196: Liang Qingyi, Demon Emperor Liang?

“Yu Jingshen, do you really have the heart to ruthlessly kill a frail woman?” Lan Zhixi said pitifully.

“Hahaha, of course not.” Meng Yun smiled faintly, “I, Yu Jingshen, have always upheld two principles: first, I don’t hit women, and second, I don’t hit children.”

“You’re actually quite nice! So, how about this: if you let me win, I’ll marry you, okay?” Lan Zhixi said with a giggle.

“Pikachu and I will absolutely not lose!” Meng Yun clenched his fist, and a Friendship Face-Breaking Punch shot towards Lan Zhixi.

“Ahhh, you’re breaking your word! Didn’t you say you wouldn’t hit women or children?!”

“You’re not a child!” The punch wind whistled, but at the last moment, it transformed into a gentle breeze, softly blowing her off the arena.

“Discretionary Power.”

“Done and dusted!” Meng Yun clapped his hands, and after being declared the victor, he quickly stepped off the arena.

At this point, Tianjian Dynasty had one win and one loss, drawing even.

Whether they could advance depended on the outcome of Chen Jintong and Lan Zhiqing’s match.

“I see that you’re probably going to have another scar on your head~” Meng Yun teased Chen Jintong.

“amitabha.” Chen Jintong held his head high, leaped onto the arena, and then closed his eyes.

He was afraid that even one more glance at Lan Zhiqing would make him lose control of the violent murderous intent in his heart.

“You, why won’t you open your eyes and look at me?”

“amitabha.”

“Your Buddhist sect preaches that the four great elements are empty. If you open your eyes, I don’t believe your eyes will be empty!”

Chen Jintong remained unmoved, sensing the flow of spiritual energy, and slammed a palm fiercely towards a certain direction.

“Then I’ll just have to keep hitting you until you’re willing to open your eyes and look at me!” Lan Zhiqing’s Half-step Combination Realm power erupted from her body, and the overwhelming aura was almost tangible, making people dare not look directly at her.

Chen Jintong’s palm wind had not yet touched Lan Zhiqing when it was swallowed by the spiritual energy vortex surrounding her.

The pressure of the Half-step Combination Realm surged like a tide, making his bones creak.

Lan Zhiqing moved with light steps, each step leaving a blooming lotus imprint on the arena.

Half-step Combination, terrifying indeed!

“Oh my, what is Chen Jintong doing? He can’t be going easy just because the opponent is a girl, can he?!” Meng Yun couldn’t help but frown and complain.

One must know that Lan Zhiqing was a Half-step Combination, and even if Chen Jintong used his true abilities, he might not be able to defeat her!

“Why.”

“Why, why?!”

“Why!!!”

After many attacks, Chen Jintong’s heart could no longer remain calm, until his emotions suddenly erupted, and he roared loudly:

“Why… do you look so similar to her?!”

Blood seeped from Chen Jintong’s tightly closed eyes, and the Vatican Heart Salvation runes flickered on his palm.

He was still hesitating.

Hesitating whether to use this divine ability.

Chen Jintong had a premonition that when nine scars appeared on his head, something would happen to him.

Whether it was good or bad, a tribulation or a destiny, it was unknown.

Lan Zhiqing’s appearance overlapped with his childhood sweetheart in his memories, and the scene of his entire family being massacred that night uncontrollably emerged.

In the bloody storm of that night, Liang Qingyi stood among the corpses of his family, her tear mole stained with blood and looking demonic:

“Jinchan… you are too naive. In this world, cultivating Buddhism cannot save people.”

The dagger in her hand dripped with the blood of the Chen family: “The Holy God gave me power, gave me… a new life.”

Chen Jintong remembered her turning and leaving, her dark hair flying, the lotus fragrance still lingering.

Only, that fragrance was mixed with blood, Qingyi became a turbid wave, and the lotus pond turned into a sea of blood.

That woman’s hand pierced through the hearts of Chen Jintong’s parents, and the dagger was plunged into their chests.

Chen Jintong fled.

Facing such a childhood sweetheart, he didn’t even have the courage to resist.

He disappeared into that midnight of mountains of corpses and seas of blood without looking back.

His past, his happiness, his everything.

All turned into nothingness in that midnight.

“Liang Qingyi!!”

Lan Zhiqing’s offensive suddenly paused: “You finally decided to speak?”

The spiritual energy lotus flower condensed on her fingertips quietly bloomed: “Who is Liang Qingyi?

Is she the one who made you want to kill me?

Can you tell me about her…?”

“You shut up!!!”

Veins bulged on Chen Jintong’s forehead. Why, why was her voice so similar to Liang Qingyi’s!

“Vatican Heart Salvation!!!”

Chen Jintong suddenly erupted, a string of prayer beads abruptly appeared in his hand, and an invisible fluctuation spread out, freezing all karma.

Because he deliberately restrained it at this moment, the influence of Vatican Heart Salvation was limited to Lan Zhiqing alone.

The white jade prayer beads spun in his hand. Unable to hear Lan Zhiqing’s voice, Chen Jintong’s furious mood found a moment of peace.

He sensed her direction, struck a swastika rune with the prayer beads in his palm, and pressed it fiercely towards Lan Zhiqing’s chest.

But just three inches from her body, Chen Jintong’s movement instantly stopped.

He still couldn’t transfer his incompetence and anger to an innocent woman.

“Crack~”

However, just as he hesitated for a moment, the sound of karma shattering rang out.

Lan Zhiqing, surprisingly, completely broke free from the static effect of Vatican Heart Salvation with her superb strength!

“Why did you stop?” Lan Zhiqing looked puzzled, regrouped, and casually formed a lotus seal, throwing it towards Chen Jintong.

“You… don’t have the aura of a demon seed on you.” Chen Jintong’s voice was hoarse.

Therefore, she was not her.

The lotus phantom attracted Chen Jintong’s attention, but Lan Zhiqing’s true body took the opportunity to grasp his wrist.

In a daze, Chen Jintong suddenly opened his eyes and directly met Lan Zhiqing’s gaze.

“Do I resemble her greatly?”

“Is it possible that I am her?”

Boom!

The arena, which was originally strong enough to support Tribulation Transcending combat, suddenly collapsed.

Chen Jintong’s mind trembled violently, and Vatican Heart Salvation erupted uncontrollably, pushing Lan Zhiqing back a hundred zhang.

One by one, white jade prayer beads attacked Lan Zhiqing, and blood seeped from the scar on his head.

The eighth scar rapidly formed!

“Holy cow.” Meng Yun clicked his tongue in wonder, “I take back what I just said, Chen Jintong, he’s going for the kill!”

The white jade prayer beads outlined golden incantations in the void:

“So that’s it… you are a vessel cultivated by a demon seed!

Damn it, when did this happen!!”

Lan Zhiqing smiled sadly.

Her body was pierced by countless prayer beads, and a mysterious power was directly stripped from her body.

After all, Vatican Heart Salvation’s strength was to purify everything in the world.

Lan Zhiqing’s Half-step Combination Realm began to collapse: “Perhaps, she just wanted to see you one last time through my eyes.”

A sword qi sealed within her body struggled frantically, trying to break free.

Chen Jintong’s Buddhist seal was merciless, pressing fiercely on her heart: “Just an old acquaintance, no need to be concerned.”

If there was a future day, he would personally go to Xuanwu Heaven to find out the truth!

The golden light of Vatican Heart Salvation pierced through Lan Zhiqing’s body, purifying the residual sword qi into a sky full of light rain.

It also completely annihilated a trace of Demon Emperor Liang’s origin aura.

The last wisp of demonic energy dissipated.

Lan Zhiqing’s cultivation dropped to Transformation Spirit Peak, but her eyes now held genuine vitality.

Chen Jintong released his hand and staggered backward.

That distance just now was still too close, too close.

It made him unable to help but feel his heart race and his breathing quicken.

“I lost.” Lan Zhiqing smiled faintly, bowed gracefully to Chen Jintong, and voluntarily leaped off the arena.

Just at this moment.

The entire world suddenly trembled violently for an instant.

Then it returned to calm.

As if it were an illusion.