Explosion

"Don't force us, or else you wouldn't escape this unscathed either." One of the cloaked figures shouted in desperation.

Their hope to escape was already slim to begin with, and now that one of them died and four fled, the favor was tilting towards the guard team. Their chance of escape almost became zero, leaving them desperate.

The guard team also realized this, so they didn't dare to attack recklessly. After all, someone is most dangerous when they are desperate, as they dare to do anything.

The foundation establishment guard was also wary; he didn't want to risk pushing the two cloaked figures into a corner. Because if they disregard everything and self-destruct, he couldn't escape injury either. He also couldn't kill someone by surprise like before, as everyone was already vigilant.

So the two sides entered a deadlock.

Suddenly, the captain throws something into the air. Catching everyone's attention.

It was a red orb, and it flashed with a red color as it started to become brighter as time passed.

"Explosion orb!" The guard cried out in shock, "Are you crazy?" He looked intently at the captain before backing off hurriedly.

Explosion Orb was like its name implied. It was a tool that would make an explosion using the qi contained inside it.

It was an expensive and difficult tool to forge because of the small and delicate components that form it.

Except for that, it also needs someone to inject qi inside it for it to be used, and the minimum requirement for someone to inject their qi is to be at least level 1 in the foundational establishment realm. And it also needed to be injected several times; that's why it was expensive.

After all, is there someone in the foundation realm who wants to inject their spiritual qi into the explosion orb without any benefit? Not to mention that it would take time to do it.

The components of the explosion orb were delicate, so it couldn't be injected with a large amount of qi immediately, but bit by bit. Just how long would it take?

If there were no benefits, it would be better to use that time to cultivate instead. Who would want to do such a thankless task?

Of course, the power of an explosion orb is equally frightening. The force of the explosion was equivalent to the self-explosion of the one who injected their qi into it.

In simple terms, it was a grenade with the minimum power comparable to the self-explosion of someone in the foundation establishment realm.

Just how strong is the self-destruction of someone in the foundation establishment realm? It would be enough to level several buildings, at least.

One would be crazy if they didn't go as far away as possible from something like it.

Everyone began a desperate escape from there, as they didn't want to be dragged into the explosion.

But there was someone who just remained still and didn't escape—Wei Fang.

He didn't know what happened. He heard someone say explosion orb. But what is it? He didn't know, so he remained still.

Just when he felt danger and wanted to escape, it was already too late. Even though he was quite far from the center of the explosion, the force still sent him flying and made him cough several mouthfuls of blood.

He lay there weakly, looking at what had happened.

The previous place where the two groups were fighting was gone, replaced with a pit several meters deep.

"Fack!" The foundation establishment guard cursed.

Because of the explosion, there was no chance to chase after the two level 9 qi condensation-cloaked figures.

Then he turned his head towards the three cloaked figures, who also fled with them.

In that chaotic situation, no one thought about where to go. They just go where their feet bring them, as long as they can go out of the explosion range.

But now, that rash decision to escape quickly was the cause of their doom.

Among the cloaked figures, three of them fled to the camp together with the guard team, while four of the guard team fled towards the forest.

There was no hope to capture or kill the other cloaked figures, but the three cloaked figures were like sheep in a pack of starving wolves.

The guard team looked at them with an inexplicable glint in their eyes.

But before they could attack, the foundation establishment guard had already slashed with his sword, causing sword energy to flee towards the three cloaked figures, who raised their weapon hurriedly to block the attack.

Two of them could only look helplessly in despair as the sword energy cut their weapon like tofu before their heads next. It was because their cultivation was too low, only at the seventh level.

Now, only one of them was remaining. He used the force of the attack to flee backward, to create more distance.

He didn't have any hope to live if he stayed. If he were captured, he would only be subjected to torture before being killed.

He knew it because of what the foundation establishment guard said at the start.

He followed the convoy, especially to target them. He began to think that maybe the information the captain got was what the sect had leaked.

All of it was a trap!

But there was no point in thinking about all of this. He looked at the sword in his hand; its durability was already at its end. It could only block one sword attack from the guard, and then it would be his body's turn to receive the attack.

He would try his best to escape, so he looked around and chose a direction to escape.

Clang!

And as he thought, his sword was broken after blocking the sword light. But he didn't stop his run.

It was enough, he thought.

Just as the third sword reached him, he bowed down and threw something at the sword light.

It was a corpse—Wang Ren's corpse.

The direction he chose to escape was where Wei Fang was lying down. He wanted to use the corpse to block the sword light after his sword broke.

The sword light slows down a hit after hitting the corpse, giving him enough time to evade it.

Wei Fang saw all of it, as he didn't close his eyes after the explosion hit him because he saw that the situation was in favor of the guard team. Of course, he only opens his eyes as a slit. But it still gave him enough vision to see what happened.

He was horrified when he saw what happened to Wang Ren's corpse as the cloaked figures were running towards him.

If he didn't do anything, he would likely end up like that, split into two, but he also couldn't just get up and run away, as his speed was obviously much slower than the cloaked figures. Not to mention that he is injured now, making his speed slower than usual.

The only advantage he had was that everyone was still unaware that he was still alive.

It was the only thing he could count on to save his life.

I only had one chance!

Wei Fang thought. His eyes suddenly focused, and his mind became calm again; there was no disturbance in his eyes.

It was just like before when he was fighting with Chen Bao; his special ability was activated.