Jiang Ke’er pressed her small paw onto Qian Yue’s hand.
Watching as Qian Yue’s consciousness gradually slipped into drowsiness, Jiang Ke’er spoke softly, “Wait for me.”
In the midst of this peril, Jiang Ke’er had come to understand many things.
Maybe next time she faced Qiao Xiaoxian, she could keep her wits and wouldn’t lose her composure.
Pitter-patter, raindrops fell onto Jiang Ke’er’s long, thick eyelashes, making her blink.
It was raining—what a bother.
Jiang Ke’er quickly ran out of the nest, tore off a huge banana leaf, and sealed the entrance to keep the rainwater out.
Her hair was soaked, so Jiang Ke’er gathered the now-messy strands and tied them up. Glancing at the poison circle that had been washed away by the rain, she sighed, a sense of urgency welling up inside her.
“Rumble——”
A loud clap of thunder rolled in from not far away, and the flash of lightning illuminated the avatar behind Jiang Ke’er.
She didn’t notice that, at this moment, the nebula-like avatar was becoming clearer and more solid, its misty starlight energy spreading into her body… while the nine-tailed woman’s avatar was fading and dim.
In the darkness, a deep, faint purple glimmer flashed across Jiang Ke’er’s pupils.
Silently, she arrived at the survivors’ camp, where Zhuo Feng was still shouting wildly.
“I know you’re still here! You despicable bastard!”
“Hahahaha, if you’ve got guts, just keep dragging this out with me! Anyway, your friends are in my hands. If you dare to make a move, I’ll die with them!”
With his nerves stretched to the breaking point, Zhuo Feng was on the verge of collapse.
He kept talking to himself in a hoarse, cracked voice.
But beneath the seemingly strong and crazed threats, he hid a suffocating fear. He wasn’t shouting to scare off Jiang Ke’er—his bluster was just to pump up his own courage.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t working too well, or else he wouldn’t have been yelling for hours now.
There was another teammate beside him, face deathly pale, huddled and trembling by the fire inside the hut.
Zhuo Feng continued to roar, “Don’t you know yet? Your Taiming Sect is finished!”
Hmm? What does he mean?
“Taiming Sect is suspected of harboring traitorous demon clansmen—they’ve become the public enemy of the entire human world! The major sects have long been secretly plotting. As soon as the secret realm opens, they’ll send troops to encircle Taiming Sect, forcing them to hand over the traitors… or they’ll wipe them out completely!”
“The interesting thing is, even if they do hand over the traitors, it won’t help! Led by the major sects of the Dan Sect Alliance, half the sects in Northern Grand Si State will join in the siege. Their goal is to completely root out Taiming Sect while they have the chance, so even if your Taiming Sect surrenders the traitors, you’re still doomed! Ha—serves you right!”
“What’s the point of struggling? You’re already rootless grass!”
“Thud——”
A dark brown shadow pierced through the hut’s wall, immediately knocking the person by the fire across the room, pinning him to the opposite wall.
He was pinned by a sharp stone spear that went through his shoulder, nailing him securely to the wall.
Suddenly, Zhuo Feng seemed to realize something. He launched his flying sword straight at that teammate!
Sure enough, a sliver of dagger blade emerged from behind the wall—the assassin had intentionally aimed the stone spear off-target, not to kill, but to drive the victim to the edge of the wall, then finish him off with the dagger!
Zhuo Feng grinned grimly, and his flying sword pierced through his former teammate’s chest, blowing a huge hole in both body and wall as it stabbed toward the assassin on the other side.
Let’s see how you dodge that now!
But when he looked through the hole, there was no one there.
On a tree in the distance, a device like a crossbow was mounted. Seeing it, Zhuo Feng felt as if he’d plunged into an icy abyss.
A chilly wind blew from behind. Gritting his teeth, Zhuo Feng instantly commanded the flying sword at the hostage’s neck to slice across!
There was no movement at all.
Stiffly turning around, he saw no gory scene—only Jiang Ke’er, holding two swords in her hands and gripping the last sword’s hilt in her mouth, looking at him with a playful smile.
“Boom-crack——”
Lightning struck at the edge of the camp, and Zhuo Feng seemed instantly drained of all strength, his knees buckling as he collapsed to the ground.
With swift strokes, Jiang Ke’er cut the bonds of the three hostages and handed them the flying swords to guard.
She raised her hand, Spiritual Energy surging. Jiang Ke’er summoned the Dagger of Gluttony from afar, pressing it to Zhuo Feng’s forehead.
“You just said Taiming Sect was being besieged. What’s going on?”
Zhuo Feng, as if grasping a lifeline, lifted his head stubbornly and sneered, “I’ll tell you, but you have to let me go.”
“Never mind, then.”
Jiang Ke’er pressed the dagger forward and gave a gentle stab.
Zhuo Feng stared in shock.
Th-this… this isn’t how it’s supposed to go!
He could see Jiang Ke’er’s hand gripping the dagger, stirring it inside his skull, his consciousness scrambled into chaos.
The last thing Zhuo Feng felt in life was terror—and then, he died with his eyes wide open.
But his Divine Sense wasn’t shattered. Jiang Ke’er reached out and, using the authority of the King of Equality, pulled a book from his soul, then casually tossed the remaining soul into Avici Hell.
“It’s over,” Jiang Ke’er said, holding the book and retrieving her dagger, glancing coldly at Emperor Taizong of Tang and the others.
That indifferent gaze made them feel estranged, even a little chilled to the bone.
Xuanyang thought it was his betrayal that made Little Junior Sister angry, and hurried to explain, “Little Junior Sister, I just…”
“I know you did it to protect us. No need to explain—something this simple even the enemy could see through,” Jiang Ke’er interrupted.
“Then why are you…”
“It’s nothing.” Jiang Ke’er turned and left on her own, saying coolly, “I have things to do. Don’t follow me.”
The three of them looked at each other in confusion.
“It must be you who made her angry,” Emperor Taizong of Tang suddenly pointed at Changsun Wuji’s nose.
“???” Changsun Wuji was utterly baffled. “What the hell does this have to do with me!”
“You’re ugly,” Emperor Taizong of Tang asserted.
“……”
Jiang Ke’er spread her Divine Sense and sped through the forest.
The rain was coming down harder and harder.
This made Jiang Ke’er worry that the medicinal herbs would be washed away by a flash flood or mudslide, so she had no choice but to quicken her pace and collect herbs in the pouring rain.
[You have received Villain Points from Cao Zhen…]
That guy’s still not dead.
Impressive.
This must be close to a hundred-hit combo by now.
Jiang Ke’er shook her head and hummed a little tune as she continued picking herbs.
As the downpour intensified, Jiang Ke’er sensed subtle changes in the forest.
The ground was trembling slightly, and with time, the vibration grew stronger.
Rainwater streamed down the mouse holes in the woods, seeping deep underground—who knew where it would end up—and along with it, the blood dissolved in the water.
It felt ominous.
Jiang Ke’er quickly harvested every medicinal herb in the forest and returned to the nest immediately.
At the same time, Ninth Heaven—Ruins Realm Prefecture.
All Xubeasts simultaneously raised their heads.
Outside the Nine Heavens, in the endless void, a dark purple meteor was streaking rapidly toward them.
It was a power that all the strong ones of the Ruins Realm found both familiar and terrifying.
They couldn’t help but recall that war from thousands of years ago—a hopeless battle, where they first realized just how small and laughable the strength of the Nine Provinces was.
His arrival had made the beings of the Ruins Realm what they were now—neither human nor ghost.
A sky-shaking crash thundered out as the purple meteor struck the land of the Ruins Realm, but it did not stop. Effortlessly, it smashed through the Ruins Realm and kept heading to the next heaven.
No one knew where it was going.
And even if they did, it would make no difference.
They couldn’t stop it anyway.
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