallow trench was left on the ground.

"Boom!"

The bushes were blasted apart by the demonic light, and debris flew off to both sides.

Chief Clerk Gu Qing flashed out from behind the bushes, his long sword unsheathed and held horizontally in front of him, while a cyan-gray spiritual light lit up on the sword body.

The demonic light collided with the sword body, producing a dull impact sound.

The spiritual light on the sword body violently flickered for a moment upon contact, and then the sword body snapped into two halves from the middle, with a layer of fading scorch marks at the fracture.

Chief Clerk Gu Qing was pushed backward by the impact force, sliding back several feet while his soles plowed two deep trenches in the soil.

He knelt on one knee, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and his hand holding the half-hilt trembled slightly, but his gaze still fell in Wu Li's direction.

Lin Fan ran out from behind Chief Clerk Gu Qing, squatted down beside him, and reached out to hold his arm: "Big Brother Chief Clerk Gu Qing!"

Chief Clerk Gu Qing shook his head, did not let go, and shifted his gaze back to Wu Li, his fingers holding the broken sword still maintaining the gripping posture.

"You bad person, we just followed to take a look, we have no other malicious intentions."

Lin Fan looked at Wu Li and said.

At this moment.

Wu Li's gaze gathered on Lin Fan, with an unprecedented seriousness on his face.

"You all, of all things you shouldn't have done, shouldn't have pushed him directly in front of me."

Wu Li said in a low voice, as if he were muttering to himself.

Regarding Lin Fan, Wu Li had already guessed many things.

Originally, after probing Lin Fan's situation, Wu Li did not plan to encounter him head-on, but if they truly encountered each other...

Then...

"Boom~"

With a wave of Wu Li's hand, the great flame fire halberd bounced out from his palm, and the flame runes on the halberd body lit up simultaneously, tearing a crack in the air with red-gold firelight.

He gripped the halberd shaft with one hand, took a step forward, and pressed his figure forward, the halberd tip wrapped in a layer of surging flames, stabbing straight out towards Lin Fan's direction.

The speed was so fast that it left a red-gold afterimage in the air.

When the halberd tip grazed the grass leaves on the ground, the edges of the grass leaves instantly curled and charred, leaving an extending scorching mark.

Chief Clerk Gu Qing was instantly shocked at this sight, and moved the very moment Wu Li started moving.

He let go of the hand holding the broken sword, grabbed Lin Fan's shoulder, and pulled him to the side: "Careful!"

Lin Fan was pulled back several steps by that force, sliding slightly on the soil before stabilizing his center of gravity.

Chief Clerk Gu Qing's body was already blocking in front of Lin Fan.

The broken sword body was raised again, and the cyan-gray spiritual light lit up once more at the fracture, forming an accelerating and solidifying spiritual power barrier in front of him.

"Rumble!"

The fire halberd crashed into the surface of the barrier, producing a dull impact sound.

At the moment of contact, a crack extending from the center to the outside appeared on the barrier, which quickly expanded to the edges, and then the entire barrier shattered.

The fire halberd pierced through the shattered barrier, passing through Chief Clerk Gu Qing's chest.

The flames on the halberd tip spread rapidly as it passed through the body, igniting on Chief Clerk Gu Qing's body surface and setting both his robe and skin ablaze simultaneously.

"Ugh ah..."

Chief Clerk Gu Qing's body froze in the flames for a moment.

The fingers holding the broken sword loosened from the hilt and hung down at his sides, as if completing his final action, making no further redundant movements.

The flames enveloped his entire body, swallowing him from the inside out.

Lin Fan stood a few steps away, watching the figure in the flames that was gradually being burned to ashes, his pupils violently contracting, as if pierced from the inside by something.

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

A breath later, he shouted out: "Big Brother Chief Clerk Gu Qing!"

Lin Fan took a step forward, only to be forced back by the heat wave of the flames.

His sole slipped slightly on the soil, his knees bent by half an inch, and then straightened again.

He stood in front of the flames, his gaze piercing through the fire and landing on the figure that could no longer be recognized.

His lips trembled, and his voice already carried an obvious tremor: "Big Brother Chief Clerk Gu Qing..."

By the time he shouted it for the third time, his voice broke in his throat, and the ending sound was cut off by a sob, unable to continue extending any further.

That figure in the flames no longer moved, the arms maintained a hanging posture, and the curved contour solidified in the firelight, gradually blurring.

After burning for several breaths, the flames began to spread outward, igniting the surrounding grass leaves and forming a spreading line of fire on the soil surface.

Lin Fan's gaze never left that patch of firelight.

He stood there, his body slightly leaning forward, maintaining a posture as if he would lunge forward at any moment, but his feet did not move, as if nailed in place.

His consciousness could no longer keep up with his body's reaction, and he could only stand there and watch that firelight completely extinguish.

He was silent, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and a spreading dampness welled up at the edge of his vision, flickering twice in the firelight before being evaporated by the high temperature, leaving a drying trace on his face.

"Boom~"

Wu Li withdrew the fire halberd, and the flames on the halberd tip slowly extinguished in the air.

He turned sideways, his gaze falling back onto Lin Fan, his body leaning slightly forward, preparing to take the next step, and then he stopped.

"Hum~"

A burst of Buddhist chanting exploded directly in his mind.

"Namo Amitabha Buddha..."

The Buddhist chanting continued to echo in Wu Li's mind, neither weakening nor dissipating, like a string being continuously tightened, constantly drumming on the surface of his consciousness, nailing Wu Li's actions in place and causing his body to fall into a brief stagnation at that instant.

Wu Li's gaze still fell on Lin Fan, but his vision had begun to blur, as if it were being covered by a layer of golden gauze.

A voice emerged from deep within his throat, not his own voice, carrying a gentle, admonishing tone.

Cannot...

Wu Li's lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but no sound came out.

An image appeared in his mind of himself standing in front of Lin Fan, not taking action, but instead mocking: "You can't even protect your companions, what do you have to fight me with?"

The voice in that image was not his, the tone was wrong, the rhythm was wrong, like lines forcibly stuffed in by someone.

"Hum hum~"

Wu Li's body swayed slightly, his fingers holding the fire halberd tightening a bit, and then loosening.

Fortunately, just at this moment.

The power of the Blood Eye Pagoda Sutra surged out from his Dantian at that instant, climbing upward along the Meridians and forming a dark red barrier deep within his consciousness, intercepting those invading golden Buddhist chants layer by layer.

The rhythm of the Buddhist chanting was interrupted upon contacting the blood-red light barrier.

Afterwards.

Wu Li's gaze refocused, and that strange voice emerging from deep within his throat also disappeared accordingly.

"Damn it."

Wu Li raised his right claw and patted his forehead.

The force was not large, but it was enough to gather his consciousness back together and shatter those residual golden echoes.