Refining the Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 1231 – Shadow

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Qin Yu paused. He discovered that he had underestimated Peachy’s methods. Right now, there were two Peachys going in different directions, and their auras were exactly the same. It was impossible to tell who the real one was.

But this was also good. As the Spring Master’s only daughter, having such formidable self-preservation skills was normal.

Qin Yu had no idea which was the real one himself. After asking Old Turtle, he was given a surprising answer after a brief silence. Both of them were fake!

She was intelligent enough!

His figure flickered and he drew close to the sea level as he howled far away. The sun and moon force field covered him as he flitted across like a black shadow.

If Peachy could safely escape, then that would naturally be for the best.

Although Qin Yu had already been prepared to help her no matter the cost, wasn’t it good to leave in peace? Unless someone had a hole in their brain, no one wanted to get close to death.

He arrived. Peachy was in the sea not too far away from here.

After receiving Old Turtle’s repeated confirmation, he looked into the distance and then sank into the water.

He would wait here. Wait for Peachy to escape danger, or wait for the time to go all-out!

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Peachy had been caught up to.

Although she couldn’t see a single shadow when she looked around, she could still feel that ice-cold sensation sticking close to her.

She lifted a hand and pointed down. With a fierce shake, ripples spread outwards, leaving nowhere to hide.

“I never thought I would be so lucky to choose the main body.” With a quiet chuckle, a shadow appeared from the shaking space.

Looking at this person, he really was just a shadow. Although there was the outline of his body, he had no facial features at all.

“Who are you?”

“Miss Peachy, this question is very stupid. I don’t want to be torn to shreds by the angry Spring Master in the future, so I can only ask you to die as soon as possible.” The shadow suddenly rushed forward, leaving behind a series of afterimages in his wake, as if he was dragging a black line behind him.

He instantly approached, raising a hand and pointing between Peachy’s eyebrows.

This finger was strange. It was clearly slow, but Peachy seemed to have lost her soul. She could only stare on blankly and watch it with a dazed expression.

No, something was wrong!

Although her eyes were slowed, they were filled with anxiousness. If one looked closely, they could see that her exposed fingertips were shivering beneath her robes.

Peachy wanted to dodge, but she couldn’t move at all!

Pa –

With a light sound, the fingertip pointed between her eyebrows. But at this time the shadow coughed out loud. With another soft sound and at almost the same time, a similar penetrating wound appeared between the shadow’s eyebrows.

As if even though his finger had landed on Peachy’s body, he was the one who had to withstand it.

But in the end, Peachy was still struck.

The brilliance in her eyes faded away. Like a mirror falling to the ground, she was blown into countless fragments that rapidly tumbled away.

“Shadow body!”

The shadow clenched his teeth and shouted out loud. His finger had destroyed Peachy’s shadow body, but he had also suffered a backlash from the shadow body. It was the equivalent of being struck with his own all-out attack.

His wound wriggled and regenerated, but the speed wasn’t that fast.

Although he was just a shadow, it clearly wasn’t easy for a shadow to have the strength to kill Peachy.

Because he was situated between illusion and reality, and this shadow was closely linked to his main body.

“Humph!”

The shadow coldly humphed and turned to leave. Then, he stopped. Since a shadow body appeared, then that other Peachy might not be the real one either.

With a slight hesitation, the shadow took a deep breath and grasped downwards. A mass of sea water rose up from below him, unfolding and forming a curtain of water.

Countless ripples appeared on the surface of the water curtain, as if innumerable fine particles of sand had quietly fallen into it.

The countless ripples collided into each other. The water curtain should have been blurred, but it actually formed extremely clear images.

As if…the images that appeared were condensed from the ripples that collided together.

Peachy appeared within the images. She took out a peach blossom, condensing a shadow body before she turned and left. The shadow wanted to see more but he suddenly groaned as the wound between his eyebrows popped and broke open once again.

The ripples on the water curtain turned chaotic and the images disappeared, turning into mist that returned to the East Sea.

“Damn it!” The shadow gnashed. Peachy really did have a secret. Even with his cultivation, just peeping at it caused another backlash to him.

But, he had locked onto her main body!

Shua –

The shadow stepped out and vanished from sight.

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In an empty space 10,000 feet below the deep sea.

Peachy’s fingers moved. The rune she was condensing suddenly shattered.

And similar runes had already gathered in front of her. They were dense and numerous, surging with light that flowed amidst each other.

Looking up, her eyes deepened as if she was watching something happen in the distance.

The first shadow body had already vanished.

This was quicker than she expected. With her shadow having been smoothly killed after such a short period of time, things weren’t proceeding as she had anticipated. A Saint had begun to move!

Moreover, this Saint was strong, at least stronger than she imagined. When the Scholartree Saint made a move, he really allowed no room for errors.

Looking at the dense and numerous runes in front of her, Peachy frowned. Facts proved that her initial estimates were insufficient. She needed to figure out a way to buy more time.

Several breaths of time later, her eyes flashed with a sharp light. She could only take a risk!

With a thought, her aura suddenly passed through the empty space.

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Shua –

The shadow appeared in midair. He looked into the distance. There, Peachy’s aura had suddenly appeared.

If there was no accident, this should be the second shadow body he saw. But, the feeling this aura gave off was different…

Although a shadow body was known to be an exact duplicate of the main body, there were inevitably some differences.

This aura gave off an extremely realistic feeling, so realistic that he doubted whether or not what he sensed was the truth.

As the shadow was hesitating, he locked onto the distantly fleeing Peachy. Her speed had suddenly risen.

The shocking increase in speed almost reached the level of a Saint. Although Peachy’s cultivation wasn’t low and she had cards given to her by the Spring Master, she would have to pay an enormous price for this.

The shadow’s eyes erupted with a sharp light. In an instant, he saw through the ‘truth’!

Peachy had exposed the second shadow body on her own initiative, and wanted to use its ultra-realistic aura to draw him over. Then, that would buy time for her main body to escape.action

That’s right, this had to be it.

Otherwise, how could the second shadow body hidden in the sea have released its aura on its own initiative?

Humph!

Peachy had no idea that she had already been exposed, yet she wanted to fool him with such a small trick?

It was simply laughable!

Shua –

The shadow instantly vanished, chasing after the fleeing Peachy.

He was currently situated between illusion and reality. While he couldn’t display the full power of his main body, there were still other benefits. For instance, the speed of this shadow was a little faster than his main body.

No matter how fast Peachy fled, the result was already doomed!

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In the sea, Qin Yu’s eyes flashed. He had approximately guessed Peachy’s intentions.

She seemed cold and indifferent on the surface, but she had a calm and intuitive mind, as well as a resolute and courageous heart.

And more importantly, she had succeeded.

The one that chased after her had been lured away by the second shadow body, granting more time to her main body.

This left Qin Yu gratified. As he said before, if he could avoid risking his life, he would certainly do his best to avoid it.

He hoped she could successfully escape!

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Bang –

With a loud explosion, the dodging Peachy was split asunder in midair, her body torn to pieces.

Seeing the fragments of her body tumble and vanish in the air, although the shadow had no facial features, his constrained aura allowed one to easily guess what sort of expression he must be making at this time.

He had been played!

The one he chased after was a shadow body!

Pa –

Pa –

Light cracking sounds constantly spread out from the shadow, forming fissures.

After killing the shadow body, he had to withstand the backlash. Even though he was prepared, the taste wasn’t any better.

But now, the shadow didn’t have any time to savor the pain or to spout any words like ‘interesting’ or ‘let’s see where you ran off to’.

Because he had already been mistaken twice and now Peachy really did have the chance to escape. He had received something precious for his help this time, but if he failed this mission, he would have to pay back a price several times the original.

Shua –

Without a single word, the shadow flew towards Peachy.