Chapter 322 All Hope Turns to Ashes
Blood gushed uncontrollably from her tightly pursed lips, forming shocking streaks that flowed down her pale jaw and fell silently.
Each drop, like a heavy destiny, crashes violently into the silence, echoing with a breathtaking reverberation.
Those two beautiful eyes were unfocused and vacant... yet they stubbornly remained fixed on her direction.
Her eyes reflected the shattered sunlight, her panicked face, and a kind of almost stubborn tenderness.
It was as if even if their souls were shattered and everything turned to ashes, the last thing they wanted to remember was her appearance.
The light was fading away little by little, like a candle flickering in the wind, its glow uncertain.
Jiang Xianwan's vision was completely swallowed up by a hideous crimson color.
Heaven and earth were silent, all things lost their color, only that scarlet hue burned through the eyes like karmic fire.
She trembled violently, the trembling not coming from outside her body, but bursting forth from the deepest part of her soul.
Like the last withered leaf on a branch in late autumn, it is torn and crushed in the gale, and can no longer be pieced back together into a complete shape.
But she couldn't move, couldn't make a sound, and could only watch helplessly...
She couldn't protect them!
It was her again... causing those beautiful Bai Zhi and Han Shuang to die before her very eyes once more!
The destruction did not stop there, nor did it give her a chance.
When the system's first plan failed, it acted decisively and forcibly took control of the Demon Emperor and Feng Lianying's minds once again.
That familiar, suffocating, and violent aura returned in the blink of an eye, filling the world as if a nightmare were recurring.
Before the fleeing cultivators could catch their breath, their hearts suddenly leaped into their throats.
Jiang Xianwan felt a sharp impact pierce through her mind and crash into the depths of her soul.
A sharp pain exploded, like a thousand blades tearing at her soul. Her vision went black, and her knuckles trembled so badly she could barely hold the sword.
Feng Lianying and the Demon Emperor self-destructed in the blink of an eye, but she still had to desperately resist the system that kept crashing into her, trying to invade and bind her consciousness.
The next moment, a resolute and fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and his body suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light!
At this critical moment, he forcibly broke through his realm, triggering the ascension tribulation lightning!
boom--
A sound.
The sky suddenly tore open, and a torrent of lightning, like a giant dragon, poured down, instantly engulfing her figure.
Before the tribulation lightning even arrived, the overwhelming power of heaven had already forced all living beings to prostrate themselves, and the mountains and rivers fell silent!
The system emitted a distorted shriek as the divine consciousness it was trying to bind was violently pierced and torn apart by this sudden power of the Heavenly Dao.
It never expected that the World Emperor would dare to draw lightning and burn himself despite being severely injured in the soul and with two powerful figures self-destructing!
Amidst the interplay of golden light and thunder, Jiang Xianwan's long hair danced wildly, her clothes ripped apart, and every inch of her skin seemed to be burning in the flames of calamity.
But her back was straight, like a lone peak facing a raging torrent, her eyes filled with only the resolute determination to burn everything to ashes.
Either they will be reborn in Nirvana during a tribulation of lightning.
Either drag this lurking evil thing down with you... and annihilate it completely!
Under the devastating impact of the two self-destructing bolts, Jiang Xianwan completely disregarded the tribulation lightning striking him from above and frantically poured all his spiritual power into them.
A massive barrier suddenly rose up, like an inverted sky curtain abruptly falling, transforming into an indestructible wall of light that forcefully isolated all cultivators from the Three Realms and Three Domains!
The bow and the sword trembled incessantly, supporting the twins' bodies, emitting increasingly mournful hums.
The sound was unlike that of ordinary metal; it seemed to contain endless sorrow and resentment, sharply piercing the stagnant air around it.
Although Feng Lianying has lost his three tails and his strength has been greatly reduced, if we add a Demon Emperor who has just entered the Tribulation Transcending stage.
The combined power of the two was forcibly compressed into a barrier by Jiang Xianwan with his overwhelming cultivation. Its destructive power was enough to destroy the entire Void Ancient Realm!
boom--
Two devastating self-destructive forces collided and erupted within the light barrier, and a thunderous roar, like a giant dragon collapsing, crushed her spiritual power with overwhelming force.
The barrier shattered instantly, and the violent shockwaves spread wildly in all directions.
However, more than half of the destructive energy was forcibly blocked and eliminated within the barrier, and less than half of it eventually escaped!
boom--
Another sound.
The tribulation lightning struck precisely on time, causing the entire Void Ancient Realm to tremble violently, mountains and rivers to shift, and the world to the brink of collapse.
However, it was only aimed at Jiang Xianwan.
Just as the lightning struck, the Calamity Bow and the Marked Sword lying to the side suddenly emitted a mournful cry.
Remembering their twins' final entrustment, they forcibly suppressed their instinct to stay with their owners, endured near-self-destructive pain, and gently but resolutely pushed their sleeping twins downwards.
It immediately and without hesitation charged headlong into the devastating lightning bolt, forcibly tearing it apart and splitting it!
The price of withstanding the heavenly tribulation became immediately apparent.
Two heart-wrenching cries rang out, and the Divine Bow and the Marked Sword shattered, their spiritual light breaking apart. Like broken-winged birds, they fell silently from the heavens, never to be heard again.
The three kings of the realm cried out in heart-wrenching sobs, like beasts on the verge of death.
Jiang Xianwan's vision gradually blurred, waves of excruciating pain tearing at her soul surged through her, and her eyelashes, unable to bear the strain, condensed into tiny, glistening tears.
With her last ounce of strength, she held the twins tightly in her arms, as if embracing them into her very bones.
The two boys in her arms were as clean as fresh snow after a rain, but now their eyes were closed and their long eyelashes no longer trembled.
His face was so pale it was almost transparent, except for the suffocatingly bright red on his cheek.
There was no more sound, no more "sister".
She ultimately failed to say a proper goodbye to them... and even failed to hear their final words.
The world is silent, and all thoughts have turned to ashes.
She could only hold them like this, using her flesh and blood as a final barrier to withstand the descending lightning.
But he didn't know... whether he had truly protected their last remaining, faint, flickering souls.
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Jiang Xianwan has fallen into a strange and silent world.
Above the sky, the sun and moon shine simultaneously, their light intertwining yet cold and silent.
She lay motionless on the mirror, sunlight and moonlight flowing silently over her fingertips and the hem of her clothes.
The boy in black scrambled and nearly fell to his knees beside her, clutching her cold fingers in utter terror, pressing his trembling hands tightly against his cheeks.
He tried to warm himself with his body heat to dispel the chill, and a choked sob escaped his throat.
"Wanwan."
"Wanwan..."
Jiang Xianwan's eyes were empty and lifeless, like a shell from which the soul had been ripped out.
Amidst this heart-wrenching cry, she suddenly and very slowly and stiffly tilted her head to one side.
Looking through that cold, crystal-clear mirror lake, one can see a gigantic celestial clam resting below.
The clam shell was tightly closed, shimmering with light, and its body was filled with the glow of immortal power.
Little by little, it illuminated her empty, lifeless pupils.
She staggered and propped herself up on one side, plunging headfirst into the lake's mirror-like surface. In that instant, collapse and despair transformed into a cold, clear-headed clarity.
He gripped the edge of the clam shell tightly with both hands, and with all his might, he suddenly flipped it open!
Tears streamed down my face!
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