Chapter 558: [ A Difficult Battle (2) ]

“Mulan’s lightning skill seemed to have gotten even stronger than before!”

Qin Han can’t help but muttered in shock as he watched Si Mulan’s fight against the brutal Serpent Demonic Beast.

“Well, I guess it’s to be expected if a monster was going to be your master,”

Bu Fanyi retorted helplessly. Her lips curling up into a wry smile— but the sour smell that she emitted could even be smelled five kilometers away.

She was really envious of Si Mulan’s fortune.

Under that Monster-of-a-Master’s teaching, Si Mulan’s power can now indeed threatened even that of a Spirit Cultivator—if she reaches the Spirit stage, what kind of power would she be able to show? Bu Fanyi can’t help but raise her expectation…!

Seeing Si Mulan attack, the monster did not dare to underestimate her. The Spirit Qi in the monster’s body simultaneously surged out, forming an indestructible defense. At this moment, however,

“Excellent!”

Qin Han’s whole body was stained with dirt and dust as he shivered.

Because of the monster before them, an incredible amount of energy was being built up in their surroundings, but an instant later, Qin Han’s body flickered, displaying excellent footwork. His body was like a willow leaf dancing exquisitely, floating with the wind, and although the lightning struck the ground extremely near to him, it never came into direct contact with him.

“Evil beast, bring it on.”

Qin Han hollered at the giant snake.

Rooooaaarrr!!

The giant snake roared in anger and its large tail swept past causing the wind to whistle.

Shua~

Qin Han was indeed elite, as the giant snake’s tail swept past, he already leaped into the air, and as the tail started charging towards the sky, he uttered a shriek in the air, two golden long blades took form in his hand, and he fiercely slashed down on the tail.

Bang!!

An explosion rang out.

“My turn!!”

Boom!

A powerful Spiritual Energy erupted like a volcano from within Bu Fanyi’s body.

The overwhelming Spiritual Energy surged out and turned into a crimson four-winged bird behind her as a vicious aura emitted from the giant bird’s body.

Seeing the crimson four-winged giant bird behind Bu Fanyi’s body, the monster’s expression turned serious.

Bu Fanyi’s pair of eyes instantly turned scarlet and the aura within her exploded immediately. Then, her body was emitted crimson colored flames, looking extremely beautiful yet terrifying—

Booom…!!

The sound of a frightening explosion came from Bu Fanyi’s surroundings as the strength in her body surged tremendously.

The Four-Winged Phoenix formed by Bu Fanyi’s Spirit Stage strength seemed as if it was truly there. Compared to the Spiritual Beast condensed by Qin Han, it was clearly more powerful.

“Get lost for meeeee!!”

Bu Fanyi stepped on the air and immediately spun her hands around. The Spiritual Aura in the air gathered in her palm forming red-hot flames and crimson winds. Exhaling wind and flame was the Four-Winged Phoenix ability. Being born with great talent and possessing the lineage of a Four-Winged Phoenix, Bu Fanyi’s wind and flames abilities are greater than others!

Bu Fanyi smacked out with her palms. On one hand, flames twisted around like a giant fire python while crimson winds condensed into an enormous crimson tempest on the other hand.

BoooommM!!

Together with an extraordinary Spiritual Energy fluctuation, the fiery python and crimson tempest stormed towards the snake monster. Seeing her powerful attack, the giant python’s expression had turned completely solemn. It did not dare to treat it with the slightest neglect. The Spiritual Energy within its body was pushed to the extreme.

BOOOOM!!

The collision caused a massive rumble through the sky endlessly. Waves of Spiritual Energy rolled outwards and forcefully razed the trees and rocks beneath the battlefield.

Under this kind of provocation, murderous rage could be seen welling up in the eyes of the giant python monster.

However, it couldn’t give its full attention to only to Bu Fanyi as both Qin Han and Si Mulan simultaneously did their share while the rest of the group grit their teeth in order to restrict the monster’s movements and actions even the least bit.

“No matter how strong you are, you would still die in front of us!!”

In the distant sky, Si Mulan’s figure flashed. She carried extremely cold air as she began to launch waves of continuous attacks against the monster in a tyrannical manner.

Although the monster indeed possesses such tyrannical power, it was still forced to retreat in defeat under the group’s combined strong attacks. If it were not for the great coordination between the group, they would have long since been the party who was defeated—thus, the monster could only receive its attack and tried to retaliate.

“Not yet!!”

Cold wind continuously blew through the sky which was covered by white-colored energy. The sounds of explosions from the contact of energy repeatedly sounded in one’s ears. The battle, which was extremely intense, caused anyone who saw it, be completely stunned.

However—

As the saying goes, ‘A wounded snake is assumed to be more dangerous.’ the monster started becoming even angrier and its power exploded like an avalanche. Its aura burst out, causing ripples in the air to spread throughout the surrounding like waves.

“Kyaaa!!”

“Aaahh!!”

Painful cries and groans echoed as the people maintaining the barrier were forcefully sent flying away, after being hit by this ripple.

“Not good!”

The expressions of Si Mulan and the others all changed simultaneously. Qin Han as well as Bu Fanyi, both knitted their brows greatly.

"Junior Sister Mulan, look out!"

Bu Fanyi screamed the moment she noticed something flashed amidst the dust and dirt hovering around.

This time, the giant snake wasn't fazed by the lightning. It suddenly struck its hard scaly tail immediately --- and it surely wouldn't miss. Its tail would hit like a wrecking ball, crushing everything on its path. Its target...the one who gave it much pain it could almost not endure, its body got numb!

!!? Si Mulan’s expression turned unsightly. She braced herself for the impact.

Bang!

Bu Fanyi and the others grit their teeth and rushed towards Si Mulan’s direction, their expressions pale and full of anxiety. But it was too late, they know. Si Mulan would be hit and it would be a miracle if she would survive that attack.

However, what happened was out of their expectations.

When Si Mulan was about to use the last of her life-saving methods, she had only seen a shadow brushed past by her and her body was pulled away.

“Wha—?!”

The giant python’s tail brushed past her vision, causing Si Mulan to wake up from he daze.

What happened…?!

She’s alright?!

"… Are you okay?"

An unfamiliar voice asked.

Si Mulan turned towards her savior and saw a woman, an unfamiliar woman standing before her.

She was standing in front of Si Mulan and on her front was a wall made from light.

"Ah, yeah ... T, Thank you."

Surprised, Si Mulan muttered, confused. Who is this?

It was a very unfamiliar woman—dressed in even stranger clothes. Black Hair and black eyes. Her eyes were sparkling, her teeth were gleaming, her skin was soft and smooth, and her figure was delicate and slim. Her serenity and cuteness were perfectly combined, making her appearance on the level of a kingdom destroying beauty.

She was wearing a long dark-blue dress and silver armor. She used a dark blue hair band to coil her beautiful glossy black hair up. Her bangs will split in the middle as they roll down the two sides of her white face. Looking at her gaze, her eyes were filled with a sense of righteousness, like a hero, standing tall and proud!

As Si Mulan was about to greet her, suddenly—

“Haa, as expected, my hopes were dashed…”

She heard a soft bitter murmur. Eh?

“Ano… excuse me…?” Si Mulan asked, bewildered.

“Ah, sorry,” The woman woke up from her depression, for who knows what reason and turned around. “So you are the one emitting that lightning bolts… right?”

“Eh?” Si Mulan was startled from being questioned and hastily nodded her head. “Y, yes…”

“As I thought,” The woman smiled wryly as she clenched her fist. A disappointed and sorrowful expression flashed across her beautiful face, causing even Si Mulan to feel as if she had done something wrong.

“I told you to wait, damn it! What if something happened to you, sister?! I would be killed, you know!!” Then, all of a sudden, an anxious voice echoed in the surrounding and then, in an instant, the entire place was completely shrouded by cold air.

Due to the increased intensity of the cold air, threads of snow began to descend from the sky. A moment later, wild winds howled. It wasn’t even on the same level than Si Mulan’s Ice control powers. This power… It was clearly higher than her own!

The snow swiftly agglomerated into snow-white ice blades. The threads of wild wind gradually turned into a vortex which suddenly expanded. A moment later, the vortex actually expanded until it was over ten meters wide.

Woosh. Woosh. Wooosh.

As the wild wind howled, numerous sharp ice blades were shot into the vortex. In an instant, a white colored tornado whose exterior was covered by sharp ice blades appeared out of thin air in the sky. By using her own strength to build such a ferocious ice blade storm, a lot of cold sweat began to accumulate on the newly intruder’s forehead despite her strength.

“Sister, move aside!”

The brunette woman who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere shouted in a low voice. When she saw the woman who had arrived earlier swiftly withdrawing to one side while dragging Si Mulan, the brunette woman waved her hand.

An enormous ice blade storm that carried a sharp breaking wind sound, howled as it swept toward the giant snake.

Rooooaaarrr!!

Swallowed by the whirling tornado of ice blades, the giant snake let out a painful cry.

Thud!

A distressed Qin Han and Bu Fanyi descended, in a distance not too far away from Si Mulan and the mysterious woman.

They both look at the woman with suspicious gazes, though with a hint of interest and curiosity.

Who are they?

People from the other sect?

“Damn it, Sister, can you not be so reckless…?!”

The Brunette woman who had launched the Ice Tornado appeared, crying out in distress as she turned towards the black-haired woman that had saved Si Mulan.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I just turned excited, that’s all… after all, we have been wandering in this place for a month without seeing any kind of human activities. And now they appeared….!”

With a Ha ha ha, the woman laughed cheerfully.

“Really? Or is it not because of the appearance of the lightning bolts?”

The Brunette woman sighs.

“… …” Hearing these words, the woman was stumped. “I…”

“I know… I know what you feel, I understand it. No, every one of us, clearly understands what you feel. We are also feeling panic and anxious but… we can’t do anything about it! We can only try and seek ways to find ‘him’… however, we can’t be reckless! If something happened to you, what should we say to ‘him’?” The Brunette woman grits her teeth, but although she was harshly reprimanding the black-haired woman, her tone and expression were so gentle, as if she was scolding a little child.

“… I’m sorry…”

Cryaaaaaahhhh!!!

The thunder-like cry resounded mightily over the entire forest.

The echo reverberated all around, shaking one’s heart as it did.

Extremely angry, the large snake swung hits huge tail abruptly, the giant python that was completely suppressed from the Ice tornado, emitted out a force that was quite terrifying and violently collided with the white colored ice blade tornado.

Booom!

At the moment of collision, the space when the two came into contact appeared to have shattered and opened tiny black colored crack lines.

Bang!!

Two different kinds of terrifying energy, with one being white and the other being black, stood off against each other for a moment before suddenly exploding in the sky. The intense energy explosion sound could still be faintly heard even a kilometer away. At the instance when the explosion occurred, a circle of energy ripples spread out from the point of explosion and shook both Qin Han’s group as well as the newly arrived women and the giant python at the same time, forcing them to pull back swiftly.

“Damn it! As I thought, this bastard is a 7th rank monster!! A variant?! What the hell is this Dungeon’s son-of-a-bitch…?! The monster’s appearing is beyond a 5th rank! This is impossibly insane!!”

The Brunette woman cursed loudly as she immediately created an Ice cold barrier that protects her and the black-haired woman behind her.

“I’m sorry…it’s my fault,”

The black-haired woman sigh sorrowfully. It was her fault that they were now trapped in this Dungeon. If only she had listened to the others advice before, they wouldn’t have been locked inside, being cut off from the outside.

“Ah! I’m sorry, that’s not what I meant!”

Seeing the distress and blaming sadness on the woman’s face, the brunette panicked.

“I, it’s not your fault! Not at all! It’s this Dungeon’s trial’s fault! That’s right! What the heck is, ‘Inherit our powers and become strong’ shit! This is not sister’s fault at all…!”

“Lady Celty, stop blaming her highness!”

“That’s right! This is not her highness fault, absolutely!!”

“Aaah, Celty that’s enough… you can’t put all the blame on sister,”

“I WAS NOT!!” The Brunette woman heard the familiar voices, turned towards the left direction and screamed loudly. However, her face was full of panic and anxiety… She knows that she had gone too far.

Damn it! Blame it all to this inexpensive mouth I had!!

Woosh. Woosh. Woosh. Woosh.

Ten people, all women landed gracefully on the ground. All of them looked extremely different from each other but the power they are emitting was actually not the least bit inferior compared to Si Mulan, Bu Fanyi or even Qin Han. In fact, due to the potency of their magical power, they appeared more powerful compared to them.