“Evil beast, how dare you continue being arrogant and harming people!” After saying another formulaic line, Su Zhuyi unleashed her sword energy and stabbed at the flood dragon’s head, leaving only a shallow mark on it. Su Zhuyi’s heart trembled, and she suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet burning hot. She immediately fled, but unexpectedly, the flood dragon suddenly reared up straight, and several scales flew toward Su Zhuyi like red-hot knives.
Su Zhuyi raised her sword to block. Her swordsmanship was fast, but there were too many scales, and one or two always slipped through. The scales broke through her spiritual energy barrier and directly cut through her protective magical treasure, leaving two wounds on her body. Her white clothes were immediately stained with fresh blood.
The flood dragon’s scales were poisonous, but fortunately, she had taken detoxifying pills in advance, so there was no real effect, just slight stinging pain at the wounds. She sealed the wounds with spiritual energy, and a cluster of flames sprouted from her palm, passing directly over the wounds.
She had always been cautious, which was how she could ensure nothing went wrong and prevent parasite insects from entering her body.
The demon flood dragon’s strength was considerable. In the fight, Su Zhuyi didn’t completely have the upper hand. Before long, her white robe was stained with blood, and she looked somewhat disheveled. But the demon flood dragon wasn’t much better off, with sword wounds all over its body, looking extremely terrifying.
The demon flood dragon used its tail as a whip, letting out a long howl as it swung its tail over. Su Zhuyi also became fierce, frantically injecting spiritual energy into her broken sword. Without dodging or avoiding, she gripped the broken sword and charged straight forward. At this moment, azure light flashed on the broken sword, and Su Zhuyi’s body seemed to merge with the sword, transforming into a beam of azure light that crashed toward the flood dragon.
The flood dragon was originally thicker than a person. Su Zhuyi’s sword light split the flood dragon open, just like how the flood dragon had earlier torn the woman apart with one claw. A section of its dragon tail was also split by Su Zhuyi’s sword light, and Su Zhuyi’s entire body passed through the crack in the dragon’s tail, immediately covered in blood, drenched by the dragon’s blood.
She had planned to be elegant and otherworldly, ethereal as an immortal, but who would have thought she’d have such bad luck at the start, making herself so disheveled!
But unexpectedly, a childish voice below shouted: “Well killed!”
Her eye twitched. It was the girl child who had been holding the painting earlier, climbing out of the cellar. She was covered in blood and dirt, but her eyes were bright. Looking up at Su Zhuyi in the air with tears streaming down her face, she held a steel fork in her hands and cheered loudly.
That was the weapon her father had just used. It hadn’t even touched the demon flood dragon, but she had picked it up, as if she wanted to fight the demon flood dragon to the death.
Looking at her age of only seven or eight years old, she was already quite bold and perceptive. Perhaps it was because both her parents had just died that gave her the courage to face the demon flood dragon. When she looked at Su Zhuyi, there was worshipful light in her eyes.
However, her voice attracted the flood dragon’s attention. The demon flood dragon also knew that Su Zhuyi was trying to save those mortals. Having gained no advantage this time, with its tail split in half, it was both angry and anxious. It shrieked twice, rolled its eyes, and abandoned Su Zhuyi, spitting a water arrow toward the girl child.
Although Su Zhuyi had covered the village with a layer of spiritual energy barrier, she had consumed quite a bit of spiritual energy now, and knowing that the flood dragon’s target in fighting her wasn’t the village, that spiritual energy barrier was naturally weaker. But she hadn’t expected it to attack the girl child with full force! And after spitting one arrow, it spat several more, targeting the villagers hiding in cellars in all directions.
Having no choice, Su Zhuyi could only desperately inject spiritual energy into the barrier below. While she was activating the spiritual energy barrier for defense, the demon flood dragon’s trick succeeded. Its body shook, and several scales shot toward Su Zhuyi.
This was its desperate, full-force attack, naturally with infinite power. Su Zhuyi was hit on the shoulder by an iron scale, nearly having her shoulder completely severed. Hanging by one arm, she also became fierce, bit her tongue tip to draw talismans in the void, her broken sword stained with blood, immediately blazing with azure light.
Her entire body was filled with malevolent energy, no longer having that ethereal immortal quality, with evil aura soaring to the sky. Casting a blood curse, several blood threads wrapped around the demon flood dragon. As she chanted the incantation, the demon flood dragon howled in pain, its body seeming to be penetrated by countless ropes, about to be torn apart by five horses.
Su Zhuyi’s strength had increased now, and she could cast many of the vicious techniques from before. But to shape the image of a righteous, powerful cultivator, she had previously only used swords and righteous techniques, never revealing her evil nature. However, the demon flood dragon’s strength was stronger than she had imagined, and it had also used the mortals below. In a one-on-one fight, she could have the upper hand, so she had been quite confident before. But the situation wasn’t so simple—she had to consider the lives of those mortals, so her hands and feet were tied, and she almost suffered a great loss.
“Go die, damn it!” she said hatefully. But just then, the demon flood dragon suddenly stopped struggling and spoke in human language: “This humble one is Miaoshe Shiqi from Miao Gu Village. Please show mercy, friend, and spare the life of my spirit beast!”
The voice was very soft and feminine, but very cold, not like the cold of frost and snow on Luoxue Peak, but more like ghostly fire emerging from a graveyard, cold with sinister energy.
The soul-sharing voice transmission technique—beat a dog and draw out its master.
And Su Zhuyi knew that master. It was Miaoshe Shiqi, who had contact with her in her previous life. Back then, Miaoshe Shiqi only had Golden Core stage cultivation. Could he control this demon flood dragon?
Thinking of Miaoshe Shiqi’s methods, Su Zhuyi frowned. However, at this moment, she naturally couldn’t let the flood dragon go just because of the other party’s greeting. Below, eyes were watching!
“Spare its life? It killed so many innocent villagers—who will pay for their lives?”
Su Zhuyi shouted coldly, “Since you are the demon flood dragon’s master, why didn’t you properly restrain it? Not eliminating such an evil demon would be unworthy of these wrongfully dead people of Miao Border!”
“If you dare harm it even half a point more, I’ll make you wish you were dead!” Miaoshe Shiqi was still far away, so he could only transmit his voice through the demon flood dragon. Su Zhuyi didn’t speak; the malevolent energy on her body converged, the azure light on her broken sword blazed brilliantly, and the ink-black sword energy suddenly shot up to the sky. “Today, I will slay it with my sword!”
The sword struck, and the demon flood dragon’s head fell to the ground. However, it didn’t die. Its head and body flew into the air, shooting away to the east and west. At the moment, the flood dragon’s body separated and fled, a golden speck in its splashing blood rushed straight toward Su Zhuyi’s forehead.
“Golden Scorpion Parasite!” This demon flood dragon contained not only love parasites but also hid a Golden Scorpion Parasite. Once this parasite insect entered the body, it would cause the agony of ten thousand insects devouring the body, able to completely hollow out a person’s internal organs, leaving only an empty shell. And that empty shell could also become a puppet for the parasite raiser.
Facing such a killing move, Su Zhuyi had only one response method—one move to break ten thousand enemies.
She blocked with her broken sword, holding it horizontally in front of her face. The Golden Scorpion Parasite was said to be able to break through all spiritual energy barriers—even immortal-grade magical treasures couldn’t stop it. However, now it was blocked by the broken sword. While Su Zhuyi injected spiritual energy into the broken sword, she also cast the Blazing Flame Palm. The broken sword became like a red-hot iron plate, directly burning the Golden Scorpion Parasite to a crisp. Once this type of parasite insect entered the body, it was very difficult to expel and could eat a person hollow while alive. But before invading the flesh, its defensive power was not strong.
“You…” Miaoshe Shiqi’s voice was extremely cold and sinister. “Very good.”
Su Zhuyi didn’t have time to bicker with him at this moment, only thinking to herself, “I’m doing very well. In the previous life, you couldn’t wait for me to sleep with you!”
With the parasite insect destroyed, Miaoshe Shiqi’s secret technique of speaking through his spirit beast’s parasite insect was also interrupted. Su Zhuyi had consumed most of her spiritual energy and was seriously injured, but her life wasn’t in danger. She swept with her divine consciousness and discovered that her appearance was disheveled and completely lacked an immortal bearing. So she simply withdrew her spiritual energy and fell from the air to the ground, lying there in a half-dead state. Soon, she saw the girl child rush over, crying while wiping her face with her sleeve.
After a moment, more and more villagers poured out of their houses, surrounding her.
Su Zhuyi closed her eyes, pretending to be unconscious, and made her body cold with no breath. She wondered what these people would do. In the demonic path, an unconscious cultivator was as good as dead. If discovered, they would only be given a finishing blow and have their storage bag taken.
Someone brought hot water to wipe her face, and many people around were crying.
The girl child from before was lying on top of her, crying very sadly.
“Is the immortal brother dead?”
“I have a pill here. See if giving it to him can save him?”
“That’s the Longevity Pill you sought for your son Shuanzi.”
What was a Longevity Pill? Could it be a Lifespan Pill? Lifespan Pills were quite rare in the cultivation world. The mortals in this village had a Lifespan Pill?
She saw the white-haired man send the young person beside him to fetch it. After a moment, the young person returned carrying a box, taking out a cloth bundle from inside. It was wrapped in nine whole layers before finally revealing a pitch-black pill.
What Longevity Pill—it was just the lowest-grade spiritual energy pill in the cultivation world. She wouldn’t even bother to pick up such a pill if it fell on the ground. However, now watching these few people make way and carefully stuff the pill into her mouth, Su Zhuyi felt disdainful in her heart, but also slightly warmed.
In past years, she had always been an existence that everyone feared. Whenever she appeared, those people would tremble and not dare to raise their heads. She had never been a good person in her previous life, and all she saw were cases of good people not being rewarded. Now being treated so gently by these ordinary people was a first, giving her an indescribable feeling.
They were ant-like existences that she had been too lazy to even glance at before. In her eyes, mortal lives weren’t lives at all—she could destroy a whole area with a wave of her hand. Yet it was these very people who were now nervously watching her with particularly vivid expressions. Her divine consciousness swept over these faces one by one, and her heart stirred slightly.
“Qin Jianglan.”
“Why do you want to go around being chivalrous and righteous?”
“Why do you want to help those weak, ordinary beings who are like ants?”
Su Zhuyi sent a strand of divine consciousness into the Liuguang Mirror, asking with some curiosity.
“Life has no distinction between noble and base.” He said calmly, but heard Su Zhuyi snort coldly, “Hmph, my life is more precious and important than others!”
He didn’t argue with her because he knew that if he could truly achieve equality for all beings, he would be able to transcend the world and become a saint.
“If you save people, will they be grateful to you?” Su Zhuyi said again. “Just now, those villagers gave me a Longevity Pill. I thought it was something special, but it turned out to be just a spiritual energy pill. Still calling it a Longevity Pill…”
Someone bent down to check her breathing. Feeling that she had no breath, those people all cried, and the girl child crawled to her side, tears dripping on her face. Su Zhuyi swallowed back her mocking words. She thought that occasionally being a good person didn’t feel so bad.
She opened her eyes and smiled with difficulty.
She was using Qin Jianglan’s face. With this smile, the women in the village stared with wide eyes, and even the girl child who had been crying breathlessly was stunned, tears and snot falling directly down, frightening Su Zhuyi into quickly brushing them away with spiritual energy.
“Immortal brother, are you alright?”
“I’m fine.”
“Thank you, immortal, for eliminating the evil flood dragon.” Without waiting for the villagers to ask, Su Zhuyi directly announced her identity. “This humble one is the sword cultivator Qin Jianglan. Taking the elimination of demons and protection of the righteous path as my duty, upon hearing of an evil flood dragon in the Southern Border, I immediately came from the Western City. Unfortunately, I arrived a bit late, letting the villagers suffer hardship.”
“If it weren’t for our benefactor’s timely elimination of this demon flood dragon, we… our village might not have been saved.” Everyone thanked Su Zhuyi one after another, and several people even kowtowed to her. She was somewhat happy, but also somewhat worried.
Although she had gained the villagers’ gratitude, she had provoked a pervert from Miao Gu Village. Whether this round was a loss or a gain was still uncertain.