Calamity Messenger-Chapter 90 - 72: Bingzi Pepper Forest

"So, are you all going to oppose me?"

Yan Qing looked at the screen, leaving a final ultimatum.

"Madness."

"Finish it quickly, I can’t listen to it any longer."

"Jiang Shi, I originally thought you could be a cornerstone for the Shang Family... For Xinlei’s sake, I’ll let you go a little easier."

Seeing that none of the enemies on the screen surrendered, Yan Qing twisted his neck, exhaled deeply, lightly rubbed the joystick of the handheld device, and entered a focused state, with an involuntary excited smile appearing on his face.

The first to attack was Shang Yue!

With a lift of his hand, water on the ground transformed into six sharp arrows shooting towards ’Jiang Shi’. The water jug in his hand was clearly a Water Path Token, no wonder he looked weak; it turns out he was a Water Path Messenger focusing on spiritual control!

Even if Yan Qing dodged, the water arrows would bend and chase like a shadow, instantly reassembling if broken. Though not a high threat, don’t forget Yan Qing had other enemies. Other messengers might first deal with Shang Yue, or rely on defensive tokens to withstand the water arrows, but Yan Qing clearly couldn’t do either.

He had to deal with other enemies while evading Shang Yue’s water arrows — an almost impossible task, given the unpredictable trajectory of the arrows controlled by the spirit. How could anyone possibly handle both the arrows and the attacks of others?

Could Yan Qing do it?

Yes!

Only he could!

In a third-person perspective, Yan Qing fully grasped the timing of the water arrow attacks. Jie Zilong’s spear thrusts and Chen Linchuan’s charged sword strikes were completely dodged by him. His target was only one —

’Fire Saber’ Zhou Ye!

Zhou Ye’s face showed disdain and anger; disdain that ’Jiang Shi’ dared to confront him, anger that ’Jiang Shi’ dared to be the first to confront him! He neither dodged nor avoided, directly countering the two-chain Moon Ring Slash from ’Jiang Shi’ with a flame strike!

Even though Yan Qing dodged, the flames dealt continuous area damage, inflicting burn debuff on ’Jiang Shi’s health bar. The Yu Gong Jade Pendant defensive token didn’t last long, quickly entering a dark state after triggering five times. Though a rare First-Turn Token, it wasn’t enough for a Third Transformation Level battle.

This is why he chose to switch to a Wandering Messenger rather than a Blade Messenger — the Blade Messenger’s blur couldn’t avoid large area persistent damage. Once injured, its ’Unhurt Blade’ characteristic becomes void, essentially making it a base-level class.

Anticipating fighting so many Third Transformation Messengers, Yan Qing naturally chose the profession that maximized ’Jiang Shi’s combat abilities.

And in this forest, the Wandering Messenger was undoubtedly the only correct choice!

The Wandering Messenger inherently increased basic Qi Blood by 20 points, and its golden trait ’Forest Kin’ added 50 points to all attributes, bringing ’Jiang Shi’s Qi Blood close to 100, likely twice that of the Third Transformation Messengers like Chen Linchuan and Zhou Ye!

Even though burned, relying on ’Jiang Shi’s resistance and recovery speed, paired with Yan Qing constantly feeding her Blood Replenishing Pills outside the screen, she could barely endure!

Unlike food, consuming an elixir doesn’t have a consumption animation, equating to instantaneous use. After all, it’s not a hardcore game like Monster Hunter or the Souls series, where interruptions during consumption would give players too much frustration.

Soon, ’Jiang Shi’s top was burned away, leaving only underwear binding her chest. But over several rounds, the Moon Ring Slash hit Zhou Ye eight times, each hit stacking 40 damage. Now a single Moon Ring Slash dealt a whopping 360 damage!

Unfortunately, Lu Wangji’s death alerted them to the threat of true damage, causing Yan Qing’s attempts to target Zhou Ye’s neck to be blocked by his hand. It seemed strategies relying on true damage to accumulate ’part damage’ were unfeasible — at least against a True Man.

But even so, it was astonishing enough for everyone!

"Not a single hit landed?"

"Eldest Young Master Shang, why did your water torrents have no effect!"

"Didn’t your greatsword hit even once?"

"I knew your Jie Family and Shang Family were shielding her! You never tried your hardest!"

"Nonsense, just now she assassinated Lu Wangji, you were secretly aiding her!"

Unable to breach the defenses for a long time, with hardly any hits landing, they grew increasingly frustrated, starting to blame each other, trying to pin the fault on someone slacking off, failing to explain why someone with far weaker stats was beating them.

"Enough!" Zhou Ye shouted, "Can’t you see? This lunatic is a once-in-a-millennium Victorious Fighting! Go all out, or we’ll lose face entirely! Don’t worry about hurting each other, we all have defensive tokens, hers is already burned out by me!"

Yan Qing thought things were bad, and as expected, the intensity of the attacks sharply increased, making it difficult to dodge everything, forcing Yan Qing to use weapons to block. But blocking decreased the durability of tokens, and a White Iron Straight Saber was just a First-Turn Token, unable to withstand too many hits!

At this moment, Yan Qing saw Zhou Ye taking out Spiritual Jade from a Storage Ring, immediately redirecting the Moon Ring Slash towards Zhou Ye’s wrist!

Although the Moon Ring Slash was blocked by Zhou Ye’s Heart-Protecting Mirror, the true damage was still effective, shattering the Spiritual Jade he took out. Zhou Ye’s expression changed, opting not to face Yan Qing directly but instead hid behind others. Yet, Yan Qing relentlessly pursued, determined to shatter his Spiritual Jade even if injured!