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As Xu Yi spoke, the thick ghostly and malevolent aura emanating from her body gradually spread outwards, slowly devouring the scenery in the sky... This enormous anomaly caused the people around the Prime Minister's residence to look up in astonishment at the sky, and some with sharp eyes immediately packed up their things and quickly left...
People started leaving, and gradually more and more people left... The strange phenomena in the sky also alerted the Imperial Observatory staff, who all teleported over and began chanting incantations and setting up an array around the Prime Minister's residence in an attempt to seal off the area...
Xu Yi looked at the pale yellow array barrier slowly rising around him. If they sealed themselves off, they would no longer be able to sense Xiang Qi's location... No! Xu Yi formed his hand into a claw and reached towards the sky. A wisp of dense black ghostly energy pressed down, and with a shout of "Get lost..." the ghostly energy landed and spread outwards, knocking down the cultivators who were trying to surround him...
The fallen cultivators coughed up blood and couldn't get up. A few of the less seriously injured immediately got up and began chanting incantations in unison, intending to reactivate the formation...
Xu Yi looked at Wu Zi in front of her and said calmly, "Wu Zi, you should not get involved in this matter..." Then she injected a wisp of ghostly energy into Wu Zi's brow. Before Wu Zi could react, he quickly closed his eyes and fell to the ground unconscious...
Xu Yi, no longer wanting to entangle with the surrounding Imperial Observatory cultivators, so he soared into the sky, hovering in mid-air, and then focused intently on spreading all the malevolent and ghostly energy he had just absorbed further and wider throughout the sky...
But how vast is the capital city? The malevolent and ghostly energy that Xu Yi absorbed began to wane after covering a third of the sky above the capital... Unwilling to give up, Xu Yi continued to sense the malevolent and ghostly energy further away, absorbing it as it covered the sky...
Before long, the absorbed ghostly and malevolent energy was almost used up, and there was still a small part of the sky that was not completely covered... This couldn't go on... Xu Yi quickly drew out some of the ghostly and malevolent energy swirling in the sky, turning it into tiny black threads that headed towards the small part of the capital that was not covered...
When Xu Yi realized that this speed was even faster, he began to draw more and more ghostly energy and malevolent energy from the sky, transforming them into more threads to search for that last part of the area...
Persistence pays off... After consuming most of the absorbed ghost energy and malevolent energy, Xu Yi finally sensed Xiang Qi's aura at the Imperial Observatory... Yes, having cleared it out, where else could he go but to the Imperial Observatory?
Xu Yi immediately stopped wasting words and flashed to the front of the Imperial Observatory... Her whole body was enveloped in thick black energy, which immediately alerted the people of the Imperial Observatory. The cultivators filed out to try to stop Xu Yi from entering the gate, but Xu Yi manipulated the black ghost silk around her to pierce through the barriers that the cultivators had created with their magic power time and time again...
Some of the cultivators who were knocked down were seriously injured and couldn't get up, but most of them got up and continued to block Xu Yi...
Xu Yi had entered and exited the gates of the Imperial Observatory many times, but at this moment, even taking a single step was extremely difficult...
Xu Yi gathered all the ghostly and malevolent energy he had absorbed, transforming it into a thick black mist that instantly filled the surrounding area, blocking everyone's view. Xu Yi moved freely within the ghostly mist, instantly flashing to the forefront of the mist...
"It worked!" Xu Yi exclaimed, then focused all his energy and ghostly aura on transforming them into mist that permeated every corner of the Imperial Observatory... Soon, Xu Yi arrived at the courtyard where the Director of the Observatory lived...
The supervising official, dressed neatly, stood in the courtyard, his eyes fixed on Xu Yi, and advised, "Xu Yi, have you thought this through? Are you really determined to kill her?"
Xu Yi said fiercely, "I will definitely kill her!" After saying that, he manipulated all the ghostly mist around him to rush into the supervisor's courtyard, attempting to close everyone's eyes again...
However, some kind of formation was set up in the Supervisor's Courtyard, and the thick black mist that entered the courtyard was turned into light gray. Although it did not completely purify the ghostly mist, it still allowed people to see the scenery in the courtyard clearly...
Xu Yi was unwilling to give up, so she let more and more ghostly energy turn into mist and spread back in, but the supervisor was surrounded by a bright yellow light, and the black mist could still see under the supervisor's bright yellow light... Even at this moment, the supervisor did not kill Xu Yi...
In truth, if this dragged on, the matter would naturally end once Xu Yi's ghostly energy weakened or his resentment dissipated. However, Xiang Qi, who was in the courtyard, saw that the supervisor only offered some advice to Xu Yi without actually taking any action. She suspected that the supervisor was biased towards Xu Yi, and that if things dragged on any longer, Xu Yi might really be able to break in…
She understood Xu Yi's murderous intent towards her, and without trusting the supervisor, she foolishly made a stupid decision: she pushed aside Yi Qing, who was protecting her, and strode towards the courtyard exit...
A golden opportunity! Xu Yi acted decisively, using the ghostly mist to teleport in front of Xiang Qi, grabbing her heart and piercing straight through her flesh...
The change happened in an instant; no matter how fast the supervisor's lightning magic was formed, it was too late to stop it...
Forced to his knees by inertia, Xiang Qi looked down at the bloody hole in his chest, only to hear Xu Yi sigh softly, "Someone like you, your heart is actually red?" Then he collapsed to the ground, dying instantly...
Xu Yi's tears began to fall again without her noticing. She looked at the bright red heart in her hand, and clenched it tightly while crying... She crushed Xiang Qi's heart with her bare hands... Just as the heart turned into a bloody mist and dissipated, the lightning from the sky struck...
A massive bolt of lightning struck Xu Yi directly, instantly forcing him to his knees… Xu Yi coughed up two mouthfuls of blood… Only the supervisor's sigh could be heard: “Xu Yi, you shouldn’t have… you shouldn’t have acted so recklessly…”
Immediately, the ground where Xu Yi stood emitted the light of an array... The array formed by the wisps of yellow light trapped Xu Yi within it, rendering him unable to move... The thunderclouds that had filled in flashed white light again, and an even larger and thicker bolt of lightning struck Xu Yi once more... The lightning bolt coursed through Xu Yi's meridians, tearing his body to shreds...
The lightning bolts surged from Xu Yi's body, exploding into countless tiny white bolts that struck the surrounding ghostly mist... The dark gray ghostly energy and malevolent aura were instantly dispersed and vanished...
As the heavenly lightning struck... the flesh on his body began to fall away, turning into yellow energy and dissipating into the air...
Xu Yi looked at the gradually emerging pale yellow skeleton, silently apologizing to the senior who provided the skeleton...
One massive bolt of lightning after another struck down, knocking Xu Yi to the ground. She could feel her bones slowly crumbling... Just then, Xu Yi heard Wu Zi cry out in alarm, "Xu Yi..."
Then a massive magical artifact broke through the formation that was trapping Xu Yi, enveloping him...
Xu Yi collapsed to the ground, struggling to lift her head, only to see above her the mirror-like magical artifact that had brought her out of the mountain… Xu Yi was in too much pain to speak, only able to look at Wu Zi outside the formation and gently shake her head…
But Wu Zi did not retreat as he wished. Instead, he stepped into the formation and picked Xu Yi up from the ground...
Xu Yi tried to push Wu Zi away, but her whole body was weak and powerless. She managed to utter only the word "go" with all her might... but Wu Zi just pressed his forehead against hers and held her tightly, refusing to let go...
Xu Yi was extremely anxious, but she was powerless to push him away. She could only look pleadingly at the supervisor outside the formation... The supervisor sighed and simply shook his head... Xu Yi quickly looked at Yi Qing beside her. Yi Qing's face was covered in tears, but she still didn't move an inch...
The lightning bolt that struck again hit the magic mirror. With a muffled thud, the magic artifact shrank and flew back into Wu Zi's storage bag. The lightning bolt that had been intercepted by the magic mirror landed directly on Wu Zi, who was holding Xu Yi... Wu Zi screamed in agony, and Xu Yi clearly heard the sound of bones breaking. Wu Zi kept spitting out blood... In an instant, he fainted...
But Wu Zi didn't let go of Xu Yi's hand. Just as the heavenly lightning was about to strike again, the magic mirror that had just retracted into the storage bag reappeared, spinning and pulling Wu Zi out of the formation...
Without support, Xu Yi fell backward to the ground... Her heart was filled with gratitude for the magic mirror. She watched as the heavenly lightning struck down again, gradually dispersing the pale yellow energy of her skeletal frame into the air...
Those bones that were halfway to immortality slowly turned into ordinary white bones...
That's fine too; we should return what we got to the same place...
The thunderclouds in the sky were still brewing thunder, and Xu Yi knew that the next strike would be the end... She slowly closed her eyes, but she still didn't feel the power of the thunder...
She opened her eyes again and saw the Mountain Lord standing beside her. The Mountain Lord waved his hand at the thunderclouds in the sky, and the thunderclouds dispersed... Then the formation beneath him slowly stopped and vanished without a trace... The thunderclouds dispersed, and golden sunlight reappeared in the sky, shining on the Mountain Lord and then into Xu Yi's eyes...
The mountain king's gaze towards Xu Yi remained calm and undisturbed, the fiery red mark between his brows still vibrant... He slowly crouched down and sighed at Xu Yi, "Little Xu Yi, you're too persistent..."
Mountain Lord... I'm sorry...
Xu Yi couldn't bring herself to say it, and could only silently apologize in her heart...
The Mountain Lord shook his head: "No need, Xu Yi." Then, in an instant, the Mountain Lord vanished. The next second, he reappeared before the judge, calmly saying: "Xu Yi of Wuji Mountain has too deep an obsession and has indiscriminately killed mortals. She is punished by being confined to the capital for the next thirty years to subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, and to do good deeds. She may leave after thirty years and begin her journey anew..."
The supervisor bowed to the Lord of Wuji Mountain and replied, "I obey the Lord's decree."
As the official's voice faded, the mountain lord vanished once more. The air returned to stillness, as if the earth-shattering events of just moments before had been nothing but a dream…
Xu Yi felt tears streaming down her face, soaking the surrounding ground.
A moment later, the supervisor came over, squatted down, and asked Xu Yi, "How is it, little Xu Yi?"
"Supervisor... Wu... Wu Zi..."
"He took the brunt of a heavenly lightning strike for you, destroying his foundation. He'll find it difficult to achieve great things in the future..."
Xu Yi turned her head to look at Wu Zi, who was being carried on a stretcher by two people, and could only watch as the unconscious Wu Zi was slowly carried out of the hospital gate with her eyes...
I'm so sorry, Wu Zi...
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