The strong wind howled, and Mu Anxiao gripped her sword hilt, observing the clearly advancing monsters outside the temple. "I'll go first," she said, swallowing and about to step forward.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, Shen Lu suddenly grabbed her collar from behind. Her body stiffened, and she immediately turned to look at Shen Lu.
Shen Lu said, "I'll handle the aftermath. You just charge ahead and fight them."
However, Mu Anxiao thought Shen Lu intended to stop her again. To her surprise, his actions didn't disappoint her this time. Looking at him, she nodded and said, "I'll lead them towards you later."
"Fine, but remember to help me exhaust their demonic power. I need to find magical artifacts to subdue them."
"How many magical artifacts do you have?" Mu Anxiao's curiosity was piqued by Shen Lu's words.
Shen Lu: "Don't worry about it. Go quickly." Saying this, he finally let go.
Mu Anxiao immediately set aside her curiosity and said in a low voice, "Trapping them in the ruined temple, that's the idea, isn't it?" After speaking, she turned to look ahead.
Shen Lu responded with an "Yes," then took two steps back.
Mu Anxiao's gaze sharpened, and she walked forward.
It was pitch black here, and the eyes of the monsters clearly revealed their whereabouts. In contrast, Mu Anxiao and Shen Lu, who were originally in the open, became the hidden party in this moment. Mu Anxiao held her breath, moving forward step by step, trying her best not to let them detect her spiritual energy.
Gripping her sword hilt, she scanned their forms before stopping.
The next second, their breathing sounds deeply entered Mu Anxiao's ears. At the same time, their potent demonic aura made Mu Anxiao feel it all. Then, she inadvertently met the purple eyes of a monster in front of her. Her nerves tightened, and she looked down. Sure enough, its hands had already reached towards her neck. Staring at it, she cautiously retreated two steps. Then, just as she bent down, it seemed to sense something and began flailing its stiff arms wildly.
As the monster moved, the other monsters also began to shout, "Come out!"
A chorus of sounds erupted, and Mu Anxiao realized... the monsters before her were mostly a group. Among them, there was definitely a leader, and if she wasn't mistaken, the monster that had appeared before her was the leader. Furthermore, she noticed that these purple-eyed creatures actually suffered from "night blindness." While not as severe as Shen Yan's, she was confident they hadn't discovered her.
Thinking this, she slightly turned her head to look at the back of the monster's head. After a moment's thought, she suddenly straightened up and kicked the one she believed to be the leader in the back.
Immediately, the leader, unable to maintain its balance, was kicked to the ground by Mu Anxiao.
The remaining monsters, at the same instant, sensed Mu Anxiao's spiritual energy and subsequently locked onto her.
Mu Anxiao knew this would happen. She straightened up, surveyed the surroundings, and without a word, raised her great saber and began to swing it wildly.
Then, after using kicks, grabs, pulls, tugs, bends, and dodges, Mu Anxiao left the monsters with injuries. Purple blood flowed out, and they began to roar incessantly.
Mu Anxiao stood at the entrance, panting as she looked at the more than a dozen monsters inside. She then looked down at her bleeding arm and shouted, "Shen Lu, it's your turn." After saying this, she took a few more breaths.
Shen Lu stood on a pedestal and casually recited a 'commandment,' causing the fire, which had been blown out by the wind, to reignite instantly.
Thus, the ruined temple was once again illuminated.
Mu Anxiao, her face covered in scratches and her body riddled with wounds, stared at the monsters in front of her, clad in tattered clothes like beggars, and was taken aback.
The monsters one by one raised their faces, locking onto Shen Lu.
Shen Lu looked at their bulging eyes and terrifying fangs with a blank expression and said coldly, "They are all monsters transformed from humans." As he spoke, his gaze sharpened, and he swung his arm towards the roof beams. Vast swathes of spiderwebs began to weave rapidly. Unaware of Shen Lu's actions, they started to approach him.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the rapidly woven spiderweb, her body stiffening. She quickly turned, raised her great saber, and forcefully slashed at a monster attempting to ambush her.
A few minutes later.
The monsters were ensnared by the large net.
Mu Anxiao, one hand gripping the arm of the ambushing monster and the other holding her saber threateningly, brought the monster before Shen Lu. "A straggler."
Shen Lu heard this, jumped down from the pedestal, and looked closely at the monster's face. "Have you noticed a problem?"
"What problem?" Mu Anxiao did not understand his meaning.
Shen Lu: "Human faces, monster faces." He pointed to both sides respectively.
"Human faces," Mu Anxiao said. She glanced at the face of the ambushing monster, then looked at the monsters trapped in the net, and exclaimed, "Bulging eyes, fangs."
"It's not good to talk about them like that."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao frowned, turned to look at the ambushing monster that had suddenly spoken, and said coldly, "You can talk."
Ambushing monster: "I am their leader. Release them."
"It wasn't him after all." Saying this, Mu Anxiao glanced at the monster she had kicked to the ground, then turned back to the ambushing monster, "Why are you pretending?"
"How am I pretending?"
"Tell me how you're pretending," Mu Anxiao said, looking at the fresh scar on the ambushing monster's face, continuing, "As their leader, you don't take the lead but hide behind. You're truly..." Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly felt the clothes of this ambushing monster looked familiar.
Seeing this, Shen Lu asked with confusion, "Why have you stopped talking?"
Mu Anxiao heard him, glanced at Shen Lu, then at the ambushing monster, and said coldly, "You are from the Cultivation Demon Sect, aren't you?"
"It's the Cultivation Immortal Sect," the ambushing monster corrected coldly.
Mu Anxiao snorted when the ambushing monster said this, "I knew your clothes looked so familiar. It's from that place after all."
The Cultivation Immortal Sect was the starting point of Mu Anxiao and Shen Yan's 'grievances.' If it weren't for them, she wouldn't have accidentally drunk Shen Yan's immortal blood, and she wouldn't have fallen into such a predicament. Because of this, she had always held a prejudice against people from the Cultivation Immortal Sect.
Who knew that after such a long time, she would encounter them again.
Only this time, they were no longer the hypocritical cultivators, but had instead become actual monsters.
"You know our Cultivation Immortal Sect," the ambushing monster said excitedly.
Mu Anxiao snorted, "Of course, I know. To tell you something that will shock you," she deliberately tightened her grip on the ambushing monster's arm, "I even know your patriarch. That guy is no good."
"You..."
"You don't cultivate immortality, you cultivate demons," Mu Anxiao deliberately interrupted, staring intently into the ambushing monster's eyes, "If your patriarch knew about this, he'd surely be angered to death."
"You are not allowed to slander our patriarch. This cultivation of demons is our own choice, and it has nothing to do with them," the ambushing monster shouted.
Mu Anxiao let out a cold laugh, turned to look at the 'monster' disciples who dared not move rashly, and said, "You truly speak with ease. They have all turned into this state, and yet you..." She spoke, then turned to look at the ambushing monster, frowning, "No, are you male or female?" The disciples of the Cultivation Immortal Sect all wore the same clothes, and now that the ambushing monster had also become like this, she naturally couldn't discern its gender.