Chapter 157: Ruan Yunxiong Case (6) “Tsk, I really can’t live without you…
Si Ling’s inner thoughts: Wait???
But it was too late.
The falling stars were absorbed the moment they touched the black giant, and each one of them sparked a layer of faint light on it.
Si Ling and Xuan Chi watched as the stars were completely absorbed, and the black giant became noticeably taller. In the world of ghosts, this kind of physical growth often means increased strength.
Si Ling: “…”
Xuan Chi took a deep breath with a complicated expression: "Who on earth is this sacred person?"
The next second, the fully grown black giant roared and attacked! Si Ling dodged, and Xuan Chi leaped up, wielding his halberd. "A Thousand Rivers Against the Tide!"
——This is a spell similar to "Starlight Shining", but it is water-based.
In an instant, there was a loud sound of water above the cave. Xuan Chi turned around and rushed towards Si Ling, and pulled him to the cliff.
Almost simultaneously, water crashed down like a waterfall. The black giant looked up and saw the incoming waters. It was too late to dodge, and in an instant, he was completely covered by the current.
In the first few seconds, Si Ling could still see the black giant staggering in the water, and then he disappeared.
Two minutes later, the water flow stopped, and the water flowing towards the small town below disappeared inexplicably, but the black giant was also nowhere to be seen, as if it had vanished into thin air.
Hyun Chi raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: "It doesn't seem that difficult?"
"Hmm..." Si Ling was hesitating to respond when he suddenly saw wisps of black smoke condensing at the bottom of the cliff.
Xuan Chi's eyes flashed, and he leaped down, slashing with his halberd. The black smoke suddenly dissipated. But when he returned to the cliff, the black smoke began to gather again with unwavering determination.
Both of them frowned and stood on the cliff to watch the changes. After about half a minute, they saw the clue: the black smoke gradually condensed into a tall human figure, and it seemed that it was about to return to the appearance of a black giant.
Xuan Chi frowned, "Can't he be killed?"
Si Ling thought thoughtfully: "No wonder the Four Judges can't win."
...Endless resurrection was already annoying, and she had a reasonable suspicion that the giant resurrected this time would be able to absorb both "Starlight Shining" and "Thousand Rivers Against the Tide" at the same time.
This means that not only will the battle against it be endless, but the spells you can use will also be decreasing.
How can we fight this?
Si Ling studied the humanoid black smoke in front of him, and the more he thought about it, the weirder it became: "That black smoke should be half Rakshasa and half Yin Qi. Your magic and mine should be able to completely defeat some of it, but the more it resurrects, the stronger it becomes. How strange."
"Is there another source of energy?" Xuan Chi looked around intently and soon noticed that some black smoke was floating out from the small town, but it was only a small part.
More black smoke came from all directions, continuously seeping out from the stone wall, as if someone in the dark was casting spells here.
Si Ling also noticed this. Her first thought was Ruan Yunxiong, but she quickly dismissed that possibility. Not only was she certain Ruan Yunxiong was in the town below, but the smoke wasn't coming from the right direction. Just consider Ruan Yunxiong's cultivation level—it had only been a thousand years since the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Even if he was exceptionally gifted, she didn't think he could conjure up so much magical power out of thin air.
Si Ling was lost in thought, recalling every detail of his journey. Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "It's the Yin energy from above!"
Hyun Chi: “What?”
"The feng shui above Baima is so gloomy it doesn't seem natural; it's man-made." She said nervously, "But the barrier is all underground, so why would they need to build a corpse-raising ground above it?"
Xuan Chi was surprised and asked, "You mean he's using the Yin energy above to store energy below?"
"I guess so." Si Ling said, looking behind him.
After she finished the first round of fighting, the narrow crack she came from became an open plain, and the barrier that blocked her from leaving had disappeared. She should be able to return to the ground smoothly.
She glanced again at the giant, which had basically regained its human form. After experiencing the Stone Giant and the Black Giant, this time countless vines grew on its body, foreshadowing new strength.
"Help me stop it!" she said, and immediately turned back. After floating a few dozen meters, the third-stage vine giant seemed to sense her intentions and immediately ran after her.
Xuan Chi immediately cast a spell and stepped forward to stop it, but the vine giant went straight to Si Ling, paying no attention to Xuan Chi. Seeing Xuan Chi trying to hinder his movements, with a whoosh, all the vines on his body flew towards Si Ling!
Xuan Chi's eyebrows jumped, and he swung his halberd to cut the vines. The last vine touched Si Ling's hair when it was cut off.
Si Ling looked back, then floated upwards.
This place was quite far from the ground. She had been sucked in by the force of the force, and even her rapid fall took a long time. Floating up was much slower than falling. The vine giant didn't chase her, but vines kept coming out of the soil as she passed, trying to block her movement.
Si Ling chopped with all his might, and after an unknown amount of time, he finally reached the ground safely.
Looking up, I saw a hint of orange-red glow in the distant mountain stream, indicating that the sun was rising.
She immediately ran towards the forest. In an instant, the surrounding vegetation sensed her presence, and branches and leaves attacked her continuously. Si Ling, feeling annoyed, leaped into the air, and the leaves followed suit, attacking like blades.
Si Ling did not want to fight, and without a protective spell to defend himself, he let them hit him.
She quickly found a place with obvious Yin energy, took out a lightning-struck jujube wood pendant and threw it on the ground, and the Yin energy obviously subsided.
However, before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a vine came towards her, scraping the ground. She subconsciously dodged, but the vine was not aimed at her, but accurately ripped away the lightning-struck jujube wood pendant.
Si Ling: ???
The negative energy gathered again in an instant, making her laugh out of anger.
Just as she was agonizing over what to do, Hyun Chi appeared behind her through the ground: "Where's the paper figurine?"
Si Ling swung his sword and shattered two flying leaves. He sighed and said, "These should be integrated with the vine giant. I tried, and the paper man was vulnerable."
Xuan Chi nodded: "I'll try."
Si Ling reached into his bag and threw all the paper figures to him. Unexpectedly, Hyun Chi took them, ripped the ropes, and threw them all out. Si Ling screamed, "Use them sparingly!!!"
But it was obviously too late.
Tens of thousands of paper figures floated into the air. Si Ling imagined the tragic waste and couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
In a short while, all the paper figures fell to the ground and scattered densely in the mountains and forests before his eyes.
Xuan Chi said to Si Ling, "You go and get busy." After saying that, he fell silent and used his mind to drive the paper figures to transform and gather.
Seeing the disorganized paper figures quickly forming a line, Si Ling's eyes lit up. He threw the lightning-struck jujube wood again to the previous position, and then ran to the next place where the yin energy was.
Some grass leaves and vines attacked the lightning-struck jujube wood pendant as before, but were blocked in an orderly manner by the paper man holding a shield and chopped by the paper man holding a knife. After several attempts, they gave up the lightning-struck jujube wood and chased Si Ling again.
Si Ling heard the change in breath and turned back calmly, seeing the paper people combining offense and defense, fighting in an orderly manner.
Very good... This is Hyun Chi's area of expertise!
Although Xuan Chi is also very powerful in terms of personal combat ability, it is inevitable that he will be outmatched when facing attacks from all directions.
But if you give him an army, it would be a dimensionality reduction attack.
Si Ling couldn't help but think of the first time he fought many years ago.
At that time, he was not yet the commander-in-chief. On the eve of the expedition, she saw him pacing back and forth by the lake from the balcony of her bedroom, and his anxiety was evident in his steps.
Seeing this, she thought something had happened, so she rushed to ask him directly. He just lowered his head and said, "The battle is about to begin... I'm very nervous."
Later, when the army returned victorious, Chi Huang, the commander-in-chief, privately complained to her after the celebration banquet: "The young general newly appointed by the king... is very interesting. He was always nervous during the march and couldn't put down his military books."
She nodded. "I know."
Chi Huang's next words were: "Then he went on the battlefield like crazy killing people on the first day."
Xin Bi: “?”
Chi Huang clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty has a keen eye. This man is not only a capable fighter, but also a skilled commander of troops, capable of achieving victory by surprise. He deserves at least half of the credit for this victory. Therefore—"
Chi Huang asked earnestly, "What did you say he was so nervous about?"
Si Ling laughed as she recalled the memory, and suddenly felt a sensation of both cold and hot. She casually took out the Yin-Yang Mirror and threw it to the ground.
"Swish, swish, swish--" Dozens of vines were pulled out one after another, and were chopped off one by one by the paper man.
While defending here, Xuan Chi was considering an offensive move. Three square formations of paper figures, armed with long axes, approached the trees. Moments later, the sound of chopping trees could be heard.
Grass and vines flying all over the sky:?
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An hour later, Si Ling had placed extremely yang objects at each location where yin energy gathered, and a third of the trees in the forest had been cut down. The grass and vines continued their relentless attack, but with fewer trees, their attack power was greatly weakened, making the paper man's defense increasingly easier.
Xuan Chi observed the rate of his own men's casualties for a while, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It should be fine."
The two of them then set off back into the depths of the earth. The vine giant had apparently sensed something about the events on the ground, and upon seeing them appear, he roared angrily. The violent vibrations caused the ground to shatter and smoke and dust to rise.
Si Ling twirled his swords in his hands: "You go ahead, I'll take a break."
"As you command." Xuan Chi smiled calmly and flew towards the vine giant. In an instant, dozens of vines attacked him. He dodged them with lightning speed and flashed before the giant. He unleashed a spell: "Thunderbolt!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a pillar of lightning struck down and hit the giant's head.
"Sizzle——" The giant didn't react at first, but...
“Sizzle——”
“Sizzle—”
Under the continuous and precise lightning strikes, the vines on the giant's body gradually became scorched and tangled, just like a perm.
After dozens of lightning strikes, the giant collapsed to the ground, submerged in smoke and dust. When the smoke and dust cleared again, the giant had disappeared without a trace, just like last time. Si Ling and Xuan Chi watched with bated breath for a long while, but in the end, they did not see any more black smoke condensing.
Si Ling sighed and said half-jokingly, "Tsk, I really can't live without you."
Xuan Chi's cheeks flushed and he looked away with a flickering look.
Si Ling smiled again and said, "You can't leave me either - it's because I know how to use people. I saw from the beginning that you are a talented general, right?"
"...Yeah." Xuan Chi lowered his head and responded in a muffled voice.
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The author has something to say: Luo Ling: Can you please stop teasing the bird? Has your bad taste remained the same for tens of thousands of years?
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