Chapter 252

Jiang Sishui answered, urging his horse forward.

They had not gone five li when a ruined little village came into distant view.

The village had no more than thirty or forty thatched huts, the ground overgrown with knee-high weeds, looking utterly desolate.

Silent and still, without a trace of human presence, like a ghost realm.

Suddenly, a burst of OO@@ sounds reached their ears.

Immediately after, 410, the horse let out a long neigh, hooves stamping wildly, backing up again and again, looking very uneasy.

Jiang Sishui held Ren Yingying and leapt off the horse; the light array flashed and vanished, sending the horse straight back.

Ren Yingying struck out with a palm; wherever the palm wind passed, the clumps of grass bowed low.

At the same time, a patch of garish colors at the roots of the grass entered the two's line of sight.

Scorpions, centipedes, venomous snakes, spiders… all manner of poisonous creatures could be seen everywhere, gathering toward this side.

Both of them broke out in goosebumps all over.

It wasn't fear that these venomous creatures would hurt them, but a bout of trypophobia acting up.

Jiang Sishui frowned, directly entering the "Heaven and Man as One" state, controlling the surrounding power of heaven and earth, crushing and shredding wildly.

In an instant, poisonous blood splattered everywhere, the venomous creatures reduced to pulp.

Jiang Sishui picked up Ren Yingying and flew through the air; wherever he passed, the venomous creatures were all ground to nothing.

Flap-flap-flap—

The dense sound of beating wings drew near from afar; a mass of black "dark cloud" came from the horizon, diving fiercely at the two.

"What huge bats!"

Ren Yingying recognized what that "dark cloud" actually was, and could not help blurting out in astonishment.

Jiang Sishui said nothing, but formed his five fingers into a claw, and his free right palm scooped toward the ground!

In an instant, over a thousand blades of grass snapped off, wrapped in true qi they became razor-sharp, shooting upward like arrows, raining down on the bat swarm.

The "hiss-hiss" sounds were unceasing; every bat was pierced by at least three blades of grass, and the entire bat swarm plummeted like rain.

The sky cleared once more.

This move was not any martial art learned from a lineage, but something Jiang Sishui had created himself.

Possessing the "Lang Lang Fanyun Talent" and "Shifang Jumie," even though he spent most of his cultivation time on the two Liang Sect Heavenly Arts, an occasional flash of inspiration was enough for him to create various martial arts.

It's just that these martial arts, compared to the Holy Scripture and Heavenly Art, were all very ordinary, so he couldn't be bothered to name them.

Normally, if he needed to use them, he'd just cast them out on a whim.

Jiang Sishui used the power of heaven and earth to draw a bat close, and discovered that the bat's size, not counting its wings, was more than double an adult man's clenched fist.

"Still a venomous bat."

Seeing Ren Yingying's look of utter distaste, Jiang Sishui hurriedly tossed the venomous bat away.

Just then, a burst of explosive sounds; four figures burst through the windows of a thatched hut in the distance, fleeing for their lives.

However, they had just run to the village entrance, not yet recovered from the terror of countless venomous creatures, when several black shadows suddenly streaked across the sky, landing on the ground in parabolic arcs.

Bang bang bang bang—

Amid the explosions, white mist spread, blurring vision.

"It's smoke bombs! Everyone stay calm, gather toward me!"

A woman's voice rang out from the smoke.

At the same time, a group of men in black leapt out from all around, brandishing blades and charging into the smoke (chdh).

These men in black were all of Innate cultivation, yet they could not gain the upper hand, because a Grandmaster Realm true qi fluctuation erupted directly from within the smoke.

And it was the Late Grandmaster Stage.

The result was easy to imagine; that group of men in black suffered Heavy casualties.

As the smoke gradually dispersed and the field slowly cleared, a white silk sash suddenly descended from the sky, striking viciously at the black-clad woman among them who possessed Grandmaster cultivation.

The black-clad woman was not afraid either; her Sword Technique unfurled, shredding the white silk sash to pieces.

Just then, two more white silk sashes joined the battlefield, beginning to attack in concert.

The black-clad woman immediately found herself outmatched.

But she did not panic, only calling to a man beside her: "Quick, give me the box!"

That man had handsome features, a simple and honest air, his clear eyes tinged with a hint of foolishness; he looked like an inexperienced rookie of the jianghu.

Hearing the black-clad woman's words, he shook his head like a rattle-drum: "No way! Our Changlong Escort Bureau accepted the escort from the client, we must deliver it ourselves!"

As he spoke, he also clutched the bundle tightly to his chest.

Hearing this, the black-clad woman nearly died of anger: "How many times have I told you, you want the goods delivered to Yanxia Shanzhuang, and I am a person from Yanxia Shanzhuang!"

"You did say that, but you can't prove what you said is true either."

"You… I'm really going to be angered to death by you!"

At this moment, two more white silk sashes attacked, slamming toward that man.

The black-clad woman hurriedly helped him out of the siege, simultaneously calling out: "Let me tell you the truth, the box in your hand is related to the Fire Cloud Evil God; inside is very likely the secret manual of the 'Tathagata Divine Palm'!"

"These people are here for the secret manual, and they won't stop until they get it."

"Now, give me the box, and you all escape with your lives; they might let you go."

"If you stay here, you only have a dead end!"

"Ah! The Tathagata Divine Palm?!" The other man and woman, hearing this, cried out in shock at the same time.

Among them, that man was tall and big, with a square face, his features full of shrewdness.

He was clearly startled by the black-clad woman's words, and now had no time to be shocked, hurriedly grabbing the man holding the box and saying: "Duan Fei, stop being stubborn! Listen to Miss Tu, and give her the box!"

"If you're not afraid of death, I, Lu Xiaoyu, haven't lived enough yet!"

"Besides, your junior sister Miss Liu is still here. Even if you won't think of yourself, you should think of her, right?"

Junior sister...

Duan Fei heard this and looked toward a young girl in a crimson-pink dress beside him.

This was his junior sister, Liu Mingluan.

Duan Fei immediately hesitated.

After a moment of silence, he asked the black-clad woman, "If I give the box to you, they definitely won't let you off. So what will you do?"

The black-clad woman said irritably, "Just give me the thing, I have my own way, I'll be fine."

The words had barely fallen when two more white silk ribbons struck.

One of them came fierce and urgent, and the true qi fluctuation emanating from it had unmistakably reached the Grandmaster Realm!

280 Qisha Sect, Phantom Palace

Facing the fierce assault of one Grandmaster and six late-stage Sect Masters, the black-clad woman showed no fear, raising her sword to meet the enemy.

Suddenly her vision blurred, and a man and a woman descended from the sky, blocking in front of the four.

It was Jiang Sishui and Ren Yingying.

As seven white silk ribbons came attacking, Jiang Sishui simply reached out and scooped them up, holding them in his palm.

With another forceful tug, seven white-clad men on a row of treetops not far away uncontrollably flew out.

But while still midair, the white-clad men decisively cut the silk ribbons, then joined together, palm against palm.

As a burst of white light flared, a white phantom over ten zhang tall manifested, towering between heaven and earth.

The white phantom looked down from above, gazing at the six, then took great strides toward Jiang Sishui.

As it moved, the true qi fluctuation it emitted made the ground tremble slightly.

This combined-strike technique had unmistakably given the seven the combat power of a late-stage Grandmaster.

Unfortunately, the opponent they met today was a Celestial!

Seeing the white phantom lift its foot to stomp down as if to crush him into a meat patty, Jiang Sishui made no superfluous moves, simply reaching out to grab!

The power of heaven and earth was like something in his palm; under his control, it directly crushed the white phantom into nothingness on the spot.

"Puh!"

The seven white-clad men suffered backlash and vomited large mouthfuls of blood.

At a thought from Jiang Sishui, the seven were uncontrollably drawn over, all kneeling and prostrating before him.

No longer possessing the slightest power to resist.

Behind him, the four were all dumbfounded.

Seeing the seven white-clad men who had driven them to the Brink captured alive in just two or three moves, the four all felt a wave of terror.

After collecting himself, Duan Fei stepped forward, cupped his fists and said, "Many thanks to this brother for your timely aid. I am Duan Fei, of the Changlong Escort..."