Chapter 324: The Blade of Ice and Fire
As Ran Mingzhu's mentality changed, the attacks of the attendants she controlled became more violent, but there was still a lack of effective tactics to match them. From time to time, there will be situations where waiters interfere with each other, which can be described as full of loopholes.
Xia Qiu obviously had many opportunities to finish off those waiters in a short period of time, but she was still hesitating, whether she should deliberately lose to Ran Mingzhu, even if she deliberately lost this competition, maybe she would be easily recognized by Ouyang Xiaoleng on the side.
Ouyang Xiaoleng knew that he couldn't stop the battle between Xia Qiu and Ran Mingzhu, so he could only temporarily calm down and watch the battle. In his opinion, what Ran Mingzhu lacks may not be strength, being able to use as many as four attendants while continuing to use other spells, which proves that she has profound spiritual power, but her combat experience is very limited, just like the spells she uses are varied, and the timing of her attack is always a little bit worse.
Ran Mingzhu took out two more spells and flew them in the direction of Xia Qiu. The two spells turned into an ice serpent and a fiery serpent respectively in their flight paths, and the two entangled with each other to form a long sword that was red and blue. At this time, one of the three attendants who were fighting Xia Qiu discarded his original weapon, and instead chose to hold the long sword and swung it towards Xia Qiu.
Xia Qiu turned to block with the plum blade, and she found that the blow from the waiter was far more powerful than before. The sword formed by the two spells of fire and water is not as fragile as expected, it makes a metallic sound when it collides with Xia Qiu's plum blade, and it also has the ability to guide the warrior who holds it into battle, and the other two attendants take advantage of her to attack the sword of ice and fire.
On several occasions, Xia Qiu was almost injured by the weapons of three waiters, but she skillfully saved the day. Of course, Mingzhu always thought that he was about to succeed, but he failed repeatedly, and only a sigh remained. In desperation, she could only continue to use her demon hunter's spiritual power to apply spells without restrictions, and replaced the Ice and Fire Sword for the three attendants under her. In this way, the pace and intensity of the battle are fundamentally different from Fang Cai's, and it also makes her more sure that she has the victory.
"Xia Qiu, if you don't use all your strength, you will be injured!" Ouyang Xiaoleng finally couldn't hold it back and reminded her.
"What?! Are you saying she's letting me do it now?! Ran Mingzhu asked him.
"Do you think you're going to be her opponent with your unstructured offense?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked rhetorically, his face full of disdain.
"Impossible!" Ran Mingzhu hurriedly retorted.
She was skeptical of Ouyang Xiaoleng's words, because she couldn't imagine why Xia Qiu would let herself go after knowing that she wanted to compete for the position of the blood alliance contractor, even at the risk of being injured. And what she didn't want to accept was that the girl who was as human as her had more strength than her, and as the descendant of the most famous demon hunter family, her pride was the last thing she wanted to lose.
"Xia Qiu, if you insist on releasing water, then I will have to intervene! I can't guarantee what the consequences will be! Ouyang Xiaoleng decided not to hesitate any longer, he really didn't want this meaningless battle to continue.
Xia Qiu, who was in the battle, glanced at Ouyang Xiaoleng with his residual eyes, and saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so he had no choice but to respond: "That...... Ran Mingzhu, I'm sorry! ”
As she spoke, she flew up, and in the process of spinning her body, she used her plum blade to knock down the ice and fire swords in the hands of the three attendants around her at a speed that was unattainable to the human eye, and then slashed at the three attendants with a set of flowing knife techniques. The waiter who was slain by the Plum Blade instantly reverted to the humanoid charm it had been at the beginning, and the spell was split in two.
Still unwilling, Mingzhu put the last of her strength on the attendant who was still protecting her in front of her, she took out the last remaining charm on her body and stuck it on the waiter's back. After she silently recited a spell, the waiter's height suddenly increased several times, as if turning into an iron wall to isolate Ran Mingzhu from Xia Qiu. This is Ran Mingzhu's last line of defense, as long as she herself is not directly attacked, she has not lost this match.
She guessed that being able to have such strength and speed as a human being like Xia Qiu must be inextricably linked to the blood alliance between her and Ouyang Xiaoleng, and now in her heart, in addition to envy, she was more jealous. She thought how good it would be if she was the one who became the signatory of his blood alliance, then she would be able to use her own power to move freely between the human world and the demon world to investigate the truth about her father's disappearance.
Just when she was a little distracted, the attendant in front of her with a huge form had already encountered several attacks from Xia Qiu in a row. Xia Qiu found that after the waiter's height increased, although the strength of her attacks was higher than before, the flexibility of her movements was relatively reduced, and she was able to use the move of constantly increasing the speed of the knife to suppress the opponent.
After she performed a burst of stabbing and slashing with her plum blade, the attendant of the huge form retreated one after another, and before she knew it, she was approaching the edge of the infinite realm against Ran Mingzhu. At the same time that Xia Qiu Fei jumped up and finished the last waiter with a whirling slash, Ran Mingzhu's spiritual power was also completely exhausted. When the attendant in front of her vanished, the last humanoid charm was severed in two, and she herself fell to the ground from her hair limp. The infinite realm that surrounded them completely collapsed and vanished.
Xia Qiu reached out to hold her as she landed, and asked with concern, "You don't matter, right?" ”
"I ...... I lost! Ran Mingzhu weakly admitted, and then cried again and continued, "But I am not reconciled! I...... I just want to enter the demon world to find my father! ”
"I know!" Xia Qiu nodded and said, casting a pleading gaze on Ouyang Xiaoleng.
Her eyes as pure as water were the most difficult for Ouyang Xiaoleng to refuse, and he could only say helplessly to Ran Mingzhu: "Okay! The premise is that after we have conclusive evidence that your father is still in the Demon Realm, only then will you be allowed to enter the Demon Realm and join us in our search for him. ”
Ran Mingzhu, who had already blurred her tears, nodded her head uncontrollably, and said to him and Xia Qiu: "Okay, good!" I promise you! Thank you! ”
Seeing Ouyang Xiaoleng nodding, Xia Qiu could finally take a long breath. This is the first time she has used her body so much after the resurrection, and the whole process can be said to be getting better. The vague feeling of alienation that she had felt when she controlled her regained body seemed to be swept away after this heart-wrenching battle, and it was only then that she truly felt that she was truly alive.
She first sent Ran Mingzhu back to the house where she lived, which was a very ordinary house, and after making sure that she had just collapsed and had no other problems, they took their leave.
On the way home to send Xia Qiu, Ouyang Xiaoleng couldn't help but ask her, "What do you think?!" If I don't open my mouth, are you going to lose to her like that?! ”
"I just imagined that if I had switched places with her, I would have done whatever it took to find my relatives and friends, right?" Xia Qiu stopped, smiled at Ouyang Xiaoleng and continued, "Just like you, in order to rescue me from Qingyun and resurrect me, you are unstoppable. ”
"Maybe it's my own problem, I've always been hostile to that family." Ouyang Xiaoleng also had to admit it.
"But after all, they are your relatives, this is something you can't choose or change, and the description of your mother Ran Susu from others, I believe that your family must be very good!" Xia Qiu suddenly turned forward, and the ponytail on the back of his head was also flicked up.
Ouyang Xiaoleng felt his heart tremble slightly, and said to her, "How can I be so optimistic forever like you?" ”
"Actually, I have a lot of pessimistic times, but I always try to hide it." Xia Qiu responded.
For days on end, she dreamed of fighting alongside the Feathered Crane Immortal in the Soul Separation Realm, and the dream was so real that she couldn't help but wonder if she had returned to that place. It was always comforting to be able to dream of him again, even if the battle in the dream was as fierce as the one she had experienced before, but only a deeper sense of loss was left behind when she woke up.
As time went on, the fact that there was still no news about him turned her mood from anxiety to despair, and the thought that he had just gained those lost memories, which he had always dreamed of, and that he had disappeared into the battle with the Black Crane in order to help her, made her feel an indescribable regret that he might never have the chance to meet him again, for him, and for herself.
"What are you thinking?" Ouyang Xiaoleng saw that she had something on her mind, so he asked.
"I'm wondering why there has been no news of the Feathered Crane Immortal." Xia Qiu answered truthfully.
"Oh." Although Ouyang Xiaoleng was also grateful to the Feather Crane Immortal, seeing her sad and lost for another person still made him a little jealous, but he still quickly adjusted his emotions and said, "The subordinates I sent to various places in the Demon Realm to inquire about the Feather Crane Immortal have not been able to bring back any useful news, but don't worry, he is heavily poisoned by the Black Crane, and he can not die if he falls from the Divine Domain to the Demon Realm, so he will definitely not disappear so easily." ”
Xia Qiu couldn't help but laugh and asked, "When did you become so good at comforting others?" ”
When the young man beside her, who was like an iceberg, would say such warm words, she remembered the unexpected confession he made in front of her father Xia Xuesong the day before, and the dark clouds that had just condensed in her heart suddenly dispersed.
"I don't know."
Although Ouyang Xiaoleng did not answer Xia Qiu's question, he knew that the reason why he had such a change was because of the human girl beside him.