CHAPTER 514: CHAPTER 514: THE MATTER IS OVER

In the heart of Saintess Xueyi, waves of shock surged.

Body-Freezing Curse!

If Saintess Xueyi were in her prime, Lu Zheng wouldn’t have been able to immobilize her at all. But now, Saintess Xueyi was heavily injured, with depleted vital energy. Under Lu Zheng’s well-prepared assault, she was immobilized for a fleeting moment, her defenses completely shattered.

Saintess Xueyi’s eyes widened with disbelief. She never imagined that Lu Zheng could actually perform the Body-Freezing Curse!

How old is Lu Zheng anyway? How could he have mastered the highly difficult and rare Body-Freezing Curse?

Against an opponent of equal strength, she wouldn’t dare get close, but Lu Zheng, being so young, had no power for further attacks after unleashing one Taiyi Five Thunder Curse, right?

After exchanging her Jade Pearl with the Taiyi Five Thunder Curse, Saintess Xueyi intended to swiftly defeat Lu Zheng.

Unexpectedly... she was caught off guard! And carelessness meant death!

A trace of despair flickered in Saintess Xueyi’s eyes, but she still tried with all her might to break free from the Body-Freezing Curse.

Just a blink! Just one blink of an eye! I just need a blink of time to break free!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Six soft sounds echoed as the six Red Jade Swords, which had just fallen beside Lu Zheng, coincidentally landed behind Saintess Xueyi.

In the instant she was immobilized, they rose once again, shooting toward her.

However, Saintess Xueyi happened to meet the Taiyi Five Thunder Curse with her Jade Pearl, intending to finish the battle quickly and broke away from the range of Taiyi Five Thunder Curse’s attacks, aiming to ambush Lu Zheng.

So...

The six Red Jade Swords swept over, piercing six transparent holes in Saintess Xueyi’s body, one on the forehead, two in the heart, and three in the Dantian.

Blood spurted wildly!

Saintess Xueyi’s aura instantly weakened, and in the next moment, a terrifying pressure of her Divine Soul rose abruptly, transforming into a sharp sword shooting straight at Lu Zheng.

This was Saintess Xueyi’s final strike in her dying moments, where she recklessly burned all her Divine Soul True Spirit for her last attack!

Targeting Lu Zheng, there was no escape.

"Die with me!"

Saintess Xueyi’s voice echoed in Lu Zheng’s Divine Soul, deafening.

Then, just as the sharp sword was about to pierce Lu Zheng’s forehead and enter his Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Zheng vanished.

Vanished for a fleeting moment.

The Spirit Sword swiftly passed through where Lu Zheng had been, grazing past.

Then Lu Zheng reappeared.

Almost right where his afterimage still lingered.

Among everyone present, only Saintess Xueyi realized Lu Zheng had disappeared for a moment because the lock of her Spirit Sword had been erased.

And in this erasure, trying to re-establish a connection wasn’t so easy, and more importantly, she no longer had the chance.

When Lu Zheng reappeared, the Spirit Sword was already behind him. In front of him was only a body already shattered, with a Divine Soul about to dissipate.

Lu Zheng let out a ferocious laugh, slashed out with the Golden Palace Heart Sword.

"Ah!"

A tragic cry echoed, and Saintess Xueyi’s Divine Soul was split in half by the Golden Palace Heart Sword, then the sword’s qi twisted, and her soul was obliterated.

"Buzz!"

The Mind Jade Seal trembled, and streams of Light of Fortune swarmed in, conservatively estimated at over four hundred.

Refreshing!

On the other side, Zhao Wuji, who was being beaten back by Fan Boyu and Hu Zhou, suddenly heard a scream from Saintess Xueyi, immediately turned to look, and saw Lu Zheng shatter the Divine Soul of Saintess Xueyi with one sword, then reached out and grabbed her corpse.

"Saintess!"

Zhao Wuji’s eyes were wide open, unable to believe that Saintess Xueyi had actually died here.

This can’t be!? Even if adding those two old demons to the assault, if Saintess Xueyi wanted to leave, who could stop her?

Lu Zheng nodded in agreement with Zhao Wuji, expressing that if Saintess Xueyi had wanted to leave, he and Hu Dalu indeed wouldn’t have been able to stop her.

But alas, she didn’t want to leave. She wanted to gamble, to snatch back Du Yueyao. Unfortunately, she gambled and lost—a life.

Zhao Wuji was in disbelief, and Hu Dalu and Gao Zhen in the distance were equally shocked.

Wow! Just died like that?

The Saintess of the Primordial Saint Sect, even if not one of the top three, was still someone well-known in the Southern Border. And she was left here by Lu Zheng just like that?

How did he do it?

How did he manage to injure Saintess Xueyi from the beginning?

Could he perform the Body-Freezing Curse? How did he predict that Saintess Xueyi would abandon her defenses and approach?

Finally, how did he evade Saintess Xueyi’s final blow?

Although the two of them indeed contributed, they knew they were merely the icing on the cake, not a timely help.

...

Actually, they misunderstood. Though it seemed they didn’t contribute, without them, Lu Zheng wouldn’t have been able to kill Saintess Xueyi.

Their arrival imposed enormous psychological pressure on Saintess Xueyi and their full force battle exacerbated her injuries, making her realize she couldn’t sustain a prolonged fight to wear down Lu Zheng.

They also helped Lu Zheng build up strength to unleash the strongest Taiyi Five Thunder Curse, trading Jade Pearl momentarily, and their retreat due to the Thunder Technique gave Saintess Xueyi an opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

By some twists of fate, they helped Lu Zheng set up a trap that Saintess Xueyi had an eighty percent chance of stepping into, ultimately leading to a swift victory.

It could be said that without them, Lu Zheng would not have necessarily been defeated, but he would have had to pay a high price to drive Saintess Xueyi away.

Yes, to drive her away, by causing a commotion in the fight, forcing Saintess Xueyi to retreat.

Killing her? How could that be possible!

Unless provoked a top-tier expert to confront her face to face, preventing her escape—someone like the old beggar. Otherwise, even if Chu Jin, Daoist Mingzhang, and Master Shouyi all arrived, they probably couldn’t keep her.

But once Saintess Xueyi left, with Lu Zheng’s character, he certainly wouldn’t stay in Tonglin County, waiting for revenge, would he?

So, how much better it is now to directly eliminate Saintess Xueyi! If he could also take care of that Zhao Wuji, then there would be no future trouble.

Dingfeng Mountain had also acted, so Fan Boyu wouldn’t just return to the Primordial Saint Sect and confess, right?

Indeed, after Zhao Wuji’s exclamation, he immediately tried to escape, but as soon as his escape began, Hu Zhou and Gao Junyu blocked his path.

"Fan Boyu! Are you trying to kill to silence?"

"Correct answer!"

The response came not from Fan Boyu, but from Lu Zheng, who came flying on the clouds.

Hu Dalu and Gao Zhen also surrounded him from the left and right.

"..."

Zhao Wuji was extremely angry, "Colluding with outsiders to assassinate the Saintess! Fan Boyu, you traitor, the Holy Sect will not spare you!"

Fan Boyu, breaking down due to desperation, said, "In any case, this life of Saintess Xueyi was not meant to last, and now that you’re deep in the Central Plains, dying is normal. If I kill you, who would know it was my hand?"

"You!"

"What do you mean ’you’! Prepare to die!"

With the momentum of executing Saintess Xueyi, combined with the encirclement of four top experts, Zhao Wuji was caught in the circle right from the start, unable to escape, and finally got his head crushed into pieces, blood and Divine Soul alike, by Gao Zhen’s palm strike.

"Buzz!"

Light of Fortune was accounted for, and the matter was concluded.