abnabooks #339 - Repay kindness with kindness, and repay evil with justice! I am the only one who is supreme,
#339 - Repay kindness with kindness, and repay evil with justice! I am the only one who is supreme,
Killing Luo Fu would bring misfortune to the entire South Korea, but killing Qin King Ying Zheng, who is now disguised as a commoner, might not have as severe consequences as killing Luo Fu, as long as the assassin's identity remains hidden.
Unlike academic giants like Luo Fu, assassinating a king like Ying Zheng leaves only one option: success. The price of failure is too high, even for a ruler of a nation.
From the moment Bai Yifei chose to act, there was no other possibility.
Either Ying Zheng dies, or he and South Korea will face terrifying retaliation.
With murderous intent flashing in his eyes, Bai Yifei said, "Ninth Prince, you are merely a prince, not even the crown prince, and now..."
He paused slightly, glancing meaningfully at Ying Zheng, and continued to Han Fei, "Do you know who you are protecting?"
"Blood Cloak Marquis, do you know who you are trying to kill?" Han Fei retorted sharply.
The two looked at each other.
At this moment, Ying Zheng felt a surge of anger in his heart.
In Qin, he was clearly the king, and in terms of age and other aspects, he had already met the conditions to rule in his own right. However, because of Lu Buwei's obstruction, he could only endure humiliation as a king in name only.
Now, even in a weak country like South Korea, located in a land of constant warfare, someone dares to directly criticize him and even treat his life as something to be taken at will.
How could Ying Zheng accept this?
Regarding power and strength, never before had Ying Zheng felt such an unparalleled desire in his heart as he did now.
He needed power, unparalleled power, and at the same time, he needed even more authority.
Although he had mastered the ways of a ruler, Ying Zheng, facing Bai Yifei, who regarded him as someone to be taken at will, showed no sign of it.
Even the most open-minded person would probably not have the idea of repaying evil with kindness when faced with someone who wanted to kill them.
It should be known that this was the Warring States period, where rites had collapsed and music was ruined. To repay kindness with kindness and to repay resentment with justice was the consensus of everyone.
And since Bai Yifei had taken the step of assassinating Ying Zheng, then he was destined to have no good end.
It could only be said that Bai Yifei had bet on the wrong treasure.
Faced with Han Fei's tit-for-tat response.
Bai Yifei frowned slightly, then looked directly at Luo Fu and said, "Sir, please leave here quickly. This Marquis has some internal affairs of South Korea to deal with."
In Bai Yifei's heart, he had never taken Han Fei and others seriously.
After all, although Bai Yifei was ostensibly the Blood Cloak Marquis of the Four Fiends of Nightfall, in reality, Bai Yifei was the one who hid the deepest among the Four Fiends.
As long as Bai Yifei wanted to, he could even overthrow Ji Wuye, the nominal leader of Nightfall, at any time and replace him.
If Bai Yifei had previously regarded Han Fei and the Sands they had established with a playful attitude, then at this moment, Bai Yifei truly had murderous intentions and even wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to solve Ying Zheng, Han Fei, and others all at once.
At worst, he would push all the blame onto the Hundred Yue group.
With a decision made in his mind in an instant, Bai Yifei suddenly exuded a terrifying chill.
Although Bai Yifei's reputation was not as good as those of established masters, his skill in ice could even change the weather within a certain range in a short period of time if he could cooperate with the guards of his Snow Cloak Fortress.
Before entering the courtyard, the ice spears that flew towards them were the result of Bai Yifei's cooperation with the Snow Cloak Fortress guards.
A sharp killing intent flashed in his eyes.
Bai Yifei looked at Luo Fu with regret and said, "Sir, it's a pity. A person like you shouldn't have died here. If you have to blame someone, you can only blame the Ninth Prince."
At the moment Bai Yifei's voice fell.
With Bai Yifei as the center, countless ice thorns, like rapidly growing ice forests, spread rapidly, and Gai Nie, Wei Zhuang, and others, who were the first to bear the brunt, almost suffered a hidden loss.
Even Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were still like this, let alone the members of the Hundred Yue group.
Except for Tian Ze, who moved in time to avoid the attack of the ice thorn forest.
The Hundred Poison King and the Corpse Driving Demon, who were not good at direct combat, were surrounded by ice thorns in just a blink of an eye, accompanied by the rapid growth of hard and sharp ice thorns.
In just a few breaths, the Hundred Poison King and the Corpse Driving Demon fell directly on the spot.
Only Wushuang Ghost, although he was unable to escape the coverage of the ice thorn forest.
But unfortunately, Wushuang Ghost's defense was so strong that even the famous swords in the world could not break through it. Even though he was now wrapped in an ice cocoon, the vibrations and roars of Wushuang Ghost's struggle continued to come from within.
The spread of the ice thorns clearly included everyone, including Luo Fu, the famous Confucian sage.
Seeing this, Han Fei glared angrily and said, "Blood Cloak Marquis, what are you doing? Do you want to plunge South Korea into eternal doom?"
With a cold smile, Bai Yifei said disdainfully, "Ninth Prince, don't waste your efforts. It is the Ninth Prince's honor to go to the Yellow Springs with a contemporary sage like Mr. Luo Zi and a worldly wanderer like the King of Qin."
"Are you crazy?" Although Han Fei knew that the people of Nightfall were lawless, he never thought that Bai Yifei could be so arrogant.
In fact, as a Legalist disciple, Han Fei hoped that everything would happen within the rules.
Even in the competition with Nightfall, Han Fei had always hoped to defeat Ji Wuye and others through South Korean law and complete the reform in his heart in South Korea.
But precisely, Bai Yifei's actions were recklessly destroying the rules and laws in his heart.
It could only be said that Han Fei was by no means a qualified king.
Because the king was above the law, but Han Fei was a Legalist disciple. Although his attainments in Legalist doctrines could be said to be the culmination of Legalism, unfortunately, the laws in his heart restrained himself but could not restrain others.
His ideal of using the king to stipulate laws to restrain everyone, the first to restrain was himself.
In the heart of a true king, he was the only one who was respected. Even the law had to be under the king.
And Han Fei, the Legalist who was restrained by his own law, might be able to achieve something if he assisted a wise king.
But unfortunately, Han Fei chose South Korea. Not to mention the weakness of South Korea itself, just Han Wang An, who had lost his former ambition, was destined not to become the king in Han Fei's heart who could practice his ideals.
At this moment, Bai Yifei was just showing all the truth to Han Fei in a bloody manner.
Although only the Hundred Poison King and the Corpse Driving Demon died in Bai Yifei's hands, Bai Yifei's approach of killing everyone to silence them made Han Fei truly feel how unsolvable it was for a person who ignored the law but held power.
To some extent, these people in Nightfall were the tribulation in Han Fei's transition from a pure Legalist disciple to a king.
But it was a pity that Han Fei was always just a Legalist disciple, not a king. This also meant that even if he gained the upper hand in the struggle with Nightfall.
Once the other party overturned the table, Han Fei could only sit and wait.
Just like now.
Seeing that Bai Yifei's ice thorn forest was about to grow in front of Luo Fu.
Dongjun's eyes flickered slightly, and the blazing dragon swimming energy instantly surged around her.
The flames, like feathers, surrounded her, making Dongjun at this moment seem like a living three-legged golden crow.
Unlike Yan Lingji, who could only control the flames from her own bloodline.
From the temperature to other aspects, the dragon swimming energy displayed by Dongjun's soul system dragon swimming was much more terrifying than Yan Lingji's flames.
If Yan Lingji were to face Bai Yifei at this moment, her flames would probably be frozen in one face-to-face meeting.
But when it was Dongjun, as Dongjun showed her dragon swimming energy that had transcended the limits of Yin-Yang techniques.
The surrounding ice thorns visibly began to melt continuously.
Bai Yifei did not expect that this woman with a noble temperament would have such a terrible spell.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and Bai Yifei suddenly showed an evil smile and said, "Yin-Yang family? I didn't expect that the Yin-Yang family, which has been living in seclusion for so many years, would give birth to such a talented woman like you."
Although he thought highly of himself, Bai Yifei did not dare to underestimate Dongjun at this time.
It was just that he obviously regarded Dongjun as his prey.
The moment Bai Yifei showed a covetous look at Dongjun, Dongjun was instantly furious.
The blazing dragon swimming energy became more and more surging, and instantly transformed into several three-legged golden crows, which flew straight to Bai Yifei with a series of croaking cries.
Bai Yifei, however, suddenly grew slanting ice thorns under his feet the moment these three-legged golden crows flew out. The ice thorns were densely packed, completely locking the attacking direction of the three-legged golden crows.
It was just that Bai Yifei's ice might be able to deal with Yan Lingji, but it would definitely not be able to deal with Dongjun.
The ice that killed the Hundred Poison King and the Corpse Driving Demon in seconds, and that even Wushuang Ghost could not break free from, even omitted the melting process in front of Dongjun's blazing three-legged golden crow, directly sublimating and disappearing from the hard ice thorns.
In the blink of an eye, Bai Yifei fell into the dangerous situation of being besieged by several three-legged golden crows.
In an instant, Bai Yifei suddenly drew out his red and white swords.
Two swords, one scarlet like blood and the other white as snow.
Although not on the List of Famous Swords, Bai Yifei's two swords are in no way inferior to the famous swords on the list.
It's just that the origins of these two swords are too mysterious. Even Feng Huzi, who compiled the List of Famous Swords, may not have the chance to see them.
They might not even know the names of these two swords, so naturally, it was impossible to rank them.
With the dual swords in hand, Bai Yifei's strength suddenly leapt up several levels again.
Between flashes of sword light,
the three-legged Golden Crow, transformed from the Dragon Wanderer's Qi, was instantly chopped into exploding Dragon Wanderer's Qi by Bai Yifei's sword energy.
Although the three-legged Golden Crow had terrifying lethality, in the final analysis, it was just a transformation of the Eastern Lord's Dragon Wanderer's Qi.
Its essence was still the Eastern Lord's blazing and masculine soul-based Dragon Wanderer.
After Bai Yifei used his dual swords to shatter its transformed image, the blazing Dragon Wanderer's Qi suddenly erupted.
Bai Yifei, bearing the brunt of the blast, was careless for a moment, and even the scarlet robe on his body was ignited by the high temperature.
Not only his robe, but Bai Yifei's snow-white hair also caught fire due to the sudden eruption of the Dragon Wanderer's Qi.
This sudden change did indeed catch Bai Yifei off guard.
But Bai Yifei was, after all, no ordinary person.
He timely manipulated the ice, completely freezing himself, isolating himself from the explosive damage of the Dragon Wanderer's Qi, and extinguishing the flames on his clothes and hair.
Accompanying the sudden appearance and fleeting flash of fire,
when the ice thorns around, which had cleared a large area, had disappeared, a two-meter-high ice crystal immediately came into everyone's sight.
Inside the ice crystal, Bai Yifei's face was filled with anger, and with a crisp cracking sound,
the two-meter-high ice crystal instantly exploded, turning into dense fragments, splashing in all directions.
Each of these ice crystal fragments had terrifying lethality.
However, the Eastern Lord, bearing the brunt of the attack, seemed to rely on her blazing Dragon Wanderer's Qi to completely ignore these flying ice crystals, because these ice crystals were evaporated by the Dragon Wanderer's Qi surging around her body before they even approached her.
Even though the Eastern Lord blocked most of the ice crystal fragments, there were still many that slipped through and flew towards Luo Fu, Ying Zheng, and the others.
Gai Nie quickly wielded the long sword in his hand, blocking countless ice crystals from attacking Ying Zheng. Wei Zhuang also seemed to be telepathically connected, doing the same as Gai Nie, blocking the ice crystals for Han Fei, Zhang Liang, and others.
On Luo Fu's side, Yan Lingji took the initiative to stand in front of Luo Fu, with flames surrounding her body.
Unfortunately, Yan Lingji's flames were a bit lacking in foundation.
Although she also melted the ice crystals, she couldn't completely evaporate them like the Eastern Lord.
The melted ice crystals quickly soaked Yan Lingji's entire body.
Yan Lingji's subconscious action made Tian Ze, who was quickly waving his six snake bone chains, even more convinced that Yan Lingji had betrayed him, betrayed Baiyue.
But at this time, Tian Ze couldn't even compare to a supporting character.
You must know that Tian Ze appeared here entirely because Bai Yifei coerced him with Gu poison.
When Bai Yifei personally took action, how much value did he, a tool who failed to complete the task, still have?
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was attracted by the battle between the Eastern Lord and Bai Yifei,
after blocking the splashing of Bai Yifei's broken ice crystals, Tian Ze suddenly chose to attack Yan Lingji at this time.
In Tian Ze's heart, the greatest obsession was to avenge South Korea.
But besides that, Tian Ze even more hated those who betrayed him.
Whether it was his status as the deposed crown prince of Baiyue, the Baiyue remnants, or his former subordinates,
as long as anyone had betrayed him, in Tian Ze's heart, they were unforgivable.
And without a doubt, in Tian Ze's eyes, Yan Lingji was an unforgivable fellow.
Who told her to choose to betray him?
The six snake bone chains shot towards Yan Lingji's direction with sharp piercing sounds.
Never in her wildest dreams did Yan Lingji expect that Tian Ze, her master, would disregard her explanation and choose to attack her.
In a hurry, the moment the flames around Yan Lingji ignited, they immediately extinguished completely.
Without the cover of the flames, Yan Lingji's appearance at this moment was immediately reflected in everyone's eyes.
It could be seen that Yan Lingji's curvaceous body had already been pierced by six large bloody holes by the snake bone chains. After piercing Yan Lingji's body, these snake bone chains also tightly bound her, as if to completely strangle her.
"Cough... cough cough..." Having six holes pierced through her body by the snake bone chains in an instant, even though Yan Lingji had the special bloodline of Baiyue and possessed the ability to manipulate flames, her life quickly fell into a dying state.
After coughing weakly twice, she coughed up a large mouthful of blood.
Yan Lingji looked weakly in Tian Ze's direction, without any intention of struggling. Yan Lingji said intermittently: "Master... I... didn't betray..."
Before she could finish these stumbling words, Tian Ze seemed to have received some huge stimulus, and his hands suddenly exerted force.
In the next moment, the snake bone chains suddenly tightened.
Seeing that Yan Lingji was about to be strangled on the spot,
Wushuang Ghost, who had originally been trapped in Bai Yifei's ice thorn forest and unable to move, but took advantage of the fight between the Eastern Lord and Bai Yifei, as Bai Yifei relaxed his control over the ice thorn forest,
Wushuang Ghost finally broke free from the shackles of the thorn forest.
With a cracking sound,
accompanied by the exploding ice shards, Wushuang Ghost, who had just broken free from the shackles, rushed towards Yan Lingji's direction at all costs.
His hands tightly grabbed Tian Ze's snake bone chains, his eyes filled with pleading as he shook his head vigorously.
"Wushuang Ghost," Tian Ze gritted his teeth and said, "Even you beast want to betray me?"
"Wushuang Ghost, let... let go." Yan Lingji seemed to have lost all hope.
Among the Baiyue group, only Luo Fu cared a little about this internal strife. At most, others just glanced at it before focusing their attention back on Bai Yifei and the Eastern Lord.
The Baiyue group, although their methods were devious, their strength was ultimately unable to compare with the orthodox Xia.
The battle between the Eastern Lord of the Yin Yang School and Bai Yifei, the Blood-Clad Marquis with mysterious inheritance, was far beyond the reach of the Baiyue group in terms of intensity, ferocity, and the presentation of combat intelligence.
Seeing that Tian Ze was about to vent his anger on Wushuang Ghost,
Yan Lingji, who had been desperate, finally looked towards Luo Fu's direction as if grabbing the last straw.
Luo Fu seemed to understand Yan Lingji's plea in seconds.
His finger gently swiped in the air.
An invisible but sharp vigor flashed past.
In the next moment, the snake bone chains, which were enough to contend with the famous swords of the world, disintegrated in an instant in front of Luo Fu's casually wielded sharp vigor, as if entering an empty space with no thickness.
As the snake bone chains were cut off, the injuries on Yan Lingji's body began to recover visibly.
Seeing this, Wushuang Ghost quickly rushed to Yan Lingji's side, gesticulating with his hands and feet.
Yan Lingji smiled bitterly and said, "Wushuang Ghost, I'm fine."
While the Baiyue group was staging a drama of betrayal,
the Eastern Lord, who had been stalemating with Bai Yifei for a moment, finally began to show her overwhelming power.
Yes.
Compared to Bai Yifei, the Eastern Lord had overwhelming strength.
After all, the Eastern Lord had followed Luo Fu ever since Luo Fu left Sanghai City of Qi State.
As Luo Fu's weight in the Eastern Lord's heart became heavier and heavier, she not only received Luo Fu's inheritance in ninjutsu, but Luo Fu was also not stingy with other methods.
Who told Luo Fu to know that the Eastern Lord had the purest love brain.
Once her heart belonged to someone, then in the Eastern Lord's heart, whether it was destiny or the future, or the Yin Yang School that nurtured her, she could betray them all.
You must know that the Yin Yang School had long noticed that the future of the world would inevitably be unified by the Qin State.
Even so, for the sake of her love, the Eastern Lord would still choose to go against the heavens, trying to help Crown Prince Dan of Yan save the fate of Yan State's inevitable destruction.
Now that the Eastern Lord had been intercepted by Luo Fu in advance, when Luo Fu replaced Crown Prince Dan of Yan in the Eastern Lord's heart, Luo Fu would naturally spare no effort in cultivating the Eastern Lord.
Don't forget, although the Eastern Lord was a love brain, she was also a rare genius in the path of magic.
She was the number one strange woman in Yin Yang magic, recognized by the various schools of thought!
Her talent in Yin Yang magic was to the extent that even Moon Goddess could only be jealous.
With Luo Fu's transmission of abilities from other worlds, when these abilities were combined with the inheritance of the Yin Yang School, the Eastern Lord's strength had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Bearing the brunt of the attack, the first person to taste the power after this transformation was Bai Yifei.
In Bai Yifei's opinion, he could still stalemate with this woman from the Yin Yang School just now, but in the blink of an eye,
his ice had become so vulnerable in front of the Eastern Lord.
In just a few short breaths, Bai Yifei had fallen into a difficult situation where he was struggling to cope.
Although she was still manipulating a few small three-legged Golden Crows just like before, these small three-legged Golden Crows condensed from the blazing Dragon Wanderer's Qi were like rounds of real, bright suns.
Bai Yifei's ice was not even as good as a layer of window paper in front of these scorching suns. What's more, the light and heat emitted from the three-legged Golden Crow's body alone were enough to melt Bai Yifei's ice. The ice that was directly hit by the three-legged Golden Crow sublimated and disappeared in an instant.
Even the red and white dual swords in Bai Yifei's hands were completely melted into skewed and irregular metal pieces after only directly chopping at the three-legged Golden Crows a few times.