Chapter 665: A Group of Marvelous Women (2/2)

“Miladies…” Zhao Jifeng was filled with elation as he looked at the nine rather young girls.

“Let us not waste time on trivialities. Tell your men to evacuate the premises, they’ll only be a hindrance if they stay.” Su Xiaoxiao waved her hand impatiently. If it hadn’t been impossible to avoid harming innocent bystanders, she would’ve tossed poison into the rift as soon as they’d shown up.

“But there are too many corpse demons here!” Zhao Jifeng’s eyebrows shot up. These nine ladies looked far too dainty to stop the horde of dreadful corpse demons by themselves.

“Not even an ocean of yin spirits in Nephrite Major’s Azure Province could stop us, to say nothing of a few corpse demons,” Huangqing countered coolly.

With a sharp intake of breath, the celestial king ordered his remaining regiments to fall back from the Exalted Immortal Sect. Apart from an extremely low number of elders and venerated elders, all sect disciples had perished. As a faction, the Exalted Immortal Sect would be stricken from the lists after today.

Zhao Jifeng’s troops had also suffered heavy casualties. A full million soldiers had died in battle, a number that made the commander’s heart bleed. But despite their tactical retreat, the soldiers remained nearby in case the corpse demons threatened to scurry out of sect grounds and spill over into other areas.

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“They would’ve been safe and sound if they’d stayed inside the ancient tomb, but to show themselves in broad daylight… Do these corpse demons have a death wish?” Su Xiaoxiao and Xingzi stood in the sky and smiled at each other as they sprinkled dark green seeds on the ground.

Roughly the size of a grain of rice, the seeds attached themselves to the corpse demons as they fell. Taking root in undead flesh, they germinated and grew into small flowers.

“Grooowl!!”

“Ouuuu!!” screamed the corpse demons in anguish. Relentlessly sucking away corpse energy, the seeds blossomed into crimson flowers that festooned their undead victims. The strange flowers incapacitated corpse demons in less than three breaths, turning their hosts into further fertilizer.

These flowers were a new genus that Xingzi and Su Xiaoxiao had developed by studying the Hell Flowers. Created for the express purpose of subduing zombies, they needed at least fifteen minutes to germinate and sprout inside a tomb devoid of sunlight. But under direct sunlight, they could kill a zombie in a few short breaths!

Roar!

Anger exploded from the rift in the ground as more than a dozen four-headed, eight-armed zombies rushed out of the opening and charged Su Xiaoxiao and Xingzi.

Hum!

A buzz traveled through the firmament as Aoxue, Huangfeng, Cangyin, and Luli walked out of the void and positioned themselves in the four cardinal directions. The images of a blood dragon, blood phoenix, blood qilin, and blood tortoise flashed in the air. Together, the four ominous beasts formed a strange battle formation that dyed the sky in searing scarlet.

Faced with this formation, the zombies were instantly repelled and sent back into the rift. It was then Feinie’s turn to walk out of the emptiness and draw a giant formation without foundation that landed on the giant fissure like a seal.

Boom!

A giant hand from below immediately punched it, bulging the formation at the point of impact.

Paling, blood trickled out of Feinie’s mouth as an ugly crack formed on the sealing formation. From some distance away, Xuanxi waved a hand and poured talismans into Feinie’s body to treat her wounds.

“Be careful, there’s a big fellow below… If we want to seal off this place, we need to dispose of him first!” Feinie wiped off blood from her lips.

“I’ve got it.” Yuying waved her hand, igniting dark-green Emerald Mistfire inside the giant fissure. Two flames blazing in her eyes, she made pill seals with her hands. She was refining that ‘big fellow’ in the crack as she would a pill!

Shrieks of pain and anguish ripped through the air a split second later, lingering long after their owner perished.

Zhao Jifeng shuddered uncontrollably. Each of these women was a formidable existence in her right, but they displayed such cohesive teamwork that they might as well be a single person. Just how had Lu Yun convinced these extraordinary women to pledge themselves to his cause with such steadfast loyalty?

Yuying retracted her pill seal roughly a hundred breaths later. A fist-sized pill as black as ink floated out of the crack and landed in her hand.

“Corpse demons, alright…” Expression veering on the dark side, she took a good look at the pill before clenching her fist tight and squeezing it to dust. These kinds of pills were worthless. “Let these corpse demons be the instrument of my revenge.”

A content smile spread across her face. She was naturally aware of the Death Spike that Lu Yun had planted inside the Exalted Divine Sect, the true source of the sect’s destruction.

Off to the side, Feinie once again called a mighty formation into being and sealed off the rift below.

“My deepest thanks, fairies… errr…” Zhao Jifeng stepped forward to express his profound gratitude, but suddenly realized that the nine women were nowhere to be found. He smiled wryly at what had just transpired. “Truly a group of astounding women!”

Although his present concerns had been resolved, his heart was still heavy. The demon fetus was among them… It was only a matter of time before Exalted Major became a land of demons, and none of its denizens would be spared the fate of being turned into more corpse demons.