Chapter 83: Chapter 81: One-Punch Annihilation
’Who would have thought that the one to help me would be Qingya.’
Jiang Jichen saw through her intentions in an instant. He knew Qingya wanted to use him to eliminate the senior sister from the Flower Rain Sect.
The senior sister of the Flower Rain Sect was already on his kill list. Now that she was serving herself up on a platter, Jiang Jichen had no reason to refuse.
Without another word, he lunged straight for the Flower Rain Sect’s senior sister.
The senior sister’s expression changed in alarm. In a direct confrontation, she was no match for Jiang Jichen.
"Wait!"
the senior sister of the Flower Rain Sect cried out.
Jiang Jichen regarded her with cold eyes, but remained silent.
Seeing Jiang Jichen pause instead of striking immediately, the senior sister from the Flower Rain Sect breathed a sigh of relief.
Her slender fingers tucked away a few stray strands of hair from her fair brow, and a smile bloomed on her face.
"Jiang Jichen, what do you think of my beauty and charm?"
the senior sister of the Flower Rain Sect asked in a soft, enchanting voice.
At that moment, her dress fluttered as she stood gracefully in the Ice Forest, surrounded by swirling snow.
"Not bad,"
Jiang Jichen replied indifferently, though a peculiar glint flashed in his eyes.
Seeing his expression, a flicker of delight crossed the senior sister’s heart. ’Heh, let’s see you resist the allure of my beauty and my Charm Skill!’ she thought.
Then, the senior sister gazed at Jiang Jichen with hazy, mesmerizing eyes. "In that case, I am willing to submit to you and become your woman. But you must kill that little bitch Qingya for me. What do you say?"
In the distance, perched atop an ice tree, Qingya saw Jiang Jichen’s eyes grow vacant, as if he was losing his sense of self. Anxious, she was just about to cry out a warning not to fall for her senior sister’s demonic Charm Technique.
But before she could speak, Jiang Jichen—who had appeared completely dazed—suddenly erupted with power, instantly materializing in front of the senior sister and throwing a lethal punch.
"Seven Stars Gathering, boundless starlight!"
Seven Stars Sky-Breaking Fist—seven punches condensed into one and infused with the light of the heavens’ stars. Only then could it be called a true Body Cultivation Combat Technique, its power far surpassing what it was before.
Even though Jiang Jichen was extremely weak, the punch he threw was peerless in its momentum and tyrannical in its Fist Intent, even seeming to generate an Anomaly of starlight filling the sky.
SPLAT!
With an expression of utter shock, the senior sister’s body was blown apart by the single punch.
Blood splattered everywhere. Just like that, a beautiful woman perished—a scene of utmost cruelty and gore.
However, though her body was shattered, a wisp of the senior sister’s Divine Soul remained. A faint sigh seemed to echo from it before it vanished into the Endless Void.
Qingya watched this turn of events, her face first showing shock, which then turned to terror when she heard that faint, ghostly sigh.
Jiang Jichen had no time to dwell on it. Behind him, Granny Liu had finally broken through the Blood Shield formed by the Blood-Saturated Old Cloth and was closing in.
However, she arrived just in time to witness Jiang Jichen obliterate the senior sister with a single punch, and she was utterly horrified.
Before, she had been one hundred percent confident in her ability to kill Jiang Jichen. But now, facing him alone, she felt her chances were less than fifty percent.
’If we really fight to the death, I’m afraid I’ll be the one to die!’
In that instant, Granny Liu’s mind raced. She condensed her spirit energy into a palm and struck with all her might.
At that moment, Jiang Jichen, connected to the Blood-Saturated Old Cloth via his Divine Thought, willed it to fly back. It didn’t have time to form a proper Blood Shield, only managing to become a screen of blood in front of him.
BOOM!
The newly formed screen of blood shattered, but it had managed to block Granny Liu’s all-out attack. Jiang Jichen braced himself for a relentless barrage, fully prepared to defend and wait for a chance to counterattack.
But the anticipated assault never came. Instead, Granny Liu’s figure retreated in a flash, disappearing deep into the Ice Forest!
"This... That old crone really knows how to run! She’s fast!"
Jiang Jichen said in utter astonishment, staring dumbfounded at the spot where Granny Liu had vanished.
Nevertheless, the perilous battle was finally over, and he was still alive!
But now, a cold sweat soaked his entire body.
’Just now, when the senior sister used her Charm Technique, I almost fell for it and lost myself.’
’If I’d been lost in her Charm Skill, I would have been eternally damned, becoming her slave, subject to her every whim, living like one of the Walking Dead!’
’The senior sister’s Charm Skill was terrifying. Even with my willpower, I nearly fell for it. Across all the Six Realms, only one sect possesses a Charm Skill like that. And I sensed their aura on her... On top of that, that wisp of a Ghostly Soul that vanished into the void... This...’
Only now did Jiang Jichen have time to ponder this, and the more he thought, the more alarmed he became. He had a feeling that even in this new life, he couldn’t escape the karmic cycles of his past. The entanglements he thought he had severed were now faintly reappearing around him.
The Azure Heaven Skill, the Celestial Blade Intent, and now this Charm Skill...
Jiang Jichen’s eyes suddenly turned icy. "Since I can neither escape nor hide, then bring it on! I will hold true to my own Dao and shatter the Ten Thousand Daos of the Blue Heaven!"
A surge of heroic spirit rose within him, and he was about to let out a triumphant roar when his body suddenly convulsed with astonishing pain.
The Soul-Chasing Nail within his Divine Soul had finally vanished, and the effect of his stimulated potential had worn off. The backlash from using a Secret Skill combined with the agony of his soul to unlock that potential now manifested. His body went weak, and he swayed, about to collapse.
Sensing this from her perch on the ice tree, Qingya drifted over and held Jiang Jichen up.
"Since the enemies are gone, I’ll escort you for a ways."
With a wave of her hand, Qingya collected the Blood-Saturated Old Cloth, then carried Jiang Jichen away, vanishing in an instant.
Just then, a figure suddenly appeared where Jiang Jichen had been standing. It was the young, blade-wielding Ding Xiaodao.
He watched the direction Qingya and Jiang Jichen had gone, his expression shifting uncertainly as if he were wrestling with a difficult decision. After their figures had vanished completely, he finally grit his teeth. "Fine. I’ll cover his tracks this once. When I ask him about that Celestial Saber Skill later, he shouldn’t refuse, right?"
As he spoke, the ancient great blade on Ding Xiaodao’s back slid from its sheath with a clang and slashed into the Ice Forest.
In an instant, blade light crisscrossed through the wildly dancing snow. Piercing screams echoed from the Ice Forest as the Spirit Cultivators lying in ambush to pursue Jiang Jichen were all cut down, their corpses littering the frozen woods.
