Free Web NovelUnder the deep night sky, pale snowflakes fell deep within a pitch-black mountain.
Unbeknownst to them, a thick fog had risen all around, varying in density, foul and turbid, carrying a bone-chilling cold that surpassed melting ice and snow, spreading all the way to the foot of the mountain.
The mist, enshrouding the Twilight Woman and a massive amount of urban legend' Psychic fluctuations, was filled with dense water vapor and the smell of decay and blood, as chilling wind and snow brewed within the clouds, covering the entire land, foreboding ill omens.
Standing on a deserted highway, the Twilight Woman gazed at the distant destination of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, as if waiting for something.
Along the way, the urban legend that attempted to challenge her, the Night Watch's sniping and interception, and the sudden appearance of Gu Qianqian and Nanling Yaohua, who slew a large number of urban legend, came one after another, causing no small amount of damage.
However.
These sudden occurrences were still within the Twilight Woman's expectations; such a large-scale urban legend activity would be suspicious if there were no obstacles at all.
But she didn't care.
With the Plague Tai Sui's organization already spread throughout the city, sniping and intercepting urban legend simply couldn't shake the foundation of tonight's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
In fact, the flesh and blood scattered in various corners of the city, containing Psychic fluctuations, would instead become a breeding ground for the Plague Tai Sui's organization.
At this moment, the destination of tonight's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons was just beyond the mountain less than five kilometers ahead.
If there were to be a challenge from the Hua City Si Ye Hui or a strong urban legend tonight, they would surely be waiting ahead.
Although the Twilight Woman did not believe that, at present, any Psychic or urban legend could stop her advance.
But to be safe, it was still necessary to ascertain the enemy's strength and numbers before that decisive and tragic battle began.
Not long after, a sudden gust of wind appeared.
From afar, a black-robed figure with two pairs of insect membrane wings on her back flew through the dense fog, landing beside the Twilight Woman, and cupped her fists, saying, "My Lady, the situation ahead has been scouted!"
She lowered her eyebrows, glanced at the black-robed figure in front of her, and said coldly, "Speak, Lingli Chong."
Upon hearing this, the black-robed figure called Lingli Chong showed a complex and strange expression, hesitating for a moment before saying, "As My Lady expected, there are indeed urban legend blocking the way ahead, but..."
"But what?" the Twilight Woman pressed.
"However, the situation you anticipated, with a large gathering of urban legend and Psychic, did not occur. There is only one urban legend blocking the way ahead," Lingli Chong said.
Only one? Heh!
The Twilight Woman sneered contemptuously in her heart and pressed, "What is her strength?"
"Her Psychic fluctuations barely reached A-rank," Lingli Chong said seriously, pausing, then fawning, "This lowly one believes that other urban legend and Psychic are probably intimidated by My Lady's might, and have been scared out of their wits."
"..."
The Twilight Woman frowned slightly.
Forget it, she hadn't expected to hear any good words from these mentally twisted urban legend anyway.
However, she hadn't expected that in such a large Hua City, only one A-rank urban legend would come to block her way?
It seems I've overestimated their spirit.
The Twilight Woman grumbled, composed herself, and issued orders to the urban legend, "All Night Parade of One Hundred Demons subordinates listen up, all personnel enter combat readiness. When you see the urban legend blocking the way later, do not hold back, follow the original plan... attack with full force!"
Even if the blocker was only an A-rank urban legend, she couldn't be careless; she had to crush her with the most swift and powerful posture... the Twilight Woman mused.
"Yes!" All the urban legend subordinates of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons responded in unison, and their Psychic fluctuations immediately soared to their peak.
In an instant, the silence of this suburban road seemed to revive amidst the strong smell of blood, revealing traces of a ferocious aura.
The dense fog rolled, and the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons team, composed of hundreds of Psychic, urban legend, and nearly a thousand newly born urban legend fostered by the Plague Tai Sui's organization, advanced like a massive war machine, in a mighty procession.
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Above the sky, beneath the seemingly tranquil clouds, undercurrents surged, with dazzling electric arcs occasionally flashing along the underside of the clouds.
Accompanied by a fierce wind that stirred up flying snowflakes, a strange dense fog with strong Psychic fluctuations appeared ahead, and visibility began to drop rapidly.
A chill began to erode Lu Yibei's body, penetrating to her bones, and the intense tension and pressure made her feel like vomiting.
"Hoo—!"
She took a deep breath, adjusted her state, and unhurriedly stroked the baogang cang owl badge on her chest, then contacted Bai Kai.
Although a urban legend possessing a baogang cang owl badge was somewhat suspicious, under the strong Psychic fluctuation interference, only this Night Watch standard Psychic item could ensure information transmission.
"Shui Ge, they're here..."
After a brief silence, Bai Kai's voice sounded in Lu Yibei's ear.
"Received!"
"Xiao Bei, I need three to four minutes to prepare on my end. During this time, you do your best to stop those urban legend, and then..."
"Then it's time for me and the Twilight Woman to decide the winner, right?" Lu Yibei interrupted.
"Mm, it won't be more than four minutes," Bai Kai replied.
"Xiao Bei, the X Tai Sui's organization is now scattered in various corners of the city, capable of replenishing the Twilight Woman's Psychic in some strange way. Before my secret weapon is ready, you must not act rashly."
"Got it, leave this to me, you just hurry up and prepare on your end," Lu Yibei said.
"..."
Bai Kai was silent for a moment, then responded weakly, "Mm..."
Although, by leveraging the power of the Hua City barrier, Lu Yibei only needed to defeat the Twilight Woman to stop the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
But after repeatedly comparing Lu Yibei's and the Twilight Woman's strengths, Bai Kai concluded that Lu Yibei's probability of victory was only about 30%.
The situation was not optimistic.
Just as Bai Kai was worried, his connection with Lu Yibei, established through the baogang cang owl badge, was cut off.
"..."
Bai Kai held the baogang cang owl badge, stunned for a moment, then gradually tightened his grip, and immediately took out the disposable talisman used to activate the Hua City barrier from his In arms, injecting Psychic into it.
In the darkness.
As the Psychic in Bai Kai's body was absorbed by the talisman like a whale swallowing, the first Spell on it slowly lit up...
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Feeling the strong Psychic fluctuations approaching, Lu Yibei looked up ahead, and from a distance, the Twilight Woman's slightly disdainful voice came from behind the dense fog.
"Little Girl, if you step aside now, I can spare your life."
Lu Yibei pouted, "Old hag, I also want to say, if you give up the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons now, I can spare your life, and I can even give you a 200 yuan Darunfa gift card and 100 Q coins later."
"How about it? Aren't the terms very tempting?"
"..."
After a moment of silence, the Twilight Woman said coldly, "An ant trying to stop a chariot, you don't know your place!"
"So, there's nothing to discuss then?" Lu Yibei shrugged, "Then according to the rules of the jianghu, let's have a one-on-one..."
Before she could finish her sentence, a fierce wind swept over, and something was rushing towards them.
Damn it! Not following the rules of the jianghu!? Lu Yibei cursed fiercely in her heart. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
The moment the first group of urban legend appeared in her sight, she unhesitatingly detonated the Alchemy Dirty Bombs she had buried earlier.
"Boom—Boom—!"
Thunderous explosions rang out one after another within seconds.
The flames surging from beneath the ground mixed with the foul, bloody rain splattered from the torn bodies of the urban legend, and the earth instantly bloomed with a field of enchanting "flowers."
Terrifying hot air waves rolled, spreading irregularly in all directions, cruelly uprooting everything, and molten lava-like flames converged, illuminating this dim and desolate world.
Explosions, scorching hot waves, followed by toxic gas containing calamity water...
In a breath, the first batch of urban legend had already been annihilated, leaving behind corpses and debris everywhere.
But.
Before Lu Yibei had any chance to catch her breath, accompanied by a low whisper from the distant Twilight Woman, the second batch of urban legend had already broken through the dense smoke generated by the violent explosion and rushed forward.
Thirty seconds.
Lu Yibei silently repeated the number in her heart, then stomped her foot on the ground, soaring into the air. As her body flew backward, she simultaneously predicted the movement trajectories of those urban legend and took out the first replenishment potion from her jacket pocket, drinking it all down.
Although the Psychic fluctuations of the urban legend fostered by the Plague Tai Sui's organization were weak, they seemed to have some kind of physical strength specialization ability, moving at an astonishing speed, and in the blink of an eye, they were about to cross the defense line and rush towards the mountain behind.
Just then, a muffled sound of tearing flesh echoed.
"Puff—!"
A flash of iron light streaked by.
After Lu Yibei cut down the two urban legend at the very front with a single sword, she rushed forward a distance like a phantom, using the footwork she had practiced countless times under Qingji's guidance.
Then.
Accompanied by the soft sound of the glass bottle containing the replenishment potion falling and shattering on the ground, and Lu Yibei finishing the last Spell from her mouth, a ray of bright white light burst forth from the dense fog.
"...Four directions' energy returns, strike Spell ninety-five, Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon!"
In a breath, magnificent and vast white light burst forth violently, spreading in all directions.
Amidst faint echoes of dragon and phoenix cries, the sounds of Spell incantations rang out one after another.
"Desolate wilderness, straw, bones..."
"...Wind and rain follow, mighty, scorching..."
"...Thousand feet of snow. North wind and white snow!"
One dazzling stream of Spell light followed another, flying towards the urban legend swallowed by the white light.
Thus, violent explosions echoed.
The scorching flames slammed into the suddenly opened flesh shield in front of the Twilight Woman, whose dark green flesh was rapidly perishing while simultaneously proliferating at an astonishing speed.
A few breaths later, as the light in front gradually dissipated, those urban legend disappeared from where they stood as if evaporated, before they could even scream.
One minute... Lu Yibei murmured in her heart.
If it's just intercepting these cannon fodder urban legend under the Twilight Woman's command by going all out, it seems quite simple? Lu Yibei mused.
The dark green flesh in front of the Twilight Woman receded to both sides like a curtain. She looked forward and saw that both waves of attacks had been neutralized by Lu Yibei. She seemed unsurprised, merely calmly waving her hand.
"Continue!"
As her voice fell, the dark figures lurking in the dense fog, with festering skin and dark green flesh sprouts attached to their bodies, once again charged forward.
An A-rank urban legend having such exaggerated destructive power did not surprise her.
But how long could she maintain such destructive power?
She was, after all, alone. How could she withstand the advance of thousands of urban legend?
If she made just one mistake, allowing a urban legend carrying the Plague Tai Sui's flesh and blood to pass through and successfully contaminate the Huacheng Reservoir, or if her Psychic ran out and she collapsed, she would lose.
Moreover, this was just the beginning! the Twilight Woman thought, narrowing her eyes, a cold smile appearing at the corner of her lips.
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On the other side.
On the rooftop of Hua City's tallest building—the Hua City Financial Center.
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After a shimmering water screen rose from the ground, gradually revealing the image of the foot of the Huacheng Reservoir mountain, two tall men in black suits stepped aside, giving the woman seated behind them a clear view.
On the water screen, a petite girl, holding a broken sword, seemed to be dancing, scattering a cold light from her intricate footwork.
Her figure constantly flitted, her pinkish-white long hair fluttering behind her, and then the light of a Spell emerged from her palm, and flames instantly enveloped the entire scene.
Seeing this, the woman wearing a monocular eye patch spit out the half-eaten grape in her mouth and said in surprise, "Goodness, letting urban legend stop the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons of urban legend, is that Bai Kai's plan?"
"What on earth is in his head? Entrusting the safety of a city to a urban legend? Isn't he afraid of misplacing his trust... no, what he entrusted is not only not human, but also child labor!"
"Tsk tsk, that's it? If this continues, she'll be exhausted to death there sooner or later! This is even worse than asking me for help!"
The woman muttered to herself, shaking her head, and looked at the two men beside her, asking, "Jin Jiao, Yin Jiao, if I asked you to intercept that 'what's-her-name' woman, how confident would you be?"
"Based on the current situation, 50%," one man replied.
The other man looked at the water screen in front and added, "If that Witch Seed depletes some more urban legend, it could reach 70%."
"Mm," the woman nodded, "Then go!"
Seeing the two men looking puzzled and showing no intention of leaving, she frowned and added, "What are you standing around for?"
“Now all the urban legend in Hua City have chickened out, do you think...” The woman gestured at her ample chest, disdainfully saying, “...just her, an undeveloped Little Girl, can stop a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons? Don’t be ridiculous!”
“Although I’m here to see Bai Kai make a fool of himself, I am still an inspector for the Night Watch. I can’t just stand by and watch a tragedy unfold, can I?”
Mid-sentence, a cunning glint appeared in the woman’s single eye. She pointed at Lu Yibei’s struggling figure on the water screen and smiled, “Besides, I’m not asking you to help her.”
“After you go there, wait a moment. Only act after she falls.”
Both men frowned in unison, then cupped their fists towards the woman, saying, “Understood!”
With that, the two rose into the air, transforming into two streaks of light, and flew towards Huacheng Reservoir.
After her two subordinates left, the woman picked up another crystal-clear grape. Just as she brought it to her crimson lips, she saw the scene on the water screen and instantly widened her eyes, her lips slightly parted, and the grape rolled to the ground.
“Good heavens, I thought...” Mid-sentence, she suddenly laughed again, “No, this is how it should be, it’s much more interesting!”
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Two minutes...
Lu Yibei silently counted, looking up ahead.
She felt her heart pounding, its rhythmic beat like the ticking of a clock, “tick-tock” in her ears.
Within two minutes, she had advanced eight hundred meters, killing over five hundred urban legend. Ahead, the Twilight Woman’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons team was close at hand.
“Hoo—!”
She took a deep breath, adjusting her slightly disordered breathing, then shouldered her sword, straightened her back, and said expressionlessly, “Is that all? Is that all? I thought you were so powerful!”
“No wonder you were taken down by a cripple!”
According to Bai Kai, the “secret weapon” would be ready in about three minutes. With at least one minute, but no more than two minutes left, Lu Yibei was already feeling tired.
To ensure no Strange Tale passed through, she felt she had to resort to some extreme measures.
For example... trying to enrage the Twilight Woman, making her focus her attacks on her in a short amount of time.
“Hmph!” The Twilight Woman sneered, her gaze sweeping over the black-robed figure beside her who had remained still, “Your elites haven’t even moved, yet you’re already exhausted. What will you use...”
“You were taken down by a cripple.”
The Twilight Woman’s expression darkened, “What kind of bravery is it to just use your tongue...”
“You were taken down by a cripple!”
“Hoo—!” The Twilight Woman took a deep breath and said coldly, “Can you only say that one sentence?”
“Of course not!” Lu Yibei shook her head and blurted out, “You were almost taken down by a rabbit!”
“You!” The Twilight Woman’s eyes widened, her chest heaving violently, but then she immediately laughed, “Trying to buy time, are you? Too bad, I’m not angry at all!”
“Besides, although I don’t know what meaning there is in you buying time now, I think it’s better not to let you succeed. What do you say?”
As she spoke, her expression suddenly turned cold, and she roared, “All Night Parade of One Hundred Demons subordinates, immediately, right now, advance towards Huacheng Reservoir. I’ll deal with this woman!”
No sooner had the Twilight Woman finished speaking than the black-robed figures behind her shot up as dark shadows, transforming into ghostly figures that scattered, bypassing Lu Yibei and circling around, flying towards Huacheng Reservoir.
Lu Yibei’s face changed upon hearing this, and she inwardly cried out, “Not good!” Just as she was about to act, a premonition flashed through her mind, warning her that something was attacking from beneath her feet and from her sides.
She hastily leaped aside to dodge. The next moment, the hard asphalt road beneath her feet exploded, and foul-smelling, twisted flesh burst through the ground, like giant, plague-spreading arms, fiercely “grasping” at her original position.
As soon as Lu Yibei landed, the premonition flashed again. Her gaze sharpened, and she swung her sword forcefully behind her. Psychic, guided by her arm, poured into the blade, and a flash of intense light streaked past.
“Clang—!” The long blade collided with the broken sword, and the sound of metal striking stone exploded.
Under the Twilight Woman’s swift and fierce sneak attack, Lu Yibei stumbled back a step. Just as she regained her balance, a piercing shriek, seemingly striking directly at her soul, stung her eardrums.
“Mengmeng!” Feeling her consciousness momentarily blur, Lu Yibei roared.
Immediately, Mengmeng, who had been on standby for a long time, shared her special Psychic ability with Lu Yibei. The hallucinatory sound of a Jew’s Harp rang in her ears, instantly neutralizing the negative effects of the Twilight Woman’s shriek.
Three minutes...
Lu Yibei muttered, wiping a trickle of blood from her temple, and glared fiercely ahead, like a small, exquisite, yet sharp-toothed and clawed beast about to pounce. But then she saw the Twilight Woman smiling playfully, pointing behind her.
Her heart tightened, and she spun around abruptly, only to see that the black-robed figures had already advanced hundreds of meters away.
Seeing this, a sense of powerlessness quietly rose in Lu Yibei’s heart, pressing in on her, her emotions on the verge of collapse.
Her combat strength was already slightly weaker than the Twilight Woman’s. After being continuously worn down by those cannon fodder urban legend, she was even more significantly weaker. In such a situation, she simply couldn’t bypass the Twilight Woman to intercept those black-robed figures.
However, the spark of hope had not yet completely extinguished. Three minutes had passed, and Shui Ge’s “secret weapon” could arrive at any moment.
But...
Shui Ge, hurry up!
Lu Yibei thought fiercely, as the Twilight Woman’s voice drifted faintly into her ears.
“It seems the earlier consumption worked. You can’t stop them now! Heh heh!”
She suddenly turned her head, glared at the Twilight Woman, and cursed, “CNM, is being numerous so great?!”
“Exactly!” The Twilight Woman nodded, “Being numerous means you can do whatever you want...”
“Boom—!”
Before she could finish her sentence, a loud bang suddenly came from the foot of the Huacheng Reservoir mountain. Following the sound, her words abruptly stopped.
She saw a massive, train-like human-faced centipede break through the earth and stones, soaring into the air. It bit a passing black-robed figure, its sharp, bone-white teeth instantly severing the black-robed figure at the waist.
Blood spurted like flowers, and the urban legend turned its head to reveal a smile to Lu Yibei.
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“Caw—Caw—!”
Before Lu Yibei could react, a chorus of crow cries suddenly came from the sky.
The next moment, seven or eight urban legend with crow heads and human bodies flew from the direction of Hua City center. They swooped down together, instantly merging into the night, and reappeared in front of a black-robed figure, grabbing the black-robed figure into the sky with their sharp talons.
The black-robed figure screamed and struggled, frantically releasing Spells in all directions. The few crow urban legend endured the Spells with their bodies, and as black feathers scattered, they pulled the black-robed figure’s head and limbs, forcefully tugging in different directions.
“Rip—!”
The black-robed figure’s screams abruptly stopped.
...
Soon, chilling, hair-raising low roars came from all directions—from above, from afar, from everywhere.
In front of Huacheng Reservoir, thick fog permeated the sky and earth, and the world was a hazy grey.
Within the hazy grey mist, dense figures surged forth, some flying from the horizon, some galloping from afar, some appearing out of thin air...
Over a thousand urban legend and nearly a hundred Psychic arrived together, their shadowy forms countless.
Roars erupted everywhere, terrifying and hideous, Spells burst forth, shaking all directions.
Although most of them were far less powerful than the black-robed figures, some even struggling to defeat the urban legend spawned from Plague Tai Sui’s flesh in a one-on-one fight.
However, they still fought fiercely, building a wall with their mixed Psychic fluctuations. The Twilight Woman’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons team, although already pressing at the foot of the mountain, could not advance a single inch further.
Is this... are they here to help me? Lu Yibei stared blankly, retracting her gaze from the urban legend, and then raised an eyebrow at the Twilight Woman, who was filled with disbelief, and said mockingly, with a slightly choked voice, “Who was it just now who said that if you have enough people, you can do whatever you want?”
A hint of panic clearly appeared in the Twilight Woman’s eyes, and she sharply questioned, “You, who exactly are you? Why would these urban legend gather for you!?”
Just as Liche Jiang said before her death, “commanding one hundred demons to follow behind and parade on a moonless night” is the true Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
Although Lu Yibei hadn’t fully achieved it, compared to the Twilight Woman’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons achieved through violent means, she was much closer.
If Lu Yibei succeeded in her challenge, the Twilight Woman would no longer have a place in Hua City in the future.
If before, the Twilight Woman only wanted to defeat Lu Yibei and go to Huacheng Reservoir, now she had murderous intent.
She could gather so many urban legend, which was indeed impressive, but wouldn’t it be enough to just kill her?
I have Psychic replenishment from my master’s flesh, extracted from the city’s ley lines; how could she possibly defeat me? The Twilight Woman thought.
As the Twilight Woman pondered, Lu Yibei sharply plunged the broken sword in her hand into the ground, her head slightly raised, meeting the Twilight Woman’s eyes, and said seriously, “I am precisely...”
“Woo-woo—!”
Just as she was about to reveal the title she had considered for a long time, a piece of music, seemingly from hell, came from the road behind the Twilight Woman.
The sound was like wailing from the underworld of hell, like millions of vengeful spirits roaring, but...
As a loyal fan of love and magical girls, Lu Yibei still recognized it as White Little Flower’s character theme song, and the corner of her eyebrow couldn’t help but twitch.
“Disaster, Disaster, ward off Disaster!”
Amidst a chorus of cheers, Mengmeng led the way, playing a suona. Behind her, Gu Qianqian and Nanling Yaohua, one on each side, held up a huge colorful banner, emblazoned with the large characters: “Disaster Witch, Invincible!”
Further back were nearly ten thousand unranked Little Freaks led by the apartment Little Freak, densely packed and stretching endlessly, looking like some kind of migrating colonial small animals. Each urban legend held a small colorful flag or wore a support T-shirt, printed with Lu Yibei’s photo and the large characters “Disaster.”
Lu Yibei, “???”
What the hell is this? What’s going on? Tens of thousands of urban legend supporting me, what the heck is this Chatterbox Girl trying to do?
After a brief moment of surprise, the Twilight Woman withdrew her gaze and said coldly to Lu Yibei, “So, you are the Disaster Witch?”
You say that as if you’ve heard of me before... Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, hastily waving her hands in denial, “I’m not, I don’t, I don’t even know who the Disaster Witch is!”
Damn that Chatterbox Girl, this is too much!
I clearly said I didn’t want such a chuunibyou title, how did she manage to spread it around?
As Lu Yibei was muttering, the Twilight Woman suddenly took a step towards her, thrusting her long blade forward, her fierce gaze like a cornered wolf.
“Disaster, tonight, I will slay you and your kin here!”
Yes, as long as she’s killed, the other urban legend are nothing to worry about... the Twilight Woman thought.
“I told you I’m not, why won’t you listen?” Lu Yibei argued while dodging the Twilight Woman’s attacks.
Just then, the baogang cang owl badge on her chest gently vibrated.
“Xiao Bei, you can do it!”
Immediately, Bai Kai’s voice sounded in Lu Yibei’s ear.
“Mm!” Lu Yibei responded, sweeping aside the Twilight Woman’s descending long blade with a sword, and straightening her back, said, “Alright! You want to fight, right? According to Rules of the Underworld (jianghu rules), one-on-one, a duel!”
As her words fell, a soul-stirring thunderclap suddenly echoed in the sky. Countless thunder-infused dark clouds shone with light, gathering above her head, illuminating her slightly childish yet delicate face and her eyes burning with fighting spirit...
