
It was raining. The weather might change.
Ronghua was wandering around. When she raised her head, she noticed the changes in the weather.
Her hand raised feebly and caught the falling raindrop.
“I didn’t expect that you would remember to rain. It seems that you still have some regulations. Do you still remember to go home?”
The bead on her wrist kept silent, which meant that they did not have any trouble now, so she determined to walk around outside.
She felt herself become terrible owing to missing memories. How could she lose the personality of kindness unluckily among all the personalities? Besides, even though it was lost, how could she find it?
The wind was rising in the woods, and there was an aura of killing behind her back. Ronghua turned to look at that location subconsciously. There was bustle among the trees. Who would come to her at this time?
It should be a special one according to the sounds. Then Ronghua heard the rings of silver bells. Did the Evil King of Ghosts come back?
It was unreasonable. He was urgently rushing to see his wife. How could he have time to bother her? She did not have much time to address with him, either.
“Don’t hide there as you have come. Come out straight and end your deal quickly. I have my own business!” Ronghua formed an icicle in her hand and waited.
“Ha-ha-ha... you are as explicit as before!” The giggles and the voice came before their owner, but there was no need to guess. Ronghua was quite familiar with this voice, and she would never mistake the identity no matter how many times she heard it.
“Guixia? You did take action quickly!”
“Of course, I shouldn’t take it easy to deal with you!”
After those words, the fingers, as white and smooth as jade, pushed the branches and leaves aside, and a woman walked into Ronghua’s sight. She still wore a purple mid-length dress, which exposed her snowy shanks just right. Her long hair was fixed loosely with a jade hairpin. She had a cinnabar mole right on her forehead and a white jade bracelet on her wrist. She had a comely face but looked seductively charming when she moved. Ronghua despised her because she noticed her coquetry embedded in her bones the first time she saw Guixia. However, it was a pity that a woman charming like Guixia could not impress the King of Death yet.
As usual, Guixia had a cluster of followers behind her!
“You use soul puppets every time. Don’t you feel bored?” Ronghua sneered casually.
Guixia chuckled and used her hand to hide her smile, “Your identity deserves my efforts!”
“Oh, my identity. You still know that. I thought you had already forgotten who I was.”
“I dare not to forget. I remember it in my heart!”
“No, you dare. Otherwise, how could you forget due regard for precedence between us?”
She accentuated ‘due regard for precedence’ deliberately and saw Guixia was enraged in the next second as she had expected. “Rong—hua! Kill her!”
The soul puppets swarmed towards Ronghua, and she chose to step backward consciously. It was not wise to confront them directly.
Ronghua did not have to retreat if she still had the fan, but the reality was that she was more conservative for all the things after the fan was taken away. Now her spiritual power was not enough as well. Even the Yin qi she accumulated a few days ago had almost been absorbed by the fire of nothingness.
Guixia did pick a good time to assault!
Ronghua nearly could not help swearing. Anything being robbed would be okay for her other than her fan, but it was meaningless to take her fan as they did not know how to use it.
However, it was more urgent to think out the way to escape instead of swearing. Ronghua was using the highest speed she ever had in her life to leave that place.
As it was widely known, the soul puppets showed much greater power than the ordinary ones.
The advantages could be seen in both the attack and the speed.
For example, Ronghua was on the edge of being caught up by them right now.
A black shadow flashed past, and Ronghua lowered her body swiftly. The claw of the soul puppet swung past her forehead tightly. The attack missed, and the claw crashed to a tree. The tree fell with a big sound soon.
Ronghua was astonished and anxious about the damage caused by it. It looked much more dangerous than last time!
“Ronghua, I suggest you give up struggling. However hard you struggle will be useless. There will be no living soul survive from my soul puppets. You could only be the exception for once!”
Guixia could not be as fast as them but was able to transmit sounds to Ronghua, while Ronghua would not listen to her orders obediently.
As the moment that Guixia rushed closer, her right hand grasped the air fiercely, so a soul puppet on the right of Ronghua did the same synchronously.
Ronghua detected their actions at once, and icicles appeared in her hand in a flash, which was all thrown out to block the attacks. Nevertheless, an iron crook was materialized in the claw of the soul puppet, and it swept the icicles away directly. Only one icicle was left and gripped, and it was tossed back to Ronghua fiercely. Ronghua knew the situation turned worse.
Relying on her flexibility, she avoided the icicle with difficulty. It whizzed past her and hit a tree with a bang.
“Ronghua, Let’s see how you could escape this time.” Guixia giggled and was beamish. Ronghua was suppressed by soul puppets. Otherwise, she would take the chance to kill Guixia.
“Shut up. Do you think you have won?” Ronghua said coldly.
Guixia laughed instead of being irritated, “What? Show me your skills if you still had any.”
Then Guixia penetrated the air instantly at speed faster than Ronghua and emerged ahead of her. Ronghua did not expect that. She frowned and wondered what she wanted to do.
Ronghua was very quick, but Guixia did not recede at all and had a confident smile on her face as if everything was under her control.
What tricks did she want to play?
She saw Guixia’s right hand lifted, and the puppet, which was attacking her, paused for a second. Then its left claw lifted as well, and the attack stopped.
However, Ronghua would not think that Guixia was willing to let her go.
The next second, Guixia pointed at the direction where Ronghua had come without any intermission.
A silver spell appeared on Guixia’s fingertip, twisted and flickering. Then the soul puppets around disappeared, replaced with rays of black lights, which hovered over her head. The power of principles floated as air and revealed in the sky distinctly.
“I heard that the King of Death had taken away your fan in the Realm of Humans. You must have used up all your strength to survive until now! Will you still have the power to fend off this mild attack from me?”
In an instant, the sky was covered by darkness. Guixia might have dragged her to an unknown space as the whole sky changed.
“You can have a try!”
“You are so stubborn and reluctant to admit your defeats until death. Let’s see what you could say after you died?” Guixia smirked.
Ronghua taunted, “The dead can’t talk!”
“Quarrelsome! I’ll see how long you can insist!”
Whoosh! Guixia swung her sword, and the black light followed. Ronghua used all her strength to fend against it, and her hands were shaken to numb!
Ronghua immediately gave up her plan of using icicles. There was no good for her to meet force with force.
It was dark around, and nothing could be seen in the silence.
However, Ronghua still could hear the chilly sound made by the silver hook from time to time as it moved.
They were around her while she could not see them.
“Ronghua, I recommend you to give in. You have no chance of success in my world!”
“Whether I have or not doesn’t depend on you!”
“Sword Ning!” Ronghua shouted!
A sword cropped up with her words and chopped to where the chilly sound came in the wind.
The momentum of the sword secretly converted to a string of silk yarn and cut into the soul puppet in the darkness, while it could only slightly insert into its body and failed to go any deeper.
“Ha-ha-ha... Ronghua, do you think you can split my puppets only with your inferior sword? Stop dreaming.”
Ronghua also knew the fact, but she attacked endlessly, even knowing that it could not go further into the thick skin.
“Yo, you’re still unresigned. I can wait!” Guixia said fiercely. She had felt Ronghua distasteful a long time ago but had no chance to defeat her owing to her fan. Even the King of Death had not killed her, so she could only swallow all her anger and dared not saying anything. After that, the King of Death also came to catch Ronghua. Every time she thought Ronghua would be killed, but it always ended with her escaping and being unscathed.
This time, she realized it was a rare opportunity for her when she heard that the King of Death took Ronghua’s fan away. She had long before known that Ronghua would bring her fan everywhere whenever she was to take significant actions. Hence, she concluded that Ronghua would be powerless when the fan had gone.
Now, it proved that she was right!
Ronghua stabbed with swords several times but missed as the puppet retreated quickly as a wind. Guixia smiled jauntily when she saw this. She would like to see how Ronghua struggled to escape this time.
The soul puppets took advantage of this space and continued sneak attacks towards Ronghua. Many wounds made by the hooks were added to Ronghua soon, but they all healed automatically later.
However, it was the fact that Ronghua had lost too much blood. Ronghua felt faint soon. She saw a soul puppet rushing over with a hook raised in a trance, and then she became sober instantly and dodged at full tilt. She stabbed the sword to it at the same time, only to find the puppet was just a phantom!
“How do you feel, Ronghua? Do you surrender? If you did, I might kill you without torturing your body!”
Ronghua smiled disdainfully.
“Then don’t blame me for your stubbornness! Kill—”
Boom! Before Guixia finished her command, this space quaked, and a large pit deeper than ten yards appeared. Ronghua had flashed a hundred feet away.
Guixia was shocked before the complacent smiled faded from her face. What happened?
She looked back to where Ronghua stood and found she had gone.
She searched around for Ronghua in a flurry but found that Ronghua was beside her puppet. What was she doing there? Was she asking for death?
However, that puppet did not notice Ronghua. Guixia was annoyed, “Idiot, she is next to you. Kill her now!”
Before the puppet could respond, Ronghua put the finger on her pale lips and smiled darkly, “Take it easy! The show has just begun!”
Then, Ronghua shuttled among the soul puppets at a fantastic speed. The puppets could not even see a shadow of her, so they did not attack. They looked around to find her but failed.
Didn’t she get hurt? How could she be so powerful without the fan?
Guixia gnashed her teeth in hatred!
“Rong—hua!” She should not have looked down on her. If it had not been that this space’s connection with her still existed, she would suspect that Ronghua had escaped.
After that, she finally found Ronghua at the center of the group of soul puppets.
“What tricks are you playing?” Guixia questioned her with a twisted face.
Ronghua just looked at her plainly. Her pale face caused an illusion that Ronghua might die at any time.
“Guixia, do you know why you could never win?”
Guixia asked, “Why!”
“Because— you never know schemes!”
Guixia suddenly had a bad presentiment. The next second, she saw Ronghua’s hand lifted and realized what she was going to do. There was a ringing finger snap before Guixia could do anything to stop Ronghua. An explosion suddenly burst out around them; numerous flames lit; the fire of nothingness burned and bombed in the crowd of soul puppets.
The power of the fire of nothingness was not something these soul puppets could resist. All the puppets were burned to dust soon, and this space, which trapped Ronghua, collapsed with them!
“Ronghua—” Guixia were drowned in huge wrath!


