Chapter 66 : I'm a Joke, Don't Mention Me
Chapter 66 : I'm a Joke, Don't Mention Me
The situation wasn't much better for the Tianyan Sect group. They had already consumed too much spiritual energy earlier. This risky venture revealed Chu Sang's troublemaking ability to be truly outrageous—she had directly lured out a quasi-Ghost King along with its minions.
The number of enemies was even greater than the previous ghost corpses, exhausting them to the extreme as they fought.
Qin Xixue looked up and saw the fire phoenix soaring high in the sky, her heart burning with jealousy. Her beautiful face had become somewhat distorted—this was originally supposed to be hers!
Time and again, things that should have belonged to her were snatched away by these people!
Qin Xixue's resentment and bitterness reached an extreme. Behind her back, a small device resembling a die appeared in her hand. Strangely, the ghosts and monsters silently moved away from her, but due to the vast number of ghost corpses, no one noticed this movement.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the crowd, she moved towards the Lingqing Sect group. At that moment, the ghost corpses collectively erupted into a frenzy!
Tantai Ming saw the white-robed young woman seemingly frightened, stumbling towards him. He almost instinctively withdrew his sword, not wanting to harm an innocent person.
It was precisely in this moment of lowered guard that a frenzied ghost corpse attacked from behind. Even with Tantai Ming's quick reflexes, he couldn't avoid it. The ghost claw left three deep gashes on his arm, cutting to the bone. In an instant, the wound began to blacken and fester.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Qin Xixue's face was full of guilt.
Chu Sang quickly rushed over, kicking her away. "If you didn't mean to, why did you run towards us?"
"What are you doing? How dare you lay hands on our junior sister! Do you want to make an enemy of our Tianyan Sect?" Qiu Xiude hurriedly helped up the pitiful-looking Qin Xixue, glaring angrily.
"Mo Qingchen, are all the people in your sect idiots? If they're sick, they should get treatment. As the senior brother, I suggest you take them to a medical pavilion to have their heads examined as soon as possible."
Chu Sang's retorts were merciless. Mo Qingchen's expression also became somewhat unpleasant. "...We'll go when we have time."
Qiu Xiude let out a shocked "Ah!" "Senior Brother, you...?"
Mo Qingchen also found Qin Xixue somewhat inscrutable. Her spiritual energy had been increasing crazily recently, which was suspicious in itself. However, seeing a fellow disciple from his sect advancing in cultivation, he was undoubtedly happy and didn't think too much about it.
Both were at the late Golden Core stage, among the highest cultivations in this group of disciples. But while he was fighting fiercely, Qin Xixue only knew how to hide behind others, and even caused trouble at such a critical moment. This... really didn't seem like the strength a late Golden Core cultivator should display.
The other Tianyan Sect disciples also exchanged meaningful glances. They had always heard that their junior sister was a rare genius in their sect, but seeing her today, how did it feel... so different from what they had imagined??
Even their weakest junior sister on their side had already killed three ghost corpses on her own.
Chu Sang couldn't be bothered with the Tianyan Sect's issues. She grasped Tantai Ming's arm; the young man was in so much pain that cold sweat had broken out. "Don't squeeze it, don't squeeze it, it hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts!"
Chu Sang felt even more irritated, thinking that her earlier kick had been too light. With her left hand holding her sword, she unleashed several sword energies to clear a path. She first led her senior brothers and sisters to find a relatively safe place to bandage Tantai Ming's wound.
"I've heard that this ghost energy is corrosive. If scratched by a ghost corpse, one might be assimilated by them. I won't turn into one of those things soon, will I? Should we cut it off?" The young man feared pain, but he was more afraid of turning into that ghostly appearance and harming everyone.
Changsheng said, "It won't hurt, it won't hurt. With me here, nothing bad will happen~"
She half-squatted to the side, pale blue spiritual energy condensing in her hand. In just a few breaths, the black energy in Tantai Ming's wound was completely purified.
Chu Sang fed him several Spirit Replenishing Pills and roughly bandaged the wound.
Cultivators have very strong self-healing abilities. After resting briefly and absorbing the medicinal power, Tantai Ming was basically fine. He picked up his sword and rejoined the battle, this time carefully avoiding that woman from the Tianyan Sect.
Whether it was an illusion or not, other sect disciples also seemed to subtly avoid Qin Xixue. Even a few male cultivators who had previously shown her favor instinctively distanced themselves...
Qin Xixue bit her lip, her face unsightly.
"There are too many of these ghost corpses, we can't finish them off. If we continue like this, our energy will be depleted even faster," Wen Renyue also retreated, her tone cold.
These ghost corpses were essentially just clusters of ghost energy. Even if they could easily destroy the ghost corpses' bodies, the ghost energy would quickly coalesce again. There was no end to killing them.
Chu Sang turned to look at the huddled group from the Eight Trigrams Sect and smiled. "Want to cooperate again?"
"......"
It seemed they had no choice but to listen to her at this point.
However, during the process of forming the array, one disciple looked increasingly familiar with it and exclaimed, "Damn, isn't this our Eight Trigrams Sect's starting formation? How do you know it?"
Cui Xiu's hand trembled. "...You stole our sect's mental techniques?"
"How can you call it stealing?" Chu Sang retorted righteously, turning her head to glance at the now dumbfounded Lin Jing. "He told me to learn freely, even specifically instructed me to learn several."
Cui Xiu looked over, filled with doubt. "You let her learn?"
Lin Jing ducked his head like a quail. "......" He was a joke, not to be mentioned, thank you.
"It's not easy to trap a Nascent Soul ghost general with just a confinement array," Chu Sang said as she cast the last seal of the confinement array. But she didn't stop there. She quickly formed several more array patterns.
Only Cui Xiu could barely discern her intention. "You want to hide a weakening array within the confinement array?"
These were both advanced arrays. For their ordinary disciples, being able to jointly form one advanced array would already be considered genius-level. To combine two advanced arrays, ensuring both function normally, was something only elders at the Nascent Soul stage or above could accomplish.
Cui Xiu was first shocked and awed. Meeting the young woman's calm and determined gaze, he felt an inexplicable tremor in his heart. This emotion called excitement was something he hadn't encountered for many years. His breathing became heavy for a moment. "Eight Trigrams Sect disciples, form the array with me!"
Simultaneously forming two advanced arrays and merging them was undoubtedly extremely taxing, even for Chu Sang.
Her nose felt warm, and when she wiped it, she found drops of blood. Her head was dizzy and her vision blurry.
With the Eight Trigrams Sect disciples joining her in forming the array, she barely withstood the pressure and cast the final few seals-
The array was complete!
The array sank into the ground, and in the next moment, it rapidly contracted and moved, imprisoning the distant ghost general within.
"It worked!"
The weakening array was also successful, reducing the Nascent Soul peak stage ghost general's strength to the early Nascent Soul stage.
Chu Sang then turned to Mo Qingchen and said, "Want to cooperate?"
Qiu Xiude sneered, "Why should our Tianyan Sect listen to your commands?"
Chu Sang retorted, "Was I talking to you? Why are you butting in?"
Qiu Xiude: "......"
Mo Qingchen met the young woman's gaze and said coldly, "What do you want to do?"
"Follow me into the array and take down the ghost general!"
As the saying goes, to catch thieves, first catch their king. These lesser ghosts obeyed the ghost general. Once they captured this ghost general, they could naturally control the situation.
The weakened ghost general couldn't withstand the frenzied attacks from this group. Taking advantage of its weakest moment, Chu Sang kicked it off its horse with one foot.
She flipped onto the horse, her right hand grasping the reins, her left hand pulling out a dog leash and throwing it out, catching the ghost general's neck.
This chain was specially forged by Fifth Senior Brother using Blazing Sun Iron, with enhanced restraining effects on ghosts and evil spirits.
The corpse horse beneath her went berserk. Chu Sang tightly held the reins to avoid falling off. The ghost general, its neck caught in the chain, was dragged along, making a scraping sound.
She looked towards Su Chen'an. "Fifth Senior Brother, the cage!"
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