Thousand Dusts Ferry Me - Chapter 57

“Ci Lili! Wind, come!”

“I’ve told you already, my name is Ci Li!”

Ci Li took out that mysterious dandelion again, blew it gently, and his lips moved slightly as he chanted the incantation:

“Like flowers yet not flowers, Like snow yet not snow. Blue sky holds a white umbrella, To escort you to the ends of the earth. Wind, arise!”

The fluffy seeds scattered, and countless points drifted in the wind.

Suddenly, a fierce gale erupted.

The wind toppled tables and chairs, blew down the stage, tore apart banners, uprooted trees, and stirred up dust and sand in rolling clouds. The wind blew so strongly that people couldn’t open their eyes or move their steps, and the muscles on their faces shifted with the violent gusts.

The copper bells hanging under the eaves of the Chaoque Tower were blown about chaotically, creating a disorderly jingling.

Yet the six blue flags that Yun Qing had planted earlier remained perfectly still.

She now needed to use another formation, similar to the Mountain Reliance Formation.

The formation’s name: Riding the Wind.

Yun Qing hadn’t originally planned to use the Riding the Wind Formation because wind, unlike mountains, was not stable and unchanging.

Wind was unpredictable—who knew when it would come or go? If the wind happened to stop just as she was about to activate the formation, that would be problematic.

But Ci Li’s dandelion treasure made her change her mind.

This magic item matched perfectly with the Riding the Wind Formation.

At this moment, Yun Qing slowly rose into the air, her red clothes fluttering, her black hair flying wildly, her dark eyes shining like jewels, as if a strange light flowed through them.

Her body gradually became lighter, her blood vessels expanded, and her blood surged.

A jade-green sword flew toward her chest.

Fu Xue stood with difficulty in the fierce wind, covering her eyes and peering through her fingers at Yun Qing in the sky. When she saw the jade sword piercing toward her senior sister’s chest, she suddenly caught her breath.

Yun Qing didn’t dodge.

She casually formed a Golden Bell Seal with her fingers, and the jade sword stopped at her chest as if it had hit a wall. She lightly shrugged her shoulders, and the jade sword was violently thrown back!

Then, Yun Qing began to chant the Heaven Thunder Shaking Earth Incantation.

The Lightning Summoning Technique wasn’t particularly difficult, but it required a high level of cultivation.

Yun Qing had rarely used it before, partly because it consumed too much energy, and partly because the effects weren’t very satisfactory. The heavenly lightning she could summon was usually weak—good enough to roast a chicken, but not to kill a person.

Now things were different.

Her body was filled with surging, vast spiritual power, so abundant that it made her sea of qi churn and her sea of consciousness surge. Her nerves were almost breaking under such power, and her entire body pulsed with an urge to destroy something.

With her sword tip pointing toward the heavens, her dark eyes overflowing with light, her expression both majestic and frenzied, she slowly said, “Die——!”

A single word, penetrating through the wind and sand, echoing under the cloud-covered sky.

Purple lightning as thick as heavenly pillars poured down, dense like a curtain woven from light.

The soul’s expression changed.

As if encountering something incredibly unexpected, he widened his eyes, confusion flashing in his gaze.

After being stunned for just a moment, he was struck by the dense lightning. Electric currents danced across the surface of the enormous soul. The already bright soul body was decorated with irregular flashes of light, resembling a magnificent, brilliant firework.

The firework suddenly exploded.

Then, everything disappeared.

The lightning, the electric currents, the points of light, including the vibrant glow that had originally flickered on the soul entity.

The world fell silent.

Everything happened too quickly for many people to react, as if they had closed their eyes and had a bizarre dream, only to wake up when they opened their eyes again.

Yun Qing felt all the strength being drained from her body. Her legs weakened, and she fell toward the ground.

While still in the air, she saw the soul begin to disintegrate. Like a mountain collapsing, like the earth splitting, like shattering crystal, like colorful clouds suddenly dispersing, and finally like an illusion vanishing.

Yun Qing saw his final expression before disintegration.

Surprisingly, it was one of release.

The soul broke apart into countless colored points of light falling toward the earth, forming a soul-stirring meteor shower in broad daylight.

In Anle Lane, under the osmanthus tree.

The red-clothed female ghost stared blankly at the meteors across the sky and murmured to herself, “Jing Lang…”

When Yun Qing landed on the ground, she didn’t even have the strength to support her body. She fell like a sack, making a dull thud.

She felt her head aching terribly, as if countless awls were piercing her brain.

This time, the formation lasted for a much shorter duration than the Mountain Reliance Formation, and her body suffered even more pain afterward.

Come to think of it, she shouldn’t have used a similar formation before fully recovering. It was too painful…

Fu Xue and Cheng Suiyan lay on the ground, their teeth chattering from the cold, while Ci Li had turned back into a small cat due to exhaustion.

Jiang Baiyu, who had been maintaining a defensive formation to resist the immortal soul’s attacks, wasn’t faring much better. He was kneeling on one knee, leaning on his sword and gasping for breath.

Yun Qing lay on the ground, looking at the gradually dispersing dark clouds in the sky, and let out a laugh. “Ha!”

“Senior Sister…” Fu Xue lay on the ground, weakly moaning, “So cold…”

“We,” Cheng Suiyan’s upper and lower teeth clattered against each other, making rhythmic clicking sounds as if a horse was running on his teeth. He laughed, “We saved the entire Linglong City, haha, hahaha!”

The black cat glanced at him, “You’re insane.” After scolding him, it inexplicably laughed as well.

Someone approached with light footsteps.

Step by step, the footsteps headed toward Yun Qing.

Yun Qing lay on the stone ground, turning her head with effort to look.

This time, the commotion had been too great, and the surroundings looked as if they had been looted, a complete ruin.

A man walked through the ruins.

This man had ordinary features and an ordinary bearing, the kind of face you wouldn’t remember in a crowd.

He walked up to Yun Qing, with his sword tip lowered, pointing at her chest.

At this moment, the sun revealed a bit of light, and Yun Qing saw that the pale, bright blade was engraved with many red symbols.

Those symbols, those symbols…

Dense and numerous, they were actually symbols designed to counter the Way of Vajra.

“The Way of Vajra, haha, the Way of Vajra, hahahaha!” Yun Qing lay sprawled on the ground, laughing uncontrollably until tears streamed from her eyes.

She had been exhausted and in pain, almost falling asleep, but upon seeing the symbols countering the Way of Vajra, she suddenly became energized with laughter.

The man seemed not to have expected such a reaction from her and asked, “What are you laughing at?”

When he spoke, his voice was also very ordinary.

“The Huayang Sect must have some serious mental issues,” Yun Qing replied irrelevantly.

“Nonsense.” The man’s expression remained unchanged as he thrust his sword straight toward her chest.

Yun Qing didn’t dodge, just smiled at him.

Just as the sword tip was about to touch Yun Qing’s chest, there was a sudden clink, and it was blocked by a flying sword.

The man’s sword was deflected by a powerful force. He looked up in surprise, following the retreat path of the flying sword, and looked toward Jiang Baiyu.

Jiang Baiyu grasped the returning fine steel sword and pointed its tip toward the man, his expression cold.

That night, on the rooftop under the moonlight.

“Yun Qing, since we have suspicions, should we ask Li Siniang for confirmation?”

“No, Baiyu, do you know when people are most likely to reveal their flaws?”

“When?”

“When everything seems to be going their way. So, let’s not alert them yet. Let that person think everything is under their control.”

“Alright.”

“Before the power behind the scenes appears, Baiyu, you need to conserve your strength.”

“Mm.”

“Don’t worry about me, I won’t die.”

“But I don’t want to see you in pain.”

“Don’t say such things, it sounds like you’re trying to seduce someone.”

“….”