Chapter 71: Closing the Net
Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Closing the Net
In the Raincoat Fisherman’s perception, auras of varying strengths appeared from all directions, their target none other than him!
There were First Realm auras, Second Realm auras, and even this Third-Realm beast before him.
There were too many!
Even as a Late-Third Realm expert, he couldn’t possibly fight so many enemies!
The most crucial part was...
The Raincoat Fisherman couldn’t help but frown. ’Where did all these enemies come from?’
’I haven’t left the city once since reporting for duty in Yuan Yang City. This is the first time I’ve gone out. Who wants me dead? Thunder Shocking Zhenren? Venerable Bi Tao? Or that damned Earth-Breaking Scholar?’
The Raincoat Fisherman muttered to himself, suddenly feeling that anyone could be the culprit.
Just then, the Black Tiger attacked again.
BOOM!!!
The fishhook moved in an instant, following his will, and knocked the Black Tiger back.
"Beast! Just who sent you!" the Raincoat Fisherman said coldly.
"Hahaha, the Plague God Sparrow has given an order: no Third-Realm expert is allowed near Yuan Yang City!" The Black Tiger opened its massive, bloody maw and roared with laughter, speaking in a human tongue.
"I have the greatest craving for you members of the Human Race. Today is the perfect day to devour your flesh and blood!"
"The Plague God Sparrow?!" The Raincoat Fisherman’s expression changed. He then snorted coldly. "I happen to need a tiger pelt for a new raincoat. How kind of you to deliver yourself to my doorstep."
As his voice fell, the Raincoat Fisherman’s body blurred into an afterimage and charged toward the Black Tiger.
The Black Tiger’s round eyes glared. Dense Demon Qi erupted from its body, and a cold glint flashed from its claws as it met the Raincoat Fisherman’s charge.
BOOM!!!
When the two clashed, the sound of their battle echoed for a hundred li around.
Meanwhile, Zhu Ge had already retreated over a hundred li away, watching from a distance.
He wasn’t the least bit surprised by the ambush.
’The net is closing...’
Zhu Ge narrowed his eyes. A tremor of excitement rose in his heart, but he suppressed it.
Now was not his time to act.
A Spider always waits for its prey to weaken before striking.
Just then, a sharp spine shot toward the Raincoat Fisherman.
DING!!
The Raincoat Fisherman flicked it away with a finger.
The Raincoat Fisherman snorted. "Insolent! A mere Second-Realm lesser demon..."
But before he could finish, the Black Tiger’s roar drowned him out.
Not far away, a Second-Realm hedgehog was preparing to fire another spine.
With the hedgehog joining the fray, more First- and Second-Realm creatures joined the battle.
This made the Raincoat Fisherman both shocked and furious.
"How dare you! I am a Jingzhe Official!"
"Insolence! You will all die!"
"One day, I will report this to the Cold Snow Official and have all of you exterminated!"
"Beasts..."
Wherever the Raincoat Fisherman’s hook passed, no First or Second-Realm being could resist it. To touch it was to die.
But because of this, the Raincoat Fisherman’s power was slightly divided, allowing the Black Tiger to contend with him without being at a disadvantage.
In just a short while, however, most of the First and Second-Realm beings were dead.
"Mere ants!"
Corpses littered the ground for a hundred li around the Raincoat Fisherman. A startling white light erupted from his eyes.
"No matter how many more First and Second-Realm creatures come, you are nothing but ants! You cannot imagine my power! Now back down!"
The Raincoat Fisherman’s voice was like rolling thunder. Seeing this, the surrounding Demon Beasts, Ghosts, and Spirit Monsters all recoiled in fear.
Even the Black Tiger paced in place, not daring to advance. Its body was covered in a dense web of scratches from the fishhook, bleeding ceaselessly.
In just a few dozen minutes, all the other creatures besides the Black Tiger had gone from a lively pack to a mountain of corpses in a sea of blood.
Yet the Raincoat Fisherman’s fishhook was completely undamaged. In fact, soaked in blood, it now glowed with an eerie light.
"Zhu Ge! Get your ass over here!"
The Raincoat Fisherman spoke again, "Pack up everything useful from these beasts’ bodies! I’d like to see anyone try and stop me!"
Zhu Ge’s expression shifted at his words. He immediately started jogging over, a mixture of fear and delight on his face. "Fisherman, these low-level creatures truly deserved to die!"
’The Raincoat Fisherman is definitely a mid-to-late Third Realm expert!’
’Never mind the Third Realm; even a First-Realm cultivator like myself can feel the difference between the initial and middle stages.’
’At the Third Realm, every step is a new threshold.’
’Perhaps a single Raincoat Fisherman could take on three or four Black Tigers!’
But just then, another being under the night sky made its move.
"Since this is the Plague God Sparrow’s order, this junior of the Human Race should stop right there..."
Not far away, the being rose up on its hind legs, its body like a small mountain several dozen meters tall.
But when Zhu Ge focused his gaze, he realized it was a Third-Realm Great Ape, walking towards them while carrying a small mountain!
WHOOSH!!!!
The small mountain on the Great Ape’s shoulder was suddenly thrown, stirring up a furious gale.
The mountain had not yet arrived, but it brought with it an extreme sense of pressure.
THUD!!
Zhu Ge felt his body freeze, and he was instantly pressed flat against the ground.
And this was only because he wasn’t bearing the brunt of the pressure. Otherwise, he might have been crushed into the earth.
’This Great Ape is definitely another powerhouse among the Third Realm!’
"Damned beast!" The Raincoat Fisherman looked up abruptly, utterly furious.
His fish basket flew out from his body, smashing directly into the massive rock.
CRACK!
RUMBLE!
The massive rock was instantly shattered into pieces, but the Great Ape immediately followed up, leaping forward with a punch.
Not only that, but some of the other creatures in the area also saw their chance and attacked.
"My Human Race has endured for millions of years! How dare the likes of you act so presumptuously?" The Raincoat Fisherman’s expression was incomparably majestic as a powerful fluctuation radiated from his body.
At the same time, the faint phantom of a small boat began to coalesce above his head. On the boat, an old fisherman seemed to be hunched over, pulling in a net.
"Even if I die here today, I will take a few of you Third-Realm beasts with me!"
The Raincoat Fisherman looked absolutely enraged. He held the fish basket in his left hand, while the fishhook floated by his right, radiating Spiritual Power.
’Is he about to unleash his ultimate move?’ Zhu Ge scrambled up from the ground and hurriedly retreated further.
"ROAR..." The Black Tiger backed away a few steps. It crouched low like a cat and hissed at the Raincoat Fisherman.
The Great Ape also uprooted a large tree and held it horizontally in front of itself, preparing to block the Raincoat Fisherman’s attack.
The other Demon Beasts stared intently, ready for anything.
"Damned beasts!"
"Today, I will use my death to fight for a sliver of hope for Yuan Yang City!"
"You’ve gone too far..."
The Raincoat Fisherman appeared utterly incensed, cursing them without pause, as if he were about to make a heroic sacrifice in the very next second.
However, just as all the Demon Beasts were on high alert, the Raincoat Fisherman suddenly turned, pushed off with both feet, and with a SWOOSH, vanished into the jungle.
He ran!
Without a backward glance, the Raincoat Fisherman fled south, in the opposite direction of Yuan Yang City!
Watching the Raincoat Fisherman’s fleeing figure, the surrounding Demon Beasts were all dumbfounded.
He had been shouting so ferociously just now; the Demon Beasts had thought he was about to unleash his ultimate attack.
But he just turned and ran?
"Fisherman, wait for me!" Zhu Ge seemed to react instantly, immediately running after the Raincoat Fisherman.
But his speed was too slow, while the Raincoat Fisherman was extremely fast.
However, something else was even faster than the Raincoat Fisherman!
HISS!!!
A giant brown python burst from the ground, its massive, two-meter-wide maw clearly aiming to swallow the Raincoat Fisherman whole.
"There’s more?!"
The Raincoat Fisherman’s face was livid with rage.
SHINK!!!
The fishhook shot downward, piercing straight through the Second-Realm giant python.
This giant python wasn’t terrifying on its own.
But even he was starting to struggle under this relentless, layered assault.
It wasn’t that the attacks were too strong. If it were a one-on-one fight, none of them here could defeat him.
But being swarmed like this was terrifying.
One careless moment, one mistake, and he could be killed, his cultivation wiped away.
The Raincoat Fisherman didn’t dare to take that gamble!
’Flee! I have to flee!’
’Yuan Yang City is doomed to fall under the Plague God Sparrow’s attack!’
’Plagues have been breaking out everywhere for the past three months. It must be the Plague God Sparrow’s scheme!’
’Let those commoners die for all I care! I have to get out of here!’
The Raincoat Fisherman’s expression was fraught with tension.
But just then, his eyes suddenly widened.
"You brat! What do you think you’re doing?!"