The dense fog still hadn't dissipated, but one could hear that the sound of weapon collisions was getting very close.

Lin Zhiyan quickened her pace, unable to suppress a slight nervousness in her heart. She was very worried that someone on their side might be in trouble.

Before long, the rough outline of the courtyard could be seen, along with several corpses distributed in different positions appearing in view.

Lin Zhiyan scanned the area quickly, confirming that none of them were people she knew, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sister!" Lin Jiaxuan couldn't help but shout in surprise when she saw Lin Zhiyan emerging from the mist.

"Are you okay?" Seeing the blood at the corner of her sister's mouth and her pale face, Lin Zhiyan asked with concern.

But before Lin Jiaxuan could reply, Xiao Feng cut in, "This isn't the time for you two to display sisterly affection. Hurry and help us!"

The tone of those words carried a heavy resentment.

Lin Zhiyan took a deep breath. Although the situation looked unfavorable, it was probably not to the point of being irreversible.

"The pendant was given to him by the Abbot Master, I'm just holding it to deliver a message." Lin Zhiyan pointed at Xiao Feng.

Hui Yi nodded knowingly and shouted to Xiao Feng, "Benefactor, who do you want us to fight?"

Xiao Feng was immediately riled up, Are you guys blind?

However, clearly wasn't the time to dwell on their eyesight, he could only suppress his anger and pointed at Uesugi Yumi, "That old witch there."

"You guys back off." Hui Yi casually dropped a sentence, calling to his junior brothers behind him, preparing to take over from Xiao Feng and the others.

Before long, Xiao Feng and the others safely retreated. Together, eighteen martial monks surrounded Uesugi Yumi, resting their long staffs on their arms, bringing their hands together, and bowing slightly, "Amitabha."

"What's the meaning of this, weren't they supposed to help in the fight?" The little girl pouted, extremely dissatisfied with these martial monks.

Xiao Feng thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps these people are more polite and like to greet before starting a fight."

At this time, Uesugi Yumi, surrounded in the center, looked a bit displeased, muttering, "Monks should be pure-hearted, why do they also like to be so belligerent?"

"Benefactor, are you a monk?" Hui Yi asked expressionlessly.

Uesugi Yumi frowned slightly and shook her head in denial.

"Then why do you believe that monks should be pure-hearted?"

Uesugi Yumi was instantly at a loss for words.

Hui Yi continued, "Benefactor, don't generalize. It's like the vast majority of patients entering a hospital get cured and leave, but you can't require the hospital to cure every patient that gets sent in."

Xiao Feng furrowed his brow, Are you guys here for a chat?

"Enough chatter, just start fighting!"

Xiao Feng received the pendant from Lin Zhiyan, raised it, and ordered.

Upon hearing the command, all eighteen people spun their staffs in unison, rushing toward Uesugi Yumi. Even the timing of their movements was identical, as if they were following a rhythm only they could hear.

Uesugi Yumi suddenly clasped her hands together, bending her ring and little fingers, forming a seal, and uttered an unknown syllable.

"Bang!"

A sound like muffled thunder resounded in the field, and Uesugi Yumi's figure was enveloped by a swirl of colorful smoke.

"This is an escape technique unique to the Upper-level Ninja, equivalent to a more advanced blinding technique." Su Yuzhuo said in a low voice.

Fujiwara Keiaki's body had already been placed over with Sun Shijie, his face covered with a piece of clothing, but now was not the time to deal with it.

Xiao Feng nodded without a word. He had witnessed the ninja's escape technique many times before, such as those flashing blinding spheres, which were indeed a useful tool for escaping.

And the escape technique Uesugi Yumi was using right now was clearly more advanced, at least she didn't use any props.

"Whoooosh..."

The eighteen martial monks simultaneously started spinning their long staffs, as if eighteen large fans had been turned on at once, scattering the colorful smoke in the middle.

As the smoke dispersed, Uesugi Yumi's figure did not reappear.

Hui Shi, with hearing far superior to ordinary people, walked to a bamboo a dozen meters away, holding the end of his long staff in one hand and tapping his palm upwards with the other.

"Whoosh!"

The long staff flew straight up, disappearing into the bamboo leaves above.

But almost immediately, a "bang" echoed, and the long staff flew back down, wobbling as it lodged into the ground.

Clearly, there was someone up in the tree.

The other seventeen, with no need for even eye contact, each grabbed their long staff and, like spears, threw them toward the top of the bamboo.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The sharp whistling sounds of the wind cut through as if a barrage of arrows was being concentrated at a single point.

Uesugi Yumi dared not stay up there, quickly using the force to spring to a nearby bamboo, then swiftly descended, looking grim, "Die, dog one!"

Fearing the martial monks didn't understand, the little girl helpfully translated, "This means you're very strong."

"I don't recall you studying Japanese?" Xiao Feng said with a strange expression.

The little girl replied matter-of-factly, "I never studied it, but I like watching anime, and I know some words that often appear in them, like 'damn it'..."

"Got it, got it," Xiao Feng quickly interrupted, just wondering what kind of anime she watched, featuring words usually found in live-action films?

The martial monks didn't retrieve their long staffs but quickly gathered together, and then they started climbing up each other's shoulders.

At the bottom were seven, above them were five, then three, two, lastly, one person stood at the very top.

Eighteen people formed into five layers, with an average height of 1.8 meters, reaching a total height of nine meters.

Seeing this, Xiao Feng and the others were taken aback. Were they here to fight or to perform acrobatics?

The girl who loved anime couldn't help but think of the ending of "The Calabash Brothers," where the Calabash Dolls combined into Calabash Mountain in just such a manner.

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

Heavy and dense footsteps sounded. If one closed their eyes and listened, they might mistake it for an appearance of giants like elephants or bears.

As they approached within ten meters of Uesugi Yumi, Hui Liu, whose arms were wrapped in chains at the top, suddenly made a pouncing motion.

Then those beneath him followed with the same movement, except for the foundational layer at the bottom, who remained still, pressing down on the feet of those standing on their shoulders.

Feeling the overwhelming shadow pressing towards her, Uesugi Yumi couldn't help but panic. She wanted to retreat but felt fleeing would be futile, so she tried with all her strength to dodge to the side, attempting to avoid the impending Hui Liu.

"Crack!"

The sound of bones breaking was heard.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Screams escaped Uesugi Yumi's lips as one of her arms was gone, not dislocated nor fractured, but genuinely smashed down, bones and flesh separated.

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