Chapter 73: Falling on the Spot

Falling on the Spot

"Interesting, it seems that after the Dao foundation is broken, it is really as difficult to capture as a mortal in the field of Qi, and even the Qi machine has changed greatly, no longer the same as before the Dao foundation was broken."

If it were an ordinary cultivator, it would be difficult to fly so flexibly in this strong wind, but Ruan Ci is an exception. There is nothing in the South Chong Continent, just a lot of wind. But any South Chong cultivator, there is no one who is not good at riding the wind. She once entered Qu Pingting's dream, and has twelve Dao foundations and a vast Jade Pool. Her magic power is more abundant than Qu Pingting, and her understanding is also enough. Not long after, she became proficient. At this time, she was walking on flat ground in the wind, and even borrowed the power of the wind, which was faster than Zhou Zhi Mo climbing on the cliff. Not long after, she chased to the front of Zhou Zhi Mo, gave a light whistle, and stabbed with her sword.

Zhou Zhi Mo's figure was ghostly, swinging away. Ruan Ci kicked on the cliff and jumped into the air, then stabbed another sword. This sword had locked Zhou Zhi Mo's Qi machine. It didn't matter if it missed. Just like the first sword, the first sword didn't hit, but stabbed to the edge of Zhou Zhi Mo's Qi machine, then the second sword could lock Zhou Zhi Mo's breath, the third sword, the fourth sword, as long as her magic power was enough, she kept stabbing, then Zhou Zhi Mo's Qi machine would be delayed, like being stained with frost, and eventually even be frozen alive. This is also a set of sword techniques that cooperate with the Frost Sword. After True Person Wang gave it to Ruan Ci, Ruan Ci disliked it for not being fast enough, and only practiced it twice before throwing it aside. Only then did she know that any roundabout sword technique is useful in fighting. This Zhou Zhi Mo is flexible again, and killing him is only a matter of time.

Zhou Zhi Mo seemed to know that there was no chance of winning if he went on like this, so he didn't avoid the second sword, but took the initiative to meet it with his shoulder, thinking that he wanted to repeat the old trick, lock Ruan Ci's sword edge, and fight her with fists and feet. Ruan Ci couldn't avoid it at this time, otherwise she would lose Zhou Zhi Mo's Qi machine again. She snorted, poured spiritual power into the sword body, and stabbed into Zhou Zhi Mo's shoulder with all her strength, shouting, "It won't work the second time."

This Green Frost Sword is after all a magic treasure given by True Person Wang. Zhou Zhi Mo's strength was so great, but it didn't bend at once. Ruan Ci urged the sword Qi, but it only stabbed into Zhou Zhi Mo's flesh and blood for a few inches and was swallowed and dissolved. It could not continue to hurt his internal organs. She couldn't help but show surprise, shouting, "Your injury healed so fast—no! You used secret methods to sacrifice the Dao foundation to supplement your body cultivation attainments, right?"

Zhou Zhi Mo's face was still white, but he was no longer sick, smiled slightly, and said, "You are very smart, but you are going to die."

Both of his hands left the cliff surface, and he only relied on his lower body to absorb on the cliff wall, and his hands clenched his fists and waved toward Ruan Ci. If Ruan Ci still didn't let go, she would be hit by a punch no matter what. She had always been proud of her firm flesh and blood. Before she entered the sect, in the Qi Condensation stage, no one could hurt her flesh and blood. But at this time, there was a vague sense of crisis, as if she would be injured if she was hit by Zhou Zhi Mo.

If she could exchange injury for injury, it would be fine. She was tempered by sword Qi, and Zhou Zhi Mo was a Foundation Establishment body cultivator, so he couldn't kill her with one punch, but Ruan Ci couldn't bring deeper injury to Zhou Zhi Mo if she took this punch, which was very uneconomical. She gave a light cry, and at the moment before the fist wind reached her body, her feet kicked upward, her hands still didn't leave the sword handle, and she stood upside down, bending the sword handle to the left. Zhou Zhi Mo couldn't stop his momentum, knocked on the sword handle, and it was like using his whole body's strength to knock the Frost Sword into his body.

The strength of this punch was so great that even Ruan Ci's hands were numb. The sword body sank a large section inside, and it had pierced into the cliff. Zhou Zhi Mo gave a painful cry. Only a harsh friction sound was heard, like a sword edge scraping over blunt iron, but Zhou Zhi Mo let go of his feet and fell down, his whole body weight hanging on the Frost Sword.

He no longer used force to resist, and the flesh and blood on his shoulder naturally couldn't bear it, and was cut through by the Frost Sword. A cloud of blood mist shot out. Zhou Zhi Mo fell down, but climbed onto the cliff again and fled to the distance.

Ruan Ci used force to pull out the Frost Sword, which had been delayed for a few moments. Zhou Zhi Mo had already fled past the cliff corner, and the blood smell around his body attracted the attention of the giant birds on the Fengfu River. Even Ruan Ci here had bird demonic eyes cast on her. She was not afraid, followed the Qi machine to chase, and had already made up her mind to execute Zhou Zhi Mo on the spot. Otherwise, once this child got a chance to breathe, I'm afraid it would be endless trouble.

His breath was locked by her, so even if there was no blood smell to lead the way, Ruan Ci could catch up with him. She shook off the blood beads on the sword tip, threw herself into the wind, and soon turned around the cliff corner, but saw a giant crow circling up from the river bank, pouncing toward Zhou Zhi Mo in front. Zhou Zhi Mo patted the cliff surface, jumped up, and instead jumped onto the giant crow's head.

The giant crow screamed and flew into the air, wanting to rely on the wind to throw Zhou Zhi Mo off, but Zhou Zhi Mo squeezed its feathers and climbed onto it firmly. The giant crow went crazy and shuttled up and down, but it couldn't throw it off.

Ruan Ci stood in the wind, although she was free, but the giant crow was a demonic bird. In terms of riding the wind, how could Ruan Ci compare with it? She tried her best to chase for hundreds of feet, and the distance gradually widened. Zhou Zhi Mo looked back and had a trace of cold mockery on his lips, and said with his mouth shape, "The second time."

He said that he escaped from Ruan Ci's hands for the second time. Ruan Ci stood in the air, sighed at him, patted the jade wall in front of her chest, and shouted, "Go!"

She originally wanted to kill Zhou Zhi Mo without using sword Qi, but she couldn't complete her wish in the end. Her spiritual sense probed into the jade wall, only feeling that the three dragon patterns were lazy and didn't want to fly out, so she pulled a new sword Qi from the jade wall. The sword Qi grew with the wind and turned into a swimming dragon. In the blink of an eye, it caught up with the giant crow. Just a flash, the giant crow screamed to the sky, and fell straight down. Its vitality was already dead.

Zhou Zhi Mo waited to escape again, but where would the swimming dragon give him a chance? He held him in his mouth and flew back. The sharp teeth had already pierced Zhou Zhi Mo's upper body, leaving him with serious injuries.

Along the way, blood beads were scattered, and the blood smell was thick and sweet. Many small insects emerged on the river beach, licking the dripping blood beads, but the river surface and the cliff top were quiet. Those demonic birds that attacked the sedan chair didn't know when they had flown back to the mountain forest. Zhou Zhi Mo smiled miserably, "It turns out that you are the Sword Envoy's wings."

Ruan Ci also said, "It turns out that you really hid in the stalactite forest."

Zhou Zhi Mo stared at her, coughed a few times, and said laboriously, "That's right, if you didn't have Donghua sword Qi, you would have died in the Phoenix intestine long ago. I, I lost to the sword Qi, not to you."

His words were indeed reasonable. If there was no sword Qi to destroy the stalactite forest, in that place full of restrictions, the body cultivator who could turn his body into smoke would have no idea how many advantages he had. He could divide and hunt everyone. Even with sword Qi, Zhou Zhi Mo alone killed more than half of these dozen people, until the four of Ruan Ci joined forces, and he was defeated. His cultivation was also visible.

Ruan Ci nodded and said, "That's right, you are very powerful. Is this your last words?"

Zhou Zhi Mo's face gradually became blank, as if his thinking was not so flexible anymore. Blood bubbles kept surging between his lips and teeth, slowly saying, "There is Phoenix blood miasma on the river beach, which will be triggered every time it attacks the cliff surface. I have a method to avoid miasma, and, and exchange my life with you—"

He was full of pride, and until now he still refused to beg for life, but put forward a deal again. If Ruan Ci exchanged the Miasma-Avoiding Method with Zhou Zhi Mo, she would have to let him go, but she couldn't break her promise. She thought for a while and shook her head, "Don't exchange."

Zhou Zhi Mo looked at her and asked, "You can ride the wind, they can't..."

He spoke very laboriously, but the meaning was still clear—can you really abandon the lives of the traveling companions?

Ruan Ci looked at him and said, "Cultivators have their own lives. I have saved them too many times—in fact, you should also be happy. I value your life more than theirs."

Zhou Zhi Mo pondered for a while, a miserable smile appeared on his lips, and there was even a vague sense of pride, laughing, "That's right, I... I died... earned..."

In the muttering voice, the swimming dragon chewed him clean, spat out a set of clothes and several Qiankun bags, turned around and threw himself into the jade wall, but did not turn into a dragon pattern, but turned into a small auspicious cloud. The amount was less than the three swimming dragons before. Ruan Ci thought, "This is the first time sword Qi has dealt with a body cultivator. It is not like a true cultivator, it is finished after eating the Dao foundation. It has to eat all the bones and flesh to be considered a real kill. It seems that body cultivators are harder to kill than true cultivators. This time killing the Foundation Establishment cultivator, the sword Qi consumption is obviously more. It seems that if fighting with Golden Core cultivators, I am afraid that there will be no return, and I cannot afford a few consumptions."

Although she was tough on Zhou Zhi Mo's position, she was also worried about the traveling companions. While thinking, she rode the wind to catch up. After turning over the mountain wall, she saw that the blood color was indeed rising on the ground, not as conspicuous as the Green Jade Miasma, but everyone was sucked near the ground and was struggling with the blood-colored miasma. If it weren't for the fact that Meng Lingyue's pearl light had the ability to resist miasma, they would have been sucked into the ground long ago.

At this time, there were many demonic birds in the air pouncing down. Everyone had to resist the miasma and resist the demonic birds, and their figures could not move, which was already dangerous. Junior Brother Yue fell to one side, and his remains had melted halfway. It seemed that he was injured by the bird demon, fell into the miasma, and was gradually melted and swallowed.

Chi Pengpeng's bell drum had turned into a gold bracelet formation the size of a bushel, casting golden light on her head, but this gold bracelet could only protect one person. Meng Lingyue's bright pearl released a great light, shining several times farther than usual, but her face was pale and she was struggling to support, for Li Pingyan to fight with the bird demon. Li Pingyan fell on the river beach, far away from her, facing the bird demon's offensive directly. She wanted to protect Li Pingyan from being swallowed by the miasma, so she had to urge the bright pearl to such a degree.

Ruan Ci had already killed Zhou Zhi Mo with sword Qi, so she didn't care about using Donghua sword Qi anymore. The Frost Sword was slightly damaged just now. Seeing the situation was critical, she patted the jade wall and released a thread of sword Qi, chasing toward the bird demon. Everyone was refreshed. Chi Pengpeng also flew out the gold bracelets to resist the bird demon on Li Pingyan's side, shouting, "Miasma is more powerful than the bird demon! Junior Sister Ci, don't get too close!"

Indeed, this faint blood color is only a thin layer, looking less eye-catching than the bird demon, but Ruan Ci was sucked just now. If it weren't for Meng Lingyue's help, and the miasma had just started, she would almost not be able to get out. She urged her eye power to look at the cliff wall, only to see blood color flowing down slowly from where Zhou Zhi Mo broke the stone. Just now she nailed through Zhou Zhi Mo, and there was also blood color probing out. She was also secretly surprised in her heart, thinking, "Zhou Zhi Mo deliberately took that sword from me just now, maybe he had already thought about it. Every sword I chased and killed him on the stone wall would stimulate the stone wall and release blood miasma. He still cherished his life and didn't want to take risks. Otherwise, if he dodged a few more swords from me, my sword Qi would shake the stone wall, and the blood miasma would be even thicker. By the time I finished killing Zhou Zhi Mo and came back, my companions might have been swallowed by the blood miasma silently."

At this time, the blood miasma was stimulated several times and was already much thicker than just now. Ruan Ci shouted, "You guys smear the Phoenix Bright Sand you just took away on your body, Zhou Zhi Mo has the smell of Phoenix Bright Sand on him!"

In fact, she didn't know whether doing so would be effective. After all, Zhou Zhi Mo didn't go down to the ground, but the situation was urgent, and everyone hurriedly followed suit. Li Pingyan just reached out to his waist to take out the Qiankun bag, and there was a splash in the river. A giant tail suddenly stretched out of the water and whipped toward Li Pingyan.

Chi Pengpeng screamed and flew the gold bracelets, but it was too late. Li Pingyan was also not panicked, sat down, avoided the snake tail, and retreated rapidly. Meng Lingyue shouted, "Li Lang, be careful of the miasma!"

She urged the bright pearl to shine, wrapping Li Pingyan, but felt a pain in her back, and was brought into mid-air by a giant force, but it was a bird demon that grabbed her and flew away while everyone was paying attention to the giant snake. Ruan Ci flew the Frost Sword and cut the snake tail back—failed to cut it off, the touch was slippery, and she could feel the giant force hidden in the snake tail, which was unpredictable and even far beyond Zhou Zhi Mo. Her expression changed, she patted her chest and shouted, "Be careful, Golden Core demonic thing!"

Donghua sword Qi flew out one after another, turning into swimming dragons flying back and forth on the Fengfu River. A swimming dragon flew into the air and killed the bird demon that grabbed Meng Lingyue. Meng Meng Zhixuan moved the fastest, and had already smeared a layer of Phoenix Bright Sand on his body, and his actions were much more free. He jumped into the air to pick up Meng Lingyue. Ruan Ci only glanced at it and didn't pay attention anymore. She stood in the air, vaguely seeing a giant snake diving into the bottom of the river and swimming toward the distance. She was also secretly cold in her heart, not daring to stay on the river surface for too long. Seeing that all the demonic birds had retreated, she recalled the sword Qi and swept toward the river beach.

"Are the Phoenix Bright Sands all smeared?"

The Phoenix Bright Sand had a peculiar smell, not fishy or smelly. Ruan Ci smeared some on the soles of her feet, landed on the river beach, and sure enough, the blood miasma not only no longer stuck to her feet, but vaguely had a sense of exclusion. Ruan Ci thought, "Is this Phoenix also so clean? After dying for so long, its nature has not changed?"

But she just thought about it. Phoenix Bright Sand is the waste that the Phoenix is unwilling to absorb, and blood miasma is the exudation of flesh and blood. It is reasonable not to want to contact Phoenix Bright Sand. Ruan Ci just didn't know how Zhou Zhi Mo discovered the truth. And whether the other disciples of Yan Mountain knew, this child is indeed a tricky opponent. If there is no sword Qi, he would have successfully escaped at this time.

Just thinking about it, she heard Junior Sister Little Lian crying, shouting, "Senior Sister!"

Ruan Ci was shocked, hurriedly swept to Meng Lingyue's side, and asked, "What! The bird demon just now couldn't hurt you too seriously—"

While speaking, she probed her magic power into Meng Lingyue's body, but the voice gradually weakened: In Meng Lingyue's inner landscape world, the Jade Pool had all dried up. Without the nourishment of spiritual liquid, the Dao foundation was shaking and unstable, and several layers had collapsed. A serious injury on her back broke her heart pulse, and most of her blood had flowed away at this time,

While speaking, she probed her spiritual power into Meng Lingyue's body, but her voice gradually grew weaker: within Meng Lingyue's inner landscape, the jade pool had already completely dried up. Lacking the nourishment of spiritual liquid, her Dao foundation was swaying unsteadily and had already collapsed by several layers. There was a severe wound on her back that had torn through her heart meridian; by this time, most of her blood had flowed out, soaking the ground around her.

Foundation Establishment cultivators all cultivate a flawless golden body; that bird demon's claw should not have caused such a heavy injury. It is only possible that before the bird demon grabbed her, Meng Lingyue was already at the end of her rope, unable to even maintain her protective spiritual power, which is why she suffered such injuries from a single strike. Chi Pengpeng also came over to check and exclaimed in shock, "Junior Sister Meng, how did you—your spiritual power is exhausted to this extent, how did I not notice at all?"

Meng Lingyue shook her head slightly. Using her last ounce of strength, she pushed the crowd aside and reached out toward Li Pingyan. Li Pingyan pulled her into his arms and whispered, "Lingyue, don't die."

A trace of a smile appeared on Meng Lingyue's lips, and her pale complexion even carried a touch of charm. She looked deeply at Li Pingyan and said softly, "Li Lang, I really want to be with you and admire the peach blossoms one more time..."

Before her voice had faded, her inner landscape appeared above her head, but she no longer had the strength to hold the Great Mantra. The jade pool cracked inch by inch, and her Dao foundation shattered and flew away. Meng Lingyue's breath gradually ceased, and many scenes drifted out—all of them unforgettable memories from her life.

Junior Sister Little Lian could not help but burst into tears. Amidst her wailing, a peach forest appeared, and a young man walked slowly out from amidst a thousand miles of peach blossoms. He looked back at the crowd coldly, his eyes as bright as the cold moon, his bearing exceptionally distinguished; it was Li Pingyan in his youth.

The young girl Meng Lingyue lifted her skirt and ran to his side. She talked and laughed with Li Pingyan, they looked at each other and smiled, and walked side by side into the depths of the peach forest. A gust of wind blew, and peach blossom petals fell one by one, submerging their figures.

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