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“No… What is this?!”
“It hurts so much, something is burrowing into my body, stirring around. Stop it, stop!”
“No…”
Ji Wushuang’s pupils were imprinted with two sword marks, his eyes vacant and lifeless as he stared at Meng Qingzhou, as if his soul was being sucked out. He murmured incoherently.
Gradually, Ji Wushuang quieted down, his neck going limp as if his spine had been removed.
Meng Qingzhou, gripping his neck, also stood frozen in place.
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…
On the river of time surrounding the closed-loop circuit of the two, a transparent figure appeared, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Meng Qin.
The transparent figure followed a thread, stopping abruptly at a certain point.
“As expected, it’s a trap. This is from a day in the past, set to mislead anyone attempting to trace back through special means, leaving a Dao Seed in a semi-activated state.”
“If I hadn’t been cautious, I might have fallen for it.”
The transparent figure bent down, retrieving a hazy light orb from the river of time, emitting an eerie glow. With a slight clench of his five fingers, he crushed the Dao Seed.
The thread snapped completely.
“Hiding the thread of causality, huh? Which Dao principle is this? Ji Wushuang, just how many great Daos have you plundered…”
“Still, such petty tricks can’t fool me.”
Muttering to himself, the transparent figure flipped his palm downward, causing the entire closed-loop circuit of the river of time to boil and churn!
Immediately.
Threads began to rise from the riverbed, forming a black pillar as thick as a human hair, numbering in the tens of thousands!
Could it be that there are tens of thousands of puppet bodies hidden in the Wilderness!?
The transparent figure was also somewhat surprised. After a careful examination, he sighed in relief, “I thought each puppet body had the combat power of the Morning Glow Realm, but it turns out they vary in strength.”
Then.
The transparent figure began to sort out the threads, separating them one by one. After observing for a while, he started to trace back along the threads.
“The dormant puppet bodies probably haven’t noticed my presence yet. But in no more than ten minutes, all the tens of thousands of puppet bodies in the Wilderness will be alerted. I must act swiftly.”
Within ten minutes, he had to deal with all the puppet bodies!
Time was tight and the task heavy. The transparent figure performed the Three Purities One Breath technique, splitting into three, and began tracing back through the threads of causality.
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In the World Sect Alliance.
The elders and Morning Glow Great Beings exchanged puzzled glances, wondering, “What is the Space-Time Sword Saint doing?”
The black-clothed people who had been following Ji Wushuang grew anxious, wanting to rescue their Young Master.
The World Sect Alliance ignored them.
However, as the black-clothed people approached the closed-loop river of time, they suddenly vanished.
“What happened?” An elder of the alliance was startled, looking around.
Dozens of Morning Glow Great Beings approached, and just as the Great Jin Dynasty was about to intervene, these people suddenly disappeared, leaving both sides bewildered.
“They were sucked into the river of time and transported to various spatial nodes. They are probably scattered across the world now,” said a knowledgeable Morning Glow Great Being from the World Sect Alliance.
Hiss!
A gasp echoed.
Everyone was shocked. An elder urgently asked, “Is it true? Has Meng Qin reached such a level of power?!”
The Morning Glow Great Being who spoke earlier nodded solemnly, “Given the current situation, we either strike first to kill the Empress of Great Jin and all their forces, or wait for Meng Qin and Ji Wushuang to exhaust each other, then we can reap the benefits. Any scenario beyond these two… the World Sect Alliance is doomed to lose.”
At these words, the elders of the World Sect Alliance fell silent.
“Let us deliberate,” the elders said.
The Morning Glow Great Being urged, “Please be quick. If Meng Qin returns victorious, the World Sect Alliance’s chances of winning are slim!”
In less than half a minute, the usually indecisive elders gave a unanimous answer:
“Fight!”
Kill all the high-level forces of Great Jin, capture Empress Qin Liuli alive, and use her to threaten Sword Saint Meng Qin. If possible, even use her as a bargaining chip to make the Sword Saint a pawn of the alliance.
Instantly, the atmosphere grew tense.
The remaining twenty or so Morning Glow Great Beings of the World Sect Alliance exchanged glances, preparing for a sudden attack.
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…
“Your Majesty, the atmosphere over at the World Sect Alliance seems off,” Minister of Personnel Fan Chen transmitted, his eyes fixed on the distant shadows.
Dongfang Liuli glanced briefly and then commanded sternly:
“Prepare for battle!”
“Unseal the Guardian Beast!”
Fan Chen was shocked and was about to alert the entire army when a flying spear shot through, instantly piercing dozens of court ministers, all of whom were at least in the Moon Shine Realm.
They didn’t even have time to react before they exploded into a mist of blood.
Fan Chen watched in horror, his eyes wide with rage. He turned to see a dozen Morning Glow Great Beings surrounding the Empress.
The remaining dozen charged towards the hundreds of thousands of troops and court officials.
Including the high-ranking members of the World Sect Alliance, over a hundred Moon Shine Realm cultivators, and countless ordinary members, launched a total assault without warning!
A duel?
When it comes to life and death, both sides will launch a total assault and tear up any agreements, otherwise, why bring so many cultivators to the battlefield? To watch the show?
At this moment.
A yellow-furred dog soared into the sky, its body expanding with the wind. A terrifying dragon head looked down on the earth, fiery wings sprouting from its back. Its colossal body exuded a menacing majesty, its dragon head filling the sky.
Roar!!!
A roar shook the realms.
The Guardian Beast of Great Jin tore open its seal, reappearing after ten thousand years!
“Half-step Sky-Reaching!?” The elders of the World Sect Alliance were shocked.
Not only that.
A cold voice echoed:
“Imperial Dao Codex.”
“First Decree of the Imperial Dao: Spiritual Power Sealing, All Laws Return to the Void!”
“Second Decree of the Imperial Dao: All Three Thousand Daos are Subjects, the Imperial Dao is Supreme!”
“Imperial Dao Codex—Soul Codex.”
“First Decree of the Soul Codex: All Under Heaven belongs to the Emperor.”
“Second Decree of the Soul Codex: The Great Era Crushes, Epochs Fall.”
The Empress made her move, a wordless heavenly book floating above her head. Her black hair fluttered in the wind, her stunning beauty shining under the Moon Glow, like a sacred deity, her voice cold and emotionless.
“Attack me?”
“Isn’t it I who have been slaughtering you? I have been waiting, you pack of jackals, you finally couldn’t hold back.”
As she spoke.
Dongfang Liuli’s gaze swept over the dozen or so Morning Glow Great Beings attacking other areas. She raised her delicate hand and grasped the air:
“The Sword Saint faced a hundred Morning Glow Great Beings and remained undefeated. As the ruler of a nation, even if I can’t fight a hundred, a mere twenty or so…”
“I’ll take them all.”
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