She heard many chaotic footsteps approaching from afar. From the weight of the steps, the group coming was likely still those devils.
Just in the time it took to exchange a few words, Ling Xiaoyou heard the devil’s footsteps again.
Thinking this, Ling Xiaoyou frowned slightly.
Did the devils still have this many troops inside the Exorcists Association?
Or had these devils actually arrived from outside later?
Ling Xiaoyou didn’t dwell too much on the question, because those footsteps had already reached the corner of the corridor. In just a little more distance, they would meet her.
‘Strike first to gain the upper hand!’
The thought flashed through her mind. As Ling Xiaoyou’s hand quietly condensed a water gun from the water flow, she suddenly lunged out from the corner and threw the water gun with all her strength.
With a loud crack, the water gun struck the devil in his horrified gaze and triggered a water explosion.
The water blast blew the devil’s upper body to pieces, and countless blood sprayed out like a fountain. Then, for an instant, the blood paused midair as if following some command.
The blood transformed into several blood spears, identical in shape to the previous water gun but made of blood instead.
The blood spears shot outward in all directions, piercing through the surrounding devils and exploding again inside their bodies.
Like a chain reaction, the blood spears kept shooting, piercing, and exploding. For a time, nothing remained in the corridor but the screams of devils and the sound of water explosions.
Not much time passed before the corridor held only Ling Xiaoyou and the figures of Team Leader Lin and the Patrol Envoy, who were being carried behind her by water tentacles.
“As expected, dealing with living beings that have blood requires this kind of method. Hmm, who would have thought that my first attempt at controlling blood would turn out surprisingly well?”
With Hong Lingyan’s help, Ling Xiaoyou had absorbed the Nether Spring Ghost Crystal through various concoctions and gained the ability to control water.
She had never realized before that this power over water could also include blood. After all, she didn’t fight often, and even when she did, most opponents were spirits like herself, without blood, so it was hard to notice.
But during the recent competitions, after fighting living creatures, she gradually became aware of this. However, since it was somewhat gory and might leave a bad impression, she set the idea aside for the time.
But today, when she could treat devils as nothing more than lives to be eliminated, Ling Xiaoyou put it into practice for the first time.
And the result left her fairly satisfied.
Although she couldn’t control the blood inside a living creature, she could control it once it left the body. Perhaps this had something to do with spiritual will.
Maybe when her cultivation realm was higher, she could try to control the blood inside living beings.
While thinking, Ling Xiaoyou kept moving, following Team Leader Lin’s previous directions and running toward the outside of the building.
The blood on the floor spread like small streams, but as Ling Xiaoyou passed, it consciously parted to reveal the clean ground beneath, like Moses parting the sea in myth.
Seeing this, Team Leader Lin looked at Ling Xiaoyou with a complex expression.
It wasn’t sympathy for the devils. Regarding Ling Xiaoyou’s actions, she could only say one word:
“Well done!”
Creatures like devils should be completely eradicated.
The reason her gaze was complex was because she could tell that Ling Xiaoyou was clearly unfamiliar with controlling blood earlier, yet that chain blood explosion technique was exquisitely refined, completely at odds with that unfamiliarity.
Even if Ling Xiaoyou had already conceived of it before, to be this skilled on her first try could only mean one thing.
This girl had exceptional talent!
Thinking this, Team Leader Lin watched Ling Xiaoyou running ahead, and a desire to steal her away crept into her eyes.
With such a promising seedling, just letting her scare people to collect grievance points was a huge waste of talent!
Of course, she should join their Regulatory Division and fight against powerful, dangerous enemies to realize her value!
But when she thought of the Chief of the Ghostly Resentment Office, Team Leader Lin silently dismissed the idea.
She estimated that if she actually dared to do that, Hong Lingyan would personally come knocking to help her “eliminate” that thought.
Better to forget it. She couldn’t afford that blessing.
Ling Xiaoyou, of course, had no idea about the thoughts that had just crossed Team Leader Lin’s mind while being carried.
She only felt as if someone was staring at her. She stayed alert for a while, but after finding no trace of an enemy, she picked up the pace again.
After dealing with a few more waves of devils blocking her path, Ling Xiaoyou led the two behind her back to the road outside the building, following the path they had taken.
Originally, she expected to see the Regulatory Division patrols standing guard.
But what she saw was a battlefield.
Yes, a battlefield.
At this moment, devils were pouring in from all directions like an invading army. If the Regulatory Division patrols hadn’t set up a defensive law array around the Exorcists Association, those devils would have already crossed the barrier and entered the Association.
Glancing at the devils crowding the surrounding streets, Ling Xiaoyou was puzzled about why so many had charged here, but now was clearly not the time to ponder.
She handed Team Leader Lin and the unconscious Patrol Envoy over to the medical personnel who, upon spotting her, appeared to be temporarily leading the group in Team Leader Lin’s absence. Then she approached a man who looked somewhat rigid and formal.
Ling Xiaoyou vaguely remembered that Team Leader Lin had called him Vice Captain, meaning he was the highest-ranking person here besides Team Leader Lin.
“Hurry and reinforce the formation patterns! If the spirit stones run out, replenish them with your own spirit power. Don’t let the devils break through the defenses!”
The Vice Captain kept issuing orders to his subordinates. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a little girl approaching.
He remembered that this girl was one of the young women the captain had planned to send through the teleportation gate earlier.
But wasn’t she supposed to have left already? How had she come back?
Maybe she hadn’t made it out before the restriction sealed the teleportation array?
Just as the Vice Captain was thinking this, he heard the girl beside him speak:
“Is there anything I can do to help?”
“Help? No need. Just go wait over there. We have everything under control here.”
The Vice Captain waved dismissively and brushed Ling Xiaoyou off.
He didn’t think a fragile-looking girl like her could do anything. As long as she didn’t cause trouble at a time like this, that was enough.
“Um, but…”
Just as Ling Xiaoyou wanted to say more, the Vice Captain ignored her and turned to assign other tasks to his men.
Seeing this, Ling Xiaoyou puffed out her cheeks, but she understood it was normal for the Vice Captain not to trust her.
If she were in his shoes, at such a critical moment, she wouldn’t want a little girl’s help either.
That said, she couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.
Ling Xiaoyou thought for a moment, then noticed a patrol member constantly replacing the spirit stones in the law array. An idea struck her.