Chapter 432: Chapter 148: A Thousand-Ren Cliff to Vanquish a Demonic Servant, a Hundred-Li Blade to Warn of Mortal Doom

A brilliant flash of saber light tore through the mountain wind, carrying a tyrannical intent to sever all things as it chopped straight for Mo Yunzi’s head!

This slash was unbelievably fast!

Unbelievably ruthless!

Its Sword Gang was even formed from terrifying Evil Qi!

"Impossible!"

The brilliant blade magnified in her pupils, its speed utterly inconceivable!

The flirtatious and playful look on Mo Yunzi’s face instantly vanished, leaving only utter horror!

’How can a mere Spirit Awakening Realm cultivator possess such a Body Technique?!’

The saber light flashed like lightning, already upon her!

But an instant before the blade struck home, something strange happened.

PUFF!

There was no sound of clashing metal, nor the sensation of tearing flesh.

Mo Yunzi’s enchanting body burst like a phantom bubble, erupting into a sky-filling cloud of blood mist!

Chu Fan’s slash hit nothing. His brows furrowed, but his movements didn’t pause for even a moment.

The blood mist did not dissipate. Instead, it writhed bizarrely, transforming into hundreds, even thousands, of blood-red butterflies. With a nauseating stench of blood, they flapped their wings and swarmed him.

’A Demonic Illusion Skill...’

Chu Fan’s eyes were icy. With a flick of his wrist, the saber light formed a net of blades as he instantly executed the Seven-Star Bead Slash.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

Several streams of Sword Qi crisscrossed, shredding dozens of the approaching blood butterflies into nothingness.

He remained on high alert, his focus unwavering. Over a hundred feet away, the remaining blood butterflies reconverged. Amid a surge of bloody light, they coalesced back into Mo Yunzi’s form.

But now, her face was pale as paper, her pretty features twisted with rage. A Snake-shaped Sword had appeared in her hand at some unknown point.

She stared daggers at Chu Fan, gritting her teeth. "You... you actually made me waste a Blood Butterfly Substitute Talisman! You little bastard, if I don’t flay you and pull out your tendons today, I’ll never quell the hatred in my heart!"

That Talisman was a life-saving item given by her sect elders, incomparably precious. Each one used was one gone forever.

To think it was forced out of her today by a mere Spirit Awakening Realm brat—how could she not be furious!

Before her voice had faded, her left hand abruptly formed a spell seal and she pointed at the ground.

A mournful, ghostly wail echoed as a cloud of ink-black fog surged up from her feet.

The ground suddenly turned into a swamp, and a ghastly white skeletal claw burst from the earth.

Immediately after, a complete White Bone skeleton slowly climbed out of the black fog.

The skeleton was immense, standing around ten feet tall, its bones as white and lustrous as jade.

In its empty eye sockets, two clumps of eerie green Soul Fire burned fiercely.

Most chilling of all, every single one of its bones was engraved with dense, sinister Runes, which flickered with a treacherous dark red light.

The moment Chu Fan saw this White Bone skeleton, his pupils contracted sharply.

He immediately recalled the terrifying thing he had encountered back when he was being hunted by the woman from Medicine King Valley and fled into the Chaotic Stone Forest!

At that time, he had used an arrow infused with Soul-splitting Force to injure the skeleton’s soul, which allowed the woman from Medicine King Valley to seize the opportunity and destroy it.

But when he returned later to investigate, he saw that the White Bone skeleton had actually revived, startling him so much that he could only flee in haste.

The demonic creature this woman summoned was strikingly similar to the one he had seen that day!

Could it be that she, and the martial uncle she mentioned, had some unknown connection to that skeletal monster in the Chaotic Stone Forest?

His thoughts raced, but he knew this wasn’t the time to ponder it.

’First, I’ll cripple this Demoness and capture her. I can interrogate her then!’

"Kill him!" Mo Yunzi shrieked, pointing her Snake-shaped Sword from afar.

The Soul Fire in the White Bone skeleton’s eye sockets flared, and it let out a soundless roar.

Its huge body, with a Body Technique belying its size, charged toward Chu Fan like a meteor.

A giant White Bone claw swatted down from above, stirring up a foul, stinking wind. Its might was astonishing!

Chu Fan didn’t dare to be careless. He executed the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to evade the frontal attack, and with his Long Saber, he simultaneously chopped at the skeleton’s arm.

CLANG!

The sound of metal on metal, accompanied by dazzling sparks, exploded on the cliff.

Chu Fan felt a tremendous force travel up his blade, and he couldn’t help but retreat three steps!

He focused his gaze and saw only a shallow white mark left on the skeleton’s arm.

The Runes on it flashed with red light, and it was instantly restored to its original state.

’Such incredible Force! And its bones are so hard!’

A chill went down Chu Fan’s spine.

From that single strike, he judged that this White Bone skeleton’s Force likely surpassed an ordinary cultivator at the Peak of Divine Power Realm, nearly reaching the Acupoint Realm!

’This demonic creature... it’s stronger than its master?’

’No, that’s not right...’

Chu Fan immediately dismissed the thought.

This skeleton clearly required the woman to divide her attention to control it. Although its movements were powerful and heavy, its ability to react was far inferior to a true Acupoint Realm master.

The Runes on its body not only provided it with Divine Power but also formed a tough protective layer, so even his Seven-Star Bead Slash couldn’t harm it.

’It looks like I’ll have to use the Ninefold Force of the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber to shatter this skeleton.’

Chu Fan had also considered using the Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand to land a couple of palms on it, using Cold Qi to seal its Force.

But once he revealed a Bottom Card like that, the woman would become extra cautious, or even flee immediately.

’Getting tangled up with a skeleton is pointless!’

’Capture the leader to capture the thieves. Once I deal with its master, everything else will fall into place!’

With his mind made up, Chu Fan no longer clashed head-on with the Demon Puppet.

His figure moved, and under the enhancement of the Demon Dragon Celestial Spirit Scripture’s Spirit Array Map, he charged straight at the Demon Puppet!

The White Bone skeleton swiped horizontally again, but Chu Fan’s figure was like a wisp of green smoke, deftly passing through a gap in its attack and lunging straight for the nervous Mo Yunzi behind it!

"What?!"

Mo Yunzi’s face went pale with shock.

Her prized Demon Puppet, whose Force barely reached the First Heaven of the Acupoint Realm, was like a foolish child swinging a giant hammer in front of this person—clumsy and laughable, unable to even touch the corner of his clothes!