Chapter 197

"You, why can you..." Xie Bi An remembered how they had wretchedly escaped from Kunlun earlier, "Is this the snow demon we encountered earlier?"

"This is the snow demon that died here a thousand years ago." The blood on Fan Wu She's face was as if it had been sucked away by the evil creature, and his lips turned a charming greenish-gray, "This place was once an ancient battlefield for snow demons and the descendants of celestial beings."

Xie Bi An looked at the soul token in Fan Wu She's hand in shock. He thought that soul token could only be used to collect souls, such as Wuya, but never thought it could also summon undead Yin soldiers like the Heavenly Secret Talisman. The legend said that during Zong Zi Xiao’s ten years of escape, he traveled all over China, looking for ancient battlefields and graveyards, so a war that happened here a thousand years ago was just a few strokes on a book for them, but for Zong Zi Xiao, it was a soldier's talisman in his hand that raised a storm on the flat ground ...

The soul token is obviously much more inferior than the Heavenly Secret Talisman. Fan Wu She's cultivation is also much lower than that of Zong Zi Xiao's, otherwise Jiang Qu Lian would not have to go to such lengths.

Fan Wu She clutched the soul token in his hand and pointed at the fire dragon. The snow demons moved in response to the order, lifted their heavy feet and ran towards the fire dragon.

"Zong Zi Xiao, you're spoiling things!" Jiang Qu Lian was unforgivingly furious and swooped down from the sky as a cloud of red mist, pouncing towards Fan Wu She.

A blue figure drifted by at a speed indistinguishable from the naked eye, soughing like the wind rolling clouds, and collided with that red mist.

With a "clang" sound, Jiang Qu Lian clasped with Lan Chui Han’s sword with one hand. Blood flowed down the silver blade to the tip of the blade, and dripped down to the snow.

This was not the only bright red color where the two have fought. Lan Chui Han’s injured leg was also bleeding. The original wound that was about to heal burst open again because of this battle.

Jiang Qu Lian drew back his hand. He looked at the blood on his palm, froze, and then let out a "tsk" sound, saying mockingly: "It’s just a puppet’s body, why make it so real?"

Lan Chui Han stared deadly at him: "Was brother Yun and everything in front of me fake? You should be a man of bravery and moral righteousness. Just for selfish reasons, you want hundreds of thousands of people to be buried with you!?”

Jiang Qu Lian looked obliquely at Lan Chui Han and sneered, "How much ‘friendly relations’ do you have with me? Who are you to assert what kind of person I am? Oh, I'm not a human being at all, I'm a ghost ah." He gently shook his hand, and the blood flowing from his palm turned into wisps that wrapped around his left hand and even his whole arm. Eventually, that pale and slender hand turned into a thick and coarse ghostly claw like dragon scales.

"You once said I was your only friend and the only person who has seen your true face. You and I have been friends for ten years, is that nothing at all?" Lan Chui Han said angrily, "You and I walked different paths. I only advised you to renounce the dark and seek the light*. I have never forced you, but you want to use Chidi City’s 260,000 lives to coerce Heaven Master. You are simply devoid of conscience.”

"Conscience?" Jiang Qu Lian sneered, "What is conscience? If heaven had a conscience, why would it make all beings suffer?"

"No need to talk nonsense with him." Xie Bi An stabbed with his sword, "Red King, I know you have coveted me for many years. If you want my core, you can come and get it!"

"Such a big tone." Jiang Qu Lian narrowed his eyes, "If I really wanted to take your core, I would have done it when you were an immature child!"

Dozens of snow demons pounced on the fire dragon together, using frost to imprison the flames. Those snow demons melt when they meet the fire, but soon resurface from the snow, like a group of blood-sucking insects possessing fierce beasts, seemingly harmless, but cannot be eliminated.

The snow demons distracted the fire dragon's attack, while Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu kept sneak attacking. The cultivators took the opportunity to divide their troops into all directions and began to set up a demon subjugation formation. The chanting incantations gradually became one, and one spiritual talisman after another glittered in mid-air.

Jiang Qu Lian was extremely angry and once again turned into a red mist and attacked Fan Wu She.

Xie Bi An and Lan Chui Han blocked him at the same time.

The fire dragon’s body kept freezing and melting ice. It was so irritated that it spat flames like crazy. Although it interrupted the cultivators' formation several times, someone else soon filled in the position. The freezing parts of the fire dragon’s body were very small, but were getting more and more of them. Gradually, there were some signs of them forming into pieces. It showed fatigue for the first time.

"Big, big brother Lan." Xie Bi An has regained the memory of his previous life. Thinking that this person is his grandson, this one "big brother Lan" was called really awkwardly, but he was used to calling him that, and it was not easy to change it, "Use 'summer shallow spring deep' to block his paths."

"Okay."

Xie Bi An is now proficient in three sets of sword techniques, and he knows how to cooperate by just seeing Lan Chui Han’s starting style. The two of them converged their attacks and managed to trap Jiang Qu Lian for a moment.

Fan Wu She's eyes are getting turbid. With his current cultivation to summon and manipulate dozens of snow demons, it almost emptied him. This soul token took him four years to complete, during which he scrapped hundreds of pieces, only this one can barely exert one ten-thousandth of the power of the Heavenly Secret Talisman. Once it’s used, not only will his identity be exposed, but also overdraw his spiritual power. It is used to protect his life.

But Zhong Kui would rather die than summon the Eastern Emperor Bell. If the fire dragon is not extinguished, Xie Bi An will hate him to death.

This side was awfully busy fighting. The fire dragon is also struggling maniacally in the imminent demon subjugation formation. It quickly twisted its body in mid-air, shaking off the snow demons, and the third fire eye began to flicker brightly and darkly.

"Be careful of its purple fire eyes!"

The fire dragon let out a long hiss. Again, the fire eye shot out a purple glow. It is like a long and sharp knife able to cut through heaven and earth. The fire eye swept through the formation of cultivators. In that instant, it was too late to dodge and they were cut into two by the waist.

When the upper half of their bodies fell to the ground one by one, the lower halves were still standing in place. They crawl forward with half of the body screaming. The scene was extremely cruel.

Fan Wu She let out a low roar, squeezed out the last of his spiritual pressure from his chakra, injected it into the soul token, and he also fell and knelt on the ground with weak knees.

The snow demons that were melted into water were reborn again and pounced onto the fire dragon.

The opening of the third fire eye caused the fire dragon to be incapable of breathing. The frost on its body became pieces of condensation.

"Quickly set up the formation, quickly set up the formation----" Li Bu Yu shouted.

The cultivators replenished the formation from the casualties and once again "weaved" the demon subjugation formation. The fire dragon perceived the danger more strongly, and its struggle became fiercer.

"Hold on, the demon subjugation formation will be completed soon!" Song Chun Gui roared.

Countless talismans hovered in the sky. Using the fire dragon as the eye of the formation, clear totems and spells gradually appeared on the snow; the demon subjugation formation is complete!

However, before the crowd could be happy, the fire dragon suddenly hissed and swung its tail wildly. Its body erupted like a volcano, spewing out lava and fireballs. Dozens of snow demons were like ice cubes being placed on the flatiron and melted on sight. The frozen parts of the fire dragon were scurrying flames once again.

The soul token in Fan Wu She's hand instantly shattered into pieces. His body fell hard to the ground. His brain was muddled, and his half-closed eyes were searching in the mess for the only person who pulled his heartstrings.

"Don't retreat-----" Veins appeared on Song Chun Gui's forehead, and he frantically injected spiritual energy into the formation.

But the flying lava and fireballs forced the cultivators to defend themselves, and a weak point immediately appeared in the newly formed demon subjugation formation.

"Fellow Daoists, give Zhong Kui a hand." Zhong Kui leaped up into the air and his Qingfeng Sword stabbed straight at the fire dragon's third fire eye.

The Fire Dragon's body was trapped, and it watched the huge sword descend from the sky like the judgment of the gods.

With a poof sound, the Qingfeng sword pierced viciously into the purple fire eye.

The fire dragon's body stiffened for a moment, and then let out a harsh and painful hiss as the dragon's body twitched wildly.

“Ahhhh-----” Zhong Kui gripped tightly on the sword hilt, letting the fire dragon struggle any way it wanted, only to insert the Qingfeng Sword deeper.

A fierce purple glow shot out from the fire essence, like the last light of the fire dragon's life, and the Qingfeng Sword, a divine weapon of the generation, turned into a wisp of black smoke. Zhong Kui's body was thrown into mid-air. He couldn't stop shrinking, and shrinking again, and when he fell to the ground, he had regained his original appearance, but was no longer complete.

Xie Bi An let out a heart-breaking cry of sorrow. He rushed towards Zhong Kui in spite of everything and fell on his knees in front of his master.

Zhong Kui's left arm, together with his left chest and heart, had disappeared into thin air. The Golden Carved Jade Suit was missing a corner, exposing the charred black flesh and dying internal organs.

"Master, Master ..." Xie Bi An's body shook beyond recognition. His eyes were blurred, and his heart felt like it was being cut to death by a thousand cuts, so painful that he was dying. He desperately infused spiritual energy into Zhong Kui's body, but it was like a clay ox entering the sea*.

Zhong Kui's eyes, which were always shining, were losing their light little by little. He tried hard to look at Xie Bi An, and used his last strength to grab a piece of Xie Bi An's coat corner, just like Xie Bi An did when he was a child. He pulled the corners of his mouth into a smile and mumbled, "Disciple ... prepare good wine for master ...."

"Master-----" Xie Bi An cried out in pain, and his liver and guts were cut to pieces*.

All that he wanted in his previous life but did not get, Zhong Kui gave all of it to him in this life. This person was not only his master, but also his benefactor, his father, his close friend. He is the person he wanted to take care of and be filial to for the rest of his life.

With a death wish, he ran all the way to Kunlun, just to stop Zhong Kui's death, but in the end, he couldn't defeat the fate of the heavens?!

He couldn’t accept it! He couldn’t accept it! He couldn’t accept it!

Why did he lose his loved ones again and again in his previous life and in his reincarnated life? Even though he could not protect the person he wanted to protect with his life. What evil did he do to be tormented by the fate of the heavens?

Perhaps at this moment, any person in this world who covets his golden core is not as eager as he is to open himself up and dig out this tumor planted on the reincarnation karma. All the people around him will not end well because of him.

He! Couldn’t! Accept it!

 

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PS: The only person who treats XBA with 100% sincerity just gone like that T___T I cannot accept it too!!

 

renounce the dark and seek the light*[弃暗投明]---- to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one

clay ox entering the sea*[泥牛入海]--- to disappear with no hope of returning

liver and guts were cut to pieces*[肝肠寸断]—grief-stricken

 

Edited on 22 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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