As Ran Mingzhu's mentality changed, the offensive of the waiters she controlled became more fierce, but she still lacked effective tactics to match it. From time to time, waiters interfere with each other, which can be said to be full of loopholes.
Xia Qiu clearly had many opportunities to finish off those waiters in a short period of time, but she was still hesitating whether she should lose to Ran Mingzhu on purpose. Even if she lost the competition on purpose, she might be kicked aside. Ouyang Xiaoleng saw through it easily.
Ouyang Xiaoleng knew that he could not stop the battle between Xia Qiu and Ran Mingzhu, so he could only calm down and watch the battle for the time being. In his opinion, what Ran Mingzhu lacks may not be strength. Being able to use up to four attendants while continuing to use other spells proves that she has deep spiritual power, but her combat experience is very limited. Just like the spells she used were ever-changing, but the timing of her attacks was always slightly off.
Ran Mingzhu took out two more talismans and flew them in the direction of Xia Qiu. The two talismans turned into an ice snake and a fire snake respectively on the flight path, and the two entangled each other to form a red and blue long sword. At this time, one of the three waiters who was fighting with Xia Qiu discarded his original weapon, and instead chose to hold the long sword and swung it at Xia Qiu.
Xia Qiu turned around and blocked it with her plum blade. She found that the power of the attack from the waiter was far greater than before. The long sword formed by the two talismans of water and fire is not as fragile as imagined. When it collides with Xia Qiu's plum blade, it will make a metallic sound, and it itself has the ability to guide the warrior holding it to fight. The other two waiters took advantage of her struggle with the ice and fire sword to sneak attack her.
Several times, Xia Qiu was almost injured by the weapons of the three waiters, but she skillfully saved the day. Of course, Mingzhu always thinks that she is about to succeed, but she fails again and again, leaving only a sigh. In desperation, she could only continue to use her demon hunter's spiritual power to cast spells without restriction, and also replaced the ice and fire swords for the three waiters under her. In this way, the rhythm and intensity of the battle were fundamentally different from just now, which made her even more sure that she had a chance to win.
"Xia Qiu, if you don't use your full strength, you will be injured!" Ouyang Xiaoleng finally couldn't hold it anymore and reminded her.
"What?! Are you saying she is giving in to me now?!" Ran Mingzhu asked him.
"Do you think you can be her opponent with your unstructured attacks?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked, his face full of disdain.
"Impossible!" Ran Mingzhu retorted quickly.
She expressed doubts about Ouyang Xiaoleng's words because she couldn't imagine why Xia Qiu would let herself go, even at the risk of injury, knowing that she wanted to compete for the position of the blood pact contractor. What she was even more unwilling to accept was that the girl who was a human like her had strength that exceeded hers. As a descendant of the most famous family of monster hunters, her pride was the last thing she wanted to lose.
"Xia Qiu, if you insist on letting go, then I will intervene! I can't guarantee what the consequences will be!" Ouyang Xiaoleng decided not to hesitate anymore. He really didn't want this meaningless battle to continue. Went down.
During the battle, Xia Qiu glanced at Ouyang Xiaoleng out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that he was definitely not joking, she had no choice but to respond: "Then... Ran Mingzhu, I'm sorry!"
As she spoke, she flew up, and in the process of rotating her body, at a speed that was beyond the reach of the human eye, she used her plum blade to knock down the ice and fire swords in the hands of the three waiters surrounding her, and then used a set of flowing movements to With sword skills, he slashed at the three waiters. The waiter who was killed by the plum blade instantly transformed into the human-shaped talisman from the beginning, and the talisman was split into two.
However, Mingzhu was still unwilling to give in and put her last strength in the waiter who was still protecting her in front of her. She took out the last talisman left on her body and stuck it on the waiter's back. After she recited a spell silently, the waiter's height suddenly increased several times, as if he had turned into a copper and iron wall to isolate Ran Mingzhu from Xia Qiu. This is Ran Mingzhu's last line of defense. As long as she is not directly attacked, she has not lost this competition.
She guessed that being a human being with such strength and speed as Xia Qiu must be inseparably related to the blood alliance between her and Ouyang Xiaoleng. Now, in addition to envy, she felt more jealous. She thought how great it would be if she was the one to become his blood pact, then she could rely on her own power to travel freely between the human world and the demon world to investigate the truth behind her father's disappearance.
Just when she was distracted for a moment, the huge waiter in front of her had been attacked by Xia Qiu several times in succession. Xia Qiu discovered that after the waiter's height increased, although the intensity of her attacks was higher than before, the flexibility of her movements was relatively reduced, and she was able to suppress her opponent by continuously accelerating the speed of the sword.
After she carried out a burst of violent stabs and slashes with the plum blade, the giant waiter stepped back continuously, and unknowingly reached the edge of the infinite realm against Ran Mingzhu. Just as Xia Qiu leaped up and finished off the last waiter with a spinning move, Mingzhu's spiritual power was completely exhausted. After the waiter in front of her disappeared, the last human-shaped talisman was cut into two pieces, and she herself fell to the ground because her body was limp. The infinite realm surrounding them completely collapsed and disappeared.
Xia Qiu reached out to support her as she landed, and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"
"I... I lost!" Ran Mingzhu admitted weakly, then burst into tears and continued, "But I'm not willing to accept it! I... I just want to enter the demon world to find my father!"
"I know!" Xia Qiu nodded and turned his pleading eyes to Ouyang Xiaoleng.
Her pair of pure watery eyes were the most difficult for Ouyang Xiaoleng to refuse. He had no choice but to say to Ran Mingzhu: "Okay! The premise is that after we get the definite evidence that your father is still in the demon world, only then Only then can you be allowed to enter the demon world and search for him with us."
Ran Mingzhu, whose eyes were blurry with tears, kept nodding and said to him and Xia Qiu: "Okay, okay! I promise you! Thank you!"
Seeing Ouyang Xiaoleng nodding, Xia Qiu could finally breathe a sigh of relief. This is the first time she has used her body to such a large extent after her resurrection, and the whole process can be said to be getting better and better. The vague feeling of unfamiliarity that she had when she controlled her regained body seemed to be wiped away after this hearty battle. It was only now that she truly felt that she was really alive. .
She and Ouyang Xiaoleng first sent Ran Mingzhu back to the house where she lived, which was a very ordinary residence. After confirming that she was just exhausted and had no other problems, they left.
On the way to send Xia Qiu home, Ouyang Xiaoleng couldn't help but question her: "What on earth are you thinking?! If I don't speak, do you plan to lose to her like that?!"
"I just imagined that if I had switched places with her, I would have searched for my relatives and friends at all costs, right?" Xia Qiu stopped, smiled at Ouyang Xiaoleng and continued, "It's like You, in order to save me from Qingyun and resurrect me, are the same as you are going forward."
"Maybe it's my own problem. I've always been hostile to that family." Ouyang Xiaoleng had to admit.
"But they are your relatives after all. This is something you cannot choose or change. And judging from how others describe your mother, I believe your family must be very good!" Xia Qiu said. The child turned forward, and the ponytail behind his head was also thrown up.
Ouyang Xiaoleng felt his heart tremble slightly and said to her, "How can I always be so optimistic like you?"
"Actually, I have many pessimistic moments, but I always try to hide them." Xia Qiu responded.
For several days in a row, she dreamed of fighting side by side with Immortal Yuhe in the Realm of Soul Lift. The dream was so real that she couldn't help but wonder if she had returned to that place again. It's always a comfort to be able to dream about him again. Even if the battle in the dream is as fierce as the one she experienced before, what is left after waking up from the dream is only a deeper loss.
As time went by, the fact that there was still no news about him made her mood turn from anxiety to despair, thinking that he had just gained those lost memories, and this was what he had always dreamed of, but He disappeared in the battle with Heihe in order to help her, which made her feel an indescribable regret, for him and for herself that she might never have the chance to meet him again.
"What are you thinking about?" Ouyang Xiaoleng saw that she was worried, so he asked.
"I was wondering why there has been no news about Yuhe Immortal." Xia Qiu answered truthfully.
"Oh." Although Ouyang Xiaoleng was also grateful to Immortal Yuhe, seeing her sad and lost for another person still made him a little jealous, but he quickly adjusted his emotions and said, "I The subordinates who were sent to various parts of the demon world to inquire about Yuhe Senren failed to bring back any useful information, but don't worry, he is heavily poisoned by the black crane, and he can survive even if he falls from the divine realm to the demon world, so he must not be that bad. It disappears easily."
Xia Qiu couldn't help laughing and asked, "When did you become so good at comforting others?"
When the young man next to her who once looked like an iceberg actually said such warm words, reminding her of his unexpected confession in front of her father Xia Xuesong the previous day, the dark clouds that had just gathered in her heart suddenly dispersed. opened.
"I don't know either."
Although Ouyang Xiaoleng did not answer Xia Qiu's question, he knew that the reason why he had such a change was all because of the human girl beside him.