343: Chapter 343 Double Standards on the Spot! Can't stand it anymore, so they're starting to talk about martial ethics?

The wind in the canyon seemed to have stopped.

In the deathly silent air, only the heavy and ragged breathing of dozens of people remained.

After a brief shock, Captain Shen Xiuan of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts University's second team saw his face turn as black as the bottom of a pot.

He stared fixedly at the ground where the team member had just vanished, the corners of his eyes twitching wildly from excessive blood congestion.

Of the two people who had disappeared, one of them was an elite member of their Imperial Capital Martial Arts University!

As one of the leading figures of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts University, Captain Shen Xiuan's self-esteem had already been shattered into pieces after being controlled by Lu Xingye earlier.

Now, watching his direct subordinate being silently snatched away right under his nose, the nerve in his brain named 'reason' snapped with a distinct "click."

"You bastards!"

Captain Shen Xiuan took a fierce step forward, his entire body's dark red Asura malevolent aura erupting like a volcano, enveloping him in a mass of violent blood mist.

Gripping the long blade that exuded a thick stench of blood with both hands, he pointed the tip directly into the depths of the gloomy forest and let out a thunderous roar that shook the entire canyon:

"What kind of coward are you! What kind of skill is hiding your head and showing your tail!"

"By relying on sneak attacks and dragging people into the black mist, what kind of martial arts practitioner are you?"

"If you have the guts, come out! Come out and fight me fair and square!!!"

Captain Shen Xiuan's roar was truly imposing and righteous.

With red eyes and a heaving chest, he seemed to have transformed into an emissary upholding fairness and justice in the martial arts world, expressing strong contempt for such underhanded assassination tactics.

However, these impassioned lines, when heard from within the white light barrier not far away, made Gu Changfeng roll his eyes.

Sitting inside the light barrier, Gu Changfeng shifted his posture, making no attempt to hide the mockery on his face.

"Did this idiot get water in his brain?"

Gu Changfeng sneered inwardly: "When you guys, the main forces of several top universities, grandly formed a sweeping alliance and chased us few from Magic City Martial Arts University all over the map, why didn't you think about what 'fair and square' meant then?"

"When hundreds of people ganged up on us, you thought it was only natural; now that someone is hiding in the dark playing guerrilla warfare with you, you can't take it and start talking about martial ethics?"

"Even a double-standard dog isn't as loud as you!"

Captain Shen Xiuan's roar reverberated between the cliffs of the canyon, startling several night crows perched on withered trees.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

No one responded to him.

The surrounding dense forest remained as deep as a giant mouth devouring everything, silently watching this group of prey trapped in panic.

"Not daring to come out, huh? Fine! Then I will hack this canyon to pieces and see how long you can hide!"

Seeing no response, Captain Shen Xiuan was overcome with rage, raising his long blade high, ready to slash wildly at the open ground in front of him.

However, at the very moment his blade was about to fall!

Another anomaly occurred within the crowd!

At the very back of the team, a Kuangsha Academy member holding a heavy tower shield had been sweating profusely as he stared at the retreat path behind him.

Suddenly, the hard, flat bluestone slab beneath his feet instantly transformed into a pool of viscous, roiling, ink-colored gas cloud!

This black cloud appeared without a sound, without even a trace of spiritual power leaking out, just like a shadow that had existed there all along, suddenly opening an abyssal mouth!

The team member holding the tower shield felt the ground beneath him vanish; his body instantly lost all support, and he fell downwards frantically as if he had plunged into an ice cellar!

"Watch out!!!"

Yan Qinghuan, who had been keeping his spiritual perception spread out around them, was the first to detect the faint distortion of spatial laws. His blind eyes snapped towards that direction, and he roared loudly.

"Get away!"

Chu Tiankuo reacted with lightning speed, throwing his blunt heavy sword, attempting to use Deep Sea Sword Qi to forcibly cut open the black cloud surrounding the team member.

Helan Que was also alarmed; he raised his hands, and the violent yellow sand transformed into a long whip, which whistled as it wrapped around the team member's arm, trying to forcibly pull him out of the mud pit.

Captain Shen Xiuan even abandoned his impotent rage, turning around to unleash a blood-colored crescent slash, the fierce blade light rushing straight towards the black cloud!

Four Peak Fourth-Order peerless geniuses!

The four top captains of the Great Xia's younger generation!

At this moment, their reaction speed and explosive power were pushed to the limit, and four powerful attacks capable of splitting mountains and breaking rocks arrived at the team member's location almost simultaneously!

However, they were still a step too late!

The speed at which that black cloud devoured its prey simply exceeded the limits of physical common sense!

It was just one second before Helan Que's sand whip was about to wrap around the team member's arm.

"Whoosh!"

The burly man, nearly two meters tall and still holding a heavy shield weighing several hundred catties, couldn't even let out half a cry for help before he was swallowed clean by the black cloud right in front of the four captains!

"Boom!!!"

Chu Tiankuo's heavy sword, Captain Shen Xiuan's blade light, Helan Que's sand whip, and Yan Qinghuan's formation.

The four lethal attacks smashed fiercely onto the ground where the person had been standing.

Instantly, earth and stone shattered, dust flew, and the ground was forcibly smashed into a crater several meters deep.

However, apart from pulverized rock and soil, there was nothing at the bottom of the pit!

That eerie black cloud that had swallowed a living person had, like a slippery loach, weirdly burrowed deep into the underground rock layer and vanished into thin air!

It left behind not a trace of blood, nor did it trigger any white light from a death-immunity jade tablet.

A living person had just evaporated into thin air!

"..."

Looking at that empty crater.

Chu Tiankuo's blunt heavy sword fell to the ground with a "clang," but he couldn't even make the motion to bend down and pick it up.

Helan Que maintained the posture of having swung the sand whip, cold sweat rolling down his forehead like a waterfall.

Captain Shen Xiuan's face, which had originally been flushed red with anger, instantly lost all its color, turning as pale as paper.

They had lost.

The four top captains had joined forces to rescue him, not only missing completely but not even touching a corner of the opponent's clothing!

This scene completely shattered the psychological defenses of everyone present.

If the previous disappearance of Captain Ji Xiaoyun and the others was because everyone was mentally relaxed and unprepared, then what about this time?

With everyone on high alert, right under the noses of four Peak Fourth-Order big shots, and even with the four of them having taken action to rescue him at the very first moment!

The opponent was still able to snatch the person away right in front of them as if taking a leisurely stroll!

What does this mean?

It means the opponent is using absolute strength to crush them, telling them a cruel fact: in this canyon, they are not hunters, but a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The opponent can eat whenever it wants!

It can eat whichever one it wants!

A sense of panic, like a plague, surged wildly into everyone's hearts in just a few seconds.

"Monster... there is a terrifying monster hiding in the dark..."

A captain from a second-rate academy felt his Legs go soft, and he uncontrollably took two steps back, his spear falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

This crisp sound was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The originally orderly formation instantly erupted into chaos.

Many contestants began to look around in terror, their eyes filled with the panic of being paranoid.

They felt as if there were shadows wriggling beneath everyone's feet, and some even began to retreat, attempting to flee this canyon gazed upon by the God of Death.