258: Chapter 32 Dragon Girl_3 258: Chapter 32 Dragon Girl_3 Xie Xuanyi said calmly, “If this is the extent of your ability…
it ends here.”
He plucked out the wild grass.
The Sword Qi slashed downward, still the same unadorned and simple strike.
But only the one facing the sword
knew
how immense the pressure of this one strike was.
“Rip!”
Ao Ying’s brow split open, she felt an unprecedented crisis, and let out a roar with all her strength.
This was the third time she used the technique “Blood Explosion.”
This time,
Xie Xuanyi got what he wished for and saw the deepest “secret” hidden within the Dragon Girl.
The Sword Qi swept through the air above the snowy ground.
The skin on Ao Ying’s brow split on its own, revealing a vertical scarlet pupil.
This vertical pupil,
seemed to possess life.
After tearing through Ao Ying’s brow, it spun around, and the Dragon Blood from the third “Blood Explosion” was more intense than the previous two times; Ao Ying’s complexion visibly withered a great deal.
She clenched her teeth, her voice carrying a tone of cold and forbidding murderous intent.
“Kill him…”
These words, obviously, were addressed to the vertical pupil.
But perhaps the previous battle had left too many shadows on her.
The Dragon Girl cast a desperate glance at Xie Xuanyi, and in a hoarse voice added, “And then take me away.”
As her words fell,
The Dragon Blood spilled in the void trembled rhythmically, and after the vertical pupil absorbed it all, it stopped spinning and, following Ao Ying’s gaze, settled on Xie Xuanyi.
It “coldly” stared at the young man in black before it.
The blood burned away in the void.
Ao Ying and the vertical pupil, as if by some mystical contract, had reached an agreement in the unknown.
“Hum!”
The next moment, the snowy ground rumbled.
A crimson pillar of light surged out from the vertical pupil, directly “piercing” through Xie Xuanyi.
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At the northern border of Li Lan Mountain.
The Dragon Horse Giant Carriage came to a stop.
The man sitting in the carriage stood up and looked toward the south.
“Prince?”
Chi Wu looked tense, unsure of what had happened.
Prince Jiu’s face was expressionless as he raised his hand to summon the Scarlet Jade Token, the fourteen Demon Hearts that were originally connected to the jade token, at this moment, all dimmed down…
Then,
under Prince Jiu’s watchful eye,
these fourteen Demon Hearts exploded one after another with incredible speed.
It all happened so swiftly, in less than a few dozen breaths.
“All the Death Soldiers are dead?!”
Chi Wu was horrified, clearly aware of the level of the Death Soldiers sent on this mission.
These Death Soldiers were the absolute elite from Chi Ling City!
“How is that possible?!”
“Ao Ying was struck by a palm from the Prince; she must be severely injured.”
Chi Wu’s scalp tingled a bit, and he gritted his teeth as he spoke, “With her current strength, even if she could deal with these Death Soldiers, there’s no way it would be so quick, unless she ascended to become a transcendent being…”
“Ascend to a transcendent being, as if it’s that easy?”
Prince Jiu scoffed, speaking coldly, “Besides, Ao Ying harbors wild ambitions, what she wants to ascend to is not just an ordinary transcendent being.”
“…”
At a loss for words, Chi Wu thought a moment before cautiously asking, “Could it be that there was another person lending a hand?”
Prince Jiu gave him a glance.
Chi Wu gave a bitter smile, rubbing his forehead as he said, “Alright, under the heavens, who would help that madwoman…
But how do we explain the sudden deaths of those Death Soldiers?”
The next moment.
He stood dumbfounded, somewhat fearfully looking at the Prince atop the carriage.
Prince Jiu fell into silence.
It seemed as though he was pondering something.
“Prince…
refining the ‘Phoenix Eyes’ is not the work of a single day or night.”
Chi Wu knew what Prince Jiu was thinking about, he took a deep breath, and couldn’t help but say, “You don’t need to worry too much, even if Ao Ying has exceptional talent in her bloodline, it’s impossible for her to tame the ‘Phoenix Eyes’ in such a short time.”
“I’m not worried about that.”
Prince Jiu said calmly, “The Death Soldiers of Chi Ling City died, and so they have died.
Their purpose was to make Ao Ying’s injuries a bit more serious, even more so.”
Chi Wu was stunned, “What do you mean?”
“A person, only when they have no way out, caught in a complete dead end…
will they choose to gamble.”
Prince Jiu’s face was expressionless, “Only if Ao Ying is injured enough, will she attempt to ‘survive’ at all costs.”
Chi Wu still did not understand.
“Do you know why she fled south?”
Prince Jiu smiled with downcast eyes.
Chi Wu was also very curious.
To the south…
there was nothing.
Past Li Lan Mountain, further south, lies the Northern Border Great Wall of the Human Race, the array patterns constructed by the Array Masters of the Dachu Dynasty, capable of dealing devastating blows to the Demon Race.
Could it be that Ao Ying was truly planning to cross the Great Wall and flee to the human territory?
If so, it would be even more miserable!
“Before Ao Ying escaped from Chi Ling City, she stole the ‘Phoenix Eyes’, as well as a map to a Secret Realm.”
Prince Jiu said calmly, “The reason she fled south is that she knows there’s a high chance she won’t escape my palm…
To stay alive, she needed to seek refuge within a Secret Realm.”
Chi Wu came to a sudden realization and murmured, “Resentful Ghost Ridge?”
Prince Jiu nodded.
He spoke faintly, “Exactly…
I deliberately left a map to a Secret Realm in the box that sealed the Phoenix Eyes.”
“Ao Ying, after taking the treasure, would understand that ‘Phoenix Eyes’ is a Holy Object that draws upon Ancient Saint Essence Blood.
Having been nourished in Chi Ling City for nearly a hundred years, daily feeding it fresh blood, it has still not been satiated.
To make ‘Phoenix Eyes’ Perfect, it requires an ancient battlefield, to find Ancient Saint Essence Blood…”
Prince Jiu smiled faintly, “To tame the ‘Phoenix Eyes’, one must venture into the Secret Realm personally, risk one’s life in exchange for fortunes.”
Chi Wu had a complicated expression, feeling admiration from within, “Brilliant, utterly brilliant!”
In this way, it was an open conspiracy.
Ao Ying took the Phoenix Eyes and headed south, all to find the Ancient Saint Secret Realm marked on the map.
She had to find a way to satisfy the Phoenix Eyes!
And in the end.
The Prince only needed to quell the chaos, slay this demoness, and the entire layout would be complete.
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(I’m on a business trip today, and I’m really too tired.
Please forgive me, the word count for these two days might be a bit less.)