Chapter 635 - 582: Settling Accounts
Outside the city, the crowd had not yet noticed Jiang Yuebai’s presence. Following a command from the fake Chenzhou at the edge of the dense forest, two to three hundred masked Foundation Establishment Cultivators in black clothing rushed out of the forest, maneuvering their flying and defensive artifacts, rapidly nearing the city wall.
On the city walls, the insect cloud continued to damage the Great Array Barrier. The guard disciples were operating mechanisms and armor on the wall, struggling to resist.
Only Lou Guanqing and Lou Cunming did not move, and they were the only ones who could see Jiang Yuebai.
They were both awed by the vast, unfathomable aura emanating from Jiang Yuebai, feeling as if they were facing not a Nascent Soul Cultivator, but a giant dragon perched atop the Talismanic Tower, looking down on all directions.
The piercing ghostly howls grew closer and closer, a bloody-scented yin wind rushed toward them, and evil ghosts had already climbed onto the city wall.
Jiang Yuebai lowered her eyes, sweeping them across, looking down at Lou Guanqing and Lou Cunming, a red curve lifting at her lips.
"This is a grudge between me and them, no one move, I guarantee no one will get hurt, be obedient~"
As soon as the words fell, Jiang Yuebai disappeared right before their eyes.
In the next instant, a muffled groan sounded, and a figure fell from a distant insect cloud, body engulfed in gray ghost fire, pinned under Jiang Yuebai’s foot, howling in agony.
"Ah ah ah——"
The Netherworld Ghost Fire clung to Jiang Yuebai, forming a Gray Flame Battle Armor flapping in the night wind, burning any approaching flying insects to ash in an instant.
Jiang Yuebai stepped on the Golden Core Cultivator melded with the insect cloud, bending down.
"Your concealment technique is pretty good, I’ll have it!"
The black-clothed male cultivator, controlling insects, had just seen Jiang Yuebai’s radiant face, recognized her as the true Chenzhou Wanderer, and was immediately stripped of the Storage Magic Treasure on his body by Jiang Yuebai, burning to ash in a fierce blaze.
"Little Green, capture the soul! Keep it for me first!"
Jiang Yuebai released Little Green, throwing out Jixiang, previously painted black for disguise, from the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven.
"Eat up the insects on the city wall cleanly."
Upon hearing Jiang Yuebai’s command, Jixiang’s eyes gleamed, his body instantly swelling into a giant rat, devouring the surrounding insect cloud in great, thirsty gulps, leaving nothing left of the insect control cultivator’s remnants.
Jiang Yuebai waved her hand, a buzzing sound echoed, and the evil ghost that had just climbed the city wall was engulfed by the incoming Black Armor Bee Swarm in an instant, without even a chance to struggle, vanishing into smoke.
This aura, this method, made Lou Cunming swallow saliva with difficulty, whispering to the equally shocked Lou Guanqing beside him, "So, so powerful!"
Jiang Yuebai slightly glanced over, smiling with curved lips at the boy, who widened his eyes in shock and his heart pounded wildly, watching Jiang Yuebai disappear in a flash once more.
Boom!
The ground shook, a thunderous explosion sounded from below the city wall, a hundred ghosts howled, and the yin wind surged fiercely.
Lou Cunming hurried to the edge of the city wall, looking down.
Only to see the ground below the city wall cracking open, with Jiang Yuebai stepping on a masked female cultivator at the Golden Core Stage, holding a blood-spewing, ghostly scarlet flag, pinning another masked male cultivator at the Golden Core Stage against the wall with the flagpole.
"With just this little skill, you dare to kill and set fires under my name?"
Jiang Yuebai shouted harshly, and without waiting for them to speak, she seized their valuables, sending them off on their journey with a burst of Netherworld Ghost Fire.
[Receive, receive, receive]
Little Green swooped down from above, swiftly capturing the two souls and imprisoning them in a lantern.
A large group of Foundation Establishment Cultivators had already reached close, Jiang Yuebai summoned the Primordial Magnetic Ruler, wind and sand rising around her, opening the Lifeless Sand Realm, walking alone toward the imposing cultivators.
In the hazy moonlight, Jiang Yuebai deliberately concealed her aura around herself, the charging people only seeing a green lamp suspended mid-air guiding the way, with a blue-clothed woman whose cultivation level couldn’t be discerned following behind.
"Kill!!"
The person at the forefront charged, blood boiling, almost reaching Jiang Yuebai when suddenly a chilling wind swept around him, the flying artifact below losing its effect, causing him to crash to the ground, rolling over several times.
Screams echoed one after another, everyone in the charge fell from their flying artifacts, and before they could rise, black sand appeared from thin air like venomous snakes, hissing and biting at everyone’s necks.
Ah ah ah!!!!
Such a scene made those on the city wall, who had already escaped the predicament, feel something was incredibly eerie.
With the green palace lantern leading the way, Jiang Yuebai walked forward unhurriedly, and the charging people dropped in swathes, screaming as they met their end.
No one could step within a hundred yards of Jiang Yuebai.
In the distance, the masked fake Chenzhou and the only remaining Black-Clothed Blade Master beside her witnessed this scene, eyes wide in shock.
By now, she had realized, it was the true Chenzhou Wanderer, here to settle accounts!
The fake Chenzhou immediately drew out three blood-colored long nails, ruthlessly driving them into the back of the Black-Clothed Blade Master beside her.
The Black-Clothed Blade Master’s body erupted with blood light, muscles swelling and tearing through clothes, his aura leaping from late-stage Golden Core to early-stage Nascent Soul in an instant.
His eyes turned crimson, bearing teeth fiercely, saliva flying, pulling out the golden ring saber from his back and leaping up.
The imposing blood-red sword aura tore through the air, the Lifeless Sand Realm’s automatic defense forming a black sand barrier but failing to block, split open by his sword, crashing down heavily over Jiang Yuebai’s head.
Swish!
A wet strand of black hair suddenly shot out from Jiang Yuebai’s side, entwining the blood blade and pulling hard.
Boom!
The blood blade deviated from its original trajectory, hacking behind Jiang Yuebai, shattering a section of the ground into a fan-shaped pit, dirt and rocks flying, sand and dust filling the sky.
Little Green hovered above the Long-Haired Water Ghost’s head, controlling a mass of wet black hair to shoot through the air, swift as lightning, sharp as a blade, launching a frenzied assault on the Black-Clothed Blade Master.
One human and one ghost tangled in battle, Jiang Yuebai unscathed.
The fake Chenzhou saw things were hopeless, her followers nearly decimated, and turned to flee.
At that moment, several white vines suddenly burst forth from various points in the dense forest, blocking her path in an instant.
"Where are you going, Chenzhou Wanderer?"
A mocking voice called from behind, and as the fake Chenzhou turned, she saw a hand wrapped in Netherworld Ghost Fire reaching for her face.
In the nick of time, a blood-imbued bone spike shot out in a diagonal from the side, shattering the white vine barrier, aiming straight for Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai’s expression turned stern, swirling Primordial Magnetic Black Sand to block, but the moment black sand touched the bone spike, the Sea of Consciousness was filled with the cries of ten thousand ghosts, an ear-piercing sound shaking her Divine Soul, in a daze seeing a foreboding, ghostly burial ground, corpses lying in every direction.
Countless ghost hands burst from the ground, grabbing her ankles, headless evil ghosts throwing themselves forward, crashing toward her like waves.
"Get out of here!!"
Jiang Yuebai shouted fiercely, shattering the illusion with sheer powerful divine sense. The bone nail had already pierced through the Primordial Magnetic Black Sand, even piercing the Ghost Fire Armor, with a force like a breaking dam exploding in her chest.
Boom!
Jiang Yuebai instantly unfolded space ripples before her, the immense, dominant force exploding in the depths of the dense forest.
The air wave pressed empty, the earth vibrating, surrounding trees uprooted and shattered, leaving a terrifying deep pit.
Among the ongoing screams, many who had hidden in the forest were caught off guard and heavily injured, the rest of the wild beasts scattering and fleeing in panic.
Those were the loose cultivators who knew the Chenzhou Wanderer would appear here, attempting to fish in troubled waters, aiming to capture the Chenzhou Wanderer for a bounty.
And just now, the one who attacked Jiang Yuebai was clearly a Divinity Transformation Cultivator, at least early-stage Divinity Transformation.
Jiang Yuebai retreated to a safe place and raised her eyes again, but the figure of the fake Chenzhou was no longer in sight.