Chapter 38: Defeating Two Enemies in Succession

Defeating Two Enemies in Succession

"This person, he died just like that, what is he screaming for."

This nameless assassin died so noisily that Ruan Ci couldn't help but glance at him, frowning and muttering, "Why did he die there after just one kick? He really can't take a beating."

For her, on the way from Song Guo to Altar City, she had already killed many monster beasts. Even for cultivators, the Yellow Young Master who fought with her for fish in Ningshan Pond, and the white-shirted girl who contained illusions in her voice, if Chen Jun hadn't saved them, they would all have died if they fell from Ningshan Pond. Ruan Ci had thought through and was used to these things long ago, so she wouldn't be uneasy because she kicked someone to death, but she was just surprised that this person hadn't been in critical condition after receiving one kick, and didn't know why he lay there for a while, and then spat blood and died by himself. She was still guarding against the Foundation Establishment cultivator who hadn't appeared, and opened her voice again, "Since you want to kill me, why don't you come out?"

The empty mountains were silent. Except for the murmuring sound of the river clam contracting in pain, the forest was still silent, and there was no trace of anyone. But in Ruan Ci's sensing, there was still a heavy 'momentum' lurking in the forest. She looked with her spiritual sense, and saw that all the flowers and leaves were very clear, but she couldn't see the cultivator's spiritual energy, so she knew that her cultivation was limited and she couldn't find this cultivator directly. The person who came should be at least at the Foundation Establishment stage.

In the eyes of a cultivator, there is reality and there is momentum. Originally, Ruan Ci didn't cultivate the Dao, and it was only Xie Yanhuan who opened her eye consciousness for Ruan Ci. She couldn't clearly sense things she couldn't see, but now that she had opened her meridians, her five senses immediately became clear. For her, this mountain forest was not only a beautiful hillside with undulating terrain, but also a 'field' with rich and thin spiritual energy in the momentum. Like that river clam, to mortals, it was a stone cliff and a small waterfall, but in Ruan Ci's sea of consciousness, it was a giant clam wriggling, and the cat shadow seen in her eyes was also an axe foot that kept flicking and moving like a snake or a mouse. She didn't know if all Qi Refining cultivators could observe qi like this, or if it was an exotic ability relying on the Donghua Sword. However, these two assassins probably didn't expect her to have such ability. Ruan Ci chasing the cat was not only chasing the river clam, but also chasing it for them to see.

That assassin with shallow spiritual energy was now dead there. Sensing from the 'field', the spiritual energy faded, and bits of spiritual light dissipated from the body, and more illusory scenes constantly emerged. This had no sign in reality at all, and could only be observed from the 'momentum'. If one looked carefully enough, perhaps one could see the pictures in the illusory scenes. Ruan Ci couldn't help but think of Liu Yin's inner scene world, and thought, "That Liu Yin in South Zhuzhou, his inner scene world can turn the virtual into reality, transforming that piece of heaven and earth into a secret realm between virtual and reality. This Qi Refining cultivator's inner scene world might be these constantly emerging and dissipating illusory scenes."

Although the illusory scenes might contain clues about the master behind them, she wouldn't be distracted to check them at this time. She closed her eyes and focused, only feeling that another denser humanoid light group in the field was constantly wandering around her, changing with the change of Ruan Ci's energy machine. Ruan Ci tried to lock the energy machine several times to find the weakest point of this light group, but was quickly avoided by him. At the same time, this person was also looking for the weaknesses in her momentum. If he could lock the weak point in Ruan Ci's momentum, he would not hesitate to stab that fatal sword—Ruan Ci had a feeling that this sword would not be as easy to parry as the previous two exchanges. If it stabbed the weak point, it would even cause damage to her dantian Jade Pool!

Since she obtained the sword, although she had hunted many monster beasts and felt the crisis of being injured in front of a Foundation Establishment monster beast, the injuries at that time were only to the body, and this kind of crisis was completely different. You must know that the dantian Jade Pool is something between virtual and reality. If it is not damaging the cultivator's body, it is difficult to hurt the Jade Pool. This assassin actually wanted to strike that sword that stabbed between virtual and reality while circling, which really made Ruan Ci feel tricky. She had to transform her momentum faster to cover up the weak points in the momentum. Such shifting was a great consumption of spirit, but it was only a moment, and she frowned slightly, showing a look of effort.

If a mortal came to this place, they would definitely feel absurd. A dead person lay on the side of the small stream, and a girl in strong clothes was in front of a big clam, closing her eyes, her feet constantly changing steps, as if confronting some invisible enemy, her face extremely strenuous, looking like a madman acting out a play in her heart, without the excitement of fists and feet flying and rabbits falling when martial arts masters duel. But for a cultivator who can observe qi, Ruan Ci had already fallen into great danger.

The assassin's momentum gradually increased, wandering constantly. Ruan Ci's momentum change was gradually slowing down, and her defense was becoming more and more strenuous, making it difficult to lock the opponent's position. And the cultivator's momentum was gradually rising, and the murderous intent was even richer. Anyone could see that at the moment Ruan Ci's momentum was exhausted, the assassin's momentum would also reach its strongest. This sword would hit Ruan Ci's weakest point under the traction of the energy machine, but it was unavoidable and aimed at killing!

Ruan Ci's face gradually became solemn, as if she realized her fate. She bit her lower lip lightly, and her plain hand touched the jade wall on her chest, frowning, "I know, you are underground, you have the Earth Escape Technique, so I can't catch you."

The mountain forest was still silent, and she was still constantly turning to guard against the wandering attack, talking to herself, "You think you are underground, and I can't do anything about you? Hmph, maybe I can't do anything about you, but don't I have a few magic tools given by others?"

After saying that, she closed her eyes and whispered a few words, as if chanting, and then raised the jade wall. She saw the jade wall gradually light up, as if strands of sword qi were entangled on it, wandering and jumping like lightning. Ruan Ci hummed and said, "I can't catch you, let's see if it can!"

The jade wall suddenly lit up, and a strand of sword qi split into the ground. A rumbling sound immediately sounded underground, as if a small dragon was rushing left and right underground, and the ground was even more sunken. In just a moment, the small dragon underground had left the stream bank and went straight into the mountain. Observing the momentum in the field, one could see the sword light like a dragon, chasing the assassin directly. The assassin circled and retreated, but how could he be the opponent of the sword light? He was bitten by the sword light in its mouth, raised his head and chewed, chewed the illusory light group in its mouth a few times, swallowed it with satisfaction, and then broke out of the ground, circled in the air, and rushed towards the jade wall again, wanting to rush into the wall, but couldn't melt in no matter what. He simply let out a long chant, shook his head and wagged his tail, and merged into the jade wall, turning into a dragon pattern.

Ruan Ci looked at this sword intent, just a strand but it was so powerful. I don't know how, but she suddenly remembered the days when she refined sword qi day and night. She didn't know how many times her sea of consciousness had been tortured by these sword intents, so she couldn't help but shiver, looked at the jade wall, and said with a bit of weirdness, "This... this sword qi is so powerful?"

She hung the jade wall back, walked slowly to the edge of the forest, and looked out, only to see a big hole left by the sword light, with a cultivator lying at the bottom of the hole, life or death unknown. Observing the momentum from the field, she could only see weak spiritual energy. The swimming dragon transformed by the sword light just now ate this person's Dao foundation. Although it didn't really damage his limbs, his Dao path was cut off, and he wouldn't live long.

She jumped into the big pit, turned the person over, only to see his face was ordinary, his eyes half-open, his pupils moving slightly with her, and she couldn't help sighing, saying, "You are really a pitiful person—I am also very pitiful, I still have to transport you back, and that clam."

The person was easy to talk about. Before the person could answer, Ruan Ci bent down and picked him up, and jumped to the surface in a few leaps. She took the sword from the hand of the Qi Refining assassin who died first, turned around to deal with the river clam first, her heart moved, but she closed her eyes again, carefully observing the momentum, and looked at everything for a long time, but found nothing unusual. Only then did she feel discouraged, opened her eyes and stabbed the river clam with a sword, stirred it, and cut off the shell pillar. The river clam had no power to resist and died on the spot.

The long swords in Ruan Ci's hand were considered divine artifacts in the mortal world, but they were far from entering the stream in the eyes of Dao practitioners, otherwise she wouldn't have to worry about the river clam just now. Although this sword was only a medium-level magic tool, it was sharp, and Ruan Ci liked it very much. She took it to cut the clam meat, and after being busy for a long time, she finally finished cutting. Just as she was about to move to transport the goods, she thought of her unwillingness, turned back and scolded the empty space, "Still looking? Still looking?! If you look again, one day, I will dig out your eyeballs!"

Only then did she relieve some anger, turned around and pulled the rope, and tied up the big clam shell.

Ruan Ci dismantled the clam shell into two pieces, one for meat and one for people. The piece with meat was packed up quickly. When packing the person, the more powerful assassin hadn't died yet, his fingers moved slightly, grabbed Ruan Ci's ankle, and asked in a low voice, "You... you lied to me?"

Ruan Ci said, "Are you talking about my divine intent?"

She pretended that her divine intent was exhausted, so she turned to weak momentum, but afterwards she sacrificed the jade pendant and carefully observed the momentum, looking like she was at ease. Even if the assassin was stupid, he knew he had been deceived. Seeing that Ruan Ci didn't respond directly, but her expression was quite affirmative, his eyes slowly dimmed, and he said softly, "I lost..."

Ruan Ci was about to leave, his hand exerted force again, looking up at Ruan Ci, his lips trembling, and he asked with effort, "Still, still have?"

This was naturally because he saw Ruan Ci scolding people at the empty space, so he was surprised and suspicious. It seemed that he didn't realize that someone was peeping from the side at all, so he was surprised and angry. Although he couldn't move, he still wanted to ask clearly. This person was also strange. His ambush failed, and he was about to die, so he was willing to lose, but once he knew that there was someone with higher cultivation peeping behind him, he couldn't accept it.

Ruan Ci sneered, "Of course, what do you think?" She wore the Donghua Sword, and now she was the only sword seed in the Zhou Tian. If the Profound Heaven Sect let her be killed by an assassin casually, that would be strange.

She didn't want to explain too much, looked down at the assassin, and thought to herself, maybe the last assassin was also angered to death like this, this person can't be angered to death just like that.

Thinking of this, she poured out a pill that Xie Yanhuan had cheated from Song Guo from her small bag, pinched some powder and poured it into the assassin's mouth. It wasn't that she was stingy, this pill was used by Jin Dan cultivators to restore magic power. This person had already lost his Dao foundation. If he took the whole pill, he would be burned to death by the medicinal power immediately.

Sure enough, after a few grains of powder entered his throat, this person immediately became energetic, no longer in a dying state, just looking at Ruan Ci thoughtfully, without saying a word, thinking that he was considering how to deal with Ruan Ci's interrogation. Ruan Ci ignored him, tied him up, held both ropes in her hand, and dragged them all the way along the open space by the stream. After walking for half an hour, she returned to the front of the cave abode.

Li Ji, He Tong and the four servants were all working in the mansion at this time. Although mortals couldn't observe the momentum, they were all citizens of the Nine Kingdoms, nourished by spiritual energy, and they were also sharp-eared and sharp-eyed. Hearing the sound, they came out to check, and all were shocked. Li Ji greeted her with a trembling voice, "Miss, how come you made such a big move on the second day of apprenticeship!"

As she said this, Zhang Ji reached out to test the breath of the two, scared to sit on the ground, and said repeatedly, "Miss, Miss, in this Purple Essence Mountain, it is either a disciple or a sect member. It is absolutely impossible for an enemy to break through the mountain protection formation. You are, you are—"

He Tong said in a deep voice from the door, "Zhang Ji, shut up!"

He stopped Zhang Ji, walked out of the door, bowed to Ruan Ci, and said, "Miss, although Zhang Ji is timid, this is true. These two are not disciples of the sect, and there must be a master behind them. Before Miss deals with it, please think twice, do you want us boys to go to Spirit Valley Peak?"

He didn't say Purple Void Cave Illumination Heaven, because as a servant, without the master's company, it was absolutely impossible to enter the Cave Heaven. But Steward Feng of Spirit Valley Peak had a good conversation with Ruan Ci, and this matter could be decided by her.

Ruan Ci shook her head, "What's the panic? These two people wanted to kill me, so I killed them. It's righteous, what's there to be afraid of?"

Li Tong said, "Miss, but the sect rules are strict—"

Ruan Ci waved her hand, not allowing them to say any more, and said unquestioningly, "Now you have to do two things—"

Her eyes swept over, and the four servants couldn't help but quiet down, listening to Ruan Ci say, "The first thing—is the most important, which is to quickly take this clam meat to cook soup and serve it to me. Whoever has the best craftsmanship will do it. Hurry up, I'm starving to death."

Li Ji hurriedly got up, stumbled and ran to the kitchen. Ruan Ci said, "The second thing is to find two long poles. Tie the dead one high, and tie the living one lower, head down and feet up. Find another basin and put it underneath—you four take turns, make a cut on his throat, don't make it deep, don't make it shallow, let him be unable to speak, but don't let him die immediately, just let the blood flow slowly like this."

Her request was strange and terrifying, and even Li Ji, who was running back in a hurry with a vegetable basin, stopped. Ruan Ci looked at the four servants one by one, kept their expressions in her heart, and smiled slightly.

She was originally beautiful, and at this time, her smile added to her beauty, revealing a kind of innocence and romance, but she didn't look like she had just killed two people at all. Zhang Ji was so scared that her teeth were chattering, and Ruan Ci didn't hear it, speaking lightly and smiling, looking at the servants and saying, "You will know later—"

"Although there is a 'Ci' (mercy) in my name, I am more ruthless than many people."

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Updated, question: What is the purpose of Ruan Ci's arrangement at the end?

No vegetable names reported today, because I haven't thought about what takeout to order until now. Sigh, this is how I am when I live alone, I keep starving until I can't move before I reluctantly cook.

Speaking of red envelopes, I definitely sent them all. For those who didn't receive them, check the station short message? Or account details or something, because I only sent them and never received them, and I don't know where to receive them after sending them, but I sent them to those who left messages within 24 hours. If they left messages after 24 hours, I didn't send them. The red envelopes for this chapter will be operated after the update tomorrow.

In addition, repo "Sword of Dawn", it's quite good after reading it, I've been reading it for the past few days, and I've cried several times. In my opinion, except for some character settings that are a bit otaku-like, and some of the comments in this chapter are really disgusting, this book is worth reading, the character shaping is quite amazing!

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 43 =====