The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

293: Jier Arrives

The demon commander stretched his porcelain hand toward Ming Xi and the others.
A melon sized black sphere rushed toward them, streaking red lightning in its wake.

The sphere contained a shocking amount of destructive energy.
Had it been in its heyday, Ming Xi knew he would never have been able to block it.

Despite just breaking free from his confinement, the commander already had so much power.
He truly was an ancient demon.

Ming Xi knew it was useless to hide, but he refused to give up.
He stared at the incoming sphere as he raised his sword.

“Chirp! Chirp!” Little Seven flew to Ming Xi and blew out a small, colorful flame from her mouth.
The flame, which was a life flame, was unique to the seven-colored phoenix and was incredibly powerful despite its small size.
Little Seven’s flame was as young as she was and wouldn’t be able to stand up against the power of an ancient demon, but that didn’t mean it was worthless.

In order to protect her master, Little Seven used the strongest attack she had, which was the flame.

The flame and the black sphere collided in mid-air, creating a huge explosion.
Ming Xi tried to protect everyone with his sword as the ground shook.

Unfortunately, he had used up too much energy from the earlier clash.
If he had been outside, he could have used the power of the moon to restore his energy and heal his wounds, but it was a pity he was underground and blocked from the moon’s light.

They couldn’t escape the explosion but they were spared a direct hit from the black sphere, so they survived with non-fatal injuries.

“Cough! Cough!” Demon Wind coughed out a dirty mouthful of blood.
He felt like his innards were going to erupt.
He hadn’t expected to survive that last attack.
Thankfully Master Phoenix blocked a large part of it, otherwise the he would have died instantly.

Ming Xi used the sword to prop himself up.
He stared vigilantly at the commander.

…

Jier had already guessed something was going on inside based on the amount of demonic energy flowing out of the temple.
He knew how strong Ming Xi was, plus there was Little Seven, so there was no way Zi Cheng could have pulled anything off.
Nevertheless, an uneasy feeling niggled at Jier.
The feeling only grew as demonic energy flowed out.

Yanran and Oleen didn’t matter; he had to go in and see what was going on.

A shiver of horror ran up Yanran’s back.
Whatever was inside the temple was dangerous and she knew she didn’t want to go in.
She didn’t want to watch Jier go in either.
Between the three of them, he was the only one who could stand against the demon, so she was worried what would happen to her and Oleen if he left them.
It wouldn’t be good, that was certain.

Luckily for her, Jier wasn’t thinking about abandoning them entirely.
He took out two red lotuses.
They were the size of a baby’s palm and had traces of Blue Flame’s energy.
It would protect them even if Jier was a thousand miles away.

After getting rid of the two deadweights, Jier rushed into the temple.
A huge explosion scared him and he stopped momentarily, but quickly rushed forward again.
He increased his speed, not daring to stop.

Finally, he reached the interior room where Ming Xi and the others were.
He stood staring at Demon Wind and the commander guardedly.

“There’s no time to talk.
Help me keep him here.
I need some time to recover.” Ming Xi didn’t bother asking why Jier was still in the underground, he simply accepted the reinforcement.
With Jier there, he could recover a bit.

Jier didn’t know what was going on, but what Ming Xi said made sense.
Now wasn’t the time to ask questions.

The energy around the man clad in black was incredibly powerful and murderous.

“Alright.” Jier agreed.

“Breath of the Four Seals,” muttered the commander.
Something flashed across his eyes, but whatever it was, was quickly replaced by killing intent.

“Who are you?” Jier didn’t dare take the guy lightly.

“Heir of the Four Seals, die.”

Jier couldn’t beat him, but he could stall and give Ming Xi enough time to recover.

The demon lord commander’s attention was fully on Jier.
He showed no mercy and immediately sent out two dragons to attack.
The dragons looked just like their master, with jet black skin and crimson eyes.

Jier used air magic to defend against one while Little Seven turned into a giant ten-meter-long phoenix to fight the other.

Although the dragon was only formed out of demonic miasma, the killing intent it possessed made it difficult to deal with.

Little Seven was only able to tie with the dragon despite trying her best.
Their roars rang through the air as neither she nor the dragon backed down.
Jier stayed in one piece only because of the strength of Summer’s staff, otherwise just relying on his own abilities, he would have already been torn to pieces.

The commander stood and watched as they fought.
The murderous aura around him hadn’t diminished but he didn’t make a move.
It was like he was watching a fight between rats.

Ming Xi’s injuries had healed and his energy reserves had almost fully replenished after drinking a healing potion and eating the spiritual fruit he’d gotten from Feng Wu