Liu Tong continuously controlled flaming arrows as they shot toward Sheng Ge. At the same time, Old Four raised his hammer and charged at her.
Sheng Ge swiftly dodged while carefully observing what these so-called abilities actually were.
“One controls fire, and the other simply has more strength than ordinary people. Their talent is average at best.”
Sheng Ge quickly came to a conclusion.
“You stinking bitch, what nonsense are you spouting?! Once I smash you into paste with one punch, you’ll know what ‘average’ really means!”
Hearing Sheng Ge call his strength average, Old Four exploded with rage and wanted nothing more than to grab her and tear her in half immediately.
But there was something strange about this woman.
She clearly didn’t have any abilities, yet her movements were unbelievably agile.
Even while surrounded by the combined attacks of him and the captain, she hadn’t suffered the slightest injury the entire time.
Could this damned woman actually be hiding her abilities?!
Meanwhile, Liu Tong had also been observing Sheng Ge the whole time.
Unlike Old Four’s violent temper, Liu Tong’s eyes were filled with interest.
“Little girl, are you interested in joining our squad?”
“Captain?!” Old Four exclaimed in shock and anger.
“This bitch just killed Old Six!”
Liu Tong clearly didn’t care.
In his eyes, so what if she killed Old Six?
As long as she was powerful and could be used by him, that was enough.
Of course, if she had strength but refused to work for him…
Then she could only die.
“Well? Little girl, I’m a Level Four fire-type ability user. Even among the major survivor bases, people with my strength are rare. If you follow us, I guarantee you’ll be able to strut sideways through any base.”
“Oh. Not interested.”
How could Grandma Grandmaster possibly become the lackey of brats like you?
“Is that so? Then don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
Liu Tong’s gaze turned vicious.
The abilities within his body erupted violently, and in the next instant, flames exploded all over him.
At the same time, an even denser and larger wall of flaming arrows shot rapidly toward Sheng Ge.
There was nowhere to dodge!
A victorious sneer appeared on Liu Tong’s lips.
Sheng Ge tilted her head slightly.
“Looks like I underestimated him. This brat actually has a little skill.”
But…
Sheng Ge flashed onto a nearby tree. Her consciousness dipped into her storage ring, and several talismans instantly appeared in her hand.
Without even looking, she tossed them toward the incoming flames.
The talismans flew into the air and formed an invisible wall.
The moment the flaming arrows touched that wall, all the flames extinguished simultaneously.
Within moments, every single flaming arrow vanished completely.
“T-That’s impossible?!”
The Huosha Squad members stared in disbelief.
Especially Liu Tong—his expression had turned incredibly ugly.
Ever since the apocalypse began over a year ago, although he never considered himself the strongest, very few people had ever neutralized his attacks this easily.
And the methods this woman used were incredibly strange.
He couldn’t tell at all how she had done it.
Those few pieces of paper?
“Who exactly are you?”
“Wuji Sect. Sheng Ge.”
Sheng Ge descended lightly in front of them and answered calmly.
Wuji Sect?
Was there a base with that name in City C?
The group looked confused.
“Ignorant little children.”
They didn’t even know the great name of the Wuji Sect, yet they still dared come here and cause trouble.
“Who cares what stupid Wuji Sect you belong to? Captain, if we attack together, are we really afraid we can’t deal with this bitch?”
Old Four swung his iron hammer viciously while glaring at Sheng Ge.
He had always been closest to Old Six, so from the moment Sheng Ge killed him, he had already decided he would never let her go.
After exchanging a glance with Liu Tong, and with Old Three and Old Five joining in from the side, they attacked Sheng Ge once more.
And this time, besides the flaming arrows from before, Sheng Ge also saw earth spikes fired by Old Three and bullets shot from Old Five’s gun.
The sight once again fascinated Sheng Ge, who was seeing abilities for the first time.
However, after observing for so long, she had already mostly figured out that these so-called abilities were essentially similar to the spells cultivators used back in the day.
At this point, Sheng Ge no longer wanted to keep playing with them.
After throwing out several more defensive talismans, her figure flashed, and she landed directly inside the Sword Tomb.
The swords within the Sword Tomb immediately began humming once more.
Countless swords trembled and moved rapidly, as though after endless lonely years, they had finally waited for hope to arrive.
Sheng Ge casually picked up a sword.
The moment it entered her hand, a long-familiar feeling spread through her body once again—
She, Sheng Ge of the Wuji Sect…
The number one sword cultivator in the cultivation world…
Had finally returned!
Her hand rose.
The sword moved.
A magnificent sword aura burst forth, carrying enough force to sweep away every obstacle in its path!
“AHHH!”
Wind howled.
Dust surged.
And when everything gradually settled down once more, only four corpses remained lying scattered across the ground.
Each of them had died from a single slash through the throat.
The Huosha Squad had never imagined that after running wild throughout the survivor bases and even surviving the pursuit of their mortal enemies, they would end up dying here so easily.
They hadn’t even understood how they died.
Ah Bao, who had just arrived at the scene, happened to witness his Grandma Grandmaster casually killing four high-level ability users with a single sword strike.
His mouth dropped wide open.
Yes, the Wuji Sect practiced swordsmanship.
He knew that.
His master and senior brothers all knew sword techniques too.
The kind that made them stronger than martial arts stars on television.
Even he himself had been forced by his master to practice sword forms every single day since childhood.
But…
Wasn’t that just for physical fitness?
Oh, and maybe so he could become a stunt double for celebrities in the future.
Ah Bao’s past career dreams suddenly came rushing back to him.
He remembered something his master once told him:
“It’s a pity that the Wuji Sect’s cultivation manual has been lost. What remains now are only sword forms. It’s impossible to recreate the former glory of our ancestors who could ‘split mountains and rivers with a single sword strike.’ The Wuji Sect… no longer has true sword cultivators.”
Back then, Ah Bao thought his master was just making things up to trick him into waking up early to train.
But now he realized—
Maybe everything Master said…
Had always been true.
“Gra—”
Ah Bao had just opened his mouth to speak when suddenly Sheng Ge’s sword flew straight toward him.
G-Grandma Grandmaster wants to silence me?!
Or did I make her angry because I ran too slowly?!
“What are you still standing there for? Looking to die?”
While Ah Bao desperately reviewed everything he might’ve done to offend Grandma Grandmaster, her voice rang out beside his ear.
At the same time came the sound of a sword piercing flesh behind him.
Ah Bao stiffly turned around.
Then collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
“R-Rabbit… mutated animal…”
Ah Bao trembled so hard he could barely speak.
Behind him lay the corpse of a mutated rabbit pierced through by the sword.
But that wasn’t the important part.
The truly terrifying thing was what stood behind the corpse.
More than a dozen mutated rabbits.
Each stood over a meter tall.
Their front teeth were long, sharp, and terrifyingly oversized.
Their eyes glowed dark red, their expressions savage, and parts of their bodies were rotting just like zombies.
One glance was enough to make anyone shudder in fear.
“ROAR—!”
A horrifying howl rang out as the rabbit pack charged toward them!
Ah Bao screamed and tightly shut his eyes.
But the expected pain never came.
Instead, he suddenly felt his collar tighten before his whole body was flung backward.
“Why are you hiding? Didn’t your master teach you how to use a sword? At this rate, how are you supposed to be the sect master?”
Sheng Ge glared at Ah Bao in disappointment.
Ah Bao: ……
Master forced the position onto me before dying…
And besides, the Wuji Sect was literally just one rundown courtyard and the two of them. Becoming sect master didn’t exactly require qualifications…
Suddenly, Sheng Ge felt exhausted.
She, the final disciple personally accepted by the founding ancestor of the Wuji Sect, had trained bitterly day and night ever since entering the sect.
Eventually, she became the number one sword cultivator in the world.
Everyone respectfully addressed her as “Venerable One.”
She had been waiting for the day her master ascended and her senior brothers and sisters finally gave up competing with her so she could inherit the position of sect master and stand above the world in glory.
Who could’ve expected that after the battle with the Abyss Demons, she would be forced into a sleep lasting thousands of years?
Fine.
Sleeping for thousands of years was one thing.
She thought that after waking up, she’d become Grandma Grandmaster.
Wouldn’t that mean she could just lie back and enjoy the filial devotion of generations of disciples while peacefully enjoying retirement with good food and drinks?
But what happened instead?
The Wuji Sect was practically extinct.
A tiny little brat inherited the sect master position she herself had failed to obtain even after grinding for hundreds of years.
Then the Sword Tomb was destroyed too.
And now…
Sheng Ge looked at the aggressively charging rabbit horde.
Their Wuji Sect…
Was really about to disappear completely.