Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

Xu Lei, along with Zhao Xin who was using Jingchun’s body, continued their stakeout in the outer regions of the Eastern Marsh.

According to the man with the broken arm, his agreement with the Charming Demon stated that she would come out to meet him within the next few days.

Lying in wait here didn’t mean they were absolutely set on killing the Enchantress.

Instead, they wanted to see if an opportunity to strike would present itself.

If an opportunity arose, they’d take it. If not, they’d just observe and then head back.

Besides, it made little difference whether they returned to the mountain villa or continued their stakeout here.

「Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.」

Over these three days, the Charming Demon still hadn’t appeared.

However, Xu Lei and Zhao Xin remained patient, continuing their watch.

On this day, Zhao Xin was sitting in Xu Lei’s lap, with Xu Lei’s arms wrapped around her.

He was diligently applying the Buddhist Sect’s Charitable Giving Technique.

After all, there wasn’t much to do on a stakeout.

The two of them naturally had to find something to do to pass the time.

Besides, Chun Ying’s physical condition was grim.

In order to fulfill Chun Ying’s dying wish, the things they had to do couldn’t be neglected.

Suddenly, however, Xu Lei sensed a change. The Jingchun in front of him had become so quiet, it was as if she wasn’t Zhao Xin anymore.

"Jingchun?" Xu Lei couldn’t help but ask. "Have you returned? When did you switch over? Has it been long?"

Zhao Xin’s own body was still back at the mountain villa; she hadn’t come to the Eastern Wilderness Marsh.

Her power was still relatively weak compared to Xu Lei and Jingchun.

So there was no need for her to be there.

"Mm."

Jingchun buried her head in the crook of Xu Lei’s shoulder and replied, "About... about half a quarter-hour ago, I think."

A quarter-hour is fifteen minutes.

Which meant she had been in control for about eight minutes.

"Has that demon still not appeared?" she asked, before Xu Lei could say anything more.

"No—" Xu Lei had just started to answer when his voice abruptly stopped, and his expression changed.

Because ahead, in the mist-shrouded Great Marsh, the figure of an Enchantress had appeared.

As it moved, its skin could change at any moment to match the color of its surroundings.

It was as if its entire form was melting into the environment.

You wouldn’t even notice it without looking closely.

This was one of the abilities of an Enchantress.

Although its skin was normally white, it could, in fact, change color.

It was just that the previous times Xu Lei had fought the Enchantresses, things had been different.

The first time, Xu Lei had been hunted down, then surrounded and hacked to pieces.

The Enchantresses’ power had completely overwhelmed his, so they naturally had no need to use this camouflage ability.

Later, when Xu Lei set up the great array to annihilate them, there was no point in them changing color while inside the Array.

So they hadn’t used this ability then, either.

This was the first time Xu Lei had ever seen an Enchantress use this camouflage ability.

The term ’phantom’ truly suited them. After changing color, they moved with incredible speed, making them almost impossible to see clearly.

In the dead of night, deep in the mountains, they’d be even more difficult to spot.

That was why people often described things that moved too quickly to be seen clearly as ’phantom-like’.

But Xu Lei and Jingchun were no ordinary people, and they were here specifically for a stakeout.

So, of course, they spotted it.

’That’s the tall, slender female Enchantress, Mei Li!’

Xu Lei recognized her at once.

After she appeared, a closer look revealed another figure not far away.

It was another Enchantress.

It too moved with great speed, its skin shifting colors as it went.

Of course, their quickness was in their ground movement, a relative speed.

When it came to straight-line escape speed, Xu Lei’s Locust Leaf Flying Ship was faster than they were.

However, when piloting the Locust Leaf Flying Ship, his ability to dodge in a small area was actually inferior to theirs.

The only reason he had been able to kill several Enchantresses in a row last time was because he had deployed that incredible array.

But here in the outer regions of the Eastern Wilderness Marsh, the ground was all swamp, making it unsuitable for setting up an array.

He couldn’t set up the Trapped Dragon Heaven-Strangling Array like last time and rely on it to annihilate them.

It was precisely because the environment here was unsuitable for arrays that they had arranged to meet and communicate with the man with the broken arm in this place.

After all, they had suffered a terrible loss at the hands of a human Cultivator’s Array before. The memory of that pain was still too vivid.

Naturally, they would want to avoid a repeat.

The man with the broken arm hadn’t dared to enter the depths of the Eastern Wilderness Marsh, either.

So, after a mutual compromise, they had ultimately chosen this area as their meeting place.

At that moment, Xu Lei stepped out and revealed himself.

He was wearing clothes taken from the Qiankun Cloth Bag of the man with the broken arm.

He had also altered his facial features slightly to create a passing resemblance to the man.

With this disguise, the Enchantresses wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from a distance.

And once they got close, Jingchun could launch a devastating sneak attack.

However, they remained cautious and didn’t approach immediately.

In the outer area of the swamp, two nearby villagers were poling a small, metal-hulled boat across the water.

They were hoping to catch some small swamp creatures to sell for money.

As the large, heavyset female Enchantress, Mei Ying, approached the two mortals and spoke a few words, their faces immediately broke into lecherous, idiotic grins.

In their eyes, they weren’t seeing a large, heavyset monster, but a slender, beautiful woman.

They were completely mesmerized.

They actually thought they had stumbled upon a damsel in distress in the middle of the swamp.

But in the blink of an eye, Mei Ying pounced, killing one of them on the spot with a single bite.

She quickly drained his body of all its blood.

The other villager was tossed to Mei Li.