[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele":3,"chapter-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-143":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Invincible Female Ghost Is A Bit Of A Hopeless Romantic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1706522,2180,"Chapter 143: The battle is over!!!","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-143",143,"\u003Cp>This Mauser pistol was Aunt Qin’s gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lu Yuan took the gun back then, he never imagined its first bullet would be used on Shen Jizhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, that shot just now could have blown Shen Jizhou’s head off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, of course, he could not do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan only wanted to win this challenge, not to take Shen Jizhou’s life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in a way, this challenge was already won by Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that shot had been raised by three inches, the blood hole in his arm right now would have been in Shen Jizhou’s skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this cannot be said as an absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for the rules binding the “Questioning Heaven Challenge,” Lu Yuan would have died eight hundred times over already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Shen Jizhou’s body convulsed violently, as if struck by an invisible thunderbolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly turned his head, his gaze piercing through the collapsed rubble, fixed tightly on Lu Yuan in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan still slumped there, seven orifices bleeding, his breath as faint as a candle in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weak, triumphant smile twisted the corner of his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost at the same time, the Dao-fruit light sphere laboring above Shen Jizhou’s head trembled violently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its upward momentum revived and corrected itself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou lowered his head, looking at his right arm, which was bleeding heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gouged blood hole was spurting blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, for a practitioner like him, this would be manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would only need to circulate true energy, and in a moment the bleeding would stop and the wound would heal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was confronting the Human Emperor Seal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lifetime Dao-fruit, all his spirit, all his zhenran, were condensed within that light sphere,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>engaged in the most primal struggle against the awakened Human Emperor will!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every part of his body was a battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That bullet was tantamount to pulling the cauldron from under the stove!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao-fruit sphere’s light began to flicker wildly, its formerly stable rotation thrown into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The upward push stalled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began to sink!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal seemed to sense the opponent’s weakness, its seal-body humming!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A suppression force even more violent than before, like a celestial river rushing back, crashed down with a roar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light sphere was instantly pressed down three inches!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s arms trembled under the unbearable weight, and from the wound on his right arm, along with the spurting blood, his Dao-fruit power poured out uncontrollably!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was like a balloon punctured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhenran, spirit, will—flowed down that blood hole, irretrievable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the emotion called “despair” surfaced in Shen Jizhou’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly bit his tongue, spraying a mouthful of essence-blood onto the light sphere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sphere’s brilliance surged!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it only lasted a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His right hand could no longer exert force like before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The penetrating wound had disrupted the meridian flow in his right arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True energy circulating to this point would be blocked, disordered, and leak out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with all his effort, he could only muster about fifty percent of his previous strength!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against the Human Emperor Seal, fifty percent was nowhere near enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light sphere began to fall, inch by inch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three inches!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five inches!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seven inches!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One foot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s legs buckled, his kneecaps emitting a sickening crunch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spine, like a drawn bow, wailed as if about to snap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood poured from his seven orifices!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he still gritted his teeth and clung on, using hands that had already begun to tremble to desperately support that light sphere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not fall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Shen Jizhou!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the highest mountain of the Dao sects beyond the Great Wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou howled to the heavens, a voice like a trapped beast:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Despicable tricks!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the howl finished, his hands struck once more!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wobbling light sphere was forced back up by three inches as if by sheer will!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Lu Yuan was utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou...is he a damn monster?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even like this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He...can still push it back three inches?!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan could hardly imagine how terrifying Shen Jizhou would be at the peak of his artifact-bearing strength...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this the power of a Grand Celestial Master?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be more than just a Grand Celestial Master...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Shen Jizhou’s maneuver had a price!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the penetrating wound on his right forearm, a spray of blood mist suddenly burst forth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A meridian was severed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou groaned, his entire right arm shaking violently, unable to hold the hand seal any longer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light sphere instantly lost balance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its brilliance flickered wildly, its rotation utterly chaotic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal seized the opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That suppressive force struck like an apocalyptic collapse!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light sphere shattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not broken by impact, but crushed by the suppression force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It dissolved into countless light fragments, scattering everywhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou spat a mouthful of blood, his body thrown back several steps by the recoil!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His right hand drooped lifelessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood dripped from his fingertips, drop by drop, onto the rubble below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he still stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his intact left hand, he barely maintained the last thread of defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal hovered three feet above his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That suppressive force continued unrelentingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it could be said the outcome was decided!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou had no strength left to reverse it!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Lu Yuan was about to exhale in relief,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he saw Shen Jizhou’s eyes suddenly fly open, bloodshot, flashing one final sliver of madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bloody hole in his right forearm gushed, but he still had his left hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That left hand plunged out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grasping at fragments of the disintegrating sphere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were slipping through his fingers, being ground, erased, returned to nothing by that suppression force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou roared, his left fingers clamping shut, somehow reassembling those collapsing shards!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flesh touching Dao-fruit fragments burst open instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood gushed from his left palm, deep down to bone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the light sphere was truly reconstituted by him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though now one third its former size, its light dimmed by half, its surface veined with spiderweb cracks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it still existed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get! Up!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou shouted to the heavens, his voice shaking the plains!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using that mangled left hand, he supported the damaged Dao-fruit and thrust it skyward again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sphere, trembling, pushed upward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan, slumped in the distance, pupils constricted sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That old bastard...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in this state, he can still fight back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is still holding on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that bloodied left hand, with that shattered sphere, with his body utterly exhausted, he fights with everything he has.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was ultimately futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s shot, with no sign beforehand, had been simply too lethal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, who could have predicted that a Daoist duel would include someone pulling out a Mauser pistol?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was shameless, to say the least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s right hand hung slack at his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The penetrating wound continued to bleed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood dripped down his arm, blossoming into crimson pools on the rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each spurt of blood, his breath grew weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each spurt, the light sphere dimmed a bit more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each spurt, the Human Emperor Seal pressed down a bit more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s sphere began to descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he didn’t want to push it back, it was his right arm dragging him into the abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That penetrating wound was like a bottomless pit, ravenously swallowing his zhenran, his qi and blood, his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time he tried to exert force, more of his power leaked from that wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how strong his left hand, it could not plug the right hand’s hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal pressed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was no longer a gentle push, but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a breach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That suppressive force, like a celestial river breaking its banks, thundered down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sphere shattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it truly shattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fragments had no time to scatter; the suppression force ground them into powder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s last expression was wiped from existence along with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seal-body slammed down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suppression force fell like a hundred thousand mountains at once!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tremendous sound shook heaven and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Centered on Shen Jizhou, the ground within dozens of yards collapsed in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arena utterly caved in!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The foundation that housed the Sect-Converging Grand Array crumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formation-map that once held countless ritual tools’ spiritual mechanisms was torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rubble, scorched by thunderfire, sliced by golden light, pummeled by Dao-fruit impacts countless times—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after enduring that final suppressive force, finally met complete annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderous collapse!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boulders cascaded like waterfalls, dust soared like dragons, bursting into the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The central region of the Celestial Master Grand Ceremony turned into a silent wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred yards away, the ground under the spectators’ feet trembled as if a subterranean dragon had turned!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people lost their footing and tumbled, exclaiming in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked back in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the arena once stood, there was nothing left—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in its place yawned a vast pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pit’s diameter exceeded thirty yards, its depths unfathomable, like a rift into the netherworld.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bottom was pitch black, nothing discernible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the Human Emperor Seal hung motionless above the pit, radiating a chilling afterglow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou...was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life or death unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everyone knew clearly: Shen Jizhou had been defeated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far from the pit, Lu Yuan, slumped amid the rubble, watched everything and the Human Emperor Seal gradually lose its luster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smile at the corner of his mouth finally became one of utter relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the methods used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had...won.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dust slowly settled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The solemn, grand Celestial Master Grand Ceremony grounds now looked like an abandoned graveyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crisp sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal exhausted its last bit of spiritual mechanism and fell from the air, tumbling among the broken stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It returned to its original white, jade-like luster, but bore no trace of the divine anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan relaxed inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good, it wasn’t destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could take it back and use his own qi and blood to nurture it for a while until it recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold wind wailed through the ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stirred fine dust, shredded banners, and a few floating ash flakes from who-knows-where.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those ash flakes spun in the wind, drifting toward the huge pit,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and finally disappeared into the dim, yellowish afternoon sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dead silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True dead silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred yards away, the onlookers still stood like stone statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xun, the Celestial Master who once matched Shen Jizhou in renown, had also lost his usual composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood at the front of the crowd, his hands trembling slightly, staring at the wreckage, lips moving but unable to form words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou had truly been defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defeated by Lu Yuan, a one-star Celestial Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt unreal to He Xun...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when He Xun recalled the earlier scenes...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he felt that if Shen Jizhou had not fallen under those circumstances, then something truly supernatural must have been at play...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xun’s throat moved; he swallowed hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze turned with difficulty toward the young man slumped by the rubble in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Lu Yuan was soaked in blood, his breath so faint it could go out any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned against a boulder, his head hanging weakly, blood from his seven orifices already congealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he slowly raised his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His movement was slow and agonizing; every inch seemed to consume all his strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were unfocused, his face as pale as paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet a smile hung at the corner of his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile so weak it was nearly gone, yet dazzlingly bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had won.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly won.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, the Dao sect people finally recovered from their shock and began tentatively to edge toward the rim of the wreckage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Xun was the first to move, his figure a blur as he raced straight to Lu Yuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Shen Shulan did the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Shen Shulan was going to find her father, Shen Jizhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That final domineering strike of the seal...that terrifying last blow had seemed to swallow her father whole; she dared not imagine a worst-case...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan slowly closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no ecstatic victory, only endless exhaustion, as if every last drop of his soul had been sucked dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not want to think about tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not want to think whether Shen Jizhou lived or died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not want to imagine how he would face Shen Shulan if Shen Jizhou truly died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, he just wanted to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shaft of afternoon sunlight pierced the dust and fell on his face, offering not one iota of warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold wind brushed by, stirring the bloodstained hem of his clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything returned to calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So light it might have been masked by the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan, who had already shut his eyes and was about to sink into unconsciousness, suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He strained his last strength to pry open his heavy lids, his pupils reflecting something unbelievable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No...impossible...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a...joke!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clatter—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of tumbling stones came clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bloodied hand suddenly thrust up from the stones at the edge of the pit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another hand reached out from between the cracks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stones cascaded, dust rose again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silhouette slowly lifted out of the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First a head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under a tattered Dao robe was a body scorched and torn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chest heaved violently; every breath rasped like a broken bellows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waist and abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That person rose from the rubble, from the pit, and stood up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood at the rim of the huge pit, amid the ruins that symbolized his defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood-soaked, battered from head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breath was so faint it was almost imperceptible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he remained standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly lifted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those eyes had lost all spark, leaving only endless fatigue and hollowness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet his gaze still pierced space, falling on the young man slumped against the boulder in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Falling on the completely frozen Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s mind went blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body felt utterly drained, powerless as he leaned on the boulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes locked on that silhouette that had risen from the ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That bloodied, near-dead figure that still stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, the Dao sect onlookers stared at the figure risen from the rubble, each one frozen like a statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afternoon sunlight broke through the clouds and poured onto that blood-drenched silhouette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It shone into his hollow but still burning eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It washed over his trembling yet still straightened spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, Shen Jizhou, was and always would be the highest mountain of the Dao sects beyond the Great Wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold wind howled past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It swept dust through the rubble, shredded Dao banners, and scattered residual ritual debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two silhouettes faced each other across the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One slumped by the boulder, expression frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One stood atop the ruin, proud and unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Human Emperor Seal lay quietly among the broken stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Jizhou’s chin lifted slightly; his cracked lips moved a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hoarse, weary, yet infinitely contemptuous voice reached Lu Yuan’s ears clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What little tricks do you still have?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Continue.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outcome is decided!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is defeated!!\u003C\u002Fp>",2584,"2026-06-06T14:45:54.833Z",1,"novelbin.me","b2f0a6dee59d193f6a06bbc2689e3cb8b035d094bca5e60560e5ece8183f807f","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-144","the-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-chapter-142",241,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-invincible-female-ghost-is-a-bit-of-a-hopele-cover.jpg"]