Chapter 170: The Powerful Wen Zhaohua

Wen Renjing, already trapped by the strange black liquid, had his body corroded to the point where his bones were exposed; that peerless, elegant face was already twisted in agony.

He should have died, but at this moment, Wen Renjing felt an incomparably familiar aura. A powerful will to survive caused Wen Renjing to instantly erupt with vitality.

At this same moment, that mysterious existence from Wen Xishu's evil deeds finally revealed his countenance.

Those filthy black liquids were finally thoroughly tamed by him. He wore a water-blue long robe, a style completely different from the bunker, and his figure was slender. A faint blue halo prevented the surrounding black liquid from touching him.

Under the dim light, one could only see the outline of the man's features. Yet even so, for Wen Xishu and Wen Renjing, it was enough to recognize him.

"So your brother... no, our brother is this handsome."

Although the face existed in his memories, upon seeing him for real, Wen Xishu was still moved by the other's presence.

Those black liquids, as if betraying the Priest, actually began to allow "Wen Zhaohua" to manipulate them.

As Wen Renjing screamed the two words "Zhaohua" at the top of his lungs...

Wen Renjing also immediately felt that the black liquid invading him was suddenly pulled away by a mysterious force. At the same time, Wen Renjing felt as if he were wrapped in gentle water, and his tattered, broken body was actually healing slowly.

"Jingzi, it really has been a long time since I heard someone call me that."

"And Little Tree, this is truly wonderful, being able to see you two at the same time. I used to think that you two would complete some mission together in the future."

"To actually see it today, it's truly wonderful."

"The only flaw is that I am not me, and Jingzi is not Jingzi. Sequence, the power of the Evil Earth Divine Kingdom, should not be used recklessly, Priest."

The Priest was shocked that his domain, Three Towers Sequence 40: Evil Earth Divine Kingdom... would actually lose its effect. Moreover, the other party had recognized this power at a single glance.

Those black liquids condensed from endless evil thoughts began to fear this existence, to the point that... they slipped out of his control.

It was not just slipping out of control, but being controlled by someone else.

"You... who exactly are you?"

Familiar, truly very familiar. This handsome man gave the Priest an extremely familiar feeling, yet the Priest could not recall where that sense of familiarity originated.

"Me? My name is Wen Zhaohua. I am an exile."

Wen Zhaohua, the bunker's number one criminal, whose committed crime was the crime of human extinction, was also the heaven-gifted pride of the Wen family, holding high rankings in the Mysterious Tower, the Tower of Desire, and the Slaughter Tower—all three towers.

But in the end, he chose the Mysterious Tower.

Later, he committed atrocities and performed acts that people found difficult to understand.

"It is truly magical, Jingzi. You and I are both simulated bodies condensed by this Sequence power, but our memories and personalities are exactly the same as the real us. Only the power... I have been weakened quite a bit."

Wen Zhaohua sighed.

His gaze never fell upon the Priest; even when conversing with Wen Renjing, he was looking at another person—Wen Xishu.

"Little Tree, you've worked hard."

Wen Xishu actually felt... it was fine. What was there to work hard about? He had simply followed his intuition to summon the strongest existence beneath the gods.

But when he saw Wen Zhaohua and heard Wen Zhaohua say "Little Tree"...

Wen Xishu suddenly felt a massive surge of emotion.

"Brother... I didn't believe them, I have been waiting for you."

The fool deep within his heart, for once, spoke a complete sentence.

Wen Xishu, for a moment, did not know how to respond.

He was a person who could handle any situation, but now, he was frozen in place.

Wen Zhaohua just smiled:

"So you encountered this Priest. In a sense, his power is somewhat unsolvable for normal tower climbers."

"That really is an imaginative solution, actually thinking of my evil deeds."

"Xishu, you are indeed a very excellent person."

Wen Xishu's heartbeat pounded and accelerated.

He was surprised.

Little Tree, Xishu—was this a temporary change in address?

It didn't seem like it. Wen Xishu remembered... it seemed that in all memories regarding the fool and Wen Zhaohua, Wen Zhaohua always called the fool Little Tree.

That "Xishu" just now, could it mean that Wen Zhaohua knew who he really was?

The Inverted Dice, time travel, the Evil Earth...

The Wen family's betrayal—what was all this about?

Wen Xishu wanted to ask.

But there were still enemies on the field.

The Priest pulled at his own hair, somewhat frantic:

"So strange! Why can't I remember who you are! I clearly feel very familiar!"

Wen Renjing's body was still being repaired and could not move for the time being:

"Zhaohua, be careful! This Priest is very powerful!"

Wen Zhaohua just smiled faintly:

"Rest easy."

From Wen Zhaohua's face, the Priest felt a kind of contempt, and he roared:

"No matter who you are! You cannot hinder me! You are guilty! Repent to me!"

The black liquid beneath his feet began to surge continuously, and the Priest also began to continuously release the evil thoughts he had absorbed over the years: "Kill them all! Kill them all!"

"They are all my food!"

Feeling that the man called Zhaohua possessed powerful strength, the Priest did not dare to be negligent, and he began to continuously summon evil thoughts.

Those evil thoughts emerged one by one from beneath the black liquid, finally condensing into knight statues.

Punishing Knights, the cult's forbidden guards.

The Priest laughed:

"You should have interrupted my spellcasting! You are finished!"

The knights in pitch-black armor drew their greatswords.

Wen Renjing subconsciously wanted to use the Sequence to disintegrate the malice.

But he only saw Wen Zhaohua raise a finger, gently making a "shush" gesture:

"Don't move. I will catch up on old times with this old acquaintance."

Old acquaintance?

Shouldn't the old acquaintances on the field be himself and Wen Xishu?

Wen Renjing thought this, but Wen Zhaohua's gaze at this time was looking at the Priest.

"I didn't expect you to come here. Priest."

A dozen knights swung their swords.

Countless grievances turned into sword Qi, wrapped in a black tide, rushing toward Wen Zhaohua.

The speed of the sword swings was so fast that a storm erupted, raging in the prayer room! Those wooden benches were all blown away.

At this time, outside the prayer room, the entire small town saw black liquid appearing around the perimeter of the prayer room.

Inside the prayer room, Wen Xishu and the others only felt a sea wave hit them, and they were about to lose their footing!

"Damn... this force is completely no weaker than the Red House! This Sequence is truly useful."

Wen Xishu was envious.

Such a small town, in a few years, was enough to make that Priest as powerful as the Red House. If the Priest were allowed to continue developing...

If the Priest went to a city with an outrageous population density, like Beijing or Shanghai in his previous life, wouldn't he evolve directly into a god-level entity?

Evil Earth Divine Kingdom, using the Evil Earth to nurture a Divine Kingdom—Wen Xishu felt the Sequence name was so fitting.

This was just the power of the knights swinging their swords; it was hard to imagine the situation if this group of Punishing Knights went all out to attack crazily...

Could the Ghost Bride, Shoe Girl, Jiang Qing, and An Rong really defeat them!

Of course—

That Wen Xishu could think about the battle situation so leisurely naturally meant that the situation had not reached the point of despair.

To be precise, the one who should truly be in despair was the Priest.

Just when even Wen Renjing thought that even if this were Xun Hui, he would have to avoid the edge of the blade...

He suddenly saw a circle of ripples.

The space seemed to liquefy, and a circle of ripples appeared. The ripples spread, and the concentric waves were so beautiful.

Those ripples also washed over Wen Xishu and Wen Renjing.

Wen Renjing only felt that for a moment, his consciousness seemed to have drifted into the distant starry sky. He felt a kind of dead silence and tranquility.

But the next second, he returned to the human world.

This was the feeling of Wen Renjing and Wen Xishu.

But for the Priest, this circle of ripples washing over was not so simple at all. The ripples were like a breeze brushing his face, but those knights, the black tide...

Were all turning into dust.

Or rather, they were all being annihilated.

"God Rebound... this is God Rebound!"

One must not be disrespectful to the gods, one must not have thoughts of blasphemy toward the gods, otherwise, evil thoughts will inevitably rebound. Among the Three Towers Sequences, it was an extremely high-ranking Sequence. It was also an extremely powerful defensive Sequence.

In this instant, the Priest remembered what was described on the stone slab regarding the Sequences shared by those gods.

The consciousness of the gods scans the surroundings; those without evil thoughts will feel as if they are in a boundless, peaceful, desolate, and dead-silent starry sky in this instant.

But they will eventually return to reality.

And those harboring evil thoughts will be thoroughly destroyed.

He panicked:

"It's you!"

At this moment, he seemed to have finally recalled everything.

But it was too late.

The Punishing Knight Order, whose strength was enough to purify all evil, had been wiped out in the first wave, and the second wave would require more time to summon...

But the Priest was already unable to summon them.

After that circle of ripples, everything had settled.

Wen Zhaohua's finger landed on the Priest's forehead.

"Let's catch up on old times, Priest."

"No... don't touch me! Don't touch me! I am innocent! I am innocent! You gave me power, I had no choice!" The Priest struggled desperately.

This dialogue made Wen Xishu feel there was something very suspicious.

And Wen Renjing marveled at Wen Zhaohua's strength. Zhaohua... was he actually this powerful?

Those knights just now, if it were Master... perhaps he could solve them instantly, but if it were Xun Hui, he would probably have to expend some effort, right?

He might even be injured.

But Zhaohua just now, did he kill them in seconds?

Wen Zhaohua's strength somewhat overturned Wen Renjing's cognition.

He couldn't help but wonder, did he make a deal with some demon? Was that why he exchanged for such powerful strength?

The Priest could not move.

His eyes also began to show strange changes. Ripples stirred in his pupils, and a small stone seemed to have fallen into the deep pool of his consciousness.

"Stop!"

The Priest erupted with great will:

"Let us go! Let him go!"

Wen Xishu noticed something was wrong.

The first sentence was "let us go." Besides the Priest, who else was there?

The second sentence... changed to "let him go"?

Wen Zhaohua smiled again:

"Priest, thank you. If it weren't for my younger brother summoning me today, I would have let you go."

"But unfortunately, he is still a seedling, a seedling that needs to constantly grow and needs a large amount of nutrients."

"You are an old friend, but he is my dear younger brother."

The Priest's body began to show a state of being annihilated, and his whole person began to disintegrate bit by bit.

"Let him go... let him go..."

In the end, the Priest just kept repeating this sentence.

Wen Zhaohua said:

"Priest, you gave me an extremely important piece of information. Thank you again. With this information, I think I will have more bargaining chips when facing some people."

Death was near.

Facing this kind of overwhelming power, the Priest had no way out at all.

He began to recall a promise he made with a child many years ago.

He created many evil people, but he also purified their evil deeds. He always felt that he was a good person...

But now, he was about to die.

It was also at this time that he discovered that as for being a good person, he seemed to have only done one good deed.

"I'm sorry... I didn't expect to encounter them..."

The Priest died.

Beneath Wen Zhaohua's finger, only countless dust remained.

Wen Renjing and Wen Xishu had imagined many developments for this battle, and had even imagined Wen Zhaohua being pervertedly powerful and defeating the enemy...

But the Priest being defeated so absurdly still left the two deeply shocked.

"The owner of the Storytelling Club... is just gone like this..."

Wen Xishu felt it was somewhat unreal.

Were those circles of ripples too terrifying in their destructive power?

The power the Priest mastered was, to some extent, similar to modifying reality. Such an existence should not be invincible, but it shouldn't have been defeated like this.

Wen Xishu found it hard to imagine that his own brother was this terrifying.

This strength had already surpassed Xun Hui, right?

"Zhaohua... is it really you?" Wen Renjing asked.

"It is me, but I am not me. It is also fortunate that I am not me, otherwise we would all have to die." Wen Zhaohua smiled.

Wen Renjing said:

"Back then... did you have hidden difficulties? I never believed you would do such things! Zhaohua, tell me the reason!"

Wen Zhaohua sighed lightly:

"Jingzi, you are too weak. Some things, even if just known, require a price to be paid. My younger brother will tell you, although he doesn't know either right now."

This answer obviously did not satisfy Wen Renjing.

He intended to use the power of the Sequence; in the Desire Sequence, there was also a Sequence that forced people to answer truthfully.

But at this moment, Wen Zhaohua suddenly said:

"Some Sequences possess uniqueness, such as the one on you, the one on me, and the one on Xishu."

"Xishu can use it at will, but you and I had best not use it lightly, unless you don't care about your current state."

"The Evil Earth Divine Kingdom created you and me, but I said, I am not me, and you are not you. We are just simulated bodies. Everything about simulated bodies is a consumable."

"I have already overdrawn quite a bit of power, and I have also obtained an extremely important piece of information. I must pass this information to my main body."

"So Jingzi, don't use your Sequence, don't force me to kill you."

Wen Zhaohua's voice became somewhat cold.

On Wen Renjing's peerless face, a trace of anger and grievance appeared.

It was as if the person you regarded as your best friend didn't think you were that important, and could easily say things like "I can kill you."

But Wen Zhaohua was by no means a cold person.

Because the next second, he winked at Wen Xishu:

"Little Tree, come, let brother give you a hug! You've done brother a huge favor, you know."

Wen Zhaohua opened his arms, wanting to hug Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu was at a loss; shouldn't it be that you did us a huge favor?

But he still subconsciously opened his arms and hugged Wen Zhaohua.

It was truly a forceful hug. Wen Xishu seemed to feel that within that body gathered from black liquid, endless longing was conveyed.

"You have already been targeted by the Evil Earth, right? The long journey has truly been hard on you. Xishu, if you want to know everything, after your Anti-Magic Value is sufficient—"

"Go to the old Wen family residence and take a look."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 171 =====