Chapter 161 Overturning the Immortal Registration Institute (2) Xuan Chi’s pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw…
It was noon, and the Xianji Academy was relaxed during the lunch break.
If it weren't for the smoke and clouds swirling between the pavilions and towers, it would not look like a mortal scene at first glance. These gods drinking tea, chatting and gossiping would look no different from mortals.
Under the peach tree in the front yard, two immortals in short-sleeved T-shirts dozed on their backs on a bench. They were the financial officers for the Immortal Registration Institute. Their typical work schedule consisted of a small rush once a month, a mid-quarter rush, and a major rush at the end of the year.
Now is not the time for them to be busy. They can just go to work and slack off with a clear conscience. After all, they have the positions in hand. Buzhouxian, who is in charge of the Immortal Registration Institute, is not a mean boss and will not cause trouble for them just because they are lying down.
The two of them then fell asleep peacefully, one after the other. Just as they were wandering in their sweet dreams—
"Boom!" A deafening roar suddenly rang out, and both of them jumped up from the bench as if they had been electrocuted. All they could see was billowing smoke.
In the thick smoke, grass leaves were flying and sand and gravel were splashing. They could only hear their colleagues' screams and exclamations, but could not see anything clearly.
The two had no idea what was happening and could only look at each other in confusion.
After a long while, the smoke and dust dispersed a little. They looked around in confusion and vaguely saw that the dome barrier hanging high above the Immortal Registration Courtyard... seemed to have a hole?
The tall, thin male immortal frowned, squinting his eyes as he stared at the suspected hole in the barrier, trying to verify his thoughts. The slender female immortal next to him suddenly grabbed his arm and shook it vigorously with a noticeable uneasiness.
The male immortal immediately withdrew his gaze and looked at his female colleague in confusion. Meanwhile, the female immortal pointed towards the gate with a look of horror.
The male immortal looked in the direction she pointed and saw two figures in the thick smoke!
One of them looked like a slender woman, while the other resembled a man, but with a pair of wings. Since only a dark outline could be seen, the male immortal associated the wings with angels from the Western divine realm, subconsciously assuming it was Jehovah coming to challenge him.
Before they could see any more details about the two people, the guards of the Immortal Registration Academy arrived in time and the fight started instantly.
"Run!" The female fairy reacted quickly. As the guard cast the first spell, she pulled the male fairy hard and ran with him to the yard behind.
Behind the two of them, spells crackled and exploded, and halos of various colors flickered in the yard. If a human saw this scene from a distance, they would probably think that a nightclub had opened on the top of Yuzhu Peak.
The two accountants did not dare to stop for a moment and rushed into the second gate before they dared to look back. They happened to see a figure with wings spread soaring into the air, turning the long spear in his hand and stabbing it towards the ground!
"Boom--" There was an even more violent roar. The last impression the two financial officers had of the battle was a strong airflow hitting them in the face, and then... they didn't seem to feel any pain, or even any discomfort, and they lost consciousness.
After the shockwave ended, Si Ling also leaped into the air and looked at Xuan Chi with a complicated expression: "Why didn't you use this move when you fought Rakshasa?"
Xuan Chi smiled and said, "This move can only stun but not kill."
"Okay." Si Ling curled his lips and was about to head straight to the Immortal Records Library when the light around him suddenly dimmed.
She held her breath and looked up, only to see that the sky, which had been sunny a moment ago, was now covered by a layer of dark clouds. Lightning flashed faintly in the clouds, but it was very faint, not as dazzling as the lightning that Moloch had struck in the dark clouds. It was more like a low-key warning.
Faced with this warning, they have only two choices: one is to leave tactfully - which is of course impossible; the other is to continue fighting - in which case they might as well state their intentions directly.
Si Ling smiled, looked at the dark clouds and said, "We have some personal matters that require us to open up this Immortal Registration Institute. I don't know who is in charge here, please show up and fight!"
The next second, there was a sudden flash of lightning, followed by a strong wind that blew and sent grass and leaves flying.
Si Ling and Xuan Chi hung there motionless, and soon they saw a figure descending from the middle of the dark clouds, several feet away, looking at them from afar.
"……Um?"
They should have started fighting immediately, but they couldn't help but look at each other in confusion, because this god who descended from the sky was so strange.
The divine realm and the human world influence each other. Nowadays, regardless of country, heaven, or hell, many gods prefer to wear modern human clothing. Some older gods are relatively conservative and still wear flowing clothes.
But the one in front of me...
He was wearing neither modern nor traditional clothes, but was wrapped in cloth from head to toe, even covering his eyes.
With such attire, not only is it impossible to see her face, it’s even impossible to tell her gender.
Si Ling was speechless for a moment, then asked Xuan Chi in a low voice, "Do you think Professor Toth knows him?"
She felt that no matter how you looked at it, this was foreign aid invited from the other side of the Nile River.
"It doesn't make sense." Xuan Chi frowned, also looking puzzled.
He admitted that he was prejudiced against the current Emperor of Heaven, but even so, he did not think that the Heavenly Court would be so chaotic that the household registration would be handed over to outsiders for management.
The saying "Those who are not of my race must have different hearts" is very influential in the East. Although it sounds a bit extreme, no one can say that it is completely wrong.
But the person in front of me looks like a mummy no matter how you look at it.
Xuan Chi thought seriously for a moment whether he should ask the other party about his origins in ancient Egyptian. However, before he could ask, a long sword appeared in the hand of the "mummy", and with a nimble flash, he chopped towards Si Ling!
Si Ling dodged several swords in succession by moving to the side, and took the opportunity to throw out paper figures to transform them into an army.
Xuan Chi immediately began to arrange his troops, but before the paper figures could line up, the mummy turned his head coldly, and his lips under the cloth moved. Suddenly, huge waves crashed down, and the newly formed paper figures were all washed away in an instant.
"..." After all, he had stayed up all night to edit the work, and the veins on Si Ling's forehead were throbbing.
The next moment, the raging waves changed direction and split into two in the middle, heading straight towards Si Ling and Xuan Chi.
Si Ling forced out his Yin Qi, and the waves that reached him instantly solidified into a wall of ice. Xuan Chi flipped his halberd, stirring the current. The waves swirled around him, forming a whirlpool. With a flick of his halberd, the water roared towards the mummy.
The mummy tilted its head slightly, its face expressionless... or perhaps its expression was hidden by the cloth, and it stared straight at the oncoming water.
When there was only a few inches left between the people and the water, the water suddenly moved horizontally upward, turned into countless water droplets, dispersed, and disappeared into the dark clouds.
There was another flash of lightning, and then a torrential downpour suddenly began to fall. A dense curtain of rain obscured the view, and the mummy was no longer visible.
Si Ling and Xuan Chi stood side by side, concentrating on observing every movement around them.
The few moves just now were enough to let them know that the opponent's strength should not be underestimated. It was not an endless war of attrition like the giants in the Rakshasa world, but his strength was indeed impressive.
Unfortunately, the Immortal Registration Institute was directly under the Heavenly Court, so Si Ling didn't dare use the Heavenly Emperor's magic that she had just remembered. Wanting a quick victory, the only solution she could think of was to gamble on the Five Elements' conflict.
The Five Elements' restraint is extremely practical in the Porcelain Kingdom's cultural sphere, but it's not a panacea. For example, Si Ling's Five Elements are very balanced, while someone like Xuan Chi, who is clearly a Water element, would be restrained by Earth. However, Xuan Chi's cultivation is high enough that restraining him would require even stronger Earth elements.
Strictly speaking, she didn't know the five elements of this mummy, but judging from the previous fight, it was most likely water.
Si Ling's mind raced when she suddenly felt something moving behind her. She turned around abruptly and said, "A thousand peaks are crossing the sky!"
The mummy that had just materialized behind her was startled and immediately retreated to avoid the stalactite-like cones that pursued it relentlessly. Seeing no escape, the mummy used the distance to launch a series of counterattacks, launching a volley of water and ice balls.
However, due to the restraint of the Five Elements, these spells caused very little damage to the stone cones, and it took dozens of spells to shatter the stone cones.
Si Ling's heartstrings relaxed, he threw out the dagger with both hands, and cast the spell again: "The earth veins are overturned!"
A pair of short swords flashed with a cold light, and the swords were raised. The ground below suddenly rippled like silk, and the stones and soil seemed to have spiritual consciousness, and they all rushed towards the mummy.
The mummy hurriedly dodged again and summoned new waves of water to hit the earth.
Si Ling thoroughly understood her attributes, breathed a sigh of relief, and leaped to catch the two swords. The blades crossed before her, and she stared intently at the dodging mummy, chanting the incantation word by word: "Dust Tribulation Returns to the Abyss."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sky and the earth made a sound like the roar of an animal, and the soil rose up lightly as if it had escaped gravity, turning into countless tiny dust and gravel.
The mummy realized that this move should not be underestimated, and immediately summoned the surrounding frost and snow to protect itself.
At the moment when the dust and gravel were shrinking towards the mummy, the mummy waved his hands, making the frost and snow face the sand and gravel.
At the critical moment, a white-blue luster flashed between the strips of cloth around her neck, and then disappeared in an instant.
Xuan Chi's pupils suddenly shrank. Seeing that the sand and gravel had drastically shrunk, he shouted, "Wait!"
He leaped straight at the mummy and pushed it away in the thousandth of a second when the sand and gravel were shrinking towards the mummy.
Almost instantly, the air began to gather speed. Si Ling tried to withdraw his grip, but it was too late. The gravel, like tiny knives, sliced through Xuan Chi's skin from all sides, leaving countless tiny wounds all over his body. The frost and snow unleashed by the mummy followed, touching the wounds and leaving bruises.
The excruciating pain that instantly filled every nerve choked Xuan Chi's scream in his throat. He only uttered a muffled groan before falling heavily to the ground.
"Xuan Chi!" Si Ling hurriedly jumped up to chase after him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the mummy stop a few meters away, looked at them twice, and then immediately cast a spell and disappeared without a trace.
Si Ling secretly thought that something was wrong. Seeing Xuan Chi fall to the ground, she quickly took out the talisman. As her right hand touched Xuan Chi, the talisman in her left hand suddenly ignited. A dark blue flame shot out, and the two of them disappeared without a trace.
For the first few seconds of teleportation, Si Ling's mind was completely bewildered. After a few seconds, the surroundings gradually became clearer, and they were back in Si Ling's room at the Ghost Academy.
Xuan Chi fell at Si Ling's feet, his whole body twitching uncontrollably, his mind scattered, his empty eyes staring aimlessly in front of him.
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