Chapter 123: Kill Qin Wushang

"Move!"

"Grab the flowers!"

In an instant, flames, sword qi, and strange abilities clashed wildly, all targeting the three peculiar flowers!

Jiang Xia’s target was clear—he went straight for the central Sunlight Flower!

He instantly opened the Life Gate, his Sharingan locking onto the flower’s path, the Kusanagi sword humming with Chidori as he reached to grasp it.

"Jiang Xia! Don’t Itachi dare!"

A sharp cry rang out—Qin Wushang, flanked by two Qin family youths, blocked his path; lightning exploded into a net of electricity. "This Sunlight Flower is ours!"

"Get out of my way!" Jiang Xia’s eyes turned icy. He had no time to waste—his thoughts were on Wang Teng. The eternal Mangekyo Sharingan pattern in his left eye spun. "Amaterasu!"

Black Amaterasu flames erupted instantly before Qin Wushang’s lightning net and directly in front of him!

"That damned fire again!"

Qin Wushang’s face changed—he hastily retreated, channeling his energy to resist.

Seizing the opening, Jiang Xia broke through the blockade and snatched the Sunlight Flower in his hand!

As the flower touched his palm, pure Sunlight energy surged into his body, reviving his spirit.

On the other side, Ye Lingxi, using her ice-based ability’s control and speed, slipped skillfully through the chaos, avoiding Akatsuki Jin’s golden flames and Du Gu Yun’s sword qi, and successfully plucked the Moonlight Flower.

Seeing this, Akatsuki Jin and Du Gu Yun chose to let it go, offering no further resistance.

The Moonlight Flower felt cold in her grasp, rapidly restoring her depleted spiritual power.

The struggle for the Starlight Flower was the fiercest.

Cui Jue’s ghostly shadows, Qin Hao’s lightning, Li Jiuyuan’s heavy sword qi, and other experts’ ultimate techniques collided violently in that zone.

In the end, Cui Jue, leveraging the eerie techniques of the Underworld, barely managed to snatch the Starlight Flower amid the chaos!

The three peculiar flowers each found their owners!

Jiang Xia held the Sunlight Flower, Ye Lingxi held the Moonlight Flower, Cui Jue held the Starlight Flower.

By normal logic, the struggle should have ended here—next would come negotiation or trade.

But just as Jiang Xia exhaled in relief, preparing to speak with Cui Jue, an unexpected change erupted!

Qin Wushang, who had been scowling, saw he had gained nothing—and watched Jiang Xia successfully claim one of the most crucial flowers. Jealousy and old grudges instantly drowned his reason!

A mad, cruel grin flashed across his face. As Cui Jue had just seized the Starlight Flower, his breath unsteady and his attention mostly fixed on Jiang Xia and Akatsuki Jin, Qin Wushang lunged forward with sudden speed, gathering all his lightning power—not to strike Cui Jue himself, but to slam his palm directly onto the Starlight Flower in Cui Jue’s hand!

"If I can’t have it, neither can Itachi save that fat bastard! Shatter!"

"Stop!!!" Jiang Xia’s pupils shrank—he fired his Flying Thunder God kunai instantly, but the distance was too great; it was too late!

Cui Jue hadn’t anticipated Qin Wushang’s madness. In desperation, he barely twisted aside—but the furious lightning force in that palm still struck the Starlight Flower’s petals squarely!

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of breaking petals rang clear even amid the noisy battlefield.

The Starlight Flower, brimming with vast stellar power and shimmering like the night sky, instantly dimmed under Qin Wushang’s lightning—petals shattered, dissolving into drifting blue specks of light.

The life force symbolizing the origin of the stars rapidly scattered, returning to heaven and earth.

Silence.

Deathly silence.

Everyone was stunned by Qin Wushang’s insane act.

The Three Lights’ Flowers—none could be missing!

With the Starlight Flower destroyed, even if Jiang Xia and Ye Lingxi’s Sunlight and Moonlight Flowers remained intact, the only hope of saving Wang Teng was gone!

Jiang Xia stared at the drifting blue specks, as if watching the final flicker of Wang Teng’s life extinguished.

An indescribable, icy killing intent erupted from him like a solid force, instantly engulfing the entire core zone!

The temperature plummeted. Everyone stared at Jiang Xia’s bloodshot eyes, too terrified to speak.

His eyes—his left eye, the crimson Mangekyo Sharingan, spun wildly; veins bulged on his temple. His voice, hoarse and cold, sounded as if it came from the depths of the Nine Heavens.

"Qin... Wushang!!! Itachi... are... dead!!!"

Only now did Qin Wushang snap out of his mad euphoria. Feeling Jiang Xia’s killing intent, nearly solid as a blade, his face turned deathly pale. He instinctively stepped back two paces, shouting weakly: "Jiang Xia! What are Itachi doing?! I’m from the Qin family—"

"Die!"

Jiang Xia didn’t want to hear another word!

"Boom!"

The Complete Body Susano’o descended without restraint!

A blue giant, dozens of zhang tall, clad in the armor of the Utsusemi, wings sprouting from its back, appeared with crushing, annihilating might!

This time, the Susano’o’s grip did not hold a flame blade—but the Kusanagi, wreathed in black Amaterasu flames and wild Chidori lightning!

"Shinra Tensei: Raien Slash!"

Jiang Xia unleashed his full power, fusing his ocular technique with Lightning Release!

Where the Kusanagi slashed, space twisted and tore—black flame and blue lightning intertwined, carrying the will to obliterate all, aimed at the terrified Qin Wushang!

"No!!!" Qin Wushang screamed in despair, summoning every defense treasure and lightning shield he had. The two Qin family youths with him rushed forward in terror to block it.

But before Jiang Xia’s enraged Complete Body Susano’o, it was all futile!

"Crack! Puff—!"

The defenses shattered like paper. The two Qin youths didn’t even scream—they were crushed to dust by the residual energy.

The Kusanagi pierced straight through Qin Wushang’s body—lightning exploded, black flames consumed him!

Qin Wushang’s expression froze in terror and disbelief. The next instant, his body was utterly reduced to ash—his form and soul annihilated!

Stillness.

Within the core zone, only the flow of the Three Lights’ Sacred Spring remained audible.

Everyone was awed and terrified by Jiang Xia’s thunderous, merciless killing.

To kill a Qin family prodigy so openly, before so many faction representatives—how absolute, how tyrannical!

Akatsuki Jin and Du Gu Yun stared grimly. They knew they could defeat Qin Wushang—but they could never match Jiang Xia’s decisiveness, his ruthless brutality.

Cui Jue stared at the drifting fragments of the Starlight Flower and the spot where Qin Wushang had perished. His pale face showed no expression—what he thought, no one knew.

Others from different factions remained silent as graves, their gazes toward Jiang Xia filled with awe and dread.

Qin Hao stepped forward first, his expression complex: "Jiang Xia, Itachi’ve made a huge mistake. Wushang is my cousin. Though his talent is inferior to mine, Grandfather loved him most. Itachi killed him—Itachi’ve declared war on the entire Qin family!"

Jiang Xia stood within the Susano’o, his chest heaving. The fury in his eyes slowly faded, replaced by deep exhaustion and despair.

He dismissed the Susano’o, landing on the ground. He looked at the Sunlight Flower in his hand and the Moonlight Flower in Ye Lingxi’s—yet felt only crushing weight.

He ignored Qin Hao’s warning. He stood frozen, lost in thought, unable to return to reality.