Chapter 60 Suspicion

The Zang Yao Sect disciple crawling on the ground seemed to have his limbs twisted, yet he moved with the swiftness and ease of a spider. He held a small knife, as thin as a cicada's wing, in his mouth. It was with this knife that Fang Zai attacked Luo Xuanyi.

He looked terrified, tears streaming down his face when he saw Luo Xuanyi suddenly emit a little light. However, he could not get close to Luo Xuanyi and could only wander outside the range of the candle in Luo Xuanyi's hand.

Luo Xuanyi felt a chill run down her spine as she saw the ashes that had practically covered his body like another layer of skin. Although he was still conscious, she feared he would soon be possessed by another spirit.

Luo Xuanyi watched him leap a few times on his elbows and knees, then open his mouth and spit out the knife again. A thin, light gray line, almost dissolving in the mist, connected his mouth. Luo Xuanyi finally understood how the knife was manipulated so freely. She didn't plan to take out the ink-splashed jade bamboo flag, but continued to use the bamboo slips for self-defense.

She extended her hand, and her liquefied form, concealed by the bamboo slips, splashed onto the thin thread, instantly corroding and breaking it. The disciple wailed mournfully and leaped into the mist, quickly disappearing. No mist followed him, but the mist still enveloped Luo Xuanyi, ready to move.

The knife quietly and quickly cut towards Luo Xuanyi's ankle!

Luo Xuanyi took out the Wind-Chasing Golden Fire and lit it along with a stick of incense. He directed his spiritual energy towards the flame and exhaled it in all directions. The fog immediately retreated half a step. The wailing sound lasted only a few times before it fell to the ground along with the knife.

Luo Xuanyi knew that the ashes were manipulating the corpse, deliberately wanting her to kill him so she could seize his body, so she naturally left no hidden dangers. She used the Wind Chasing Golden Fire to burn the corpse to ash, and then used the incense to burn away all the impurities.

The knife lost control and was picked up by Luo Xuanyi. After wiping off the mark, she placed it in the storage bag Yao Tian had handed over earlier. Luo Xuanyi was just recalling the disciple's expression and movements when she was startled and quickly leaned over again.

The fog was so dense that even the ground was filled with it, but with the vision enhanced by the Mingtai wine, she could still trace the existence of shallow grooves. Luo Xuanyi reached out to trace it, but found that because something carved on the ground was too large, it was impossible to get a full picture at first.

The source of that partial picture is probably a part of this huge picture. No wonder there is no detailed picture even when people are piling up lives. It turns out that it is because it is too huge and difficult to see clearly.

But Luo Xuanyi looked at the green rust on the ground, and slowly she felt something familiar. But she still couldn't figure out what it was.

At this moment, a huge wave of spiritual energy suddenly came from the distance. It was too far away, and Luo Xuanyi could not see anything, but there was definitely someone fighting. Just as Luo Xuanyi raised her hand to hold the incense higher to try to see more clearly, the object passed through her sight.

Red light. A crimson light swiftly pierced the mist, unleashing a massive wave of spiritual energy that cut off Luo Xuanyi's perception of the distant horizon. The scorching spiritual energy nearly vaporized Luo Xuanyi. Startled, she immediately channeled the Yin spirit within her body to control her body. The red light wasn't directed toward Luo Xuanyi; it vanished in an instant. Wherever it passed, the mist dissipated, as if a rift had split the heavens and earth, one that would not heal for a long time.

Only after confirming the red light had indeed left the vicinity did Luo Xuanyi refocus her spiritual energy, her doubts deepening. The image of the red light dispersing the fog had not appeared in the intelligence provided by the Qiming people, but they had clearly witnessed the red light breaking through the fog and evaporating the human body.

Concealment, and it is a deliberate lie.

"Junior Sister Yi?"

Luo Xuanyi turned around and saw Qi Mingzhe's figure, not at all embarrassed, pushing away the fog. Following behind him was Lu Kewei, holding a lamp that had burned to a small piece. The hazy halo cast fragmented light and shadow on Qiao Yangrun and Shang Siding who were standing on his left and right.

Luo Xuanyi pretended not to notice their approach, slowly retreating with a look of surprise and caution, pursing her lips and not answering. She took out another incense stick and prepared to light it. Shang Siding looked at the incense stick and gently rubbed it with his fingers.

Qi Mingzhe looked at Luo Xuanyi's hair and sleeves, which were slightly messed up due to the fight, and said in a very gentle manner: "It looks like you encountered those phantoms? Don't worry, we can see each other's faces clearly and we can move around, right?" He took two steps to signal, and then tentatively put his hand on Luo Xuanyi's shoulder.

After confirming that both parties were real, everyone's guard dropped, at least on the surface. Lu Kewei let out a sigh of relief. "We've been looking for you. This place seems to be a place where undead spirits can easily take over bodies. I didn't expect the incense to be so useful and used up so quickly. Even if we all used it together, it would be gone."

"Don't you only have three incense sticks? You shouldn't have any extra ingredients in the amount you refined," Qiao Yangrun suddenly asked. He scanned Luo Xuanyi's face calmly, as if trying to discern something.

Luo Xuanyi suddenly realized something. As she took out three incense sticks, she smiled bitterly and said, "I don't have any extra left, but I do have some spare herbs in my storage bag. After I came in, I realized I used them too quickly, but if I didn't use them, I would be entangled in the mist again, so I refined some more. Fortunately, my master taught me how to simulate the alchemy fire - why didn't you spread out?"

Lu Kewei took the incense. After confirming that Luo Xuanyi could continue producing incense and that there was no alternative available, the four Qimingzhe finally accepted Luo Xuanyi. Shang Siding breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought I was going to die here! Might as well die with her, hahaha!"

"We've discussed something since we came here, and now I'm telling you—"

"Brother Qi?!" Qi Mingzhe was interrupted before he could finish his words. A voice suddenly emanated from the mist. A voice filled with joy, accompanied by a strong scent of blood, stumbled towards him, heading towards the exact spot where the fierce fight had just broken out.

"Brother Qi, that bastard Ding Yu suddenly went crazy. He..."

Qi Mingzhe didn't make a move; it was Shang Siding who did. The black shadow in his hand leaped towards the other side, expanding several times in the air and swallowing the disciple's head. After savoring it carefully, he spat it out in disgust, leaving only a corpse with half its skull missing, staggering to the ground, a hollow shell that had been sucked dry without spilling a single drop of brain matter.

The shadow fluttered a few times and returned to Shang Siding's hand. It was a petite lotus sea bat, its golden bone patterns and lotus-shaped wings making it exceptionally delicate and beautiful, but it was also a deadly spirit beast. After Shang Siding put it back into his spirit beast bag, he simply took over the conversation from Qi Mingzhe: "—It means we want to kill fifty or sixty people."