Chapter 522

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Chapter 522: Action, Immortality, Mountain Collapse

"Wait!" the scholar interrupted, "I have something else to say."

Bai Wei stopped and asked, "Hmm?"

"I know you want to kill me, but I didn’t expect your decision to be so decisive… Why did you have to go to such extremes instead of negotiating with me?" The scholar didn’t quite understand.

"A person is about to die, yet still wants to ask why." Bai Wei countered, "I also want to ask why."

"Ask why about what?"

"In Jiuding Mountain, there are so many people from the martial arts world, and most of them were brought here by you. The crowd is packed with well-disguised elite soldiers and assassins. How many skilled assassins are there? How many invited martial arts experts are there?" Bai Wei’s gaze swept lightly, "There are at least three grandmasters among them. Is this how you want to negotiate?"

The scholar exclaimed in surprise, "You figured it out?"

Bai Wei said, "With your fearlessness, it’s hard for me not to figure it out."

"All tricks. The scholar shook his hand. It’s not presentable."

"This is definitely not something a puppet proton can drive, Yuan Tianjian is supporting you, or it’s your own ability."

"The world is bustling, all for profit." The scholar smiled. "If there’s something profitable, they will do it. But people like you make it difficult for me to take action."

"So the sword is aimed at them."

"In order to protect myself, please forgive me." The scholar bowed his fist.

"What if I don’t die in battle today?" Bai Wei asked back. "Have you considered the consequences?"

"Then it’s my own fault if I lose my life. Even if you have that kind of power, I would only linger for a while." The scholar looked calm, then paused slightly. "I still feel that you should not side with the Third Princess. Even if you do, we may eventually reconcile."

"How many people have you said this to?" Bai Wei asked back. "Did Lord Qiongqi agree?"

The scholar shook his head.

"Wishing alone won’t help." Bai Wei said, "After all, you are neither Yuan Tianjian nor the Emperor of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom. You can’t control the world’s situation, so you can only fight me in the end. That’s where you stand, and you have no choice."

The scholar took a deep breath and drank up the tea.

"I won’t die here!"

"I didn’t survive till now just to barely scrape by… In this era of great conflicts, if you don’t fight, you die."

"I hold the power and influence of half of the Jianghu from Ba State before you. If you’re wise, you’ll retreat. With your personal strength, you can break through the encirclement and have a chance of saving yourself. But if you stay and fight, there are still two black-listed individuals waiting to make their move. You should know when to advance and when to retreat…"

"Don’t count on the carriage either, Princess Bai Ze has to stay. I will take her to see the teacher. She won’t die. Once she opens the doors of the Bai Ze Kingdom, everything will be settled, no need for more battles or more deaths."

As soon as Fourth Prince finished speaking, the whole street fell silent.

Passersby and spectators realized that the situation was not good and began to flee from the mountain road, trying to get away.

Faced with this grand scene, Bai Wei felt surprised. The other side was well-prepared and had set a trap, waiting for him to fall into it. If he were alone, it wouldn’t be difficult to kill the person in front of him. But considering the safety of the two people in the car, it was definitely not an easy task.

"Give me three minutes, I am generous, I will give you the time for a cup of tea, you can think slowly," said the Fourth Prince, controlling the situation. He continued, "You show me respect, and I will show you even more."

Bai Wei calmly replied, "There’s no need."

The scholar was delighted and asked, "Have you understood? Are you willing to cooperate with me?"

Bai Wei shook his head, saying, "You should remember what I said at the beginning…"

His hand fell down, resting just below the desk, but in the next moment, it moved as fast as lightning.

Someone immediately sensed the impending danger. From the ground, the tree, and behind, three secret guards appeared simultaneously at three different locations. They hid in the shadows or in the dirt, suddenly emerging, attempting to block Bai Wei’s sudden burst of aggressiveness.

They indeed managed to block him, using their own bodies as a shield.

However, it was pointless. The bodies of the three secret guards shattered like fragile glassware upon impact. Bai Wei’s fist was like a cannonball, releasing a powerful force that reverberated over tens of meters, accumulating strength that could move mountains.

The force penetrated their bodies, hitting the scholar. The scholar’s robe exploded, revealing a deep indentation in his chest. His eyes widened, coughing up blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs. He flew back more than a hundred meters, landing on the ground in a disheveled state, barely conscious.

"I said, this distance… even a land immortal may not be able to save you," Bai Wei said lightly.

The scholar lowered his head, seemingly out of breath.

Death was real and swift.

This Fourth Prince was truly ambitious. Bai Wei felt a bit relieved. Instead of tormenting himself with guilt over killing an innocent person, it would be better to have a good fight in the arena. Unfortunately, the opponent was too weak, unable to withstand even a single punch.

Chao Lu asked, "Did you really kill him?"

Bai Wei replied, "Yes."

Chao Lu closed her eyes and searched her memory, "No… this won’t kill someone!"

Bai Wei asked, "What do you mean?"

With just that one punch, fifty years of strength had already burst the opponent’s organs. Even the heart had exploded. How could that not kill someone? Did he have to throw the body into the doomsday volcano to be turned into ashes?

Chao Lu just checked Bai Ze’s memory treasury, "The bloodline talent of the Demon Emperor clan is unknown to anyone, but it has a very obvious outward feature…immortality."

As soon as the words fell, Bai Wei immediately waved his hand and retracted the Crouching Tiger Sword. He didn’t believe in anything that was absolutely immortal. If it’s not dead, it can only prove that the cuts were not precise enough.

Before Bai Wei could strike with the sword, intending to swiftly end the fight, as soon as he walked twenty meters away, a figure fell from the sky.

A tremendous pressure descended from the sky, causing one-third of the hundred-meter mountain path to collapse suddenly, with the soil sinking and forming rolling stones, and trees toppling over.

Bai Wei caught a glimpse of a figure in a black Daoist robe. As their blades clashed, the reverse sword light released the Zhu Rong fire. In that moment of confrontation, he was unexpectedly momentarily suppressed.

The Daoist in the black robe stepped on a auspicious cloud, keeping Bai Wei in place.

People from the rivers and lakes approached from the front. Chao Lu kicked open the carriage door, and Princess Bai Ze tore off her disguise. With her left hand using techniques and her right hand wielding the Bi Fang fire, she began to set the mountain on fire.

Bai Wei’s gaze locked onto the distance as he threw the Crouching Tiger Sword in his hand. The blade unsheathed and instantly the air swirled, sending sand and rocks flying. In the invisible movement of the air, everything became the carrier of the sword aura. The sword thrown casually unleashed a terrifying power greater than that of a hundred steps flying sword. It formed a sword aura tornado storm, with the center being a windless zone. The sword in the vacuum reached its extreme speed.

From the moment he threw the sword to the Crouching Tiger Sword striking the scholar’s body, it took less than a second.

The Crouching Tiger Sword almost cut him in half.

Just as the blade was about to penetrate his chest, a force came out of nowhere and grabbed the tail of the Crouching Tiger Sword, suspending it in mid-air. Although it was brief, it gave the scholar a chance to catch his breath and survive. It was the black-robed Taoist, who used his power to block the Crouching Tiger Sword, trying to suppress it.

The tip of the sword hovered three inches in front of the scholar’s cheek. At this moment, the caved-in chest of the scholar visibly recovered at a rapid speed. He opened his eyes, his voice hoarse.

"Killing me once is not enough, you want to kill me a second time…" He covered his chest wound, staggering backward. "You are doomed today, there’s no escape for you!"

"They are not enough," Bai Wei casually threw out a sword, and the residual blade energy alone killed more than twenty martial arts experts who were lured by the bounty. They were already terrified.

The scholar smiled. "You think I haven’t made any other preparations? Whether I endure your punch or lose my life, there’s actually only one goal, and that is to make you eager to kill me. This way, you will create distance between us."

Distance?

Bai Wei instinctively turned his head and looked towards the direction of the carriage. This distance was definitely not far, just twenty steps, which was easily reachable in an instant for him.

However, the cleverly calculated twenty-step distance was no longer so easily caught up.

Bai Wei had no weaknesses. He had a puppet body that was not affected by hot or cold, and he didn’t need to eat, drink, or rest. He couldn’t feel pain from any swords or guns.

But his weakness was not within himself, it was Chao Lu. This meant there were countless ways to hinder and target him.

An invisible barrier suddenly appeared, it wasn’t created by the black-robed priest who controlled the battlefield, but by another hidden person, who was not even here but miles away.

This barrier was set up to separate both sides. Only Holy Domain mages or those with a special talent could control and manipulate space.

Regardless of who it was, sending so many experts consecutively was unlikely for monetary gain. It seemed more like a buildup by the Thousand Demon Emperor’s faction.

The prince was still a prince, and the dogs he had were not ordinary dogs. There were many level thirty or forty super elite monsters, and it took quite some effort to defeat them.

The space barrier was indeed invincible. Unless your swordsmanship level exceeded level fifty, it was impossible to break it with just a sword or fists.

Bai Wei extended his finger and made a small poke at the barrier, causing it to create a chain reaction. It shattered like hardened glass when a single piece was broken. Many people found this scene unbelievable, but the mystery lay in the golden light that condensed at his fingertips. Destroying a simple space barrier was just as easy as popping a balloon with a needle.

After puncturing the space barrier, Bai Wei didn’t hesitate to step back. His goal was to kill the Fourth Prince, but he couldn’t lose sight of the bigger picture.

His speed was very fast, but he didn’t expect to hear a loud bell ringing from the top of Jiuding Mountain, with the sound waves shaking everything around.

Bai Wei suddenly stopped moving, as if he had a blurry feeling and his body became slow and unresponsive.

It wasn’t just him who was affected, but also the black-cloaked Taoist and the hidden guards, who had bloodshot eyes and quickly fled away.

In the next moment… the entire Jiuding Mountain collapsed!