596: Chapter 596: Win or Lose?

Arthur's escape set the final outcome of this great battle.

A small portion of the Coalition had already broken into the base, capturing several Truth Cult members; outside, only a small number of clones remained, proving difficult to deal with and still putting up a desperate resistance.

Xiao Sheng set Long Tianxing and Wang Yao down, looking at the two of them, but focusing more on Wang Yao.

"It really is... effortless to obtain."

Xiao Sheng's eyes were as red as if they were dripping blood; although he spoke with a relaxed tone, his emotions grew increasingly heavy.

The celestial master sword in Xiao Sheng's hand released thunder from time to time, as if trying to climb up his arm.

But every time the lightning rose, it suddenly extinguished.

Xiao Sheng raised the celestial master sword, looked at the flickering lightning, and raised an eyebrow.

"Even with people dead, you still can't see clearly; you really are regressing as you age."

Xiao Sheng squeezed hard, and a layer of Profound Qi wrapped around the celestial master sword; after a while, the lightning no longer appeared.

Looking at the celestial master sword, which no longer reacted and seemed to have become an ordinary wooden sword, Xiao Sheng's eyes grew deeper.

"The Truth Cult is the future. Your children's games are over. The same mistake cannot be made a second time."

The wooden sword was tossed lightly into the air by Xiao Sheng, caught backhand, and thrust down, about to pierce Long Tianxing's heart.

At the same time, a voice rang out in his mind.

"Xuan Tianzun, stop!"

Hearing the voice in his mind, he froze for a moment, then revealed a playful smile.

The sword thrust toward Long Tianxing's heart did not actually pierce in, but rested against his chest.

"Hun Wushang, you underestimate my vision too much."

"Solving them both right here would indeed be of great help to our plan, but... that is the thinking of a loser!"

"If we don't crush everything they stand for head-on, how can we prove that we are right?"

Hun Wushang did not let down his guard, his voice somewhat cold.

"I won't listen to what you say, only watch what you do. Since you understand me, you should know that I am unreasonable!"

"Xiao Sheng" nodded flippantly.

"Hmm, yes, yes, yes."

"You've always been this unreasonable, surely not because Wang Yao might be in danger?"

"You!"

"Enough."

Xuan Tianzun interrupted Hun Wushang, controlling Xiao Sheng's body to retract the wooden sword.

Then he bowed down and felt Long Tianxing's chest, successfully pulling out a broken sword.

"I said I wouldn't touch them, so I wouldn't. I was just looking for this."

Looking at the sword, a somewhat sinister smile appeared on Xiao Sheng's face.

"If you really want to find things on this guy, you'll never find them in a lifetime."

"But as long as you stab him a few times and threaten his life, these things will pop out endlessly."

"Just like in storybooks; every time the chest is pierced, a pocket watch given by a mother, a badge from a comrade, or a ring from a wife will pop out. It's quite interesting, isn't it?"

"If you drag this out any longer and run into Zhou Yan or other powerful beings who are rushing over, it will be even more interesting."

Seeing that the two were fine, Hun Wushang breathed a sigh of relief, but still casually mocked Xuan Tianzun a couple of times.

"Alright, alright, it's your turn, okay?"

"It's not easy to meet two old friends, yet you won't even let people reminisce. You have no respect for the elderly."

Xiao Sheng's temperament shifted, becoming much colder; clearly, it was now Hun Wushang's turn to take the wheel.

Hun Wushang, controlling Xiao Sheng's body, very decisively used the wooden sword to pry open Wang Yao's chest.

Then he reached into his chest and took out Wang Yao's heart.

Wang Yao frowned but still did not wake up. As his chest rose and fell, a new heart quickly formed, and the opened chest gradually closed.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this Physical Body is truly overbearing."

"But are you sure you only want the heart?"

"A single heart is only enough for you to regain a Physical Body; it won't be of much help for you to face the Core Formation Lightning Tribulation."

Wisps of Profound Qi surged from Xiao Sheng's mouth and nose, wrapping around the heart held by Xiao Sheng.

The Profound Qi held the heart and flew into the high sky; as the heart solidified with the gas, it beat faster and faster.

When all the Profound Qi flowed away, Xiao Sheng's body went limp and collapsed to the ground.

The Profound Qi in the air finally gathered into the appearance of Hun Wushang, only his figure was more robust, and the whole person became vibrant.

Clenching his hands, the corners of Hun Wushang's mouth curled up slightly, but he quickly withdrew it, snorted coldly, and draped his dharma robe over himself again.

"I find his flesh and blood dirty; taking one heart is enough."

Hun Wushang's face was cold, looking very cool.

But Xuan Tianzun repeated it in his mind with a sarcastic tone.

"I find his flesh and blood dirty~ taking one heart is enough~"

"Wow, do you know that this sentence of yours is very wrong?"

Hun Wushang was stunned, quickly associating it with something, and his face turned red instantly, but before he could scold him, Xuan Tianzun urged him quickly.

"Alright, if you want to scold me, do it later. Finish the last step first; I feel Zhou Yan's aura, we don't have much time."

Hun Wushang took a few deep breaths, quickly calmed his mood, and picked up the broken sword that had been placed on the ground to remove the heart.

He stabbed each of the three people in the chest once, and finally stuck a letter on the celestial master sword, placing it between the three, as if setting up a tombstone.

After doing all this, Hun Wushang's figure gradually sank into the ground.

Finally, he looked back in the direction of Zhou Yan.

"What do you mean by leaving this letter? A provocation?"

"Hahaha, you can take it as such." Xuan Tianzun laughed a few times and replied.

"After all, having inherited Meng Zhang's Karma, I have to see if he can bear it."

Hun Wushang snorted coldly, looking at the approaching Zhou Yan with dread.

"Years later, he is already in the Body Integration Stage, while I am still stuck at Foundation Establishment. If someone like him can't bear it, who can?"

"Who knows." Xuan Tianzun added meaningfully.

Zhou Yan had already rushed out of the base; the first thing he did after coming out was to pursue Xiao Sheng.

Arthur had already escaped, the profound scroll had lost its trail, and now only the broken sword carried by Long Tianxing remained.

For some reason, even though Zhou Yan just came to help out and even got a big gift package from Schrödinger, he always felt that he had lost a lot.

"Speaking of which, why did Xiao Sheng run so far? This guy doesn't seem to have a cowardly personality. Shouldn't he have just handed them both to someone and gone off to eliminate demons and defend the Dao?"

But before Zhou Yan could think carefully, his Divine Sense quickly discovered the three of them lying on the ground.

"Not good, there's a sneaky one!"

In desperation, Zhou Yan used all his mana and arrived at the side of the three with the fastest escape speed.

After checking the panels of the three and confirming that there was nothing wrong with them, he relaxed.

"What is this situation again? It can't be that Xiao Sheng tired himself out alone."

"That's impossible, he is at the Core Formation Stage, how could he tire himself out?"

"Sigh, there is a letter here too."

Seeing that there seemed to be a letter attached to the celestial master sword stuck between the three, Zhou Yan took it off casually.

He saw the following content at a glance.

"I have accepted that broken sword; you arrived too late."

Zhou Yan's eyelids twitched, and he froze instantly.

"That's right, I had been planning this ever since Long Tianxing snatched the broken sword from Tingxue Zen Monastery. Now the grand plan has succeeded, easily."

"I didn't expect you to come, nor did I expect your arrival to have the slightest impact on my plan."

"That's right, I used Er Liangzhong's body to mix into the Coalition, and then used Er Liangzhong to possess Xiao Sheng."

"I took what you wanted right in front of you. Are you angry? Are you angry?"

"If you want it, come to the underworld to get it yourself."

Signed — The wise Xuan Tianzun and his follower Hun Wushang.

After reading the letter, Zhou Yan's hands began to tremble. After tearing the letter to pieces bit by bit, the Spiritual Qi escaping from the fragments floated out again, forming a line of words.

Zhou Yan froze again. After seeing that line of words, the anger that was about to dissipate could no longer be contained.

I saw that the Spiritual Qi finally gathered into a sentence.

"You are anxious."

On the battlefield, the Coalition had already won a complete victory and was hugging each other, shouting for victory, when a terrifying aura suddenly rose in the distance, accompanied by a devilish roar.

The Coalition members' faces turned bitter instantly, showing a look of going to their deaths, and they rushed toward the place where Zhou Yan was.