The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 53

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53.

 

Whoooosh.

 

Feeling the wind blowing up from below, I jumped without hesitation.

 

One, two, three.

 

Four, five, six…?

 

“Huh?”

 

Why do I keep falling?

 

Feeling uneasy, I reflexively spread my qi wide to calculate the distance to the bottom. Fortunately, it wasn’t a hole that pierced through the Earth’s core to the other side – I could sense something solid down below.

 

I hurriedly drew my sword.

 

Heavenly Demon Divine Thunder Sword Technique, Chapter 6.

 

Thunder Demon Shadow Wild Dance.

 

Swoosh!

 

As I unleashed Thunder Demon Shadow Wild Dance downward, blue lightning flashed and illuminated the inside of the cave. The wind pressure created by the swift sword strikes lifted my rapidly falling body slightly upward, reducing my speed.

 

Thud.

 

I released my internal energy through my toes and landed safely on the ground with a soft landing technique. Looking to the side, I saw Dangsoso had also landed gracefully like a cat.

 

“If the entrance is blocked by that rock, how does Cheonryun Sinmago come and go?”

 

“To be precise, this is like a dog hole. The real entrance is probably hidden by vines somewhere on the mountainside.”

 

“I see.”

 

It’s common for martial arts masters to create multiple secret passages to their hideouts.

 

This serves as a defensive measure – if someone doesn’t pass through the main entrance, they’re immediately led into traps that kill unwelcome guests instantly.

 

“-Wait.”

 

Having thought that far, I placed my index finger to my lips and held my breath.

 

Boing. Boing. Boing.

 

It sounded like something light bouncing around.

 

The distant presence gradually multiplied into several.

 

Boing boing boing. Boing boing boing boing.

 

Boingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboingboing.

 

“Crazy! It’s a horde of jiangshi!”

 

“They’re friends!”

 

Dangsoso and I shouted simultaneously.

 

“Hey, what friends?! Can’t you see the killing intent in their eyes?!”

 

“Mm. Mm.”

 

Dangsoso, looking embarrassed, turned her gaze away and quickly shot poison needles.

 

Boingboingboingboingboingboingboingboing!

 

Flying daggers rushed toward the five jiangshi bouncing toward us like mad.

 

However, the effect was minimal!

 

The jiangshi wrapped in protective qi weren’t harmed by the poison needles!

 

I shouted in shock.

 

“Damn! They’re Hwagyeong jiangshi!”

 

“This is somewhat unexpected.”

 

“We’re screwed!”

 

Jiangshi wrapped in protective qi – one, two, three, four, five.

 

“What kind of jiangshi use protective qi?! Are you really Cheonryun Sinmago’s masterpiece?”

 

“Th-this is strange. There shouldn’t be this many Hwagyeong jiangshi. There should only be one or two at most…”

 

Crash!

 

Meanwhile, a jiangshi that had popped out grazed right past my nose.

 

The jiangshi, stiff with both hands extended, howled fiercely.

 

“Jiangshi jiangshi!”

 

“What the hell!”

 

Despite the pathetic cry, the power transmitted through its bouncing was terrifying.

 

Five Hwagyeong jiangshi bounced here and there, ramming their bodies into us. It felt like playing deadly dodgeball where touching meant death.

 

Except now the dodgeballs were jiangshi.

 

“Kyaaah! Run!”

 

I screamed and frantically jumped up toward the hole we’d fallen through.

 

But it was impossible.

 

“What.”

 

My eyes went wide as I saw the ceiling had somehow been blocked by rocks.

 

“Jiangshi! Jiangshi jiangshi!”

 

Meanwhile, three jiangshi making stupid cries bounced toward me all at once – boing boing boing. I did a somersault in mid-air and stuck to the ceiling. Dangsoso was also breaking out in a cold sweat dealing with the remaining two jiangshi.

 

But looking at it this way.

 

‘This seems manageable…?’

 

If I had faced five ordinary early Hwagyeong opponents, my head would have rolled long ago.

 

However, these Hwagyeong jiangshi only wrapped themselves in protective qi and charged stupidly – they couldn’t use secret techniques from their lifetime like Dangsoso or think freely. To use a gaming analogy, they were like NPC bots with high raw stats but stupid combat AI.

 

It made me realize how amazing Dangsoso was, being hardly different from a living person.

 

‘Soso is incredible.’

 

Well, this is how jiangshi usually are.

 

Hanging upside down, I shouted.

 

“Soso! Let’s run toward the corridor!”

 

“Roger.”

 

Below the hole we’d jumped through was a spacious room like a cavity.

 

However, where the jiangshi had come from was a rather narrow corridor. Given the jiangshi’s characteristic of bouncing around to attack, their attacks would be extremely limited in the corridor.

 

‘Even if there are enemies deeper inside, if we stand back to back, we can make it one-on-one fights front and rear.’

 

We dodged the jiangshi that only repeated straight body slams and headed toward the narrow corridor.

 

I sent Dangsoso in first.

 

“You take the lead.”

 

Against already dead jiangshi, poison was useless. It was hard for Dangsoso to utilize her strengths.

 

Entering a step later, I blocked one Hwagyeong jiangshi from behind.

 

“Jiangshi jiangshi!”

 

Boing boing boing. Thud!

 

Boing boing boing. Thud!

 

As expected, the low-intelligence jiangshi only repeated monotonous ramming attacks once it entered the corridor.

 

“Ugh.”

 

Of course, each of those attacks was quite heavy.

 

Especially since I was blocking with my sword instead of dodging, the sword was crying out for mercy.

 

It’s common knowledge that a head wrapped in protective qi is stronger than a sword wrapped in sword qi.

 

“Soso! Do you see anything?!”

 

“I’m running.”

 

Fortunately, there was no mishap of another Hwagyeong jiangshi appearing from deeper inside.

 

I blocked the jiangshi once each while diligently backing away.

 

Meanwhile, Dangsoso, familiar with Cheonryun Sinmago’s traps, continued guiding the way by throwing flying daggers and stepping only on safe ground without mines. Thanks to that.

 

“Now!”

 

“Yep.”

 

Using the secret passage’s mechanism in reverse, I succeeded in blocking the jiangshi’s view.

 

The arrows and mines that poured out couldn’t scratch the jiangshi, but they could bind its feet for a moment.

 

“Run!”

 

The thirty-sixth stratagem – flee.

 

Having separated from the jiangshi, we ran forward looking only ahead. Whenever Dangsoso found a fork in the path, she would sniff once and choose the next path without hesitation.

 

“Are we going the right way?!”

 

“No? I’m just guessing.”

 

“What.”

 

My feet, which had been running hard, stumbled.

 

“You’re the masterpiece of Cheonryun Sinmago! Try to find the way better!”

 

“How can I remember a place I came to seven years ago? That’s unreasonable.”

 

“You’re right.”

 

It made sense, so I accepted it.

 

Even I couldn’t find my old seat if I went back to elementary school right now. I might be able to fumble around and find the library or cafeteria based on déjà vu, but that’s about it.

 

“Gangsi, gangsi!”

 

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud. Thwack!

 

The Hwagyeong Gangsi that had been persistently chasing at the front charged at me again.

 

I deflected it with my qi-wrapped sword like before, but a critical problem arose.

 

Creak.

 

“Gasp!”

 

The sword, unable to withstand the strong qi any longer, finally received its death sentence.

 

I wildly swung the sword that had bent into an L-shape, transforming into a sickle.

 

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

 

Now it wasn’t a sword but a short blunt weapon. The sword that had been desperately deflecting the gangsi bent beyond repair and snapped clean in half.

 

“Waaah!”

 

It was a good sword I received from the Eon Family, so it lasted this long – if it had been a cheap sword, it would have shattered to pieces long ago.

 

Still, the predicament remained the same.

 

Hearing my distressed cry, Dangsoso threw a sword backward.

 

“Lady Peng, catch the sword!”

 

“Nice pass!”

 

Catch.

 

I got a weapon!

 

‘Now there’s only one left.’

 

Dangsoso’s hidden blade reserves also had limits. This was truly the only long sword remaining.

 

Moreover, this sword was harder than the one I originally used.

 

You might think being hard is good, but it’s the opposite.

 

When a sword is too hard, it breaks immediately upon receiving a big impact. Rather, swords called famous blades possess appropriate flexibility, so instead of breaking immediately from shock, they bend slightly and endure.

 

Well, even so, if left in that state for too long, it would eventually break or become completely unusable…

 

“Hyaaah!”

 

Thud thud thud. Clang!

 

The charging blockhead and my sword clashed once again.

 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

 

Every time the high-hardness sword met the gangsi’s head, a thunderous sound echoed. Seeing the sword beginning to crack, I urgently shouted.

 

“Isn’t there another trap or something?!”

 

“Lady Peng.”

 

Somehow the feeling was ominous.

 

Dangsoso, who had suddenly stopped, spoke in a flustered tone.

 

“It’s a dead end.”

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