Chapter 24: Destroying the Enemy

  The sharp arrow was surrounded by a layer of black light. Seeing this scene, Lan Min subconsciously let out a cry of surprise.

  At the critical moment, Shen Qingluo quickly turned sideways and swung the long sword in her hand upwards with all her strength.

  With a loud bang, the sharp arrow was broken into two pieces and fell to the ground, making a sizzling sound. The black light wrapped in this object is highly corrosive!

  The attack failed, and the enemy in the dark attacked again.

  Several swishing sounds came from the air, and the same sharp arrows as before appeared again. After counting carefully, there were eleven of them.

  Not far away, Lan Min's face turned pale. She only had the second level of Qi Refining and was protected by her family. She had never experienced such a life-and-death struggle.

  This kind of attack was definitely not something she could block. Although she was desperate, she did not sit there and wait for death. She immediately slapped her storage bag and took out a small silver shield to activate it and blocked it in front of her.

  The next moment, the expected black light did not fall, and a large sea of fire ignited for no reason around her. The fire was fierce. Surrounded by it, she could not see the situation outside at all.

  This sea of fire was exactly what Shen Qingluo had used, the Silent Fire Art.

  This technique was used for the first time since it was successfully cultivated. Everything within a radius of five meters was turned into a sea of fire.

  Shen Qingluo controlled the flames and did not hurt Xia Jinxi and Lan Min. Not only that, she also controlled the flames to form a protective circle around them.

  The buildings in the courtyard and the middle-aged mother and son who were still in the house were not damaged.

  Xia Jinxi wanted to use ice magic to fight the enemy, but after the flames appeared, she was surprised to find that the technique she was using was suppressed.

  After spending many days together, she had a certain understanding of Shen Qingluo. She knew that with the character of this junior sister, it was impossible for her to do something like harming her companions before the battle. Then there was only one explanation for this situation.

  The technique used to cast the flames was very domineering. Within the coverage area, it ignored the enemy and automatically suppressed the use of other people's techniques.

  In this way, Xia Jinxi also vaguely understood that the source of Shen Qingluo's sense of threat to her when she was at the third level of Qi Refining was this extremely domineering technique.

  Her guess was also true.

  Under the suppression of the Silence Spirit Fire Art, Xia Jinxi's ice magic could only exert 60% of its original power. Fortunately, the sharp arrows wrapped in black light had been completely turned into ashes by the flames.

  At this moment, Shen Qingluo kept pinching the magic art. With the blessing of the Silence Spirit Fire Art, she was much more sensitive to the surroundings.

  At the moment the third wave of attacks was launched, she found the enemy's hiding place!

  The divine consciousness instantly controlled the Lingyun Sword to fly up, and the raging fire opened the way. The flying sword wrapped in blazing flames slashed at a boulder outside the courtyard with a whoosh.

  With a loud bang, the boulder exploded, countless fragments broke and scattered around, and then a figure staggered out from it.

  Almost at the same time, waves of ghost cries sounded from outside the courtyard. The sound was shrill, and the listeners couldn't help but feel a sense of violence.

  Shen Qingluo suppressed this emotion, pinched several magic art in her hands, and then waved her sleeves to take out the second top-grade magic weapon, the wind flute.

  She wanted to fight the ghost cry with the sound of the flute!

  The melodious music sounded instantly, gradually calming the violence in everyone's hearts.

  The ghost's cry suddenly intensified, and Shen Qingluo circulated the spiritual power around his body and also increased the intensity of the blowing.

  The sea of fire around her was still there, and the black wooden box gradually disappeared, revealing the object inside, a fist-sized green jade.

  Xia Jinxi recognized this object, a Yin-gathering stone that absorbs Yin energy and can be used for evil ghosts to practice, but it also has another function, which is to assist in nourishing corpse puppets.

  At this moment, her heart skipped a beat, and she finally understood the enemy's true purpose.

  "Junior Sister Shen, if I'm not mistaken, there is another space under the ground of Dongqi Town, and those missing people should have been made into corpse puppets!"

  The so-called corpse puppet is a similar existence to zombies, but the former is completely controlled by humans and has no independent consciousness.

  As soon as these words came out, the ghost's howl outside intensified again.

  Shen Qingluo immediately changed the rhythm of the flute to resist the sound wave attack from the evil ghost.

  After the Lingyun Sword smashed the boulder, she continued to chase the figure that fell out of it under her control. Now the winner has not been decided yet, but she is unable to continue to use the Silent Fire Art because of her multitasking. The blazing flames burning around her slowly dissipated.

  The technique is no longer suppressed, Xia Jinxi makes a full effort, and a ice spell instantly hits the Yin-Gathering Stone.

  This object has strong defense and is not damaged by the burning fire, but ice spells happen to froze it and crack it.

  With a click, the Yin-Gathering Stone splits into several petals, emitting an unpleasant stench.

  At the same time, a roar came from a distance, and the figure fighting with the Lingyun Sword wanted to retreat and was ready to cast a spell to escape from here.   

  Xia Jinxi chased after him with a sword in hand. Lan Min thought that her cultivation was too low, so she stayed where she was.

Xia Jinxi caught up with the figure and was fighting with him.

  When she got closer, Xia Jinxi saw the figure clearly. He was thin, with disheveled hair, holding a black banner, which was consistent with the image of the Taoist described by the middle-aged man.

  This person is at the ninth level of Qi Refining. If he were to face an ordinary sixth-level Qi Refining cultivator, he could easily kill him. However, he met Xia Jinxi, who was good at formation. His magic weapon and skills were all restrained and could not exert their original power.

Xia Jinxi took two formation flag, Fiery Formation for attack and Thick Earth Array for defense. Although she can't injure the enemy but she can still hold on him until protagonist Shen Qingluo come.

  In the other side, the sound of the flute continued, gradually covering the screams of the evil spirit. At a certain moment, Shen Qingluo followed the source of the sound and finally found the trace of the red-clothed man.

  The figure fled, but because the distance was too far, her consciousness could not control the Lingyun Sword to continue chasing, and she had taken this magic weapon back.

  The red-clothed evil spirit was equivalent to the foundation-building realm.

  When approaching, Shen Qingluo could clearly feel the pressure coming from this beast.

  Without any hesitation, she immediately took out a second-level attack talisman obtained from Taoist Xuanfeng and activated it, and threw it towards the red-clothed man.

  The next moment, the talisman turned into a scimitar and chopped down the red-clothed man.

  A tooth-grinding metal collision sounded, and the scimitar was blocked by the red-clothed man's sharp nails. The two were in a stalemate for a moment, accompanied by several clicks, and the red-clothed man's nails were broken.

  The scimitar ran out of energy and gradually disappeared in mid-air.

  Activating the second-level talisman consumed a lot of spiritual power. Shen Qingluo took advantage of the gap between the red-clothed man and the scimitar to take out two high-grade Qi-enhancing pills and swallow them to replenish her spiritual power.

  Seeing the scimitar disappear, she moved her consciousness and took out two second-level attack talismans from the storage ring and activated them, and threw them at the red-clothed man who was attacking.

  A whistling sound came to her ears, and the two scimitars transformed by the talismans slashed at the red-clothed man again.

  Without her sharp nails, she was half the strength of the red-clothed man, and she let out a cry again.

  Unlike the previous ghost howl that attacked indiscriminately, this time it was aimed at Shen Qingluo alone, and the power was doubled.

  Sudden by such a strong spiritual attack, her face turned pale and her sea of consciousness was in great pain.

  Biting her tongue and forcing herself to stay awake, Shen Qingluo took out another Qi-enhancing pill and swallowed it. She looked at the red-clothed man who was struggling to resist the scimitar, pinched her hands, and re-performed the Silence Spirit Fire Art. A raging fire appeared in an instant, covering the red-clothed man.

  Thunder magic is the nemesis of evil spirits. Although the raging fire cannot be completely restrained, it can definitely cause considerable damage to it.

  As expected, the red-clothed man who was resisting the scimitar with all his strength was hit by the raging fire, and his strength was immediately greatly reduced. The scimitar fell smoothly and cut off his head.

  At this moment, a strong yin energy emanated from the raging fire and was soon swallowed by the flames. This was a sign of the demise of the evil spirit.

  After eliminating a great enemy, Shen Qingluo felt relieved, and the severe pain in her sea of consciousness gradually subsided.

  But the matter was not over yet. She temporarily put the flowing wind pipe back into the storage ring, and chased in the direction of the figure's escape with the Lingyun sword in her hand.

  Not long after, the sound of fierce fighting came from the front of the road.

This was battle between Xia Jinxi and Tu Daoren, Xia Jinxi withstand him with formation.

  The arrival of Shen Qingluo made Tu Daoren's face change suddenly. As the master, he naturally sensed the demise of the red-clothed evil spirit. Since

  the opponent could kill the red-clothed person who was equivalent to the foundation-building realm with the sixth-level Qi Refining cultivation, he could also kill him who was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

  Compared with Xia Jinxi, Tu Daoren was more afraid of Shen Qingluo. He gritted his teeth, slapped his left arm hard, and performed the blood escape method.

  A large amount of blood gushed out in an instant, and Tu Daoren's body turned into a residual image and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.

  Qi Refining cultivators cannot fly with swords, and they cannot catch up with this speed at all.

  Xia Jinxi put away her formation flag, feeling a little regretful, "The man ran away. It can be confirmed that he is an evil cultivator. As long as he is alive, he will be a disaster for us."

  Shen Qingluo put away the Lingyun Sword, looked at the direction where Tu Daoren disappeared and said slowly: "In time, I believe our strength will far exceed his. In the face of absolute strength, there is no such thing as a disaster. As long as we meet him, we can destroy him easily."