Chapter 67: Part-time Wet Nurse

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  As expected, Sun Shikui's iron rod was unleashed, and the leader of the sand thieves immediately sensed danger. Suddenly, he let out a loud roar, his body bursting with energy, instantly dissolving the light blue color on its surface. His body seemed to swell up by a circle, his height increasing by two meters in an instant. At the same time, his face also became extremely ferocious, with both eyes turning red.

  "Paralyzed! Sandstorm! Fall back!" Sun Shilei's eyebrows furrowed deeply, and he was the first to retreat.

  This is the lifesaving trick of the Sand Thieves, called Desert Storm. It's gathering all one's energy and bursting out wildly. The energy erupts in all directions, just like a massive storm on the Alashan Plateau. Such a desert storm is somewhat similar to a human cultivator's self-detonation. For the Sand Thieves themselves, it's extremely damaging.

  Generally, once the Desert Storm is unleashed, the Sand Thief itself will be crippled. In the following days, the Sand Thief can forget about making any progress in their training. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, until the very last moment, the Sand Thief will not use it lightly. However, once unleashed, its destructive power is self-evident.

  "Go die!" Xia Xingxiao sneered and launched a series of attacks.

  What desert storm, he had never heard of it. He only knew that his own cold and gloomy true energy could effectively suppress the opponent. Now, when the opponent wanted to break free, he would not let the opponent's hopes come true. As the saying goes, "the ignorant are fearless". Therefore, after Sha Tou displayed the desert storm, Xia Xingxiao also struck out more cold and gloomy true energy at him.

  To suppress the energy explosion of the Sand Bandit leader, Xia Xingxiao continuously burned the true energy in his body, constantly striking out a series of extremely cold true energies. As a result, the energy explosion of the Sand Bandit leader was greatly reduced under the extreme cold, and its power was much weaker than before. Basically, his energy dissipation did not exceed one hundred meters, and it had almost completely dissipated.

  "Kill! Wipe him out!" Sun Shiyue's spirit was greatly boosted, and he led the counterattack.

  After unleashing the Desert Storm, the Sand Thief's body will become unprecedentedly weak. The Sand Thief's energy has been completely consumed and there is no extra energy to counterattack. Therefore, this is a rare opportunity to annihilate the opponent.

  Sun Shiwei seized the opportunity and swept his stick across, immediately sweeping the sand thief out of several tens of meters. The sand thief's huge body, after flying up, was actually similar to a defeated rag. However, that sand thief was indeed formidable. After being knocked down, he immediately got up and counterattacked. Unfortunately, he no longer had any remaining energy, so his counterattack was naturally powerless.

  "Boom!"

  Sun Shiwei swung his stick in mid-air and swept it across, once again directly knocking the sand thief out.

  This time, Sha Ze's body suffered heavy damage. Xia Xingxiao's extreme cold and Sun Shiyue's massive gravity caused him fatal injuries. However, he has not yet died, and he is still struggling hard to try to get up.

  However, just as he was about to get up, Sun Shiyue arrived. The iron rod in Sun Shiyue's hand descended like a storm, giving the sand thief no chance to counterattack. After several consecutive blows, he finally thoroughly defeated this powerful sand thief leader. His massive body was eventually completely smashed into pieces by Sun Shiyue.

  "What a formidable guy!" Li Yuzi caught up from behind, looking at the scattered bodies of the Sand Bandits' leader in front of him, and said with a serious expression.

  "It seems to have some background." Sun Shiyue's face also became somewhat serious.

  It's said that there are some origins, this sand bandit leader is very likely to be a core member of the Gray Flag Sand Bandit Corps. The ten major sand bandit corps all have a structure where a small number of core members command a large number of peripheral members. Within the corps, there isn't a particularly strict system of organization. As for methods of expanding the corps, they are also quite unconventional. Simply put, it's pulling in people.

  The Sand Bandits expand their ranks by plundering humans and forcing them to become synthetic humans. Their organization is somewhat like a peasant uprising of old. Generally, whoever captures the human gets to dispose of it. As a result, around a core member, there may be dozens or even hundreds of ordinary sand bandits. The more sand bandits a core member pulls in, the higher their status within the Sand Bandit army, the greater their power, and naturally, the more benefits they receive.

  Don't look at a sand thief legion, it may have tens of millions of people, or even hundreds of millions of people. In fact, the core members are less than one percent. They are the real backbone of the sand thief legion. To eradicate the sand thieves, humans must first eradicate these core backbones. However, from past war records, the human army's effectiveness is not great.

  In the past, human armies have repeatedly launched campaigns to annihilate the Sand Bandits, but the effects have always been poor. Even if they managed to wipe out some of the Sand Bandits, it was only a superficial victory. To truly eliminate the core of the Sand Bandits is extremely difficult. As long as the core of the Sand Bandits remains intact, this collective will never disappear.

  The core member of the Sand Bandits who was just killed by them should be the lowest level. His cultivation level is only a mere sixth grade. However, even with such a low-level Sand Bandit, it's still so difficult to deal with. If not for everyone working together, relying solely on Sun Shiyue would have been impossible to take him down. It can be imagined how much more difficult the other core members of the Sand Bandits are to deal with.

  Rank is only a relative standard for measuring strength, not an absolute one. The same rank can have vastly different combat powers. Xia Xinghe can defeat a fifth-level cultivator with the strength of a second-level cultivator. Perhaps there are also people in Shatou who can do this. If you encounter such an opponent, the scene will definitely be very exciting.

  "Shh! I'm done!"

  Sun Shiwei suddenly sat down on the ground with a thud.

  Li Yuzhi and others seemed to have been infected too, and they all sat down with a thud.

  The fierce battle left Sun Shiyue's true energy somewhat unresponsive. He had to sit down, desperately circulating his energy, trying to recover as much of it as possible. Li Yuzhi and the others were doing the same. Their true energy had been almost completely depleted by the intense fighting just now.

  The battle with the sand thief just now had exhausted Sun Shiyue's entire true energy. If it weren't for Xia Xingxiao's help, he might have been seriously injured or even sacrificed himself for the country. Even so, Sun Shiyue temporarily didn't have much combat power left. The true energy he lost wasn't that easy to recover from. As a superior scholar, he only had one qi sea after all.

  Perhaps the next moment, a large number of sand thieves will rush up again. The leader of the sand thief who escaped earlier must have gone back to inform them. The nature of the sand thief is to revenge. Such a big loss, the sand thief can't just let it go. If the sand thief launches a new attack, they will definitely increase their forces. At that time, a cultivator without true energy, except for being slaughtered, there is no other possibility.

  "Xia Xingxiao, you're finished!" Li Yuzhi shouted loudly.

  As for Xia Xingxiao, this abnormality, Li Yuzi simply adored him. As long as he was there, their confidence in battle increased by more than a hundredfold. Not to mention anything else, just his true energy reserves were completely abnormal. Everyone else's true energy had been depleted, but Xia Xingxiao seemed like nothing was wrong with him, not showing any signs of insufficient true energy at all.

  In fact, Xia Xingxiao didn't feel the lack of true energy at all. There was a lot of energy floating around on the battlefield, and he could attack while absorbing these energies to supplement himself. His many Dantians were able to be used simultaneously, but in reality, it wasn't even one-third. The other two-thirds were all used for absorbing external energies. The mysterious bead inside his body was extremely proactive when it came to absorbing external energies. As long as there was a slight opportunity, the mysterious bead wouldn't let it go.

  He basically absorbs back as much energy as he consumes. From the start to the end of the battle, his thirty-three spiritual seas were basically all full. Occasionally burning a large amount of true energy also quickly made up for it. Therefore, after the battle was over, all of his spiritual seas were completely full, as if there had been no consumption at all.

  As for his own Qi Hai, Xia Xing Xiao could only think of two words to describe it: "abnormal". Unfortunately, the mysterious bead's origins were still a complete mystery to him. Even in the intense battle just now, the mysterious bead seemed to be in control. From its flashing green light, it didn't seem to have reached full capacity at all. He even had the chance to cultivate his inner strength!

  "Let me help you!" Xia Xingxiao said suddenly.

  He placed his hand on Li Yuji's back, and with a gentle push, a large amount of true energy surged forward, like the vast Yangtze River. In just a moment, it filled up Li Yuji's dry dantian completely. As for himself, the consumed true energy was quickly replenished. Basically, replenishing Li Yuji's true energy didn't cause Xia Xingxiao any loss at all.

  This behavior of complementary true energy is very common on the battlefield. There are generally three ways to supplement true energy. The first is self-recovery, which takes a relatively long time. The second is to take medicine, that is, to use elixirs such as Da Huandan and Xiao Huandan. Elixirs have good effects and work quickly. Unfortunately, elixirs have diminishing returns, the more you eat, the worse the effect. At the same time, elixirs are not cheap either.

  The third is between teammates, complementing each other's true energy. The basic principle is to share what one has with others. This is also the foundation of a small team's combat effectiveness. Any team cannot just watch as a companion is slaughtered by the enemy due to insufficient true energy. At the same time, any team that lacks a member will have its combat effectiveness greatly affected.

  Of course, these internal forces transported from others are all temporary and will be gone once used up. It is impossible to keep them for a long time like Yu Zhan, let alone convert them into one's own true energy. However, this is enough for Li Yuzhi. With his full true energy, he can kill hundreds of Sha thieves again.