Chapter 709: Chapter 548: Kill
Once, he had clashed with Qu Muzhi, and at the last moment, Qu Muzhi had gathered his strength to throw a spear at him. That spear made him truly feel the threat of death. Fortunately, Wu Zhengwu appeared just in time to halt it, otherwise, one of them would have surely died that day.
Yang Xiao wasn’t sure if Qu Muzhi’s spear could kill the woman or even if Qu Muzhi could still launch it in his current state, but there was no other option left. Yang Xiao still had the Ghost Duster unutilized in his hand, but using it would consume all of his remaining spiritual power. It was his trump card, and he only had one chance.
After the woman used roots to mend her torn body, she picked up the fishing rod and slowly walked towards them, facing two opponents by herself was not an easy task for her, but fortunately... it was all about to end.
"Yang Xiao, don’t worry, I won’t kill you. If you die here, I’ll never be able to obtain the Torturing Life Saber. I’ll just torment you, make you insane when you leave, and then I will come find you to take back what belongs to me," the woman spoke with a bizarre tone, extreme insanity stirring within her as she had waited a long time for this day, "Of course, including the other treasures on you. All of those will belong to Xiu Sect."
Fairly speaking, the woman also coveted the Magic Artifact on Yang Xiao, especially that strange short stick that could directly attack the spiritual essence. Even with her knowledge, she found it unique. As for the Soul-Capturing Mirror, ha, she would keep that and extort a hefty sum from the Wounded Door with it.
People should know their limits; she knew she couldn’t control that mirror since it was a Magic Artifact personally nurtured by their once genius Sect Master.
Within just a few steps of walking, the woman had already planned how to distribute the Magic Artifacts on Yang Xiao’s body. As for Qu Muzhi, she might as well kill him outright; it was not of significant concern.
The woman slowly stopped, and he saw Yang Xiao step in front of Qu Muzhi, blocking the path with his body, a bloodied smile on his lips, "Old Witch, how about we make a deal?"
"Deals require leverage, do you qualify?" The woman was not in a hurry, as these two were already at the end of their rope and couldn’t turn the tables.
"I’m young and strong, everyone who has tried says so, this time you’ll get a deal," Yang Xiao sneered cheaply, his remaining right hand clenched tightly around the Soul-Capturing Mirror.
Before she could respond, the woman suddenly saw Qu Muzhi behind Yang Xiao slowly raise his spear, lift it up while adjusting his breathing, holding it above his shoulder in a highly standard posture, his expression serious as if he were conducting some solemn ceremony. Judging by his movements, it looked like he was preparing to throw a javelin; she wasn’t sure what he was planning, but her keen instincts made her glance down, and in the next second, her pupils contracted sharply when she noticed a red dot appear at her chest.
The red was thicker than blood, as if a fine brush had been dipped in a liquid denser than blood and harshly dabbed on her. This was some form of marking.
The woman suddenly remembered, just then, while she dodged the seal, Qu Muzhi’s spear had pierced her chest area, though it didn’t break through her defenses. She’d thought it was just a feint meant to pave the way for an assault with the seal, but now, it seemed it wasn’t that simple.
This man... cannot be left alive!
Instantly intent on killing, the woman swung her fishing rod to take his life, but in the next second, Yang Xiao fully activated the Soul-Capturing Mirror, and the woman felt a strong force pulling her; she was momentarily dragged into another world.
By Yang Xiao’s spiritual power, this shouldn’t have been possible, but the woman, too, had overextended herself. The fishing rod had suppressed three ghosts and continuously used powers to mend her torn body, leaving an opening for Yang Xiao.
Realizing she had been tricked, the woman swung her fishing rod at Yang Xiao, but it hit nothing. Yang Xiao vanished instantly, leaving only a mirror on the ground.
Squinting, she realized that it wasn’t the Soul-Capturing Mirror but an ancient-looking copper mirror, her first encounter with it.
"Old hag, you didn’t make good use of the opportunity, huh?" Yang Xiao’s voice came from somewhere else, quite far from the woman, sounding ethereal.
What he needed now was to buy time for Qu Muzhi’s ultimate spear blow. Even in death, he intended to drag the woman down with him.
Here in his Mirror World, he had a home-field advantage, but soon, things were different than he expected. The woman’s figure mysteriously vanished, replaced by a vast area of emerging trees. Within mere seconds, they had covered much of his Mirror World. He was once again trapped in that Lost Forest, surrounded by towering dead trees, stepping on thick, multilayered rotted leaves.
The woman had indeed been pulled into the Mirror World, but now, he too was trapped in the woman’s forest world. It was hard to say who had the upper hand.
From beneath the thick leaves, a rustling sound arose, revealing his position. The blood-sucking roots were heading his way and just about to entangle Yang Xiao, but he vanished again, leaving another copper mirror on the ground.
Reappearing elsewhere, Yang Xiao gasped heavily. He had three such copper mirrors in total, acquired from the Chamber of Commerce. But now, two of them had disappeared, presumably taken by the woman who must have understood the abilities of the Soul-Capturing Mirror and covered the used mirrors with roots or dead leaves. Knowing the enemy as well as herself made her extremely hard to handle, as her myriad strange tactics suppressed him severely.
