Chapter 1128 – The Unbridled Spear and Heartbreaking Arrow (1/2)
Chapter 1128 – The Unbridled Spear and Heartbreaking Arrow
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Chen Changsheng's hand got closer and closer to Xiao Zhang's face, all the way until it touched the edge of the paper.
Perhaps because it had been soaked by sweat or stained with too much blood, the edge of the white paper was not at all sharp. It was like a pastry that had been left on the humid banks of the Tong River for three days.
The moment his finger touched the white paper, the two black holes in the paper suddenly lit up.
Xiao Zhang had opened his eyes.
He had woken up.
Of course, it was also possible that he had never fallen unconscious in the first place.
No shock was visible on Chen Changsheng's face, so he probably knew of this already. He asked, ”Have you rested enough?”
Xu Yourong did not turn around. She calmly gazed at that mountain in the sky.
The South Stream Temple sword array was getting closer and closer to the ground, pressed down by the heavy Qi of that mountain.
The Wutong tree was shedding more and more leaves, the trunk creaking more and more. The bark had begun to crack in several places, revealing the white underneath.
Xiao Zhang looked at Chen Changsheng and said, ”No one has ever dared to tear off this piece of paper. There was no one in the past, and there's certainly no one now.”
His voice was cold and emotionless, just like the look in his eyes.
In the past, he had been an expert of the Proclamation of Liberation. This coupled with his reputation as madman and murderer naturally meant that no one dared to provoke him.
Now that he had successfully entered the Divine Domain, there were even fewer people who dared to provoke him.
Chen Changsheng completely ignored the threat in his words, saying, ”If you're not willing to wake up, I might as well tear that paper off.”
Xiao Zhang said, ”I”m a little sleepy. Can you not even hold on? Truly useless.”
Only a madman like him would dare to use this tone with the Pope and Holy Maiden.
Chen Changsheng still did not care. He said, ”Even if we took shifts in enduring, there will still come a moment in which we can't hold on anymore.”
Xiao Zhang understood what he meant and froze.
Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong had unexpectedly decided to no longer delay, instead preparing to fight and kill.
Where did their confidence come from?
”Since it's between fighting and getting killed, we naturally have to fight.”
Chen Changsheng smiled at him. ”Perhaps we lose or perhaps we win. Who knows?”
His smile was the clean, pure and warm smile of a youth.
Xiao Zhang found it horrifying.
In a serious affair like this, they had casually decided to fight?
Both the Tong Palace and the South Stream Temple sword array could still resist Mountain Man Yanzhi for some time.
Though heavily injured, he was still a newly ascended expert of the Divine Domain.
In this situation, Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong had decided to no longer wait and go straight to fighting and killing Mountain Man Yanzhi!
Did not they not understand that Mountain Man Yanzhi, as an ancient expert of the Demon race, was much more powerful than those Demon Generals, was perhaps even on par with the Demon Commander? Did they not understand that if the Pope and Holy Maiden of the Human race, along with the newly ascended Divine Domain expert that was him, all died in battle tonight, history really might change? They clearly could continue to wait, so why the need to fight and kill? And why was Chen Changsheng even smiling right now, his smile so clean? And Xu Yourong was still in the mood to hold her hands behind her back and look at the stars?
The common people said that Xiao Zhang was a madman, but he felt that Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong were even crazier than he was.
What was the reason for this?
He suddenly understood the answer.
This was drive.
The drive of youths.
He was several decades older than Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong, but in the lifespan of cultivators, he still counted as young.
His gaze turned sharp like a silver spear washed in autumn waters, glimmering with an icy chill.
”How much longer do we have?”
He walked to Xu Yourong's side and asked.
Xu Yourong answered, ”Forty-seven seconds.”
Xiao Zhang's hoarse voice once more pierced through the white paper.
”I'll go and break his mountain's momentum.”
He raised his spear and walked to the darkness in the north.
He did not even glance at that mountain range over his head.
The true mountain several li away was where he was prepared to go.
A few days ago, he sensed the signs that he was about to break through and immediately concluded his life of hiding and fighting on the snowy plains, beginning his journey back south on the path he had arranged for back then. Just when he was about to return to the land of humans by passing through the grassland, he saw three massive mountains suddenly rise out of the wilderness.
Mountain Men Yanzhi, Jingbo, and Yichun.
In the face of these terrifying experts from ancient times, it was simply impossible for him to escape. His death seemed inevitable, but unexpectedly, this unprecedented pressure actually led him to cross that threshold and break into the Divine Domain ahead of time. Experiencing danger after danger, he finally managed to escape, though he suffered serious injuries in doing so.
Flying a kite over the mountains, he saw Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong. His mind instantly relaxed, his injuries and fatigue exploding at the same time and instantly sending him into unconsciousness.
After resting for a while, though his injuries had not recovered, he had recovered from much of his mental fatigue.
The most important factor of all was still the appearance of Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong.
The two Saints of the highest status in the Human race had come together to pick him up.
This was something to be very proud of. Even someone as arrogant as him thought so.
For this, he was willing to fight another battle.
But he had said 'I'll go and break his mountain's momentum', not 'I've broken his mountain's momentum'.
He did not believe that he could break through Mountain Man Yanzhi's defense, or even leave alive.
The somber winds caused his white paper to flap. It seemed inauspicious.
But his figure was not at all somber.
Because his spear stood straight, its red tassel fluttering in the breeze.
Because his will to fight was soaring to the heavens.
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Xu Yourong drew back her gaze and looked toward that darkness several li away. ”There's only one chance.”
Chen Changsheng understood what she meant.
By suppressing his wounds, Xiao Zhang could use his strongest strike once. Even if he was still capable of fighting afterward, none of his attacks would be as strong as this one.
In other words, if they wanted to charge head-on and break through Mountain Man Yanzhi, they only had one chance.
The wind swept across their faces. It was a little chilly, but it could not be described like a knife. It was more like the water in the stream outside Xining Village in the early spring.
Chen Changsheng clenched his left hand into a fist, as the stone pearls that were the Heavenly Tome Monoliths dropped from his sleeve and onto his wrist.
The weight of these stone pearls steadied his mind, but he needed to take a deep breath to truly calm down.
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In the darkness, Mountain Man Yanzhi really did look like a mountain.
Not a mountain range in the distance, but a real and authentic mountain of rock.
It was not a particularly large mountain, but it seemed to be one with the rocks of the earth, making it unmovable.
Xiao Zhang walked up to the mountain and stopped.
The starlight fell on his face and reflected off the white paper. It appeared even whiter, somewhat like the Moon behind Xuelao City.
Strangely, the fluttering red tassel had actually managed to snatch up the starlight.
The starlight seemed to become real, forming into strands and threads.
The world was relative.
If the illusory could become real, what of the real objects?
In the starlight, Xiao Zhang's body began to flicker as if about to vanish.