Chapter 3627: Cost
Chapter 3627: Cost
Young Master Ronghua knew exactly what Wen Yan was planning. A cold, sinister laugh escaped his throat. Wen Yan laughed right back.
Ronghua’s expression was quite unsightly as he pointed at Ning Shu. “I will accept my punishment, but what about her? She fought as well.”
“These two shall be completely obliterated.” Tai Shu pointed his gun at both Ning Shu and Hong Yu.
Hong Yu turned deathly pale, looking as if she were facing a formidable enemy. “Why only me? Ah Wan… Ah Wan fought too!”
Hong Yu was indignant. By what right? By what right!?
She refused to die!
She had worked so hard to get to this point. Her journey was filled with every imaginable hardship.
What Hong Yu found most unbearable was that Ah Wan was apparently fine while she was to be obliterated. By what right?
What kind of backer did Ah Wan have that allowed her to escape with only a symbolic punishment while Hong Yu faced total erasure?
Ning Shu pressed her lips together tightly. Was she really going to be completely obliterated this time?
Ah Wan must have already constructed her own world, with millions of living beings sharing her fate.
“Tai Shu, we were in the wrong. Hong Yu didn’t do it on purpose. Give me some face and let her go.” Having received Hong Yu’s distress signal, Wen Yan spoke up to Tai Shu.
“Do you want to die in her place?” Tai Shu looked at him with an expressionless gaze.
Wen Yan’s mouth twitched, and Hong Yu was instantly plunged into despair. Looking at the high-and-mighty Ah Wan standing nearby, Hong Yu’s heart burned with rage and jealousy.
Staring into the dark muzzle of the gun, Hong Yu was overcome with terror. Faced with the threat of death, she dropped to her knees. “I’m sorry! Give me another chance, I beg of you!”
Hong Yu wept with such a pitiable beauty that it was hard not to feel moved. Wen Yan’s heart ached as he watched her. To him, seeing a beauty suffer was simply a sin.
Tai Shu didn’t even blink. He kept the gun leveled at Hong Yu. Her jade-like face was twisted with fear.
“I beg you, I know I was wrong! I won’t ever do it again!” Hong Yu crawled toward Tai Shu. Her movements were graceful and elegant, and she looked like a goddess from the highest heavens.
Tai Shu fired and directly obliterated Hong Yu as she approached. He reached out and collected her soul power.
Wen Yan frowned. A flower-like beauty had been snuffed out just like that.
Now that Hong Yu was dead, it was her turn.
Even as the embodiment of an ordinance, she had no way to control her own destiny.
Tai Shu coldly turned the gun toward Ning Shu. Her pupils constricted, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably under the crushing weight of his pressure.
The thick scent of death filled the air. It felt as though her entire life was about to be brought to a permanent halt.
The onlookers all thought to themselves that the City of Water was about to get another new city lord.
Tai Shu fired a shot directly at the center of Ning Shu’s brow. He intended to destroy her soul and the ordinance imprint simultaneously.
The people nearby lamented the waste. In a situation like this, the water ordinance imprint should have been preserved.
Ning Shu watched the destructive power fly toward her, yet she couldn’t move. Though a soul should not feel the cold, she felt a bone-chilling frost and heard the siren song of death.
Flashes of her life raced before her eyes.
She looked at the cold Tai Shu and pulled her mouth into a grimace. Since she was about to be erased from existence anyway, she decided she would use her ordinance power one last time to kill everyone present.
The destructive energy passed through Ning Shu’s head, but it only hit an afterimage.
Tai Shu frowned as he watched the afterimage slowly dissipate.
“Crap,” Tai Shu cursed under his breath. With a flash, he vanished.
“Is she dead?” Wen Yan asked. Ah Wan focused her senses. “No. The City of Water still has a master.”
Fire and water were incompatible, so Ah Wan could sense that the water ordinance embodiment was still alive.
“She actually escaped the hunt… but she’s a dead woman sooner or later.” Ronghua looked at the ruins of the auction house.
“I wasted half of my soul power. Who knows when I’ll be able to recover it?” Wen Yan sighed. “I’m leaving. I gained nothing and lost half my soul power. Plus, a lovely beauty is gone. How depressing.”
Young Master Ronghua gave Wen Yan a sinister look and was the first to leave.
When Ning Shu returned to the system space, she was in a total daze. It took a long time for her to regain her senses. She sat frozen like a wooden statue, her eyes not even moving.
Tears began to fall uncontrollably. Ning Shu collapsed onto the sofa and began to wail.
Damn it all. She had truly thought she was going to die.
“What are you crying for? I’m the one who should be crying,” 2333 said in an exhausted voice.
Ning Shu wiped the tears from her face and then began to laugh. She laughed uncontrollably, her body curling into a ball. “I’m not dead. I’m not dead!”
“2333, thank you for saving me,” Ning Shu said. She didn’t know who else would have stepped in to save her.
That was the consequence of snatching someone from the hands of the god of death.
“To save you, I basically gave up half my life. I paid a massive price. I really don’t want to have my memory erased again and have my soul power drained to start over.”
“Stay away from that adjudicator guy in the future. He is practically the king of the underworld. You escaped this time, but there’s no telling about the next. In short, you owe him a life,” 2333 said.
Ning Shu wiped away the tears she had laughed out. “I know. When will I be able to kill him?”
“Well, based on your current abilities compared to his, your chances of killing him are approximately zero. Until you have real strength, just tuck your tail between your legs and behave,” 2333 replied. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to save you a second time.”
“Oh. I know.” Ning Shu used her fingers to push the corners of her mouth up into a smile. As long as she was alive, there were infinite possibilities.
Tai Shu… hahaha!
Wen Yan and Young Master Ronghua, who had also started the trouble, were only punished with the loss of half their soul power.
That was the privilege of the strong.
Ning Shu pounded her weak, trembling legs. Only at that final moment did she realize how much she wanted to live. She desperately wanted to live. She had so many regrets, and she couldn’t bear the thought of dying like that. If she died now, all her hard work would have been a joke.
Ning Shu reached out, and the Unsurpassable Martial Arts book flew from the shelf into her hand.
The book was becoming thicker and more substantial. When she flipped it open, the contents were no longer just pages, but an embryonic world.
Once she found enough world origins, she could slowly form a true world.
Though she had entered a new tier of existence, Ning Shu realized she was currently the weakest possible being in that tier.
Constructing a world was truly not easy.
Ning Shu placed the world origin on the shelf and lit some agarwood. She was currently in a terrible state, practically frightened out of her wits.
She never wanted to taste the scent of death ever again.
One day, she would no longer be under anyone’s thumb.
Ning Shu curled up on the sofa and closed her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled, and her expression remained one of lingering terror.