Chapter 337: If
"XiaoYue, be careful." Yu Nianzhen shouted and erected a sword-intent barrier around his husband.
"I am fine." Jiang Yue said but his back was covered with cold sweat.
When the arrows came, he was in the middle of placing a formation anchor.
The anchor was one of the more important ones and he couldn’t afford any distractions.
Fortunately, Yu Nianzhen was by his side.
Knowing that, he could ignore the natural instinct to protect himself and focus on placing the anchor.
"Azhen, the arrows are poisonous. You also have to be careful." He reminded but didn’t pause in his actions.
"Don’t worry."
With that, Yu Nianzhen thickened his sword intent barrier before turning to the south.
’The arrows came from that direction.’ He thought and rage flashed in his eyes.
He wanted to rush out to kill the enemies but he couldn’t leave until Jiang Yue was done arranging the formation.
’Wait for me.’ He thought angrily and turned to Meng Zihua.
"Fellow Daoist Meng, how is your situation?" He asked.
"Brother Bei and I are fine. Unfortunately, some of the others aren’t." She answered and sighed.
The arrows came too suddenly and not everyone reacted in time.
Of the dozen left behind to guard the formation, half were struck and had already died from poisoning.
"I am afraid things are only going to get worse."
"Mmmh." Yu Nianzhen agreed and his face turned solemn.
As they were talking, the sound of fighting and shouting came from afar.
Within moments, the sound came nearer and the two tensed.
"Meng Zihua, I have found you." A voice came and Meng Zihua frowned.
"It’s Shen Ru." She said to Yu Nianzhen and the two looked at where the sound came from.
"I couldn’t kill you twenty years ago but I won’t let you go this time."
"Shen Ru, are you misunderstanding something?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You have never let me go. Then and even more so now, I am not what you can deal with."
"You..., don’t think you can go to the sky just because you refined the queen of flowers. My origin treasures are not weaker than yours."
"Hmmph." Meng Zihua snorted and looked at Shen Ru proudly.
"If you have time to talk, why don’t you attack? I will show you the difference between us now."
"Good. Meng Zihua, you are very good." Shen Ru shouted and immediately attacked.
At the same time, a group of five approached Yu Nianzhen.
The group had four cultivators and was led by a masked young man.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, it’s been a long time." The young man spoke and looked at Yu Nianzhen.
He then shifted his eyes and looked at Jiang Yue before he continued.
"You two are still together. I heard you have become Taoist companions but didn’t invite me to drink your wedding wine."
"Who are you?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
He vigilantly took a few steps back and stood closer to Jiang Yue.
"I am Wang Hui." The person answered and Yu Nianzhen was confused for a moment.
Across from him, Wang Hui didn’t miss this confusion and his heart filled with anger.
Before he met Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen, he was the talented and proud son of the city lord of Fengying City.
However, after meeting them, he realised he was nothing.
His talent was mediocre and he couldn’t even get a good ranking during the Sea Cloud sect’s ten-storey pagoda trial.
Since then, Wang Hui fell into a quagmire.
He wanted to compete with the two boys he briefly met in a restaurant but he could never keep up.
While doing his best to chase them, he offended someone he shouldn’t and was abolished.
At that time, Wang Hui thought everything was over.
Fortunately, he was approached by the Death Flower Ascension Front and they give him a chance to be reborn.
"I often wonder what would have happened if I didn’t meet the two of you in that small restaurant in Fengying City. Would I have been content in being mediocre?" He wondered and looked at Yu Nianzhen for an answer.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen didn’t have one for him.
Although he now remembered who Wang Hui was, he considered him a passerby in his life.
Their encounter was short and not meaningful.
There was nothing in it to breed nostalgia and he couldn’t understand why Wang Hui was stuck in it.
"If I didn’t antagonise you, would we have become friends?"
"If we became friends, would things be different?"
"I have thought about these things but I have never found an answer."
"I can give you an answer." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"You can?"
"I can." Jiang Yue said and sighed before he continued.
"Even if we became friends at the beginning, we would still arrive at this moment." He said and Wang Hui froze.
After a moment, he burst into laughter and his mood became a little better.
"You are right, we would still have this moment." He muttered.
Even if they became friends, their talents would always create an unbreachable gap between them.
His inability to keep up would be a thorn in his heart.
Knowing himself, he would still join the Death Flower Ascension Front.
"There is no use in dwelling on what could have been. The reality is now." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Fellow Daoist Yu is right. Now, my cultivation level is higher than yours and I don’t intend to go easy on you based on our past friendship."
"There is no need to go easy on me." Yu Nianzhen said and released shanjiang.
When he held the sword in his hand, his temperament changed.
He became a lot colder and his eyes were filled with indifference.
"I don’t plan to give you a fair duel." Wang Hui said and motioned his people.
The three behind him took out their weapons and stared at Yu Nianzhen.
"If we meet in our next lives, I hope we can be friends."
When Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue heard that, they didn’t know what to say.
At the end of the day, they didn’t take Wang Hui seriously.
They didn’t care whether they were friends or enemies, he was just a random person.
’He is a little sad.’ Jiang Yue thought and sighed for the thousandth time.
Wang Hui placed so much importance on them but they had never thought about him.
’I hope he can be luckier in his next life.’
With that, Jiang Yue focused on the formation while Yu Nianzhen moved his sword.
Instantaneously, the sword intent barrier surrounding Jiang Yue lit up.
A moment later, hundreds of sword lights flew from the barrier and rushed towards the enemies.
"You used this move to defeat Yin Jun during the Ice Palace martial contest." Wang Hui commented with an excited voice.
"Mmm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
However, he didn’t say the move was vastly different.
When he fought Yin Jun, he was driven into a corner because he couldn’t confront his poison directly.
At that time, he came up with meteor fall and used it to defeat Yin Jun.
After more than thirty years, meteor fall had evolved several times.
It was now faster and more powerful.
Most importantly, he incorporated the violence of lightning into it which made the sword move extremely ferocious.
"I hope you will have a good reincarnation." Yu Nianzhen said and Wang Hui burst into laughter.
"Reincarnation? Those of us of the Death Flower Ascension Front can’t enter reincarnation. When we die, our souls will scatter and disappear."
When Yu Nianzhen heard that, he only sighed but didn’t have any idea of letting Wang Hui go.
"Don’t talk as if you have already won." One of Wang Hui’s companions shouted.
At the same time, he released a shield and rushed to block the sword lights.
Unfortunately, neither he nor his shield was a match for meteor fall.
In the blink of an eye, a sword light decimated the shield and pierced his body.
A moment later, the person screamed and tried to restrain the sword qi rioting within his body.
However, his struggle was for nought and he lost his breath in less than a breath.
"Senior brother..." One of the others screamed and stared in horror.
He tried to retreat but the sword lights were extremely fast.
Before he could take more than a few steps, his body was also pierced by a sword light and he died.
"Fellow Daoist Yu is as powerful as ever." Wang Hui said and tried to block the sword lights.
Unfortunately, his struggle was as useless as his companions before him.
Within a few breaths, Yu Nianzhen eliminated the four enemies but he wasn’t happy.
Although he defeated the enemy, the tragedy of it didn’t escape him.
The Cangxing world was a land that didn’t tolerate the weak and that was one of the reasons why the Death Flower Ascension Front flourished.
Still, he didn’t sympathise or empathise with Wang Hui and the rest of the Death Flower Ascension Front.
If he did, what face would he have to face the victims?
