Chapter 274: I Wondered Who It Was, Turns Out It’s Junior Sister. 【 Battle 】
The surging flames burned along the vengeful ghost’s wet fur, instantly severing the vengeful spirit’s assault. The leech-like hairs curled up, unable to contaminate Ming Zhaoshuang in the slightest.
Ming Zhaoshuang smiled in satisfaction.
She was not the same as she was before. After half a year, with the enhancement of the Mountain River Brush, her talisman arts had reached a new level!
To be honest, she hadn’t practiced talisman arts much. Instead, she mostly gained cultivation by painting and perceiving the close connection between herself and the mountains and rivers.
Of course, she had also been studying the relationships between talisman formations!
The vengeful spirit seemed to perceive something, and its head, which had been pried open, began to creak.
She’s a Deity Transformation cultivator, how can you possibly defeat one…
Immediately, the vengeful spirit’s decaying fingers reached out towards Ming Zhaoshuang. Ming Zhaoshuang retreated several steps, and with a sword carrying sharp sword qi, she slashed towards the vengeful spirit!
Unfortunately, the black mist pervading the vengeful spirit’s body hissed and emerged, swallowing her sword qi.
Indeed, a Spirit Transformation Stage Expert is not to be underestimated.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s heart tensed, but she was not flustered. She drew another talisman on Fushuang.
In an instant, Fushuang shimmered with purple light, emitting a golden glow, its aura becoming even sharper and colder. When it struck the vengeful spirit, it was unstoppable!
This was a Spirit-Enhancing Talisman she had developed.
As the name suggests, it enhances sword qi and purifies spiritual power when applied to the sword edge, making one’s magical artifact more powerful.
She was born with an Innate Lightning Spirit Root. Although it had impurities, it could only exert the effect of a top-grade Lightning Spirit Root, but this was still definitely more powerful than an ordinary top-grade Lightning Spirit Root.
With this Spirit-Enhancing Talisman applied, it infinitely approached an Innate Lightning Spirit Root.
You must know that lightning is the bane of all things, and even vengeful spirits formed from vengeful energy are no exception!
Therefore, that guy couldn’t withstand this sword strike of hers!
As expected, under Ming Zhaoshuang’s sword strike, the vengeful spirit’s neck was severed again, completely reattached to its back, but it was strangely connected by thin skin and was not yet dead.
“Ahhh—ah——”
The vengeful spirit howled and attacked Ming Zhaoshuang again. Its stiff, pale body was terrifying to behold.
Hehehe… Are you scared?
But the light in Ming Zhaoshuang’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.
This was truly a sparring partner! An excellent sparring partner!
Come on, let’s fight!
She hadn’t found anyone powerful to fight with for half a year, she might have gone mad from being cooped up!
Ming Zhaoshuang’s sword light was dazzling, and her talisman light rustled as she clashed with the vengeful spirit.
Although she had improved greatly, with both her swordsmanship and talisman arts far surpassing ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, her cultivation was still low. Fighting against this half-baked Deity Transformation cultivator, she couldn’t gain the upper hand.
Of course, she didn’t fall behind either.
After all, her Lightning Spirit Root could suppress all vengeful spirits!
The human and the ghost clashed like this for an unknown amount of time. Finally, the vengeful ghost seemed to lose its patience. With a sharp howl, its extremely withered wrists directly plunged into its already bloody abdomen.
It dug out a blood maggot.
Calling it a blood maggot might not be entirely accurate. To be precise, it was a fetus that had not yet severed its umbilical cord and had not had time to grow limbs.
As soon as it crawled out, Ming Zhaoshuang immediately felt the surrounding atmosphere turn cold and gloomy.
The vengeful energy of this fetus was much greater than that of its mother, and its cultivation was even a realm higher than its mother’s!
Mid-stage Nascent Soul!
Mid-stage Nascent Soul, you can’t handle this… you’re going to die here…
It crawled out of its mother’s decaying abdomen, and its short limbs, not yet differentiated into five fingers, lunged towards Ming Zhaoshuang!
Accompanying it was a scene of extreme tragedy, with mournful cries.
—Waaah
Like weeping blood, like sharp implements.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s heart was filled with a myriad of feelings. Her eardrums nearly shattered, leaving only the crying of the stillborn infant.
Through this sound, her divine soul seemed to drift.
She saw a woman holding herself, her hair dry, her skin pale, surrounded by dampness. In this place where not a shred of light could be seen, they could only silently watch their lives slip away.
She saw the woman’s thigh being broken, a fierce beast crawling on her, as if something was violently colliding, tearing at the woman’s flesh and blood. Even though the woman pleaded and cried, struggling struggle, she could not escape.
She saw the woman’s abdomen bulge high, only to be cut open. When the unformed female fetus was discovered, it was kicked away, and blood stained the road she traveled.
The nurtured hatred consumed her.
The thick resentment gave birth to her.
Finally, she was buried in the River of Forgetfulness, beneath the Three Lives Stone, along with her child, becoming a vengeful spirit.
Is this you?
This is you, this should be your fate.
In the instant Ming Zhaoshuang faltered, the vengeful fetus bit down hard on her arm, gnawing off a piece of flesh and blood. Its long umbilical cord slapped against Ming Zhaoshuang’s mountain-hued dress, staining it with a Blood green.
Ming Zhaoshuang did not hesitate and slapped a lightning talisman onto its face.
Purple lightning exploded, and accompanied by Fushuang’s sword, she finally broke free from this repulsive creature.
Ming Zhaoshuang panted slightly.
She belatedly realized that everything she had just seen was the past life of the vengeful spirit before her.
She was a human woman captured to be made into a Pure Yin Maiden, but she had neither given birth to a male infant that satisfied those people, nor a Pure Yin Maiden that satisfied them. Therefore, before the fetus could mature, she was directly disemboweled.
This is truly pitiable.
Pitiable.
At this moment, looking at the pair of vengeful spirits, Ming Zhaoshuang could only think of these two words.
Those who manufactured Pure Yin Maidens, these beasts, didn’t even wait for the Pure Yin Maidens to be born before digging out the infants from their wombs and abandoning them beneath the Three Lives Stone.
It wasn’t just these two who held resentment; even Ming Zhaoshuang felt a sense of indignation.
It’s just a pity that she still had to fight this pitiful mother and daughter, otherwise, she would be the one to die.
Ming Zhaoshuang gritted her teeth, flung out two more talismans, and attacked them separately. Seizing this opportunity, she quickly slashed at the vengeful fetus again.
It’s just a shame that while she might have been able to sway her mother, she was helpless against such a vengeful spirit.
Her sword edge couldn’t even get close before it was completely swallowed by the dark vengeful energy surrounding it. She could only watch as it lunged at her again.
The vengeful energy surrounding the fetus spirit corroded Ming Zhaoshuang’s skin, causing an itching sensation.
You waste… you can’t defeat them, mother and son, hurry and leave.
As expected, a Deity Transformation Stage vengeful spirit, even with her Lightning Spirit Root, was not so easy to deal with.
Ming Zhaoshuang understood a bit.
But with Mimi protecting her now, she was not afraid at all. Instead, she increasingly desired to use this situation for practice!
After all, she had been cooped up for the past half a year.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s fingertips traced a spiritual flow, and two more talismans appeared in her hand. But before she could throw them, the vengeful infant crawling towards her suddenly froze.
It turned its head blankly.
Along with its mother, dragging its neck that was merely a layer of skin, they both turned blankly.
As if guided by something, they dragged the dirty, Blood green water of the River of Forgetfulness and their disgusting, terrifying internal organ remnants, slowly walking towards Ming Zhaoshuang.
As a strange and wonderful alchemy fragrance wafted over, Ming Zhaoshuang heard a woman’s charming laugh.
“Who is it I thought it was, it turns out to be Junior Sister.”
The soft voice sounded remarkably familiar. Ming Zhaoshuang looked up and indeed saw Tan Zhu at the end of the road, holding a cauldron. Spiritual energy surged from it, emitting an extremely potent alchemy fragrance, guiding these two forward.
Tan Zhu smiled charmingly, her eyebrows unfurling towards Ming Zhaoshuang. Her slightly upturned eyes exuded infinite allure.
She was still as enchanting and captivating, swaying gracefully.
However, her aura seemed to have changed completely. It was neither human nor demonic energy, but a strong and ostentatious ghost qi.
She was of mixed human and ghost bloodline.
