Chapter 76: Chapter 75: Heart-Cleansing Song
Crimson-colored clouds filled the night sky of Shui Guo as MoXiao drew his spear as a beacon of light. Red lightning flashes across the heavens every time he launches an attack towards Bian Hui. Sweat trailed down Bian Hui's face she picked up her divine weapon facing her enemy. She forced her hands not to shake and falter as MoXiao launched another series of attacks.
'This power… It's so immense. How can a half-immortal wield such divine prowess.'
She held her chest as tiny droplets of blood fell down from her mouth.
'No… I cannot falter now. Emperor XiuCai is counting on me.'
Clenching to her divine weapon, Bian Hui ran towards the berserked MoXiao and performed consecutive series of attacks but MoXiao seemed to be unscathed with every attack that she made. Retreating with evasion, she then looked up to the sky and raised her hands.
"MY MASTERS! Give me thy power and unlock my divine prowess to defeat this adversity!"
Like a flash of lightning, a bright beam hit her body. MoXiao saw this and felt an ominous presence against the glowing beacon. After the beacon went off, Bian Hui's visage changed. She wore an armor of light which resembled the sun and her black hair changed from black into white. She wore a golden mask covering her whole face with two horns standing up her head.
Bian Hui then moved quickly and gave a strong attack at MoXiao knocking him to the ground. The attack was so strong that it gave an aura that reached the ninth heaven. XuanWu who was currently tending to Guan Yu whose body took form of a fifteen year old boy.
"What was that XuanWu?"
"Something's off…"
"What do you mean off? I felt that too. It's like an earthquake."
"Me too. Looks like it came from the mortal realm. Want to come with me?"
"Enn."
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MoXiao opened his eyes and found himself lying on the ground. He wanted to grab his spear but Bian Hui already reached the ground. She then stepped one of her feet on MoXiao's body making him immobile.
"Heh. You're just one ordinary human to me."
"Tch. So what if I am are you intimidated?"
"No. Your power almost scared me but it turns out, I'm more powerful than you. You see boy, even without divine prowess, I obtained blessings from the high immortals so that makes me equal to Gods that are purely immortals."
"Don't you know that you're giving me too much information?"
"I am already spilling the beans right? How about… I kill you now."
Bian Hui raised her hammer up and prepared a powerful blow to strike MoXiao. A smile flashed on her face as she executed the attack yet, to her surprise, the hammer did not hit MoXiao. Instead, a bluish-green barrier gleamed on her stead. LanRong stood at the back of MoXiao holding her Qin.
"You!!! How dare you interfere?"
"You're about to kill my lover. How come I can't interfere?"
"Hah. I see now. Since you wanted to protect him, how about we'll settle this woman to woman."
"I like how that sounds. Let's go."
LanRong pulled the strings on her Qin and released a powerful attack shaping into a doe and Bian Hui also gave a strike on her hammer shaping into an asp. Both attacks hit on contact which caused an explosion of bright light across Shui Guo.
"Woman, is that the best you can do?"
"Don't call me woman, I have a name and it's LanRong."
"Even if you introduce yourself to me hundreds of times, I'll still forget your name because you're not great."
LanRong then casted a spell using her Qin and threw it to Bian Hui. Laughing like crazy, BianHui held her hammer and smirked. As the smoke faded, she stood there unscathed by her attack.
"See? I'll never remember you because you're not that great."
"Think again b*tch. Try hitting me with your best shot."
Bian Hui's eyes grew wide. Looking at her weapon, she tried to conjure a spell yet she can't move a limb.
"B*tch! What did you do to me?"
"Easy. Only great immortals can figure out what I did to you."
"Y—You!"
The crimson clouds covering the sky dissipated and bright moonlight shone over Shui Guo. The moon beam hit Bian Hui's body and revealed the invisible threads attached. The threads were thick and indestructible rendering her immobile.
Seeing this kind of strategy, MoXiao's jaw almost dropped on the ground. He thought that the strategy that LanRong used were only taught to students that originally came from Tangmen's higher disciples.
"B*tch! Get these threads out of me before I snap your bones."
"You can't even move a limb but you can brag about snapping my bones? How amusing."
"Y—You! Why do you have such technique?"
"I am Zhuge LanRong daughter of Zhuge Liang, the ninth heaven's master strategist. Don't you dare look down on me."
"Tch… You b*tch!"
Bian Hui tried to move and wanted to get out of the threads but instead, blood dripped from her arms and thigh. The threads were precisely wrapped on her body to the point where one sudden move can be guaranteed to certain doom.
"Ah uh… No certain moves or else I'll cut you into thousand pieces."
"W—Why… H—How…"
"As I said… Do not look down on me. Now, tell me… Who's the immortal that's responsible for all of this?"
"They… They said not to tell…"
"Who are they?"
"They… They are…"
Bian Hui did not finish her words as in a snap of fingers, darts came flying and hit her body. The other darts hit LanRong by her arm. Bian Hui fell on the ground lifeless while LanRong also fell struggling for her life.
"No! LanRong!" MoXiao screamed as LanRong lost balance and fell on his arms.
"M—MoXiao… Don't worry. It takes a lot more than this to bring me down."
"You need to be treated now. The darts. They're from Tangmen… They're poisonous."
"I know. D—Don't worry."
"LanRong…"
MoXiao leaned in and gave her a kiss draining the poison out of her body. The poison entered MoXiao's bloodstream and enveloped inside. He closed his eyes waiting for his imminent death when… He suddenly felt something strange.
'The dart. This poison!'
"ARRRGGHH!" MoXiao shouted with all his might. The poison that was driven from LanRong's body was a different one. It was not a poison that could cause death… But a poison to disrupt one's mind.
From behind the tall hedges, XiuCai flashed a smile as he saw MoXiao being eaten away by the poison.
LanRong scrambled standing up with her wound as he saw MoXiao struggling with the enhanced berserk effect given by the poison.
"LanRong... Run… RUN!"
He felt his consciousness slowly fading away along with the last image of LanRong that flashed before he was consumed with total darkness.
The crimson-painted sky returned once again. XuanWu and Guan Yu descended from the ninth heaven's gate and as they stepped on the mortal realm's grounds…
"Ayí… Something tells me… This presence is…"
"Shush Guan Yu… I also felt it too. WenXi city is not far we're going to ask questions there."
LanRong ran and reached for her Qin as MoXiao waved his spear back and forth erratically.
'I cannot extract the poison from inside his body but I can make him overcome it.'
LanRong played a soft tune just like how Chang 'E taught her to play the Qin. The heart-cleansing song is a music taught to immortals to calm berserked guardians who have lost their masters and immortals who are affected by the ancient evil tree's blight of madness.
Pulling the strings, back and forth, the calm music reached out inside MoXiao who is falling deep inside his consciousness.
"How lovely this music is. It was as if…"
Two glowing hands reached out from the never ending darkness surrounding MoXiao. He felt warmth as the hands wrapped around him.
MoXiao opened his eyes and saw LanRong embracing him. Her robe were almost torn out due to MoXiao's behavior after the song was about to end.
"LanRong… Your clothes."
"I don't care. You already saw inside them anyway."
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