Chapter 384: Help This Emperor With a Hand

At the high cliff above the Tongming Thunder Pool.

True Person Master Lingxi took out a formation disk in her hand; this was a gift that Junior Brother Tong had once given her for her birthday.

Looking at the formation disk, her eyes became red again.

She rubbed her eyes hard, cast aside her distracting thoughts, and hesitated whether to set up the formation and make preparations while the lion had not yet returned.

True Person Master Lingxi had never imagined that she would become so constrained and helpless before a small demon whose cultivation was far lower than her own.

In the past, she would have already slapped it down with a single palm strike.

Yet it was precisely because of that palm strike that an outcome with no room for reversal came about.

Just in the instant her mind wandered.

She suddenly heard a mocking voice coming from behind her.

"Who are you waiting for?"

"..."

True Person Master Lingxi's heart suddenly stopped; she turned around in fear and saw an incredibly towering figure.

Those pair of brilliant golden eyes were quietly gazing at her.

And beside this lion, a huge dark spider was also staring at her with its dense multitude of eyes, clearly blocking all her escape routes.

In the next moment, that spear-like spider arm thrust out violently, shattering the formation disk in her hand.

Xuanming Spider King glanced dissatisfiedly at Shen Yi.

This pig-like demon with such strong beastly habits was simply cast from the same mold as that tigress.

It could have launched a sneak attack.

Before acting, it insisted on making noise for two sentences first, as if only then could its majesty be displayed.

Never mind...

Xuanming Spider King slowly raised its body; at least before revealing itself, it had already cautiously scanned the surroundings, confirming there were no ambushes.

Looking again at True Person Master Lingxi's dirty face, the fear on it was not feigned, and was even more wretched than what Jin Chi Demon King had described.

Whether it was a sneak attack or not, there seemed to be no difference.

"Why."

True Person Master Lingxi muttered woodenly, nearly collapsing.

She had been cautious enough and had done nothing wrong... why did things still go wrong.

Did these demons really possess such deep scheming?

Did they even predict that she had not escaped the Thousand Demon Cave?

"I will fight you all to the death!"

With a crying voice, she let out a piercing roar and waved her hand to fling out two heavy spiritual pressures.

At the instant she struck.

Shen Yi withdrew without hesitation, moving far away.

"..."

Seeing this, Xuanming Spider King felt a dull ache in its heart again.

Although it knew this lion could play no role before a Soul Transformation Perfection cultivator, this decisive reaction still made it somewhat unable to accept.

Once this matter ends, it must make this lion know what Demon King fury is.

In an instant, those two spiritual pressures slammed hard onto the spider's body, violently smashing it back more than ten zhang.

Master Lingxi flew frantically toward the front.

The hand seals in her hand changed unpredictably.

The surrounding spiritual energy instantly boiled up, transforming into streams of qi forces like meteors that all crashed down, each one the size of a mountain peak.

Then they all exploded upon the spider!

"I will kill you! Kill you all!"

True Person Master Lingxi's face was streaked with tears that would not stop; her screams grew more piercing. Xuanming Spider King looked completely bewildered, being smashed back repeatedly by the qi forces.

It completely did not understand; it had not even touched the opponent once, so where did this beast-like frenzy, like a fur-raising madman, come from.

True Person Master Lingxi condensed another spiritual seal once more.

Xuanming Spider King's expression finally changed, becoming slightly more solemn, but it could not be said to feel any fear.

It was seen that it suddenly spat out a strand of spider silk glowing with a faint light, which shot out explosively and then struck Master Lingxi's shoulder.

Such a hasty attack could naturally not cause too much harm to a Soul Transformation Perfection cultivator.

But the strange thing was that True Person Master Lingxi's hand seals were not performed incorrectly, yet the spiritual energy condensed in that instant inexplicably scattered.

"Fan Yun Dao Hai Seal?"

Xuanming Spider King sneered; its spider arm thrust out again, and with a "puchi" sound, it pierced through Master Lingxi's shoulder.

Although it could not learn it, it was only hindered by its demon body.

The secret of this seal technique, it might be far more familiar with than this True Person Master Lingxi.

"Ah..."

Master Lingxi let out another cry of shock; while crying, she completed the second hand seal.

Her palm was like a spiritual blade; "kacha," it severed the spider leg.

Then, sobbing and sniffling, she pulled the spider leg out of her own body!

"..."

A few strange expressions welled up in Shen Yi's eyes.

He had never seen such a cultivator; her mind was fragile, yet it did not hinder her fighting at all.

Cry when it's time to cry, strike when it's time to strike.

Having roughly grasped this cultivator's strength, Shen Yi quietly extended his palm.

He had brought the Spider Emperor here not truly to ambush disciples of Mount Wutong.

The reason he had not discussed it with that woman beforehand

was simply that Shen Yi never trusted a stranger; he preferred to control the situation himself.

If the Spider Emperor could be killed today, that would be best; if it truly could not be killed, at least he must make the Spider Emperor drive that woman away.

Of course, if that woman truly could not even flee, he would not mind lending her a hand.

In an instant, a wisp of black mist thread rose from the ground, reconnecting with Shen Yi's fingertip.

"Hiss!"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor, wounded, quickly retracted its long legs.

It looked over with some surprise.

Master Lingxi's reaction at this moment did not quite match the description in Jin Chi's words.

Had it been any other Demon Emperor, it would surely have suffered losses today.

Fortunately, it was the Demon Emperor of the Eighth Cave.

It could be said that nearly all the techniques of Mount Wutong came from the Secret Scripture Pavilion.

"Frost-Cutting Heaven Art."

True Person Master Lingxi created distance, then suddenly thrust both palms forward.

Five ice pillars connecting heaven and earth rose from nothing, attempting to seal the Spider Emperor inside.

"Sss."

The Xuanming Spider Emperor retreated calmly in one direction.

It dodged every ice pillar's attack as if it had foreseen it all along.

"Hiss."

True Person Master Lingxi panted heavily, suddenly feeling utterly despairing.

The opponent seemed to know all her movements.

If they dragged it out until the surrounding spiritual energy was exhausted, that would be the moment of her own demise.

Just then.

Her expression suddenly changed, and the Xuanming Spider Emperor also froze for an instant.

It was seen that its retreating motion stopped inexplicably, as if colliding with an invisible wall; in an instant, surging black mist rose like flames.

"Iron strokes, silver hooks!"

Before the Xuanming Spider Emperor's roar of rage could dissipate, the final sharp ice pillar suddenly pierced its abdomen, hurling it into the sky.

"An ambush! You stupid pig, come quickly and aid this Emperor!"

The Spider Emperor shattered the ice pillars within its body, crashing heavily to the ground from the air, its surface covered in frost.

In panic, it roared toward that lion.

"..."

Master Lingxi instinctively looked at the lion, her eyes full of dread.

She had not forgotten that Mount Wutong had already suffered many great losses at the hands of that creature.

The moment she saw the lion take a step, her entire body trembled.

"Very well."

Shen Yi looked down from above, his golden eyes suddenly becoming异常 calm.

Accompanying his words,

a huge brush materialized.

Only this time, compared to the last, the thick ink it outlined was a glaring scarlet red.

(End of this chapter)