Translator: Cinder Translations
In front of one of the figures in black, a completely snow-white flying sword appeared.
The sword body resembled jade, and the blade glead like frost.
The white flying sword sliced through the darkness, striking toward Liu Jiang's flying sword.
Both were wielding flying swords, but the snow-white one was clearly superior. Whether it was the brilliance of the sword body or the sharpness of the sword qi, it far surpassed Liu Jiang's sword.
The two flying swords collided mid-air, producing a deafening sound.
Liu Jiang's flying sword was knocked away.
As Liu Jiang struggled, Zhou Siyi's situation grew increasingly precarious.
The ringing of the bell beca more urgent, and Zhou Siyi's dizziness intensified, making it nearly impossible for her to maintain her balance, as if she might collapse at any mont.
She gritted her teeth and raised her hand to slap a black pouch at her waist.
"Caw!"
A sharp, piercing cry sliced through the air as a large eagle suddenly appeared.
The eagle's feathers were as black as night, and its beak was as hard as iron, gleaming with a cold light.
The eagle spread its massive wings, spanning over a zhang, and shot through the sky like a bolt of black lightning. With a fierce rush of wind, it swooped toward the two figures in black.
The snow-white flying sword, like a blinding white light, sliced through the darkness, heading straight for the eagle.
The eagle flapped its wings, showing no intent to evade the sharp white sword. It charged directly at the sword as if it were a mountain crashing down.
The eagle's sharp beak lunged toward the white flying sword like a razor-sharp blade.
"Clang!"
A sound of tal clashing echoed.
The snow-white flying sword was sent flying back.
The eagle suffered no serious injury; it was rely dazed by the impact of the sword and slowed down.
Shaking its head to clear its dizziness, the eagle flapped its wings again, continuing its assault on the two figures in black.
"This flat-billed beast is a late-stage second-tier spirit beast, extrely formidable; I can't hold it off for long," the figure wielding the sword remarked.
"Just wait; the beast in the water will be free shortly," said the figure holding the bell.
As she spoke, the latter increased the speed of the bell's ringing.
"Ah!"
Zhou Siyi suddenly let out a sharp, mournful scream, her body abruptly falling from mid-air and crashing into the lake below.
At the sa ti, without Zhou Siyi's control, the formation's power diminished significantly.
The human-snake writhed a few tis, snapping the four vines one by one.
Though it had broken free from the vines, the spiritual net still bound the human-snake, preventing its escape for the mont.
Seeing that Zhou Siyi had temporarily lost her combat ability and the human-snake had escaped the formation, Liu Jiang's expression turned anxious. He hurriedly urged the spiritual net to tighten around the human-snake.
The human-snake knew this was its last chance to flee and struggled desperately.
The net, made from an unknown material, was extraordinarily resilient. Under Liu Jiang's command, the net tightened further, and as the human-snake thrashed about, the net cut into its tough scales, causing bright red blood to seep out and instantly dye the surrounding water crimson.
Suddenly, Liu Jiang's body shook violently; the bell's sound waves were attacking him.
The intense dizziness significantly reduced his control over the net, and as the human-snake struggled fiercely, the net began to loosen.
Seizing the opportunity, the human-snake broke free from the net and escaped.
It glanced back at Zhou Siyi, who had fallen into the water, and with a flick of its tail, it swam
upward.
At the sa ti, the lake churned violently, and an undercurrent surged from beneath, sweeping toward Zhou Siyi with unstoppable force.
As Zhou Siyi plunged into the icy lake water, the piercing cold jolted her, causing the intense dizziness to recede sowhat.
Just as she regained her senses, she saw the swirling dark current rushing toward her.
In a hurry, she could only muster her spiritual power, forming a spiritual shield that enveloped her body. Then, she propelled herself upward toward the lake's surface.
Just as she was about to be swept into the dark surge, a flying sword suddenly sliced into the lake, charging directly into the turbulent water.
The rushing dark current was cleaved in two by the sword, granting Zhou Siyi a brief chance to escape and allowing her to break through the water's surface.
Before she could celebrate her escape, a thick serpent tail shot out of the water, like a long whip, lunging violently toward her.
The flying sword that had just saved Zhou Siyi once again attacked, slicing at the serpent tail.
"Clang!"
The flying sword, unable to withstand the force, let out a mournful cry as it was flung into the air by the serpent's tail.
Though the serpent tail took the blow, it was not unscathed; a deep wound exposing bone was visible. However, despite the severe injury, the serpent tail's montum did not wane as it swiftly struck toward Zhou Siyi.
"Bang!"
Zhou Siyi was heavily struck by the serpent tail and sent soaring into the sky from the force of
the blow.
Bright red blood sprayed from her mouth, clearly indicating she was gravely injured.
The human-snake surged out of the water, its long tail curling toward Zhou Siyi, aiming to
finish her off.
"Caw!"
At a critical mont, a massive shadow suddenly swooped in, charging at the human-snake.
It was the black eagle, decisively abandoning its attack on the two figures in black to return
and save its master.
The eagle's talons were sharp as blades, reaching for the serpent's tail.
Upon seeing the eagle, the human-snake reacted as if it had encountered a natural enemy,
experiencing a primal fear.
It quickly changed direction, plunging toward the water's surface. Nevertheless, the eagle's claws left deep, long gashes on the serpent tail.
The human-snake sank into the lake, its tail thrashing as it rapidly dove deep into the lake's
depths, vanishing from sight.
In the distance, the two figures in black, seeing the human-snake escape, retracted their spiritual weapons and turned to flee into the dense forest behind them.
With the departure of the black-clad figures, the bell's sonic attacks also ceased, allowing Liu
Jiang to gradually recover from his dizziness.
He realized the human-snake had vanished without a trace, and his anger surged within him.
The eagle circled in the air and caught the severely injured Zhou Siyi.
Just monts ago, facing the full force of the human-snake's attack, if she hadn't been
wearing mid-grade spiritual armor, she would not have survived. Even so, she was gravely
wounded.
anwhile, Song Wen observed the water's surface where the human-snake had disappeared,
his eyes glinting with sharp focus.
Just monts ago, the two strikes that had attacked the human-snake and saved Zhou Siyi
had been his doing.
Now, as a foundational elder of the Beastmaster Sect and with Zhou Siyi being the peak master's daughter, he could not stand idly by and watch her perish.
Song Wen noticed sothing peculiar about the human-snake.
Though it had sustained superficial injuries from the spiritual net, after breaking free and
escaping, those nurous small wounds, which had been torn open by the net, had bizarrely stopped bleeding and begun to heal within re breaths.
The recovery ability of this human-snake was astonishing, far beyond what a second-tier
beast should possess.
Connecting this to the green jade snake's innate ability to regenerate its body, it could
sowhat explain the situation.
However, the recovery ability of this human-snake seed even more powerful than that of
the green jade snake.
Additionally, one of the figures in black who had just escaped looked sowhat familiar to
Song Wen, but he couldn't imdiately recall where he had seen them before.
(End of the Chapter)
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