Free Web NovelChapter 1483: Chapter 868: Storm of Will
Jiang Chenyu’s pupils were a pure pomegranate red, yet they were blooming with blood.
She stared at Sui Yi.
Jiang Chenyu in such a state was terrifying, enough to make hearts tremble, yet the look in her eyes as she stared at Sui Yi grew even deeper.
"Rules... you have always been a restrained person, you follow the rules, unwilling to overstep by even a single step. Even if you harbor selfish thoughts, you still refuse to cross the line..."
"Originally our rules placed no limit on clashing head-on. You were willing to give that up for others; I also only wanted that. But now..."
What is different now?
Sui Yi’s expression darkened slightly, yet her body had already moved.
And Jiang Chenyu moved as well!
The place her hand reached toward... who was the closest?
Mo Ke!
From Mo Ke’s perspective, she could ignore Jiang Chenyu and Mr. Tao’s target, the Monarch’s Shadow Wall, and she could set aside the entanglement between herself and Sui Yi. At the moment, the only thing she needed was to uphold the Mo Family’s integrity and honor to the end!
While the slaughter raged over there, Mo Ke had already led the remnants of the Mo Family to press down the allied forces of the two families!
This was the Mo Family’s victory, and hers was about to be as well.
Yet she suddenly saw Jiang Chenyu reaching out to grab her!
Was this getting shot while lying down?
Jiang Chenyu’s speed was too fast, but Sui Yi was her equal. The two arrived in front of Mo Ke at the same time, palm edges colliding!
The force...
Surpassed even the joint strike of the Dragon King and the Viper from before!
Mo Ke was too close; in that instant she was about to be engulfed by this vast power...
A thin membrane covered her, and she was gently pushed out by that soft power.
Her feet had just steadied when she saw a shadow spread behind Sui Yi, who was clashing palms with Jiang Chenyu.
The Dragon King, and the Viper!
Plus Jiang Chenyu!
Mo Ke felt as if her nerves had been hooked up by a pair of scissors, only needing the slightest pressure to be cut.
Boom!
The earth shook, dust rolling in waves.
As Mo Ke stood where she was, she saw only a great bank of mist and slowly drifting peach blossoms.
When the mist dispersed, there was a pale-faced Ye Zui and Gu Sansi with blood at the corner of her mouth, and Sui Yi standing between them.
Of course, opposite them were Jiang Chenyu, that Dragon King, and the Viper.
In that one second of standoff.
Mo Chong and the other two, plus Zhou Yu and those struggling to survive, were all on Jiang Chenyu’s side.
On Sui Yi’s side were Gong Jiu, Ye Zixu, Flower Demon and the others, as well as Huang Long’s group, Qi Xun and Zhong Buli, Nie Wanqing and so on,
Scattered in twos and threes, their numbers were very few.
Until Mo Ke waved her hand, and Mo Hu and the others silently took their stance opposite the other side.
If one was to choose a side, naturally one should follow the good roommate of the young master.
Adding to that the group led by Cao Ling who had dared to come from Peach Blossom Source, and another contingent of Imperial Guards, their numbers were still much fewer than the other side’s, but not by so much anymore. At the very least it made Jhiang Qu and the others’ faces look ugly, and he stared at Mo Tu with a cold smile: "Mo Tu, you’d actually pass up such a great opportunity and go help Mo Ke?"
Mo Tu cast a sidelong glance at the contempt on his face. "I’m not helping her. I’m merely obeying my own self-respect."
Jhiang Qu dismissed this: "Relying on that so-called Sui Yi, how could she possibly..."
He didn’t finish his sentence.
His head was already pierced through.
His body went limp and fell, and the one whose finger light had shot through his head... was Jiang Chenyu.
"Earlier I said, there were only two kinds of people here to begin with—those who are mine, and my enemies. Now that has changed."
Sui Yi: "Those who are yours, and those who are mine?"
In the end, they had still become enemies.
Jiang Chenyu shook her head. "No. It’s you, and me."
She tapped her toe on the ground and leapt up. The Viper rose to meet her, that proud head actually willing to lift her up... allowing her to ride it as she pleased.
When Jiang Chenyu was borne high into the air by the Viper,
She looked down at Sui Yi and said slowly, "I, Jiang Chenyu of the Jhiang Clan of Medicine King Valley, and you, High Priest of the Witch Spirit Court... between us there is inevitably to be a battle."
A true king-to-king clash... In Jiang Chenyu’s eyes, a mere Jhiang Qu was not qualified to belittle her opponent, or else that would be trampling on her dignity.
"For what?" Sui Yi asked in return.
She did not wish to be enemies with Jiang Chenyu.
She had no hostility toward this woman, not from the very beginning.
"Of course not for him... Proud as you and I are, we could never fight over a man, whether love or hate is involved."
Jiang Chenyu’s voice was thin and cool, yet drawn out and alluring. She was stunning beyond compare, like demon and fairy both, while the Viper beneath her was terrifying as a devil.
"It’s only for the desire one woman has to contest another. You are the most exalted High Priest of this generation, disregarding imperial power, standing above all living beings. Back then, when I knelt below and looked up at you, I was thinking... if one day, which of us would be stronger..."
Could someone so gentle also harbor such ambition and desire?
Sui Yi lowered her eyes. "So you do not hesitate to kill like this today?"
"Yes," Jiang Chenyu answered crisply.
Then she opened her palm, and gases filled with boundless medicinal fragrance surged out of her body—poison!
Even more poisonous than the Viper’s venom!
Sui Yi said nothing, swung her left hand back, and Gu Sansi, in perfect sync, reversed time.
Space relocation driven by Witch Power!
Gong Jiu and the others were shifted as a whole group, appearing in an instant five hundred meters away in the Peach Blossom Forest, and could only see Sui Yi and Gu Sansi alone facing that sky-filling torrent of poison!
The poison surged like a tsunami; wherever it passed, the peach blossoms all rotted and withered into sludge, as if it meant to annihilate everything.
Once there was a place of absolute doom called Weak Water Three Thousand; any Spiritual Body, any living thing that entered the water would be corroded into nothingness. It was a sea of the dead.
Roughly speaking, the poison wave Jiang Chenyu was controlling right now was that vast, sweeping Weak Water Three Thousand.
Chenyu to make birds fall and Luoyan, a face to shame the moon and flowers, a heart clear as jade, worthy of the sun and moon.
This was the Main World’s most beautiful praise back then for this daughter of heaven.
But they didn’t know—only Weak Water Three Thousand could drown Chenyu for ten thousand miles, leaving corpses everywhere.
Sui Yi’s brows pressed down; in the end, she decisively released the madly erupting Jin Guang within her body.
Gu Sansi didn’t say anything either; she simply cooperated and unleashed dazzling silver light together with her.
Gold and silver radiance blocked off half the sky; the other half was covered by the sky-darkening, sun-blotting poison...
Could light really block an extinction-level disaster?
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The Scorpion Woman and the others all hid around the Monarch’s Shadow Wall to avoid being covered by the poison. At this moment they were terrified to the extreme, or they wouldn’t have left the Monarch’s Shadow Wall at their backs untouched, not even daring to lay a hand on it.
Up above, dragons and snakes writhed and roared.
The light blazed brilliantly, boundless and endless.
Every faction’s monitoring screens were a blur of white.
Only after a moment did the screens gradually clear....
They saw half a picturesque Peach Blossom Source, and the other half a completely leveled, charred plain...
And Jhiang Song and the others huddled around the Monarch’s Shadow Wall, shivering in terror.
Half of the vast Peach Blossom Villa had been razed.
The Viper fell to the ground, panting violently, spitting out a large mouthful of Black Blood, while Jiang Chenyu also slowly caught her breath. Her sleeves were torn, revealing her snow-white, delicate arms. Her pupils were scarlet as she stared ahead...
Sui Yi wasn’t in much better shape.
Her hair ribbon had flown off to who knew where, yet her clothes remained perfectly intact.
This outfit was definitely of extremely, extremely fine workmanship.
As for her... blood was flowing hot from both hands.
She lowered her head, glanced at the pale-white blood clinging to her fingertips, dazed for a second, then casually wiped her hand on her own body, smearing the blood away.
"Cangwu’s true form is immortal, but you are, after all, already in a reincarnated human body. Every time you use that power, you hurt yourself a bit more... It should have been me, as your Master, protecting you.... letting you suffer like this, Cangwu."
At the word "Cangwu," her tone carried some of that old ethereality and gentleness.
And yet it was still lofty, above it all.
And she was even speaking Witch Language.
How much it resembled the old days.
Gu Sansi turned to look at her, all traces of nostalgia and sorrow withdrawn, leaving only a calm suggestion: "You know there is another way, one that could let you eliminate all your enemies, including her, and those two things that are neither dragon nor snake..."
Before she could finish, Sui Yi’s now-clean fingers were already resting on her lips, lightly wiping away the bright red blood at the corner of her mouth, brushing over her lips, gently, faintly.
"That method is one I will never use, and you’re not allowed to bring it up again... As for the current situation, other people’s lives and deaths are choices they made themselves. Am I supposed to shoulder everything for them? Outsiders are, in the end, only outsiders."
Withdrawing her fingers, she added blandly, "You are one of us."
Gu Sansi was already stunned on the spot.
Meanwhile, five hundred meters away, Gong Jiu and the others...
Gong Jiu + Flower Demon: Clearly this is a split-second life-or-death crisis, so why can our goddess still flirt so casually! And she’s flirting with a high-brow prophecy goddess at that! Flirting so much even our hearts are fluttering!
Marquis Gu Wen: As for the feeling of watching your own niece get "lip-wiped" by the woman who not long ago slapped your department so hard you had no face left, yet you still didn’t dare retaliate... I only want to tell you this! — My niece sure has excellent taste!
Su Zimu and Mo Ke: We just want to say, upstairs +1 and +2, have your integrity and chastity both fallen down the stairs?
The others: Hey, could you be more serious! The BOSS isn’t dead yet!
But they quickly realized that the Chenyu BOSS’s goal wasn’t to kill these small fry at all, but.....
Yi Dao and Ye Zui, Masters just a step below Void-breaking, felt the terrifying willpower unleashed by that battle between Void-Breaking Powerhouse-level experts high in the sky...
Flowing toward one place!
Sui Yi sensed it too, so her gaze fell upon that Monarch’s Shadow Wall.
The blood-flowers on the Monarch’s Shadow Wall were withering; the more that withered, the more its inner substance was revealed—that was a piece of transparent, glass-like Crystal Stone. No one knew what material it was, but it shone brilliantly, like diamond, yet also like crystal, with diamond-shaped facets, piece upon piece interlaced, forming overlapping bands of light and shadow. Because of this, it seemed all the more blindingly radiant, and of course, one could faintly see that something seemed to be hidden inside...
Because this Shadow Wall was actually very thick, a full four to five meters in thickness. From this angle of refraction, they could only see a dark mass inside, without knowing what it actually was.
Moreover, when the wills of Sui Yi, Gu Sansi, and Jiang Chenyu were drawn into the Monarch’s Shadow Wall, the stone fragments that fell off were only a precursor. When the entire Crystal Stone was laid bare, the light it refracted carried an unimaginably vast aura...
A storm.
A Crystal Stone storm.
A storm of terrifying will.
Sui Yi saw the joy on Jiang Chenyu’s face. Before this, even by borrowing the souls and wills of the dead, she hadn’t been able to open this Monarch’s Shadow Wall. Only after those people like Pierre died later, plus the wills of her, Gu Sansi, and the others, could it finally be done.
Their purpose was merely to fully open the Shadow Wall.
Actually... she also had her own selfish motives, didn’t she.
Sui Yi closed her eyes.
Is this emperor... that man?
