Chapter 79
A Qian: "Catch them!"
Su Jinzhou whispered two words in Ji Tang's ear, and then faced the Nightmare Clan that was gradually surrounding them.
The situation took a turn for the worse, and the tribesmen swarmed towards them.
Jitang looked at the shadow through the gap and said, "Do it!"
Shadow, who always obeyed her orders, hesitated.
Given the current situation of the Nightmare Clan, even if Xue Mei was killed, Ji Tang would not be able to take the throne of the Nightmare Lord.
Then should he still kill Xue Mei?
Will killing Xue Mei have any impact on Dengtian City?
The young city lord wanted to form an alliance with the Nightmare Clan, but now that the alliance has failed, he cannot make enemies either.
Shadow hesitated for a moment, let go of the hand that was tightly holding Xue Mei's collar, and pushed Xue Mei towards the Nightmare Clan.
A Qian hurriedly caught Xue Mei and wanted to remove the restrictions on him.
The moment Shadow decided to let Xue Mei go, he also thought of a way to escape. No one here could stop him, and he quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Ji Tang was deserted by his friends and family just as he was about to be betrayed by his friends.
She was at a loss and looked around, but found that she could not see the faces of the tribesmen who surrounded her at all. Each face seemed to be covered by a layer of shadow.
The gradually approaching sense of oppression could not be ignored. The scolding and cursing continued one after another, and she looked dazed.
——Until Su Jinzhou fell backwards heavily and hit her.
Jitang fell to the ground and subconsciously caught Su Jinzhou. As soon as the two touched each other, Jitang felt his palms burning.
She looked down and saw that the palm of her hand placed on Su Jinzhou's waist was stained with blood.
She suddenly looked forward and saw Xue Mei had broken free from the shackles, holding a nightmare wand in his hand. The top of the wand was the skeleton of a nightmare's head, stained with blood, and blood was dripping down the skull.
Su Jinzhou had already exhausted himself from dealing with so many tribesmen, and now with the addition of Xue Mei, the difference in strength between the two was too great, and he was no match for Xue Mei.
Ji Tang felt heartbroken.
Su Jinzhou raised his hand and placed it on Jitang's arm, whispering, "Jitang, I didn't want to tell you about this because I was afraid you'd worry, but things are difficult to deal with right now. This is the only way to break the dilemma."
Ji Tang was stunned: "What?"
Su Jinzhou: "I have learned the sect's forbidden technique. Only Master and the Sect Master know about this. I will give you a signal later and you run away. The farther away from me, the better."
Jitang was horrified.
"Brother, forbidden technique——"
Su Jinzhou soothed him, "Don't worry, the main target of the forbidden technique is Xue Mei. Although the clan members will be affected, they will not be fatally injured."
Ji Tang shook his head and said in pain: "The backlash of the forbidden technique is extremely severe!"
Although she didn't know what forbidden technique her senior brother was talking about, all the techniques classified as forbidden were extremely powerful. When they were performed, the sky and the earth would change color. Most importantly, the backlash to the person performing the technique was extremely severe and unbearable.
Forbidden techniques are equivalent to self-destruction, which is a complete act of suicide!
Senior brother is so determined to protect her that he doesn’t even think about himself!
On the other side, the clan territory has become a battlefield, and the battle between humans and cultivators has reached a white-hot stage. The Nightmare Clan has joined in and is fighting against various sects together with the Wuwang Clan and others.
People kept falling down due to injuries, the ground was stained with blood, and there were wailings everywhere, which was heartbreaking to see.
The two sides were evenly matched, and in the end, neither could defeat the other.
Xue Mei's restricted cultivation had recovered 70% to 80%. He pointed the Nightmare Wand at Su Jinzhou, "I watched Ji Tang grow up. She was well-behaved and obedient when she was little, but now she has betrayed the Nightmare Clan. What kind of sorcery did you use, or what kind of deal did you make with her, to make her, the Young Clan Leader, willingly join your human cultivation sect? Now you've brought you into our clan, hoping to put us to death!"
Ji Tang saw Xue Mei's murderous intent, and his heart beat faster and faster, and he was extremely anxious.
Su Jinzhou was seriously injured and had no power to fight back against Xue Mei. The situation was critical.
Ji Tang raised his head abruptly: "How could Su Xuanzong possibly influence my choice?"
Xue Mei paused slightly.
Ji Tang stood up and said, "I just want to learn some techniques. As for which sect I join or who I learn from, it doesn't matter to me."
Xue Mei glanced at her sharply, "Of course I will deal with you too!" As soon as he finished speaking, his hands formed claws, and strands of nightmare energy spread out. "You are the young patriarch of the Nightmare Clan, yet you are learning to practice magic. Today, I will destroy your entire cultivation!"
The nightmare was about to fall on Ji Tang, and she was ready to take the blow. However, the expected severe pain did not appear - because Su Jinzhou stood in front of her and took the blow for her.
Su Jinzhou was already injured, and the spiritual power he used to resist Xue Mei was illusory and shaky. In just a few breaths, his spiritual power collapsed, and the nightmare energy no longer had any resistance, rushing towards him.
Ji Tang was blocked by Su Jinzhou behind him, his eyes bloodshot.
"The Suxuan Sect is not without people. If Lord Yan wants to harm my disciples, he has to see if I agree or not!" Elder Qin arrived in time and blocked the nightmare energy at the last moment, avoiding the crisis of Su Jinzhou's cultivation being destroyed.
Xue Mei looked at Elder Qin cautiously. He didn't continue to attack, obviously a little afraid. He turned to Ji Tang and said, "Is this what you mean by no difference? I see that this young man is willing to risk his life to protect you. He is willing to sacrifice his own life, which shows how important you are to the Su Xuan Sect. Why don't you—"
Xue Mei's words came to an abrupt end.
A sword pierced Su Jinzhou's chest.
Su Jinzhou's eyes narrowed slightly.
He saw Xue Mei's shocked expression, and also felt that Elder Qin, who was supporting him, suddenly increased his strength, preventing his shaky body from falling down immediately.
He was stabbed in the back of the chest with a sharp weapon.
Su Jinzhou slowly lowered his head, the sharp weapon piercing his chest and protruding from his chest. The tip of the sword was stained with blood, emitting a cold bloody light.
He was very familiar with this sword.
——There is no trace of it.
Su Jinzhou wanted to turn around, but his lips moved slightly but no sound came out.
Ji Tang stood behind Su Jinzhou and used all his strength to prevent his hand holding the hilt of the sword from shaking too violently.
Her eyes were red and bloodshot. Every time she trembled, the longsword would aggravate Su Jinzhou's wound. The hilt felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, as if it had just been taken out of a furnace, burning her palm, making it impossible for her to hold the hilt tightly, and she suddenly let go.
Ji Yao was still inside Su Jinzhou's body, piercing him from back to front.
Ji Tang quickly lowered his eyes, his heart aching to the extreme. After the severe pain, he seemed to be numb.
She pushed Su Jinzhou's shoulders from behind, and Su Jinzhou's body tilted and was supported by Elder Qin.
Without Su Jinzhou's protection, Xue Mei suddenly looked at Ji Tang.
Jitang's face was pale, but his expression did not show any sadness or worry.
This gorgeous face showed only indifference and disgust, and there was even a smile of disdain at the corner of her mouth.
This world suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The battle in the distance stopped at some point, and the people who had overdrawn their energy gradually moved towards this side.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, some deep and some shallow.
They also noticed the unusual atmosphere here.
Jitang didn't even look at Su Jinzhou.
He just said, "Get out of here, you're an eyesore."
"Senior Brother!!!" Gu Yan squeezed out of the crowd and saw the long sword on Su Jinzhou's body. He ignored the obstruction of his fellow disciples and quickly ran to Su Jinzhou.
He checked Su Jinzhou's condition and said angrily in a trembling voice, "Senior Brother is seriously injured. The sword is pointing directly at his heart. Elder, Senior Brother... he... who is this? Who hurt my Senior Brother so much?!"
Elder Qin looked at Jitang deeply.
Ji Tang glanced sideways, his tone icy and piercing, "He's just a sect disciple, so what if he dies? Or do you want revenge?"
Gu Yan heard Ji Tang's voice and suddenly looked at her, "Master——"
"Really?" Ji Tang interrupted him, lowered his head, and chuckled softly, "I am the Young Chief of the Nightmare Clan. If you want to seek revenge on me, why not ask the Chief first for his consent?"
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a hint of disgust in the eyes of the tribesmen.
Jitang asked the clan leader, "Clan leader, what do you say?"
Even if Xue Mei wanted to kill her again, he would do it behind closed doors.
There is not only the Nightmare Clan here, there are two factions of human cultivators. It's okay if they are seen by the Wuwang Sect and others, at least they are allies, but there are other sects and factions here, they are already hostile to each other. Killing her now, are you going to make them laugh at the Nightmare Clan?
Besides, Jitang's purpose was not this. She wanted to completely sever ties with Su Xuanzong.
Elder Qin said in a deep voice: "Gu Yan, hold your brother tightly, let's go!"
Ji Tang then looked in the direction of Su Jinzhou. Su Jinzhou had lost consciousness and was being carefully supported by Gu Yan.
The long sword on his body was extremely dazzling, but no one dared to draw it without permission.
Jitang still remembered what Su Jinzhou whispered when he stood in front of her.
"Don't be afraid."
Jitang turned his eyes away and stopped looking.
After Su Xuanzong left, the various sects that suffered heavy losses quickly withdrew from the Nightmare Clan.
For a while, the Nightmare Clan was left with only the Wuwang Sect and other members of the Nightmare Clan who had also paid a tragic price, and the clan was filled with wailing.
Before Ji Tang could take a closer look, Xue Mei had someone hold her down.
Xue Meihei said with a sullen face, "Take her to the Phantom Valley."
The Huanguang Valley is now empty. All the tribesmen imprisoned in the cave have died. Now she is the only prisoner in the Huanguang Valley.
She was tied to a wooden post with a thick rope around her neck.
I don’t know how much time passed until the torches by the wall went out and even the sound of burning flames could no longer be heard in the cave.
Everything in front of her eyes was dark, and she could vaguely hear several footsteps coming from far away.
When the torches lit up her eyes again, she saw Xue Mei and his group.
Jitang raised his head slightly and looked at A Qian behind Xue Mei.
She didn't ask 'why'. From Ah Qian's previous words, she knew that Ah Qian hadn't changed his mind midway, nor was he threatened by Xue Mei. The fact that he had deliberately taken the belt she had left in the tree hole was enough to prove that he had planned it for a long time.
Xue Mei nodded to the person behind him.
The man came behind Jitang and turned the wooden handle beside the wooden pillar. The thick rope around Jitang's neck was quickly retracted a lot, and Jitang was forced to raise his head.
Xue Mei: "In order to draw a clear line between you and Emperor Xuanzong, you are willing to stay in the Nightmare Clan. It seems that you don't even want to live anymore."
There are only Xue Mei and his confidants here, so Ji Tang doesn't need to hide anything anymore.
"I am from the Nightmare Clan. Is it wrong for me to stay here? Clan leader, everyone heard and saw clearly. I am simply using the Suxuan Sect, using any means necessary to achieve my goals. You have also seen that the lives of Suxuan Sect disciples are like grass in my eyes, worthless."
She was forced to look up, clearly in a state of extreme embarrassment, but the look on her face as she looked down at Xue Mei was one of arrogance and contempt. "You have a good plan, Chief. You want to use me to disrupt the relationships between the sect and the palace, making them suspicious of each other, while also getting rid of me, the 'traitor', killing two birds with one stone. But you're mistaken. I'm not a chess piece in your hands, and I won't act according to your wishes."
Xue Mei's face was unfriendly. "Ji Tang, what are you talking about? Even if you have no connection with the human cultivator sect, you can't escape the fact that you used human cultivators to bring them into our clan and used others to harm our people."
He looked at the empty stone cave, where only the torture rack remained. "You also killed all the tribesmen in Huanguang Valley. You have taken so many lives, even if you die a thousand or ten thousand times, it wouldn't be a pity."
He raised his hand.
The thick rope around Jitang's neck was pulled up a little.
Ji Tang's toes trembled slightly, and he barely touched the ground, tilting his head higher. Even so, a clear mark was left on his neck.
Xue Mei looked at her painful expression slowly and calmly, "Ji Tang, your sins are so great that even I cannot protect you."
Ji Tang burst out laughing several times, and under Xue Mei's astonished gaze, he said intermittently: "You are...making up a false accusation...you are...going to such great lengths to find a reason...to kill me..."
Xue Mei approached Ji Tang and whispered in her ear, "Why would you go to so much trouble? You're the young patriarch."
After Ji Tang’s death, there were no more pure bloods in the Nightmare Clan.
Xue Mei's eyes lit up surprisingly, and he directly grabbed the thick rope that was around Ji Tang's neck.
Ji Tang's toes left the ground, and his whole body was lifted up by the thick rope, and his neck made a creepy "crackling" sound.
Just when she was about to lose consciousness, Xue Mei suddenly let go of the rope.
The thick rope was stretched by Jitang's falling weight, and the handle next to the wooden pillar kept making a creaking sound as it turned rapidly.
Her body did not fall to the ground because the rope was limited in length. When she was halfway down, the thick rope had reached the end, strangling her in mid-air.
She had just taken a few breaths when she was strangled by the thick rope again.
Ji Tang was in a trance, and her survival instinct made her subconsciously want to stand firm. Her feet searched for the ground, and she even twisted her left foot.
She finally stood up, but before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the light of the torch flashed before her eyes, and then she felt a burning pain in her right shoulder.
Xue Mei held a torch in his hand and looked her down with a condescending look. "To convict the young patriarch, we need to go through several levels of trial. The death penalty will not be carried out here. The young patriarch can still live for two more days."
Jitang looked like she'd just been pulled out of the water, drenched in sweat. She hadn't said a word when the torch burned her, but now she smiled. "It seems the clan leader doesn't even want to wait two days."
The torch fell on Jitang's left shoulder again.
Ji Tang gritted his teeth and resisted. When the torch left, he spoke with an unsteady breath, "The clan leader has always been very skilled in killing his people. This can be seen in the punishments in the more than twenty caves in Huanguang Valley..."
She slowly raised her eyes and said, "I have another question."
Xue Mei threw the torch to his men beside him and said sarcastically, "Young Patriarch, what else do you want to ask?"
Ji Tang: "Who killed the tribesmen imprisoned in Huanguang Valley?"
Xue Mei snorted and laughed: "You know what else can you do."
At this time, the sound of several iron chains hitting the stone wall was heard outside the cave.
Xue Mei looked at the person who came.
The man outside urged in a low voice: "Don't waste time."
Xue Mei turned his gaze away and deliberately said to Ji Tang, "Don't you want to know who killed those criminals? It was her."
After he finished speaking, he left first.
Ji Tang turned sideways to look. The rope was limited in length. If she wanted to see the man's face clearly, she would have to be tightened by the thick rope.
She didn't hesitate and leaned out further.
The skin on her neck had long been broken by the thick rope, and now the hard rope was rubbing directly into her bright red flesh, making it increasingly difficult for her to breathe. She finally saw the man's face!
——Qiu Runfang.
It’s her!
She still remembers Allen Chu’s words.
"All I know now is that they are roaming the world of cultivation, searching for top experts. They want to gather all of them together, and Senior Wang Shou is one of their targets."
Black believers!
Qiu Runfang is one of the Black-Clad Believers. Why would she come to Xue Mei? What is her purpose?!
Ji Tang's vision was blurred. She barely turned her body and with great effort she leaned back against the wooden pillar.
After going through so many things in such a short period of time, Jitang's body could hardly bear it anymore.
She breathed rapidly, countless thoughts flashing through her mind.
She originally thought that the Nightmare Clan had reached its current situation because of Xue Mei's insatiable ambition, but until Qiu Runfang's face appeared before her, she was shocked to realize that it was not only Xue Mei who pushed the Nightmare Clan to the forefront, but also the black-clothed believers who intervened.
How did Xue Mei get to know Qiu Runfang? Did he know about the Black Believers? Did he cooperate with them voluntarily, or was he being used?
"Don't think about it." A voice suddenly appeared in his mind, stopping Ji Tang's countless thoughts.
Ji Tang was stunned for a moment, then asked in a hoarse voice, "Shaqi, are you awake?"
Shark said angrily: "If I don't wake up, you will die! Why didn't you wake me up? Don't forget, if you die, I will not be able to live!"
Ji Tang's lips moved: "I..."
She really forgot.
The affairs of the Nightmare Clan, the affairs of the Suxuan Sect, and now the affairs of the black-clothed believers have made her extremely anxious, and she has indeed forgotten about Shaqi.
But this cannot be said.
Jitang changed the subject, "Have you recovered?"
Shark: "If I could recover, I would have just possessed the man who burned you with a torch!"
Jitang: “…”
Shark: "I woke up when you used your spiritual power. What did you do? Why did you use so much spiritual power?"
The power of the soul is closely connected with the sea of consciousness. The beast spirit Shark Qi lives in her sea of consciousness. When she calls upon the power of the soul, the sea of consciousness will definitely be affected, and Shark Qi will also be affected.
Ji Tang asked tentatively: "Is it not hurting you?"
Shaqi snorted, "You haven't seen the Sea of Consciousness yet, have you? It's like a massive earthquake and tsunami. Everything that should collapse has collapsed, everything that should sink has sunk, and all the flowers and plants have withered and died. It's even more shabby than this dilapidated cave. It's unbearable to look at. If I hadn't been lucky, I would have died just now!"
Ji Tang didn't have time to think too much when she was calling upon the power of her soul. She said guiltily, "I'm sorry."
Shark's tone softened a bit and he asked her, "What about your sea of consciousness?"
Ji Tang said weakly: "I'll slowly restore my sea of consciousness later..."
Seeing her slowly closing her eyes, Shaqi was so frightened that he started yelling again: "You can't faint! If you faint, you will be strangled to death!!"
Jitang's head was buzzing with excitement because of Shaqi's shouting.
She smiled bitterly, "Thank goodness you're here, otherwise I might have been strangled to death here." She looked into the dark cave and murmured sarcastically, "Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to attend the judgment in two days."
Sharky cursed: "Is this human language?!"
Ji Tang curled his lips, "I'm not human, I'm Nightmare..."
Sharky: "...Hello?"
Ji Tang gathered his thoughts and asked, "Do you have a way to get out?"
Shark was slightly relieved, but then he shouted again, "It's been like this once or twice, and it's making me restless even when I'm recovering from my injuries. It's not difficult to get out of this pillar, but how did you escape from the cave?"
Jitang looked at the stone cave above his head and said, "I have a way."
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