area51novel 541. Failure to break free
541. Failure to break free
Yao Qingyu's breath hitched, but Wei Jiangyuan silently shielded her behind him. The woman in the black dress who slowly emerged from the gray mist carried no weapon, but the soul light emanating from her fox-like eyes was more dangerous than any blade.
"You two are so fast! You even dodged Ling Zhuo."
As the figure gradually became clearer, a frustrated and helpless bitter smile appeared on Wei Jiangyuan's face: "My skills aren't up to par; I was still discovered."
The last hidden needle in Wei Jiangyuan's mind was poised to strike, his face still bearing a lazy smile: "Sister Cao Ying, is there any room for negotiation between us? I'm willing to give you whatever money you want!"
"Shh—" Cao Ying suddenly raised her slender, jade-like fingers, her long, narrow eyes sweeping over Yao Qingyu's pale face, but she still showed no intention of making a move: "You can leave."
"Why are you helping us?" Yao Qingyu asked in a hoarse voice. Wei Jiangyuan's gaze met Cao Ying's, and then Wei Jiangyuan pulled Yao Qingyu away without hesitation.
"You can take it as, because Xiao Yan also let me go once."
"Thank you." Wei Jiangyuan said as the three passed by.
"I can only buy you ten breaths." Cao Ying's gaze swept over the purplish-blue marks under Yao Qingyu's tattered clothes, and a feeling of shared sorrow suddenly arose in her heart. At this moment, a pitiful and helpless look appeared on the demoness's face.
However, Cao Ying quickly came to her senses. When the two figures were almost out of sight, she pretended to be in a hurry and began to signal the location of Ling Zhuo.
In the blink of an eye, Ling Zhuo turned back and, without even stopping, swept past Cao Ying's location toward Wei Jiangyuan and the other two.
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As the two traveled, they arrived at the edge of the Misty Mountain. Wei Jiangyuan saw one of the twin brothers of the Spirit Clan watching the Misty Mountain closely, showing no sign of letting his guard down.
"If we can't wait for Xiao Yan, I'm going to force our way out with you." Wei Jiangyuan also put away his usual playful tone, and his tone became solemn.
Yao Qingyu nodded. She was also a genius cultivated by the Flower Sect and had long been prepared to at least not hold Wei Jiangyuan back.
"Rush!"
With the help of his soul power, Wei Jiangyuan leaped into the air, hoisting Yao Qingyu onto his back, and dashed out of the mist like lightning. As soon as he was away, his battle qi recovered, and he finally returned to his full state.
Black mist surged from his sleeves, instantly obscuring the view within a ten-zhang radius, and his aura became erratic.
"They've finally come..." Lingyu, one of the twins, watched everything coldly: "The same old trick!"
At this moment, Wei Jiangyuan was not the only one outside the misty mountain; his battle qi was also available for use.
"Spiritual Fusion!"
Wei Jiangyuan saw that Ling Yu's fighting spirit had miraculously merged with his own fighting spirit, causing his aura to suddenly surge.
"Spirit Gathering Explosion!"
The Dou Zun-level Dou Qi and soul power merged into a visible bronze-colored sound wave. The sound wave, carrying away rubble, formed a triple impact. The first wave of sound caused Wei Jiangyuan's protective black mist to collapse violently. However, despite this resistance, the black mist did not retreat but advanced, continuing to rush towards Ling Yu.
A hint of disdain appeared in Ling Yu's eyes. She quickly released a second wave of sound, shattering the black mist and Wei Jiangyuan and the other person inside into dust.
Upon seeing this, Ling Yu's pupils contracted to vertical slits. He had realized that what had been shattered was merely an afterimage, and Wei Jiangyuan had escaped again.
"Who told you I would use the same trick twice?" Wei Jiangyuan's mocking voice suddenly appeared beside Ling Yu, causing Ling Yu's expression to change.
boom--
A burst of crimson flames suddenly ignited on Ling Yu's body. The flames seemed to come alive in Ling Yu's hands, tearing at Wei Jiangyuan.
The next moment, a bright green light representing life shone from Wei Jiangyuan's body. Lingyu realized that her flames were still getting stronger, but during the strengthening process, she lost contact with them.
Wei Jiangyuan was able to make Lingyu's flames grow while simultaneously losing control of them.
"Only one left..." At close range, the Shadow Needle had completely lost its ability to conceal its presence. Wei Jiangyuan clenched his right hand tightly and forcefully stabbed the Shadow Needle into Ling Yu's eye socket.
"Ahhhhh!"
Ling Yu retreated more than ten feet, letting out a non-human roar as he looked up at the sky. From the blood hole in his left eye, not only blood spurted out, but also fragments of his eyeball shredded by the threads of his soul. Despite the excruciating pain, he forcefully unleashed a burst of battle qi, regardless of the cost. Wei Jiangyuan kept leaping through the air, but in the end, in order to protect Yao Qingyu on his back, he was forced back.
Then the Shadow Needle exploded inside Ling Yu's head, and gushing blood flowed out of her head. The Soul Threads had already rendered Ling Yu powerless and her life was already counting down.
After everything happened last night, Wei Jiangyuan couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood and tried to escape with Yao Qingyu.
"You're badly injured."
"There was no other way. In order to get close to this guy, I had to take some of his sonic combat techniques. The fusion of battle qi and soul of the Spirit Race is indeed not to be underestimated."
Wei Jiangyuan was very fast. As he fled, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis and twisted his body to the limit, changing his forward momentum to a backward one.
"You hurt my brother, spare his life!"
Lingluo's roar and attack arrived simultaneously. He furiously swung his halberd, creating a hundred-meter-long ravine. This strike combined battle qi and soul power. Wei Jiangyuan's figure became strange, but he dared not force his way in.
"They came so fast!" Wei Jiangyuan wiped the blood from his mouth with one hand, a hint of regret appearing in his eyes.
His fight with Lingyu lasted no more than four or five breaths. He had already given it his all, even resorting to a strategy of trading injury for injury, to defeat Lingyu as quickly as possible and gain a chance to leave.
But to his surprise, Lingluo arrived immediately. The strength of these two was even greater than his own, making it almost impossible for him to escape their pursuit.
Ling Zhuo, Cao Ying, and the others arrived one after another, and outside the misty mountain, they surrounded Wei Jiangyuan and Yao Qingyu again.
"Put me down," Yao Qingyu said calmly.
Wei Jiangyuan gently put Yao Qingyu down, his eyes full of sincere apology: "I didn't expect my first attempt at being a hero to end so badly. I'm so sorry."
Instead of her usual cold demeanor, Yao Qingyu smiled gently and said, "You've done very well. None of the young people I know can compare to you."
Immediately, Yao Qingyu calmly stepped forward, shielding Wei Jiangyuan behind her, and said to Ling Zhuo, "Ling Zhuo, let him leave. I can go with you as your hostage."
Upon hearing this, Ling Zhuo laughed instead of getting angry: "What a joke! Do you even have the right to negotiate? I'm taking his life, and neither will you."