Chapter 154: The Sad Truth
Old Man Bai Li just gave him a cold look and showed no response.
In fact, what Gui Buddha said was wrong. Unless it was a last resort, he would not take the initiative to destroy the heart.
Suddenly, the old man turned his head sharply towards the north outside the city of Jinyang, his brows furrowed.
Though separated by a great distance, a figure was indeed rapidly approaching.
All those engaged in battle within the city came to a simultaneous halt.
A terrifying aura drew nearer.
In the Lord’s mansion, Zhen Tianyi seemed to comprehend something, abruptly slashing at Qian Gui. He then looked up, his face filled with shock.
He had a complex expression as he spoke, “I didn’t expect you to come too.”
As he spoke, the right side of his exposed body, where the wound should have long healed and scarred, unexpectedly oozed fresh blood, causing a faint ache!
Bang!
The newcomer halted in the airspace outside Jinyang City. Due to the excessive speed, the abrupt stop seemed to disperse the air.
Bai Chong muttered to himself, “Finally, you’ve come.”
Qin Feng and the others, upon hearing this, looked towards the approaching figure.
Dressed like the man who spoke, in a black-and-white robe with a ghost mask on his head, his gray-white hair flowed behind him.
If there was any difference, it was the blood-red blade hanging by his waist and the conspicuous number three on the chest of the robe.
Though Qin Feng didn’t know the specific significance of the number on the chest, he vaguely guessed that it was related to strength.
The insect master controlling the centipedes not far away had extraordinary strength, but the number on his chest was only nine.
So, what astonishing and terrifying strength did the man with the number three possess?
The gray-haired man’s aura surged, sweeping across Jinyang City.
Seeing this, Old Li hastily used the puppetry technique, creating flowing shadow walls around Qin Feng and the others.
As the aura passed, the already injured Old Li let out a muffled groan.
And on those flowing shadow walls, cracks appeared, and within a few breaths, they shattered!
Qin Feng and the others’ faces became extremely solemn.
The emitted aura alone had such power!
If Senior Li hadn’t intervened in advance to protect them, the consequences would have been unimaginable!
The gray-haired man retracted his aura, feeling something, and casually said, “It seems I’ve encountered some familiar faces.”
“Ghost Buddha, have you found what you were looking for?”
Ghost Buddha’s expression was grim, “I couldn’t find the aura of the seal in the city.”
“No sealed aura,” the gray-haired man pondered for a moment, then suddenly locked his gaze onto Old Li.
“After the battle at Zhenling Pass nineteen years ago, you actually didn’t die?
There’s something interesting about your body.
You’ve actually dispersed your martial cultivation and turned to the Hundred Ghosts Dao Lineage. Is it to honor your deceased comrades?
No, not entirely. The beating of your heart is different from ordinary people.
Ah, I see.”
Upon hearing this, Old Li frowned.
Old man Bai Li narrowed his eyes, and Ghost Buddha, first puzzled and then seemingly enlightened, stared wide-eyed.
“I understand now why there was no one capable of finding the heart of King Garuda’s back then and why there’s no sealed aura in the city.”
From the very beginning, there was no such seal. In the battle at Zhenling Pass, you transferred your heart into someone else’s body.
You used the spirits of a hundred thousand soldiers to block the aura of the Garuda King’s heart, sealing it within a human body!
And that person is Li Yang!”
The voice was like thunder, echoing over the sky of Jinyang City.
Everyone, upon hearing this, showed expressions of disbelief.
The old man Bai Li sighed, “In the end, it had to come to that final step.”
The appearance of the gray-haired man was not foreseen in his divination.
Those powerful beings beyond the understanding of ordinary people could transcend the workings of fate themselves!
And the gray-haired man was at the pinnacle of the divine martial pyramid. With his mastery and understanding of human flesh and blood, discovering the anomaly in Old Li’s body was not difficult.
This also led to the initial failure of Bai Li’s plan.
But a wise man always keeps a trump card, anticipating the unfolding of events, even if it leads to the scene he least wants to see.
“Keeping the heart of the king in a human, even with the assistance of a hundred thousand spirits, I’m afraid these years you have been living a fate worse than death,” the gray-haired man sneered, his tone filled with deep disgust.
Qin Feng, upon hearing this, looked towards the heart of Senior Li with a complex expression.
Garudas feed on dragons, and their bodies are constantly bathed in the curse fire, including their hearts.
However, the Garuda clan, with their powerful bodies far surpassing humans, can naturally withstand the damage from the curse fire.
But Senior Li couldn’t!
If Senior Li had indeed hidden the king’s heart in his own body, these years of existence might have felt like being roasted over a fire!
Qin Feng suddenly remembered a detail that Ningshaung had once told him.
The fact that The Great Qian could force the powerful Garuda clan to retreat at the Battle of Zhenling Pass was already unbelievable.
Now, the truth was slowly emerging.
The Great Qian used the lives of countless soldiers to gain the opportunity to extract the heart of the Garuda King. Then, they hid the heart in Senior Li’s chest and sealed it with a hundred thousand spirits.
With the Garuda King losing its heart, its strength plummeted. The Garuda clan couldn’t locate the heart and naturally retreated to Tianling Mountain!
But this was somewhat too cruel for those soldiers.
It would be too cruel to Senior Li.
“Did those Zhenling soldiers, before heading to the battlefield, know that their fate was already predetermined?” Qin Feng thought with sorrow in his heart, then looked towards Senior Li.
The answer seemed obvious.
“I suppose they knew,” Qin Feng said with a choked voice.
In the high sky, the gray-haired man spoke coldly, “Hypocritical Heavenly City, hypocritical royal family, paving their splendid road with the flesh and blood of others.
In prosperity and comfort, they sing praises of their own merits with heaps of dry bones.
Li Yang, don’t you resent it at all?”
“I give you a choice. I won’t take away the heart of the King of Garuda, leaving it in your body, holding your life.
Join me in overthrowing Heavenly City, and annihilate those delusional people.”
Ghost Buddha exclaimed, “Sword Ghost, don’t act recklessly! Don’t ruin the plan!”
The silver-haired man known as Sword Ghost responded coldly, “I’ll handle things; it’s not your place to dictate.”
Ghost Buddha fell silent.
The rest, including Bai Chong and others, also fell into silence.
Liu Jianli glanced at the Sword Ghost in the sky, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
“Your answer?” Sword Ghost asked.
Old Li smiled. He looked around at his former colleagues, and the spirits of the soldiers seemed to sense something, all looking at him together.
“My answer was given to my brothers nineteen years ago.”
Swish!
Uniform stomping sounds echoed in an instant, as if time had returned to the moment when the Zhenling Army set out nineteen years ago.
Soldiers, for the sake of protecting their homeland, had no fear even in death!
As fellow soldiers in the army, Black Charcoal Head, seeing this scene, unconsciously clenched his fists, and his eyes turned red.
Qin Feng and others were deeply moved as well.
Upon hearing this, Sword Ghost’s chest slightly rose and fell.
In fact, this answer was already within his expectations.
“I have lived for a long time, and in my life, there are only two and a half people I admire. Li Yang, you are one of them.
Today, I have come to help you find liberation.”
As his words fell, the blood-colored suspended sword trembled slightly.
A bloodline seemed to cross through time and space, arriving in front of Senior Li before the crowd could react.
Everyone was shocked.
This strike was unavoidable!
But at this moment, a figure in a black robe appeared out of thin air beside Senior Li, wearing a white faceless mask.
He extended his right hand and gently grabbed it.
The formidable blade energy of the blood blade was crushed.
Bang!
The bursting aura surged, but it couldn’t exceed the range of the faceless person by a foot.
It seemed to be isolated by some powerful force.
“You finally decide to show up.” Sword Ghost said indifferently.
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