klisemfg Chapter 371 Encountering a Serpent at the Corner
Chapter 371 Encountering a Serpent at the Corner
Chapter 371 Encountering a Serpent at the Corner
"Damn, there really is something fishy going on. What those two ghost cultivators said was a lie."
Zhong Liyu had only taken half a step into the Yue family's ancestral home when a sudden gust of cold wind swept through.
The wind wasn't strong, but it was incredibly cool as it blew, making the bells inside the Yue family ancestral home jingle loudly. Li Ling's heart trembled with fear.
"Jiang He, I'm scared."
Li Ling gripped the hem of Jiang He's clothes tightly.
The fabric looked wrinkled when he held it in his hand.
Bai Zhizhou took out cinnabar and a brush from his backpack. With a few strokes, a wind-stabilizing array appeared on the roof.
The eerie wind in the house disappeared, and in its place appeared a face with its head tilted to the side.
A woman with flowing hair appeared in front of Zhong Liyu and slapped him off the roof to the ground with a single palm strike.
Zhong Liyu clutched her stomach and coughed up blood.
Jiang He knew there was no room for negotiation for the time being. This person had used a deadly move as soon as they met, no wonder the two ghost cultivators said this mission was difficult.
Jiang He jumped off the roof, squatted down on one leg, stretched out one hand to protect Zhong Liyu, and raised her sword in a defensive posture with the other hand.
Seeing Jiang He jump down, Li Ling also hurriedly jumped down, using her hammer to block the woman with loose hair from striking her palm.
Surprisingly, the woman's fingers were not injured at all.
Upon seeing the woman's appearance clearly, Li Ling couldn't help but hiss:
"This female ghost is so beautiful! Holy crap, she's so beautiful even in death."
Bai Zhizhou set up an array with cinnabar, and as he moved his brush, darts from his palm shot towards the woman:
"It doesn't look like a ghost, it looks more like a 'yin' (a type of insect).
"Nian? When a person dies, they become a ghost; when a ghost dies, it becomes a 'Nian'."
Zhong Liyu coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, his face pale as he accepted the pills Jiang He handed him. There was a bloody palm print on his stomach, about 1 cm deep.
Zhong Liyu hastily bandaged himself up and stood up to fight the enemy alongside Jiang He.
The woman before her, who was a demon, looked at the five uninvited guests and only wanted to drive them away.
They keep bringing in more and more people; they've done it so many times and they still don't learn their lesson.
At first, she thought these people were there to rescue Shoucai, so she let Yuefa in. But it turned out they were with Yuefa and weren't there to rescue Shoucai at all, but to kill her.
If she hadn't been trapped in this house, she would have made sure that this heartless person suffered a terrible death.
Her black nails faintly exuded a dark aura.
"Oh no, it's ghostly energy! Everyone be careful!"
Regardless of Jiang He and the others' identities, Yao Xi, now transformed into a serpent, immediately thought of killing these intruders.
The ghostly aura was all too familiar to Li Ling.
This ghostly aura is similar to the magic array she once set up; both are designed to attract ghosts!
Without hesitation, Li Ling punched Yao Xi.
Yao Xi tilted her head slightly, and in a moment she rose from the ground into the air, her figure completely disappearing.
Jiang He sensed the direction of the airflow:
"A soul without a physical form, wandering between life and death, possessing the qualities of a ghost, yet also having a power that transcends that of a ghost."
Jiang He has seen it all.
In the blink of an eye, Yao Xi summoned five blood demons, which were stronger and more numerous than the blood demons that Li Ling had summoned before.
"No, this dead ghost is dead, so why is he summoning his former colleagues? He's not a ghost cultivator, how are we supposed to fight him?"
While complaining, Zhong Liyu raised her erhu and slammed it on the blood demon's head.
The erhu's spirit felt a chill as soon as it touched the blood demon, and it moved away as if fleeing.
"Cuihua, don't worry. You're the toughest one. What's wrong with hitting a ghost? It's not dirty. Anyway, you're not a Virgo, so why don't you have this germophobia?"
After Zhong Liyu finished speaking, he turned around and used his erhu to smash another blood demon, creating a hole in its head.
Five blood demons, one for each person.
Each blood demon possessed cultivation levels comparable to those of a Nascent Soul cultivator. They not only had to resist the blood demons but also face Yao Xi, who had vanished into thin air.
Jiang He frowned, and suddenly lured the blood demon to Bai Zhizhou's front.
The blood demon collided with the blood demon fighting against Bai Zhizhou, and the formation was completed. A huge force held the blood demon in place.
Jiang He and Bai Zhizhou exchanged glances. Jiang He went first, suddenly ascending into the air on her sword, then lunging towards the sky, her hand, wreathed in fire spirit energy, reaching for the air above her head.
The powerful force pulled Jiang He into the air.
Yao Xi reappeared.
Yao Xi's hand was firmly bound by Jiang He's spiritual energy, and the red flames rose up her arm.
The hands, now imbued with spiritual energy, throbbed with unbearable pain.
"court death!"
Yao Xi lowered her palm, and black ghostly energy spread out. In a moment, another blood ghost appeared in mid-air, pulling Jiang He's body straight down.
Jiang He held onto Yao Xi's hand as they fell together with Yao Xi and the vampire.
In less than half a minute, Jiang He's right hand dislocated, and his five fingers were powerless, so he had to let go of Yao Xi.
Bai Zhizhou took over, pulling Yao Xi back into his arms, and then thrusting the sword in his other hand at Yao Xi.
Yao Xi twisted her body, turning her arm 360 degrees, and forcefully pulled Bai Zhizhou along while slashing fiercely at his sword with her other hand.
Yao Xi's palm was stained with blood, while Bai Zhizhou's sword had already slipped from his hand and embedded itself in a crack in the ground.
"Damn, I'm here."
Zhong Liyu placed the erhu in front of him and suddenly plucked the strings.
Then, the sound of a cat scratching glass reappeared, and a high-decibel, piercing sound rushed into Yao Xi's eardrums.
Under the onslaught of physical noise, Yao Xi glared irritably at Zhong Liyu:
"This batch that arrived today has some interesting items, but unfortunately, I cannot keep you company!"
Yao Xi suddenly lunged at Zhong Liyu.
Zhong Liyu was slammed against the wall behind her with great force.
On the ground, Bai Zhizhou used an array to deal with two blood demons, while Jiang He also subdued two with her sword.
Li Ling swallowed hard:
"Long Aotian, go help Zhong Liyu, I can hold off the Blood Demon."
Li Ling, holding up the hammer, lured the blood demon next to Long Aotian to join them.
Upon seeing this, Long Aotian turned around instantly, and his dark green sword vibrated as soon as it approached Yao Xi.
The buzzing sound made Yao Xi turn around. She looked at the sword, unsure whether she was afraid of the sword or of Long Aotian.
"Hurry up! There's a ghost in front of that 'Nian Shen' (a type of creature), and it's afraid of yang energy. You have plenty of yang energy, so don't hesitate, just charge in and it'll be over."
Heng Yihang watched anxiously, wishing he could snatch Long Aotian's sword and fight himself.
This level of power is not only at the Nascent Soul stage, but also has attack power at the Deity Transformation stage. Long Aotian and his group cannot defeat it. If they want to win, they can only try to take a different approach.
Long Aotian pointed his sword at Yao Xi's face, the blade crackling with lightning.
Before drawing his sword, a lightning spell was cast first.
Yao Xi took a few steps back, but did not back down at all. The black energy in her palm twisted into a scythe.
She held the hilt of the scythe, the cut surface of the sickle touching the black sword, and pushed it forward sharply.
She forgot that she was no longer a ghost.
It's a yin!
Yao Xi stretched out her arm and steadily chopped down with the knife in her hand, the blade meeting the black-green sword.
Long Aotian continuously channeled spiritual energy to maintain his position.
Out of the corner of his eye, Jiang He, who was dealing with the blood demon, disappeared, while Long Aotian desperately resisted Yao Xi's attacks.