At these words, not only Wuguan King, but even Fu Chaosheng was stunned: The situation was urgent, the blood coffin array surrounding the charity house and surrounding Jian Chou was clearly coming with ill intent. In such circumstances, powerful reinforcements were desperately needed, yet Jian Chou was actually telling him to leave?

His brow immediately furrowed.

Fu Chaosheng couldn’t understand her meaning: “What do you mean by this, old friend?”

Jian Chou’s gaze was tightly locked on Wuguan King before her, not looking back even once, only saying with stern finality: “Do as I say.”

Because of her timely warning earlier, although Fu Chaosheng had rushed back to provide aid, he hadn’t fallen into this blood coffin array like her and was positioned outside this layer of strange miasma. Logically, it would be easy for him to leave.

Fu Chaosheng himself was very clear about this.

However, the more this was the case, the less he could understand Jian Chou’s intention.

He knew his strength was absolutely far superior to the Wuguan King before them. Even with numerous opponents, he could certainly rescue Jian Chou safely. Why should he leave at such a time?

Fu Chaosheng wanted to ask for clarification.

However, Wuguan King had already keenly discovered that the development of events differed slightly from his expectations and Lord Qin Guang’s plan, and quickly reacted.

He waved his hand, signaling everyone behind him to attack!

All the ghost cultivators had been brought back halfway on their return to Fengdu City, only knowing they were to return to the charity house to encircle and suppress one person, but not knowing whom they were to encircle. Seeing it was Lian Zhao at first, they were shocked beyond words, but when Jian Chou’s true face was revealed just now, everyone clearly realized this was truly a momentous matter!

This was a great power from Yashan!

Although the power difference between cultivators of different levels was vast, they currently had overwhelming numbers!

The moment Wuguan King raised his hand, the already prepared crowd followed suit, directly unleashing their long-accumulated attacks!

“RUMBLE!”

Streams of qi and light poured down like a torrential downpour!

Trapped within the array, Jian Chou’s range of movement was truly too narrow, and these hundred attacks were all launched by the most elite ghost cultivators among the ten great ghost clans. It could be said they sealed off every direction of her escape and evasion, almost completely cornering her in an inescapable dead end!

“Puff!”

A bloody hole immediately appeared in her shoulder!

Jian Chou leaped up in this narrow space, rising straight up, actually risking being hit by thirty percent of the attacks to forcibly avoid the remaining seventy percent!

Truly heart-stopping, a matter of life and death!

After hearing Jian Chou’s insistence that he leave first, although Fu Chaosheng still worried she couldn’t handle the current predicament alone, he had wavered somewhat, speculating that her urging him to hurry back to Bafang City must have important purpose.

However, the overwhelming attacks before him made it impossible for him to step away.

A rage burned uncontrollably from his chest, making him feel genuine anger originating from himself for the first time.

His form moved, wanting to charge directly into the array.

However, Jian Chou only spun once in mid-air, her originally calm face now showing several degrees of icy fury. She turned and shouted at him: “Go!”

She was determined not to let him get involved in the current affair.

Fu Chaosheng’s brow furrowed even tighter.

He looked deeply at Jian Chou. In her profound, clear eyes, he suddenly saw his own confused appearance. His thoughts turned round and round, but ultimately he decided to trust her.

His form, originally moving forward, suddenly withdrew. Fu Chaosheng’s momentum toward the array immediately changed, turning instead toward upstream Bafang City.

Who would have expected Wuguan King’s cold laugh from behind: “Want to leave? Not so easy!”

As his words fell, the Underworld that had been flowing through this patch of darkness actually rose at his call. The blood-red river water gathered in its rushing flow, twisting into a ferocious red giant dragon of unknown length!

“ROAR!”

An earth-shaking, heaven-trembling roar!

The dragon’s body, like a rope, rapidly coiled toward Fu Chaosheng.

At the same time, a mountain-like massive figure appeared on the empty riverbank. Dark, tough skin like black rock emerged from that dense darkness. A broad palm lifted, rising higher and higher, also reaching toward Fu Chaosheng!

Seeing this from within the array, Jian Chou recognized it as Taishan King, the sixth palace Yama King who had fought with her in the Ghost Gate Pass battle!

But…

Even if Taishan King hadn’t died, shouldn’t he have been severely injured?

She couldn’t help but focus carefully on the current Taishan King, seeing that his massive body seemed to faintly display dark gold ancient characters during movement, wrapped around various joint positions, even around his neck!

Though his movements were overwhelmingly powerful, there was an indescribable stiffness.

It was almost like a flexible puppet!

When his palm displaying golden ancient characters, relying on that abnormal restrictive power, grasped Fu Chaosheng, Jian Chou finally saw clearly his pair of eyes!

A pair of pitch-black, lifeless eyes!

Her vigilance in her heart immediately deepened another layer. Jian Chou almost instantly felt a chill behind her ears—a cold, sharp qi was shooting toward her while she wasn’t paying attention!

How could Wuguan King give up such a great opportunity?

He had already seen that this fake Li Han whom Lord Qin Guang wanted to stop had extraordinary abilities but cared greatly about this female cultivator. So as long as they trapped this female cultivator, they could drag down this fake Li Han!

Understanding this clearly, his strikes became increasingly ruthless.

Wuguan King’s face, still bearing some childishness, was completely overcast. While attacking Jian Chou himself from the edge of the blood coffin array, he commanded everyone to close in on her.

But Jian Chou showed no panic whatsoever.

Having experienced great battles, how could she so easily lose her composure?

“BANG!”

“BANG!”

“RUMBLE!”

Between flipping and dodging, sometimes evading, sometimes meeting attacks head-on, facing the attacks of over a hundred people alone, with one of them having cultivation equivalent to her own, was definitely not an easy matter.

Jian Chou gritted her teeth and persevered.

Her appearance looked extremely disheveled, yet she handled everything flawlessly.

Fu Chaosheng, whose path was blocked, naturally didn’t consider the current difficulty a big deal, but from the red giant dragon formed by the Underworld, he sensed an aura that made him extremely disgusted, seemingly conflicting with him, not to mention the dark gold ancient characters floating around Taishan King.

Their strokes looked extremely similar to the characters he had once seen in the “Reincarnation Code.”

This was truly a trap!

These auras that even he couldn’t fathom and even felt dangerous were probably the reason he couldn’t investigate the situation earlier with his Universal Eyes and demon consciousness.

Reaching this point, Fu Chaosheng finally vaguely understood Jian Chou’s intention in telling him to attack Bafang City first. After pausing briefly and seeing Jian Chou quite at ease within the array, clearly with room to spare—Heaven’s Line unmoved, the Eight Heavenly Dragons not summoned, even the Heaven-Flipping Seal not yet used, still retaining sufficient strength—she should have no danger in the short term.

So he finally hesitated no more.

Spreading his hands to both sides, chest out and head high, he actually roared toward the sky. Instantly wind swept and clouds moved, a vague sound wave accompanied by terrifying power charged wildly forward!

“RUMBLE!”

It was as if myriad valleys’ startling thunder sounded between heaven and earth!

The red giant dragon that had been entangling with him was immediately overturned by this fierce power the moment it approached, letting out painful screams, beginning to collapse from the head, rapidly destroyed like a weathered statue scattered by hurricane winds!

Taishan King’s giant palm reaching toward him was directly shattered into rubble!

Even such a massive and imposing body couldn’t withstand this roar’s power, retreating a full five steps backward!

When his steps stabilized and he looked up, where was Fu Chaosheng’s shadow?

The horizon was empty, leaving only faint spatial fluctuations.

The Fu Chaosheng they had intended to intercept had long since vanished!

Seeing this, Wuguan King’s expression immediately darkened. The hand forming seals to attack Jian Chou involuntarily clenched tight, already cursing “damn it” in exasperation.

But Taishan King still stood dazed in place.

The palm and arm shattered by Fu Chaosheng’s roar were actually slowly growing back under the encirclement of those golden ancient characters, becoming no different from before.

Jian Chou glanced once, then her form suddenly rose high, sweeping away the incoming attacks with one sword, flipping and landing like a bright moon on the charity house’s heights!

Cold wind blew, sleeves and robes fluttering.

She stood on the bone-built walls below, overlooking from this height the countless opened, empty blood coffins below, up to Wuguan King who was staring at her ominously.

Wuguan King didn’t send anyone to pursue Fu Chaosheng—obviously knowing it was impossible to catch him. He only tensed his body, his still-childish face bearing a coldness completely inconsistent with his appearance: “You’re very clever.”

Since he stopped attacking, everyone else stopped too.

Both sides faced off.

Hearing this, Jian Chou raised an eyebrow: “You flatter me.”

Wuguan King remained unmoved, only adding the latter half of his sentence lightly: “Unfortunately, you’re still lacking something.”

“Oh?” Jian Chou smiled. “Lacking in what respect?”

Truly extremely composed…

It almost made one suspect she was completely unaware of everything happening now and everything she was about to face, or perhaps she knew very clearly yet remained completely confident.

Wuguan King’s brow immediately furrowed.

He extended his hand, and a silver long halberd appeared in his palm. Staring at her, he said: “You saw through Lord Qin Guang’s plan to lure the tiger from the mountain, so you forced your friend to leave. But attending to this end means neglecting that end. Though he can indeed go to Bafang City, with five Yama Kings there, he probably won’t be able to accomplish much. On the contrary, you’re alone, fallen into danger. I fear your situation is dire—today you’ll use your blood to consecrate this halberd for me.”

It was a fine halberd.

Long, sharp, dangerous.

At first glance, one couldn’t even sense the fierce, cruel aura that should belong to evil demons and ghost cultivators, instead finding it felt righteous.

This was rather unusual.

Jian Chou had also suffered some injuries earlier, but her body, having undergone the “Human Weapon” tempering, possessed extraordinary recovery ability. In no time, those minor wounds disappeared without leaving any trace.

She listened to Wuguan King’s words thoughtfully.

After a while, she smiled: “Isn’t this exactly what you wanted to see?”

Between Fu Chaosheng and her, they could always kill one.

This arrangement had already begun at least when Fu Chaosheng announced his emergence from seclusion under Li Han’s identity.

How could Lord Qin Guang, who had deliberately left several soul puppets at Ghost Gate Pass, not know where Yashan’s heart ailment lay?

This was also psychological warfare.

The opponent certainly had extraordinary means to discover their whereabouts, thus deliberately ordering Fu Chaosheng to select elites to enter the charity house, using the Yashan soul puppets in the charity house as bait to lure her in. Meanwhile, Lord Qin Guang’s side at the Bafang Yama Palace certainly had important matters, not wanting Fu Chaosheng to notice or interfere. So connecting both purposes, it was calculated as killing two birds with one stone—designing against her at the charity house while restraining the powerful Fu Chaosheng.

Reasoning backward from this, many things became spine-chilling.

For instance, after the mutual probing at Ghost Gate Pass ended, why did the Extreme Domain still disperse forces and separate defense lines?

The great powers of the Shijiu Zhou all emerged, yet the Extreme Domain’s Yama Kings still sat steadily in the Bafang Yama Palace.

Such a situation was extremely abnormal.

But whether it was her or the other Shijiu Zhou cultivators, they were all “in the mountain,” only thinking that the Extreme Domain side was making blunder after blunder—the more dispersed their forces, the better, convenient for defeating them one by one. So they subconsciously ignored another possibility—

That from beginning to end, Lord Qin Guang never intended to win this realm war!

Dispersing forces was only to delay time!

Not appearing was because he had even greater schemes behind the scenes!

And using the Yashan soul puppet matter to lure her into the trap, sending Wuguan King and Taishan King together—even if both sides fought desperately to determine victory, it definitely wouldn’t take very long. But even this brief time, Lord Qin Guang wanted Fu Chaosheng to learn of her danger and return, to restrain him…

This proved that some plan of Lord Qin Guang’s had reached a crucial moment!

Perhaps even the final moment!

A strong unease had Jian Chou’s emotions churning.

When trapped in this blood coffin array, she had already examined everything one by one. The so-called remaining nine hundred soul puppets weren’t here at all—they were probably already under Lord Qin Guang’s control.

She could only hope Fu Chaosheng would make it in time…

Jian Chou looked at Wuguan King and Taishan King approaching from the other side, already knowing that before her lay an inescapable killing formation and death trap.

Only one side could walk out of here alive.

Taishan King stood beside Wuguan King with no awareness whatsoever.

Wuguan King turned his head to look at his companion, whose figure was far taller than his own, and a heavy sadness accompanied by anger welled up.

How could he forget the scene when Lord Qin Guang suddenly appeared in the palace that day?

In this battle, no one had a choice.

The sadness in his eyes gradually disappeared. Wuguan King withdrew his gaze and asked Jian Chou one final question before the battle: “Since you’ve already perceived the cause and purpose of all this, yet willingly trapped yourself in this death situation, while your companion disregards your life and abandons you heartlessly—don’t you feel even a bit of chill in your heart?”

“What’s there to feel chilled about?”

What flowed in her chest was clearly all scalding hot blood. As long as it flowed for one day, it would be scalding for one day. This heart would never grow cold!

Jian Chou glanced at him and said plainly: “Moreover, there was really no need to let him know. Because…”

Her answer was beyond Wuguan King’s expectations, making him slightly stunned: “Because what?”

Jian Chou then smiled.

The moment her smile appeared, she actually stepped through the air, walking without obstruction right out of the blood coffin array that should have firmly trapped her!

Wuguan King was immediately greatly shocked!

In a flash, he saw Heaven’s Line’s sword light scatter like a blood moon, and Jian Chou’s swaying figure had already closed in: “Because I want the remaining half of the Yama King’s heart!”