284: Chapter 284 The Hoshino Alliance's Rescue!

Gou Fugui's glib tongue fired off like a machine gun, and with great emotion and flair, he began his grand sales undertaking:

"Look at you, running through the wind and sand like this; your hair quality must be severely damaged, right?"

"Come take a look at this! It's limited-edition Tianshan Snow Lotus nourishing shampoo that I 'acquired'—ah, no, stocked—from the presidential suite of the Qianlong Hotel! It is absolutely the ultimate treasure for home, travel, and desert hair care!"

Helan Que: "...?"

"If this doesn't catch your eye, then take a look at this!"

Gou Fugui pulled out, with an expression of extreme heartache, a tattered array disc that was half-charred and covered in black ash. In reality, this was just trash he had casually picked up while fleeing the Shushan camp earlier:

"This is a fragment of the personal array disc belonging to that blind captain from the Shushan Dao-Wu Academy! Although it's a bit broken, it's a top-tier, authentic second-hand item! Take it back to study, and it will definitely make your attainments in array formations advance by leaps and bounds!"

Gou Fugui winked at the stunned Helan Que and shouted with great generosity:

"Brother Sha! Meeting is fate! Since you've asked for treasures, I, Boss Gou, will definitely give you the lowest price!"

"As long as you take the whole package today and mention my Brother Jiang's name, I'll give you a 9.8 discount!"

"No! A 9.5 discount! We support QR code transfers and treasure trade-ins!!!"

"..."

The air, at this moment, seemed to be completely frozen.

Helan Que looked at the plastic-packaged hotel shampoo in Gou Fugui's arms, then looked at the tattered array disc fragment that had lost even its spiritual energy.

His face, as cold as ice, became incredibly twisted and ferocious at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He was the dignified Peak Fourth-Order Desert Lone Wolf, the top genius of the Kuangsha Academy!

He had given up a top-tier Fourth-Order spiritual herb and risked offending Qin Zhuo and the others to chase them all the way here.

You... are you freaking kidding me? You take a bottle of broken shampoo swiped from a hotel and try to sell it to me as a heaven-shaking treasure?

And you want me to mention your Brother Jiang's name for a discount?!

"You... dare... to... play... me?!"

Helan Que's voice seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of the Nine Nether Hells.

A terrifying killing intent, sufficient to grind steel into powder, accompanied by a violent tornado sandstorm rising into the sky, instantly enveloped Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian!

"You're courting death!!!"

Helan Que was completely enraged. He slammed his hands together, and the yellow sand in mid-air instantly transformed into countless sand blades, intending to slice these two clueless idiots to death!

"Mommy! Why is this customer's temper so explosive? He's trying to kill us just because the hard sell didn't work!" Gou Fugui turned pale with fright and closed his eyes in despair.

However!

Just at this critical moment, as the two noobs were about to meet their demise!

"How dare you touch my people? You're courting death!!!"

Accompanied by an incredibly embarrassing, off-the-charts chuunibyou, yet resonant and furious roar that resounded across the sky!

A figure wearing a tattered black trench coat, leading a "rabble" of over twenty people, descended from the side slope like a divine soldier, instantly charging into this battlefield that had reached the peak of chaos!

"Brothers! For justice! Follow me and charge!"

Lu Xingye's eyes were bloodshot, and his single eye flashed with an unyielding light in the strong wind.

While in mid-air, he coolly pressed one hand onto his sword hilt. In order to display the invincible and world-destroying demeanor of "Alliance Leader Lu" in front of his underlings and good roommate, he unleashed his ultimate move with the most explosive visual effects right from the start!

"Sigh of the Abyss! Ultimate Technique, Black Flame Dance!!!"

"Clang——!!!"

Accompanied by a sword-drawing sonic boom that shattered the clouds!

The long blade in Lu Xingye's hand instantly transformed into countless jet-black, violently rampaging giant blade beams!

The blade light even ostentatiously contained "black dragon-shaped phantoms" simulated by spiritual energy, pouring down toward the center of the battlefield like a deluge!

This move was all about maxed-out light and shadow, grand momentum, and extreme oppressiveness!

Below, Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian were so moved that tears streamed down their faces: "Old Lu! You finally did something human!"

On the opposite side, the Desert Lone Wolf Helan Que, seeing the terrifyingly imposing Black Flame blade beams filling the sky, had his pupils shrink and immediately gave up on slaughtering Gou Fugui and the other.

He formed hand seals, gathering the yellow sand filling the sky in front of him, preparing to withstand the fatal strike from this "mysterious expert"!

However.

In this world, there is a terrifying species called a chuunibyou who abandons aiming just to strike a pose.

In mid-air, in order to maintain that incredibly cool "forty-five-degree downward slash" invincible pose, Lu Xingye's blade trajectory suffered a ridiculous, forty-five-degree deviation the moment he descended!

"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish!!!"

In Helan Que's incredibly bewildered gaze.

Those black blade beams filling the sky perfectly grazed the edge of his sandstorm and flew past!

They didn't even slice a single grain of his sand!

However, these wildly flying Black Flame blade auras had to land somewhere, right?

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

Less than fifty meters away from Helan Que, Qin Zhuo, Chu Tiankuo, and Yan Qinghuan, who were fighting so intensely their brains were about to turn to mush, suddenly felt their vision darken!

Before they could react, Lu Xingye's incredibly violent, indiscriminate "Black Flame Dance," like a sudden meteor shower, smashed directly into the center of their three-person battle without any regard for martial ethics!

"Bang!"

Chu Tiankuo's pride-and-joy Deep Sea Sword Qi was struck off-course on the spot by a thick beam of Black Flame, and his heavy sword grazed his thigh and smashed into the mud, shaking him until his blood and qi surged!

"Crack!"

The defensive array disc that Yan Qinghuan had just set up was focused by three or four blade beams simultaneously, instantly exploding into fragments and leaving the blind genius covered in dust and retreating repeatedly!

Even Qin Zhuo, who was outputting damage frantically, was forced to retract her Divine Phoenix Fire by the sudden black blade auras, and she had to roll twice in mid-air in a wretched state before stabilizing her figure!

"Who?! What kind of rat is shooting arrows from the shadows?!"

Chu Tiankuo was so angry that his cold, handsome face twisted. He, the dignified chief of Nanhai Martial Arts University, was actually being farmed like a mob by someone using such a wild area-of-effect attack?

Yan Qinghuan was so angry he ground his molars. He definitely hadn't checked the almanac before going out today; his array formations were being smashed to pieces one after another!

"Bastards! Where did this lunatic come from!"

And the most devastated ones were the twenty-something underlings of the "Xingye Coalition" who had followed Lu Xingye to charge.

Because Lu Xingye's "Black Flame Dance" was just way too unrestrained!

The blade light flying everywhere not only hit the three chiefs, but there were even two extremely rebellious blade auras that did a direct U-turn, grazing the scalps of these underlings!

"Oh, damn! Alliance Leader Lu! Spare us! Those are our own people!"

Several underlings were so scared they hit the ground instantly, looking at the lock of hair that had been sliced off, their pants nearly wet with fear.