Chapter 262
Chapter 262
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Sunset Betrayal
-----------------------------------------------------------------
As the sun dipped behind the western mountains, by the time Perfected Being Miaoyin sensed something was wrong, the distant orb had already vanished completely. The starry sky now hung directly overhead.
"Senior Suo Huan?"
Perfected Being Miaoyin turned to look at Suo Huan beside her, only to find him already fiddling with a formation. Streams of formation patterns were being laid out by his hand.
What was he doing?
Before Perfected Being Miaoyin could react, a signal flare shot into the distant sky, bursting into a brilliant display of fireworks accompanied by shouts.
"Found them!"
"We've found them!"
The cries rose one after another like an invisible tidal wave crashing down relentlessly, without any attempt at concealment. At the same moment, the starry sky above blazed with intensified light.
The next instant, Perfected Being Miaoyin felt the ground trembling faintly. She instinctively moved to summon her escape light and flee, but at that very moment, beams of vital blood rainbow light erupted around her, linking to the starry sky. An intangible pressure descended abruptly, extinguishing her escape light by force!
"Something's wrong! We're surrounded!"
Perfected Being Miaoyin's pupils contracted sharply as realization dawned.
"Yuantu... He's actually planning to kill me? These people are the ones he provoked?"
Rumble!
Soon, the faint tremors of the earth escalated into thunderous quakes. Perfected Being Miaoyin couldn't even levitate; she could only leap onto a tall tree and gaze into the distance. There, the horizon was gradually darkening, then rapidly solidifying into a black tide that surged toward her like an overwhelming flood!
For the first time, Perfected Being Miaoyin felt a profound shock at the sheer "number" of foes.
With that thought, she whipped around to face Suo Huan, only to see that he had already completed his formation setup and stepped into its radiant glow.
"This is... a teleportation formation?"
Joy lit up Perfected Being Miaoyin's face. She hurriedly brushed the hair from her forehead, her beautiful eyes flowing with charm as she hurried toward Suo Huan.
"Senior, you've truly prepared for the worst..."
But what met her was Suo Huan's icy gaze.
"Farewell."
In the next breath, the glow vanished silently, and Suo Huan's figure disappeared instantly. The formation, now bereft of a great real person's authority, lost its brilliance as well.
Perfected Being Miaoyin's smile froze solid on her lovely face. As she scanned her surroundings, an unprecedented wave of panic surged in her heart—the kind she hadn't felt since becoming Chongguang's dao companion. She couldn't help but grit her silver teeth.
*If only Chongguang were still here...*
Her resentment toward Chongguang deepened further, but she quickly cast aside such distractions and assessed her environment instead.
"Fortunately, I'm in the mountains for my seclusion."
Though she hadn't anticipated such a massive scale, Perfected Being Miaoyin had considered the possibility of being discovered by the armies of the [Ten Thousand Martial Realm] and facing encirclement.
That's why she had chosen the mountains.
This terrain, dense with trees, was ideal for guerrilla tactics. For someone like her, breaking out of an army's siege wouldn't be difficult.
But she soon noticed something off.
The encroaching army devoured everything in its path with every step—tree bark, grass roots, even soil.
Lush forests lay before them.
Barren wasteland trailed behind.
Even with Perfected Being Miaoyin's vast experience, she stared in stunned disbelief. These weren't people! They were a swarm of human-shaped locusts laying waste to all!
"Lu Yang... How did he manage this?"
Perfected Being Miaoyin had no time for further thought, as the army had already closed in around her. The foremost soldiers had spotted her.
"That's the one!"
"That's the otherworldly heavenly demon! By the immortal master's order, slay the otherworldly heavenly demon!"
"Kill! Kill!"
A tsunami of roars erupted as the frenzied soldiers charged. Vast waves of Life Star power crashed down upon Perfected Being Miaoyin.
Under this terrifying suppression, her peak mid-Foundation Establishment aura plummeted repeatedly, ultimately dropping her from true Foundation Establishment status. She retained not a shred of her former authority, left with only True Qi far surpassing peak Qi Refining to face tens of thousands of fierce, dragon-tiger warriors!
"This is a joke..." Perfected Being Miaoyin gnashed her teeth and pinched a Divine Ability incantation. Her mana thrummed like a bowstring, unleashing a wave of slaughtering sound that instantly shredded the vanguard soldiers.
"You think I'm afraid of you lot?"
Her ten fingers danced, vast mana spilling forth like an ocean. In an instant, bloody blossoms erupted amid the charging crowd.
But it was meaningless.
She had only slain the first few hundred to a thousand at the front, yet a tenth of her mana was already depleted, forcing her to pause.
Worse, in the [Ten Thousand Martial Realm], the spiritual energy was toxic, repelling outsiders. Unless she restored her Foundation Establishment cultivation, she couldn't even draw in qi to replenish her mana—like water without a source. She could only watch helplessly as the tidal soldiers surged toward her, poised to swallow her whole!
"This can't go on!"
"Where's Lu Yang?"
Perfected Being Miaoyin scanned her surroundings. The Life Star suppression drew no distinction between friend and foe; if she was reduced to this state, Lu Yang couldn't possibly be unscathed!
Meanwhile, several thousand meters from the battlefield, atop a cliffside.
Lu Yang sat calmly in a tea pavilion, brewing tea, guarded by over a hundred [Personal Guard Soldiers] as he watched the battle unfold from afar.
"Have Anmin advance the Eighth Column three meters forward."
"Yes."
Lu Yang's orders issued one after another, swiftly restoring order to the army formation, which had begun to scatter under Perfected Being Miaoyin's onslaught.
Under their encirclement, Perfected Being Miaoyin no longer resembled the noble lady of before. Her hair disheveled, her palace gown bloodstained, she stared incredulously at the unending waves of attackers, unable to comprehend these madmen. By her experience, they should have been terrified by now!
She had killed nearly ten thousand!
Normally, even the largest army would collapse in morale after such losses, allowing her to escape amid the chaos.
But these foes were different.
Their eyes blazed red, unshaken by their comrades' deaths—instead growing more frenzied, charging relentlessly in waves.
Soon, another half hour passed.
A fresh mountain of corpses and sea of blood lay at the site. Perfected Being Miaoyin stood amid it, having unleashed every spirit treasure, magic tool, and Divine Ability at her disposal.
*How many have I killed?*
Even Perfected Being Miaoyin was growing hazy on the count. In the past, she might have rejoiced, for these were all Life Star-bearing martial artists.
Slaying them would allow her to seize the [Ten Thousand Martial Realm]'s qi via the Qi Harvesting Art.
But now, she lacked even the leeway to employ it. Her vision blurred, mana nearly exhausted—yet lifting her gaze revealed an endless sea of humanity.
"The [Martial Soldiers] are in position."
Her slaughter had wiped out most of the thirty thousand [Army Elites], but over a hundred thousand [Martial Soldiers] had now filled the gap.
Seeing this, clear despair finally etched across Perfected Being Miaoyin's face.
"Lu Yang! I know it's you!"
"Where are you?"
"Come out here!"
Perfected Being Miaoyin finally screamed aloud. What galled her most was this—she hadn't even glimpsed Lu Yang from start to finish!
She couldn't fathom why Lu Yang had suddenly decided to kill her, mobilizing such a massive force in a premeditated ambush. If her plan had been exposed, it made no sense; she was confident in her concealment of karmic ties. Lu Yang couldn't possibly have divined the reason.
She simply couldn't figure it out.
Yet how could Lu Yang show himself? What if Perfected Being Miaoyin had some hidden trump card? Appearing rashly would invite a reversal.
Thus, her cries went forever unanswered.