Chapter 218

Chapter 218: Flames Burn and Purify the Malevolent Spirit

Bai Mu Mu froze: [!!!]

She had hidden so well, pulling in all her aura, and the System also covered her. How did Shen Sang Ruo find her? She did not have time to think. As she tried to rise and dodge, she found thin vines locking her ankles in place.

[Damn, it is that Dodder Flower Sprite.]

Its spreading vines had crept over the ground and, at some point, slipped up right beside her.

The Purplegold Serpent’s Barrier Ward covered most of the eastern side. Bai Mu Mu would not stray far from here.

First, she wanted to control the Purplegold Serpent. Second, with her nature, she would stay to enjoy the sight of Shen Sang Ruo dying in a miserable way.

So Shen Sang Ruo judged that Bai Mu Mu must be inside the Barrier Ward. She sent the Dodder Flower Sprite to search, and sure enough, it found her.

Bai Mu Mu’s face twisted with fear as she drew out a Cold Echo Pearl, hoping to cut the vines with ice blades.

But those thin strands were as tough as iron. A Mid Nascent Soul Stage Dodder Flower Sprite was not something she could shake.

The Dodder Flower Sprite flicked its vines with pride. It could not beat the Purplegold Serpent, but it could beat a little Late Golden Core cultivator.

Bai Mu Mu screamed for the System.

Yet the System was using all its energy to cut off the projection, control the Purplegold Serpent, and suppress Zhu Miao, so it had no time to help her.

She could only stare as the sharp Luan Feather Fan stabbed toward her.

She rushed to condense an Ice Shield on her chest, but it could not block Shen Sang Ruo’s assault.

The Luan Feather Fan pierced the Ice Shield and drove straight into Bai Mu Mu’s chest.

When Shen Sang Ruo pulled it out, bright blood splashed across the Ice Shield. It happened to shield Shen Sang Ruo from getting sprayed.

Agony hit. Bai Mu Mu’s face twisted. The Ice Shield lost control, fell, and shattered into countless pieces.

Shen Sang Ruo stepped in, her smile filled with killing intent as she asked: “Did you think that with the Purplegold Serpent attacking, we would be too busy to find you, and even if we found you, we could not do anything to you?”

She raised her hand and drove the Luan Feather Fan into Bai Mu Mu’s chest again, saying: “Too bad you miscalculated again.”

She added with a cold pause: “Your only flaw is that you do not fly. Next time, hide in the air, and maybe you will not get found.” She tipped her head and finished, “But you do not have a next time.”

The Luan Feather Fan slowly opened. Bai Mu Mu’s blood did not stain it at all. It was as if a smooth layer covered the fan, and every drop slid right off.

Shen Sang Ruo gripped the fan and leveled it at Bai Mu Mu. The killing intent rolled out like a wave.

Wrapped by vines, Bai Mu Mu struggled hard and cried out: “No. You cannot kill me. This is a team trial. True Lord Gu Ci will not let you go.”

Shen Sang Ruo arched a brow and said: “If I kill you, who will see it?”

She had guessed it already. Bai Mu Mu dared to attack them so boldly because she used some method to cut the projection on the Fengling Terrace.

Bai Mu Mu’s expression froze.

Once that order was sent, it could not be taken back. Only when the trial ended would the projection return to normal.

Fear crawled up her body like many cold hands.

Shen Sang Ruo thanked her in a voice like ice: “I should thank you for giving me the perfect chance to kill you.”

She toyed with the fan and said: “The Young Sect Master of the Flying Cloud Sect died in the team trial, eaten by the Purplegold Serpent. What a pity.”

She smiled and added: “Was that the cause of death you planned for me? I am returning it to you now.”

Bai Mu Mu’s eyes trembled again and again. She had felt this threat of death under Shen Sang Ruo’s hand many times.

Each time it felt so real and so suffocating.

The killing intent in Shen Sang Ruo’s eyes grew stronger and stronger. Now there was nothing left to stop her.

Bai Mu Mu had given her a perfect setting where she did not need to hold back.

[No. I do not want to die.]

Shen Sang Ruo’s voice was calm: “Fire is the purest force in the world. It can burn and cleanse all evil.”

Under blazing flames, all beings are equal.

She lifted the Luan Feather Fan and said: “Let me use fire to wipe you out, along with the Malevolent Spirit inside you.”

She drove the Sunset Flowing Flame Art. Her wrist turned, and the Luan Feather Fan slashed out.

Bai Mu Mu saw the Glazed Flame rushing at her and screamed: “Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.”

In the north and south areas, Mei Mei and Jiang Chu looked up and saw a pale purple Barrier Ward shoot into the sky, soon filling with fire.

They recognized that it was Shen Sang Ruo’s Glazed Flame.

They knew at once how serious this was and led their teams at full speed toward the eastern area.

When they arrived, Zhu Miao was still fighting the Purplegold Serpent, and Ye Huai’s group was assisting from the side.

Even through the Barrier Ward, the shockwaves of the fight pounded the air. Everyone was shaken.

The two sects were first startled by the Barrier Ward and by the lack of help from the Fengling Terrace. Then they began searching for a way to break it.

With the lives of the Ninghua Sect at risk, they could not stand aside.

But a Barrier Ward formed by a Purplegold Serpent near Late Nascent Soul was far beyond their power to crack.

None of them excelled at barrier arts either. They could only watch, anxious and helpless.

Just as Mei Mei was about to order a disciple to crush a token and go report, the Barrier Ward suddenly broke.

Flames shot into the sky. No one needed to guess whose technique that was.

They rushed in and joined Ye Huai’s group to face the Purplegold Serpent together.

With the Barrier Ward gone, the serpent’s fury also settled, and its strength dropped back to Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

The three groups had once joined forces to defeat a Mid Nascent Soul Stage Black-Scaled Wolf. Handling the Purplegold Serpent at that level would not be too hard.

But before they could strike, a black and white little puffball twisted the Purplegold Serpent like a rope and slammed it onto the ground. The serpent did not move again. It stopped breathing.

The disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Jiang Clan stared wide-eyed at Zhu Miao’s power.

This tiny thing was that strong?

Song Wei Yan laughed, his voice bright with surprise: “Junior sister’s contracted beast seems to have recovered its strength.”

Ye Huai stepped forward as the senior brother and cupped his hands to Mei Mei and Jiang Chu, saying: “Thank you all for coming to help.”

He asked at once: “What happened? How did the Purplegold Serpent have the ability to set up a Barrier Ward?”

They gave a quick account of the cause and effect.

Jiang Chu frowned and said: “Wen Xuan used a self-injury trick to lure you here, then planned to use the Purplegold Serpent to kill you.”

Mei Mei’s eyes grew sharp as she said: “And the mastermind is the Young Sect Master of the Flying Cloud Sect, Bai Mu Mu. She carried a strange Malevolent Spirit that could control the Purplegold Serpent and empower it.”

They walked closer to the Purplegold Serpent.

Mei Mei’s face turned grave as she said: “This is Devil Qi.”

The Heavenly Sword Sect had always stood against Devil Cultivators and Heretic Cultivators.

Mei Mei keenly sensed the faint Devil Qi on the Purplegold Serpent. It was already fading fast.

Killing intent flashed in her eyes as she asked: “Where is Bai Mu Mu?”

Bai Ruo An answered at once: “Our junior sister found where Bai Mu Mu was hiding and went to kill her. From what we saw just now, I think she succeeded.”

Right then, Shen Sang Ruo walked toward them.