Chapter 486
"Four!"
Han Ziyang's voice sounded incredibly ferocious in the firelight.
"This madman!"
Zhuge Ling cursed, but his hand holding the sword hilt remained motionless.
Her gaze remained fixed on the rampant flames, and the flowing energy of the five elements told her that they were merely thunder and fire, not something she deeply feared and hated.
As soon as Tu Miaoyi ran out of the range of the Holy Stone Shield Wall, she was blocked by Jiang Fengyu and Gu Ganyi on the left and right.
"Hand over the fragments!" Gu Gan warned her, "or else you..."
Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, knocking him back from in front of Tu Miaoyi.
Although they had moved beyond the distance of the Holy Stone Shield Wall, they were still within Han Ziyang's lightning domain.
"three!"
Guo Zhengqi asked Wei Xizhen, "Are you really going to gamble with him?"
Does the Sacred Stone have the ability to completely resist strange fire? How many times can it withstand it? How much strange fire can it absorb?
Wei Xizhen also wanted to know.
But here...
There are too many people. If the Holy Stone is unable to withstand the attack, if Han Ziyang releases too much strange fire energy, or if Han Ziyang himself is unable to control it, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The risks are too great no matter what; they have no safety guarantees whatsoever.
"two!"
Having learned of the situation through Guo Zhengqi's telepathic message, He Xinsi looked at Yu Sui and said, "Stop him."
“He wouldn’t dare,” Yu Sui said.
The people beneath the palace walls were on high alert, clenching their fists to support the sacred stone shield, awaiting Han Ziyang's final verdict. But the first voice to arrive was Wei Xizhen's: "We accept cooperation."
“You can test the limits of the Holy Stone in another place, not here, not now.”
Han Ziyang relaxed from his tense posture, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Wei Xizhen, then looked at the silent Zhuge Ling.
Zhuge Ling clearly understood that if Han Ziyang were to release his strange fire here, even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance of burning them all to death, she didn't want to gamble on it.
Only Shan Chen was still vehemently opposing it, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't utter a single word.
Han Ziyang smiled outwardly, but inwardly he breathed a sigh of relief, secretly cursing that Shui Zhou still had someone who could understand human speech.
“We need to trust each other,” Wei Xizhen stepped forward and said, “but you can’t get all of us to trust you.”
“You will need to pay a price,” Zhuge Ling said. “For example, you will have to lose all your cultivation and destroy your light core.”
“I can tell you that without the Strange Fire, I can’t withstand the attacks of so many Saints.” Han Ziyang disagreed with the proposal. “My goal in this collaboration is to find the Eye of the Ruins. At least until I find the Eye of the Ruins, I won’t do this.”
Enraged, Zhuge Ling pointed his sword at him and demanded, "Then what makes us believe you?"
"Only I will agree to your request. Of all the world destroyers, only I will choose to cooperate with Shui Zhou!" Han Ziyang declared forcefully. "You need to know the limits of the Sacred Stone, and only I can give you the answer!"
"Now, do you want me to cooperate with Shui Zhou, or with the other World Destroyers?"
Zhuge Ling wished she could tear him to pieces, but her hand holding the sword trembled uncontrollably.
"I only have one request." Wei Xizhen blocked Zhuge Ling's way. "You wait here, don't go anywhere, and don't do anything."
Han Ziyang: "How long do you expect me to wait?"
Guo Zhengqi said to Wei Xizhen, "Perhaps you should let him wait somewhere else."
Wei Xizhen did not respond.
Yu Sui said to He Xinsi, "He wants to ask Dean Sun to make the decision."
Sure enough, the two soon heard Wei Xizhen's voice in the telepathic communication saying, "I will ask Elder Sun to decide where to cooperate with you."
Yu Sui looked through the Listening Wind Ruler as if he could see the scene, and said, "And Dean Sun will ask Han Ziyang to come to the Communications Institute."
The certainty and indifference in her words intrigued He Xinsi, drawing him in irresistibly.
He Xinsi said, "Old Sun doesn't seem afraid of you all gathering together."
When facing Han Ziyang alone, Zhuge Ling and the others had to consider the possibility of the strange fire bringing devastating disaster. If Sun Heng sent Han Ziyang to the Communication Academy, it was intentionally to gather the destroyers together.
He couldn't possibly be unaware that doing so would be even more dangerous.
If the two people's strange fire gets out of control, or if they fail to reach an agreement and a conflict arises, they have no solution but to improvise.
Unless... Sun Heng truly doesn't care at all that Nanjing will be devoured by the strange fire.
This old man probably really doesn't care.
“I guessed that he had something that could restrain the Destroyer. As for Elder Sun… he thought that since the Destroyer was scattered, it would be better for them to gather together, which would make it easier for the Water Boat to wipe us out in one fell swoop.”
Having said this, Yu Sui was certain that Sun Heng knew about the influence of the Floating Pagoda on the Destroyer. His composure and madness both stemmed from the fragments possessing magical power.
The missing piece on the glass platform is in Sun Heng's hands.
Shui Zhou once thought that the only way to fight the Destroyer was to kill him before he could use his strange fire.
If the destroyers' cultivation level is too low, their chances of winning are even greater.
Unfortunately, these five world destroyers are all highly skilled, and none of them are low in cultivation level.
However, Shui Zhou was very lucky and found a new solution despite the predicament.
With the Holy Stone and its fragments, the Watership's confidence in facing the Destroyer was greatly boosted.
While waiting for Wei Xizhen to relay the message, Han Ziyang glanced at Tu Miaoyi, who was still not far away, and then looked at Gu Gan and Jiang Fengyu, who were still preparing to arrest her, and shouted, "You're not planning to let her go?"
Gu Gan didn't intend to confront Han Ziyang head-on. Instead, he smiled and replied, "Take another look. There are plenty of people who don't intend to let her go."
Neither Shui Zhou nor the saint of Nanjing intends to let Tu Miaoyi go.
Wei Xizhen communicated very quickly. He said, "Old Sun wants us to go to his place now, and he will talk to you personally."
Sun Heng was in charge of the water boat, and Han Ziyang understood this, so he didn't think much of it or have any doubts.
“I’ll go too,” Tu Miaoyi said to Han Ziyang as she turned around.
Han Ziyang hesitated for a moment, then whispered to the person who had come to his side, "Xue Mushi is still waiting outside. Once you go out, he will immediately take you away from Nanjing."
“They know I have the fragments, so they can’t leave now,” Tu Miaoyi said. “Shui Zhou won’t let me go either.”
Han Ziyang thought these were all things that could be discussed, and Tu Miaoyi added, "Shui Zhou has something that can deal with the World Destroyer."
She held the Wind-Listening Ruler forward, and Han Ziyang heard Xue Mushi's voice say, "They know how to use the fragments to control the World Destroyer."
Since the divination began, the sky seemed to have stopped at dawn, a dark blue hue, everything in a state of uncertainty.
Even though it was already noon, halfway through the day, there was no end in sight.
People gathered to discuss the divination of the world's destroyer, and the officials of the Punishment and Water Division did not intervene. They were too busy with their own affairs to approach Xue Mushi, even though they knew his location. They could only try their best to disperse the people around him.
The area around the clinic was very quiet. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that the crowd had already been moved away, leaving only empty houses on both sides of the street, not even a dog.
Under the cover of wind manipulation, figures moved swiftly forward, heading directly toward the brightly lit medical clinic.
Shen Tianxue, who was guarding outside Mei Liangyu's door, squinted and said to A Ling, "A few rats have come. Go and catch them."
Ah Ling clapped her hands to indicate that she obeyed.
Not long after she left, Pei Daiqing said, "Something doesn't feel right."
He turned around and heard a deep voice beside him: "Open."
The golden words flashed by, and the tightly closed door was flung open with a bang.
Wei Ren, who was standing behind the door, was startled, but the golden spirit ignored him and went straight inside.
"Old man," Shen Tianxue cursed, flashing into the room. Just as Zi Ling arrived at Mei Liangyu's bedside, she waved her hand, and a long black scorpion tail shattered Zi Ling.
Shen Tianxue stopped and coldly glanced towards the door.
The candle went out as the cold wind blew into the room. Pei Daiqing, standing outside, raised his hands, a helpless expression on his face: "Ah Xue."
Pei Daiqing muttered to himself: Why do they all like to use me as a threat?
The first thing that caught Shen Tianxue's eye was the old woman's light blue floral headscarf. Looking at the simple and kind-hearted sage Lu Lan, she saw him making a hand seal with one hand, his bright red lips slightly parted: "Scorpion Sting".
The black scorpion tail wrapped around Pei Daiqing's neck rose high, its venomous stinger aimed directly at the serious-looking young man.
“Senior, threatening the Sage of the Farmer’s Clan with scorpion venom is a bit ridiculous, isn’t it?” Pei Daiqing said.
Lu Lan smiled without saying a word, urging the scorpion sting to move. Shen Tianxue shouted angrily, "You dare!"
"close."
A powerful voice echoed in the room, and the door slammed shut.
Realizing that Lu Lan wasn't the only one who had come, Pei Daiqing's expression changed slightly. As he looked up, the shadow that had been lying in wait on the ground sprang up and entangled Lu Lan.
A fierce wind howled inside the room, and Wei Ren was swept up by the gust and thrown a long distance away.
Shen Tianxue looked up and saw the famous sage Xuan Jing hanging upside down from the roof beam, his hands clasped together, his shiny yet black head looking somewhat eerie at this moment.
Their eyes met, and Xuan Jing spoke again: "Settle."
The flow of the five elements throughout the room instantly ceased, and Wei Ren's outstretched hand froze, unable to move.
Shen Tianxue's expression remained fixed on the moment she frowned.
In her eyes, Xuan Jing went from being upside down to landing upright, and walked towards the unconscious young man on the bed.
A golden glint flashed in Shen Tianxue's dark eyes, and Xuan Jing's mouth opened and closed in slow motion in her eyes: "Five, lines, reverse, turn."
The spirit of the word drew away all the five elements of energy surrounding Shen Tianxue.
Xuan Jing arrived in front of Mei Liangyu, and was about to make a move when Pei Daiqing kicked open the door. The sharp cry of the phoenix destroyed the "Ding" character inside the room.
The first thing Shen Tianxue did in her restoration operation was to twist Xuan Jing's head off.
"Hey." Xuan Jing, who was holding Mei Liangyu's neck from a distance, called out softly and looked at the two of them with a smile.
Pei Daiqing and Shen Tianxue stopped what they were doing. She asked suspiciously, "You want to kill him? He's very useful to Shui Zhou."
Shen Tianxue did not believe that Xuan Jing would really dare to kill Mei Liangyu.
Lu Lan and Xuan Jing sneaked over here, all for the Thousand Machine Heart within Mei Liangyu's body.
“Mei Liangyu doesn’t have much time left.” Lu Lan’s voice sounded somewhat ruthless. “We don’t have time to waste on him.”
Shen Tianxue glanced at Lu Lan behind her and said, "You've made the story of murder and robbery sound rather strange."
"Let me give you a piece of advice: don't get involved," Lu Lan said again.
Just as Shen Tianxue was about to curse, Pei Daiqing reached out and stopped her.
A faint, dark mist filled the room.
The familiar aura of a saint descended at this moment, and the five elements lingered in front of Mei Liangyu, watching him silently.
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