Thirteen

A strong smell of death surrounded her.

It was like countless little devils were surrounding her, stretching out their long tongues and looking at her with drooling eyes. Even though they knew they couldn't swallow her, they still came over greedily to lick her from time to time.

The sword flashed cleanly, and a deep gash appeared on the bloated corpse. Like a flood bursting through a dam, foul-smelling black water rushed out from the breach.

The entire humanoid corpse collapsed in an instant, falling limply on the white snow, stained dark gray, almost black.

Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes again and quickly passed by the bloated standing corpses.

clang——

The yellow and black talisman did not touch the man in front of him at all, and the sharp sword flashing with cold light faced an iron-black three-edged sword.

I met the real person... Jiang Jingyuan had a bad feeling in his heart.

She didn't actually know swordsmanship. Her few slashes, like cutting vegetables, were all thanks to the immobilization talisman. Now, against a ghostly master, this move might backfire on her...

In front of her, the figure shrouded in a black cloak instantly turned into black smoke and dissipated.

Jiang Jingyuan was shocked.

But it was too late. The black fog gathered again behind her and condensed into a human figure.

With a flash of cold light, a triangular sword pierced out from the black cloak.

The speed was so fast that Jiang Jingyuan had no way to dodge.

Puff——

Jiang Jingyuan's body was shining brightly with white light, reflecting the light back and forth in the snow, and was particularly conspicuous in the white snow.

Click... snap...

A crisp sound came from the left hand, and one of the purple-red gems inlaid on the silver wire of the jade bracelet dimmed a little, and a tiny crack appeared on the surface.

“!!!”

Jiang Jingyuan's pupils shrank slightly, and he exerted force on his feet, falling into the snow beside him.

However, when she dodged, the dark figure behind her was pressing on.

clang!

Sizzle...

The ferocious triangular sword stabbed at her barrier, again and again, focusing on one spot.

Not good! I'm afraid he'll really break my defense like this... Jiang Jingyuan clenched the sword in his hand and turned to block it!

"snort……"

The black-robed figure sneered for the first time, as if he had never expected that someone would be so presumptuous as to use his own weakness to attack the other's strength.

As soon as the two swords touched, Jiang Jingyuan's sword was knocked away and fell far away on the flawless snow.

The iron-black triangular sword broke through the air and pierced the weak point of Jiang Jingyuan's barrier exactly!

Jiang Jingyuan clenched his hands.

Although she was in a situation where the enemy was obviously strong and she was weak, she didn't think about how to escape.

The experience of escaping once told her that this person was like a cancer attached to the bone, which could not be avoided and could only be eradicated completely!

Jiang Jingyuan's consciousness was anxiously searching in the bracelet that held the peace locket.

If the barrier of the jade bracelet is broken once, it will take some time for the barrier to be raised again.

It's like a circulating energy being cut off. People can temporarily reconnect it with their own spiritual power, but it will take some time for the bracelet's energy to fully recover, and the time it takes is uncertain.

She must find a way to break the impasse before the barrier breaks!

In this case, Jiang Jingyuan no longer tried to block the triangular sword stabbed at him by the man in black robe - it was meaningless.

Around the two figures, one black and one white, countless corpses swollen by the snow water slowly stood up from the snow, stacked up layer by layer, staggered in different directions, as if to form a huge and complicated formation.

Jiang Jingyuan took a quick glance. Since she didn't understand the formation, she naturally couldn't figure out what was going on. She could only pull out another longsword from her space bracelet. They glided through the air like a light swan, spreading their wings.

The black-robed figure that was chasing closely behind him slapped out a palm, and a huge dark palm appeared out of thin air, pressing heavily on the white-clothed girl who was agile in front of him.

The snow-white plush cloak with blue fluttered with the girl's movements. Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes and felt a chill down his spine.

The black palm print touched the barrier of white light!

The white figure flew backwards, slid in a beautiful arc in the air, and hit a swollen corpse. One was alive and the other was dead. With a "thump", the two fell face up on the cold, wet, flawless snow.

With a "pop", the swollen corpse under Jiang Jingyuan exploded, hitting the barrier that was flashing white light, and the black water with a foul smell slowly slid down from the invisible barrier -

“Crack!”

A purple-red gem on the bracelet was covered with cracks, the invisible barrier was broken, and the white light turned into starlight, drifting away with the wind and snow.

His internal organs were aching from the aftermath, but Jiang Jingyuan still put his hands on the ground the moment the barrier shattered, rolled to the side, and fell into the soft snow.

The cold snow stuck to her cheeks, and the plush hood on top of her head covered her entire head, blocking out the direct sunlight from the small patch of snow.

Jiang Jingyuan opened her eyes and stared at the sparkling snow in front of her with the faint light coming through from the side.

Suddenly, dripping, blood-red beads that had broken off the string fell into the water, scattered in twos and threes, like a single plum blossom in the snow.

She lay on the ground, a thick plush cloak wrapped around her figure.

The wind was cold and biting, and she felt the murderous aura roaring behind her.

What should we do?

Just as she didn't believe there was an absolute dead end in the world, she also didn't believe there was anything in the world without weaknesses—the same goes for gods!

At the critical moment...

Jiang Jingyuan jumped up, twisted her body in mid-air, and her snow-white hood with light blue slid back, revealing the girl's pale face.

Facing the three-edged sword that was coming at her like a gust of wind and clouds, she did not dodge or evade. Instead, she took out three or five yellow and black talismans and threw them straight at the black-robed figure!

This was just a cultivation technique that could transform one into ethereal black smoke, but it didn't mean that one was truly an invisible, elusive ghost.

If it was such a heaven-defying thing, it would definitely leave a strong mark in the history books, and it would definitely make her, who used to be a member of the Jiang family, hear about it...

But the fact is, Jiang Yunshu of later generations and Jiang Jingyuan of the past had never heard of it!

Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes and pursed his lips.

If it is just a temporary state, then prevent him from entering that state!

“Puff…”

The iron-black blade of the triangular sword pierced into the flesh, and the cold, decaying aura of death seeped into the bones and blood, rapidly spreading...

The powerful three-edged sword seemed to be about to pierce her heart, but was abruptly stopped in the flesh and blood.

Two figures, one in white and one in black, landed on the ground together, stirring up a flurry of fine snow.

The two people, one staggering, the other stiff, looked at each other quietly in the wind and snow.

The next moment!

The swollen corpses that were originally standing not far away fell to the snow one after another. Snowflakes fell like catkins and suddenly splashed out!

The two people confronting each other did not move. The one holding the triangular sword did not move forward or backward, and the other did not pick up his weapon and slashed with his sword.

Both of them seemed to be fixed in place by an inexplicable spell.

Only the wind and snow that brushed past them became fierce and violent, blowing "whoosh whoosh" at the two of them -

Their spiritual consciousness collided and they competed to bite each other!

One, two, three...blood-red plum blossoms bloomed all over the pure white soft snow.

The immobilization talisman is that as long as it sticks to the corner of the opponent's clothes, the opponent will be unable to move for a short period of time, let alone change his state.

Jiang Jingyuan had just been thinking about how to deal with this strange technique, but now he remembered that the other party was still a living person, a living person with thoughts -

The body cannot be forced to move, but what about the spirit of a living person?

As it turned out, she guessed right.

In the past, she was unable to practice, and because the "Teng Snake" mark required a large amount of energy, she was weak and sickly. But the difference was that her spiritual consciousness only became more resilient after being tempered by the "Teng Snake" mark - because of this, she came across thousands of years without making any prior preparations, and her spiritual consciousness did not collapse.

But spiritual consciousness is a relatively fragile thing, and she can only dare to use spiritual consciousness to attack when the opponent is unable to block it in time.

"thump!"

"thump……"

The man, huddled in the black robe in agony, collapsed limply.

In front of him, the young woman, holding the triangular sword in both hands, slowly thrust it out from the flesh. Jiang Jingyuan stumbled two steps, then collapsed to the snow, exhausted. Bright red blood dripped from her white cloak, leaving a winding trail on the snow.

The cold wind became gentle, gently patting her back, and fluffy small snowflakes slowly fell all over her body.

In the deepest part of the hideous and terrifying wound, red to black energy flowed and formed a barrier - it was this barrier that blocked the triangular sword from moving any further and barely saved her life.

His hands, which quickly became cold, trembled. Jiang Jingyuan took out a white porcelain bottle and poured all five emerald green pills into his mouth.

The black and red barrier and the dead air in the flesh and blood disappeared, and instead emerald green energy flowed through the bloody wound. Slowly, the bleeding stopped, and the broken flesh and blood at the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were filled with darkness, and in the darkness, tiny white dots of light like starlight flickered and flickered...

She closed her eyes and relaxed, completely relaxing.

After a long time, Jiang Jingyuan pulled up his hood again to cover most of his face, stood up and walked to the black-robed man who fell silently on the snow.

She reached out and tugged at the black robe, revealing an ordinary face underneath. She paused, then bent over and began searching without any burden.

This person caused her to be injured and lose a bunch of talismans and pills, and also consumed part of the energy of the jade bracelet... Of course she had to find out if there was anything this person had that could make her money back!

This person's consciousness was destroyed, and the things in the storage space fell to the ground.

Jiang Jingyuan looked at the black-bottomed blue-patterned talismans on the ground and fell into deep thought.

Just glancing at these talismans felt like being stared at by a pair of cold, eerie eyes of death. It was hard to imagine what the consequences would be if they were actually used.

She thought about it, and the delicate peace locket hanging on the bracelet on her left wrist shook. A yellow and black talisman flew out and landed on the black and blue talismans on the ground, igniting a fierce fire out of thin air. No matter how fierce the wind and snow were, the flames did not diminish in the slightest.

After a moment, the orange-red flames disappeared silently in the snow, and the snow was covered with white snow, without any trace of black and blue debris.

Could it be that this person was robbing people because he was so poor? Was it because he had nothing of value that he chased her relentlessly after the aura of her magical weapon like a hungry wolf after meat...?

Jiang Jingyuan watched everything from beginning to end with his spiritual sense, expressionless.

“…”

In the vast expanse of white, Jiang Jingyuan stood up and was about to turn around and leave, but he caught a glimpse of a red and white object out of the corner of his eye.

She paused, stepped forward, stretched out her right hand, which was wrapped in a blood-red barrier, and picked up the thing from the black robe discarded on the snow-white ground.

In the sunlight, she was so startled that she opened her eyes directly, and tried to hold back the pain and tears in her eyes as she looked at the thing in her hand.

Her breathing suddenly stopped—

Thirteen red and white human-sized eyeballs suddenly appeared before her eyes!!!