Chapter 520: Xiao Wu Self-Destructs?

"Don't even think about it!"

The pale pink sprite did not give up; she charged left and right within the encirclement, intending to open a gap.

But it was like a trapped beast fighting in vain, unable to find any path to survival.

All that fell upon her were increasingly heavy wounds and an overdrawn physique...

"Xiao Wu, right? I don't actually want to kill you..."

At this moment, dozens of people suddenly surged out from outside the encirclement.

Surrounded by soldiers, Dai Mubai appeared within Xiao Wu's line of sight.

She breathed slightly, and under extreme exhaustion, the scene before her eyes was somewhat blurred: "You... who are you?"

"Don't remember me? I am Dai Mubai," Dai Mubai said indifferently.

Xiao Wu's gaze was blank for a moment, then gradually focused, becoming filled with chill: "It's actually... you?!"

"It is me. You seem very surprised?"

Dai Mubai said unhurriedly: "Or are you saying you feel that because of those few days of schoolmate friendship, I shouldn't hunt you?"

"No..."

Xiao Wu looked at him indifferently: "I am just sad for Brother. He helped you so much, yet he misjudged the person."

"Helped me so much?"

Dai Mubai smiled faintly: "In the end, it was nothing more than mutual benefit. Whether it was helping me break through or helping me seize the position of Crown Prince, what he was always aiming for was Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuqing..."

He quietly clenched his fists: "She should have been mine!"

"Yours?"

Xiao Wu looked at him coldly: "Zhuqing is a person, not some cargo. She belongs to herself. Choosing Brother was her own business, and leaving you was also her choice. You should look for the reason within yourself."

"What you say is not wrong. In my youth, I did indeed do many wrong things..."

Dai Mubai was not even angry; instead, he admitted his own faults.

"However, Qin Jian and I were merely in a cooperative relationship. He achieved his goal, and I reaped what I wanted. We were settled long ago. Current matters have nothing to do with the past," he said indifferently.

"Then stop the nonsense and let's just end it," Xiao Wu said coldly.

During this time spent talking, she took the opportunity to recover some of her strength, which was why she played along with Dai Mubai's nonsense.

"How much have you recovered? Is there even one-tenth?"

Dai Mubai suddenly began to laugh mockingly: "Do you really think I am so kind as to wait for you to recover? Look around you."

Xiao Wu was startled and looked all around, only to find that the original encirclement of a hundred people had now become filled with countless shadows, too many to count.

"Besides the more than ten thousand people outside, the remaining soldiers have almost completely surrounded this place. Alone, where else can you escape to?"

Dai Mubai looked her over with his pair of evil eyes and said indifferently: "Surrender; I don't intend to kill you for now."

"Don't intend to kill me? Are you trying to tell me that you've been hunting me for so long, and it wasn't for my soul ring and soul bone?" Xiao Wu's pretty face was like ice.

"Heh..."

Dai Mubai looked at her from afar and chuckled softly: "If I said that I am truly not hunting you for your soul ring and soul bone, would you think I am very hypocritical?"

"Then what is it for?"

Xiao Wu followed his lead and asked; every minute she could delay was a minute, and she would recover as much as she could.

Although the hope of escaping was already extremely slim, she would try to grasp even a single thread of survival.

Besides, Brother often said that villains die from talking too much. Since this Dai Mubai wanted to talk, then let him talk...

"What is it for? If I said it was for the sake of the world's righteousness and the future of the Human Clan, what would you think?" Dai Mubai said with his arms crossed.

Xiao Wu never expected him to say such things and was stunned for a moment: "The world's righteousness? The future of the Human Clan?"

"That's right..."

Dai Mubai said calmly: "The Spirit Hall wants to use us as pawns, but they don't know that I am also in need of such an opportunity. Capturing you is just the beginning; my goal was never you from the start."

"Not me..."

Xiao Wu took a deep breath, trying her best to calm her mood and focus all her attention on this matter.

From the moment she left the Star Dou Great Forest and was ambushed, to now being trapped in a desperate situation, yet being surrounded without being killed, and even him rambling on about all sorts of messy things...

His goal is not me... then who is it?

"It's Brother!"

Xiao Wu suddenly raised her head, flames seemingly burning in her pupils: "Our five-year agreement—I am the only one absent. Brother will definitely come to find me. So you dragged it out for so long and said you wouldn't kill me for now because your true target is Brother!"

"He used to call you 'silly rabbit' all day long back then; it seems that wasn't quite right either..."

Dai Mubai smiled faintly: "When things involve him, I see you are actually quite clever."

"Swish!"

Before his words had even faded, Xiao Wu flashed with golden light, suddenly using Teleportation into the surrounding crowd. Her long legs coordinated with her Waist Bow, and in an instant, she kicked away the soldiers blocking her path.

"A dying struggle."

Dai Mubai kept a cold face, his pair of evil pupils reflecting Xiao Wu's blood-soaked figure, without a hint of sympathy.

"Bang!"

Soon, the pale pink figure was blasted back by a soul skill, falling into the center of the encirclement.

She knelt on one knee, bloodstains gradually spreading across her body.

"Hoo, hoo..."

She breathed deeply, but could not stop the dizziness in her brain.

Whether it was soul power or Spirit Power, she had reached her limit.

"Capture her."

Dai Mubai waved his hand casually.

The Iron-Clad Spirit Masters moved in response, raising their spears to close in on her in a ring formation.

"You want to use me to threaten Brother?!"

Xiao Wu suddenly raised her head, a few streaks of blood sliding across her icy face, revealing a touch of tragic beauty and stubbornness.

"You... don't even think about succeeding!"

"Ah! ——"

She charged out amidst a shrill scream, facing the spears thrusting toward her without the slightest attempt to dodge.

"Could it be... she wants to commit suicide?!"

Dai Mubai's cheeks twitched.

He did not want Xiao Wu to die right now, because the loss would outweigh the gain.

"Hum!"

But just as the spears were about to pierce Xiao Wu, a dark red ring of light bloomed from her chest, instantly shielding her within it and pushing away the surrounding spears.

"Bang!"

With her final strength exhausted, Xiao Wu braced herself powerlessly against the ground, her eyes swirling with despair and tenderness.

"Lovesick Heartbroken Red... Brother... he has always been protecting me..."

Her head spun, her vision blurred, and her consciousness was slowly fading away.

"She has no strength left, do it!" Dai Mubai shouted coldly.

"Cannot... be... captured..."

"Don't even think about using me to... threaten... Brother..."

She bit down hard on the tip of her tongue, and scarlet blood instantly flowed into her mouth; the extreme pain stimulated her nerves, propping up her spirit once more.

"Even if it means self-detonation... I will not let you capture me!"

Intense red light began to flicker on her body.

Dai Mubai's pupils shrank: "You're crazy! I didn't want to kill you!"

"Retreat quickly! She's going to self-detonate!"

He let out an angry roar and fled toward the rear at high speed.

The self-detonation of a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast was not something they could withstand.

"Boom! ——"

The sound of a violent explosion echoed through the forest...

502 has finally come out...

(End of this chapter)