"Great Qi of the Divine Light! Grant me the power to cut through evil spirits!" the silhouette with the voice of a female said. Her voice was sweet and just lovely to listen to, but there's a hint of fierceness in the ending note.
And her bold charge towards the Jiangshi shows promising bravery against that dangerous undead.
'That clothing of hers seems to be made from quite a proper material. Could this savior happen to be some decently groomed lady who originated from some prestigious family?' Chen Xuan made a random guess by inspecting how the swordswoman looked.
It surprised him even further when his savior's sword was glowing in a faint golden light. It was akin to a reflection of the morning sunshine in this eerie place illuminated by the full moon.
This scene was like a miracle happening before Chen Xuan's eyes.
Furthermore, the golden light on her sword wasn't for mere display. Added with the sharpness of the blade, it was a deadly weapon against the Jiangshi that was fool enough to fight against her.
Chen Xuan was in disbelief when her sword cut apart one of the Jiangshi's arms like chopping off a piece of tofu from the block.
A dark mist seemed to be running rampant when the Jiangshi was injured. With an expression of fear on its frozen face, the Jiangshi quickly hopped backward.
With only one arm left, the Jiangshi was like an injured beast that opening its jaw widely while being extremely cautious towards the swordswoman.
But nothing surprised Chen Xuan more than the decapitated arm on the ground. Slowly disintegrating into a trail of dark mist, it floated and returned to the injured Jiangshi. This was a unique trait that all evil spirits possessed, such as the Jiangshi.
Luckily, the recovery was about the speed of a walking turtle.
Without five to ten minutes, it would be difficult for the Jiangshi to recover itself.
But while the injured Jiangshi stayed far from the swordswoman to recover from the injury, the second Jiangshi came forward to fight against her.
Evidently, the second Jiangshi was a much better fighter as it fought against the swordswoman as an equal. Unlike the first one that got injured in a flash, this Jiangshi's skill and fighting tactics are much better.
The dark and purplish-colored nails had a density and durability akin to an iron sword. And because it had a peculiar way to attack, one or two attacks always came unexpectedly. Was it not bothered by the rigidness from the rigor mortis after death, this fight would be more challenging than it was right now.
"Hey!" since this was the first time the swordswoman and Chen Xuan met, she could be forgiven for calling him this way. Furthermore, she's not sure if Chen Xuan is still doing fine, as he seems to be in a daze since she came to his rescue.
"Yes!" Chen Xuan answered.
"What kind of arts do you know? Can you fight?" she immediately asked him a few questions after she got Chen Xuan to respond to her call.
"I... I know nothing!" Chen Xuan embarrassedly admitted. In this kind of life and death situation, there's no point for him to worry about how his savior will look at him. Furthermore, he genuinely knows nothing about magical arts or fighting skills.
And before coming here, his last job was a conman. Perhaps, all he was good at was pickpocketing, lying, and escaping?
The current Chen Xuan was no different from a "baggage" nobody wanted. Right now, he can neither draw a talisman nor use any magic to conduct an exorcism on the Jiangshi.
Furthermore, he doesn't even have the essential tool to conduct an exorcism on the Jiangshi right now.
"Nothing? What kind of backwater place you're from? To think that you can't even contribute a little in fighting against a Jiangshi? How did you even survive until now?" the swordswoman sighed and scolded Chen Xuan.
'I come from the earth, milady. And we have no Jiangshi in the past 2000 years...' Chen Xuan wanted to answer the swordswoman like this but decided to keep his mouth shut.
His reason for this is because he was getting protected by her right now. Without her help, he might be a dried corpse right now, waiting for the next full moon to transform into another Jiangshi.
*Whoosh!*
A wrapping cloth with some contents inside was thrown at Chen Xuan. From the weight of the bag, it seems to have quite a few things inside.
"Look inside the bag and grab something you can use to help! If you don't try to do something, both of us will be killed by the Jiangshi when the other one recovered!" the swordswoman said. The warning was not a joke because the decapitated arms were already healed halfway.
Without further ado, Chen Xuan quickly unties the knot that holds the bag together. His hand then went into the content and grabbed something soft and smooth, like it was sewn using high-quality silk.
Taking the item out of the bag, Chen Xuan noticed that it was not a weapon. It was a diamond shape bodice that a woman wore as the upper part of her undergarment.
Chen Xuan's imagination immediately went in a wild direction as he was about to drool while looking at the traditional bra in his hand.
"Pervert! Stop playing with my Dudou and get serious! Or else, I'll kill you after I'm done with these two bloodsucking evil things!" the swordswoman said and kicked a pebble nearby at where Chen Xuan is.
The pebble almost hit Chen Xuan, who was still in his own perverted fantasy. Quickly putting down her undergarment before she got angrier, he promptly ransacked the bag again.
It was quite a mess inside the bag.
With everything crumpled and stacked together inside that cloth, her bag is no different from a seller from the flea market. From hardened rice cakes to a water bamboo container, there's nothing else but junk inside her bag.
"There's not even a weapon inside this bag! What can I use to help you with?" Chen Xuan screamed at her. To think that he actually searched a woman's bag just to see if there's a weapon inside.
But soon, his attention fell on the bronze mirror that belonged to the swordswoman. Judging from how well it was placed between the cloths, this item must be incomparably precious to the swordswoman.
"Something useful at last!" Chen Xuan stood up with the bronze mirror in his hand, and he seemed to be searching for a source of light.
"Hey! What are you trying to do with my mirror?" the swordswoman panicked when she saw her beloved mirror was in Chen Xuan's hand. From her response, the bronze mirror seems to be something really expensive or precious to her.
"Hey! Leave that mirror alone and do something here! We're going to die under this evil spirit's hand if you don't start to think something!" she said. The golden light on the sword was evidently dimmer than the first time when she was using it.
"Can't you just use the same Great Qi of the Divine Light chant again? Once that weapon is filled with Yang Energy again, it will allow you to fight the Jiangshi as equal," said Chen Xuan.
"What cultivation rank do you think I am? I can barely use the Great Qi of the Divine Light once a day!" her reply was a pretty disappointing one.
But the reply allowed Chen Xuan to realized that cultivation exists in this Lingyu Realm. But he didn't have the leisure to think about this right now, as it was unknown if he could live past tonight.
She might sound like a professional evil spirit exorcist, but she was merely a beginner. All she had was faint cultivation and experience in conducting an exorcism. Previously, it was pure luck when she successfully activated the Great Qi of the Divine Light in a single try.
"Nevermind! With this copper mirror, we can kill this Jiangshi for sure! Die!" Chen Xuan replied as he used the reflection from the moonlight on the Jiangshi the swordswoman was fighting.
But the outcome was a complete disappointment. Except for making the Jiangshi annoyed by the reflection, it did nothing else. Even Chen Xuan was shocked but this.
'Huh? How can it turn out to be like this?' Chen Xuan was about to slam that mirror on the ground.
"Stop fooling around and help!" the swordswoman had the urge to throw her sword at Chen Xuan. Unfortunately, she couldn't afford to do that. She couldn't even turn her attention away from the Jiangshi for a second.
'Impossible... The Taoism Basics left by the ancestor said that Jiangshi is afraid of mirror reflection. And that's why each exorcist and Daoist had a Bagua mirror with them.' Chen Xuan scratched his head in an attempt to remember what he had learned.
'WAIT!'
"Bagua!" the hint was on the name itself.
"Bagua mirror! No wonder this lousy mirror can do nothing!" Chen Xuan seems to found the crux behind his previous failure. He immediately bit his finger until a small cut appeared.
Using the blood as the ink, Chen Xuan quickly drew the eight Bagua Diagrams on the bronze mirror in his hand. His attention was entirely on the bronze mirror, and he didn't even notice that the injured Jiangshi had recovered.
"Hey! What are you still doing there? Come and help me restrain this Jiangshi before the other one come at you!" the swordswoman as she starts to lose control over her breathing.
It was clear that fighting a Jiangshi was not an easy task. A Jiangshi not only has a monstrous strength with their invulnerable physique but also essentially unlimited stamina. And on the contrary, a human would get tired quickly.
Especially when against a Jiangshi with considerable fighting power. Their stamina would deplete at an even faster rate.
"I'm done!" Chen Xuan drew the eight formations that represent the Bagua diagram. But his action quickly made him regret as the noise he made attracted the first Jiangshi to come straight at him.
"Woman! Direct the golden light from your sword at me, quickly!" Chen Xuan's sudden request made her unsure if she should follow or ignore it.
"I'm asking you to help, not disturbing me!" What are you trying to do?" the swordswoman asked.
"Just do it! Or both of us will die here!" Chen Xuan had no choice but to yell at her before it was too late. The first Jiangshi was about three more jumps away from him.
"Argh! I'd blame you if we die here today!" the swordswoman yelled and directed all the golden light towards Chen Xuan.
This time, the reflection finally produced the result he expected. Like a laser beam that disintegrates everything in its path, the light turned the Jiangshi coming at Chen Xuan into a pile of ashes.
Perhaps this was the meaning of conducting an exorcism in this Lingyu Realm.
Chen Xuan immediately directed the reflection towards the second Jiangshi. But unfortunately, the light was out after he got one of the Jiangshi's arms.
"Woman! Where the hell is the light?" Chen Xuan asked.
"No more! No more!" the swordswoman yelled back at him. No longer having any energy on her, the swordswoman fell on her knees, with her sword leaving her hand.
It seems that the Great Qi of the Divine Light was not a mere enhancement technique but a continuously channeling skill. Or else, the swordswoman won't be exhausted to this degree.
"Oh... Fuck!" Chen Xuan cursed.
Even Chen Xuan is out of idea about what to do to salvage this situation.
Until...
(The user Successfully absorbs "One" unit worth of Evil Qi. The system is now accessible. Congratulations on arriving in Lingyu Realm safely!)
A voice appeared in his head as something looked like a game panel appeared before him.
"What? System?" the announcement got Chen Xuan by surprise. He had no idea that coming over to this world would give him a system as well.