Chapter 02 Fire Demons

After two hours of walking, the six people of Snow Sector finally arrived in Golden Cliff Village. Villagers have already gathered around Golden Gate Sector and Louts Sector.

Yi Guozhi looked at the people of Snow Sector and sneered. He mocked, "Hu Jianguo, you are late, we have already caught the fire demon."

The fire demon is a female creature. Her two red eyes were as red as blood. The creature stood about five feet three inches tall. Looking up from the waist up, she is an ordinary woman with a red iris. From the waist down, she is a bird with two wings on her back. She was wearing an armor that only covered her breasts, and her hands were chained to the ground. She snarled loudly at the hunters and villagers.

A man villager asked in horror, "Hunters, with these chains chained her hands, can she escape?"

Yi Guozhi said with confident, "With this magic chain, she can't escape."

Sien Ye added, "Don't worry, there is nothing in this land that Golden Sector cannot defeat."

Suddenly, the fire demon creature roared up to the sky. The inexperienced hunters and the villagers who knew nothing about the demon creatures stood up happily looking at the fire demon, not knowing that the fire demon was calling for help.

Sien Ye looked at the villagers and said, "Look, she is begging us to let her go."

The villagers nodded happily and continued to praise the hunters for their good works. After a while, multiple fireballs fell from the sky and into the hunters, villagers and houses. They heard a harsh, piercing scream, and everyone immediately covered their ears.

Hu Jianguo looked around and shouted, "What is that?"

Hu Dingxiang looked up and saw ten fire demons hoovering above them, spitting out hundreds of small fireballs from their mouths, at hunters, the villagers and their houses.

The female fire demon grabbed her two chains and screamed, "I'm not afraid of you." She pulled the magic chains from the ground and started attacking the surrounding villagers and hunters. When the other ten fire demons landed, the hunters and the villagers retreated a considerable distance.

Hu Dingxiang looked at the villagers and shouted, "Hide." He drew his sword out of its sheath.

The female fire demon laughed loudly, "Ha...Ha...Ha... Killed them."

The eleven fire demons rushed to the hunters and the villagers. Two fire demons flew up, spitting fire beads at houses and the villagers. The other nine fire demons attacked the hunters. The fire demons blew flames at the hunters from their mouth, causing the hunters to be in disarrayed. Some inexperience hunters were severely burned.

The female fire demon directly sent the chains at Hu Dingxiang and Hu Jianguo. The two brothers blocked the female fire demon's chains attack and started fighting with her. Members of other sectors began to attack other fire demons.

The lead fire demon opened her mouth, released four fire orbs floating straight towards the two brothers. As the fireball got closer and closer to the two young hunters, it became bigger and bigger, as big as a basin, heading straight to the two brothers. Because the fireball burned everything on its path, the only thing the two brothers can do is to retreat.

Hu Dingxiang's injured foot stepped on a dead villager and lose his balance. He fell to the ground, and a fireball quickly floated towards him. He glanced at Hu Jianguo, but Hu Jianguo didn't care, Hu Jianguo continued to back further away. Hu Dingxiang tried to get up, but he failed. He looked up and the blaze of flame continued to flow straight to him.

On Hu Dingxiang's second attempt to get up, someone grab him by the waist and lift him up. He turned to his right, and it was Guozhao Zhiqiang.

Hu Dingxiang murmured softly, "Zhiqiang...?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang threw a talisman at the fireball, which turned the fireball into a big ice ball and the heavy ice ball crush into pieces on the ground. Guozhao Zhiqiang still held Hu Dingxiang on his left arm, swung them around towards Hu Jianguo, and he sent out two talismans at the fireball. The two fireballs instantly turned into two large ice balls, which also fell to the ground and shattered into fragments.

Fire demon leader screamed in anger, "Arrrrgg..."

The fire demon sends a chain to Guozhao Zhiqiang who was still holding Hu Dingxiang. The two men flipped backward twice, and Guozhao Zhiqiang sent out two paper talismans right at the incoming chain. The two talismans turned into fifty icicles and shot straight at the leader of the fire demon. The fire demon leader pulled back the chains and knocked off a few icicles, but two icicles pierced on her left shoulder and upper left arm.

Guozhao Zhiqiang pushed Hu Dingxiang behind him. He drew his sword, and he flew straight to the leader of the fire demon.

The fire demon's chain wrapped around Guozhao Zhiqiang's left ankle. She pulled him towards her. Guozhao Zhiqiang went straight to her with the momentum of the fire demon. When Guozhao Zhiqiang was close to the fire demon, he flipped over the fire demon, and at the same time the dragon sword pierced the fire demon's head. He stood on her back and pushed the sword down with half his internal force, but the fire demon was not dead. With all of Guozhao Zhiqiang's strength, he knelt directly on her shoulders and pierced the entire sword into her head. The fire demon knelt on her knees. Guozhao Zhiqiang pulled his sword from the fire demon's head, leaped from the shoulders of the fire demon, and the fire demon's body fell to the ground.

A female villager shouted, "My child."

Guozhao Zhiqiang sent out two talismans at one of the fire demons, the talisman turned into fifty icicles, and instantly killed the fire demon where the fire demon was standing. The woman ran to her child and hugged her. Guozhao Zhiqiang closed his eyes, a talisman floated on his open palm, and icicles quickly appeared around the ten fire demons. The icicles formed faster than the ten fire demons can destroy. The remaining hunters could only watch as Guozhao Zhiqiang crushed the talisman inside his palm, and all the icicles pierced the ten fire demons.

The injured and uninjured hunters swallowed and looked at the weird man who suddenly appeared. With a few movements and a few yellow paper talismans, all the eleven fire demons were extinguished.

Guozhao Zhiqiang turned to Hu Dingxiang and walked towards him. He stopped in front of Hu Dingxiang. Guozhao Zhiqiang asked, "Are you going home?"

Hu Dingxiang, "After the fire demon is destroyed, we will go home."

Guozhao Zhiqiang stepped forward, carrying Hu Dingxiang on his back, and Guozhao Zhiqiang walked out of the village slowly, leaving behind the other hunters to claim their glory.

After some time of walking, Hu Dingxiang stopped Guozhao Zhiqiang, "We stopped here and wait for my elder brother."

Guozhao Zhiqiang asked madly, "He was going to let you burn, why care for him?"

Hu Dingxiang sighed sadly, "It may be because we are half-brothers, not real brothers, and we don't share the same blood of both parents."

Guozhao Zhiqiang said indifferently, "If I fall to the ground, Ah Bao will do everything he can to save me."

Hu Dingxiang asked, "Ah Bao? Who is he?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang looked at Hu Dingxiang and said, "My younger brother by title, but he is older than me, we are fellow classmate."

Hu Dingxiang sighed heavily, "Life is really strange. He and I share the same blood, but he always looks for opportunities to humiliate me in front of others." He chuckled. "You and Ah Bao are just fellow classmates, but you are willing to die for each other."

Guozhao Zhiqiang, "We live according to our principles."

Hu Dingxiang asked shyly, "Why don't you go to Mountain Village?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang, "You are injured, I can't let you fight those creatures alone."

Hu Dingxiang, "Do you remember, you told me that we are just acquaintances? Why do you take extra measures to keep this acquaintance out of danger?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang stammered, "I..."

Hu Dingxiang leaned closer, "What are you?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang stammered again, "I..."

Hu Dingxiang, "Do you like me?"

Guozhao Zhiqiang, "If you already knew, why ask?"

Hu Dingxiang teased, "I want to hear it from your mouth."

Guozhao Zhiqiang, "I..."

Hu Dingxiang smiled and said, "Well, just say what you want. I don't like to force others to do things they don't want to do."

After waiting for an hour, Hu Jianguo and the four female disciples finally approached from a distance. Guozhao Zhiqiang continued to carry Hu Dingxiang and walked towards Mountain Village.

Hu Dingxiang leaned into Guozhao Zhiqiang's ear and whispered, "Brother Zhiqiang, I like you." He quickly looked around, no one was watching, and no one cared, so he gently kissed Guozhao Zhiqiang's left temple.