Chapter 48: Is it fun to earn money with blood? (26) As a human being...

At the moment when Aji activated the demon-subduing pestle again, Si Ling finally flashed and stood between the two sides.

Countless silver demon-subduing pestles flew towards her in the moonlight. She moved her thin lips, and at the moment the nearest one almost pierced her eyes, the spell was triggered. A strong wind blew behind her, and the demon-subduing pestles were blown away like weightless blades of grass.

Aji's eyes were blinded by the wind and sand, and it took him a while to recover before he was able to look at the opposite side again.

If ghosts don't actively reveal themselves, humans can't see them directly, nor can they directly harm humans. This is the law of the Three Realms. However, when a cultivator with magical powers takes the initiative to attack a ghost, this law is broken.

So when Aji saw an Asian face appear in front of him, he was stunned.

Then, a girl wearing a jade-colored Ming Dynasty jacket and skirt appeared. Based on his experience, Aji judged that this was a demon.

Then he saw another man with an oriental face descending from the sky. He had a bunch of huge black wings that he had never seen before. He couldn't tell whether it was a demon or a ghost.

Xuan Chi once again produced a long spear in his hand. Si Ling glanced at him and said, "Leave this to me. You and A Zhui take the others to evacuate."

Ah Zhui and Xuan Chi were both startled. Ah Zhui said, "Si Ling, I think..."

"Go!" Si Ling said coldly, "If a real fight breaks out, they might not be our opponents."

Before she finished her words, she had already attacked Aji. Azhu and Xuanchi looked at each other and could only listen to her arrangements for the time being.

As Si Ling leaped forward, her clothes quickly turned completely black. She took off the silver sword from her bun with both hands. As her body turned over, her eyes turned completely black with a blood-red pupil in the middle.

Aji took in all these changes and was shocked.

"Dang!" Si Ling thrust out with both swords, and a silver shield suddenly appeared. The silver shield was translucent, and the entire shield was painted with complicated runes.

Aji originally thought that he would be stabbed to death by a sword, and subconsciously raised his hand to block it in despair. He was stunned when he heard the sound, and then hesitantly looked up. Through the translucent shield, the female ghost hanging in the air was looking at him coldly.

——It’s a talisman.

An amulet blessed with powerful magical powers.

Before Si Ling could think about it, he suddenly saw a white light flash from the edge of the silver shield. Si Ling's eyes flashed and he quickly dodged. However, half a second later, the airflow forced out by the silver shield just brushed past Si Ling's face. If Si Ling had been half a step later, he would not have been able to avoid this attack.

"Such a strong yin energy." Si Ling stood firm and stared at Aji.

I saw that Aji had black eyes like hers, but where she had blood-red round pupils, he had a pair of more creepy green vertical pupils.

This is not what a human being should be like. No matter how deep your cultivation is, you can't become like this.

Si Ling frowned: "What possessed you?"

At the same moment, she felt that the negative energy that had just been forced out in all directions from the silver shield began to gather rapidly, and a biting cold wind blew in the air, mixed with crazy laughter and mournful crying, all of which were the sounds of women and children.

...This kind of noise is a bit creepy even for a top-level evil spirit like Si Ling.

In Chinese horror, the scariest elements are often closely linked to women and children. This is logical, because everyone knows that in a cannibalistic social mechanism, these two groups will really be exploited and even in death they may not find peace.

So they are really resentful!

Amidst the sounds of crying and laughter, Si Ling watched as ghostly green figures materialized behind Aji. Some were women, some were children, and many bore Gao Yuan's facial features. But to Si Ling's surprise, they were all half-human, half-snake, each with a long, serpentine tail extending from their waist.

Just as Aji had never seen a "unknown creature" like Xuan Chi with humanoid wings, Si Ling had never seen such a ghost... You can't tell her that these are all the legendary descendants of Nuwa, right?

She stared at Aji and asked, "Who are they?"

"Hahahaha—" Ah Ji noticed her uneasiness, and a sense of self-satisfaction welled up in his heart. He looked at Si Ling and told her, almost boastfully, "The souls of the most resentful serfs who had been dead for over a hundred years, plus a nest of cobras that died tragically just after hatching."

Si Ling couldn't believe it: "You refined them together?!"

"Refine? No, no, no, I just reached a mutually beneficial deal with the Cobra King." He blinked, and his green vertical pupils flashed.

Si Ling saw a thick snake shadow several stories high appear behind him, hissing and staring at her sinisterly.

"I need unrivaled magical power, and the Snake King—" Aji laughed and leisurely pointed at the shadow behind him, "She wants her children to survive, no matter what the method, no matter the cost."

Um……?

Si Ling felt that something was wrong.

She stared at the snake king in silence. In the gradually fading sound of the wind, only the sound of the snake king spitting out its tongue was clear.

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More than 200 meters behind them, Xuan Chi and A Zhui kept using various spells to push the ghosts out of the barrier covering the manor.

The Western ghosts were not happy about this, because this was the perfect time for them to take heads, but the vampires, who were the most noble, were the first to turn against them.

Prince Aymeric saw Xuan Chi and A Zhui suddenly begin evacuating their forces. Although he didn't know why, he immediately decided to help them. As a vampire, his spells were limited, but his racial talents for running and leaping made him perfectly suited to the task. He carried a zombie on his left shoulder and a dryad on his right, then turned and ran towards where Lucifer was waiting.

Seeing this, other vampires followed suit, and then the werewolves joined in the work.

In less than a quarter of an hour, most of the demons involved in the mission were dispatched. The fighting continued, however. His followers attacked everyone indiscriminately. Initially, people were caught off guard, and most perished without a fight. Later, some gradually came to their senses, gathered their composure, and began to fight back, resulting in the deaths of many of His followers.

This was exactly what Si Ling wanted: more than 200 people, let these ghosts slowly use up their SAN points to kill, how long would it take? Letting them kill each other would be more effective!

She felt that this was the correct way to open the [Rules and Tales Scroll].

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A quarter of an hour later, the development of the situation proved that Si Ling's judgment was completely correct.

At this time, as more and more people died, the fighting in the crowd had come to an end. Most of the few survivors were injured and fell to the ground gasping for breath.

Those on the same side supported each other in agony, while those on the opposing side glared at each other. At this point, retreating would undoubtedly be the most beneficial outcome for both sides, but "His" followers refused to accept this. After witnessing "the formidable power," they felt their own lives were unimportant and only desired to offer more sacrifices to Him, thereby gaining His approval.

Therefore, while one side desperately wanted to survive, the other side pursued them relentlessly and ruthlessly. Within a radius of 200 to 300 meters, corpses, body parts, and blood were everywhere. The pursuit, which had not yet completely ended, brought more corpses, body parts, and blood to the scene, and the smell of the night became increasingly strong.

These people are beyond help.

At the same time, Gongbu and several of his disciples had completely surrounded the area in the center of the manor. They sat cross-legged, closing their eyes and chanting scriptures.

Countless runes began to slowly emerge on the night sky, but at this time they were still extremely light colors, printed between the sea of ​​clouds and the stars, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Near the temple, groups of snake spirits driven by Aji attacked Si Ling ferociously.

Their attack method is no different from that of poisonous snakes. They jump up again and again and try to bite their targets. Si Ling's body skills are not bad. She can always dodge accurately and attack with both swords, but the agility of the snake spirits is also incredibly high. They always disappear without a trace the moment she draws her sword, and then "refresh" in the distance.

The snake king attached to Aji did not participate in the battle. Its huge body coiled into a circle at the fighting scene, constantly spinning and gradually shrinking.

Aji was very proud. He quietly watched the evil ghost in a tough fight without moving at all. He just stood beside him and hummed a song leisurely.

Si Ling gradually understood what Aji was planning - no matter how experienced he was, it was difficult for him to guess that she was a ghost with 30,000 years of cultivation, and those snake spirits were without exception full of resentment and extremely agile, which meant that they were very suitable for a war of attrition.

In other words, Aji wanted to use those snake spirits to consume her magic power bit by bit, and when she was exhausted, the snake king would launch a fatal attack.

Great plan!

If her cultivation had only lasted three thousand years, then this plan would definitely work.

But the fact that the plan didn't work didn't mean it wasn't annoying. Si Ling didn't plan to stay here with Aji for a long time. After all, the big boss Gongbu was still alive, and that was the head she wanted most.

While fighting, she was thinking about how to break the deadlock. In a moment of inattention, she saw a green light suddenly approaching in her peripheral vision.

Si Ling's heart tightened, but it was too late to fight back. He stepped back in a hurry and saw a snake spirit rushing towards him!

At the critical moment——

"Hiss—hiss, hiss, hiss!" The snake spirit with its bloody mouth wide open had its tail pulled from behind. After struggling wildly in fear for a while, it hurriedly cast a spell and disappeared with a bang.

Si Ling looked up and saw Elizabeth, whose face was covered in blood, still holding a snake with her hands. Not far behind her, Fredis was trying to disperse a small group of snake spirits that were about to attack together with her claws and fangs.

"Thank you." Si Ling raised his eyebrows.

Elizabeth didn't respond and turned to help Fredis.

Suddenly, a green shadow swooped down. Si Ling leaped up and kicked it away. Using the force of the snake spirit's kick, she somersaulted, forcing two more back. She landed in an open area a little distance from the group of snake spirits, glancing sideways at the snake king, who was still circling.

She knew very well in her heart that the Snake King seemed completely loyal to Aji, and all her guesses were just guesses.

But she just thought, what if she guessed right?

Si Ling made up his mind with the mentality of "taking a gamble", stared at the Snake King and stimulated his thoughts, and the Yin Qi was suddenly forced out.

"Ah—" The overwhelming release of mana caused the snake spirits to scream and flee in all directions. The snake king's body shook, and he turned his head to look at Si Ling.

As a human being, Aji didn't feel much shock from this, but he was inevitably stunned by the snake spirit's sudden abnormality.

Si Ling stared around.

Although the fear brought by this perception was only temporary, if the opponent was determined to fight to the death, even if he knew her powerful strength, he could still quickly adjust his state and continue to fight, but this moment of panic was enough for her.