Parents' backup plan
Xuanji's cruel and threatening question was like a poisonous thorn, piercing the hearts of everyone present.
Yu Zhengdao and Yuehua were furious, but they were held back by the guardians of the Shadow Devouring Sect and unable to come to their aid. Gu Yanzhi and Lin Shu were equally anxious, but they were unable to move because of the blood-red magic array that covered the entire Tianyan Pavilion.
Feng Jinxuan stared at the girl whose throat was being choked, her face flushed, yet she still glared at the enemy with stubborn, fearless eyes. He saw clearly in her eyes the words she was lip-syncing to—"Don't worry about me, run!" An unprecedented, earth-shattering rage instantly overwhelmed all his reason!
"Let her go!"
He let out a hoarse, beast-like roar, desperately trying to unleash the newly awakened and unstable Heavenly Evolution power within his body and charge forward!
"don't want!"
Seeing this, Yu Jinli was so anxious that tears almost welled up in her eyes. She knew that forcibly activating that power in Feng Jinxuan's current state would be tantamount to suicide!
"Oh?" Xuan Ji looked at the touching scene of unwavering love before him, his smile growing increasingly cruel. "It seems you've made your choice. Very well, then I'll let you watch him die bit by bit for you."
His hand, which was gripping Yu Jinli's throat, tightened suddenly!
At that critical moment, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly, without warning, the ancient phoenix hairpin that Yu Jinli wore close to her body and the blood-stained peace buckle that Feng Jinxuan wore close to his body both burst into a dazzling light!
One golden and one wooden beam of light echoed each other in the air, instantly forming a powerful energy link that could not be shaken by any external force!
"What?!"
Xuan Ji's expression changed for the first time. He felt a warm, vast, protective, and loving power erupt from the two small keepsakes—a power powerful enough to dispel all the gloom in the world. His hand, which had been gripping Yu Jinli's throat, loosened uncontrollably, as if burned by a red-hot iron!
Yu Jinli collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. She looked up in shock at the unbelievable scene before her. The two beams of light slowly intertwined and merged in mid-air, eventually transforming into two semi-transparent, otherworldly figures of a middle-aged couple—it was Yu Zhengdao and Yuehua, or more accurately, Yu Zhengdao and Yuehua in their youth.
Those two figures were not physical entities, but rather divine thoughts condensed from the purest innate fortune belonging to the level of the Heavenly Evolution Pavilion Master.
“Child,” Yuehua’s divine sense looked at her daughter who had fallen to the ground, a gentle smile full of apology and love on her face, “Don’t be afraid, Mom is here.”
"This...this is..." Yu Jinli stared blankly at the figure in front of her, which was younger and more radiant than the mother she was seeing now.
"This is a contingency plan we left in the keepsakes between you and your future husband when we sent you down the mountain more than twenty years ago." Yu Zhengdao's divine sense looked at his daughter and the equally shocked young man, his voice gentle yet powerful, "It was to prevent this situation from happening today."
"Senior...Senior Brother?"
Xuanji looked at the two figures he once knew best and hated most, and for the first time, a trace of genuine panic appeared on his face, which always carried a wicked smile.
“Xuanji.” Yu Zhengdao’s divine sense looked at the powerful and insane man before him, whose reason had been completely consumed by hatred. His heart was filled with indescribable complex emotions, a mixture of heartache and regret. “Turn back now. It’s not too late.”
"Turn back?" Xuan Ji laughed as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. He pointed at himself and laughed, his laughter filled with resentment and malice. "Senior brother, look at me now! Neither human nor ghost! You're telling me to turn back now? Too late! It's all too late!"
He stopped wasting words, and an even larger and more malevolent demonic aura erupted from his body: "You think a mere divine thought can stop me? Today I'll make you die again!"
"Foolish child."
Yu Zhengdao’s divine sense looked at him and shook his head helplessly. He did not make a move, but turned around and looked at Yuehua’s divine sense. Then the two of them stretched out their hands at the same time and injected the two purest powers condensed from their life fortune into Yu Jinli and Feng Jinxuan’s bodies without reservation!
"boom--"
A purple-gold light, more than a hundred times stronger than before, erupted once again centered on the two of them! This time it was no longer a simple fusion of energy, but a deeper resonance of bloodlines, as if they were one with heaven and earth!
It was a Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram perfectly fused from two forces: one was the purest koi fish luck, the original source of the Heavenly Evolution Pavilion's Holy Maiden bloodline; the other was the equally pure and domineering purple-gold dragon energy, a bloodline of the Heavenly Evolution Pavilion's ancestral bloodline. One gold, one purple; one Yin, one Yang, flowed slowly behind the two, endlessly regenerating.
“Child,” Yu Zhengdao said, his divine sense looking at the powerful young man shrouded in purple-gold light, his voice filled with relief and entrustment, “our Tianyan Pavilion owes your Feng family too much. Today, let this remnant of my will help you one last time. Go, go and protect those you want to protect.”
“Daughter,” Yuehua’s divine sense looked at the girl who was also enveloped in light, her expression focused and holy, her eyes filled with reluctance and pride, “Remember, you are the Holy Maiden of Tianyan Pavilion, and your mother’s pride. Go do what you want to do.”
After speaking, the two semi-transparent figures turned into specks of golden light and slowly dissipated into the air, leaving only two words full of hope and entrustment echoing in everyone's ears.
Yu Jinli watched the dissipating light, her eyes welling up with tears again. She knew this was the most precious gift her parents had left her—not a sect, not a status, but their unconditional love and absolute trust.
She turned her head and looked at the man beside her, who was also enveloped in power. The man was looking at her too. In those dark eyes, there was no longer pain, no longer confusion, only the same unwavering fighting spirit as hers, a spirit capable of burning everything!
The two smiled at each other, then reached out their hands and intertwined their fingers.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
“Anytime is fine,” she replied.
The next second, the two transformed into a streak of purple-gold light and took the initiative to meet the final BOSS, who was possessed by the demonic thoughts of the first sect master and whose aura had surged to its limit!
"Xuanji! Your death is near!"
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