Chapter 561
“Still pretending? Do you want her to personally peel your skin off?”
...
“I said that Han Xianzi didn’t follow Li Shaoxia to Tiancheng. Turns out they split up.”
“So this couple is playing along with the plan?”
“No, it was Xue Shen who first learned of Li Mo’s plan and decided to play along, and when Li Mo found out that the other side was playing along, he played along again.”
“Wait, I’m getting a bit dizzy here…”
“If Han Xianzi returns to Tiancheng and joins Li Shaoxia to kill the ancestor of the Huanmo Sect, wouldn’t that mean the trial for the celestial beings ends early?”
Everyone was now on the same page.
Ying Bing had dealt with the living dead around Xue Shen and still had some strength left.
Though Li Mo wasn’t an emperor, his control over the celestial beings surpassed that of an emperor.
If the two of them joined forces again, how would Xue Shen respond?
But the question was...
Why wasn’t Han Xianzi moving?
“Tianren City... which way was it again?”
Ying Bing pressed her lips together, realizing that the so-called ‘direction of Tianren City’ she had been following seemed to be wrong.
She had come from the direction where the demons were growing stronger.
No one would have expected that the pure as a fairy, cold as a god, and capable of sweeping away all demons...
Had gotten lost.
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Chapter 638: The Breaking Point of Xue Shen, the Rift
The vast expanse of You Shuo seemed endless, with the rotting moss and soil frozen into a blanket of frost and silver.
Now, there were no living dead left here; the cold had taken away the last remnants of warmth. Ice sculptures stood lifelike, as the wind stirred up the silver dust that had fallen from them, remnants of the battle between Yue Huang and over forty celestial beings.
A sense of confusion rose in Ying Bing’s heart.
“Creak—”
A harsh, heavy sound of friction echoed.
In the temple amidst the howling wind, it seemed to emit a mournful roar, as something broke free from its seal.
A shadow of blood burst forth from the temple, swirling up a flurry of snow as it sped away into the distance.
Ying Bing’s eyes lit up, and she followed.
In the blood light was a grotesque arm, its severed end covered in irregular bone shards, both the bone and flesh appearing alive.
After it left, the thick haze of the strange land seemed to show signs of dissipating.
It flew at great speed.
Yet it was always difficult to escape Ying Bing’s line of sight.
Everything before her was rapidly receding.
Gradually, the outline of Tianren City appeared in her vision, and then later, Tiancheng, now shrouded in blood clouds, with panicked crowds visible everywhere.
“The calamity has come early…”
Ying Bing’s brows furrowed tighter.
She could feel that the power of the calamity had already merged with Xue Shen himself.
If she wasn’t there, then he...
In the silence, she found Tiancheng, along with that familiar figure.
At the peak of Tiancheng, Li Mo, clad in armor, stood tall, his gaze like a blazing torch.
Perhaps it was his once unremarkable self that was now shining brightly.
In Ying Bing’s eyes, a clear autumn water shimmered brightly.
“Ugh…”
The remnant body of Xue Shen also plunged into the blood clouds.
Within it, the blood energy surged, a strong and sinister aura that twisted the mind and drove one to madness.
The celestial beings and the people of Mo City had completely lost their ability to think.
All they saw were two dark green arms straining, forcibly prying open a rift in the void.
From within the rift, murky blood flowed, each wave stirring up heavy, ancient sorrow, as if the sun and moon had lost their light, heralding the arrival of the apocalypse.
Was that... the Yellow Springs?
No... was it Xue Shen’s cave heaven?!
“The calamity has come early?”
“Didn’t he only have two arms left? Where did the cave heaven come from...”
Li Mo took a deep breath.
With the Great Sage’s armor enhancing him, he felt an overwhelming pressure, but he wasn’t paralyzed like Dong Ge Yu and the celestial beings; he hadn’t completely lost his senses.
To be honest.
Despite the icy demeanor on Xiao Li’s face, he was still feeling uncertain deep down.
The opponent was once a celestial being who could recreate the heavens and the earth.
Yunmeng Xian was left with only a remnant soul, while Xue Shen still had a body; even if it was a remnant, it was an existence that transcended this world.
If he still had confidence at this moment, it wouldn’t be called confidence, but arrogance...
“I’m back.”
A sudden chill and softness spread through his palm.
Li Mo turned around to see Ying Bing standing behind him, staring at him intently. Though her eyes were narrowed, her reflection was exceptionally clear and spirited.
“Ice Dumpling, you didn’t just circle around Tianren City, did you?”
“?”
Just as they were talking, a chilling voice echoed from above:
“You must have guessed by now, this trial for the celestial beings is unlike any before. I might as well...”
The terrifying voice buzzed ominously.
Li Mo, however, coughed lightly and said, “I meant, how come you didn’t get lost.”
“Li Mo, the Tianren City isn’t round.”
Xue Shen: “?”
Caught off guard, even he, terrifying as he was, found himself momentarily at a loss, the atmosphere dissipating.
Was getting lost such an important matter?
“Ha ha...” Xue Shen seemed to adjust his mood:
“Indeed, the power of calamity has fully merged with me, and the Tianren City is about to perish. Li Mo, you are quite talented; if you can...”
“Did you bring back a lot of useless chatter with that arm?” Li Mo asked Ying Bing again.
“Yeah.”
“Ugh, even though I’m not an emperor, now that I’m in charge of the celestial beings, asking for a name change for Tianren City shouldn’t be too much, right?”
“But Mo City already has one.”
Ying Bing said seriously and coldly.
Xue Shen: “??”
Am I not human?
Do I look that hungry?
Can’t you give a little respect to the big villain?
“Alright, alright…”
“Fine, you’re dead meat!”
Li Mo shot up into the sky.
The next moment, Ying Bing also vanished from her spot.
He wasn’t foolish; knowing the other side wanted to open that rift, he wouldn’t just stand by and watch until they achieved their goal.
Did he think this was a game where he could watch the boss’s entrance animation?
So he unleashed the first move of the Fighting King’s ultimate technique, a combination skill.
Ying Bing and he synchronized their thoughts, completing it together with perfect harmony, their power multiplied, enough to challenge even the gods.
They positioned themselves on either side.
Ying Bing aimed to sever that arm, which had been severed before and reattached.
The white sword light transcended thought, crossing the rift of time.
Thud—
That arm fell apart with a sound.
Not far away.
Clang—
The reforged divine sword, its edge sharp enough to cut through anything extraordinary, including the blood energy and filth clinging to the dark green arm.
That clang was the sound of the blade striking bone, then being hammered down.
At that moment.
Everyone clearly saw Xue Shen’s two arms simultaneously shatter, a tempest of blood mist rising.
This strike not only severed the arms but also touched upon its very essence.
Boom—
As if to counter the unmatched power of all beings, both arms exploded into a rain of blood, leaving streaks of crimson across the vast sky, like fine lines of graffiti on a white wall.
At this moment.
In the outside world, the light and shadow of the Jiangshan Sheji Map had become somewhat chaotic, the image gradually blurring.
Some force was obstructing it.
“Dare to act, yet afraid to let the world see?”
Emperor Jingtai’s face was flushed with a sickly hue, his breath weak, but his tone was laced with undeniable sarcasm.
Someone was using the power of the Jiangshan Sheji Map to influence Tianren City.
He was struggling for control against that will.
But that will, even as the current emperor of Dayu, he might not be able to resist for long.
“Why is the Jiangshan Sheji Map becoming blurry?”
“Could it be the Huanmo Sect’s doing? They can’t possibly influence the Dao Artifact of Heavenly Fate, right?”
“What did the ancestor of the Huanmo Sect mean by that? Is Tianren City going to be destroyed?”
“But isn’t Tianren City within the Jiangshan Sheji Map? With the strength of the royal family and the emperor’s control, how could Tianren City lose control within the Dao Artifact of Heavenly Fate?”
“Fortunately, Li Shaoxia and Han Xianzi have severed both of its arms…”
“No! Look quickly!”
Suddenly, someone pointed at the Jiangshan Sheji Map, at the rift that no longer had arms to support it.
Those two arms had clearly exploded into a rain of blood.
Yet...
The rift was still expanding!
And it was expanding faster than before!
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Chapter 639: The Apocalypse in Progress
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