Sensing something strange about Zhao Yingkong, Ye Zi secretly screamed something bad. She tapped her toes and her whole body was in front of Zhao Yingkong.

But now that the situation was urgent, she could not care so much. She only had time to input a burst of elf energy and at the same time gave a low drink.

"untie!"

As soon as Ye Zi finished speaking, Zhao Yingkong's eyes reappeared with excitement. The next moment, she leaned forward, the index and middle fingers of her right hand stood side by side like swords, and the peach-colored nails flashed with a sharp cold light, pointing straight towards

Ye Zi's throat. With the distance between the two of them less than an arm's length, I am afraid that within half a second, a bloody hole will appear on Ye Zi's white and tender neck.

At this critical moment, Ye Zi's face was calm, and she directly opened the gene lock to the limit and re-entered the half-step second-level state. At the same time, the elf energy in her body surged, and the "Clear Spring" bracelet on her right wrist also shone with magic.

The green light... Under such a triple increase, her reaction speed far exceeded that of Zhao Yingkong, reaching an incredible level. Everything in front of her seemed to have become slow motion.

She could clearly see that when the attack just started, Zhao Yingkong had only a cold killing intent on his face, but at this moment, there was a rare trace of panic: As expected, she was fighting with the illusion before.

The enemy fought to the death, but when the illusion was suddenly broken, she, still in a fighting state, subconsciously attacked the target in front of her.

As an assassin, Zhao Yingkong went all out when she struck, without leaving any room. Even if she planned to stop at this moment, how could it be so easy? She only had time to withdraw two or three points of strength, but the remaining strength was still enough to kill her.

His fingernails turned into deadly weapons.

Facing this dangerous blow, Ye Zi touched the ground with one foot, giving his body a backward acceleration. At the same time, he grabbed Zhao Yingkong's right arm with his right hand, and placed his left hand, palm facing outward, in front of his neck, a ball the size of a football.

, half virtual and half real, as if green light was slowly flowing, appeared in her palm.

"The magic power is released... stagnant!"

In the past ten days of training, Ye Zi, who has become more and more proficient in the "magic release" skill, has also created two unique techniques for her: one is biased towards attacking, and the other...that is, she

The one she is using now is more defensive. She incorporated a concept similar to water into the "magic release", so that the direction in which it materializes is no longer a solid, but a weird semi-fluid. As for this

The role of...

When Zhao Yingkong's two middle fingers penetrated this strange energy, a touch softer than jelly, like a slime immune to cold weapon attacks in Japanese fantasy works, was transmitted to her fingertips.

.But along with it, there is also an unusual resistance... Every time her fingertips advance, the kinetic energy in them is constantly being eliminated and resolved.

And when her fingertips came into contact with Ye Zi's palm, the kinetic energy that could at least pierce Ye Zi's palm had been almost completely absorbed by this ball of semi-fluid. It was as sharp as a blade after being tempered for thousands of times.

His nails only left a faint red mark on Ye Zi's palm.

(Elf energy of the same quality, if it were materialized into a gauntlet, would probably not be able to block this blow purely based on hardness, and would still be pierced.)

In the actual combat test just now, Ye Zi was very satisfied with the excellent defensive power of [Stagnation] demonstrated by the magic power release... This meant that her self-created technique was quite successful and indeed had its own uniqueness.

She was in a good mood, looked at Zhao Yingkong's slightly red face, raised the corners of her mouth in a graceful arc, and said with a smile: "How are you, have you calmed down?"

"Um…"

The girl who was originally as cold as ice had a rare look of discomfort on her face. She avoided Ye Zi's gaze and responded softly. When she realized that she had made a mistake and almost killed her teammate who was rescuing her,

She was obviously a little guilty of being so strong.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zi also temporarily put away his "little devil" temperament and stopped teasing Zhao Yingkong... Well, after all, there will be more opportunities to tease her in the future, right?

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"I said, if you search aimlessly like this, can you really find a reliable expert..."

At twelve o'clock at noon, the four people who went to search for shrines and temples sat in a Japanese restaurant, silently eating lunch served by the waiter, and they didn't look very interested. But Zhang Jie was

After taking a sip of the drink, he complained softly.

Throughout the morning, the four of them visited a total of seven shrines and temples, six of which were just ordinary religious places with no chance of extraordinary power. Although they showed enough sincerity... or donated enough

After paying for the incense, the monks and priests enthusiastically and wholeheartedly helped them chant sutras, pray to Buddha, and perform rituals to ward off evil spirits. However, no matter how hard these priests and monks worked, the cold mark on their bodies did not weaken in the slightest.

As for the remaining shrine, don’t tell me, the abbot there really has some skills...

At that time, everyone used money to clear the way and successfully asked to see the abbot there. However, when the old man with a cane, white beard and hair, who looked like a worldly master saw everyone, he could not maintain the indifferent expression on his face.

, subconsciously widened his eyes, obviously seeing the curse on everyone at a glance.

Seeing the abbot's reaction, it was obvious that he was an extraordinary person. How could everyone let go of this life-saving straw? Naturally, they tried to ask him for help in exorcising evil spirits. After hesitating for a while, the abbot reluctantly agreed.

But according to him, this curse was not easy to deal with. He had to take a bath and change clothes, take out the ancestral magic weapon, and do the magic with all his strength.

Everyone did not doubt that he was there, and patiently sat quietly in the shrine's living room, drinking the tea served by the reception, until a cute Japanese girl who looked eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a red and white miko uniform, ran away in a panic.

I came in, fell down on the ground, and then told everyone with a slight cry.

"Abbott, he, he, he...he is missing!"

After listening to the girl's cry, everyone's faces were a little solemn at that time. Could it be that Kayako knew that the abbot was planning to help them exorcise evil spirits, so he took advantage of it and killed the abbot, right?

As a result, after a simple investigation, they came to a ridiculous conclusion: the old man actually... climbed over the wall from the backyard of the shrine and ran away.

At that time, there happened to be a priest who was sweeping the backyard of the shrine. He saw the hunched abbot, tapping the crutch in his hand a few times on the stone floor, casting some kind of magic, and jumping up under the wall.

, flew directly to the edge of the three-meter-high wall, and then fell down and disappeared on the other side of the wall... However, his spell skills seemed to be a bit weak. According to the priest, there was a low voice from outside the wall at that time.

The pain and curses seemed to be caused by the abbot's failure to cushion the landing, and his waist was a little shaky.

After thinking about it for a while, everyone roughly figured out the reason: the old man saw the dangers of the curse and couldn't deal with it with his three-legged cat skills. He didn't want to get burned, but he didn't want to refuse in person and it would look awkward.

Zheng Zha and his entourage, who were easily offended, found an excuse and fled.

The rest of the people in the shrine seemed to know nothing about the supernatural. The priest was still sighing, "I didn't expect that the abbot would still be so strong at such an old age." And the little shrine maiden was still crying... Obviously,

It's all hopeless.

The above is all their "harvest" this morning.

However, everyone complained. After having a sumptuous lunch and taking a short rest, they headed towards the next Buddhist temple. However, when they walked through a street tunnel, the dim and old lights suddenly became
Chapter completed!