Chapter 352: Yun Nuo, the Leader of Yipin Hall

The forest was utterly silent.
Yun Nuo, the leader of Yipin Hall, no longer held a paper fan—instead, she wielded the exquisitely crafted top-tier weapon “Qingxuan Sword,” radiating a green glow. At the first stage, Qingxuan Sword possessed an attack power of 600 points, and its attributes far exceeded those of ordinary players.
Yet…
Even though she tightly grasped Qingxuan Sword, it offered her no sense of security.
“Tap… Tap!”
Behind Yun Nuo stood a young man in his twenties, holding a sword in one hand and pressing it against a wound on his abdomen. His face was pale with terror as he stared around at the forest. Blood seeped rapidly through his fingers, dripping slowly to the ground.
Around Yun Nuo, there were nine skilled experts from Yipin Hall, all equipped well. Yet each of them wore a similar expression of fear. They stood in a tense circle, swords drawn, watching the surroundings. All of them had injuries of varying degrees.
Outside the circle, over a dozen corpses lay scattered along the path. Judging from their well-equipped appearance, their strength was likely comparable to those standing there.
“Damn it…”
Yun Nuo maintained a vigilant defensive stance, gritting her teeth. Her gaze never wavered, and her palms were already drenched in sweat.
The group had set up an ambush here based on the progress of Caiyi Gate. These twenty-five core disciples of Yipin Hall were nearly as combat-effective as the Evil Wolves, each capable of fighting alone. Such a force could have easily overwhelmed Caiyi Gate’s forces. But just as they prepared to strike at the sound of movement, they were suddenly attacked from all sides of the forest.
The hidden weapons came suddenly and at incredible speed. Their trajectories were impossible to track. The first wave of attacks claimed five lives instantly—killed on the spot!
By the time they activated their protective barriers and rushed into the forest to hunt down the attackers, they were horrified to discover that these weapons had a “Pogang” effect. Eleven people were slaughtered on the path without even a chance to scream. A single dart shattered their protective barriers and pierced their bodies, leaving them dead on the spot.
How many enemies? Unknown!
Who were the enemies? Unknown!
Even those under attack received no alerts from the system.
It was the first time Yun Nuo had encountered such a situation. Though stunned by two rounds of rapid attacks, she instinctively focused on self-preservation. After forming a circle, seeing no more hidden weapons in the forest, she calmed her anger and humiliation. Quietly, she instructed her men, “Stay alert, maintain formation. Let’s leave this forest.”
That’s right.

Leaving the forest was their only correct choice at the moment. The enemy had somehow managed to bypass even the warnings, using the forest to hide themselves. If things continued like this, they would never know the enemy’s name even in death.
What was worse, as time passed, a brilliant rocket signal exploded from another forest in the distance—a signal agreed upon in advance for use only in emergencies. This meant something unexpected had happened on the main battlefield there; they could no longer hold on!
If they continued to be trapped in the forest, those four hundred people there might all be wiped out—after all, the Colorful Robes Sect also had many experts at the Profound Realm level with excellent equipment.
…
Whoosh!
As soon as the circular formation moved, a black arc tore through space, shattering the silence of the forest and slicing across their path like lightning.
Their advance was halted. Yunuo and the others immediately became alert, as several more sounds of objects piercing the air appeared rapidly around them…
Blood sprayed.
“Go!”
“Charge out!!”
This was a sign that the intensity of the attack was about to increase. In panic, Yunuo desperately channeled his internal energy, and the group took off together, flying as fast as they could toward the edge of the forest.
Clothing rustled as they moved through the air.
“Ugh!”
The sounds of hidden weapons piercing the air indeed grew louder. Under the cover of the forest, they resembled black threads, precisely piercing two of them.
Two more lost…
Eight in total!
These were all core disciples of the First-Class Hall. Though they hadn’t yet gained fame in the martial world, they were extremely valuable to the hall. Now, seeing their comrades fall, Yunuo’s heart ached. Without stopping to check if the fallen had left anything behind, the group continued to fly away, enduring the pain.
Yet… their hatred for the enemy lurking in the forest grew even stronger!
One after another, the attacks from the forest became more fierce than the previous waves!
The sounds of objects piercing the air grew more frequent and intense, wave after wave, so fast that Yunuo and his group broke into cold sweats, feeling as though some terrifying nightmare was rushing toward them.
One… two… three…
Their comrades kept falling behind them.
But!
The forest was coming to an end. The sudden openness filled the remaining five with excitement. The attacks behind them seemed to stop abruptly as they neared the exit.
“We’re saved!”
Before Yunuo and the others could show relief at having escaped danger, a person not far ahead froze their expressions.

Ahead, not far away, a man with swords in both hands stood quietly, his cold eyes piercing through the damaged silver mask and fixing on the faces of the five men. The icy, familiar murderous intent, along with a row of neatly arranged boomerangs at his feet, made the five men freeze in place, breaths catching in their throats as they stopped without realizing it.

“Farewell Hook. Boomerangs!”

With narrowed eyes, Yunuo suddenly halted, recalling a person whom the Evil Wolf had mentioned to him not long ago. That mysterious warrior who had fought evenly against Lu Mingyue in an unknown small town before disappearing—seemingly, it was this man before them.

“Silver Fox!”

Yunuo called out tentatively to the man across from him. He wasn’t sure if it was really him who had done this. To be more precise, he couldn’t believe that the death of twenty of his companions could have been done by just one person!!

Silver Fox moved his eyes slightly, giving Yunuo a brief glance before slowly saying, “Take one step forward, and die.”

“It’s you! You killed my brothers!” Before Yunuo could finish speaking, the four men behind him rushed forward. They didn’t know Silver Fox, and seeing the enemy, they hesitated none in preparing to vent all their anger. All they thought of was “revenge.”

Silver Fox moved both hands swiftly, lifting two boomerangs. The two boomerangs shot into the woods from a few meters away from Yunuo’s group, as if released from his hands.

The four men from Yipin Hall snarled in triumph, thinking the other party had been scared silly.

Only Yunuo, upon seeing this, suddenly remembered something and his expression changed drastically: “Be careful!!”

It was too late!

With a single kick, Silver Fox sent ten flying knives soaring into the air.

The Farewell Hooks were swung, and the ten boomerangs traced strange arcs like petals scattered by a goddess, heading straight for the four men…