When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 179 : Xia Yuyin Takes Action

179: Xia Yuyin Takes Action

Xia Yuyin's sword strike had almost been a reflex, preceding her conscious thought. She could not stand by and watch that little Ghost Clan girl be run through. Xia Yuyin was hardly a paragon of virtue, nor had she ever fancied herself a hero who draws her sword to help the innocent. But she still had her humanity, the innate humanity of being a woman!

Although these evil spirits looked ferocious and ugly, and the she-demons had strange appearances, at least since Xia Yuyin had come to the Prison Abyss, she had never once been attacked by an evil spirit. Even when she first arrived in this world from the Other Shore and was carried here by those eight evil spirits, those beings could have killed her with a single finger and could have easily violated her. Although their words were fierce and they had forced her to be carried, they had, at the very least, carried her in a sedan chair. Looking back, they had never truly harmed her.

In contrast, these Alien Tribesmen, who looked human and wore a facade of righteousness, had slaughtered her classmates and teachers in the Prison Abyss. They had tried to kill her on sight, cornering her to the brink of despair time and again, wanting to wipe her out completely!

For these Alien Tribesmen, even if they weren't slaughtering the Ghost Clan, Xia Yuyin would have made a move to kill them. It was just a matter of finding an opportunity.

Inside the fortress, firelight shot up to the sky.

Everywhere were the sounds of slaughter and screams...

"You, you are a Xia person? A female Xia person?" Li Zhu stared in disbelief at the long-haired woman illuminated by the firelight. His hand, which gripped his sword, still throbbed with the tingling pain of his bones nearly shattering. Impossible, how could a Xia person appear here? And with such terrifying sword power!

While the green-robed Alien Tribe cultivator was stunned, Xia Yuyin did not hesitate for a moment. She stepped past the deer-antlered she-demon and the girl, charging toward Li Zhu.

Li Zhu was no ordinary character. He knew this Xia woman was immensely strong. He leaped backward through the air, retreating, while simultaneously forming a seal with two fingers of his left hand, pinching a curse talisman and flinging it at Xia Yuyin.

Xia Yuyin swung her sword through the air from a distance. The sharp sword wind it produced struck the talisman, slicing it in half mid-air and incinerating it before it could complete its spell and explode.

Xia Yuyin was already upon him. Her Yue Maiden Longsword was decisive, stabbing coldly toward Li Zhu. This sword strike tore through the night sky, its Primordial Energy flashing, carrying a soul-shaking tremor from its blade.

While retreating through the air, Li Zhu swung his sword to intercept. Although it was a reactive interception, the powerful Primordial Energy of the Early-Stage of Void Truth Realm cultivator caused a great deal of the air around him to be pulled and distorted as he retreated. A casual sword strike from an Early-Stage of Void Truth Realm cultivator was enough to cleave a boulder over ten meters high.

Clang!

This sword strike was clearly Li Zhu intercepting the body of Xia Yuyin's sword from the side. Yet, this powerful interception felt like striking a pillar holding up the sky. Xia Yuyin's sword only trembled slightly, while all the force Li Zhu put into his swing was reflected back at him.

"How is this possible!" Li Zhu's eyes widened. What kind of strength was this?

Slice!

At the last moment, Li Zhu used the Jingyuan School's movement technique with all his might to dodge, but was still stabbed in the left shoulder by Xia Yuyin's sword.

"Brother Nan, Junior Sister, help me!" Li Zhu clutched his shoulder, which was already oozing blood, and retreated with all his might. Although he had many treasures and techniques, Xia Yuyin was pressing him too closely; he had no time to use them.

This Li Zhu, an Early-Stage of Void Truth Realm powerhouse, though like Junior Sister Fei he had only just entered the Void Truth Realm, which was the minimum threshold for green-robed disciples to descend the mountain, was still a Void Truth Realm expert! On Earth, while he might not be a Grandmaster, he was still a Master. But faced with Xia Yuyin's firm, decisive longsword, he was unable to parry!

It was hard to imagine that such terrifying power and such an imposing sword style could come from such a sexy, beautiful woman.

"Brother Li!"

"A female Xia person! That's a female Xia person!"

"Xia woman, go die!"

Hearing the cry for help, three Late-Stage of Purple Domain Realm blue-robed disciples charged toward Xia Yuyin from the side.

Xia Yuyin's peripheral vision fell on these three, and she emitted a glint of star-like coldness.

Li Zhu noticed Xia Yuyin's gaze and his soul trembled, but he did not warn the blue-robed disciples. Instead, he took the opportunity to retreat further.

The three blue-robed disciples formed a small sword formation with their three swords. Their Primordial Energy swirled as they stabbed toward Xia Yuyin all at once.

Xia Yuyin's long, beautiful legs planted firmly on the ground. Her Primordial Energy erupted, her long skirt fluttered, and she spread her legs. She turned and unleashed a heavy slash at the three-man sword formation.

Boom!

A semi-transparent blade of light, like a several-meter-tall, crystal-clear giant wave, instantly shattered the three-man sword formation. The blue-robed cultivator in the middle was directly cleaved in half. The two blue-robed cultivators on the sides were also struck by the sword energy and sent flying. The water fluctuations released by this slash violently shook their bodies, severely injuring them. Not only were their internal organs bleeding, but even their Source Cores had begun to crack.

The two crashed against a building and fell to the ground. The external impact was actually limited, but their internal injuries were very severe.

"Who is that woman in white?"

"She's fighting the Li Su. She killed Li Su people?"

Inside the fortress, where fires blazed everywhere, several evil spirits saw all of this.

At the same time, the female will transmitted into Xia Yuyin's soul. Several evil spirits were horrified by Xia Yuyin shattering the three Li Su cultivators' sword formation with a single strike, and it brought her over a hundred points of Soul Charm.

Several evil spirits glared hatefully at the two fallen cultivators. With a roar, they swarmed forward, beating the two severely injured cultivators to death with axes and stone clubs.

If Xia Yuyin had attacked this team of cultivators alone, even if she had wanted to, she couldn't have done it. Once surrounded by dozens of cultivators, with all kinds of restraints, and then attacked by them using spells and treasures, with the three green-robed cultivators joining the attack, even the current Xia Yuyin would have had no chance of winning. Escaping with her life would have been the best she could hope for.

But now, the situation was different. The cultivator team was spread out, attacking the Ghost Clan fortress. Although the Ghost Clansmen were outmatched, they could still resist and pin them down, dispersing their forces. At the same time, many adult male ghosts had a certain capacity to counterattack. With Xia Yuyin's sudden intervention now, she was in a very advantageous position.

Although she didn't know the reason for the conflict between these two races, the enemy of her enemy, if not a friend, was at least not an enemy. Xia Yuyin didn't need to think much to understand this principle.

"That woman just spoke our language!" Not far away, a particularly tall, brown-maned green ghost, holding a heavy, blood-stained wolf-tooth club, pointed at Xia Yuyin and said in a loud voice. He had clearly seen Xia Yuyin fighting that terrifying green-robed cultivator. He had seen her astonishing single slash shatter the sword formation of the three blue-robed cultivators, so he and a few Ghost Clansmen had come forward to beat the two severely injured blue-robed cultivators to death.

"She's a Xia person, not Li Su!" the brown-maned green ghost roared, pointing at Xia Yuyin. "This Xia woman, she's here to save us!"

"The white-robed Xia woman, she's one of us!"

The Ghost Clansmen were crude and fierce, but their minds were simple. Seeing that Xia Yuyin had saved the children of their fortress and had killed Alien Tribesmen, they immediately passed the word among themselves, instantly regarding Xia Yuyin as one of their own.

"This..." Xia Yuyin thought to herself, "Why are these evil spirits so simple? You think too highly of me. I just couldn't stand those cruel Alien Tribesmen, but I mostly just wanted to take the opportunity to kill a few of them and seize their treasures. Hmph... don't think too highly of me. If you show the slightest ill intent, I will kill you all the same."

"Mu Bai, Da Lu! ... Qi Wu Dao!" At this moment, Nan Zhou was standing on a pavilion. He had just run his sword through a winged she-demon who was using demonic arts to disrupt the cultivators' attack. He pulled out his green ritual sword, which had bright yellow, flickering curse inscriptions, kicked the killed she-demon to the side, and stared intently at the blue-robed disciples who had been killed by Xia Yuyin or because of her.

Their mighty Jingyuan School, just attacking a medium-sized Ghost Clan fortress, had already suffered casualties.

Nan Zhou's gaze turned gloomily toward Xia Yuyin, who was standing in the center of the fortress's open ground.

"Xia woman, you deserve to die! Do you know that?" From below, a sharp cry came. The third green-robed disciple, Junior Sister Fei Ning, a segmented longsword with over a dozen barbed hooks appeared in her hand. She charged toward Xia Yuyin from the side.