The body temperature of the woman behind him was ice-cold,
It was like the cold of the winter solstice, seeping into one's bones.
There was nothing left in Shiche's arms.
Even the bloodstains that spread on the ground had disappeared.
It was as if the girl who had just fallen in the arms of the blonde man in white was just an illusion.
Abe Haruaki was stunned, and his pupils revealed a look of disbelief.
Then, he lowered his eyes to look at his hollowed out chest.
There was a hole in it, but there was no blood,
But black incanton-like characters floated out of his chest,
They disappeared into the horizon.
That was his dissipating power …
His body was restrained by Lingsu,
Abe Haruaki could only barely turn his head,
He asked the girl behind him in a deep voice, "You weren't stabbed by my sword?"
Lingsu pulled her finger out of his chest and held the bloody heart. She lowered her eyes and narrowed her eyes as she chuckled, "Of course."
"…" Abe Haruaki was silent.
It wasn't fear,
He just felt that he couldn't detect her illusion,
As a result, he had lost a piece in this game of chess.
And it just so happened that..,
This result was something that he didn't foresee, a mistake that he shouldn't have made.
This made his mood a little gloomy.
Losing a heart was a definite death for a human.
But for a demon..,
Other than losing some strength..,
There wouldn't be any fatal injuries.
Back then, Nursery Ladle's liver was dug out by the feathered fox,
At most, it would only cause him to age earlier,
But he didn't lose his life because of this, and he even lived steadily until now.
Not to mention..?
— — he was reborn from the feathered fox's stomach,
He had already lived in hell for who knew how many years.
Therefore, although Abe Haruaki expressed shock that his heart would be dug out..,
He didn't panic at all.
But this action..,
However, it affected the ever-changing battlefield.
Almost at the same time, the Capital Demons who had been sent flying by the spirit power jumped up again, and countless attacks were thrown at Lingsu.
At the same time, Nureyeon also moved. He swung his Nankimaru and slid in front of Lingsu, blocking her attack.
His actions could be said to be within the expectations of most people and demons present.
Nureyeon was stubborn about his mission of "protecting", even if he could choose to avoid harm at times.
Or it could be said that this was a common problem in the Slippery Fellow family. Most of the time, they were stubborn. When they got serious, they would completely ignore reason and logic.
"What a pity," Abe Haruaki said.
Regardless of whether Nureyeon believed what he said before about the workings of the world, he chose to stand on the opposite side of him.
Since that was the case, there was no need for these people and demons to remain.
Abe Haruaki raised his hand and drew a golden pentagram with his fingertips.
Almost at the same time, Lingsu released her fingers from the strands of hair and took a step back.
At the same time, she waved her other hand. With a surge of spirit power, she retrieved the oil-paper umbrella that had fallen to the ground and used it to block in front of her.
Pomelo, Ryuji, and the others could not play any role in such a battle. The moment the two of them confronted each other, Nurarihyon Nurarihyon took away these elite juniors of the Flowerbloom Academy who were treasured by Xiuyuan.
Carrying one in each hand and the rest on his shoulder, he quickly swept to the distant roof and watched from a distance.
Choi and Knee Bolus stood in place without moving.
Their body structure was different from that of humans. Such a clash of spirit power would hurt them, but it wouldn't break their swords.
On the other side, now that the crowd was gone, Leng Su and Abe Seimei's abilities were fully unleashed. Under the nervous gazes of many people, the pentagram and the crimson umbrella finally collided with each other without a sound.
It was a little different from what they had imagined.
When the two forces collided, there was no earth-shattering destructive force, nor was there any earth-shattering sound. Only the red oil-paper umbrella, which looked like it was dripping with blood, swayed without any wind. The red plum blossoms and white snow painted on the umbrella merged with the golden light and bloomed in an instant, cold and charming.
Tsunayoshi was sent flying.
Even the White Orchid had already stepped aside and didn't interfere in the battle between the two.
The silent night was wrapped in a stormy battle and cold killing intent. Although the people couldn't directly see the clash of forces, the feeling of a sharp knife hanging over their hearts was instantaneous. It was like a shadow that pressed down on everyone's nerves, making them tremble involuntarily.
The moon was hidden at some point, and the night wind was getting colder and colder, like a cold viper slithering on one's body. After a while, the heart in Lingsu's hand was suddenly crushed. Blood splattered on her body and the umbrella.
Then she loosened her fingers, lowered the umbrella handle, and closed it.
After the umbrella closed, her pale face was revealed.
She sighed faintly and said, "The Government of the Time isn't a chasm that you can cross."
"There's no place in this world that I can't reach," Abe Haruaki replied.
He retracted his hand, which was covered in cracks. The bones in his hand were shattered, and he couldn't use the Yin-Yang technique anymore.
There was no doubt that the first direct confrontation between the two had resulted in a loss for both sides.
But … on this battlefield, it wasn't just the home field of the two of them.
After the two of them tacitly stopped fighting, Tsunayoshi flew back and said to the White Orchid,
"Did you leak Abe Haruaki's information?"
"Bingo!" The White Orchid snapped his fingers and smiled.
"Why?"
"Why … there's no reason. If I have to say, it's just that I wanted to see the consequences of this."
The White Orchid said, "The Government of the Time really wanted me to see more expressions on their faces."
Lingsu's expression changed slightly.
"What happened when you signed the peace treaty?" she asked.
When the Government of the Time had sent her a letter, it had only said that the peace treaty had broken down.
But in fact, she had always been interested in why the peace treaty had broken down and how it had happened.
In her opinion, there was no such thing as making a decision without a reason. Every person who made a decision must have subconsciously calculated the answer.
As long as he made the choice himself, then there must be a reason behind it.
From his behavior just now, Lingsu didn't think that he would refuse to cooperate with the Government of the Time for no reason.
On the day of the peace treaty, something must have happened to cause the Government of the Time to be hostile to the heir of Marei's ring.
"Oh?
So you guessed it. "
The White Orchid didn't deny her words. He just raised his hand with the ring and looked at it in the dim moonlight, "To be honest, your Government of the Time's internal affairs should be cleaned up.
Just among the people who negotiated with me, there were many groups that represented different interests.
Their incoherent words really made me wonder how they managed to maintain the stability of the modern world for so long. "
He shook his hand with the ring.
Then, it was as if a transparent isolation zone had suddenly formed around him.
Space was separated. Lingsu, Tsunayoshi, Leibaun, Choi, and Knee Bolus were isolated inside, while the people in this world were isolated outside.
This was the heir of Marei's ring, who had absolute control over the laws of time and space in this parallel world. Perhaps, he was also the most suitable person to be chosen by the ring in many years.
Lingsu couldn't see the barrier, but she could feel the range of its existence. This was thanks to her friend who controlled the laws of time and space. She learned a lot when she was with Ling Yi.
The battle between the demons and the Onmyoji continued.
This was a battle between old enemies, but Abe Haruaki had broken away from it.
He didn't care at all whether his subordinates lost or not. He only cared that he was one step closer to the truth of the world.
His every expression was expressed on his face through the muscles of his body. Lingsu observed him for a moment, then turned to the White Orchid and confirmed, "What you told him wasn't everything."
"Maybe." The White Orchid smiled, "That's not important."
He spread the white wings on his back again and flew in front of Lingsu. He bent down and looked deeply into her eyes. His voice was charming and ambiguous, "What's important is you-"
Before he finished speaking, a knife came slashing at him.
The tip of the sword didn't touch anyone's body, but it was already stained with red blood — that was the blood of Shin Maru. Stopping Abe Seimei and enduring the Divine Inquisitor's Spiritual Energy pressure from fighting against others had already caused him to be injured to the point of slander.
But compared to himself, he knew better that from the moment he decided to be loyal to Ji Jun, everything about this girl was more important than his own life.
He wanted to protect her.
"Back off." The Choi unsheathed the Knee Bolus and aimed at the impure White Orchid.
The White Orchid raised an eyebrow, "Your knife is quite protective of its master."
"Because I know how to tame them," Lingsu replied. She didn't seem to have any intention of avoiding the man with the sword.
The White Orchid laughed. His clear voice was slightly drawn out, "So that's how it is."
"But I'm still more interested in you."
He paused for a long time before continuing, "You may not know, but when I first heard your name, it was someone who asked me to investigate you … At that time, I had just awakened my power and was still unstable.
But when I got Marei's ring and became the new heir, you were the catalyst for this incident. "
"Because no matter how many worlds I've crossed and how many people I've met, I've never found your shadow.
This is a very strange phenomenon, because as long as one is human, one will exist in the past and the future. But you don't.
Your time of existence is so clean, so clean that it's as if you didn't exist at all. "
Everything about her was empty. There was no background or information to be found.
All that was left was a legend that had spread far and wide in Huaxia. It was said that there was a Ling Mansion in Qingzhou, and that there was something in the mansion that people yearned for but couldn't get, and that their souls had returned to the River of Forgetfulness.
Although it sounded mysterious and unfathomable, it also seemed as if the entire world had abandoned it.
Behind them was the chaotic battle between the demons and the Onmyoji again. There was also Abe Haruaki, Hidewon, and Nurarihyon, who were blocked outside the barrier.
These people hadn't made any statements, which made the situation even more tangled and complicated.
But it was clear that Lingsu and White Orchid had no intention of paying attention.
After all, the mission was about how to deal with the White Orchid. In fact, they didn't need to keep tangling with the natives of this world.
After a brief silence, the White Orchid suddenly attacked!
The smile in his eyes disappeared. He suddenly raised the hand that wore Marei's Void Ring, and a white flame ignited at the tip of his finger. He aimed it at the Knee Bolus.
A gust of wind suddenly blew between the two of them.
Then, Lingsu tapped the ground with the tip of her foot and rushed forward to the side of the Knee Bolus. She grabbed his shoulder with one hand and opened the umbrella again. It turned in an arc in the air and blocked the White Orchid's attack.
Then she raised the umbrella, and the Knee Bolus rushed out from behind it. She raised the blade and used the umbrella as a shield to rush in front of the White Orchid. She was about to stab him in the throat.
Whoosh!
The White Orchid spread his wings and soared into the air.
"There was once a person who secretly asked me to investigate you, to find out your cause and effect.
But I never found it. So from then on, I became very interested in you — Lingsu. "He flew up and said," Actually, I've been waiting for you here for a long time. "
Under the oil-paper umbrella, Lingsu's eyes slowly narrowed.
"Actually, the Government of the Time's attitude was only a small reason why I refused to sign the contract."
The White Orchid said, "This world is a game to me. I don't care if it's safe or not. I only care if it's interesting or not.
If its collapse can bring about a different kind of color, then I will hate the unchanging life that peace brings. "