Chapter 1146

Only because he recalled what Mud Bodhisattva had said — to break the seal of the Lu Li Tribe, one must gather the essence blood of a man with a Blazing Yang constitution and a woman with a Frost constitution.

As well as the blood of the Dragon Sovereign.

Now Weizhuang had taken the Dragon Sovereign's blood from Gai Nie's arms.

And while Feixue was unprepared, he had tapped her into unconsciousness and carried her off.

This way only the Frost-constitution woman and the Dragon Sovereign's blood had been assembled.

Still missing was the crucial essence blood of a Blazing Yang-constitution man.

And the Blazing Yang-constitution man was precisely Gai Nie himself.

Without the essence blood of this Blazing Yang-constitution man, how could Weizhuang break the seal?

Unless…

A thought stirred, and Gai Nie immediately thought of a certain possibility.

He was just about to launch his movement art to rush to the center of the sand to stop Weizhuang.

When he suddenly recalled that his Yuan Hong Sword was already gone.

Lowering his head to look at the remaining half of the broken, incomplete Yuan Hong Sword, Gai Nie felt a deep sorrow in his heart.

Most of his life's strength had rested on this single sword.

Now that the Yuan Hong Sword was destroyed, his strength had plummeted severely.

Moreover, even if he chased to the center of the sand, what then?

Could he, Gai Nie, truly bring himself to kill Weizhuang?

If Gai Nie could really kill Weizhuang, hadn't that earlier moment been perfect for it?

The more he thought, the more bitter he felt; for a moment he didn't know what to do.

Murong Fu and Duan Yu did not step forward either, only vaguely positioning themselves between Gai Nie and the sand.

Clearly these two great masters were determined to help Despair Shanzhuang break the seal of the Lu Li Tribe.

"Mr. Gai, I'm sorry."

After a long hesitation, Xiao Li finally stepped forward at this moment, holding the Pixiu in her arms.

Hearing this, Gai Nie came back to himself. He didn't look at Xiao Li, only at the Pixiu in her arms,

"Actually, you had already planned this with Xiaozhuang long ago, hadn't you?"

The incident had happened so suddenly that the Yuan Hong Sword was destroyed.

After Gai Nie calmed down slightly, he had already realized that Weizhuang had used that strange move to stab out the Fire Bodhi from his arms.

Then the Pixiu had suddenly appeared, swallowed the Fire Bodhi, and undergone a mutation.

Finally the Pixiu gnawed on the Yuan Hong Sword, causing his strength to plummet.

All of this — if the two of them had no private coordination, there was no way it could have been achieved.

Only Gai Nie couldn't quite figure out why Xiao Li would want to damage his strength.

After all, he had previously been at Despair Shanzhuang, and to some extent had fought for her against Hearing Cheng Jiao!

"Sigh…"

Xiao Li let out a heavy sigh, on the verge of tears,

"Mr. Gai, I know that during these days, if not for your care, I might not have lived so easily until today."

Indeed, while at Despair Shanzhuang, Xiao Li had suffered countless tribulations.

Although Hearing Cheng Jiao, because of her unique status, wouldn't have killed her immediately,

He also wouldn't have specially looked after her for her sake.

If not for Gai Nie's chivalrous heart, considering that she was so young and had fallen into a Despair Shanzhuang full of wolves, and giving her extra care,

Xiao Li might have endured no small amount of humiliation over these days.

Not to mention anything else, just Tian Hu alone had been drooling over Xiao Li.

Time and again, he had wanted to take liberties with Xiao Li.

"It's just that Mr. also knows that I am a person of the Lu Li Tribe, and moreover the Holy Maiden of the Lu Li Tribe.

My tribe has been trapped within the seal for several thousand years now.

Truly, every time I think of this, my heart aches faintly.

Over these years, day and night I have thought only of how to break the seal.

Now that the chance has come, even if I must give everything I have, I must rescue my people from their bitter sea.

But Mr., you…"

At this point, Xiao Li hugged the Pixiu in pain and crouched down.

Her delicate little head buried between her arms, she kept sobbing.

Clearly Gai Nie, because he bore in his heart the fate of all the common people and the command of Qin Huang Ying Zheng, was destined to stand on the opposite side from Xiao Li.

Rather, it was Weizhuang and the people of Despair Shanzhuang who truly helped Xiao Li achieve her wish of freeing her people.

The one close to her was the one blocking her from achieving her wish.

The one who hurt her was, conversely, the one who helped bring about her wish.

Clearly, over these days, Xiao Li had been living through this tormenting contradiction.

Watching Xiao Li's shoulders heave as she wept silently, the lingering resentment in Gai Nie's heart suddenly faded away.

He also crouched down, his large hand patting Xiao Li's shoulder,

"Perhaps this is fate. The Lu Li Tribe is destined to be unsealed today.

You don't need to be sad. I don't blame you anymore."

"Really?"

Feeling the warmth of Gai Nie's palm, and hearing him speak this way, Miss Xiao Li gradually stopped sobbing.

She raised her head and looked at Gai Nie.

But her once bright, lively eyes were now swollen and red from crying.

Clearly she truly felt deep anguish over having hurt Gai Nie and destroyed his Yuan Hong Sword.

"Really!"

Gai Nie looked into those eyes, sighed once more, and nodded seriously.

Then he stood up, slid the broken half of Yuan Hong Sword back into its scabbard, his gaze turning toward the center of the sandy ground, and said firmly,

"But since the unsealing of the Lu Li Tribe cannot be stopped, if your people truly intend to do evil and bring calamity upon the world,

even if my Yuan Hong Sword is broken, I will consider it my bounden duty to step forward and stop them."

Miss Xiao Li, watching Gai Nie speak these words like an oath, couldn't help feeling a little intoxicated, and a little afraid.

Come to think of it, she was the Holy Maiden of the Lu Li Tribe.

But what the Lu Li Tribe actually was, or what it entailed, she truly had no idea at all.

In the ancient records passed down through the ages, it was only recorded that after the Lu Li Tribe followed Chiyou and was defeated in the war of the primordial ages, they migrated to this wasteland.

Intending to evade the pursuit of the Yanhuang clansmen.

In the end they could not escape, and were sealed away by the people of the Yanhuang Alliance through sorcery and secret arts.

The records said that within that seal, the clansmen lived lives of unbearable suffering, the people in dire straits.

Hoping that the clansmen still outside could one day break the seal sooner and help them return to the lands of the Nine Provinces.

At first, reading these records, Miss Xiao Li felt only heart-piercing sorrow.

Pity welling up in her heart for the innocent clansmen suffering this undeserved catastrophe.

Day and night she longed to find a way to break this seal.

But today Ying Zheng suddenly appeared and said the Lu Li Tribe could stir up calamity.

Coupled with Gai Nie speaking with such conviction, swearing that if the Lu Li Tribe truly was a calamity, he would show no mercy.

For a moment, Miss Xiao Li did not know what to do either.

After all, apart from knowing information about her clansmen from the records, she truly knew nothing about their actual situation.

Seeing Gai Nie swear such an oath at this moment, she could only fall silent.

Whoosh!

Just then, a streak of rainbow light suddenly lit up at the center of the sandy ground.

In an instant, it pierced through heaven and earth.

Even the all-encompassing dragon qi of Great Qin could not conceal this streak of rainbow light.

"It's over…"