Chapter 183: and translation of chapter title

In those intertwined trajectories, Su Mo discovered the fate lines of herself and Mo Xiao and a few others.

This is the main reason Jiang Wu can, through her, get a hold of them.

Su Mo's gaze slightly narrowed, her mood gradually sinking.

Jiang Wu said triumphantly: "Your fates are all in my hands! Will you surrender, or perish together with Su Mo? It's all up to a single thought of yours!"

Jin Tong's ink-black gaze fixed tightly on the compass in Jiang Wu's hand, and a hint of wariness arose unbidden in his heart.

He clearly saw the endings of the previous nine reincarnations, each repeating; but this last one has not yet revealed its final ending.

In other words, although Jiang Wu possesses the ability to restart fate, she cannot change herself, or their endings?

At this moment, Jin Tong finally understood what Su Mo had said that day: all myriad causes and effects are directed by the heart.

Everyone's final ending is their own choice; though it seems arranged by destiny, it is actually their own step-by-step decision!

Whether it is his or Jiang Wu's ending, it has always been the inevitable result of repeated self-choices.

Jin Tong's solemn gaze turned toward Su Mo.

Su Mo was pondering how exactly to destroy the compass in Jiang Wu's hand.

Jiang Wu's Golden Finger should be like her system; the vitality of these things is bound to their true selves.

Most of them share life and death together.

But if Jiang Wu dies before the unbinding, her connection to the fate disk will not disappear, and the influence she has brought to the fate disk cannot dissipate.

Therefore, before killing Jiang Wu, we must first sever her connection to the fate disk!

Xiao Jiu said in the mind: "Host, perhaps we should first try to cripple Jiang Wu's martial power. Her kind of Golden Finger generally requires internal energy to operate!"

"Understood."

Su Mo lifted her eyes to Jiang Wu and said: "Jiang City Lord holds the opportunity of Defying Heaven and Changing Fate, yet time and again you spin cocoons to bind yourself, repeating past mistakes! You are so obstinate and unwilling to reflect—how could you not lose! Even if you were given millions more chances, you could never win!"

Jiang Wu's eyes blazed with anger as she stared fixedly at her: "I have never lost! I possess the power of nirvana rebirth—how could I lose! The loser is you, and these ants of yours! You are nothing but pawns on a board for me to move as I please!"

"Someone like you, an outsider, is destined to die repeatedly at my hands!" Jiang Wu's sinister gaze fixed on Su Mo: "Su Mo, I will reduce you to ashes and erase you completely from the six paths of reincarnation!"

She turned her wrist, put away the compass in her palm, and said coldly: "Take this!"

Su Mo frowned, gritted her teeth, pulled out the arrow piercing her shoulder, and leapt up.

Jin Tong seized the moment and rushed straight toward Jiang Wu.

A Ci quickly reacted, gathered troops, and fought against the encircling Jin Tong, Mo Xiao, and a few others.

In the rear, Xuan Wei and the North Wing Tribe Chief were leading people in battle against Jiang Wu's soldiers. Soon Jin Tong understood from Su Mo's moves.

She intends to destroy Jiang Wu's internal energy!

To destroy a person's internal energy, either break their tendons and bones, or destroy their wisdom root!

Trying to break the tendons and bones of a Level Ten beastman is not easy, but Jin Tong quickly realized that Jiang Wu's wisdom root...

That is her reverse feather!

That reverse feather has long been both Jiang Wu's weakness and her wisdom root!

To take the reverse scale, one must first force Jiang Wu to reveal her true form.

Jin Tong and Jiang Wu have both undergone nine reincarnations, and each knows the other inside out.

He has no advantage in a direct confrontation with Jiang Wu, but he can assist Su Mo!

With Jin Tong's assistance from the side, Su Mo gained the upper hand; her whip's tail swept across Jiang Wu's hand back, and the totem on her wrist heated up again.

After being stained with blood, the power of the long whip in her hand noticeably increased.

In the entanglement with Su Mo and Jin Tong, Jiang Wu gradually found herself struggling.

She had originally been relying on the power of the star disk to suppress the urge to transform into her true form; but this maneuver greatly reduced her internal energy, the medicinal effect surged, and the urge in her heart grew even stronger!

Jiang Wu quickly adjusted her combat style, subtly twisting her fingertips to draw out that strand of Jin Tong's soul, exerting force covertly.

Jin Tong was indeed restrained, his internal energy limited, and in a daze he met a poison arrow from A Ci, narrowly missing his heart.

Su Mo quickly threw a packet of medicine at him: "Quickly take it to suppress the poison!"

Jiang Wu cast a hateful glance over Jin Tong; if she could not kill him now, she would truly want to finish him off immediately!

Soon Jiang Wu repeated her old trick, aiming the dagger in her hand at Ye Yuan beside Su Mo.

This time Su Mo keenly sensed her intention, frowned, and shouted: "Ye Yuan, be careful!"

Jiang Wu snorted coldly, then flicked her fingertip, sending the dagger flying toward Su Mo.

"Wife Master!"

As Mo Xiao lunged forward, the dagger grazed Su Mo's arm obliquely, leaving a striking bloodstain.

This wound is not fatal, but the poison on the dagger is potent; upon contact with blood it quickly ferments.

Almost as that bloodstain appeared on Su Mo, Mo Xiao simultaneously sensed that his internal energy was being restricted.

The others were no better off; the moment they lost strength, the enemy seized the opening!

"Miss Su!"

Xuan Qing and Long Yan were not restricted, but their moods were affected; at such a time, a little carelessness gives the enemy an opportunity.

Su Mo frowned, adjusted her mood, and swung the long whip again.

To Mo Xiao she said: "Entangle Jiang Wu's Beast Husband; I'll take care of her!"

She could feel that Jiang Wu's breath was already becoming unsteady; she must force out Jiang Wu's true form as soon as possible, otherwise with her current stamina she might not last long.

Jiang Wu naturally sensed Su Mo's intent; a hint of ferocity flashed in her eyes, and a strong killing aura spread around her.

She also did not want to drag things out with Su Mo; she must quickly resolve the people before her!

With a lift of her hand, myriad feathers appeared out of thin air, instantly turning into blades that shot toward Su Mo.

Ye Yuan, at the forefront, instinctively rose and lunged toward Su Mo behind him.

At the critical moment, Su Mo invoked the heart scale previously given by Ye Yuan, using the totem's power to catalyze energy and flung it at the feather blades.

The myriad sharp blades forged by Jiang Wu collided with the light shield formed by the protective heart scales, erupting a dazzling flash.

"Bang"—a thunderous blast—followed, and the sky‑filled feather blades all snapped; the protective heart scale turned into a white ray that instantly vanished into Ye Yuan's chest!

Just as Su Mo was about to lash her long whip again, Jiang Wu twitched a fingertip, and in an instant a dense red mist swirled around her.

Su Mo frowned, "Hold your breath, it's poisonous!"

But it was already too late; the toxin seeped in through her pores, rushing along the blood to her heart vessels!

Su Mo staggered a step; Jiang Wu's toxin seemed upgraded, not only sapping strength but also causing hallucinations!

A mechanical voice echoed in Su Mo's mind, "Host danger level exceeds limit, activating protective protocol!"

Soon a layer of white light enveloped Su Mo.

Xiao Jiu urged, "Take the Detox Pill quickly!"

Su Mo swiftly drew a pouch from her waist and tossed it to the nearby Fei Yan and Mo Xiao…

After she swallowed the Detox Pill at her fingertip, the poisonous mist above solidified instantly into countless red blades! As if ready to pierce the Totem shield and shoot toward them!

As Su Mo gathered Totem internal energy, Mo Xiao and his companions instantly condensed their internal force to counter that power.

Jiang Wu's shrill screech rang in their ears, a blood‑curdling cry like the King of Hell demanding souls, inescapable, piercing straight into the heart and soul. Some low‑rank Beastmen could not withstand her internal force; their seven orifices bled instantly, wailing nonstop, while others, already delirious, turned on each other.

"Host, it's a Soul‑Capturing Curse! This must be Jiang Wu's finishing move! Since you have a Totem, the effect on you is moderate."

Su Mo frowned at those beside her; from Mo Xiao and the others' expressions, they had expended considerable stamina to resist Jiang Wu's Soul‑Capturing Curse.

By now, everyone's stamina had actually reached its limit.

They cannot continue; it must end!

Su Mo frowned and asked Xiao Jiu, "She can use a finishing move without revealing her true form?"

"She probably has no other options, so she unleashed this ultimate indiscriminate attack. A finishing move without revealing the true form is far weaker. Yet even this weaker effect is not easy for us to handle in our current state."

Su Mo furrowed her brows; Jiang Wu intends to drain everyone's internal force and then finish them quickly!

Another wave of Jiang Wu's Soul‑Capturing Curse surged forward quickly.

The surrounding wails grew even more tragic, and Jiang Wu, amid that agony, revealed a satisfied smile.

"Su Mo, you are no match for me. Killing you will be as easy as flipping a hand!"

Su Mo tightened her grip on the long whip and smiled lightly, "Stop dreaming. You've already used your finishing move; you have no Hand Card left! Jiang Wu, this will be your final Reincarnation!"

She leveraged Totem power, leapt toward Jiang Wu again, and after several entanglements, scattered the powder from her hand toward the opposite side.

Though Jiang Wu had long been prepared, she still inhaled a small amount.

Her body began to heat up, the inner urge to manifest her true form grew stronger, forcing her to summon the compass again to steady her breath.

At the instant the compass appeared in her palm, Su Mo seized the chance and flung a Dagger from her fingertip, the Dagger wrapped in Totem power, directly targeting the compass in Jiang Wu's hand.

Xiao Jiu had once said that the Dagger in System Space is incredibly sharp, capable of cutting anything; she wanted to know if it could sever the fate lines of Jiang Wu and those few on the destiny board in her hand!

By the time Jiang Wu reacted, Su Mo's Dagger had already pierced the star board.

A fragment of golden light burst forth, a brief dazzling flash; the board was cut open, its tangled fate tracks scrambled for a moment, but soon it seemed to resume on its own, sealing the crack.

When the golden light faded, Su Mo looked up again.

Jiang Wu instinctively glanced as well, "Impossible! Once fate lines on the star board are formed, they cannot vanish! How could Su Mo cut them with a single slash!"

Xiao Jiu exclaimed excitedly, "Host succeeded!"

Su Mo silently exhaled in relief; with one restraint removed, her chances of victory increased.

Mo Xiao and his group twitched their brows slightly, and as Su Mo raised her beast‑skin bow, they simultaneously leapt toward Jiang Wu's direction.

However, their stamina now limited by Jiang Wu's toxin, their techniques were far less fierce than before; they forced the last shred of strength to grapple with her!

The remaining lower‑rank Beastmen, having exhausted their internal force resisting Jiang Wu's two waves of Soul‑Capturing Curse, now lacked the will to fight.

Seeing Jiang Wu about to unleash another finishing move, Xuan Qing sprang forward, brandishing a sharp blade.

Jiang Wu narrowed her eyes, swinging back to repel him.

Su Mo's gaze darkened as she flicked her long whip to block Jiang Wu's palm.

At the same time she shouted, "Xuan Qing!"

Xuan Qing turned his head and saw the red crystal, transmitted by Su Mo with Totem power, embed into his body at light speed.

It was already his energy; it quickly merged with his other internal qi, instantly flowing into his meridians.

Xuan Qing's brows furrowed slightly; with a spin, his garment fluttered, and his sword thrust sharply toward Jiang Wu!

Jiang Wu, entangled with Su Mo at that moment, had no time to divert; when the blade closed in, there was nowhere to dodge.