CBGC - ch96.2

     Xuan Qi is surprised to find that this gravely wounded demon still has such formidable fighting power. The Demon-Slaying Knife in the air becomes entangled with those flexible silk ribbons, and the sound of the Jade Maiden’s laughter are soul attacks. Xuan Qi frowns, shouts in anger, and stomps down heavily, tearing the red silk tangled in front of him. The silk breaks, and the figures of a large number of women covered by the red silk are exposed.

     "Your Charm Skills may have worked on Dan Biqing, but they have no effect on me!" Xuan Qi flips the long knife in his hand and spools the red silk into a ball.

     At the same time, he slashes with the sharp blade, its edge bright as snow, and devastates half the city.

     Zhang Zhizi is within the blade’s range.

     "Sacrifice your soul to this scroll, and my sisters and I will serve you as our master."

     "In the future, as long as you provide us with your spiritual essence, we will serve you loyally. Your anger and discontent have awakened me, and in the future, you will also be able to awaken my sisters..."

    The woman in white gently waves her feather fan and says, "Zhang gongzi, would you be willing? The knife is almost at your neck." She is clearly inside the painting, but she points to the sky. The nails of her delicate fair fingers are painted scarlet, and in that split second, that bewitching red is so dazzling that he can't take his eyes off it.

    Zhang Zhizi quickly replies, "I am willing!"

    The woman in white giggles and tosses the feather fan into the air. It actually breaks free from the shackles of the scroll and flies high into the sky, and blocks that earth-shattering knife’s strike.

     Indeed, this woman in the painting has the cultivation base of a Tribulation Transcendent.

     After making her move, she lets out a soft sigh and takes the feather fan back in her hand, a tired look on her face. The scroll slowly closes, and the woman's voice could be heard, "This massacre should have been able to amass a great amount of Resentment, but those people ruined it. I have to rest. I wish you good luck."

     Zhang Zhizi is dumbfounded. Then a surge of anger rises in his heart. She lied to him and hasn’t saved him at all. And it is precisely this anger that turns into nourishment for the woman.

     Although there’s not much Resentment in the city, this little brother shows great potential.

     As hope blossoms from despair, everyone left alive in this city is doing their best.

     Jinxiu City is not the same as Sanxiu City, where Liu Feizhou used to live. It is more similar to the mortal world. The abundance of flowers and beauty in this city is a testament to the fact that the cultivators here are not like those vicious practitioners.

     This is a city of cultivation families. Many practitioners here have relatives and friends. When faced with crisis, and the possibility of parting forever, great love would arise from the ruins and corners of the city. There would always be people who would look towards hope, hope for life, or to do everything in their power for their loved ones to survive.

     Although there’s a massacre in this city, there is not much resentment. Only Zhang Zhizi's hatred has funneled into the picture scroll, revitalizing the woman in white.

     But it’s not enough at all.

     For the battlefield out there, however, it still has some impact.

     "Which expert hides here?" Xuan Qi is indeed somewhat nervous. The move just now broke his own knife technique, which is enough to prove that the other party is also a Tribulation Transcendent, and has been hiding in the dark, ready to make a move. Could it be that this is the oriole, behind the mantis stalking the cicada? Then why show their hand now?

(Daoist idiom: the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Being hunted while hunting.)

     Regardless, Xuan Qi feels a restraining fear in his heart. However, he knows that the head of this female devil must be taken at all costs, otherwise, his reputation and the Xuan Sect’s reputation will definitely drop a thousand zhang in one fall.

     He is currently a late stage Tribulation Transcendent, and that practitioner with the same cultivation is sneaking around in the dark. So as long as he is careful, he will surely not fall for whatever trap the other has for him.

     Xuan Qi's eyes turn frosty and his movements become more aggressive. The Jade Maiden is covered in wounds and her red silk is drenched in blood, yet she continues to resist.

     "Today is the day you die!"

     The next moment, there’s a slight change in Xuan Qi's expression.

     "Hahaha! I admit things that I’ve actually done, Xuan Qi. Don't even think about slandering me!" The Jade Maiden’s entire body is wounded. She herself is a demonic practitioner, and she wraps herself in ribbons instead of wearing clothes. The silk ribbon is now torn to shreds, leaving her with tattered rags to cover herself. But there’s barely an inch left unmarred on her exposed skin. Knife wounds encompass her whole body, she’s drenched in blood.

     But she is still laughing, savage and unhinged.

     In that clash just now, her intention was not to kill Xuan Qi, as she’s unable to do so in her weakened state.

     Instead, her purpose was simply to destroy the isolating barrier Xuan Qi has set, a goal which she has successfully accomplished.