Chapter 284 They must have been burned to death by the strange fire.

This is the spirit of the sword!

For a moment, Ou Rushuang doubted her own eyes and judgment.

The enormous creature before him was incredibly ferocious, a sword spirit form he had never seen before—strange and terrifying. The sword spirit's roar was ear-piercing, like a tiger's howl, carrying a sonic attack.

It looked extremely angry, and this anger turned into high-temperature heat, making Ou Rushuang feel that the air she was breathing was scalding hot.

Black Skull's swordsmanship was no longer the chaotic and disorderly style it once was; now it was sharp, ruthless, and deadly.

Forced to retreat and create distance, Ou Rushuang glanced at her sleeve, which was half burned off by the crimson crystal flowers that fell from the sword spirit.

His face was grim, and he was shocked.

As a disciple of the Ghost Daoist School, Nangong Sui already possesses the Star Sea of ​​the Yin Yang School, and now he has a Sword Spirit from the Military School!

Just how many different kinds of martial arts did she practice?!

Could it be that she, like Mei Liangyu, could cultivate the arts of various schools and sects? Was all of this taught by Elder Chang?

With Mei Liangyu preceding them, and both of these individuals being disciples of the Sage Chang Gen, Ou Rushuang easily considered this possibility. After a brief moment of shock, she immediately reacted.

The spirit of a sword is a thing that gathers energy and takes form; when the energy dissipates, the form vanishes.

Ou Rushuang recalled the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly attached to Yu Sui, retreated to create distance, and lightly touched the water with her toes, stepping onto the duckweed. The Black Skull followed in a flash, its body spinning as it slashed several scorching blades at Ou Rushuang.

The Azure Blood Golden Butterfly flapped its wings, transforming into a gigantic form that blocked Ou Rushuang's path. The quenched black blade delivered a triple slash to the golden butterfly's transformed form, shattering its wings with a crisp sound.

Ou Rushuang was struck by the blade energy passing through the golden butterfly. Her body was thrown backward and she was thrown to the ground. The black skeleton instantly appeared in the air, crossed its hands, and transformed them into two blades to slash at Ou Rushuang.

"Transform into a butterfly!" When Ou Rushuang was struck into the water by the sword energy, her shattered golden butterfly wings transformed into countless small golden butterflies. Ignoring the high temperature around the black skull and the starlight formed by the crimson flame crystal flower, they devoured it in the blink of an eye.

The swarm of butterflies dispersed in the air, and the sword spirit disappeared from sight. Under the clear sky, only a single azure-red butterfly gracefully fluttered its wings and flew.

When Ou Rushuang came out of the water, her exposed skin was red, and there were scalded blisters on her arms and face.

He glanced around warily, and only after confirming that the sword spirit had disappeared did he breathe a sigh of relief and look toward where Yu Sui had fallen into the water.

Nangong Sui

She hid it so well!

Ou Rushuang frowned, no longer daring to underestimate Yu Sui. With vigilance, she rushed towards the direction where Yu Sui had fallen into the water, determined to find him alive or dead.

The swarm of small golden butterflies flew out from Yu Sui's abdomen and chest, causing her to bleed severely and lose body temperature.

The butterfly poison was still corroding her nerves and numbing her limbs, and in the blink of an eye it swallowed up all the five elements in Yu Sui's body.

The butterfly venom transformed into red threads that enveloped Yu Sui's Five Elements Light Core, as if it were being tightly bound by a spider web. Just as the little golden butterfly was about to break through her pupils, the butterfly venom shattered the Five Elements Light Core.

The little golden butterfly was frozen right before my eyes.

Overwhelmed by the excruciating pain, Yu Sui couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

The poison of the Crimson Golden Butterfly paralyzes the five senses and nerves, leaving people powerless to resist. It is considered a unique poison in farming households. Its speed in absorbing the five elements is also the fastest and most difficult to detect among all poisonous insects.

The clear swamp water was polluted by blood, which also contained toxins and broken golden butterfly wings.

Ou Rushuang's attack was a killing blow. His combat experience far surpassed Yu Sui's. Relying on his superb beast-taming abilities, facing Yu Sui, who was much weaker than him, death was an inevitable outcome.

Moreover, within the Taiyi realm, Ou Rushuang, favored by the power of the Earth's core, has also seen her strength increase. Even a "sickly" person like Wan Guiyue can survive by relying on the power of the Earth's core. Ou Rushuang's Azure Blood Golden Butterfly can only alleviate Wan Guiyue's pain, not cure it.

Even though Ou Rushuang discovered that Yu Sui possessed Wu Huaiwei's Reverse Star Technique, he was not afraid at all due to his anger and killing intent.

The Nine Schools of Yin-Yang are not particularly effective against the agricultural class.

The fire spirit orb hidden deep within Yu Sui's consciousness was lit up.

When Yu Sui was on the verge of death again, she suddenly found it somewhat ridiculous.

Scenes from her arrival in Taiyi flashed through her mind. Although the time was short, they were rare happy days in her long eighteen years of life.

"Who is it?" A cursing male voice rang in Yu Sui's mind. "Whose light core shattered again? These days, instead of beheading or stabbing people in the heart, they dig out light cores to kill people?"

Gongsun Qi, far away in the Yan Kingdom, rolled from the hillside into the field the moment the light core shattered, getting half of his body covered in mud.

His daughter, Alan, was initially anxiously chasing after her father who had rolled down the slope, but when she saw the half-muddy figure in the field, she couldn't help but laugh and fell to the ground.

Gongsun Qi lay in the field, unable to get up, his fingers twitching in pain, and he took a deep breath.

The feeling of being on the verge of death is unpleasant, and you'll never get used to it, no matter how many times you experience it.

Gongsun Qi only replied with one sentence: "It wasn't me."

Han Ziyang, who was walking on Qingyang Street, was caught off guard by this sudden empathy. The pain of impending death struck him, and his body went limp and he collapsed. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and used his last bit of strength to roll into a side alley instead of collapsing directly on the bustling main street.

There were beggars sleeping in twos and threes in the alley, with big beggars and little beggars huddled together. They were all startled when they saw the man who suddenly rolled in, covered in sweat.

Han Ziyang cursed inwardly, forced himself to stand up, and staggered into the depths of the alley, trying to shake off the people following him.

"Poison from the farmers?" Han Ziyang asked.

The pain from the numbness in his limbs and nerves made him curse inwardly. It was even more unacceptable to him than the shattering of the light core, because it caused him to fall to the ground after only a few steps, startling a little beggar who screamed loudly.

After cursing, the nonchalant man asked, "Azure Blood Golden Butterfly? I told you you'd die in Taiyi, but you didn't believe me. Now look what happened, you've been caught by the Sage of the Farmer School!"

Xue Mushi, who hadn't uttered a word, was shocked. He struggled to his feet from the dormitory floor. Luckily, he had left late today, but why was Nangong Sui here again?

The Crimson Blood Golden Butterfly—has Ou Rushuang come back to life?!

In his haste, Xue Mushi asked, "The Sea of ​​Fog?"

A cocky male voice exclaimed dramatically, "Hey kid, you finally spoke! What, you want to go save someone?"

"Don't come any closer," Yu Sui finally said.

There are too many saints in the Fog Sea today; we cannot let Xue Mushi go there rashly.

Xue Mushi: "But..."

Gongsun Qi asked, "What do you intend to do?"

Yu Sui remained silent.

At this moment, her consciousness was hazy, still immersed in indescribable emotions, and a destructive desire was silently spreading in her heart.

She heard not only the voice of the destroyer, but also the soft sound of flowing water and the light, lively laughter of a young girl.

Yu Sui saw her transformed form again. The girl reached out to her from the water, her scalding palm touching her icy cheek. The identical face wore a mocking smile, as if laughing at her stubborn persistence and tempting her to release that mysterious, world-destroying power.

The nonchalant male voice pressed on, "Little girl, weren't you quite the talker? Why aren't you saying anything this time?"

The Fire Spirit Orb seems to have the effect of slowing down time.

The Divine Eye was already watching Yu Sui, its gentle gaze, seemingly from beyond the heavens, quietly observing her through the blood-stained water, carrying a sense of comfort.

Xue Mushi thought quickly and spoke again: "You won't die from just targeting the light core. Your opponent is the Farmer Saint. The only threats to you are the Farmer's Beast Taming and Poison Gu."

He finished speaking, took a deep breath, and suppressed the pain from the shattering of the light core and the butterfly poison.

Even if Xue Mushi didn't bring it up, the others had already realized that Yu Sui's regeneration of the light core was no secret to the destroyers.

"Is he alone or are there other people with him?" Xue Mushi asked.

Xue Mushi realized that this was not something Yu Sui could solve alone. No matter how many tricks Yu Sui had up his sleeve, he would never be able to contend with a Saint protected by the power of the Earth's core in Taiyi.

I'm afraid even adding him wouldn't be enough.

“Only him,” Yu Sui replied.

"The poisonous beasts of the Farmer are the easiest to break through the protective aura. When fighting against the Farmer's beast-taming ability, the fastest and most direct way is to compare air pressure. As long as the air pressure is stronger than the poisonous beast, it will be difficult for it to get close. At this time, you can focus on attacking the sorcerer's true form."

Gongsun Qi's disguised androgynous voice echoed in their minds.

"Do you think she can suppress the poisonous beasts with her air pressure and still get poisoned?" Han Ziyang mocked. "When fighting against a farmer's sorcerer, relying on protective aura is useless. First, you need to define a safe area for yourself to prevent being invaded by poisonous insects. If you are skilled in water and fire techniques, you can deal with most poisonous beasts."

Gongsun Qi said, "You're a Legalist, aren't you, using the 'drawing a circle on the ground as a prison' tactic?"

Han Ziyang was unhappy with the assessment of "drawing a circle on the ground as a prison" and sneered, "A close-quarters fighting style that relies on air pressure, are you a reckless strategist?"

Upon hearing this, the nonchalant man gasped in pain and cursed, "Are you two crazy? With such a huge difference in cultivation levels, you're just asking for death no matter how you fight. Besides, one of you is a military strategist and the other a legalist; how would you know which school of thought this young girl is best suited to?"

Gongsun Qi: "I never said I was a military strategist or a magician."

Han Ziyang: "I am not a member of the Legalist school either."

The nonchalant man sneered, "Although the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly is powerful, it is not afraid of being submerged in water or burned by fire. It does not need to bite you to poison you, but only needs to smell your scent to plant the butterfly poison in your body. This trick is called 'planting butterflies' in farming families."

In other words, it absorbs your breath and applies its venom along with your breath. As long as your breath is still circulating, it can easily release its venom and kill you hundreds or thousands of times with ease.

Lao Tzu will tell you a weakness of the Crimson Golden Butterfly: this thing fears nothing except absorbing disordered Five Elements energy. Absorbing disordered energy will cause its owner to also fall into disordered Five Elements.

Even saints can suffer from the pain of the Five Elements being reversed, their strength greatly reduced, and they dare not easily mobilize the Five Elements Qi.

Gongsun Qi and Han Ziyang were both surprised to hear this. They were both experienced in the world of Nine Streams Techniques and knew and had experienced much more than Yu Sui and Xue Mushi. However, this was the first time they had heard that the Farmer's Jade Blood Golden Butterfly had such a weakness.

Among all the venomous beasts in the farm, the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly is practically perfect.

The man cursed, "I've already told you the method. Whether it works or not is up to you. I'm serious. If it really doesn't work, just go die. The sooner you die, the better. What kind of life is this, half-dead and half-alive?"

"If I die," Yu Sui gently closed her eyes, "it will definitely be burned to death by the strange fire."

The man in white hung on the edge of a precipice, with green vines wrapped around his waist, preventing him from falling further while he was experiencing the empathy. Once the empathy subsided, he easily returned to the top of the cliff using his wind manipulation technique.

Recalling the conversation just now, the man in white couldn't help but stroke his chin.

He had revealed the weakness of the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly, but the difference in cultivation level and combat experience was difficult to overcome. He didn't think this girl's cultivation was that powerful. The fact that she could repeatedly regenerate her light core suggested that her light core cultivation level wasn't actually that high.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be a great pity for the light cores of the thirteenth realm to shatter so frequently? Besides, if he could regenerate the light cores of the thirteenth realm, he could roam freely across the Xuan Gu Continent.

More importantly, in Taiyi, the sages are immortal.

Why.

This little girl is probably really going to be burned to death by the strange fire.

The Fire Spirit Orb disappeared, and the speed at which the Heavenly Eye focused on the restoration accelerated.

Yu Sui was still falling.

She entered her own Nine Provinces Star Sea, barely clinging to life, and saw the blazing sun high in the sky, the fiery earth vapor rising, and the space within the Star Sea distorting under the intense heat.

The ring of flames around the edge of the blazing sun turned black under Yu Sui's gaze.

The alternation of the sun and moon gave the universe of Kyushu the concept of time. Previously, Yu Sui had been unable to control the flow of time in the star sea, but now, looking at the black flames and the blazing sun, he had gained some insight.

A disc, a shadow, a sundial.

The bronze disc rests on the ground, tilted upwards, with the twelve two-hour periods of the day inscribed on its upward-facing surface. A long bronze needle is inserted into the center, and as the shadow of the needle moves, it accurately points to a specific moment within the two-hour period.

A sundial, which records time, is naturally also a device for manipulating time.

With a thought in her mind, countless sundials appeared on the barren ground. She stood among the sundials, watching the shadows of the copper needles spin rapidly, the sun and moon alternate, and time flew by.

With the movement of the sundial, Yu Sui directly altered the flow of time in the Nine Provinces Star Sea, and the barren land was transformed into a lush green grassland in the blink of an eye.

The sundial's movement across the Nine Provinces Star Sea, combined with the Heavenly Eye's observation and repair, allows the Yu Sui to recover to its original state in a short time.

The moment the new Five Elements Light Core began to operate, Yu Sui suddenly opened his eyes, broke out of the water, and happened to meet Ou Rushuang, who was rushing over with the Wind Control Technique to go into the water to rescue him.

She's still alive!

Ou Rushuang was horrified.

The two noticed each other and attacked simultaneously once again.

Without hesitation, Yu Sui immediately interfered with the operation of the light core, causing his five elements to be reversed. Ou Rushuang also habitually commanded the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly.

The beautiful golden butterfly flew to Yu Sui's eyes and met her gaze. Just like the scene when Yu Sui lifted the carriage curtain on the mountain road, the golden butterfly's antennae swayed. It successfully absorbed the enemy's five elements of energy, but failed to successfully plant butterflies as it had done before.

The wings that were maintaining balance suddenly tilted, and the gracefully flying Azure Blood Golden Butterfly seemed to have half of its wings pinned down, causing it to fall downwards.

"How could this be?" Ou Rushuang stared in disbelief at the sight of the Azure Blood Golden Butterfly falling. His body trembled violently as the long-lost pain of the Five Elements Reversal surged back, causing him to clutch his chest and kneel on one knee.

The Five Elements are in disarray!

Is it a coincidence or...

Ou Rushuang raised her eyes and looked at Yu Sui, who was also frowning and pale due to the reversal of the five elements. When she met Ou Rushuang's gaze, Yu Sui slightly curled the corners of her mouth and returned her a sly smile.

She did it on purpose!

Ou Rushuang clenched her fists tightly. How could this be!

How could she know the weakness of the Crimson Golden Butterfly!

There is only one person in this world who knows the weakness of the Crimson Golden Butterfly!

Ou Rushuang stared intently at Yu Sui, almost gritting her teeth as she asked, "What is your relationship with Ming Yueqing?"