Liujiang Fusheng heard this, his cool, water-like gaze fell on Gu Junshi, and he said indifferently.
"I know what kind of person she is better than you."
Seeing him so willing to fall, able to speak such words without sadness, Tiandao taunted, "Don't think I don't know your intentions from the beginning. I can indulge you falling into Gu Junshi's trap once or twice, but now that she is determined to associate with evil forces, even if I have to break my agreement with Him, I will never tolerate her again!"
Tiandao took Gu Junshi's rhetorical question as a statement of fact, directly classifying her as a villain, leaving no room for her to argue.
As soon as the words fell, Liujiang Fusheng felt a strange pulling sensation throughout his body.
He suddenly realized something and looked sharply at Tiandao.
He tried to step forward, but every inch of his muscles seemed to no longer belong to him, gradually becoming numb and losing function.
"You really did something to me, didn't you."
Before he could react, his vision went black and his consciousness faded.
The next moment, a delicate jade-like imprint appeared on his forehead. His long lashes fluttered open, and a pair of eyes as bright as moonlight shone brilliantly.
"He" wore robes that billowed in the wind, his posture like the moon being drawn from the nine heavens. On the other side, Fu Wanyan's eyes were vacant, her head tilted, and she slowly fell from a high place like a cloud, landing on the ground, unconscious.
"Your body was built by me, hand by hand. Do you think you can completely escape me?" Tiandao spread his hands, using Liujiang Fusheng's face, and tilted his head with a cold smile.
During the switch of bodies, Tiandao's control weakened, and the Human Emperor seized this opportunity to break free from His confinement. He wanted to rush to Gu Junshi's side, to untie her restraints, but all of this had already been seen by Tiandao.
He had always hated evil. For someone like the Human Emperor, who was full of sin, He had always been merciless.
With a gentle wave of his hand, his bony fingers pressed down, sweeping the Human Emperor horizontally into the Marriage Stone.
*Bang—*
The Marriage Stone's surface was incredibly hard, and its edges were uneven, comparable to the Wenxian Stone. This impact immediately shattered and caved in the Human Emperor's chest, causing him to bleed profusely.
Gu Junshi's expression changed drastically. She slowly raised her eyes, her gaze incredibly dark.
"Tiandao?"
Tiandao, wearing Liujiang Fusheng's guise, looked down from above, his eyes icy and sharp. "Do you know that destined fates cannot be changed? Even if it's late, even if it changes, what is meant to come will eventually come, just as your fate and Liujiang Fusheng's fate were already predetermined: either you die or he dies."
"Who arranged this fate? You?" Gu Junshi sneered.
"I tried to turn a blind eye to his little thoughts. You are indeed different; it's not surprising he was attracted to you. I thought he could use love to make you his aid, but you were too headstrong and completely uncontrollable. Since that is the case, I can only choose the initial purpose of your existence: sacrifice all of you to perfect him, and to perfect this small world."
Gu Junshi laughed at His righteous pronouncements. Those in power would stop at nothing to achieve their goals, but who decreed that the sacrifice could not resist?
"You chose Gu Yi back then because of the special nature of the Gu bloodline. Now you want to tread on my corpse to pave the way for him, and it's also to obtain the Gate of the Yellow Springs," Gu Junshi pinpointed His intentions.
Seeing that she knew more and more, Tiandao understood that she was no longer content to be a pawn and wanted to jump out of the chessboard to become a player.
"You are merely a soul from another world. Do you think you can truly contend against this entire realm?"
Gu Junshi suddenly said, "Tiandao, you claim to be the pure and clean heaven and earth of this place? But if you blur right and wrong, even if you possess worldly human emotions and actively interfere in the affairs of this small world, what will become of a heaven and earth that has lost its way?"
"Absurdity!"
As if a sore spot had been trodden upon, Tiandao was furious. Thunder and lightning flashed across the sky above Fengdu, and chains of electricity rolled within the heavy leaden clouds, deafening to the ears.
Tiandao's anger made hundreds of miles tremble, and thousands of miles were struck by thunder.
Gu Junshi was fearless, directly revealing the truth that made Tiandao completely stunned.
"You have lost your way and your virtue. The reason this realm has fallen to its current state is all your doing. What you are desperately trying to save is not the countless living beings here, but the mistakes you have made!"
"Silence—"
Tiandao's face was as dark as water, and His eyes were like the wild and turbulent depths of the sea, shrouded in darkness like black clouds rolling with ink. He reached out and grabbed a bolt of purple lightning as thick as a thigh from the air.
Holding purple lightning, this was an utterly astonishing sight.
At least, those who were forced to stand outside the Marriage Altar were all dumbfounded.
The purple lightning transformed into crackling, flashing chains of electricity that snaked towards Gu Junshi from the ground and the sky. The Human Emperor, lying on the ground, cried out in alarm, "Be careful!"
Others below could not understand what was happening. They saw the "Liujiang Fusheng" who had come to snatch the bride, abandon his previous tenderness, and suddenly attack the Ghost Queen.
"What, what is he doing? He couldn't have failed to snatch the bride and decided that if he couldn't have her, no one else should, right?" Ru Lan stomped her feet anxiously.
Lu Ziyin also clenched his fists. "Something is wrong. Why does Liujiang Fusheng seem to have suddenly become a different person?"
Yan Tianjiao frowned. "Exactly. The situation became strange when Fu Wanyan appeared. We can see what they are doing, but we can't hear what they are saying."
Just as the three felt something was amiss, what happened next shattered their pupils.
They saw "Liujiang Fusheng" actually holding purple lightning with his bare hands!
That was purple lightning, after all.
It was comparable to heavenly tribulation lightning. Any ordinary malevolent spirit that came close would be annihilated. How many powerful cultivators were reduced to ashes during their ascension? And now, "he" could wield lightning with his bare hands; this clearly meant he had transcended the realm of cultivators!
Gu Junshi saw that Tiandao intended to finish her off in one move. The purple lightning flashed with electric light from the vortex, blinding and dazzling. In an instant, heaven and earth fell silent, and all things lost their color.
Her aura dispersed like the wind, rising clearly like clouds, gradually becoming ethereal.
The current Tiandao was no easier to deal with than the Heavenly Demon. Years ago, she had been close to ascension but had perished before the Heavenly Gates, blocked by those evil crimson pupils. Now, the ninety-nine bolts of purple heavenly lightning, which truly belonged to the Heavenly Gates, were about to strike her, who was unprepared.
The inner demon lurking within Liujiang Fusheng's body sensed the danger Gu Junshi was in. Disregarding the risk of exposure, it separated from his body.
The inner demon was, after all, an evil entity, and it was injured by the purple lightning as soon as it emerged. Enduring the piercing pain, in the final moment, it prevented the purple lightning from striking Gu Junshi, causing Tiandao to misaim.
And the moment Tiandao saw the inner demon belonging to Liujiang Fusheng, He no longer cared about Gu Junshi's life or death, but stared at the inner demon in disbelief.
"Return my body to me!"
The inner demon's eyes were sinister and bright, ethereally beautiful. It transformed into a stream of red light and rushed into Liujiang Fusheng's body, contending for control with Tiandao.