The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 612 [Wan Luo]

puff.

There was a sharp pain in my chest.

The Grand Master was startled. She had been fully focused on defending against Ji Tianrui's attack—even though her vision had been destroyed by the Gu poison, she was certain that Ji Tianrui hadn't made any move at all!
It's not true qi!

It's definitely not a hidden weapon!
What exactly hurt her?
Is this Xuanlan, the demonic enchantress?
But in previous battles, she had clearly injured him severely several times, and even almost killed him once... Why has Ji Tianrui never used this method!
What exactly is her Xuanlan connected to—Mount Sumeru, the Iris, or Vajra?
The Grand Master raised his hand to cover his wound. The wound wasn't deep, but he could clearly feel a cold, damp sensation spreading from it.

This feeling was all too familiar to her—it was poison!
"【Wanluo】".

In a daze, she heard Ji Tianrui chuckle softly.

"This is my Xuanlan."

"As for the realm of life cultivation that I am involved with."

"It is Mount Sumeru."

Sumeru?

The chief priest was taken aback.

Her first reaction was that Ji Tianrui was lying.

Although the Xuanlan realm encompasses everything and varies from person to person, those who are connected to the same path of life cultivation will naturally have similarities.

Sumeru is a realm of boundless power and the unleashing of immense true energy.

How could Xuanlan, who is connected to Sumeru, be so strange? How could he inject Gu poison? Gu techniques and martial arts are fundamentally incompatible!
Overwhelmed with anger, she took a step forward.

"you--"

No sooner had she spoken than Ji Tianrui chuckled softly.

puff!

The viewpoint is tilted to one side.

The excruciating pain surged into her mind the next instant. She had no feeling below her right knee, and a burning pain shot through the severed area. Her left leg had been inexplicably severed as well.

The broken leg was a minor matter; what was truly fatal was that a massive amount of Gu poison entered her body through the broken leg, causing the existing Gu poison to run rampant within her.

The injury, which had already been forcibly suppressed, began to stir again.

She can only strike once.

But Ji Tianrui's attack methods were unpredictable, and she didn't even get close. At such a distance, even if she unleashed her final sword strike, Ji Tianrui could easily dodge it.

At the end of one's rope.

She has truly lost.

An ordinary celestial being might have surrendered and accepted death, but out of faith in Amaterasu, this near-desperate situation awakened her sanity like a final burst of energy before death.

"【Wanluo】...in the Central Plains dialect, it means all-encompassing."

"Since it connects to Sumeru, it means that her Xuanlan is related to some kind of property of true qi... concealment, invisibility, is that the property of her true qi?"

"But if that's all there is to it, why didn't you use it at the beginning of the fight... and how could you have injected the poison into my body?"

The Grand Master's mind raced.

Having inherited the legacy of Amaterasu, her understanding of the realm of sexual cultivation far surpasses that of everyone in the world, even exceeding that of Li Miao and Ji Tianrui. But the more she possesses this understanding, the more chaotic her conjectures become, and she is unable to arrive at a conclusion that can unify all the clues.

She searched her memory for all the stories in the Central Plains classics that mentioned "Wanluo", but found nothing.

The poisonous Gu venom is becoming increasingly rampant.

Even the strength to unleash her final sword strike began to be forcibly eroded and worn away, and her mind became increasingly muddled.

"what exactly is it……"

Unraveling the secret of Ji Tianrui's Xuanlan Realm has become her final obsession.

"Ai……"

A sigh sounded in front of her, only a foot away; it was Ji Tianrui's voice.

Swish—clang!

The Grand Master instinctively drew his sword, but was suddenly pressed down by a warm, soft hand, which forcibly pushed the blade back into its sheath.

“You can no longer unleash that final strike,” Ji Tianrui said with a light laugh.

Suddenly, the Grand Master lost his strength, his body went limp, and he finally collapsed to the ground with a thud.

The hem of her skirt brushed against her face.

Ji Tianrui stepped over her and walked towards the main hall of Ise Grand Shrine.

On her deathbed, she suddenly mustered her last bit of strength and desperately grabbed Ji Tianrui's skirt, murmuring in a hoarse and weak voice.

"What is..."

"Your Xuanlan... [Wanluo], what exactly is it..."

She had expected Ji Tianrui to break free of her hand, not to answer, and to walk directly into the main hall of Ise Grand Shrine.

But the next moment, she heard Ji Tianrui say with a light laugh.

"Didn't I tell you?"

"【Wanluo】, the secrets of my Xuanlan realm are all laid bare in my name."

The chief priest coughed and managed to say something.

"No...you lied to me, didn't you..."

"In the classics of the Central Plains, 'Wanluo' only means 'all things under heaven,' which is absolutely not the truth about your Xuanlan realm... You are lying..."

But then Ji Tianrui chuckled again.

"You've guessed in the wrong direction, so naturally you won't find the answer... When did I ever say that my Xuanlan realm name was only related to Central Plains classics?"

The chief priest was suddenly taken aback.

She was very intelligent and well-read; otherwise, she could not have stood out among the imperial bloodline and taken over the highest position among the priests of Ise Grand Shrine.

She understood everything in an instant.

Regarding why Ji Tianrui didn't use [Wanluo] to fight her at the beginning, regarding why the realm of connecting with Sumeru was still accompanied by Gu poison, and regarding why she couldn't detect Ji Tianrui's attack.

Wanluo has also appeared in Japanese classical texts.

In the Japanese classic "Wamei Ruijusho," which is similar to the Chinese classic "Erya," a type of insect is called "Wanluo."

spider.

She released her grip on Ji Tianrui's skirt and tremblingly reached up to touch the top of her head.

laugh!
The finger broke off, and at the same time, a trace of poison seeped into the body through the severed finger.

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the poison that had already spread throughout her body was instantly detonated, devouring her last shred of consciousness.

In her final moments before death, she finally understood what Ji Tianrui's "Wanluo" truly was.

It was a transparent spider web.

As the two fought, invisible and intangible true energy gradually filled the surroundings. Unaware of this, she continued her desperate battle with Ji Tianrui, while Ji Tianrui's invisible true energy spread even more tightly.

She was like a small insect caught in a spider's web; the more she struggled, the tighter the web bound her.

The source of the Gu poison was Ji Tianrui's blood.

Her blood was full of Gu poison, which spread out during the fight and gradually infected the surrounding spider webs, coating them with the poison.

The more injured Ji Tianrui is, the more venomous the spider web becomes. The more her opponent struggles to survive, the deeper she slides into the abyss.

Before the spider web was fully laid, Ji Tianrui did not activate this method. She waited patiently, like a spider, waiting for her prey to bind herself tighter and tighter.

Until the spider web was formed—*splat*.

Inject venom into the prey's body.

The realm of profound contemplation is determined by the holder's own mind.

If she had figured this out sooner... she might not have lost.

Filled with deep despair and regret, the Grand Master stopped breathing.

Ji Tianrui then entered the main hall of Ise Grand Shrine.

(End of this chapter)