I am a mage and a wet nurse, so using seven swords is not too much, right?

Chapter 1267 You Don't Believe Me? [Edited, 2 chapters combined into 1]

This time, before the fist could even land, everything suddenly went blurry.

The figure of the winged cultivator, who had been flying backward in agony, disappeared.

The spirit boat and the three cultivators on it had also vanished.

Before me lay an endless expanse of mist.

All around was silent, with only a hazy mist slowly flowing, as if it wanted to completely engulf her.

"Illusion?"

Ning Ruan raised an eyebrow, her face showing no panic but rather a hint of amusement.

"interesting."

Without a doubt, it must have been that Mirage Clan member who made the move.

The fog suddenly began to rise.

Ning Ruan looked up.

Then she saw a giant claw, magnified dozens of times, reaching out towards her.

The giant claw blotted out the sky, its fingertips gleaming with a chilling light, as if it could easily tear through the void.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, faced with this sudden and terrifying scene, they might have already lost their composure and fallen into endless fear.

Ning Ruan simply watched quietly, a faint smile playing on her lips.

"The illusion is powerful, but unfortunately, I'm only at the twelfth level; my cultivation isn't high enough!"

The words fell.

She suddenly uttered a soft shout: "Break!"

As soon as the word was uttered, the mist and giant claw before them shattered and vanished instantly, like a mirage.

The spirit boat and the four bandits from Wuyin appeared clearly before him once again.

The whole process took only a fleeting moment.

"How is this possible?! You... how could you possibly break through my illusion?"

The smug look on the Mirage Clan cultivator's face froze instantly, replaced by undisguised terror.

His illusion was so easily dispelled by the other party?

No.

In such a short time... this almost means that she didn't fall into an illusion at all.

Even when forcibly dragged in, they still maintained a clear and rational mind.

And it can quickly and forcibly break through the illusion.

"Didn't I tell you?" Ning Ruan slightly curled her lips and looked at the other person, "It's not that the illusion is not powerful, it's that you are too weak. The illusion is useless to me."

"Xiaohong!"

Ning Ruan breathed softly.

Not far away, a red light suddenly appeared.

The sharp sword light headed straight for the Mirage Clan cultivator.

The latter was instantly terrified, and the light wings on its back vibrated wildly, trying to create distance.

"Save me... save me..."

He could only direct his fear at the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan who was not far away.

The sword light arrived in an instant.

However, she was blocked by the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan who flashed in front of her.

The Earth-Listening Clan, not skilled in combat, had already hidden to the side.

The Mirage Clan can only create illusions, but what use are illusions to a sword?

He could only desperately hide behind the Azure Scale Clan cultivators.

They even tried to escape.

Ning Ruanfei leaped forward and punched the Qinglin Clan cultivator, saying, "Your opponent is me."

"Xiao Hong, go and take him down!"

She pointed ahead at the Mirage Clan cultivators who had begun to flee.

The crimson longsword retreated perfectly, transforming into a streak of crimson light that chased after the fleeing Mirage Clan cultivator at an astonishing speed.

As the Mirage Clan cultivator fled, he couldn't help but look back.

When they saw the sword light coming after them, they were so frightened that their souls almost left their bodies.

The light wings vibrated wildly, trying to shake off the pursuers.

But Xiao Hong was much faster than him, and in the blink of an eye, she had caught up with him.

"No...no!" the Mirage Clan cultivator cried out in terror.

"How foolish! Your master isn't afraid of illusions, yet you still used an illusion on him!"

Xiao Hong's childish voice was full of sarcasm.

Mirage Clan cultivator: "???"

His terrified face was immediately replaced by astonishment.

I was completely taken aback. Why would a sword talk?

Not only could it talk, it was also mocking him?

Swah——

A flash of sword light passed before my eyes.

With a deafening roar, the defensive shield hastily activated by the Mirage Clan cultivators was shattered by the sword energy.

"Help! Help me!!"

Completely unable to fight, he could only urgently call for help.

At this moment, the Feather Clan cultivators were seriously injured, the Earth Listening Clan was struggling to protect themselves, and the Azure Scale Clan cultivators were unable to escape after being attacked.

No matter how much he pleaded for help, no one came to stop him.

"No one will come to save you even if you scream!"

Xiao Hong snorted threateningly.

Another sword strike came down.

Another of the Mirage Clan cultivators' defensive shields shattered.

And on the other side...

The Azure Scale Clan cultivator felt as if he was about to die.

She was shocked to see the Feather Clan cultivators being beaten so badly that she didn't think much of it.

But now that she's the one getting beaten up... it feels completely different.

Although he appeared to be just a human cultivator at the mid-stage of the tenth realm, his fists were terrifyingly powerful.

It seemed to contain an extremely terrifying power.

With each punch, her blood surged, and her internal organs seemed to shift.

As for resistance?

This makes it even more despairing.

She is a cultivator at the twelfth realm.

Their speed and reaction time were actually inferior to that of the tenth realm cultivator in front of them.

"Who...who are you? You're not an ordinary human!"

The Azure Scale Clan cultivator stared intently at Ning Ruan, his eyes filled with fear. "An ordinary tenth-realm cultivator could never possess strength like yours!"

Upon hearing this, Ning Ruan slowed her advances slightly, looking at her with a half-smile: "Oh? Then what do you think I should be?"

The words fell.

She suddenly raised her hand, "Little Yellow, Little Orange, kill them."

As she finished speaking, two sword lights, one orange and one yellow, flew out simultaneously.

They then shot off in different directions.

Huang Jian chased after the heavily injured and fleeing Feather Clan cultivator.

Cheng Jian then chased after the Earth Listening Clan cultivator who was also trying to escape.

"Pfft-"

The dull thud of a sharp blade piercing flesh was exceptionally clear in the silent, boundless realm.

Xiao Huang pierced the back of the Feather Clan cultivator with pinpoint accuracy, drawing out a spray of scalding blood.

The winged cultivator's body stiffened abruptly, and the look of terror on his face froze instantly.

He lowered his head with difficulty, looking at the sword tip protruding from his chest, his eyes filled with resentment and despair.

He had only casually ambushed and killed a tenth-realm cultivator, so how did he end up in such a predicament?

He didn't understand.

Huang Jian didn't give him another chance to figure it out.

It was suddenly pulled out from behind his heart.

A sword was swung towards his neck...

As the sword light fell, the Feather Clan cultivator lost consciousness.

The corpse fell downwards into the boundless expanse.

The Earth Listening Clan cultivator, who was fleeing in another direction, looked back and was immediately terrified, his face turning deathly pale. A look of heartache flashed in his eyes, but he still crushed a teleportation talisman that he had prepared beforehand without hesitation.

"Om-"

A flash of white light appeared, and the figure of the Earth Listening Clan cultivator vanished from the spot, leaving only a faint spatial ripple.

The orange sword missed its target, circled once in the air, and then flew towards Ning Ruan.

"puff--"

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan was beaten again, causing her to vomit blood.

Completely powerless to fight back, she could only tightly clutch the wound on her abdomen that Ning Ruan's fist had pierced through.

"Don't kill me! I didn't mean to hurt you! If you spare my life... I'll agree to anything, even be your slave!"

Ning Ruan stopped what she was doing and looked at the other person with a half-smile: "Didn't you see? I killed your companion."

"..."

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan certainly saw it.

Because they saw it, they completely lost the will to resist.

They really dared to kill them all!

Having messed with such a formidable being, she could only accept her bad luck.

Nothing is more important than being alive.

"I was blind and offended you, fellow Daoist! I beg you to spare my life, considering how difficult my cultivation has been."

"As for companions..."

"As you know, fellow Daoist, we are all members of the Boundless Bandits, bound together by interests. Whether I die or he dies today, the outcome will be the same."

Ning Ruan slowly walked up to her, looked down at her, and remained calm:

"In that case, I dare not make you my slave, otherwise what if you betray me?"

"No, I would never betray you, fellow Daoist!"

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan was deathly pale, her eyes filled with a will to live. "If you, fellow Daoist, are willing to spare my life, I can swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao!"

Ning Ruan had not yet spoken.

Suddenly, a sharp shout came from not far away: "She's that guy's Dao Companion! You killed her Dao Companion, how could she not seek revenge?"

"!!!"

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan's expression changed drastically.

She abruptly turned her head to look at the Mirage Clan cultivator who was being entangled by the red sword and whose body was covered in sword wounds, yet who had no fatal injuries. A trace of resentment flashed in her eyes.

Ning Ruan raised an eyebrow, looking at the Qinglin Clan female cultivator with a half-smile: "Oh? I see."

"Your Daoist partner was killed by me, don't you even want revenge?"

"..."

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan opened her mouth, her expression extremely stiff.

Of course she wanted revenge.

But in this situation, how can she take revenge?

The opponent's strength far exceeded her expectations; even a thirteenth-level expert was easily killed. If she were to say she wanted revenge, wouldn't she be courting death?

There may be some affection between her and her Daoist partner, but compared to her Dao, this affection is insignificant.

"He's just a Daoist partner; he's not worth me risking my life for."

"He had more than one Daoist partner than me, but his former Daoist partners died at his hands after they were no longer of use to him."

Ning Ruan clicked her tongue twice. She had only asked casually, but she never expected to hear such gossip.

She looked the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan up and down. "You know he would kill his Daoist partners, yet you still became his Daoist partner. Aren't you afraid that you'll become the next one to be killed?"

"It's just a matter of each getting what they need!" the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan said through gritted teeth.

Ning Ruan chuckled lightly, neither saying she believed nor disbelieved.

"Your cultivation is too weak. You should be able to be the Boundless Bandits, not this weak. Your Daoist partner shouldn't be your leader, right?"

Just as the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan was about to speak, the cultivator from the Mirage Clan shouted first, "Our leader is Lord Red Flame, so it's naturally not him."

"Where is your leader? Why are there only four of you?"

"Fellow Daoist, if I tell you, can you spare my life? If you are willing to spare my life, I will tell you anything."

Ning Ruan: "..." What a traitor.

If every hostage could cooperate like that.

How much less effort does she have to put in?

Whether I spare your life or not depends on my mood. The only thing I can guarantee is that if you don't talk, you will definitely die here.

Mirage Clan cultivator: "..."

"We are a search party!" This time, it was the female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan who spoke first.

He spoke incredibly fast, as if afraid that if he spoke too slowly, that bastard from the Mirage Clan would beat him to a question.

"Fellow Daoist, having come from that area, you should also know that the Flame Spider Clan and the Crocodile Clan are at war. We are looking for cultivators who have left the war zone and then report back to the leader..."

She didn't say anything more.

Saying anything will only further enrage this scoundrel in front of me.

Ning Ruan looked at her and slowly opened her lips: "You saw me but didn't report to the chief. It seems you wanted to kill me while you were at it."

Qinglin Clan cultivator: "..."

Mirage Clan cultivator: "..."

That is certainly true.

But who dares to admit it?

The two remained silent, but Ning Ruan didn't mind and continued to ask, "How many people are there in total?"

“I…I don’t know the exact number.” The Mirage Clan cultivator’s voice trembled. “But as far as I know, there are at least fifty cultivators.”

"The leader had about twenty cultivators with him, and the rest of the people were all divided into small teams, just like us, mainly responsible for searching the surrounding area..."

"Have you been robbing people in this area all along?" Ning Ruan asked.

The word "robbery" sounds a bit harsh.

But upon closer examination, that's exactly what they were doing.

The Mirage Clan cultivators dared not refute, shaking their heads repeatedly: "No... no, we don't have a fixed area, but we just happened to pass by here and learned about the war between the Flame Spider Clan and the Crocodile Clan."

Ning Ruan said "Oh," and then asked, "What do you do with the cultivators you capture?"

"If we can capture them alive, and they are valuable, then... we'll sell them. If they resist fiercely and we can't capture them alive, we'll have to kill them and take their storage artifacts," the Mirage Clan cultivator explained tremblingly.

He spoke while observing Ning Ruan's expression.

But even after he finished speaking, no expression could be seen on Ning Ruan's face.

They can't distinguish between joy and anger.

Ning Ruan nodded, about to ask another question.

A whooshing sound suddenly came from afar.

A spirit boat is flying rapidly toward us.

Two cultivators, one tall and one short, stood on the spirit boat, piloting it together. They looked rather disheveled and were both injured.

But when passing by.

The obviously older cultivator still urgently called out to the group, "Fellow Daoists, leave this place quickly, the Boundless Bandits are about to catch up."

As the sound faded, the spirit boat vanished in an instant, disappearing from sight in no time.

Ning Ruan withdrew her gaze and looked at the two prisoners in front of her with a light smile: "Is this your leader?"

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan and the cultivator from the Mirage Clan exchanged a glance, then shook their heads.

The female cultivator from the Azure Scale Clan readily replied, "I don't know. Now that the two clans are at war, if we can think of coming here to ambush and kill cultivators who are trying to escape, the other Boundless Bandits can naturally think of the same thing..."

The Mirage Clan cultivator echoed, "It is indeed impossible to determine whether they are the leader."

They used to hate each other so much they wanted the other to die, but now they've suddenly become united.

Ning Ruan raised an eyebrow: "You're not trying to stall for time, are you? To wait until your leader comes to rescue you?"

Qinglin Clan cultivator: "..."

Mirage Clan cultivator: "..."

The two were clearly panicked.

"Fellow Daoist, you misunderstand. We really didn't know if the person who came was our leader..." the female cultivator from the Qinglin Clan explained urgently.

The Mirage Clan cultivators nodded repeatedly.

“Actually…” Ning Ruan narrowed her eyes slightly, “it doesn’t matter if you’re stalling for time.”

"Even if your leader doesn't come looking for me, I might go looking for him."

"..."

The two bandits remained silent.

But their expressions clearly showed what they were thinking at that moment.

"You don't believe it?"

Ning Ruan asked.