Chapter 689: Those I Killed

Moonlight flowed like water, and every sound of the world fell silent.

In the gentle night, an imperial-robed youth flickered in and out of sight, flashing like a phantom.

Whenever flames ignited on his body, his blade would drag out long blade-trails; the ambushers hiding in the dark were often beheaded before they could even react.

The ambush positions of the soldiers of Jingxian Island were spread quite far apart—some peaks were even three to five kilometers from each other—and this gave the imperial-robed youth his chance to run amok.

But as he carried out his assassinations with abandon, his whereabouts were eventually exposed.

"Who's there? He He Tangzhu? Liu—enemy attack! Enemy attack!!" A shriek tore through the night sky.

"Hm?" Lu Ran drifted at the cliff's edge and turned his head to look back to the right.

Although these two ambushers were far apart, they could see each other's hiding spots; in the pitch-black night, the flames burning on Lu Ran's body were indeed rather conspicuous.

"Whoosh!!"

A grand, massive water-arrow came streaking in at high speed.

Wrapped around the arrow's shaft were two enormous Cang Dragons, furiously adding speed and impact to the giant arrow!

Ming Hai Jing ultimate technique—Cang Dragon Divine Arrow!

Opening with the big move right off the bat?

Decisive, though.

"Heh." Lu Ran gave a cold snort. Holding the Little Chifeng Gourd, he aimed it at the crevice in the rock before him and sucked the man's corpse, divine-power bead strand, and weapon all into the precious gourd.

Loot and the like could be divided up after they got back.

Most importantly, Lu Ran, his eyes cold slits of vertical pupils, drew the ambushers' wandering souls into his gaze.

The Cang Dragon Divine Arrow was terrifyingly fast, closing in at breakneck speed!

Lu Ran finally finished collecting the souls, gripped the Little Chifeng Gourd, and his figure flickered out of sight.

"Rumble rumble rumble!"

The giant arrow smashed through everything in its path and, without suspense, blasted the cliff to pieces.

The mountainside collapsed, rocks shattered—and such an earth-shaking roar could be heard by every ambusher!

Unfortunately, the ambushers who had already died under Lu Ran's blade numbered four.

"You're the fifth." Following the woman's shriek from moments ago, Lu Ran flickered to a sheer stone wall.

Yet he had stumbled into a domain.

The instant Lu Ran appeared, he saw crystalline water droplets suspended everywhere around him, along with small Cang Dragons drifting slowly.

Under the moonlight, the water droplets and the swimming dragons shimmered with a strange, otherworldly luster.

Breathtakingly beautiful.

"You! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!" The woman's face changed.

As a great power of the Ming Hai Jing—and a god-of-killing figure who had carved her way out over seas of blood and mountains of corpses—she kept her vigilance at all times.

Even when the enemy was far from her, she had unleashed the A Sha Shen Fa—Cang Dragon Sea Domain at the very first instant.

It was an extremely precious Yi Ji Fa that combined purification and perception.

It also demonstrated the might of the second-tier god, the Ashayi Sect.

The woman had never, ever imagined that a human-shaped silhouette would be standing three meters outside the cliff face!

There was clearly no one there!

But the densely suspended water droplets clearly told her that a real, solid body was standing there.

"Where did you little wolf cub come from?" The woman barked sharply. From her crouching stance, she kicked off the ground violently and leaped backward.

Flying backward on her back, her long braided pigtails whipped forward; the braids were, of course, coated in a water-flow armor, and they carved deep "whip-marks" into the tunnel wall.

"Thud!"

The bowstring trembled!

A volley of water-arrows shot out at high speed.

A Sha Shen Fa—Sky-Spanning Pearls!

A full thirty-two water-arrows—more than enough to give the little wolf cub a hard time.

But this time, the one she had run into was no pure-blooded wolf cub, no existence she could crush with a casual flick of her finger.

"Whoosh~"

The figure outside the cliff vanished in an instant, and the volley of arrows fired out from the mountain body shot into empty air.

The braided woman's eyes flew wide open.

The suspended water droplets told her that the tall figure had appeared more than ten meters behind her.

Behind her?

The braided woman, flying backward on her back, suddenly thrust one hand sideways; her palm plunged straight into the wall as she fought desperately to bleed off her momentum.

"Crash, crash, crash~"

Gravel flew in all directions, and the force of her backward flight eased a little; at last, her legs touched the ground.

But the figure standing in the tunnel behind her was already wielding a Tang Dao, twirling out a blade flourish.

"Whoosh~ whoosh~"

The blade flourish spun out, and blade Qi swept across!

Blade Qi?

No—it was a half-arc mixed with yellow sand and crumbled earth!

It was the Nv Ba Xie Fa—Sand Edge!

"Who are you—" The braided woman tensed her legs and shot forward desperately, turning to nock an arrow as she went.

She could not afford to care about anything else; she hurriedly loosed a volley of arrows, trying to shatter the arcs of sand and earth one by one.

Sea Realm's Divine Divine Asha disciples possess absolute confidence in the output and accuracy of their own arrows!

Needle tip against wheat awn!

For disciples of the Ashayi Sect, this is a daily occurrence; indeed, since this sect's accuracy is extremely high, they often attack instead of defending.

But this time...

"Ding! Ding!"

The rapidly approaching arc of sand and earth was unstoppable!

A series of water arrows were split, shattered, and knocked flying.

"No!" The braided woman was thoroughly panicked; her arrows, which she took pride in, could not even pierce the sand edge?

Indeed, they could not pierce it.

That was not Sea Grade Sand Edge, but Sand Edge empowered by Liehuo Liehuo Tiankui!

The sand edge went berserk!

At the critical moment, the braided woman's foot gave way; she slammed one shoulder into the hard stone wall, crashing into the mountain body.

"Crack!" A crisp sound rang out!

The sand and earth arc, fully ten meters in size, hung on one of her thighs.

The first to shatter was not the water armor, but the A Sha Shen Fa: Azure Dragon Treasure Armor!

Of course, the water armor did not escape either, along with the narrow tunnel and that one long leg of hers.

Shatter, crack, break!

The sand and earth arc burst out of the mountain body, slicing off a corner of the cliff.

The smooth-cut mountain stone slid down diagonally.

"Whoosh~ Whoosh~!"

A second sand and earth arc, a third sand and earth arc... flew out in succession, carrying terrifying sounds of tearing the air, slicing through the night sky.

The cliff was like a block of tofu, cut into piece after piece.

Among them, the humans were also completely severed, meeting their deaths.

Regarding whether the Night Charm Clan's blade mark is the strongest single-target assassination technique...

The Manhuang Nu Ba has something to say!

You can say our Manhuang Nu Ba brains are no good, but you absolutely cannot say our output is insufficient!

"Swish~"

Under the bright moon, the youth in the imperial robe flashed into existence; beneath his feet, cliff blocks collapsed one by one.

After absorbing the dying souls into his pupils, he teleported away once more.

At the same time, on a Shanfeng several kilometers away, a middle-aged man draped in a deep blue long robe hurriedly arrived before a cave entrance.

"Lady!"

The blue-robed man knelt respectfully before the cave entrance and reported: "There is movement in the northwest; we may have discovered the enemy."

As the words fell, silence filled the cave.

The blue-robed man clearly felt waves of terrifying pressure emanating from within the cave.

The woman's voice made him tremble even more:

"Did I not say to report first upon discovering a situation?"

The woman's voice was cold and slow, extremely oppressive.

"Gulp." The blue-robed man's Adam's apple rolled.

He struggled to suppress the fear in his heart and said in a trembling voice: "Zhihuan, calm your anger; they would absolutely not dare to disobey your will; perhaps something unexpected occurred."

The name Zhihuan clearly expressed that the relationship between the two was extraordinary.

This blue-robed man should be one of the Phoenix Island Lord's husbands?

Yet he knelt at the cave entrance, acting like a subordinate.

Suddenly, the blue-robed man's body trembled even more violently.

He heard footsteps and lowered his head even further, even closing his eyes, as if afraid to see the other party.

In the pitch-black cave, a large red figure approached slowly.

The pouring moonlight reflected a beautiful face.

Upon the magnificent phoenix robe, phoenix patterns embroidered with golden threads spread their wings as if about to fly; faint golden luster flowed upon them, making it seem like a living creature, as if it might at any moment fly into the sky and burn all things in the world.

Red and gold,

Fierce and noble.

Whichever element it was, made the blue-robed man dare not raise his head to look up, fearing his mind would be scorched.

"Zhihuan?" Feng Zhihuan's eyes carried a hint of contempt as she looked at the man kneeling at her feet.

"Island Lord." The blue-robed man respectfully changed his address, his heart filled with extreme bitterness.

The two had once been a couple who supported each other, trying to make a name for themselves in this world.

It was just that this Holy Spirit Mountain changed everyone.

On Jingxian Island, she formed cliques, seized by force, spared no means to climb higher, and after the previous Island Lord ascended to the Heavenly Realm, she slaughtered the masses until they kept their heads low, sitting upon the throne of the Jingxian Island Lord.

In recent years, her cultivation realm has grown higher and higher, and the divine weapons and magical treasures in her hand have increased in number.

The remaining few threads of husband-and-wife affection allowed the blue-robed man to still hold the title of "Great Husband."

In reality, he was no different from a subordinate.

After Feng Zhihuan "ascended the throne," she married the highest-ranking and strongest Divine Asha believer on Jingxian Island to consolidate her rule.

Subsequently, she also married into the strongest disciple of the Yanqingyi Sect.

Or rather, she had forcibly inducted him into her harem; with both factions joining forces, they expanded the power of Jingxian Island and elevated the sect to unprecedented heights.

Feng Zhihuan,

master of a sect, standing above all living beings.

was indeed no longer the worthless husband of the past, worthy of addressing her by name.

If only her Eldest Husband had shown some ambition, advancing to the peak of the Sea Realm or even just its high stage, perhaps she would have deigned to look at him a few more times.

But her Eldest Husband, forever stuck at the third stage of the Sea Realm, filled her with contempt and weariness.

Let him keep his title; at least he occupies the slot of 'loyal.'

Along this journey, he had indeed performed no small amount of dirty and exhausting tasks; the divine weapon at her waist, the Beauty Sword, was something her Eldest Husband had seized and presented to her.

Heh.

Come to think of it, would he dare to be disloyal?

"Zhihuan!" A slightly urgent voice arrived.

Feng Zhihuan turned to look.

She had thought much, yet in reality only a few seconds had passed; and regarding this cry of "Zhihuan," she did not resist it too strongly.

Her Second Husband, clad in a great red robe, rushed over; he was also one of the few within the Jingxian Island faction permitted to wear red garments.

With a Face Grim, the Second Husband said, "Something has gone wrong; I contacted everyone immediately, but no one responded! At none of the ambush locations did any arrows fly into the sky!"

"Oh?" Feng Zhihuan's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.

The Second Husband, who was permitted to wear red robes, likewise knelt with crisp decisiveness, avoiding direct eye contact with this empress.

Did things like love and affection truly exist in the hearts of the cold and indifferent believers of Divine Divine Asha?

Perhaps they did.

But they absolutely did not exist in Feng Zhihuan's heart.

Zhihuan, Zhihuan.

She knew what true joy was.

It was power, it was authority, it was a status supreme above all.

The Second Husband clearly understood the principle that serving a ruler was like serving a tiger; he dared not show the slightest disrespect, yet could only steel himself to report, "They might have..."

Feng Zhihuan's words remained unhurried: "You mean that all six mountain peaks and all six He He Tangzhu have met with mishap."

"Yes." Suddenly, a young man's voice arrived.

Equally deep, equally carrying a terrifying aura, it even made one feel more suffocated than Feng Zhihuan did.

The two husbands' faces changed in shock; they immediately turned to look.

Feng Zhihuan likewise lifted her head, and her gaze, which forever looked down upon all beings, quietly changed.

Under the moonlight, in the night sky.

A heroic young man clad in a black-and-gold imperial robe was looking down at the three of them.

He spoke again, casually:

"I killed them."

Asking for some monthly tickets.

(End of Chapter)