Chapter 290: Imperial Martial Tournament – Part 9 (1/2)
”Oh, boy.”
Miaomiao, Ma Moxi, Ju Shoufen, and Ku'er observed the fight from the sky. At first, they had planned to enter the stadium along with the two elders. But suddenly, a fight broke out, and they couldn't enter the arena.
Fortunately, they were out of Xu Xiuying's force-choke power range.
”Should we help?” Miaomiao pondered if he should jump into the fray and ambush Xu Xiuying when she wasn't looking.
”Don't get cocky. That's a nascent soul succubus, not a human cultivator. They can use racial abilities or unknown techniques.”
Ju Shoufen warned Miaomiao about the danger of veteran demons, such as Xu Xiuying. This succubus queen's combat prowess might potentially be stronger than her actual cultivation base.
By Ju Shoufen's rough estimation, Xu Xiuying was on par with a mid-stage nascent soul human cultivator if she utilized her unique bloodline, racial abilities, her unique domain power, and other sinister techniques that she had yet to reveal.
Miaomiao and Ju Shoufen could tell from a glance that the forced choke skill was an application of Xu Xiuying's miasma gas, which Jiang Lan and other succubi had been practicing. Ju Shoufen and Miaomiao used to ask the girls about what it could do, and they had discovered about its dangerous traits and abilities.
Anyone who had inhaled the pink gas would be infected by tiny parasites, which were embedded within the cultivator's blood cells, Qi, and meridians.
However, the traits of these microorganisms varied depending on the source of the miasma.
Jiang Lan and others used these parasites as ”Semen Converter”, transforming the victim's blood cells and Qi into semen and multiplying the parasites.
Meanwhile, Xu Xiuying's miasma parasites acted as manipulators. As long as the parasites had multiplied and occupied various parts of the victim's body, she could command them to do anything as long as the infected cultivator hadn't purified the contaminated muscle strands or blood cells.
In this case, Xu Xiuying sent a mass command to force all victims' necks to contract as if they were being choked. As for how they were lifted into the air, it was a simple telekinesis trick that every 3rd-stage cultivator could use to manipulate objects from a long distance. Instead of controlling one object, Xu Xiuying pulled some of the human cultivators off the group to make the technique intimidating.
Although Miaomiao's party didn't know the detail of Xu Xiuying's actual skills, they believed that most spectators in the stadium had been infected and was being controlled.
Ju Shoufen, Ku'er, and Ma Moxi's face darkened. They simulated various scenarios in their mind, trying to figure out how they could efficiently rescue the captives and help the two nascent soul cultivators.
On the other hand, Miaomiao had no F to give to the spectators. He simply observed Xu Xiuying's eyes and body language, analyzing her action and preparing for her future moves.
If Xu Xiuying were to show an opening, Miaomiao would strike without fail! He didn't care about the strength difference as he had OTHER trump cards in his system inventory.
Wei Yuan had opened the supply box of OG-Buddha when they were in the ITS. Three Light Element Spell talismans, three Domain Sealing talismans, three OG's Blessing talismans, and a set of heaven-grade monk robes were inside the box, and they had been transferred to his system inventory.
As for Kunwu's supply box, it contained a teleportation talisman. There was no manual or explanation where it might take the user to, but Miaomiao deemed it as a dangerous item. Wei Yuan kept it with her for now.
'If I can get close to her, I can seal her! Just one opening is enough!'
…
On the arena, the tournament participants were unaffected by the force choke as they arrived after Xu Xiuying had appeared. They didn't inhale the invisible miasma gas that she had secretly released to the air.
Despite not being infected by Xu Xiuying's microorganism viruses, they didn't run away from the stadium.
They couldn't run as their legs were frozen because of fear. Even Liu Bian stood still, watching the fight, and gritting his teeth in frustration, resenting his powerlessness.
On the other hand, Lu Fengxian was smiling.
When Lu Fengxian had seen these two nascent soul cultivators the day before, he didn't see their faces. But now, Lu Fengxian recognized one of the two nascent soul cultivators as he had fought alongside him in the previous war against demon god's underlings on this continent.
'Ma Ping, you're still alive! You've recovered your power, too!'
Lu Fengxian regretted that he wasn't on Aves Continent when the Liu Clan and the Poison Pavilion backstabbed Ma Ping. Seeing that Ma Ping had restored his dantian and gotten stronger, Lu Fengxian was proud of his old comrade.
'Immortal realms need someone like you, Ma Ping! And that person beside you, too! But, damn… should we save these scums or should we simply kill that bitch and get this over with?'
Although it would be nice if he could save these local cultivators and reeducate them, eliminating a succubus queen benefited humanity more than saving a few thousand random weaklings.
If Lu Fengxian still had his former strength, he would rather ignore her threat and behead her on the spot.
'Come on, Ma Ping. A succubus queen is a calamitous demoness. Kill her before she kills more humans! We can't let her grow up and become the second Xu Chu… Wait a minute, I think I forgot something very important.'
Lu Fengxian frowned as he tried to recollect his old memory when he was an immortal. He had read a secret document from Kishin Douji's private plane, but he didn't remember what it was about.
Still, he vaguely remembered that it related to this world.
And it related to a certain aristocrat clan with the surname… Yuan.
'Yuan Clan? Who was the Yuan Clan's dao god again? Yuan… Yuan Hee? Yuan Hoo? Yuan… Hua?'
Then, something came back to his mind. Lu Fengxian remembered important info, which might be the reason why Kishin Douji chased him for seven planes just to kill him.
It wasn't about revenge.
It wasn't about what he did to Kishin Douji.
It was about this entire planet and the real motive behind the human-demon war that he had taken part in!
'SHIT!'
…
Realizing that Xu Xiuying had resorted to a petty trick to threaten him, Jia Shan burst into laughter. He wondered if she had forgotten what kind of person he was.
The Mountain Goose Sect's brutal annual assessment test was his idea!
If he didn't care about random commoners, weak cultivators, and fellow humans, would he help the strangers?
The answer was ”NO”. He would use them as meat shields to kill Xu Xiuying any day!
'You've threatened the wrong person, bitch! Now die!'
Jia Shan circulated his power into the soul sword. It glowed in brown light, absorbing metal Qi from his hand.
His domain suddenly got stronger. It pushed back Xu Xiuying's miasma domain and enveloped her. Several illusions of geese's heads surrounded Xu Xiuying.
HONK!
HONK!
HONK!
”YOU!!”
Getting caught off guard, Jia Shan's geese tongue technique weakened her dantian and her power. She lost her body balance as if she had received an uppercut from a professional boxer.
”DIE!!”
Jia Shan slash down his sword with his full force, aiming the cleave Xu Xiuying in half!
WHOOSH!
The floor below Xu Xiuying's feet suddenly sucked her body underground. Then, a nascent soul cultivator inside a box room pulled her and her disciples out of his shadow.
Wang Yun teleported all succubi and Luo Cheng to his side!