Chapter 1486: Old Demoness, I'll Send You Off!

Wu Chang remained silent.

Kunlin Shu continued his relentless assault.

Maintaining the protective profound ice consumed an enormous amount of Granny Xue’s power and required an unbroken flow of energy. She could not keep it up for long.

She shouted again, “Wu Chang, someone is plotting rebellion behind our backs. This is exactly when the five of us should be joining forces against an external enemy. If you kill me now and remove another entire faction from our side, you’ll only benefit the people making trouble!”

Wu Chang still gave no response.

The Boundless Demon Domain was his greatest means of preserving his life.

When Wu Chang had first risen to prominence and the other Sacred Venerables could not tolerate him, he had repeatedly relied on this technique to escape.

He would first hide within the Demon Domain.

By the time his pursuers finally broke through it, he himself would already have vanished without a trace.

Granny Xue could break his Boundless Demon Domain.

For that reason alone, Wu Chang had always regarded her as his greatest enemy.

He had gone to enormous lengths to arrange for Chuan Ying to approach Xue Luo’er.

How could that possibly have been only for Niu Youdao?

When Wu Chang first began cultivating Chuan Ying and laying the groundwork for his identity, no one even knew where Niu Youdao was.

Things had already reached this point.

If Wu Chang let Granny Xue go today, there might never be another chance to kill her.

Heaven itself had delivered this opportunity into his hands, allowing him to settle years of old hatred at once.

How could he possibly let it pass?

Unable to get any response from Wu Chang, Granny Xue shouted toward Kunlin Shu amid the violent explosions.

“Friend, I know Wu Chang too well. Once he kills me, he won’t let you go either. Without my help afterward, I’m afraid you’ll have a hard time escaping.”

She was trying to sow discord.

Kunlin Shu, floating in midair with his sword seal formed, ignored her as well.

Two fire dragons cycled around from either side.

Each time they reached him, they transformed into a renewed rain of swords and resumed their unending bombardment of Granny Xue’s protective profound ice.

The spectacle was magnificent, brilliant, almost dazzling.

Her shouting had no effect.

Her attempt to drive a wedge between them failed as well.

And continuing to consume her protective profound ice like this was impossible.

Granny Xue threw caution aside.

Still wrapped in the sphere of profound ice, she charged through the endless attacks and rushed straight at Kunlin Shu again.

This time she truly went all out.

There was no longer any choice.

Wu Chang plainly intended to wear her down and kill her inside the Domain.

Under ordinary circumstances, the Boundless Demon Domain could not have done much to her.

Even if she did not break it, she could simply outlast Wu Chang.

Maintaining the Domain consumed a tremendous amount of his spiritual power.

He could not sustain it forever.

But now, another man had appeared whose fire-aspect cultivation directly countered her ice-and-frost arts.

Her own techniques had been greatly weakened.

With this man and Wu Chang cooperating, she was the one who could no longer endure.

Seeing Granny Xue charge at him with even greater ferocity than before, Kunlin Shu pushed the fire dragon forward with all his strength.

He could clearly feel the terrifying pressure she brought with her.

The difference in cultivation between them was simply too great.

He could not suppress her.

Yet at that exact moment, Wu Chang did not stand by.

Nor would he.

He could not possibly allow Granny Xue to eliminate the one weakness that had placed her at such a disadvantage.

Another enormous palm shadow erupted from the churning black cloud in a surprise attack.

Boom!

Granny Xue’s protective profound ice shattered.

But this time, she had expected it.

One palm thrust forward, immediately forming an ice shield that blocked the roaring fire dragon.

Her other hand swung the staff like a thunderbolt toward the incoming black palm.

Boom!

Wu Chang and Granny Xue clashed head-on.

The impact forced Wu Chang backward.

At the same instant, the entire Boundless Demon Domain shook violently and nearly collapsed.

Granny Xue seized the opportunity.

Blue light flashed over her body as protective profound ice formed around her again.

She charged toward Kunlin Shu once more.

Wu Chang turned both hands as though pulling invisible objects through empty space.

Black mist surged under his control.

In an instant, it rose like a great curtain between Granny Xue and Kunlin Shu, completely separating the two.

Granny Xue burst through the firelight and looked around.

Darkness surrounded her.

Kunlin Shu was nowhere to be seen.

Kunlin Shu, meanwhile, remained on high alert.

A moment earlier he had clearly seen Granny Xue charging toward him.

Now she too had vanished.

“That old demoness is extremely cunning. Don’t meet her face-to-face again unless necessary. Otherwise, unexpected danger may arise.”

“Attack her with fire from the shadows. I’ll use my art to conceal you.”

“She is forcibly consuming her body’s ice essence. Your flames refine and counter it perfectly. As long as you keep the pressure on, she won’t last much longer.”

Wu Chang’s voice sounded from behind Kunlin Shu again.

Kunlin Shu turned.

As before, no one was there.

Only roiling black mist filled his vision.

He had no choice but to answer, “All right.”

“Look ahead,” Wu Chang’s voice said again.

Kunlin Shu turned forward.

The black mist before him thinned.

Through the opening Wu Chang had created, he could see Granny Xue flashing rapidly about as she searched.

With that one glimpse, Kunlin Shu more or less understood the secret of the Boundless Demon Domain.

Granny Xue appeared to be moving at tremendous speed.

In reality, she was constantly circling within one limited area.

That was obviously the same reason Kunlin Shu himself had felt earlier that no matter how far he flew, he could never escape the supposedly endless Domain.

In truth, the region covered by the Boundless Demon Domain was not especially large.

“What are you waiting for?” Wu Chang urged.

Kunlin Shu immediately cast his art and formed a sword seal.

Granny Xue, still darting around in search of an exit, suddenly saw firelight flare on every side.

Countless fire swords burst from all directions at once.

Blue light flashed across her body.

The spherical profound ice formed around her again, blocking the fire swords converging from every direction.

Explosions erupted without pause.

Inside the sphere, Granny Xue exerted her cultivation to resist and swept her gaze around.

She could not see Kunlin Shu at all.

Fire swords simply shot from the black mist in every direction.

Each blade shattered into flame on impact, only to condense again, disappear into the mist, and return as another continuous rain of swords.

“Wu Chang!”

Granny Xue roared with grief and fury.

She could no longer even see the person attacking her.

One glance at the situation was enough to know this was Wu Chang’s doing.

He had clearly instructed Kunlin Shu and was actively cooperating with him.

It seemed Wu Chang was determined to kill her today.

How could she not be furious?

Kunlin Shu’s cultivation was far inferior to hers.

Even under a continuous barrage, the raw power of his fire swords was something she could withstand.

But inside this purgatory of flame, she was using the ice essence of her own body to defend herself.

How long could that continue?

Not for much longer.

Soon she would be left terribly weakened.

Yet she could not simply stop using the ice.

Her true body was innately countered by fire.

Once the flames directly injured her, the damage to her spirit body would be severe.

Granny Xue naturally refused to sit still and wait for death.

Protected by the profound ice, she began charging wildly in every direction, smashing through the churning black mist as she tried to locate her hidden attacker.

But this was Wu Chang’s world.

With Wu Chang helping conceal him, Granny Xue could not even see Kunlin Shu’s face.

Instead, no matter where she fled, fire swords would emerge from the black mist to attack her.

The assault never stopped.

Under the ceaseless refining of this fiery purgatory, the ice essence of Granny Xue’s body rapidly dwindled.

She wanted to find her opponent and fight to the death.

She could not even see him.

Despair began filling her aged face.

There was no reason to expect a man like Wu Chang to suddenly show mercy.

She bitterly regretted coming here.

Only now did she realize that Chuan Ying’s exposure might very well have been a trap Wu Chang had arranged specifically to kill her.

At last, she could no longer endure.

She abandoned the protective profound ice and suddenly transformed into a streak of blue light, weaving at high speed through the dense fire swords.

The crisscrossing blades could not touch her.

Kunlin Shu was no fool.

His sword seal changed into an open palm.

The fire swords collapsed into a sea of flame that swept around the blue light and began refining it directly.

The blue streak burst from the sea of fire and shot into the black mist.

Then an enormous palm shadow abruptly appeared inside the darkness, rushing toward her like a colossal meteor.

It smashed directly into the incoming blue light.

Boom!

The impact was thunderous.

The blue light was knocked backward and transformed back into a human figure.

That sudden strike allowed Wu Chang to test how much strength Granny Xue had left.

His hesitation vanished.

He flashed into view and shouted coldly, “You still think you can run?”

Kunlin Shu, still controlling the flames, suddenly found his vision swallowed by darkness.

He had no idea what was happening.

But after hearing Wu Chang’s shout, he immediately flew toward the sound.

He broke through the black mist into another space.

This time he had not gone astray.

The key was that Wu Chang was no longer manipulating the Domain to mislead him.

Kunlin Shu saw Wu Chang gripping the streak of blue light between both hands.

The human-shaped blue radiance struggled painfully in his grasp.

Its hands clutched Wu Chang’s wrists.

Frost raced rapidly along Wu Chang’s arms as though trying to freeze them solid.

Wu Chang released a surge of power.

The frost, which had already reached his shoulders, began retreating and melting away.

At this point, his cultivation was plainly beyond Granny Xue’s remaining strength.

He had completely suppressed her.

“I heard that so long as an ice spirit like you preserves even the tiniest remnant, you can be reborn.”

“This time, I’d like to see how you come back to life!”

The moment Wu Chang finished speaking, he opened his mouth.

Dense black mist surged violently from within and seemed to pour straight into Granny Xue’s mouth, continuously forcing its way inside her body.

Kunlin Shu stared in astonishment.

He had no idea what Wu Chang intended to do.

Granny Xue had clearly noticed Kunlin Shu as well.

Her voice, strained with pain and torment, echoed through the Domain.

“Boy, run!”

“He’ll kill you!”

“You cannot die. You must stay alive!”

“When your cultivation rises in the future, you’ll become a formidable enemy to him. I’ll be waiting for you to kill him and avenge me!”

Avenge you by killing him?

Kunlin Shu was speechless.

Could those words possibly count as a sincere warning?

She was obviously trying to provoke Wu Chang into killing him as well, dragging Kunlin Shu down with her.

Wu Chang, still pouring dense black mist from his mouth, gave a strange, cold laugh.

The old demoness refused to die quietly.

Even on the verge of death, she was still trying to leave conflict behind and incite the two men to turn on one another.

The black mist pouring from Wu Chang’s mouth stopped.

His voice became indifferent and chilling.

“Old demoness, I’ll send you off!”

His arms jerked violently.

Boom!

A Heaven-shaking explosion erupted.

The human-shaped blue radiance shattered completely, and a torrent of black mist burst outward with it.

The astral gale from the explosion slammed toward Kunlin Shu.

He cast his art to withstand it.

Countless fragments like tiny ice-blue snowflakes drifted through the space, as though a heavy snowfall had suddenly begun.

In that instant, the temperature plunged.

Even a cultivator could not help feeling the urge to shiver.

Whether Granny Xue’s final warning had been sincere or malicious did not matter.

Yin Ji had already given Kunlin Shu very clear instructions.

The moment the matter succeeded—or if it became impossible—he was to withdraw immediately.

Wu Chang was far too dangerous, ruthless and merciless.

Kunlin Shu’s fire-aspect cultivation did not counter Wu Chang, and his cultivation was inferior to Wu Chang’s as well.

Wu Chang might turn on him and kill him.

Now Granny Xue had been eliminated.

Kunlin Shu immediately flashed away, intending to escape.

But no matter how he flew, he could not leave the Boundless Demon Domain.

Then Wu Chang’s cold voice echoed beside his ear.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Kunlin Shu spun around and raised his guard.

Wu Chang, wrapped in his cloak, hovered not far away and stared coldly at him.

Kunlin Shu said heavily, “You intend to destroy the bridge after crossing the river?”

Wu Chang neither admitted nor denied it.

His tone remained indifferent. “Who are you?”

“Show me your true face, and I may consider sparing your life.”

“I don’t need you to spare me.”

“Yin Ji said your Boundless Demon Domain can’t hold me!”

Kunlin Shu clenched both fists and slowly raised his bent arms.

Wu Chang gave a faint, indifferent “Oh?”

His expression said plainly that he intended to see that for himself.

Then his cold gaze suddenly swept across the surroundings.

[End of Chapter 1486]