Otherworldly Evil Monarch

“No matter what I’ve done, Ling Meng is ultimately the only woman I, Li You Ran, think highly of!” Li You Ran declared calmly, not backing down at all.

“You still dare to say that? You despicable, shameless hypocrite! I’m going to kill you!” Dugu Xiao Yi yelled angrily and suddenly soared into the air! Her slender body formed a beautiful arc that cut across the air, and with a sudden toss of her sleeves, she brandished a knife that flashed and cut down like a bolt of lightning!

It was like a flash of lighting across azure skies, but surreal like a dream and beautiful like an fantasy, but cold with the intention to kill!

The First Knife of Tian Xiang! Pocket Knives! The first stroke: Pocket Knife Soft Winnowing!

A knife skill that stepped across two worlds! Taught and personally imparted by Jun Mo Xie!

At the sight of such an extraordinary use of the knife, even the three Saints who had vast experiences couldn’t hide their surprise! So gorgeous and ethereal, yet also formidable—what a wondrous knife skill! Even with all three of them combined in knowledge and experience, this was something they had never seen before!

Li You Ran did not expect this girl to actually brandish a knife and start killing, so he was in a poor situation! He quickly tilted his head back, and a few strands of hair were cut off and blown away by the wind.

Dugu Xiao Yi had gotten the first strike in one stroke, so she continued to rain attacks continuously in an imposing manner! The second stroke: Pocket Knife Fragrance; the third stroke: Pocket Knife dream… Followed by Pocket Knife Clouds, Pocket Knife Dance…

The three Saints were completely dazzled and stunned, constantly praising as they watched on, completely engrossed. Dugu Xiao Yi’s negligible Xuan cultivation was naturally not interesting, but her knife skills were really exquisite! They even felt like they could see some essence of martial arts in the way she used knives, but it wasn’t complete enough for them to be able to distinguish it, which showed that the profoundness of this set of knife skills was way beyond their knowledge and experiences.

Li You Ran was in an extremely pathetic state, incessantly complaining in his head! His Xuan Cultivation level was originally a few times higher than Dugu Xiao Yi. But over this period of time, Dugu Xiao Yi had been shoving all sorts of divine medication and pills into her mouth as if she were eating candies, so she had improved greatly, seemingly not weaker than Li You Ran. Coupled with such clever knife skills, even though she was still lacking in experience, it was not difficult!

Dugu Xiao Yi did her best to exhibit all that she had learnt, steadily gaining the upper hand. She felt awfully high-spirited; she had been bullying others all her life, but she had never felt this sort of gratification! And she was now bullying someone whom she had always disliked! In the past, she wanted to bully him, but she couldn’t win… But now… Hehehehe…. A feeling like this was too darn good!

So her attacks became more ferocious and imposing. Li You Ran suddenly screamed, stumbling back and losing all his deportment. His legs turned into jelly and he fell onto his butt!

“Pocket Knife Destroy Dreams!” Dugu Xiao Yi shouted, attacking as quickly and fiercely as lightning and thunder, aiming at the top of Li You Ran’s head! Li You Ran felt the wind from the knife brush against his face. His heart turned cold and he thought: Am I actually going to die here today?

Suddenly Chi Tian Feng moved and stopped the pocket knife with two of his fingers when it was a few inches away from Li You Ran’s scalp. Using a little bit of strength, he snatched it from the girl. He looked at it and marveled, “Truly excellent knives; excellent knife skills!”

Then he gently tossed the knife back to Dugu Xiao Yi and spoke gently, “Young lady, when it is possible to let people off, one should spare them; always leave a chance — it will be better if you cross paths with each other again!” Then he pulled Li You Ran up and said, “Let’s go!”

Li You Ran was still in a shocked daze; only after they had exited the doors of the Jun Residence had he regained his senses and finally noticed that there was something off about the three Saints’ expressions.

Right before they had walked out of the Jun Residence, Cui Chang He had even crushed a floor tile with his steps!

Looking at their clothes, their backs were completely soaked! In such a cold winter weather!

What was happening?

“That was a close call!” Chi Tian Feng finally groaned after heaving a sigh. This Saint couldn’t help but lift his hand to wipe the cold sweat off his face.

“Close call?” Li You Ran asked in surprise. Which part was dangerous? How come I didn’t notice even the slightest danger? Could he mean that encounter I had just now? That was too unlikely; based on the abilities of three Saints, although the girl’s abilities were beyond what I had expected, there shouldn’t be any danger?

“It really was a narrow escape!” Sa Qing Liu sighed and glared at Li You Ran. Snapping at him, he said “We three almost lost our lives thanks to you! But you’re still completely unaware of it!”

“Huh?” Li You Ran was really surprised now.

“If my guess is not wrong, Jun Mo Xie’s mysterious master was in that courtyard we entered!” Cui Chang He rubbed his head and sighed before continuing. “It was truly beyond our expectations! Did you not notice that in that courtyard, not a single thing made sense? Not a single thing was something you’ve seen or heard of before? Be it objects or people!”

“Sharp, as expected!” Chi Tian Feng looked up to the skies for a long time before letting out a deep sigh. It was only now that the three of them felt more relaxed.

Li You Ran, on the other hand, felt like he was listening to a heavenly book, completely confused and understanding nothing. He didn’t know what these three old men were saying. Even if there were things that did not obey the seasons, that was no reason to be so frightened, right?

“Roses go in full bloom in the summer! This was the first abnormality! In the eyes of most people, it is just an usual scenery, but in our eyes, it is an act of defying the heavens! Something like this is the same as snow falling in the month of June or thunder during winter!” Chi Tian Feng said a heavy tone, raising a finger.

“The two children talked with their bellies since they were unable to talk with their mouths—this was the second abnormality!” Sa Qing Liu continued. “This is something beyond comprehension! In the millions of years of Xuan Xuan continent, there has never been such an odd situation! A martial art of such peculiarity!

“Third is that Princess Ling Meng that was lying in bed.” Cui Chang He sighed. “It is not that she cannot wake up, but someone intentionally prevented her from waking up! This person used a skillful method to control her body to make her fall into a deep sleep and controlled extremely minute areas within her body. I am second to none when it comes to medical knowledge, but even when faced with such a situation, I am unable to be of help! Because as long as some abnormal Xuan Qi is poured into her, her body will be damaged forever without any chance of recovery!

“And those exquisite knife skills of that girl! They have never appeared in this world! If not for the girl having negligible abilities, had the person using those knife skills had the cultivation level of even a first level Venerable, even we may not be able to save you easily!

“And that rank eight Iron Winged Panther cub! This..This..This is something that is completely impossible! But they had all happened before our eyes!” The three Saints looked at each other with a complicated expression in their eyes after sharing these abnormalities.

“Huh?” Li You Ran was really surprised and shocked!

He had never expected that there were so many mysteries embedded in those abnormal occurrences that he had seen along the way!

It must be known that Li You Ran had superb wisdom and unique vision, and was capable of finding opportunities and devising strategies and winning battles thousands of miles away. He was smooth and slick enough to make everything go his way!

But he also has his weakness, and it was a fatal one. That was that his Xuan cultivation level was not high! This severely restricted his experiences and knowledge! All the things the Saints had noticed—he couldn’t! Even if he had seen it, he wouldn’t have been able to understand it.

Though the Saints had noticed so much, but truly, it was just them scaring themselves. Li You Ran was unaware, but he was more at ease than them, and this was a blessing on its own…

Ignorance was bliss!

“Let’s go. We need to reconsider and assess with regards as to how to go about handling the Jun Family! After we go back, contact the six Saints from the Illusory Blood Sea and the Elusive World of Immortals immediately. We need to meet and discuss our plot in detail. Looks like the situation is worse, much much worse, than what we had expected.”

Chi Tian Feng turned around and looked at the dense aura covering and hovering about the Jun Residence and sighed deeply. He said weakly, “I had originally expected before coming that it was definitely dangerous. But I had never expected that it could be this treacherous! Now, I can confirm, that the unrivalled master hiding in the Jun Residence is definitely that person!”

Sa Qing Liu and Cui Chang He shivered and said at the same time, “Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master!”

“Is this Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master very powerful?” Li You Ran was a little puzzled. “Compared to a few Saints, could he be…” Li You Ran didn’t continue his sentence, feeling like it was a little insulting to make a statement like this.

“Saints?” Chi Tian Feng scoffed coldly. “In the hands of the Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master, what are Saints?”

“In the Supreme Golden City, there are two disabled Saints: one has a huge gaping hole in his chest and the other lost half of his skull… Although they managed to survive with great difficulty through their Xuan skills and stubborn lives, it’s already been hundreds of years, but they are still unable to recover their original state!”

Cui Chang He sighed and added, “You have to know that for a Saint, as long as your spirit is still intact and you have not lost your life, you can regenerate and grow back your disabled limbs elsewhere… But of the Saints that were injured in the hands of the Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master, not a single one was able to recover….”

“The Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master….” Li You Ran repeated this name, and his heart completely shocked! To think that there was such a terrifying existence in this world!

The four continued to head back without a word. Chi Tian Feng only sent a single order: All nine Saints must gather and meet tonight! If this matter is not discussed thoroughly, in the event that we engage in battle, the entire Tian Xiang City and its surroundings within a thousand mile radius will be completely destroyed! And the thing most concerning is whether the nine of us stand a chance of victory! There is the danger of overturning at any moment!

We definitely must not act recklessly!

…

On the other side, in the snowy mountains, Jun Mo Xie was extremely worried! He looked at the people of Blizzard Silver City working hard to rebuild Blizzard Silver City and clean up the ruins, but Han Feng Xue has completely disappeared! And he was being held back by Xue Shuang Qing, who was bombarding him with questions, worrying if he was feeling warm or cold. Her diligence in trying to take care of him was almost catching up to his mother….

Jun Mo Xie was getting a little impatient and annoyed. I’m a second level Venerable—no cold or heat can get to me; can I still possibly get a cold?

Finally, Han Zhan Meng couldn’t continue watching and interrupted, asking her to go prepare some food. Jun Mo Xie let out a sigh of relief, then snuck off secretly. Checking that no one was paying attention, he disappeared in a flash…