Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 687 - 430: Xu Yuan Survived

Chapter 687: Chapter 430: Xu Yuan Survived

The city had become a ruin riddled with sore wounds, and the cries of despair had already spread to every corner of the ancient city with the flames.

The battle between the withered old man and the middle-aged beautiful woman continued, their deranged laughter and the thunderous explosions of spellcraft constantly shaking the sky. Every residual wave of their spells brought disaster to a city block.

Watching the dazzling magic light in the sky, the eyes of Xu Yuan, glowing with strange blood light, gradually became empty until they were filled with the silence of death.

In the darkness that fell over his senses, the last thing he saw was the Black Death Mycelial Mat fluttering and falling through the air like silk.

Just like the unclear residual waves of spellcraft that killed him, until his consciousness dissipated, Xu Yuan could not see what had pierced his brain.

Looking at the brocade-clad young man miles away, whose vitality was gradually fading in the rubble, Taishiran finally allowed his hanging heart to drop back into his stomach, but his hands did not stop moving for a moment.

Delivering the coup de grâce is a necessity for an assassin’s discipline.

As the beginning of a great calamity, it can never be taken too seriously. He could not afford any wishful thinking.

Since Xu Changtian’s life had already ended, he needed to obliterate it completely and leave not even ashes.

However, in the next instant, Taishiran realized he no longer had the chance to make his move.

Previously, to avoid detection by Lou Ji, the Lightning Arc he condensed in his palm used only the minimal amount of Origin Qi to avoid attracting any attention, but the fluctuations released were hard to conceal.

For cultivators at their level, using spellcraft to determine someone’s location was so quick, it almost seemed like an instant.

Lou Ji had already pinpointed his hiding place.

The terrifying pressure, mountainous in its immensity, suddenly bore down on Taishiran. If he forcefully acted against Xu Changtian under such circumstances, he could be struck down and severely injured by the Black Scale Leader in a heartbeat.

After a brief moment of decision-making, Taishiran gave up the idea of continuing to obliterate the evidence.

Mortal Transcendence and Soul Condensation were as different as heaven and earth.

Although Xu Changtian’s body had only a small hole in his brow, the instant the purple Lightning Arc touched his body, the Dao Charm it carried severed all of Xu Changtian’s bodily vitality.

Unless this Xu Changtian was one of those anomalies that appear once in ten thousand years, but quite clearly, he was not.

Before acting, Taishiran had already used an Energy Mechanism to confirm that the other was merely a human.

Even for a human as mighty as one in the Primordial stage, survival would be impossible with a destroyed brain, let alone a mere Soul Condensing...

As these thoughts passed through his mind, Taishiran’s gaze inadvertently swept towards the location of Xu Yuan’s body. His eyebrows, which had just relaxed, now furrowed again.

In his perception, the brownish-red material that had emerged around Xu Changtian’s body to form a shield against his Lightning Arc had not dissipated with Xu Yuan’s death.

He had thought it was a life-saving Magic Artifact given to Xu Changtian by the Prime Minister’s Mansion, but now it seemed there was a spirit with its own consciousness.

And now, that spirit was attempting to heal the hole in Xu Changtian’s brow.

Even though Taishiran was fairly certain that Xu Changtian had become a corpse, the fact that he was the instigator of a great disaster and the eerie scene before him still made him feel uneasy.

"Are you getting lost in thought in front of me?"

In a moment of distraction, the enchanting silhouette suddenly appeared, and the indifferent and frosty female voice already came from behind him.

Taishiran heard the voice without a trace of fear in his eyes.

He was waiting for Lou Ji to lose her rationale.

For mortals, anger could make one forget physical pain in hand-to-hand combat, but for cultivators, anger during a fight only led to a quicker death.

Without hesitation, he cast the spell he had readied in an instant. A purple Lightning Arc surged from his arm, its powerful force sweeping across several burning streets, and along with the flames, the remnants of broken walls and limbs were scoured by the purple lightning, turned to a vacuum!

After his strike, Taishiran felt a sudden sinking feeling in his heart.

He had missed...

Looking back in enlightenment, Lou Ji remained suspended mid-air, having not moved an inch, only the seductive purple light in her snakelike eyes had become more eerie and profound.

Seeing this, Taishiran immediately realized that the voice and the Energy Mechanism were likely the abilities of Lou Ji’s mysterious Dao Domain.

He was already caught within her Dao Domain.

While keeping vigilant, Taishiran said aloud:

"Chief Lou’s cold-blooded reputation is well-deserved. It seems that even Xu Changtian is nothing more than negligible to you, Chief Lou. He’s dead, and yet you can maintain such a cold heart."

As he spoke, Taishiran’s own Dao Domain unfolded, and countless Lightning Arcs appeared out of thin air, enveloping a hundred-yard radius around him.

Lou Ji’s capabilities were unknown, and he had already been enveloped by her Dao Domain. If he didn’t respond properly, she could easily kill him.

"......"

Listening to the man’s mockery below, Lou Ji’s expression remained as calm as ever:

"Are you sure you can afford to provoke me right now?"

A slight smile curled at the corner of Taishiran’s lips beneath his iron mask, his voice cheerful:

"So, Chief Lou, are you planning to fight the five of us alone? If you die here too, Minister Xu will have lost an arm....."

"Fool, don’t try to provoke a cold-hearted woman like Lou Ji."