"Want it?" Across the cliff and the scorching lava, Qi Yue finally spoke to Xia Wanqing.
Xia Wanqing was slightly taken aback. She felt like she had heard that voice somewhere before.
"Who are you?" she asked, looking at Qiyue.
Qiyue's lips curled up slightly, forming a beautiful arc. She ignored her and looked at Zhuque instead. Then, a vermilion fruit appeared in her hand. She beckoned to Zhuque, who, being sentient, landed on her arm.
Xia Wanqing's eyes widened in horror: "No!!! Zhuque is mine!!!"
"Shut up." Le Luoxi frowned and slapped her in the chest.
The Soul-Devouring Banner was also completely stripped away at this time.
The stripped Soul-Devouring Banner struggled frantically to find a new host, but was quickly sealed by the dog and fell onto the lava, where it was slowly submerged.
Xia Wanqing coughed up a mouthful of blood, glaring hatefully at Ye Qingyu, who was standing dumbfounded beside her. Her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of resentment: "Why did you hurt me?"
Caught off guard by the question, Ye Qingyu snapped back to reality. Meeting those scarlet, resentful eyes and the distorted face, he drew his sword.
"You've been harmed! From beginning to end, who was harming you, me or you? You murdered the Fourth Elder and then sacrificed your fellow disciples. How many disciples of the Hengyang Sect have died at your hands? Do you even remember?"
"..." Xia Wanqing fell silent, looking at Ye Qingyu. For the first time, she realized that the man in front of her was not so stupid at all. It turned out that he knew more than she had imagined.
but……
"Senior Brother, please believe me. These are not things I truly wanted to do. I was just blinded by the Soul-Devouring Banner. Senior Brother, please spare me for the sake of our fellow disciples."
As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.
He looked as if he had suddenly realized his mistake and was heartbroken.
Ye Qingyu felt a pang of sympathy for the woman he had once loved. But in that instant of tenderness, a sword suddenly appeared in Xia Wanqing's hand. The two were so close, and everything happened so suddenly that her sword pierced his heart.
He spat out a mouthful of blood, and pain appeared on Ye Qingyu's face. He tried to push Xia Wanqing away, but she sealed his cultivation and grabbed his neck in an instant.
"If you don't want him to die, then have your companions put down Suzaku and come over here!"
Xia Wanqing's cultivation level dropped to the late Golden Core stage after losing the Soul Devouring Banner, but she was not afraid at all. She looked at Gu Xingchuan, who had never made a move, Le Luoxi, who had slapped her, and Quan Yin, who had taken away her Soul Devouring Banner, with a sinister expression.
Thinking they had the lives of these people in their hands, they used Ye Qingyu to threaten them.
"And you two, sever your own meridians and kneel before me! Otherwise, I'll kill him!"
"Crazy." The three said in unison, their eyes full of mockery.
Ye Qingyu's heart sank to the bottom.
He knew they wouldn't save him.
But he didn't give up. Instead, he looked at Qiyue with anticipation in his eyes.
Although she always used him as a target along the way, she never actually hurt him. She must have had feelings for him as her senior brother.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Qiyue looked at her with amusement as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world, and then, in front of her, she formed a pact with Zhuque.
Ye Qingyu felt utterly hopeless.
Watching helplessly as her own spirit beast was taken away, Xia Wanqing screamed in anguish, "No!!!!!"
His eyes were bloodshot as he stared at Qiyue, his voice chilling: "I want you dead..."
Bang!
Before she could finish speaking, a hard slap landed on her face—it was Le Luoxi.
She slapped him hard across the face with her spiritual energy, her expression full of disgust: "Who do you think you are, daring to threaten my junior sister? If my junior sister didn't think you were still useful, you would have been torn to pieces by my junior brother and me by now."
The successive blows nearly drove Xia Wanqing to madness. She glared at the group with a ferocious expression: "Heh, you want to kill me? You think you're worthy! Do you know who I am? I am the daughter of the Hengyang Sect Master! If I die here, none of you will escape!"
"As for you..."
She leaned closer to Ye Qingyu, her voice low: "Senior brother~ Look how good I am. Even though you harmed me, I still gave you a chance to live."
Ye Qingyu, with a look of resignation, sneered, "The law of cause and effect will prevail; your fate will not be any better than mine."
"I won't hold a grudge against the dead. Remember this on your way to the underworld: I've already given them a choice. They're the ones who want to kill you; they don't want you to live, not me."
As she spoke, she pierced Ye Qingyu's chest with her sword again, draining his cultivation.
Throughout the entire process, Gu Xingchuan and his group watched her from the sidelines.
It wasn't that they didn't want to kill Xia Wanqing, but rather that their junior sister hadn't spoken yet.
"Senior brothers and sisters, please move aside, I'm about to break through."
As Qiyue spoke, she landed in front of the two of them.
Upon hearing this, the two, along with Inu and Nine-Tailed Fox, immediately disappeared.
Xia Wanqing finally realized something was wrong, and her eyes widened: "It's you! It's actually you!?"
"Oh, you recognize me now." Qiyue looked at her with a smile.
Then he immediately began to break through on the spot. The familiar feeling almost made Xia Wanqing collapse. She wanted to escape but couldn't, because Gu Xingchuan had set up an array before leaving.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and layers of thunderclouds rolled down. Huge bolts of lightning swept down with a fierce wind, and Xia Wanqing's roar echoed throughout the cave.
Half an hour later, Qiyue advanced to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, while Xia Wanqing lay on the ground like a dead dog, her whole body black and convulsing.
Tsk, the protagonist is the protagonist. Even though he's already this rotten, Heaven still spoils him.
However, it's time to leave.
Entering the Nascent Soul stage is great. Qi Yue's figure flashed and disappeared, while those outside the cave only felt a gust of wind.
Looking at the nearly collapsed cave and the now calm sky, yet still no sign of the person emerging, Mu Lingxiao and Li Ze exchanged a glance, sensing something was amiss.
It flew into the cave at an extremely fast speed.
Seeing Xia Wanqing lying on the ground, battered and bruised, and the unidentified desiccated corpse beside her, the two men's hearts nearly stopped: "Qing'er!!!"
At this moment, Qiyue had already met up with Gu Xingchuan and the other two.
Mentioning Xia Wanqing's miserable state, Qiyue suggested to the others with great satisfaction: "I think you guys can try it next time too."
The dog's eyes were bright: "I will listen to my master. Since you said I should try it, I will try it next time. I want to see what the difference is."
Gu Xingchuan and Le Luoxi remained silent.
Still want to try? Tsk, I'm afraid they don't have the luck. After all, by then, that so-called "Destiny Master" will probably have turned to ashes long ago.
With the Vermilion Bird, the subsequent sweeps were almost effortless, and some monsters even eagerly brought over treasures.
In July, I was so happy that I forgot all about home.
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