Amidst the flickering light and shadow, Lin Hengjin clearly saw the large python's scales, each one as cold and hard as iron, as imposing as a mountain.
It was so black it was dazzling, so black it shimmered with iridescent light, so black it seemed to gaze upon the abyss of all human sins, making one afraid to look at it for long.
The black snake phantom made no attempt to interrupt Zhu Yi's spellcasting. Instead, it constantly adjusted its body to create openings for Zhu Yi to attack the opponent.
Chi Su smiled lazily: "Little girl, I advise you not to waste your energy. This is a deadly Asura made from the remains of giants. Even the footprints they left behind are extremely poisonous. If you are not careful and they catch you and eat you, your soul will be scattered!"
"It's not like I can't hear you. Why are you slurring your words like that? Do you think you're so cool?" Zhu Yi tilted her head, completely ignoring what Chi Su was saying. She vaguely felt that the words "giant race" sounded familiar, but couldn't quite place them.
The girl frowned, looking naive and innocent, which piqued Chi Su's interest. "You really are interesting! You're facing death and you're not even afraid?"
"I'm about to die, what's there to be afraid of! Do you think being afraid will make you let me go? No!" Zhu Yi shouted sharply, "Buddha Fire Technique!"
Rolling lotus flowers flew out, following Zhu Yi's will. Shu Chen had no time to resist Zhu Yi's Buddhist fire technique and was burned black on his face. His waist tightened, and Jin Bao, whose furry ears had not yet fully transformed, grabbed him and rushed out of the sea of fire.
"I can't stand it, I really can't stand it!" Jinbao muttered in Shuchen's ear as he ran, "Junior Sister's Buddhist Fire Technique is really amazing, she's really mastered the alternation and transformation of Yin and Yang Fire!"
Red and blue lotuses appeared alternately. The five puppets slowed down due to the opposing forces of the alternating hot and cold. Zhu Yi, enduring the stench of decay, raised his saber high and fiercely cleaved through the path ahead.
In the blink of an eye, Shu Chen seemed to see the dazzling lights of the Lantern Festival in the mortal world, with countless spiritual lights scattering like rain or falling stars. The black snake phantom behind Zhu Yi took advantage of the moment and blew, revealing a mouth as big as a basin, eyes as big as a bowl, and a body as thick as a bucket, yet it was unusually... agile?
"Strange, I can't sense any killing intent?" Jinbao sniffed carefully, but didn't detect any unusual soul aura.
"It seems to be the scent of incense from before a Buddha statue? The delicate fragrance of lotus flowers and the lushness of a peach orchard?"
Shu Chen was confused. "Jin Bao, how can you smell so many scents? I can't smell anything."
"Woof!" Jinbao wagged its tail happily, showing off, "I'm smelling the scent of a soul!"
Jinbao ate a fairy fruit from Zhu Yi, which unlocked its unique olfactory talent.
Ordinary dogs can only smell the scent of flesh, but Jinbao is destined to be an extraordinary dog. It can find people by the scent of their souls. No matter what kind of disguise or high-end perfume you use, nothing can escape its upgraded nose.
Shu Chen found Jin Bao's smug look somewhat amusing. As expected of Yu Jing Zhenren's spirit pet, it remained so calm in the face of danger.
"Ah! The essence of Kuafu!" A hoarse, aged voice rang out, uttering five words. Zhu Yi didn't hear them clearly, but Chi Su, as the master who refined the giant Shura puppet, heard them perfectly.
His wicked lips pursed slightly, his expression one of disdain and disbelief: "The spirit of Kuafu is in Denglin of the Spirit Realm, how could it be on such an ordinary little girl?"
"Attack!" Whether it's real or fake, nothing can stop him from taking the beauty back to cultivate and heal his injuries today!
"Beauty? Where is the beauty!" Chi Su turned around to look for Wei Weiwei, but the person who had been lying quietly on the straw mat was nowhere to be seen. A few meters away, the large footprints of the puppet clearly showed the footprints of two women, reminding Chi Su that he had fallen for someone's trick to lure him away from the mountain.
The firelight flickered and smoke billowed, but Zhu Yi's sword did not gain any advantage against the giant hand of the skeleton puppet.
The leading giant puppet still retained its consciousness, its hands clasped together, and a kind of excited light seemed to leap in its lifeless skeletal eyes. With a slight exertion, Zhu Yi's horse-slaying sword shattered and fell to the ground in several pieces.
"The Xuan Tie (mysterious iron) horse-slaying saber is shattered just like that!" Xue Shan exclaimed. "Junior Sister will be heartbroken this time!"
At this moment, Xue Shan and Wei Weiwei were hiding far away in a corner, which was not a good situation.
The two women were pale, with a dark glint in their eyes. Their mouths tasted like rotting flesh, and their vitality was rapidly fading, as if something was quickly sucking away their life force.
Xue Shan watched as her hands withered and gradually aged like dead tree branches. A gas even more poisonous than the zombie gas she encountered in the Immortal Peach Secret Realm circulated through her body. Xue Shan dared not circulate her spiritual energy excessively, nor did she dare to move her blood vessels too much, to avoid accelerating the circulation of toxins in her body.
With her last breath, she took out two Royal-grade Detoxification Pills from her storage bag, gave one to herself and one to Weiwei, and then held Weiwei against an old tree before fainting.
Before her consciousness faded into darkness, the image of Zhu Yi facing off against five large skeleton puppets amidst a sea of fire flashed before her eyes. The lotus fire array woven from bright red flames corresponded to the gloomy darkness of the five dark puppets, and the intense visual impact gave Xue Shan an inexplicable sense of security.
She thought that although her junior sister was young, she always felt very at ease whenever she was out with her.
Wherever her junior sister was, no matter how dangerous the journey, she felt it was worthwhile. Her junior sister always had the ability to bring them back safely...
If Zhu Yi knew what Xue Shan was thinking, she would be so ashamed she wouldn't even know how to write the word "things"! She felt she always dragged her friends down with her...
Wiping the remaining blood from his mouth, Zhu Yi rose from the sea of fire. His hands, holding the sword, trembled, and blood gushed out along the patterns on his sleeves. The five skeleton puppets were even more certain that Zhu Yi possessed the essence of Kuafu.
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