Handsome men of all kinds stepped forward.
Xie Litang's face turned green at the sight.
Seeing the handsome men in the illusion approaching, Xie Litang shot back instantly and shouted, "Stay away from me!"
The handsome men's voices echoed out.
"Miss, come have some fun~"
"Miss, are you tired?"
"Miss, let me massage your shoulders and rub your legs, okay?"
Xie Litang flattened her fist into a palm and slapped across, snarling, "Rub my damn legs!"
Smack.
The handsome man closest to Xie Litang disintegrated into a wisp of ash.
"Sweeping Blade!"
Xie Litang rushed forward, taking them down with one punch per man.
Those illusory men were the core of the illusion to begin with.
After Xie Litang shattered them one by one, the illusion shattered with a loud crunching sound.
The original ornate bedroom vanished, replaced once more by the dilapidated streets of the Old Era, along with two vixen foxes that had already drawn close to her, baring their fangs and sharp claws.
"Woman, is your heart made of stone?"
"Damn bitch, how could you break our illusion so quickly?"
Xie Litang scoffed and said, "Because I don't go near men."
Clang.
Xie Litang smashed her sword onto one vixen fox's head. The terrifying force didn't even leave the fox time to scream, instantly pulverizing its head into scattered debris.
The remaining vixen fox froze in shock and cried, "How is that possible?! Sixth Sister had a hundred years of cultivation, yet she couldn't even block a single hit from you!"
If the next strike landed on her, she would definitely die, wouldn't she?
Now, only one thought remained in her mind: run!
The vixen fox dropped to all fours and sprinted toward the ruins of the Old Town.
In the next instant...
Her vision blurred.
An exquisitely beautiful figure appeared right in front of her. Next, she saw her own body fragmenting—one piece here, another piece there.
There was none of the expected pain.
Yet her thoughts stopped forever.
Xie Litang nudged the vixen fox's shattered flesh on the ground with her sword, muttering somewhat in annoyance, "I really need to trade for that Overlord's Bloodmail sooner. Otherwise, everything I fight turns into a pile of minced meat."
The main issue was that this fighting style wasted too many resources. The fur of a hundred-year-old minor fox demon was a rare luxury item among upper-class noblewomen in the Human New Citadel.
If she had skinned those two vixen foxes just now, she could have sold their pelts for at least several hundred thousand.
"No demon core."
Xie Litang sheathed her sword in disappointment.
She then immediately rushed back, scooped Chen Linling up from her wheelchair, stowed the wheelchair back into the spatial bracelet on her wrist, and hurried back to their base.
Opening the heavy door of a secret room in the base, she set her younger sister inside.
Chen Linling sat down in front of the computer and said with a serious expression, "Sis, I'll provide intelligence support for you."
Xie Litang nodded and said, "Okay."
Compared to the Yellow Immortals from before...
This time, even Fox Immortals had appeared, and there were several entities suspected to be Willow Immortals that needed verification. The threat level had clearly jumped significantly compared to a few days ago.
Anyone else would have definitely looked grave by now.
As for Xie Litang?
She stole a quiet glance at her status panel.
[Name: Xie Litang.]
[Ability: Teammate Sacrifice (Uses: 0).]
[Class: Wind-Style Swordmaster.]
[Skills: Wind-Style Swordsmanship (Great Perfection), Sweeping Blade (Great Perfection), Blood River Divine Canon (Minor Accomplishment) 478/1000. Available Enhancement Points: 4.]
[Vitality: 2,764,532 | Defense: 27,645 | Spirit: 45.]
[Equipment: Heartsteel (Custom Toggle Available).]
[Gold: 792.]
With nearly three million Vitality and close to thirty thousand Defense, she wouldn't even be afraid if a thousand-year grand demon appeared, let alone these minor demon beasts.
South Street, Old Era Mall.
Xie Litang chased two Yellow Immortals all the way here.
The two beasts finally stopped, and four more Yellow Immortals stepped out from the surrounding shadows.
The two Yellow Immortals who had first lured Xie Litang here sneered, "Hehehe, foolish human! A simple little trick was all it took to dupe you into coming here."
Xie Litang paused to think for a moment before saying, "Lured? Are you sure it's not me wiping you all out in one swoop?"
The surrounding Yellow Immortals flew into a rage. "Arrogant!"
Several Yellow Immortals spewed true fire that surged scorching heat toward her.
Two others unleashed yin energy, freezing the surroundings.
Ordinary demon beasts relied on innate divine abilities passed down through bloodlines, but the Five Immortals clearly possessed proper heritages, casting their respective inherited spells.
That was why...
When Xie Litang purchased the hazmat suit...
She had requested Yang Yiyi to get one that was heat-resistant, cold-resistant, and offered similar protections.
Boom!
A majestic blaze swallowed Xie Litang whole.
"Hehehe, there won't even be ashes left of her now! I... Wait, what?!"
One Yellow Immortal was gloating one second, only for its pupils to shrink to pinpricks the next.
Xie Litang grabbed its neck with one hand and hoisted its calf-sized body into the air. Then, with a wet squelch, terrifying power exploded inside its body.
Flesh and blood of the Yellow Immortal splattered everywhere.
Foul blood showered the ground.
Next came the second, then the third... In under two minutes, what was supposed to be a trap to lure Xie Litang turned into their burial ground.
"The Yellow Immortals are taken care of."
"Next up are the Willow Immortals."
Shh-shh.
Chen Linling's voice came through the earpiece. "Sis, the Willow Immortals are squatting at the City Trade Building. Can you leave one alive for me to research and collect data?"
Xie Litang agreed directly, "Of course."
Compared to the Yellow Immortals and Fox Immortals, the true form of the Willow Immortals looked much more terrifying.
Both Willow Immortals were as thick as water buckets and over ten meters long, but they were still far from enough to pose a threat.
Twenty minutes later.
Xie Litang returned to the base slinging a Willow Immortal whose bones had all been broken over her shoulder.
Chen Linling dispatched bionic robots to take over the half-dead Willow Immortal.
"Sis, go get some rest first. Looks like there shouldn't be any more trouble today."
"Alright, Linling, you get some rest early too."
Chen Linling nodded and said, "I will."
Though she agreed verbally, she was already following the bionic robot to a partitioned laboratory on the first floor, equipped with all kinds of instruments.
Naturally, the soundproofing was quite good.
At least, Xie Litang slept very well through the night.
The next day.
Chen Linling had organized two fangs, a venom sac, along with some snake bones and a snake skin.
(~O~)…(- . -)
Dark circles hung under Chen Linling's eyes, showing she obviously hadn't slept the whole night.
"Sis, there are a few things I need to tell you."
Chen Linling pulled burgers and Colas from her storage ring, eating as she spoke: "Over the course of the night, I managed to interrogate quite a lot of information out of it that might be useful to us."
The burgers had all been brought over by Yang Yiyi.
A single storage ring could hold several hundred of them.
Xie Litang pulled out a burger as well, took a bite, and said, "Go ahead, what is it?"
Chen Linling tapped her fingers in midair a few times and said, "I've sent the files to you. It's mainly about the Gray Immortals among the Five Immortals."
"Gray Immortals are different from the rest."
"They usually move in swarms."
"They might mobilize in swarms of thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands at once, creating an effect similar to a beast horde."
"You should have learned about it in Middle School Demon Beast Encyclopedia, first semester, volume one, right?"
"There was once a single rat demon beast species that was able to unleash a city-destroying beast horde all by itself."
Xie Litang took another bite of her burger and said in surprise, "Is it really that serious?"
Chen Linling stretched, still looking exhausted, and said, "It's not quite as severe as you think. The Five Immortals coming to cause trouble for us now are just collateral branches within their tribes."
"It's just that with how we're hunting them, it's bound to stir up major trouble sooner or later."
"If we disturb their main bloodline tribes, the probability of the Five Immortals forming a beast horde will increase significantly in weighting."
"After all, as you know..."
"These things hold grudges."
Upon hearing this...
Xie Litang couldn't help breaking into a smile.
A beast horde was great—wouldn't that just be a perfect Gold farming machine? By the time their main bloodlines showed up...
She would have long since become invincible anyway.
Rate on N.U.
