"Brother, you go and help too."
Li Yurou, hiding in the nearby woods, nudged her brother's arm.
"I... I'm not good at fighting."
Li Yusheng wore a bitter smile.
He usually studied the art of observing mountains and fixing water, and of finding dragon veins and pinpointing acupuncture points.
Facing a group of black fish that had become demons, with his physique of over 120 jin, what could he use to help?
"Everyone else is going. We'll be ridiculed if we hide here."
"Lin Fan already has that arrogant look. Will we be able to hold our heads up in front of him in the future?"
Li Yurou gave her brother a reproachful glare and reached for her waist.
"What are you doing?" Li Yusheng tried to stop her.
"This is for saving our lives in a critical moment." As she spoke, Li Yurou took out an old, flat wooden box, her face showing a look of reluctance.
A secret treasure of the Jiangxiang Sect passed down for over a hundred years, she never expected to use it in such a situation.
"A Taoist talisman personally written by the fifty-sixth Heavenly Master, which our ancestors dared not use," Li Yusheng gritted out.
"For the reputation of the Liqi Sect, we can't help it."
Li Yurou opened the wooden box, revealing several yellow talismans lying inside.
The vermilion ink depicted characters and symbols like heavenly scripts, giving an unfathomable impression.
"First, the Talisman of Divine Speed!"
Li Yurou placed the wooden box on the ground and gently took out the two topmost talismans with her hands.
She muttered an incantation and then affixed the talismans to her brother's legs.
"How is it, does it work?"
Since acquiring this treasure, the Jiangxiang Sect had been reluctant to use it.
Li Yusheng felt an inexhaustible surge of power in his legs.
He lightly jumped in place and shot upwards.
"Ahhh~"
Li Yusheng cried out in surprise. Only when his vision was parallel to the treetops over five meters high did he lose his upward momentum and fall down with a thud.
"Brother, are you alright?"
Li Yurou quickly helped her brother up. "Why are you so clumsy?"
"It's my first time using it, and I'm not familiar with it. It's good I didn't fall."
Li Yusheng dared not move anymore, standing like a stake.
"Let's finish applying the talismans first."
Li Yurou squatted down and examined the markings on the talismans.
"Second, the Talisman of Golden Armor!"
She placed the yellow talisman on her brother's back.
A faint golden light flashed and disappeared.
Li Yusheng felt a layer of invisible something envelop him, but he couldn't touch it.
"Brother, be serious."
Li Yurou rolled her eyes and picked up the last talisman.
"The three divine wonders in the sky are the sun, moon, and stars, piercing heaven and earth, startling ghosts and gods."
"Divine weapon, empower!"
"Demon Slayer, come!"
Li Yurou shouted crisply and slapped the talisman onto her brother's palm.
In the blink of an eye, to the astonishment of the siblings, the talisman transformed into a dazzling golden saber and shot into the sky!
"Brother, go!"
Li Yurou clapped her hands with satisfaction.
"Mm."
With the Golden Armor Talisman protecting him, the Divine Speed Talisman making him as light as a swallow, and holding the majestic Demon Slayer Saber, Li Yusheng's courage instantly soared.
"Brother Lin, I'm coming..."
He darted out like a phantom, but because he couldn't control his body, which was moving more than ten times faster, he tripped over a stone after only a couple of steps and rolled head over heels.
"My heavens!"
Li Yurou covered her eyes with her hands and sighed helplessly.
"Aid you!"
Li Yusheng rolled over and got up, brandishing the great saber. With a few leaps, he plunged into the sea of flames.
With one strike, he severed the head of a black fish!
"Holy cow, Brother Li, when did you get so powerful?"
In Lin Fan's Purple Extreme Spiritual Eyes, Li Yusheng was adorned with a pile of light bulbs, dazzling and radiant.
"My Jiangxiang Sect has its own foundations."
Li Yusheng proudly raised his head, his aura soaring.
"Demons, perish!"
Holding the Demon Slayer Saber, he swept through the black fish, invincible.
Lin Fan was overjoyed. "I'll join too!"
He took a sharp trident from the truck and joined the battle.
On the other side.
Although the black fish demon was small in size, its magic was exquisite. Furthermore, the battlefield was the Qinghe Reservoir, where it wielded its water control magic with masterful skill.
Wang Xiaoli, empowered by the Chilong Pearl, provided her with an endless supply of energy, and her venom spewed out like pouring water.
The two demons were evenly matched, fighting in a fierce, inseparable battle.
Those smaller black fish, however, suffered greatly.
Lin Fan, holding his trident, moved with incredible speed. Occasionally, a black fish that blundered into his path was caught, its head pierced by the trident. After a few struggles, it met its end.
Zheng Ke, like a professional arsonist, darted back and forth, igniting the Molotov cocktails on the truck one by one and throwing them towards the shore, preventing the black fish from entering the water.
The gasoline floating on the water burned fiercely, forming a wall of fire that filled the black fish with despair.
Some of the black fish, blinded by desperation, twisted their bodies and recklessly charged into the sea of flames, their flesh sizzling and charring.
"Great King, save us!"
"Great King, your grandsons can't hold on anymore!"
"Great King, we are all about to die!"
Cries of anguish came from a few cunning black fish.
They hid behind the corpses of their kin, temporarily saving their lives by playing dead.
The black fish demon looked back, its heart feeling as if it had been brutally ripped out.
In the inferno, its fish-like descendants were disfigured everywhere, their deaths gruesome and tragic.
"You forced me, old Hei!"
The black fish demon roared with heartbreaking fury.
"Hmph, the victor takes all. The loser is vanquished."
"I, this old woman, have always disliked eating aquatic creatures. Today, I shall taste their flavor."
Wang Xiaoli coiled her thick snake body into a small mountain, her head held high, her tone filled with smugness.
Undoubtedly, she had gained the upper hand.
Once the black fish were annihilated, and with the assistance of Lin Fan and the others, even if this black fish demon calling itself Old Hei had any other tricks up its sleeve, it would be futile!
"Let this stinking snake of yours witness the might of Old Hei!"
The black fish demon suddenly opened its massive maw.
Wang Xiaoli tightened her body with force, wary of a potential mutual destruction.
"Ha~"
With a deep, prolonged exhale, two small objects slowly flew out from the black fish demon's gaping mouth.
They grew larger against the wind, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into two horns resembling tree branches and coral.
At first glance, they looked much like the large antlers on a stag's head, but they were crystalline and transparent, emitting a faint glow, clearly not ordinary objects.
"Dragon horns!"
Wang Xiaoli's pupils contracted instantly. Based on the aura, she made a judgment.
Her greed surged. Even obtaining one of these dragon horns would save her several hundred years of arduous cultivation!
The black fish demon transformed into a completely black, towering man, nearly three meters tall, like a demon from hell, his eyes radiating ferocity.
He extended his hands, and the two dragon horns obediently landed in his palms.
At this moment, his heart was bleeding.
He had nurtured these two dragon horns for fifty years.
From the moment he gained sentience, he had swallowed the dragon horns into his belly and fed them with his own vital blood.
Another fifty to sixty years, and the two dragon horns would have transformed into immensely powerful magical treasures.
With magical treasures at his side, he would no longer have to be confined to the small Qinghe River.
The world was vast, and he could go to the five lakes and four seas!
It was a pity that now, it was all in vain!
"Take your life!"
The black fish demon roared furiously and charged towards Wang Xiaoli.