Chapter 1052
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Chapter 1052 Hidden Sword
Dong—!!
A thunderous sound echoed across Yaopool, Loki’s figure crashed down like a meteorite, instantly piercing through several floating mountain peaks before landing on the ground below.
Loki stood up from the billowing smoke, coughing violently, with large amounts of blood splattering on the ground.
“Even with Jormungandr’s parasitic presence, this mortal body’s physical condition is too poor.”
Loki wiped away the blood, as dark energy surged from within his body, seemingly weaving something.
Five seconds later, his body vanished from the deep crater, then reappeared standing in the sky above Yaopool. The wounds and bloodstains on his body had completely disappeared, as if he had never been seriously injured.
He had woven a “trick,” deceiving established facts and making the world believe that he had dodged the Queen Mother of the West’s terrifying attack seconds ago, causing reality to change accordingly, naturally leaving no scars on his body.
Loki’s figure appeared ghost-like beside the Queen Mother of the West. His form flickered, and six identical Lokis walked out from his body.
The snake-scaled palms of these Lokis split open, black trickster snakes emerged from within, striking at the Queen Mother’s body like lightning, completely blocking all her escape routes.
Seeing Loki return before her unharmed and splitting into seven, the Queen Mother of the West, holding the Kunlun Mirror, narrowed her eyes as spiritual energy surged around her once more.
She raised the Kunlun Mirror in her palm, and its surface instantly swept across the surroundings.
In the reflection of the Kunlun Mirror, the area around the Queen Mother was completely empty—none of the seven trickster gods was the real body.
“A petty trick.”
The Queen Mother spoke calmly, flipping the mirror surface to face herself.
In the bronze mirror’s reflection, a figure like a hissing black snake was tightly pressed against the Queen Mother’s back, with a small snake already climbing up her neck, about to bite down in the next moment.
Seeing his image discovered by the Kunlun Mirror, Loki’s eyes narrowed.
The power of time surged from the mirror’s surface, and terrifying pressure swept in from all directions. Loki’s movements suddenly slowed, like a fish living in a cement ocean, his form about to solidify with the surrounding space.
The Queen Mother of the West held the Kunlun Mirror in her right hand and extended her left hand, expressionlessly pressing lightly against Loki’s chest, which had been frozen by the Kunlun Mirror.
Loki’s chest instantly collapsed, and he was once again blasted from the sky, crashing heavily onto the Kunlun Virtual Mountain Range outside Yaopool. Along with the muffled roar of the collapsing mountain, there came a series of crisp metallic clangs.
Loki lay on his back in the center of the collapsed mountain. The time silhouette around him had been shattered at one corner, and several grim sword edges pierced through his body from the ground, pinning him firmly to the mountain range.
Loki violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
He stiffly turned his head to look at the sword edges penetrating his body, confusion appearing in his eyes.
“Swords? Where did these swords come from on this mountain?”
He looked around. The time silhouette of Kunlun Virtual had broken at one corner due to his battle with the Queen Mother. The mountain range’s virtual image, once filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, now revealed its true appearance.
On the grayish-white mountain surface, there were no more lush green trees or red flowers. Numerous rocks were exposed on the surface, and countless ancient swords emitting a grim cold light were thrust into the mountain, seemingly endless, covering the entire peak and extending to another green mountain shrouded in the time silhouette.
The phantom of a crane flew from another mountain peak, gliding elegantly over the grayish-white mountain surface, its form passing through one ancient sword after another like a phantom, as if they weren’t there.
The crane was fake, but this sword mountain… was real.
Loki had no time to think further. Black light burst from his body again, instantly weaving another “trick.” After escaping all his injuries, his form returned to the sky once more.
He stood under the blue sky, gazing at that sword mountain from afar. Although the sword mountain was as tiny as a grain of sand among the vast Kunlun Virtual Mountain Range, for some reason, Loki’s heart began to feel uneasy.
Under the time silhouette of that mountain peak lay a sword mountain… what about beneath the virtual images of the other mountain ranges?
Why were there so many swords hidden in Kunlun Virtual? What was the Great Xia God planning to do?
Loki frowned deeply, looking toward the Elixir Palace of Yaopool in the distance. His gaze seemed to penetrate space, landing directly on Si Xiaonan inside the palace.
After this brief exchange, Loki clearly recognized that he was no match for the Queen Mother’s avatar wielding the Kunlun Mirror. If this continued, his divine power in this avatar would be exhausted, and the Queen Mother would eventually kill his avatar and then crush Si Xiaonan with one blow.
Although sacrificing Leng Xuan and Si Xiaonan meant nothing to Loki, this was his only chance to obtain the Kunlun treasure. If he missed it, his possibility of becoming a supreme god would grow increasingly slim.
While he was keeping the Queen Mother’s avatar occupied, Si Xiaonan had to obtain the Kunlun treasure and leave this place.
But at that moment, another figure suddenly entering the Elixir Palace caught his attention.
His pupils contracted sharply.
His mind recalled the youth from Cangnan City years ago, who carried the power of miracles and personally slew one of his avatars.
“It’s him?”
A dangerous light flickered in Loki’s eyes.
…
Yaopool.
Elixir Palace.
Lin Qiye stared at the familiar yet strange face of the young woman under the pale green firelight. After a long while, he finally came to his senses:
“Xiaonan?!”
Si Xiaonan, seeing Lin Qiye at the door, was equally stunned.
He knew Lin Qiye was in Kunlun Virtual, but never imagined they would meet here.
“Xiaonan.” Lin Qiye seemed to remember something, his expression becoming grave. “You…”
After the Cangnan catastrophe ended, Lin Qiye went mad. By the time he regained clarity, he was already in the mental hospital of the Abstinence Institute. He only learned later that Si Xiaonan was the agent of the God of Mischief, had betrayed the Night Watchers during the Cangnan catastrophe, and had left Great Xia with Leng Xuan.
However, during the “Human Circle,” Wu Xiangnan told him that the [Shiva’s Grudge] that Si Xiaonan took away was actually fake.
All the survivors of Squad 136 always believed that Si Xiaonan hadn’t betrayed them… she had just temporarily left.
Lin Qiye believed this too.
But when he saw Si Xiaonan entering the Elixir Palace with a broken sword, and the five Yaopool handmaidens lying in pools of blood nearby, his heart tightened slightly. A certain thought surfaced in his mind, only to be immediately rejected.
Impossible. The Si Xiaonan he knew would never do such a thing.
He looked at the blood-stained Si Xiaonan before him with a complicated expression, took a deep breath, and slowly asked:
“Xiaonan… what exactly happened here?”
