The Hidden Myth of Ji Dara

"Kill them all and I want that Dara alive!"

The Chief bellowed as these men roared battle cries before bolting towards the fence, and they were barely two meters off the fence when one of them had his leg catch a trip wire;

Instantly, the massive spikes lined at the fence which they thought was there to ward beasts away abruptly catapulted towards their stunned group…

Puchi! Splurt!

More than a dozen massive spikes, the size of an entire branch with the girth of an adult human laps stabbed through these men, impaling them like a wild boar on a roast…

Each of these spikes impaled at least four experts completely taking over 50 of these men in one fell swoop as the rest of them had the first inkling of fear seep into their very souls;

"March on!"

The Village Chief bellowed from a safe distance as the men forced themselves to follow the orders and run into the residence, and that was when the arrows began to target them one after the other…

It was like 400 american football players chasing a single opponent who was about to make a touchdown;

But just as they ran ahead, some of them began to fall lifelessly, but it was at a very slow rate because they were now more prepared for the arrows and as a result, only one or two fell every other minute…

The moment the Village Chief and his two elders crossed Uncle Min who was now atop the plateau pushed a crane like wooden structure out of the apartment, and loaded it with a ball of beast carcass which had been full to the brim with beast blood…

The moment he noticed the village chief had entered their residence, he brought up his dagger and slashed down at a vine, the moment the vine snapped, the wooden structure catapulted the massive ball of beast carcass into the sky;

But just as it was about hit the entrance of the settlement, Dara fired another flaming arrow which hit the ball of beast carcass…

Instantly, the combustible beast blood ignited, and the massive ball which was the size of a massive wine barrel exploded, scattering flames all over the entrance, leaving the Village Chief and all his men with no way to escape through except to run ahead…

Uncle Min launched another massive ball of beast carcass into the air and Dara fired once again causing the flames to scatter in every direction this time as several of these experts caught fire…

Dara who was still about 20 meters from the fence of the residence was running over at full throttle, and once he got to the ten meter tall fence, he stomped on the ground with one foot as the muscle in that stomping leg expanded drastically…

They bulged to almost twice their size, and catapulted Dara about 15 meters into the air and over the fence; Dara didn't even wait to land before whipping out about five arrows and killing another five experts…

He landed with a roll and stood to a kneeling shooting stance before launching three quick fire salvo, taking down three more experts again…

The experts who were running ahead didn't focus on the situation behind them because they wanted to get out of range of the archer, and in order to do so, the needed to reach the base of the plateau and light a fire for them to be kept out of the dark and prevent being picked apart by the savage archer…

But just after taking three more steps, the ground beneath them gave way and about a dozen experts initially fell into ring of death; they were instantly impaled by the beast blood coated spikes within the pit which slowly poisoned and corroded them…

The next set of experts behind the fallen ones were just able to stop right in front of the pit, but the ones coming behinds these experts couldn't see what was up ahead and couldn't stop in time, and as a result, they ended up pushing their comrades into their death…

Since the battle had begun, over 60 burly men from the Village of Sang had perished, with 25 of them dying to the ring of death alone…

About another 20 fleet footed men had died to the archery of Dara and Aunt Lin; but the nimble, fleet footed men, simply didn't stop and instead used the momentum of their approach to jump over the pit as the Village Chief smiled at his troops quick thinking, but after running for about 10 seconds, the floor beneath the fleet footed men once again gave way as they all fell into another pit…

But shockingly, these fleet footed men simply found themselves, fall into a pool of beast blood;

"We are alright, it's just beast blood!"

They yelled to their counterparts to carry on with their advance, but just as the word beast blood entered the Village Chief's ear, he looked behind himself and saw the flames which were still burning over the scattered blood of the beasts, and instantly he came to a realization;

"No, wait!"

But it was too late as Min Hong had lit up another arrow, and fired it…

The village chief and the elders watched the flaming arrow fly past overhead in slow motion and with slacked jaws they saw it enter the pit, before an explosion the magnitude of 50 hiroshimas rocked the entire residence;

Kaboom!

Flames of over 50 meters burnt out of the ring of fire and stood tall like a wall of flames…

The experts within the pit were blown to bits of blood and gore, and those of the experts who were in the process of jumping over the pit when the explosion happened, landed on the other side of the pit dead, but still burning as the scent of burnt air wafted all over the area…

The rest of the men halted in their tracks after seeing about 30 of their comrades' die in the most gruesome way possible, but the arrows kept raining down and they were still 30 meters away from the plateau base, blocked by a 15 meter tall wall of blue and black flames…

The more the flames burned, the greater their fear of being here rose, as the flames looked ghostly and billowed searing heat, making it feel like they were standing at the entrance of the devil's lair…

Experts kept falling, and Min Hong also kept shooting them down…

Now they were all trapped between two rings of fire, one in the front and the other one behind them, but the one towards the entrance was still jumpable, and as a result, the village chief made a quick decision;

"Retreat… Retreat!"

He yelled at his 300 or so men who were still alive, but just as he turned around, he saw the cloaked figure of a kid behind him who had just crossed the wall of flames towards the entrance;

"None of you will be leaving her alive, today…"

Dara growled in rage as he stared at the village head with red eyes; these were the despicable schemers who caused the death of the only kin he had left in his; his elder sister Ji Dai…

"Dara, you're coming with us today!"

Left was the first to speak…

He was sure that if they had Dara in their hands, the others who were attacking them would have to stop, but then Dara simply gazed towards him and with a ridiculing expression, he replied;

"You haggard lousy mouthed fools, come get me if you have the ability…"

Dara cursed and it really hit these old men like a hot slap to their face as the village chief ordered;

"Men, seize him!"

He waved his hands as about 100 men attacked Dara simultaneously, whilst the remaining 180 or so provided cover from them against Aunt Lin and Uncle Min's archery…

These men who were about 30 burly men, and 70 nimble experts bolted towards Dara with the desire to incapacitate him as revenge for their fallen comrades; after all, the village chief only asked them to seize him, he never mentioned if he should be in one piece or not…

But Dara simply shook his head in pity as he stretched both his arms downward and two daggers slid out of his sleeves, straight into his hands as he grabbed them tightly;

"Alright, let's see what 104 meridians can do…"

Dara mumbled to himself, and just as these men reached about five meters from his position, he launched himself towards them;

Boom!

Dara's feet left a 12 inch depression on the ground as the experts saw a blur stab into their ranks, falling four of their comrades instantly…

Dara's eyes danced from side to side, up and down, calculating the speed and strength of his opponents as well as the trajectory of their attacks, as his 20 brain meridians pumped Qi into his brain putting him in a state of peak mental awareness and thinking speed… 

Stab! Splurt!

Slash! Sprrrtt!

Dara stabbed one burly man in his abdomen and his guts spilled out as he threw up a mouthful of fresh blood;

He dodged the sword strike of another expert who was so slow in Dara's sight, that he could actually slit the expert's throat before his arm could complete the full arc of his sword strike…

In Dara's eyes, these men were at least twice slower than normal, and he capitalized on it perfectly, as these men began to feel like Dara had known their moves before they could even make it, because none of their strikes even managed to reach within 3 inches of any part of Dara's body before the person attacking would fall to the ground lifelessly;

This wasn't a fight, it was a massacre!

Dara stabbed, slashed and even kicked one expert in the nuts with a leg which was about 8 inches in girth and the expert kept puking for 15 minutes nonstop before fainting…

He just flashed from one expert to the other like a specter or the grim reaper, reaping souls for the god of death…

Even the village chief and his elders could barely catch up with his level of speed and the fluidity with which his attacks were made…

The randomness and irregularity in his slashes, stabs and hits, and in less than 2 minutes, Dara had laid waste to over 35 experts, as he danced between their midst covered in the blood of his arch enemies…