Chapter 29 Godslayer: She was a born warrior

Whether the magpie's words are true or not, this is the last chance.

As the jade entered her body, Xiao Jiang immediately felt a warm current slowly flowing through her body, soothing her compressed internal organs. Wherever it flowed, it eased the pain. Even the burning pain in Xiao Jiang's back became less unbearable. The skin on her back felt like earth nourished by spring rain, becoming moist and fertile enough to allow long-dormant seeds to sprout from the soil.

Qin Yuqi's gaze never left Xiao Jiang. Her several nimble and swift attacks almost ignited a glimmer of hope in him, but the moment "Jianxing" was taken away by the monster, he realized that with her alone, it would be difficult to reverse the situation.

Qin Yuqi struggled to crawl towards the spot where "Jianxing" had landed. He could see clearly that only this knife could harm this enormous monster.

But "Jianxing" landed in a shallow ditch. He could no longer stand and could only drag his injured leg and desperately try to reach it. But he was just a little short. He went down an inch further, his fingertips almost touching the blade, but he fell headfirst into the ditch.

Qin Yuqi lay in the ditch, looking desperately at Xiao Jiang, who was being held by the monster high above.

Her body seemed tiny in the monster's hands. She gradually stopped struggling; she was about to die at the monster's hands...

She shielded herself from an attack, while he couldn't even offer her a knife.

Qin Yuqi's eyes were red and swollen. For the first time in his life, he hated himself for being so useless, only able to watch her die!

Suddenly, he saw a blinding golden light burst forth from the monster's hand. The light gradually intensified until it was impossible to look directly at it. His vision was filled with light, forcing him to close his eyes.

Xiao Jiang, held in the giant frog's hand, felt an unprecedented surge of terrifying heat within her body. The warm current turned into magma, filling every vein in her body with boiling blood, making her almost burn. Something that had been dormant for a long time tore through her back and burst out of her skin. Her mind also became like boiling water, unable to think, dominated by the most primal and ancient killing desires, filled with a thirst for blood.

She used her bare hands to pry open the giant frog's webbed feet one by one. During the process, the giant frog's webbed feet kept making the sound of bones breaking, but she could no longer hear it.

Until the once indestructible frog paw gradually became deformed and helplessly let go of the person in its grasp.

Xiao Jiang suddenly plummeted downwards, but this time she didn't fall; instead, she remained suspended in the air after falling for a while.

A pair of tender wings supported her.

Two wings, like bird wings, had grown from her back.

The giant frog can no longer catch her, and she won't die here. But Xiao Jiang sadly discovers that Wu Hu and the others were right; she really is a monster.

A monster through and through.

She saw her own reflection in the giant frog's bloodshot eyes—white hair, golden eyes, red feathers—but it felt completely foreign to her.

Looking at the giant beast before her again, she even felt a sense of kinship and mutual respect.

The giant frog's gaze towards her also became strange, a mixture of anger and confusion. Its scarlet eyes gradually cleared, as if it were looking at her, yet also as if it were looking through her into a more distant place.

The giant frog tried to grab her again with its other intact webbed foot, but it could no longer reach her.

When Qin Yuqi opened his eyes again, he found that the golden light had broken free from the monster's hand. The golden light dimmed, but Qin Yuqi's pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw Xiao Jiang under the golden light, but something seemed to be on her back...

The image of her wings appeared only for a moment before being obscured by the thick fog. When the fog cleared and he tried to see her clearly again, she had already landed on the ground and was walking towards him.

She looked exactly the same as before, with nothing on her thin back.

Qin Yuqi wondered if she was hallucinating from the pain. But then she realized something was wrong—how had she managed to escape from the monster?

Xiao Jiang walked up to him expressionlessly. He thought she had come to save him, but Xiao Jiang seemed to see him completely, indifferently picking up the short knife beside him, turning around without hesitation, and returning to the battlefield facing the giant frog.

As soon as the giant frog spotted her, it immediately stretched out its webbed paws towards her, but the paws were not clenched and remained open.

This time it didn't seem to want to kill her; it just let her get close.

Xiao Jiang was even more agile than before. Following the giant frog's webbed feet, he was already standing on the giant frog's head in just a few leaps.

The giant frog was not as frantic as expected. It didn't even move, standing steadily in place, only using its uninjured webbed foot to reach up and down, as if it wanted to catch the person on its head, as if the person standing on it was not its enemy, but a naughty child.

Xiao Jiang thought the giant frog was trying to catch her. She avoided its webbed paws and slid down the curve of its head from the other side, stopping at its neck.

She didn't move; she was waiting for an opportunity.

As the giant frog tilted its head back, she quickly lifted the "Star Slasher" and plunged it deep into the frog's neck, using her body weight to slide it down from left to right.

She tore a deep gash in the giant frog's throat, and warm blood gushed out like a waterfall, splashing all over her body.

Xiao Jiang was drenched in blood from head to toe; her eyes were blurred, and her entire vision was stained red with blood.

After that cut, the turmoil in her blood suddenly subsided, and the world became silent from that moment on, so silent that she could no longer feel the vitality of the mountains and forests, as if that cut had also drained the life force from the mountains and forests.

She heard a heavy, long sigh escape from the giant frog's broken throat, followed by the sound of it crashing to the ground.

A deafening roar shook the earth. Xiao Jiang's heart sank to the bottom.

Instead of the joy of surviving a disaster, she felt a deep sense of loss, as if something had left her.

She stood there blankly, at a loss.

Qin Yuqi had not expected the situation to turn so suddenly. He stared wide-eyed at the scene before him in disbelief. The immense shock in his heart left him speechless, and he could only stare intently at the blood-red figure.

She gripped a short knife, her body covered in blood, her tiny frame standing straight and tall, while the giant beast crashed down before her.

She was a born warrior.

As Qin Yuqi looked up at that figure, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

But the next moment, the soldier knelt on the ground.

The previous attack had exhausted all her strength, and Xiao Jiang could no longer hold on.

In her field of vision were the giant frog's webbed hands, still in an open position, weakly stretching towards her.

Looking up, she met the giant frog's lantern-like eyes. The bloodshot color had faded from them, returning to their original emerald green, the emerald pupils resembling the mountains and forests of Liyue Village. It was looking at her with loving kindness and a touch of regret.

His eyes seemed to have known her for a long time, wanting to look at her one last time, but in the end, they closed.

The thick fog dissipated quickly with the death of the giant frog, but suddenly several claps of thunder rang out in the sky. Xiao Jiang looked up but could see nothing.

Her vision blurred, and she finally collapsed to the ground, unable to hold on any longer.

"Fisherman..."

Before she closed her eyes, she seemed to see Jiang Liuyun's figure.

*

Not long after Qingdai left the Jiang family, she heard several sudden, unexpected claps of thunder in the sky.

After the thunderclap, the sky returned to normal, as if the heavens had simply sneezed for no reason. But Qingdai frowned upon seeing this, feeling a bad premonition. She immediately rushed back to the temple and entered the deepest, dark room that belonged only to the high priest.

Inside the dark room, the glass ritual implements that had once radiated light and operated day and night were now reduced to a pile of fragments, scattered across the shrine.

Qingdai stared at the scene before her in disbelief, unable to comprehend what had happened.

That glass ritual object was no ordinary ornament; it represented the divine magic that had always protected the Liyue Village.

The shattering of the ritual instruments signifies the breakdown of this celestial divine art.

For a long time, the celestial magic that protected Liyue Village has disappeared...

Qingdai helplessly pieced together the pile of glass shards, not understanding why the perfectly good sky would suddenly shatter like this.

It has been running perfectly fine for so many years.

Is God going to abandon Liyue Village?

She couldn't believe that God would abandon Liyue Village; it was impossible! Something must have gone wrong!

Yes, that must be it!

She suddenly remembered the mermaids in the Jiang family's house.

Merfolk are born with spiritual power, unlike mortals who have to cultivate diligently to acquire even minor spells. And that's only if they have talent. Those without talent will never be able to glimpse even a trace of the Dao in their entire lives.

Merfolk are the species in the world that are closest to the gods.

But why must they disturb the peace that these mortals have finally achieved?

She stepped forward and gripped the shards of glass tightly until her hands were covered in blood...

*

The mermaid was affected by the immobilization spell for a longer time than Qingdai. The strange girl walked out the door triumphantly under his cold gaze. He was anxious but still couldn't move until several explosions suddenly appeared in the sky, and his immobilization spell suddenly lost its effect.

He didn't have time to investigate the reasons behind it; all he could think about was finding Xiao Jiang as soon as possible.

Since he received no response from his left little finger, he directly used his spiritual sense to search for Xiao Jiang's location.

Those who are bound by a bond can make their partner aware of their location no matter where they go, even if one party does not call out to the other.

He soon found her in a secluded mountain forest.

He saw her lying in a pool of blood and instinctively thought it was her blood, so he rushed over to save her, forgetting that he was now just a wisp of spirit. He only realized it when his hand passed through her body.

He was about to use his spiritual power to take her away when he saw her long-lost father appear out of nowhere and embrace her.

The merman lowered his outstretched hands.

*

Xiao Jiang found herself walking for a long time in complete darkness, unable to find an exit no matter which way she went.

Suddenly, a pair of scarlet eyes appeared in the pitch-black world, then turned emerald green. One moment they opened their blood-red mouths as if to swallow her whole, and the next they lay in a pool of blood, looking at her pitifully.

She desperately wanted to ask it who it was, but found herself unable to utter a single word, and could only silently follow behind it. She ran and ran in the darkness, but could never catch up with it.

She was very anxious, so anxious that tears were about to come out.

But it didn't stop to wait for her; it left without even turning its head.

In the darkness, Xiao Jiang was alone again. Her hands became sticky and sticky. When she stretched them out, she found that her hands were covered in blood, and the scarlet blood kept flowing down. No matter how much she wiped, she couldn't get it clean.

She suddenly remembered that she had already killed it.

Xiao Jiang suddenly woke up from his dream, his heart pounding wildly.

She subconsciously looked at her hands, which were slender and clean, without a trace of blood or dirt. She was wearing clean clothes, just like usual.

But the faint smell of blood emanating from her body, and the pain in her chest and back, reminded her that the dream was not just a dream, and that everything had actually happened in reality.

Xiao Jiang looked at his familiar home, but had no recollection of how he got back.

The thought of the giant frog's gaze as it fell gave her a splitting headache.

"You're awake. Is anything bothering you?"

Jiang Liuyun walked in, carrying a bowl of medicine. He was completely unharmed and looked at her with a smile.