Chapter 75: Run! She’s back! (4)
Huang Qi’s voice was not loud, but it was as clear as a silver bell. With the boost of True Qi, it was even more penetrating. Like a stone thrown into a calm lake, the echoes lingered.
At the same time, the chaotic surroundings fell into a brief silence.
Huang Qi held his long sword, his heart trembling more violently than his body. He was afraid that some reckless person would jump out and challenge him. If that happened, he would be dead for sure.
Actually, Huang Qi was not unaware of the risks he was taking. That’s why he wanted to shout “Scram if you don’t want to die” at the beginning. But then he thought that if the peerless immortal fairy of the HongHua Sect said such a thing, it might seem too weak, so he could only bite the bullet and provoke.
“Damn it, it’s really Cheng Hong Ling! Why is she back? Didn’t they say she defected to another sect?”
“It must be fake news spread by the HongHua Sect, intended to lure us all in and capture us.”
“Let’s run quickly! What’s the point of dwelling on these things now?”
…
The nearby invaders were terrified to hear this. They didn’t care about abducting more women and fled quickly.
The demons and monsters with slightly higher strength also dared not cause trouble anymore. They gathered a group of low-level ghosts and fled outwards.
“It really works!”
Huang Qi breathed a sigh of relief because this was exactly what he wanted to see. Although low-level zombies and the like had low intelligence, they would obey the orders of high-level ghosts. This way, his risk would be greatly reduced.
“Immortal Fairy Hong Ling has come out of seclusion! Immortal Fairy Hong Ling has come out of seclusion!”
The disciples of the HongHua Sect and the survivors cheered loudly because they didn’t know Huang Qi was from the outside. They only thought he had come out of seclusion.
Seeing that his plan had worked, Huang Qi’s confidence soared. As he walked, he provocatively shouted, “Who dares to fight me, Cheng Hong Ling? Huh?”
Along the way, none of the demons, monsters, and invaders dared to come forward and provoke him. Everyone who saw him fled wildly like mice seeing a cat.
“What brutal things did this Cheng Hong Ling do before? Why are these ghosts so afraid of her?”
Huang Qi was a little curious, but he was really grateful to the “brutal” immortal fairy now. Otherwise, how could he be showing off his borrowed power today?
“Heh heh, where are the people? If there are no people, at least let a ghost come! Don’t let this fairy catch you, or today, people will become ghosts, and ghosts will regret being human.”
Huang Qi became more and more triumphant as he shouted, louder and louder, as if the entire HongHua Sect and even Huang Tian Prefecture could hear his voice. He never dreamed that he, who had left so dejectedly, would return to his sect so gloriously today.
“Where did this young girl come from? How dare you be so arrogant? Let this grandpa teach you how to behave!”
Just then, a reckless man rushed over from the street in the distance. This person was tall and burly. His thin clothes could not hide his strong physique. His bare chest was chiseled with muscles, and the veins on his body were intertwined like coiled dragons, which was very terrifying.
“What’s wrong with this country bumpkin? Who gave him the courage?”
“Why do you care about him? Hurry up and leave. If he angers Immortal Fairy Hong Ling, no one will be able to leave today.”
“Damn it, I knew I shouldn’t have brought him here.”
…
Someone in the dark said in a panic.
“My goodness! I was just shouting randomly, brother, you’re serious!”
Huang Qi was also dumbfounded. He had overlooked that there were unsophisticated country bumpkins in this world who didn’t know about Immortal Fairy Hong Ling’s prestige. How could they be scared by him?
The strong man strode towards Huang Qi, smashing through the carriages on the street like a wild bull. Every step he took shattered the granite slabs, demonstrating his immense physical strength.
“What to do? What to do?”
Seeing the opponent getting closer, Huang Qi became even more panicked. At this moment, he wished he could slap himself hard. If he had known this would happen, he wouldn’t have been so glib.
Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in the world. The strong man, though seemingly clumsy, was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he had rushed to Huang Qi’s front. He stomped on the ground, leaped up, and threw a punch at Huang Qi’s face.
“Brother, how can you bear to hit such a beautiful face like mine?”
Huang Qi wanted to cry but had no tears. He closed his eyes and waited for death.
“Swish!”
But at this moment, a precious sword descended from the sky like lightning, piercing directly into the strong man’s arm.
“Ah!”
The strong man let out a hysterical scream, reflexively retracted his fist, and then reached out to pull it out, but he was a step too slow.
In a flash of light, a figure descended from the sky, stepped on the sword hilt with one foot, and pressed down again.
“Swish!”
The long sword pierced the strong man’s arm like cutting tofu and then pressed down.
“Ah…”
The strong man let out a pig-like scream. His body slumped forward due to the pulling force, and he was pinned to the ground.
Huang Qi’s mind went blank, and then he saw an old man with white hair and beard, with a celestial air, slowly land in front of him. It was Elder Ruan, the grandfather of Ruan Lingyu.
“Peh! How dare you fight the greatest genius of our HongHua Sect?”
Elder Ruan spat and then said to Huang Qi, “Hong Ling! Hurry to the central plaza. The Sect Leader is fighting a bronze corpse there. My old bones can’t help much.”
“You are too modest!”
Huang Qi said reflexively, thinking that if even he couldn’t help, sending him there would be pure suicide.
“Heh heh, when did your words become so sweet?”
Elder Ruan was a little surprised, but he still stroked his beard proudly.
Huang Qi was startled by this. It seemed that playing the fairy was not as simple as he imagined. Not only did the appearance have to be the same, but the speech and behavior also had to be similar, otherwise, problems would arise sooner or later.
Thinking of this, Huang Qi didn’t dare to linger. He hurried towards the central plaza. Although he was more worried about his master at the moment, he also knew that if the bronze corpse was not repelled first, the HongHua Sect would surely be bathed in blood today.
Huang Qi crept all the way to the central plaza and then hid in the dark to observe first.
The plaza now looked like freshly overturned land, with pits and sword marks everywhere, clearly the result of a fierce battle.
On both sides of the plaza stood two figures confronting each other. On the left was Sect Leader Qin of the HongHua Sect. He held a sword in one hand and a talisman in the other, with a slight trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth and several ferocious scratches on his body.
On the right was a figure dressed in tattered official robes. This figure’s messy hair hung down, covering his entire face, revealing only a pair of crimson, bloodthirsty eyes. His physique was not strong, even somewhat thin. His exposed skin had a strange reddish-bronze color. His hands hung low on his sides, like claws, with fingernails three to four inches long, reflecting a faint greenish glow. They clearly carried severe poison. His bare feet also had toenails that were much longer than ordinary people’s, gripping the ground firmly like the sharp claws of a beast.
“Bronze corpse!”
Huang Qi’s breathing became rapid because his master had said that besides the color of the skin, the biggest characteristic of a bronze corpse was that its limbs could move like humans, no longer hopping forward like low-level zombies.
“Swish!”
At this moment, the bronze corpse moved. It stomped on the ground and instantly turned into an afterimage, charging towards Qin Quan. It moved on all fours like a wild beast, its mouth slightly open, revealing a pair of sharp fangs.
“Gale Talisman!”
Qin Quan’s eyes were sharp. He crushed the talisman in his left hand, and a gust of wind blew forward without warning.
The zombie had already rushed close and had no way to dodge. Its entire body was blown sideways, and it was about to fly backward. It roared and dug its limbs into the ground, barely stabilizing itself.
Qin Quan moved at this moment. He took mysterious steps, moving with the wind, and approached the zombie like a ghost. He drew two sword energies with his long sword, slashing towards the bronze corpse’s eyes.
The bronze corpse was unstable in the wind and could not dodge at all, so it simply released its four limbs and soared with the wind, thus dodging the sword energy.
Qin Quan was relentless. He took a step forward, leaped lightly, and slashed at the bronze corpse’s neck with his long sword.
With no leverage, the bronze corpse simply stretched out one hand and grabbed the long sword, its five fingers gripping the sword body tightly.
“Clang!”
The collision emitted a metallic sound, which was the power of the bronze corpse’s body.
At the same time, the gale had subsided, and the two landed on the ground again. The bronze corpse opened its mouth wide, and its mouth split all the way to its ears. It spat out a gust of green corpse qi from its gaping maw, spraying it directly at Qin Quan.
Qin Quan had no way to dodge and could only abandon his sword and retreat.
The bronze corpse, relentless in its attack, threw the long sword back at its owner. With a seemingly casual flick, the force was so great that the long sword tore through the air, emitting a piercing whistle.
Qin Quan was greatly alarmed and narrowly dodged by tilting his head. When he looked back, the bronze corpse had already rushed in front of him, its limbs clawing at him like a beast.
Qin Quan had nowhere to dodge and could only reach out to block. The man and the corpse immediately became entangled.
In close combat, the bronze corpse, with its two pairs of sharp claws, had a distinct advantage. Like a skilled butcher dismembering an ox, every contact ripped off a piece of flesh from Qin Quan, and its gaping mouth occasionally tried to bite Qin Quan’s neck.
Huang Qi had never seen such a brutal battle. He was filled with extreme fear, but seeing that Sect Leader Qin was at the end of his rope, he disregarded his own safety, gritted his teeth, and walked out, saying, “State your name, so that when I kill you, I can find your descendants!”
