Chapter 483 Chihou

The night was dark and deep.

A cold wind howled low in the sky.

Bringing snowflakes falling in abundance.

In the forest clearing, the Mistress of Spirit Butterflies was wearing golden armor and facing off against Lingqi, who was covered in silver armor.

Time passed little by little, and neither of them took action first, but quietly waited for something.

Suddenly, a cold murderous intention sprang up out of thin air.

It turned into a bright light and shot straight into the sky.

The depressing atmosphere suddenly became even more depressing.

Even the temperature seemed to drop suddenly.

Let the two spiritual butterflies feel the coldness at the same time.

Time passed little by little.

The murderous chill disappeared quietly.

At this moment, Mistress Spirit Butterfly turned her head and looked into the distance, with a faint smile on her lips.

She let out a long sigh and said, "I gathered my spiritual energy and turned it into a sharp sword full of murderous intent. He was a bit beyond my expectations. I didn't expect that a little guy from the low-level sword mantis clan could actually display such a sharp sword." means.

But that's it. With the level of strength he just showed, you invited him as your helper. It's a failure of my early training for you. "

Speaking of this, the smile on the face of the Spirit Butterfly Mother became more intense, "My well-behaved daughter, what are you waiting for? Since you have lured me out of the city, you should just attack me and take my life." yes."

"Isn't Mother also waiting?"

"Wait for your subordinates to explore the surrounding area clearly, and then you can determine whether there are any enemies hiding aside from my daughter."

Lingqi took a deep breath of cold air and slowly exhaled a straight stream of white mist.

She glanced around and said, "In addition to the eight guards, your most loyal subordinates include the five killer generals, and even the two sages who guard the secret realm and practice in seclusion have been successfully recruited by you.

My mother was always careful in her work. According to the usual practice, she should wait for them to complete their investigation, and then use a thunderous force to wipe out all the enemies, leaving me no hope of a comeback. "

"Oh? You know it quite clearly."

Mistress Spirit Butterfly spoke slowly, with a thoughtful expression, "But even so, you still made such a choice, which means that in addition to the poor Dao Mantis, you have also found other helpers.

And in your eyes, these helpers are very strong, and can even stop my imperial guards. "

Lingqi raised her hand to pick up a snowflake and let it melt quietly between her fingers.

She sighed, "I don't know if they are strong or not, but since they can sit in the position of High Priest of Flying Ants and Visualizer of Seven Stars, I guess they won't be mediocre people who can't stand up to the stage.

So my daughter was a little curious. If they compared with the guards and killers of their own clan, who would be stronger. "

"Not only are you disobedient, but you actually dare to collude with foreigners!?"

"Only by destroying an old world can a new world be built. Therefore, everything my daughter does is just to clear the obstacles to the end."

Lingqi lowered her eyes, with no expression on her face.

"I provoked the war between the seven tribes of Flying Ants by borrowing money to kill, and then mixed in to add fuel to the fire, making the war intensify until it reached an uncontrollable level, in order to play the prelude to breaking the old world.

Moreover, I carried out the frame-up act again later and poured all the dirty water on your head. This made the two tribes even more angry and sent experts to prepare for the surprise assassination. "

When she said this, she sighed again, "My mother thought I only found him as a helper, but she never thought that as long as I use the right means, I can drive away tigers and devour wolves with confidence.

As for Yuan Yidao Mantis, although he does not know my subsequent arrangements, he should be happy to have taught a disciple like me, so even if he encounters an unexpected event here, he should be satisfied. "

Mistress Spirit Butterfly listened silently, her eyes and expressions changing, until she finally calmed down.

"The fact that you can think about such complex things is indeed beyond my expectations, and it also surprised me a lot."

"It is no exaggeration to say that Xiaojiu, you just said a few words, which made me learn a lot. I will even need to spend a lot of time to savor and ponder in the future."

"However, no matter how you plan, the outcome will ultimately come down to the outcome of our fight."

"So, it's up to me, a mother, to teach you the most important lesson."

"That is, in the face of absolute strength, all tricks are useless.

Just like this layer of snowflakes accumulated on the ground, as long as the sun rises, it will melt quickly and irresistibly. "

She said expressionlessly, slowly holding the hilt of the sword at her waist, and then pulled it out little by little.

The spiritual energy condensed rapidly.

The golden sword blade lit up brightly.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a rising sun in the forest.

"What my mother said to me is exactly what my daughter wants to say to you."

Lingqi also drew out the long sword at her waist, "You are not in the main city and have lost the secret realm bonus. In terms of pure strength, I don't know if you can be regarded as the number one master of the clan, let alone whether you can. He is my current opponent.”

boom!

Suddenly spiritual energy surged around Lingqi's body.

Then they gathered frantically towards the silver sword in her hand, shining with an increasingly bright silver light, rivaling the golden light like the sun, and even not falling behind at all.

"You have such a terrible growth."

"But I stood out from many sisters of the previous generation and became the current matriarch of the Spirit Butterfly Clan. I already have extraordinary talents!"

Boom!

The two figures disappeared at the same time.

They collided violently in the middle of the clearing in the forest.

They each carried a majestic spiritual power, transformed into golden and silver radiances, and released their own power in the night.

In an instant, large flakes of snow melted directly.

Even the darkness covering the world seemed to be torn open by a huge wound at this moment.

Then the trees fell and the earth cracked.

There were also increasingly strong shock waves, sweeping and spreading in all directions with the two as the center.

At the moment when the two sides started the violent collision, the jungle in the distance also burst out with powerful spiritual power.

Spirit Butterfly, Seven Stars, Flying Ants.

Three species, dozens of auras intertwined and entangled, mixed together, almost indistinguishable from each other.

There was also an extremely cold murderous intent mixed in it, and various spiritual powers appeared at the same time.

Boom!

The matriarch of the Spirit Butterfly and Lingqi separated to the two sides.

Then they charged forward with a faster speed and more violent force, and collided head-on again in a messy clearing in the forest.

But the jungle in the distance fell silent.

It was as if the elites of each tribe chose to stop fighting at the same time after a head-on confrontation, and no longer planned to continue the fight to the death.

At this moment, whether it was Lingqi or the matron of Lingdie, doubts arose in their hearts.

I don’t know why the battle in another place was declared to be over as soon as it started.

But in this life-and-death battle, they had no time to care about such trivial matters.

Both sides had long discarded all distracting thoughts, and there were only the purest thoughts.

There was no self, no enemy, and even no victory or defeat in their eyes, only the full force of driving the spirit to burst out all their strength.

In an instant, the collision between the two exceeded a hundred times.

Every time, they did not dodge or avoid, and they had a completely head-on confrontation.

It was like a battle of ideas, and no one would retreat or tolerate in any sense.

In this situation, whether it was Lingqi or Mistress Lingdie, if they dared to take a step back, or even if they had the slightest thought of retreating, they would probably be defeated and it would be difficult for them to turn the tables.

Especially Mistress Lingdie, whose talent and strength she had always been proud of were actually challenged by her daughter who was rebellious and violated the clan rules. This was something she could not accept at all.

So she couldn't retreat.

As long as she retreated, she would definitely fall from grace, and her mind would be broken into a gap, and she would even be forced to cut off the connection with the secret realm, and she would suffer terrible backlash from both her spirit and her body.

Another encounter between the two swords.

Two figures staggered back at the same time.

One rolled into a deep pit.

The other smashed through the fallen tree canopy, leaving a trail of blood along the way, and disappeared directly into the dark snowy night.

Time passed little by little.

The forest was in a mess and silence.

After an unknown amount of time.

Mistress Lingdie supported herself with her sword and climbed out of the pit step by step.

Not far ahead, Lingqi swung her sword to cut off the branches blocking her way and returned to where she stood at the beginning.

"I thought that after this period of crazy killing and accumulation, my strength had surpassed my mother who had no secret realm blessing."

Lingqi looked down at the damaged silver armor on her body and raised her hand to wipe away a trace of blood from her lips.

She sighed softly, "Now it seems that I still overestimated myself and underestimated my mother's true strength."

"You can force me to such a situation without entering the secret realm to practice. Xiaojiu, you are the one who surprised me the most."

The Lingdie mistress tried to calm her breathing, and a trace of uneasiness flashed in her heart.

She even began to have the idea of ​​retreating.

If she continued to fight like this, she could take down this rebellious daughter, but she would inevitably suffer serious injuries.

If the impact of the previous birth on the body is added, even if she wins, it will leave quite serious sequelae.

More importantly, from the time they met to now, from the initial communication to the subsequent fight, it has been a long time, but she has not waited for the arrival of those subordinates.

Could it be that they were really stopped by the Flying Ant High Priest and the Seven Stars Visualizer, and unfortunately lost in the confrontation, so they could not come in the first time?

If this is the case, then what she has to consider is not whether it is worth paying the price to capture Xiaojiu, but how to escape.

However, the silence in the forest made her hesitate.

For a moment, she couldn't figure it out anyway. If the two sides really met, why was it so quiet, as if they didn't fight at all.

Not far away on the opposite side, Lingqi smiled on the surface, but deep in her heart, there was also a large haze.

Compared with the loyalty of the subordinates of the Spirit Butterfly Mistress, she knew that the Flying Ant High Priest, the Seven Stars Visualizer and herself were not really allies of the same mind, and she had to be on guard against their backstabs at all times, so she made more than one action plan.

However, the current situation is too strange, which is far from what she thought.

The most critical problem is that the surroundings are too quiet.

After the spiritual power had manifested just now, there was no sound of any fighting.

This strange situation made the two people who had just experienced a fierce battle feel surprised and astonished, and they were eager to find out what had happened.

Further away.

In the middle of another clearing in the forest.

Wei Tao stretched his increasingly sturdy and ferocious body and looked down at the insects that were slumped on the ground.

Tick!

Tick, tick!

Blood slid down the sharp blades from the two death sickles and dripped onto the ground, mixing with the dark red color of the surrounding area, looking like a bloody and tragic abyss purgatory.

"I don't know if I underestimated myself or overestimated your strength, which led me to hide in the house until now, and then I dared to come out and face the reality."

He was silent for a while and sighed slowly.

"Then what? Is this the reality?"

"The so-called Spirit Butterfly Guards, Flying Ant Priests, and Seven Stars Visualizers, the names sounded impressive, but the results left me speechless and disappointed.

I thought you could gather spiritual power, fly into the sky and hide in the ground, and you would be so powerful. In a real fight, you couldn't even stop my sickle."

"So disappointing, really, you guys disappoint me so much."

Crack!

As he spoke, the sickle gently reached down and pierced into the chest of a corpse.

Then he easily picked it up and put it into his mouth to chew it slowly.

A series of crunchy sounds came out.

Accompanied by the sound of puffing out.

After a while, the low voice sounded again slowly, with a little sigh of emotion.

"I have to say that the Seven Stars taste good, and it has a special sweet taste when chewed.

The only flaw is the carapace growing on the chest and back, which is as troublesome as eating melon seeds and having to crack the skin."

Crack!

The sharp sickle fell again.

Pick up a flying ant priest who was missing an arm.

Then there was another chewing sound, breaking the silence of the night.

"Well, this ant power god is better."

"Although it tastes a bit bitter, it is more nutritious. It is simply a highly concentrated white spirit fruit."

Among the broken limbs and arms, the remaining spirit butterfly guards and flying ant priests trembled, as if they were facing a hideous and terrifying demon. They were completely shocked and scared.

"Chi Hou, Chi Hou, you are Chi Hou!"

The flying ant priest was lost and muttered to himself.

Over and over again, only the two words Chi Hou came out.

"Chi Hou?"

"What is Chi Hou?"

Wei Tao frowned slightly and fell into thought.

After a moment, he suddenly showed a look of realization.

"I remember that when I was in the Divination Institute, I accidentally flipped through an old book, which seemed to mention the name of Chihou."

"But, is there something wrong with your eyes? Chihou is obviously the name of an ancient demon, and it has nothing to do with me, a pure and honest mantis."

Wei Tao said casually, chewing and swallowing non-stop.

He soon sent the relatively complete corpse into his stomach.

"Chihou, Chihou..."

The flying ant priest had dull eyes, as if he didn't hear what he was saying, and kept repeating two words.

Wei Tao frowned slightly, his expression was quite speechless, "Is this flying ant priest a fool?"

"I wanted to ask you some questions, but now it seems that there is no need at all."

Crack!

Another cold light flashed.

The flying ant priest subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the sharp limbs that pierced him, as if he suddenly regained clarity at this moment.

His lips kept moving, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat was blocked by the large amount of blood gushing out, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Crunch.

Crunch.

The teeth-grinding chewing sound sounded again.

After a moment, Wei Tao slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and turned his head to look at the distance where the golden light and silver light began to shine again.

"It seems that the battle between mother and daughter will continue for a while."

He retracted his gaze and fell on the limp old man Lingdie.

"Since Lingqi asked me to delay as much as possible, then we have plenty of time to chat."

After a pause, he organized his words again, "As the guard of the Lingdie mistress, you should know a lot about the secret realm. Take this opportunity to tell me everything in detail."

Chi!

Blood suddenly splashed.

There was a big hole in the chest of the old man Lingdie, and the inside was already bloody and messy.

"Even if I die, I will not betray the mistress..."

He smiled bleakly, "What's more, you are a mantis with inferior bloodline, and you actually want me to betray the tribe. You are just wishful thinking!"

"You are so stubborn that you are not afraid of life and death. Sometimes it is very helpless to deal with you."

Wei Tao was silent for a while, and slowly raised his bloody front paw, "To express my respect, I decided to chew you a few more times when eating you, so that you can digest better in my stomach."

Crack!

He bit down as soon as he finished speaking.

At the same time, a loud roar suddenly broke out from a distance.

The golden and silver lights intertwined and entangled, forming a beam of light that went straight into the sky.

A huge shock wave came and uprooted a large number of trees in an instant.

Even the ground was scraped off a layer, revealing the soil underneath that had not been completely frozen.

I don't know how long it took.

Maybe just a short moment.

Suddenly all the lights disappeared.

All the sounds disappeared.

The whole jungle was dead silent.

Mistress Psylocke looked pale, coughing out large mouthfuls of blood from time to time, and staggered forward on the ground full of ravines.

She was seriously injured, and she could only barely support her body with all her strength, and staggered forward slowly.

It was not a long journey, but it took her a long time to complete it, and finally stopped in front of a small slope made of broken stones and trees.

Mistress Spirit Butterfly took a deep breath and smelled the tangy smell of blood, which brought an inexplicable sweet smell.

A slender figure sat there quietly, leaning against a crooked and broken tree trunk.

She raised her head with some difficulty, looked at the direction where the footsteps stopped, and sighed quietly.

"I thought that after my crazy improvement, I could confront my mother head-on, but I didn't expect that I would still be defeated by you."

"You are very good, even more talented than me."

Mother Spirit Butterfly’s voice was hoarse and no longer as gentle and soft as before, “If you can also accept the power inheritance of the secret realm, I will definitely not be your opponent.

But it is a pity that your strength, which has been accumulated with a large amount of resources, cannot compete with the power of the inheritance of the secret realm. "

"He told me a long time ago that victory is victory and defeat is defeat. There are no ifs in this world."

Lingqi gasped for breath, blood gurgling out of her seven orifices, "I was ultimately defeated at your hands. This is the reality I have to face."

"Who is he, that unique Dao Mantis?"

Mistress Spirit Butterfly lowered her head and looked down, with a smile on her face, "He should be gone too."

Lingqi nodded, "Yes, he is no longer here. Facing so many powerful enemies, he will naturally die."

"Actually, I'm a little curious."

Mistress Spirit Butterfly frowned slightly, "Why are you like this? Is it because of that mantis?"

Before Lingqi could respond, she sighed quietly, "But it doesn't matter, you will all die tonight anyway, and everything after that will be dust to dust, dust to dust, and it will have nothing to do with you anymore."

Having said this, Mistress Lingdie slowly raised her golden sword and aimed it at Lingqi's unprotected vitals.

She took a deep breath and thrust out the sword in her hand without hesitation.

Uh-huh!

The golden light lit up, but then converged directly into the invisible.

She was startled, and subconsciously turned around to look, only to see a pair of eyes shining brightly in the darkness.

Together with the huge scythe that was already close to him, they both shone with an extremely cold light.

"you……"

Mistress Spirit Butterfly opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but her mind went blank due to great fear, and she couldn't even utter a single word.

Beside the mound, Lingqi closed her eyes. Even though she felt strongly unwilling to do so, she could only passively welcome the arrival of death.

Chi!

She heard the sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh.

Warm blood also splashed out at this moment.

"Is this what death feels like?"

"There doesn't seem to be a particularly different feeling. Even when the long sword penetrated the body, there was no pain at all."

Lingqi closed her eyes tightly, waiting for her consciousness to fall into darkness.

Time passed little by little.

But she has always maintained her ability to think.

He even heard the sound of chewing and swallowing, which kept ringing in front of him.

Lingqi was confused and subconsciously opened her eyes to take a look.

Wherever he looked, he saw an extremely familiar figure swallowing the last bit of blood in his mouth.

"You, you, you are still alive."

She was incoherent and her mind was almost blank, "Or am I actually dead and this is the world after death?"

Wei Tao sighed, "I am still alive, and you are naturally alive too. The world after death is empty and void. How can we have such rich perceptions now?"

Lingqi asked subconsciously, "Where is the mistress? She was here just now and was preparing to take my life."

"His Majesty is here now, and the distance will never exceed two feet."

Wei Tao wiped away the remaining blood on his lips, "She was not very lucky. She was so seriously injured that she still dared to stay here, so it was only natural that I would pick her up and kill her."

Having said this, a gentle smile appeared on his face, "Your Majesty Lingqi, since all plans have been successfully completed, I hope you will not forget what you promised me."

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The cold wind howled and the snow fell heavily.

The whole sky and earth are completely white.

Inside the main city, it was as warm as spring, with not a single snowflake falling.

For Lingdie, who is naturally afraid of the cold, he spends as much thought on heating as on all military and national affairs.

Under the leadership of two Spirit Butterfly attendants, Wei Tao came to the spire hall located in the center of the city for the first time.

The attendant stopped in front of the palace.

Wei Tao pushed open the door alone and entered the dark and gloomy hall.

"Yuan Yi has met His Majesty Lingqi."

Still some distance away, he bowed slightly and saluted.

"Yuan Yi."

A faint sigh came from behind the curtain.

There was a hint of fatigue in his voice, "You are now the chief fortune teller, so you don't need to salute like this even when you see me."

"The proper etiquette should not be neglected. After all, I am no longer facing the Ninth Prince, but the Mistress of the entire Spirit Butterfly clan."

Wei Tao straightened up, his eyes penetrated the translucent curtain and landed on the slender figure, "Your Majesty called me here this time. Are you going to take me to the secret place to have a look?"

"Secret Realm, now is not the time to take you in, because I have not truly inherited the power inheritance of the Secret Realm. If I take you there at this time, there will be a high possibility of causing an attack from the Secret Realm."

"In addition, I promised Mr. Yuan Yi that the highest secret method of my clan needs to be fully inherited before I can describe it to you in detail."

"That's why I specially asked Mr. Yuan Yi to come over. Actually, I just haven't seen you for a while and I just want to chat with you."

Lingqi said as she slowly walked out from behind the curtain.

She was only wearing an almost transparent gauze skirt, and her slim figure was looming, attracting attention.

"What does Your Majesty want to talk about?"

Wei Tao only glanced at her and then looked away. His eyes followed the path of the spiritual spirit he sensed, and finally looked beyond her body to the darker depths of the hall.

Vaguely, he heard the low beast roar again.

It seemed to be coming from the depths of darkness.

Lingqi was silent for a moment and sighed again, "Although we have known each other for a long time, in my eyes, Mr. Yuan Yi has always been so mysterious, as if he was shrouded in fog. No matter how he looked at it, he was always so mysterious. It is difficult to see the true face hidden inside.

Therefore, I have always been a little curious and want to know the ultimate goal of Mr. Yuan Yi’s actions, and what is the ideal you most want to achieve? "

Wei Tao's heart suddenly moved, and he keenly captured a fleeting murderous intention.

Do you feel that he knows too many secrets and has become a potential threat, so do you want to take action?

But this is normal, after all, no matter how strict the mouth is, it can't compare to the dead person's inability to speak.

And she hid her emotions well.

If he had not practiced the Three Talents Killing Sword and was extremely sensitive to hidden murderous intentions, it might have been difficult for him to truly discover the problem when the spiritual thoughts gathered in the palace.

Lingqi, she is really a good student.

Both his execution and comprehension abilities have exceeded his original expectations.

Wei Tao was lost in thought, but his mood was peaceful.

"What is the ideal I most want to achieve?"

He gently exhaled a breath, closed his eyes and sighed, "What I want to do most is of course to return to my true hometown and find my long-lost relatives and friends."

“But it is not easy to do this, it can even be said to be very difficult.

Because before returning to my hometown, I have to solve a huge problem first, so as not to bring too much danger to the people living there.

In this case, relying only on my own strength, I don’t know how long it will take to accumulate enough resources to raise my strength level to a level that can crush and eliminate dangers to complete this most important dream to me. "

"Is your ideal just to return to your hometown..."

Lingqi fell silent, and the murderous intention that was originally hidden was quietly restrained at this moment.

I don’t know if it really disappeared or if it was hidden deeper by her.