Ha, Karma! – Chapter 93
by Little PandaShe still liked it here, liked the human world with Chu Zhaoqiu in it.
The duel between Chu Zhaoqiu and Ji Congyun was still ongoing.
This time, it was only them; there were no longer any other people to get in the way and be a hindrance.
After several exchanges, they became even more aware that the other was not to be underestimated, evenly matched with themselves.
Amidst the ground covered in blood of unusual colors and yao corpses, one human and one yao each stood their ground.
Ji Congyun held a short blade in her left hand, her expression growing increasingly stern, and a little impatient.
The demon hunter before her was as difficult and annoying as ever.
She liked prey that would struggle, but if they struggled too much, it became uninteresting.
“No one will come to save you this time. Why must you struggle so bitterly? Why not obediently be of use to me, help me ascend to godhood, and it can be counted as a meritorious deed for you. Don’t you demon hunters love this thing called merit the most?”
Hearing these words, Chu Zhaoqiu instantly recalled the deceased on Wuchang Mountain, her brow sinking. “The culprit who drained demon hunters on Wuchang Mountain was you.”
“It was me, but so what?” Ji Congyun looked at her with complete indifference. “Do you even have the life to take this news back?”
As long as she killed Chu Zhaoqiu, then controlled her, drained her, she could ascend to godhood on the spot!
Once she became a lofty evil god, how could mere mortals possibly capture her?
At that time, she would be even more able to do as she pleased!
Responding to her was Chu Zhaoqiu initiating an attack.
The two weapons met, their ringing an incessant clamor.
The azure blade pressed down on the short dagger.
Chu Zhaoqiu’s gaze was scorching, her eyes holding an unshakeable resolve. “How will we know if we don’t try?”
“Clang, clang——”
Demonic energy as dense as ink and clear, holy golden light clashed within the Black Mist Prison, sparks flying, neither yielding to the other.
Ji Congyun’s responses gradually slowed.
She was starting to feel the strain.
Chu Zhaoqiu was becoming more and more frenzied.
To still have the strength to fight her after expending so much energy to unleash Myriad Swords Clear the Path—she was like a mad dog that had seen a bone, refusing to give up until it had it in its jaws.
——She really does care for the common people.
Ji Congyun sneered inwardly, saying aloud, “Chu Zhaoqiu, don’t try to hold on. I know you’re very tired now too.”
Chu Zhaoqiu did not speak.
Ji Congyun continued, “For one Fu Lianxue, for a bunch of foolish humans, is it really worth it for you to fight me to the death here?”
Chu Zhaoqiu swung her sword, cutting down.
“Worth it.”
Ji Congyun leaped far away, shaking her head. “Too foolish, truly too foolish.”
“You really are a foolish and selfish person.”
Just as she finished speaking, a golden light had already flown before her face.
She tilted her head slightly; the golden light grazed her shoulder, leaving her unscathed.
“Why don’t you think about your family? If you die here, won’t they be sad? Won’t Fu Lianxue be sad?”
Humans all have weaknesses.
She wanted to make her have reservations.
As long as there were reservations, her moves would become sluggish, and then, naturally, she would be full of openings.
Chu Zhaoqiu replied calmly, “I may not necessarily die.”
As her words fell, she launched three more golden lights in succession, dead set on not giving Ji Congyun any time to breathe.
Ji Congyun dodged them one by one, a scornful smile on her face. “You also said ‘not necessarily.’ What if you do die then?”
After she spoke, the person opposite her gripped the three-chi sword in her hand and slowly said, “It doesn’t matter.”
Ji Congyun froze for a moment.
Chu Zhaoqiu flashed forward, raising her sword to stab at her, her eyes chillingly terrifying. “In any case, I’ll drag you down to hell with me!”
——What!
Ji Congyun, astonished, hurriedly dodged, yet a lock of her long hair was still sliced off.
She immediately pulled away, creating distance between them, and touched her hair.
Mad, Chu Zhaoqiu was completely mad!
To actually want to use her own life to drag her to death!
Chu Zhaoqiu, on her end, now knew how to restrain Ji Congyun.
Against this kind of yao with a twisted personality, one had to be reckless, even madder than them.
If she could exchange her own death for the peaceful lives of countless people and Fu Lianxue, what was there that she couldn’t do?
“You’re simply a lunatic!” Ji Congyun said, displeased. “As difficult to deal with as before!”
An arc of sword light suddenly slashed over; Ji Congyun raised her hand and waved out a stream of black energy to block it.
With a “boom,” it exploded, sending dust flying.
A figure burst through the smoke and dust, slashing with the sword in her hand towards the evil entity.
Chu Zhaoqiu’s brow was heavy, her thin lips pressed tightly together.
Every time Ji Congyun mentioned the past, it only served to increase her anger.
“Are you even qualified to call others difficult?”
Shouldn’t she be the truly difficult one?
She and her Lianxue had clearly not provoked her, yet merely because their philosophies differed, they had to suffer this undeserved disaster.
One dead, one injured, separated for a thousand years—who should compensate for this suffering?!
“Ji Congyun, you owe me and Lianxue too much.”
“Owe?”
Ji Congyun blocked her attack, then suddenly laughed with wild arrogance.
“It was clearly I who taught you what separation means!”
“You, a human, with a lifespan of a mere hundred years, how could you dare to dream of staying with us yoaguai forever?”
“You are destined to be separated eventually. What would she do then?”
“Chu Zhaoqiu, oh Chu Zhaoqiu, you are truly selfish, to not have thought for her at all.”
Another set of twisted arguments.
“You’re truly incorrigible,” Chu Zhaoqiu’s eyes were ice-cold.
“Reason? I am reason!” Ji Congyun was as arrogant as ever.
Chu Zhaoqiu’s thoughts raced. “Since you say my hundred years are too short to accompany Lianxue, then I’ll be the despicable human you speak of for once.”
Ji Congyun’s smile faded. “What do you mean?”
The sword in Chu Zhaoqiu’s hand pressed down slightly. “Meaning…”
“——I want your Longevity Flower.”
Chu Zhaoqiu’s offensive instantly became fierce.
Her morals were only for humans and demons worthy of respect; Ji Congyun was clearly not among them.
This was what Ji Congyun owed them; this was Ji Congyun’s retribution!
Unexpectedly, when she mentioned this, Ji Congyun’s expression became even more contorted, her smile maniacal, as if she had gone mad.
“You still dare to say this, you still dare to say this!!!”
“If it weren’t for you, if it weren’t for you… how could I still be here!”
Something was wrong; Chu Zhaoqiu frowned and retreated.
Combining this with the fact that Ji Congyun had set her sights on Fu Lianxue’s Longevity Flower, clever as she was, she understood almost instantly: “Your flower is already gone?”
“Shut up!”
Ji Congyun suddenly pointed at her resentfully.
“It’s all your fault!!!”
“If you hadn’t injured me back then, my flower would still be perfectly fine now! It’s all your fault, Chu Zhaoqiu!”
Chu Zhaoqiu: “…”
Did she even hear what she was saying?
Refusing to self-reflect, actively blaming others, is it?
Truly an incorrigible madwoman.
But since Ji Congyun’s life-saving flower was already gone, she felt relieved.
If she went through hell and high water to kill Ji Congyun, only for Ji Congyun to be saved by the flower and return good as new, that would truly be despair-inducing.
“So annoying, so annoying——” Ji Congyun glared at her. “Chu Zhaoqiu, today I will definitely make your soul shatter and scatter, without even a chance to reincarnate!”
She took the initiative to attack.
Her moves, fueled by anger, were even more reckless; the matter of ascending to godhood was now secondary to making Chu Zhaoqiu’s soul shatter and scatter.
She wanted to make her suffer, to make Fu Lianxue suffer.
She wanted them to know the price of provoking her!!
Within the black mist, rumbles echoed, the earth quaked and mountains shook.
Golden light and demonic energy were locked in a stalemate, fighting inextricably.
Life and death were cast aside; both sides fought recklessly, one for herself, one for the common people and her loved one.
“Boom!” Another deafening sound.
The shockwave swept out, making their robes whip and crackle.
Chu Zhaoqiu’s outer robe was torn; Ji Congyun’s long skirt was also sliced in half, no longer exquisite.
The next second, the two, standing apart, felt a tightness in their throats and both vomited a mouthful of fresh blood, both sides grievously injured, exactly like that time long ago.
Even so, they fought on, refusing to stop until one of them was dead; soon, they were clashing again.
Today, one of them must have their soul shattered and scattered!
Ji Congyun was evil and full of tricks.
During the fight, she would even transform into Fu Lianxue’s appearance from time to time, attempting to distract Chu Zhaoqiu.
Faced with the sudden appearance of her loved one, Chu Zhaoqiu nearly fell for it.
She steadied her mind and dealt with it calmly.
This trick soon stopped working on her.
Ji Congyun, wearing Fu Lianxue’s face, said, “To die at the hands of this face, you should be very happy, right?”
Chu Zhaoqiu did not speak.
Ji Congyun continued, “Are you longing to see her one last time right now? Too bad she has no idea where you are; you two will never see each other again——”
“Bang!”
A heaven-shattering, unusual noise came from outside.
Both of them turned their heads in unison to look towards the source of the sound.
“Bang, bang, bang——” It continued incessantly, as if someone was attacking this formation from the outside.
Ji Congyun frowned instantly.
This wasn’t right, how could anyone know about this place!
Seeing her expression, Chu Zhaoqiu knew these weren’t her reinforcements.
But unexpectedly, Ji Congyun suddenly rushed over, raising her short blade towards her. “Hurry up and die for me!”
“Crack!”
Suddenly, something shattered.
The next second, the black prison trapping Chu Zhaoqiu was completely broken, and a purple figure flashed in, like a swift gust of wind.
Fu Lianxue forcefully joined the battle, striking out with a wave of purple energy that knocked the short blade from Ji Congyun’s hand. Powerful demonic energy burst from her body, with nowhere to go, just like her fury at this moment.
Seeing the blood on Chu Zhaoqiu’s lips, Fu Lianxue, without a word, turned and charged murderously towards Ji Congyun!
“You’re dead today!”
Both Ji Congyun and Chu Zhaoqiu were very surprised by her arrival.
A red shadow then landed lightly in front of Chu Zhaoqiu, protecting her, not letting Ji Congyun get close.
Chu Zhaoqiu clutched her chest, looking in astonishment at the red-clothed female ghost before her.
The female ghost was still missing one of her five fingers.
Chu Zhaoqiu parted her lips. “How could you…”
“I happened to see it, guessed you were in trouble, so I sought her out for you,” Fingerless Madam said calmly. “Fortunately, it was still timely.”
This was probably Heaven’s will.
Heaven’s will wanted her to repay a kindness.
Chu Zhaoqiu was taken aback upon hearing this, then smiled faintly. “Many thanks.”
She once again tightened her grip on the sword in her hand, looking at Ji Congyun, who was being beaten back step by step by Fu Lianxue.
Seeing this, Fingerless Madam raised a hand to stop her. “You’re heavily injured. Rest well; leave the rest to Fu Lianxue.”
Chu Zhaoqiu smiled, pressed her hand down, and shook her head.
This was their grudge with Ji Congyun; naturally, it should be resolved by them.
Now, it was Ji Congyun’s turn to taste what it was like to be outnumbered.
Ji Congyun simply couldn’t believe Fu Lianxue would appear here.
Where exactly was the flaw in her perfect plan?!
The more she thought, the angrier she became.
Why was it that Chu Zhaoqiu always had someone to save her!
A thousand years ago, when she accidentally encountered Chu Zhaoqiu’s reincarnation, she had intended to kill her.
But she hadn’t succeeded.
Because this somewhat clever human had crawled into the territory of a deity.
At that time, Chu Zhaoqiu was saved by a celestial being.
So annoying.
And today, she still failed to kill Chu Zhaoqiu. This time, there was no deity, only the damned Fu Lianxue!
And to make matters worse, she was currently injured; compared to the vigorous Fu Lianxue, her state was simply tragic.
Fu Lianxue’s blows were extremely heavy; she had already been forced to take several palms from her, adding injury upon injury.
If this continued, she would undoubtedly die!
No, as long as the green mountains remain, there’s no fear of running out of firewood1; a wise person adapts to circumstances2!
She looked at the breached opening of the shattered prison, seized the right moment, dodged Fu Lianxue’s attack, and rushed towards it!
But Chu Zhaoqiu suddenly appeared, shattering her plan, the sword in her hand already waiting.
Her footsteps halted.
Fu Lianxue, her movements like a phantom’s, followed closely behind, grabbing Ji Congyun’s shoulders.
Countless purple threads materialized out of thin air around Fu Lianxue, instantly binding Ji Congyun’s hands and feet, binding her body, clamping her firmly in place like a puppet that could only be manipulated.
“Goodbye, Ji Congyun.”
A cold voice fell from behind her.
“No… no——!!!”
“Pfft!”
The long sword pierced through her body, through her heart.
Chu Zhaoqiu gripped the hilt tightly, slowly raising her eyes to look at the yao whose face was filled with astonishment.
The sword that had pierced her beloved a thousand years ago had today finally avenged that great enmity, slaying the true evil-doing yao.
She let out a long sigh, as if relieved of a heavy burden.
Ji Congyun knelt in the blood, the life in her eyes dimming bit by bit in disbelief.
She had actually, fallen at their hands again…
Chu Zhaoqiu turned to look at Fu Lianxue.
Fu Lianxue’s eyes were red-rimmed, tears welling up from the anxiety of not being able to find her.
Fortunately, she had found her now, fortunately…
She walked towards Chu Zhaoqiu, opening her arms to her.
Chu Zhaoqiu smiled, released her sword to meet her, and then collapsed into her embrace.
Fu Lianxue cried out in alarm, hurriedly catching her.
Leaning in her embrace, Chu Zhaoqiu’s eyelids suddenly grew very heavy, and her body felt heavy and exhausted.
She really wanted to sleep, just sleep like this.
In her daze, she seemed to see the Black Mist Prison dissipate, and President Zeng Han, her grandmother, and other demon hunters all running towards her.
Again in her daze, she saw a gentle golden light appear on the horizon, and a pair of hands slowly reaching out to her, as if inviting her to ascend to the world among the clouds.
She shook her head, and shook her head again.
Not going… not going.
She could feel Fu Lianxue holding her hand tightly; it was very warm, making her feel a deep attachment.
She still liked the human world, liked being by her side.
“Lianxue…”
Fu Lianxue suddenly heard her call her name and quickly leaned her ear down.
She heard her say very softly, very lightly, “Now you don’t have to worry about her coming to bother you anymore…”
After speaking, she completely lost consciousness.
Fu Lianxue suddenly didn’t know what to say.
Her heart was truly, completely full of her.
Fu Lianxue raised her head and glanced at the golden light lingering on the horizon.
This was a light others couldn’t see; she knew very well what it symbolized.
She withdrew her gaze, and together with the physician, carefully helped her loved one onto a stretcher, showing no lingering attachment to that light.
She still liked it here, liked the human world with Chu Zhaoqiu in it.
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