Chapter 506: Her Only Longing Is Gone, Everything Is Gone

"Hehehe..."

Tang An laughed, her smile gradually turning manic; the blood vessels in her eyes burst from the intensity of her emotions, leaving her eyes blood-red.

"Self-slaughter?"

She looked at the damaged sachet in the hands of the Primordial Demon, laughing even more like a madwoman, like a lunatic through and through.

The Primordial Demon also looked at the sachet; he had thought this object was important to Tang An and could be used to provoke her once more.

Yet he had not expected that she would become so deranged because of it.

It was just a sachet; he truly could not see anything special about it.

"Tang An, I do not have much patience; you had best act quickly."

The Primordial Demon scorched the sachet with Magic Fire, intending to threaten Tang An.

But he was too heavy-handed; that sachet was merely an object from the Mortal World, without the slightest protection of spiritual power. Even the temperature of the Magic Fire was more than the sachet could withstand.

Consequently, the already tattered sachet spontaneously ignited under the scorching of the Magic Fire, completely turning into fly ash and dissipating.

Tang An watched that wisp of fly ash vanish, her manic smile freezing for an instant as two lines of hot tears fell.

"Primordial Demon, oh Primordial Demon..."

She wiped the tear stains from her face, the expression in her eyes replaced by a resolute coldness; not a trace of sadness could be seen anymore.

"You can kill me, you can use any one of my weaknesses to threaten me."

"But you should not have, you absolutely should not have destroyed the only thing my mother left me."

Her longing was gone; her only longing was gone.

"You want me to commit self-slaughter? Very well."

The ruthlessness and madness in Tang An's eyes surged; she directly summoned the Great Killing Weapon and, by invoking the Great Dao Law, instantly replicated nine more Great Killing Weapons.

"Then let us die together!"

She knew full well that if ten Great Killing Weapons were detonated simultaneously within the Inner Realm, it would cause a devastating catastrophe for the Mortal World.

Therefore, she directly crushed the void with one hand and, using a violent charge, pushed the Primordial Demon to fall with her into a spatial rift.

The spatial rift between the two realms was filled with life-and-death crises everywhere.

There were hurricanes capable of crushing a Saint's body, and black holes that could swallow everything yet showed not a single ripple of energy on the surface. Even more, endless spatial fragments floated about; touching them could break through any defense.

A scratch was carved onto Tang An's face by a spatial fragment; the Primordial Demon fared better than her, standing firmly without being injured.

After all, he had far more experience entering and exiting spatial rifts than Tang An.

"Do you think that by pushing me into a spatial rift, you can slay me?"

"This one is naturally not that naive." Tang An immediately set up a defensive array with the Hunyuan Golden Dipper.

"I give you ten breaths of time to kill me; after ten breaths, no matter where you are, you will not be able to escape its tracking."

Tang An had already staked everything; she no longer cared about anything, directly burning her Primordial Spirit while channeling Dharma Power into the ten Great Killing Weapons.

"Madwoman."

The Primordial Demon also had not expected that one day he would use such a term to describe someone from the Inner Realm.

"Since you seek death, I shall grant your wish."

The Primordial Demon had long since experienced the lethality of that Great Killing Weapon; one might not be able to injure him, but if ten exploded simultaneously, he would be severely wounded or in mortal danger even if he did not die.

Therefore, he absolutely could not let Tang An succeed; he had to slay her before she finished gathering her power.

"Extinguish!"

The Primordial Demon extended his hand, and a black dragon nearly ten thousand feet long appeared behind him.

Not only that, he continued to accumulate power, once again manifesting a second, a third, and a fourth.

The four ten-thousand-foot black dragons surrounded her from four directions. All of them opened their abyssal maws, spewing four dark-black beams of light, ancient and shimmering with golden patterns, as they blasted toward Tang An.

The Artifact Spirit Xiao Jin Dou appeared, exerting the defensive power of the Hunyuan Golden Dipper to its limit to receive the attacks of the four black dragons.

"Master..."

"I cannot hold on much longer."

Blood seeped from the corner of Xiao Jin Dou's mouth; in merely two breaths of time, cracks appeared on the defensive barrier of the Hunyuan Golden Dipper.

Tang An watched all this silently. "It is fine, I still have my Golden Body of Merit; I can carry this with my life."

Seeming to think of something, Tang An freed one hand and lightly tapped her brow, actually erasing the soul imprint between her and the Hunyuan Golden Dipper.

"Xiao Jin Dou, you go; go and wait for your original master to return."

"Master, what are you saying!" Xiao Jin Dou cried in fright. "You don't want me anymore?"

Tang An smiled. "It is not that I do not want you, it is that I cannot drag you to die with me."

She knew the Hunyuan Golden Dipper was the Dharma treasure of Yunxiao; even if it left her, Xiao Jin Dou could still return to Qiongxiao and Bixiao.

A treasure that had accompanied her through so many storms should not be destroyed with her in a place like this.

"Master, don't be like this, I'm scared." Xiao Jin Dou was truly terrified, because Tang An was clearly aiming for mutual destruction.

"Silly girl." Tang An's Primordial Spirit left her body to wipe the tears from Xiao Jin Dou's face. "Be good."

"Master..." Xiao Jin Dou stomped her feet helplessly; she did not want Tang An to perish with the enemy. "I can take Master out alive, I can."

"But I do not want to."

Xiao Jin Dou cried in despair. "Why? Don't be like this, Master."

"If something happens to you, what will your Master do? You still have disciples, and you have your Imperial Father, Master."

Tang An maintained a faint smile throughout, finally stroking Xiao Jin Dou's cheek.

"Such a cute little girl, it is just that you always love calling me Master, and don't like calling me Sister."

"You must be well; I still hope that in the future, you can help me hold back my three disciples, and Jiuyue, don't let them be foolish."

"No, don't, Sister, I'll call you Sister, I'll be obedient, Master..."

Without waiting for Xiao Jin Dou to speak again, Tang An closed her eyes, used her Primordial Spirit to drive her Dharma Power, and sent the Hunyuan Golden Dipper out of the spatial rift.

"Master!!!"

In Xiao Jin Dou's final view, without the defense of the Hunyuan Golden Dipper, those four beams of light all struck Tang An, swallowing her whole.

Is Tang An dead?

Not at all.

At the moment those four beams of light swallowed her, the defenses of the ten Great Killing Weapons were also activated.

After all, as Dharma artifacts smelted from several Innate Spiritual Treasures, their defensive power was naturally not to be underestimated, in addition to their ability to attack.

Seeing that Tang An was about to finish activating the ten Great Killing Weapons, the Primordial Demon launched a killing blow once again.

He offered up his life-bound Magic Fire, and with his hands forming seals, he simultaneously created a Great Array above Tang An's head and beneath her feet.

Added with the blessing of Law Power, it was like a super high-temperature fire cage; within ten breaths, it would be able to refine Tang An's physical body.

Tang An did not care at all where she was; the more painful her body became, the more excited she felt.

And her Merit Golden Body activated its passive defense, emitting a shimmering golden light to resist the burning of the Magic Fire.

"Within the Magic Fire, there is endless negative karma; even if you have a Merit Golden Body, you will still be burned into a pile of white bones."

"Is that so?" Tang An's face was deathly pale, but the madness in her eyes had not receded in the slightest.

She watched as cracks were burned into her Merit Golden Body, watched as her arms were burned down to white bone, only for the flesh and blood to be reshaped again, repeating the cycle.

Immediately after, her ankles, back, and shoulders were all burned down to white bone. The white bones caught fire, beginning to burn her meridians and internal organs from within.

If there were three more breaths, Tang An's physical body would surely be destroyed, and even a Saint could not save her.

Yet, she simply did not fear death or pain. The closer she came to death, the more delighted and insane she felt.

"I am not afraid of death; you had better be the same."

PS: Blessings for the High School Entrance Exam.

Since the dates for the High School Entrance Exam vary by region, I have chosen to offer my blessings today.

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I wish everyone success in getting into their ideal high school and opening a new chapter in life.