books44 Chapter 73 The Gentle Breeze Follows My Will
Chapter 73 The Gentle Breeze Follows My Will
Ning Xiaoxi pressed her hands rapidly against the cage, frantically channeling her spiritual energy. Her spiritual crystal heart was pounding so hard it was barely perceptible. The pressure from the demon core made her heart palpitate, but she couldn't back down.
"Boom!" The demon core exploded, and a terrifying aura spread throughout the cage.
Golden light flashed, and the bars of the cage swayed violently, yet the aura of the exploding demon core was firmly contained within the cage, not escaping at all. Ning Xiaoxi was thrown backward by the powerful force. Her Spirit Crystal Heart swiftly transformed into a shield behind her back. Ning Xiaoxi's back slammed heavily onto the ground, feeling a jolt in her chest and abdomen, a dull ache pressing against her chest. The heart on the fountain beat fiercely a few times, and a surge of azure spiritual energy erupted, circling around Ning Xiaoxi's chest and abdomen, immediately relieving her discomfort.
Shi Dianli followed closely behind, wielding a steel rod and sweeping away a small sable that tried to attack Ning Xiaoxi. However, another sable grabbed his leg, leaving three bloody welts and a numbing sensation that made Shi Dianli's legs go weak, and he collapsed to his knees.
Ning Xiaoxi sat up and flung the dagger, which pierced the head of the attacking sable. She then grabbed Shi Dianli by the leg and dragged him backward, dodging a small sable that fell from the sky.
Three guards approached the clerk. After a purification talisman was placed on the clerk's leg, one guard stood beside him, while two others stopped the little weasel that charged at him again.
Wu Jingyuan, standing atop the city wall, was trembling in his left arm and bleeding from the sheer number of arrows he had fired, yet he continued relentlessly shooting arrows at the enchanting sable within the black mist he could see. The battle below the city wall was fierce; as a military general, he could not support the Celestial Master with magic, and could only stand on the city wall and offer his meager strength.
The chief clerk and the guards on the city wall used their spiritual power to activate the defensive talismans that Ning Xiaoxi had drawn on the city wall, forming a defensive barrier to block the black mist released by the Nether Mist Sable and prevent it from spreading into the city and harming the people.
Tianyou lashed out with his whip, severing the neck of the paralyzed, leopard-like sable. The runes on his other whip turned black, transforming into a shadowy figure that attacked the tumbling sable. Just as it regained its footing, the whip tip pierced its body, releasing a surge of dark spiritual energy that devoured its demon core.
After Fang Changshi's sword cleaved through the ice, he fixed his eyes on his target, brought his feet together, clasped his hands together, and highly compressed all the ice power in his body into his hands, forming a crystal-clear ice spike. He then slammed it down on the leopard-like mink whose defenses had been breached by the ice blade. The mink had no way to dodge and was instantly pierced through by the ice spike, turning into a hedgehog.
At this moment, the remaining twenty-odd enchanted sables were still fighting fiercely. Ning Xiaoxi activated her spiritual crystal heart, forming a defensive shield around herself, and then sheathed her dagger and used the immobilization spell again.
But Ning Xiaoxi had only managed to immobilize two of the demonic sables when she realized there were no more sables to fight. Looking up, she saw Lord Tianyou exuding a murderous aura, and the Chief Clerk was equally ruthless. The ground was littered with the corpses of demonic sables, interspersed with the bodies of his subordinates or guards. A thin layer of black mist still swirled around the city gate, and the barrier on the city wall still shimmered with a faint light, blocking the invasion of the black mist.
Just ten steps ahead of Ning Xiaoxi, a subordinate official knelt on the ground, surrounded by the mangled corpses of four sables. A sable's claw was piercing his heart, and his left hand, hanging limply, was still clutching a sable with its neck broken. Behind him, a guard leaned against him, but the guard's throat was torn open by a sable's claw, and blood stained his chest.
Ning Xiaoxi's nose tingled, and she took a deep breath in and out, then inhaled again and exhaled again.
Lord Tianyou placed his hand on Ning Xiaoxi's shoulder.
She slowly walked to the official's side, picked up the dim white feather fan on his right, dipped her fingers in the juice of the Spirit Gathering Grass, and gently drew on the feather fan. After a short while, she finished drawing and stood up.
Driven by spiritual energy, the white feather fan seemed to be reborn, a faint scent of grass wafting out, and a gentle breeze began to gather. Ning Xiaoxi gripped the fan handle and began to wave it across the battlefield.
"A gentle breeze arises!"
"The gentle breeze follows my will, and the frost calms the dust of the bandits!"
A gentle breeze began to blow through the battlefield, caressing each fallen officer and guard and carrying away the filth and black mist from their bodies. Wisps of wind rose and circled the battlefield before the city wall three times, sweeping away the black mist that permeated the area, before slowly drifting upwards into the azure sky. Layers of frost bloomed, and the once-turbulent battlefield settled, all the corpses of the sables stained with the frost and crumbling into the dust.
Tianyou, the chief clerk, the city lord Wu Jingyuan, and the officials and guards still standing below the city wall, as well as the soldiers still gripping their bows and arrows on the city wall, all looked up at the wisps of wind that rose straight up and disappeared into the horizon!
Ning Xiaoxi did not follow Tianyou into the city. She guarded the city gate and prevented the sable from entering the city. Therefore, her uncle was safe and there was no need to disturb him. She could simply have a guard deliver a message.
Lord Tianyou had a light cloud beast brought over, with a package on its back. "Don't run on foot to catch up with the group, it's a bit tiring!" Fang Changshi, Shi Dianli, and Zhubu behind him chuckled, remembering Ning Xiaoxi who had run back on her own two legs before.
Ning Xiaoxi was a little embarrassed and stammered, "I was in too much of a hurry at the time!"
"I'll put in a good word with Tianji. Your free-range subordinate is much more useful than his other subordinates." To be honest, he was a little envious of Tianji. "The clothes are prepared according to your preferred style, and don't complain about the lack of some tonics."
"Thank you, sir!" Ning Xiaoxi bowed and then mounted the Light Cloud Beast, but suddenly remembered something and jumped down again.
Tianyou gave her a strange look.
"My lord, there's something I'm not quite sure about." Ning Xiaoxi looked somewhat troubled.
"Speak freely!"
"When I finished settling my family and was about to rush over, I saw the shadows of a group of sable swarms in the distance. At that time, I felt a very terrifying aura." Ning Xiaoxi pondered how to phrase it. "It was a bit like the oppressive feeling I had when I first saw Lord Tianji display his majesty." Ning Xiaoxi nodded to herself for certainty. "That's about it. However, I didn't feel that power in the sable swarm that attacked just now."
Tianyou's expression turned serious. "You mean there's an even more powerful Enchanting Sable that hasn't appeared yet?"
“Yes.” Ning Xiaoxi nodded. “And don’t you think there’s something strange about the sable swarm attacking the city?” Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that the clerk’s expression had changed slightly, and his eyes were flashing with a cold light as he looked at her.
Ning Xiaoxi didn't care about the registrar's opinion. She felt that it was Di Jie's act of extracting souls, skinning, and exposing corpses that provoked the attack of the sable swarm.