vstars Chapter 126 No Goodbye (9)
Chapter 126 No Goodbye (9)
"Kill him, kill him..."
"Kill him!"
"Quick! Kill him—"
(...Uh, so noisy.) Xuan Qing frowned slightly. In order to make these sounds disappear, he decided to finish this quickly.
"Come on..." Shaoyang transformed into a spear, revealing its sharpness. It trembled, unwilling to let its spear tip point at that person.
"Shaoyang, he will come back. So we must try our best—"
"Buzz—!" The gunshot rang out, as if in response.
Xuan Yue took a deep breath and left her original position in an instant. Xuan Qing raised her hand slightly to block the gun coming straight at her, and with a little force, she pushed Shao Yang away, and Xuan Yue also flew back a few meters.
(Power, so strong... As expected of A-Qing...) This was just a test, but it used at least 6% of his power. Xuan Qing blocked it so easily. It shows how strong he is without the suppression.
"..." The enemy won't give you time to think. After Xuan Yue was thrown back, the space around him trembled, black holes emerged, and countless black swords rushed towards him.
Xuan Yue remained completely calm. His divine power surged, and with a gentle sweep of his robes, the spaces vanished instantly. Even the sword formed from the ominous aura was dissolved in that instant.
It couldn't hurt him in the slightest—
(Hmm, this power... Ugh! My head is starting to hurt again.) Xuanqing couldn't help but shake his head, trying to stop himself from thinking about it anymore.
Taking advantage of Xuan Qing's distraction, Xuan Yue had already flashed behind him and thrust out with her spear. At such close range, there was no way to dodge, but who was Xuan Qing? The word "dodge" did not exist in his dictionary.
He took the blow with his body; the tip of Shao Yang's spear pierced right through him, and pale golden blood flowed from the wound...
"!" Xuan Yue was startled and immediately drew Shao Yang. At that moment, Xuan Qing's sword moved.
The moment Shao Yang left his body, the black sword rushed towards Xuan Yue's face. Fortunately, Xuan Yue reacted quickly and retreated in time, causing the sword to miss.
But it wasn't over yet. Xuan Qing rose and relentlessly pursued Xuan Yue, unleashing a dazzling barrage of sword strikes, each one deadly. Xuan Yue was forced to defend passively, and for a time, she was at a disadvantage…
"Xuan Yue!" Barbatos wanted to help, but Zhongli stopped him: "We can't get involved in their battle. The important thing now is to open up this space. Otherwise, if they continue fighting, the black energy they emit will affect the nearby creatures!"
“Morax is right, the rock walls around here have been eroded quite a bit. If this continues—” Before Lei Yingdian could finish speaking, a sword light whistled past her side. Turning her head, she saw not only sword marks but also an ominous black substance clinging to them.
"If this continues, this area will probably fall soon."
"..." Lei Yingdian was right. Zhong Li frowned and looked worriedly at the two figures entangled in battle in the sky.
In just a few dozen seconds, they had exchanged blows no less than a hundred times. Using a fighting style of trading blows for damage, Xuan Yue had turned the tide, but still couldn't gain the upper hand.
Xuan Qing was now like a fighting machine, each sword strike aimed at a vital point, intending to take his life. He seemed oblivious to his own injuries, or rather, completely indifferent to them.
He didn't dodge the spear that Xuan Yue thrust out. Even when the spear tip pierced his body, he didn't even flinch. He even used the opportunity to close the distance between them so that he could find a chance to deliver a fatal blow with his sword.
"Yes, that's it—"
"Draw the sword faster! Slit his throat!"
"No, we should cut off his hand first!"
"You're all wrong! You should have pierced his heart. You're going in the wrong direction!"
"Slit their throats!"
"Cut off his hand!"
"Pierce the heart!"
……
(So noisy! ...Shut up!)
These voices swirled around Xuan Qing's ears. Every time he swung his sword, they would argue. He tried to ignore them, but the voices wouldn't go away. They even seemed to be subtly controlling his thoughts, giving him a splitting headache.
"Ugh!... Uh!"
"Ah Qing!" Xuan Yue saw Xuan Qing, who was fighting him, suddenly fall from mid-air. At this moment, he didn't care whether this was a scheme to take his life or not; his first reaction was to catch him as he fell.
Black energy surged around Xuan Qing, and he kept muttering something unintelligible. His expression was one of great pain, which suggested that something bad was about to happen.
"Cleanse the world and bring peace." Xuan Yue carefully controlled her power, trying her best to help Xuan Qing purify some of the "forbidden" things. However, these powers were not afraid of Xuan Yue's purification at all, and even tried to counterattack and devour Xuan Yue as well.
"Hey cutie, wanna come along?"
"Join us, and you won't have to fight each other anymore."
"Everyone's happy! Isn't that right?"
Come on, join us!
"Ha ha ha ha!"
……
"...What are those sounds... um!" Before Xuan Yue could react, she was pinned to the ground by the awakened Xuan Qing...
"Xuan Yue!" The immortals were instantly alarmed, even Zhong Li became restless—
Xuan Yue was also startled by Xuan Qing's action. Reflexively, she drew her Shao Yang sword and thrust it at Xuan Qing, intending to make him back off. After the sound of the spear piercing flesh, there was silence...
"!!!" Xuan Yue was startled again (Why isn't she dodging again!!!) ??o·(? ??????????? )?o·?
(This is it!!) At this close range, I can't even fight back. The person on top of me can take my life at any moment. My life is over—
"Cough cough!...You win...Ah Yue."
"Aqing! You're awake!"
Xuan Qing slightly opened his eyes, his one blue and one purple eyes flickering between light and dark. The black aura around him had not diminished at all, and the situation was still far from optimistic.
"Pain... can make one...sober. Cough cough!" Xuan Qing's injuries were severe, and he had no intention of seeking treatment while fighting Xuan Yue. It was probably through these repeated pains that his consciousness slowly reassembled, allowing him to briefly regain his senses.
"I...I'll do it right away..."
Xuanqing raised her hand to stop Xuanyue from continuing: "I... won't be awake for long. We must hurry... Yue."
Xuanqing looked at the opened "Void Land," the meaning of which was self-evident...
(The only thing that can imprison "order" is "order" itself... Little Xuan Yue, do you understand?)
"I don't want to... I don't want to!" Even though he had made preparations before coming, he still couldn't bring himself to seal away the person he loved most.
Xuan Qing smiled slightly, as if he had expected Xuan Yue to throw such a tantrum. With his last bit of strength, he gently stroked Xuan Yue's right eye, his divine power flowing, and wiped away Xuan Yue's tears.
Xuan Yue sensed what he had done, and tears welled up in her eyes, half-falling and half-falling, hanging on the eye that had just been wiped away. Her originally beautiful blue-gold eyes were now tinged with purple, like a noble violet.
"I'm so tired, let me... sleep for a while, okay? Ah Yue..." Xuan Qing finished speaking and collapsed into Xuan Yue's arms. Her body glowed with white light, and she floated in mid-air, transforming into a giant rock as tall as a person. Shao Yang, without support, fell to the ground...
More than half of the boulder's brilliance was stained with blood, and black energy seemed about to overflow and attack everyone present.
"How cunning, Xuanqing..." (...Is this also part of your plan?...)
"...Xiao Xuanyue."
"I'm fine, Barbatos. Morax, everyone! Prepare to reopen the seal."
Xuan Yue formed a seal with his hands and placed it on the polluted Dragon Abyss Stone. This seal could use the elemental power that was overflowing nearby, combined with his "purification" power, to suppress the "forbidden" element.
He himself is the key to the formation, which is another layer of insurance. If Xuanqing loses control, he can sense it immediately.
Immediately afterwards, Zhongli's layered rock transformed into a cage, and chains of elemental force penetrated deeper into the rock layers once more. The "Void Land," which had already been opened, slowly "swallowed" the entire formation until—the surroundings returned to calm.
Xuan Yue purified the surrounding black energy, preventing ordinary living beings from being contaminated.
"Little Xuan Yue, are you alright?" Barbatos asked worriedly.
"Yes, I... I'm going back to rest." Xuan Yue's voice was flat, and she seemed to be fine.
“Your injuries…” Lei Yingdian also felt a little sorry for Xuan Yue. There were many scratches on Xuan Yue’s white robe, and the blood was particularly conspicuous against the white background.
"Small injury."
“But…” Lei Yingdian wanted to try to persuade her again, but Xuan Yue clearly wouldn’t listen. Before they could say anything more, she left immediately…
"Sigh..." Liu Yun shook his head helplessly, "Now, the burden almost entirely falls on Xuan Yue's shoulders..."
Zhongli: "Parting is always the most painful..."
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
On a mountaintop atop Jueyun Mountain, Xuan Yue stood atop the peak, gazing towards the direction of the towering abyss of layered rocks—
His hand touched his right eye, where the warmth of that person's body still seemed to linger. The purple hue of the eye inevitably reminded him of a thousand years ago:
(Xuanqing, I know you're awake now. Please help us. It would be best if we entered Mondstadt using human identities.)
(…I'll just lend you one more eye, then you can get some rest…)
(You...are you planning to...walk over there?)
(yes.)
(Now we have a shared view!)
……
“Now we share the same view. Ah Qing… I’ll only allow you to sleep for a little while, just a little while…”