Ch. 21.1 Clear Heart And Little Desires

Translated By: zyzy

Edited By: Crystal Crater

Lin Jiu’s mind went blank for a split second.

The person standing behind her wasn’t Wei Liang, but a tall strong red skeleton frame.

A pair of dark red, empty eye sockets stared right at her.

The wind whistled menacingly above her head as a strong sense of danger enclosed Lin Jiu. She listened to her body’s instinct, and covered her head as she leapt to the side frantically and then rolled away.

Her swift and elegant movements, that looked even better in combat than dancing, came from many years of practice. A person that had transversed like Lin Jiu, who could show some moves, was already considered talented.

Lin Jiu resisted the temptation to stick her head in the ground like a frightened ostrich, and pressed her trembling hands on the ground as she looked up.

The skeleton had rushed towards her and swung its half-meter long axe one-handed on the empty spot where she was just standing a moment ago.

Then, the left side of her face suddenly felt numb and a chill surged to her brain.

Lin Jiu confirmed that because of her basic cultivator foundation, her five senses were stronger than normal people and she had even activated the legendary sixth sense, a numbing and chilling sensation that forewarned her of danger.

Without thinking, she pushed heavily against the ground and spun herself up in a smooth twirl.

Sure enough, a swish! zipped past her and a bone arrow pierced the ground, the tail end of the arrow still wobbling from the impact.

A flash of light passed by her from behind, and as Lin Jiu turned her head around to take in the scene behind her, her ears started to drum and her mind turned blank.

Behind her, an army of red skeletons marched forwards like a tide, swiftly and boldly heading towards the snow-white mountain ahead.  Lin Jiu, who was in the skeleton army’s path, was like a lone little ant in the strong current, ready to face this disaster.

She deeply inhaled, grabbed the still trembling bone arrow from the ground, and forced herself to calm down as she looked to the sides.

As expected, the skeleton army was coming from all directions.

Luckily, the majority of the skeleton army didn’t notice the surprise visitor, and their steps were firm and their bone weapons were in hand as they marched towards the white mountain.

The skeleton that had attacked Lin Jiu with an axe didn’t chase after her, and twisted its skull and continued its march forward.

Lin Jiu exhaled in relief and clutched the bone arrow she had pulled out in her hand. The skeletons that were holding bows were nearing her. When they saw her, they used their bow as the blade and slashed at Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu’s heart tingled, and the hand holding the bone arrow tightened slightly, instinctively, and she poured her spiritual energy into the bone arrow. In her mind, she could see the dark golden stream flow from the end of the arrow to the tip of the arrow, and the slightly brittle bone arrow immediately turned hard.

She raised her hand, and used the arrow to block off the skeletons that were slashing their bows at her.

Zi—

The excruciating sound of the bones of grinding against each other reached her ears, and the bone arrow and the bone bow both slid toward each other’s ends. Lin Jiu used the opportunity to lean to the right side of the skeleton, and, using her strength, she used the bone arrow in her hand as a knife and cut through the skeleton’s chest.

Shards of the bones flew everywhere! The tall frame collapsed!

Lin Jiu gasped for air in joy, and stared at the next skeleton that was about to attack her.

At this moment, a little red glow started to float out from the pile of shattered bones behind her, falling on Lin Jiu’s body.

Her body trembled as she sensed the skeleton’s malice before he died.

“Wu Meng Xia… You’ve hurt my whole family…”

A chill ran through the back of her head.

Wasn’t Wu Meng Xia the hero that guarded the Qian Qi Pass a few days ago? Are there any secrets about this?

Lin Jiu dodged the oncoming attack from another bone knife, and wondered if this so-called righteous way of immortality had already long rotted from the inside like cotton wool. Otherwise, where did this huge resentment come from?

She could vaguely feel the sword on the white mountain in front of her. This was where the resentment of countless souls lay!

From her left, the excruciating sound of the bones rubbing against each other could be heard once more, a skeleton that was holding a knife smiled devilishly, charging forward with his knife.

Lin Jiu jumped backwards to avoid the attack aimed towards her abdomen.

Ever since she traversed this cultivation world she was always led by Wei Liang. She was used to his care-free and graceful expression when he was slaying his enemies, and Lin Jiu could feel that she slightly resembled him, until this very moment.

These resentful skeletons only had the basic foundation skills and didn’t have any battle tactics. They only had the simplest of fighting abilities.

But even on easy battle mode, Lin Jiu found she couldn’t handle it. She swayed from left to right, her back drenched with cold sweat.

The good thing was that these skeletons had a memory of a goldfish. Lin Jiu simply just had to run behind them, and they would be puzzled for a while, then turn and follow the rest of the army to charge towards the white mountain in front of them.

Lin Jiu started to attack them from behind, and she successfully cut through a few skeletons and obtained their malice.

“Mother, I regret it so much…”

“Ouch! Ouch! Don’t eat me!”

“Wu Meng Xia, you’re a liar!”

“I beg you to let me go, grandpa demon! You should look for Wu Meng Xia!”

“This is all your fault! Wu Meng Xia! I will never forgive you, even if I become a ghost, I’ll come after you!”