Chapter 440: Chapter 399: Jingshan’s Resolve

Jiang Yuebai, Lu Nanzhi, and Shen Huaxi all stared intently at the person behind Tian Nanxing. A corner of the white bone mask had been chipped off, revealing the sword-like eyebrows and phoenix eyes—it was Xie Jingshan!

However, at this moment, his eyes no longer held the brilliance they once did, making the three people’s hearts ache unbearably and their anger uncontainable.

"Do you really think you can stop me with just the few of you?"

Tian Nanxing sneered dismissively, waving his sleeve. Blood-red orchids wildly proliferated, intertwining in mid-air, and in an instant, swallowed the rolling ghost tide behind him.

Jiang Yuebai focused wholeheartedly on controlling the Phoenix True Fire, avoiding Lu Nanzhi and Shen Huaxi, and incinerated all the approaching blood-red orchids to ashes.

The golden-red flames rushed towards Tian Nanxing, who retreated in panic, eyes full of disbelief.

"You can actually refine the Phoenix True Fire?!"

Back when he was a Divine Tree Servant, Tian Nanxing tried everything to please the Phoenix but couldn’t even obtain a single piece of Ten Thousand Years Phoenix Wood. Now, seeing the Phoenix True Fire on Jiang Yuebai, the jealousy in his heart burned more fiercely than the Phoenix True Fire.

Although these things were ’cleaned up’ by Jiang Yuebai, if the Phoenix disagreed, she would have to cough them up even if taken.

During the month Jiang Yuebai cultivated in the Divine Tree Spiritual Realm, the Phoenix had developed a certain understanding of her. Compared to Tian Nanxing, the Phoenix obviously preferred Jiang Yuebai.

Rumble!

Suddenly, winds stirred and clouds surged over the Blood Sea, with blood energy soaring into the sky. The entire Blood Sea boiled like rolling water.

Shen Huaxi turned around in shock, "Could it be that the Blood Sea Ancestor is awakening?"

Tian Nanxing sneered darkly, unwilling to tangle with Jiang Yuebai and them, his glance sweeping over Xie Jingshan behind him.

"Since that’s the case, I’ll honor my promise, allowing you to reunite. Xie Jingshan, kill him..."

With a puff!

Before Tian Nanxing could finish his words, a bone sword unexpectedly pierced through his chest from behind, black flames instantly engulfing his entire body.

Xie Jingshan gripped the sword with both hands, the light in his dim eyes suddenly returning.

"You wicked Low-Class Orchid, you dug out my Sword Bone, poisoned me, and even probed my soul to see my little secrets, using me against the two of them? The ones I wouldn’t even spare a finger to touch, you want me to kill them? Die!!"

Xie Jingshan fiercely twisted the bone sword, the black flames fiercely burning Tian Nanxing, his skin rotting and revealing withered tree-like vine roots.

Tian Nanxing, releasing the Late-Stage Nascent Soul pressure, violently repulsed Xie Jingshan.

"Brother Xie!"

Shen Huaxi leapt up and supported Xie Jingshan’s body, and the two fell into the sea of Blood Orchids together.

The black flames continued to burn wildly, the bone sword embedded in Tian Nanxing rapidly sprouted spikes like tree branches, continuously splitting within him, piercing through every part of his body, rendering him in unbearable pain, gnashing his teeth and howling.

Two ghost cultivators charged forward to protect their master, Lu Nanzhi drawing her sword to confront them.

Jiang Yuebai summoned the Phoenix True Fire, executing the Smoke Escape to instantly appear behind Tian Nanxing, gathering the golden-red flames in her palm, she struck fiercely at the Divine Elixir position on his head.

Boom!

Tian Nanxing’s entire body exploded, black flames and golden-red flames surging and scattering like fireworks.

Lu Nanzhi’s eyes turned cold, the two ghost cultivators behind her had been frozen and beheaded, crumbling inch by inch.

Is it over?

Everyone looked tensely at where Tian Nanxing had just been, and after the flames cleared, only a pile of ashes remained on the ground. Seeing the withered grass amidst it, Jiang Yuebai felt a jolt in her heart.

Transformation Grass!

It can act as a substitute, absorbing lethal damage.

"Get back!"

Jiang Yuebai shouted, summoning the Primordial Magnetic Ruler, black sand surged upward like a dragon from her feet. Her white hair grew wildly, transforming into White Vine, and together with the black sand, forming a solid wall in front of everyone.

Just as the wall was halfway up, clusters of White Bone Flowers frantically spread and unfolded from where Tian Nanxing had just stood, the spikes on them firing like a storm.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The bone spikes pierced into the wall woven of black sand and White Vine like a sudden storm, producing dull thuds, most being stopped, yet a small portion penetrated, advancing towards Lu Nanzhi and Shen Huaxi.

Lu Nanzhi froze the air into a Three Feet Ice Wall, and Shen Huaxi stood alone in front of Xie Jingshan, wielding a black banner, which was precisely the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner previously used by Qing Nangzi.

The rain of bone spikes halted after over ten breaths, Jiang Yuebai sweating coldly, Lu Nanzhi’s ice wall shattered in front of her, with several bone spikes lodged in her shoulder, while Shen Huaxi’s Ten Thousand Ghost Banner was pierced and tattered. Fortunately, both Shen Huaxi and Xie Jingshan were unharmed.

Jiang Yuebai glanced at Xie Jingshan’s side with some confusion, always feeling that under the attack just now, the bone spikes were clearly fewer on Xie Jingshan’s side.

Did Tian Nanxing intentionally spare him, or was he letting Shen Huaxi go?

In the distance, the petals of blood-red orchids fluttered and reformed into Tian Nanxing’s figure, looking deeply at Xie Jingshan.

"Young Master Xie, I really underestimated you. When exactly did you regain consciousness?"

Shen Huaxi pulled Xie Jingshan up from the ground, who cast off the white bone mask on his face, revealing a haggard and unkempt face covered with blue stubble. However, the rebellious smile at the corner of his mouth remained the same as before.

"I, the Young Master, am not someone you can control as you wish."

From the moment he found himself occasionally losing memory, he began to take precautions. Thanks to being provoked by Jiang Yuebai back then, he practiced the Divine Separation Method, where one Divine Thought was controlled, and another could remain partially awake.

In a daze, he cooperated both truthfully and falsely with Tian Nanxing.

Tian Nanxing went as far as to issue all sorts of inhumane orders to verify whether he was fully controlled, even severing his own limbs being a minor matter.

Xie Jingshan gritted his teeth and endured. If it weren’t for Jiang Yuebai’s flute sound last time, causing Tian Nanxing’s control over him to loosen and calling him back in time, he truly doesn’t know how he would’ve fought with the two of them.

Tian Nanxing smiled, "Seems I was too confident, but..."

Rumble!

Scarlet lightning cleaved through the night sky, and the Blood Sea was once again shrouded in Blood Evil mists, black clouds blotting out the moon, and a blood rain fell from the sky.

Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi stood together, raising the Taihe Umbrella to shield them from the blood rain, feeling an ominous premonition in their hearts.

At this moment, Jiang Yuebai suddenly sensed Lii Jiuchuan’s Divine Thought stirring, instantly elated. Determined to stall Tian Nanxing and await their master’s arrival.

Shen Huaxi anxiously watched the Blood Sea direction, worried that the Blood Sea Ancestor might awaken.

Xie Jingshan discovered that in the rain, the black flames on his body suddenly burned uncontrollably, and black currents began eroding his body from his left hand.

Tian Nanxing had planted something in his left hand, making all his flames turn black.

Basking in the blood rain, Tian Nanxing said, "The black flames on you are the Earth Core Demon Flame treasured by the Blood Sea Ancestor. Even if you maintain consciousness, you cannot resist the black flame’s erosion and Falling into Demon. By then, you will still lose your sanity and kill everyone here."

Xie Jingshan furrowed his brows in pain, raising his left hand that was gradually being eroded by black flames, and it was covered with black lines.

"In this life, if I, Xie Jingshan, don’t want to submit, not even the King of Heaven can make me lower my head!"

As his words fell, Xie Jingshan swung his sword and severed his left hand, his face unchanging throughout!

"Brother Jingshan!"

Shen Huaxi cried out in shock, Jiang Yuebai clutched Lu Nanzhi’s arm, Lu Nanzhi frowned tightly, glaring at Tian Nanxing with a murderous aura.

"Courageous, but useless!" Tian Nanxing sneered.

Everyone watched Xie Jingshan, where his severed limb was, the bones rapidly regrew at an unbelievable speed, and the black lines within continued to spread faster over his body.

Xie Jingshan angrily swung his sword, but Shen Huaxi seized his hand.

"Enough, Xie Jingshan!" Jiang Yuebai shouted, as the Lotus Platform trembled, and the Three-Legged Golden Bird she had forcibly stuffed in earlier crashed out.

Vroom!

The Three-Legged Golden Bird transformed into a golden rainbow, hurtling into Xie Jingshan’s chest like a moth to a flame.

Xie Jingshan staggered back from the crash, pressing his hand against his chest, feeling a flame swiftly merging with him.

He grimaced in pain, "Why are you here too? I just saved you casually once, you don’t need to..."

Boom!

Golden flames roared skyward, instantly seizing everyone’s attention, the searing heat dispelling all shadows and darkness. Xie Jingshan stood bathed in the flames, his grime and flesh drifting off like ashes, leaving only his pure heart and pristine bones.

The Golden Crow Fire, as bright as the blazing sun, drives away all evil!