NOVEL WEB Chapter 85: Exchanging Lives
One after another, the Great Chu treasure ships were shattered into pieces by the snow-white giant ape.
The mountains crumbled, and dust billowed.
Xie Xuanyi stood atop the mast, clothing steady as in meditation, like an old man fishing, calm and composed, retreating continuously, his toes lightly touching, flitting constantly at the mast's peak.
A strand of fake Chen Ke Sword Qi swayed back and forth between the Imperial City Department's treasure ships, a spray of blood mist erupted, and the screams and shouts failed to escape before being engulfed by the dust in an instant...
One man and one ape, one advancing, one retreating.
In just over ten breaths, they turned the treasure ship array of the Imperial City Department upside down!
Xie Xuanyi intentionally lured Zhu Yan into the array, causing the Imperial City Department's cultivators to fight among themselves.
Zhu Yan understood this clearly and went along with it.
He was originally a Great Demon of the Demon Country, imprisoned in the Imperial City, a forbidden curse planted, unable to escape. Although outwardly submitting, how could there not be resentment in his heart? Constrained by the Holy Empress's might, this resentment accumulated over time, growing deeper, and this battle was a perfect outlet!
Seeing this, the Vermilion Bird immediately redirected the Fire Sea Domain.
The disciples of the Sword Forest charged out in unison—
The cultivators of the Imperial City Department changed color in panic, they wanted to escape, but it was too late, the overwhelming sea of fire descended from the Heavenly Peak, trapping the treasure ships, which could not ascend, within the fiery cage!
These spies of the Imperial City Department showed despair in their eyes.
Who could have thought the situation would reverse so quickly?
Before Xie Xuanyi's arrival, this was a one-sided "massacre."
But with Xie Xuanyi's arrival, the tide turned, roles reversed!
...
...
The dust settled.
Xie Xuanyi, using his toes, shattered the last mast, propelling himself outward, finally landing on a distant hill.
Zhu Yan continued boldly forward, a single swipe breaking the bothersome treasure ship ahead into fragments, crashing through it, he lifted his head and let out a satisfied roar, at this point in the fierce battle, this demon body had expanded to its extreme, nearly a hundred feet tall, the white ape's arms pounding the ground, roaring like thunder, yet his eyes were clear.
"Have we killed them all?"
Xie Xuanyi folded his arms, sneeringly taunting, "Aren't you afraid the Demon Queen will settle the score with you?"
"Do you think she cares about their lives?"
Zhu Yan sneered, glancing down, and effortlessly crushed the surviving people on the treasure ship into a mist of blood.
"..."
Xie Xuanyi fell silent.
Indeed.
These cultivators of the Imperial City Department, dead or alive... in the Holy Empress's eyes, their lives were no different from ants on the roadside.
"The battle against the Sword Palace. These people's role was simply to exhaust the 'Mountain Suppressing Array.'"
Zhu Yan said in a low voice, "The array is broken, the Dragon Vein is gone. Whether they live or die next is unimportant."
He paused slightly.
"In fact... our fighting doesn't matter either."
Zhu Yan added with a hint of mockery, "The outcome of this battle depends on those two."
With that, the snow-white demon ape looked towards the distant Lotus Peak.
Ever since Lu Yuzhen captured the Dragon Vein Fortune of Da Sui Sword Palace...
The Lotus Forbidden Land had fallen into deathly silence.
Though Xie Xuanyi arrived at a critical moment, changing the situation and saving the lives of Sword Forest people, what of it? If Zhao Chunyang lost, the Sword Palace Disciples would still have to die.
The Vermilion Bird flapped its iron wings, hovering slowly above Zhu Yan's head.
The Fire Sea Domain enveloped the three of them.
In front was Xie Xuanyi.
Behind was Ci Jing.
Zhu Yan was unafraid.
"If I were you, I wouldn't return to the Sword Palace."
Zhu Yan lowered his voice, "The Holy Empress has already reached the Tenth Layer Heaven of the Yang God... just one step away from becoming Heavenly People. Now that all four Dragon Veins have aligned, the outcome is clear."
"Oh?"
Ci Jing was unmoved, sneered, "If old Zhao lost, why hasn't the Holy Empress come out?"
He had rushed back from the North Sea thousands of miles.
Obviously not to court death!
No Great Demon knows Zhao Chunyang's strength better than Ci Jing... he'd truly taken a punch from Zhao Chunyang, the Sword Palace Master's strength could only be described as "immeasurable." Ci Jing simply didn't believe anyone could beat this old dude one-on-one.
Zhu Yan kept insisting that the Holy Empress was already at the Tenth Layer Heaven of the Yang God, just one step away from becoming Heavenly People.
Yet Ci Jing had long suspected...
That Zhao Chunyang, who sat in meditation at the Lotus Forbidden Land, had long attained the Heavenly Human Realm.
But the world's might imprisoned, the tide of fortune had not arrived.
Though he attained the Heavenly Human Realm.
He couldn't become one with it.
"It's hard to advise a creature bound for death."
Zhu Yan shook his head, "Since you won't flee, then... offer your heads!"
Boom.
A wave of energy spread!
The gigantic demon ape lifted his head, full of vigor, he raised his arms and pounded his chest, the sound reverberating for dozens of feet, Ci Jing's Fire Sea Domain shimmering with frigid waves, Zhu Yan leaped into the air, launching an attack towards the Vermilion Bird, with one step, a wave of energy spread for miles from beneath, where the demon ape originally stood, as if struck by artillery, exploded into a giant spider web.
In just an instant.
Zhu Yan's true body attacked, reaching the Vermilion Bird.
Ci Jing shrieked, slashing with his iron wings!
Clang!
The Divine Radiance shattered.
Zhu Yan raised his fist and smashed it hard, breaking the iron wings.
He was extremely savage, grabbing a sparrow wing of Ci Jing, trying to pull it directly from his body... Ci Jing gnashed his teeth, screeched, channeling all his power to inject Demon Fire into Zhu Yan's body, the demon ape endured the piercing fire, continued to exert force, his snow-white fur under the Vermilion Bird's Blazing Flame baked, radiating hundreds of red divine lights!
In the next moment!
A scream echoed in the air!
Zhu Yan forcibly tore off one of Ci Jing's arms, but he also paid the price... his abdomen was pierced by the Vermilion Bird's Blazing Flame.