Chapter 428 Returning to the Prince's Mansion at this time would be a dead end.
"Kill me?" Zhao Tingzhu seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. Just as she was about to use her qi, she realized something was wrong. She looked down and saw that fire patterns had silently wrapped around her ankles.
"I must say your Blazing Sun Formation is quite interesting, using fire to burn away the qi, a despicable method."
Zhao Tingzhu, standing at the center of the Blazing Sun Formation, dispelled her protective aura and showed no sign of mobilizing the five elements. She looked at Yu Sui provocatively and said, "Come on."
Yu Sui stood still.
"If you don't come over, I'm going to attack." Zhao Tingzhu showed disdain for her pause and charged at Yu Sui with her bare hands.
Zhao Tingzhu's seemingly simple punch towards Yu Sui was not fast, but just as it was about to land, it suddenly unleashed tremendous power, bringing with it a sharp whistling sound that shook the ground.
The punch suddenly accelerated at the last moment, so fast that it was difficult to see with the naked eye.
Even though Yu Sui managed to dodge, he had to raise his hand to block the powerful gust of wind that expanded after the punch was thrown, and was knocked back several feet by the gust of wind.
With a loud bang, the waterside pavilion was smashed to pieces by the punch, revealing a deep crack in the ground that spread all the way to the water corridor. Eventually, even the water corridor split in two and collapsed into the water, making a series of splashing sounds.
Yu Sui, using Yan Lao's Wind Control Technique, leaped into the air and immediately flung the person onto the shore. At the same time, he turned around to face the second punch that Zhao Tingzhu was throwing.
Her protective aura blazed, but it couldn't withstand Zhao Tingzhu's punch. The force of the punch easily shattered Yu Sui's protective aura, carrying terrifying power as it pierced through her flesh and blood, striking her soul directly. It didn't give Yu Sui much time to think or react before knocking her from the air into the water below.
Yu Sui was knocked into the water. Yan Lao had just stood firm on the shore and was about to move forward when Jiang Fengyu, holding an umbrella, appeared in front of him.
The young man folded his umbrella and said to Elder Yan, "Senior, it's better to avoid trouble. If you come with us, Nangong Sui can live a little longer."
Old Yan: "Let's go?"
Jiang Fengyu said coldly, "She's exaggerating. Mr. He just asked us to take you back."
Zhao Tingzhu enjoys manipulating people's hearts and playing tricks on others. Just now, she threatened the Yan family with death and then sowed discord between Yan Lao and Yu Sui. She was having a great time.
Elder Yan knew that Yu Sui was no match for these two. Not to mention Zhao Tingzhu, there was also Jiang Fengyu who hadn't made a move yet. If they fought, Yu Sui would only suffer. If she wasted her strength here, what would she do when she faced the pursuit of the Nangong family later?
"I'll go with you, let her go," Old Master Yan said in a deep voice.
"Elder Yan!" came Shan Rong's voice from behind, trying to stop him.
Old Yan turned to look at him and said, "Don't worry, I won't die. Just do as I say."
Jiang Fengyu looked up and called out to the people in the sky, "Zhao Tingzhu."
"What's wrong?" Zhao Tingzhu looked at Old Yan with displeasure. "You just say you're leaving, how can I believe you?"
After saying that, he glared at Jiang Fengyu again: "Nangong Sui said she wanted to kill me. If I just leave like this, wouldn't it make me look like I'm afraid of her?"
"If any cat or dog dares to talk back to me like that, what will happen to me?!"
Jiang Fengyu simply said, "Get down."
The sound turned colder, triggering a sharp gust of wind.
Zhao Tingzhu snorted twice, but still stopped and landed beside him, muttering softly.
Jiang Fengyu flicked his hand and sent a purple talisman flying, which landed in front of him. A golden halo appeared under the feet of the three people. They were about to leave when they heard a splashing sound of water coming from behind them.
Yu Sui emerged from the water, his face covered in water droplets, his deep black eyes gleaming with a crimson-gold light, exuding majesty and holiness.
The world became clear again in her eyes. The flesh and blood body dissipated, leaving only the reality of energy gathering into form. The invisible energy between heaven and earth was captured and manipulated by her eyes.
Everything in this world is formed from wisps of energy; if she were to remove even a single wisp, it would crumble.
"Want to leave?" Yu Sui raised her eyes slightly, looked at Zhao Tingzhu, and crushed the teleportation circle beneath their feet. "I didn't agree to this."
Seeing the teleportation circle dissipate, Jiang Fengyu's eyes flashed with surprise, and he turned to look at the girl in the water.
The water rippled, and glistening water droplets covered the emerald green lotus leaves. The blooming purple lotus was broken by the force and could not float or sink in the water.
She was struck by Zhao Tingzhu's powerful punch, which injured her soul and disrupted her five elements. Even if she didn't die, she would be severely injured and unable to destroy his teleportation array.
Is this the power of the Heavenly Eye?
No, she doesn't have the Five Elements reversed.
Jiang Fengyu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Zhao Tingzhu walked up to Jiang Fengyu and looked at Yu Sui in the water. "Your Blazing Sun Formation is useless against me. It's a useless formation. Yet you still dare to be arrogant in front of me."
Yu Sui didn't reply. Instead, she stretched out her hand, and the ashes of the destroyed purple talisman fell from her palm. She smiled at Zhao Tingzhu, a bright smile on her watery face, but it was full of sarcasm.
Zhao Tingzhu's expression changed slightly, and she said coldly, "You're courting death."
Yu Sui lowered her hand and gently touched the water's surface: "Come on."
Aside from counting mountains, Yu Sui rarely uses her Heavenly Eye in battles with others, because she always remembers to hide her ability so that it won't be discovered.
She possesses it but cannot use it; she is more like a guardian, afraid that she will die if she is discovered.
But now the fear of death is no longer so important to her.
Yu Sui looked past Zhao Tingzhu and Jiang Fengyu at Elder Yan. She wasn't interested in the He family or the three clans. She just felt a long-lost anger and realized in that instant that she and Elder Yan had made the wrong choice.
She thought that by gambling with her own strength and Wu Huaiwei's background as a Taiyi Saint, she could make Qingyang Emperor choose her and stop Nangong Ming.
She later discovered that nothing she did mattered. Whether she possessed the Yin-Yang School's most precious treasure or became a highly talented ninth-rate sorcerer, nothing could shake their murderous intent. From the very beginning, it was a deadly predicament, and from start to finish, only she had racked her brains trying to break free.
Only death can break this deadlock. If she doesn't die, then let those who want to kill her die.
Was her waiting kind or foolish?
Yu Sui looked around and realized that no one here, including herself, seemed to have the right to talk about kindness.
The fire pattern reappeared on the blood-stained water. Seeing that she was still determined to use the Blazing Sun Formation, Zhao Tingzhu sneered, her figure flashed, and she instantly appeared on the water, throwing another punch at Yu Sui.
The punch, which always seemed to vanish from Yu Sui's sight at the last moment, was no exception this time, except that it didn't hit Yu Sui. Zhao Tingzhu's fist slammed into the water, creating a large crater in the thick pool. She turned to look behind her, only to find that Yu Sui had dodged out of her attack range before her.
How could she be faster than me?
Unconvinced, Zhao Tingzhu spun around and threw another punch at Yu Sui.
She did not release any of the Five Elements Qi. She locked her inner Qi within the Blazing Sun Formation and only released it the moment the fist wind accelerated. The speed was even faster than the speed at which the Blazing Sun Formation burned Qi. Therefore, for Zhao Tingzhu, the Blazing Sun Formation only raised the surrounding temperature and made her sweat a little more.
Zhao Tingzhu clenched her fist and swung it at Yu Sui several times, but Yu Sui dodged each time, instantly moving out of the attack range. Having learned from the previous two experiences, Yu Sui already knew the range of Zhao Tingzhu's punches, so she used her third eye to predict and dodge in advance, making her evasion seem effortless. This made it seem as if Zhao Tingzhu was swinging her fist at thin air, leaving everyone confused.
"Is this also your Heavenly Eye ability?" Zhao Tingzhu finally stopped throwing a punch and looked coldly at Yu Sui, who had leaped into the air.
"If you don't want to keep punching the air, then try some other low-level techniques." Yu Sui used his wind manipulation technique to stand in the air, looking down at her.
However, if one uses other low-level techniques, one will have to deal with the Blazing Sun Formation's ability to burn away one's energy with fire.
"I'd like to see where the limits of your Blazing Sun Formation are." Zhao Tingzhu seemed to be getting serious. After she finished speaking, she threw another punch, but this time the target was not Yu Sui, but the center of the Blazing Sun Formation.
Zhao Tingzhu punched into the formation, and heard the sound of the formation shattering. The fire patterns that covered the pool and the ground disappeared one after another, and in the blink of an eye, only the Heart Fire Talisman in front of Yu Sui remained.
That's all there is to it.
Zhao Tingzhu looked up at Yu Sui and saw that the Heart Fire Talisman had disappeared. However, thousands of stars appeared on the flowing water below, and the star sea shone brightly. The reverse star and the polarity returned the power of Zhao Tingzhu's punch to her.
The appearance of the Reversed Star and the Reversed Polarity was unexpected for Zhao Tingzhu. The powerful punch suddenly slammed into her, causing Zhao Tingzhu to instantly ignite her protective aura. She crossed her arms in front of her, but was still knocked away in the blink of an eye. Her toes landed on the water's surface, leaving a long trail of water.
Ignoring her injuries, Yu Sui mustered her strength again. Just as Zhao Tingzhu was about to fall into the water, Jiang Fengyu on the shore threw out a purple talisman. A golden circle appeared under Zhao Tingzhu's feet, instantly cutting off the space where she was located, severing the power of the reverse star and the polarity, allowing Zhao Tingzhu to stand firm.
Taoist secrets are like drawing a circle on the ground to imprison oneself.
Seeing this, Yu Sui did not stop. Instead of stopping his punch, which was blocked by the "drawing a circle on the ground" technique, he turned and attacked Jiang Fengyu, who was standing on the shore.
Zhao Tingzhu quickly turned around: "Be careful!"
Jiang Fengyu raised his hand and unfolded the umbrella he had put away. The umbrella spun in place against the force of the counter-punch, slowly and steadily dissipating the force.
“Your soul has already been damaged. If you forcefully gather your energy to cast a spell again, you will perish here without us even lifting a finger,” Jiang Fengyu said to Yu Sui.
Yu Sui replied expressionlessly, "Then you've misjudged me."
Zhao Tingzhu said resentfully, "If you're so eager to die, I'll grant your wish!"
Just as he was about to make a move, he was trapped by a self-imposed prison, so he turned his head and shouted at Jiang Fengyu, "Let me go!"
“She is not in a state of imbalance of the five elements, so if you continue fighting, it will be difficult to determine the outcome,” Jiang Fengyu said.
"Impossible!" Zhao Tingzhu denied. "You can tell I wasn't even paying attention just now!"
"Stop," Elder Yan said to Yu Sui. "You are no match for them now."
Yu Sui looked at him without saying anything.
Old Yan added, "I will not die. I will come to you afterward and tell you everything I know."
"Do you two even live to see that day?" Zhao Tingzhu said angrily.
After a long pause, Yu Sui finally said, "Whatever you say."
Her reply was perfectly calm, without a trace of anger or resentment. Old Master Yan's eyes trembled slightly, but he opened his mouth and held back, not uttering another word.
Jiang Fengyu stared at Yu Sui, then activated the teleportation array again. Three golden circles appeared, rotated clockwise once, and the three of them disappeared into the array.
The noise dissipated into the night, and even the sound of the downpour seemed quiet and tasteless.
Yu Sui stood in the torrential rain, her face pale. She stared in a certain direction, ignoring Shan Rong who was walking towards her.
Shan Rong walked very fast, and before she even reached Yu Sui, she said, "I'm going to send you out of the capital now."
"He instructed that if he is taken away today, Xiaolou will not be able to stop the Nangong family, and you must be sent away immediately."
"I've already called Ye Xi back; he's already halfway there..."
"Take me back to the Prince of Nangong's residence," Yu Sui said.
Shan Rong froze, his empty eye sockets and bewildered expression making him look somewhat comical.
"You want to go back to the Prince's Mansion?" Shan Rong asked, puzzled. "Going back to the Prince's Mansion at this time is a dead end."
"Have you consulted the oracle?" Yu Sui asked.
Shan Rong shook his head, holding the sacred wooden talisman: "But you are seriously injured right now. You can't even handle the people in the neighborhood who want to kill you. If you go back to the palace now, there's also your father..."
“I haven’t even laid a hand on them yet, and you already think that going back is a dead end for me? Fine, whatever. But I don’t want to leave the capital. I want to go back to the Prince of Nangong’s residence.”
Yu Sui turned and walked out.
"Princess!" Shan Rong exclaimed, "Elder Yan didn't mean to hide it from you. He didn't even tell me. I know you're angry with him, but Elder Yan's feelings for you..."
"How long have I been back in the capital?" Yu Sui suddenly asked.
Shan Rong paused, unable to answer for a moment.
Yu Sui looked up at the dark rain curtain, feeling somewhat dazed. The long few days had made her feel as if several years had passed, while the more than ten years between her and Elder Yan suddenly seemed to have passed like smoke and clouds, gone in an instant.
Shan Rong softened her tone: "Princess, Elder Yan has absolutely no intention of harming you."
"You just need to take care of Elder Yan's affairs, don't worry about me."
Yu Sui left the small building without looking back.
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