Family Cultivation: I Become a Mirror

"Good... good..."

Guo Hongyao's lips trembled with rage, while Li Qinghong, holding her spear with purple light flowing, glanced around and casually responded,

"It is very good."

"Slut..."

Guo Hongyao kept repeating just that one sentence. Li Qinghong wasn't going to indulge her, and with a chop of her hand was a spear thrust, creating many shallow purple spear shadows, aggressively striking out. Guo Hongyao defensively used the Jade Token, cursing,

"You've ruined my plans! You just wait! I will definitely kill you, you wretched maid!"

Li Qinghong suddenly missed Kong Tingyun's mountains of gold, planning when her own family might also create a magic artifact of the same kind, as she glanced at her.

Li Xijun and the others had already scattered, leaving the hook snake looking fiercely vigilant. This demon snake, repeatedly oppressed, couldn't even take down a single Qi Cultivator, losing all face and additionally scorned by Guo Hongyao, already filled with hateful rage clenching her teeth.

Just now caught off guard, Guo Hongyao had suffered a hit from Li Qinghong's Mysterious Thunder, damaging her internal organs. Her spells were profound, and she gathered her Qi to protect herself. Seeing the hook snake menacingly flying towards her, she began to grow fearful.

Creating a spell with a free hand, Guo Hongyao, however, heard Li Qinghong's light shout. A burst of purple light stormed forth in front of her, causing her Jade Token to shake, numbing her arm, and the spell broke off in her hands.

Guo Hongyao's mind grew chaotic, not having expected such a powerful figure from a minor Noble Family. She forced herself to stay calm and said,

"This matter... it's your family's fault for ruining my plans! How dare you still blame me!"

Li Qinghong grew fiercer as the battle went on, her Jade Armor emitting bursts of purple light. She spoke softly,

"You, being from the East Sea, really dare to talk about right and wrong? How utterly laughable..."

Out of utter desperation, Guo Hongyao produced a talisman, blocking Li Qinghong's attack, which allowed her just enough time to extend her hand and chant a series of magic spells, pinching and casting.

The previously lost Six Ding Combined Fire Command, having slipped from Xu Xiao's dead body into the lake, finally rose and flew into her hands.

The Six Ding Combined Fire Command in her grasp, Guo Hongyao felt little joy, as though holding a hot potato, only pinching it with two fingers, mumbling the spell, and summoning the fire.

"Decree!"

The grey-red flame sprang forth, merely the size of a palm, incomparably smaller than when Xu Xiao had used it to create a large sweep with a flick of his sleeve, yet it caught Li Qinghong's attention. The grey-red flame, like ash swirling out of a furnace, swiftly swept away a swath of Purple Lightning.

Li Wushao's expression turned ugly in an instant, his demonic power continually flowed out but seemed like kindling before the fire, fueling the flames to burn brighter, causing faint pain throughout his body.

'Some fire specifically designed to overcome demonic creatures...'

Yet with this technique, Guo Hongyao managed to stabilize herself, the air twisted from the heat, her face growing uglier by the second. The grey fire recirculated, reforming into the token, her internal pain becoming more evident, exacerbated by the previous Mysterious Thunder injury.

She had no choice but to reveal her Taoist Foundation, her body enveloped in flames like drifting ribbons hanging from the corners of her clothing. Guo Hongyao clasped her hands, and a shaft of red light burst from the back of her head.

As soon as the red light appeared, illuminating everything around, it was so blinding that Li Family's two people couldn't open their eyes, and their Spiritual Sensitivity became sluggish, like mercury. With the fire pushing back both attackers, Guo Hongyao quickly rode the wind upward, her hands already blistered, contemplating,

"The Six Ding Combined Fire Command, a Zifu Spirit Instrument, is life-draining and dangerous, not to be wielded lightly. I must retreat for now..."

Although she had been cultivating on the island since childhood and had few experiences in Spell Battles, she could still clearly see the situation. The two had formed an encirclement, and if she fell into their hands, even if they dared not kill her, she'd still suffer badly.

So, leaving behind a fierce parting shot,

"You... you better not let me catch you!"

Having spoken, she quickly rode the wind and took off. After flying a distance, seeing that the two had not pursued, she retracted her Spirit Instrument. The Female Cultivator gritted her teeth,

"If it weren't for... if the Six Ding Combined Fire Command hadn't inexplicably been delayed a hundred years from falling from The Great Void, where would the Li family even be... Damn it!"

Just coming to the inner seas and finding such genius, Guo Hongyao had been overjoyed, but now, her good fortune was spoiled by the Thunder Cultivator. Although she had acquired the Spirit Instrument and her island would surely reward her, her mood was considerably soured.

'I'll find out... what this wretched person's name is.'

She silently rode the wind away, crossing Salty Lake and landing on a subordinate islet of Red Reef Island. After stabilizing her injuries with the help of a few dozen people, there came someone to report,

"Fairy... A few days back, a masked male Cultivator raided several of our merchant ships..."

Guo Hongyao, already furious, asked impatiently,

"Make it clear!"

The servant trembled,

"This cultivator is at the Qi Cultivating Peak, wielding a Golden Hammer and practicing the Immortal Path, yet uses many Demonic Path magical treasures... Alone and powerful, he destroyed an entire Immortal Ship by himself... Killing and plundering... then riding the wind away."

"Useless things!"

Guo Hongyao, who usually couldn't care less, was itching for a kill to vent her rage after the encounter with the Li family members. She ordered,

"We head to sea tomorrow. Let me know in advance!"

The servant assured and left, and after Guo Hongyao consumed some blood essence, felt her internal organs gradually recovering. She then closed the door to her Cave Mansion and sat cross-legged.

Taking the Six Ding Combined Fire Command to examine it closely, she saw elegant and beautiful black patterns on it. The more she looked, the more captivating it seemed, prompting her to exclaim unwillingly,

"Truly a splendid Magical Treasure, worthy of being a Zifu Spirit Instrument. Just by looking at its appearance, one can tell it's out of the ordinary."