Chapter 1531: I Repay Affection with Ruthlessness

Ora, Huang Jinmo mused, her gaze fixed upon the short-haired maiden seated upon the ground, seeing her as a potential breach, a means to regain the upper hand in the fray against Tie Tuisu and rescue Zhu Weiwo. Yet, she had forgotten that the letter from the Grandmaster of the Mohist School had expressly named Xi Xiangyi to accompany the True Man Tie to Bu Shu City!

Why was Tie Tuisu, the Grandmaster's companion in this letter, placed on equal footing with Xi Xiangyi?

Because this prodigious maiden of the Mohist School commanded the might of a True Man realm!

One who wields the power of the True Man realm, even if their own cultivation be far short, can still be regarded as a True Man.

Throughout the realm, the Mohist School held the power of external objects in the highest regard and esteem.

Thus, despite this matter being of such grave importance, personally decreed by the Grandmaster himself, Xi Xiangyi leisurely entered the city first, experimented with her latest creation, and only thereafter slowly perused the Grandmaster's secret missive.

That Tie Tuisu accompanied her in her dalliances was certainly due to a measure of indulgence, but to possess such autonomy before the Grandmaster's command, and moreover, for this letter to be in Xi Xiangyi's hands… this itself was a testament to her consequence!

At this very moment, Huang Jinmo's Seal descended.

Xi Xiangyi directly summoned forth a True Man level puppet to confront it.

That fleeting phantom, swift as lightning in its movements, solidified in an instant.

It was a brawny giant, a full ten feet tall, with eyes covered in colored paints, a crimson face, and bared fangs.

His upper body was naked, his countenance ferocious, yet he exuded an air of imposing rectitude.

He seemed part god, part demon.

As malevolent energy surged, a crimson treasure light also flowed about his form.

From outward appearance, this body was no different from a human's, but within, the roar was not of surging blood and qi, but of high-speed rotating gears!

Click, click, click, click, click.

As if embodying the very principles of Heaven and Earth's operation, a manifestation of primordial rules.

It is said that between Heaven and Earth, there exist spirits and demons.

Spirits and demons punish evil and promote good!

Mortals should know them, revere them, and fear them.

Thus constrained, they shall not commit wicked deeds.

Therefore, they are called Ming Gui (Enlightened Spirits)!

Spirits and demons in this world incapable of punishing evil and promoting good, the Mohist School shall eradicate. Spirits and demons that do not exist yet can punish evil and promote good, the Mohist School shall establish.

The longest enduring dynasty in the present age lasted but three thousand nine hundred and twenty years.

Yet the history of an ancient sect like the Mohist School spans several grand eras!

This True Man puppet, called Ming Gui, having solidified its form, immediately soared upward.

All the primal energy was gathered by it.

The sound of its clenched fist was as if it had crushed a celestial thunderbolt in its palm. The muscles on its arms were pushed to their limits in an instant by thousands of precise components.

Expansion, enlargement, eruption.

A single punch!

With this one punch, it struck towards Huang Jinmo, descending from the high heavens.

With unmatched might, it met the legendary Shanhai Canon Divine Seal.

The air shattered, space shattered!

The Seal fell, the fist arrived.

A hundred and eight illusory scenes, born and extinguished, collapsed and scattered before this unparalleled force.

Huang Jinmo unleashed power at the level of traversing the Divine Arrival realm, yet what met her repeatedly was the genuine power of the True Man realm.

Her form was sent flying backwards infinitely, leaving Bu Shu City in an instant, reduced to a mere black speck in the distant sky.

Smashed by a single punch into the high heavens!

A True Man of this era, renowned for his "Heavenly Craftsmanship." A True Man level puppet, a treasure forged by the Divine Awakening Plan. Such battle strength, displayed thus, was enough to dominate the smaller nations. Coming to this mere Bu Shu City, how could there be any reason for it not to crush all in its path?

It was truly despair-inducing!

Xi Xiangyi, her face adorned with painted oil, looked up at the distant black speck, her tone a mix of admiration and mockery: "Old man Tie, it seems you alone will have difficulty apprehending her."

Tie Tuisu did not deny it, sighing, "It is not without reason that the Grandmaster commanded me to come with you. I did not imagine there could be such a Divine Arrival in this world!"

But having said this, he paused.

Looking at the Grandmaster's command again at this moment, one would realize it itself demonstrated the Grandmaster's understanding of Huang Jinmo. Otherwise, to capture a mere Divine Arrival, why deploy two True Man level combatants?

He perceived an unusual significance within, and also felt the Grandmaster's resolve.

However, he said nothing more.

For a prodigy of the Mohist School at the Divine Arrival realm to perish in Bu Shu City, apprehending two suspected culprits for interrogation was indeed a most normal course of action.

If their freedom was not first restricted, what would happen if, by the time the evidence was conclusive, the suspects had all fled?

Xi Xiangyi wrinkled her nose, her point of contention completely askew: "It was I who brought you, alright! The letter was sent to me first, I entered the city first, and I even set up a formation!"

"Yes, yes, yes," Tie Tuisu indulged her greatly, repeatedly agreeing.

But after his benevolent smile faded, he immediately soared upwards in return!

"This old man is now very eager to see if this legendary divine ability truly has a limit!"

The black speck in the high dome descended, while the Heavenly Craftsmanship True Man of the Mohist School ascended.

Ming Gui floated silently above Xi Xiangyi, not participating in this clash.

But as the clicking sound of mechanisms resounded, dark, arcane iron chains abruptly emerged from the void, encircling the entire sky above Bu Shu City, forming a lockdown.

Figure met figure in the high heavens.

Tie Tuisu once again closed in on Huang Jinmo.

This time, he held nothing back, facing this ancient and rarely seen Divine Arrival with the demeanor of confronting a true adversary!

His hands were surprisingly calm, like those of an ordinary elder stretching his limbs, lightly sweeping his horizontal palms before him. It gave the impression that a slightly larger movement would break his aged bones.

The fierce collision and life-and-death struggle within all occurred at the level of rules.

Those insufficient in strength and realm could not even perceive it.

Huang Jinmo was first caught off guard, enduring a punch from the True Man level puppet Ming Gui, her Shanhai Canon Divine Seal directly shattered, and she was sent flying into the high dome.

Only just having stabilized her form and flown back, she encountered Tie Tuisu charging in return.

Tie Tuisu had seized the moment with exquisite precision, exactly when her power was just surging but not yet reaching its peak, having completely discerned the flow of her energy.

This time, she didn't even have time to unfold her hand seals. The Shanhai Canon Divine Seal was still in the process of forming when her fingers spread apart.

Tie Tuisu's palm blade lightly brushed past her neck.

Like a startled bird grazing a willow branch.

That beautiful, aloof figure was directly erased.

Huang Jinmo was instantly shattered in all her rule-based structures, decomposed into a state akin to the primal energy of Heaven and Earth.

A single hand chop passed, and Heaven and Earth were empty!

Tie Tuisu simply watched this expanse of Heaven and Earth, observing for any trace of the so-called Phoenix Nirvana... could it still exist?

A very short period was stretched infinitely long in the world of True Perception.

But even such a lengthy process could not reveal the truth.

Presently.

A spark of flame was born.

The crimson flame expanded into a fireball, within which was outlined a black flame, and within the black flame, Huang Jinmo's form materialized once more.

And as soon as she resurrected, she spread her hands wide—

A world blooms in a flower, three hundred and sixty-five seals superimposed, the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal!

Life and death, illusion and extinction, all turn to naught.

Spring flowers and autumn moons, withered seas and angry reefs.

The endless world of life and death.

Power capable of harming a True Man was thus unleashed without reservation.

Pressing down on Tie Tuisu in the high heavens!

At this moment, Tie Tuisu held nothing back.

His ten fingers were splayed wide, all hooking onto threads of Heavenly Craftsmanship, and with a gentle flick on the level of rules, he lifted up a dark, murky axe.

It was as if fishing for the moon in water, yet this dark, murky axe truly existed.

Its name was Gui Fu (Ghost Axe).

It is said that with the Ghost Axe and Divine Craftsmanship, it is not within human capacity to achieve such feats.

This axe, manipulated by the threads of Heavenly Craftsmanship, turned its blade to meet the incoming force, from bottom to top, and with a light chop—

The illusory scenes of the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal's world, born and extinguished, were all shattered!

But before this, Huang Jinmo had already collapsed her body and died once more.

Heavenly Craftsmanship guided the Ghost Axe, continuing its advance, yet finding nothing.

All the fierce battles of moments ago seemed to be mere illusions.

Those illusory scenes of the world, born and extinguished, seemed never to have existed.

Only Tie Tuisu, and his Ghost Axe, existed in the air.

There was a sense of inexplicable solitude.

But not long after, crimson flames were born once again.

Within the crimson flames, black flames were outlined.

Huang Jinmo stepped out from within the black flames once more, without the slightest hesitation, still holding nothing back, superimposing three hundred and sixty-five seals, and once again brought down the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal.

Directly at Tie Tuisu!

It was as if she had resolved, at all costs, to slay Tie Tuisu here!

Fixing her gaze solely upon him, engaging in battle only with him—

Using her own undying life!

Tie Tuisu spared no True Man realm power, mobilizing the Ghost Axe to cleave again.

Huang Jinmo died again.

Huang Jinmo was reborn again.

Huang Jinmo again brought down the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal with three hundred and sixty-five seals superimposed.

The Ghost Axe cleaved again!

Huang Jinmo died again.

Huang Jinmo was reborn again.

Huang Jinmo again brought down the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal with three hundred and sixty-five seals superimposed.

This repeated for a full nine times.

Tie Tuisu's Ghost Axe finally failed to shatter Huang Jinmo's Shanhai Canon Divine Seal, and was instead pressed down!

Huang Jinmo died once more!

Huang Jinmo was reborn once more!

Could it be that she would never truly die, that her divine ability had no limit?!

Even if a peak divine ability like Phoenix Nirvana could be used infinitely, wouldn't the pain of repeatedly dying, constantly accumulating, be enough to shake her resolve?

Huang Jinmo's answer was still the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal with three hundred and sixty-five seals superimposed!

Xi Xiangyi watched this scene in the sky from afar, observing the cycles of death and rebirth, her face long since devoid of smiles.

She looked at this cold and solitary woman, feeling a stubborn power.

Huang Jinmo's face held not a single expression.

The emotions in her phoenix eyes were terrifyingly calm.

Even with the protection of the True Man level puppet Ming Gui, even with the arcane chains locking down the surroundings, Xi Xiangyi instinctively felt a chill, her neck involuntarily recoiling, her heart tightening.

Though she was a peerless genius of the Mohist School, rarely seen in a thousand years, capable of maintaining True Man realm puppets at a young age, she had experienced almost no life-and-death situations firsthand, and her will was slightly lacking. For a moment, her mind was indeed awed.

With Ming Gui before her, she would not suffer damage to her mind, but the shadow in her heart was difficult to erase for a time.

And Tie Tuisu in the air finally began to retreat, began to descend.

He wanted to test the limit of the peak divine ability Phoenix Nirvana, but it seemed he had first touched his own limit.

After all, each of Huang Jinmo's attacks required the use of True Man realm power to resist.

After all, he had already used killing moves like "Ghost Axe"!

This consumption was incredibly real.

"Have Ming Gui assist me in sealing!" he finally said.

"Okay... okay." Xi Xiangyi recovered from a state of unspeakable trance.

When it came to the mission itself, she still displayed the qualities of a genius.

The True Man realm puppet that had been hovering for a long time immediately soared upwards.

The arcane chains surrounding the sky above Bu Shu City began to resonate.

However, at this very moment, Huang Jinmo, through constant death and rebirth, and constant deployment of the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal, had already forced the Heavenly Craftsmanship True Man back a great distance, and finally approached the wooden cocoon suspended in the air—

The wooden cocoon trapping Zhu Weiwo.

After this rebirth, she once again unleashed the Shanhai Canon Divine Seal with all her might superimposed.

Tie Tuisu almost instinctively retreated, while Huang Jinmo retracted her hand seals, having already approached that wooden cocoon, her hand, beautiful beyond description, pressed against the cocoon.

At that moment, it was as gentle as if she were touching Zhu Weiwo's face.

Zhu Weiwo within the wooden cocoon seemed to sense Huang Jinmo's proximity, as if he too was struggling desperately. The entire wooden cocoon vibrated slightly, yet he was unable to break it, he was ultimately powerless!

Huang Jinmo pushed hard!

The entire wooden cocoon spun downwards at a terrifying speed, colliding with the Prison Tower, directly smashing into the Prison Tower, from the top floor all the way to the bottom, smashing into the ground, smashing into a void!

This scene happened too quickly, and too resolutely, leaving people completely unable to react.

And Huang Jinmo seemed to have lost all her strength in this push.

Her entire body weakly leaned back... and fell.

Although under Huang Weizhen's methods back then, and with the legendary peak divine ability Phoenix Nirvana, any power below the True Monarch could never truly kill her.

But she had indeed reached a certain limit.

The limit of her mental and willpower.

To some extent, she had gained the ability of eternal life and death, but she also forever lost the possibility of breaking through the Divine Arrival realm.

To battle a True Man with the Divine Arrival realm, dying and resurrecting again and again...

She had reached her limit long ago!

She was merely bitterly holding on, holding on for this one opportunity to let Zhu Weiwo escape.

At this moment, Ming Gui finally soared upwards, holding an arcane chain and swinging it.

It had already bound Huang Jinmo tightly.

Binding her body and restraining her soul so easily...反而叫戏相宜生出一种不敢相信的情绪来。Instead, it made Xi Xiangyi feel a sense of disbelief.

The Heavenly Craftsmanship True Man immediately stepped into the Prison Tower, but found it empty, felt nothing.

"The aura has vanished," he said, his tone complex.

He then looked back at Huang Jinmo, tightly bound by Ming Gui and already fallen into a deep slumber.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter," he sighed.

For the extensive enterprise of the Mohist School.

The life or death of a Divine Arrival realm cultivator, whether friend or foe, was indeed not very important.

He vaguely felt that everything that had happened today was very important, faintly feeling that perhaps more caution and consideration were needed.

But in the grand game of chess that is the world, once a piece is moved, there is no regret.

"Return and report?" Xi Xiangyi still had some unspeakable emotions that had not dissipated.

Tie Tuisu looked at her and said, "Let's go back."

The True Man realm puppet Ming Gui held the bound Huang Jinmo in one hand and lifted the short-haired maiden onto its shoulder with the other, preparing to depart.

Xi Xiangyi looked at the sleeping Huang Jinmo beside her, and finally soared into the air, flying to Tie Tuisu's side.

She mumbled, "Old man Tie, take me."

Tie Tuisu said nothing, stretched out his hand and retrieved the two Phoenix Wing Blades from the ground, took Xi Xiangyi's hand, and flew away.

The True Puppet Ming Gui followed closely behind.

Tie Tuisu roared in Bu Shu City, demanding accountability and vowing to capture Huang Jinmo, his voice shaking the entire city and echoing throughout the land.

The entire Bu Shu City was suppressed into silence.

Only Huang Jinmo and Zhu Weiwo fought side by side.

Despite the efforts of both sides to restrain the範圍, the intense aftermath of the battle still shook for dozens of miles.

And in the wilderness outside the city, Jiang Wang naturally sensed it as well.

He had already returned at the first possible moment.

This was the second time he had left the city, and the second time he had returned to the city.

But even though he disregarded his injuries and flew back against the tide of people, he could no longer even see the back of the Mohist True Man.

This battle, though spoken of slowly, was in fact so fast that many people couldn't even see clearly, and many couldn't even understand the sounds of the commotion!

What Jiang Wang saw was only the empty Bu Shu City, the destroyed Prison Tower, a person who had fainted at the corner of the street... and on the long street, a broken half of a spear,斜插入地, sticking diagonally into the ground.

This spear was named Xin Jin (Heart's Embers).

He had once borrowed it to go to Wangjiang City, and with a single sword, blocked the gate.