SWDnovel Chapter 27 The Fish Mother is Slain, Zheng Yang's Strength
Chapter 27 The Fish Mother is Slain, Zheng Yang's Strength
The illusory blue fish-like ghost child was equally brutal and fierce, yelling "Waaah!" as it charged at the two giant pythons, one white and one blue.
A strange child, nimble and agile, fought against a white python.
The white python's scales rippled, and it occasionally flicked its tail, unleashing streaks of white-gray energy.
Wherever the air blade swept, the nest made of tree branches and the scattered corpses of the ghost children on the ground were all smoothly cut open, and orange-red rust appeared, gradually corroding them away.
The strange child, however, was as nimble as a mouse, leaping and bounding around the white python, always managing to dodge the qi blades, and suddenly throwing a punch at its vital spot.
The other snake took the lead and confronted the green python. Despite the python's body tightly coiling around it and its waist almost being strangled, it grabbed the giant snake's upper jaw with one hand and pulled its chin with the other, forcefully prying it apart as if trying to tear it apart.
The green python was in pain and furious, and it opened its mouth to spew out a cloud of green poisonous mist.
The eerie child recognized the danger and opened its mouth to spray black water to defend itself, but what came out was only a phantom black smoke, which barely neutralized a small portion of the poisonous fog.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..." The already illusory body suddenly flickered, but it still clung tightly to the green python's mouth, refusing to let go.
Beside him, Lin Dingxuan took out a jade bottle, dripped his essence blood into it, then dipped a twig into the water in the bottle and waved it forward.
The water in the bottle was cool and chilly, so cold that he shivered uncontrollably.
The two giant pythons, once drenched in water, experienced a surge of eerie energy, causing their injuries to heal more rapidly.
The parts of the eerie child that were touched by water froze, and the illusory body materialized.
The giant python slammed into the ground again, and with a "crack," the fragments fell to the ground and vanished into nothingness.
Seeing the two giant pythons entangled, Lin Zhengyang frowned slightly, twirled his paper umbrella, and chanted a spell.
Having received the order, the two giant pythons ignored the two illusory children's attempts to entangle them, and slithered straight towards the heart of the matter, attacking the mother fish.
The mother fish remained calm and opened her mouth again, spitting out two more elite-level ghost children.
On the other side, Jiang Jun, wielding the "Ghostly Sorrow," combined the light needles into a purple lightsaber, and fueled it with his true energy, was engaged in a fierce battle with the male elite-level ghost child.
Seeing that the mother fish had conjured four equally powerful creatures in succession, he suddenly realized: 'No wonder only two of them remained in this lair. This mother fish is worth a whole group; she's really not easy to deal with.'
Fortunately, the male ghost child was still recovering from the battles with the Ghost Cultists and the Five Gu Cultists, and his movements were somewhat slow.
Jiang Jun, eager to end the battle quickly, threw the "Divine Rooster Talisman" into the sky.
A loud "cluck cluck cluck" resounded, shaking the lake island.
A ball of fire fell, transforming into a phantom of a divine rooster, which enhanced the light sword, instantly making it glow with dazzling crimson light.
Jiang Jun pointed a finger and uttered a soft shout: "Slay!"
The sword's edge was sharp and cold, carrying the aura of burning away evil spirits, as it wrapped around the elite ghost child's neck.
"Splash..." Black blood spurted out, and an ugly fish head flew into the air.
Jiang Jun himself clicked his tongue in surprise: 'Huh, the power to suppress things has increased again. What big thing has the Department of Mysteries done this time?'
While the elite male ghost child was being killed, the fish mother had already conjured six illusory ghost children, who were ganging up on two giant pythons.
Lin Zhengyang kept chanting incantations to bless the situation, but he could only barely hold on and was powerless to turn the tide of the battle.
Fortunately, the giant python was long enough that it could block the six strange children with its sweeping and slashing attacks.
However, the illusory body is not as real as the ghost child, so it cannot harm the Lin family master and his disciples for the time being.
However, the situation was extremely unfavorable for Lin Zhengyang. If the two giant pythons showed even the slightest weakness and allowed one or two illusory children to escape, they would be close to death.
Only Cai Liang knew his own limitations and stayed behind, not getting involved in the battle—not making things worse was his contribution.
Seeing that the battle was going badly, Jiang Jun quickly sent his Flowing Fire Sword to provide support.
At this moment, the two pythons and the six strange children restrained each other, so he simply seized the opportunity and used his sword to attack the fish mother.
With a clear and melodious clang, the sword's edge pointed directly at the fish mother's brow.
"Waaaaah!" The mother fish seemed too exhausted to spit out any more illusory children, so she summoned one from the battle and "whoosh" it appeared in front of her.
"Whoosh—" The illusory child was stabbed by the Fiery Light Sword. Suddenly, his body deflated like a punctured balloon, and he slid helplessly to the ground before disappearing without a trace.
The entire audience was astonished.
Jiang Jun immediately realized what was happening.
His power to suppress objects seems to be particularly effective against illusory and bizarre creatures, far surpassing that against physical ones.
On Qingming Festival, the same method of using light needles to ward off evil spirits proved more effective against stronger ghosts than against the slightly weaker human skin lanterns.
Having figured this out, Jiang Jun no longer insisted on beheading the Fish Mother. He once again activated the divine rooster phantom to empower the light sword, and like a swimming dragon, he weaved through the five illusory children.
In the blink of an eye, all five illusory children with elite-level strength vanished into thin air.
Only the mother fish remained, her eyes wide open, glaring angrily and fiercely at the two pairs of masters and disciples opposite her.
It seemed to lack the ability to spew black liquid, and its bulky body made it difficult to move, preventing it from engaging in hand-to-hand combat. All it could do was roar in frustration, "Waaaaah!"
"What are you babbling about?" Jiang Jun thought to himself, but his hands didn't slow down.
To avoid any unforeseen complications, the lightsaber, carrying a trail of fire, slashed across the fish mother's thick neck.
"Sizzle sizzle..." Dark black blood spurted out, landing first on the two giant pythons.
"Hiss hiss hiss—" The two giant pythons were like mortals who had been splashed with sulfuric acid, and many of their scales rotted away.
Lin Zhengyang knew something was wrong, so he reached out and pulled Lin Dingxuan into his arms. Dark red bloodstains seeped from the oil-paper umbrella, blocking the spurting blood from his face.
The dark red bloodstains on the umbrella were immediately wiped away, with about half of them removed.
Another stream of dark blood sprayed towards Jiang Jun.
He remained calm and composed. With a thought, the fire patterns on the "Divine Rooster Talisman" flew out and transformed into a warm but not scorching flame, enveloping him and Cai Liang.
The black blood fell into the flames and instantly turned into wisps of black smoke, disappearing without a trace.
Only after the black blood had all flowed out did the mother fish collapse unwillingly.
Its throat was only slit open by the lightsaber, but its cervical vertebrae remained attached, unlike the male monster child which was directly beheaded.
"This female fish is truly troublesome." Lin Zhengyang wiped the sweat from his forehead. "If it weren't for the extraordinary abilities of a True Person, it would take at least five or six experts at the Refinement Realm to defeat it..."
Jiang Jun shook his head: "It's just that I've restrained myself." He then turned to Cai Liang and said, "Go and retrieve the strange stone."
Cai Liang eagerly stepped forward to smash his head to retrieve the stone, and Lin Dingxuan followed to help.
Lin Zhengyang put away the oil-paper umbrella and retrieved the two giant pythons.
Jiang Jun then realized that it was actually composed of three strange objects.
Both giant pythons were top-grade elite-level monsters, possessing powerful auras, but their ferocity had not diminished, and they did not seem to be very tame.
That oil-paper umbrella was barely above the threshold of an elite-level monster. If Lin Zhengyang hadn't personally suppressed it, he wouldn't have been able to subdue the two giant pythons at all.
From the oil-paper umbrella, Jiang Jun sensed a familiar aura: "Daoist, was this natal artifact enhanced using the Azure Fish Mystic Stone?"
"A true master's discerning eye is like a torch."
Lin Zhengyang closed the oil-paper umbrella, bit his finger, and dripped a few drops of his blood onto the giant python pattern to suppress their resistance.
He sighed and put the oiled paper umbrella into his body: "I am one of the first contracted monster tamers after the arrival of the Abyss of Ghosts."
"Unfortunately, at that time, I was still exploring the path of cultivation and went astray. The first thing I contracted was a flawed monster, which wasted a lot of my essence and blood. Later, I replaced it with this complete [Crimson Umbrella]."
"But even if a complete-grade monster reaches the Refinement Realm, it is still only at the bottom level. Fortunately, the Qingjiang Monster Realm has a treasure like the Azure Fish Monster Stone. I spent more than ten years to finally upgrade it to the elite level."
Lin Zhengyang looked on with a wistful expression as he gazed at Lin Dingxuan, who was still digging at the strange stone with great effort: "The younger generation these days has it so much easier."
"With the support of those of us who have been through it all, they can at least get a complete-level monster. Even an elite-level one, as long as they have the ability to refine it themselves, can be provided."
Lin Dingxuan's natal artifact, the "Nether Spring Bottle," is an elite-level artifact.
Jiang Jun knew he was still deeply troubled, so he didn't offer any words of comfort. Instead, he asked about the two giant pythons: "They don't seem to be formed from monstrous creatures; they seem more like illusory beings?"