Ch 78 – Sudden Counterattack
June 24, 2021August 12, 2021By koffeam
ng Qi seed to be in a trance. The voice, even with a trace of anger, was pleasant and familiar. Even if she died thousands of tis, she wouldn’t fail to recognize the owner of this voice. ng Qi was sure that she was not hallucinating. Both the last ti outside Huajiang Manor or this ti, the man’s voice she heard was not her own imagination, but truly existed.
“…Yes.” She replied in a daze.
The black-robed man gave her a slight glance. “What ‘Yes’?” A mockery flashed across his face. “Are you going to admit defeat?”
“Never!” ng Qi said with a grim determination. A fla suddenly ignited in her heart. So what if this man was more powerful than her? She was not afraid of him!
“So you won’t cry unless you see your own coffin?” The black-robed man sneered. He bent over and took a thin green branch from one of the white ghost puppets he summoned.
“Don’t say I bully you.” He threw a bamboo slip to ng Qi. “The nine dicinal ingredients needed are recorded in it. I want you to fully admit your defeat.”
The bamboo slip was long and thin, but its color was dark blue, unlike the yellow bamboo slips commonly used in Three Thousand Worlds. On the back of the unfamiliar bamboo slip was a row of characters inscribed in archaic script. ng Qi touched it with her fingers and read: “Ji Wujiong.”
“Huh?” The black-robed man turned his head in reflex and looked at ng Qi subconsciously.
It turned out that his na was Ji Wujiong.
ng Qi quickly recalled her mory. She indeed had never heard this na. If such a powerful cultivator went in and out with Lu Qingran in the previous life, she surely would have heard the rumor about him, so this person probably only appeared later and t Lu Qingran after her death.
Ji Wujiong’s cold gaze swept across ng Qi. He didn’t seem to care that she knew his na, and said mockingly as always: “Still standing there stupidly? Are you that eager to call ‘My Lord’?”
ng Qi: “…”
She lowered her head and quickly morized all the nine dicinal plants she needed.
“Don’t worry.” The man’s voice rang again in ng Qi’s mind, but it was even colder than before, “Just do it like the last ti.”
ng Qi lowered her hands and relaxed her mind and body. The long hair tied behind her back suddenly swayed, her blue robe flew, and her figure flashed quickly like the wind. In her hand, the silver dical knife danced across the ground with a ‘swish, swish’ sound, and yellowed grass flew around. In no ti, a complete array began to take form on the ground.
“Look clearly.” The man’s voice was still cold. “The na of this array is Thousand Cranes. The one he used is just Hundred Ghosts And Hundred Charms Array. rely a Hundred Ghosts, why should you feel wary?”
“I see.” ng Qi responded in a whisper. The corner of her eye swept across Ji Wujiong, who clearly couldn’t hear the man’s voice. Ji Wujiong still stood in a leisure manner and glanced at ng Qi lazily from ti to ti; his jaw was slightly raised in arrogance.
“You still look at him!” The man’s voice was dark with a trace of anger that beca more obvious. “Do you want to lose?”
ng Qi pursed her lips and returned her gaze on the ground seriously. She could morize arrays much faster and easier than morizing a sword or cultivation technique. When the last stroke from the dical knife fell on the center of the array, ng Qi already morized the complete Thousand Cranes array.
“Spirit stone.” The man said in a deep voice: “Eighth-grade.”
ng Qi quickly took out twelve eighth-grade spirit stones from her storage space item and held them in her hand. She then tossed them on the array, and in an instant, the array shone in blue light, illuminating her delicate face.
Ji Wujiong glanced over and raised his eyebrows disdainfully: “Thousand Cranes array? It is nothing than—…what are you doing?!”
ng Qi wanted to sigh. This Ji Wujiong was truly knowledgeable. However, it was too late. Countless blue shadows erged from the array and turned into hundreds of goshawks that soared to the sky. Unlike the ‘crane’ in the array’s na, those goshawks fluttered their wings and flew high, brandishing their sharp talons and beaks majestically.
In an instant, the whole ground was covered by the shadows of goshawks flying in the sky. Those goshawks, large enough that their wings spread out was longer than ng Qi’s arms, swiftly rushed in all directions.
“You can modify Thousand Cranes array like that.” Ji Wujiong squinted towards ng Qi. His eyes were burning, and even the usual disdain and mockery on his face were all now gone: “Very good!”
“Isn’t it just modifying an array, heh—” The man’s voice in ng Qi’s mind finally beca softer. Maybe it was just her imagination, but the voice seed to be less angry, and with a trace of satisfaction.
ng Qi said nothing. She looked up at the goshawks that flew swiftly across the sky and saw so of them rushed to the ground towards the tiny ghost puppets summoned by Ji Wujiong. The goshawks didn’t pay any care. They brandished their talons and quickly robbed the dicinal plants found by the puppets.
Not only that. After robbing, the goshawks lowered their head and pecked on ghost puppets. With a soft ‘poof,’ they quickly turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared. Then the goshawks waved their wings calmly, turned around, and flew back to ng Qi.
When they flew in front of her, their talons flicked, and they threw the looted plants into her hands.
ng Qi was dumbfounded!
Ji Wujiong stared blankly for a mont. He originally thought that this girl summoned goshawks with the modified Thousand Cranes array to make them fly faster and find the needed dicinal plants as soon as possible.
Never crossed in his mind that she would directly rob it!
Not only the goshawks robbed his plants, but they also killed his ghost puppets!
This is unbearable!
He can’t bear it!
Ji Wujiong jumped up furiously. The long black saber once again scratched on the ground and quickly drew a new array.
“Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.” Inside ng Qi’s mind, the man’s voice rang again.
“Is it amazing?” ng Qi asked in a low voice.
“Amazing?!” The man sneered, “It seems that we must teach him a lesson, so that from now on, he won’t dare to use any array in front of you!” He ordered: “Take a profound-grade spirit stone and hold it in your hand.”
ng Qi nodded and took out a profound-grade spirit stone from her storage space item.
“The real modification doesn’t require any useless bluffs and tricks. Otherwise, the enemy will have plenty of tis to stab your chest when you are busy drawing the array, just like him.” As he spoke, the man controlled ng Qi’s body once again. He moved quickly and accurately, and the silver dical knife instantly erased a few lines on the array they previously drew.
The dical knife swung once again, and in the next mont, a new exquisite array was drawn in the center of the original array. The profound-grade spirit stone in ng Qi’s hand began to shine. Her fingers flicked, throwing the spirit stone into the center of the newly-modified array.
A sharp and high eagle scream suddenly resounded through the blue sky. The Grand Tournant’s barrier, which was originally very silent, seed to be torn apart by their voice.
In the center of the array drawn by ng Qi, a huge, very lifelike goshawk swiftly rose from the ground and rushed to the sky.
Ji Wujiong suddenly looked up. Only then did ng Qi see that his eyes had turned blood red at so point. Even the three weird scars on his face faintly glowed in red.
All the remaining ghost puppets were slowly gathered back towards their master. But when the goshawk’s voice resounded through the sky, they seed to be frightened and stopped in their place.
ng Qi could even see they raised their heads to look up at the sky.
“Blood moon.” The man said to ng Qi again. “Throw it into the sky.”
ng Qi didn’t even pause to think. She quickly took out the blood moon and threw it into the sky.
The huge goshawk swooped down suddenly, taking away the blood moon in one bite. Then it screeched loudly towards the sky, as if to tear of the entire barrier with its voice. Even the ground and the sky seed to be shaken.
The man’s voice finally had a hint of good mood: “This blood moon is only a thousand years old. Pretty useless. In the future, I will find for you another blood moon that is more than ten thousand years old.”
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