Chapter 127: Legacy from the Evil Demon

The cold light flashed!

It turns out that on her hand was a pair of hidden strange weapons like sleeve swords. As soon as she entered the battle, they instantly sprang forth, piercing directly towards the white neck of the silver-haired girl without any frills.

Killing intent!

Not carrying any murderous intent, the sharp killing aura erupted even faster the moment Shangguan Yao displayed her edge. This true killing intent brought a pricking fear to the back, which, if it were an ordinary person, would have probably caused them to lose their composure and lose all fighting spirit.

Clearly, this girl wasn’t just a vase that could throw some fancy moves; she had truly killed before, and not just a few. Such sharp and terrifying killing intent definitely couldn’t be honed by merely chopping dummies at home.

But Hen was no ordinary person either. Although Vilyric didn’t quite understand how the silver-haired girl had cultivated such skilled combat techniques based on her displayed experiences, the fact was that the silver-haired girl reacted extremely quickly, darting past Hen’s feet and soaring to the sky, gracefully dodging Shangguan Yao’s assured stab.

However, before she could launch a counterattack, the small girl with azure hair transformed into a shadow once more, crossing nearly ten meters in a straight line, appearing again behind Hen!

“Swish!”

As if sensing her master’s crisis, the silver dart’s light flickered, swiftly taking Princess Ling to the side, causing Shangguan Yao’s sleeve sword to stab at empty space, creating a slight sound.

Having failed her strike, the mysterious girl didn’t manage to maintain her floating position and began to rapidly descend from the air, falling straight toward the ground.

Clearly, she didn’t possess flying abilities.

Although a height of just ten meters wouldn’t kill a martial artist who had refined their body with spiritual power, it would effectively end this spar that was meant to be light-hearted.

So, she didn’t just let failure occur.

“Poof!”

Once again, that slightly odd sound, akin to smoke exploding, sounded in the air, her now unbalanced body transformed back into a blurry shadow, appearing behind the already ten-plus meters distant silver-haired girl and launching an attack without hesitation!

Naturally, this brought about Hen’s urgent evasion.

Thus, the two girls chased and fled in the air, in such a strange manner, as if being pulled by some invisible thread—spinning around at high speed, almost leaving one breathless, indeed a dire spectacle.

Unlike the earlier confrontation with Liu Quan, the winner of this battle hung by a mere thread.

As long as she was caught, Hen probably wouldn’t be much stronger than an average person in close combat and could easily be defeated, but on Shangguan Yao’s side, she was actually just walking a tightrope.

As long as she couldn’t activate that ability to appear directly behind her target again, with the current altitude of the two girls, the damage from a fall would be enough to ensure her immediate defeat.

But that was also the simplest and most effective method to defeat her opponent.

Perhaps from the very beginning, she had planned to deal with Hen, who could fly in the sky thanks to treasures, in this manner—a tactic perfectly aligned with her sharp killing intent, a “win or perish” mentality.

“Hiss, such divine abilities…”

Not paying much attention to the battle situation, the priestess merely wore a mocking expression and glanced at Murong Yun, who had emitted a strange noise once more.

“What’s wrong? Do you know this guy’s abilities? Are you the encyclopedic sage of the Ancient Spirit Realm?”

“Miss Vilyric is indeed calm and composed; I can hardly compare…”

Shaking his head helplessly, the white-clad middle-aged man explained.

“Do you know that among ancient evil demons, there exists a terrible creature known as the ‘Shadow Ghost’?”

“Oh, I do know about the Shadow Ghost.”

Xiao Kong, who was eavesdropping, suddenly interjected into the conversation, her cat ears atop her white cat’s head twitching as if both were quite interested in the subject.

“It’s a rare existence born during the early days of the ‘Destruction’ and the peak of the evil demons’ strength. On the surface, it appears like an undetectable black shadow, almost immune to all physical forms of attack, hence called the Shadow Ghost.”

“Though its numbers are extremely limited, it’s remarkably troublesome. Even a ‘Transcendence’ realm expert may be killed if caught off guard, possessing several capabilities that even approach the level of ‘Laws’.”

“The most distinguishing and powerful ability possessed by the Shadow Ghost is called ‘Shadow Arrival.'”

Watching the cold girl Shangguan Yao cross space again and again like a specter, appearing behind the silver-haired girl and clearly flustering her, Xiao Kong’s lips curled into a barely noticeable smirk of glee as she continued.

“The ‘Shadow Arrival’ ability resembles spatial techniques, but is more akin to laws or causal abilities. Its effect is that the Shadow Ghost leaves an invisible mark on a target it has touched, allowing it to unconditionally cross space and appear behind the target when needed, launching a ghostly attack.”

“This ability is extremely tyrannical. As long as the target remains in the same world, regardless of their environment or if separated by a barrier, ‘Shadow Arrival’ enables the Shadow Ghost to appear, and the marked target remains unaware of whether they carry the mark, always defenseless.”

“In the early battles against the evil demons, the existence of the Shadow Ghost caused severe casualties in the Ancient Spirit Realm, as even the strongest couldn’t ensure they wouldn’t one day be weakened. The Shadow Ghost loomed like a lethal hidden knife, making it impossible to ascertain if someone had been quietly marked, and thus, everyone had to be exceptionally cautious and vigilant.”

“I see… I only casually heard about such terrifying evil demons in vague descriptions, but I didn’t expect it to be so unfathomable. Luckily, they have been eradicated now.”

Murong Yun nodded slightly, looking quite enlightened.

“Senior Xiao Kong, if you are well-acquainted with that period of history, could you shed light on how such powerful and difficult to combat creatures like the Shadow Ghosts were exterminated in history?”

“I have learned that while the Shadow Ghosts were exceedingly powerful a thousand years ago, they quickly vanished like a flash in the Ancient Spirit Realm, to the point where few records of these evil demons exist now. At that time, how the strong ultimately…”

“Well…”

The cat girl with black short hair shifted her gaze, glancing slyly at the priestess who appeared similarly curious, smiling as she spoke.

“Everything has its nemesis. The Shadow Ghost is formidable, but naturally, there are more powerful existences in the world, with even more unimaginable powers and abilities. This shouldn’t be hard to understand, right?”

“Why does it feel like you said something without actually saying anything…”

Vilyric couldn’t help but give a harsh retort to the vague explanation and could only return to the original topic.

“So Murong Yun, do you think the ability Shangguan Yao is using has something to do with that extinct evil demon?”

After a moment of contemplation, the white-clad middle-aged man shook his head.

“It’s hard to say. I just feel that the manifestation is strikingly similar to the most iconic ability of the legendary ‘Shadow Ghost.’ You both noticed, right? Every time she performs that strange movement, she always appears behind Princess Ling. It’s hard to consider it a coincidence or intentional; it feels more like a fixed rule.”

“But how could a person master the ability of evil demons? In my over thirty years of experience, I’ve hardly ever heard of such a thing.”

   

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