Chapter 161: We Won

"You!"

The rat-faced masked man's anger surged, and he said gloomily.

"Chen Long, you had better be able to actually kill that guy or capture him alive, otherwise I will definitely report you to my lord!"

"Suit yourself."

Chen Long charged toward the group of monsters in front of him, initiating a one-sided slaughter.

"Let's go!" the rat-faced masked man shouted coldly, leading his men in pursuit of the direction Guo Qin had fled.

Little did he know that Guo Qin was already in big trouble; standing before him was a middle-aged man in luxurious robes, who stood with his hands behind his back watching him—it was none other than the head of the Xie family, Xie Hong!

Ever since Zhuge Ni had activated the Star Array, Xie Hong had been pursuing Guo Qin. In his eyes, the lives of those twelve masked men were far less important than capturing Guo Qin.

Gulp.

Guo Qin could not help but swallow hard, a fawning smile appearing on his face.

"What a coincidence, big brother, are you here to take a dump?"

"I have no time for your nonsense. Tell me, what happened inside the Gate of Apocalypse?" Xie Hong asked in a deep voice.

"The Gate of what?"

"The Gate of Apocalypse."

"What Gate of what?"

"The Gate of Apocalypse."

"The Gate of what now?"

"......"

Xie Hong lightly wiped the ring on his hand, and a pitch-black embroidered spring saber appeared in his grasp. The scabbard was covered in dragon-shaped cloud patterns, radiating a chilling, murderous aura.

"Since you refuse to speak, this old man also knows a thing or two about the technique of slow slicing."

As soon as he finished speaking, accompanied by a crisp ringing sound, the long saber in Xie Hong's hand slowly left its sheath, resembling a bright crescent moon.

"Divine artifact, Black Moon!"

Guo Qin's pupils shrank violently; he clearly recognized the origin of the saber in Xie Hong's hand!

"Look... big brother, let's talk this out, let's not resort to violence, shall we?" Guo Qin said with a sheepish grin.

Xie Hong remained silent and walked toward Guo Qin with the saber in hand. The tip of Black Moon lightly scraped against the ground, sparking a series of flashes.

"Don't! Big brother! Don't be impulsive!"

"Ah!!!"

On the city wall, after Ye Lin successfully neutralized the rat-faced masked man's attack, he casually reached into Zhuge Ni's arms and swiped the compass.

This compass seemed to require the absorption of life force to function, so wasn't that perfectly suited for him? Ye Lin didn't have much, but he had plenty of life.

After examining the compass, Ye Lin finally understood why Zhuge Ni had been able to unleash such terrifying power just moments ago.

"Teacher... what kind of existence were you when you were alive?" Ye Lin could not help but mutter to himself.

This astrolabe was a divine artifact.

But if it were merely a divine artifact, it would naturally be impossible for Zhuge Ni to possess the power to suppress everything.

That terrifying power stemmed from the preparations Zhuge Qianxing had made while he was alive!

Zhuge Qianxing had used the entire Qingcheng as the foundation to set up the All-Heaven Star Array, and this astrolabe was the eye of the array; whoever controlled the astrolabe in Qingcheng could mobilize the endless power of the stars.

In other words, Zhuge Ni was actually just a switch.

It was just that Zhuge Ni was too weak; if she were more powerful, she would never have been in such a sorry state while manipulating the Star Array.

"With this compass... wouldn't I be invincible in Qingcheng?" Ye Lin's eyes burned with fervor. Facing Chen Long, who was charging toward him, he immediately prepared to activate the Star Array left behind by Zhuge Qianxing.

But at this moment, he discovered that the astrolabe in his hand had no reaction at all.

"Wait! This thing is bloodline-locked? Are you kidding me!"

Ye Lin's face turned green instantly. If he hadn't guessed wrong, this astrolabe should only be usable by Zhuge Qianxing's direct descendants. Guarding against villains was one thing, but why did Zhuge Qianxing have to guard against him too? Did he look like the type of person who would steal things from Zhuge Ni?

Could it be that he would claim it as his own just because the astrolabe was a divine artifact and particularly useful? Was he, Ye Lin, that kind of person?

Watching Chen Long continuously closing in, Ye Lin couldn't care about that anymore. He backhanded his Eight Desolations Sacred Silver Bow and sliced open Zhuge Ni's fair wrist.

"Well, I'm doing this to save the people of Qingcheng, so I'm just borrowing a bit of Zhuge Ni's blood. Teacher, please don't blame me if your spirit is watching!"

As the crimson blood flowed from Zhuge Ni's wrist onto the ancient compass, the compass gradually began to glow with brilliant starlight.

Seeing Zhuge Ni's lips turn from rosy to bloodless, Ye Lin hurriedly stopped and stanched the bleeding; he was afraid that if he let it flow any longer, Zhuge Ni would simply die.

With Zhuge Ni's blood, Ye Lin was finally able to control the astrolabe.

In an instant, he felt as if he had merged with the entire Qingcheng; with just a single thought, he could destroy everything before him.

Following that, Ye Lin directly unleashed the move against Chen Long that Zhuge Ni had failed to execute earlier!

"Starlight Extinction!"

Ye Lin felt as if the astrolabe before him had turned into an insatiable black hole, sticking tightly to his hand, impossible to shake off, crazily devouring his life force, with no intention of giving him any way to survive!

It seemed Zhuge Qianxing had long anticipated that someone might use Zhuge Ni's blood to activate the astrolabe, so he had left behind a contingency.

If not for Ye Lin's immortal body, he feared that even ten lives would not be enough to die.

"I knew it, how could Teacher guard against even me?"

Ye Lin smiled. In this way, there were only two people in the world who could use the astrolabe: one was Zhuge Ni herself, and the other was him, provided he had Zhuge Ni's blood.

Brilliant starlight converged above Qingcheng into a torrent of stars, sweeping down toward the dense mass of monsters below!

There were no violent explosions, no painful roars, no dying struggles.

Wherever the starlight passed, the massive monsters were annihilated as if they were made of paper; no monster could withstand the brilliant, dazzling starlight, and Chen Long's figure also vanished beneath it.

When the starlight slowly dissipated, an extremely obvious gap had appeared in the boundless sea of monsters, with nearly half of them having perished under that single strike.

This terrifying power made even Ye Lin swallow his own saliva.

Once the number of monsters became too great, they moved like a tide, one wave pushing the next forward; even if the monsters were afraid, they had no chance to turn back.

And Ye Lin's strike of Starlight Extinction, having wiped out nearly half, instantly gave the monsters a chance to regret.

"Woo..."

It was unknown which monster let out a wail with immense penetrating power, and then those remaining monsters, as if having received some command, retreated rapidly like a receding tide.

Monsters also had lives and could feel fear; watching so many of their own kind instantly vaporized, they would naturally feel terror as well.

Hu Weng, beneath the city wall, stared blankly at the monsters beginning to retreat. His weapon was already riddled with holes, and he had many wounds on his body.

With a thud, Hu Weng collapsed to the ground, muttering.

"We... won..."

Then Hu Weng suddenly became agitated, roaring hysterically.

"We won!!!"