Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1271 - 1271 0731 Perish Together

Chapter 1271: Chapter 0731: Perish Together Chapter 1271: Chapter 0731: Perish Together Chapter 0731: Mutual Destruction

Nine ghost faces encircled Wang Fengna tightly, each one with a hideous expression as if ready to choose someone to devour. They all waited for Qi Tian to give them a clear command, after which they would rush forward to tear Wang Fengna into pieces, leaving no chance for her to escape.

As Wang Fengna faced these ghost faces, she could hardly claim to be calm; that would certainly be a lie. She forced herself not to look at the nine ghost faces, instead looking at Qi Tian and saying, “Sir, we’ve only met once before, with no deep hatred or significant conflict between us. What are you planning to do by surrounding me with so many ghostly beings?”

Qi Tian’s current appearance was his true face, hidden by disguise when he was enslaved by Wang Fengna before entering the Imperial Family Secret Territory. Perhaps Wang Fengna had failed to make the connection, and Qi Tian had no intention of explaining anything to her. He knew this woman’s character better than anyone; even if there was no existing enmity, if he let her go today, she would definitely seek revenge a hundredfold in the future, and then she wouldn’t reason with him.

Qi Tian, without any superfluous words, just waved his hand coldly. The nine ghost faces understood his intentions and, like a swarm of wasps leaving their nest, rushed towards Wang Fengna.

If looks could kill, Qi Tian would have already been slain by Wang Fengna multiple times.

Wang Fengna secretly vowed that if she could escape this calamity, she would make sure Qi Tian paid dearly. She would kill everyone associated with Qi Tian, without leaving a single survivor.

Wang Fengna was not resigned to dying at Qi Tian’s hands. At such a life-or-death moment, she deployed all her fighting power without holding back. She controlled the flying sword in her hand, wore the Nascent Soul Stage battle armor, and was protected by a defense magic array above the Half-step Nascent Soul level. At this moment, as the deputy leader of the Eight Pill Alliance, she demonstrated her profound background.

But human effort has its limits. No matter how hard Wang Fengna tried, her foundation was set; even relying on the Nascent Soul Stage battle armor, she could only utilize the defense to less than that of the Nascent Soul Stage level. After all, she was merely a cultivator at the peak of the Gold Core Stage Seventh Level and had just obtained the battle armor, which she couldn’t fully exploit. As for other aspects, especially combat power, she was far from the Nascent Soul Stage.

The nine ghost faces sent by Qi Tian were mostly at the Nascent Soul Level, although just at the First Level of the Nascent Soul Stage. This was still far beyond Wang Fengna.

The ghost faces were highly skilled in combat, needing no direction from Qi Tian. They naturally split into two groups, one attacking the defense magic array Wang Fengna had set up around herself, while the other ignored the array and passed directly through it to confront Wang Fengna.

Wang Fengna was furious, unable to believe that her defense magic array had been utterly ineffective. How could it be that the ghost faces hadn’t even been slightly obstructed before passing through?

What Wang Fengna didn’t know was that her defense magic array had flaws and was not perfect. To cultivators at the Gold Core Stage, it might have seemed formidable, but to the Nascent Soul Stage ghost faces, it was not impenetrable. In a short time, they could find an unobstructed path to pass through. This was the vast gap between their realms and perspectives; Wang Fengna, who had not cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage, could not appreciate this point.

If the ghost faces reached Wang Fengna, what that entailed was self-evident.

Wang Fengna was crystal clear about this; once the ghost faces got close, her doom was inevitable. In her eyes, a sharp light flickered. Surrendering to Qi Tian was out of the question, and being torn apart by ghost faces to become their nourishment was even more unacceptable. In that instant, Wang Fengna made up her mind. A strong surge of Spirit Force radiated from her, and a golden light burst forth from her Dantian, shining in every direction.

The well-informed ghost faces immediately realized that Wang Fengna was about to self-destruct, intending to drag some of them down with her in death. The ghost faces swiftly retreated, putting distance between themselves and Wang Fengna.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Fengna exploded violently, her body bursting like a bomb, with flesh and bone scattering in all directions.

Before Qi Tian could feel any regret about Wang Fengna’s self-destruction, the Heavenly Dao Engine’s sensing function for Spirit Qi suddenly locked onto something. It shot out like an arrow released from a bow, moving even faster than the Rescue Jade Talisman, flying from Wang Fengna’s last position towards the core area’s exit.

Qi Tian inwardly cursed, “Not good.” From the three-dimensional image fed back to him by the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian instantly discerned what the object speeding out was. He had once seen such a treasure in Wanjie Commerce in Wanjie City; its purpose was to offer the wearer a slim chance of survival when facing unavoidable danger, a way out of certain death.