My Fairy Growth System

Chapter 70 - 70 - Successive Attacks Trouble the Mind

Underneath the storage bag lay three silver needles.

A black-furred rat scurried out from Tian Changfeng’s sleeve, reaching for the thrown storage bag.

"Pfft pfft pfft?"

Three Shadowless Needles pierced into the body of the black rat, causing it to fall to the ground.

"As expected, not well-behaved, but these are just some old tricks left over by the bigshots. Go!"

Following Tian Changfeng’s words, a python soared out of his hand, shooting straight toward Yu Qingtan.

This was a Blue-striped Venomous Python, a late-stage first-order spiritual beast.

While most pythons are non-venomous, the Blue-striped Venomous Python was an exception.

Seeing the Blue-striped Venomous Python open its mouth to bite, Yu Qingtan flung out three Water Blades toward its gaping maw.

However, not only was the Blue-striped Venomous Python extremely fast, the scales on its body also provided strong defense.

Leaning its body to one side, two of the Water Blades missed, while one that struck its vulnerable spot only left a white mark.

As the Blue-striped Venomous Python continued its assault, Yu Qingtan used the Water Escape Technique to distance herself, all the while using the Water Blade Technique to disrupt its attacking rhythm.

After a few moments of struggle, Tian Changfeng saw that the Blue-striped Venomous Python could not take down the person immediately, so he released a swarm of Golden Ring Poison Bees from another Spirit Beast Pouch.

About a hundred mid-stage first-order spiritual bees, with baby fist-sized abdomens and golden rings, along with three late-stage first-order spiritual bees as big as an adult’s fist, buzzed as they flew toward Yu Qingtan, their wings flapping furiously.

Besides their stinging poison needles at the tail, the sharp spikes on the heads of Golden Ring Poison Bees were also lethal weapons.

Apart from some auxiliary-type spiritual beasts, Tian Changfeng’s carefully nurtured Blue-striped Venomous Python and this swarm of Golden Ring Poison Bees were his main offensive tactics.

Seeing the bee swarm approaching, Yu Qingtan’s spiritual power surged within her, and four Water Curtains appeared around her, forming a tetrahedron that protected her within.

This was something Yu Qingtan could only achieve after her Water Spirit Root had advanced to a Celestial-grade Spirit Root. The Water Curtain Technique reached the effect of the Water Sphere Spell, but its defensive range was much larger than that of the Water Sphere Spell.

The bee swarm crashed into the Water Curtains without breaking through, instead causing ripples upon them.

Tian Changfeng’s face changed upon seeing this.

"This is the Water Curtain Technique? How can a mere eighth-level Qi Cultivation cultivator execute four Water Curtain Spells at once?"

He immediately ordered the bee swarm to keep pounding, while the Blue-striped Venomous Python coiled itself around one corner of Yu Qingtan’s tetrahedral Water Curtain.

"I refuse to believe you, an eighth-level Qi Cultivation cultivator’s spiritual power can maintain these four Water Curtains for long."

Indeed, under the attack of the opponent’s spiritual beasts, Yu Qingtan needed to continuously infuse a significant amount of spiritual power into the Water Curtains to maintain their defense, and within a dozen or so breaths, Yu Qingtan’s spiritual power had already been severely depleted.

"Since the effects of the spells have been tested enough, I’m not going to play with you any longer."

Yu Qingtan thought to herself, then the fluctuation of spiritual power around her almost instantly surged to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"Love’s Protection" from Luo Xiang.

The four Water Curtains suddenly shook and then expanded outward.

Like four solid walls, they flung open both the Blue-striped Venomous Python and the Golden Ring Poison Bees.

Then, Yu Qingtan, using a swift Water Escape Technique, appeared in front of Tian Changfeng and reached out to touch him.

Although Tian Changfeng produced a defensive Magic Artifact and released an Amulet, under the Decay and Flourish Technique, his appearance quickly aged.

The aura of spiritual power on his body also began to fade, and soon he became a white-haired old man with only the spiritual power aura of a first-level Qi Cultivation.

This naturally was the result of Yu Qingtan holding back.

"You... What is this... demon...?"

Before Tian Changfeng could finish speaking, he was knocked out by a palm from Yu Qingtan and taken into the System Space.

Then, over a hundred Water Blades were flung out, slicing open the heads of both the Blue-striped Venomous Python and the Golden Ring Poison Bees, killing them dead.

After collecting their bodies and cleaning up the site with a Cleansing Spell, and retrieving the Array Plate used by Tian Changfeng for the Isolation Formation, Yu Qingtan continued walking toward the City Lord’s Mansion.

Although Luo Xiang was a despicable person, his Decay and Flourish Technique made him the strongest Foundation-Establishment Stage cultivator Yu Qingtan had ever encountered.

Upon arriving outside the City Lord’s Mansion’s Law Enforcement Hall, it so happened that Ouyang Wuqing, the Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall and the Captain of the First Law Enforcement Squad, was there.

Yu Qingtan was quite acquainted with him.

"Miss Qing Tan wants to host a performance conference, I naturally support it. Here’s the deal, when the time comes, I’ll send a team over to help maintain order."

Ouyang Wuqing, after hearing Yu Qingtan’s reason for coming, spoke.

"Thank you, Captain Ouyang!"

"Don’t mention it, I think Zeng Jie from the third team would do, Wu Long has entered seclusion, and he’s currently acting as the third team’s captain. It so happens that he knows you."

"I’ll trouble Captain Zeng at that time!"

"Haha, no trouble at all. A few days ago, before Zhen’er went to Sunset Gate, she mentioned to me that you helped her a lot and asked us to take good care of you. The last time, it was also she who called Zeng Jie to protect you. It’s just a pity that we in the City Lord’s Mansion were powerless concerning that incident involving your friend."

Yu Qingtan thought to herself that indeed, during the chaos in the city before, it was Ouyang Zhen who had sent Zeng Jie.

"Qing Tan understands. I’ll take my leave now!"

Leaving the Law Enforcement Hall, the day had already started to darken.

Yu Qingtan proceeded unhurriedly toward her dwelling.

Half an hour, one hour, Yu Qingtan was still on the road.

The number of pedestrians on the road grew fewer and fewer.

Until there were none.

The sky had turned completely dark.

Yet another night without stars or moon.

The moonlight stone lamps by the roadside emitted a cool glow, casting long shadows alongside Yu Qingtan.

Yu Qingtan stopped in her tracks.

For some reason, the surroundings had become utterly silent.

Yu Qingtan could even hear her own breathing.

From the shadows of a certain corner,

a pale-faced, tall and thin male cultivator was also questioning his life.

He was an assassin from Misty Rain Tower, known by the alias Thousand Illusions, and he was the person in charge of Misty Rain Tower’s branch in Suichuan Immortal City, a cultivator at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Previously, he went somewhere else to complete a mission.

When he returned, he found that his home had been stolen.

This infuriated him, and he was determined to find the person who did it and make them suffer his full array of techniques, dying amidst endless agony.

Unfortunately, the other party left no clues.

But he was an assassin.

What an assassin has in abundance is patience.

He believed the other party would eventually show themselves.

That belief held until today when he received a message from the owner of that shop in the black market.

It made his huge investment and long wait in the black market and in various big shops in the city worth it.

Depending on a technique left by a hunchbacked old man from the black market, it took him the better half of the day, but he finally located that person.

To his surprise, that place turned out to be the Law Enforcement Hall.

He even suspected whether the hunchbacked old man had sold him out.

Yet, if that were true, shouldn’t they have laid an ambush to wait for him to take the bait? Why would he go straight to the Law Enforcement Hall?

Therefore, he decided to watch and wait.

His judgment was not wrong, but he hadn’t expected the target to be a girl.

She seemed very young and did not appear to be a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage. It was a mystery how she was capable of taking down Misty Rain Tower’s branch.

"Could there be someone behind her?"

After some thought, Thousand Illusions decided to take action.

No matter what identity this young girl had, she would not see tomorrow’s sun.