Chapter 868: Chapter 518: Sealing Away Evil
The flames inside the ancestral hall still burned, yet the temperature between heaven and earth dropped.
Zhao Douan took a deep breath, tightly gripping the handle of the Chasing Saber in his hand, and looked towards the back of the priestess ahead: "Yu Xiu Daoist..."
Her entire being seemed like a faded old painting battered by wind and rain for a year. Yu Xiu started coughing, covering her mouth with her hand, a pool of crimson blood appearing in her palm, yet her tone remained resolute: "I can handle this."
Curse—
Undoubtedly, it is an utterly unreasonable force. Back on the summit of Luo Mountain, even Xu Zhenguan, who was comparable to the Heavenly Human Realm, was successfully curse killed by the White Clothes Sect. The Emperor Star dimmed, fortune declined, let alone Yu Xiu?
The magicians of the White Clothes Sect fully interpreted the meaning of "Defeating you doesn’t require me to become stronger, only to weaken the opponent."
Shi Luoyi leaned on the Mourning Stick, calmly smiled and said: "You all take care of Mr. Zhao, her opponent is me."
Thus, the other four magicians simultaneously locked their gaze on Zhao Douan, preventing him from interfering.
Yu Xiu slowly formed a Sword technique with one hand, the Green Jade Flying Sword leapt from her waist, spiraling around her body. She strode towards the young master of the White Clothes Sect, saying: "Sorrow God and Death God, sharing the same breath, both keen on drawing death energy. I should have anticipated that you would be keen on walking the front lines. Merely absorbing the mourning energy and death energy lingering on the battlefield wouldn’t be of much consequence, but your audacity to massacre villages and burn ancestral halls—it certainly has... reason!"
A swirl of vibrant sword light suddenly brightened, the frenzied spread of Sword Qi suffusing the entire ancestral hall. Yu Xiu, with the tip of her foot, bent forward in a rush, extended her right hand in a sword finger, the Green Jade Flying Sword dragging a trail, seemingly pulling her forward because it was too fast. Her figure almost merged with the sword light, as the torrent released during the collapse of the dam after a torrential rains, surged headlong with the earth as the riverbed against Shi Luoyi.
From Zhao Douan’s observer perspective, the Green Jade Flying Sword stood out extremely prominently in the surging white Sword Qi, still bursting with dazzling clarity despite the curse killing by five people.
Eliminate evil spirits.
Does evil overcome... righteousness?
Amidst the furious sword strike from the Heavenly Master disciple, Shi Luoyi remained composed. The pure white Mourning Stick in her hand turned pure black.
In the sky, the white paper money that fell like snow turned black.
Pieces of black paper money were drawn together as if by Yu Xiu’s Green Jade Sword, disintegrating amid spreading gloomy energy.
The overwhelming edge of the sword visibly slowed, eventually halting.
Shi Luoyi smiled faintly, hands overlapped, and fiercely stabbed the Mourning Stick into the ground!
"Boom—"
The surrounding ground shook, abruptly split open as seven black wooden coffins stood upright from the earth’s fissures.
The seven coffins appeared somewhat ethereal, not solid, identical in style to the small coffin hanging from Shi Luoyi’s waist, merely amplified many times.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
...
The pitch-black lids exploded, seven dry corpses bound by red threads wearing brand new Copper Coins surged out, their eye sockets ablaze with eerie green phosphorus.
The dry corpses raised their necks, their mouths covered with sharp teeth spewing foul "mourning energy," Zhao Douan’s eyelids twitched, noticing the surrounding ground’s vegetation withered.
"Concealing filth and gathering impurities." Yu Xiu’s eyes turned cold, she tapped the ground with her foot, electrically shooting backward to gain distance. During the maneuver, her dual hands formed techniques, the suspended Flying Sword pulled back by invisible fine thread, shone once more, circled around the priestess, and brighter than before.
"Second Sword!" Yu Xiu uttered, the Flying Sword sounded a "ding" against a dry corpse’s chest, whereupon it exploded, transforming into a sky full of black paper money.
Shi Luoyi, calm and composed, summoned three dry corpses to defend, which charged towards Yu Xiu like projectiles.
From the two immaculate snowy white sleeves, Yu Xiu blew two gusts of Qingfeng, clearing away foulness, absorbing numerous negative spell states.
The sleeves slipped, revealing her fair wrists, each with a delicate jade bracelet, she formed techniques with both hands and thrust forward, two jade bracelets rotated and flew out, soundlessly smashing two non-physical dry corpses condensed from mourning energy into a swarm of paper money.
The sword, having lost momentum, withdrew; Yu Xiu raised the tip of her cloth shoes, her heel pivoted in place, while her body spun a circle, the sharpened Flying Sword whooshed out again:
"Third Sword!"
In an instant, two more dry corpses pierced through by a single sword faded and withdrew.
Circling her waist once, came the "Fourth Sword."
This time, Shi Luoyi sacrificed the last two dry corpses, along with twenty pieces of paper money to fend it off.
Yu Xiu’s expression remained unchanged, unleashing a fifth, low and powerful sword, the momentum akin to a surging tide.
A full third of the number of the black paper money in the sky collapsed into gloomy energy, causing this sword to fail utterly.
Yet, after withdrawing this time, Yu Xiu didn’t immediately unleash the "Sixth Sword," but spat a mouthful of fresh blood instead, her fair skin mottled with corpse spots, red rash, with faint blue-veined lines turned black, as if already terminally ill.
Shi Luoyi stood leisurely, laughing with satisfaction: "Indeed, a rare genius of Sword Dao within the Heavenly Master Mansion, compared to the old Taoist on the Marine Road executed by the court, who cultivated six or seven Flying Swords simultaneously, you focus on one, singularly pure and singularly refined, hence mastering it adeptly. If you had no pauses between each sword strike and unleashed two more, you might truly kill me. Pity, in this place, the longer you drag, the weaker you’ll become, how can any sword surpass the previous one in strength?"
Yu Xiu responded to him, with the Sixth Sword.
The remnant two-thirds of paper money in the air turned to ashes, but Yu Xiu seemingly couldn’t strike again.
And during this gap, a startled Shi Luoyi slapped the small coffin at her waist again, the earth split open once more with seven coffins, and seven dry corpses rose again, causing Zhao Douan, watching from the side, to involuntarily twitch his eyelids. He suddenly realized why from the beginning to the end, the Heavenly Master Mansion has been constantly eliminating evil and demons.