Chapter 1831
by 林方方Chapter 1831 Black Market Merchant
Hearing this, An Qingyu fell silent.
“Even so, what difference does it make?” An Qingyu slowly spoke, “The equivalent exchange has already begun. Even if we stop now, the price I’ve already paid won’t come back.”
Lin Qiye lowered his head to look at the divine beast blood traces disappearing on the surface of the Gate of Truth. After a moment, he raised his fingertip and lightly sliced across his own wrist.
The sharp blade light cut open his blood vessel, and a large amount of crimson blood splashed out!
“I am the current Commander-in-Chief of the Daxia Night Watchers, but at the same time, I am also the captain of the [Nightfall] team.
From the standpoint of the Daxia Night Watchers Commander, I should take advantage of your exchange to directly kill you; but from the position of the [Nightfall] team captain, I would rather have Jiang Er return to this world…” Lin Qiye spoke calmly,
“The grudges between our factions can continue after we save Jiang Er… At least at this moment, I still consider you the vice-captain of [Nightfall].”
The flowing blood splashed onto the surface of the starlight tentacles, immediately being greedily devoured by the latter, flowing along the mysterious light into that magnificent gateway.
An Qingyu watched this scene, slightly stunned, then looked up at Lin Qiye in the sky. In this thick fog, however, he couldn’t see his expression clearly.
“The blood of the Primordial Spirit Embryo is hundreds of times more precious than those divine beast bloods,” Lin Qiye snorted coldly,
“If it takes away your emotions, drains all my blood, and still isn’t satisfied… I will personally cut down this damned gate!”
Fierce killing intent was infused into his blood, completely consumed by these starlight tentacles into the Gate of Truth. Lin Qiye stood firmly on the misty lake surface, allowing his own blood to flow, his face growing increasingly pale.
The cut Lin Qiye made was on an artery, and without any hemostatic measures, the blood loss was terrifying. Before long, the blood in his body was almost completely drained.
If it were an ordinary person, such a horrifying consumption of blood would have resulted in immediate death, but for the Primordial Spirit Embryo, the tenacity of life was far beyond what ordinary people could compare to.
Lin Qiye didn’t know how much blood he had shed; he only knew that his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurry, and an unprecedented feeling of weakness surged in his heart.
But looking at the phantom of the Gate of Truth in mid-air, it was still greedily devouring his blood, showing no sign of stopping.
Before his blood was completely drained, Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes and directly stopped the wound on his blood vessel, releasing a terrifying killing intent from within his body without any reservation!
He stepped forward on the void, walking toward the phantom of the Gate of Truth,
Cutting down the gate—he was serious.
“This Gate of Truth is just a phantom. Even if you cut it to pieces, you won’t harm the real body,” An Qingyu said proactively, seeing that Lin Qiye really intended to cut it down.
Lin Qiye stopped in his tracks, and after a moment, slowly spoke:
“What does it matter if it’s a phantom… I don’t believe there’s no causal connection between the phantom and the real body?
Even if I can’t destroy this phantom, I now know the location of its real body. After this matter is settled, I’ll have my teacher’s sword strike the South Pole, destroying both the time labyrinth and the remains of its real body…
I want to see how it can scam people then?”
Boom——!!
As if understanding Lin Qiye’s threat, the phantom of the Gate of Truth standing in the thick fog suddenly shook!
All the starlight tentacles extending outward simultaneously retracted toward the inside of the gate. At the same time, a mysterious light burst from the gap of the door, covering the entire Erhai Lake area!
Seeing this light burst forth, An Qingyu suddenly froze.
It actually worked??!
If the Gate of Truth hadn’t taken away his emotions, even An Qingyu would have been unable to resist cursing.
As the mysterious light enveloped Erhai Lake, magnetic fields that had once appeared in Erhai rose from the ground and lake water, like numerous beautiful ribbons, floating and connecting to the sky.
An Qingyu stood in the center of the lake, staring at this scene in a daze, then came back to his senses and quickly began searching among these magnetic fields.
As time passed, various distinctly different magnetic fields frequently appeared and disappeared, making one’s eyes dizzy.
After an unknown amount of time, a familiar figure slowly floated out from Erhai Lake.
It was a young woman wearing a white long dress, with black hair scattered over her shoulders, like a ghost from the bottom of the lake,
Her eyes were closed, her expression serene, as if she were asleep.
“Jiang Er…”
The moment he saw that figure, An Qingyu’s eyes slightly contracted, but at this moment, he couldn’t feel any emotional fluctuation from his heart.
He murmured that name, as if calling to her, and also as if reminding himself… reminding himself not to forget what she meant to him.
As Jiang Er’s body floated to the front of the Gate of Truth, all the other magnetic fields around dissipated, leaving only streams of diffused light flowing on the lake surface, making everything seem like a dream.
Just as An Qingyu was about to reach out to the remnant image of Jiang Er in the flowing light, her body instantly collapsed, also transforming into streams of mysterious light, spreading in all directions!
An Qingyu’s hand, extended halfway in the air, suddenly stopped.
In the depths of his eyes flashed a trace of bewilderment… but that was all.
Instead, it was Lin Qiye who, seeing this, had his pupils suddenly contract!
He abruptly looked up at the huge phantom of the Gate of Truth, with surging killing intent erupting again:
“Are you playing with us??”
As the gate of the Gate of Truth closed, its existence quickly faded, directly disappearing in this thick fog, and the vast Erhai Lake once again fell into dead silence.
Before Lin Qiye could take any action, An Qingyu’s calm voice sounded again:
“So that’s how it is…”
Lin Qiye turned to look at him, “What?”
“The price we paid wasn’t enough to completely resurrect Jiang Er, whose soul and body have been destroyed for four years… So, after absorbing the price, the Gate of Truth fulfilled my request only to the minimum extent…”
An Qingyu raised his head, looking at the magnetic field ripples spreading in all directions,
“It… only brought back part of Jiang Er’s magnetic field. Although there’s no life, no consciousness, no memory, in a sense, she has indeed returned.”
Lin Qiye frowned, “But she still hasn’t been resurrected, has she? What use is this?”
“As long as we’ve recovered part of her magnetic field, there will always be a way to completely resurrect her… And as you said, I have no emotions now, so perhaps it’s best for Jiang Er to return in this way.”
Lin Qiye stood frozen in place.
The current Jiang Er had only a magnetic field, without life or consciousness, so naturally she wouldn’t wake up to talk with An Qingyu, nor would she know what An Qingyu was like now… This might indeed be a mercy for her.
If she were truly completely resurrected, seeing the person she loved most now standing alongside the Ke System God, betraying the former Daxia, and losing his emotions to become a completely different person, the blow to her would be even greater.
Lin Qiye supported his weakened body, and after a while, sighed helplessly.
The blood of the twelve divine beasts, plus An Qingyu’s emotions, plus draining the blood of the Primordial Spirit Embryo… barely exchanged for a strand of magnetic field. If An Qingyu had to bear the price alone, even sacrificing his life probably wouldn’t have been enough to resurrect Jiang Er completely.
Although the Gate of Truth indeed adhered to “equivalent exchange,” in terms of trading methods, it was an unscrupulous black market dealer.
Just as Lin Qiye was about to say something more, his vision suddenly blurred, and two figures appeared before his eyes.
Yu Er, Yu Si!
They stared at Lin Qiye, their eyes filled with coldness.
“Personal matters are settled… Now it’s time to deal with official business,” An Qingyu’s emotionless voice slowly sounded from behind Lin Qiye.