by Fang Xiang
Poof.
When the last blue flower was destroyed, Qinghua Xue’s face was as pale as paper. The light inside the amber eyes disappeared. Everything in her vision quickly became blurry.
At this moment, a deep voice could be heard through the roaring of flame and wind.
“Midday Blade Strike!”
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The yao and the mo that were fighting fiercely suddenly separated and stopped. They raised their heads at the same time to look at the void above their head.
Pu Yao’s expression was uncertain. The female warrior had a joyous expression.
Pu Yao suddenly spoke, “Your entire life was ruined by that suit of armor, are you going to ruin him as well?”
The joy on the female warrior’s face stilled, and gradually dissipated. She seemed to think of something. Pain floated on her face. She held the enormous claw and stood woodenly. The expression on her face continued to change, sometimes joyful, sometimes painful.
Pu Yao did not speak, and only looked silently at her.
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Hot! So hot!
Zuo Mo felt as though his entire body was burning. His blood, flesh, and bones were like dry timber that were being furiously swallowed by a crimson flame. His eyes were completely red, the colour of red-hot steel!
He did not know that a clear flame had appeared above his head. This clear flame was silent, but the outer flame had faint rainbow patterns.
This flame quickly spread along Zuo Mo’s body.
The moment the flame appeared out of Zuo Mo’s body, the wooden A Gui suddenly raised her head, and a deep purple light lit up in the deepest part of the dull and unfocused eyes. Lil’ Fire who had been sleeping in her arms seemed to smell something delicious and woke up from its dreams.
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“I had originally thought Daren was dead,” Pu Yao stared at the female warrior and slowly spoke.
“To swear my oath! To abide by my ceremony!” An extremely scornful expression came onto Pu Yao’s face. “Something so inflexible and trite, it is a miracle that it managed to pass down!”
The female warrior stood silently.
“It was this thing!” Pu Yao’s voice suddenly became high and filled with fury. “It ruined Daren’s entire life! Ruined the entire corps. Everyone was originally able to survive!”
The female warrior bit her lips, her black eyes filled with pain.
“Daren said right before death that she wanted me to guard it, so it will not land in the hands of xiuzhe.” Pu Yao’s tone was low. “I consented. I stood guard for three thousand years, it did not land in the hands of xiuzhe. I hated it, wanted to destroy it. I once thought the day that I managed to escape, I will throw this damned thing into the rivers of hell.”
“The time in the Yao Subduing Tower was really arduous to get through.” Pu Yao had a reminiscing expression. “If I had not promised Daren, I would not have made it through. I could not destroy it, so I had to endure. Being punished by lightning daily was nothing, what is most terrifying is to have no one to talk to, so I started to talk to it. Later, I did not hate it anymore. It is a inflexible idiot. There is no meaning in hating an idiot.”
“However, Daren,” Pu Yao suddenly lifted his head and stared directly at the female warrior, “are you going to ruin Zuo Mo as well.”
The female warrior was silent.
“He is my student,” Pu Yao said calmly. The black robe on his body seemed to flap in the wind, his black hair like countless snakes dancing. In the dark red bloody eye, the eerie red light slowly started to spin. His tone was as calm as usual. “To follow Daren in the past, I did not complete my Teacher’s final wish. Daren, instead I fulfilled my promise to you. I cannot finish Teacher’s last wish, but I cannot let Teacher’s line of succession break in my hands. Zuo Mo is my student. Daren, if you are going to put this ball and chain on my student’s body, please do so after stepping over my corpse.”
The cold voice landed in the sea of consciousness. Black flames came out of the ground and turned to curving snakes of fire that gathered from all directions below Pu Yao’s feet.
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Ming Jue Zi suddenly raised his head, his pupils shrinking. He stared at the prison battlefield. Beside him, Su Wei’s expression changed as well.
Covered in the formation, the prison battlefield lit up with a dark red light. This patch of red light was massive and almost covered the entire prison battlefield. Ming Jue Zi and Su Wei exchanged a lot, and found shock in each other’s eyes.
“Such powerful fire yao arts!” Su Wei was frazzled.
Due to the formations outside the prison battlefield, the presence that leaked out was not strong. However, the pure fire contained in this thread of presence made every spectator change their expression.
“Fire yao art … …” Ming Jue Zi murmured soullessly. His expression was very strange, his eyes shocked and puzzled. He paid far more attention to Xiao Mo Ge than Su Wei did, and knew much more information than Su Wei.
The strange Wasteland Beast Chessboard, the strange yao art problems, the strange yao art cages, adding on fire yao arts now … …
How many yao arts did Xiao Mo Ge really know?
He was so young, how had he cultivated?
Everything that Ming Jue Zi thought was common knowledge seemed to be completely upended by this mystery person.
Who was he?
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Yu Zi Zhou raised his head to look at the sky filled with red light in the prison battlefield. His expression became serious. He had regretted being late and to not have been the first to challenge Xiao Mo Ge. Before today, Xiao Mo Ge was just a dancing clown in his eyes. If it was not for Miss Ji Li Yu, he definitely would not waste time on such a minor character.
But such powerful yao fire arts!
He had just finished registering with Hong and was at the edge of the prison battlefield. The pure fire yao art presence spilling out of the prison battlefield shocked him.
“Hong, send one in.”
A deep voice came from inside the prison battlefield. The speaker seemed to be suppressing something.
“Alright, Daren.” Hong seemed to wake up from a dream, turning to Yu Ji Zhou and saying, “Mister, you may enter.”
Yu Zi focused his attention. He did not dare to slack off, his consciousness at full power as he stepped forward with a grave expression.
The scenery in front of him changed.
The surroundings were bright red as though he was submerged in molten metal. Invisible heat waves blew against him. His expression changed. Such strong fire yao art! He had to channel his powers to withstand these terrifying heat waves. His expression became even more grave.
As one of the Jade Clan, he was not afraid of fire. However, he was forced to use his powers to just stay here up so he recognized how powerful it was.
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Zuo Mo stared with blood red eyes at Yu Zi Zhou in front of him. His entire body was inside a golden flame. The pain of burning tore at his nerves.
He could clearly feel the pure flame slowly permeating his consciousness. His consciousness seemed to shun these flames. Yet the golden flames were domineering and forcibly permeated his consciousness thread by thread.
What was this thing?
He gritted his teeth and bore the pain. The rich and tyrannical power occupied his entire body and the pain was like thousands of ants chewing on his body, especially his palms and back.
Zuo Mo had to focus his attention on the enemy in front of him. This way, it seemed that the pain he felt would lessen.
He gathered all the strength in his body, and the Midday Blade in his hand viciously struck at Yu Zi Zhou!
Midday Blade Strike!
The sky was full of wind and fire that howled as it shot at Yu Zi Zhou!
Yu Zi Zhou’s expression changed slightly. With a cold snort, his left leg shifted back slightly, his hands made a shape as they were holding a large ball, and drew a perfect circle wi
th ease in front of his chest.
If Su Wei and the others saw this scene, they would have exclaimed, the ultimate defensive technique of Yu Zi Zhou—[Interconnected Jade Rings]!
An ultimate move right at the start! Without time to think, Yu Zi Zhou instinctively used the strongest defensive yao art he could do!
One created two, two created four … …
In a flash, rings of light covered Yu Zi Zhou.
Pew pew pew!
The storm of fire hit the rings of light, and both were destroyed. Rains of fire continuously landed on the rings of light, and rings of light were continuously destroyed. But the number of light rings did not lessen. Instead they increased, and became more numerous!
Zuo Mo felt there was an unstoppable flood inside his body that spread along his left hand and was going to burst from his left palm.
He did not even think before slamming his palm towards the thick rings of light.
Chapter 383: You Should Die!
This palm struck the rings directly.
The Day Script on the center of Zuo Mo’s palm suddenly lit up. A vast and scorching power burst forth from the center of his palm. This power was extremely strange. It did not blow away the rings of light, instead like a tiger reaching out with its head from the cage, it bit and held its prey.
The sea of light rings were securely latched onto by Zuo Mo’s left palm.
The Day Script continuously released golden yellow light that corroded the rings of light. A golden boundary rippled through the rings of light as it moved towards the center of the barrier.
Yu Zi Zhou’s expression changed greatly. He felt a tyrannical presence corroding his Interconnected Jade Rings at an astounding speed!
What … … what was this? It was the first time he had encountered such a strange yao art!
This domineering power spread so quickly it almost exceeded Yu Zi Zhou’s imagination.
He had just managed to gather all of his consciousness, and his vision already turned to a golden yellow ocean. Yu Zi Zhou had never thought he would ever be pushed to such a sorry state one day. No, such a hopeless situation! This was only the second move the other had used. The second move, and it forced him to such a state!
A dancing clown … …
He suddenly thought of this phrase. A feeling of humiliation like never before instantly rushed every inch of his nerves.
How could a person as proud as him be defeated in two moves by a person he thought of as a dancing clown?
How could he!
Yu Zi Zhou glared. The elegance and relaxed face was now unusually twisted. Deep pride was mixed with unprecedented humiliation. He was like a gambler that had lost it all, and went all in with his life!
All of his consciousness and his strength was channeled into his arms. He held his arms as though he was embracing the oncoming golden light and slowly pushed forward like he was pushing a mountain. His face trembled fiercely and showed signs of instability.
“Jade … …”
Gritting through his teeth, Yu Zi Zhou slowly spoke while visibly trembling. Every part of his body was trembling. The two curved arms he held in front of his chest slowly moved forward amidst this shuddering. Every fraction he pushed forward, the vibrations in the space around him increased by a fraction.
“Born … …”
Just as the “born” was squeezed from his mouth, the golden light had spread to the last ring of light in front of Yu Zi Zhou.
The golden light collided with Yu Zi Zhou’s arms without any finesse. Yu Zi Zhou’s body froze and his pupils suddenly expanded.
Pia! Yu Zi Zhou’s palms popped!
Pia! The wrists exploded!
Pia! The forearms exploded!
Pia pia pia … …
After a string of noises like popcorn popping, the explosions spread along Yu Zi Zhou’s arms to his body. Yu Zi Zhou’s eyes were enormously wide. He looked in disbelief as his body exploded inch by inch.
An unwilling wail suddenly was stopped.
There was a dazzling golden ball of light that covered Zuo Mo’s left palm that was like a sun. He maintained his striking pose motionlessly. All the flames over his body suddenly burrowed into his body.
The red light faded from his crimson eyes and revealed golden yellow pupils.
The golden yellow pupils were indifferent like that of a deity gazing down on ants, but the expression of pain on his face did not fade but increased. The indifferent gaze contrasted with the pained and twisted expression forming an extremely strange image. The Midday Blade in his right hand was trembling. The golden ball of light on the left palm dissipated, and the Sun Script at the center of the palm faded.
“Hong, let another one in!”
The hoarse and deep voice contained threads of insanity as it came out of the formation.
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“What Little Pu Pu has said is very wise!” The female warrior suddenly raised her head and looked smilingly at Pu Yao. She nodded heavily and said, “This stupid armor really shouldn’t be passed down any more.”
The gravestone shook fiercely as though it was very discontent with the female warrior’s words. The roiling black clouds looked as they were going to burst out.
“Shut up!” The female warrior’s expression cooled. She raised the enormous claw in one hand and heavily smashed it down on the gravestone. With a clang, the earth shook. The shaking gravestone froze. From the point it was smashed, a web of cracks snaked out.
Crack-woosh, a pile of broken rock fell off the gravestone. The black clouds that had just came out of the gravestone seemed to be hit with a body paralysis curse, and froze in the air.
Such … … such a powerful blow!
His presence almost at his peak, Pu Yao’s eyelids jumped. Pia pia pia, the black flames that had burrowed under his feet suddenly exploded simultaneously, and he was covered by a burst of black smoke. “Cough cough cough!” Pu Yao’s coughing passed out of the black smoke. When the black smoke dissipated, Pu Yao was singed and covered with ash.
He looked with unfriendliness at the female warrior.
The female warrior gave Pu Yao a flirtatious glance as though nothing had happened. She turned her face and when she looked at the gravestone, her tone was cold. “Clean it up.”
The gravestone shook. Woosh, the broken pieces that had broken off seemed to grow legs and climb into the place that had been smashed. Piece by piece, they went back to their original spot. In a blink, the gravestone seemed to be untouched again except for the web of cracks extending from the top of the gravestone.
The power was just as terrifying as it had been in the past … …
Pu Yao glanced at the female warrior and sat down. There were too much to consider about everything that had happened today. Hadn’t Daren died? How could she become alive again?
Death could not be reversed. This had no connection to cultivation.
Unless Daren did not die!
If Daren had not died in the past, then there were too many possibilities in this … … Golden Soul? That was very possible!
So Daren hadn’t died then … …
Wait a moment!
Pu Yao’s head was lowered. His bloody pupil unconsciously narrowed into icicles.
Daren died in his arms. Even if it had been three thousand years, he still remembered that scene clearly! He was familiar with Daren, her personality, her temper, he was familiar with everything!
The Daren in front of him was so familiar, as familiar as she was three thousand years ago.
But … … Daren had died … … she had really died … …
There seemed to be a silent sigh in the cold pupil. The pain seemed to have been washed away by time, so faint there was almost no trace, but … …
Pu Yao suddenly raised his head.
“Daren is already dead.”
The female warrior furrowed her brow and was slightly discontent.
Pu Yao seemed to not see it, and said to himself in a light voice, �
��Daren is dead, both her soul and body destroyed, there was nothing left.” His right hand came out of its wide sleeve and spread its fingers, feeling the air rush past them.
He looked directly at the female warrior and said calmly, “I know it, Daren died.”
The blood red pupil was so cold there was not a shred of warmth. He raised his hand, and a black flame jumped in his hand. His black hair started to dance again, and the silk-like black clothing moved despite the lack of wind.
The entire sea of consciousness seemed to slow down. Gradually, only one rhythm could be heard, only one sound.
Dong dong … … dong dong … … dong dong … …
The female warrior’s expression changed slightly. Her eyes locked onto the thread of black yao fire on Pu Yao’s hands. The strange rhythm in the space was the exact same as the rhythmic flickering flame on Pu Yao’s hand.
“The Golden Soul really is a good thing. It seems you’ve recovered a fair bit.” Pu Yao’s expression was indifferent. The bottomless crimson pupil slowly revolved and a scornful smile that was as cold and sharp as a knife’s edge suddenly jerked at the corner of his mouth. “You also recovered your usual idiocy.”
The female warrior suddenly spoke. But the voice changed from the sweetness and flirtatiousness of just now and became as simple and wizened as an old person. “How did you find out?”
Before the sound landed, the female warrior’s body collapsed into fine black powder. The black dust danced and gathered in the air to turn into a ball of black smoke. Inside the black smoke, the figure of a male was discernable.
“You want me to tell you how idiotic you are? Ha!” The scorn on Pu Yao’s face grew. “Tsk tsk, three thousand years, you finally showed your face, it really wasn’t easy.”
“Haven’t you wanted to force me out all along?” The male inside the black smoke glanced at the black fire on Pu Yao’s hands. He said in a deep voice, “I think we need to have a good discussion.”
“Discussion?” Pu Yao raised an eyebrow ambiguously. He took away the black fire in his hand and said unconcernedly. “Fine, discuss! Who are you?”
“Gravestone armor, called Protection, you can call me Wei.” The black smoke covering his body disappeared, and revealed Wei’s true appearance. He was wearing a body of black armor and seemed to have great bearing. His brow was straight and his eyes bright, he seemed full of righteousness. He was not as old as his voice seemed, and he bowed towards Pu Yao respectfully.