"What kind of idiot woman was that?!"
In Yellow Sand Canyon, a beautiful woman in a silver-white robe was firing wind blades at a Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, fighting with great gusto. She was exceedingly charming, with a slim waist and a backside exactly Wei Suo's type—perky as hell. Yet in a dirt pit less than fifty zhang away from this perky little beauty and the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, Wei Suo lay buried beneath a thick layer of yellow sand, with only his head poking out through a pile of dead grass. He was so furious his mouth was practically twisted crooked.
A Stone-tailed Wall Lizard was a mid-level second-grade demonic beast.
The two armor plates on its back, gleaming with a metallic sheen, were worth three Low-grade Spirit Stones. The black, glossy leather of its belly was fine and tough, perfect material for tanning close-fitting inner armor, worth two Low-grade Spirit Stones. Its lizard tail, covered in dense scales and capable of slicing through black iron, was worth one Low-grade Spirit Stone.
That made six Low-grade Spirit Stones in total.
Stone-tailed Wall Lizards generally moved in male-female pairs, nesting in caves along sheer cliffs. They moved as swiftly as flying across precipices and steep rock faces. If one failed to kill them in a single strike and let them flee into those cliffside caves, they would never be found again. Wei Suo had waited here for a full two days before finally catching this Stone-tailed Wall Lizard alone and far from those cliffs. The six Low-grade Spirit Stones were practically glittering in his pocket already. But just as he was about to make his move, this silver-robed beauty had appeared from who knew where. After excitedly shouting, "Haha, what great luck, a second-grade demonic beast!" she had failed to notice even Wei Suo hiding in the dirt pit behind her, and had eagerly attacked the lone Stone-tailed Wall Lizard.
This beauty appeared to have reached the Fourth Level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm, a full two levels higher than Wei Suo. Her silver-white robe was clearly woven from silver silkworm thread, embroidered with intricate patterns and undoubtedly expensive. The wind blades she fired shone brightly, carrying threads of icy chill. They struck the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard with popping sounds, jolting it again and again as chips of ice sprang from its back armor. She looked every bit the imposing expert and had the upper hand, but to Wei Suo, her appearance was simply in inverse proportion to her intelligence.
He figured that if one randomly dragged in any passerby from outside Yellow Sand Canyon right now, they would know the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard's weakest point was its neck. Yet this beauty was fiercely bombarding the thick armor on its back with her wind blades.
If those two thick armor plates could be shattered so easily, would they still be worth three Low-grade Spirit Stones?
And even an ordinary cultivator thinking with his ass would know to fight while retreating, putting as much distance as possible between himself and the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard. But this silver-robed beauty stood rooted to the spot, doing nothing but swish, swish, swish out wind blades. What left Wei Suo most speechless was that every time she fired one, she would also sweetly cry, "Ice Wind Blade!"
Fuck, do you think you're putting on a play?
Clearly, this beauty was some clan scion who had never suffered much hardship. Having attained the Fourth Level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm, she naturally thought a second-grade demonic beast would be easy prey.
But even if a pig were lying on the ground, if all you did was desperately stab its hooves with a knife, stabbing until you were completely exhausted, you still wouldn't kill it! Did she really think her True Essence was inexhaustible, boundless as the sea?
Sure enough, it was exactly as Wei Suo had expected. Before long, the beauty's face had turned a little pale, and she pulled out two bottles of Qi Replenishing Powder in succession and gulped them down.
"Smack!"
But while drinking the second bottle of Qi Replenishing Powder, the beauty slowed slightly in casting her wind blades. The Stone-tailed Wall Lizard was also very close to her, so the creature, which had been taking a beating all this time, rudely swept its tail at her. Though it missed by the narrowest margin, the beauty was clearly badly frightened, her face turning snow-white.
"Good chance!"
At that moment, the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard happened to be side-on to where Wei Suo was lying in ambush. With a muffled boom, Wei Suo sprang from the flying yellow sand. A blast of gale force struck the sand beside the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, flipping it over in one go. At the same time, a blue water blade formed in Wei Suo's hand and slashed toward the creature's neck.
"Boom!"
But just as Wei Suo's blue water blade was about to strike the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, a fireball the size of a dustpan suddenly crashed into it, blasting the lizard sideways through the air.
Wei Suo rolled across the ground in fright, narrowly avoiding the flames scattering toward him.
"Fireball Talisman! What the hell are you doing?!"
Wei Suo could not hold it in any longer. He sprang to his feet and nearly shouted.
That attack should have left the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard either dead or half-crippled, with no real threat remaining. Yet this idiot woman from who knew where had actually fired a Fireball Talisman at this moment!
They had already been able to finish off the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard. Was there any need to use a talisman with such tremendous power?
With a sweep of his peripheral vision, Wei Suo saw that although the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard had crashed heavily to the ground and most of its body had been burned charred black, it had not been struck in a vital spot. It looked merely injured, not directly blasted to death.
More importantly, the Fireball Talisman had made such a huge commotion that it might very well draw back the other Stone-tailed Wall Lizard.
"Who are you? What were you doing sneaking around over there just now? Get lost! Don't get in my way." Instead, the silver-robed beauty raised her delicate brows and scolded him arrogantly.
"Fireball Talisman, Ice Talisman, Swift Wind Talisman?"
Before Wei Suo could say anything, he saw three more talismans appear in the silver-robed beauty's hand.
This silver-robed beauty truly was loaded. The two bottles of Qi Replenishing Powder and the talismans she had used so far were already worth more than four Low-grade Spirit Stones combined. With these three talismans in hand, even if the other Stone-tailed Wall Lizard returned, she should be able to deal with it easily.
"Pfft!"
"Boom!"
But then a scene that left Wei Suo dumbfounded unfolded.
The silver-robed beauty actually... actually threw the Ice Talisman and Fireball Talisman directly onto the badly wounded Stone-tailed Wall Lizard.
The Stone-tailed Wall Lizard was first frozen into an ice lump by a mass of white frost qi, then roasted by a terrifying fireball the size of a dustpan. Unsurprisingly, it died on the spot.
Yet almost at the same instant, the other Stone-tailed Wall Lizard appeared, charging at the two of them in a crazed blur.
"There's another one!"
The silver-robed beauty slapped the Swift Wind Talisman onto herself. Wrapped in a mass of gale force, she leaped about at high speed and continued firing wind blades wildly at the arriving Stone-tailed Wall Lizard.
"Fuck!"
The silver-robed beauty's Ice Wind Blades looked tremendously imposing, but they still posed no threat at all to the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard. The beast also realized it could not get near her, so it turned and pounced at Wei Suo instead.
The Stone-tailed Wall Lizard darted everywhere to dodge the silver-robed beauty's wind blades, making it impossible for Wei Suo to flip it over or strike its vital points.
And this Stone-tailed Wall Lizard—whose beloved mate, whether wife or husband, had been cruelly slaughtered by the silver-robed beauty's three talismans—had clearly gone mad as it pursued Wei Suo without letting up.
"You coward! Why won't you stop and fight? What are you running for?"
The Stone-tailed Wall Lizard quickly caught up behind Wei Suo. What made him want to cry without tears was that the silver-robed beauty even shouted this at him contemptuously.
"Damn it!"
Feeling that he truly could not escape, Wei Suo pulled a yellow jade talisman from his robes with an ugly expression. Once he poured a stream of True Essence into it, a yellow current carrying a thick, earthy smell continuously surged from the jade talisman. It soon formed a small yellow shield two chi wide before him.
"Smack!" "Smack!"
The Stone-tailed Wall Lizard attacked Wei Suo repeatedly, but every attack was blocked by the small yellow shield.
"Sshhk!"
A streak of blood suddenly appeared across the neck of the frenzied Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, and its body convulsed. "Haha!" The silver-robed beauty followed up with several wind blades, and the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard finally twitched twice on the ground before falling still.
"What kind of nonsense was that?" Wei Suo shook his head speechlessly. While the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard had been attacking him, the silver-robed beauty had stumbled upon a dead rat like a blind cat—her wind blade had happened to slice the creature's most vulnerable neck.
"You still haven't answered my question. Who exactly are you, and what were you doing hiding there so sneakily? Were you trying to steal my two Stone-tailed Wall Lizards?" The silver-robed beauty looked proudly at the two Stone-tailed Wall Lizards before turning her gaze to Wei Suo.
"What do you mean, steal your two Stone-tailed Wall Lizards?! I've been lying in ambush here for two whole days! If you hadn't come here and made a mess of things, why would I have had to use this Earth Shield Treasure Talisman?" Looking at the yellow jade talisman in his hand, whose glow had clearly dimmed considerably and which had already developed a faint crack, Wei Suo truly could not endure it anymore. This Earth Shield Treasure Talisman was a treasure he had painstakingly acquired, worth at least six Low-grade Spirit Stones. It could be used three times in total, and the Earth Element Shield it formed each time could withstand even techniques cast by cultivators at the Fifth Level of the Sea of Consciousness Realm. Wei Suo had already used it once before. Originally, after ambushing and killing one Stone-tailed Wall Lizard, he could very likely have ambushed and killed the other as well without losing anything. But after this idiot beauty from who knew where had made such a mess of things, he had been forced to use it again. That alone was the equivalent of losing at least two additional Low-grade Spirit Stones. "What a spendthrift! If I had that many First-Order Fireball Talismans and Ice Talismans, I could ambush a third-grade demonic beast. Yet she actually used three talismans to kill one Stone-tailed Wall Lizard!" Thinking of how this beauty had just used four talismans that he normally could not bear to buy, Wei Suo's heart ached even more.
"You think you could kill two Stone-tailed Wall Lizards? Look at how clumsy you were just now. I killed both of these Stone-tailed Wall Lizards, so naturally they're both mine." The silver-robed beauty looked at Wei Suo with extreme contempt.
"I was clumsy? Did you come here to kill Stone-tailed Wall Lizards or to smash Spirit Stones for fun? That Stone-tailed Wall Lizard you blew up is worth two Low-grade Spirit Stones at most now, but your two bottles of Qi Replenishing Powder and four first-order talismans were worth four Low-grade Spirit Stones. You didn't even know the Stone-tailed Wall Lizard's weakest point was its neck, and you came here to kill one? With wind blades like yours, you could fire a hundred of them and still not cut through its back armor. I'm the clumsy one?" Wei Suo merely sneered at the silver-robed beauty.
"You!" The silver-robed beauty's little face paled slightly as she said overbearingly, "No matter what, I killed both Stone-tailed Wall Lizards. I won't give you even one of them. If you want to steal them, just try it."
"Sorry, could you step aside for a moment?" Wei Suo suddenly said.
The silver-robed beauty was a little stunned. "Step aside?"
"Seems I ate something bad. I've also been squatting in that pit for so long that I can't hold it in anymore." As he spoke, Wei Suo began undoing his pants.
"You..." The silver-robed beauty turned around in a fluster. A moment later, seeming to realize something was wrong, she turned back to see only Wei Suo carrying both Stone-tailed Wall Lizards and running so fast he was almost out of sight.
"You shameless bastard!" The silver-robed beauty had already used up her Swift Wind Talisman. Seeing that she could not catch him, her face turned pale with rage.
"Haha!" Wei Suo continued fleeing in a blur, laughing loudly as he blew kisses toward the silver-robed beauty. "Beauty, let's have tea together next time we meet!"
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