What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

I immediately realized that this was not a sound, but an attack targeting the soul.

"Lu Yan, guard your mind!"

I shouted and slammed my right hand hard on the stitches in my left arm.

The excruciating pain instantly brought me to my senses.

I forcibly mobilized the remaining evil energy within my body and set up a thin protective shield in front of me.

Lu Yan reacted quickly; she bit her tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the peach wood sword.

"The character '震' (zhen) signifies thunder!"

Boom!

A purple arc of lightning forcefully tore through the eerie flute music.

Lu Yan moved with lightning speed, rushing straight towards the saintess on the stone platform.

She knew that to catch the thief, you must first catch the king.

If we don't break the saintess's control over the Gu, none of us will be able to leave this water storage room today.

The saintess remained completely still in the face of Lu Yan's full-force attack.

She simply played a high note softly.

The dark golden Gu King suddenly swooped down, its huge wings flapping, sending countless tiny, shimmering dark golden phosphorescent particles flying everywhere.

Upon contact with Lu Yan's lightning arc, the phosphorus powder exploded instantly, much like fuel meeting a flame.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A series of explosions rang out in the air.

Lu Yan was jolted back several steps by the enormous impact, and her already pale face turned as white as paper.

"Director Lu, the thunder magic of Longhu Mountain is indeed the nemesis of Gu magic, but that depends on who is using it."

The saintess put down her jade flute, her tone tinged with pity.

"If your elders were here, the Gu King might be more wary."

As for you... you're still too green.

She turned her head and her gaze fell on me.

"But you, Chen Yang, I'm becoming more and more interested in you."

To survive the snake guardian and even kill her...

"What good stuff did that old bastard Chen Xuan leave you?"

As she spoke, she slowly walked towards me.

The enormous Gu King hovered above her head, its dark golden compound eyes fixed on me, as if it might pounce and tear me apart at any moment.

I took a deep breath, and my calm voice rang out in the quiet basement: "You want to know? Come here, I'll sew it for you."

My right hand had already quietly reached into the black bone needle hidden in my sleeve.

I know that in my current state, I have absolutely no chance of winning a direct confrontation.

My only chance of winning is to take advantage of her curiosity about the Chen family's magic, get close... and then launch a sneak attack.

Even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance, I'll give it my all.

The saintess stopped three meters away from me, a distance that was already within the killing range of the Qi Control Technique.

"Sew it for me? Heh, interesting."

She tilted her head, a playful glint in her eyes beneath the white jade mask.

"However, I need to collect some interest before I can watch your performance."

For example...your left arm.

Before she could finish speaking, the Gu King above her head flapped its wings again.

A dark golden streak shot straight at my left arm!

Fast! Too fast!

This speed has exceeded the limits of the naked eye.

"Royal!"

I almost instinctively mustered the last bit of my mental strength.

The black bone needle transformed into a streak of black light, barely blocking my left arm.

"Ding!"

A crisp impact rang out, and the black bone needle was sent flying.

I was also jolted back several steps by that enormous force, my back slamming heavily against the stone pillar. A sweet taste rose in my throat, and I could no longer hold back the mouthful of blood that I spat out.

"Chen Yang!"

Lu Yan cried out in alarm and tried to rush to her aid, but was trapped by several wisps of poisonous smoke that the Holy Maiden casually unleashed.

The saint walked up to me and looked down at me.

The Gu King perched on her shoulder, its wings trembling slightly, as if mocking my powerlessness.

"The heirs of the Chen family are nothing special."

She reached out a hand and gently lifted my chin, forcing me to look into her eyes.

"I originally wanted to play with you a little longer, but now it seems better to take you back directly and let your mother-in-law interrogate you slowly."

But the moment her fingers touched my chin, my previously unfocused gaze suddenly sharpened.

"You...have you forgotten...that the corpse stitcher's greatest skill is...close combat."

My voice rang out almost directly under her mask.

My right hand had somehow become firmly gripping her wrist.

The black bone needle that had been knocked away had somehow circled behind her, absorbing all the surrounding light, and silently aimed at the back of her head.

The saint's pupils contracted sharply.

She clearly hadn't expected that I would be able to launch a counterattack despite being so badly injured.

Her eyes turned cold, and she suddenly swept her jade flute horizontally, trying to force me back.

But instead of backing down, I lunged forward and crashed into her arms.

I used all my strength to lock her waist tightly.

"Lu Yan! Bomb her!" I shouted.

At the same time, the Qi Control Technique was activated, and the bone needle transformed into a black light that aimed straight for the back of the saintess's head.

At this moment, Lu Yan also displayed extremely terrifying combat skills.

Without any hesitation, she directly burned her own essence, and the peach wood sword in her hand burst forth with an unprecedentedly dazzling purple light.

"Thunder and Fire Slay Evil! Break!"

A beam of lightning as thick as a washbasin instantly pierced through the entire water storage room, engulfing me, the Holy Maiden, and the Gu King in a purple sea of ​​lightning.

"BOOM—!!!"

A huge explosion resounded, and the entire abandoned water storage room trembled.

When the lightning subsided, the smoke and dust settled.

The once smooth stone platform has been reduced to rubble.

I lay prone in the mud and water, my clothes charred and my skin covered in burn marks from lightning.

But I couldn't care less about that; I stared intently ahead.

I knew in my heart that under such a massive attack of lightning and fire, and with my deadly needles, even if that old woman had encountered such an attack, she would have been seriously injured if not killed.

But when I saw what was in front of me, my heart sank.

The sound of gravel falling into the water echoed in the empty water storage chamber, and the purple smoke and dust left by the thunder and fire explosion were gradually suppressed by the cold underground water vapor.

But in the center of that charred ruin, a figure still stood steadily.

The dark golden Gu King was now spreading its huge wings, like an indestructible shield, protecting the Holy Maiden.

Its once crystal-clear wings were now covered with charred lightning marks, and the dark golden light had dimmed considerably, with even some broken gaps at the edges.

The Holy Maiden of Wandie Valley stood beneath the wings of the Gu King. Her originally exquisite black Miao dress was torn in several places by the shockwave, revealing a section of her fair waist, as white as frost and snow.

A slit running diagonally across her face was visible on her mask, making her exposed eyes appear even colder.

She wasn't injured, or at least not seriously injured, but her breathing became rapid and unsteady, and her chest heaved violently.