Chapter 22 Birds and Fish (10) “Huai Xu, you are like this…
Huai Xu appeared at the door, with an unprecedented cold look in his eyes. He no longer restrained his pressure, and overwhelming spiritual power surged over him, one to intimidate Chi Xingji, and the other to control the power that was constantly dissipating from Shao Yu's wings!
Lian Qiang was at the center of several forces and was inevitably affected. Just wanting to stand would require her to use up all her demonic energy. Chi Xingji noticed her embarrassment and protected her under the power of his sword.
"Qingji, do you want to go with them?" Huaixu's expression and tone softened unconsciously as he turned his gaze to Shaoyu. Shaoyu smiled at him and said, "Don't you know best whether I want to go or not?"
"Something seems to be wrong," Chi Xingji suddenly spoke while the two were confronting each other. "I didn't notice it just now, but it became apparent when Shao Yu moved. Her soul is not in its entirety... It's like someone forcibly separated it."
Lian Qiang took a closer look and found that it was indeed as he said.
"If we can find her fragmented soul, perhaps it will be of some help in breaking the impasse..." Chi Xingji thought with a frown. The relationship between Huai Xu and Shao Yu was complicated, but since Shao Yu had expressed her intention to leave, he was of course happy to lend her a helping hand!
Lian Qiang's mind moved. Could the incomplete thing be what she saw that day?
After receiving a satisfactory answer, Huai Xu also smiled. This smile was faint and looked a bit creepy: "But you can't leave. In this life, you can only stay and be my queen."
It was pointless to reason with him. Shao Yu looked at Chi Xingji and asked, "Does what the Immortal Lord said before still count?"
Chi Xingji stood between the two of them, his clothes still fluttering and his demeanor calm. He nodded solemnly: "It counts."
"Before I express my gratitude, I would like to ask you, Immortal Lord," the light on Shao Yu's wings grew brighter, "to help me destroy this palace!"
The Immortal Sword Cultivator nodded, turned to Lian Qiang behind him and said, "If necessary, you go first!"
Lian Qiang remained silent and motionless, and it was unclear whether she had listened or not. Seeing that the two had reached a consensus, Huai Xu was going to fight two of them alone, exerting even greater force. Chi Xingji had no time to care about Lian Qiang anymore, and turned around to face the Mermaid King's attack!
The tremors grew stronger, shaking the very earth! Lian Qiang could barely stand. She gritted her teeth and glanced at the three of them. Perhaps running away was the right thing for her now.
No matter what mission Lang assigned her, the best outcome was for her to escape unscathed... But when her eyes fell on the people involved in the battle, Lian Qiang couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
Although she was weak, Lian Qiang knew she couldn't escape alone and stand by and watch.
Whether it was a sense of pity for Shao Yu or the inability to ignore Chi Xingji's recent care for her, Lian Qiang had only one thought: to stay. With this in mind, she hid herself behind a large bunker and waited for the opportunity.
The battle situation was stalemate. Shao Yu wanted to break free from his restraints, but Huai Xu would not allow him to do so. However, he also had to divert his attention to protect the palace from being affected. Chi Xingji maneuvered in the situation, and although he could advance and retreat freely, he was also constrained.
"Immortal Lord..." Shao Yu, who had already broken free and was sweating, gritted his teeth and said, "I originally wanted to use this opportunity to escape, but I'm afraid it won't work. Now I am just a soul. The real me is here..."
Before she could finish her words, Huai Xu suddenly exerted force, and in an instant, the restriction erupted with astonishing power! Shao Yu actually fainted from the pain and collapsed on the ground!
With a flick of his tail, Huai Xu appeared behind her and picked her up carefully. But when he looked at Chi Xingji, his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
"You, you keep stopping me, damn it!"
Huai Xu had some reservations just now, but now that Shao Yu was unconscious, he could use all his strength to fight Chi Xingji. Chi Xingji knew this very well and let out a sigh of relief: "It is not up to the king to decide whether I live or die!"
"If you can fight with all your strength, I am not your opponent, but now you only have three or four points of strength left. Do you really think you are a big shot?" Huai Xu smiled contemptuously, and a look of complacency suddenly appeared on his face.
The two of them fought again! Lian Qiang, hiding in the dark, was extremely anxious. She clenched her hands, but could not think of a solution. Her sight fixed on one spot, and suddenly she saw a crack in the ground, with a little fluorescent light rising from it.
Down there… was there a light source, or something else? Lian Qiang, thinking back to what Yu had just left unsaid, suddenly had a bold guess.
——But it’s better to give it a try than to die!
This idea suddenly popped up in Lian Qiang's mind. She observed the fight between the two people. When they were no longer distracted, she used all her strength to mobilize her magic energy, flew to that place, and slapped it with one palm. If one palm didn't work, she would try again, twice, three times... Her hands were smashed until they were bloody and stained. After an unknown amount of time, the cracks exploded and the place collapsed in an instant!
Lian Qiang, who had no time to prepare herself, fell down unexpectedly. Chi Xingji heard the noise and turned around to see this thrilling scene: "Lian Qiang!"
But Lian Qiang could no longer hear anything. She fell to the ground in a mess. As expected, there was a hidden world below. Regardless of the pain in her body, Lian Qiang stood up quickly and looked around the underground palace hidden under the queen's bedroom.
The furnishings of this underground palace were far more exquisite than those of the queen's bedroom. Lian Qiang searched quickly, and finally her efforts paid off. At the end of her sight, she found Shao Yu, who was tied up with several chains.
She was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, her breathing steady from a distance. The fluorescent light I had seen earlier was constantly emanating from her.
Lian Qiang hurriedly limped over and called her, but to no avail. He pushed her again, but it was still useless.
"How could this be..." Lian Qiang murmured. The Shao Yu she had seen a few days ago was clearly still awake... Her gaze shifted to those strange chains, and she discovered that they were covered with spikes and ancient engravings.
She didn't quite understand the meaning of these engravings, but her intuition told her that Shao Yu's sleep was probably related to these chains.
Lian Qiang tried to inject demonic energy into her, but it was in vain. Deeply anxious, Lian Qiang no longer hesitated, grasping the chain with her bare hands, attempting to break it in the most direct way possible!
At the moment of contact, the sharp thorns pierced into her palm firmly, which made her injuries worse. It even absorbed her evil spirit crazily. Lian Qiang was in great pain, but she did not let go. There were actually some signs of loosening. She was overjoyed and continued to pull despite enduring the pain!
The wounds that were repeatedly cut were bleeding, dripping down drop by drop, almost staining them thoroughly!
"Let me...let go!" she shouted, and fortunately her efforts were effective, and the chains that were wrapped around Shao Yu like vines were finally untied!
Lian Qiang collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, hoping that everything would turn out well. Fortunately, Shao Yu slowly opened his eyes after a moment.
"...It's you," she blinked, looking down at Lian Qiang who was lying on the ground, "You really did it."
"Let's not talk about this for now..." Lian Qiang propped herself up and briefly explained what had happened upstairs. "You must be the real Shao Yu, right? Come up with me."
"...Okay." She sounded really sincere and anxious. This time, Shao Yu was no longer as unreasonable as he was when they first met. He nodded, then used his spiritual power to carry Lian Qiang back to the ground.
Chi Xingji was fighting Huai Xu fiercely, and had a slight advantage. When they saw Lian Qiang fall, but return with another one, they were both stunned.
Facing the aftermath of the fight between the two, Shao Yu seemed unaffected and walked towards them slowly.
"Qingji!" The closer she came, the more panicked Huaixu became, until he could no longer maintain his composure and shouted, but his anger could not stop anything. Shaoyu, who was underground, only glanced at her coldly and raised his palm towards the "Shaoyu" in his arms.
Huai Xu instinctively wanted to stop him: "No!"
With a light tap of her slender fingertips, a ball of white fluorescence flew up from between Shao Yu's eyebrows and flew steadily back into Shao Yu's hands. She clasped her hands together, and the light merged into her body.
And the other "Shao Yu" gradually turned into a pair of wings as the fluorescence left.
A pair of dazzling wings without an owner.
Ai Po returned, but Shao Yu still didn't manifest wings. Lian Qiang looked at the wings Huai Xu was holding, and an extremely bold yet reasonable explanation emerged in her mind.
Huaixu, who was betrayed by his lover, seemed to have lost all his strength. Chi Xingji took advantage of the situation and chased him. Huaixu was unable to block and spurted blood from his mouth. He fell to the ground, but he remained in the same position holding the thing in his arms.
Chi Xingji's sword was pointed directly at him, and Shao Yu would not let him do it again.
Everyone present understood that the outcome was already decided. If what Huai Xu had done were to become known to the world, he would surely have no choice but to die to atone for his sins.
Huai Xu himself knew that his situation was hopeless.
"Qingji, are you leaving?" Huaixu seemed to want to fight back and forced a smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
Under his gaze, the stunning girl walked up to him step by step.
"Open your eyes and see clearly. I am Shao Yu, not Qing Ji." Shao Yu did not answer him, but corrected his address. "The one who swore marriage vows to you was Qing Ji, whom you coerced, not Shao Yu of the Yu Clan."
"But Shaoyu is Qingji, and Qingji is Shaoyu," Huaixu said with a morbid obsession in his eyes. "Life after life, we've slept in the same tomb... Have you forgotten all this?"
From beginning to end, Shao Yu only looked at him with deep eyes: "Those words were said by Qingji under the control of the puppet silk. They never came from her heart. I will never love you."
"But I love you!" The usually calm and reserved Mermaid King revealed his ferocious yet truest side in front of his beloved. "I've done so much for you, why aren't you moved?"
"You love me?" Shao Yu approached him again, leaning forward slightly, and fiercely pinched his neck with a pair of slender white hands. "You love me, so you use my trust in you to pluck out my wings, wrap my love soul in puppet strings, and imprison me?"
She tried her best to keep her tone calm, but a sense of despair and helplessness could not be avoided.
Thinking of something, Shao Yu even raised the corners of his lips: "Huai Xu, is this how you love someone?"
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