Chapter 0417 – Monstrous Devil Flames – Absolute Return

The blood-colored light came like rain, but it was all blocked out by the black as ink barrier.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”

Intense crashing sounds resounded through the great hall, and the last trace of blood light dissipated.

More than ten Northern Blood Sect’s dead soldiers, in order to turn their body’s essence blood into this jade and stone burning strike, had long since emptied their heart and veins, and at this moment, one by one, their chests were pierced through, and their bodies were on the spot.

The pitch-black barrier, however, was still standing, emitting an eerie glow under the sunlight.

The Drunken Devil slowly turned his head, only to see that Jian Wuji had already arrived beside him at some point, the Black Devil Sword in his hand pointed diagonally ahead, and above the tip of the sword, a trace of blood-colored light remained.

“How can I let you get hurt?” Jian Wuji said indifferently.

This was not an unusual attack, nor was it a final stance at the time of a life and death struggle, but rather a self-explosion attack without warning, not so much a martial art as a crazy move to die together.

Jian Wuji didn’t want to see the Drunken Demon suffer a single injury, which was why he didn’t hesitate to execute the strongest defensive move in the Nine Devil’s Technique, the Great Devil’s Wall.

This scene seems like the reincarnation of destiny.

— “The only way to root out those despicable and shameless villains is to be even more despicable and shameless. This, I believe, is the reason for our existence, for we are able to stop those evils which ordinary men are unable to stop.”

The Drunken Demon looked at the pitch-black barrier with a lot of emotions in his heart, and he bowed deeply towards Jian Wuji as a sign of respect for the Nine Septic Demonic Skills.

The Great Demon Wall slowly dissipated, and only then did the Drunken Demon raise his head, look at Jian Wuji, and said solemnly, “Many thanks to the Young Sect Master for saving his life.”

At this moment, he was no longer Jian Wuji’s elder brother, but the Protector of the Demon Sect, and Jian Wuji, the Young Sect Master that he swore to protect.

“Ma Zun sacrificed his life to protect me, this favor, Jian Wuji will never forget.” Jian Wuji said with the same solemnity.

He was not being polite, when he saw the Drunken Demon trying to block that blood-colored light with his body, his heart was indeed filled with emotion.

The two of them smiled at each other, and it was all in the air.

Jian Wuji operated his true qi and carefully sensed the surrounding aura, confirming that there were no more ambushes before letting go of his heart.

Right at this moment, the main door of the hall burst open, and the Ice Palace Master slowly walked in, and not far behind her, lay several corpses frozen in cold ice.

“I encountered a few ungrateful fellows on the road and settled them in passing.” The Ice Palace Lord said indifferently.

She originally didn’t want to intervene in this battle, after all, she had promised Sword Wuji that she would leave the matter of disposing of Xu Luo to the Drunken Demon, so she had been guarding the door.

Her gaze swept over the dozen or so corpses on the ground, and she said in her heart, ”To have performed the technique of self-detonation at the same time, how heartless!”

She saw the pitch-black barrier that rose up to the sky and was shocked in her heart, she naturally understood what kind of power it took to perform a defensive move.

”It seems that the Young Sect Master has already cultivated the Nine Sepulchre Demon Technique to the point of purity.”

Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but feel a hint of awe in her heart for the Demon Sect Master, that legendary Heavenly Demon.

Jian Wuji looked at the Ice Palace Lord and said in a deep voice, “These people, not only have they bribed the Ice Palace Elders, they have also colluded with the Northern Blood Sect, and have even gone so far as to perform the technique of self-detonation… It seems that their purpose is by no means as simple as it appears.”

The Ice Palace Master’s heart fluttered as she heard the words, and she realized that the situation was even more serious than she had imagined.

She walked up to Xu Luo, looking at this once loyal subordinate, who was now dying, with mixed feelings in her heart.

‘What exactly are you colluding with?’

The Ice Palace Master coldly glanced at Xu Luo and turned to leave, she no longer wanted to say a word to this traitor.

“Cold Pear View ……”

The moment the Ice Palace Master turned to leave, Xu Luo suddenly opened his mouth.

The Ice Palace Master’s figure lurched as she slowly turned around, her gaze icy cold as she stared at Xu Luo.

The corner of Xu Luo’s mouth revealed a bizarre smile as blood continued to gush out from his mouth, looking particularly hideous.

Cold Pearly King, the sister of the Ice Palace Master.

Back then, the Ice Palace Master and her sister competed for the position of Palace Master, and in the end, the kind-hearted sister chose to withdraw and left the North Sea, giving up the position of Palace Master to her sister.

Since then, the Ice Palace Master had never seen his sister again.

It wasn’t that she didn’t miss her sister, it was just that she felt that she was protecting her sister the best by distancing herself from her.

She was worried that if she and her sister got too close, she would get her sister involved in the fight for the position of Palace Master again.

So, she chose to forget, intentionally at first, and then, it became a habit.

It wasn’t until Jian Wuji appeared that she remembered her sister again.

When she learned that Jian Wuji had quelled the internal strife within the Demon Sect without spending a single soldier, she couldn’t help but think of her sister in her heart.

If, back then, she had been like Jian Wuji and found a way to solve the problem peacefully, perhaps, she and her sister wouldn’t have come to this point today.

Thinking of this, the Ice Palace Master’s heart was filled with remorse and self-blame.

And at this moment, the dying Xu Luo even mentioned his sister’s name.

‘Why did he bring up his sister?’

The Ice Palace Master’s heart was filled with doubts.

“I chose you, not Cold Pear View.” Xu Luo looked at the Ice Palace Master, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.

“Do you want to see her?”

This is not the nonsense before death, Xu Luo’s eyes, incomparably clear, as if returning to the light.

‘Could it be, he knows the whereabouts of his sister?’

The Ice Palace Master’s heart shook as she forced herself to hold back the excitement in her heart and said coldly, “I don’t have any interest in her.”

She didn’t want to be led by Xu Luo anymore, she wanted to control her own destiny.

“Is that so?” Xu Luo sneered and said, “What if she has a daughter? A poor girl who doesn’t know who her mother is or that she has an aunt who is the Ice Palace Master?”

“Perhaps, she is somewhere, living a life of upheaval, or perhaps, she has fallen into the world and become a prostitute selling smiles ……”

The Ice Palace Master’s heart ached when she heard this, she couldn’t imagine what kind of life her sister would be living right now if she really had a daughter.

“You shut up!”

The Ice Palace Master could no longer tolerate Xu Luo’s verbal irritation, she slapped her palm out, and a white cold aura, instantly wrapped Xu Luo’s entire body.

“Ah ……”

Xu Luo let out a mournful scream as his body, at a speed visible to the naked eye, was frozen into an ice sculpture.

“Please …… kill me ……”

Xu Luo begged bitterly before he died.

“I won’t let you die so painfully.” The Ice Palace Lord said coldly, “I will let you, in endless pain, die slowly.”

Xu Luo’s miserable screams, became weaker and weaker, and eventually, completely disappeared.