Chapter 130: The Corpse in the Coffin, Bai Yifei’s Mother Rises from the Dead!
Xuanjian was beyond exasperated!
This wasn’t a matter of courage.
The Eight Linglong, parasitically within him, should have been under his control due to special circumstances!
But now, that control was failing!
More accurately, it wasn’t failing.
Li’s terror of Li Mo, having witnessed the fate of the previous seven spirits and recalling her own past encounter, overpowered Xuanjian’s control!
Hence, no matter how Xuanjian summoned, she wouldn’t come out!
Xuanjian had lost the augmentation of the Eight Linglong.
His power had plummeted from the Free and Unfettered Realm to the Ninth Rank.
Additionally, with his body already battered by Li Mo, he was now at his limit!
The mission from Luo Network had failed once again.
In other words, since facing Li Mo and Jing Ni, Luo Network’s missions against them had never succeeded!
“I mentioned earlier that you had forgotten something.”
Li Mo didn’t rush to kill Xuanjian, speaking calmly.
“Do you want to know what it is?”
A look of confusion flashed in Xuanjian’s terrified eyes.
“Forgotten… something?”
He tried to recall his life.
His life… it seemed like he didn’t have one!
“Have you realized it?”
Li Mo’s voice rang out again.
Those few words struck Xuanjian’s brain like an electric shock.
His head was wracked with excruciating pain.
Xuanjian fell to his knees in agony, clutching his head.
His eyes bulged, sweat pouring down his body like rain.
He yanked at his hair.
His face twisted in a demonic rage.
“What is it, what is it!”
“Ah!! I can’t remember, I can’t remember!”
“What did I forget!”
“What did I forget!”
Xuanjian howled in despair.
It felt as if countless long needles were piercing his brain and innumerable hands were tearing at his soul.
Li Mo sensed his agony, his consciousness scanning Xuanjian like a machine.
Suddenly, Li Mo’s brow furrowed slightly.
He discovered something unusual.
Looking down at the tormented Xuanjian, he softly said, “It’s very painful, isn’t it? This isn’t good.”
“Let me help you find peace.”
He reached out, lifting Xuanjian into the air effortlessly.
Xuanjian, seemingly at his breaking point, continued to clutch and tear at his hair.
Li Mo’s fingers curved into a claw, making a pulling motion.
With a squelch!
Xuanjian’s screams abruptly ceased!
A burst of blood exploded from his chest, and a small object, no larger than two inches, coated in blood, flew out from the wound.
Thud!
Li Mo pulled the object into his hand.
He casually threw Xuanjian to the ground!
“A soul… So that’s the reason.”
He gently rubbed the object in his hand, wiping away the blood, and a look of realization crossed his face as he murmured.
With a thunderous crash, the building ahead, already battered from the intense battle, began to collapse.
The interior was engulfed in flames.
With Jing Ni’s addition, Bai Yifei was finally being suppressed.
Yan Lingji displayed her full prowess, filling the entire building with fierce flames.
Luo Network’s assassins were annihilated by Jing Ni, and the few remaining Nightfall’s assassins struggled to hold on!
Bai Yifei lost his previous composure and calm.
He was battered, with several gruesome wounds covered in a layer of red ice.
The blood flow was temporarily stopped by freezing the wounds.
“Bai Yifei, I want you dead!”
Tianze’s face twisted with fury, the six chains clanking as they lashed out at Bai Yifei.
Bai Yifei squinted his eyes.
The wound near his eye impaired his vision, but not his skills.
His twin swords moved with lightning speed, slicing through Tianze’s chains.
With a series of clangs, the attack was neutralized.
“Useless! If it were just you, I could kill you with one hand!”
Bai Yifei’s sinister eyes were filled with contempt, not considering Tianze a threat!
But many ants can kill an elephant.
Especially these few tigers!
Particularly that tigress skilled in assassination!
Most of Bai Yifei’s wounds were inflicted by her!
Jing Ni was ruthless and silent, but every strike she made was effective.
Squelch!
Bai Yifei shattered the corpse summoned by the Shiji Jingling with a single slash and slipped towards the door.
He was already injured; if he continued fighting, even if he could take some of them down, he would undoubtedly die.
Such an exchange was not worth it!
He wasn’t going to make such a losing trade.
“This time I’m defeated, but don’t think you’ll leave Han alive.”
Bai Yifei smirked coldly, already planning his retreat.
He was guarding Hangu Pass, with an army of ten thousand.
With him there, passing through Hangu Pass was a dream for these people.
“Stop him!”
Ge Nie’s eyes flashed with cold light, realizing the gravity of the situation.
If Bai Yifei escaped and contacted Luo Network, the Qin Emperor would face threats from both fronts. Should he fail to return to Qin, Lu Buwei would become even more unrestrained, stopping at nothing to eliminate Ying Zheng.
Jing Ni launched herself forward.
The legs that had seemed so soft and powerless when carried by Li Mo now erupted with astonishing force.
She shot towards Bai Yifei like an arrow.
In a flash, they clashed.
Jing Ni aimed every strike at vital points, attacking relentlessly.
A flash of malice crossed Bai Yifei’s eyes. He parried Jing Ni’s sword with his right hand sword, then brought his left-hand sword around to stab at her.
Jing Ni frowned slightly.
Her wrist twisted, causing her sword to disengage from Bai Yifei’s right-hand sword and then pull back to block.
With a clink, her sword intercepted the attack, narrowly deflecting it.
Although she managed to block the strike, the cold and immense force carried by the sword pushed Jing Ni back.
Bai Yifei had no intention of continuing the fight.
Taking advantage of the moment before the others arrived, he focused on escaping.
He slashed through a wooden wall and dashed out.
Jing Ni was not about to let him go so easily.
She steadied herself and prepared to give chase.
Unexpectedly, Bai Yifei turned and unleashed two sword beams after bursting through the wall.
A thick ice wall instantly sealed the exit.
Tianze’s chains struck the ice wall with a series of thuds, leaving only white marks.
“So tough?” Tianze exclaimed in surprise.
The sturdiness of Bai Yifei’s ice wall was beyond expectations.
“We can’t let him get away!” Wei Zhuang and Ge Nie were not as stubborn as Tianze.
Each wielded their sword and created another exit nearby, giving chase.
However, this delay allowed Bai Yifei to widen the distance with his superior speed and skill.
A flash of urgency crossed Ge Nie’s eyes.
Even using the Hundred-Step Flying Sword technique might not suffice to stop Bai Yifei at this distance.
Suddenly, a swishing sound came from behind.
It was like a sharp object slicing through the air.
Immediately, a blue light pierced through the ice wall Bai Yifei had created, leaving an afterimage as it chased after him!
Without warning, Bai Yifei felt a chill up his spine.
A wave of deathly fear surged from within.
He spun around quickly.
A bamboo rod, no thicker than a finger, was streaking towards him!
Bai Yifei’s face twisted in shock!
He swung his twin swords like scissors to intercept it.
But the bamboo rod moved with unbelievable speed.
Before he could raise his swords, the rod had already slipped through the gap between them.
Squelch!
Bai Yifei felt a jolt through his entire being!
The bamboo rod lodged firmly in his heart!
“Ah!”
A piercing scream echoed through the night.
Bai Yifei spat out a mouthful of blood, muttering incoherently.
The already limited life force was rapidly burning away.
The blood mist sprayed into the air turned into ice shards, like a dense rain of arrows shooting towards the pursuers.
They swung their swords to block.
But the ice shards were exceptionally hard.
After blocking a few, their hands were already numb from the impact.
Bai Yifei used his last bit of life force for this final attack. Seeing that they were all held back, he clutched the bamboo rod piercing his heart and fled without looking back.
The dense, blood-red ice shards scattered in all directions, forcing everyone to fend them off, leaving no time to chase Bai Yifei.
Jing Ni suddenly felt her hand empty.
Her sword flew out of her grasp.
A flash of anger and surprise appeared on her cold, delicate face.
She turned her head and her expression softened.
It was her husband. No problem then!
Li Mo wielded Jing Ni’s sword, sending out several sword beams that shattered the ice shards.
Only then did they have time to look for Bai Yifei’s figure.
But the street was empty; except for them, Bai Yifei was nowhere to be seen.
“No need to chase. He won’t survive.”
Li Mo returned Jing Ni’s sword to her.
The bamboo rod had pierced through Bai Yifei’s heart. Even if he didn’t die immediately, he couldn’t possibly live long.
“How is the Qin Emperor?”
Ge Nie immediately asked about Ying Zheng’s safety.
He had only left because he trusted Li Mo’s presence there.
“Unharmed.”
Li Mo replied calmly.
He had dealt with Xuanjian, and Ying Zheng, who had performed a shadow play behind the screen, was safe.
The front building of Purple Orchid Xuan had completely collapsed.
Yan Lingji’s flames had set the ruins ablaze.
The roaring fire illuminated half of Xinzheng!
In the dark, a disheveled red figure staggered along, dragging a heavily injured body.
Every step Bai Yifei took brought a burst of sharp pain from his heart.
Li Mo’s bamboo rod not only pierced his heart but also caused cracks to form in it.
He could feel his life force rapidly draining away.
His inner strength was also gradually dissipating.
Without the support of inner strength, his evil cultivation began to backfire on his body.
Wrinkles appeared on his skin.
His whole state was deteriorating, aging rapidly.
With his last bit of willpower, he pressed on in a determined direction.
As long as he could get there, he might still have a chance to survive!
Soon.
A suspension bridge appeared before him.
Bai Yifei looked up, his now-cloudy eyes saw a grim and towering castle.
“Huff… huff…”
He panted heavily, each breath labored.
The light of hope in his eyes flickered like a candle in the wind.
He had made it!
Finally made it!
If he could get back here and wake that person from their slumber, that person would surely have a way to save him!
Thud! Clang~
Bai Yifei’s heavy footsteps clanked on the suspension bridge.
The chains on either side of the bridge clanged loudly.
He gripped the chains tightly to steady himself.
What used to be a few easy steps now seemed like an insurmountable chasm.
“To kill me… won’t be… that easy…”
Bai Yifei gritted his teeth stained with blood.
The smile at the corner of his mouth was grim and terrifying, eerie and sinister!
Every time he spoke, it tugged at the wound in his heart.
Tendrils of cold energy stubbornly tried to seal the blood oozing from his heart.
He relied on this method of stopping the bleeding to keep himself going until now.
“Mingzhu… Tianze… Wei Zhuang… Jin Nni… Liu Sha…”
Bai Yifei gritted his teeth, listing these names with each step.
“You all… will die without a burial place…”
He had crossed most of the suspension bridge.
Breathing heavily, he raised his head with difficulty.
The ominous castle loomed closer but grew more blurred in his vision.
Clang~ Clang~
The suspension bridge swayed between the cliffs, as if trying to throw him into the abyss below.
“I want you all… dead… to die without a burial place!”
Thud!
Bai Yifei took the last step off the bridge, finally crossing it.
But he collapsed heavily to the ground as if all his strength was exhausted.
“Heh heh, heh heh heh, I made it back, I still made it back!”
His bloodshot eyes fixed on the castle before him.
His face contorted into a crazed smile!
With nearly all his life force gone, his body could no longer support him.
Bai Yifei thrust his swords into the ground, using them as crutches to prop himself up.
“I made it back, I made it back!”
“I won’t die that easily!”
Seeing the castle just thirty yards away, he suddenly felt a surge of strength, moving quickly with the support of his swords.
“I won’t die, I won’t die!”
“Save me! Save me!”
Hope filled Bai Yifei’s eyes, the castle’s tightly closed gates only ten yards away!
He crawled faster and faster, getting closer to the castle.
Finally, his blood-stained hands touched the castle gates!
“Save me! Save me!”
He repeated like a prayer.
Just as he was about to push the door open, his whole body suddenly stiffened!
His pupils dilated instantly.
His knees slowly bent, and his hands slid weakly from the door, leaving a long trail of blood!
After this last burst of energy, his remaining life force dissipated.
Bai Yifei slumped to the ground, his resentful gaze fixed on the closed gates.
His pale lips whispered one final call.
“Save me, save me~”
“Mother~”
“Save me…”
His life force vanished, and the frost sealing his heart’s wound began to melt.
Blood trickled down the bamboo rod.
Soon, the ground beneath Bai Yifei’s body was stained red.
The blood seeped into the soft soil.
Below the ground lay a vast, dark cave.
It was filled with a dense aura of death.
This place seemed forbidden to life; no living thing could survive here.
A large crimson coffin, as if soaked in blood, lay quietly in the center.
Intricate and complex runes covered the entire coffin.
The blood seeped through the soil and gathered at the top of the cave.
It coalesced into a single blood droplet, which slowly fell.
Plop!
The droplet landed precisely on the coffin below.
Like a blooming flower of death!
The cave fell silent again.
Time passed—perhaps just a moment, or maybe several hours.
The blood on the coffin disappeared in the blink of an eye!
After another moment of silence.
The coffin lid made a creaking sound.
It seemed like something inside was pushing it.
Boom!
Suddenly, the coffin lid was flung off with a loud bang!
The scene inside the coffin was revealed.
A cold, lifeless female corpse lay quietly within.
The corpse appeared young, around twenty-four or twenty-five, with exquisite features.
Her pale skin had an eerie whiteness to it.
Her hair was neatly styled, and she wore a blood-red robe that wrapped around her slender body.
Her hands were folded over her abdomen, and she looked peaceful.
Suddenly!
Her eyes snapped open!
Her cold gaze flashed with a crimson light!
Bats around the castle flapped their wings in panic and scattered in all directions!
