Swing the sword at the future female devil

Chapter 458 The balance of offense and defense is different!

"Many of my subordinates have advised that since Duan Huaige has been identified as the key, we should eliminate this hidden danger, Fairy, to prevent future troubles. But I have a feeling that things are not that simple. Fairy's ambitions are probably far more than just Duan Huaige, aren't they?" He stared intently into Taiqing's eyes, trying to catch a glimpse of his emotions.

"I want an answer. If you can satisfy me, I can let you go."

Taiqing listened quietly, and the mocking smile on that strangely beautiful face gradually widened, eventually turning into a chilling, utterly insane madness!
"Let me go?" She felt as if she had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world, and an eerie blood-red light flickered violently in her eyes.

"You frogs at the bottom of a well, how dare you presume to fathom my schemes?!"

Her voice suddenly rose, carrying a kind of world-destroying arrogance and unrestrained madness: "Duan Huaige? He is nothing but a pawn! A trigger! What I want is to completely open the Kunlun Heavenly Road! To activate the Origin of the Ruins Nightmare sealed in the deepest part of Kunlun Ruins! To let that destructive torrent, which is enough to devour all worlds and bury everything, flow back to the Heavenly Profound Sacred Land along the Heavenly Road passage!"

She suddenly stood up, her fiery red palace dress billowing without wind, her long hair dancing wildly, and a terrifying pressure swept through the entire secret chamber as if it were a tangible force! The suspended Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Bone Lamp flickered violently with its pale light!

"I want to see it with my own eyes! To see those hypocritical, treacherous bastards! To see that filthy, defiled so-called 'holy land' that sacrificed me! To see it wail in agony under the endless ravages of destruction! To see it turn into cosmic dust! Eternal annihilation is their only destiny!!"

Taiqing's voice was like a curse from the deepest hell, filled with a mad urge to destroy everything, "As for this small pond where spiritual energy is reviving? Ha... it's just a spark that ignites the flames of revenge, an appetizer before the feast of the Nightmare! Destruction is its destined end!"

boom!
Like a thunderclap, the words exploded in Chief Zhang's mind! The calm and tentative look on his face were instantly replaced by boundless horror and fear! Destroy the world?! Trigger the Nightmare of Ruins to flood the Holy Land?! This demoness is a complete madwoman! What she wants is to drag all the worlds down with her!
"I misjudged you. Cooperating with you isn't like dealing with a tiger for its skin; it's like dancing with a madman!" Chief Zhang's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he no longer hesitated! What cooperation, what power—none of it matters in the face of this world-destroying madness! This greatest threat must be eliminated first!

He wants power and strength, but what use are they if everything is destroyed?

"Destroy!" Chief Zhang roared and pressed a button. The Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Lamp in the center of the secret room was activated at lightning speed. Under the shroud of spiritual power, it seemed to be about to completely crush the witch's remnant soul!

The Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Lamp erupted with an unprecedented pale light! Countless pale light strands containing the power to suppress and destroy souls shot out from the lamp, instantly wrapping around Taiqing! Wherever the light touched, the space itself groaned under its unbearable weight!

However, faced with this terrifying attack capable of instantly annihilating the soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator, Taiqing's face revealed an even more mocking and cold smile. "This broken lamp? You think you can destroy me?"

She didn't even dodge! She simply slowly raised a slender hand, and in her palm, a palm-sized ancient fragment, neither gold nor jade, depicting a scene of shattered mountains and rivers, suddenly lit up! A vast, boundless spatial power, seemingly bearing the weight of the rise and fall of countless ages, erupted with a deafening roar!

Om-! ! !
A layer of pale golden light, visible to the naked eye and flowing with the illusory images of mountains and rivers, instantly enveloped Taiqing! Those pale white light strands, powerful enough to annihilate souls, collided with this pale golden light and melted away instantly, like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, emitting a piercing melting sound! Even the pale light of the Soul-Suppressing Lamp was firmly blocked by this halo of mountains and rivers, unable to penetrate an inch!

"The Map of Mountains and Rivers?!" Chief Zhang screamed, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets! He recognized the aura of the fragment—it was the precious fragment that the Zen sect had recently lost! But he never expected that Taiqing could refine it so quickly and make it his own!
This was no longer a simple cage trapping her soul; it had transformed into a supreme talisman protecting her divine soul and even granting her a portion of spatial entity! The restraint the Soul-Suppressing Lamp exerted on her had been greatly reduced!

"Now, it's my turn." Taiqing's icy voice was like the pronouncement of death. Her eyes, burning with ghostly blue soul flames, suddenly locked onto the terrified Chief Zhang!
Without any movement, just a glance! Two extremely condensed blood-red soul flames, as if traversing the distance of space, instantly disappeared into the depths of Chief Zhang's pupils!

"Ugh—!" Chief Zhang let out an extremely shrill scream, as if his soul had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer! He felt as if his consciousness was being devoured by countless venomous insects! A cold, venomous mark filled with destructive will—the "Seed of Demonic Thought"—was forcibly implanted into the deepest part of his soul!

This brand, like a leech, is firmly rooted and could explode at any moment, scattering his soul to the winds! Even more terrifying is that it is like a relentless whisperer, constantly instilling destruction, madness, and a twisted thirst for power into his consciousness!

thump!
The once arrogant military leader, the supreme controller of Kunlun Ruins, now knelt heavily on the ground like a dead dog with its spine ripped out! He held his head in his hands, his face twisted and contorted with extreme pain and fear, tears streaming down his face. Where was the slightest trace of his previous majesty and scheming?
"No...don't kill me! Fairy, spare me! Spare me!" Chief Zhang's voice was hoarse and trembling, filled with primal fear and an infinite longing for life. He remembered how he had climbed step by step from a struggling commoner at the bottom of society, barely surviving, to his current position of power and influence, where he held the lives of countless people in his hands!
He possessed wealth, power, and strength unimaginable to ordinary people! He hadn't enjoyed it enough! He wanted immortality! He wanted to control even greater power! He absolutely could not die here!
Taiqing looked down at Zhang Dingyuan, who was begging for mercy like a lump of mud, without a trace of pity in her eyes. She toyed with the fragments of the Jiangshan Sheji Map between her fingers, the blood-red light in her eyes slowly fading.

“Remember your words, Zhang Dingyuan.” Her voice carried a hint of cruelty. “Your life is temporarily entrusted to me. Proceed according to plan, lure Duan Huaige to the core of the boundary marker… If there is the slightest mishap, or if he harbors any disloyalty again…” Her fingertips twitched slightly.

"No! No! Absolutely not! Rest assured, Fairy! I will definitely do it! I will definitely do it!"

"And..." Taiqing paused for a moment, then a strange smile appeared on his lips: "Send someone to bring that little girl surnamed Zhang from Longhu Mountain over here... On the grounds that she may have something I left on her, have her come to Kunlun Ruins for inspection."

(End of this chapter)