Chapter 705: Shen Shen Jinxiao's Strength

"Heh, President Yu, don't put such a big hat on me. I don't want to get involved with that Return-to-One Society."

In response to Yu Yu Hongxi's words, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo smiled faintly and shook his head, then said: "You should be able to guess my reason, so I won't beat around the bush. I simply want to see House Luolan Mansion destroyed."

His gaze turned somewhat cold. Regarding this matter of the House Luolan Mansion's Mansion Festival, he had already forged a deadly grudge with Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan. Since that was the case, he certainly didn't mind adding insult to injury.

Moreover, the one destroying House Luolan Mansion was Shen Shen Jinxiao. That person had ties with the Return-to-One Society. If House Luolan Mansion was destroyed by Shen Shen Jinxiao, and Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge both died at his hands, then in the future when Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan truly return, their first target of hatred would inevitably be Shen Shen Jinxiao. At that time, he, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo, might be able to reap the benefits of others' conflict.

Therefore, regarding Shen Shen Jinxiao's interception and killing of House Luolan Mansion, in a certain sense, he was happy to see it happen.

At this moment, he certainly didn't want Yu Yu Hongxi to rescue House Luolan Mansion.

"President Yu, your Golden Dragon Baohang has always been neutral, why get involved in this mess? If you withdraw now, I'm willing to apologize to you for my earlier offense." Zhu Zhu Qinghuo said sincerely.

However, Yu Yu Hongxi remained unmoved. Her gaze only gradually turned icy as she stared at Zhu Zhu Qinghuo and said coolly: "Are you sure you really want to stop me? Zhu Zhu Qinghuo, if you provoke me, if you don't pay some price today, I'm afraid you won't be able to wrap this up."

Hearing the chill in Yu Yu Hongxi's words, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo's brow also twitched. In truth, he had always harbored some wariness toward the former. Don't be fooled by Yu Yu Hongxi's usual appearance of being kind and amiable with everyone—if anyone truly looked down on her, they would be a genuine fool.

The Golden Dragon Baohang had many internal factions, yet over the years they had all been suppressed single-handedly by Yu Yu Hongxi. This wasn't just a matter of her methods being formidable; it also proved that her own strength was extremely powerful.

Over the years, Yu Yu Hongxi rarely personally stepped into the field to fight others, so even Zhu Zhu Qinghuo wasn't clear on exactly how strong she was. But he understood that, given the resources the Golden Dragon Baohang possessed, combined with Yu Yu Hongxi's own talent, if one were to say she was weaker than him, that possibility wasn't great.

Therefore, even though he had now advanced into the Fourth-Rank Marquis, he might not necessarily be able to defeat her.

However... if it was just a matter of stalling for some time, he should still be able to do it.

At this thought, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo no longer hesitated. With a clench of his palm, a green-feathered fan appeared in his hand. Above the fan, deep red flames were rising. As the flames condensed, they seemed to form a Vermillion Bird light-shadow, breathing in and out light-flames, with clear cries echoing across the heavens.

And at the position of the fan's handle, a purple-eye mark could be seen.

This was clearly a Purple-Eyed Treasure.

"Back then, this Vermillion Bird Treasure Fan was actually helped to be sourced by President Yu. I never expected that today I'd use it to block President Yu—fate really does toy with people." Behind Zhu Zhu Qinghuo, the void trembled as four towering, mountain-like Marquis Platforms were revealed. World energy immediately whistled over and was continuously devoured by the four Marquis Platforms.

Zhu Zhu Qinghuo abruptly waved the Vermillion Bird Treasure Fan in his hand. Deep red flames could be seen surging out endlessly from between heaven and earth, directly forming four massive fire pillars that connected heaven and earth.

Yu Yu Hongxi stood in the air. Her eyes gazed coldly at this scene, then the corners of her red lips lifted with a hint of mockery.

"Zhu Zhu Qinghuo, you may not know this, but I have a habit: for every Purple-Eyed Treasure bought from the Golden Dragon Baohang by someone I should be wary of, in order to guard against some unnecessary trouble in the future, I will find a way to

find some method to counter it."

"How unfortunate, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo—you're also on that wary list of mine."

As Yu Yu Hongxi's voice fell, she flipped her wrist, and a jade pure bottle appeared in her hand. She crooked a finger, and a white snowflake slowly rose from within the jade pure bottle.

Whooo!

With the appearance of this white snowflake, the temperature between heaven and earth plummeted. Terrifying cold air spread out, and the ground began to freeze.

The snowflake directly merged into the void. At this moment, it was as if the heaven and earth of this entire region had transformed into a place of extreme cold.

Then the four heaven-piercing fire pillars summoned by Zhu Zhu Qinghuo began to dim at an astonishing speed at this moment, and ultimately were completely extinguished.

Even with Zhu Zhu Qinghuo's temperament, this scene caused a momentary lapse of focus, and then his expression gradually grew somewhat unsightly.

That mysterious snowflake must be some kind of strange treasure. It transformed this heaven and earth into a battlefield extremely unfavorable to him, and the Vermillion Bird Treasure Fan he had once purchased from the Golden Dragon Baohang at great expense had completely lost its place to exert its power.

This made a surge of anger rise in Zhu Zhu Qinghuo's heart. This Yu Yu Hongxi—her scheming was truly too deep. To think she had hidden such a treacherous move!

However, Yu Yu Hongxi paid no heed to Zhu Zhu Qinghuo's dark expression. She took a step forward, the void behind her trembled, and likewise four Marquis Platforms emerged. Wave after wave of extremely powerful energy ripples swept out like a storm.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo's heart also sank. As expected, Yu Yu Hongxi had long since advanced into the Fourth-Rank Marquis, and judging by the thickness of her phase force, she seemed to be even a notch stronger than him.

It looked like Yu Yu Hongxi was determined to rescue that Li Luo. On his end, he could only try to stall for as much time as possible, hoping that Shen Shen Jinxiao would show some skill and succeed quickly.

Thinking this in his heart, Zhu Zhu Qinghuo no longer hesitated. Above the four Marquis Platforms behind him, crimson divine sigil light-patterns emerged, like flaming divine mountains.

In the heaven and earth where grey-white ashes drifted down.

The massive House Luolan Mansion caravan was in some commotion. Everyone wore a look of panic, but fortunately, high-ranking members of House Luolan Mansion like Yuan Qing and Lei Zhang were doing their best to pacify them, so they didn't fall into disarray.

Cai Wei and Yan Yan Lingqing stood together. The two women gazed at Shen Shen Jinxiao blocking the road, exchanged a glance, and both saw a hint of worry in each other's eyes.

Niu Niu Biaobiao's figure slowly rose into the air. The bloodstained pig-slaughtering knife in his hand also lengthened once more at this moment, ultimately forming a great executioner's blade, from which surged an overwhelming aura of savage ferocity.

Instructor Xi Chan's gaze was icy. The void behind her trembled, and three mountain-like Marquis Platforms emerged, breathing in and out world energy, exuding a majestic might.

However, compared to the first two, her third Marquis Platform was clearly much smaller, looking as if it had only recently been formed.

"Oh? Xi Chan, you've advanced into the Third-Rank Marquis?"

Seeing the three Marquis Platforms behind Xi Chan, a look of surprise surfaced on Shen Shen Jinxiao's face. In his intelligence, Xi Chan had previously only been a Second-Rank Marquis, but from the looks of it now, she seemed to have achieved a breakthrough recently.

"It must be that Vice-Dean Suxin took some strange treasure from the Academy's vault for you, right?" Shen Shen Jinxiao said with a smile.

"Looks like I should be thanked. If I hadn't destroyed the Academy, how would Suxin be willing to empty out the Academy's vault?"

Xi

Chan's gaze was icy. Staring at Shen Shen Jinxiao, her eyes were full of killing intent, and she said: "Shen Shen Jinxiao, the 'Fish Demon Curse' that was planted in me back then should have been thanks to you, right? Looking at it now, the descent of that Fish Chi King's avatar back then was clearly brought about by you!"

This time, Shen Shen Jinxiao did not continue to argue as he had in the past. Instead, he nodded seriously and said: "You guessed right. That incident back then—I did indeed summon the Fish Chi King, all for the purpose of planting the Fish Demon Curse on more Purple-Glight Instructors."

Xi Chan's jade hand clenched tightly. Her gaze at Shen Shen Jinxiao wished she could tear him into ten thousand pieces.

However, Shen Shen Jinxiao remained unmoved. Facing two Marquis-level powerhouses, Niu Niu Biaobiao and Xi Chan, all by himself, he didn't seem to show any sign of fear. Instead, he stared at Li Luo and smiled: "Is this all the preparations you've made over these past days?"

"If you're counting on the Academy or the Golden Dragon Baohang's side, I'm afraid it might be a bit too late."

"And these two Marquis-level powerhouses may not be able to stop me."

Li Luo met Shen Shen Jinxiao's gaze with icy eyes. Just as he was about to speak, a voice suddenly rang out from within the House Luolan Mansion caravan.

"What about adding me?"

In the caravan, numerous gazes shot over in astonishment, and they saw a figure standing atop a carriage at some unknown time.

That figure...

Was actually Duze Mansion's Duze Yan!

Facing the sudden appearance of Duze Yan, even Jiang Jiang Qinge showed a look of surprise. She then looked at Li Luo and said: "You actually invited him too?"

She knew that Li Luo had been preparing to deal with Shen Shen Jinxiao over the past few days, and at the same time trying his best to invite reinforcements. But she hadn't expected Duze Yan to come. After all, the relationship between House Luolan Mansion and Duze Mansion wasn't exactly friendly. Even though Duze Yan had stepped in to block Si Qing during the Mansion Festival, he still hadn't shown any intention of thawing relations with House Luolan Mansion.

"The Master of Duze Mansion said he would agree, simply because Shen Shen Jinxiao caused Duze Mansion to be displaced as well, so the two sides share a grudge—that's why he's making a move." Li Luo said with a smile.

Hearing this, Jiang Jiang Qinge didn't say much more. Clever as she was, she naturally understood that this was just Duze Yan's excuse. This one, with his strong and proud personality, would never admit to coming to help House Luolan Mansion. However... this favor, their House Luolan Mansion did owe him.

"Duze Yan, it seems you've truly been subdued by Li Taixuan."

Shen Shen Jinxiao stood in the air, watching Duze Yan appear, and shook his head — that the latter would come help House Luolan Manor was something even he hadn't expected.

"But it doesn't matter. Just a second-rank Marquis making up the numbers."

Shen Shen Jinxiao smiled faintly, but from within his eyes, endless icy cold and a ghastly chill flowed out like a glacier.

"Since all the trump cards have been revealed, then next, it's my turn, isn't it?"

He stretched out his palm, and the void behind him began to tremble violently.

"Hidden for so many years, and finally I can strike without holding back. Truly something to look forward to."

The smile at the corner of Shen Shen Jinxiao's mouth grew thick at this moment, and his hands came together, forming a seal.

Immediately after, the void trembled, and six towering, mountain-like Marquis Platforms tore through the air. In that instant, a pressure fierce to the extreme swept across the world like ten thousand massive waves.

Six Marquis Platforms!

This Shen Shen Jinxiao had clearly already advanced to sixth-rank Marquis!!