Chapter 104 Songsui Illusion (Part Twelve)
——
In the bizarre and fantastical illusion, Wei Feng looked at Jiang Gu, who was so close, and suddenly took a step back.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Gu looked at him in confusion.
“You are not my master,” Wei Feng said through gritted teeth.
Jiang Gu's doubts had never been so obvious, and besides, Jiang Gu would never be so eager to get close to him—not throwing him out was already the greatest mercy Jiang Gu could show.
'Jiang Gu' laughed, his voice, exactly like Jiang Gu's, carrying a captivating allure. "How do you know I'm not? Maybe you just haven't seen me before."
He put his hand on Wei Feng's shoulder, then leaned closer, "Haven't you always wanted to—"
"Get out of my way!" Wei Feng slashed at him with his sword, his eyes bloodshot with rage. Gui Wen tore off the clothes that had just been touched. He panted heavily and retreated several feet away as if he were a snake.
Master doesn't allow these messy things to touch him. If Master finds out... Wei Feng swallowed hard, his gaze suddenly becoming incredibly firm.
Even if this fake master raves about everything, his own life is the most important thing.
As he was thinking this, the chaotic scene before him suddenly vanished, turning into a lush bamboo forest. He could vaguely hear voices coming from the depths of the bamboo forest. He gripped his long sword tightly, and to prevent this from being another illusion, he transformed into a hideous ghost pattern and silently crawled past, hiding in the black mist.
As they drew closer, they heard an unfamiliar voice: "You'll have to ask your little Daoist partner about that... I've never seen such a filthy primordial spirit."
Then came Jiang Gu's voice: "What if we use your Song Suixi?"
He peeked out from between the bamboo leaves and saw Jiang Gu's familiar back. When Song Sui called him an evil creature, Jiang Gu's reaction was extremely indifferent, and he even showed little interest in Song Sui.
He rubbed the two ghostly patterns together, his greedy desires surging uncontrollably. He wondered if he and his master could defeat Song Sui if they joined forces. If they did, they would have two divine artifacts.
However, someone acted even faster than him.
Lu Liyu suddenly burst out from some unknown corner, her crimson demonic energy instantly filling the entire space. Jiang Xiangyun followed closely behind, shouting, "Lu Liyu! You've gone mad!"
Jiang Gu dodged the attack of demonic energy the instant it came, and Song Sui raised his sleeve to block Lu Liyu's curved blade, causing the entire space to tremble.
Jiang Gu looked at Song Sui and asked, "How come it seems like anyone can come into this space of yours?"
"..." Song Sui was silent for a moment, which was rare. "Someone tampered with it."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Lu Liyu in front of him and met her scarlet eyes. "You are from Wangyue Ganlou."
He spoke with certainty, without the slightest doubt.
Lu Liyu grinned, and the curved blade in his hand suddenly changed direction, blocking Jiang Xiangyun's thrusting longsword. Clearly, Jiang Xiangyun had heard Song Sui's words. He stared intently at Lu Liyu, "When did you get involved with Wangyue's side?"
"When?" Lu Liyu laughed. "Jiang Xiangyun, I usually think you're quite smart, so why do you always mess things up at crucial moments? Of course, I've been on Wangyue's side from the very beginning. Otherwise, why do you think I would go to such lengths to get close to a little brat like you?"
The eldest son of the Jiang family, who was usually unsmiling, revealed a rare expression of shock and anger. "What did you say?!"
Lu Liyu chuckled and said, "I accepted Ganlou's order to bring back the divine artifact Songsuilou, understand, you idiot."
Taking advantage of Jiang Xiangyun's distraction, he struck him in the chest with a palm, but Jiang Xiangyun was pulled from behind, barely dodging the fatal blow.
Lu Liyu looked out through that head of messy black hair, "Jiang Qi, are you really that happy to be the Jiang family's dog?"
Jiang Gu said expressionlessly, "Even if he dies in Songsui Tower, the Jiang family can revive him. If you really want to kill him, you might as well go to the Jiang family's main residence and kill the piece of his primordial spirit he left behind."
"???" Jiang Xiangyun turned his head in shock. "Who are you on board with?"
"Just telling the truth." Jiang Gu released him, looked at Song Sui in the distance, and said politely, "Young Master Song Sui, we have nothing to do with this matter. Please let Wei Feng and me leave."
Song Sui shook his head. "I can no longer open the exit passage."
"None of you are leaving here today!" Lu Liyu twirled the curved sword in her hand, the tip finally pointing at Jiang Xiangyun. "Jiang Xiangyun, do you know why I chose you?"
Jiang Xiangyun's face turned ashen.
"Because you are the eldest son of the Jiang family, the Jiang family's designated next head of the family. Of course, besides all that, you are also the most humane one among the Jiang family members." Lu Liyu comforted him with a smile, "I didn't expect that the bond of affection could be successfully formed so easily. If it were someone as heartless as Jiang Gu, it would probably take forever."
"..." Jiang Gu's eyebrows twitched slightly, feeling that this guy was even more deserving of a beating than Wei Feng.
"You've been pestering me all this way just so you can come with me into Songsui Tower?" Jiang Xiangyun seemed unwilling to give up, and finally asked the question himself.
“Of course.” Lu Liyu sneered, “The Jiang family has long since erased the mark of recognition on Songsui Tower. The token of Ganlou is useless. Once you’ve formed a bond with me, you’re naturally a member of the Jiang family. It’s so easy for you to sneak in. It’s not a waste of all the spirit stones I’ve spent on you.”
Jiang Xiangyun looked as if he had swallowed a fly, his eyes showing disgust. "Lu Liyu, Yao Li was right about you."
"It's a pity you found out too late." Lu Liyu glanced around and clicked her tongue. "I thought that by pretending to be captured by Jiang Gu, I could make you fight amongst yourselves and both suffer heavy losses. But I'm so disappointed. And this Song Sui, he's not a divine artifact at all. He's just a mortal soul that was forcibly fused into by the Princess of the Spirit Realm. He actually thinks he's a divine artifact. How ridiculous."
Jiang Xiangyun quickly calmed down and was not swayed by him. He said in a deep voice, "Since Ganlou wanted the divine artifact, and there were still ten thousand years to go, why didn't they explain it to the Jiang family earlier? Why go through all this trouble?"
"I don't know about that. I was just following orders." Lu Liyu lazily tossed the scimitar in his hand. "After all, I didn't even manage to become a special envoy."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly turned fierce, and the demonic energy permeating the space condensed into countless thin threads, which intertwined into a net and pressed down on Jiang Gu and the others.
Song Sui nimbly transformed into specks of light. Jiang Gu drew his sword to parry, while Jiang Xiangyun directly unleashed his natal magic weapon, the Xuan Yang Halberd. Unexpectedly, ordinary spiritual energy attacks had no effect on the net formed by these red threads; instead, they were aimed directly at their souls.
"Don't waste your time. How could you low-level cultivators possibly withstand the magical treasures of Wangyue Continent?" Lu Liyu's voice carried a hint of arrogance. "If it weren't for the strict conditions for entering Songsui Tower, I wouldn't be afraid even if Jiang Yinzhong came."
When he said this, the people present were not surprised, especially Jiang Gu. For the first time in his life, he felt what it meant to be powerless to resist. His spiritual power seemed to have been drained, and he couldn't even mobilize any magic weapons. He was like a fish on a chopping board, helpless and at the mercy of others.
On the other side, Jiang Xiangyun was in a similar situation, even worse than Jiang Gu. His anger at being deceived and used by Lu Liyu caused him to lose his most basic composure, and he was already bleeding profusely from the struggle.
"Song Sui, stop hiding!" Lu Liyu didn't take the two of them seriously at all. Instead, he patiently searched for Song Sui's trace in the net of heaven and earth. He said slowly, "My demonic energy has already filled the entire Song Sui Tower. Although your soul is pure and clean, it will be tainted by the demonic energy and lose all your magic power sooner or later. I was born to counter pure artifacts like yours. Otherwise, Ganlou would not have sent me here. Come out yourself, so you can die with dignity."
The crimson demonic energy was everywhere. Wei Feng, who had been hiding in the shadows, transformed into black mist and clung tightly to the ground. He was already very close to Jiang Gu, hiding among a bamboo forest and rocks. Sensing Lu Liyu's presence, he nimbly dodged and rolled away.
Although Song Sui said he was an evil being, which sounded very powerful, evil beings should also vary in strength. He was so frightened by Lu Liyu's aura that he trembled. Even Jiang Gu was powerless to fight back. Even if he rushed up, he would probably only be able to fill Lu Liyu's teeth.
However, escaping with Jiang Gu might still be worth a try.
Wei Feng swallowed hard. Even though he was just a dark cloud of ghostly mist without a head, he still rubbed his palms together, and a tiny ghostly pattern emerged from the black mist. He then silently poked Jiang Gu's fingertip.
Jiang Gu's eyelids twitched slightly, and he nodded back.
"Master?" Wei Feng tentatively called out in his mind.
"Hide well and don't move." Jiang Gu's voice was extremely soft and low, but there was no trace of panic.
Wei Feng's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, instantly settled down. 'Master, I—'
"Run!" Jiang Gu suddenly shouted.
Wei Feng instinctively transformed into a ghostly pattern and fled forward, but Lu Liyu was even faster than him. "I almost forgot about you, you little thing."
Wei Feng was so frightened by his terrifying aura that his hair stood on end. Just as he was about to be grabbed, a long, fiery red rope suddenly wrapped around Lu Liyu's wrist and pulled him back sharply. In that brief moment, Wei Feng caught his breath, turned into mist, and disappeared into the bamboo forest.
However, the red rope did not stay on Lu Liyu, but instead wrapped around Jiang Xiangyun's neck behind Lu Liyu. Lu Liyu looked over the rope and saw a blood-soaked hand. The hand, with its veins bulging, broke through the net and stretched out, tightly gripping the other end of the red rope.
A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Liyu's eyes. "He's only at the Void Refinement stage, yet he can still move. Interesting."
“There are many interesting things in the world.” Jiang Gu’s hand, which was wrapped with the Fire Rope, trembled slightly, but his voice was steady. “Since you have formed a love contract with Jiang Xiangyun, you should know the function of the love contract.”
Lu Liyu's expression changed slightly.
Behind him, Jiang Xiangyun was already torn and bleeding from his struggles. The threads of the net had penetrated his flesh and cut into his white bones. His neck was pressed against Jiang Guli's fire rope, and blood dripped onto his feet.
A smile slowly appeared on his face, and he suddenly lowered his head, causing the Fire Rope in Jiang Gu's hand to tighten abruptly.
"Jiang Xiangyun!" Lu Liyu exclaimed in shock and anger, turning around abruptly.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
