Chapter 238

The scene was chaotic for a while.

Xu Ye, struggling to breathe, collapsed to the ground, while the unfamiliar disciple running beside him was suddenly poked in the mouth by a bamboo tube.

With his brain extremely lacking in oxygen and his whole body weak, he also fell backwards in a daze.

With extraordinary IQ and skills far beyond the average person, these two unfortunate souls staged a scene of “I kill myself” before being killed by the evil demon, firmly grasping their destiny in their own hands—a feat not easily achieved!!

Looking back at the white-boned demon behind them, it was astonishingly several zhang tall. Despite only having its head, chest, and arms left, its upper body was as large as a small mountain.

As it propped itself up with its arms and lunged at the two men with incredible speed, the ground trembled, and snow flew everywhere. It was as if white jade shattered into countless tiny pieces, cloaking the cold fog in a visible layer of pale white.

These demons had no intelligence; they were formed from the resentment and death energy of the desolate lands. With their senses lost, they could only locate other living beings by their breath, hunting them down mercilessly.

Rather than calling it a “demon,” it was more like a machine that never tires, knowing only how to kill and destroy.

“This thing…”

He Zhizhou barely resisted the urge to mock it as a “perpetual motion breathing machine,” eyeing the bone demon warily as the sword at his waist emitted a low hum.

“If it can make those two so desperate, its cultivation level must be pretty high.”

He wasn’t wrong.

Ning Ning looked up, seeing the massive skeleton silently roaring amidst the blizzard. In its empty eye sockets, there was thick black mist, like filthy sludge, making it stand out starkly against the pure white background.

That was condensed death energy, and just a glance made her chest feel tight.

“Its cultivation level is probably at the early Nascent Soul stage.”

Seeing the bone demon getting closer to Xu Ye and the other man, Ning Ning knew she couldn’t wait any longer.

She swiftly drew her sword: “I’ll distract it, you take the chance to save them.”

Without waiting for a reply, she unleashed her sword energy, a flash of white light in her hand, and attacked the bone demon with all her might.

“floor 50.”

Outside the mystic mirror, He Xiaochen stroked his non-existent beard.

“Starting from floor 50, the demons are all above the Nascent Soul level. If Ning Ning charges in… with her strength, she’ll probably win, but it’ll be a hard-fought and messy victory. If she gets seriously injured in the first level of the tower, the rest of the trials will be difficult.”

“She’s smart; she knows what she’s doing.”

Tian Xianzi gave him a thoughtful look, a hint of teasing in his eyes.

“Sect Master He, why are you here at the Xuanxu Sword Sect instead of watching over your disciples at Liuming Mountain?”

Caught off guard, He Xiaochen laughed awkwardly, “I’m just, you know, concerned for the whole world! Definitely not here specifically to see—ah, Ning Ning’s making her move!”

Tian Xianzi quickly turned his head.

Ning Ning moved swiftly, her sword light swallowed by the vast expanse of white snow, leaving only a faint shadow behind.

Knowing the bone demon wasn’t easy to deal with, she used seventy percent of her strength at the start. The sword energy, like stars and rainbows, struck the bones in an instant.

The sword wind kicked up scattered ice, forming a thin wall of snow in mid-air. This was an attack gathered with immense force, but when it touched the bone demon—

Ning Ning frowned slightly.

She finally understood why Xu Ye had chosen to flee in panic when facing it.

Her sword energy was sharp and fierce, slicing through the eerie white bones not far away, but it only left a half-finger-deep scar.

The undead were not like living beings; they felt no pain and had no thoughts. No matter how severe their injuries, they remained indifferent.

To defeat it, the only feasible method was to break its limbs and neck one by one. If they could dismantle it like building blocks, perhaps the threat would diminish.

But that wasn’t practical.

Not to mention that with their Golden Core-level abilities, it was difficult to inflict serious damage on a Nascent Soul-stage demon. Even if they could disassemble it like a Barbie doll…

The sight of its head, limbs, and body jumping around would probably be even more eerie than it is now.

As she swung her sword, Ning Ning’s breath surged. The bone demon noticed, shifting its attention from its previous prey to her, its deep, abyssal eyes focusing on her.

…Oh, it seems pretty upset.

Instead of thinking about how to defeat it, the pressing issue now seemed to be “how to survive in its grasp.”

Ning Ning focused, stepping back quickly and scanning her surroundings.

Not far away, He Zhizhou had already helped Xu Ye and the unfamiliar disciple up and gave her an OK gesture.

Xu Ye was lucky not to have passed out completely, while the unfortunate soul who had been chased with him was in much worse fate.

Both of them were already half dead due to suffocation due to lack of oxygen. When Xu Ye fell halfway, he suddenly spat out the bamboo tube in his mouth, causing the opponent’s mouth to suffer a critical blow under the huge impact. He was in pain and choked, and he almost died at the hands of his teammates.

The poor guy still hadn’t woken up, so He Zhizhou had to carry him on his back, looking quite touching like the heroic figure of the top ten figures in the cultivation world.

As for the environment here—

“Ning Ning!”

He Zhizhou, rummaging through his storage bag, shouted out.

Though he was often unreliable, he could be serious when needed.

Knowing there might be undead demons in the Demon Refining Tower, he had come prepared: “I’ve got Turtle Breath Pills!”

Just as he said this, the bone demon extended its arm to strike forward.