The Rise of the Witch

Gui Rui is surrounded by mountains and water. Houses are built against the mountains in a staggered and orderly manner, and the Gui River flows out through the mountains, making the scenery beautiful.

It should have been a peaceful and idyllic place, but now it's just a wasteland of broken walls and ruins.

Xingyang sat on the back of the horned dragon horse and drove it slowly. Along the way, he did not encounter a single living person.

Besides the collapsed houses and scattered tools, blackened bloodstains could be seen on the ground from time to time... Were all the people dead?

That shouldn't be the case.

Xing Yang was puzzled. The Gui clan was at least a middle-level clan. It shouldn't have been difficult for them to concentrate their resources and produce one or two experts at the Spirit Guiding Realm.

After searching the entire village, Xingyang finally found a jumble of footprints that clearly led into the mountains.

Have all the people here gone into the mountains to take refuge?

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Inside a huge cave in the mountains, people were packed in tightly. The once spacious cave now appeared extremely crowded.

The entire Gui Rui region, comprising one large and five small clans, along with the common people under those clans, except for those who died at the beginning of the demonic scourge, has been gathered here for two days and two nights.

Fear and lack of food had left many people numb, but leaving them was out of the question.

The feeling of being left to die is truly unbearable.

The cave has only one entrance, and ordinary people, driven by their inner fear, will subconsciously stay away from the entrance, as if the deeper they hide, the slower they will die.

Therefore, the area around the cave entrance appears quite spacious.

Gui Ning, dressed in white with specks of brown, sat upright at the cave entrance, a sword lying across her lap. She was as cold as the sword, even colder than it!

Her breathing was somewhat disordered, and her face was pale, but she still stared coldly at the opposite mountain peak, as if there was nothing else in the world worth looking at except for that mountain peak.

Suddenly, without her making any move, the sharp sword on her lap flew out and was placed horizontally beside her.

The icy blade was aimed directly at a girl's throat. The girl's steps froze, and she stood there stunned.

"Where to?" Gui Ning asked coldly.

The girl was seven or eight years old. Her slightly yellow and thin hair was loose, and she was wearing a linen white dress that looked somewhat loose and thin.

Her slender neck looked incredibly delicate under the sword, and fear showed on her small face as she turned to look at Gui Ning.

Those large eyes clearly had two pupils, giving them an eerie appearance. The look in them wasn't innocent, but rather filled with anger and ferocity: "Auntie, I don't want to wait here to die!"

Gui Ning didn't even glance at her, simply saying coldly, "Wait!"

The girl clenched her fists tightly, her small body trembling, whether from fear or anger, she said, "Auntie, no one is coming to save us. Let's fight our way out! I'm strong, I can kill demons. I killed one before..."

  

Gui Ning finally deigned to look over, her eyes icy, her tone even colder: "You will die!"

The girl roared, "I'd rather fight to the death than wait to die in this cave!"

With a hiss and a sharp gasp, someone struggled to their feet, covered in blood, and staggered over, saying, "Yu Xi, come back!"

The girl, Yu Xi, turned her head, a faint crimson gleam in her double pupils: "No! I want to fight my way out!"

The man sighed and said, "Auntie is right. You are young and your body is not yet fully developed. Although you killed a little demon by unleashing your potential before, it also damaged your foundation. If it happens again, you will surely die."

Yu Xi bit her lip, her eyes revealing undisguised ruthlessness: "Why do these monsters treat us like food?"

The man remained silent, then said with a strange expression, "Perhaps they consider themselves superior to us humans, so they don't care about our feelings at all."

Yu Xi clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth, saying, "If I could become the most powerful being in the world, I would make sure that demons also experience the taste of being eaten!"

The sword at her throat suddenly vanished, followed by Gui Ning's cold voice: "Here we go again!"

The next moment, the people who had been lying haphazardly near the cave entrance got up one by one, and with their last breaths, managed to stand in a row, blocking the entrance to the cave.

Yu Xi was pulled to the back by someone.

Gui Ning stood up, sword in hand. Her slender body stood tall, like a sword, its sharpness fully revealed, her gaze fixed on the opposite mountain peak.

From the opposite mountain peak, a huge plume of black smoke billowed straight towards the cave entrance, accompanied by incessant roars and shouts, suggesting the presence of countless monsters.

The sword in Gui Ning's hand suddenly burst into white light, enveloping her entire body. The white light was like a ray of sunlight, dazzling and eye-catching, and disappeared into the cave entrance in a flash.

In mid-air, the white light merged with the black smoke.

Immediately, the screams of the little demons and monsters rose and fell amidst the crisscrossing, eerie white sword light.

Within the black smoke, Gui Ning's figure appeared and disappeared intermittently, her body like a shadow, her sword like lightning. Wherever her sword light passed, no demon could stand against her, and nothing could withstand it.

A monster opened its mouth as big as a water vat and lunged at Gui Ning. A flash of white light appeared, and a sword pierced through, causing the monster to plummet from the sky.

With another wave of his hand, the demon unleashed a swarm of red Gu worms. In an instant, the sword light transformed into a sword screen, and the red Gu worms that entered the sword screen were pulverized and fell to the ground like moths drawn to a flame.

Another monster tried to escape by turning into red mist, but the sword light pierced through, creating layers of sword light. A mournful and long scream rang out from within the red mist, and the red mist dissipated. The monster's head had already been separated from its body.

The sword light surged forth like mercury spilling onto the ground, preventing the black smoke carrying countless monsters from advancing an inch in mid-air.

Gui Ning, a sword cultivator at the Spirit Guiding Realm, single-handedly fought against a horde of demons.

Ultimately, one person's strength is limited. Several wisps of black smoke broke through the sword light and rushed straight to the entrance of the cave, transforming into a three-headed monster upon landing.

A wolf, an ox, and a lion, all with human bodies and animal heads, and large, robust physiques.

As soon as it landed and revealed itself, it rushed into the cave, where a vast amount of blood food was hidden, as delicious as delicacies to a gourmet.

The row of cultivators blocking the cave entrance were all wounded, but none of them retreated. Their faces showed a death wish, and they were all prepared to fight to the death.

However, the first to make a move was not them, nor the three demons, but... an eight or nine-year-old girl, Yu Xi!

With a sharp, clear shout, Yu Xi was sent flying like a cannonball, her small body crashing headfirst into the most imposing bull demon.

"boom--"

The bull demon was actually forced back several steps by the impact, crushing the rocks beneath its feet before it regained its footing and looked down.

Then they saw the human girl clinging tightly to one of its legs, her face flushed purple, blood gushing from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, her features contorted, as she roared, "Rise!"

The next moment, the bull demon's huge body lost its balance and was thrown out, landing heavily on the ground with a thud.

After Yu Xi's outburst, she was completely exhausted, her small body collapsing to the ground. She struggled to lift her head and looked at the bull demon in the distance, who was nonchalantly getting up, his double pupils filled with resentment.

She can fight again... She can still smash it to death with her fists, just like that monster before...

Yu Xi's mind was filled with thoughts of how to smash the other person into a pulp with each punch, but she was unable to move. Her body and limbs seemed to belong to someone else, and she couldn't control them at all.

She watched as the bull demon approached step by step, bent down to look at her, and then grinned, seemingly laughing.

Roars, screams, and the excited laughter of monsters filled my ears...

In her vision, the bull demon raised its hoof and stomped heavily on her head. Everything went black as the hoof filled her entire field of vision...

I really want to break those cow hooves!