**Chapter 34: Calamity Witch**
Under the deep night sky, pale snowflakes fell into the depths of the dark mountains.
Thick fog had unknowingly rolled in from all sides, varying in density, filthy and murky, carrying a chill colder than melting ice and snow, spreading all the way to the foot of the mountain.
Within the mist that entwined with Mu Se and the massive spirit energy fluctuations of urban legends, strong humidity and the stench of decay mingled. The bitter wind and snow brewed in the clouds, covering the land and foreboding ill tidings.
Standing on the desolate highway, Mu Se gazed into the distance at the destination of the Hundred Demons Walk, as if waiting for something.
Along the way, the challenges posed by urban legends, the ambushes by the Siye Society, and the sudden appearances of Gu Qiqi and Nanling Yaohua, who ruthlessly slaughtered many urban legends, had come one after another, causing significant destruction.
However, these unexpected developments were within Mu Se’s expectations. A large-scale urban legend activity without any disturbances would be suspicious.
But she did not care.
With the Pestilence Taijie organization already spread throughout the city, intercepting and killing urban legends could not shake the foundation of tonight’s Hundred Demons Walk.
In fact, those scattered throughout the city’s corners, infused with spirit energy fluctuations, would instead become a breeding ground for the Pestilence Taijie organization.
At this moment, the destination of tonight’s Hundred Demons Walk was just beyond the mountains, less than five kilometers ahead.
If there were strong members from the Huacheng Siye Society or urban legends that would initiate a challenge tonight, they would be waiting ahead.
Although Mu Se did not believe there were any capable spirit ability users or urban legends nowadays that could stop her progress.
For safety’s sake, before a brutal battle that might settle everything began, it was necessary to ascertain the strength and numbers of the enemy.
Before long, the sound of wind suddenly appeared.
In the distance, a black-robed figure with two pairs of insect-like membranous wings broke through the thick fog and landed beside Mu Se, clasping its fists and saying, “My lady, the situation ahead has been clarified!”
She lowered her eyebrows and glanced at the black-robed figure in front of her, coldly saying, “Speak, Ling Li Insect.”
Upon hearing this, the black-robed figure, called Ling Li Insect, displayed a complex and strange expression, hesitating for a moment before saying, “As you predicted, there are indeed urban legends blocking the way ahead, but…”
“But what?” Mu Se pressed.
“But, contrary to what you anticipated, a large number of urban legends and spirit ability users did not gather. Only one urban legend stands in their way.” Ling Li Insect stated.
Only one? Haha!
Mu Se sneered disdainfully in her heart and asked, “What’s its strength?”
“The spirit energy fluctuation barely reached A Grade.” Ling Li Insect stated seriously, pausing before flattering, “I think the other urban legends and spirit ability users are probably terrified by your presence and have lost their nerve.”
“……”
Mu Se slightly furrowed her brows.
Forget it; she hadn’t expected to hear anything good from these mentally twisted urban legends.
However, what she did not expect was that in the vast Huacheng, there would only be one A Grade urban legend coming to block her?
It seemed she had somewhat overestimated their spirit.
Mu Se suppressed her thoughts, steadied her mind, and commanded the gathered urban legends, “All subordinates of the Hundred Demons Walk, heed my orders! Enter combat readiness. When we encounter that blocking urban legend, hold nothing back and attack with full force according to the original plan!”
Even if there was only an A Grade urban legend blocking their way, they couldn’t afford to be careless; they had to crush it with the swiftest and most powerful force… Mu Se thought.
“Yes!” The subordinate urban legends of the Hundred Demons Walk responded in unison, and soon their spirit energy fluctuations surged to the peak.
In an instant, the silence of the suburban highway seemed to come alive in the intense stench of bl**d, revealing a hint of a savage aura.
The thick fog rolled as the team of the Hundred Demons Walk, composed of over a hundred spirit ability users, urban legends, and nearly a thousand newly born urban legends birthed by the Pestilence Taijie organization, surged forward like a massive war machine.
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Above the sky, beneath the seemingly tranquil clouds, an undercurrent surged, and dazzling arcs of electricity occasionally streaked along the underside of the clouds.
Accompanied by the fierce wind swirling the snowflakes, an ominous dense fog rich in spirit energy fluctuations appeared ahead, and visibility began to drop rapidly.
Chill began to invade Luxianbei’s body, penetrating to the bone, the intense feeling of tension and pressure made her want to vomit.
“Whoa—!”
She took a deep breath, adjusted her state, and slowly stroked the d*ath-Owl Badge on her chest, contacting Bai Kai.
Even though an urban legend wielding the d*ath-Owl Badge raised some doubts, amid the strong interference of spirit energy fluctuations, only this official spirit energy item of the Siye Society could ensure the information transmission.
“Water Brother, they are coming…”
After a brief silence, Bai Kai’s voice echoed in Luxianbei’s ears.
“Received!”
“Xiao Bei, I need three to four minutes to prepare here. In this time, do your best to hold on to those urban legends, then…”
“And then it’s the time for me and Mu Se to decide the winner, right?” Luxianbei interrupted.
“Yes, it won’t be more than four minutes.” Bai Kai confirmed.
“Xiao Bei, the Pestilence Taijie organization is now scattered throughout the city, capable of helping Mu Se replenish spirit energy in some bizarre way. Until my secret weapon is ready, do not act recklessly.”
“Understood, leave this to me. You hurry and prepare.” Luxianbei replied.
“…”
Bai Kai fell silent for a moment before feebly replying, “Uh-huh…”
Though, under the condition of leveraging the strength of the Huacheng Barrier, Luxianbei only needed to defeat Mu Se to stop the Hundred Demons Walk.
But after repeatedly comparing Luxianbei’s and Mu Se’s strengths, Bai Kai concluded that Luxianbei only had around a thirty percent chance of winning.
The situation was not optimistic.
Just as Bai Kai was feeling anxious, his connection with Luxianbei through the d*ath-Owl Badge was cut off.
“…”
Bai Kai held the d*ath-Owl Badge tightly, stunned for a moment, then gradually clenched it, and then took out a disposable talisman to activate the Huacheng Barrier, infusing it with spirit energy.
In the darkness.
As Bai Kai’s spirit energy was rapidly devoured by the talisman, the first incantation gradually lit up…
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Sensing the intense spirit energy fluctuations approaching, Luxianbei looked ahead, vaguely hearing Mu Se’s scornful voice coming from the mist.
“Little sister, step aside, and I might spare your life.”
Luxianbei pouted, “Old hag, I’ll say this: if you surrender the Hundred Demons Walk now, I might spare you too, and I’ll even give you a two-hundred-yuan RT-Mart gift voucher and a hundred yuan QQ coin.”
“What do you think? Attractive terms, right?”
“……”
After a moment of silence, Mu Se coldly responded, “You’re courting d*ath!”
“So that means there’s nothing to discuss?” Luxianbei shrugged. “Then according to the rules of the jike, let’s duel…”
Before she could finish her words, a fierce wind rushed at her as something charged toward her.
d*mn! Not following the rules!? Luxianbei cursed inwardly.
The moment the first group of urban legends came into view, she unhesitatingly detonated the alchemical bomb she had planted early on.
“Boom—— Boom——!”
A thunderous explosion erupted consecutively within seconds.
The fiery light gushing up from beneath the ground mixed with the foul bl**d rain splattered by the torn bodies of urban legends, causing a bright “flower” to burst forth on the earth.
The horrifying heatwave rolled out, expanding chaotically in all directions, cruelly uprooting everything, as the molten-like firelight gathered, illuminating the grim and cold world.
Explosions, searing heat waves, and next came the poisonous gas filled with calamity…
In the blink of an eye, the first batch of urban legends had turned to ash, leaving chaos across the ground.
However.
Before Luxianbei had a moment to catch her breath, with Mu Se’s whisper in the distance, the second batch of urban legends broke through the thick smoke created by the violent explosion and charged mercilessly.
Thirty seconds.
Luxianbei silently counted in her heart, then suddenly pushed off the ground with her toes, leaping into the air while predicting the movement trajectories of the urban legends, taking out the first complete potion from her jacket pocket and drank it all down.
Though the spirit energy fluctuations of the urban legends birthed by the Pestilence Taijie organization were weak, they seemed to possess a kind of specialized physical strength, moving at astonishing speeds, and in the blink of an eye, were about to breach the defense line and charge toward the mountains behind.
At that moment, a dull sound of flesh being torn reverberated.
“Poof——!”
A gleam of steel flashed away.
After slashing down the two most advanced urban legends, Luxianbei stepped forward using the techniques she had practiced countless times under Qing Ji, darting ahead like a phantom for a while.
Then.
Amid the sound of the complete potion glass bottle shattering as it hit the ground and the last incantation leaving her mouth, a streak of pure white light burst forth from the fog.
“…Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon!”
In the blink of an eye, magnificent and majestic white light erupted violently, spreading outward.
As a series of elusive dragon roars and phoenix cries echoed, the incantation incantation’s voice rang out one after another.
“Desolate wasteland, dry grass, remains of bones…”
“…Wind and rain accompany, vast, scorching…”
“…Snow color reaching thousands of feet, frigid wind and white snow!”
The splendid flow of the incantation flew toward the urban legends engulfed by the white light.
Then, a tremendous explosion sounded.
The searing fire struck against the fleshy shield that Mu Se had suddenly opened in front of her, the dark green flesh quickly fading even as it replicated at an astonishing velocity.
After a few breaths, when the light ahead gradually dissipated, those urban legends had yet to emit a cry before they vanished as if evaporated.
One minute… Luxianbei thought within.
If it was just a matter of confronting and intercepting the cannon-fodder urban legends under Mu Se, it seemed rather simple? Luxianbei thought to herself.
The dark green flesh in front of Mu Se seemed to act like a curtain, retracting to both sides, as she looked forward. Seeing that two waves of charges had been resolved by Luxianbei, she appeared unperturbed, calmly waving her hand.
“Continue!”
As her voice fell, those lurking in the thick fog, their skin rotting and their bodies covered in dark green flesh, surged forward again.
An A Grade urban legend possessing such exaggerated destructive power did not surprise her.
But how long could such destructive power be maintained?
She was ultimately alone; how could she withstand the onslaught of thousands of urban legends?
If she faltered just once, allowing an urban legend with Pestilence Taijie bl**d to pass here and successfully pollute Huacheng Reservoir, or exhaust her spirit energy and fall, she would lose.
Moreover, this was just the beginning! Mu Se thought, narrowing her eyes and revealing a cold smile.
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On the other side.
At the rooftop of the tallest building in Huacheng—Huacheng Financial Center.
As a shimmering water curtain rose from the ground, gradually revealing the image at the foot of Huacheng Reservoir, two tall men dressed in black suits retreated to the sides, granting a clear view to the woman seated behind them.
Upon the water curtain, a petite girl wielding a broken sword danced with glimmers of cold light as she weaved through an intricate dance.
Her figure flickered as her pinkish-white hair danced behind her. Soon, incantation light burst from her palm, and flames enveloped the entire scene.
Seeing this, a woman with a monocle spat out half-eaten grapes in astonishment. “Goodness, letting an urban legend go stop the Hundred Demons Walk, is that White Kai’s plan?”
“What in the world is he thinking? Trusting the city’s safety to an urban legend? Isn’t he afraid of entrusting it to the wrong person… No, it’s not just any person; it’s a child laborer!”
“Tsk, tsk, just this? At this rate, she’ll be worn out eventually! Better to ask me for help!”
The woman muttered to herself, shaking her head. She then looked at the two men beside her and asked, “Gold Horn, Silver Horn, if you were to intercept that whatever girl, what are your chances?”
“From the current situation, about fifty percent.” One man responded.
The other man glanced at the water curtain, adding, “If we let that witch exhaust some urban legends, it could reach seventy percent.”
“Mm.” The woman nodded. “Then go!”
Seeing the two men showing uncertainty and not leaving, she furrowed her brows and added, “What are you waiting for?”
“Right now, the urban legends all over Huacheng are subservient, do you think…” The woman gestured dismissively at her own ample chest, scoffing, “…A girl who hasn’t even developed can stop an entire Hundred Demons Walk? Don’t be ridiculous!”
“Though I’m here to watch White Kai’s joke, I am still an inspector of the Siye Society and can’t just sit back and watch a tragedy unfold!”
Halfway through her words, a glint of cunning appeared in her single eye. Pointing at Luxianbei’s fighting figure on the water curtain, she smiled, “Moreover, I’m not asking you to help her.”
“After you arrive, wait for a moment. Wait until she collapses before making a move.”
The two men simultaneously frowned, then clasped their fists toward her, saying, “Understood!”
After that, the two took to the sky like two streaks of light, flying towards Huacheng Reservoir.
With the two subordinates gone, the woman picked up a crystal-clear grape and was about to pop it into her scarlet lips when she suddenly saw the scene on the water curtain and widened her eyes, her lips slightly parting as the grape rolled out of her hand.
“Wow, I thought….” She began, then suddenly burst into laughter. “No, this is how it should be; it’s much more entertaining!”
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Two minutes…
Luxianbei silently counted, raising her head to look ahead.
She felt her heart pounding rhythmically, like the sound of a clock ticking in her ears.
In those two minutes, she advanced eight hundred meters, killing over five hundred urban legends, and there was Mu Se’s Hundred Demons Walk team just ahead.
“Whew—!”
She took a deep breath, adjusted her somewhat chaotic breathing, sword in hand, standing tall, her expression deadpan. “Is this it? Is this all? I thought you were more formidable!”
“No wonder you were taken down by a cripple!”
As White Kai said, the preparation of the “secret weapon” would take about three minutes, and now at least a minute, at most less than two minutes, the fatigue began to set in for Luxianbei.
To ensure that not a single urban legend could pass, she felt she had no choice but to use some extraordinary means.
For example… trying to provoke Mu Se, making her take Luxianbei as a target of attack in a short time.
“Hmph!” Mu Se sneered, her peripheral vision glancing at the black-robed figure that had been holding back, “Your elite still hasn’t shown, you are already exhausted; what will you use to…”
“You were taken down by a cripple.”
Mu Se’s expression darkened. “What does your taunting matter…”
“You were taken down by a cripple!”
“Whew—!” Mu Se took a deep breath and coldly said, “Is that the only thing you can say?”
“Of course not!” Luxianbei shook her head and blurted out, “You almost got taken down by a rabbit!”
“You!” Mu Se’s eyes widened, her chest heaving violently, but she soon laughed. “Trying to buy time, huh? Too bad, I’m not angry at all!”
“Besides, I may not understand the point of your trying to buy time, but I believe it would be better that you don’t succeed. What do you think?”
As she spoke, her expression suddenly hardened, and she shouted, “All Hundred Demons Walk subordinates, immediately, now, head towards Huacheng Reservoir! I’ll handle this woman!”
As Mu Se’s voice fell, the black-robed figures behind her suddenly soared into the air, transforming into shadowy figures that scattered and avoided Luxianbei, flying toward Huacheng Reservoir.
Luxianbei’s expression changed as she realized something was wrong. Just as she was about to act, a warning thought flashed in her mind, reminding her that something was attacking from beneath her feet and from the sides.
She quickly jumped aside to evade, and in an instant, the solid asphalt road beneath her exploded, grotesque and foul flesh bursting out of the ground like giant arms emanating pestilence, angling violently toward where she had just been standing.
No sooner had Luxianbei landed than her warning sense flashed through again. Her gaze sharpened as she strenuously swung out, channeling spirit energy through her arm into the sword, a brilliant light shining momentarily.
“Clang——!” The long kn*fe and the broken sword collided, producing a clash of metal.
Under Mu Se’s swift and fierce ambush, Luxianbei stumbled back a step. Just as she steadied herself, a wailing shriek that seemed to stab her soul pierced her eardrum.
“Dream Dream!” Feeling a moment of dizziness, Luxianbei shouted.
Soon after, Dream Dream, who had been ready for a long time, shared her special spiritual ability with Luxianbei, with the phantasmal sound of the mouth harp immediately countering the negative effects of Mu Se’s shriek.
Three minutes…
Luxianbei thought ruefully, wiping a streak of bl**d that flowed down from her temple and glaring fiercely at the front, seemingly a petite and exquisite beast, fangs bared, ready to pounce forward, yet she saw Mu Se smiling mockingly and pointing behind her.
Her heart sank; she suddenly looked back and noticed those black-robed figures had already advanced hundreds of meters away.
Seeing this, a sensation of helplessness quietly rose within Luxianbei, overwhelming her, nearing the edge of collapse.
Her combat capability had already been slightly weaker than Mu Se’s, and after being drained multiple times by the cannon fodder urban legends, she weakened even further. In this situation, she simply couldn’t bypass Mu Se to intercept those black-robed figures.
But the glimmer of hope had not completely extinguished. It had already passed three minutes; Water Brother’s “secret weapon” could arrive at any moment.
But…
Water Brother, hurry up!
Luxianbei thought fiercely, just as Mu Se’s voice drifted into her ears.
“It seems your earlier exhaustion has taken effect; you can’t stop them anymore! Hehe!”
She suddenly turned back, glaring at Mu Se, and cursed, “d*mn, what’s so great about having numbers!”
“Indeed!” Mu Se nodded. “The more people, the more one can act freely…”
“Boom——!”
Before she could finish her sentence, a tremendous rumbling suddenly erupted at the foot of Huacheng Reservoir. Turning her gaze, her words abruptly halted.
Before her, a giant urban legend resembling a train-like humanoid centipede broke through the earth and soared upwards, snapping its jaws around a black-robed figure passing by, its white sharp teeth instantly severing the figure in half.
bl**d splattered like flowers, and the urban legend turned its head to reveal a smile at Luxianbei.
That smile, with bl**d smeared on the corners of its mouth and bits of flesh stuck in its teeth, was horrifyingly unsettling.
“Quack—quack——!”
Before Luxianbei snapped back to reality, the sky suddenly echoed with the cries of crows.
The next moment, seven or eight urban legends with human heads and crow bodies flew from the direction of the center of Huacheng, directly descending upon a black-robed figure, using their clawed feet to lift that figure into the air.
The black-robed figure screamed in struggle, anxiously casting incantations around, while those crow urban legends braved the incantations, feathers scattering as they tugged at the figure’s head and limbs, straining to pull in different directions.
“Rip!”
The screams of the black-robed figure abruptly silenced.
…
Soon, the chilling and horrifying howls began to echo from all directions, from above, afar, every direction.
Before Huacheng Reservoir, the thick fog enveloped the earth, casting a grayish hue.
In the midst of the gray mist, countless figures surged forward, flying from all corners, rushing from afar, or appearing out of thin air…
Thousands of urban legends and nearly a hundred spirit ability users arrived together, shadowy and indistinct, innumerable.
Roars resounded, fierce and terrifying, incantations erupted, stirring the atmosphere.
Though most of them were far weaker than the black-robed figures, and it was even challenging for them to defeat the urban legends birthed from Pestilence Taijie’s flesh one-on-one.
They still fought fiercely, using jumbled spirit energy fluctuations to form a barrier, refusing to let Mu Se’s Hundred Demons Walk advance an inch as it pressed closer to the foot of the mountain.
Is this… coming to help me? Luxianbei blankly withdrew her gaze from those urban legends and raised her eyebrows at Mu Se, speaking in a somewhat choked voice, mockingly stating, “Who was it that said earlier that numbers could do as they pleased?”
Mu Se’s eyes clearly showed a hint of panic as she harshly questioned, “Who are you? Why are these urban legends gathering for you!?”
Just as the spiritual carver said before dying, “To dominate the hundred demons, compelling them to follow, to parade in the Moonless Night” was the true meaning of the Hundred Demons Walk.
Though Luxianbei had not fully accomplished this, she was much closer compared to Mu Se’s violent approach to achieving the Hundred Demons Walk.
If Luxianbei succeeded in this challenge, Huacheng would no longer have a place for her.
While before, Mu Se merely wanted to defeat Luxianbei and reach Huacheng Reservoir, now she had developed killing intent.
She could summon so many urban legends; indeed, it was impressive, but wouldn’t killing her suffice?
I have the replenishing spirit energy drawn from the city’s veins, how could she possibly win against me? Mu Se thought.
As Mu Se contemplated, Luxianbei suddenly plunged the broken sword into the ground with a “clang,” her head slightly lifting to meet Mu Se’s gaze, she serious said, “I am…”
“Ugh——!”
Just as she prepared to announce the name she had contemplated for a long time, a sound akin to a hellish symphony erupted from the highway behind Mu Se.
That sound, like the wails from the depths of hell, echoed with the howls of a million vengeful spirits, but…
As a loyal fan of “Love and Magical Girl,” Luxianbei immediately recognized it was Bai Xiaohua’s theme song, making her brow involuntarily twitch.
“Calamity, calamity, drive away disaster!”
With a loud cheer, Dream Dream charged forward playing her suona, followed by Gu Qiqi and Nanling Yaohua, one on each side carrying a large colorful banner that read “Calamity Witch, Unbeatable!”
Behind them were nearly ten thousand unranked small urban legends led by the apartment’s little urban legends, densely packed as if a kind of gregarious animal was migrating, each holding a small flag or wearing a supportive T-shirt printed with Luxianbei’s picture and the words “Calamity.”
Luxianbei, “????”
What the heck? What’s going on? Thousands of urban legends supporting me; what on earth do they want to do?
After a brief moment of shock, Mu Se withdrew her gaze, coldly addressing Luxianbei, “So you are the Calamity Witch?”
As if she had heard of her long ago… Luxianbei thought to herself, hurriedly waving her hands in denial. “I’m not, I didn’t, and I don’t know who the Calamity Witch is!”
d*mn Proxy Player Sister, this is too much!
I clearly said I didn’t want such a middle-school title! How did it spread?
Just as Luxianbei was cursing in her heart, Mu Se suddenly took a step forward, sending her long kn*fe out, her fierce gaze resembling a wolf at the end of its road.
“Calamity, this night I shall slay you and your followers here!”
Yes, as long as she killed her, the rest of the urban legends would be nothing to worry about… Mu Se thought.
“I’ve already said I’m not! Why won’t you listen?” Luxianbei retorted as she dodged Mu Se’s attack.
At this moment, the d*ath-Owl Badge on her chest lightly vibrated.
“Xiao Bei, it’s time!”
In an instant, Bai Kai’s voice resonated in Luxianbei’s ears.
“Mm!” Luxianbei responded, swinging her sword to deflect Mu Se’s long kn*fe, standing straight as she declared, “Okay! You want to fight? According to the jike rules; let’s have a one-on-one duel!”
As her voice fell, a deafening thunder reverberated from the sky, countless clouds shimmering with lightning gathered above her head, illuminating her youthful yet determined face and warlike eyes…
