Chapter 589: Who Are You?
“You...”
Tushan Meng gripped the branch that had pierced through her body. Her brows were tightly furrowed, and her eyes were full of disbelief.
As Tushan Meng saw it, Yuan should already have been as dead as dead could be.
She had even erased Yuan’s soul, and just now, she had not been able to sense Yuan’s aura either.
But now, not only was Yuan perfectly fine, the Moon God Tree was still under her control!
“What? Is it strange? Are you wondering why this formation is now completely different from the one originally laid out? Are you wondering why you cannot control this formation yourself?”
Yuan walked toward Tushan Meng step by step. As she moved, golden streams of light spilled from the corners of her eyes.
“Are you wondering why, when you clearly killed me just now, I can still stand here perfectly well, as if nothing happened?”
“Are you suspecting that you have fallen into an illusion? And yet you are also thinking that, as an Ascension Realm Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, how could you possibly fall into someone else’s illusion?”
Yuan walked to Tushan Meng’s side and looked at her as if she were looking at a dead woman.
“Because what you killed was nothing more than a substitute I created from the branches of the Moon God Tree. You have never seen a substitute no different from a real person, have you?”
Yuan reached out with a finger, hooked Tushan Meng’s chin, and looked directly into her eyes.
“And this formation is indeed the one you supervised and arranged at the beginning. That is not wrong either.”
“What is wrong is that your vision is too shallow. No, the vision of all you races is far, far too shallow.”
“Do you know where the formations of this world originated? That’s right! From the ancient gods!”
“So-called formations are nothing more than intercepting or replicating a portion of the laws of heaven and earth, then turning them to one’s own use. And this method was taught to you by us gods!”
“What is laughable is that you used the method we taught you to deal with us! To seal us, to erase us!”
“As for you, you really should have believed Tushan Jingci and killed me outright. With the Ascension Realm strength of all you races, even if you could not destroy both my body and soul, you could at least have stopped me. This world of yours would have had several thousand more years of peace.”
“But I cannot blame you either. After all, among you humans, there are hardly any clever ones, and most of the clever ones are already dead.”
“Do not worry. What I promised you, I will do. I will let Tushan Jingci step into those two lost realms.” Yuan gently stroked Tushan Meng’s face. “But at that time, Tushan Jingci will no longer be Tushan Jingci.”
As she spoke, the Moon God Tree dragged Tushan Meng higher and higher.
Tushan Meng tried to break free.
But she discovered that as the clan chief of Tushan, because she had received so many blessings from the Moon God Tree, her own karma had already become extremely tightly connected to the Moon God Tree.
Tushan Meng could only feel her life source and spiritual power being continuously drawn out by the Moon God Tree.
In the end, Tushan Meng was completely wrapped in the Moon God Tree’s vines, like a cicada pupa, and hung high upon the branches.
“It is about time for this to end.”
Yuan raised her head and looked at the Moon God Tree. Her eyes became more and more golden.
At the same time,
the Moon God Tree moved on its own without wind, and red flowers bloomed one after another upon its branches.
Immediately afterward, a fierce wind blew through. All the flowers scattered into petal after petal, drifting down from the sky.
Flower petals filled the sky, scattering over all of Tushan.
Beneath the moonlight, these petals dancing through the air even seemed somewhat beautiful.
But behind that beauty was the extinction of a clan.
When the cultivators of the Tushan fox clan were touched by these petals, their consciousness gradually blurred, and their bodies began to move out of their control. Like moths flying into flame, they charged toward the upper-three-realm cultivators of the Human Alliance and the Demon Alliance.
After several of Tushan’s elders touched these petals, their eyes also gradually lost focus. As if they had been controlled, they fought Xiao Mo and the others to the death.
Before long, ten enormous flower buds grew upon the Moon God Tree.
These flower buds seemed to be nurturing some kind of existence.
All the cultivators who had died also turned into nourishment, endlessly converging toward those flower buds.
Half an incense stick later, the vines wrapped around Tushan Meng opened.
Tushan Meng slowly opened her eyes. They were golden.
Those eyes seemed to hold not the slightest trace of human feeling. They were filled instead with an ancientness steeped in the passage of time.
It was as if an existence that had lived through millions upon millions of years had opened its eyes again and was looking upon this world.
“Sister Shou.”
Yuan walked before “Tushan Meng” and bowed with one hand over her heart.
The god named “Shou” seemed to be digesting “Tushan Meng’s” memories and did not answer for a moment.
Only after a long while did she look at the woman before her and slowly say, “Yuan, I did not expect that the one to awaken me would actually be you...”
“I know Sister Shou does not like reviving in this way, but please bear with this Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox’s body for a little while. Once this matter is over, I will help Sister Shou reshape a divine body and awaken the other gods so they may return to this world!”
Yuan was extremely respectful toward the woman before her.
“Mm.” Shou nodded. “But Yuan, where is your sister?”
“I am not too sure either.” Yuan shook her head, and a trace of loneliness flashed through her eyes. “I also tried to awaken Sister, but I could not sense the place where Sister is sealed. I do not know what happened to Sister...”
“I see.” Shou nodded. “No matter. What comes after can be discussed afterward. For now, I will help you.”
As her words fell, Shou turned into a streak of flowing light and rushed out from Moon God Peak.
She extended her left hand, and a golden longbow fell into her palm.
She drew the bow and nocked an arrow.
A golden arrow condensed between her slender fingertips and the bowstring.
“Clang!”
As the woman loosened her fingers, the golden arrow turned into a streak of flowing light and pierced through the heart of an Immortal Realm cultivator.
The next moment, the Moon God Tree’s vines seized the opportunity to bind him, absorbing his life source and spiritual power before dragging him up to hang high among the branches.
When Kongsheng, patriarch of the Soaring Serpent clan, saw that Tushan Meng had finally come out, he roared and pounced fiercely toward her. The clouds in the night sky all turned into black flames, smashing down one after another toward “Tushan Meng.”
But Shou did not care at all.
Ring after ring of light blocked the flames in front of her.
Immediately afterward, a golden arrow shot out and pierced through Kongsheng’s abdomen.
Kongsheng spat blood and transformed into human form, tightly clutching his abdomen.
The rings of light dispersed. Shou stood there holding her longbow, calmly looking at the “beast” before her.
Kongsheng opened his mouth, still wanting to say something, but when he noticed her gaze, his heart could not help going cold. He said coldly,
“You are not Tushan Meng. Who are you?”
Shou did not answer. She only drew her bow again.
But just as she was about to shoot the arrow in her hand, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a man who was fighting.
When her gaze fell on that man’s face, Shou’s pupils suddenly shrank.
It was as if she lost all her composure in an instant. Gritting her teeth tightly, she drew arrow after arrow toward Xiao Mo.
As if she wanted to vent tens of millions of years of rage upon him!