The Ice Demoness Loves

Chapter 10: Surprise on the Mission

A girl wearing lavender robes ran towards a water figure that was standing at the edge of a pond and slashed her sword across the demon's chest, creating splashes of water that splattered outwards, sparkling like pearls as the sunshine was reflected back.

It roared from the pain and enlarged its body. This was his domain. No one could defeat him!

"QiaoHua! Retreat!" Wei SuSu pulled Wu QiaoHua to the side as a sword stabbed the area she had stood and then dissipated and turned into water. Both rolled to the side and their robes absorbed the pond water that splashed on the ground, wetting their skirts and sleeves.

The demon smiled and raised his hand. But before he could do anything, a sword pierced through his chest from behind.

"Get away from the water!" an older male cultivator, who looked to be around twenty, yelled. He had flown behind the demon while the demon was distracted.

"Senior Brother ZiHao! Be careful!" Wei SuSu pulled Wu QiaoHua up and they flew out from the water's edge.

The demon screamed and grabbed Chai ZiHao's neck, choking him. "How dare you cultivators try to get in my way?!" The water coming out of his eyes dripped down his pale face like greasy oil.

"It's their fault I am like this! They killed me and threw me in here after torturing me for refusing to hand over my daughter! I will find them and kill them! Make them suffer!" Ominous energy emitted from his body and stormed around them as he fed on his own anger and his tears turned to a muddy black.

Chai ZiHao struggled to breathe and his trembling hand managed to hold onto the sword embedded in the demon's chest. He quickly gathered chi into his sword and tightened his grip. At the same time, Wei SuSu put two fingers up and summoned her sword, as it flew in the sky towards the demon.

"Ha!" She swung her fingers to the side and her weapon attacked the demon first. Chai ZiHao managed to take out his sword and he fell once the demon screamed from the pain of sword chi invading his body.

"Ahhh!" the demon screamed with his pale lips and staggered in the water. His pupils tainted in black glared at them and his body dissolved into the water.

"Don't let him get away!" Wei SuSu yelled and jumped upwards, grabbing her sword and stabbing into the surface of the pond. But it was too late.

When they regrouped at the edge of the water, all of them looked disheveled and were wet from head to toe.

"What do we do now?" Wu QiaoHua asked worriedly. "I thought my attack would have defeated him, but the cut was too shallow."

Wei SuSu frowned and was lost in thought.

"We have to somehow lure him back up again," Chai ZiHao said.

"But it would be hard. The water demon is injured and won't come back up so easily."

Wei SuSu was silent and just as she was about to express her opinions, she noticed the wet ground. As they were chatting, they didn't realize that the water was slowly rising towards them.

"QiaoHua!" Before she could push Wu QiaoHua aside, the water caught its prey, circling around her leg and dragging Wu QiaoHua towards the pond.

Wu QiaoHua bit her lips nervously and held her sword, slashing at the water that constantly regenerated. Soon, her body was going underwater and she coughed as she struggled to breathe. She had to hold her breath as water entered her ears and she closed her eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, she could see the demon holding her ankle and smirking evilly. Her movement underwater slowed and she struggled to swing her sword properly. She also felt a sudden dark pressure, weighing her body down that made her movements stiff and disconnected.