CHAPTER 266: CHAPTER 118: DARK RELIC

As the man spoke, the daytime sky was briefly illuminated by a flash of green starlight, lighting up the entire horizon.

Suddenly, the Dark Power within the entire forest ceased its frenzied burning as if it were a trapped beast confined to a cage.

Stars appearing in daylight, it is rumored that in ancient times, powerful Summoners could use their Summoning Power to reverse day and night, turn the universe on its head, and switch the stars and the sun and moon.

The man’s crow-blue hair was blowing freely in the wind, and a teardrop mole by his slender phoenix eyes shone brilliantly.

Qing Pu was in a terrible mood, inexplicably terrible; he could not stand the man who had suddenly appeared to play the hero and wished he could summon a Transmission Array to banish this purple-eyed man to some remote Barbaric land.

Who is he?!

Zong Shaoqing, who was usually indifferent, also showed a change in his expression, and his eyes revealed obvious displeasure. How dare someone talk to him with such arrogance.

In his life, Zong Shaoqing had seldom met anyone who could match him in power, but the man before him was a rare opponent.

The green starlight collided with the purple Moon’s Radiance, locked in a stalemate, as two equally handsome and sturdy men glared at each other coldly.

Elsewhere, Yue Jinghua had already charged into the Dark Evil Fire, only inches away from Fa Xiaoyi.

The Earth Yin Escape continuously drained Fa Xiaoyi’s Dark Power and vitality; that tall, cold man was now kneeling on the ground, staring blankly as Yue Jinghua approached step by step.

Black flames licked the air like black lotus flowers blooming beside the dazzlingly bright girl, and the peculiar Great Sword in her hand sparkled with seductive Demon Light.

At that moment, Fa Xiaoyi had an illusion - he would rather have Yue Jinghua end his life personally.

"Are you here to kill me?" Fa Xiaoyi struggled to say, shaking as he tried to stand up, "Heh, Yue Jinghua, all that has happened to me today is thanks to you."

He staggered, his steps unsteady, like a butterfly with broken wings, always on the verge of plummeting from the clouds and smashing to pieces.

"I’m here to save you, if you die, ’she’ will be very sad," Yue Jinghua furrowed her brows, noticing the Earth Yin Escape which had sunk deeply into Fa Xiaoyi’s chest.

Even though "Yue Jinghua" had long passed on, her body intuitively did not wish for Fa Xiaoyi’s death; after all, he was just a sad pawn in a game of power and politics.

This time, even if he hadn’t usurped the throne, the hidden forces of the Dragon War Empire lying in wait within the Shang Kingdom would have certainly made their move.

She had just reached out to check Fa Xiaoyi’s wounds when he swiftly grabbed her right hand, holding it tightly, with a death grip.

This was their first handshake, and Fa Xiaoyi felt the ice-cold and slender hand in his palm.

Fa Xiaoyi, who flirted amongst a myriad of women, had held countless hands, but it was the first time he had touched the hand of the woman who was called his fiancée.

Unlike the typical woman’s boneless softness, Yue Jinghua’s hands were pale and slender, and at her knuckles, one could feel several thin calluses - marks left from arduous training.

"All men in the world are the same; when push comes to shove, they can only push the responsibility onto women," she seemed to feel two icy- cold gazes shot over from behind very tacitly.

Yue Jinghua only felt a sharp threat at her back and shook off Fa Xiaoyi’s hand.

"Do you still remember, back then, the first words you said to me when you and Duke Xue Ying came to Shang Kingdom?" Fa Xiaoyi said with a sorrowful smile, "You said, ’If he doesn’t become a Prince, that’s the end of it.’ Not being a Prince, but becoming the Monarch of Shang, then there would be no need to kneel and bow to others, no need to suffer humiliation." Fa Xiaoyi muttered to himself.

Yue Jinghua rolled her eyes and said, "If not a Prince, then he can only be an Emperor, huh? What kind of logic is that? What I meant when I was a child was that you don’t have to be a Prince; you could just be a common person. ’The man unburdened by office can roam the world at will,’ don’t you understand that? Without being a Prince, you could have left Shang Kingdom. Why bother living with your tail tucked between your legs and plot rebellion for over a decade?"

Her words sounded like jests, but to Fa Xiaoyi, they struck like lightning and thunder, the realization that one could live unburdened and renounce the status of a Prince to be a commoner.

Could it be that he had been wrong all along? The Earth Yin Escape deepened in his chest by a few degrees, and Fa Xiaoyi’s lips seeped with black blood as he laughed out loud.

"I was wrong, haha, Yue Jinghua, do you want to know the real secret of the Earth Yin Escape and Sky Sun Shuttle?" Fa Xiaoyi said, smiling at Yue Jinghua with an inscrutable look in his eyes.

The secret of the Sky Sun Shuttle and Earth Yin Escape intrigued Yue Jinghua. The Sky Sun Shuttle was still with Xie San’s corpse, which, due to the haste earlier, she had to temporarily place in the Desire Gourd.

"Come here, and I’ll tell you," Fa Xiaoyi said, raising his eyebrow and mustering some energy.

With her guard up, Yue Jinghua took a step forward.

But as soon as she approached, she caught a cunning gleam in Fa Xiaoyi’s eyes and instinctively tried to dodge. However, he had already grasped her hand. A warm breath brushed by her ear, followed by a sudden immense pain.

Fa Xiaoyi had bitten down near her ear; with that bite, he probably drew blood.

"Bang," two figures approached rapidly from behind like a whirlwind, and Fa Xiaoyi was sent flying by the force.

"Stop, he was just..." Following the intense pain, Yue Jinghua felt something extra in her hands — the Earth Yin Escape ornament still stained with Fa Xiaoyi’s blood from his chest.

Fa Xiaoyi laughed heartily, his body like a withered leaf, drifting towards the still-evil Qi emanating National Destiny Acupoint.

"Yue Jinghua, you’ll never forget this monarch in your lifetime, haha, life is full of worries, love and hate, delusions and folly. If there is an afterlife, this monarch still wishes to roam the ends of the earth with great pleasure..." His body continued to fall into the bottomless dark abyss.

With the Earth Yin Escape removed, the National Destiny Acupoint became like a well instantly dried up, and within moments, all the Evil Qi disappeared.

Yue Jinghua touched her ear, the wound left by Fa Xiaoyi’s desperate bite was deep. When she touched it, she could feel an unusual lump, truly a ’white-eyed wolf’, even on the brink of death, he didn’t forget to take a bite.

"About..." A gentle voice suddenly rang out inappropriately from behind her.

Only then did Yue Jinghua remember that she had just been through a life and death battle.

"The Earth Yin Escape is mine. If you wish to take it, ask my Great Sword in hand first," Yue Jinghua said with a stern face, displaying the bandit-like demeanor that once in her possession, it was hers. She looked around and noticed that Qing Pu, unreliable as ever, was nowhere to be seen.

The dense fog before dawn had dispersed, and the sun illuminated everything; daylight had broken.

In the bright sunshine, the young girl puffed her cheeks in a flurry trying to hide the Earth Yin Escape, which made Zong Shaoqing unable to help but chuckle.

"Hahahaha-----What do you plan to do with his Dark Beast?" Zong Shaoqing laughed out loud, his voice clear and echoing endlessly in the forest.