Chapter 328 Jiang Mans Soul Detonation (1/2)
Chapter 328 – Jiang Man's Soul Detonation
Tong did not like Xun Yu's plan, so he postponed his decision and dismissed Xun Yu.
After Xun Yu left, Jia Xu came.
Opposite from Xun Yu, Jia Xu proposed that all of the lords should be dead.
”Let's get rid of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Since Cao Cao's action during the battle is the evidence that he hasn't given up fighting, so you should assassinate them as soon as possible.”
Tong nodded, ”That's what I have in mind. But, Wenhe. Do you know what Wenruo proposed to me?”
”Hmm?”
”He wants me to give Luo Yang to Yuan Shao and manipulate him into fighting Cao Cao.”
”Oh? That's doable. It's a long run tactic to preserve your reputation. But if we talk about efficiency, it's lame.”
”If you want to preserve my reputation as Xun Yu did, what will you do?”
”Assassinate Yuan Shao, don't get caught, and blame everything to Liu Bei.”
”Will that even possible? Liu Bei is known to be a useless bum. Can other lords believe this?”
”We don't need them to believe. We only need to throw a bait and watch all the fishes fight for it.”
”Tell me the details.”
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A day later, the coalition army entered Luo Yang City.
The city had become a ghost town as Khan and Dong Zhuo took all citizens of this city to Chang'An long ago. There was no merit of occupying this city unless anyone wanted to use it as a fortress for their troops.
Jiang Man and Pu Jing sent men to search every water well inside the city, hoping to find the Imperial Seal as in their historical records.
Betraying their expectation, none of them could find it as it was in Khan's hands.
Since they could not find it, both of them withdrew their men and resumed their duties.
At night, most of the coalition lords celebrated for taking the empty capital city back. Yuan Shao, Zhang Miao, Kong Zhou, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, and Qiao Mao joined this banquet.
Cao Cao and Tong refused to participate in it as they did not like crowded places. Gongsun Zan and Kong Rong withdrew from the coalition and left yesterday.
That night, Tong decided to employ Jia Xu's plan.
As the warlords were celebrating and drinking in the party, Tong sent one of his souls and hid it inside the ceiling. He observed the crowd below.
All generals and Jiang Man was there, which could be troublesome if they could sense Tong's presence.
'50 Seconds. A simple trick. [Time Stop].'
Tong activated the time stopping skill.
Once the world came to a stop, Tong's soul of Greed got down from the ceiling.
Now, this was the tricky part. From Jia Xu's plan, Tong had to arrange the scene to make it appeared that Jiang Man assassinated Yuan Shao.
To set this up, Tong had to shove a bag of poison in Jiang Man's drink clothes and puts the same poison in Yuan Shao's drink and clothes as well. Once the poison took the effect, both of them would die, and they would be the prime suspect for the assassination.
Yuan Shao's subordinates and Liu Bei forces would start fighting each other, sowing discord among Tong's rivals.
An easy and a simple trick!
'First, I'll poison Jiang Man ...'
While Tong was fumbling with the poison bags, he sensed that something moved within his [Time Stop] world.
”What?”
Tong did not have enough time to surprise. The soul of Kindness and the soul of Loyalty exited Jiang Man's real body and rushed at Tong's soul.
”You! How can you move!?”
Jiang Man's souls did not answer. It did not attack Tong nor showing a sign of hostility. Instead, it simply paused in front of Greed and stared into the soul's eyes with hatred.
Upon closer inspection, Tong found that Jiang Man's soul was trembling as if it wanted to move, but it could not. Jiang Man's real body also had a similar reaction as well as if they could see everything during the time stop period, but they could not move.
This was not the first time that Jiang Man experienced this sensation. He felt it the first time when Tong used it against Khan. Unbeknownst to Tong or Khan, both Jiang Man and Pu Jing could sense the stagnate of the time when the [Time Stop] was in effect.
Tong did not know this. All system skills were ineffective against awakened immortals with wings. Therefore, his [Time Stop] could be sensed by anyone with wings like Jiang Man or Pu Jing!
Fortunately, both of them had not touched the concept of time-and-space law and mastered the angelic cultivation technique. Because of that, they could not fully counter this ability.
”I see. So I'm Dio Brando, and you're Kujo Jotaro. Is that right?”
Tong laughed as he found the situation ironic. It was similar to the confrontation between the main characters from Jojo.
”Too bad, I'm a bit stronger than Dio. Your skill is promising, Jiang Man. Blame your bad luck for facing me before you have matured. Well, I'm sounding like a villain these days. Now die!”
Greed was about to rush at Jiang Man's main body and kill him on the spot, but the trembling mouth of Jiang Man uttered a couple of words.
”Soul Detonation!”
Jiang Man was aware of this [Time Stop] 's effect and knew that he had no chance against Tong. Therefore, he planned to destroy Tong's soul with his suicide-bomb.
The soul manipulation of the suicide bomb was more straightforward than using unique virtue support or curses of sins. By accumulating his lifespans into the souls, it could cause the detonation of the soul.
'I have no chance against you, but I can take you to hell with me! Die, Zhang Tong!'
Jiang Man's souls detonated, causing the purple flame to rush at Greed.
Greed received the impact from the point-blank shockwave. Tong unsummoned Greed right after the flame had caught it to avoid the injuries.
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= Tong's Resting Tent =