Chapter 209 - 119: Jiang Chaoxi, Just You Wait
’This Zombie Queen is surprisingly trendy?’
Jiang Mu shook his head, dispelling the fleeting, fanciful thought. He stood ready with his saber and sneered.
"Coming to cause trouble for me looking like that? You’ve got some nerve. Do you really think I can’t kill you?"
"Oh?"
The woman stopped, tilted her head, and her eyes glinted with amusement.
"Kill me?"
"Are you sure... you can kill me?"
Before her voice had faded, she gently lifted a long, slender finger, its nail painted a delicate red.
WHOOSH—
In an instant, the air around Jiang Mu seemed to ignite.
Vibrant red flowers, so vivid they seemed to drip with color, bloomed from thin air.
Petals drifted down, their fragrance overwhelming.
As the red flowers bloomed, they twisted and transformed into enchanting women, each with a different, stunning face and a graceful figure.
They were draped in thin gauze, their skin partially visible. They giggled, beckoning to Jiang Mu with seductive, silken gazes and striking all sorts of provocative poses.
’An illusion!’
Jiang Mu’s heart lurched as he realized his mind had wavered for a moment.
He immediately began circulating the Cold Moon Ice Heart Skill that Ling Ye had taught him.
A cool, clear intent washed over his entire body, and his mind instantly regained its clarity.
The sea of flowers and naked women before him shattered and vanished into nothingness.
"Hm?"
The woman raised an eyebrow in surprise. "A little interesting."
She waved her hand again.
This time, the floral scent in the air grew even thicker, as if it could marinate one’s very soul in its fragrance.
Jiang Mu’s mind, which had just regained its clarity, began to waver once more.
The scene before him started to distort.
The women who had disappeared reappeared, and they were even more real, even more...
’Damn it!’
Jiang Mu tried to mobilize the Demonic Qi in his body to resist.
But this enchanting power targeted the Divine Soul and was far too strange. Although his Demonic Qi was tyrannical, it had little effect.
Jiang Mu clutched the Jade Pendant in his robe, a gift from Tang Guixin.
HUM!
A cool sensation flooded into his palm from the Jade Pendant, clearing his mind a little.
The seductive illusion before him receded like the tide once more.
"Heh, it seems you have quite a few treasures on you." Her techniques having been broken twice in a row, the woman was clearly getting annoyed.
A floral pattern suddenly bloomed on her glabella and began to spin rapidly.
"Since you want to play, I’ll play with you properly!"
Just then, Jiang Mu suddenly felt a chill on his back.
A pair of soft, jade-white hands suddenly reached out from under his arms and gently wrapped around his chest.
The sensation...
It was as if a woman was truly pressed against his back.
Then, another figure slowly crawled out from his shadow, wrapped itself around his thigh, and began rubbing its delicate body against him.
Jiang Mu’s consciousness and Divine Soul blurred once again.
He cursed himself inwardly.
’This woman may only be a Tier Five Clone, but her spiritual Divine Abilities are just too bizarre and difficult to deal with.’
’It’s a shame my Cold Moon Ice Heart Skill isn’t profound enough, or I wouldn’t be in such a passive position!’
’Wait!’
’The Cold Moon Ice Heart Skill...’
’There’s another way!’
A Spiritual Light flashed in Jiang Mu’s mind as he suddenly recalled the warning Lady Peach Blossom gave him when they parted.
’Jianxia Water!’
He remembered the first time he entered the Grotto Heaven Dao Mansion. He had tasted that dew-like liquid, and just a tiny bit had refreshed him, clearing his mind completely.
It was a divine object that contained the true rhythm of the Great Dao, with an extremely powerful calming and focusing effect!
’It’s a desperate measure, but I have to try!’
Without any hesitation, Jiang Mu immediately brought two fingers together and pressed them to his glabella.
His consciousness was instantly pulled away.
The next second, Jiang Mu was standing in that familiar, snow-covered landscape.
Right before the entrance to Shangguan Luoxue’s Xuanfrost Spiritual Acupoint Abode.
With a thought, the crystal-clear Jianxia Water, which emanated a faint, cold air, began to surge forth.
Jiang Mu opened his mouth and took a huge gulp.
...
「At the same moment.」
In the depths of the Underground Palace in Hu State City.
On a jade platform in the Cold Pool, Shangguan Luoxue, who was cultivating with her eyes closed amidst a flurry of purple snow, trembled.
She suddenly snapped her violet eyes open.
A charming blush spread across her jade-like face, which was usually as cold as an immortal’s.
"Bastard!!"
The woman bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth, her eyes practically shooting fire.
"What’s so great about drinking that?!"
—
Washed over by the crisp coolness of the Jianxia Water, Jiang Mu’s muddled consciousness was instantly jolted awake, as if doused by an icy spring.
The vivid, fragrant scene of seductive beauties before him instantly dissolved into illusion in his eyes.
"Break!"
Without hesitation, Jiang Mu flipped his wrist, his saber sweeping out in a bolt of crimson light as he slashed toward the seductive figure before him!
CRACK—
As if a mirror had shattered, the enchanting illusion all around him collapsed with a crash.
Everything returned to normal.
Under the bleak, cold moonlight, the stone bridge was still mottled, and the night wind was still desolate.
Not far away, the Zombie Queen sat lazily on the bridge’s railing.
Her long, gold-and-red dress fluttered in the night wind. At the slit of her skirt, her long, smooth, jade-like legs were crossed, and the black silk of her stockings shimmered with a cold, alluring luster in the moonlight.
Her beautiful eyes shifted, looking at Jiang Mu with a hint of astonishment. Her voice was seductively soft.
"You actually broke my ’Ecstasy Illusion’? You little rascal, you’ve really given me quite a surprise."
"A surprise? Surprise my ass!"
A cold glint flashed in Jiang Mu’s eyes, and with a mere thought, SWOOSH!
His figure vanished from sight. The next instant, he used Instant Teleportation to appear at Ji Hongyuan’s side.
"Die!"
His saber, wreathed in the heavy Star Power of the Earth Spirit Star and the Evil Qi of the Blood River True Qi, came cleaving down on her head!
The wind from the blade rose, and a torrent of power surged forth.
The gale sent Ji Hongyuan’s long hair whipping about and pressed her dress tightly against her delicate frame, outlining a devilish figure that could make a Saint Monk break his vows.
However, faced with this ferocious strike, the Zombie Queen didn’t even stand up. She simply, and casually, raised two slender, jade-like fingers and caught the blade between them.