Chapter 2761: Moonlight Like a Lamp, Tears Like Candles

In the past, the country strongest in Dao, the Great Flourishing Empire, known for its decisive strength that could cut through anything like a single blade, had its vital energy thoroughly injured after a year of continuous warfare with the Shepherd Country. Its prestige was greatly diminished.

No one mentioned the title of "second Dao sect" anymore.

Feeling the sharp edge of the Shepherd Country's iron cavalry made them deeply recognize the power of the Central Scenery Country.

Only then did they finally understand why a hegemonic country was a hegemonic country – it was invincible in the world.

Ji Yan Yue's secret visit to Flourishing this time was to carry out a mission, and her actions were extremely covert.

Responsible for receiving her was a strong figure who protected the Flourishing Country, a descendant of the Great Flourishing imperial family, honored as "Xun Wang" Li Yuan She.

This meant that, for the Flourishing Country, this was a top-level secret meeting.

Throughout the Flourishing Country, only three people knew about the details of this secret meeting: Xun Wang Li Yuan She, the Flourishing Tian Zi, and the Flourishing Empress Dowager. The importance of this meeting also didn't need to be elaborated.

Ji Yan Yue did not fly through the air. Although as a member of the Scenery Country's imperial clan, she had the qualification to fly through the central domain without needing to worry about any forces, the secrecy of this trip made her restrain all her aura. She sat upright in a carriage like an ordinary person.

This was a very ordinary carriage, and every detail inside made her uncomfortable.

Although it was said that a true person was not fixated on material things and didn't care much about worldly pleasures, there was also no need to suffer hardships in such an environment.

She hadn't gone through the Flourishing Country's arrangements; this was a convoy that Ji Yan Yue had randomly selected herself. The original owner of the carriage was currently curled up in a corner, already unconscious.

The reason for being so careful wasn't because she might encounter danger on the way. It was just that the principle of "several matters not secret then harm form" indeed didn't need anyone to teach her.

This trip was so crucial that they didn't send any Derive Dao strong figures to represent them. Instead, they sent her, who held no official position and was always seen as an idle true person, precisely to try and not attract attention.

For her, closed-door cultivation was originally a common matter. Seal the Dao field, and no one would know what she was doing. At best, she could also be considered the current Tian Zi's little aunt, and who would dare to deeply enter the mountain gate to pry into her privacy?

The destination of this sole convoy was Li Tian Fu, and the commodity being transported was wool. Li Tian Fu had the largest weaving office in Scenery Country, undertaking the largest share of the ready-made clothes business in Scenery Country. Furthermore, between Scenery Country and Flourishing Country, there were detailed trade regulations, and the cost of wool transported from Flourishing Country to Li Tian Fu was even lower than that from neighboring fu...

Ji Yan Yue didn't care about these things. She didn't need to understand the system that Lu Qiu Wen Yue was rectifying among the various Dao-aligned countries.

She just silently calculated how long she had been away from Flourishing Country and how much longer it would take to formally enter the Scenery Country's border. After entering Scenery Country's territory, she considered how she should return to the Dao field and which route would be appropriate... Matters like people's livelihoods were only for those with the qualifications to contend for high positions to care about.

For clan members like her, whose bloodline was already somewhat distant from the Tian Zi, their born goal was cultivation. Imperial power was the common interest of all imperial clan members, and self-held military force was the foundation for safeguarding imperial power.

The road was a bit bumpy, and the carriage bounced up and down. The expressway directly connecting Scenery Country and Flourishing Country was always inexplicably damaged and required major repairs every few months. Anyone with a clear eye knew why.

Just as Ji Yan Yue's secret talk with Li Yuan She represented the Great Scenery imperial family this time, it didn't mean that the interests of Scenery Country and Flourishing Country were completely consistent.

Scenery Country, the Scenery Country imperial family, Flourishing Country, the Flourishing Country imperial family... these were concepts that could be discussed separately.

Understanding this point, then one could understand the Dao-pulse countries.

Of course, the Dao gate could also be discussed separately, for example, the three Dao gate pulses, for example...

The carriage body suddenly jolted, and the wheels rolled over a piece of rubble. After rolling down, there was a fragile creaking sound.

Ji Yan Yue immediately noticed that the support axle of the carriage's right wheel was faintly cracked and at risk of falling apart... It seemed the carriage owner had bought a substandard vehicle.

Her thoughts moved slightly, and wood element gathered within her, naturally repairing the cracks. She had never thought that one day, she, Ji Yan Yue, would be repairing a carriage on the expressway—even if she had paid for the carriage.

But things were not that simple.

*Pa da.*

Before the wood element could reach it, the wheel collapsed first.

The high-speed carriage flipped on the spot!

It wasn't an accident, but there were also no traces of any superhuman power. It was purely with exquisite manual skills that the wheel was precisely made to fail at this time—this place was already far from Flourishing Country and still far from Scenery Country. The strongest force nearby was Green Cliff Academy.

Ji Yan Yue forcefully pulled her thoughts away from the considerations of national affairs and instantly saw through everything. She had no time to appreciate the waves of surging unexpected events and didn't plan to give any opportunities.

Magnificent light pursued the void and departed, vital energy circled like a dragon.

With her as the center, a magnificent world instantly formed.

She wasn't sitting on a carriage seat, but on a grand hall, a supreme throne.

She wasn't wearing an ordinary ru skirt, but imperial clan clothes, Great Scenery palace attire.

She didn't grasp a splendid terrace, but earth, wind, water, fire, the authority of ten thousand generations!

The entire convoy selling wool from Flourishing Country towards Scenery Country, from the merchant team leader to the pack animals, all fell into the hall.

Outside the hall door, a divine dragon passed over, pieces of golden scales like mountains, uneven and distant, its roar moving the nine heavens.

This was the world Ji Yan Yue had opened up, named!

The Ji surname imperial clan, high perch in the nine heavens. True destiny in Scenery, ten thousand nations all minister!

Where had the merchant team crowd seen such a scene? They were shocked and prostrated on the ground, kowtowing for mercy, incoherent.

"Come out," Ji Yan Yue said indifferently, perched high on the throne. "Hiding among ordinary people isn't heroic. Who is the person who wants to deal with this palace? Why not reveal your face and let me see?"

The people inside the merchant team chattered explanations, fundamentally not knowing what had happened. They didn't recognize who Ji Yan Yue was and didn't know why they had come to this place.

Ji Yan Yue bore heavy responsibility and had no time to waste. Hence, she lifted her hand and flipped it over, and the boundary's power pressed down into substance, mercilessly grinding, killing all of them in one go!

The entire merchant team, crowded inside the vast grand hall, had not even had time to digest the shock of suddenly entering the true destiny king realm before they had already forever lost the possibility of digesting emotions.

Pack animals were ground into paste, wool was wet into fluff, human corpses and beast corpses were indistinguishable, broken souls and remnant souls were unseen.

And Ji Yan Yue did not find the person lurking within the merchant team.

Could it be truly just an accident?

Ji Yan Yue suddenly lifted her eyes, her gaze already penetrating the grand hall's dome. Her body also flew out of the grand hall, plundering above the mountains where the divine dragon had swum over. Finally, in that burning bright moon, she saw a point of green light—

The green color spread at an astonishing speed, and curse power invaded madly!

The red flame bright moon hung high in the sky, and the divine dragon suppressed the six directions. She had operated this true destiny king realm for two hundred years.

Within this realm, she possessed absolute authority and had the confidence to face all enemies.

But where exactly did the changes occur?

She unexpectedly couldn't figure it out, nor could she perceive it.

At this moment, the red flame was unexpectedly dyed green, and it dropped bit by bit—the bright moon was like a lamp shedding candle tears!

She felt her own red flame bright moon give birth to a strong emotion of self-loathing, wanting to self-destruct in the sky and destroy this world. Those dropping dots of green flame were all the accumulation of the red flame bright moon over two hundred years! This emotion influenced the entire true destiny king realm, and more so, spread through this realm towards the realm master...

Think of it!

Amidst this vibrant green color, Ji Yan Yue thought of that person she had encountered during the change in You Country. That person had overturned the You Country court and released the immortal palace secret treasure Thousand Tribulations Eye, a man named Yin Guan.

At that time, Yin Guan had said a very long paragraph, and the last sentence was—"We will meet again. Believe that day will not be long in waiting, just perhaps six years."

Indeed, it wasn't long.

Confirming the opponent was a good thing!

At least it wasn't the worst outcome.

If Yin Guan had come for revenge and it had nothing to do with the important matters of this trip, then it would be even better.

If Yin Guan was employed by someone, bringing Hell No Door to carry out the assassination, that indicated the mastermind still had reservations. This crisis wasn't an absolute situation.

Ji Yan Yue's thoughts turned, and she immediately cut off the link with the red flame bright moon, imprisoning it to one side, not allowing that self-loathing, evil, strange curse power to spread.

She then flipped her palm and lifted a bronze palace lamp, her gaze picking up, about to light the lamp wick.

This lamp was named, and it was originally a decoration inside the palace when Scenery Tai Zu was in court. Refined with the country's momentum and mixed with dragon qi, it had repeatedly passed through court discussions and witnessed the world's winds and clouds, thus possessing the power to burn mountains and fill seas. It could not be activated by those without the Ji surname imperial clan bloodline.

Between the virtual and real, five-colored flames leaped up following her thoughts, stretching into the shape of a dragon in the air, chanting loudly, and instantly swallowing all the green flames in the sky, not letting the curse power wander.

Within the five-colored flames, a red color separated and leaped as a curved moon, hanging high in the sky. It re-burned the bright moon for this world and re-continued the sky lamp!

At this time, above the expressway, only a group of twisted blanks was virtually suspended. Ji Yan Yue's true destiny king realm was hidden within. The matter happened suddenly, and her first thought was still to hide her traces, hoping to solve the problem quietly and without a sound.

The entire merchant team had been rolled away by the true destiny king realm, so the expressway was empty. But at this moment, at the end of the road, two people rode horses, both covered in black robes, their faces masked, their names engraved: Wheel Turn and Tai Shan.

The two dismounted near the front.

Wheel Turn Wang took out a piece of red wooden board and erected it in the middle of the expressway. On the wooden board, a line of large characters was written in black Scenery script—

"Expressway array pattern under repair, please detour."

The fallback was "Central Array Master", also attached with sample Scenery Country inscriptions.

"Make it look more like a sample," Wheel Turn Wang said.

Tai Shan Wang also didn't speak, just half-squatted down, his palm sticking to the ground—the earth emitted a muffled roar, and the expressway cracked open just in front of the warning wooden board.

Looking at the deep gully before him, Wheel Turn Wang sighed: "Too much like a sample."

He lifted his hand and erased the characters "array pattern" on the wooden board, then turned and went with Tai Shan Wang towards the small world where Ji Yan Yue was concealed.

The merchant team carriage was naturally his handiwork, and indeed many mechanisms hadn't been activated in time—the organization's intelligence this time was too good. Although Ji Yan Yue had randomly chosen the merchant team, all the merchant teams within her choice range at that time had arrangements from the organization.

These were all just small tricks used by ordinary people. Cultivators accustomed to capturing Dao yuan fluctuations were often easily overlooked by these. Of course, they couldn't cause any harm, but they were enough to pry open subsequent reactions.

Killing people was a technical job. Hell No Door researched this every day.

At the other end of the road, Yan Luo Wang and Metropolis Wang, who had completed their corresponding tasks, were just coming.

Among them, Metropolis Wang was still placing array disks along the way, while Yan Luo Wang walked quickly to Ji Yan Yue's small world and probed his hand into the void, taking out a pair of pai jiu. However, he didn't push the cards but stacked them all up like a child building a city wall, blocking the front of the small world that manifested as twisted blanks.

At this point, this segment of the expressway, approximately ten li long, was under repair in the eyes of ordinary people, and in the perception of superhuman cultivators, it no longer existed.

After the four venerable Yan Luo met, Metropolis Wang lifted his index finger, squeezed out a drop of fingertip blood, and lightly flicked it... The drop of blood divided into hundreds of drops, lighting up all the array disks along the way.

At this time, exactly in the middle of the true destiny main realm, Ji Yan Yue cut off her link with the red flame bright moon.

Wheel Turn Wang had been looking left and right for a while, and then at this opportune moment, a strip of rune snake rushed out of his left eye. This snake was entirely composed of tiny runes, forming a circle in the air.

He seemed to bear a heavy ten thousand jun, and with difficulty, he probed out his hand, revealing this "circle" and exposing the black gloomy cave mouth behind it!

The cave mouth was still rapidly expanding.

Tai Shan Wang took a deep breath, stretched his hands flat, and lifted upwards—his muscles bulged, propping open his black robe, his qi and blood burned intensely, and blood mist exploded all over his body. With a low roar, he already lifted the entire ten li segment of the expressway!

Magically, that group of twisted blanks representing the true destiny king realm seemed connected to the expressway and also lifted along with it.

This ten li of expressway wasn't considered heavy; what was truly hard to bear its load was this piece of space, and even more so, the small world of a contemporary true person.

With the help of the other several venerable Yan Luo, the new Tai Shan Wang, in an almost life-risking posture, lifted these up. With another low roar, he threw it into the cave mouth, just like lifting a log or throwing a javelin!

Bloodlines dyed Wheel Turn Wang's eyes, and the black gloomy cave mouth instantly healed. The four venerable Yan Luo also disappeared. Nothing was left in the original place, even the traces self-destructed.

The Yan Luo now knew who the target was and also fully understood the danger of this trip.

But the profession of assassin earned money by selling their lives, so where did they have the qualification to dislike danger?

Now, the only way out was to kill Ji Yan Yue cleanly and thoroughly.

And the most dangerous thing, the most dangerous person, was in the doing—

Inside the true destiny king realm, Ji Yan Yue flipped out the Embrace Moon Palace Lamp, swallowed the green flame, and opened a new moon. This process was like a physician gouging out a sore, a painful measure that had to be endured. Except that after the old ailment, one would get a new life.

But simultaneously, as she flipped out the bronze palace lamp.

Those "meat pastes" inside the grand hall seemed to possess a common will, turning into a complex whole, suddenly "swimming" up, and constantly expanding!

This strange scene was temporarily unseen by anyone, but the "meat paste," emitting a corpse stench, had already concretely spread on the ground, climbed on the walls, smeared the courtyard...

These people and pack animals had just died, and they already had a corpse stench!

The corpses of the entire convoy of people and pack animals combined didn't seem to contain much flesh and blood, yet they rapidly covered this high, broad grand hall. They covered the golden magnificence, the dirty magnificent hall, making this majestic place fall into a filthy place!

They were unexpectedly all corpses, yet they acted like living people, able to deceive the eyes of a true person. What kind of divine ability was this?

A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood filled the grand hall. A blood-colored coffin slowly floated onto the throne.

At this time, Ji Yan Yue, who was high in the vault and burning the curse power with the Embrace Moon Palace Lamp, felt a trace of something wrong.

The wrongness she felt didn't come from that grand hall, but from a strong wish for self-destruction that suddenly arose from the depths of her heart!

She wanted to die!

She was weary of this ugly world, weary of this tired life, and wanted to die once, to die to be free!

Ji Yan Yue suddenly woke up. Her hand wrapped in five-colored flame light, she grabbed towards her own heart, grabbing out a constantly twisting, snake-like, green line!

How thick the curse power was; in her true person's eyes, this green line pulled thousands of threads, seemingly rooted in this Dao body.

At first, she thought that the curse power was invading her from the red flame bright moon, but now she suddenly realized that her body originally had curse power, had too much curse power—

That was Yin Guan's curse, uninterrupted day after day, night after night, for nearly six years!