Above the lotus dais, the cyan fire flickered.
Su Xiao's palm passed straight through it. His arm remained in the heart of the flame, yet he felt no burning sensation whatsoever.
It just floated there quietly.
As if it didn't exist in this space.
Visible, but untouchable.
Su Xiao was stunned.
He withdrew his hand and tried again.
Once again, it passed right through.
"What exactly is going on?!" The system looked at the untouchable fire lotus, completely dumbfounded.
This... this shouldn't be happening.
According to the fragments it intercepted from the Heavenly Dao, there clearly should be a fire here!!!
And it was indeed here.
Why?
Why on earth was this happening?
"Heh..."
Just then, Medusa, who was fighting with the crowd, let out a cold laugh and glanced coldly at Su Xiao. "Since I set up this trap in advance, how could I possibly place the genuine Cyan Lotus Heavenly Fire here for you to easily obtain? Do you take this Queen for a fool?"
"This fire is nothing but a projection relying on a formation."
"Its aura, its appearance—everything is identical to the real Cyan Lotus Heavenly Fire, all just to lure you here."
"How is that possible!"
Wu Tianxing's eyes widened as he let out an exclamation of shock.
"Strange fires are born of heaven and nurtured by earth. If forcibly moved, they will inevitably trigger a backlash. How could it possibly leave its birthplace?"
"Just because you say it's impossible makes it impossible? There are many things you don't know." Medusa sneered. This was also a method she learned from that little booklet.
Wu Tianxing's face turned livid, but he couldn't say anything.
Because the truth was right before their eyes.
They had all been played by this woman.
"Senior Brother..." Looking at Su Xiao, who stood frozen in place, Qin Ke'er and the others, who were joining forces to block the snake-men warriors, couldn't help but look at him with a pitying gaze.
Going through so much trouble, only to come up empty-handed.
Anyone would feel awful, right?
Little did they know, Su Xiao's heart was currently filled with wild ecstasy. He was overjoyed, screaming internally.
Great! This is great!
I knew things wouldn't be this simple.
The Child of Destiny is the Child of Destiny; no one can steal the fortuitous encounters that belong to him!
Thinking that all his previous worries were for naught, Su Xiao couldn't help but want to laugh.
No, no! I can't laugh yet. If I laugh right now, my character persona will collapse. Better wait a bit longer.
Su Xiao sighed, pretending to be disappointed as he swiped at the air again, then turned and flew toward where his junior sisters were to help share the pressure from the snake-men warriors.
As for Ye Shu...
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, he had long since retreated to a safe corner, silently watching this farce.
"Can I only say, as expected of Queen Medusa?"
He suddenly remembered that time in the courtyard when Medusa paid a sudden visit. She didn't watch the dance but merely built a high platform in the center of the city for them, letting the girls perform for everyone.
He still remembered her saying—watch his performance astound the crowd.
So from that moment on, she had already seen through his identity, and then used her rebirth memories to set a trap, aiming to lure everyone here and wipe them out in one fell swoop.
But... but...
Ye Shu looked up at the battlefield above.
Even if her trap succeeded and she borrowed the Imperial Dragon Aura to raise her strength a level above the others, it was still impossible for her to take down the four Soul Formation cultivators present.
Let alone Bingxuanzi, who was in the same realm as her.
Did her intelligence gathering go wrong, failing to anticipate that so many people would come?
But why did she still forcibly keep everyone here?
Why?
Why exactly?
Just as he was pondering, right at the moment when everyone was shocked that the spiritual fire wasn't here, causing them to lose their target and briefly pause their fighting...
A sword light, like a flash of lightning, arrived in an instant.
It violently pierced through... Ye Shu's chest!
Pfft!
Blood splattered everywhere. Ye Shu spat out a mouthful of blood and stumbled backward, his fingers covering the bowl-sized hole in his chest, disbelief lingering in his eyes.
He looked up toward the direction the sword light came from. There, a purple-clad figure was slowly retracting her longsword.
Everyone was stunned, including Queen Medusa.
No one expected that Mu Yunxi would take advantage of this gap to kill a minor Foundation Establishment figure.
However, her eyes were cold, without the slightest hint of guilt.
Since there was no fire here, killing this menace who would bring disaster to the Azure Profound Sect in the future made the trip worthwhile.
Thump!
Su Xiao, who had just been beaming with joy internally, fell to his knees. He stared blankly at the gaping hole in Ye Shu's chest, his mind filled with one thought: It's so over!!!
The male lead is dead, how is the plot supposed to continue?
Ye Shu clutched the hole in his chest, standing frozen for three seconds before he finally reacted.
I seem... to be dead?
Just like that... dead?
He looked up, a pale smile appearing on his face. It seemed like sorrow, like a sigh, but ultimately settled into relief.
"Originally a seed of the cosmos, alas, tribulation fills the firmament.
When the false is taken for true, the true becomes false; vainly striving for form, form turns to emptiness.
Blood stains the lotus dais without regret, this life has not failed a hero's sword.
If you ask where destiny belongs, a predestined floating life ends in nothingness."
With the fall of his final sigh, he could no longer hold on, his body falling straight backward.
Ye Shu.
Dead.
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
