Chapter 169: The Tradition of Our Sect (I)

"Master Ru Hai, it's you again."

Just as the white-browed monk was expressing his deep emotion in front of everyone, the sound of Xu Shanshan's leisurely laughter and sigh arrived as expected.

She stood behind him, the wind blew up her hair and sleeves, and the coolness climbed up Master Ru Hai's back, making his scalp tingle.

The two had met before in the illusion of Li Mansion, but at that time he didn't know who Xu Shanshan was. He was also curious why she knew who the final winner was on the coast of the South China Sea.

Now the truth has come to light. It turns out that the woman who frightened him is actually Qingwushen.

"Are you Qingwushen?"

Master Ru Hai asked in a deep voice.

"Yes or no, what does it matter?"

"Of course it's important. Among the four voices back then, you advocated using the rule of hegemony to balance the chaos in the world, while the Grand Master advocated ruling by inaction. If you defeated her, wouldn't the world be..."

His throat tightened, his eyes darkened, "Isn't it going to be a war purgatory ruled by you?"

Xu Shanshan smiled softly when she heard this. She said, "If we continue to follow fate and the will of the people, won't this world just become a living hell? Wouldn't it be better if I were in control of everything?"

As she spoke, the sharp end of a vine suddenly pierced Master Ru Hai's chest, and he vomited blood.

"You are talking to me with such a broken body..." She leaned close to his ear and smiled faintly: "Master, are you underestimating me?"

Master Ru Hai, who was on the verge of death, changed his expression. He moved his eyes and looked at Xu Shanshan.

She was always so in control and omniscient. Even though he was her master, he sometimes felt that all his secrets would be exposed if she gave him a look.

However, when all your thoughts and secrets are seen through by her, you will never know the true thoughts behind the owner of these eyes.

He looked at her with a knowing look in his eyes, and a helpless smile formed on the corner of his mouth.

"Shen'er, you are so hard to kill."

There was a bottomless cold pond in Xu Shanshan's eyes, and the coldness seemed to freeze people to death.

She smiled too: "You too, right?"

"Master Ru Hai" finally couldn't bear such serious injuries and fell to the ground dejectedly.

"Can't you... stop?"

He tilted his head back and stared at her intently without blinking, until his eyes turned into a dull, colorless grey.

"Why?"

Xu Shanshan's dark pupils condensed, like a black hole in the universe, swallowing up all the light. She flicked her sleeves and faced the ferocious beast that rushed up -

The mountain-like figure swung its huge claws towards her, and a deafening roar came from its bloody mouth. The sound waves hit Xu Shanshan like a huge wave, blowing up her clothes and hair.

On the other side, rotten and smelly black shadows were hovering in the sky, and black "ink spots" were dripping like rain, corroding everything, accompanied by sharp screams that pierced people's eardrums.

The ghost soldiers gathered into a ghost army, bringing with them a gust of cold wind, and rushed towards her.

Seeing the situation, everyone decided to fight with all their might. The remaining Taoists, Buddhists and Xuanzang used their own secret techniques again. They continued to remedy the "Demon Subduing Vajra Formation" set up by "Master Ru Hai". The light of the formation became stronger and stronger, forming a closed space again.

They knew that this "Demon Subduing Vajra Formation" might not be able to stop Xu Shanshan, but as long as they could imprison her for a moment and provide a glimmer of opportunity for other murderous intentions, then everything they did would be meaningful.

In the strong wind, Xu Shanshan glanced over lightly, her black hair brushed across her long, straight eyelashes. Her eyes did not show any emotional fluctuations, like the unchanging mountains and oceans, emitting an irresistible unknown power and majesty.

"end--"

With just one word, all the ongoing "actions" came to a halt. There was some tremendous gravity in the air that was entangled the ferocious beasts and the evil soldiers. They were like a mountain pressing down on them, unable to move forward even an inch.

"Break—" The formation on the ground was easily torn apart, stirring up dust all over the sky.

"Destroy——"

The dark flame like a black hole devoured all the light and hope, sweeping across everything with a roar. The ferocious beasts, evil soldiers, and formations were crushed into powder, and the surrounding land turned into a scorched earth in an instant.

Everything collapsed, leaving only people who looked like stone sculptures with pale faces.

"Words, words, this is the Words, right? She actually knows this kind of magic?"

"No, this is not the art of words, it is the more advanced art of words coming true!"

After these words were spoken, the already frightened man turned even more pale, like a piece of white paper, and his teeth were chattering.

"Really? Then do we still have to fight her?"

The person who asked this question had a distorted expression, as if he would collapse to the ground in the next second.

"Fuck off!"

"If you don't want to be wiped out, run away!"

How could they have the nerve and ability to fight against a Heavenly Master who knows how to use divine arts? This is not called courting death, this is called dying without a burial place!
These people finally understood what it meant that to offend Xu Shanshan was like to offend the King of Hell.

They didn't believe in evil before, but now they are obedient.

They were about to run, but it was obviously too late for them to regret. How could Xu Shanshan let them go so easily at this point? She raised her arms and a solid stone wall rose from the ground, blocking their way.

"What are you running for?"

The invisible pressure was like a mountain pressing down on one's head, making it difficult to breathe and making one want to kneel down in submission to her and beg for mercy.

It's over. It's over.

Just as they were considering whether to kneel down or beg for mercy first, a huge floating formation appeared above their heads.

Their eyes widened and they raised their heads tremblingly, only to see that this formation was so huge and complex that they had never seen before. The power flowing inside contained infinite and precise patterns, as if it was a "net" of fate...

Their foreheads were instantly covered with beads of sweat, which slid down their cheeks...

They are not going to die in this "net".

Just as they ran in panic, trying to avoid the coverage of the formation, no matter which direction they ran or what means they used to escape, they finally found that they had no way to survive.

The word "complete despair" may be able to describe their mood at this moment.

Dead, dead, dead...

In the array of light above, they saw the ultimate manifestation of power, an existence that was beyond their comprehension, an insurmountable and awe-inspiring one.

When they were about to be drowned, their eyeballs seemed to be about to pop out of their sockets, but were bounced back by an invisible force. The killing force was like hitting an indestructible "wall".

Huh? !

Their pupils contracted sharply, full of disbelief.

... Was it Xu Shanshan's kindness, or was it someone who saved them?

"Master, I told you that you can't stop me from doing anything."

Xu Shanshan had long known that "he" had been watching everything about her in the dark. She pinched her five fingers, and the light immediately ignored the obstruction and dropped a few points.

The people in the formation immediately screamed "Aiya!"

"Shen'er, if you were still the same person, I might not be able to do anything to you, but now that you have a body that is weakened by the five signs of natural decay, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold on for much longer."