Chapter 2180 Standing by Her Side, Undaunted in The Face of Death

Amidst the starry horizon, a combat-engaged Xia Zhi was bathing in blood. Her solitary figure was small, as if she could be washed away by the flooding army of beasts at any moment.

Everyone on the Great Wall of Thousand Daos was paying attention to this battle, many of whom were waiting for this fire-chasing moth to fall.

Many delighted in her suffering.

Many trembled with emotions.

They all had different attitudes and expectations, but none of them thought that she would be able to survive.

There were just too many starry sky beasts. Even though they were scattered by the Law Power, there were still over a thousand of them!

This number alone was enough to drown anyone in despair.

Xia Zhi, however, did not care.

Over the recent years, she had fought alone through various dangers and fatal trials. She had long since gotten used to fighting starry sky beasts.

The force of habit was a powerful one.

Some were accustomed to enduring and obeying, some to dashing about for survival, some to being tormented by time and worldly affairs...

For Xia Zhi, it was fighting and killing!

It was not her obsession.

It wasn’t that she had been born with a desire to fight.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to stop for a break.

It was just that she had gotten used to fighting for a person who was more important than even her own life.

She didn’t mind dying, but she could not watch him die!

The stars shook with big splatters of blood. The breath of destruction spread like a landslide or a tsunami. Soul-shattering hisses and roars of the beasts echoed in succession.

She was on her own, standing on their path. She wasn’t a moth who rushed into a flame, but instead a moth who was blocking a fiery attack.

Foreign beasts fell one after another with painful wails, with their bodies split into flying blood and flesh. However, the casualties seemed insignificant when taking into consideration their huge numbers.

The starry void became a gory canvas that was about to be crumpled by chaos and turbulence.

Her power was clearly presented for all to see. Even those who hated her guts had to admit it.

However, no one thought that she would survive.

However, she never cared about her survival.

She only cared about his, and she had to make sure that he lived!

......

“She will surely die!”

“Just a desperate struggle.”

“Heh, when you throw your life away to fight for a person who’s destined to die anyway, the result is that you will both be dead. How very stupid.”

All sorts of gloating voices rang out from time to time. When they reached Battle Emperor Fengling's ears, his face became livid, and his veins bulged up in rage.

Unable to hold back any longer, he bellowed, “Assholes! Where do you get the audacity to mock them?”

A brief moment of silence reigned over the Great Wall of Thousand Daos, as if no one had expected that Battle Emperor Fengling of Mythical Huang Dao Court would admonish them.

“Fengling, my old man, what does it have to do with you?” Someone frowned in displeasure.

“If the Heavenly Emperor Shi was here, you and your Mythical Huang Dao Court behind you would find yourselves in serious trouble for what you’ve just said!” someone threatened.

“You yelled at us for the sake of a Fangchun Mountain remnant... Fengling, who the hell do you think you are? What qualifications do you have to clamor here?” someone mocked, filled with disdain.

“Old Fengling, you should shut up, or else you’ll become a public enemy after the ten-year period of the pact is over!”

Various voices rang out from the infuriated old monsters. Being scolded by Battle Emperor Fengling had made them very discomfited.

Battle Emperor Fengling revealed a look of utter grief and indignation, and his eyes wanted to pop out.

He shrieked through gritted teeth, “You old mongrels have the face to say that? Who risked themselves in that heavenly game and defeated the previous Nameless Esteemed Emperor, allowing the path to the other side to reappear for everyone?

“If it hadn’t been for that, how could those old fossils of your sects possibly have the chance to travel to the other side of the cosmos?

“You have no sense of gratitude? Fine. But don’t go kicking your benefactors when they are down!”

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

His speech thundered with incomparable anger.

“Ridiculous! Old Fengling, did you forget how many of our fellow cultivators died at the hands of those Fangchun Mountain disciples back then?” someone coldly chided.

Battle Emperor Fengling completely went out on a limb as he laughed hoarsely in utter rage, “Hahaha, you bastards are so used to being lap dogs that you’ve forgotten how you’re supposed to act as humans!

“I'll just ask you, did the disciples of Fangchun Mountain, after their great victory in that heavenly game, ever go to your sects and wreck your whole lineages?”

He stressed every word, “Don't tell me that they didn’t have the power to destroy all of you!”

He took a deep breath, and his face dimmed. “Facing Heavenly Emperor Shi, even my Mythical Huang Dao Court has been forced to submit in order to preserve our legacies...”

He then suddenly raised his head and looked around, his words resounding like thunder from the nine heavens, “But a human being, no matter how high their cultivation is, should ultimately have some conscience, some bottom line!”

“Look at yourselves, you can't wait for a junior to die to those starry sky beasts. Don't you feel ashamed, don't you feel disgraced!?”

Battle Emperor Fengling's eyes were wide with anger, and his voice echoed endlessly, but what he got in return was a burst of contemptuous and cold laughter.

The grief and rage filling him instantly turned into a bone-chilling disappointment.

He wanted to say something again, but found himself powerless, for it would all be in vain. These old fellows only cared about the winner and not some conscience or bottom line!

Such was the way the world worked. The competition on the path of cultivation had always been cruel!

......

In front of the castle, Lin Xun appeared unusually calm.

His eyes, however, were bloodshot. The pupils had turned into a pair of crimson abysses that burned with rage.

Finally, he opened his mouth, letting out a voice that seemed to be squeezed from his chest. As if each word weighed a mountain, he said them with much difficulty.

“Xia Zhi, I won’t let you go. Come here, we fight...together...”

It echoed around the void calmly. There was no heartbreaking roar, no mournful and anxious cry; there was only a kind of determination.

It was a declaration.

The delicate figure in the beast tide slightly trembled. She had once said before, perhaps no one else in this world could understand, but only she could intimately feel his feelings.

Therefore, she understood how much he had suffered all these years.

As such, upon his demand, she only took a brief silence to turn around and walk to him.

Clad in black and draped in flickering darkness, she had become accustomed to fighting alone, for there was another person she held in her world.

Therefore, she was not lonely.

She was also not scared of death, but at this moment, she was scared of upsetting Lin Xun.

For the first time, she truly felt how important she was to him, just like how important he was to her.

Lin Xun smiled.

His blood-filled pupils reflected only that beautiful silhouette who was walking toward him. It was as if all the stars around had ceased to exist.

At this instant, the burning rage and battle intent in him exploded. He charged forth fearlessly.

In the space of a hundred square feet before the castle, Lin Xun was like a boiling furnace as he unleashed his entire dao power and cultivation.

Xia Zhi positioned herself by his side as she also charged forward. Her aura grew even more murderous, and her a white bone spear became fully covered in blood.

No one saw the flash of joy in those eyes that hid under the brim of her hat.

Rumble!

The starry sky beasts kept rushing in. Like a stormy black ocean that beat against the defensive line of the Great Wall of Thousand Daos, they wanted to drown out the pair of humans blocking their way.

Void-shattering roars, bright-red rains of blood, and turbulent dao lights blended together, tumbling and stirring in this piece of universe.

This was the first time Lin Xun had truly fought alongside Xia Zhi. It was also the most perilous battle he had encountered so far in his cultivation.

Such a situation, such a risk was enough to make anyone despair.

Looking at the pair risking their lives rushing among the stars, an indescribable shock swirled in Battle Emperor Fengling’s heart.

His eyes became a little misty.

Having become an Emperor for countless years now, his eyes hadn't felt the sensation of hot tears in a long time. Now, it was as if the softest part of his heart had been touched.

The line between life and death was filled with great terrors.

However, the pair of men and women before his eyes had lost all fear for it!

“This is really good... Really good...” Fengling’s lips quivered.

What is there in life to rejoice in, and what is so scary about death anyway? As long as they have each other, what else should they care about?

This is great!

Battle Emperor Fengling was even a little envious of the two youngsters. Envious that they could fight for each other, live and die for each other!

Blood tumbled in torrents and poured from the void.

Starry sky beasts who had the strength of Emperors were slain one after another. As their bodies burst into bits, mournful shrieks resounded nonstop.

Gradually, Lin Xun and Xia Zhi were both ridden with injuries and panting.

Even though they had fought and with everything they had, the other party was not only huge in number, but also fearless.

There was no lack of savage beasts comparable to fifth realm Emperor experts or even above at that!

“Pfft!”

It wasn't long before Lin Xun coughed up blood. His cheeks were pale, and his clothes had long been dyed red. He couldn't tell his own blood apart from the opponent's.

He inadvertently glanced at Xia Zhi, only to see that she was also the same. Her outfit had been damaged, revealing bare skin covered in bleeding wounds.

She had never uttered a word about it. She looked as sharp and austere as ever.

However, Lin Xun's heart ached. This girl was obviously heavily injured, but she had always stood in front of him and resolved most of the dangers!

Those injuries had been shouldered in his stead!

Rumble!

Without hesitation, Lin Xun operated the Killing Array of Perishment. Huge green lotus flowers started emerging at a fast speed and densely occupied the space.

However, the array proceeded to last only eight minutes before it crumbled.

The reason was that there were too many starry sky beasts, and there were even ones as powerful as sixth realm Emperors among them.

Lin Xun didn't delay and activated the Heaven Slaughtering Dao Severing array.

Although this array was defective, it remained terrifying. According to Qing Ying, this was a half-finished killing array created by Mister Lu. It hadn’t been perfected, but its power still far exceeded the All-Heaven Ninth Array!

Visions of the sky collapsing, earth sinking, and all daos being annihilated were manifested in the void. The array’s tumbling rage only took a short while to wipe out several dozen starry sky beasts!

However, it still didn’t leave Lin Xun and Xia Zhi much time to catch their breath. In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the Heaven Slaughtering Dao Severing array also crumbled.

It wasn't crushed by the beasts, but instead had also run out of energy.

Witnessing this scene, the old Emperor monsters on the Great Wall of Thousand Daos laughed out loud in what seemed to be relief.

Their laughter was also filled with ridicule and schadenfreude.