Chapter 85: Killing
Mu Jiuhan seemed to have heard something ridiculous. "What? Of course it's impossible, Junior Sister. Let alone you, I haven't even seen him."
After listening to this, Shang Youqing looked towards the ancient temple on the top of the snow again. The wind and snow whistled past his ears, and the vague uneasiness in his heart from the previous second suddenly magnified. Shang Youqing stood up and was about to retreat.
Before she could take a step, Mu Jiuhan gently placed his hand on her back, his laughter almost touching her ear, "It's too late, little sister, look up at the sky."
Shang Youqing looked in the direction Mu Jiuhan pointed, and the sunset on the horizon behind the snow-capped mountains was swallowed up unnoticed. Instead, clouds were gathering towards the ancient temple, quickly forming an extreme vortex of lightning and thunder.
Because this mountain range is too far away from the area that humans can survey, and is located at the eye of the mountain range, the divine breath from Father Phoenix stretches for thousands of miles.
Originally, for Shang Youqing, this was the most suitable and safest place she could think of to survive the thunder tribulation.
But at this moment, she couldn't calm down at all when she thought of the slender figure of ice and snow that she had seen in the temple not long ago.
Mu Jiuhan said that it was impossible for her to know that person, but she felt that the sense of familiarity that instinctively overflowed from her could not be faked. She must have seen that person somewhere, and that sense of familiarity was not just the result of just a few encounters.
It was precisely because of such uncertainties that Shang Youqing's original plan was disrupted.
She wanted to leave here immediately, at least to find out the identity of the person in the ancient temple.
But now it's too late——
Just as Mu Jiuhan said, the thunder tribulation in the sky is brewing at this moment.
In other words, from now on, she has no way to escape. No matter where she escapes, the thunder tribulation will automatically track and lock onto her.
Mu Jiuhan obviously understood this as well, and finally let her go without worry. Amid the thunder that resounded through the mountains, he walked slowly around to her.
"Now that things have come to this, I'll tell you the truth, little Junior Sister. The person you just asked about has been a figure of the Heavenly Dao that cannot be spoken of for a long time. Do you want to guess why Master expelled me from the sect for the crime of betraying my master and ancestors?"
Shang Youqing stood there with his head bowed. "Because you were trying to wake him up at that time?"
"Yes, I became Master's disciple in order to find a way to awaken him." Mu Jiuhan narrowed his eyes and looked at the increasingly violent vortex of lightning in the clouds above his head, but his face was extremely calm. "Awakening him and reviving our clan, this is my mission."
“What a pity.”
"What--"
Mu Jiuhan had just turned his head in confusion when he was caught off guard by the flaming blade tempered by the Phoenix Fire in Shang Youqing's palm, which went straight through his shoulder and back, almost pinning his entire body to the rock wall behind him. Shang Youqing continued what he had just said, "I will never let you succeed."
Mu Jiuhan's face turned pale. He covered the place where the fire blade had pierced through him. Although he used his spiritual power to cover it in time, the burning pain was still too severe for him to move. He struggled to grab Shang Youqing's hand as she turned to leave, "Junior sister... listen to me, after the thunder tribulation is over... after we have completed this mission... I, I will take you back to Wutong Mountain... we..."
Shang Youqing shook his hand off fiercely and decisively, "You're dreaming."
Shang Youqing glanced at the vortex above his head that was about 70% to 80% formed, and knew that time was running out, so he once again formed the Phoenix Fire Formation and headed straight to the top of the snow mountain.
This time, she rushed into the ancient temple with a clear goal.
Whether this person was someone she knew or had met before was not important now.
Mu Jiuhan’s words just now, “The laws of nature cannot be expressed in words,” reminded her.
She had never known why the priest was sleeping here. She only knew that the priest left when she was young and ignorant, and he had never come back since then.
When I grew up, I learned the general idea from my master. The priest had to go down the mountain because of a secret order from the Heavenly Dao. Although he completed the order from the Heavenly Dao in the end, he fell into a deep sleep in the Kunlun Mountains and never woke up again.
It just so happened that the person Mu Jiuhan wanted to awaken was "the unspeakable way of heaven".
Then the fact is most likely that it was this person that was sent by Heaven to kill, and the priest may have paid a huge price in the battle with this person. Although he successfully killed this person and suppressed him in the ancient temple, the priest himself was forced to sleep there.
The priest would rather sacrifice himself and sleep forever in the Kunlun Mountains to kill and suppress the person. There is no need to think too much. He must be a harmful creature that will bring disaster to the world.
Therefore, she must do whatever it takes to strangle this man completely before the thunder strikes, and she must not let the priest's sacrifice be in vain!
Shang Youqing did not give the man a chance to fight back. He grabbed the man's back and turned him around, then stabbed the fire blade made of phoenix golden feathers in his hand accurately at his heart.
"Playing tricks! How shameless are you? You don't even dare to let me see your face?"
The moment the fire blade pierced the icy black clothes, Shang Youqing raised his eyes and looked into the icy eyes that seemed to have been frozen for tens of millions of years and were unfathomable. At the same time, he also saw the face clearly.
He was pinned to the spot throughout.
Watching coldly as she killed herself.
Shang Youqing felt as if something was breaking in his heart, and hot blood rolled down his throat with difficulty.
But there was no extra time left for Shang Youqing to think. What followed was that the entire ancient temple was violently split apart by the rolling thunder above his head.
The thunderstorm has arrived.
It struck straight towards the mountain where Shang Youqing was.
The icy silver threads were lifted by the wind and snow, brushing across Shang Youqing's face, as if caressing her cheek.
Shang Youqing stared at the face in front of him with bloodshot eyes. Not only did he not draw out the fire blade, he even pierced through the man's heart without any hesitation. Then, with a sharp scream, he switched back to his true form of a phoenix.
She covered the chicks wrapped in the barrier under the safest down on her belly, spread out her huge phoenix feathers, and was ready to withstand the thunder and lightning that struck Zhen, so that this person would not absorb even a trace of the thunder and lightning energy.
However, after a deafening thunder.
There was only endless swirling and dancing frost and snow around her, and the thunder tribulation... did not even fall on her, Fenghuang Zhen.
Shang Youqing turned around in disbelief and finally saw that on the other side of the ancient temple, which was at a higher altitude, He Cong was standing on the cliff wearing a Buddha amulet that contained her spiritual breath.
Because he was at an altitude closer to the thunder tribulation, and he deliberately released the spiritual energy of the Buddha amulet, so that when the thunder tribulation rushed towards her, he was able to stand in the way and block the thunder tribulation for her.
But Shang Youqing stared at the scene in a daze, without being moved at all.
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