Chapter 18: Death of Zhang Lingjiang
"Now that you've become stronger, you don't take me seriously anymore?"
Looking at He Yi who was ignoring him, Zhang Lingjiang raised his hand and swung his sword. Suddenly, the black sword light turned into several lightning bolts and quickly attacked He Yi.
He Yi casually waved his umbrella to blow it away, and the lightning sword light fell to the already bumpy rooftop with a crackling sound, adding new scars to it.
He Miao poked his head out from the ground where no lightning was diffused, with a distressed look on his face, "My building... I still need to find someone to repair it..."
The place where they were, which was full of potholes and unevenness, was the rooftop of the strange building.
Seeing Zhang Lingjiang throwing out the sword, which was emitting electric currents and flying straight towards him, He Miao snorted disdainfully, then quickly sank into the building and disappeared.
The giant sword was deeply inserted into the ground, the hilt was still shaking, and the electric light was already crackling and spreading.
Two seconds later, He Miao, who was electrified, jumped out and flew towards He Yi, screaming in pain, "My real body! Stop looking! Save me!"
He Yi finally withdrew his gaze from the sky, appeared in front of He Miao, and tapped the umbrella on her shoulder lightly with a slightly warning look in his eyes.
She shouldn't have been here.
Lightning flows into the umbrella.
He Miao returned to normal. She deliberately ignored He Yi's gaze, made a face at Zhang Lingjiang who attacked her with bare hands, and turned into black mist and merged into He Yi's body.
The moment He Miao disappeared, Zhang Lingjiang also came close to He Yi, and his hands, which had turned into tough paper rolls, quickly wrapped around He Yi and tied her tightly. "You're really quick. I wanted to kill her."
The clone is a branch of the ghost's main body, and is a part of the power of the main body. When the clone dies, the corresponding power dissipates and merges into the world, which is the main way to weaken the enemy's power.
"You let her go." He Yi said calmly. With Zhang Lingjiang's speed, if he really wanted to attack He Miao, there would be no chance for her to escape.
Zhang Lingjiang frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. He just kept retracting the paper roll.
With a bang, the umbrella opened, the paper rolled up, the debris flew, and the originally light smell of ink became stronger. The two ghosts seemed to be in the middle of the books.
The torn paper scrolls contained a series of short sentences: "A woman has four virtues... She does not have to be extremely intelligent... She does not have to be eloquent... She should concentrate on spinning and weaving, and not be playful..." [Note 1].
He Yi waved his umbrella, and the wind and waves swept away the paper scraps, leaving only a faint smell of ink.
Zhang Lingjiang dodged and stepped back, pulling out the giant sword that was stuck in the ground. Electric light flowed rapidly on the surface of the giant sword, and the charge concentration in the air was rising.
With a swing of the sword, lightning crackled and spread out.
Zhang Lingjiang attacked suddenly.
The sharp and smooth sword body, wrapped with dark power, electric light and wind, hit the dark surface of the Soul-Destroying Umbrella. The electric light and dark power seemed to encounter a black hole and were instantly absorbed by the umbrella surface.
A faint light flashed across the pitch-black umbrella surface, and circles of golden patterns emerged from the edge of the umbrella, extending towards the center like vines.
The moment all the light appeared, white light gushed out from the umbrella like rain, falling on Zhang Lingjiang who was nearby, corroding holes in it; it fell on the giant sword, instantly making the flowing electric light disappear and gradually dim.
Zhang Lingjiang quickly retreated to avoid the subsequent white light attacks, threw away the sword, and pulled out an exquisitely carved wooden folding fan from his body with his backhand.
The fan opened with a bang, revealing a scene of a waterfall rushing down. She fanned it with her backhand -!
With the sudden sound of splashing water, the waterfall burst out like a thick water dragon and crashed towards He Yi. It collided with the white light emitted by the Soul-Destroying Umbrella and actually knocked it back!
Not only that, after the water dragon collided with the umbrella, it also knocked the umbrella cover to bend and collapse slightly, covering He Yi with blood after falling off the umbrella, and also blocking He Yi's sight.
Everything happened in an instant. When He Yi dodged again, he was already soaked, with his clothes and hair sticking to his body, making his face look even paler; the purple scar seemed to be affected by something and became darker.
She folded her umbrella and shook off the water. The moisture on her body gradually evaporated. Suddenly, she swept to the right. There was a loud bang, which was the sound of the soul-destroying umbrella and the giant sword colliding.
There was no figure behind the giant sword. After being blocked, it did not fall to the ground, but was controlled to fly back to Zhang Lingjiang.
Zhang Lingjiang floated in the air, with water dragons flying out of her folding fan surrounding her like guards. The wind coming from nowhere made her wide sleeves flutter, just like the scene in an ancient painting.
She looked at He Yi's darkened scar thoughtfully, "Why are you angry now? Do you hate water?"
He Yi looked calm, "Do you like reading?"
Zhang Lingjiang paused and raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's really a shocking point."
She didn't dwell on this topic too much, but changed the subject and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?
"I don't believe you really want to separate the ghosts from the humans.
"As a ghost, you can't have such strong emotions that you would give up your own interests for the benefit of humanity.
"You like humans and lively environments, so there's no way you would want to go back to the previous situation."
He Yi: "Then what do you think my purpose is?"
"Promotion." Zhang Lingjiang said confidently, "The world of the pomegranate flower mirror is a natural cage.
“In this mirror world that corresponds to the real world, as long as you are well prepared in advance, as the owner of the pomegranate flower mirror, you can move around here at will, and it will be easy for you to kill ghostly devourers in large numbers.
"Plus, the king level is already under your control, no ghost can stop you."
He Yi said calmly, "Then what do you think will happen to you, the only one standing in my way?"
The tip of the giant sword pointed at He Yi, and the bright sunlight reflected on it looked cold, just like Zhang Lingjiang's tone that suddenly turned cold, "We'll know the outcome once we give it a try."
The two ghosts attacked at the same time, and their speed was so fast that only two figures, one black and one white, could be seen interlacing, overlapping, colliding and separating in the air. Sometimes there were splashes of lightning and sometimes loud bangs.
At this moment, the manhole cover on the road in front of the strange building was suddenly pushed open.
A head popped out.
Seeing a battle going on overhead, Li Ruyu hurriedly climbed out of the sewer and ran to the alley opposite to hide and watch the fight.
The one who came out after her was Hengheng. Although it was a fat white pig, it was also a ghost. It had both entity and non-entity. The seemingly heavy and falling flesh was actually energy and could move freely within the body.
Squeezing out of the well, it hummed a few times and looked around in confusion, as if it didn't know where it was or where to go.
A black cat jumped out and landed on Hengheng's back. It was Chen Anan. She patted the pig's back with her cat's tail and said, "Go to Xiaoyu."
He groaned twice, squeezed into the alley with Chen Anan, and then fell asleep in the back.
Chen Anan jumped onto Li Ruyu's shoulder and whispered to him.
The last person to slowly crawl out was Wu Lin. She closed the manhole cover and squatted with them.
Six minutes ago, they each used their own unique skills to escape from the cage and then escape from the dungeon. Chen Anan was very familiar with the underground layout of Donghe City and led them along the sewer to He Yi's area.
"We are going to help Zhang Lingjiang, what about you?" Li Ruyu asked. Logically, she should move closer so that she could speak in a low voice, but she did not trust Wu Lin, so she just spoke from a distance.
"What do you think?" Wu Lin asked lazily, "Do I have any other choice?"
Just as they were discussing how to assist in batches, the battle above came to a temporary halt with a loud thunder.
Zhang Lingjiang threw away the broken giant sword and said, "It would be great if I had the Styx Sword in my hand."
He Yi used his umbrella as a sword to stab at him, and said calmly, "If you want it so badly, why don't you ask Wang Nu for it? She will give it to you."
Zhang Lingjiang held the waterfall fan, and the waterfall whipped the umbrella, "Robbing my subordinates' things makes me look useless."
"Useless pride," He Yi said, "it will cost you your life."
"Your hypocrisy is as good as my arrogance, and it will also cost you your life." Zhang Lingjiang took out a puppet from his body, wrapped He Yi's long hair that he had pulled out at some point around it, and set it on fire.
He Yi watched the scene expressionlessly without moving.
"Wu Lin, is that the doll you gave me?" Li Ruyu asked.
Wu Lin hummed, and seemed to be a little nervous. The lazy temperament on his body dissipated, and he tensed up. "I don't have many of that level."
They watched as the puppet turned to ashes, but He Yi remained intact and Zhang Lingjiang's body began to dissipate.
Feeling the strength in his body draining away quickly, Zhang Lingjiang quickly realized that this was all a trick of Wu Lin and He Yi.
"Tying up the body parts with He Yi's scent and setting the puppet on fire can cause serious harm to He Yi" - what a lie!
She threw herself forward unwillingly and grabbed He Yi's shoulders, "Devour me, quickly! Otherwise I will dissipate!"
Looking at Zhang Lingjiang who was full of anxiety, He Yi said: "I promised Wu Lin that your power will be hers."
Knowing that He Yi would not break his promise easily, Zhang Lingjiang grabbed his chest helplessly, tore off an ancient book and stuffed it into He Yi's hand, "Then you keep this."
After tearing the book off, her body dissipated faster and soon turned into a shadow. Looking at He Yi, she forced a smile and said, "I wish you good luck in your promotion."
He Yi calmly withdrew his gaze and went downstairs.
Li Ruyu and other ghosts are already under Wu Lin's control. They lived together in prison before and then found a way together in the sewer. Wu Lin had many opportunities to obtain their body parts.
He Yi said: "According to the agreement, Zhang Lingjiang is yours, and they are mine."
Wu Lin made a gesture of invitation. She was in a good mood now as she had absorbed Zhang Lingjiang's power through the puppet.
"How did you two get together?" Li Ruyu was puzzled as he could not move his body but his mouth was fine. "You killed Nan Wu, but she is still working with you."
Wu Lin explained in a good mood, "Is it possible that Nan Wu was killed by me a long time ago, and the one who was active outside was my clone, and the one who was killed by He Yi was also my clone?"
"There's no need to say so much." He Yi's eyes moved between Chen Anan and Li Ruyu, as if he was thinking about which one to eat first.
Finally, she reached out and grabbed Li Ruyu.
"You two are shameless!" Li Ruyu burst into tears, tears streaming down her face.
"I'm not Zhang Lingjiang. Your tricks won't work on me."
Just when He Yi grabbed Li Ruyu, a black sword light came fiercely and cut He Yi's hand and Li Ruyu into two halves.
"Oh my, why are you bullying a child?"
He Yi turned his head to look at the alley entrance. The woman with white hair and red eyes was standing in the front, the sword in her hand seemed to be accumulating the next attack; the human girl and the blue-haired woman behind her were looking at this side vigilantly; only the red-haired woman who was tied up like a worm and crawling on the ground was full of curiosity and muttered.
"Group fight, exciting."
He Yi stared at the leader Wei Hang and said, "We have an agreement."
Before Wei Hang could reply, Wu Lin reminded him, "They ran away. I didn't cast a spell on the sleeping Heng Heng."
He Yi turned around and saw Li Ruyu, who had re-condensed his body, carrying Chen Anan and riding a pig, running deep into the alley.
"We didn't interfere with your plan." Wei Hang said, "I was just doing what visitors from another world should do - completing the mission."
On one side was the prey escaping on a pig, and on the other side was the collaborator who used sweet words to undermine the agreement. He Yi's usually calm brows finally twitched.
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