The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 830 - 458: Jiu Mo
Why does this voice sound somewhat familiar? Qi Zai was startled, but it didn’t stop him from extending his steel wings and knocking away an unlucky fellow from the Beauty Collection Team.
"It’s the Immortal Bandits." Changtian’s memory was astonishingly good; he judged it just from the sound, "Fu Yunzhang’s group." Although he didn’t know why the Immortal Bandits would suddenly attack the Beauty Collection Team’s convoy, having an additional troop of allies was undoubtedly a good thing. So he sent the order, and the Hidden Guards who were lurking in the forest rushed out to join the battle.
The sudden appearance of an unknown force caused temporary chaos between the two sides in the field. However, once the demon guards of the Hidden Stream joined the fight, the situation immediately changed.
Now, the Immortal Bandits and Hidden Guards were simultaneously attacking the Beauty Collection Team’s troops. Even with the assistance of the Green Armor Guards, the opposing side’s defeat was almost immediately apparent.
The Hidden Guards went for the kill with ruthless precision, grabbing for hearts and kidneys, only attacking human vitals. Some of the more violent demon guards even roared, using giant axes almost the size of doors they had manifested, to chop their enemies in half. Innards and blood splattered freely, like a rain of blood in the air, the stench permeating the area, making those with weaker nerves nearly collapse out of fear.
In the brief moments of their attack, several more bodies fell to the ground, even two Green Armor Guards were taken down.
Although the Green Armor Guards were also brave and fierce, they retreated repeatedly, because Qing Ji was under attack.
Tu Jin battled alone against the Green Armor Guards in front of Qing Ji for a long time, accumulating many wounds yet growing braver with each fight. In a short time, he chewed up two adversaries and knocked away another. While everyone was vigilantly defending, unexpectedly, a long thin black shadow suddenly snaked out like a spirit snake, bypassing the surrounding people in an instant, directly targeting Qing Ji.
Fortunately, someone by his side did indeed have some skill, and desperately blocked it. Only then did they see clearly that the attacker was a dark whip, slender and inconspicuous, but the power it carried was surprisingly great, almost in the blink of an eye, it caught someone and threw them out.
After the person bent in the air and landed, they rushed back, tried to say a word but suddenly their face turned black, their throat gurgled, and then they fell headfirst to the ground. The Green Guard beside him wanted to support him, but Qing Ji changed his expression dramatically and shouted: "Stop!"
Someone nearby reached out with their weapon, turned him over to look, and everyone couldn’t help but gasp. It turned out that his face had swollen to a violet color, his eyes bulging, clearly already dead.
The whip curled back into the shadows like a Coiled Snake. Now people saw clearly, a woman emerged from the shadows two meters away, with a voluptuous figure larger than Ning Xiaoxian’s, swaying like a cat as she walked. Her face was as youthful as a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, wearing a sweet smile that chilled the hearts of all the men who saw it.
This was the first time Jiu Mo had taken action since aligning with Ning Xiaoxian.
She was the Poison Phoenix; if she wished, her feathers, skin, bodily fluids, and bones could all be poisonous. The whip was her Life-bound Magical Artifact made from her tail feathers, naturally carrying a potency of toxins that even made members of the Hidden Stream tremble with fear. The person managed to hold on until coming back before the poison took effect, which is a testament to his deep cultivation.
The Green Armor Guards weren’t just sitting ducks either; someone immediately chanted incantations and took out several small figurines and threw them to the ground.
Once these figurines hit the ground, they grew into giant dogs over three meters tall with the wind. Their form wasn’t as slender as ordinary dogs but rather robust like giant bears, with protruding snouts and sharp tusks, their eyes emitting a crimson glow. Although they seemed to be made of wood with tree knot marks from rough processing, the nearest people felt a faintly aggressive aura coming from them. They had clearly fought people, seen blood, and heard human screams.
These giant dogs also seemed aware of the urgency, shook their heads and tails, then charged straight at Jiu Mo. Despite their massive bodies, their movements were surprisingly swift. She was well-versed in such matters and recognized what they were, dismissively saying: "Mere Puppet Beasts!"
Mechanical Puppets are a subset evolved and specialized in Artifact Refining, generally driven by the spirit soul of demons or cultivators. Eventually, dedicated Puppet Masters emerged, who manipulated these wooden or other mineral-made beasts in battle. Puppet Masters invested most of their skills in the mechanism itself, lacking in their cultivation training, making them physically weak, and thus it’s a rather niche profession. However, the Puppet Beast’s power is immense, and they’re relentless, fearless of pain, often more formidable and ferocious than average demons.
