Those who toy with emotions will face dire consequences when their schemes fail.
First, you must ensure you can cover for the victim when they lose their temper; otherwise, you risk getting burned. Can Baiyu protect Murong Yunji?
The answer is definitely yes. Murong Yunji is very strong, but compared to the great sorcerers of the Shen Family, she is the easiest to control. Even if Ziyue is not here, Baiyu is confident that he can keep her in check. But the situation is different now.
Because not only is Ziyue gone, but there's also Chen Qing, whose true strength is unknown, standing nearby!
Moreover, there's no way to escape. Underwater, it's very difficult to get rid of a wind mage, especially a top-tier wind mage like Murong Yunji!
Although she possessed Shen Laosan's body, she was still essentially a sorcerer. She knew that once Murong made his move, if she didn't reveal her trump card immediately, she might not even have the chance to do so.
" Murong, calm down."
Baiyu looked at the other person, clearly intending to use words to make the other person hesitate.
After all, Chen Qing's words were just speculation, without any evidence. Murong valued sisterly affection, would definitely have some hesitation and wouldn't act rashly.
Almost without warning, the blue light flashed before his eyes. Baiyu was a sorcerer, so naturally he couldn't be faster than Murong. He couldn't even react in time. Before his eyes were even in a daze, his head was taken off!
Clearly, she knew about Murong's past, but not so much about Murong himself.
The next instant, the seawater was filled with mist. Murong didn't even look at the head he had just taken, but instead looked directly at a place where the mist had formed not far away, where Baiyu, like a dream, was reforming itself in the mist.
The severed head in Murong's hand, which had been dripping with blood, transformed into a wisp of mist.
Baiyu, now shrouded in mist, was still in shock, her eyes wide with disbelief as she looked at Murong, unable to comprehend how decisive he had been in his attack.
"You are indeed wary of me." Murong's voice was cold. "If we had truly been companions for tens of thousands of years, you shouldn't have such magical defenses."
Chen Qing watched from a distance and immediately laughed. Murong, this guy, is still pretty quick-witted when it matters.
If a sorcerer wants to defend against a warrior at close range, the only way is to prepare a spell in advance. Ideally, the spell should be a locking spell placed directly on the warrior. This way, once the warrior makes a move, the spell will be activated immediately, perfectly avoiding the problem of the sorcerer not being able to react in time.
Murong Yunji appears to be a martial artist, but she is actually a top-tier wind mage. She could naturally sense the moment Baiyu locked onto her with a defensive spell; otherwise, it wouldn't have had such an effect. Of course, if Baiyu hadn't done that, given Murong's reaction speed, she could have stopped at the last moment, ensuring that Baiyu wasn't harmed.
So regardless of who's telling the truth or who's lying, just try it and you'll know.
"Is there anything else you want to say?" Murong asked coldly, looking at the other person.
Baiyu glanced at Murong, then at Chen Qing, and without hesitation, transformed into a wisp of mist and disappeared before the two of them.
"Run?" A beastly grin appeared on Murong's cold face. A concentrated wind energy quickly enveloped his entire body. In the next instant, his whole body turned into a transparent cyan color, like Baiyu, and drifted away!
The waves rolled and surged, and a tornado naturally formed over a radius of tens of thousands of feet. It rapidly sucked up the surrounding seawater, including the thick fog formed by the Baiyu, which could not escape at all. Inside the tornado, there Heavenly Capital. Murong could not be seen, but it seemed that the entire vortex was filled with Murong!
Almost instantly, Chen Qing and Baiyu recognized each other's techniques.
Divine Wind Final Form: Azure Heaven!
The terrifying siphon force pulled Chen Qing in as well, but Chen Qing did not resist at all. The tornado formed by the exaggerated wind blades could probably cut any creature that was sucked in into billions of pieces, but not a single leaf touched Chen Qing.
Chen Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This wasn't due to his own ability, but rather Murong's deliberate avoidance.
It seems my guess was right. Murong wasn't Ancient Insect; her memories had just been altered. Shen Laoqi's friendship with Murong was genuine. So, after learning that I had mistakenly killed Shen Laoqi, Murong shouldn't have harmed me again. This wild woman from the grasslands, though from a family with animalistic instincts, possessed many basic moral principles that families of etiquette lacked.
It wasn't that he was powerless to resist, but rather that he could no longer recklessly consume the Power of Faith within him. The Heavenly Ghost Octopus had consumed too much of his energy unnecessarily, and if he wasted even a fraction of it now, he might not even be able to leave the Dragon Palace alive.
You should know that there's a lot more to come!
But Baiyu was not so fortunate.
She never expected that Murong would use this technique directly.
This is a forbidden technique of the Murong Family!
The Azure Heaven is the ultimate technique. It is easy to transform into a raging wind, but it is very likely that one cannot turn back. In Murong's memory, according to ancestral records, only three members of the Murong Family have mastered this technique in the family's ten-thousand-year history, and of those three, only one survived after using it.
The remaining two, though also exceptionally talented, could never return to human form. Instead, they transformed into uncontrollable raging winds, unleashing one natural disaster after another across the grasslands. The fact that the Murong Family suffered immense losses in suppressing those two calamities was immense.
This technique was originally a secret plan between Ziyue and her, intended for Murong to use as a trump card against the monsters of the Dragon Palace in a critical moment, but unexpectedly it would end up being used on her.
When using someone's feelings to do something, you must never reveal your true intentions. Murong a strong personality, which is a double-edged sword!
The words of A Li echoed in Baiyu Yu's mind, and he could only manage a weak, bitter smile.
That damned fox really has a jinxed mouth.
"Aren't you going to use your trump card?" Chen Qing asked jokingly, looking at the clouds being swept away by the hurricane.
It has to be said that Baiyu's control over Murong was a case of shooting himself in the foot. Among the nine Ancient Insect, this one was actually the most difficult to target. This woman was the only one among the nine Ancient Insect who could adapt to the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, because Baiyu Yu's family had a technique that was very compatible with the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley.
Even the magical abilities of the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley were acquired from the Bai Family.
Of course, few people know this secret history, but since the history of the entire world was written by Chen Qing and the original director, he is certainly in the know. No one in the world knows Baiyu's background better than him.
Baiyu's technique, known as the Divine Cloud Technique, is one of the Nine Divine Techniques. When mastered to its peak, it allows one to transform into elements, becoming an indestructible being.
If Baiyu wanted to run away, very few people in this world could catch her. In the first version, the martial arts master's physical attacks were almost useless against her. So when she said she was almost eaten by Shen Laoda during their cooperation, Chen Qing didn't believe a word of it.
There are only two ways to capture Baiyu: either enter the next version and the martial artist breaks through the void to form Battle Body, or have a technique that can restrain her.
The first method is currently impossible for anyone to achieve. Even with the Ancient Revival, those ancient monsters would still need a period of physical recovery before they could reach the level of Battle Body.
However, there are very few techniques in this world that can restrain Baiyu.
Therefore, Baiyu is almost invincible, which is her greatest source of confidence.
Unfortunately, she offended Murong Yunji!
Perhaps she herself knew that the Divine Wind Spell was a counter to her, so she wanted to control this only entity that countered her as soon as possible.
It can only be said that he was too greedy. If it were Chen Qing's personality, he would have killed Murong and Shen Shiyi immediately to eliminate his own existence in this world, instead of thinking of making use of them one last time and wanting Murong to contribute one last time.
" Chen Qing."
Seeing that they were about to be swept up in it, and the clouds and mist were about to be torn apart by the gale, Baiyu's voice transmission was urgent.
"A fight to the death would be bad for neither of us, so how about we cooperate?"
"No cooperation?" Chen Qing shook his head and laughed, "I still prefer what Senior Ziyue said earlier. The saying 'fight to the death' is mostly used by stupid fish. More often than not, stupid fish will struggle and still not be able to break a tattered net."
Baiyu: "."
You'll regret this!!
"This doesn't quite match your usual image, senior." Chen Qing smiled even more broadly.
What he was waiting for was the opponent's trump card.
This is the key to this trip!