The black field of bi'anhua flowers swayed gently in the wind.
Within the jieyu, almost no one could escape the influence of this overwhelming demonic energy, not even the master of the jieyu himself—Yi.
"Shenmo Tong?"
Yi stared at the dense blackness before him, finally realizing what was happening.
The appearance of the bi'anhua might be due to the life force feedback from the Zhisheng Motu.
But the divine power and demonic power at play couldn't possibly come from a mere holy body, even if the "Zhisheng Motu" had the word "demon" in it.
"Zhisheng Motu..."
"Tears..."
"So, Rao Yaoyao's guess and Xiao Xiaoxiao's prediction have both come true?!"
Yi could hardly believe it. The situation had spiraled directly into the worst-case scenario, with no room for negotiation.
He looked at the jieyu that now enveloped everything and knew that with his domain in place, outsiders couldn't observe what was happening inside, even through the Yunjing World.
The best option right now was to shut down the jieyu.
But...
Xuan Wuji had already seized control of the Tianji World, and even if Rao Yaoyao had noticed something amiss and was trying her best to fix it...
No one knew better than Yi how skilled Xuan Wuji was in tianji techniques. There wasn't enough time to wait, even if he closed the jieyu.
People outside would probably just be left confused, still unaware of what was truly going on here.
Besides, there was more than one wangzuo in this place—Xuan Wuji had his own jieyu too.
If he gave up his territorial advantage, the rampant demonic energy would likely just fall under someone else's control.
Most importantly...
"I still can't transmit what's happening here to the outside!" Yi's heart sank deeply.
The remnants of the Lei family had emerged.
The holy slave Xu Xiaoshou had appeared.
And Xuan Wuji, who had escaped from Void Island, was standing right here.
In other words, most of the key figures involved in the tense situation in East Heaven King City were now right in front of him.
And when they discussed things, they didn't bother hiding it from him at all.
What did that mean?
"They all want to silence me!"
Yi suddenly laughed.
He decided not to bother tending to his wounds.
The lingering power of the sword intent wasn't something he could erase quickly anyway.
Yi turned his gaze to Lei Xier, who had suddenly transformed from a girl into a woman, his eyes narrowing.
"Xu Xiaoshou, Xuan Wuji..."
"In the end, they're just key players for now. Even if I can't take them down right away, Rao Yaoyao has preparations in place."
"But the Lei family remnants and the Shenmo Tong must not survive this night!"
Yi made his decision immediately.
Lei Xier was a variable that was far too significant.
Significant enough to unearth that tragedy from over a decade ago and stir up bloodshed across the continent once more.
Why did someone who should have died long ago cling so desperately to this world?
Yi glanced at his own body, the other half still unconnected.
He gritted his teeth and split his body completely in two!
"Lei Xier?"
Xu Xiaoshou stared blankly at the familiar yet strange woman in front of him, still in a state of confusion. "What about Mu Zixi?"
"Let go of me first..."
Lei Xier's eyes dropped to Xu Xiaoshou's hand still wrapped around her waist.
Xu Xiaoshou released her as if shocked, but in that instant, he felt like he had lost something.
His eyes were once again filled with demonic energy, turning black and red, and he roared uncontrollably, "I'm asking about Mu Zixi?!"
"What's with the outburst?" Lei Xier wrinkled her nose, momentarily showing a hint of Mu Zixi's playful manner, but soon her expression turned cold again. "She's asleep."
"Asleep?" Xu Xiaoshou gripped her shoulders tightly in anxiety. "When will she wake up?"
Lei Xier couldn't break free from Xu Xiaoshou's hold, and she didn't even try. She just said calmly, "Don't get worked up. She's just hurt and is sleeping for now..."
"Then why are you here!" Xu Xiaoshou glared, interrupting her on the spot.
In his past life, he had ended his days alone in a hospital room.
In this life, he had finally made friends and found family.
But one by one, they were slipping away, and even his closest junior sister had changed like this after her ordeal.
Xu Xiaoshou hated it.
Mu Zixi had changed so much—taller, with a more developed figure, her face not much different and her voice almost the same.
But her tone, her emotions—they were no longer the junior sister he knew.
Lei Xier fell silent.
She could sense Xu Xiaoshou's emotional shifts and knew he was completely dominated by the demonic energy of the Shenmo Tong.
He had lost the cleverness his junior sister admired most and had become just an ordinary person.
"What do you think?"
Lei Xier seemed to inherit Mu Zixi's straightforward way of speaking, without any beating around the bush. She said flatly, "She was waiting for you until the very end."
Xu Xiaoshou froze, his lips trembling uncontrollably, his eyes turning red. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I should have come sooner..."
"No need to apologize." Lei Xier shook her head. "My appearance was just a matter of time. You didn't do anything wrong—you've done more than enough."
She glanced sideways at Xuan Wuji.
Xuan Wuji instantly felt a chill, realizing he had probably made a catastrophic mistake.
Xu Xiaoshou didn't care about any of that anymore. He tightened his grip and asked urgently, "So, what do I need to do to make you go back, to let Mu Zixi come out?"
He realized his question might sound rude and opened his mouth to explain, but in the end, said nothing.
Because no matter how he phrased it, that was his true intent.
Lei Xier's face paled slightly, a flash of pain crossing it.
She looked down at Xu Xiaoshou's hands.
Xu Xiaoshou quickly let go.
Lei Xier then said, "I am Lei Xier, and I am also Mu Zixi. She is me, and I am her—there's no real separation."
"It's just that when I was asleep, she resisted my existence."
"I can feel all her emotions, but she—or rather, that part of 'me'—doesn't want to accept my past, which led to this."
Lei Xier smiled faintly, her expression softening like melting snow. "You should understand."
How could Xu Xiaoshou not understand?
He just couldn't accept it.
Just as Mu Zixi couldn't accept that she might be nothing more than a product born from Lei Xier's self-protection mechanism after her injury.
Xu Xiaoshou couldn't accept that his junior sister, after this ordeal, had "returned" to this state.
The demonic energy in his eyes flared up, and his voice turned cold. "What if you disappeared?"
Lei Xier was stunned.
She never expected that even after explaining it so clearly, Xu Xiaoshou would still be so extreme.
But when she turned and saw the raging demonic energy in the young man's eyes...
Lei Xier understood.
"You're being too extreme." She spoke softly, and the Shenmo Tong began to turn.
"Urgh!" Xu Xiaoshou grunted in pain as the overwhelming demonic energy he had just absorbed was pulled back uncontrollably into the Shenmo Tong.
"Watch out—"
Just then, Xuan Wuji roared suddenly.
Before any of them could react, the jieyu force enveloped them, teleporting Lei Xier and Xu Xiaoshou directly in front of Yi.
Xuan Wuji tried to rush in and make amends, but the jieyu belonged to Yi, and in that moment of initiative, Xuan Wuji was frozen in space, unable to move.
"Hahaha..."
Yi's avatar, Sang Lao, laughed menacingly. He raised his hand, and fierce white flames blazed upon it.
"What a touching scene!"
"But you shouldn't have shown up. Dying at your master's hand might be your only fate."
Yi had originally planned to kill the Lei family remnant first.
But with the two of them so close together, one hand could pierce them both.
Why not drag the holy slave Xu Xiaoshou down with her?
Emotionally speaking, his desire to kill Xu Xiaoshou was even stronger than killing Lei Xier!
"Urgh... urgh..." Xu Xiaoshou groaned in agony.
He "sensed" everything happening, even knew what was coming next, but the Shenmo Tong was still turning.
Its powerful control was fully demonstrated just by drawing in the demonic energy—Xu Xiaoshou couldn't even turn to defend himself.
Lei Xier realized something was wrong.
In this environment, she couldn't help Xu Xiaoshou, because Yi was watching them like a hawk, with killing intent directed at everyone.
She instantly stopped the Shenmo Tong from drawing in the demonic energy.
But it was too late...
Even after stopping, Xu Xiaoshou couldn't regain his mobility right away.
"He's a wangzuo body—his physical form is extremely sharp, and his flesh has shockwave properties. It's not something an ordinary person can match..."
Lei Xier was clear-headed and rational, analyzing everything in a flash.
Yi was attacking from behind Xu Xiaoshou. To pierce them both with one hand, he had to break through Xu Xiaoshou's defenses first.
Lei Xier knew Xu Xiaoshou's defenses were strong and not easily breached.
Theoretically, her own body might not withstand a single strike from Taixu, but Xu Xiaoshou's could.
But reason was one thing—instinct was another...
Lei Xier found her hands moving subconsciously, wrapping around Xu Xiaoshou's waist.
Then, massive black vines shot out from nowhere and swung.
She couldn't budge Xu Xiaoshou's body at all, but she managed to swing herself behind him using the momentum...
Splat!
A pair of charred hands tore through her back like paper, emerging from her chest without any resistance, then plunged deep into Xu Xiaoshou's chest, gripping his heart!
Cough...
Lei Xier spat out a mouthful of blood, spraying it across Xu Xiaoshou's face.
She stood there, stunned.
With her spiritual sense, she saw that Yi's avatar, Sang Lao, was enveloped in surging white flames. Those charred hands that had skewered them both...
Wuxiu·Chijiao Hand?
How did he know that?
"Xu Xiaoshou! I'm coming to save you!"
Xuan Wuji finally broke free from the jieyu's restraints. The moment he saw the charred hands pierce Xu Xiaoshou's chest, his blood ran cold.
His fingers moved, summoning tianji patterns.
"Seal!"
Xuan Wuji pointed, and starlight sealed the moon, spreading over Yi's head and completely halting his motion to crush the heart.
Thump... thump...
Thump... thump...
The heart was gripped tight.
Chaos erupted outside in an instant.
But in Xu Xiaoshou's world, there was only the dark void of black bi'anhua flowers and everything slowed to a halt.
In the void,
Suddenly, beyond the torrent of demonic energy, Lei Xier's face appeared—beautiful yet tragic, stained with blood after taking the blow for him.
"Mu Zixi..."
Xu Xiaoshou's face trembled, murmuring in a daze.
His mind was filled with scenes of corpses and blood seas ravaged by demonic energy. He couldn't think clearly, yet tears fell uncontrollably.
The next second,
In his Zifu spiritual platform, the last thread of clarity was finally extinguished!
Xu Xiaoshou's gaze passed over Lei Xier and landed on the familiar face of Sang Lao behind her...
It was Yi!
Xu Xiaoshou didn't understand.
He had already suppressed the primal madness in his mind for Mu Zixi's sake once.
But why...
Why did this old man...
Always interfere!
Always disrupt!
Always refuse to learn?!
As these thoughts flashed, Xu Xiaoshou's reason was completely destroyed...
This was the enemy!
A ferocious, sinister, smirking face—the one he most wanted to kill!
"You're... seeking... death—"
Xu Xiaoshou roared in fury, his voice deep and abyss-like, turning hoarse and unrecognizable.
Golden light points burst from his body.
Explosion form!
Boom!
Under Xuan Wuji's control, Yi was blasted away on the spot.
But even in his frenzied state, with eyes black and red like a mad demon, when Xu Xiaoshou looked at the pale face before him, a trace of clarity returned to his eyes.
He had long learned to control his violent beast intent under Xin Gugu's training.
Gently, he helped Lei Xier up and laid her on the ground.
Then he crouched down, reached out, and stroked her head, channeling life energy while whispering in her ear.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
"It's okay, I've got this..."
Lei Xier was stunned, her Shenmo Tong staring blankly at the young man, her mind flashing with images of what Mu Zixi had always hoped to see.
"No."
She bit her lip and shook her head gently, knowing what Xu Xiaoshou was about to do and trying to stop him.
Xu Xiaoshou smirked, trying to make a kind but grotesque smile.
Then,
He stepped forward.
His eyes widened in rage.
"Roar—"
A beastly roar that seemed to shatter the sky flipped the entire field of black bi'anhua flowers, obliterating all rules and reason.
Amid the swaying petals,
Brilliant golden light shot into the sky.
The violent giant appeared!
"Roar roar roar—"
The roars rampaged through heaven and earth as the demonic energy in Xu Xiaoshou's body merged with his mad beast intent, igniting all his killing desires in an instant.
Sizzle.
The golden violent giant blackened bit by bit, turning into a state of madness.
Yet, under this overwhelming killing intent, the black violent giant didn't move.
Instead, he raised his hands high toward the sky.
Buzz!
Four swords were summoned, humming excitedly as they flew into the giant's right hand—it had waited for this moment for so long.
Whoosh!
From the Yuanfu, the Yan Python stirred and entered the giant's left hand for the first time, joining the real battle.
At this point, Yi and Xuan Wuji were utterly stunned.
They stared at the towering black violent giant, never imagining that this former grandmaster junior could, after transforming, exude such a devastating aura that dominated everything.
But it wasn't over yet!
After gripping the dual swords, the black violent giant bent his knees and shot into the air with a boom.
Then, golden light points exploded wildly amid the thunderous roars, pushing out waves of energy layer by layer.
Amid it all,
Whoosh whoosh—
White flames ignited on the black violent giant's body.
Ding ling ling, ding ling ling...
At his feet, with the sound of chimes, a massive ice lotus bloomed, as if it could support the entire world.
Feeling the swords were too small in his hands,
The giant clenched suddenly.
Buzz!
Buzz!
The dual swords responded, expanding rapidly to match his enormous size, becoming massive suspended blades.
As the giant swung the swords downward with a rumble, the white flames and ice lotus power manifested as dazzling ice-blue and scorching-white wings on his back.
Complete form!
The dual-winged black demon violent giant!
The end.
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