"Well, this matter... It's a long story. I don't want to waste my breath talking to you today. Hand over your life obediently, and I might spare your friend's life!"
The mirror demon let out another shrill laugh. "One life for another. It's a pretty good deal, isn't it?"
This time, before Feng Yunshu could say a word, Helan Yanting beside her stared coldly at the mirror demon and said in a deep voice, "How dare you! If you want my princess's life, have you asked me?"
The mirror demon looked at Helan Yanting. Hearing his words, it suddenly trembled all over. That tone, that expression...
It was impossible. Although the man in front of it had an extraordinary aura, after looking him up and down, it was just an ordinary mortal. There was not a trace of demonic aura on him. It could never be the Demon Lord.
"Just an ordinary mortal prince, yet so arrogant and presumptuous in front of me. You have no idea of the immensity of heaven and earth. I must teach you a lesson!"
As the voice fell, the mirror demon suddenly released a cloud of black mist, which quickly pounced on Feng Yunshu and Helan Yanting.
Helan Yanting narrowed his eyes slightly, quickly hugged Feng Yunshu around her slender waist, and leaped with her to a rock nearby. Feng Yunshu cooperated with him and released a spiritual energy ball from her hand, throwing it at the mirror demon.
"I didn't expect an ordinary mortal like you to have such good lightness skills. But it's nothing compared to my speed!"
The mirror demon suddenly changed its form, turning into a black shadow carrying a thick cloud of black mist and charging straight at them. Helan Yanting and Feng Yunshu's vision was dimmed by the black mist.
Feng Yunshu immediately covered her eyes with spiritual energy and soon saw where the mirror demon was. Seeing that the mirror demon was about to charge over, she immediately used her spiritual energy to create a barrier that wrapped her and Helan Yanting inside.
"Your Highness, it's in the southeast direction. Be careful!"
Helan Yanting nodded upon hearing this and hugged Feng Yunshu, leaping in another direction to avoid it.
At the same time, he threw out the hidden weapons in his sleeves towards the mirror demon. However, the ordinary hidden weapons used by mortals couldn't hurt the mirror demon at all. The mirror demon knocked all the hidden arrows to the ground and laughed triumphantly.
"Is that all you've got? I don't have time to play with you!"
After saying that, the mirror demon suddenly gathered powerful demonic energy. The entire bamboo forest around them roared, and all the bamboo began to tilt and sway violently. Soon, a large number of bamboo snapped.
Finally, the mirror demon condensed this powerful demonic energy into a huge black ball and smashed it rapidly towards where Feng Yunshu and Helan Yanting were. "Let me send you two straight to the Yellow Springs!"
The black demonic ball in front of them was much more powerful than the previous one. Before the ball flew over, the barrier that Feng Yunshu had propped up had already made a cracking sound under the erosion of the wind.
Feng Yunshu gritted her teeth and used all her spiritual energy to try to repair the barrier. However, even so, the spiritual energy barrier was still visibly cracking.
"Master, Xiaoling is here to help you!"
Just then, Xiaoling, who had been waiting outside the barrier, saw that something was wrong and rushed into the barrier. Seeing that Feng Yunshu's spiritual energy barrier was about to break, Xiaoling immediately used her own spiritual energy to help Feng Yunshu repair the barrier.
At the same time, Xiaoling spat out a ball of flames from her mouth and shot it at the mirror demon.
"A mere fox spirit beast dares to fight me? You're simply overestimating yourself!"
The mirror demon let out a low growl and split out an avatar, turning it into a cloud of black mist and flying towards Xiaoling.
"Xiaoling! Quick, get out of the way!"
This was the situation of a huge disparity in strength. Facing the black mist flying towards her from the mirror demon, Xiaoling, who had a big gap in strength, couldn't move at all. Her whole body was enveloped by this strong demonic energy, and she could only open her eyes wide and watch the black mist charge towards her.
If she was hit by this black mist, even if Xiaoling was lucky enough to survive, she would probably be seriously injured. Feng Yunshu's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and she naturally couldn't stand by and do nothing.
Her body had already reacted before her brain. She gritted her teeth and had to split half of her spiritual energy into a spiritual rope to tie Xiaoling and pull her out of the dangerous situation.
However, it was just this moment that the huge demonic ball had already approached. The barrier that Feng Yunshu had propped up instantly shattered. Her and Helan Yanting's bodies trembled violently at this moment and began to be blown up by the strong wind carried by the demonic ball.
Helan Yanting's face tightened. He quickly reached out to grab Feng Yunshu, but the mirror demon beside them seemed to be teasing the two of them. It directly split them apart with a gust of wind.
"Poof—"
Feng Yunshu's whole body's spiritual energy was broken through by the mirror demon, directly exhausting her dantian. She spat out a mouthful of thick blood.
"Madam!"
Helan Yanting let out a low growl. A strong energy suddenly emerged in his body, as if a suddenly active volcano was about to erupt.
Feng Yunshu intuitively felt that her dantian had been seriously injured. Her body was in severe pain as if it had been heavily crushed. In the end, she couldn't control her body at all and could only helplessly let her body fall like a broken kite.
Feng Yunshu's consciousness was gradually blurring. Her eyelids were extremely heavy. She tried hard to open her eyes to see if Helan Yanting was injured and safe, but she really didn't have the strength...
Before her eyes completely closed, in Feng Yunshu's sight, Helan Yanting was leaping towards her in a flurry of panic. "Madam!"
Looking at his outstretched arm, Feng Yunshu tried to raise her limp arm, but after struggling for a moment, only her fingers moved slightly. Her whole arm was as heavy as if filled with lead and couldn't be lifted at all.
"Your... " She couldn't even say the last word. Feng Yunshu's body had reached its limit and slowly closed her eyes.
"Master! Master, don't scare Xiaoling!"
Xiaoling, who had been saved by her master, hadn't reacted yet when she saw Feng Yunshu spit out a mouthful of blood and then faint.
Xiaoling rushed up excitedly, released all the spiritual energy in her body, enlarged her body, and flew up to firmly catch Feng Yunshu's falling body.
"Haha..." The mirror demon beside them laughed triumphantly when it saw this situation. "It's useless. No matter what you mortals do, you can't save her. Her dantian has completely collapsed, and her meridians are all broken. This body will slowly stiffen and completely stop breathing and die before long."
"No! My master won't die so easily! Shut up! I'm going to avenge my master. I'm going to kill you, you devil! Die!"
Xiaoling was extremely emotional. Her eyes were scarlet as she stared fiercely at the mirror demon. After gently placing Feng Yunshu under a nearby tree, she quickly stuffed a pill into her mouth.
After doing all this, Xiaoling gathered all the spiritual energy in her body, spat out a blazing flame from her mouth, and charged towards the mirror demon with flames burning all over her body.
"I, Xiaoling, will surely fight you to the death even if I die here today! You hurt my master. I'll make you suffer a terrible death and be reduced to ashes!"
The mirror demon watched Xiaoling, who was ablaze all over, charge towards it. It had already gathered strength in its hand, and a barrier like a mirror gradually emerged. Just now, it had used this to directly bounce back Feng Yunshu's spiritual energy ball.
If Xiaoling charged up directly with this attack, the rebound effect would definitely be much more powerful than the rebound damage of Feng Yunshu's spiritual energy ball just now. However, Xiaoling's reason had already been burned away by anger at this moment. She was determined to avenge her master and burn this evil creature that had hurt her master!
"Xiaoling, don't go forward!"