The King of Curses

Chapter 215 The Girls' New Skills

Jiang Yunmei folded her hands, looking at Song Xuemei's crackling appearance, with a look of hesitation on her face.

"Uh...are you planning on carrying me up there?"

"Of course. What else are you going to do? Climb up yourself?"

Song Yutang assumed the posture of carrying someone on his back, with a serious look on his face.

"But...will I get electrocuted?"

"Just use your true Qi to protect your body a little bit, hurry up, don't waste time."

"Alright alright."

Jiang Yunmei sighed, opened her arms and hugged her schoolmate's neck, while her legs clamped around her waist.

“I always feel a little ashamed… ahhhhh!”

Her words turned into a scream halfway through, and the sound was quickly thrown behind her.

Song Yutang started to move the moment she lay on his back. He stretched out his long legs, took quick steps, and jumped onto one of the coffin boards. Then he leaped up again, climbing and jumping flexibly on the steep and dangerous stone wall like a mountain goat, and reached the second coffin board with an accelerated jump. He walked lightly and flew between the cliffs.

Song Yutang ran faster and faster, his eyes shining with lightning leaving two bright traces in the air. He used the coffins lying sideways as his foothold and continued to move upwards as if he were walking on flat ground.

The biting mountain wind blew in Jiang Yunmei's face, causing her to squint as she held her schoolmate's neck and carried her on her back.

…It felt like I was riding an exciting amusement park ride, she thought, trying to suppress her pounding heart and the urge to scream. That would be too embarrassing.
The girl's hair was flying in the air, scratching her face and making Jiang Yunmei want to sneeze, but she tried hard to hold it back.

The finish line was getting closer and closer. In just a few dozen seconds, Song Yutang crossed a vertical height difference of hundreds of meters while carrying a person on his back.

"tread."

The sneakers fell to the ground, and Song Yutang stepped onto flat ground again, then he let out a leisurely breath.

"Haha...you're really awesome..."

Jiang Yunmei calmed her heartbeat and praised in a low voice.

"Nothing, it's far from Master."

Song Yutang's attitude was quite calm.

"Aren't you afraid that you might slip and fall off the cliff?"

"Don't be afraid, because there won't be any accidents."

With her "super reaction", even if her movements were flawed for a moment, she could still easily make up for it.

As for the pressure caused by this seemingly dangerous action on the mental state, whether it would have an impact on emotions and so on... All I can say is that for Song Yutang, it was far less stressful than being pointed at by a machine gun during special training, which was a blatant life-threatening crisis.

Although her time at the 555th Institute was short, she developed the fortitude to remain calm even when faced with a catastrophe.

"Don't worry, even if we fall, neither of us will die. I will catch you."

"It's better not to fall down..."

Jiang Yunmei sighed, loosened her arms, got off Song Yutang's back, stood side by side with her schoolmate on the top of the mountain, overlooking the village below.

At this altitude, the scenery on the ground was completely submerged in the dark ocean, with only the howling mountain wind remaining.

She looked around. There was a gentle slope under her feet and a huge rock in the distance. If she had to say what was the most eye-catching thing on the top of the mountain...

On top of the rock, there is a coffin.

The coffin was standing upright in the cracks between the stones, and at first glance it looked like an ominous figure.

“…Is that it?”

Song Yutang stared at the coffin on the top of the mountain.

"It's too obvious, it shouldn't be..."

Jiang Yunmei didn't say anything else. After a moment, she shook her head to deny her previous guess.

"You guessed it right. It seems to be it."

Other tricks can be faked, but the strength of Yin Qi cannot deceive her senses.

There is no doubt that apart from the entire "living" mountain, the Yin Qi condensed on this coffin is the most intense -

"Then, we just need to destroy it."

Just do it.

Song Yutang raised her hand, and dazzling electric light flashed at her fingertips. The flowing intense light became more and more intense as the true Qi was transported, and finally took on a viscous flow.

"…Are we going to take action right away?"

"Ah."

Although the girls knew that things would not be so simple, they could only try it out first...

Sure enough, after a few breaths, a gust of black wind came, whistling and rushing towards them.

Song Yutang frowned and stepped forward without hesitation, standing in front of her teammates; at the same time, the lightning that had been condensed for a long time burst out from her fingertips.

Just like shooting an arrow with great force, she took a step back under the reaction force.

The dazzling lightning flashed like a flying bird, piercing through the dark mist and evaporating some of the Yin Qi. The color of the black wind suddenly faded. The lightning continued to move forward and hit the coffin, but...

No response.

"It didn't hit... No, that's not right. It was absorbed."

Song Yutang watched the situation change closely, and saw that the black wind turned into a thin human figure, blocking them and the coffin.

The figure's face and facial features could not be seen, and its hands and feet were made of pitch-black wind. It stretched out its arms and lashed at her head like a whip.

Song Yutang's right hand was wrapped in fierce electric light and he grabbed it.

Invisible wind currents cannot be blocked by material objects, but they can be dispelled by the true qi of the spell-caster.

There is no need to treat your opponent as a human being. Human weaknesses and behavioral patterns cannot be used against ghosts and monsters. If you do not want the battle to become a simple and crude contest between true Qi and Yin Qi, you will need the help of your imagination.

While thinking about the battle strategy in her mind, the girl quickly moved towards the black wind, dissolving its arms with electric light and hitting the enemy right between the eyebrows with her shoes shining with electric light; the opponent immediately disbanded his body and turned into a ball of black wind again, circling behind Song Yutang and launching a vicious and cruel sneak attack.

The girl dodged quickly as if she had eyes on the back of her head, and responded with dazzling lightning.

After several exchanges, Song Yutang had an estimate in his mind. In terms of the amount of Yin Qi alone, the sorcerer was slightly stronger than the one he had fought before, but only to a limited extent.

It is possible to get very close to the "homeowner" level, but still not reach Class A.

There is usually only one owner in a haunted house. As long as Jiang Qi is there, as long as it has not been promoted to the next level... then, no matter what the true identity of this black wind is, it will be difficult to take the next step.

It is still within the range that Song Yutang can handle alone, but as a human curse master who is also good at speed, Black Wind's movement pattern is still a bit difficult to deal with. He disappears into the invisible like the wind, and has no vital points at all. The only way is to release his own true energy and supernatural powers to reduce the black wind bit by bit.

If it didn't seem to have the duty to guard the coffin and had no way to leave, it would probably become more difficult to deal with; for example, if it chose to escape repeatedly and fight a guerrilla war, it would be difficult for any spell-binding master to catch up with it.

Is there a way to solve this situation? Flesh and blood can never catch up with the invisible wind.

…She is a human being, but also a curse-master, possessing all kinds of incredible extraordinary abilities.

The effect of supernatural powers will respond to people's wishes - the master's words emerged in her mind.

"Yutang, you have to become a true 'Lightning' and never be caught by anyone... This is my greatest expectation for you."

Cen Dongsheng may have just said it casually, but Song Yutang has always kept it in mind. At this moment, it is like a thunderbolt, piercing the confusing "fog".

She is lightning, the elusive "lightning" -

When this thought emerged and gradually turned into belief, the true meaning of the curse was revealed again.

At a certain moment, when Song Yutang's arms were entangled with the long whip of dense electric light and black wind again, he suddenly had a strange feeling:

Her hands were no longer hands, no longer flesh and blood, but free electric charges in the air, making a crackling sound...

Her "arms" are extending, and the ends of her "limbs" can reach farther places. She can easily cross dozens of meters with just her thought.

"The third superpower...?!"

Since awakening to "super reaction", this familiar feeling has returned again.

Song Yutang knew very well that if she could catch this ray of inspiration, she would be able to fully master "Tian Lei Wuwang" and become a true first-class spell master.

But the girl soon woke up and came out of this mysterious state. She frowned slightly and observed the flow of the black wind around her.

She actually tried to bypass it and attack Jiang Yunmei who was behind her...!
"It's a beautiful thought."

Song Yutang took a step forward, and at the critical moment, he stretched out his long legs to kick away the black smoke, turned around and released an electric shock towards the coffin to get back at it.

As expected, the black wind quickly dissipated and formed in front of the coffin, blocking the attack.

Lightning and black wind intertwined, and the situation was temporarily deadlocked.

But this situation did not last long, and new variables were about to emerge.

……

"It's like this again." Jiang Yunmei sighed inwardly, "This time I'm still a spectator up close, and the feeling of helplessness becomes stronger."

Once she accepts a certain identity, she always likes to force herself to do her best, otherwise she always feels that she has let down others' expectations.

It is precisely because of this almost masochistic character that Jiang Yunmei is always unable to stop.

There was only one thought in her mind now:
If I am useless in the battle, I can only watch my teammates perform their magic with nervousness and anxiety like last time.

It’s better not to follow, just do your own thing and then be a spectator.

Or, in other words, should we place our hopes on what Cen Dongsheng calls the "second superpower"?
...No, that's not right.

The curse is her power, and Jiang Yunmei is the person who knows her best in this world.

Since she can hear the voices of the dead, it means that her way of thinking as a human being has limited her in the past.

It’s the “voice” that matters, not the “words”—

The sound of the breeze flowing;
the sound of gravel rolling in the soil;

The sound of light falling...

Not only living things can make sounds, but also dead souls, inorganic matter that does not have the elements of life from the beginning... everything in nature makes sounds all the time.

The essence of "clairaudience" is not the "hearing" of human ears, but the "spiritual perception" of the spell-caster. Therefore, the "sound" that can be heard is not only limited to reality, but can even be some kind of abstract existence.

Sweat broke out on the girl's forehead. When she realized this, the amount of information her brain needed to process suddenly doubled. Before this, "ignoring" the sounds of inanimate objects was both an inertia of human thinking and a form of protection.

This time, what Jiang Yunmei needs to improve is not the width and breadth of her "spiritual perception", but its thickness and richness.

The girl's spiritual perception entered a new stage. While witnessing a whole new world, she indeed caught a fleeting flash of inspiration...

"I 'heard'...the enemy's weakness."

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"Hehe...hehe..."

Suddenly, I heard Senior Jiang’s laughter from behind.

"Are you okay? Are you scared?"

Although they were in a fierce fight, Song Yutang still had the energy to complain about her teammates. After having super reaction, although it was difficult to tell the winner for a while, she was still able to handle it with ease.

Even if the black wind in front of her occasionally tried to sneak attack the people behind her, she would take it all away.

It is because of trust in her ability that the master entrusted Jiang Yunmei to her for protection.

...Of course, it wasn’t just the master who trusted me, but also the senior sister herself—

She felt that most people would have run away in this situation long ago, but Jiang Yunmei did not run away. Instead, she was trying something.

"I have noticed the opponent's weakness... As expected, there are some things that can only be known by participating in the battle in person."

Jiang Yunmei's voice rang in her ears.

"Next, listen to me. Find the right opportunity and use all your strength to destroy the coffin."

"……what?"

"This black wind was released from the coffin. That's where its roots are, so it's unwilling to leave."

"Isn't it to protect Jiang Qi in the coffin?"

Song Yutang was a little surprised.

Being able to get this kind of crucial information, is this the result of "clairaudience"? How did he do it... It can't be that the other party took the initiative to tell it.

Although she still had doubts in her heart, the girl did not hesitate and chose to believe.

When the fierce fight continued to a certain point, Song Yutang used his "super reaction" to the extreme, violently releasing electric light while his body was dislocated.

In order to ensure the power of this attack, Song Yutang temporarily released the true Qi protection on his body and relied solely on his reaction force to avoid the whip of the black wind. Part of the braid behind his head was wiped off, and the broken hair fluttered in the air.

But this is enough.

The lightning struck the coffin, and the entire template was lifted up, revealing a wriggling black mass. At the same time, a fierce whistling sound that was enough to shock her soul rang in her ears, and the black wind rushed towards Song Yutang with an unprecedented ferocious momentum.

...But in the next second, the girl dodged it flexibly, as if she was not affected at all.

Because at the moment the scream sounded, Jiang Yunmei used her "clairvoyance" to protect her spiritual perception and hearing as if she had predicted the future.

"what!"

Seeing this, Song Yutang naturally understood that this was the critical moment. She ran towards the open coffin without hesitation and smashed her fist wrapped in electricity into the center of the darkness.

The black wind behind her was howling and was about to catch up with her.

Just a little bit more...?!

At this moment, Song Yutang's arm "disappeared", and the lightning suddenly surged and rushed forward like a spear.

Along with a sharp cry, the flashing lightning illuminated the entire mountain like a grand burning bonfire, which lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.

After the lightning faded, the entire coffin turned into ashes, the fierce black wind dissipated, and the night returned to silence...

(End of this chapter)