Chapter 196: A Fierce Battle (2)
“OK!” Mu Liufeng nodded and squatted down to pick a wooden snake up, then he tore it apart quickly.
The dismantled wooden snakes were left to Murong Xue, who assembled them together in another way swiftly.
Packs of gunpowder exploded outside the stone wall with huge noise, thus scattering broken stones and raising trails of dust, which was ignored by them as they were busy disassembling the wooden snakes.
Suddenly, a pack of gunpowder fell near the stone wall and exploded with a ‘bang’. The hard stone wall was instantly torn apart into countless pieces, bursting everywhere. The bustling world inside of the stone wall quieted down in an instant.
Yuan Fangfei was greatly frightened. Looking at the stone wall covered with dust, she exclaimed in fear: “Murong Xue!”
But silence was the only response.
“Murong Xue… Can you hear me?” Yuan Fangfei rushed to the stone wall regardless of the frequently dropping gunpowder packs. The cry of sorrow broke through the clouds and resounded in sky.
The hint of an evil smile appeared on Cang Qiong’s face: Huh, Murong Xue’s dead? Spectacular! Finally, an abominable enemy is exterminated! That really lifts my spirit.
“Yuan Fangfei, I’m not dead, just deafened by your roar!” A distant voice suddenly rang, which sounded faint with a low spirit.
Yuan Fangfei stiffened and turned to look at the dusty stone wall, she widened up her eyes in surprise: “Murong Xue…You are still alive…”
“Nonsense! Do you think a dead person can talk to you?” Murong Xue replied sarcastically.
Yuan Fangfei disguised her embarrassment with a smile: “The gunpowder was exploding by your side, and you remained quiet for a long time. That’s why I thought you were dead…”
“Rest assured. Since the extremely cruel and merciless lunatic Cang Qiong is still alive, I can’t breathe my last!” She enunciated in a cold voice, stressing each syllable. A person slowly walked out of the smoke-filled stone wall.
Her light blue dress was covered with dust, the neat chignon was slightly messy, and there were black ashes on her beautiful cheeks. She looked untidy and dispirited, but there was a glint of stern twinkling in her eyes, which overawed others.
Murong Xue gradually stepped out of the dust. Only then did Yuan Fangfei realize that she was not walking on her feet, but standing in a groove on the back of a wooden snake. The wooden snake was twice wider than those controlled by the ghosts. So the groove was much larger than theirs.
Murong Xue put her soft hands on the gear in the front of the groove, controlling the wooden snake slowly and gliding forward, and the tails behind the snake gradually came out, which were connected respectively. It was like a massive fan when looked from afar, which was stunning.
Yuan Fangfei was so surprised that she goggled: “This is an… eight-tailed snake!”
Murong Xue cast a glance at the eight tails behind the snake: “Whatever you want to call it!”
There was not enough time for her to change the shape of the snake-like machinery, so she just adopted its original shape and connected them.
‘Bang!’ A pack of gunpowder exploded not far away with a considerable amount of rubbles and debris bursting out.
Murong Xue squinted her eyes instantly: “Fang Fei, come on! Let’s go and see what this cruel and merciless bastard is capable of.”
“You know how to control this wooden snake?” Bearing this critical problem in mind, Yuan Fangfei stared at Murong with astonishment in her eyes.
Murong Xue smiled gently: “Just a little!”
She could fly airplanes, drive sports cars, ride motorcycles and bicycles in modern times. The actuating principle of mechanical operation was similar to the cars. So she almost learnt how to drive the wooden snake skillfully
Seeing that Yuan Fangfei opened her mouth and was about to ask more questions, Mu Liufeng, who was sitting in the groove of a tail, frowned impatiently. He lifted Yuan Fangfei up by her shoulder and put her into the groove of another snake’s tail.
“Time is ticking. After we defeat Cang Qiong, you can ask whatever you want no matter how long it would take.” He also had a lot of questions for Murong Xue. But with a formidable enemy right there before them, it was not the proper occasion for asking questions.
“I got it!” Yuan Fangfei said unhappily, but she stopped talking obediently. She measured the wooden snake with her eyes from its head to tail curiously; she even stretched out and touched the sectional wooden tails, as she praised in her mind: This is absolutely lifelike. What an exquisite handicraft!
Murong Xue could take the individual wooden snakes apart and assembled them into such a gigantic one which was unique in shape. She was really amazing!
Murong Xue drove the wooden snake and they flied to the outside of the stone wall where the palace guards hid. She said aloud: “Is there anyone who excels at Qing Kung? Some of you may need to come with us.”
People in Qingyan Kingdom did not know how to drive wooden snakes. That was why she connected more tails than she really needed on the wooden snake, for she intended to carry more martial artists up to fight against their enemies.
There were countless ghosts controlling wooden snakes in the air. If there were only one or two persons upward, it would take a rather long time to beat all the ghosts.
And Cang Qiong’s wooden snakes could attack in perfect unison with high combat effectiveness. Any unexpected things could happen in each minute. Therefore, she did not plan to wrestle with Cang Qiong for a long time, but to fight a quick battle and force a quick decision.
The earlier the battle ended, the fewer tricks Cang Qiong could play, and the casualties of the people in Qingyan Kingdom would be less correspondingly.
“I can go… I’m going too… So am I…” The guards jumped out from behind, ran over and strived to be the first.
The packs of exploding gunpowder deprived them of all the other choices but to hide behind the stone wall, which made them feel extremely aggrieved. But now, the magical wooden snake could take them up and give them a chance to fight directly with the ghosts, which could wash their shame away. Of course they were willing to go.
Seeing the perseverance of those guards, Murong Xue raised her voice, stressing each syllable, “Accidents might happen while battling in the air. So we can only take those who excel at Qing Kung and could fly in midair. If you accidentally fall from the wooden snake, due to your poor flying skills, I’m afraid death will be your only option.”
Some palace guards hesitated. They were looking at each other in speechless despair: They were all good at martial arts; as for Qing Kung, they weren’t that confident, and none of them could fly in midair. Needless to say, their death would be in vain if they were pushed by enemies from the wooden snake while fighting.
“All palace guards didn’t attach enough importance to Qing Kung skills, so there’s no point in taking them. I’ll go with you!” A gentle voice rang, which came from the Fourth Prince, Ye Tianqi, who strode over there. His light blue robe was stained with dust, but it didn’t make him less elegant and handsome at all.
Murong Xue smiled softly, she knew that born and raised in the imperial family, Ye Tianqi must be extremely skilled in Qing Kung and martial arts, so she said: “Please come forward, Fourth Prince.”
“Fine!” Ye Tianqi nodded, tapped his tiptoes on the ground and flew into the groove of a snake’s tail.
Murong Xue gazed at him and she planned to pick more people, then she found a purple figure flashed across with a glance. As she looked sideways, she saw Ye Yichen flying into the groove of a snake’s tail lightly.