Chapter 194

Zhao Wen still couldn't believe it: "Impossible. After master went into seclusion, the Golden Carved Jade Suit has always been placed in our sect's treasure vault. How could it be swapped!?"

"Since the Flying Plume Ambassadors were able to steal the Seven Stars Life-Sustaining Lamp, naturally they were able to steal the Golden Carved Jade Suit as well." Lan Chui Han was a bit dissatisfied with Zhao Wen’s incompetence. He grew up in Chunyang Sect when he was young, so he was quite attached to Chunyang Sect. Just that in a hundred years, Chunyang Sect has never produced a real genius anymore. After Xu Zhi Nan’s death, as Xu Zhi Nan's first disciple, Zhao Wen became the substitute Sect Leader, but his strength was not enough to convince the public. Now, he wasn’t even aware that the treasure of the sect had been switched. Making a fool of himself in the front line was simply increasing the ambition of the enemy and extinguishing one’s own might.

The Chunyang Sect was scared and anxious. Seeing their own magical treasure in the hands of the enemy is simply a great humiliation.

"It's not the same, the Seven Stars Lamp is always carried by master." Zhao Wen looked at the counterfeit in his hand at a loss for words, "My sect's treasure trove is well-fortified. How could it be like this?"

Qi Meng Sheng looked at Zhao Wen from above. Her gaze was contemptuous, even containing some anger, "Useless person." She put on the Golden Carved Jade Suit.

Zhong Kui said in a loud voice: "Qi Meng Sheng, the more you use your spiritual power, the faster you will die. Controlling two top grade magical treasures at the same time is just digging your own grave."

"Before that, I will kill all of you first." Qi Meng Sheng's body suddenly expanded. Her flesh body was semi-fused with the ice crystal, and the ice body was covered with the Golden Carved Jade Suit. At this time she was like a bright, golden frost giant, covering the light from the sky that had just appeared on the earth's horizon, enveloping Chidi City under her huge shadow.

The crowd craned their necks and looked at the mountain-like threat before them.

"You guys have broken the boundary of Chidi City by luck, but you guys can only stop at this point."

"It is you who will stop at this point." Zhong Kui flew up, and his Qingfeng Sword stabbed sharply towards Qi Meng Sheng.

With a wave of Qi Meng Sheng's hand, countless ice spikes descended from the sky like falling rain, forming an overwhelming and impermeable net. Some low-ranking cultivators were instantly pierced, greeting the sunrise of Chidi City by blood and miserable howls.

Xie Bi An stabilized his emotions, held his sword and attacked towards Cangyu Sect. He may have countless reasons to collapse, but one reason is enough to sustain him to fight this battle.

At this moment, in Chidi City, the magical treasures came out altogether. Ice arrows were all over the sky. The spiritual pressure of each party is no better or worse than each other. Like a tsunami, it swept through the whole city, turning it into a living hell with shouts of murder.

Xie Bi An had to go through several rounds with the enemy. He suppressed the hostility in his chest and transformed them into fierce attacks. Among the splash of blood, he saw panic and avoidance in the surrounding people. When he suddenly returned to his senses, he realized that he unknowingly was not using the Qingfeng Sword Technique, but the Zongxuan Sword Technique!

The Zongxuan Sword Technique is known for its ruthlessness and aggressiveness. Not quite like the swordplay which cares about mutual exchange and not exchanging brute force. It is more like a knife, where every move is not just aimed at suppression, but more about seeing blood and taking lives. The sword is a gentleman's weapon. Its body is upright. High orthodox immortal families love to brand themselves with their swords. If it was not because the Zong Clan unified the immortal cultivation world, the Zongxuan Sword with this kind of hungry wolf-like swordplay would have to be despised. This is also an important reason why the Zongxuan Sword Technique was classified as a forbidden art after the destruction of the Zong Clan.

This is also the reason why in his previous life he felt that the Zongxuan Sword Technique was not right for his temperament and wanted to create the Junlan Sword Technique, but no one could deny the power of the Zongxuan Sword Technique.

Xie Bi An held his Pei Xue and looked at the bloody ground. His body cannot help but shiver. With his current cultivation level, he is still far from that year, but when he unconsciously used the Zongxuan Sword Technique to fight and kill in bloodthirsty pleasure, it was as if he had returned to a hundred years ago, when he was still the Emperor Zong who could compete with the Supreme Demon.

And this great battle was just better than the one when Zong Zi Xiao was besieged by the immortal cultivation world a hundred years ago.

It’s been a hundred years. Whether it was Zong Zi Xiao or Qi Meng Sheng, the greed for his golden core has never stopped.

Xie Bi An felt pain in his heart. His eyes grew scarlet. He growled and raised his sword to meet the ice arrow flying towards his face.

Led by Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu, the sect leaders from each immortal family attacked Qi Meng Sheng together.

The frost giant Qi Meng Sheng, with the support of the Ice and Snow Jade and the Golden Carved Jade Suit, each blow seemed to have the power to split heaven and earth apart, and those sect leaders who had been devoted to cultivation all their lives and had the strength of a patriarch level were unable to take a single blow in front of her and suffered heavy defeats one after another.

The Golden Carved Jade Suit is extremely consuming of spiritual power. Even if Xu Zhi Nan wore it in his prime, he could only withstand it for 5 minutes. Just these 5 minutes, not many people in heaven and earth could tolerate it. And the ice crystal is providing a steady stream of spiritual energy for Qi Meng Sheng, and is also accelerating the destruction of her already feeble flesh. But no one knows whether she or they will be the first to be destroyed.

Those who experienced the battle of the siege of the Supreme Demon a hundred years ago could not help but compare yesterday and today, and they found out how similar they were. Zong Zi Xiao relied on the Xuanyuan Heavenly Secret Talisman to absorb Yin energy and turned it into spiritual energy. This Yin energy gave him tremendous power to summon endless Yin soldiers for him, but also continued to erode his mind and body. If Zong Zi Heng hadn't committed suicide to stop him, he probably would have killed everyone. But in the end, after tearing apart the Fengdu boundary, he died from the backlash of Yin energy during the confrontation with the Underworld.

At this moment, Qi Meng Sheng's life is only a hair's breadth away from death, but as long as she still has a breath of air, the immortal cultivation world will suffer countless deaths and injuries.

Zhong Kui's Qingfeng Sword pierced through the Golden Carved Jade Suit and directly wounded Qi Meng Sheng's ice crystal body. The Heavenly thunder lured by the Thunder Ancestor Treasure Grant once again lit up the dawning night sky like daylight, and this blow also caused Qi Meng Sheng to suffer a great deal. Qi Meng Sheng's counter-attack also became more frantic, and the corpses in Chidi City were scattered everywhere.

Xie Bi An killed back another wave of attacks. He suddenly felt a harsh airflow beside his ears. He realized that there were cold arrows behind him. The moment he turned around, a black shadow flashed, and the ice arrows had been cut down to the ground.

Xie Bi An focused with his eyes, and Fan Wu She turned around at the exact time. In the chaos of the battlefield, the two of them faced each other without any warning. Everything around them seemed to have come to a standstill, and only the breath flowing between them was the only reality left in this world.

Xie Bi An thought about a hundred years ago. At the last moments of his life, they also looked at each other like this. He looked at Zong Zi Xiao’s tears and mumbling lips, but could not hear anything. The world was too quiet. His life was placed in the noisy strife. When it ended, it should have ended in silence. Although he saw the black death aura in Zong Zi Xiao’s eyes fade, that pain and remorse may be able to briefly bring back Xiao Jiu. He was trying to listen to what Xiao Jiu was saying.

Now he understands. No matter how much he earnestly hopes for and how much he deceives himself, Xiao Jiu will never return.

Fan Wu She opened his mouth and said softly: "You shouldn't have remembered."

Xie Bi An looked at him indifferently, "I have been fooled by you all along."

Fan Wu She gritted his teeth and said, "If you didn’t remember, I can just treat you as Xie Bi An, and I can just be Fan Wu She."

"There is no Fan Wu She." Xie Bi An's heart ached like a twinge, "There was never Fan Wu She." Whether it was his beloved ninth brother or his favorite junior brother, they were all illusions and dreams in a bubble that either disappeared or never existed. He can still remember his joy at knowing he had a junior brother, and how he and his junior brother had fallen in love during their time together and the few times they had shared difficulties, but it was all fake!

What kind of thoughts did Fan Wu She have in mind when he came to his side? And what was he thinking when he looked at him who was tormented by the memories of his past life, and even blamed himself for confusing him with Zong Zi Xiao?

A person who had a bitter hatred for him, humiliated him in every way, even tried to dig up his core, reincarnated and refused to let him go, lurked by his side for two years, lured him to fall into a trap step by step and willingly let him deliver his trust and feelings. How malicious and cruel is this?

"You shouldn't have remembered." Fan Wu She murmured and repeated, "You shouldn't have remembered."

"Zong Zi Xiao, no matter what you want to do." Xie Bi An strongly suppressed his heartache and said in a hoarse voice, "I will stop you."

"I ..."

Xie Bi An fiercely turned back and swept with his long sword, repelling the enemy who was sneak attacking. Fan Wu She still wanted to say something. He looked at Xie Bi An's distant back and the swarming enemies, and could only give up.

The sun rose, and the ancient holy light shone on the earth, correlating the fire of the Shen Nong Ding, exposing the bloody battle in the Chidi City clearly to the world.

The killing intent shook the sky. Blood and flesh filled the field. There had not been such a great battle in the immortal cultivation world for a hundred years.

Although Qi Meng Sheng was bruised and battered, she was still suppressing Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu, who were draining spiritual energy like flowing water. Their attacks were obviously weak.

The battle has reached a stalemate that if victory and defeat cannot be determined, more and more people would die for nothing.

Li Bu Yu gasped and shouted, "Heaven Master, this demonic woman has two top grade magical treasures, and with the addition of the ice crystal, her strength is no less than Zong Zi Xiao a hundred years ago. I'm afraid, the only way now is for you to summon the Eastern Emperor Bell."

"No way." Zhong Kui roughly wiped off the blood from the corner of his eyes and gritted his teeth, "Once the Fengdu boundary breaks, there will be thousands of evil spirits running into earth to cause chaos."

"The Underworld also has thousands of Yin soldiers and underworld commanders, so it won't be a problem to resist for a while. If we can't stop Qi Meng Sheng, the earth will experience a catastrophe."

"What is the point of tearing down the east to make up for the west?" Zhong Kui's gaze was unwavering, "I have made a heavy oath to never use the Eastern Emperor Bell."

"There are priorities!" Li Bu Yu said furiously.

Zhong Kui didn't even look at Li Bu Yu and said coldly, "The Eastern Emperor Bell must never be moved. There is no need to say more."

"You ..."

Qi Meng Sheng released a fierce cold ice spell. The temperature of the entire battlefield plummeted, even the flames of the Shen Nong Ding no longer had heat. This invincible attack greatly boosted the Cangyu Sect members’ military spirits, plus everyone was equipped with ice crystals, making them very brave.

The battle gradually began to tilt. More and more casual cultivators summoned by the heroic order wanted to escape by sword flight. They were just there to take advantage of the opportunity to reap the benefits. Seeing Qi Meng Sheng killing greatly in all directions, they were unwilling to leave their lives here as well.

"Heaven Master, summon the Eastern Emperor Bell!"

"Yeah. The only thing that can defeat this demonic woman is the Eastern Emperor Bell!"

Not only Li Bu Yu, but even the other cultivators began to plead Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui roared sternly, "Absolutely not!"

In the midst of this chaotic battle, a man dressed in an icy gray cultivator’s uniform, yet spotless, suddenly appeared above Shen Nong Ding.

This person's appearance could not be seen from this distance, but the mask on his face already told everyone his identity.

Qi Meng Sheng jerked her head to look at Shen Nong Ding.

Only to see Yun Zhong Jun throwing something into Shen Nong Ding.

"Ah Yun, what do you want to do!?" Qi Meng Sheng let out a lion's roar that resounded throughout Chidi City.

Everyone was stunned as they looked at Yun Zhong Jun.

What did he want to do?

 

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PS: next chapter is very long (again). Bless my eyes and fingers. Better get some Starbucks tomorrow, haiyaaa~

 

Edited on 20 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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