Chapter 70

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Yes, that was a binding spell!

There was a barrier that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye, expanding silently in front of her and spreading out to envelop everything! This looked like a “One Leaf Containment Circle” that could isolate all things around, so was Yuan now trapped in it? Has been he ambushed?

“Yuan… Yuan!” She exclaimed in dismay, with an ominous feeling in her heart.

However, before she could push open the door of the Cloud Garden, she suddenly hit something in the void and stumbled backwards, almost tumbling to the ground; she felt a chill all over her body, like thousands of steel needles piercing her bones – beyond this one-leaf barrier, there was actually a “frost blade” formation that could repel everything!

Zhu Yan only felt her heart sink to the bottom of her chest, struggling on the floor for a moment and using all her strength to stand up. She leapt up to the wall of the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, and halfway in the air, she silently linked her hands together and formed a seal, preparing to break through the heavy barriers in front of her.

However, in that very moment, the peaceful and frozen image before her eyes suddenly shifted! Something flashed in the depths of the courtyard of the Cloud Garden, as dazzling as the rising sun!

This is… Her heart was violently shaken, and before she had time to make any reaction, she only could see a snowy light rise from the ground, accompanied by a loud booming sound, like a huge sun wheel exploding from the ground! That ray of light quickly expanded, destroying the magnificent Galleria like a battering ram, and a large, bottomless hole instantly appeared in the ground!

On that moment, Zhu Yan was so shaken that she lost her footing and fell off the wall.

She plummeted to the ground in a heap, not bothering to think about anything else, and darted towards the source of that glow, an ominous sense of premonition splitting her heart and guts. She flew up, slashed down and broke through the barrier. Thousands of frost blades pierced her body, but she ignored them and just pushed her way in.

“Yuan… Yuan!” She shouted, tearing her heart out, “Where are you? Come out now!”

However, not a single sound replied to her.

The roar and vibrations around her continued, one by one, like lightning tearing through the sky – it was a mighty spiritual force and a murderous intent clashing with each other, and the wind was filled with a familiar power!

“Yuan!” Her heart flew cold as she stood in front of the destroyed building, and before she could think of anything else, she senselessly leapt down towards the large, bottomless hole in the ground!

The source of the light was indeed the underground chamber of the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion.

She jumped in and plunged straight to the bottom.

The sole of her feet became cold as she stepped into a puddle of water. This… was the underground spring stream that had been cut off? However, when she looked up, what she saw was a familiar white robe, with wide sleeves and lapels, flowing freely without wind, and that person was looking down at her from above, with eyes as cold as stars, as if he was carved in ice and snow, not flesh and blood.

In that moment, her breath solidified inside her throat and she felt the blood in her body freeze.

“Really… did you have to break in?” The man gazed at her and said faintly in a familiar voice, “A thousand barriers for nothing, it’s amazing how they can’t stop you.”

She looked up and blurted out, “Ma… Master?”

Yes! That was the Great Priest of Jiuyi Temple, Shi Ying, who was not present on the battlefield, and had finally appeared here at this moment! He stood hauntingly floating in the void in his white clothes, looking down at his disciple standing in a shallow pool of water, his tone devoid of joy or anger: “It’s just a pity that you are too late, it is already over.”

With a flick of his robe’s sleeve, he brushed and pointed deep into the earth…

Zhu Yan followed his hand and suddenly her entire body started shaking violently.

Shi Ying stood there in the air, his clothes swirling like clouds, his right hand stretched out flat, his fingertips together, emitting a ray of light as if he was holding a sharp sword that could pierce through the spring veins – that was the closing stance of the Heavenly Punishment.

At the other end of the sword of light, the blade plunged into the chest of another man, shattering his heart straight away!

“Yuan!” She took just one glance and her heart and guts split.

Yes, it was Yuan! It was the very Yuan from which a moment ago she had just departed!

“Yuan… Yuan!” She shouted heartbreakingly, running towards there.

Yuan did not reply. He was pinned in the emptiness by the blow, blood gushing from the huge wound. It was a fatal strike, and it was already over before she arrived – just moments before she hesitated to make a decision, ready to give up the man she had loved for so many years, and now he was dead on the ground!

“The leader of the rebellion, the Left Envoy of the Restoration Army, Zhi Yuan,” Shi Ying’s voice was cold and calm, flatly spitting out from his lips one word at a time, as if he was announcing something to her, “was executed in an ambush today.”

Words like that stung like daggers pierced into her heart, and Zhu Yan’s eyes turned blood-red in an instant as she raised her head violently and looked viciously at her Master. In that instant, a fierce rage erupted from her body, filled with a stern power, and she almost missed her breath as she shouted, “Be damned! Quickly… release him!”

Shi Ying bowed his head and simply looked at her with an expressionless face, his eyes almost frozen. The moment she almost rushed forward to attack him with her bare hands, he moved and pulled the Void Sword out of Yuan’s chest, responding indifferently, “Ok.”

As the blade withdrew, the shark fell through the air, his blue hair flying like a banner in the wind.

“Yuan!” Zhu Yan shouted tearfully, rushing up and trying to hug the person who was falling from the sky. However, before her hand touched Yuan, the tip of Shi Ying’s eyebrow lifted slightly, and with a movement of his wrist, he instantly retracted inwards, as a strong force rolled inside out of thin air, snatching the falling person out of her grasp with a soft snap!

Yuan fell straight down to the bottom of the water, his whole body covered in blood as if in a deep sleep.

Zhu Yan stood bewildered in the water beneath the ground, looking at her empty hands before raising her head again and looking at the person in the void, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief for a moment.

How could this happen? In just one blink of an eye, all this happened! She… wasn’t hallucinating, was she? How could this all be real?

“What is it? Are you surprised to see me here?” Shi Ying coldly locked gazes with her and opened his mouth without hesitation, “How foolish of you… Back then when I captured Ruyi, I already read her mind and learned that this was one of the stops on the Ocean Soul River – heh, those sharks thought it was all so simple… thinking that by fighting to their deaths and not speaking, they could not confess?

Zhu Yan shuddered for a moment and muttered, “So, you…”

“So I placed barriers on all the inlets into the lake and sea, and arranged a heavy military force. Then, I just waited here.”

His voice went cold, “If he could not break the siege of the Primus troops, he would have surely reversed the breakthrough and come back here to return across the Ocean Soul River – such a simple principle.”

Shi Ying’s tone was calm and chilling: “I’ve been waiting for you guys here for a long time… “You can’t pull off an arrow with a crossbow using a white silk as string…You need a strong one to be able to fight. This time I only used less than ten moves to kill him.”

“…” Zhu Yan couldn’t utter a word, she was just trembling with shivers.

All she could feel was cold blood all over her body, her teeth chattering uncontrollably as she trapped every word on the tip of her tongue, unable to bring out a single one.

“I didn’t really manage to kill him last time, but this time, it’s for real – I’m a man of my word, aren’t I?” Shi Ying lowered his head and watched her expression quietly, a strange sneer spreading from his lips, almost with malice, and asked in a voice that was almost a whisper, “Now, isn’t it really the time for you to come and avenge his death?”

“Stop it!” Zhu Yan couldn’t bear to listen anymore and shouted out of control, “I’ll kill you!”

“Very well.” Shi Ying laughed coldly and opened his arms in the emptiness, a long sword instantly recoiling between his hands! He leaned down to look at her in the hollow, his voice low and cold: “As I said last time, if we were to ever meet again on the battlefield, I will definitely not show any mercy…”

With a quick snap, he turned his wrist and pointed his long sword down. In an instant, a harsh murderous aura hit her face, blowing her long hair up like a fierce wind cutting her face: “You know I always do what I say!”

“Damned bastard! You actually… actually killed Yuan!” Zhu Yan was so furious that she only felt anger like a blazing fire burning in her chest, almost incinerating her sanity to ashes! In this moment, she couldn’t care less about being scared at all, leaping up in the air in an instant, linking her hands on her chest, and slashing down with a spell!

In her anger, she struck with the fiercest of the attacking spells she knew, yet with a mere movement of his fingers, he easily deflected her assault!

“Sunset Arrow? Quite an improvement,” Shi Ying instantly immobilized her attack and frowned slightly as he coldly said, “but trying to kill me to avenge his death with such weak attempt, is still far from enough!”

As soon as he finished speaking, his hands opened instantly on his chest, and a dazzling light suddenly blossomed on the tips of his ten fingers.

Sunset Arrow! What he used was actually the exact same spell as hers?

Zhu Yan’s heart was horrified, only to witness two rays of light roaring towards her, colliding in the air! Her sunset arrow was broken by her Master, and the turbulent airflow reflected back at her, and with a brush sound, her forehead cracked painfully; the jade headband that bound her hair snapped, and a trail of blood flowed down from the top of her head – fortunately, she was able to flip her head to the side in time, if she had been a moment slower, her skull would have been pierced!

“See?” His tone was frosty, “That’s the proper Sunset Arrow.”

“Go to hell!” Zhu Yan screamed furiously and lunged at him with renewed fury. She attacked recklessly, storming out with all of her most powerful spells – however, no matter which one she used, he countered with the same spell in an instant.

Light against light clashed in the air, power against power dissolved into the void, and prolonged thunderous blasts roared through the air, shaking the whole ruins with wariness.

Zhu Yan attacked with all her might in her fury, using all the wood spells she knew in a flash. But he didn’t even look at her, waving his hand around and using the same spells to counter her attacks one by one in a split second! Chasing the wind against the wind! Lightning versus Thunder! Sunset arrow against sunset arrow!

A streak of light intersected like a jolt of thunder. The two, Master and disciple, battled against each other in the ruins of the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion, and surprisingly, every move they made was exactly the same! However, Shi Ying’s speed and strength were clearly superior to hers, and the more she attacked with all her might, the greater the force she countered back from her Master’s hand – in the end, she could no longer hold her ground and was forced to retreat sharply backwards, vomiting several mouthfuls of blood in quick succession as she stumbled to the ground.

She looked down at the dead Yuan and instantly ached. Yes… she was still too weak! She couldn’t even avenge Yuan; she couldn’t do anything! Why was she so weak, so useless?

“How useless.” When her last spell ended, Shi Ying looked at her and spoke coldly, “A first-class spell can only become a third-class inferior spell when used in your hands – this is the last time I’ll demonstrate it for you – if you can’t learn it now, then you will have to wait until your next life to learn them all over again! Watch this!”

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