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Wisps of a sacred aura began to spread. This was the Buddha Power from the Golden Body Technique. Normally, this power remained hidden deep within his body, but today, it had been roused by his determination.

The Ghosts coiling around Zhou Wushuang began to recoil as if they had met their natural enemy. The black qi also started to slowly dissipate under the illumination of the Golden Light.

"What a loathsome aura."

A black dagger, about thirty centimeters long, appeared in Zhou Wushuang’s hand. She thrust it out with a gentle motion, aiming precisely for the spot over Zhao Zuo’s heart from behind.

Of course, Zhao Zuo wouldn’t just sit and wait for death. He launched a sudden counterattack.

For this one strike, Zhao Zuo gathered every ounce of power he could muster. The Soul-Shaking Bell flew from his waist into mid-air. Inside, the Soul Gold struck the bell’s wall, emitting an incredibly deep and powerful sound. It was like thunder striking on a clear day, the sound reverberating for dozens of miles.

At the heart of the battle, before the impact could even reach Zhou Wushuang, the Jade Pendant at her waist suddenly shattered. A special Energy spread out from it, forming a layer of Soul defense in her mind.

The Soul-Shaking Bell continued to sway joyfully, letting out waves of booming sounds.

DING DING!!

Zhou Wushuang glanced at the Jade Pendant, now reduced to dust, a flicker of surprise in her eyes. She hadn’t expected Zhao Zuo to possess a method of Soul attack. As for the shattered Protective Magical Artifact, she was too wealthy to feel any heartache over it.

"Realm of Overflowing Moon—Fierce Tiger Slash!"

Zhao Zuo had come up with a rather impressive-sounding name for his furious turning slash. In reality, it was just a simple horizontal cut, but under the full force of his power, it carried the ferocity of a starving tiger pouncing on its prey—an all-or-nothing strike born from desperation.

His eyes were resolute, fixed on a single goal: survival.

"Ant." Zhou Wushuang looked into Zhao Zuo’s eyes and spoke softly, her voice as cold as an emperor on high decreeing a death Punishment.

The black dagger shot from her hand like a streak of dark light!

DING!

At the last possible moment.

Zhao Zuo abruptly changed the direction of his saber’s swing. The sound of metal clashing rang out as the Black Flame Saber, radiating terrifying heat, collided with the unknown black dagger. In an instant, Zhao Zuo felt an incomparably heavy force, as if he were fighting against a mountain peak.

Heavy, lethal, suffocating.

’A Magical Treasure!!!’

’I can’t retreat! I absolutely cannot retreat!’

Zhao Zuo dug his feet firmly into the ground. Even though blood was already streaming from the torn skin between his thumbs and forefingers, he held fast to the Black Flame Saber, channeling all his strength into resisting this unknown Magical Treasure.

The next second, the sleeves on his arms exploded. Capillaries on the surface of his skin began to rupture and burst, spattering blood that stained his arms red... His muscle tissue and Meridians began to tear as well.

’Can’t retreat. Can’t retreat.’

Zhao Zuo grit his teeth.

In the next few seconds, blood trickled from the corners of his mouth and eyes. Blood vessels all over his body were rupturing.

"Who dares to act violently in Moyun Workshop?" The Cyan Robe Patrol Team rushed out from the Moyun Workshop. Their strength was at the Late Period of Qi Cultivation, and working together, they could slay a cultivator at Qi Cultivation Perfection. Moreover, this was Moyun Sect territory.

A cold smirk appeared on Zhou Wushuang’s lips. Her finger tapped the black dagger like a bolt of lightning, and Zhao Zuo suddenly felt an even more terrifying impact.

Despite his utter unwillingness, he could only watch helplessly as the Black Flame Saber was knocked aside, flying from his grasp to land on the ground five meters away... He was completely powerless to resist.

BANG.

The Golden Light Mirror flew out from his chest, blocking the black dagger. After several upgrades, the Golden Light Mirror was only a hair’s breadth away from being an Upper Grade Magical Artifact, and now it barely managed to block the black dagger.

But it couldn’t negate the impact carried by the black dagger. Zhao Zuo was sent flying for several meters like a broken sack, his blood spraying into the night sky.

𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Before he even hit the ground, Zhao Zuo used the powerful body control granted by his Golden Body Technique to adjust his center of gravity in mid-air. Without a backward glance, he immediately bolted toward Moyun Workshop.

Meanwhile, Zhou Wushuang waved her hand to recall the black dagger and closed in again. As for the Golden Light Mirror, it had been pierced through; a long, narrow gash now ran through its center.

"Useless struggling," Zhou Wushuang said softly. Zhao Zuo’s repeated resistance had exhausted all her patience. With the Market’s night patrol about to arrive, she had no intention of dragging this out any longer.

In the blink of an eye, she appeared behind Zhao Zuo.

’Heh, is this it? Am I going to die?’ Zhao Zuo was now at his wit’s end.

’I hope she can survive.’

’After all, I’ve delayed Zhou Wushuang for a long time. I hope that by now, Shen Yunjiao has already gone deep into the Yunlan Mountain Range. If one of the two of us survives, it won’t be a total loss.’

Zhao Zuo didn’t give up. He ignored everything else and continued to sprint wildly toward Moyun Workshop.

Having lost the Black Flame Saber, he no longer had any way to fight back. At this moment of life and death, Zhao Zuo found that he didn’t feel much sadness or fear. Instead, he felt a sense of relief.

He had foreseen this outcome before he even left the mountain. At least he hadn’t broken his promise. It was just a pity that Liu Heng would be implicated by the Master-Servant Contract and lose his life.

’Life and death is truly a difficult choice. During this escape, I faced immense pressure and fear. It’s the basic instinct of a living creature to survive, and the unknown agony of death made me feel uneasy and panicked.’

’But amidst that unease and fear, I saw my true heart clearly.’

’The path I cultivate does not seek Longevity and Vision, to sit and watch the world change over eons.’

’It does not seek the pinnacle of power, where a single word can decide the life and death of countless people.’

’I would even rather live bound by rules than become one of the strong who stand above them.’

’I don’t seek freedom, I don’t look for stability, and I don’t strive for Transcendence.’

’My only wish in this life is to have a clear conscience and to not let anyone down.’

Fear was replaced by determination. In the midst of his desperate flight for life, Zhao Zuo had an epiphany and understood his true heart.

’Yes, to have a clear conscience and not let anyone down... that’s enough...’

At that moment, Zhao Zuo found his true heart. The Realm of his Sutra of Calming the Mind also naturally broke through to the Second-Layer, the state of Constant Calm. However, in the process of accepting his own death, he failed to notice this.

Zhou Wushuang formed a seal with one hand and threw the black dagger. In mid-air, the dagger split into three Magical Artifacts, which aimed for Zhao Zuo’s core, forehead, and spine respectively.

"Light Division Three Shadows Kill."

Clearly, Zhou Wushuang wasn’t playing around this time. She held nothing back. In fact, after launching the attack, she was already pushing off with her legs to retreat toward the Yunlan Mountain Range. She could sense her other prey five hundred meters away.

A prey that could have lived, yet chose to die.

Three streaks of black light enveloped Zhao Zuo like a Heaven and Earth Net, leaving him no chance of survival.

As she retreated, Zhou Wushuang watched Zhao Zuo’s back, anticipating the bloom of fresh blood. To her, it was an unparalleled, ephemeral beauty, like the blossoming of a night-blooming cereus. An unmelting layer of crimson appeared in her eyes.

PING.

The three black daggers froze less than a centimeter from Zhao Zuo, unable to advance another inch. An invisible barrier of time had appeared between the daggers and Zhao Zuo.

As a Magical Treasure, the black dagger crushed Upper Grade Magical Artifacts in both speed and hardness, and it even possessed the ability to create Clones. But its extreme speed could not surpass time, so it was destined to get no closer.

Immediately after, the black daggers flew back along the same trajectory and returned to Zhou Wushuang’s hand.

Zhao Zuo naturally felt the aura of death recede. In that instant, his wits returned to him.

’I must have lost my mind. I can’t believe I forgot about the Spring and Autumn Cicada and its ability to cheat death...’

"Truly... troublesome!"

Zhou Wushuang waved her hand, catching the returning black dagger, her expression annoyed. This was the first time she had encountered such a hard-to-kill bug, one that not only tried to attack her multiple times but had also escaped her certain-kill strike.

Even she couldn’t comprehend what had just happened. She clearly hadn’t sensed the fluctuation of any Protective Magical Treasure, nor had any Energy gathered to form a shield.

....And yet, the enemy had somehow blocked her attack.

Zhou Wushuang stopped in her tracks. She glanced at the approaching night patrol team, now close at hand, and a bloody glint flashed in her eyes. Her pride would not allow her prey to escape her grasp; to fail now would surely affect her Tao Heart.

For the third time, she activated Blood Shadow Escape, transforming into a bloody light as she charged toward Zhao Zuo.

She would not rest until she reached her goal!

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