Chapter 334 (2/2)

Lan Jue, eyes wide, clapped his hands together before his chest He swung back, gathering whatever reh his arms by means of elaborate motions His arms shot out, and the shell around him was injected with another inexplicable aura Suddenly the crushi+ng energy was met by an elastic wall, rather than a solid defense

Granny Bess’ calhtly “What! Martial arts!”

Lan Jue’s coiling arether Reality before hi

An explosive force to rival nuclear blasts erupted froer than the force fro bolt was branded in the air All of his Discipline joined with the force of his art, was directed at a single point

The crihtmare world of blood and shadow, also collapsed

“Well done! You’re even stronger than I’d hoped”

Behind the hellscape was nothingness It was vast, and empty, and darker than black Lan Jue’s heart sank in despair; Bess’ protogenic reality wasn’t just a single level He was drained, having used all he had to tear away the world of blood This place of oblivion was stronger

Bess appeared again in his field of view She was standing, it was the first tihtly stooped, with her hair neatly combed and her pink jacket as clean as ever She certainly looked ready for the grave, but the surging power that flowed fro but weakness

She was thin, and short, but in this emptiness she looked enorain a swath of cri pressure could be felt seeping through it

“Hack!” Lan Jue spat up a old aura around hian to fracture and fade

He couldn’t do it – the tai chi-eies were too much for him to sustain Too much to control

But as Lan Jue teetered on the edge of collapse, so stopped Granny Bess in her tracks The expression on her face was more pronounced than the surprise she’d revealed before This was shock

She fiercely swiped her hand upward, and another ed froth to contend It snatched him up by the trunk, and squeezed A series of cracks and pops followed as the fist crushed Lan Jue in its grip

There was a flash, and Lan Jue’s battered body appeared floating in the darkness before Bess She dipped a clawed digit in to the spattered blood on his clothing, then brought it to her nose for a sniff

Her eyes widened, and a terrible light burned in her eyes

“Hohy does his aura surround you?!”

Lan Jue just looked at her, stunned and unable to speak

Bess paused Lan Jue couldn’t knohat she was thinking, but after a ain and the hand that held hi lih he were floating in soh him to force his Discipline all the way down to its core Lan Jue was no stronger than a nor back

“Speak! Where’s your wine,” Bess croaked

Lan Jue glared at her, obstinate and silent

She spoke again, her voice soft like sweet poison “Do you think you have any chance, puppet? You can choose not to speak, but if you do I’ll remove one of her limbs”

Unadulterated hatred slare “We drank it, in the Avenue One of the Wine Master’s treasures”

Bess looked skeptical “You’d actually drink it?”

Once er to her nose and sniffed Lan Jue couldn’t see her clearly, blocked by swathe of red she’d conjured He could, however, sense her violent s

“It’s time to make your choice, puppet Will it be her, or you? Only the h to sate my thirst” She seemed to have recovered her composure

Lan Jue never hesitated “How do I know you’ll keep your word and let her go?”