Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

A black dome, that was the first thing Xu Yuan saw after crawling out of the stone-buried secret chamber. Before he entered the chamber, the sky above had been a clear blue. Now it was gone, replaced by a black curtain inverted over the Xu residence like a giant bowl, sealing the entire estate off from the outside world.

But the curtain was not completely pitch black. Through its surface, the complicated array patterns in the sky beyond could still be faintly seen with the naked eye.

Stillwater’s grand defensive formation had been activated. Array lines as wide as ten feet flashed with white light, spreading across the sky in mysterious, twisting patterns. Yet this black curtain covered the whole Xu estate, preventing that enormous city array from locking onto its target.

Soon, Xu Yuan’s gaze landed on the four figures in the distance. He saw Ying’er, Zhou Chen, Si Ziyu, and a faint, illusory remnant. Even while maintaining the black curtain, that Sage’s remnant soul showed no sign of weakness against the combined assault of three Grandmasters. With his vast spiritual perception, the martial skills of third rank Grandmasters could barely land on him.

Xu Yuan’s eyes quickly fixed on Zhou Chen, who was standing completely still. As violent winds gathered around him, the aura around the sword hilt in the man’s grasp grew stronger and stronger. The light at the tip of the blade brightened as source qi condensed, until at last Xu Yuan could hardly look straight at it.

Then, in one instant, time seemed to freeze. Zhou Chen’s hand, gripping the sword hilt, swung down with terrifying force.

Nine Heavenly Edge Swords, Sword-Nurturing Form.

Sword light flashed, and the air trembled wherever it passed. But his target was not that illusory Sage’s remnant soul. It was the black curtain stretching across the sky.

With one sword skill, he carved a gash more than three hundred feet long through the black dome.

Outside, the white glow of the grand array, which had been waiting for this very moment, instantly turned a sinister red. Unfortunately, before the condensed beam of source qi could fire, the black curtain had already closed again. Even so, the darkness covering it had clearly faded a little more.

At that moment, a furious roar came from the sky. “Qin Mo, hurry up! I’ve already broken the formation over there. Grab that brat now, or none of us are getting out of here!”

Xu Yuan’s pupils contracted sharply. No, no, something was wrong. This Sage was not controlling Qin Mo’s body to fight. He had manifested directly and was using his spiritual soul body to withstand three Grandmasters head-on.

So, where the hell is Qin Mo?!

“Third Young Master! Are you all right?”

Just then, a squad of absolute muscle monsters suddenly barged into the side courtyard. Xu Yuan recognized the men leading them. They were all peak sixth rank personal instructors from the martial training ground.

But the moment Xu Yuan saw them, his breath caught. He immediately pushed his cultivation technique to its limit and went on guard, asking at the same time, “Instructor Wang, where are the others?”

“The others?” Instructor Wang looked a little confused.

Xu Yuan went straight to the point. “Where are the guest retainers at fifth rank Soul Condensation and fourth rank Body Integration?”

Instructor Wang hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice.

“I’m not sure. But just now, they were the ones maintaining the formation around this northwest courtyard. Now that the formation has been broken...”

At that point, Instructor Wang did not continue.

When Xu Yuan heard that, he raised a hand and rubbed his brow. For some reason, he suddenly felt like laughing.

Xu Changge had to kill a second rank. The three Grandmasters were being held up by that old grandpa. And now, at his side, he only had a group of sixth rank guards protecting him.

This is rigged. The whole situation is rigged.

Just as that thought crossed his mind, a figure carrying a long blade suddenly vaulted over the courtyard wall and landed heavily on the garden lawn. Blood dripped again and again from the sharp, thick blade of the saber. The coarse hemp robe he wore was dyed crimson as well. Qin Mo had carved his way here.

Xu Yuan frowned and retreated behind the others. After a second of silence, he looked at the story’s protagonist, whose real face was now revealed, and suddenly called out, “Qin Mo?”

He was trying to stall for time with a little talk therapy. But Qin Mo clearly had no intention of talking. He simply carried his blade and strode toward Xu Yuan.

Seeing this, Instructor Wang automatically stepped in front of Xu Yuan.

“Stop right there!”

As Qin Mo continued advancing, Xu Yuan hesitated briefly, then stopped talking altogether, turned around, and ran. The other party had clearly already reached seventh rank. With Xu Yuan’s current strength, even fighting an eighth rank would take effort. Staying here would only make him a burden.

When Qin Mo saw Xu Yuan run, his brows furrowed slightly. Almost at the same moment, his foot slammed down. The stone slabs shattered. His body turned into an afterimage as he charged straight at the guards blocking his path.

The martial apprentices had all been selected from Calm Sky Martial Halls across the Great Flame Empire, and the Calm Sky Martial Halls were an important source of soldiers for the Chancellor’s Manor. The cultivation arts and martial skills they practiced were all designed for the battlefield. Almost in an instant, this squad of guards formed a small battle formation, forcibly stopping Qin Mo’s advance.

Even though the opponent was only a seventh rank Bone Tempering cultivator, Instructor Wang showed no trace of underestimating him. Behind him was the Third Young Master. There was no room for carelessness. Once the battle formation took shape, the auras of the martial apprentices inside began to stack together. Their source qi formed a closed loop, flowing on without end.

Xu Yuan did not look back at the battle behind him. But after a few leaps brought him onto the top of a pavilion, he suddenly stopped again.

The scene before him was suffocating. The enormous black curtain in the sky covered the estate like a giant cage. Several servants tried to flee through it, only to have their souls drained the instant they touched the black curtain. They collapsed to the ground and died on the spot.

Beyond the northwest courtyard, the estate, once full of orderly buildings, elegant pavilions, and quiet, refined scenery, had now collapsed into ruins of dirt and shattered stone. Charred craters, deep scars carved by sword qi, and wreckage left by the shockwaves were everywhere.

Xu Yuan steadied himself and prepared to look for the other guards in the estate. But after searching all around, he could not find a single living thing. As far as the eye could see, there were corpses everywhere.

There were guards, servants, and stewards. The aftershocks from a battle between third rank Grandmasters were enough to kill ordinary people and low-level martial apprentices from a distance. The once-prosperous Xu estate now had only a handful of people left alive. It was like a sealed hell on earth.

And that hell was still going on. It was just that the four people fighting in the sky had, by tacit agreement, deliberately avoided the northwest courtyard.

Xu Yuan took a deep breath. He could not leave. With that black curtain blocking the way, even if he ran, he would not get out. If the squad of guards below died too, then he would have to face Qin Mo alone.

In the brief time since he had left, the battle in the courtyard had already reached its climax. But the scene was strange. Instructor Wang and the other guards, despite forming a battle formation, were almost being beaten down one-sidedly.

Every martial skill Instructor Wang used was blocked by some invisible force. And although none of Qin Mo’s slashes managed to break through the turtle shell formed by the guards’ battle formation, almost every strike made the source qi within the formation surge violently.

Xu Yuan realized almost immediately that this protagonist had most likely been buffed by that Sage’s remnant soul.

Every strike Qin Mo made landed precisely on the weak points of the formation. At this rate, the formation would be broken very soon.

Xu Yuan’s heart sank, but he did not get close. Keeping his distance from Qin Mo was important.

After all, Su Jinxuan had said Qin Mo had a charge-type move that could teleport and abuse invincibility frames.

Standing on the courtyard wall more than a hundred feet away from the battle, Xu Yuan calmed his mind and began charging up his own skill, preparing his big move. At the same time, he suddenly smiled and started using words to interfere.

“Qin Mo, hearing about you really isn’t the same as meeting you. You’re every bit as strong as they say. With only seventh rank cultivation, you can actually clash head-on with a battle formation of sixth-rank peak fighters.”

Qin Mo acted as if he had not heard him at all.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan thought for a moment. Then his tone suddenly changed, the corner of his lips curling into a smile. “Before this, Jinxuan kept saying your name in bed, telling me to watch out for you. I heard it so many times my ears almost grew calluses.”

He suddenly remembered what Su Jinxuan had told him earlier.

At the mention of Su Jinxuan’s name, Qin Mo suddenly raised his eyes and swept a glance at Xu Yuan.

“Shut up!” As he barked out the words, the blade in his hand flashed with white light.

Thousand Workings Slash! With that one strike, an eighth rank Meridian Tempering martial apprentice within the formation had the weapon knocked from his hand, and his entire body was sent flying backward.

The corner of Xu Yuan’s mouth hooked up. A reaction was good. The scary thing would have been if Qin Mo kept refusing to talk.

Still gathering power for his big move, Xu Yuan smiled and said, “Judging by that expression, you came to my estate to save her, didn’t you?”

Qin Mo said nothing more. He steadied his mind, preparing to focus entirely on breaking the formation. But that bastard called Xu Changtian just kept sitting on the courtyard wall, prattling on and on.

“Ah, do you know how I snatched her away from Drunken Immortal Tower back then?”

“The first time, Jinxuan cried out that it hurt. I hadn’t even had my fill yet, and she had already passed out.”

“If you’d been a little stronger, maybe things would’ve turned out differently.”

“What a devoted lover you are. Shame you seem to have arrived a little too late.”

...

Qin Mo treated it all as nothing but farting in the wind, a deliberate attempt to shake his mind. The blade in his hand remained perfectly steady.

Until Xu Changtian suddenly smiled and said, “Ah, don’t tell me you thought Jinxuan was controlling me?”

“...” Qin Mo froze.

“You really are pitiful. Your birth has limited your imagination after all. She’s only a Bewitching Soul Devil Body, isn’t she?”

Qin Mo’s breathing grew slightly uneven.

Xu Yuan’s voice continued drifting over slowly, like a maggot burrowing into bone.

“That succubus physique is frightening, sure, but my father is the chancellor of the current dynasty. Isn’t it perfectly normal for me to have a secret treasure that protects my soul? Qin Mo, do you want to hear exactly what happened between Jinxuan and me?”

“Shut up!” Qin Mo suddenly erupted forward, slashing through the air.

Heaven-Capturing Strike!

BOOM! A thunderous explosion rang out in the courtyard. Blade light burst forth, and the shockwave sent ripples surging across the small pond more than two hundred feet away.

Instructor Wang, who stood opposite him, let out a muffled groan. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as he was forced several dozen feet backward, leaving a huge opening in the formation.

After unleashing that strike, Qin Mo ignored the source qi surging backward through his meridians. He stepped sideways with his left foot, drew back half a step, and lowered his center of gravity.

Seeing that familiar starting stance, Xu Yuan narrowed his long, slender eyes slightly. His heartbeat gradually quickened, but his voice remained slow and unhurried. “Ah, right. Qin Mo, do you want to know my evaluation of Jinxuan?”

Void-Stepping Slash. Qin Mo’s gaze sharpened. His figure suddenly shot forward, accelerating in a burst. Then his body vanished from sight.

And at that exact moment, Xu Yuan did not hesitate. He swung the ultimate move he had been charging for so long straight in front of himself.

Blood Phoenix Drill.

The next instant, Qin Mo’s figure appeared again.

This time, he had materialized directly in front of Xu Yuan as if crossing the distance out of thin air.

Xu Yuan’s lips twisted into a savage grin. This was the move he had been waiting for. Their eyes met at close range for only an instant.

BOOM! Qin Mo’s entire body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, slamming heavily into the courtyard wall and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan’s heartbeat gradually calmed. Although his source qi was somewhat drained, he still rose to his feet atop the courtyard wall and said with a smile, “Qin Mo, my evaluation of her is... very wet.”

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