I’ve Reloaded the Save File! [Transmigration] 42

42: Serious Injury

Mo Xiao looked at the three demonic beasts, who were almost being completely suppressed by her master, a slight doubt appearing between her brows.

Why did she feel that these three demonic beasts seemed very timid? They were mainly on the defensive, rarely attacking, and they had no demonic energy on them. They didn’t look like they were being controlled.

“Junior Sister, let’s go,” Yun Yu had also noticed this, but there was no time for them to think carefully now. What they had to do was to be fast, ruthless, and precise, and leave the lives of these demons and demonic beasts here.

Mo Xiao nodded. She and Yun Yu exchanged a look, then attacked the strongest demon.

Yun Yu’s sword was fast, and Mo Xiao’s sword was even faster. The two of them tacitly used their sword intent, one attacking the demon’s head, and the other striking at his dantian.

The attacked demon’s attention was mostly attracted by the battle between Xuan Shuang and the demonic beasts. He reacted a step slower, realizing that there was an ambush nearby.

With Mo Xiao and Yun Yu joining forces, the first demon’s head was quickly cut off, and the nascent soul in his dantian was also destroyed, ensuring that he was dead beyond a doubt.

After about a quarter of an hour, Xuan Shuang successfully killed one of the humanoid demonic beasts. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two immediately returned to their original forms, wanting to rely on their size to fight Xuan Shuang head-on.

How foolish, Xuan Shuang sighed in her heart. If the two of them were in human form, they might have been able to rely on their more agile movements and defense than ordinary Spirit Transformation stage cultivators to continue to delay the battle. But after they returned to their demonic beast forms, they were just blatant targets.

Xuan Shuang floated in mid-air, injecting the spiritual energy in her body into her life-bound spirit sword. She slowly closed her eyes, and countless sword qis shot out from her meridians, then attached to the spirit sword, faintly forming a translucent long sword about ten meters long.

At this time, Xuan Shuang no longer needed to pay attention to any moves. She just needed to raise her sword and swing it at the target.

The spiritual energy and countless sword qis surrounding the life-bound sword were like they had eyes, transforming into a powerful sword qi that cut the two demonic beasts in half at the waist.

“It’s just…” The demonic beast had just wanted to say that although their bodies had been cut in two, their souls still existed.

But before he could say it, he found that his soul seemed to have become exceptionally light, and there was a slight stinging sensation on his neck.

“Ah—” His companion was the first to let out a miserable scream. The demonic beast could very clearly see that his companion’s soul was being continuously devoured by the sword qi, getting smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared.

Then, am I also like him…

Before the demonic beast could even think, he completely lost consciousness and finally turned into nothingness.

After dealing with the three demonic beasts, Xuan Shuang’s gaze fell on her two disciples.

After Mo Xiao and Yun Yu had dealt with the first demon, they had split up to fight the remaining two demons. The demons’ cultivation was a small stage higher than theirs, and their physiques were special, their physical strength comparable to that of demonic beasts. It took Mo Xiao a little time to successfully kill them.

Yun Yu’s movements were slightly slower than Mo Xiao’s, but only by a little. She finished off her enemy at about the same time as Xuan Shuang.

Not bad. Xuan Shuang was very satisfied with the performance of her two disciples. She was about to sheathe her life-bound sword and see if she needed to continue to probe deeper into the forest.

Hm? Xuan Shuang suddenly stopped her movements. After about a breath’s time, she directly drew her sword and slashed in a certain direction.

“Pfft—” Where the sword strike landed, a white figure’s disguise was broken, and at the same time, he spat out a large mouthful of blood.

After seeing his appearance, Mo Xiao instantly confirmed, “He is our target today.”

“Alright,” Yun Yu didn’t say much, but directly drew her sword and rushed up.

Xuan Shuang’s movements were even faster. She had also been reminded by her little disciple that this Zhong Huai was a very cunning person. Regardless of the fact that Zhong Huai’s cultivation was a whole major stage lower than hers, she directly drew her sword to deliver a follow-up blow.

Zhong Huai’s face was very ugly. He hadn’t expected his disguise to be discovered, and even less so that a late Spirit Transformation stage cultivator would target him.

Seeing that Xuan Shuang’s attack was about to land on him, Zhong Huai desperately piled defensive artifacts on himself, trying to block her attack and buy himself time to escape.

Trying to run? No way!

As Xuan Shuang’s attack landed, Mo Xiao and Yun Yu rushed up to deliver follow-up blows. The two of them attacked from different angles, cutting off Zhong Huai’s chance of escape to the greatest extent.

Seeing that the so-called righteous cultivators were not only bullying the weak, but also shamelessly ganging up on him three against one, Zhong Huai could only widen his eyes and take out all his trump cards.

“Is… is he dead?” Looking at the lifeless body on the ground, Yun Yu asked with some uncertainty, and casually stabbed the body a few more times with her sword.

“I can’t feel his aura anymore,” Mo Xiao said, her brows slightly furrowed. “But, we don’t seem to have destroyed his dantian. It doesn’t make sense for him to die so quickly.”

One must know that after cultivating a nascent soul, it was equivalent to having half a life. As long as the nascent soul was not destroyed, whether it was a cultivator or a demon, they could use the nascent soul and heavenly materials and earthly treasures to re-cultivate their bodies.

“He should have prepared a substitute in advance. The moment his body died, he activated some kind of formation and teleported his nascent soul to another place,” Xuan Shuang approached and checked. “It’s a pity he got away.”

“He can teleport with just his nascent soul?” Yun Yu was a little surprised. She had never heard of such a thing. “Doesn’t that mean he has two lives?”

“Human cultivators might not be able to do it, but the Demon Realm has many strange formations that can be achieved through some special means,” Although Xuan Shuang only cultivated the sword, her experience was very rich, and she knew much more than the two of them.

“This method is against common sense. He must have paid a great price. He probably won’t be able to recover his vitality within a hundred years,” Xuan Shuang said, slowly retracting her life-bound spirit sword into her dantian.

“By the way, the demonic beasts I just killed were not really at the Spirit Transformation stage. Although the strength they displayed was similar to the mid-Spirit Transformation stage, their combat awareness was very poor, or rather, almost non-existent.”

Xuan Shuang thought for a moment and added, “Their souls are very weak, only at the level of the late Nascent Soul stage. They should have cultivated some special technique.”

A special technique? Mo Xiao felt that this term was a bit familiar. “Wuyi and I met a person before. He also said that he had cultivated a special technique, and his cultivation quickly went from the Foundation Establishment stage to the Golden Core stage.”

“If ordinary cultivators can cultivate it, and demonic beasts can also cultivate it, then it’s most likely a demonic technique,” Xuan Shuang said, casting a basic spell and directly burning all the corpses at the scene.

“Zhong Huai’s matter is temporarily resolved. Let’s go back to Nanfeng City first and see if there are any abnormalities in the city,” Xuan Shuang said.

“Yes, Master,” Mo Xiao and Yun Yu replied at the same time.

At the same time, in a certain palace in the Demon Realm, a translucent soul crawled out of a teleportation formation. If one looked closely, one could still see the cracks on his soul.

“Sword cultivators, all sword cultivators should die!” Zhong Huai was very weak now. In order to prevent his current situation from being exposed to other demons, he forced himself to act as if nothing was wrong, then summoned a trusted confidant, gave him a few instructions, and then announced that he was going into seclusion.

“Zhong Huai is going into seclusion at this time?” The well-informed Zhong Teng was the first to receive the news. “If I remember correctly, didn’t he tell Father that he was going to take a city from the human race? Why is he going into seclusion now?”

“Young Master Teng, according to my subordinate’s investigation, Young Master Huai’s plan seems to have already begun. Perhaps Young Master Huai is confident that his plan will succeed? That’s why he went into seclusion in advance?”

Zhong Teng was noncommittal. It was true that Zhong Huai was very confident in himself, but at the same time, he was also a very cautious person. Even if he were to go into seclusion, he would have told Father about it and received a reward before going into seclusion.

“Send a few people to the human race to see what Zhong Huai has been up to,” Zhong Teng ordered. “And send people to keep an eye on Zhong Huai. You must report any of his movements.”

“Yes, your subordinate will arrange it right away,” the demon knelt on the ground and said.

By the time Mo Xiao followed her master into Nanfeng City, she heard the sound of fighting from the streets. Looking down, many cultivators had lost their minds and were attacking people indiscriminately.

Zuo Wuyi had already reminded Chu Ting of this situation, so there were also many of the city lord’s personal guards on the streets, arresting these cultivators who had lost their minds. The current situation was still within a controllable range.

“Be gentle, just knock them out,” Xuan Shuang instructed, then flew towards the streets, aiming for the back of the cultivators’ necks. With a single chop, she knocked out five or six cultivators in the time it takes to breathe.

“I think, maybe Master can handle it alone?” Mo Xiao looked at the cultivators who had fallen in an instant and slowly let out a breath.

“…” Yun Yu did not say anything, but just felt that her master’s action of knocking people out was very neat, so neat that it was like she was a habitual offender?

“Eldest Senior Sister, the situation in the city is still under control. I’ll go and check on Wuyi,” Mo Xiao said. “I’m worried that Wuyi and Xuan Min will have a conflict.”

Yun Yu nodded. “Alright, after the matter in the city is dealt with, Master and I will also go and take a look.”

Mo Xiao nodded, no longer paying attention to the situation in Nanfeng City, but flew forward on her sword, rushing towards the beast tide at her fastest speed.

The battle between the cultivators and the demonic beasts was not far from Nanfeng City. After flying on her sword for about a quarter of an hour, Mo Xiao could already sense the situation with her divine sense.

With Chu Ting directly participating in the battle, the human cultivators still had an advantage against the demonic beasts. Although Xuan Min was here for Zuo Wuyi, he also kept his promise. When a high-level demonic beast appeared, he would directly kill it.

Zuo Wuyi and Yun He had been following Chu Ting all along. Chu Ting also valued their safety very much and had arranged for a Nascent Soul stage personal guard captain near them to ensure their safety.

It seems the situation is not bad. If this continues, the beast tide should be resolved soon.

Mo Xiao was a little relieved. After confirming Zuo Wuyi’s location, she slowed down a little, killed the nearby demonic beasts, and then approached.

“Senior Sister!” Yun He shouted happily.

“Did you succeed?” Since Mo Xiao and the others had set out, Zuo Wuyi had been worried about this matter in her heart, worried that there would be an accident.

Mo Xiao hesitated for a moment, then shook her head.

“You failed?” Zuo Wuyi was stunned for a moment, then quickly accepted this fact. “That’s normal. That Zhong Huai is very cunning. Did he pretend to be pitiful, or did he threaten you with the cultivators of Nanfeng City?”

Mo Xiao continued to shake her head. “Master struck, and Eldest Senior Sister and I followed up. But Zhong Huai seems to have a special method. We saw his body, but we couldn’t keep his nascent soul.”

“Huh?” Zuo Wuyi was stunned for a moment. “Didn’t you say anything to Zhong Huai?”

Mo Xiao still shook her head. “Zhong Huai was hiding at that time. Then Master found him, and we attacked directly. Zhong Huai was seriously injured by Master and will probably need a hundred years to heal.”

“Good! Excellent!” Zuo Wuyi was so happy that she almost jumped up.

A full hundred years was enough for her to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage and then go and do it herself!

A gentleman’s revenge is never too late, even after ten years. A woman’s revenge is not too late, even in the next life!