Sold for 300, I Fight Back with Superpowers

Many of today’s Onmyoji and Feng Shui Masters attack their opponents by using hypnosis or other methods to create an Illusion Realm. Those lacking the strength or mental fortitude are helpless against such techniques.

As the Great Elder of the Ye Yue Family, Ye Yue Taishun’s skills were even more advanced. The Illusion Realms he crafted blurred the line between illusion and reality. They not only inflicted mental torment but also caused a variety of physical injuries. Furthermore, the black smoke clinging to the paper dolls was poisonous and would enter the body through any wound. Without the Ye Yue Family’s antidote, one’s life would be in grave danger.

In other words, Ye Yue Taishun was going for the kill right from the start.

Seeing this, Su Qing flicked her sharp sword. The vines and wild grass at her feet shot into the air, rapidly weaving a thick mat in front of her. With a chaotic series of THUMPS, all the paper dolls Ye Yue Taishun had summoned slammed into the mat. The black smoke from the dolls immediately corroded the vines, blackening a large patch and sending charred fragments rustling down onto the grass.

’It’s poisonous!’

Su Qing’s expression faltered. With a single thought, the entire blackened mat shattered. The shards first pierced the paper dolls clinging to them, then countless vines and blades of grass carrying the tattered remnants surged straight for Ye Yue Taishun.

Ye Yue Taishun was stunned. He had never imagined his paper doll puppetry technique would be so easily neutralized by Su Qing. Not only that, she had immediately countered. He’d already gotten several cuts from the last attack of branches and wild grass, but this new assault was completely overwhelming; there was almost nowhere to hide.

’This girl who awakened the Wood Spirit is this powerful? She has completely exceeded my expectations!’

”Brother Shengchuan, are you still going to stand on the sidelines?” Ye Yue Taishun roared at Sheng Chuanchua. He then pushed off the ground and shot backward, trying to dodge the overwhelming tide of vines.

”Brother Yeyue, just hold her off for a little longer,” Sheng Chuanchua said to Ye Yue Taishun with a smile. He had taken advantage of the fight to toss several pieces of Array Wood around Su Qing. These pieces came from the Shengchuan Family’s ancestral Array Plate, a fully realized Array Technique. It didn’t even require Sheng Chuanchua to place them with any precision; he simply had to get them near the target. Then, he could operate the Array Plate and trap his opponent within the array.

Hearing Sheng Chuanchua’s words, Ye Yue Taishun wanted to curse. He had been the one to face Su Qing first, bearing the brunt of her most ferocious attacks. He could feel that Su Qing had focused most of her energy on him. Just looking at this overwhelming tide of vines and wild grass, sharp as blades—if he were even the slightest bit careless, he feared he would be run clean through by these damned weeds.

And Sheng Chuanchua was just relaxing on the sidelines, telling him to hold on longer! ’This damn girl’s awakened Wood Spirit is incredibly powerful. He has to be able to hold on in the first place!’

In that brief moment of distraction, a sharp blade of grass viciously pierced Ye Yue Taishun’s shoulder. Blood instantly soaked his clothes, and he cried out in pain. His heart filled with a mixture of resentment and panic. It was night, and the moonlight was dim. Outside the bright circle of the campfire, the surroundings were dark. In the gloom, he hadn’t noticed several vines and blades of grass suddenly accelerating. He only reacted when they were right in front of him. He barely managed to dodge a few, but in the end, one still struck home.

”You damn brat, do you have any idea who I am?” Ye Yue Taishun roared at Su Qing, clutching his wound. ”If you make a mortal enemy of us, believe me, you’ll never know another day of peace!”

Just then, Sheng Chuanchua finished placing all the Array Wood. He sneered at Su Qing. ”Little girl, you’re quite skilled. It’s a pity you’re so inexperienced. You must remember, there are two of us. How could you focus on one person and completely ignore the other?”

As he spoke, Sheng Chuanchua chuckled, a smug look on his face. The Array Plate in his hand hummed as he prepared to activate it. ”Little girl, since you ran out here to make enemies with no experience, you can just accept your fate today.”

However, in the next moment, the smile on Sheng Chuanchua’s face froze.

’Why isn’t anything happening?’

’That’s not right. I clearly placed all the Array Wood properly. In fact, I put extra effort into it today for a stronger effect. Once the Array Plate is activated, its power should be two to three times greater than usual. At that point, even if that damn girl doesn’t die, she’ll be skinned alive. If I can snatch the Wood Spirit afterward, it will be a great victory for our Shengchuan Family.’

’But why is the Array Plate completely unresponsive?’

Su Qing paid no more mind to Ye Yue Taishun, who was desperately fighting the endless tide of vines and wild grass. She turned to Sheng Chuanchua and smiled faintly. ”You specialize in Array Technique, so you must be the Great Elder of the Shengchuan Family? Are you wondering why these little things of yours aren’t working? Is that it?”

Smiling, Su Qing raised a hand. As Sheng Chuanchua stared in disbelief, several vines coiled around the pieces of Array Wood and lifted them high into the air. Each piece had been pierced by sharp leaves until it was riddled with holes, like a honeycomb.

”You... How could you—” Sheng Chuanchua didn’t finish. He suddenly saw numerous vines snaking toward him. Startled, he tried to dodge, but found he couldn’t move. A closer look revealed that his feet were bound fast by extremely thin, thread-like stems.

”Bastard!” Sheng Chuanchua cursed in Japanese, a mix of shock and fury, and swung his sword at the vines lunging for him.

Su Qing smiled and stood her ground. It was only during this battle that she realized something. After undergoing Washing Marrow, although the variety of her superpower’s techniques hadn’t increased, her senses were now far more acute, and her combat power was on a level completely incomparable to before.

If before she had been the queen of the forest, now she was like a demigod within it. Standing here, she felt as if the soles of her feet were connected to the woods themselves. She could even faintly feel a pulse thrumming from the ground. She didn’t need to lift a finger; a single thought was enough to control all the surrounding plants at will.

That was why even experts as powerful as Ye Yue Taishun and Sheng Chuanchua couldn’t perceive her more subtle attacks. Otherwise, with her previous abilities, Su Qing would have never been able to bypass Sheng Chuanchua’s senses and bind his feet with those stems.

Sheng Chuanchua was cursing inwardly now, too. ’Where the hell did this damn girl come from? She’s a fucking monster. Almost no one in this world awakens the Wood Spirit, yet this girl not only awakened it, she awakened one this powerful.’

’It looked like he and Ye Yue Taishun were going down today!’