It raised its hand, attempting to plug the leak and seal the aura back into its heart core.
But it couldn’t stop it.
Li Yunxian’s strike hadn’t just pierced its heart core; the sword intent it released had completely cut open its body, and split it with countless cracks.
“…Master…” Li Yunxian heard Zhu San’s panicked mumble, filled with pain and despair.
This voice didn’t sound like someone who thought they were dying, but rather like a mournful wail emitted when one loses something precious.
Li Yunxian’s heart tightened. She reacted quickly, reaching back to pull her spirit sword out, but Zhu San’s body completely locked the Starfire Sword within its own form.
‘This situation…’
Looking up, Li Yunxian saw, as expected, a phantom of a beautiful human spider peeling away from the creepy body before her.
The body Li Yunxian had pierced shed its creepy appearance and transformed into that of a normal human.
It was a beautiful woman whose face was entirely unfamiliar to Li Yunxian.
Her eyes were tightly shut. Under Li Yunxian’s brief gaze, her face rapidly aged and decayed from its lovely twenty-something appearance.
The phantom-like beautiful human spider witnessed everything, and bloody tears slowly fell from its five eyes.
“I’m going to kill you,” the beautiful human spider said, its voice sounding like coarse gravel.
It spoke the most vicious words to Li Yunxian, but the moment she drew the Is Sword from its scabbard magic tool, it didn’t hesitate to plunge headlong into the newly constructed, and as of yet unstable, passage, vanishing instantly from before Li Yunxian’s eyes.
Li Yunxian, who had been prepared for a final confrontation: “…”
As a sword cultivator, she had been glancing between the dead body and the beautiful human spider instead of continuing her sword attacks against Zhu San.
This wasn’t because her reactions were slow, but because… she really didn’t have much spiritual power left.
Otherwise, she would have pulled out the Starfire Sword.
Since Li Yunxian could pull out the Spark when the Is Sword was gone, then if the Spark was also missing, she could immediately find something like a Mars Sword. She was never short on spirit swords.
However, she hadn’t expected that even after using so many methods, she still wouldn’t be able to successfully kill Zhu San in one fell swoop.
She knew that cultivators in the tribulation stage were hard to kill, and creepy ones were the hardest among all cultivators, but Zhu San’s resilience truly opened Li Yunxian’s eyes.
If she hadn’t repaired her divine soul, perhaps things would have been easier.
‘A miscalculation.’
The strength of Li Yunxian’s newly forged divine soul was extremely high now, and it couldn’t be torn apart.
She could no longer use her divine soul power to supplement her spiritual power when it ran low, as she had done in the past.
‘This was the most dangerous other race, nurtured over 10,000 years in this vast world…’
Li Yunxian recalled the way Zhu San looked, weeping blood while staring at that dead body.
‘That state… it was absolutely Zhu San’s final life-saving method.’
Li Yunxian retracted the Is Sword and the Spark, following closely behind Zhu San. In a flash, she disappeared into the newly created passage within the torrent of time.
***
In reality, Duan Huacai’s people instantly caught the fluctuations of the newly built passage.
“They’re coming out!” Duan Huacai shouted quickly.
Su Wenjing, who was well-prepared, stared intently at the magic tool constructing the passage.
A figure emerged.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Su Wenjing immediately unleashed a spatial divine ability, locking the figure firmly within the space.
Min Juan and the others were also concentrating on the passage. When they saw the figure appear, the attacks they had prepared instantly halted.
They had all seen that figure through various images.
Seeing Su Wenjing lock the person away and use several more spatial layers to ruthlessly swallow them up, everyone was left stunned.
“Su Wenjing! That’s Li Yunxian!!” Min Juan hurriedly shouted.
Everyone clearly saw the figure of Li Yunxian, who held the Is Sword and looked back at them with a face full of bewilderment.
Su Wenjing’s expression was cold as he unhesitatingly twisted the space. “She isn’t.”
“If Yunxian found herself trapped, her first reaction would definitely be…” Su Wenjing looked at the spirit sword in the person’s hand, “…to break through everything in front of her.”
They hadn’t gone without sparring before; Su Wenjing knew exactly how Li Yunxian would act.
“She wouldn’t just stand there like a fool holding a sword.”
After explaining, Su Wenjing addressed the creature in the space.
“You certainly look exactly like Li Yunxian, but…” A slight smirk tugged at the corner of Su Wenjing’s mouth. “Your sword — is it unable to pierce through my space?”
Although he hadn’t lived as long as Li Yunxian or Zhu San, he was still an old-school tribulation stage expert who had lived for over 1,000 years.
Not just any ordinary attack could penetrate his space!
Zhu San, who had transformed into Li Yunxian’s likeness immediately upon exiting: “…”
Once again, it had been seen through without mercy.
At this moment, Zhu San couldn’t help but recall the questions it had asked Li Yunxian several times in the gap in time, questions that had never received an answer.
In comparison, Su Wenjing, who gave the answer directly without needing to be asked, almost seemed pleasant.
However, Zhu San no longer needed Li Yunxian’s answer.
The moment it saw Su Wenjing, it felt it knew how Li Yunxian had distinguished between the real and the fake.
“You’re actually at the early tribulation stage!!!” Zhu San’s voice was filled with disbelief. “How could she… how could she possibly deceive my innate divine ability!!”
No one present understood what was so unbelievable to Zhu San.
Li Yunxian, who emerged only a step late and heard Zhu San’s shriek, glanced at Su Wenjing, who was indeed already at the early tribulation stage.
She knew why Zhu San was having a breakdown right now.
When she first met Zhu San, the Su Wenjing that Zhu San had conjured was at great ascension perfection.
This wasn’t a lie.
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When Li Yunxian last parted with Su Wenjing, he indeed was at great ascension perfection.
Su Wenjing’s current breakthrough to the tribulation stage had undoubtedly occurred during the time she was in the torrent of time.
The reason Li Yunxian had never been fooled by Zhu San’s illusions was actually quite simple.
It was because Su Wenjing would never enter the gap in time.
Su Wenjing… was always very obedient.
When the person he acknowledged told him to do something, he would listen, agree, and then focus only on doing it.
Even if he wanted to change something later, the first thing he would do was not to just act, but to inform the other person first.
For example, when Su Wenjing went to the heaven’s ruins with Li Yunxian, it was to inform his aunts and the others that he was going to restore the damaged spirit power source.
Su Wenjing was just such an honest fox.
He would strictly follow the instructions to guard the passage.
Just like he was doing now.
Li Yunxian, who followed a step behind, said nothing to Su Wenjing. They only exchanged a tacit look, confirming each other’s condition.
Seeing the silent understanding between the two, Zhu San’s eyes turned crimson.
“Why! Why has everyone abandoned me!!”
“Love?”
“Laughable!!”