"Idiot, that old man Wu Ye Lan once charged towards the Epic level, don't be careless!"
A gruff male voice, filled with clear dissatisfaction, echoed from the massive bonfire.
"Th...Thank you, Divine Servant..."
A slightly panicked male voice followed. As the panicked male voice fell silent, the space around the mushroom cloud and the giant bonfire twisted, and a colossal figure slowly materialized. Three massive heads were faintly visible, and an aura of darkness and oppression violently emanated...
"Hellhound?"
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Qiao Ying exclaimed almost simultaneously.
"Whoosh!~ Hiss!"
"Bang! Clatter!"
At this moment, a middle-aged man with a square face and white hair and eyebrows rapidly retreated from the distorted space. With a few leaps, he landed on a toppled concrete pillar. It was Wu Ye Lan.
Wu Ye Lan's clothes were torn and scorched in multiple places. He stared intently at the Hellhound in the bonfire not far ahead.
"Grandpa, are you alright?"
Wu Ye Lin leaped a few times, arriving beside Wu Ye Lan and asking with concern.
Wu Ye Lan shook his head slightly. "And you?"
"I'm fine!"
Wu Ye Lin also shook her head. She glanced at the now-ruined guild hall, where scattered human body parts lay everywhere, and her eyes were filled with bone-deep hatred.
She had just been discussing potential contingencies and countermeasures for the midday auction with Wu Ye Lan when the space suddenly tore open, an explosion sounded, and the entire Wu Ye Adventurer's Guild building instantly turned into ruins...
Because the incident happened too suddenly, very few people survived. Among them were many of Wu Ye Lin's relatives...
"Guild Leader Wu Ye, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Xikela. Are you satisfied with the surprise I prepared?"
At this time, the spatial distortion at the bonfire had mostly subsided. The Hellhound took a step forward and emerged from the flames.
"Xikela?"
Hearing the Hellhound's self-introduction, Ye Feng was quite surprised. He turned to look at Qiao Ying and found that her face also held surprise.
Because this Xikela was one of the six divine hounds of the Underworld, the only six Hellhounds with names.
"You beast!"
Wu Ye Lin gritted her teeth and launched a volley of water arrows towards Xikela's location, but they were dispersed by a gust of wind midway.
"Hiss!~ Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
As Wu Ye Lin's water arrows were scattered, a barrage of wind blades mixed with flames roared towards her. The steel reinforcing bars of the surrounding building debris were instantly severed.
"Clang! Sizzle!"
"Whoosh! Sizzle!"
Wu Ye Lin leaped and dodged several times to avoid the opponent's wind blades.
But before she could catch her breath, a middle-aged man in golden armor appeared behind her eerily and thrust a black rune-engraved saber fiercely towards her back.
"Sizzle! Puff!~"
Caught off guard, Wu Ye Lin was pierced through the heart by the rune-engraved saber. As the black rune-engraved saber struck Wu Ye Lin's heart, a large number of strange runes erupted from the wound, scattering outward.
"Sister Lin!"
Seeing this, Xiao Xiao became extremely anxious. A long sword appeared in her hand, and she swiftly launched a fire slash at the middle-aged man in golden armor. However, he easily dodged it.
"Puff!~ Splash!~"
Just as the runes from the black rune-engraved saber were about to wrap around Wu Ye Lin's face, Wu Ye Lin suddenly exploded into a shower of transparent water droplets.
"Huh~"
Xiao Xiao, who was about to rush over, immediately stopped. Her expression was full of surprise, but Ye Feng was not surprised. As an Arcanist of the Water element, he had already sensed that the person was merely Wu Ye Lin's water clone.
Wu Ye Lin must have used a water clone behind a large rock when she passed by.
"Bang! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
At this moment, another volley of water arrows shot towards the middle-aged man in golden armor. The opponent did not dodge, allowing the water arrows to hit him.
Strangely, after the water arrows struck him, a formation of runes appeared on his body, instantly distorting and neutralizing the water arrows.
"Gu Talisman Saber... Void Absorption Formation, is that guy from the Huang family?"
Ye Feng turned his head to look at Wu Ye Lin, who had emerged from a large rock and was rapidly leaping towards him, and asked.
"Mm!"
Wu Ye Lin nodded. "The second-in-command of the Huang family, Huang Zhikun. Standing next to the Hellhound, that lean man with white temples who looks quite similar to him is Huang Zhikun's father, the patriarch of the Huang family, Huang Renxin! The one who was speaking in that gruff voice just now is him!"
"Yo, Brother Zhikun actually got tricked by a little kid!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A somewhat sarcastic male voice rang out, followed by a burst of intense gunfire.
Almost simultaneously, Ye Feng's vision was filled with the trajectory of dense arcane energy bullets, as someone was firing an arcane energy gun at him, Wu Ye Lin, and the others.
"Zing! Clatter!"
"Rumble!~ Bang! Boom!~"
The area where Ye Feng and his group were located instantly turned into a sea of fire. Fire, wind, and wood elemental arcane energies worked in concert, turning the spot where Ye Feng and the others had previously stood into a deep pit.
"Hmph, Zeng Ji, your proud arcane energy gun is not much either?"
"It didn't even scratch Wu Ye Lin's hair!"
Huang Zhikun mocked as he watched the dissipating flames and wind blades.
Hearing this, Zeng Ji, standing on a collapsed building not far from Huang Zhikun, did not retort. He looked somewhat puzzled.
Because he found that all the arcane energy bullets, after exploding, had not caused any effective damage but were blocked outside a circular void.
"Is it that little girl?"
Zeng Ji narrowed his eyes. A light flashed in his hand, and a large-caliber sniper rifle instantly appeared. He quickly aimed at Xiao Xiao.
"Bang!"
Just as Zeng Ji was about to pull the trigger, a deafening gunshot rang out. It was Ye Feng's Barrett M82A1 firing.
Zeng Ji's expression changed slightly. A golden light flashed on his body, and he blocked in front of him.
"Clang!"
A crisp, loud metallic sound echoed. The bullet from the Barrett M82A1 shattered upon impact with his arm.
"Hmph! To think you have a heavy sniper rifle like the Barrett. It's a pity that bullets, things like that, are useless to me!"
Zeng Ji casually discarded the Barrett M82A1 bullet, which had broken into many pieces, and said coldly.
"Ye Feng, that person is Zeng Ji from the Zeng family. He's a Gold-attribute Arcanist, Grade Five Gold. Ordinary bullets, even artillery shells, can't harm him!"
"The corresponding arcane energy can penetrate his Gold-attribute arcane energy armor and cause effective damage!"
At this moment, Wu Ye Lin explained to Ye Feng.
"Boom boom boom!~"
"Rumble!~"
As soon as Wu Ye Lin finished speaking, the entire ground suddenly trembled. Large amounts of vines and trees grew out of the ground strangely. In a short while, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and the others were surrounded.
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