When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 203 : Ambush

203: Ambush

Mo Li's imposing frame resembled a golden-armored pagoda, his body erupting with golden Primordial Energy.

"A duel? You think I fear a mere Xia girl? Have the guts to fight without the tomb's array!"

"That remains to be seen." Yuyin naturally wanted to test herself against a Late-Stage of Void Truth expert like Mo Li, but whether to use the array's assistance was her choice. Not using it was for training; using it, so what?

"Wretch!" Mo Li's face showed a beast's ferocity. He charged with heavy steps that made the high ground tremble, his thick, long treasured sword cleaving down at Yuyin one-handed.

A Late-Stage of Void Truth general's sword could split mountains.

Yuyin feared nothing of this so-called mountain-splitting power. She swung Tears Exhausted Sky Clear with full force to meet it head-on. Now that Yuyin deeply comprehended the water path, her body's ability to withstand impacts was even stronger, making her better suited for direct clashes.

Crack!

A flash of light. Mo Li's treasured sword was severed from below by Yuyin's blade.

Mo Li's eyes bulged, his tiger's mouth felt torn. "Impossible!?"

His High-Grade Law Artifact treasured sword, actually cleaved apart by Yuyin's blade!?? What level of sharpness and toughness did this Rain Concubine inheritance sword possess?

Yuyin instantly slashed down like a flash of light. If it could sever a treasured sword, what of Mo Li's armor? Tears Exhausted Sky Clear carried a crystalline, transparent blade light, slicing through Mo Li's golden armor like splitting bamboo. A dark red gush of blood sprayed out.

"Ah!" Mo Li retreated in panic. This slash cut deep, severing muscle and splitting several ribs.

Mo Li primarily cultivated the Li Su body refinement path, making him extremely sturdy. As he retreated, he circulated Primordial Energy within his body, forcibly staunching the bleeding and using Source Spirit Essence to heal the wound.

As a human, his healing ability was already very strong. But Yuyin's blade had been too vicious. He could only barely stop the bleeding; the wound couldn't fully heal in a short time, and his vitality was greatly damaged.

Mo Li was filled with boundless rage. This woman was clearly weaker than him, yet she had driven him to desperation. If not for relying on the tomb array, relying on this heavy treasure inheritance weapon, he could have easily dealt with this wretch. But now, he felt the threat of death.

"A general fights a hundred battles, why fear life and death!"

Mo Li was, after all, a fierce battlefield general. The humans and alien beasts that died by his hand were countless. He did not fear death; the threat of death instead made him even more ferocious, like a wounded beast.

Before, it had been for profit. Now, he was truly fighting for his life.

Mo Li threw aside his broken sword and drew two heavy bronze maces from his waist. Roaring, he charged at Yuyin.

"I'll smash you to death, you cheap slut!"

The two bronze maces carried integrated power, like massive wrought copper pillars, yet also extremely swift as they fell toward Yuyin's head.

"A dying man, curse all you want." Yuyin didn't retort. Her gaze fixed on the incoming maces, she saw her opening and advanced half a step instead of retreating, swinging Tears Exhausted Sky Clear with all her might.

Heaven's Daughter Intercept!

Tears Exhausted Sky Clear swept out a mournful, crystalline great crescent water-colored blade light.

Bang! Bang! Sparkling starbursts scattered in all directions.

Both bronze maces struck this water-colored blade light and were repelled. Mo Li's stance was thrown into chaos. After Yuyin's sword fell, her posture flowed like water and clouds. She turned and slashed widely in a horizontal sweep.

Schick!

Mo Li's barrel-thick waist and abdomen were opened up.

That Mo Li's eyes reddened. Ignoring his opened belly and exposed organs, his heavy bronze maces smashed toward Yuyin's shoulder.

Yuyin rolled.

Boom!

The bronze maces smashed open the mountain ground.

Yuyin could have called on array water dragons to kill Mo Li directly at this time, but she didn't.

Mo Li's maces struck empty air. Another low sweep followed. Yuyin rose swiftly from her roll, leaped, and stepped on Mo Li's bronze mace, flying upward. Mo Li raised his body, ignoring the blood gushing from his abdomen, the lower half of his armor already dyed red. His other bronze mace struck at Yuyin as she flipped over his head.

Yuyin did not dodge.

Tears Exhausted Sky Clear struck down resolutely.

Puff!

Incomparably sharp Tears Exhausted Sky Clear, carrying water-element cutting power, split Mo Li's helmet and cleaved into his head.

Splash! Mo Li's bronze mace struck a few inches from Yuyin's waist, landing on a crystalline water ripple that dissipated most of its force. By the time it struck Yuyin's soft waist, it held little power, but still knocked Yuyin flying.

Yuyin adjusted her posture midair and landed tumbling, while Mo Li stood there, his head split open, his entire body bathed in blood.

He was already losing consciousness, but still followed Yuyin's aura and attacked her.

"This Li Su general is truly fierce." Yuyin's heart also chilled. She gathered Primordial Energy in her longsword, easily avoiding Mo Li's twin maces.

One sword strike triggered a line of water-colored light in the air. Schick! It pierced Mo Li's chest, simultaneously piercing the Source Core within his chest.

General Mo Li of Li Su, Late-Stage of Void Truth expert, dead.

Yuyin didn't hesitate. She stepped forward, circulating Primordial Energy that transformed into streams of rainwater, searching Mo Li's armor. She found two extraordinary items: a ring and a tiger token. Yuyin immediately took them.

As for the twin maces and this suit of armor, they were all treasures. Yuyin performed an absorption secret technique, directly absorbing these treasures' Yuan Essence.

"General Mo!"

Bai Ruowei was still surrounded by swift-current-formed snake-bodied female warriors and several water dragons. Of the three thousand Li Su experts, only she could persist this long under the array's siege. But she was greatly exhausted, barely able to protect herself, and could only watch helplessly as Yuyin killed Mo Li and devoured his treasures' power.

This scene gave her a deep shock. She, Bai Ruowei, Li Su's number one genius, whose radiance no powerful man of noble blood could contest.

She had always been the one creating miracles, winning against the strong while weak, turning the impossible into possible. She was Li Su's hope, Li Su's heroine!

Yet today, she had encountered this woman.

Her strength surpassed this Xia girl's. She had three thousand experts. This Xia girl should have been unable to escape, wings or no. Perhaps pitying her talent, Bai Ruowei had even planned to forbid those barbarians from abusing her after capture.

But who could have imagined that this Xia girl would bury thousands of Li Su experts before her eyes using unimaginable means, killing General Mo Li... As if this woman possessed some kind of destiny-defying fortune. If allowed to develop, this fortune was terrifying.

"Why... why can't a woman with such talent, such fortune, be used by Li Su..." Bai Ruowei gazed at Yuyin from afar. In her heart, she actually didn't hate or dislike this woman. "Is this... Heaven's will?"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Water current whips lashed out. Bai Ruowei dodged with all her might, but she was too exhausted. Her Primordial Energy was running out. Some water current whips tore her robes, revealing snow-white thighs and waist, leaving red marks.

Boom!

A great dragon spewed an incomparably fierce water column. Bai Ruowei immediately defended.

"Ah!" She cried out in alarm. The water column blasted her entire clothing to shreds. Suffering violent impact, she flew backward, barely controlling her posture to land on a high ground, supporting herself with her sword, her hair disheveled, gasping for breath.

"Already... nearing my limit?"

"Senior Sister Bai, hurry and leave!" Not far away, Jingyuan School disciples shouted at the cavern entrance.

"Senior Sister, this place is about to be washed away by the flash flood. If you don't leave now, it'll be too late!"

At this time, Yuyin also stood on the high ground across the floodwaters, looking at her.

The two of them stood thus, on opposite sides of the water, gazing at each other. It was unclear whether they saw each other as fated rivals or kindred spirits.

Bai Ruowei's vision was soon occupied by several coiling, dancing water dragons.

She knew she was no match for this array. Pressing her cherry lips together, she helplessly twisted her shoulder and fled the cavern.

By now, almost no Li Su experts remained alive in the cavern.

Gui Ji was not only powerful but also extremely cunning. Seeing Yuyin unleash such a heaven-shaking array, she naturally didn't rashly go out to cause meaningless trouble. Instead, she lay in ambush within the tomb chamber. Occasionally, Li Su aliens would charge into the tomb, only to be killed by her sudden attack in the darkness. Gui Ji was extremely skilled at dagger assassination, though she couldn't defeat Bai Ruowei in direct confrontation.

In other parts of Rain Concubine's ancient tomb, besides leaving one path for herself to exit, Yuyin drove the self-destruction arrays within the arrays Rain Concubine had laid down, burying everything. The Li Su experts and soldiers distributed throughout the tomb, whether guarding against her or stealing treasures, were all buried together.

Of the over three thousand experts Li Su had deployed, only a few dozen escaped. Almost the entire army was annihilated.

At this moment, a mechanism puppet bat flew over from afar, carrying Yuyin's boot in its mouth. This was the boot she had left at the other inheritance location. It was also part of this set of Heavenly Silkworm Silk treasure clothing. Yuyin naturally had to command the mechanism puppet to retrieve it.

It was a pity that the vast number of Li Su experts had been washed away by floods or buried by earthquakes. Their treasures would be difficult to recover.

And Yuyin didn't dare delay, fearing the night would bring more dreams.

"Gui Ji, let's hurry and leave this place too."

"Alright!" Gui Ji emerged from the tomb, leaping across several boulders to Yuyin's side. Having witnessed Yuyin's methods and her decisive willingness to collapse the tomb to bury three thousand Li Su experts, she felt somewhat more convinced by Yuyin.

In this world, besides her mother, no one had ever made her feel somewhat convinced before.

Yuyin and Gui Ji followed the path she had prepared in advance, heading toward Rain Concubine tomb's exit.

Passing through the previous stone bridge and tomb corridor, they reached the passage leading outside the ancient tomb. Bright daylight from outside was already visible.

"Finally, we can leave this place," Gui Ji said, hugging her shoulders and trembling as she followed behind Yuyin. The yin energy here was truly unbearable for her.

"Yuyin, you don't think those who escaped will ambush us outside, do you?"

"The entire ancient tomb's situation is completely under my control. Of Li Su's three thousand plus experts, almost all died in this tomb. Only a few dozen escaped, most injured and with exhausted Primordial Energy. They're too busy fleeing for their lives to dare linger here. Even if they really dared to do so, we wouldn't fear them." Yuyin spoke truly. The situation of these three thousand plus experts was as Yuyin had calculated, everything under her control.

Yuyin's figure was tall and graceful. Against the backlit cave entrance, her silhouette appeared even more elegant. Gui Ji squinted her eyes to adjust to the light and walked out of Rain Concubine's tomb with Yuyin.

"Whew... finally, we're out," the two women said outside the tomb entrance, feeling the mountain forest wind. Gui Ji sighed delicately.

"Indeed..." Yuyin also felt refreshed, pushing out her chest to feel the fresh air outside, but suddenly her gaze froze. Something felt wrong.

"What is it?" Gui Ji asked.

"The yin energy... why has the mountain's cold yin energy disappeared?" Yuyin found it very suspicious.

"This is bad! Quick, back into the tomb!" Yuyin shouted loudly, immediately grabbing Gui Ji's hand to run back.

A pale immortal wind drifted down ahead.

Rumble! The mountain wall collapsed, burying the tomb entrance with massive boulders, blocking their retreat.

"Xia demoness, where do you think you're running!"

"Slaughtering my Li Su's three thousand heroes, your crimes are greater than even Lan Lianyue's!"

"Xia girl genius, your death has arrived! Hahahahaha!"

Three overwhelmingly powerful presences descended from the mountain. Their aura alone made it difficult for Yuyin to move.