Chapter 359 - The So-called Tacit Understanding (1/2)

Chapter 359 The So-called Tacit UnderstandingChen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan both fell down, while Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva stood upright.

One arm flew up into the air, and blood had marked a circular arc.

With the Luke Sword pointed obliquely to the ground, blood dripped down the edge of the blade. Li Ye looked indifferently at Huang Jingyuan. The latter fell into the abandoned parterre, his left hand covered his bloody right shoulder, and his right arm was no longer visible.

He struggled to get up, but only managed to spit a few mouthfuls of blood, and collapsed onto the ground. He was unable to do any other actions apart from showing his pale face.

The Feihong Bodhisattva calmly stood on the side and took a big gulp of wine from her Jade Vase. She still had that normal calm expression, and you couldn’t tell what she was really thinking.

Chen Jizhen was half kneeling on the ground with his hand acting as support. He lifted his head and stared sternly at the Feihong Bodhisattva as blood uncontrollably poured out from the corner of his mouth. A shallow dip with dust flaring up appeared on the muddy ground below him, which his body had caused when he fell down just before.

The winning side was obvious now. Every one of the cultivators present could tell which was the winning side despite the four of them not saying a word.

It was clear that Li Ye was not hurt by the Feihong Bodhisattva previously, so his falling on the ground was just an act. The act was designed for the present moment. The Feihong Bodhisattva was not exhausted either, she was just biding her time, waiting for Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan to make a move. Then she would cooperate with the unpredictable Li Ye and defeat the two of them together.

Huang Jingyuan endured severe pain, with red eyes and gritted teeth, he growled and asked, “Why? Why?”

Looking at him, it was obvious that he wanted to shout that it was impossible.

He could not accept such a situation.

They could not be defeated.

It was impossible for Li Ye and the Feihong Bodhisattva to figure out that their injuries were merely acting.

It could not be possible for the Feihong Bodhisattva and Li Ye to cooperate to this extent.

In the battle, they could achieve this arrangement without any previous discussion. What kind of tacit understanding did they have?

The tacit agreement put aside, how could they have that trust in each other?

The sudden change in the battle situation had caught the cultivators of the demon clan, the Land Buddhism and the Immortal Court off-guard. The battling cultivators had stopped fighting and the cultivators who weren’t fighting were all stunned.

Everyone’s reaction was different. The previously desperate demon clan cultivators all had wide eyes with joy; Some of the Immortal Court cultivators wore vacant expressions as if in disbelief; Only the Land Buddhism monks were relatively calm because their situation had not changed much, but still only relatively.

After all, such a reversal was indeed too shocking, in fact it was almost impossible for everything to happen the way it did.

After a moment of silence, the Land Buddhism monks and demon clan cultivators violently rallied and attacked the Immortal Court cultivators. With their absolute numbers advantage, the Immortal Court cultivators had nowhere to run.

Li Ye didn’t answer Huang Jingyuan, he just approached him with his sword.

Huang Jingyuan couldn’t refrain from palpitation and panic, and he instinctively backed away. Li Ye’s stare was no different from watching the dead. He realized that Li Ye was coming to end his life and end the battle between the demon clan and the Immortal Court in the secret region.

Huang Jingyuan’s panic only lasted a moment. When Li Ye approached closer, Huang Jingyuan actually calmed down. He no longer backed away because it was pointless. He knew that his death was coming, and there was no way to avoid it. He had no other choice but to accept fate frankly.

Because he had lost after all.

He had lost, but he didn’t want to be in the unknown with regards to why had lost. As a military figure, he was adept at being resourceful. Thus there was no way he could accept being defeated without knowing how. He looked up at Li Ye with eyes being full of longing. When he was about to die, he just wanted to die with a full understanding of the situation.

He gritted his teeth and made the final effort, “Li Ye, how on earth did you find out that we were not injured?”

Without this premise, there would be no aftermath, which was the joining of forces between Li Ye and the Feihong Bodhisattva, who used their scheme against them and counter attacked.

Li Ye replied calmly, “I didn’t know.”

Huang Jingyuan froze with a hint of irritation on his face. Soon he realized and said, “So it was Feihong Bodhisattva who saw through us.”

Li Ye nodded slightly. “You have underestimated the Feihong Bodhisattva.”

Huang Jingyuan bowed his head in silence for a moment, and then said bitterly, “We have indeed underestimated the Feihong Bodhisattva!”

With the help of the Immortal Court ‘s secret and Magic Treasure, Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen who pretended to be seriously injured thought that they were covering up well. But they did not expect that the Feihong Bodhisattva saw through all of it.