Volume 4, Chapter 21 – Will

With a crash, the teacup fell to the floor and smashed to pieces.

“Useless trash！”

Turning around the screen, one saw a white-robed girl of seventeen or eighteen standing there, grinding her teeth, her pretty face twisted hard, the malice in her eyes enough to terrify.

“You can’t even handle such a small matter！ What use are you pieces of trash！”

Pointing at the two kneeling servants, the girl turned to fetch a weapon, shouting, “Might as well send you off to see Uncle Li！ Go ask him properly how he used to teach you！”

“Miss, you mustn’t！” A maid in a green dress rushed up from the side and gently pulled her mistress down.

“That Bai Zhixing has gone mad. I’m afraid she’ll still come searching for us. Uncle Li is already dead in her hands. Before the Immortal Venerable sends reinforcements, we absolutely must not lose any more people！”

“So this won’t do and that won’t do！” The white-robed girl was barely talked down, but her temper only grew in her words. “Is she Bai Zhixing the only one allowed to run wild？ Does she not understand that once she offends us, there’s no one who can stand surety for her？”

The maid in green smiled as she persuaded her. “I said it already, she’s lost her mind…… She’s offended us and no one will vouch for her. When the Demon Court’s Heaven-Patrol comes to seize her, you can just sit back and enjoy the show, Miss.”

“Just that is nowhere near enough to vent my anger！”

The white-robed girl finally sat down. Seeing the two servants still kneeling on the floor, she showed a look of disgust and waved for them to hurry off, then added, “We have to trip her up again. I have to make her taste some real suffering too！”

“Miss……” The maid in green realized what the other wanted to do and said helplessly, “That Bai Zhixing is, after all, a newly ascended Immortal Venerable. I certainly believe Miss’s talent is no worse than hers, but if anything goes wrong in this matter, we can’t possibly shoulder the Lord’s blame~！”

“Cui’er, you’re just too cautious by nature.”

The white-robed girl snorted, crossed one leg over the other in a very masculine pose, and even pulled out a folding fan to snap it open and fan herself.

“I’ve gone through dangers since I was a child. It’s not as if Father had someone there to protect me every single time.”

“Besides, look at the situation——right now, not many people are eyeing this place. But if we wait a little longer and those ragged ghouls, or even the Demon Court’s Heaven-Patrol, come and find it, it will be hard to ever come across such an opportunity again！”

“Miss……” The maid’s voice was soft and sticky. “Does Miss still remember that the most important task on this trip is not to break through a realm？ But to win her over and get her to join the Heaven Alliance？”

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“Wealth and rank have to be sought in danger.” The white-robed girl’s expression was proud. “As long as I succeed, I’ll also be a Xuanhua Immortal Venerable. There is no way I’ll be any worse than she is. Forcing her to join still counts as completing the mission.”

Sigh……

Seeing how firm her attitude was, the maid in green also let out a sigh and said softly, “Then I understand. I’ll go send someone to arrange the ‘Brain-Eater’.”

“This time, increase the scale again，” the white-robed girl instructed. “Release it along the outskirts first, find a way to lure her over, and then we’ll strike straight at Zhennan！ Let her taste what it feels like to lose her loved ones because of her own actions！”

“Miss.” The maid in green frowned. “If we do things like this, there truly won’t be any way back.”

“We don’t need a way back，” the white-robed girl said. “First, Uncle Li failed when he tried to sneak in with his daughter. Then we came to talk openly, only for her to ambush them instead…… You ask me about leaving room, why don’t you ask whether she ever left us any room？”

But the situation itself is that we’re the ones using the Demon Court’s existence to treat it……

The maid in green blinked, but didn’t dare voice what she was thinking.

There was nothing to be done. On this trip, Miss’s word was absolute. Back when Uncle Li was alive, he could still hold her down a little. Now that Uncle Li had died, she truly couldn’t restrain her mistress alone and could only watch as the conflict between the two sides grew ever more intense.

And to be honest, if the maid in green judged from her heart, she didn’t believe this white-robed girl could outdo that Lord Shenming.

Leaving aside that mysterious Path of Qi, which was very likely tied to something far greater, just from the background they’d investigated and the way the other party had risen step by step, that cold and decisive air between the lines was something her own Miss simply couldn’t match.

But she had to admit, the white-robed girl did have a unique advantage. She was one of Immortal Venerable Ningyuan’s children——and one of the more favored ones at that.

Enough, enough.

The maid in green made up her mind.

I’ll carry out Miss’s plan, but when it comes time to act, I mustn’t let her people harm Bai Xiang’s kin, in case she flies into such a rage she forgets even the proper order between superior and subordinate.

That way, Miss can vent her anger. Bai Xiang won’t completely lose control and should remember there are some people she cannot afford to offend. Who knows, perhaps they might even resolve this grudge and go on using the Heaven-Patrol’s pressure to force her to yield.

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In the end, it’ll be perfect for both sides. Once we return to Ningming Heaven, the Lord will definitely reward me.

At the same time, in the Northern Border, Dai Prefecture.

The backdrop was a blood-red sun and the surging, rolling dense mist of a sea of blood.

The tall, towering city walls had already collapsed more than halfway. Under the fallen bricks and stones, one could vaguely see countless corpses. Numberless demon beasts, like small dinosaurs or small lizards, flicked their tails as they rummaged through the ruins. Any time they tugged out a chunk of human flesh at random, it would immediately set their companions scrambling to fight over it.

At the highest point of the only remaining tower, a withered old man in a black robe stood motionless, his right hand gripping a broad-bladed Yu sword, his body as straight and still as a javelin.

The bloody mist blew toward him. His long brows and long beard were blown aside, but his eyes remained steadfast, fixed unshakably on the colossal beast hidden behind the blood fog.

“You’ve grown weaker.”

A rumbling roar came from within the blood mist. “It seems Suzhen Dao’s persistence did not bring about that ideal outcome…… Then you should also understand what comes next.”

The voice rose and fell in pitch, enough for anyone listening to hear the mockery in it.

The old man, however, still didn’t move, standing there like a statue.

“Wu Mengzi, so you’ve lived to see this day too.”

This was a second, different voice.

Boom！

Boom！

The ground shook with heavy footsteps. From the shadow of that gigantic beast, several more massive figures split off. One of them came closer, and a ferocious dragon head thrust out from the blood mist.

“Back then, I told you this so-called Sword Dao had no future at all, that it was nothing but a clumsy imitation of the Sacred Law.”

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“I urged you to abandon this heretical path and switch to cultivating the Sacred Law, but you refused to listen.”

“You wouldn’t listen, and this is the end you’ve come to.”

“Give up！”

Thunderous laughter rolled out from within the fog.

“Unable to shake off your shackles, you’re still just a mortal！”

“Swordmaster of the Human Race…… hahaha！ So this is all you amount to！”

They jeered.

They mocked.

But none of it could shake Wu Mengzi in the slightest.

Suddenly, his body moved a little.

First his brows drew together, then he sighed.

“Sigh……”

“Looks like your parents never told you how they died back then, did they？”

Hm？

The many giant shadows of the beasts froze for a moment.

But Wu Mengzi no longer intended to say anything more.

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A purple-gold rainbow suddenly tore down from the sky like a comet and crashed into his body. His aura surged upward without limit, in one breath surpassing the strongest among the enemy ranks, and still it climbed higher and higher.

“Impossible……！”

“This is…… you’ve actually taken the entire Nine Provinces——”

Clang——！

Wu Mengzi gripped his sword in both hands, twisted his face in a snarl, and slashed forward. In that instant, he carved out a colossal purple-gold sword light that pierced through and linked heaven and earth, splitting the land and sky into two halves and swallowing up everything along its path.

The raging sword qi shook and spread…… The remaining aftershocks actually turned into countless tiny purple-gold swords, like a storm of blades whipping back against the tide, tearing apart the demon horde and sea of blood alike.

Whoosh……

The wind and sand blew past.

After that one sword, heaven and earth were clear and still; no trace of any gigantic demonic shadow could be seen.

“Pfft——”

Wu Mengzi dropped to one knee, covering his mouth and nose, blood seeping uncontrollably through his fingers.

“Ha ha……”

But he merely curved his eyes and let out a laugh.

His laughter echoed across the desolate battlefield, carried by the void to places farther away.