The Immortal Emperor Returns

Chapter 408 Women Warrior

The name of the Devil weighed so heavily as a mountain that no one would dare flippantly dismiss him.

His routing of the Winged race and annihilation of the Broken Souls Cult, to say nothing of the turmoil he had caused in the West, were all tales of horrors that roused numbing fear in anyone who heard them.

If one were to make a list of the people to avoid antagonizing, the Devil would undoubtedly sit at the first.

“The Devil? What does he think he is?!”

Zang Fengling’s hesitation prompted Jin Zhong, the Macroprimate champion, to step forward on his behalf.

“Try saying that to the Devil himself,” smirked Yao Baiyue to the Macroprimate, “Do that and the Chamber will gladly surrender.”

“What makes you think I’m afraid to do that?” Jin Zhong snapped smugly, “Just because the Devil had defeated the Wingeds, that doesn’t make him invincible enough to underestimate the rest of us Lost Races. In fact, he had only defeated the weakest bunch of the Wingeds. Wait till the greatest champions of the Winged race appear; I dare say he’d be as timid as a mouse!”

“For more than twenty years the Devil has prevailed. Until today, no one has ever heard of him being squarely defeated in battle before. What makes you think that even the strongest champions of the Winged race can defeat the Devil?” retorted Yao Baiyue with a frosty smirk.

“Be that as it may, we the Macroprimates do not fear him. We won’t be intimidated like those feeble Wingeds,” Jin Zhong countered with disdain.

Before Yao Baiyue could say another word, Bi Keyun appeared, flanked by the Elders of the Chamber around her.

“So this is the leader of this band of women warriors?” Jin Zhong gazed at Bi Keyun, licking his lips with a salacious grin.

“Macroprimates, eh?” Bi Keyun observed, hardly amused, “Just because you’re in human shape doesn’t mean you’re fully human. You only need to speak one word and you’ll betray what you really are.”

Jin Zhong’s blood-red eyes flashed with a hint of rancor. “I’ll take you myself, you wretched woman, and I’ll have the pleasure of consuming the insides of your Ninth-grade Human King brain. I’m sure it’ll be tasty.”

“Enough prattling! They’re just a bunch of women! I’ll have my fill of brains today. Who knows? I might even make Ninth-grade too!” quipped another Macroprimate champion.

“Are you regretting your actions this morning, Lady Superior?” Zang Fengling smirked proudly.

“I only regret not killing you this morning,” she growled bitterly. If only she had not stayed her hand this morning.

“Heh heh heh heh… Regret? Too bad there’s no cure for regrets,” Zang Fengling grinned vilely as he raised his arm and brought it down swiftly, signaling for his men to advance, “Take them alive if you will! Whoever you’ve taken shall be yours!”

With her eyes flaring with rage, Bi Keyun’s hand shot up to fire an incredible blast of Internal Breath at Zang Fengling, but it was easily parried away by Jin Zhong.

“You’re dealing with me, woman!” Jin Zhong bellowed. He stomped the ground in his wrath that resembled a raging bull and the earth shook beneath his feet and he charged to her.

“KILL THEM ALL! FOR THE CHAMBER!” Yao Baiyue screamed, waving her comrades forward.

“FOR THE CHAMBER!”

The acolytes of the Chamber of Lead-glass cried as one, their voices echoing up the skies.

“Die, Zang Fengling,” Yao Baiyue hissed with steel, lunging at Zang Fengling.

“If only you’d taken me up on my offer to be mine, Yao Baiyue,” said Zang Fengling wickedly. With powers on par with the heiress to the Chamber of Lead-glass, Zang Fengling boldly threw himself at her.

Women against men, swords against swords.

The Zang Family host swarmed forward and the acolytes of the Chamber courageously rushed forward to meet them.

Blood sprayed everywhere as the din of battle clamored.

Boom!

A powerful shock wave burst out, blasting any nearby Zang and the Chamber’s acolytes alike off their feet.

Such was the force from the trade of blows between Bi Keyun and Jin Zhong.

“You’ve recovered well, woman! Let’s play again!” sneered a Zang elder at Bai Manru as he lashed out his fists viciously and relentlessly, aiming specifically for her private parts.

“You beastly creature!” Bai Manru snarled with shame and anger, sparing none of her powers at all if only she could kill the man as soon as possible.

“Is this the best you are, Zang Fengling?” cried Yao Baiyue amidst her fight with Zang Fengling. After a few exchanges of blows, she was gaining the upper hand.

Zang Fengling’s expression contorted bitterly. He had not fully recovered from the injuries incurred this morning, and that allowed Yao Baiyue an advantage over him.

“How dare you hurt me, you trollop!” cried a Zang acolyte after someone had nearly sliced open his chest. Blood was pouring out from the horrible gash.

“Urgggh!”

He was more powerful than the maiden acolyte he was fighting against, but he had underestimated her and for that, he had nearly paid the price.

With a snarl, he hacked at her with his saber, its blade glinting dangerously as it missed her. But it caught her sword and the sheer force of the blow shattered the maiden acolyte’s weapon into pieces and that allowed him the chance to deal a fatal blow.

“Let me go, you beast!” shrieked another maiden acolyte of the Chamber. She was being pinned down by two Zang acolytes who were cackling lecherously, their hands fondling her from head to toe. But in the end, unable to take any more shame, the maiden acolyte bit her tongue to take her own life.

More defenders fell, the lion’s share of the fallen being maiden acolytes who had been caught and restrained, and they killed themselves to spare themselves the defilement that followed.

In the meantime, the Zang Family host suffered great losses themselves and the blood of the fallen drenched the floors of the breached compound in huge puddles and streams.

“SLAY THEM ALL!”

So stout and brave were the women warriors of the Chamber of Lead-Glass, that they vehemently threw themselves forward in their determined bid to defend the Chamber again and again, and if any of them were caught or captured, they would immediately kill themselves.

“HELP! Sister Baiyue!”

One of the prettier maidens of the Chamber was caught. But before she could kill herself, the Zang acolytes who caught her quickly dislocated her jaw and dragged her into a room.

Bespeckled with stains of blood, Yao Baiyue’s white dress resembled a painting of plum blossoms blooming in winter. With a blow to force Zang Fengling backward, she used the opportunity to rush to the aid of her sister-in-arms and killed the two Zang acolytes restraining her.

But her victory was short-lived; a Zang elder, whose powers were a class above Yao Baiyue’s, saw the chance to ambush her and he took it. With one blow, he sent her crashing to the ground.

Zang Fengling roared with laughter, “Well done!”

He could not defeat Yao Baiyue with his injuries, but now Yao Baiyue has been injured too. He laughed triumphantly.

“Be prepared to surrender and end up as my slave, Yao Baiyue,” he bellowed and lunged at Yao Baiyue.

Boom!

Buildings toppled in their very foundations as the blows from the warriors of both sides pummeled the earth mercilessly.

Two figures who had been fighting each other furiously separated suddenly with the speed of a lightning bolt. It was Bi Keyun and Jin Zhong.

The Lady Superior of the Chamber’s complexion was a sickly pallid-white with blood dripping out the edges of her lips. She was injured too and Jin Zhong was victorious.

Jin Zhong’s grotesquely gaping-wide mouth cracked open as he spoke, “You are the most powerful female of your kind I have ever met. Makes me feel sorry to kill you.”

Bi Keyun beheld her foe with a frosty glare. But deep inside her, she was dreading the fates of hers and the rest of the acolytes. All would be lost for the Chamber if she fell in battle.

“You might succeed in killing me, but not without paying a heavy price,” growled Bi Keyun, and before she could finish, she lunged once more.

Buildings and structures within the compound of the Chamber crumbled and collapsed fitfully and twice the number of warriors fell. Blood swathed every inch of the compound’s flagstones and its sickening stench swirled amidst the clamor and fighting.

“Urgggh!”

Another Elder of the Chamber was caught, and the Macroprimate champion who defeated her tore her into two with his bare hands.

The champion thundered with laughter and pounded on the skull of the dead maiden warrior, shattering open her head and inhaled her brain matter directly.

“Tasty,” he grinned wickedly.

Every member of the Chamber who saw what happened felt themselves coursing with sudden rage and with reckless abandon, they rallied and charged again, screaming a wordless battle cry at the top of their lungs.

Meanwhile, the Yan Family had gotten wind of the invasion, and Yan Guilai was on his way as fast as he could with as many men as he could bring.

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The trio of Chu Xun, Long Yi, and Long Er was walking slowly along the highway leading to Yanxue City like a casual stroll in the park.

With the car now nothing more than a smoldering wreck all thanks to Long Yi, they could only walk.

The road was quiet with no one else in sight. The anomalies happening everywhere had turned much of Earth into jungle-sprawled terrain and hills where mutated wild beasts now roamed everywhere and no one would dare venture this far out.

Only people with great powers and courage like Chu Xun could see it as a brisk walk he could enjoy since they were not in any hurry.

They did encounter a few Beast Lords, but Chu Xun didn’t even need to lift a finger. The animals were easily dispatched by Long Yi and Long Er using their arrows.

But that also deprived them of any Beast Lords to use as a mount. Long Yi and Long Yi, in their frenzy, had even ventured deeper into the jungle and delved into a hunting spree that no animals dared to come near anymore.

Screech!

A white-bellied eagle flew past, its wingspan as far as twenty meters cast a long and wide shadow over the jungle, momentarily obscuring the light of the sun.

It circled around, then it saw Chu Xun and it cried as if taunting them. They could see that it was a powerful Beast Lord.

Long Yi raised his bow and aimed.

But Chu Xun quickly stopped him this time. Using his Reincarnation Whip, he lashed the Beast Lord right out of the sky and the bird crashed into a hill, leveling it.

Chu Xun used more Reincarnation Whips like a makeshift bridle to control it.

Wild, mutated animals that reached the levels of Beast Lords often acquire intellect equitable to humans and its eyes shivered with fear.

“Ferry us to our destination and we’ll let you go. Or else, you can end up as our meal now,” threatened Chu Xun.

The eagle quickly nodded its large head obediently.

Chu Xun and his companions stepped on its back. It was a magnificent creature with a grey-silver coat of feathers as sharp and hard as steel.

But the animal trembled with fear. Fear from the aura that radiated off Chu Xun that even its feathers all stood on ends.

The eagle zipped quickly through the sky, with every beat of its wings capable of tossing and churning winds around them.

“Look, Master Chu Xun,” said Long Yi suddenly, “There are people fighting there.”

Chu Xun was hardly interested to even look. Fights break out as common as dirt since the anomalies began and he could hardly care about some strangers’ fight that happened nearby.

Seeing that Chu Xun had no interest to look, Long Yi and Long Er watched the battle on their own.

“Wow, one side’s all women. Heavens, she’s a feisty one. She took a blow but she had the guts to drive her sword into her enemy before falling,” remarked Long Yi as he watched.

“Such a shame… She’s a pretty one… Such a shame to die like that,” Long Er muttered, feeling sorry.

“Women… They should just stick to rearing children and taking care of the household… Battlefields are no place for womenfolk,” added Long Yi who also felt sympathetic.

“Look at that one in a white dress… Heavens, she’s pretty too… Damn, she’s even prettier than the best girl in our village… Too bad she’s dying too…”

“Nah… I feel girls in our village are better. This lass’s too thin… Those are not child-bearing hips…”

“Look at that one! Is that a man or a woman in red?! Damn, he’s hideous.”

“I heard Yu Cheng speaking about something like this before. He must be transgender. An oddity of sorts. I’m sure this must be one of those.”

“...”

Chu Xun chuckled to himself at their banter.

But the talk had aroused his interest and he came over to look down.

He came just in time to see a woman in white being struck a blow and when he recognized who it was, his face twisted with horror.

That was Yao Baiyue.

Chu Xun stepped and jumped off the Beast Lord eagle without any warning.

Long Yi and Long Er quickly steered the eagle around to chase after Chu Xun and land.

Yao Baiyue was collecting more wounds by the minute and the red splotches of blood on her snowy-white dress were beginning to grow.

Meanwhile, Bi Keyun was down, coughing up mouthfuls of blood after suffering a blow by Jin Zhong.

Boom!

A mysterious figure dropped down from the sky like a lightning bolt, crashing into the middle of the battle, and the impact of his fall had the ground split opened instantly into a long, yawning crack.

The crash kicked up dirt and dust into the air and the shock wave from the impact threw many Zang and maiden acolytes off their feet before they even knew what was going on.