I killed them all

“Are you injured?” Bai Liye squatted down.

“No,” Yun Ruo was a little confused, and subconsciously stepped back a little when Bai Liye reached out.

Following his gaze, she looked at the bloodstains on her body, and suddenly realized, quickly explaining, “It’s not my blood, it’s the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s.”

Bai Liye was silent after hearing this.

Yun Ruo was also silent.

At this moment, the scene was shockingly similar to that in North State City.

The same Spirit-Devouring Beast being killed, and even the words she used to explain were exactly the same, only this time the person she was explaining to was Hu Yong.

“You killed another Spirit-Devouring Beast?” Bai Liye asked.

There was a bit of doubt in his tone.

Yun Ruo didn’t blame him, because she herself was very confused now.

She pointed behind her, and Bai Liye looked over.

There was indeed a Spirit-Devouring Beast lying on the ground with several holes pierced through it.

Yun Ruo: “When I came, it ambushed me. In a moment of desperation, I remembered the method of infusing spiritual power you taught me. I was originally thinking that I had a lot of spiritual power, so I would feed it more. Maybe if it was full, it wouldn’t eat me?”
“…Smart,” Bai Liye said.

Yun Ruo felt that his word “smart” didn’t seem to be praising her, but she had no evidence, so she continued, “As a result, I condensed a sword.”

She shook the slender sword in her hand, and the bloodstains slid down.

The blade returned to its clean state, flashing with silver light.

She was too nervous just now.

After condensing the spiritual sword, she thrust it randomly, completely forgetting that she had learned a little swordsmanship in the Xuan Yang Sect, and almost stabbed the Spirit-Devouring Beast that pounced on her.

She had much more experience with that strike just now, and killed it with one blow.

Bai Liye looked at the Spirit-Devouring Beast still stuck on his sword, and then looked at the one outside the door, seriously asking Yun Ruo, “How did you hit it?”

If it was a fluke to hit it once, then so be it.

He saw something strange about Yun Ruo in North State City, but he didn’t say it.

It was possible that her potential was activated in extreme circumstances, and he didn’t pay much attention to it, and just helped her test her spiritual meridians.

But a fluke wouldn’t happen again and again.

Yun Ruo had also answered Bai Liye’s question in North State City, but she didn’t understand what Bai Liye meant by asking at that time, but she understood now.

“I don’t know,” Yun Ruo said honestly.

“It seems like my speed is faster than it?”

Anyway, she always felt that the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s movements were terribly slow at those moments, and she could hit it with a thrust of her sword.

Bai Liye frowned: “I can see your movements, they’re not fast.”

Yun Ruo: “…Oh.”

She obviously didn’t agree with his words.

Bai Liye noticed her emotions, and sighed: “That’s not what I meant. I think we can think about it in another direction. If your movements were faster than the Spirit-Devouring Beast, then when you hit it, I couldn’t have hit it, because my movements are not as fast as yours, but we almost hit it at the same time.”

… That seemed to be true.

Yun Ruo thought of the slow-motion-like movements in her eyes.

As long as she was particularly focused, she could feel that the other person’s movements were slow.

She always thought that it was because she was fast that the other person seemed slow.

On closer thought, when registering at the Academy, she would be dragged down by the water if she didn’t get a pass.

At that time, the water flow under her feet also slowed down.

If her speed was fast, then besides the water flow, the people around her would also have seemed to slow down in her feeling.

But that didn’t happen.

At that time, besides the water flow that was dragging her down slowing down, the surrounding voices and crowd were normal.

It wasn’t her who was getting faster, but the other person who was slowing down.

But that moment of slowing down, it seemed that only she could capture it.

Let’s try again.

Yun Ruo did what she said and went into the courtyard with her sword, exposing herself to the Spirit-Devouring Beasts.

Bai Liye didn’t stop her, and got up to chew a candy to replenish the spiritual power in his hand’s sword.

If Yun Ruo failed, at least he could block the attack.

Yun Ruo stood in the courtyard, releasing her spiritual power.

The Spirit-Devouring Beasts around her felt the strong and sweet aura, and all walked out of the shadows, their red eyes staring at Yun Ruo, and several drooled down their chins, making Yun Ruo a little disgusted.

Come on.

She turned the sword in her hand, and for the first time, she was aware of her own power.

The tip of the sword glowed with spiritual power, pointing diagonally at the ground.

The Spirit-Devouring Beasts pouncing towards Yun Ruo suddenly disappeared from Bai Liye’s sight.

He couldn’t even capture their movements at all, and was about to flash forward, when Yun Ruo’s sword moved, making a beautiful sword flower.

The sword moves were neat and clean, and in a few breaths, several Spirit-Devouring Beasts had died under her sword.

Bai Liye was also very serious this time, feeling that the power of his consciousness meridian was being pushed to the extreme.

His gaze was firmly fixed on Yun Ruo’s movements, and he finally saw a clue.

Yun Ruo’s movements weren’t slow, but they definitely weren’t faster than the Spirit-Devouring Beast.

But just when her sword pierced out, for a moment, the Spirit-Devouring Beast in front of her seemed to stop moving.

It was only a moment, and he actually didn’t see it clearly.

He basically combined what he saw with what he guessed.

If the Spirit-Devouring Beasts didn’t have an advantage in speed, they would be no different from ordinary demon beasts, and they didn’t even have a hard skin.

The remaining Spirit-Devouring Beasts smelled the blood of their companions, and became even more restless, revealing their ferocity.

But they realized that the food in front of them was not easy to mess with, and all turned their heads to leave the Idle Cloud Sect and escape down the mountain.

Yun Ruo didn’t give them a chance, and chased after them, killing them all.

Her white dress was almost dyed red, and she slowly came back from outside the door.

“I killed them all,” she said, and the hand holding the sword was shaking a little.

“You did a good job,” Bai Liye walked over, hesitated, and reached out to wipe away a little blood from the corner of her eye, held her wrist, and guided her to calm her spiritual power, taking back the sword made of spiritual power.

“If the Spirit-Devouring Beasts escaped down the mountain, the towns down the mountain would be very dangerous. You saved many lives.”

She had killed Spirit-Devouring Beasts in times of life-threatening danger the last two times, so there wouldn’t be any psychological burden.

But this time, she took the initiative to kill them.

Even if she was killing demon beasts, taking action to save her life and taking the initiative were different psychologically.

The fact that she could kill all the Spirit-Devouring Beasts so simply and without hesitation showed her courage and decisiveness.

Yun Ruo’s mood slowly calmed down.

Without the sound of the Spirit-Devouring Beasts, the other sounds in the courtyard were much clearer.

Jiang Beishan’s sobbing and crying were intermittent, drifting and elusive, sometimes far away, and sometimes suddenly sounding beside her.

Yun Ruo’s attention was too focused just now, and she was startled by a cry that suddenly sounded in her ear.

A strong wind swept over, and Bai Liye dragged her arm and pushed her to the side, wanting to reach out and grab Jiang Beishan, but didn’t catch him.

The back of his hand was scraped off a layer of skin.

“Can you see Jiang Beishan’s movements?” Bai Liye shook the blood off his hand, his gaze only fixed on the shadows flashing everywhere in the courtyard, asking without turning his head.

Yun Ruo tried it, but couldn’t see it.

Jiang Beishan’s movements were actually faster than the Spirit-Devouring Beasts.

“Can’t he control himself?”

“Mm,” Bai Liye tried several times to stop him, but all failed.

“Beishan only awakened the body meridian, and has been unable to break through after reaching the fifth level, just because once he moves with all his might, he will be too fast, and he can’t control himself at all… If this continues, he will die from exhaustion.”

Not just die from exhaustion, he’s almost crashing to death, Yun Ruo thought.

He’s too fast, and I can slow down objects.

Perfect.

Yun Ruo focused her mind and tried to capture Jiang Beishan’s figure.

Bai Liye’s ears twitched, feeling an invisible aura spreading around Yun Ruo.

He turned his head to look over.

Yun Ruo stood quietly, the large patches of blood on her white clothes looked like dyed patterns.

Her sleeves swayed slightly with the wind, and a few strands of hair escaped from behind her ears.

There was no expression on her face.

Whoever looked at her first would see those clear eyes, like their owner, seeming to have no aggressiveness at all, with gentle softness and a content and serene attitude towards life.

But now her dark eyes were full of focus, and a kind of tenacity and unwavering determination that would never give in.

Bai Liye had seen this look before, when Yun Ruo rushed into the miasma to save people in North State City.

It turned out that some people had powerful spiritual power, but could still reveal such an expression.

“Bai Liye,” Yun Ruo followed Jiang Beishan with her eyes, bent down, picked up a small stone, and squeezed it in her hand, speaking softly.

“Get ready.”

Bai Liye nodded, and “Mm”ed, afraid that Yun Ruo wouldn’t see him.

He took another candy from the candy box, chewed it, and swallowed it.

Yun Ruo felt a little strenuous for the first time.

Several times after being reborn, she could unconsciously experience the moment when “others slowed down” without much effort, and even killing the Spirit-Devouring Beasts was considered easy, but Jiang Beishan was too fast, almost like a flash.

It was too difficult to lock his erratic figure in place, and she couldn’t find the point where she could make him “pause.”

She slowed her breathing.

She could almost hear Bai Liye crunching the candy, the sound of the wind, the weak sound of the formation operating in the courtyard, and Jiang Beishan’s increasingly low cries…

Slow down.

Slower…

“Bai Liye, here!”

Yun Ruo’s movements were faster than her voice.

The small stone in her hand flew out, and Bai Liye swept out in an instant.

There was nothing in the direction the stone was going, but it hit something and was bounced back.

Bai Liye also arrived, and reached out to chop down, hitting Jiang Beishan’s back neck.

His figure flashed, and he suddenly fell out and was caught by Bai Liye.

He really stopped, Beishan was saved, Bai Liye was in a trance for a moment.

The last time Jiang Beishan lost control was five years ago, not long after he was brought back to the sect.

It was the first and only time he lost control.

Fortunately, Master was there that time, and it took a lot of effort to stop him.

Jiang Beishan was half-dead and unconscious for nearly a month, and Master was also exhausted.

From then on, he was not allowed to use his abilities again, and he was told to seal his spiritual meridians and not open them.

He was told that if he lost control again, he would only die.

He clearly knew that opening his spiritual meridians again would lead to death, but he still opened them.

Fortunately, he was saved.

Bai Liye moved the person under the tree, and cupped his hands at Yun Ruo: “Thank you.”

Yun Ruo breathed a sigh of relief, she did it.

She wanted to walk over, but suddenly found that her feet were out of her control.

Her eyes went dark, and her body softened and fell down.

Before she completely lost consciousness, she fell into an embrace.

Fortunately, at least she didn’t fall on the hard ground, she thought.

Someone pried open her mouth and fed her a few hard things.

They were sweet, and the taste was a little familiar.

It should be candy.