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"Terrible, Elder Sister Yuewang has been swallowed by the Yuan Kui!" Shuihan exclaimed, picking up her longsword, ready to rush forward to save Yuewang. Although Yuewang often used the aura of a higher-ranking sword maiden to suppress her, as a fellow sword maiden, she would never stand by and watch her kin suffer.
"Don't worry, don't go!" Just as Shuihan took a step, she was pulled back by Guhan. Without even glancing at the缝合怪, Guhan said calmly, "Don't worry about Yuewang. That缝合怪can't eat people; it just swallows them for five seconds."
Sure enough, after five seconds, the缝合怪let out a belch, and its stomach opened, spitting out Yuewang.
From the data, Yuewang had only lost some shield energy and was affected by a minor plague buff, but she had not suffered any fatal damage.
However, from the appearance, Yuewang was completely ruined. Her small leather armor was torn to shreds, and various internal organs, vegetable leaves, and a large amount of white, viscous liquid covered her entire body... It felt like a scene from a certain film from a thousand years ago in the island country, but it was just similar, only similar!
If you want to judge how angry a girl is, observe her chest. If it is calm and unchanged, she is not really angry; if it starts to rise and fall, it means she is a bit angry; if it moves up and down like a seesaw, it means she is furious; if it starts to vibrate wildly like an electric motor, accompanied by incomprehensible cold snorts, the author kindly reminds you to find a washboard and kneel down, and remember to protect your face...
Yuewang was now in a state of extreme fury, not just her chest, but her entire body seemed to be darkening.
"Hehehe... You dare to insult this king... If I don't kill you, how can I rule the vast Yue Kingdom!" As she spoke, the tip of Yuewang's sword, the Goujian, seemed to emit a faint starlight.
"Trouble, Yuewang is going to use a skill..." Guhan's heart sank. Despite his careful planning, he had overlooked this. Although he had specifically instructed Yuewang not to use skills, the humiliation she suffered in the缝合怪's stomach had clearly made her anger explode.
"Forget it... Let her go." Guhan thought for a moment and decided not to stop Yuewang from using her skill. It's not good to hold in anger, so it's better to let her vent.
As Guhan thought this, Yuewang's skill was ready. She didn't shout out the skill name "Yueguo Biyuan" in a middle-schooler way; she just stabbed the缝合怪with her sword.
【Yueguo Biyuan: Consumes 1% durability and 3000 sword qi, pushes a target one kilometer away during combat, 15-second cooldown.】
The moment the skill was released, the缝合怪was launched like a cannonball, traveling exactly one kilometer before... falling off a cliff. In a place like the Wudang Mountain summit, Yuewang's skill, originally a basic disengagement skill, had become an incredibly powerful ultimate move. There are few mountain tops in this world with a diameter of one kilometer.
"Is it dead?" Seeing the缝合怪fall off the cliff, Yuewang was still in shock, pinching her own cheek in disbelief. It wasn't until the various sticky substances on her body were absorbed by a suddenly appearing dimensional vortex that Yuewang confirmed the缝合怪was dead.
"Did I really avenge myself?"
While Yuewang was doubting whether the缝合怪was dead, Shuihan was questioning her own life! The terrifying fact of a one-kilometer strike almost shattered Shuihan's worldview. Even Yue Ling, who had always been very calm and showed no expression, was stunned with her mouth agape... Imagine the expression of a two-meter-tall giant girl with her mouth wide open!!
"Next time, no more skills..." Guhan walked to Yuewang's side and gave her a hard tap on the head.
"Vile person... How dare you hit this king's head!" Yuewang turned her head angrily, wanting to retaliate against Guhan, but she noticed that Guhan's face was pale and terrifying.
"Hey, vile person, what's wrong?" Yuewang felt she might have done something bad.
"It's nothing serious, just a bit of sword essence depletion... I feel like my body has been drained!" Guhan inadvertently quoted a famous advertisement line from a thousand years ago. Guhan was telling the truth; his body's sword essence had indeed been drained.
Yuewang's skill effect was extremely strong, dozens of times stronger than that of a Gujian-level sword maiden. She easily killed the ghost-level Yuan Kui缝合怪with one move. If Shuihan had to deal with it, she would probably have lost half her life and still not defeated the缝合怪.
However, Yuewang's skill consumption was also terrifying. A basic skill consumed 3000 sword qi, and Guhan had only 5050 sword qi in total. One skill from Yuewang would drain more than half of Guhan's sword qi.
Unfortunately, Yuewang was a Mingjian-level sword maiden, usable only by Mingjian-level sword wielders, who had at least 10,000 sword essence and 100,000 sword qi. For them, supplying 3000 sword qi for Yuewang's basic skill was more than enough.
But for Guhan, a Gujian-level sword wielder, one basic skill was half his sword qi. The consumption of advanced and ultimate skills was even more terrifying, measured in tens of thousands of sword qi. Guhan still had a long way to go to fully harness the true power of a Mingjian-level sword maiden.
(Ps: When listing the attributes of the sword maidens, I forgot to include the sword qi consumption for many skills... This is the author's fault.)
"What do we do now?" Seeing Guhan's weak state, Yuewang felt a mix of guilt and sadness.
"Don't worry, the next wave should be the ghost Yuan Kui. It won't require intense combat, just a lot of thinking." Guhan paused and gave new instructions, "Yuewang, Yue Ling, you two continue to guard outside. There will be a small group of Yuan Kui coming to ambush. Shuihan, you and I will enter the Chaotian Palace."
"Me?" Shuihan looked at Guhan in disbelief, "You want me to go in with you? Get real, I'm not your sword maiden! Why should I go in with you!"
"Wait..." Yuewang also became dissatisfied with the arrangement, "Shuihan is right. Although I don't want to admit it, I am your sword maiden. Any task should be done by me, not Shuihan!"
Seeing the two sword maidens not cooperating, Guhan frowned. He shouted to Yuan Kong, who was hiding behind, "Yuan Kong, can I borrow Shuihan? Are you willing?"
"Yuan Kong will follow the admiral's orders. Shuihan, the admiral is also trying to save everyone. His orders are my orders. Just follow the admiral." Yuan Kong decisively sold Shuihan out, which made Shuihan's nose turn red with anger, "Hmph, just this once, don't ever try to command me again!"
With Shuihan's agreement, the next issue was his own sword maiden, Yuewang. Considering the effort he had put into mending their relationship, Guhan decided to use a gentler approach with Yuewang.
"Be good! Yuewang, listen, don't cause trouble..." Guhan's words were so gentle, it almost made Shuihan's gums ache.
"You... You... This king... This king... Fine..." Yuewang's face turned bright red, and after a long, stammering moment, she finally gave in to Guhan's gentleness, "Just this once, don't leave me behind next time."
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After Guhan left the Chaotian Palace, the room returned to a noisy state, with children crying, women screaming, and men shouting, all blending into a chaotic din.
"Quiet! Everyone, please be quiet!" Yuan Kong, who had returned to the Chaotian Palace with Guhan, immediately shouted to calm everyone down, but it was to no avail.
Yuan Kong looked helplessly at Guhan, indicating his helplessness. Guhan smirked, picked up a small incense burner, and threw it into the center of the crowd.
"Who's that! Trying to kill people! What if someone gets hit!" The crowd in the Chaotian Palace, packed tightly, erupted in chaos. A few survivors who almost got hit by the incense burner jumped up to curse, but they immediately wilted when they saw Guhan's cold stare. The other survivors also noticed Guhan and fell silent, the entire scene becoming eerily quiet.
"Sorry, my method of quieting you down was a bit rough, but it's very effective..." Guhan smirked and walked to the center of the Chaotian Palace. "I'm here to tell you something. A group of ghost Yuan Kui will attack soon. They are invisible and undetectable, and I can't stop them from entering the Chaotian Palace."
"What? The Yuan Kui will come in?"
"If they come in, what do we do?"
"Yes, what do we do?"
Guhan's words caused another wave of chaos among the survivors.
"These Yuan Kui have only one ability: they can possess your bodies, control your physical actions, and make you kill the people around you!" As Guhan spoke, the densely packed Chaotian Palace miraculously became sparse, with more than half of the area empty. The survivors, grouped by family, huddled together, warily watching the others around them.
"Don't be afraid, I have a way to deal with these ghost Yuan Kui... as long as you follow my orders!"