Chapter 442
Frozen Mosquitoes
Chapter 442 Frozen Mosquitoes
In a corner of Liuhua Plain, green snowflakes fluttered down.
Bai Lingshan held a nine-inch crystal folding fan in front of her shoulder, concentrating intently on the swarm of large black mosquitoes flying in all directions.
"Master! Now is the time."
A dark, flowing light emanated from the fan head and spread to the edge of the fan in the direction of her finger. Before opening the fan, she flicked it and fired crystal blades at the few creatures she had targeted.
Brush, brush, brush
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Even after three consecutive flicks, the mosquitoes remained firmly suspended in the air, while the crystal blades that missed their mark could only flash back to the empty spots in the core bone.
"...It went off track again." Bai Lingshan muttered under her breath, quite disappointed with her own performance.
Actually, she was more puzzled by this fan called Lingwu. In her understanding, shouldn't this kind of weapon be controlled by the user's will? But it was like an ordinary weapon, requiring the user to practice from scratch and work hard to learn the accuracy of throwing.
She practiced diligently these past two days, getting up early and working late, but every time she aimed and fired, the shot would always be slightly off-target.
So she glanced at the fan spirit mirror that served as the weapon and wondered why it couldn't help her take a shortcut.
"If you're bad, practice more," Mirror Shadow ignored her pitiful little expression and rolled her eyes at her. "Using the Shattered Blade Fan depends entirely on the user's skill. If you can't hit it accurately, just use a stun gun."
"……Oh."
Left with no other choice, I had to take the fan back.
At this moment, a swarm of large black mosquitoes gathered together, making a piercing buzzing sound. Each one was at least twenty centimeters long. If they weren't like human mosquitoes, which lack the ability to suck blood, she wouldn't dare to stand here so leisurely.
However, these creatures are not some kind of living being here, but rather, the spirits within the talisman she is waiting to collect.
More accurately, it is the spirit in a real-world setting.
Of the four ways the Book of Feathers can appear, the real-world state is the most difficult to deal with. First, their existence in reality will disrupt real life. Second, encountering strange spirits created by human sacrifices will require challenging their extremely strong combat abilities.
Fortunately, Liu Hua was originally from the ghost realm, and fortunately, these were not strange spirits.
Despite their large numbers, they are not aggressive and are like cannon fodder randomly placed. Their existence is only to fulfill the rule in the Book of Fallen Feathers that "only by defeating the spirit can the talisman be retrieved." As long as the talisman retriever has enough patience and a way to deal with it, they can retrieve it.
Unable to find the right method, the recipient of the talisman can only try again and again.
Just like these mosquitoes right now, Bai Lingshan first discovered them the day before yesterday when it snowed. Back then, she also drove them together in the same way she does now, and then used her usual simple and quick "muddy water" to suppress them with gravity.
But who would have thought that these giant mosquitoes could break through the suppression and take flight again, and if a mistake was made during the operation, they would disappear until the next day.
The same thing happened to Huang Xue yesterday.
Hmm... This morning, while watching the snow through the window, she suddenly thought of a very reasonable method: to use "Snow Seal," which can only freeze water elements, to seal them into this snow.
After making sure no one was on the road, Bai Lingshan turned her palm upside down.
A talisman named "Snow Seal" appeared, relying on the entire transparent ancient scroll to control the situation, and wantonly spreading its own energy fluctuations.
"All frozen."
The moment those four words are uttered, the law follows.
But the "snow seal" only turned into a stream of light that circled around them once before returning to her side.
The mosquitoes remained unperturbed, and the "snowbound" creature acted as if it had never moved.
what happened?
The ability has failed?
Bai Lingshan thought again, if this method didn't work, then she only had one other way left.
"Owner."
A voice calling her master drew her gaze to the mirror image. She saw the mirror image reach out and grasp a flurry of green snowflakes, then quickly open her hand, but no trace of the snowflakes remained.
"This snow disappears without a trace as soon as it touches the hand, so it's probably not formed from water."
Bai Lingshan also casually pinched a piece, and since it didn't dissolve in water, it couldn't prove that it was formed from water.
After a moment of contemplation, he sighed and said, "I'll use a willow leaf. You keep watch for me if anyone calls me."
Mirror Shadow interrupted her with a sigh: "The Book of Fallen Feathers has been scattered for almost half a year, and it's been even longer here, so it's obvious that no one can collect it. As for you, a few more days won't make a difference. Once you've mastered the Shattered Blade Fan, you won't need to sneak around with that little grass knife anymore."
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Just then, a large water source suddenly appeared above them, seemingly from nowhere, and it began to gather above the mosquitoes, forming a cloud made of water.
"Have they come to help?"
"What is that...?" Bai Lingshan was also puzzled.
The clouds filled up with water until they could no longer hold it in, and then water began to drip down.
Drip, drip, water fell on the mosquito's wings, and the mosquito lost its balance.
However, this method of gathering water clouds to produce rain seems familiar.
Bai Lingshan thought for a moment and quickly thought of the dog-headed, human-bodied rain ghost at the spirit training ground.
Perhaps it was a telepathic connection, but when I turned to look at it, I was met with its big, round, watery eyes, and then, to my shock, I saw its big, bared canine teeth slowly emerging.
"!" Bai Lingshan felt a chill in her heart. Wasn't she still wearing the spirit-avoiding mask that made people forget her? Maybe she was just passing by and helping casually.
"Roar..." The rain ghost's dog mouth roared in a deep voice, waving a banana leaf fan soaked in water in its hand.
She remembered that she had accidentally broken its fan while taming it. Without its magical artifact, it could only remain locked up there. Now, the fan was back in its hands, and it had regained its freedom.
"pig……"
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But the next word made her frown again.
"pig……"
The rain demon was still making sounds in its throat, as if it was trying to speak human language.
"Pig..." The hand holding the fan trembled, and the dog's cheeks gradually flushed red. "You..."
"I'll help...you!"
It finally uttered two complete words, which should have made everyone happy. But to everyone's surprise, it stuck out half of its tongue in its joy.
Bai Lingshan's expression froze instantly. No, it seemed to really recognize her.
At this time, more and more mosquitoes got wet from the rain, and they began to fly erratically and with great difficulty.
Without thinking further, Bai Lingshan immediately used "Snow Seal".
With the help of the Rain Demon's water element, the mosquitoes had no chance of escaping.
With a series of crackling sounds, all the mosquitoes, frozen into ice blocks, fell to the ground.
"Crush!"
With another shattering sound, all the mosquitoes exploded into tiny fragments!
In addition to freezing all water elements, "Snow Seal" can also make some small targets extremely fragile. With just a gentle squeeze of the hand controlling the power of the talisman, it can instantly tear them apart.