Chapter 42

Defeating Two Enemies in Succession

"This person, he died, so he died, why is he screaming?"

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

For her, on the way from the Song Kingdom to Altar City, she had already killed many demonic beasts. Even for cultivators, the Young Master Huang who fought with her for fish in Ningshan Pond, and the white-clad girl who contained illusion techniques 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, just wondering why this person wasn't in critical condition after receiving one kick, but died after lying there for a while and spitting blood himself. She was still guarding against the Foundation Establishment cultivator who hadn't appeared, and opened her mouth again, "Since you want to kill me, why don't you come out?"

The empty mountain was silent. Except for the murmuring sound of the river clam contracting in pain, the forest was still silent, without a trace of human presence. But in Ruan Ci's induction, there was still a heavy 'momentum' lurking in the forest. She looked with her spiritual sense, and saw that all flowers and leaves were very clear, but she couldn't see the cultivator's spiritual energy, so she knew that her cultivation base was limited and she couldn't find this cultivator directly. The visitor should be at least at the Foundation Establishment cultivation base.

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 Xie Yan Huan who opened her eye-sense for Ruan Ci. She couldn't clearly sense things she couldn't see. But now, once the meridians were opened, the 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 a mortal, it was a cliff and a small waterfall, but in Ruan Ci's sea of consciousness, it was a giant clam wriggling. The cat shadow seen in her eyes was also an axe-foot that kept jumping and moving like a snake or a mouse. She didn't know if all Qi Condensation cultivators could view Qi like this, or if it was a supernatural ability that came with 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 for them to see.

That assassin with lighter spiritual energy had already died there. Sensing from the 'field', the spiritual energy faded, and bits of spiritual light dissipated from the body, and there were even more illusory scenes constantly emerging. This had no sign in reality, and could only be viewed 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 from 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 Condensation 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 the scenes, she wouldn't be distracted to check them at this time. Closing her eyes and concentrating, she only felt that the denser human-shaped light group in the field was constantly wandering around her, changing with the change of Ruan Ci's energy. Ruan Ci tried to lock the energy 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 into the weak point, it would even cause damage to her Dantian Jade Pool!

Since she obtained the sword, although she had hunted many demonic beasts and had felt the crisis of being injured before a Foundation Establishment demonic beast, at that time, only her body and skin were injured, but this crisis was completely different. One must know that the Dantian Jade Pool was something between virtual and reality. If it wasn't damaging the cultivator's body, it was difficult to hurt the Jade Pool. This assassin actually wanted to stab that sword into the virtual and reality while circling, which really made Ruan Ci feel very tricky. She had to transform her momentum faster and cover up the weak points in the momentum. Such maneuvering was a huge consumption of spirit. After just a moment, 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 stream, and a girl in strong clothes was standing in front of a big clam, closing her eyes, her feet constantly changing steps, as if she were confronting some invisible enemy. Her face was extremely strenuous, looking like a madman acting out the drama in her heart, not at all the wonderfulness of the fists and feet flying and the rabbit falling when martial arts masters duel. But to a cultivator who could view Qi, Ruan Ci had already fallen into great danger.

The assassin's momentum gradually increased and wandered constantly. Ruan Ci's momentum changes were gradually slowing down, and her defense was becoming more and more strenuous, making it difficult to lock the opponent's position. The cultivator's momentum gradually rose, and the killing 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 energy, which 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, her plain hand touched the jade disk on her chest, frowned and said, "I know, you are underground. You have the Earth Escape Technique, so I can't catch you."

The mountain forest was still silent. She was still constantly turning to guard against the wandering offensive, saying to herself, "You think that if you are underground, I can't do anything to you? Hmph, maybe I can't do anything to you, but don't I have a few magic tools given by others?"

After saying that, she closed her eyes and whispered a few times, as if chanting words, and then raised the jade disk. The jade disk gradually lit up, as if strands of sword Qi were entangled on it, jumping like lightning. Ruan Ci hummed and said, "I can't catch you, let's see if it can?"

The jade disk suddenly lit up, and a strand of sword Qi slashed into the ground. A dull rumbling sound immediately sounded underground, as if a small dragon was rushing left and right underground, and the ground was sinking and sinking. In just a moment, the small dragon underground had left the side of the stream and went straight into the mountain. Viewing the momentum in the field, one could see the sword light like a dragon, chasing the assassin directly. The assassin circled and circled, but how could he be a match for the sword light? He was bitten in the mouth by the sword light, raised his head and chewed, bit into two sections, chewed the illusory light in his mouth a few times, swallowed it with satisfaction, and then broke out of the ground, circled in the air, and rushed towards the jade disk again, wanting to rush into the disk, but couldn't merge into it no matter what. He simply let out a long chant, shook his head and wagged his tail, merged into the jade disk, and turned into a dragon pattern.

Ruan Ci looked at this sword intent, it was just a strand but it had such power. I don't know why, 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 disk, and said strangely, "This... this sword Qi is so powerful?"

She hung the jade disk back, walked slowly to the edge of the forest, and looked out. She saw a big hole left by the sword light, and a cultivator lying at the bottom of the hole, life or death unknown. Viewing the momentum from the field, she could only see weak spiritual energy. The 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 already cut off, and he wouldn't live long.

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

People were easy to talk about. Without waiting for the person to answer, Ruan Ci bent down and picked him up, and reached the surface with a few leaps. She took the sword from the hand of the Qi Condensation assassin who died first, turned around to deal with the river clam first, and her heart moved, but she closed her eyes again, carefully viewed the momentum, and looked at everything for a long time, but didn't find anything unusual. Only then did she feel discouraged, opened her eyes, and stabbed the river clam with a sword, stirred it, and cut off the adductor muscle. The river clam had no power to resist and died on the spot.

The long swords in Ruan Ci's hand were considered divine weapons in the mortal world, but they were far from being ranked in the eyes of Dao cultivators, otherwise she wouldn't have worried about the river clam just now. Although this sword was only a medium-grade magic tool, it was sharp, and Ruan Ci liked it quite a bit. She used it to divide the clam meat, and after being busy for a long time, she finally finished cutting. Just as she was about to move the goods, she felt unwilling in her heart, turned her head and scolded the open space, "Still looking? Still looking?! If you look again, one day, I will dig out your eyeballs!"

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

Ruan Ci took the clam shell apart into two pieces, one for meat and one for people. The piece for meat was packed up quickly. When packing the people, the more powerful assassin was not dead 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, which was why her momentum was weak, but later she sacrificed the jade pendant and carefully viewed the momentum, looking like she had plenty of energy. Even if the assassin was stupid, he knew he had been lied to. 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 wanted to leave, he used force on his hand again, looked up at Ruan Ci, his lips trembling, and asked with effort, "Still, still have?"

This was naturally because he saw Ruan Ci scolding people in the open space, so he was surprised and suspicious. It seemed that he didn't realize at all that someone was peeping from the side, 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, but he was willing to admit defeat. But once he knew that there was someone with a higher cultivation base peeping behind, 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 secretly, maybe the last assassin was also angered to death like this. This person couldn't just be angered to death.

Thinking of this, she poured out a pill that Xie Xie Yan Huan had cheated from the Song Kingdom 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 Golden Core 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, but looked at Ruan Ci thoughtfully, without saying a word, thinking he was considering how to deal with Ruan Ci's interrogation. Ruan Ci ignored him, tied him up, took both ropes in her hand, dragged them all the way along the open space by the stream, walked for half an hour, and returned to the front of the grotto-abode.

Li Ji and He Tong, the four servants, were all working in the mansion at this time. Although mortals couldn't sense momentum, they were all citizens of the Nine Kingdoms, nourished by spiritual energy, and their ears and eyes were sharp. Hearing the sound, they came out to check, and all were shocked. Li Ji greeted her tremblingly and said, "Miss, how come there is such a big commotion on the second day of apprenticeship!"

As she spoke, Zhang Ji had already 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, if it's not a disciple, it's a sect member. It's absolutely impossible for an enemy to break through the mountain-protecting formation. You did this, you did this—"

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, these words are not false. These two are not disciples of the sect, there must be a mastermind behind them. Before Miss deals with them, please think twice, do you want us boys to go to Spirit Valley Peak?"

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

Ruan Ci shook her head and said, "What's the panic? These two people wanted to kill me, so I killed them. It's fair and reasonable, 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 boil soup and serve it to me. Whoever has the best craftsmanship will do it. Hurry up, I'm starving to death."

Li Ji got up quickly, stumbling and running to the kitchen. Ruan Ci said, "The second thing is to find two long poles. For the one who died, tie him up high. For the one who is still alive, tie him up lower, and tie him upside down. Then find a basin and put it underneath—you four take turns, make a cut on his throat, don't make it too deep, and don't make it too 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, 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, remembered their expressions in her heart, and smiled slightly.

She was originally beautiful, and when she smiled at this time, it added to her beauty, revealing such innocence and romance, but she didn't look like someone who had just killed two people at all. Zhang Ji was so scared that her teeth chattered, and Ruan Ci didn't hear it as if she didn't hear it, speaking lightly and smiling, looking at the servants and saying, "You will know in the future—"

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

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. Question: What is Ruan Ci's intention in arranging it like this at the end?

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

By the way, about the red envelopes, I definitely sent them all. For those who didn't receive them, can you check the station short message? Or the account details or something? Because I only manage sending and haven't received them, I don't know where to receive them after sending, but I sent them to everyone who left a message within 24 hours. If it was a message left 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 getting into it. I've been watching it these days, and I've cried several times. In my opinion, except for some character settings that are a bit too otaku, and some of the comments in this chapter are really disgusting, this book is worth reading, the character shaping is quite absolute!

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