Chapter 483: Losses and Gains

The girl was overwhelmed with shame. Her normally icy face flushed crimson, as if about to drip water. Biting her red lip, she said, annoyed and embarrassed:

"Shut up! You're not allowed to say that! Say it one more time, and I'll tear your mouth to shreds!"

Jiang Fan was also furious. "I'll say it! Shameless, the demon priest is shameless!"

"Aargh!" The girl was so enraged that smoke seemed to billow from her head. She glanced around nervously, afraid of being overheard. Her eyes blazed with furious indignation. "You're dead! You are absolutely dead today! No one can save you! I swear it!"

The vast difference in their movement techniques caused the distance between them to close rapidly. Jiang Fan was incredibly frustrated. He raised his hand and, with a grab, threw five flags of different colors into the air.

The palm-sized flags grew instantly in the wind, transforming into massive banners five zhang in size. The five flags formed a huge formation, immediately trapping the pursuing girl within it. Illusion, defense, offense, confinement, and spirit-draining – the five formation flags instantly took effect. The girl was immediately trapped.

"You think this petty formation can trap me?" She fiercely threw a punch at the air in front of her. *Poof!* The five formation flags exploded instantly as if they were made of paper.

Using this brief moment, Jiang Fan only managed to widen the distance slightly. He was still far from escaping.

Jiang Fan watched, his heart aching. "You little brat! You'd better not let me get away. We've got a score to settle now!"

He had painstakingly acquired these five-colored formation flags from Fan Xingkong. He hadn't even had a proper chance to use them yet, and now they were destroyed by the girl.

The girl's eyes gleamed with a cold light. She sneered, gritting her teeth. "Don't worry! I've already used the Demon Emperor's blood; there's no way I'm letting you escape!" *Whoosh!* She once again accelerated her movement technique and chased after him furiously.

A moment later, the girl finally caught up to Jiang Fan. Unable to contain her excitement, she said grimly, "It's time to go!"

"Bastard!" With a leap, she jumped in front of Jiang Fan. Turning around, she unleashed a terrifying Core Formation Ninth Level punch directly at his chest. No matter how cunning Jiang Fan was, his tricks were useless against absolute power!

However, she suddenly noticed that Jiang Fan had a copper coin in his mouth. As her punch came, he decisively infused spiritual power into it. Instantly, an ancient, bronze light erupted from the coin, forming a spherical shield of light that protected him. Her punch landed on it. The shield vibrated violently but did not shatter. Instead, she herself was staggered backward by the recoil.

"A Core Formation Ninth Level defensive artifact?" The girl was a little exasperated, yelling frantically, "What is wrong with you? Why are you so hard to kill?"

Was she really chasing a junior disciple? Why did he feel even more troublesome than those human elders?

"Guess!" Jiang Fan's eyes also blazed with fury. The life-saving copper coin Master Youyun had given him was just used up! This hateful girl!

As his words fell, a glint flashed in his eyes! An ancient sword, emitting a cold violet light, stabbed out from beneath the girl's feet without any warning!

The girl's attention was entirely focused on Jiang Fan and the defense around him. She couldn't have predicted that while Jiang Fan was using his life-saving copper coin, he had also secretly buried the violet sword underground beforehand, delivering an unexpected fatal blow!

The girl's heart skipped a beat. A huge sense of life-or-death crisis surged into her mind. She instinctively jumped away. But the violet light beneath her feet could strangely pursue her in mid-air, swiftly piercing through her sole and stabbing upward. It looked as if it intended to impale her from bottom to top!

The girl was greatly alarmed! She decisively pulled a crystal from her necklace and crushed it. The crystal powder immediately adhered to her body, making her form like crystal. The violet sword, which had already pierced her sole, could no longer penetrate further.

The girl was enraged. "You cheated—"

Before she could finish, dark clouds suddenly gathered overhead. The Five-Magnet Origin Mountain abruptly crashed down from above. *Bang!*

The girl's expression changed dramatically again. "Again?" She furiously raised both hands, trying to withstand the descending Five-Magnet Origin Mountain. But the moment she touched it, she was horrified to realize the terrifying weight of the mountain. *Crack!* Her feet instantly sank beneath the ice layer. Her entire body creaked under the immense pressure. Even as a Core Formation Ninth Level cultivator, she couldn't withstand this mountain?

What astonished her even more was that, under the suppression of the Five-Magnet Origin Mountain, the crystal attached to her body peeled off entirely, revealing her flesh and blood form. Jiang Fan, sharp-eyed, seized the opportunity and roared, "Strike!"

The violet sword transformed into a streak of brilliant light. It instantly pierced through her body. "Ah!!" A bloody hole was punctured in the girl's abdomen. The pain caused her to let out a shrill scream.

Her vitality and blood energy boiled, and she actually managed to lift the Five-Magnet Origin Mountain. Jiang Fan's eyelids twitched. This person was too formidable, wasn't she?

Seeing that she was about to break free, how could Jiang Fan dare to linger? He decisively activated his movement technique. But before leaving, he glanced at the necklace on her neck, then darted over in one swift motion. He yanked it off and stowed it in his pocket.

Chased by this woman, he had successively lost his five-colored formation flags and a copper coin. He had to recover something, didn't he?

"Ah! Put that down!" The girl panicked and shrieked! She raised her foot, intending to kick Jiang Fan away. Jiang Fan quickly dodged. He had also wanted to take the butterfly hair clip from her head. That was likely a good item too. But the girl was about to break free. Jiang Fan couldn't afford to hesitate. He decisively activated his movement technique and fled quickly.

After running about a hundred zhang (330 meters) away, he remotely recalled the Five-Magnet Origin Mountain with his soul power. The girl broke free. Disregarding her abdominal injury, she leaped up to fiercely pursue Jiang Fan.

The moment she moved, she stumbled and fell to the ground with a *thud*. It turned out that her sole had been pierced with a bloody hole, making even walking difficult, let alone sprinting. Her abdomen also had a severe penetrating wound. For a demon, this injury wasn't fatal, but it severely affected her movement. At least for half a day, before her wounds healed, she couldn't hope to catch up to Jiang Fan, who had already vanished from sight.

"Bastard!!!" The girl furiously pounded the snowy ground, triggering a series of tremors. Ice and snow all around exploded and flew into the air. With bloodshot eyes, she stared in the direction Jiang Fan had vanished, gritting her teeth so hard that they almost shattered.

This time, she could say she suffered heavy losses! Not to mention taking two successive soul attacks, her beloved nine-headed giant python was severely damaged. She had also wasted her only drop of Demon Emperor's essence blood. In the end, not only did she fail to kill that human boy, but he also tricked her, inflicting two injuries. More importantly, he stole her necklace. That was a supreme treasure of the priestly lineage!

Who would believe that a Core Formation Ninth Level cultivator was chasing a Core Formation Second Level human junior disciple? The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. The angrier she became, the more she thought. Finally, she couldn't hold back and spat out a mouthful of blood mist in rage.

"Humans!!!" The girl gritted her blood-stained teeth tightly. "I will make you pay the price! Absolutely!!!"

Having said that, her face filled with killing intent, she took off the butterfly hair clip from her hair. She gently blew into the hole on the hair clip. A low sound, like a war horn, was emitted. *Ooooh...*

Hundreds of miles away, the orderly, slowly advancing army of corpses all raised their heads simultaneously. As if hearing a summons, they began to accelerate their march, charging forward. At a glance, the entire snowy plain was filled with a vast army of corpses, numbering over ten thousand!