Chapter 1409: Desperate Soul Descent and Realm Transmission Gods and Demons Command the Blooming of the Other Shore Flower

Such a scene...

The word "miserable" truly falls short of describing it!

Kong Jiang Hong had completely abandoned all defense, knowing that in the presence of a Sheng Di, any hesitation with the sword might mean he would never dare to strike again.

Ignoring the severe wounds on its body, it swung its sword repeatedly, slashing and blasting Bei Huai's remnant soul into fragments.

Bei Huai's remnant soul, after the unexpected first strike, was weakened to the point where even defense was nearly impossible.

Yet, as a Sheng Di, his will could not be extinguished.

Even as the remnant soul turned to powder, it still harbored immense resentment, controlling the San Po Ding to pierce nearly every part of Kong Jiang Hong's body.

"Heaven above!"

"This... this..."

Such a sight fell upon the eyes of the few cultivators in Qilin Jie and Zhongyuan Jie who had mastered the path of divine souls, evoking sheer terror.

It also deeply imprinted itself in the gaze of the Zhi Jue Ju Shi, shocking to the core.

"Ah Hong..."

Countless times, Xu Xiaoshou wanted to recall the blood-soaked Ah Hong back into his soul space; it pained him to watch!

A Ban Sheng against a Sheng Di was indeed too much of a stretch.

If things continued like this, even if Bei Huai's remnant soul was ultimately destroyed, Ah Hong would never survive.

Not even Sheng medicine could save it.

Xu Xiaoshou's original intention was not this—he had adopted a do-or-die stance when both sides were at their limits, aiming to make the clever Bei Huai realize that he still had fighting power and thus back down.

People are inherently selfish.

Ah Hong was very important to him.

In Bei Huai's eyes, it was probably just a weakened Ban Sheng soul.

How could such a noble Sheng Di choose mutual destruction with what he saw as mere ants?

Who would have thought that after taking one sword strike, this guy would be provoked into a fury, adopting an attitude of preferring jade to be shattered rather than tile intact?

"Why go this far?"

Xu Xiaoshou couldn't believe that a Sheng Di like Bei Huai had left no way out for himself. At the very least, he could abandon his divine soul and escape with a single thought.

But now that the battle had reached this stalemate, with both sides on the verge of mutual ruin, Xu Xiaoshou felt a pang of reluctance.

"Come back!"

He issued the command.

"Roar—"

Kong Jiang Hong continued to strike with one sword after another, even entertaining thoughts of defiance.

It could see clearly that if it couldn't stop this Sheng Di's remnant soul today, the San Po Ding that could pierce even its armor would easily obliterate its master's fragile soul.

"Protected, passive value, 1."

Xu Xiaoshou's eyes grew blurry, his eyelids heavy... He was about to close them!

How could he not know that withdrawing this great shield, Ah Hong, might put his own life at risk?

Yet, in his view, the red character contract was about mutual protection, not one-sided sacrifice.

"By ancestral command, return!"

When he issued the order again as the heir of Tian Zu,

"Roar!!!"

Ah Hong let out a reluctant roar of fury, its body covered in wounds, transforming into a streak of light that returned to Xu Xiaoshou's soul space.

Medicine...

Xu Xiaoshou hurriedly took out the soul-healing Sheng medicine he had prepared in advance, pulling up three or four stalks at once and feeding them all to the nearly dissipating Ah Hong.

At that moment, a mocking voice echoed from the void:

"Xu Xiaoshou, you're still too young."

"Mercy has no place in command; in this, you're not ruthless enough to yourself or to others."

"And that's the root of your failure!"

Bei Huai's remnant soul was reduced to dregs, yet it still projected its intent through sound, echoing across the nine heavens.

He had bet correctly.

Xu Xiaoshou, with his do-or-die approach, couldn't match his own resolve to fight to the death!

As the words fell, the divine soul crystals scattered across the heavens burst into a chilling flame, squeezing out the last bit of power.

In desperation...

He would counterattack!

He would drag someone down with him!

"Soul sacrifice..."

At that instant, Xu Xiaoshou's mind trembled.

Bei Huai's remnant soul's emotions fluctuated wildly, unmasked—clearly intent on mutual destruction, even at the cost of sacrificing its final will.

What a ruthless one!

Xu Xiaoshou detested such opponents.

Yet, he couldn't help but sincerely evaluate that this was a man even more ruthless than himself, and the most qualified adversary.

Facing such a person, you had to fight to the death to ever defeat him.

The thought had barely formed...

"Old big, don't!"

A panicked voice came immediately.

With their minds linked, it fully understood what the main body intended at that moment.

"You'll overdraw yourself and die!"

"And if you die, I'll die too!"

In the Si Xiang Secret Realm.

Yu Zhi Wen Xing Tong saw the wounded Sheng Di remnant soul ignite, and Xu Xiaoshou recall the giant spirit, sensing something was amiss in her heart.

This didn't look like retreating—it seemed more like both sides launching their final strikes.

And Xu Xiaoshou was even weakened to the point where his reaction was a beat slower!

"He's going to be in trouble..."

This was pure intuition!

Yu Zhi Wen glanced around instinctively.

Without thinking, she tapped her toe on the void, gripping the star disc as she tried to escape the Si Xiang Secret Realm.

In her hand, she also held a blood vial from Grandpa Yu.

Sheng blood, for her, could not only summon a sacred image but also stimulate her bloodline power, reverting to her true form.

But at the same time, the Tian Zu combat channel in her ear transmitted the calm voice of Dao Dianzhu:

"The time has come."

"Everyone, prepare in place!"

Yu Zhi Wen's pupils contracted, her feet feeling as if filled with lead, impossibly heavy.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence, just simultaneous...

Yet, she also felt that in this instant, Dao Dianzhu stood before her, extending a hand called "restraint."

"Bang."

Yu Zhi Wen shattered the void with one foot, darting toward the sky hole of the Si Xiang Secret Realm.

A choice?

She had already made it!

"Buzz."

The star disc in her hand lit up.

Yu Zhi Wen flew out, feeling as if she had traversed the passage of the Si Xiang Secret Realm to the outside world, soon to join the battlefield.

But when she lifted her gaze, she realized she was still in the same spot, still in the Zhuque Pulse!

"This..."

In her ear came Dao Qiong Cang's serious voice:

"All personnel, remain in place. Any defiance will be met with death."

"San Tian Hun Zhuang!"

Above Zhongyuan Jie, Bei Huai's remnant soul had completely burned itself, plunging into absolute madness.

Just moments ago, he received a vague will from the white-clothed, barefooted Bei Huai—teleport!

The Tan Shen could be abandoned.

Xu Xiaoshou's divine soul must be transferred into the Bei Huang Realm!

In his current state, how could he execute any spirit techniques, let alone transport Xu Xiaoshou's divine soul?

To bring this person back...

Ah Qi realized he was ultimately just a fragment of Bei Huai, not Bei Huai himself.

He couldn't refuse his original's command.

His only choice was to sacrifice his soul, like the Sheng Di Qilin, to gain a fleeting peak of power.

Then, abandon himself, face death without rebirth, but complete the task of the white-clothed, barefooted Bei Huai.

"Xu! Xiao! Shou!"

The void echoed with a shrill, resentful cry.

Ah Qi's intent, now fully boiling, was unrestrained!

—If even death meant nothing, what was there left to hide?

But at the very same moment...

Not just him, but everyone in the world below saw the Zhi Jue Ju Shi move a finger, as if something appeared, yet didn't.

"What is this?"

Ah Qi was stunned.

It felt familiar, something he must have seen before.

A scepter?

"Old big!!"

Jin Ren sensed the Zhi Jue Ju Shi gripping the Shi Zu Shadow Staff again, and his scalp tingled.

In such a weakened state, daring to use the Shi Zu Shadow Staff?

This thing was essentially the "Death Scepter"!

On Kong Xuan Island, it relied on Sheng Di power and the Four God Pillars to control many Ban Sheng and even the Wang Ze Sheng Di.

In the Si Xiang Secret Realm, it depended on Tian Zu and Long Zu's power to turn the tide twice before Bei Huai.

But now...

Nothing at all!

He had opened the Ren Dao, the Zhi Jue Ju Shi, the Ling Min Yi Ke...

The main body could be said to have nothing left.

Using the Shi Zu Shadow Staff now might mean not just fainting for a day or three.

A year, three years? Or even dying on the spot—wasn't impossible!

"Sheng Ming Dao Pan can't save you either."

"Tian Ren He Yi isn't all-powerful... Old big!"

Jin Ren shouted desperately.

But he was ultimately just a fragment of Xu Xiaoshou and couldn't defy the main body's decision.

"You decided?"

"I did."

"Even if you don't die, you'll be targeted by the Sheng Di, and a Sheng Di..."

"I understand. I know the Sheng Di families better than you do."

At the edge of Qilin Jie, in a barren wasteland, the ground was cracked and dry, filled with the lingering aura of post-battle desolation, without a trace of life.

Two figures stood at the cliff's edge—one tall, one slender—facing the biting cold wind and gazing into the distant void at the Zhi Jue Ju Shi.

One wore an orange robe, a hood, and an orange mask, with not a blade of grass underfoot.

The other wore a black robe, hood down, revealing three thousand strands of waist-length silver hair swaying in the wind; she held a black faceless mask tightly in her hand.

The remnant soul ignited.

The giant held the staff.

The two robed figures fell silent in the harsh wind.

"You should know, this old one won't act; it's not the time yet..." The orange-robed figure sighed, "I can't, and I won't, just to trade for a wisp of remnant soul."

The slender black-robed figure showed no ripple in her expression, but her dual pupils spun rapidly, sparking a black and white mist like electricity.

She leaped forward without hesitation.

On the cliff's edge, black and white Manzhua flowers bloomed in full, defying death with their vibrant allure.

"No matter, I'll handle it."

"I'm already alone in this world."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The azure sky darkened, and people in Qilin Jie and Zhongyuan Jie suddenly heard three thunderous booms.

To their horror, they saw a sweep of Sheng Di divine soul power divide the heavens into three layers.

The lower layer was called Zhuo.

The middle layer was called Jing.

The upper layer was called Qing.

Between the three layers, a single passage was constructed, leading to an unknown destination.

No need to ponder how; just the appearance of these San Tian exerted immense power, forcing all in the two realms to kneel.

"What is this?"

All the cultivators below were terrified.

It was already gone! Even the remnant soul was erased!

Yet, it could suddenly erupt with such force, altering the heavens of the two realms and creating this phenomenon... Was this the power of a Sheng Di?

"San Tian Hun Zhuang, Zhuo Jing Song Qing!"

Bei Huai's remnant soul was extinguished, and now, even his final wisp of will was burning.

He had recognized what the Zhi Jue Ju Shi held.

It was the Shi Zu Shadow Staff, which had appeared twice before and been forgotten by him, from that damned Kong Yu Hen!

But there was no time to consider that.

His only hope now was that Xu Xiaoshou was too depleted to activate the Shi Zu Shadow Staff.

Even if he could, it wouldn't break the teleportation power of the heavens he had constructed with his everything!

"So... strong..."

The Zhi Jue Ju Shi gripped the Shi Zu Shadow Staff tightly, unable to stop Bei Huai's soul sacrifice, and was awestruck by the colossal power that bridged the heavens and worlds.

Learning from past mistakes.

Xu Xiaoshou no longer dared to read Bei Huai's soul.

Who knew if this massive commotion was just a facade for another trap?

He could only hold the Shi Zu Shadow Staff and pin his hopes on time, planning to use later strikes to turn the tables once more.

But Xu Xiaoshou knew.

After using the Shi Zu Shadow Staff this time, his life would be all but spent.

"Ba Zun An..."

"Is this... not the limit yet..."

Xu Xiaoshou was too exhausted to complain.

He resolved that even as a ghost, he wouldn't let that old eight off; he'd rise from the dead to rip out his other eight fingers.

Just then, an incongruous message popped up.

"Cursed, passive value, 1, 1, 1, 1..."

This message, mixed among the various "9999" of "Observed" and "Feared," was glaringly obvious.

Xu Xiaoshou hadn't time to ponder what it meant.

In his ear came a cool voice with a hint of allure:

"Xu Xiaoshou, I'm here."

Following that, a voice full of grievance and gritted teeth:

"Xu Xiaoshou, are you out of your mind? Why didn't you run? Aren't you the best at hiding?"

"How dare you fight him alone? You've fallen so low, now relying on your junior sister to save you..."

"You're so weak!!!"

Beneath the San Tian's devastating might, the people prostrating in the world below lifted their heads and were shocked to see a reckless black figure in the void.

The howling winds outlined her lithe form.

Beneath the fluttering silver hair, a glance back revealed two mesmerizing black and white hues.

"Sizzle! Sizzle!"

From Lei Xi Er's left eye, white mist surged wildly, forming hands of spiritual guardianship that shielded against the Sheng Di's pressure.

From her right eye, demonic energy rampaged, condensing into dark, ancient evil trees that madly invaded the sky's teleportation portal, twisting and deformingoas they were forcibly pulled.

"What is this..."

The cultivators below were completely baffled.

From their perspective, the suddenly appearing black-robed, silver-haired woman had forcefully inserted herself between the San Tian Hun Zhuang array and the Zhi Jue Ju Shi.

Just as everyone marveled at her recklessness, black and white Manzhua flowers bloomed at her feet.

One half was divinely pure, nurtured by hands of guardianship.

The other half was demonically evil, twisted from the Chong Mo ancient trees.

"What... who is she?"

"No! How is that possible? Her aura is clearly only at... Wang Zuo?"

"The power of divinity and demonism—oh heavens, what have I seen? These dual-colored Manzhua flowers, these eyes, this... this is..."

Some were shocked by the woman's low realm, daring to enter the battlefield alone.

Others were astounded by the immense power of the exotic Manzhua flowers, clearly drawing from legendary ancestral sources to withstand the Sheng Di's oppression.

Some elders from the central domain suddenly teared up, murmuring silently:

"Lei brother, your descendant... has come out..."

"Little junior sister!"

Xu Xiaoshou stared in astonishment.

He never imagined that the strongest reinforcement Ba Zun An mentioned would be Lei Xi Er!

"No..."

He instinctively wanted to stop her.

After all, even Bei Huai's remaining wisp of will was no ordinary foe.

Just look at how Kong Jiang Hong had nearly been destroyed.

But then...

Xu Xiaoshou suddenly realized.

Lei Xi Er was no ordinary person!

In terms of extraordinariness, she even surpassed him.

He had needed to go through Kong Xuan Island, empty the Shen Nong Medicine Garden, and gain various fortunes to obtain Tian Zu and Long Zu's power.

Lei Xi Er, with her Shen Mo Tong, inherently possessed two ancestral sources: the ultimate and opposing forces of divinity and demonism, and she could harmonize them herself.

The Zhi Jue Ju Shi's eyes lit up at once, and he swiftly put away the Shi Zu Shadow Staff—this most draining item could be spared.

Xu Xiaoshou believed in his little junior sister.

Just as she had silently joined the battlefield and chosen to fight with her back to the river.

No reminders from each other.

No coordination between them.

Beneath the San Tian Hun Zhuang, Lei Xi Er's voice and the Zhi Jue Ju Shi's voice overlapped:

"Shen Mo Ji..."

"Sword technique with a name..."

Thank you to Hui Qing Quan Liu for the ten thousand reward to Xiao Yu—this is from book friend Xiao Yu, so I won't have Xiao Yu come out to thank Xiao Yu.

Thank you to Pater for the ten thousand reward to Mu Zi Xi; the Mu Zi Xi character has evolved from a sixth-tier star to a fifth-tier star, and Lei Xi Er also nods in thanks.

Thank you to book friend 20220730110451863, and thank you to Bei An Qing for the ten thousand reward.

But yesterday, with the typhoon causing a big stir, I got caught up in it too, and no deliveries were available. Today, I almost had nothing to eat, surviving on several packs of instant noodles, and now my stomach hurts from hunger as I write. I need to go get some nutrition; I probably can't add an extra chapter today.

The future is long; in September, I want to be a diligent apple.

If I can't... uh, everyone just forget that last sentence, ahaha... (awkward apple laugh)