Mo Xiaoqi's eyes lit up with sudden understanding upon hearing this. She looked at the Jiang Family members with open disdain. "You're going to gang up on me?"
Jiang Lin's aged face flushed with embarrassment. He cleared his throat lightly. "We have no choice, miss — please don't take offense!"
"Family Head, why waste breath on her? Just attack together. If she dares resist, don't blame us for showing no mercy!" one of the Jiang Family Elders barked coldly.
"You people are utterly shameless — I'm just a young girl!" Mo Xiaoqi's delicate face was flushed with indignation as she cried out.
"On a battlefield, there's no such thing as a young girl or an old one. If you want to blame someone, blame that Yang Kai!" Jiang Chuhe seemed to harbor deep resentment toward Yang Kai, and that twisted feeling now transferred onto Mo Xiaoqi, making him treat her with no courtesy whatsoever.
"You really mean to attack me?" Mo Xiaoqi's expression turned frosty with rage, her teeth clenched as she glared at Jiang Chuhe.
"Ha — did you think I was joking?" Jiang Chuhe let out a cold sneer.
With that, he flipped his wrist, and a Void King-grade Artifact longsword materialized in his hand. The blade hummed as he thrust it toward Mo Xiaoqi.
In an instant, the sword sang through the air, Source Power erupted, and where the blade pointed, blossoms of sword energy bloomed, threatening to engulf Mo Xiaoqi's entire body.
A playful expression surfaced on Mo Xiaoqi's pretty face. Rather than dodging, she stood her ground, gave Jiang Chuhe an angry glare, then calmly produced an item and channeled her internal Source Power into it.
With a soft pop, the Artifact Mo Xiaoqi had summoned swelled in size, enveloping her completely without a single gap.
The Artifact was spherical in shape, pale blue in color, its surface shimmering with rippling light like a curtain of water — crystal clear and thin as a cicada's wing.
From the outside, Mo Xiaoqi now appeared to be sealed inside a water sphere.
This Artifact was none other than the Weak Water Bead she had once used back in Jade Purity Mountain!
The Weak Water Bead was powerful enough to restrain even a juvenile Luan Phoenix — its might was beyond question. Mo Xiaoqi had now put it to clever use, activating what was originally a containment Artifact as a defensive shield instead.
The effect was clearly more than adequate.
The instant this Artifact appeared, Jiang Lin's eyes narrowed sharply. He bellowed, "A Dao Source-grade Artifact!"
The moment those words left his lips, the gazes of every Jiang Family Elder and Deacon turned scorching hot.
"Clang!" Jiang Chuhe's longsword struck the water curtain. But to his surprise, the blow accomplished virtually nothing — it merely dented the seemingly fragile water barrier inward by a tiny fraction before it snapped back violently.
What's more, all the force of the attack appeared to rebound directly onto Jiang Chuhe himself.
This rising star of the Jiang Family failed to account for it in time, letting out a startled yelp as he stumbled backward several steps, his face paling slightly with shock.
Fortunately, he hadn't gone all out with that strike — otherwise the backlash alone would have left him seriously wounded.
"This girl's background must be extraordinary. Everyone, hold nothing back — end this quickly!" Jiang Lin narrowed his eyes and issued a low command.
An ordinary Void King Realm cultivator would never produce a Dao Source-grade Artifact at the first exchange, let alone a defensive one. After all, none of the Jiang Family's many Void King Realm cultivators possessed their own Dao Source-grade Artifact.
Only those with impressive lineages and formidable backing could receive such treasures from their elders, granting them one or two Dao Source-grade Artifacts in hand.
When Jiang Chuhe had first attacked, Jiang Lin had still been somewhat restrained by his status, unwilling to join the fray and invite accusations of bullying the young. But now that the situation had turned unfavorable, there was no room left for hesitation.
The words no sooner left his mouth than he began forming spirit seals, extending one hand and pointing forward.
A soft hiss rang out as a streak of light shot from his fingertip, slamming into the Weak Water Bead's water curtain in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, the other Jiang Family Elders and Deacons attacked in unison.
In an instant, the radiance of various martial techniques and Artifacts blazed to life, all converging on Mo Xiaoqi.
However—
Every single attack was repelled without exception. The Weak Water Bead enveloping Mo Xiaoqi merely shifted its shape, dissolving each assault into nothingness and miraculously rebounding it back at the attackers.
When the Jiang Family's Void King Realm cultivators saw this, their expressions shifted dramatically, and they scrambled to dodge.
Mo Xiaoqi crouched behind the Weak Water Bead's water curtain, her pretty face stretched long enough to scrape a layer of frost off it. She clenched her teeth and shrieked, "You really are ganging up on me — how absolutely shameless! I'll fight you to the end!"
Little Miss Xiaoqi was throwing a tantrum like a bullied child. The moment she finished speaking, she reached out and slapped the small cloth pouches hanging at her waist, one after another.
Each of these little pouches was bulging and puffy. No one knew what on earth was inside — even if the Jiang Family members had noticed them earlier, they hadn't paid them any mind.
But now, the scene that unfolded before them nearly made their eyes pop from their sockets.
One by one, demon beasts of every shape and size burst forth from those pouches as if descended from the heavens. The first to emerge was the awe-inspiring Silver-Maned Lion Tiger Beast, its body stretching over sixty feet in length.
The moment this beast appeared, it unleashed a heaven-shaking roar, its bloody maw gaping wide to reveal rows of fangs, sending the Jiang Family cultivators stumbling back yet again.
The full weight of a Peak Tenth Stage demon beast's aura was on full display!