Chapter 33 Isn't Enough

"Not good."

Hu Ma, seeing that things were going awry, wanted to draw his knife and join the fray.

Miss Red Wine's puppetry skills were truly eye-opening, and they had even wounded Ji Tang, the Beggar Clan Leader, who seemed to possess invulnerability.

But the key was that Ji Tang wasn't stupid. He had found her through the strings and had a sharp blade in hand. She was, after all, a member of the Tricks Clan. She might have many tricks up her sleeve, but how could she possibly gain an advantage over an In-Residence Guardian in close combat?

Seeing that Miss Red Wine was forced to engage him because of his blade attacks, he was worried that she would suffer a great loss.

"This guy guessed that I would take this opportunity to get rid of him."

But just as Hu Ma wanted to charge forward with his knife, Miss Red Wine's voice suddenly rang out beside him. At the same time, a slender, jade-like hand rested on his shoulder. Hu Ma hurriedly turned around and saw Miss Red Wine standing beside him.

She said calmly, "But I just scouted around, and there don't seem to be any ambushes."

"It seems he's really confident in his own abilities. He stole a treasured saber and thought he could kill me."

"I can't deny that this method is simple, but it's also effective. The strings I use to control the puppets are made from the silk spun by ice silkworms fed with Blood Lingzhi. If it weren't for that treasured saber, they wouldn't be able to be cut."

Hu Ma listened, and the more he thought about it, the more sense it made.

The scene was strange, even unsettling.

"..."

Where exactly had Miss Red Wine been hiding before?

"Watch carefully. I'm giving you a training session."

Miss Red Wine glanced at him and explained, "What life-saving method is more detailed and useful than this?"

Miss Red Wine then said calmly, "Or rather, I'm teaching you how to survive after entering the Residence."

Hu Ma looked at Miss Red Wine, "What do you mean?"

But thinking carefully, before Miss Red Wine appeared beside him, when he looked over, he also felt that the tree looked like Miss Red Wine.

"If you take something from him, you can cast a curse on him and diminish his luck."

"In-Residence Guardians are hard to kill, but they're not impossible to kill. The move I'm going to use on him today is the move that others might use on you in the future. If you see the disadvantage he suffers, you'll know what to guard against in the future."

But what level of illusion would it take to confuse an In-Residence Guardian like this?

Illusion?

"You… she…"

Miss Red Wine looked at Ji Tang, who was wielding his knife and slashing wildly at the big tree and the wooden figure, and said with a cold smile, "Yesterday, when he was enjoying himself with his little lover, Old Gao Liang was guarding outside his house. Wouldn't it be simple to get some of his things?"

"With the Beggar Clan Leader's mind, he shouldn't have been trapped by this illusion for so long, but he's been cursed and his luck has been diminished, so he's slow-witted, unclear-sighted, and makes foolish moves one after another."

Ji Tang was currently wielding his saber and fighting fiercely against the big tree, which had a piece of red cloth wrapped around it.

But strangely, now that he was standing beside it watching, it was clearly just a piece of red cloth wrapped around the tree. It didn't look like Miss Red Wine at all, but Ji Tang was hacking away at the wooden figure with great earnestness, even with a fierce expression on his face.

"So, at this time, he's not only caught in my illusion, but also in Old Gao Liang's curse!"

"Survival?"

Hu Ma looked at Miss Red Wine, who seemed thoughtful, and quickly turned around to look at the big tree again. Only then did he suddenly realize that there was no Miss Red Wine fighting with Ji Tang.

"When fortune comes, heaven and earth lend a hand; when luck departs, even heroes are helpless…"

"When this time comes, one must be pure of heart and few of desires, refrain from impatience and anger, not make rash decisions, and patiently wait for this bad luck to pass."

"A person's fate will naturally dissolve the curse. As long as you can endure during this period, the influence will disappear. But if you must make a decision during this time, especially an important decision, then the faster you make it, the sooner you die."

"..."

Hu Ma listened, deeply enlightened.

Not only Ji Tang, who was cursed, but wouldn't people occasionally be like this?

Usually, everything is fine, but suddenly there is a period of time when bad luck seems to come all at once, and the more you rush to solve it and the more you get angry, the more troublesome the situation becomes.

When luck is gone, you can only wait patiently for the bad luck to pass. Of course, Ji Tang is now in the midst of a fierce battle and has no choice.

"However, even so, it's extremely difficult to kill this In-Residence Guardian…"

Just as he was thinking this, Miss Red Wine had already stepped forward slowly and whispered, "We must cut off his retreat before this mad donkey reacts."

As she spoke, she opened her palm, revealing several dimly shining silver needles. After a moment's thought, she first handed one of the silver needles to Hu Ma and said, "I'll borrow one of your hands later. You just need to insert the silver needle horizontally."

"What do you mean, 'borrow one of my hands'?"

Hu Ma hadn't quite reacted yet, but Miss Red Wine had already stepped forward.

She picked up a silver needle, found an angle, and gently blew on it. With a soft "chi" sound, the silver needle flew out from her palm and accurately pierced an acupoint on Ji Tang's neck, only very shallowly.

Then she circled around to the side, took a few quick steps, and flicked out another silver needle using a different technique.

It also pierced Ji Tang's body, at another acupoint.

Adding the four silver needles that had been pierced into Ji Tang earlier, Ji Tang now had six silver needles in his body.

But Ji Tang was still unaware and was still fighting with the big tree and the wooden figure. He was just regarding the slight numbness in his body as injuries he had sustained in his direct confrontation with Miss Red Wine.

Miss Red Wine then came to a position slightly closer to him and aimed at his Tanzhong acupoint in front of his chest. She pinched her two fingers together and was about to rub them into his acupoint.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Ji Tang, who was slashing at the big tree, suddenly flashed a fierce light in his eyes and abruptly charged out, slashing his saber directly at Miss Red Wine, who had come to the left side of his body and was preparing to insert a needle into him.

The force of the blade was fierce and sharp, seemingly carrying the anger he had endured for a long time.

"Not good!"

Hu Ma saw it at a glance and his heart jumped. He immediately understood.

That fellow hadn't failed to notice that he was trapped in an illusion; he was just waiting for an opportunity.

He seemed to be mad and ferocious, exchanging blows with the big tree and deeply trapped in the illusion, unaware of anything, but in fact, he had long realized that something was wrong and was just waiting for an opportunity.

Miss Red Wine was applying needles to him, and he patiently endured it, but he also used the angle at which the silver needles broke through the air and his body was stressed to determine Miss Red Wine's true position.

Until this moment, the position was determined and the distance was the closest.

Having endured for so long, he immediately slashed with his saber, the force of the blade fierce and soul-snatching.

"Hmm?"

Miss Red Wine was also slightly stunned, seemingly a little surprised. Immediately, she gently raised her hand. Facing the opponent's violent and terrifying saber, her movements were the exact opposite, seeming not very fast at all, and the movements were so gentle as to be light touches.

Meeting the sharp blade, her fingers gently pushed, slightly changing the downward momentum of the saber. It brushed against her body and fell, stirring up a patch of sand and soil.

This was simply a push that used skill to the extreme. The movement contained a kind of artistic beauty.

"Finally found you…"

But Ji Tang's throat also squeezed out a sinister sneer.

In the next moment, he stepped forward, and the force of the blade became even more fierce.

Facing the Tricks Clan, it was difficult to distinguish the truth from the false, but now, he knew he had caught the real person.

The controlled puppets, or the shadows in the illusion, no matter how real they were, could never use such skillful force.

And for an In-Residence Guardian, as long as he caught the real person, he was not far from ending the battle.

He slashed one saber after another, becoming more and more ferocious and more and more ruthless.

Even Hu Ma noticed Miss Red Wine's danger. It was a real danger. Even if Miss Red Wine used her skill, she could only hold on for a while, but how could she continue to survive under such a saber attack?

He already wanted to draw his saber and step forward to help, but he also thought of Miss Red Wine's instructions and dared not make a rash decision, ruining her plan.

She said she wanted to borrow his hand, and he could only wait for her to come and borrow it.

Fortunately, just as he was anxious, he suddenly heard Miss Red Wine's voice, "It's time."

Hu Ma's mind raced. Without thinking, he suddenly pinched the silver needle and stabbed it forward.

As he touched it, he only felt a burst of cold and slipperyness, as if clumps of yin energy were about to freeze his palm. No matter how accurately he stabbed the silver needle, under the influence of this yin energy, it would suddenly be deviated.

But Hu Ma was, after all, an In-Residence Guardian. He could also turn the living into the dead. His palm was stiff and firm, steadily pinching the thorn in his hand, not deviating, and stabbing forward horizontally.

"Chi!"

The moment the silver needle fell, Hu Ma knew.

It hit.

…

…

At this time, in the eyes of Beggar Clan Leader Ji Tang, he had finally caught the real person of this Tricks Clan member, and now he could not let her escape no matter what.

The fact was also true. He looked miserable and bloody, but the In-Residence Guardians did not take this kind of injury seriously at all. Instead, he used his skills at this time, and his saber attacks became more and more fierce, only intending to kill Han Niangzi with one strike.

He also knew that Han Niangzi was approaching him in order to stick silver needles into his body.

But he didn't really care, because the In-Residence Guardians mobilized their yin energy, and even if the other party dropped a needle, it would be deviated.

And if it was deviated, the silver needle entering the body would not be much more powerful than a mosquito bite.

On the other hand, he had a rare opportunity. He deliberately sold a flaw in front of Han Niangzi, revealing his Tanzhong acupoint, and then took the opportunity to force Han Niangzi's hands with one saber, and it seemed that he could take her life.

But he did not expect that a third hand suddenly stretched out from Han Niangzi's arms. This hand was also pinching a silver needle, and it was not afraid of his yin energy, and stabbed straight over.

Not deviating, it just happened to pierce his chest acupoint.

Ji Tang was suddenly stunned and thought to himself, "Not good."

At the same moment, Miss Red Wine retreated lightly and said calmly, "It's done."

(End of Chapter)