Chapter 193

Qi Meng Sheng was not fearful to Zhong Kui's threat, but turned to Xie Bi An: "Emperor, now that you have seen your past life's memories on the Golden Trunk Jade Policy, you shall come and corroborate whether Li Bu Yu ate Emperor Ning Hua's golden core. Not only did he eat a human core, he also suppressed Emperor Ning Hua with the Big Dipper Zhengji Binding Demon Formation at Diancang Peak to bless the Wuliang Sect with the destiny of great wealth and fortune."

Xie Bi An slowly looked at Li Bu Yu, who was also looking at him stiffly with a pale face matched with those fog covered eyes, making people unable to help but associate it with dark clouds covering the sun, which shows even more lifelessness.

Li Bu Yu eyes became opaque due to the aging of his physical body, a disease also known as cloudy eyes. It is mostly shown in the elderly. The surface of the pupil is gradually covered by a layer of white mist. Although not completely blind, with the passage of time, it gets gradually more difficult to see things. Li Bu Yu is an immortal cultivator, his heart is more nimble than his physical eye, so this opacity does not affect him pulling out his sword, but it makes him unable to see other people's faces clearly.

Otherwise, even after a hundred years, he had never forgotten Emperor Kong Hua's outstanding appearance.

Li Bu Yu was greatly shocked, and he said in a trembling voice, "You ... are you really Emperor Kong Hua?"

Yet Xie Bi An did not say anything. Just awakened, he is in the crisis of his past life and present life intertwining. His brain is just in great confusion.

He remembered, he remembered everything. All the love, hate, joy, sorrow, schemes, betrayal, injustice, humiliation, pain, and suffering that he experienced in those short 30 years, he remembered all of them. Even the sadness and hopelessness of the last moments of his life seemed to have happened just a while ago.

The Way of Heaven is not benevolent. Those who forced him into a hopeless situation in his previous life are still in front of him, and after a hundred years, the greed for the thing in his belly is only burning more and more.

Why should he wake up? He chose to leave because there is no longer any bit worth remembering of this world of mortals and people in his heart, but he was forced to remember everything. He is no longer just Zong Zi Heng, he is still the Xie Bi An who has a home, flowers, freedom, a loving master and a junior brother. This life has made up for the many things he missed in his previous life; those beautiful and blessed things he could not ask for. He does not want to die.

Zong Zi Heng should disappear. It'd be good if there was only Xie Bi An in this world.

Xie Bi An was feeling pain and hatred. He did not want to look at either Fan Wu She or Li Bu Yu. He did not know what to do.

"Bi An." Zhong Kui yelled, "Look at master."

Xie Bi An looked at Zhong Kui with tears in his eyes. Obviously, his eyes were dense with tears and he could not see Zhong Kui's face clearly, but he could imagine Zhong Kui's eyes and expression at this moment. It must be reassuring, forgiving, and loving. His brows were deeply furrowed. That expression belonged to Zong Zi Heng, which was frozen and full of worries. His lips were tightly pursed. That belonged to Xie Bi An's grievance and plea for help.

"No matter who you were in your previous life, you are only Zhong Kui's disciple." Zhong Kui grinned, "With your master around, no one can harm you."

Tears welled up once more in Xie Bi An's eyes, but he immediately blinked hard to expel the tears that were in the way of his eyes. Now is not the time for self-pity, let alone crying. In his previous life, he chose to die because he had nothing left, but now he has his master, he has Official Lord Cui and Bo Zhu. He has a home, he has a family. How can he let down these people?

At this moment, he changed back to the calm and serious Human Emperor Zong Zi Heng. His cold gaze slowly sweeping across the scene. When he saw Li Bu Yu, he felt extremely hateful, but he could not show it because his face had been frozen. Li Bu Yu, a hypocritical and murderous villain, not only harmed his whole family, but at the last moment, he even set him up by faking his death. If he could live through today, he would definitely kill him with his own hands.

When his gaze fell on Fan Wu She, his heart was still aching like a death from a thousand cuts. Whether it was Zong Zi Xiao in the previous life or Fan Wu She in the present life, they had torn open one wound after another on his soul, and these wounds will always be bloody and impossible to heal in a lifetime. This man had abused him, retaliated against him, forced him to die, and now he had deceived him by disguising his identity, making him unknowingly deliver his trust and ... to the person who least deserved it.

Hatred erupted in Xie Bi An’s eyes.

Fan Wu She’s heart stirred with pain. The look in his eyes, which seemed so long ago and yet so vivid, was like a long sword splitting his disguise and releasing the demons he had imprisoned in the deepest part of his three immortal souls and seven mortal forms.

If there was only Xie Bi An in this world, he would also want to be Fan Wu She only for the rest of his life, but Zong Zi Heng was back. His big brother was back, and he can no longer "trap" Zong Zi Xiao.

In a matter of moments, Xie Bi An's heart had struggled several times. Fear, hatred, and anger were disturbing and intertwining, almost crushing him, but finally, his master’s voice made him calm down.

He wants to live. He wants to go home with his master.

So the most important thing now is to defeat Qi Meng Sheng.

Qi Meng Sheng chose this time to let him recover his memories of his past life just to drive a wedge between him and Li Bu Yu, so that Li Bu Yu will be left utterly isolated, and those who saw the wind and set the helm* will immediately have a pompous reason to betray the Immortal Alliance and switch to supporting Cangyu Sect. This battle would probably be a crushing defeat. He must stop Qi Meng Sheng first!

Xie Bi An mobilized his spiritual power and silently recited the Zong Clan's Heart Technique. The technique that penetrated deeply into his bone marrow, even though it was impossible to exert the power of his previous life due to the limitations of his body, it still injected a surge of power into this body that was frozen stiff.

With a low roar, the spiritual pressure instantly erupted, and the layers of the ice coffin wrapped around the body split apart with a bang.

Xie Bi An fell to the ground. His stiff limbs made him unable to move for a while.

Qi Meng Sheng pounced towards Xie Bi An, trying to trap him in the same way. Fan Wu She got up from the ground and rushed over quickly, but Zhong Kui came with an even faster speed and appeared beside Xie Bi An in less than a blink of an eye. His Qingfeng Sword struck out a magnificent and harsh sword Qi, forcing Qi Meng Sheng back.

Zhong Kui picked up Xie Bi An and said urgently, "How are you feeling?"

Xie Bi An's body was regaining consciousness little by little as he used his spiritual power to stimulate the blood to circulate rapidly in his body: "I’m fine, I'll be fine soon."

"Wu She." Zhong Kui called out, "Come and watch over your senior brother."

Xie Bi An's body stiffened again. He didn't look at Fan Wu She and forced himself to stand up, "No need, I'm fine." He was clearly aware at this moment, his mind was like a dam that would suddenly bear the impact of a ten-thousand-pound flood and collapse, but the more so, the calmer he had to remain. For example, Li Bu Yu’s secret. At this moment, Fan Wu She’s identity must not even be exposed. If the world knew that the Supreme Demon Zong Zi Xiao had not only been reincarnated, but had also become Zhong Kui's second disciple, the whole immortal cultivation world would be out of control, and if Qi Meng Sheng reaps the benefits from others’ dispute, everything would be over.

Fan Wu She clenched his fists. He looked at Xie Bi An's back with his eyes full of struggle.

Qi Meng Sheng is obviously dissatisfied with this result: "Emperor, don't you want the world to know how your mother consort died and how Emperor Ning Hua died? Do you want to bear this eternal infamy of killing your father, the emperor, for Li Bu Yu?!"

Fan Wu She was stunned. So it really wasn't Zong Zi Heng who killed Zong Ming He, but Li Bu Yu?! When he knew that Li Bu Yu had eaten Zong Ming He's core, he already had this suspicion. After all, the human core had to be dug out when the person was alive.

But why did Zong Zi Heng admit to this felony of killing his father, the emperor, without ever defending himself?

Amidst the uproar of the crowd, Xie Bi An pretended to look at Qi Meng Sheng calmly, endured silently and said, "I don't know what you're talking about. If Immortal Alliance Li has done evil, he won’t be able to hide from the truth and the judgment of justice." Xie Bi An glanced at Li Bu Yu coldly and shifted his gaze back, "But now, you are the demonic cultivator who has Qi deviated, went berserk, killed innocents indiscriminately, and wants to eat human cores."

Li Bu Yu looked at Xie Bi An with complicated eyes and secretly sighed in relief.

Qi Meng Sheng's face showed a grimace as she sneered, "Good. Very good, Zong Zi Heng. You are good at enduring humiliation in your life. You must be deeply moved by yourself, right? Unfortunately, your resentment is hard to dispel. You can't be a saint. You're indecisive, and you can't be an evil person. What happens in the end is that you fail to protect anyone, and you can't even save your own life."

Xie Bi An's face, which had just regained some color, turned white again. This is what it feels like to have his vital part cut by a knife. Qi Meng Sheng's words simply contain blood in every word.

"Evil people do evil, at least for their own benefit, but stupid people commit stupidity only to harm others and harm themselves." Qi Meng Sheng spread her hand, and the pair of Ice and Snow Jade appeared on the palm, "Let’s settle this."

In the eight fortresses of Chidi City, Cangyu Sect cultivators, who were equipped with ice crystals, came out of the nest. Li Bu Yu’s heroic order not only brought the Immortal Alliance, but also half of the immortal cultivation world.

This battle will shake Jiuzhou.

The immortal families each opened an attack.

Zhong Kui held his Qingfeng Sword and led the army forward.

Li Bu Yu held the Wuliang Sword in one hand, the Thunder Ancestor Treasure Grant in the other hand, and was ready to strike.

And the Chunyang Sect’s substitute Sect Leader, Elder Zhao Wen, was also incumbent to go in front of the enemy formation. He took out his Golden Carved Jade Suit and put it on while releasing his spiritual pressure, preparing to transform into a vajra giant. But his face soon surfaced an odd look.

Zhao Wen looked down at his Golden Carved Jade Suit, and released strong spiritual pressure again. His body still didn’t change. His expression gradually changed: "What, what is going on?"

The others also noticed his strange appearance.

Qi Meng Sheng hooked her lips and smiled, spreading her other hand: "Zhao Wen, are you looking for this?" A magnificent and bright Golden Carved Jade Suit appeared in her hand.

The Chunyang Sect cultivators turned pale with fright.

"The Golden Carved Jade Suit! How, how could it be in her hands!?"

Zhao Wen widened his eyes. He looked at the one on his own body, and then looked at that one in Qi Meng Sheng's hands: "You ... impossible ..." At that time, Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong stole the Seven Stars Life-Sustaining Lamp and Xu Zhi Nan died. No one found out that they also stole the Golden Carved Jade Suit?!

"You, you, you dare to steal the Chunyang Sect’s treasure!" One of the elders from Chunyang Sect cursed out of control, "Demoness, you deserve to die. You shall not die well, you ..."

Xie Bi An, like many others in the present scene, had their hearts cooled* before the battle. The fusion of the ice crystal and the body of Qi Meng Sheng was already almost unbeatable, and now she puts on the Golden Carved Jade Suit?

 

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PS: love Zhong Kui so much, he’s such a great father to XBA, infinitely times better than SMH…

 

saw the wind and set the helm*[见风使舵]---- fig. to act pragmatically / to be flexible and take advantage of the situation

hearts cooled*[心凉]--- Enthusiasm plummets and confidence is lost due to setbacks of their hopes.

Edited on 20 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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