chun jie di xiao long
Chapter 1030 Demon Lord!
At this moment,
Outside the formation,
Beside Zheng Fan,
Xue San, who had been standing there vigilantly, watching ahead to protect his lord.
The stick below,
Cracked open,
Emitting a "poof" sound,
Immediately, its aura leaked, and it began to deflate,
The whole person shriveled up, turning into a piece of skin, collapsing in place.
Neither Zheng Fan, who was sitting there,
Nor Si Niang, who was standing behind Zheng Fan, weaving clothes with a string of silver needles in her hand,
Showed any surprise on their faces.
Obviously,
They had known for a long time that Xue San was not here.
Otherwise,
There would be no way to explain how he could remain indifferent while seeing others advance one by one. This was just taking advantage of the fact that the people in the sect were completely unfamiliar with this "advancement method."
After all, Third Master was always the most enthusiastic one every time they advanced.
"It seems... it's ready..."
Zheng Fan said.
"Yes, my lord, San'er succeeded."
Si Niang put down the needlework in her hand, gently reached out, and hugged her lord's neck.
This human skin puppet was much more delicate and complete than the ones Si Niang casually weaved, and it took a lot of thought and cost to make.
In fact,
For an assassin,
The best camouflage isn't how strong your stealth ability is or how good your movement technique is,
But that the opponent you are assassinating,
Believes you are standing in that place...
There are Second-Rank experts within the sect,
That is certain, beyond doubt, and inevitable.
But... whether there are legendary First-Rank experts within the sect, what a First-Rank expert looks like, and what kind of power they possess, Zheng Fan doesn't know, and he can't find any literature or records about it.
However, strategically, you can despise your opponent, but tactically, you must take them seriously.
Therefore,
From the beginning when facing the Xu brothers standing outside the formation,
The real Xue San had already sneaked into the formation.
As an assassin, a truly top-notch assassin without exaggeration, it would be too embarrassing if he couldn't even sneak into a formation.
Of course,
The Third Master who stabbed out this dagger,
Was naturally not the Fourth-Rank Third Master,
Nor the Third-Rank Third Master,
But a genuine... Second-Rank Third Master.
Although Third Master had left Zheng Fan's side long ago,
But,
Blind Man and A'Ming kneeling at Zheng Fan's feet, being "bestowed gifts" by Zheng Fan with Wu Ya, in a ritual resembling a great monk's consecration,
Was not a necessary way for Demon Kings to advance.
In the more than ten years and so many advancement processes before that,
Which time was like this?
The reason why this ritual was added this time,
Can certainly be said to be to "confuse" the people within the sect,
But the main reason was to create the beauty specifically created for this battle.
In short,
The Demon Kings were tacitly cooperating with their lord, carrying out a ceremony that belonged to a fussy person.
Therefore,
Whether Third Master would advance,
Only depended on Zheng Fan's will.
Even if Third Master was at the ends of the earth, the lord could think of him, remember his good qualities, and he could still advance.
What was difficult,
Was that Third Master was inside the formation,
Silently hiding,
While enduring round after round of indescribable and intense pleasure collisions brought about by advancement.
Pursing his lips,
Gritting his teeth,
Not only couldn't he shout,
He also had to suppress his own aura fluctuations.
This,
Was the most difficult point.
Fortunately,
Third Master endured it.
His stealth,
Was to stab out with that dagger;
And that dagger was the true crystallization of Third Master's hard work over the past five years.
It's hard to imagine, even Third Master himself doesn't know, how many terrifying poisons were quenched in that dagger, and how many tiny formations were inlaid after countless attempts.
If this dagger were to be circulated, it would definitely become a... divine artifact in the eyes of every assassin in the long river of thousands of years.
Coupled with,
Third Master's Second-Rank strength.
Finally,
Appearing at the most appropriate time, in the most appropriate position, to send the most appropriate sincere greetings to the most appropriate person.
A Second-Rank person,
Facing a First-Rank expert, has almost no chance of winning.
You need to borrow from outside, while he takes from his own house. This is the difference between heaven and earth, not a concept that can exist.
But for an assassin,
If he can't complete an assassination by crossing ranks,
Then what is the meaning of the assassin's existence?
If the realm is higher than yours, then why not just have a straightforward, open confrontation?
Assassination, assassination,
The reason why assassination is used and the meaning of assassination's existence,
Isn't it to end the opponent at a critical moment with a very high cost-performance ratio?
This was the arrangement that the Demon Kings and the lord had made together from the beginning.
Xue San, this assassin, it would be difficult for him to play a particularly large role on the frontal battlefield.
He can't withstand attacks like Fan Li,
Nor can he recover like A'Ming,
He can't control like Blind Man,
Nor is he as tough as Liang Cheng.
Therefore,
Xue San's task from the very beginning was to... hide;
If there really was a First-Rank expert within the sect,
Then go assassinate him!
Third Master,
Completed the mission assigned to him by the lord and the Demon King organization.
He was certain,
That his assassination target,
Was beyond saving.
Third Master kicked his short legs,
Flew down from the edge of the suspended coffin,
Completing an extremely elegant diving action.
There was no other possibility,
No clone,
No substitute death,
Even,
It was impossible to learn from the Taoist who caused trouble in Fengxin City that year and leave a piece of paper as the final carrier.
No, no, absolutely none of these fragmented dog-blood plots.
Because,
If this point could not be confirmed,
Third Master's dagger would not have been stabbed out.
Since it was stabbed,
The target,
Must die!
Even if you are a First-Rank great power, even if you appear last, even if you are widely anticipated!
No matter how many "even ifs,"
Under this strike,
Lie down!
In an instant,
This oppressive atmosphere lasted for a long time.
First, Xue San's assassination startled everyone in the sect.
Subsequently,
It was the crowd's disbelief. They instinctively believed that the First-Rank expert, who was very likely to be the mysterious existence of the sect master, shouldn't have just died like that, right?
But gradually,
Accompanied by the man in a long dress inside the coffin, who was about to get up but hadn't fully risen,
Letting out a earth-shattering roar,
His body then began to fester and turn into stinky blood,
His aura,
Was also completely annihilated in an instant, making it difficult to find any traces of the earth-shattering power from before,
The members of the sect,
Had to admit a fact,
Their First-Rank reinforcement,
Hadn't even left the coffin yet,
And had completely lay down in the coffin!
Granny Qian was stunned, Wine Old Man was stunned, and those experts standing in front of Fan Li and the others were also stunned;
Huang Lang,
Even forgot to kill himself.
This was perhaps,
Under the heavens, for thousands of years, the biggest joke that had ever occurred, right?
"Heh..."
The Chu Emperor was the first to recover from the shock,
Then,
He couldn't help but laugh.
At this moment,
What Chu's survival,
What Xiong's dynasty,
Didn't matter anymore,
He just wanted to laugh, wanted to laugh happily, and couldn't control the spread of this emotion, nor did he want to control it.
"Hehehe... Hehehehe... Hahahahaha..."
Behind Fan Li's earth-yellow aura shield,
A'Ming laughed so hard that the holes in his chest kept twisting,
"Not bad, not bad at all!"
Liang Cheng, this zombie, also laughed out loud.
Blind Man let out a long sigh in his heart,
Fortunately, his lord was a person who forbade any mishaps or flags,
So any subversion that might occur would be arranged in advance to facilitate suppression!
Down to, killing a person in his early years, he would definitely replenish the knife first, and then touch the corpse.
Up to now, even the mysterious First-Rank expert who had never appeared had to have a pit dug for him in advance.
In comparison,
The gang inside the door was directly exploded into slag!
Careful and cautious, is not terrible, what is terrible is that, for a lifetime, even after sitting on the throne and being the lord of a group of demon kings, he still remains unchanged.
Fan Li, who was still supporting the aura shield,
Roared:
"Third Master, awesome!"
…
It's over,
It's over.
The atmosphere within the Ming Village instantly plummeted to the bottom.
This group of remaining experts were like the Qian army in their early years. After losing their fighting spirit, they were no longer a threat.
They no longer had the courage to continue fighting here.
Let Da Yan take the world, then.
They should no longer dream of the Great Xia's national fortune rising again to supplement their luck and vast lifespan.
Gone,
All gone,
Lost the bet,
And turned themselves into a joke.
Perhaps, if this trend continues to develop,
Before long,
Mysterious experts will appear in the martial world, perhaps the return of an old ancestor of a certain family or sect who had long since passed away, or the inheritance of a lost cultivation technique;
Or perhaps a small beggar will have his wrist grabbed by an old beggar, who will tell him: Your bones are amazing, I will pass on my divine skill to you.
The martial world may have more small episodes, and in ten or twenty years, there will be many new stories strung together, providing more fodder for gossip in teahouses and taverns.
…
"That's not right..."
Zheng Fan, who was sitting outside the formation, suddenly spoke.
Si Niang, who was hugging her man and even had faint tear stains, suddenly asked in surprise:
"My lord, what's wrong?"
"Si Niang... you just said that the person in the coffin... was wearing... a skirt?"
"Yes."
The existence of the formation does have an isolation effect, but it is an isolation of aura, not of sight.
In fact, for a formation of a slightly higher grade, whether or not it achieves isolation in terms of sight is completely meaningless.
Therefore, although there was a formation between them, Si Niang could clearly see the scene inside. The senses of a Demon King were much stronger than those of ordinary experts.
As for Zheng Fan, although his physical condition was severely limited now, even if he was Second-Rank... he couldn't even move, so how could he see... further?
But that didn't matter, because Si Niang would help him describe the scene that was happening inside.
In addition,
When the First-Rank expert emerged from the suspended coffin, his power was comparable to words becoming law. The sound of his voice could not be filtered even by the formation and clearly spread in all directions.
Zheng Fan could naturally hear it very clearly.
He heard the voice of the First-Rank expert, which was neither yin nor yang, in short... very effeminate.
He heard Si Niang's description of him, floating out of the coffin, wearing a white long skirt.
Zheng Fan opened his mouth and said, "There's... there's another... there's another..."
Si Niang looked at her lord in astonishment and asked:
"My lord, what else is there?"
"There's... there's another... another First-Rank..."
"Wh-why?"
Zheng Fan's eyes began to fill with bloodshot,
His expression,
Was somewhat agitated,
But his state at this time,
Prevented him from expressing himself as freely as possible, but what he wanted to say was very important.
Those who should be disappointed were being disappointed;
Those who should be proud were being proud;
Only the prince sitting outside the formation, whose body was almost paralyzed, sensed an ominous aura.
"Burial... burial... burial!"
Si Niang raised her head in alarm,
Looking at the Ming Village inside the formation.
Zheng Fan continued:
"Jin Feng... Jin Feng... Jin Feng!"
A First-Rank expert,
Clearly a man,
But buried wearing a white long skirt, his words and actions extremely charming!
Why,
Why,
Why?
Because,
He had a... deeply loved man.
The wind in Jin had been blowing for so long, and it had long since made everything clear.
In an instant,
Inside the formation,
Inside the Ming Village,
Inside the mound that had previously emerged with a coffin containing a First-Rank expert,
Again,
Another coffin,
Floated out!
It was a dragon coffin!
Nine dragons,
Coiled around the coffin, as if worshipping!
And when this coffin appeared,
An oppression several times more terrifying than before, crushed down!
Everyone present,
Was attracted by it, regardless of which side they were on, their eyes were full of disbelief.
Third Master, who had completed the assassination and landed gracefully,
Looking at the coffin that appeared in front of him,
His lips began to tremble, and his face began to turn pale:
"How... how could there be... another one!!!"
"Clang!"
The coffin lid,
Fell off.
Inside the upright coffin,
One could say he was standing, or leaning, or even lying down,
There was a person lying down,
This person,
Was wearing a golden dragon robe,
And a crown with hanging beads.
Even though his eyes were closed,
At the moment when the coffin lid was lifted,
The awe-inspiring power was like a substance!
This was not only the pressure of strength, there was something else inside!
The Chu Emperor stared intently at that figure,
That was the pressure of an emperor, the pressure of the Son of Heaven, surpassing and integrated into the First-Rank, even more terrifying than the previous one!
The Chu Emperor murmured in disbelief:
"Great Xia... Emperor."
Huang Lang laughed loudly at this moment:
"Hahahahaha, there's another one, there's another one, there's another one!"
At this moment,
Huang Lang only felt his blood rushing upwards,
And soon,
He discovered that his blood was indeed rushing upwards,
Because,
Fresh blood,
Was being drawn out from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, flying towards the coffin.
Huang Lang's entire body began to age rapidly.
He realized what was happening,
He looked in disbelief at his already wrinkled hands,
"No, no, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He would rather die,
Than believe all of this,
He would rather believe that the dreams he had in his life were all fake, than believe that the dreams in this life were being done for someone else!
Even his dreams,
He didn't have the freedom to choose!
"No, no, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Huang Lang kept wailing,
But his wailing,
Could not play any role at this time.
The Chu Emperor looked at Huang Lang in front of him,
Originally, he named him Huang Lang, Huang Lang, which in the Chu dialect sounded like he was going to fail...;
The original intention was to ridicule him for doing useless work and having useless dreams;
Who knew,
That this was not a prophecy, and the truth was even more pessimistic than the Chu Emperor had imagined.
He was a descendant of the direct line of the Great Xia royal family,
But,
He was not the true lord in the real sense,
His role,
Was only to offer his essence and blood to the true Great Xia Emperor at a critical moment, in order to awaken him!
In the dreams of Tian Tian,
Tian Tian, who had already betrayed Da Yan and killed Chen Xianba with his own hands, almost lawlessly and full of malevolence,
Felt a sense of "majesty" and "fear" when he heard "that person's" words behind him,
Clearly,
Even if Huang Lang was given another ten years, he would not be able to reach that level.
Not to mention,
Xie Yu'an, Zhao Mugou, and the Zhenbei King's barbarian brother-in-law, would listen to the orders of a puppet who was only pushed forward in law.
After all, at that time, they were the monarchs of three countries.
Unless,
Unless the "lord" in the prophecy,
Was himself the Emperor,
Was himself a sealed orthodox Da Xia Emperor who had "died" in a certain generation!
That's right,
Only the true Da Xia Emperor would spare no effort to set up this game hundreds of years ago, establish this gate, and become the true mysterious sect master.
That's right,
Only the true Da Xia Emperor,
Would be qualified,
To complete the curse on Yan, Chu, and Jin!
Because the ancestors of the three marquises had all sworn to serve the Da Xia Emperor forever, but ultimately established their own countries.
Only the true Da Xia Emperor,
Could mobilize those Demon Kings who had grown up in the prophecy,
To reunite all of this land,
Again!
Emperor,
Emperor,
The true Emperor!
As the Great Xia Emperor absorbed Huang Lang's essence and blood,
His aura,
Was constantly rising,
The existence that was unparalleled in the world,
Was about to open his eyes.
He,
Was awakening, was recovering, this required a process, but this process would not be very long.
Xue San, who was closest to him, rushed over as if he had gone mad, but he was directly overturned, fell to the ground, and spat blood the moment he approached him.
The other party obviously already had instinctive defense,
Under the self-contained world,
He who had already been revealed,
Couldn't even get close.
The Great Xia Emperor had not yet opened his eyes,
But his voice,
Had already spread:
"Wait for me, wait for me to avenge you."
Clearly,
These words were addressed to the First-Rank expert who had been fatally struck by Xue San earlier.
The real Jin Feng,
Was a kind of purity,
A kind of connection that transcended the physical body, gender, and reached the true essence, qi, and spirit.
To be able to make a First-Rank expert admire him from the bottom of his heart, and be willing to wear a long skirt to be buried with him,
How terrifying such an existence was,
When this Great Xia Emperor,
Completely awakened,
Who,
Could stop him?
The appearance of the Demon Kings changed the prophecy, but even the Demon Kings did not expect that the essence of the prophecy was so terrifying.
The remaining experts of the sect knelt down together:
"Greetings to the Great Xia Emperor, long live our Emperor!"
"Greetings to the Great Xia Emperor, long live our Emperor!"
They were all martial arts experts who belonged to their own era. They already possessed the ability to dominate the martial world, but now, they instinctively bowed down to the true sect master who was about to awaken!
The Emperor,
Had saved them,
Yes,
Saved them!
However,
Unlike those who were grateful and weeping,
Fan Li withdrew the aura shield,
Blind Man stopped resisting the surrounding formation,
A'Ming and Liang Cheng, had calm expressions.
They were not furious,
Nor were they extremely disappointed,
There was only some,
A faint… sadness.
…
Outside the formation,
Standing behind his lord, Si Niang's tears finally couldn't be stopped and dripped down.
"What are you crying for... the mother of my child..."
"The father of my child..."
Si Niang responded to this title.
From lord, to husband, to the father of my child, compared to the other Demon Kings, the bond between Si Niang and Zheng Fan was more layered and more delicate.
"Don't cry..."
Zheng Fan said,
"If you haven't left... take good care of our son... if you leave... we will still hold hands...
The mother of my child...
Two lifetimes as a person...
I didn't expect... and didn't dare to hope... to have... a woman like you...
To have you...
Is like a dream... like a dream... hehe..."
After saying this,
Zheng Fan's eyes narrowed,
Although at this time, he was still physically paralyzed,
The temperament around him,
Suddenly changed.
A tiger,
Even when resting,
Still has the might of a tiger!
He was Zheng Fan,
The lord of the Demon Kings,
At the same time,
He was also the Regent of Da Yan!
Zheng Fan turned his head,
Looking at Si Niang,
Said:
"Let's do it, mother of my child, this was, after all, the situation we expected."
Si Niang didn't dawdle,
But wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes,
And nodded.
Why from the beginning,
Did Zheng Fan intend to rush in with the Demon Kings?
And,
Why did he dare to rush?
Why, when seeing people like Xu Gang and Yun Gu, did Blind Man say, since they wanted double the happiness, why not?
Why, before entering the formation,
Did Blind Man repeatedly remind them not to be reckless.
Reminding them that they still had a chance.
Why,
Did Blind Man specifically ask Si Niang to stay outside the formation and accompany the lord.
Was it just because,
Si Niang was the lord's woman, and taking care of the lord had become a habit?
Everything,
Was because…
Si Niang took out a set of silver needles, held them in her hand, and began to insert them into her man's body one by one.
That year,
In the battle to destroy the Barbarian Royal Court,
The Zhenbei King, who was ill in bed, used this method to gain "health" and led the Zhenbei Army's iron cavalry together with Tian Wujing, completing the common wish of the Li family of the Zhenbei Marquisate and the entire Da Yan for hundreds of years;
Trampling the Royal Court!
And not long after,
Zhenbei King Li Liangting, was unable to be saved by medicine and passed away.
Right now,
What Si Niang was doing to her lord was the same thing that Li Liangting had chosen in the past.
Combining with the Demon Pill,
The lord had difficulty moving and his body was under great pressure.
But as long as the war ended,
After dissolving the combination, the realms of the Demon Kings would naturally fall back, and the lord's body could still be recuperated.
But once these silver needles were used to stimulate the acupoints and forcefully stimulate all the functions in his body, there was a chance to try to raise the lord's current Second-Rank realm up another level!
But the price for this,
Was that after it was over, the lord's life would also enter an irreversible ending like Zhenbei King Li Liangting had in the past.
Along with it,
The Demon Kings,
May also leave with the lord.
Therefore,
From the beginning,
Everyone had actually discussed this situation,
Therefore,
Before Zheng Fan entered the formation to fight,
He said so much to all the Demon Kings.
What were reverse scales?
Reverse scales were when you touched my daughter,
I will definitely risk everything to destroy your entire family!
This everything included my own life!
Because he was very likely to leave with the Demon Kings, Zheng Fan repeatedly nagged and confirmed:
Were you all willing?
The answer,
Was affirmative.
At this time,
As the silver needles continued to be inserted into his body,
Zheng Fan's throat,
Let out a low roar,
His vision, began to capture the dragon coffin deep in the Ming Village inside the formation, and the Great Xia Emperor standing in the coffin who was about to awaken in his dragon robe.
"I... haven't rebelled yet!
Under the premise that I haven't rebelled yet,
This world,
Is Da Yan's world! Is the Black Dragon Flag's world!
It is the world that the late Emperor, the Jingnan King, the Zhenbei King, and I have all fought together to conquer!
This world,
Can only have one Emperor,
And that is,
The Yan Emperor!"
Zheng Fan slowly stood up,
His voice,
Began to spread in all directions:
"Da Yan Regent Zheng Fan is here.
How dare a mere remnant of the former dynasty call himself Emperor in front of this King;
Presumptuous!"