"Once you are weakened, your random attacks just now will not be completely useless. At least they will have a deterrent effect. Water and fire are mutually exclusive, and this monster clearly does not want to fight you head-on, so it is stalling for time."
This Blackwater River is icy cold; even a Spirit Master would find it difficult to stay in the water for long. The cold draws away a lot of heat, severely depleting their stamina. Once you are completely weak and unable to fight, that's when the unpredictable attack will strike.
"Damn it!" Shen Lingxue gritted her teeth. As a girl, she was not resistant to cold. Now that she was soaking in the river and had used up her spiritual energy to attack the river, she felt cold all over. Her originally fair face turned pale and her lips gradually lost their color.
She never expected that she, a seasoned spirit master, would be caught in a D-level bizarre incident.
She also vaguely sensed something was amiss. Was the strange ability to move lakes really only D-rank? Was it a special ability, or was it powerful?
"Chen Lingxue, light the fire," Fang Xiu suddenly said.
Shen Lingxue was taken aback: "Although my flames are much hotter than ordinary flames, it's unrealistic for you to think that I can burn rivers and boil seas."
"I didn't tell you to boil the river dry. Raise your hands and hold up the flames; that will provide some heat. The cold river water will drain your energy. The situation is unclear, so you must conserve your strength."
Upon hearing this, Shen Lingxue hesitated for a moment. Wasn't this a human torch? Or a human heater?
But she did as she was told. She raised a hand that was white from being blistered, and boom!
A burst of bright, blazing fire erupted, and the intense heat immediately dispelled some of the chill.
"Ah, it's so warm, just like soaking in a hot spring." Zhao Hao made an inappropriate, lame joke.
Shen Lingxue glared at him coldly: "Normally, if you feel warm in extreme cold, it means you're about to freeze to death."
"Ah!?" Zhao Hao was so frightened that he quickly pulled the unconscious fat man closer to himself, intending to absorb some of his warmth.
Although Shen Lingxue, who had been maintaining the flame, had regained some color in her face, her expression became increasingly solemn.
"With my spirituality, I can only hold up the flame for ten minutes at most. After ten minutes, my spirituality will be exhausted. What I'm doing now is like drinking poison to quench my thirst, exchanging my spirituality for physical strength."
What if, after my spirituality is exhausted, the evil spirit appears?
Fang Xiu glanced at her calmly and said indifferently, "It doesn't matter, I will take action."
"You'll make a move?" Shen Lingxue looked at Fang Xiu with great suspicion. After all, in her eyes, Fang Xiu's ability was to foresee the future. Although this ability was very powerful, it had no ability to fight directly.
However, Zhao Hao believed Fang Xiu's words without a doubt. Back when Fang Xiu was in the mental hospital, he was always calm and composed, even when faced with the most dangerous and bizarre situations, as if victory was in his grasp.
"Brother Xiu, you...you saw a glimmer of hope?" Zhao Hao wanted to ask if you saw the future, but remembering the confidentiality agreement he had signed, he could only ask tactfully.
Fang Xiu didn't explain, but simply nodded.
"Great, Brother Xiu, we're counting on you!" Seeing Fang Xiu nod, Zhao Hao acted as if he had already escaped danger.
However, in reality, Fang Xiu did not see the future; he had not even seen the appearance of the ghost.
But none of that matters.
His reason for having Shen Lingxue release flames was ostensibly for warmth, but in reality, he wanted to deplete her spiritual energy.
He guessed that the reason why the water monster had not shown itself for so long must be because it was wary of their strength, which was why it had adopted this method.
So, who is Shui Gui afraid of?
It can only be Shen Lingxue, a senior spirit master, and a fire-type one at that!
As time went by, the flames in Shen Lingxue's palm grew weaker and weaker, almost to the point of going out. At this moment, she intended to extinguish the flames to preserve a trace of her fighting power, but Fang Xiu stopped her.
"Keep burning."
Shen Lingxue looked at Fang Xiu's calm face and ultimately chose to believe him.
This is also why Fang Xiu previously demonstrated such amazing abilities within the Investigation Bureau.
When faced with someone who can predict the future, people will subconsciously choose to believe them.
Finally, Shen Lingxue could no longer hold on.
"It's no use, my spirituality is dried up."
As soon as she finished speaking, the flame in her palm went out, plunging the surroundings into darkness.
The only sound could be heard from all around was the flowing of the river; there was no other sound.
The scene was silent and eerie.
"Water... there seems to be something in the water!" Zhao Hao suddenly exclaimed in horror.
Fang Xiu and the others immediately looked in the direction Zhao Hao was looking, and saw that in the black river water, several even darker, snake-like things were spreading out.
"What do we do now?" Shen Lingxue looked at Fang Xiu nervously. Without her spirituality, she was now a lamb to the slaughter, and her hope for survival rested entirely on Fang Xiu.
Whether it was her imagination or not, Shen Lingxue felt that Fang Xiu's eyes seemed to hold a hint of suppressed ecstasy.
This was not an illusion; Fang Xiu was indeed excited.
Because he hadn't been exposed to anything supernatural for over a week, he felt like a woman who had been suppressing her feelings for a long time, suddenly encountering a provocative prostitute.
Without the slightest hesitation, he plunged headfirst into the water.
Shen Lingxue and the others were immediately shocked.
I never expected Fang Xiu to be so bold.
Underwater.
Fang Xiu was met with complete darkness, and could only vaguely see those snake-like things swimming rapidly toward him.
Blood-red eyes open!
He activated his Blood Eyes, and countless crimson hues instantly appeared in his right eye, densely packed together until all the whites of his eyes were covered in crimson, leaving only a jet-black pupil.
With the help of his blood-red eyes, Fang Xiu finally saw what those black water snakes were.
It was actually strands of jet-black, glossy hair!
This hair is very similar to the hair I saw on the village chief and others before; it's just as thick and black.
The hair seemed to want to entangle Fang Xiu and the others and drag them into the water.
But how could Fang Xiu give it a chance? A flash of silver light appeared in his hand, and a scalpel exuding a chilling and eerie aura appeared in his hand.
Swish!
With a few swings, the hair was immediately cut off.
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