Free Web NovelChapter 227: Chapter 214: Nalan Ziyun’s Unexpected Disruption
When the brilliant flash of light erupted from Shen Lang, almost everyone instinctively shut their eyes.
But they heard a thunderous explosion from the battle stage, followed by Ye Juexin’s miserable shriek and the incessant CLANGING of daggers falling to the ground.
The stage was filled with dust and smoke. Combined with the lingering Shadow Barrier, the spectators couldn’t see what was happening inside at all.
"What happened? What in the world happened?"
"That Ghost-faced Person seemed to say he knew Ye Juexin had Celestial Silkworm Silk?"
"Damn it, that woman is so vicious! She even has something like Celestial Silkworm Silk that can kill you without you even realizing it. If we ever ran into her, we could get our heads sliced off by that silk and not even know how we died!"
"Look, the dust is settling!" freewebnøvel.com
Everyone jolted and immediately fixed their gaze on the stage.
As the dust slowly cleared, Shen Lang appeared on the stage, completely unharmed. The only difference was that his upper garment had been shredded into countless pieces, which actually looked quite comical.
However, at that moment, not a single person dared to laugh at him.
About ten meters across from him, Ye Juexin stood, her hands trembling as she clutched her daggers.
’He’s too strong. He’s really too strong. How can he be this powerful... Who is he?’
Ye Juexin muttered inwardly, feeling that no matter how hard she tried or how carefully she schemed, it was all a joke in front of this man.
Shen Lang had been tightly bound by the Celestial Silkworm Silk, yet not only was he not cut to pieces, he had actually snapped it...
And the daggers she had attacked with, controlled by a vast amount of her Divine Thought, had all been sent flying back in an instant.
A few even grazed past her body, nearly skewering her through the heart!
This mysterious Ghost-faced Person, who hadn’t even revealed his true face, had utterly destroyed Ye Juexin’s psychological defenses.
At this moment, an indescribable sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart.
Mixed within that feeling was a clear and desperate fear.
The despair of facing an unbeatable foe!
CRACK...
Shen Lang cracked his neck and said grimly, "You should have seen from the fight with Ye Xue that while I don’t like hitting women, I will make an exception for certain women. And I won’t show any mercy."
WHOOSH!
The moment Shen Lang finished speaking, his feet lifted several inches off the ground. He flickered like a phantom and appeared before Ye Juexin in the blink of an eye!
The Ghost King’s speed, comparable to a Xuanwu Realm Fifth Heaven expert, was far superior to even a Martial Artist like Ye Juexin, who considered speed her greatest advantage.
’So fast!’ Ye Juexin subconsciously swung her daggers, trying to block Shen Lang.
BANG! BANG!
The moment her hands moved, they were met by Shen Lang’s two fists!
Shen Lang’s fists, crackling with ferocious Thunder Power, instantly slammed into Ye Juexin’s wrists!
"Ugh!"
Ye Juexin cried out in pain. Her hands flew outward, and with a clatter, both daggers were sent flying.
After landing the two punches, Shen Lang didn’t retract his fists. Instead, he slammed his right elbow down hard into Ye Juexin’s chest!
Before Ye Juexin could even cry out in pain, Shen Lang’s fists descended upon her like a torrential storm.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Each punch, packed with furious Thunder Power, sent Ye Juexin staggering backward, but she never fell!
Ye Juexin, who had been like a God of Slaughter, now had no power to resist.
Or perhaps, she had given up on resisting.
In the face of such a powerful person, resistance was futile.
Resisting might even provoke an even more frenzied counterattack!
In everyone’s eyes, the powerful but restrained Shen Lang had finally revealed his fury.
Since he first appeared, he had rarely taken true action.
When fiercely attacked by Ye Juexin, he had elegantly blocked and dodged.
He was so calm he seemed almost devoid of emotion.
Like the still water of a deep well.
This was the first time he had taken the initiative to attack with such rage.
And once he did, it left everyone completely stunned!
They were just simple-looking punches, one after another, but their speed was unbelievable!
Each punch forced Ye Juexin to spit out a mouthful of blood!
What was even more incredible was that even though Ye Juexin could no longer resist, her legs so weak she couldn’t even stand, the force of Shen Lang’s punches not only destroyed her body but also maintained her balance, preventing her from falling!
The ferocity and strangeness of this Fist Technique left even the Xuanwu Realm experts from the Imperial Dragon Sect in the stands dumbfounded.
"It’s one thing for the Fist Technique to be bizarre and unpredictable, but only someone with absolute mastery over their power could achieve this! He would need to know exactly how powerful each punch is and what effect it would have on his opponent’s body. To calculate every strike so precisely during such a torrential assault... this Ghost-faced Person... just who in the world is he?!"
The eyes of those few from the Imperial Dragon Sect were filled with disbelief. Their emotions mirrored those of the various factions from Celestial Phoenix City in the stands as they watched, panting heavily.
SPURT! SPURT! SPURT...
No one knew how many mouthfuls of blood Ye Juexin had spat out.
When the final mouthful of blood sprayed from her lips, Shen Lang finally stopped his assault.
With a dark expression, he seized Ye Juexin by the neck with his left hand and lifted her high into the air!
Blood trickled from the corners of Ye Juexin’s mouth, her hands hung limply at her sides, and she had lost all ability to resist.
"The Ye Family wants to win this bet. There’s nothing wrong with that," Shen Lang said coldly. "But in your eyes, Ye Juexin, everyone is an ant you can kill or crush as you please! Do you really think you’re the Death God?"
As he spoke, Shen Lang slammed his right fist into Ye Juexin’s abdomen!
"Ugh..."
Pain filled Ye Juexin’s eyes, but she couldn’t even make a sound.
"Mo Ge, let her go! If you dare kill her, I’ll have your entire family slaughtered!" Ye Xiao Zheng roared madly from the stands.
But Shen Lang, on the stage, completely ignored him, showing no reaction whatsoever.
"You thought you controlled everything, that you could kill whomever you wanted. Did you ever think you’d one day be held up like a dead dog?"
As he spoke, Shen Lang threw another punch!
Ye Juexin’s gaze went vacant as she coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, unable to even twitch.
After Shen Lang’s burst of power snapped the Celestial Silkworm Silk and sent the daggers flying, he had landed dozens of consecutive punches on her.
Each of those dozens of punches was delivered in a rage, infused not only with ferocious Thunder Power but also with the power of his Celestial Demon Body!
Now, Ye Juexin’s meridians were shattered, her Spiritual Power was completely dispersed, and she had lost all ability to move.
Even the thought of resistance had been extinguished.
Shen Lang glanced coldly at Ye Juexin and said indifferently, "There’s still unwillingness in your eyes. Are you dying to know why I wasn’t poisoned after your daggers cut me? Dying to know how my Scale Armor could block the Celestial Silkworm Silk? Dying to know how I knew about your silk in the first place?"
"Hmph, none of that matters anymore. I originally took pity on you for being just a tool for Ye Xiao Zheng to kill with, and I only planned to knock you off the stage... But your power and viciousness have enraged me!"
Shen Lang said quietly, "To be honest, I admire that you could push me this far with your current Cultivation, but that’s all. As your opponent, I will grant you a respectable death. That is all."
As he spoke, Shen Lang tossed Ye Juexin high into the air by her neck with his left hand.
Then, with a flick of his right fingers, he magically drew one of the daggers from the floor to his hand. On the dagger, a nearly invisible, transparent thread glinted with a faint, cold light.
"To be killed by your own weapon, you can die with no regrets," Shen Lang stated indifferently.
Then, with a sharp flick of his wrist, the limp Celestial Silkworm Silk hanging from the dagger instantly snapped taut with a SWISH, shooting toward the airborne Ye Juexin like a sharp sword!
The Celestial Silkworm Silk’s target was Ye Juexin’s throat!
At that moment, the airborne Ye Juexin could, for a rare instant, clearly see the Celestial Silkworm Silk flying toward her. It felt as if it were moving in slow motion, so much so that she could trace its entire trajectory.
But she couldn’t even move a finger...
"Juexin!"
In a daze, Ye Juexin heard the voice of Ye Jueqing, who rarely ever spoke to her.
’He said I was Ye Xiao Zheng’s tool for killing... Yes, aren’t Jueqing and I just his tools? As his illegitimate daughters, he only ever saw us as weapons, never as people.’
’It’s laughable. I’ve lived for twenty-four years, and now, at the moment of my death, the only one to worry about me, to cry out for me, is Jueqing, the one who’s always been my rival...’
’It’s a bit of a shame, though. I’ll die without ever having seen this man’s true face.’
’This man, the only one to ever touch my body in my memory... this unbelievably powerful man... I wonder... what does he look like?’
Ye Juexin struggled to turn her head and met the gaze of Shen Lang, who was looking up at her with cold eyes.
’This guy... Beneath those icy eyes... there’s actually a hidden tenderness. What a strange man...’
A single tear slipped from her eye as Ye Juexin closed them.
At this moment, she felt no hatred for Shen Lang in her heart.
Just as the Celestial Silkworm Silk, glinting with a cold light, was about to reach Ye Juexin’s throat, something unexpected happened!
CLANG!
A thick, silver chain suddenly shot up from the edge of the stage.
THWAP! THWAP! THWAP!
In the blink of an eye, the chain wrapped tightly around Ye Juexin’s waist and yanked her swiftly downward!
A few long strands of hair drifted down...
The Celestial Silkworm Silk had severed a few strands of Ye Juexin’s hair, but thanks to the chain’s intervention, it had not pierced her neck!
A woman in tight-fitting clothes, also wearing an Evil Ghost Mask, leaped onto the stage and caught Ye Juexin in her arms.
"What are you doing?" Shen Lang asked, slightly annoyed.
The woman in the Evil Ghost Mask chuckled. "She’s a woman, after all, and you didn’t pull any punches... Oh, and she saved my life once, so... I think we should just let it go."
Shen Lang rolled his eyes. "I’m asking where you got that mask and what you’re doing out here! Would it kill you not to meddle in my business?"
The woman said, a little sheepishly, "I wore the mask precisely because I didn’t want to meddle in your business..."
"Damn it!" Shen Lang was furious. "With a body like yours, dressed so revealingly, and carrying that Silver Flood Dragon Chain, who in Celestial Phoenix City doesn’t recognize you? Get off the stage, or I’ll fight you too!"
"Whoa!"
The crowd finally reacted. The Silver Flood Dragon Chain was a signature Spiritual Artifact; only one person in all of Celestial Phoenix City possessed it!
Besides, with that devilish figure, how many others could it be in Celestial Phoenix City? Even a fool could figure it out...
Sure enough, the woman snorted and took off the Evil Ghost Mask.
And who else could it be but Nalan Ziyun?
