Newspaper Boy

Chapter 196 Early Commencement of the Final Battle

Silver Garment County Princess turned her head and pointed the small horn at Huang Taiji, explaining, "She is a friend of Yuanshi Tianzun."

Without needing to use astrology, the Silver Garment County Princess could recognize Xiao Yuan's Gu body. They had fought together when they went north to hunt down the traitors of the Thousand Crane Group and seize the Takamagahara key.

But the Princess didn't expect to encounter this confidante of Yuanshi Tianzun in a dungeon. Well, confidante was the term from her era.

In modern terms, it should be someone he's flirting with.

"Friend?" Huang Taiji frowned, not relaxing his vigilance because of the Yin corpse's explanation.

An orderly person's hostility towards evil wouldn't diminish because of a single sentence. Besides, the Yin corpse wasn't Yuanshi Tianzun himself, and there was a possibility of misjudging their relationship.

Seeing that Huang Taiji didn't seem to believe her, the Silver Garment County Princess pondered, and the decibel of the small horn suddenly lowered, as she said in a whisper, "She's someone Yuanshi Tianzun is flirting with."

Upon hearing this, Huang Taiji's wariness indeed lessened. An ambiguous relationship was different from other relationships, and based on his understanding of the Yin corpse, she wouldn't make up stories.

Thinking of this, he observed the distant Spirit Master, who looked lost and dejected, and believed her words even more.

What's going on with Yuanshi Tianzun? He's actually flirting with an evil class, doesn't he want his future...? Huang Taiji frowned secretly, but now wasn't the time to dwell on these details. He looked at the stunningly beautiful Bee Woman and said in a deep voice, "I need to know your stance."

Xiao Yuan ignored him, staring silently at the earthen coffin. After a while, she looked at the Silver Garment County Princess, her voice slightly hollow: "Yuanshi Tianzun, really, really... died?"

She wasn't good at expressing emotions, but when she asked this question, a trace of pleading appeared in her eyes, begging for a negative answer.

Begging that this fact didn't exist.

"He died," said the Silver Garment County Princess. The light in Xiao Yuan's eyes went out.

She lowered her head slightly. She had stayed in the Nameless Hotel for many years, welcoming many companions and seeing many off. Every time a companion returned to The Way of the Extraordinary, she felt heartache.

But this time, it was Yuanshi Tianzun who was leaving, and the pain was particularly intense. So painful that it felt numb.

"But it's like he's not dead," the Silver Garment County Princess added.

Xiao Yuan suddenly looked up. Hearing these words, she felt a surge of power injected into her heart, bringing a strong heartbeat.

A gust of wind blew, and Huang Taiji heard a "buzz" of wings flapping. The distant Spirit Master's figure shattered like a bubble, and then appeared beside the coffin.

So fast... he thought with some envy, while calmly turning his body to face the Spirit Master, maintaining a composure that said, 'Let her be strong, I am like a gentle breeze on the mountain.'

As long as she dared to touch the coffin, Huang Taiji would let her know what gravity was.

The Silver Garment County Princess nimbly inserted herself between the two, looked at Xiao Yuan, and spoke into the small horn, "I can't explain his condition clearly. Since you've come, you must have learned about what happened from that bitch."

"The Sun God's power, Life Source Fluid, a Water-attribute Fiend, a Five Elements Set... all kinds of domineering forces used his body as a battlefield, completely destroying his vitality. Even the Life Source Fluid couldn't save him. The reason his body hasn't turned to ashes is probably because the Pure Yang Body Cleansing Record protected him."

"But he is indeed dead. Fortunately, his spiritual body hasn't dissipated, and remains completely within his body. In these past few days, I've used many kinds of secret techniques to try to awaken him, but all have failed."

"I've never encountered this situation before. My pessimistic guess is that he's dead, but some powerful force has locked his soul in his body after death, like amber. At first glance, it looks lifelike, but the animal inside is already dead."

"My optimistic guess is that perhaps if the Water-attribute Fiend in his body is removed, he can be awakened. But that is beyond my abilities."

Xiao Yuan finally understood why she said, 'It's like he's dead, but not completely dead.'

"I want to see him," she said, looking at Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji's stern face showed contemplation.

Two seconds later, he nodded slowly.

"Okay!" I put down the coffin, and with a muffled thud, a light yellow halo spread along the ground, and a powerful gravitational force descended.

The wounds on Xiao Yuan's body immediately tore open, causing her to frown slightly in pain.

Huang Taiji glanced at her, believing the Silver Garment County Princess's words even more. As an evil class, she was willing to put herself in enemy territory just to see Yuanshi Tianzun. It was hard to achieve this without an ambiguous relationship.

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Her palm was placed on the surface of the coffin, and the hard clay coffin lid cracked, turning into earth spirits and dissipating.

Xiao Yuan saw Yuanshi Tianzun in the coffin, but it was just a charred corpse. His face was burned beyond recognition, and that handsome, sunny face seemed to have become a memory forever.

The Sun God's power had destroyed his body, even burning out his skull. The flesh and blood on his hands, feet, and other parts had completely carbonized, and there was no concept of a flesh and blood body anymore. It was more like a piece of charred meat in a pot, nothing but charcoal.

No wonder the Silver Garment County Princess said he was dead.

Xiao Yuan reached out, her fingertips trembling as she touched his cheek. The hope that had surged in her heart was extinguished little by little by the scene before her.

"Sizzle..."

A puff of blue smoke suddenly rose from her fair, white fingertips. Xiao Yuan retracted her hand as if shocked, looking down to see that her fingertips were red, her skin was ulcerated, and she had been burned by the high temperature.

"If you touch his waist, the moisture in your hand will be sucked dry. Those powers are still there, but they have formed a balance," the Silver Garment County Princess put the small horn close to Xiao Yuan's ear.

"I can hear clearly, I'm not deaf," Xiao Yuan waved her hand away coldly. She took a deep breath, took out a ceramic jar from her inventory, reached into the jar, and grabbed two coffee-colored, wriggling cicada larvae.

She put one in her mouth, chewed and swallowed it, then pried open Yuanshi Tianzun's mouth, crushed the other one, and let the bursting juice flow into his mouth.

These cicada larvae were Gu insects that she had carefully cultivated, called Rebirth Gu.

They could nourish the soul and body, and heal internal and external injuries. If consumed in sufficient quantities, they could even regenerate severed limbs. The effect was slightly inferior to Life Source Fluid, and the cultivation cost was higher.

She usually wouldn't use them unless necessary. Each cicada larva was extremely precious, but now, she kept grabbing cicada larvae, crushing one after another, and repeatedly feeding them into Yuanshi Tianzun's mouth.

"Don't bother trying, even Life Source Fluid couldn't save him," the Silver Garment County Princess looked at Huang Taiji, raising the small horn a bit higher, "This is what you call being desperate."

Huang Taiji nodded, expressing his agreement, then said with a serious expression and sincere tone of consolation, "Don't worry, life and death are determined by fate."

Although the other party was an evil class, he wouldn't hesitate to offer his comfort. Xiao Yuan shuddered in anger upon hearing these words.

At this moment, Huang Taiji seemed to sense something, looked not far away, and said in a deep voice, "Come out! I can sense your footsteps."

Xiao Yuan and the Silver Garment County Princess were shocked, turned their heads to look, and a figure appeared a dozen meters away, it was the arrogant and irritable red-haired youth.

He was lithe and agile, but not burly, wearing combat gloves with half-fingers, looking just like a delinquent youth fighting in the streets.

"What's going on, Huang Taiji, why are you chatting with this Spirit Master?" Jiang Ju shouted.

"She is a friend of Yuanshi Tianzun," Huang Taiji thought for a moment, "She can be trusted to a certain extent!"

He now completely believed the relationship between this woman and Yuanshi Tianzun. After the woman took the cicada larvae, her injuries healed slowly. She fed Yuanshi Tianzun the precious Gu insects as if they didn't cost any money.

This was more than just an ambiguous relationship, it was practically a lifelong commitment, a pledge of life and death.

However, her and Yuanshi Tianzun's unbreakable love had nothing to do with him and Jiang Ju, and wouldn't harm Yuanshi Tianzun. That didn't mean they wouldn't harm them, so she could be trusted to a certain extent.

Before Jiang Ju could respond, clear water seeped out of the soil at his feet, seeming to condense into a human form, but failed under the powerful gravitational force.

Huang Taiji immediately removed the gravitational force.

The clear water condensed into a human form, making a cold laugh with a vague sound quality, like someone speaking from underwater:

"Trustworthy? Huang Taiji, do you know what the main mission of the orderly faction is?"

"Oh, you haven't arrived at the manor yet. Jiang Ju, tell him."

"The main mission is to protect the remains of the Demon Head and eliminate the evil faction." After Jiang Ju finished speaking, he shattered the water clone with a slap, cursing, "Cai Yunlong, watch your tone, am I your little brother?"

Cai Longshen's body re-condensed, not caring about the Fire Master's rudeness, looking at Xiao Yuan:

"Let's not mention Yuanshi Tianzun's fraternizing with the evil class for now. She and us are enemies until one of us dies. Killing her now will reduce the evil faction by one person."

"Huang Taiji, Jiang Ju, if you don't act now, when will you?"

Huang Taiji frowned. He was calm and honest, and since he knew that the other party was Yuanshi Tianzun's confidante, he was a little reluctant to attack a beautiful woman.

Jiang Ju didn't think so much, instinctively letting flames ignite on his gloves, entering combat mode.

As an excellent Fire Master, he followed the rule of "never thinking if he can use his hands", and besides, Cai Longshen's words made a lot of sense.

"Why don't you do it yourself?" The Silver Garment County Princess, as delicate and beautiful as a doll but lacking expression, turned her face towards the water clone, "If you act now, it will inevitably attract the evil classes in the manor. If Xiao Yuan joins forces with them, our side will definitely lose. Where is your true body hiding? You're just moving your lips and putting Huang Taiji and the crude Fire Master in danger, that's quite the calculation."

Jiang Ju frowned, and the flames on his hands immediately went out. What she said made sense.

The water clone turned its gaze towards the Silver Garment County Princess, its vague and cold voice sounding chilling, "And who are you?"

"The one Yuanshi Tianzun is flirting with, also his Yin corpse," Huang Taiji said with a serious expression, stating the obvious.

The Silver Garment County Princess turned her stiff neck little by little, looking at him, her doll-like face full of dullness.

Huang Taiji nodded calmly, as if saying, "I understand everything."

Then, the honest and loyal Huang Taiji frowned and pondered for a moment, looked at Xiao Yuan, and said slowly:

"Yuanshi Tianzun may still have a chance to be saved, but if he falls into the hands of the evil class, he will definitely die. If you want to save Yuanshi Tianzun, then put aside the factional dispute for now, and wait until he is saved."

He then looked at Jiang Ju and Cai Longshen: "We are short on manpower. With her joining, we can contend against the evil faction."

Among the tiers on the orderly side, apart from the red-haired Jiang Ju, who was exceptionally talented and could fight the Greedy God General to a standstill, he and Cai Longshen would have some difficulty against evil classes of the same tier.

Of course, Huang Taiji's difficulty was not being able to kill the opponent, while Cai Longshen was a proper orderly class, naturally weaker than the evil class.

Overall, their strength was still on the weaker side. Jiang Ju nodded repeatedly: "Good idea!"

"Heh!" Cai Longshen said, "Indeed a good idea."

Huang Taiji, this guy, is using Yuanshi Tianzun to threaten this Spirit Master, forcing her to be used by the orderly faction. Once he's done with her, he'll abandon her. Not bad either.

Thinking this, Cai Longshen's feet moved with the water flow, coming to the earthen coffin, examining Yuanshi Tianzun in the coffin.

"He is already dead," Cai Longshen made a brief and affirmative evaluation. Immediately, his gaze fell on the Yin-Yang Robe.

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——The set function of the Sacrifice to Heaven Set can only last for five minutes. Once the time limit is up, it will return to its original state.

"Oh, this is the item he used in the arena, Houtu Boots, a Wood-attribute belt... It's actually a Five Elements Set?"

Having said that, the water clone directly grabbed the Yin-Yang Robe.

A broad hand grabbed the palm condensed from clear water. Huang Taiji frowned and said, "What do you want to do?"

"Since Yuanshi Tianzun is dead, naturally his items should be distributed," the water clone's voice was vague, and asked back with reason:

"Do you want to leave it to the evil faction?"

Xiao Yuan and the Silver Garment County Princess looked at Cai Longshen with hostility.

Huang Taiji shook his head: "This belongs to Yuanshi Tianzun. Even if he dies, his items should be handed over to headquarters." Cai Longshen pondered slightly and said:

"Okay!"

"The top priority is to bring him to the manor first, enter the Sword Pavilion, we will use the Sword Pavilion as the battlefield, and fight the evil class to the death."

The Sword Pavilion was his home ground. Once he arrived there, it would not be up to Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji nodded, just about to speak, when he heard an earth-shattering maniacal laugh from above: "Can you make it?"

In the azure sky, a black shadow fell from above, holding a blood-stained saber and heavily slashing towards the earthen coffin. The Greedy God General!

Because Xiao Yuan, the double agent, appeared, the evil faction changed their strategy to prevent the plan from being leaked. Instead of waiting for the rabbit, they took the initiative to attack, leaving the manor and intercepting Huang Taiji.

The decisive battle was started early, giving the orderly faction no chance to breathe.

ps: Correct typos later.