Chapter 384: Xiao Tian, it’s bullying me!! Waaah—
Whoosh—
The cold wind rustled.
Large swathes of mountain forest were reduced to ruins by the battle between the Golden Dragon and Black Python, their roars echoing through a hundred li of mountain peaks, shaking even the sky curtain with strange deep purple lightning.
A short distance away, in a deserted snow forest, two strange little creatures were engaged in a desperate struggle invisible to others.
“Ouch—! Ow!!”
*Puff—*
At this moment, Xiao Tian, bruised and swollen, with a huge slap mark on its left face, was being brutally beaten by Xue E, who was on top of it.
Xue E’s small fists landed on Xiao Tian’s face one after another, causing its entire face to jiggle like jelly.
While hitting Xiao Tian, it also cursed, “Are you out of your mind?!”
“Ow! Ow!! It hurts!! Awooo—”
Xiao Tian quickly opened its mouth and bit Xue E’s hand, adding another row of teeth marks to its arm, causing Xue E’s eyes to twitch incessantly as it quickly punched Xiao Tian’s face again.
“You… let go!!”
“Awooo—!”
A front tooth flew out of Xiao Tian’s mouth, dissipating into a golden light in mid-air. Xiao Tian sniffled, raised a hand, and grabbed Xue E’s black hair.
*Slap—*
A crisp, clear slap sent Xue E’s head spinning to the right.
“…”
A vein bulged on Xue E’s forehead. It glared at Xiao Tian, who was under it, and retaliated with a punch to the face, grabbing its hair.
“Are you crazy?! What good does it do to fight me?!”
“Waaah, waah, waah—”
Looking at Xiao Tian’s face, which was purple, green, red, and swollen like a toad, Xue E took a deep breath and delivered another punch to its face.
“Awooo—It hurts!!”
“Now you know it hurts?”
“Wuwu—”
Xue E punched again, “You bit me!”
“Waaah—!”
*Puff—*
Xue E punched again, “You grabbed my hair!”
“Wuwu… sniff—”
Xiao Tian sniffled, tears welling up in its swollen eyes. It looked at Xue E, who was riding on it, and waved its small hands to block its punches.
Seeing its appearance, Xue E was a bit tired. Its own small hands were sore from hitting, so it stopped and questioned, “Is your head filled with soy milk? Why are you hitting me instead of helping that silver-haired girl? Can either of us beat the other to death? We are spirit artifacts!! I’ve never seen spirit artifacts fight!”
Xiao Tian sniffled and looked at Xue E’s face:
“…Sniff—Waaah! Anping!! It’s bullying me!!”
Anping?
Hearing this, Xue E looked at it as if it were an idiot, suspecting that it was missing a screw.
They were both spirit artifacts of the Heavenly Scroll. Only those who possessed the Heavenly Scroll could see them, hear them, and know of their existence.
Even if that silver-haired girl told that Anping about the Heavenly Scroll, that Anping absolutely wouldn’t hear its cries for help.
Xue E sighed helplessly and no longer wanted to bother with Xiao Tian. It relaxed its body slightly and looked toward Gu Mingxin in the distance.
However, upon closer inspection, it noticed that during its fight with the golden creature, its Gu Mingxin and that silver-haired girl had already disappeared somewhere.
But since the golden creature hadn’t disappeared, it meant that its Gu Mingxin hadn’t defeated the silver-haired girl yet.
“Tsk…”
At this moment, Xiao Tian’s teary eyes suddenly widened. Seeing that Xue E’s attention was not on it, it seized the opportunity, twisted its body, and rode on Xue E, mimicking its actions, unleashing a flurry of punches on its face.
“Yaya ya!!! ”
Its small fists, emitting a faint golden light, caused Xue E’s cheeks to concave like chrysanthemums.
“Hmph! Still looking around!! Serves you right for hitting me!! Serves you right for hitting me!!”
Punch after punch, Xue E’s cheeks bounced like jelly.
On the third punch, Xue E’s hand reached into Xiao Tian’s mouth and pulled its corners apart.
“You golden idiot… AHH—!”
Xiao Tian also grabbed Xue E’s ear and retaliated:
“Waaah—! My mouth is splitting open!! Let go!!!”
“Ouch! My ear is falling off! My ear is falling off!! AHH—! Let go!!”
The two spirit artifacts, one golden and one black, wrestled and rolled in mid-air.
Not far away, behind a snow pine tree.
Ye Anping, who had been searching for some time, arrived with a stunned expression. While rapidly digesting healing pills with his spiritual power, he watched them scuffle in mid-air.
He didn’t even know what kind of expression to wear.
Even with all his schemes, he had never expected Xiao Tian and Xue E to fight each other…
And the way they fought…
Pulling hair, slapping faces, grabbing faces, pinching ears, biting…
“Hiss—”
“Mmmwahhh—!”
“Aiyaaah—!!”
“… …”
Ye Anping raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose. After hesitating for a moment, he finally decided to step out from behind the tree.
*Rustle—*
The sound of stepping on snow reached the ears of the two little ones.
The two, who had been pulling each other’s faces in mid-air, paused slightly and turned their heads almost simultaneously towards him.
Xue E’s eyes showed a hint of fear, while Xiao Tian, as if seeing a savior, quickly let go of Xue E’s face, broke free from its grip, and flew towards Ye Anping in mid-air, clinging to his face.
“Waaah—! Anping!! It’s bullying me!!”
“… …”
Ye Anping ignored it, pretending to look at the still trembling Golden Dragon and Black Python in the distance.
Xue E slightly twisted its eyebrows. Isn’t this Liang Xiaoliu?
His real name is Anping?
This golden creature is truly foolish, blurting out his name directly. And it’s not a spirit artifact of the Heavenly Scroll, how could it hear it?
“It can’t hear you…”
“Hmph! Anping, quickly help me teach this dark one a lesson! Grab it, and Yu Die will…”
“Are you stupid? Never mind…”
Xue E twisted its eyebrows and flew to Ye Anping’s storage bag, intending to look inside for magical artifacts to tell its Mingxin later.
However, just as it flew to Ye Anping’s storage bag and was about to peek inside, it suddenly noticed that Ye Anping, who had been looking at the Golden Dragon and Black Python in the distance, turned his cold, deep purple eyes towards it.
“To be honest, it is quite silly.”
?!!!!
Hearing this, Xue E’s back suddenly erupted in goosebumps. It looked up at Ye Anping’s face in disbelief:
“You… you are the owner of the Heavenly Scroll? But that silver-haired girl…”
“No comment.”
Ye Anping replied softly, then turned to look at Xiao Tian, who was arrogantly hands-on-hips on his shoulder but still bruised and swollen, and asked, “Xiao Tian, how is Senior Sister Feng?”
“Ah…”
Hearing this, Xiao Tian snapped back to attention, its face filled with anxiety. It said, “Anping! Quickly go help Yu Die, she can’t hold on much longer! Hurry… Over there!! ”
“Mmm…”
Ye Anping nodded slightly and then quickly moved in the direction Xiao Tian pointed. However, after one step, a severe pain in his chest and abdomen made it difficult for him to stand.
Perhaps it was due to the painkillers he had taken earlier, but he couldn’t estimate the extent of his injuries through pain on his way here.
But at this moment, Ye Anping immediately realized that Wu Tianci’s two punches had inflicted serious injuries on him.
His internal organs were likely more than half shattered…
Although as a Golden Core cultivator, his life was not in danger, he was in no state to interfere in the battle between Gu Mingxin and Feng Yu Die.
Xiao Tian looked at Ye Anping, who had suddenly stopped, with some confusion. Turning its head, it saw Ye Anping’s nose bleeding and its eyes widened in fright:
“Ah… Anping?! You’re injured?”
“It’s not life-threatening. I was too rushed when killing that body cultivator.”
After hearing this, Xiao Tian immediately dove into Ye Anping’s mind, wanting to help him examine his meridians. However, Ye Anping quickly turned his head to avoid it:
“Don’t look, and don’t say. People have a temporary numbness period. As long as they don’t see the wound, they won’t feel pain. I have it under control. Although the injury is likely not light, it’s not life-threatening.”
“Ah… but…”
“Helping Senior Sister Feng is more important.”
Ye Anping was silent for a moment, then summoned the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword from his storage bag. He leaped to the top of a snow pine tree and looked towards the summit.
Dark mist like a thick cloud had already enveloped the summit, filled with spiritual fire, lightning spells, and spiritual lights, accompanied by streaks of silver sword light capable of breaking through the sky.
At first glance, it looked like a mass of dark clouds, but upon closer inspection, one could see that it was a cluster of Gu insects condensed into a dark cloud.
Junior Sister and Yunluo might already be in a bitter fight. Even if they wouldn’t be eaten by Jiang Mojiao’s Gu insects, if this continued…
“Anping, over there…”
“I have a backup plan…”
Ye Anping signaled for it to rest assured, then formed a sword finger and swept it across the blade of the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword. Assuming a javelin-like posture, he gripped the hilt in reverse, aimed at the insect cloud created by Jiang Mojiao with his left hand.
Finally, he amplified his voice with spiritual energy:
“Junior Sister!! Catch!!”
With that, he threw the spirit sword with all his might.
*Boom—*
A gust of wind and waves created an explosion.
The Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword instantly turned into an icy blue streak of light, heading towards the insect cloud at the peak, shredding the snow forest along its path.
After throwing the spirit sword, Ye Anping quickly took out a backup spirit sword, stepped on his flying sword, and headed in the direction of Feng Yu Die and Gu Mingxin.
… …
————
*Ding—*
The sharp jaw of the spider collided sharply with the silver spirit sword. Pei Lianxue gritted her teeth slightly, quickly channeling her strength to deflect the blow. At the same time, she twisted her body and rapidly executed a sword art, focusing ten sword lights of the Leaf Shadow Sword Art onto a single point.
*Crack—*
A sound like shattering glass echoed.
Jiang Mojiao’s mouthparts, on its lower spider body, instantly shattered, spewing streaks of purple pus.
Following this was Jiang Mojiao’s scream:
“Aaaah!! You trash! Why!! Why…”
Jiang Mojiao’s fly-like compound eyes reflected countless Pei Lianxues. Although Pei Lianxue’s robes were torn with countless holes and her arms and legs were covered in cuts, her expression remained calm.
“Lianxue!! Retreat!!”
Xiao Yunluo’s voice echoed from above. Pei Lianxue immediately created a distance of three feet and then unleashed ice thorns like needles, sweeping towards Jiang Mojiao like a tidal wave.
However, most of them were blocked by the Gu insects surrounding Jiang Mojiao. The ice needles that landed on its body only penetrated two inches into the skin, unable to reach the core of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
“Aaaah!! You two trash!! Die!!”
Distracted, Jiang Mojiao looked up at Xiao Yunluo and controlled more Gu insects to pursue her. However, Pei Lianxue took the opportunity to close in again and unleashed twelve sword lights with the Leaf Shadow Sword Art.
*Swish—*
A sound of flesh being cut echoed. Jiang Mojiao’s left wrist was cleanly severed, but in the next moment, dozens of Gu insects burrowed out from the wrist stump, forming a new black hand.
Seeing this, although Pei Lianxue’s expression remained calm, she realized in her heart that this Gu Cultivator could not be dealt with by just her and Xiao Yunluo in a short time.
Her coordination with Xiao Yunluo had indeed severed Jiang Mojiao’s limbs countless times, even cutting off his head.
But in an instant, Jiang Mojiao could regenerate his body with Gu insects.
Pei Lianxue realized that she had thought the problem too simply. When she was with her Senior Brother, they used to defeat demon cultivators in a few moves when fighting across realms.
She had originally planned to finish Jiang Mojiao within a few moves.
However, Gu Mingxin’s sudden appearance had held back Feng Yu Die.
The Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword was with her Senior Brother right now. Although the spirit sword in her hand was painstakingly crafted by Xiao Yunluo, how could it compare to the Profound Ice Spirit Sword that had fought alongside Void Realm cultivators for a thousand years?
“Senior Brother… what should I do…”
Pei Lianxue gritted her teeth and wielded her spirit sword, pushing her sword art to its absolute limit, continuously severing Jiang Mojiao’s body parts.
But besides a scream, she couldn’t inflict much damage on him.
Should she retreat for now?
But… if she and Xiao Yunluo didn’t hold Jiang Mojiao back, and he rejoined Gu Mingxin, Feng Yu Die would be in danger. Not to mention the Snow-clothed Guards…
If the Snow-clothed Guards faced this sea of Gu insects, they would instantly become their breeding grounds, completely devoured.
What to do?! Think of a solution!!
What Senior Brother used to say…
What Senior Brother used to teach…
Pei Lianxue bit her lip, thinking hard. At this moment, Xiao Yunluo’s shout echoed from above:
“Lianxue, perhaps we should retreat first and go help Second…”
“No!! If we leave, these insects will chase us, leading them to Second, and we will surely lose.”
*Swish swish—*
“But… fighting like this… Fire Token!! Drink—!”
*Boom—*
A blast of flames erupted in the sky, illuminating the entire mountain forest.
However, at this very moment, a sound from afar echoed through a hundred li of mountains.
“Junior Sister!! Catch!!!”
Senior Brother?!
A streak of light that seemed to break through the sky shot from the mountainside. Jiang Mojiao’s compound eyes suddenly looked in that direction and saw a Profound Ice Spirit Sword speeding towards them.
The myriad Gu insects around him showed fear at this moment, which, upon connecting with Jiang Mojiao’s spirit, was transmitted to him.
“Ah… Aaaahhh—!!”
His inhuman face was instantly covered with a deathly pallor.
“You trash!! Stop me!! Stop me!!! That sword!! Stop it!!”
*Screech—*
*Hiss—*
However, the Gu insects that had been protecting Jiang Mojiao now seemed to have lost their queen, standing still as if out of control.
“What are you all愣着(lèngzhe – stunned)? Hurry and stop it!! You are all my Gu!! My Gu!!!”
Jiang Mojiao watched as the Profound Ice Spirit Sword drew closer and closer, waving his hands wildly and roaring almost maniacally.
But at this moment, even the spider Gu that served as his lower body seemed to mock him.
*Hiss hiss—*
Spiders can’t speak, but Jiang Mojiao seemed to hear its words.
(You are useless.)
“Aaargh!! Stop imitating Master’s words!! I’m not useless!! Master is!! He died at the hands of a few small Qi Refining cultivators!! He did!!”
*Hiss hiss—*
(Heh… You will never become my master…)
*Whoosh—*
The icy blue spirit sword pierced through the vast swarm of insects, turning all the Gu insects it touched into shattered ice crystals.
Pei Lianxue watched the streak of light, directly threw away Xiao Yunluo’s spirit sword in her hand, leaped into the air, and grasped the blade of the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword.
Her orange eyes narrowed slightly as she scanned Jiang Mojiao’s entire body.
Several icy blue threads descended through the air, transforming into countless afterimages, wrapping around Jiang Mojiao’s entire body like a Shibari.
“Ughhhhhh—!! I’m not useless!!! Aaargh—!!”
Then, he disintegrated into countless pieces of flesh scattered around. However, the surrounding Gu insects no longer circled him protectively as before; instead, they scattered in all directions.
Jiang Mojiao looked at the girl holding the Profound Ice Spirit Sword and let out a yell:
“Aaaah—!”
Immediately, his Nascent Soul detached from his body.
“I want to live!! I want to live!! You trash, aaaaah!!”
“Don’t even think about it!!”
Pei Lianxue, seeing his Nascent Soul attempting to escape, quickly leaped and swung her sword several times. But just as it was about to strike Jiang Mojiao’s Nascent Soul, it exploded into countless fragments.
“What?”
“Hehehe!! Hehe…”
A mocking sneer echoed. Pei Lianxue immediately swung her spirit sword, intending to eliminate him completely, but despite exerting all her strength, she only managed to cut off half of Jiang Mojiao’s Nascent Soul.
“Lianxue! Let me!!”
Xiao Yunluo from above quickly drew several talismans with her fingers, but still couldn’t completely destroy Jiang Mojiao’s fragmented Nascent Soul.
Seeing Jiang Mojiao’s Nascent Soul rapidly leaping towards Feng Yu Die, Pei Lianxue’s eyes widened. She quickly shouted:
“Yunluo!! Catch me! Let’s go find Second!! He’s heading towards Second!”
Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo quickly broke through the countless Gu insects surrounding Pei Lianxue with a lightning technique. Then, she rode her sword down and grabbed her shoulder, quickly escaping the swarm of insects and chasing after Jiang Mojiao’s Nascent Soul.
But as they just broke out of the dark sea of Gu insects, the insects behind them let out a collective cry:
*Hiss hiss—hiss hiss—*
Causing the two to look back involuntarily. Xiao Yunluo and Pei Lianxue frowned slightly. They couldn’t believe it themselves.
Amidst these irregular insect chirps, the two of them could actually discern the meaning of “thanks.”
“Lianxue… I hear these insects…”
“Mmm… Me too. Don’t worry about it! Let’s save Second first… Senior Brother is chasing after us, it’s fine, mmm.”
“Ah?”
Xiao Yunluo only then reacted, turning her head dazedly towards the direction the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword had flown from, pursing her lips and nodding:
“Lianxue, hold on tight! I’ll fly faster!!”
Then, stepping on the hilt of her flying sword, she accelerated again, heading towards the Golden Dragon and Black Python.
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