Chapter 277

"Meng Sheng, stop doing things that are meaningless." Xu Zhi Nan's tone was full of warning, "My tolerance towards you is more than everyone else. I've given in to your demands repeatedly. What more do you want from me?"

"I want you to go to a place where you should be." Qi Meng Sheng sighed softly, "Xu Zhi Nan, go to a place where you should be, and let Yan Zhi's body go to a place where he should be.”

Xu Zhi Nan's pupils contracted violently, and he immediately smiled again: "Are you willing to give him up? You haven't even seen what Yan Zhi really looked like back then. Which high-level disciple of Chunyang Sect is not dashing? You've only seen him at the point of death when he was surrounded by the Seven Stars Lamp." He straightened his back, "You see, this is Yan Zhi."

"But you're not him. You're not Cheng Yan Zhi." Qi Meng Sheng's gaze gradually moistened, "You have used our bodies to do evil. What is the meaning of this empty shell if it does not belong to us?"

"I'm not him?" Xu Zhi Nan secretly clenched his fists, "Yeah, I'm not him. Why didn't you find out earlier that I'm not him? But what's the difference between him and me? We lived and ate together, grew up in the same sect, practiced the same technique, and cultivated the same path. My family background is more illustrious than his, and I’m more talented than him. I am the next leader of Chunyang Sect appointed by my master. I met you and fell in love with you earlier than him. He was already half-dead, yet you liked him through my body?!” Xu Zhi Nan's words were full of resentment. Even after more than a hundred years, it’s still fully soaked in blood and tears when it’s mentioned again.

"Only one of what you said was wrong. Both of you did not cultivate the same path." Qi Meng Sheng said with tears in her eyes, "Yan Zhi was kind, upright, loyal, and respectful towards you. He trusted you even when he died. He still believed you even though he didn’t believe me. However, you made full use of him and let him die along with your old body, leaving this body for your rebirth."

"If it weren't for me, he would have died over a hundred years ago!" Xu Zhi Nan growled, "I once regarded him as my closest brother, that's why I used the Seven Stars Lamp to hang on to his life regardless of my master’s objection and lent him my body. I was willing to share my life with him, but how did he repay me? He snatched my beloved woman. He let me down. Both of you betrayed me!"

Qi Meng Sheng gritted her teeth and said, "I never betrayed you. I loved him from the start till the end. It was you who confused me. If I hadn't found out that both of your personalities were different, you would have lied to me for the rest of my life."

Xu Zhi Nan's face gradually became hideous: "Then what do you want me to do? Give my woman to him, give my body to him, and wish you both a long and happy life together!?”

"I don't belong to you, and his body doesn’t belong to you either." Teardrops fell one after another from Qi Meng Sheng's eyes, but those foggy tears could not block the light in her eyes. She bit her lips, and her back remained straight, "In fact, I also wish I knew nothing. It's better to be confused throughout my life than to see you become like this. You even implicated my people in Kunlun and brought disaster to everyone in the world. Everything is beyond any help, so let me end it."

"What do you want to do?" Xu Zhi Nan seemed to be crying and laughing, "Kill me? With your current level of cultivation? Even if you have the ability to kill me, are you willing to do so?" He pointed to his heart and said sarcastically, "Do you want to give him up?"

"I didn’t want to give him up last time, but......" Qi Meng Sheng shed tears while smiling bitterly, "Below three inches of skin is white bones, so why would I not give up a body? He is gone. I can’t let you use his body to continue to do evil."

"That's right, he's dead, completely and utterly dead. If you still want to be stubborn, I may not be willing to kill you, but I can let your Cangyu Sect go and accompany him."

Qi Meng Sheng gently shook her head: "Xu Zhi Nan, you have done everything you can to reshape an indestructible body for yourself, but you are only a mortal after all. Even if you broke through the Imperishable Heavenly Fire, you are still a mortal. It’s not like you’re flawless."

Xu Zhi Nan laughed uncontrollably: "Flaw? Where are my flaws?" He looked around, and when he glanced at Fan Wu She, his expression changed slightly, "In this world, the only one who can fight with me is the Heavenly Secret Talisman, but if the Heavenly Secret Talisman awakens his inner demons, you will not be able to free yourselves from this human realm’s purgatory even if I die. Between us, he is worse than me."

Fan Wu She said disdainfully, "We’ll talk about that after killing you first."

"Your flaw is in your heart." There was a layer of sadness between Qi Meng Sheng's eyebrows and eyes, "Xu Zhi Nan, you thought you had completely obtained Yan Zhi's body and were reborn. In fact, you always knew that different souls and bodies couldn’t really fuse, so you urgently needed a top-quality human core, not only to change into a younger body, but also to be able to place your three souls and six spirits in it steadily."

Xu Zhi Nan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Why did I know that? Because you put me into Yan Zhi’s body, and now into Rong Er’s body. Replacing the soul and flesh with the Seven Stars Life-Sustaining Lamp is extremely damaging to both parties unless one can truly fuse. Now it seems that Song Chun Gui's human core had helped you achieve this."

"Of course. Otherwise, why would I bother to go through all the trouble?" Xu Zhi Nan gazed at Qi Meng Sheng with emotions that could not be described as love or hate, "I will also find a good human core for you so that your soul and this body......"

"I am not you, and you are not Cheng Yan Zhi." Qi Meng Sheng's gaze became cold and ruthless. She said word by word with power and resonance, "Xu Zhi Nan, you harmed Yan Zhi, harmed me, and harmed the Cangyu Sect. Today, I want you to see your beautiful dream shatter before it’s achieved with your own eyes." She took out a blood talisman from her pocket.

Xu Zhi Nan was shocked: "What do you want to do?"

Among the talismans used by cultivators, the blood talisman written with one's own blood is the most powerful. The power of the talisman written in blood is more than ten times powerful than the one written in cinnabar. The blood talisman will also cause harm to the cultivator, so it is not used casually unless it’s in a critical moment.

This blood talisman had already been written, which meant that Qi Meng Sheng had planned in advance.

When Qi Meng Sheng injected spiritual power into that blood talisman, its runes emitted a blood-colored light. The crowd could immediately recognize that it was a soul-summoning talisman. It was a forbidden art that everyone knew how to write. Cultivators learned it from books when they were young. It was slightly less powerful than the soul summoning array, and it could be performed by one person at any time. However, summoning the souls of people who have died violated the law of the Dao, and would also create karma, so it was explicitly forbidden by the immortal cultivation world.

All forbidden arts would backfire on the caster themselves, it's just that the severity varies, such as the Supreme Demon Zong Zi Xiao, who got backfired by the Heavenly Secret Talisman back then. Qi Meng Sheng not only performed the forbidden art, but also used a blood talisman, which would cause irreversible harm to herself. Therefore, Xu Zhi Nan felt frightened.

Qi Meng Sheng mouthed the incantations. Her eyes were like burning torches, staring fixedly at the soul-summoning blood talisman. She released her spiritual power madly, and that talisman flew towards Xu Zhi Nan like an arrow. She shouted: "Cheng Yan Zhi, may your spirit come back to us!”

 

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❗️Important (WCJ)❗️

I'm changing the surname Song to Zong (except for Song Chun Gui). I apologize for the sudden change, as I would like to follow the PV and most of the pronunciation. This will be applied to all the chaps. Will finish the changes within 2 days. 👍

PS: I’m literally dying here. Gonna have a break today and continue 2mr.

PPS: Rmb XBA and FWS wanted to pick up Zheng Nan? Zhong Kui brought back a human XBA to the underworld, and then a human FWS. If XBA brings back a human Zheng Nan, I think Cui Jue is gonna FLIPPPP HAHAHA

 

Edited on 9 Aug. 21 (Emzie)

 

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