Volume 3, Chapter 441 – Rest Assured, I Will Save Her for You

Urged again and again by Chi Jingwen, Chi Xiyan walked slowly toward the center of the array.

But just as she was about to step into it, she suddenly stopped.

“Family Head…” She did not turn around. She asked directly. “The Chi family’s Great Array is no small matter.”

“You are handing the Chi family’s Great Array to me just like this. Won’t the family elders object?”

Chi Jingwen said in a deep voice, “Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I believe the elders will understand.”

Chi Xiyan looked at the array beneath her feet, feeling the spiritual energy fluctuations that kept rippling from within it. She lowered her eyes slightly.

“But I still don’t understand.” she said. “Even if you hand the Chi family’s Great Array to me now, it won’t change anything.”

“What do you mean by extraordinary times calling for extraordinary measures?”

“Cough…” Chi Jingwen coughed dryly. “I told you, this is for Muxue’s sake. These things should have belonged to her in the first place.”

“I’m already old. Who knows when I might have an accident.”

“Before that happens, I want to put these things into your hands. Only then can I feel at ease.”

“…” Chi Xiyan fell silent.

‘Putting it in my hands is what makes you feel at ease?’

‘Handing the most important thing in the Chi family to someone whose life hangs in the balance three years from now, why would that make you feel at ease?’

“Xiyan, do you have any more questions?” Chi Jingwen urged again. “If not, hurry up and step onto it.”

Chi Xiyan shook her head. She smiled at herself, mocking.

“I was wondering earlier why Muxue left behind such a warning when she departed.”

“But now, I understand…”

“Niece, what are you talking about?” Chi Jingwen said. “Are you not going to save Muxue? My daughter is still waiting for you at Lingxiao Mountain.”

“Your daughter? Heh.” Chi Xiyan turned around. She sneered coldly, her gaze sharp.

“Are you truly Chi Jingwen?”

Chi Jingwen’s expression stiffened for a moment, then quickly turned cold. “Chi Xiyan, have you gone mad?”

“I haven’t gone mad.” Chi Xiyan said. “The way you’re acting is nothing like a father. You’ve never once treated Chi Muxue as your daughter.”

Rеαԁ οn ΚatRеаԁіnɡСаfe

“So… you are certainly not Chi Jingwen.”

Chi Xiyan summoned her natal sword and pointed it at Chi Jingwen. “Tell me, who are you really?!”

After a brief silence, Chi Jingwen let out a sneer.

“ Tsk tsk … I didn’t expect you to notice, after all.”

“But I wasn’t lying to you. This array was originally prepared for Chi Muxue.”

“However, that damned girl was simply too alert.”

“I hadn’t even said anything yet, and she had already sensed something was wrong.”

Chi Xiyan’s eyes turned colder still.

‘So this person’s original target had been Muxue.’

‘Whoever he is, he deserves to die!’

“Heheh.” Chi Jingwen chuckled lightly.

His voice gradually distorted, growing warped.

It turned old, hoarse.

“But you are different from that girl, my good niece. You only realized it after coming here.”

“Haven’t you noticed that your spiritual energy is no longer under your own control?”

Chi Xiyan’s pupils suddenly contracted.

She found that, without her realizing when it had started, her body was already densely wound in countless invisible threads.

Those threads bound her physical form and shackled the spiritual energy within her.

“This is… when did this happen?”

Chi Jingwen laughed smugly. “Of course, it was the moment you stepped into this secret chamber.”

He walked closer slowly, looking her up and down like a hunter admiring his prey.

“Not bad, not bad.”

Rеаԁ οn ΚatReаdіոɡСаfe

“This new body’s talent and spiritual roots are somewhat better than I expected.”

“What matters most is that it’s young.”

“As a vessel to transition into, it’s truly the most suitable choice.”

Alarm bells blared in Chi Xiyan’s mind. “What are you trying to do? Who are you really?!”

“Heheh…” The hoarse laughter came again. “Can’t you tell?”

“Body seizure, of course.”

“But don’t worry.”

“Your Chi Muxue, I will save her for you in your place.”

“Three years from now, I will be able to fully control this new body.”

“By then, I will use your identity to defeat that Young Sect Master at Lingxiao.”

“And then…” Chi Jingwen let out a burst of ugly, hoarse laughter. “the Sword Dao Sacred Body will, in the end, still fall into my hands.”

‘The Sword Dao Sacred Body. So this is why he set his sights on Muxue, on the Chi family?’

Chi Xiyan cursed angrily, “You shameless wretch!”

“Body seizure is a demonic and heretical arts. If you’re discovered, you’ll die with no place to be buried!”

“Heheh! I’m so scared!” Chi Jingwen sneered. “Foolish girl, as long as no one finds out, it’s fine.”

“I’ve said enough. It’s time to hand over your body.”

With that, Chi Jingwen raised his hand, his finger pointing toward the space between Chi Xiyan’s brows.

Chi Xiyan struggled with all her strength.

But the threads of the array on her body were like a towering mountain, pressing her body down completely, unable to move at all.

Chi Xiyan could only watch helplessly as the finger before her drew closer and closer.

‘It’s over…am I going to fail?’

Chi Xiyan smiled bitterly in her heart.

Reаⅾ οո ΚαtRеαdinɡCαfе

‘I was too careless.’

She had never once considered that the enemy might be within the Chi family itself.

Nor had she ever imagined that Chi Jingwen would turn out to be an ancient body seizing fiend.

Chi Xiyan closed her eyes.

‘So be it, so be it.’

‘This way is fine too. This way, I’ll get to see the real her sooner.’

‘But I need to consider how to handle the consequences of a failed breakthrough.’

‘Rumor has it that failing to break through the Illusory Heart Realm causes tremendous damage to one’s spiritual consciousness.’

‘Worse still, one’s soul could tear apart, turning them into a witless fool.’

Chi Xiyan wasn’t sure whether she could withstand it.

However, just then, Chi Xiyan heard the cry of a sword.

Along with Chi Jingwen’s scream of agony.

“Wait! What is this?!”

“This is that dead girl’s sword qi! Why does her sword qi remain on you!”

Chi Xiyan’s eyes snapped open.

‘It isn’t over yet!’

She could feel a burst of warmth surging from within her collar.

That was Chi Muxue’s natal sword!

Sensing her crisis, the sword was trembling violently within her embrace.

Chi Xiyan’s eyes grew hot.

A stream of warmth flowed through her heart.

She let out a low growl. “Muxue! Help me break the array!”

Rеаԁ οո КαtReаⅾiոgСαfe

A clear ring of sword song!

That small jade sword transformed into a beam of sword light and shot out like lightning.

It pierced through Chi Jingwen’s chest in an instant.

At the same moment, as the sword light burst forth, the threads of the array binding Chi Xiyan’s body were also completely severed in an instant.

Chi Jingwen clutched at his own chest.

But he only found a massive hollow void where his chest should have been.

His eyes bulged, unable to believe it.

“This power is…”

“A Sixth Realm sword cultivator…!”

The natal sword of a Sixth Realm sword cultivator had, in almost a single instant, completely severed all life force within his body.

Chi Xiyan looked at the corpse lying on the ground and smiled bitterly.

‘In the end, I never even learned who this person really was.’

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from the entrance of the secret chamber.

“What happened? Is there a sword cultivator drawing their blade here?”

A white haired elder appeared inside the secret chamber. He was one of the elders of the Chi family’s Law Enforcement Hall.

He saw Chi Xiyan.

“Chi Xiyan? Why are you here?”

Then he saw Chi Jingwen lying on the ground, and the massive hole in his chest.

In an instant, the elder’s gaze changed drastically.

“Chi Xiyan! You actually killed the Family Head!!”

“Chi Xiyan, this is treason most foul!!”