Chapter 1315
Noticing that Ye Yu’s expression was a little off, Liu Yuenuo immediately tensed up.
She hurried forward and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ye Yu’s brow tightened. He stared hard at his palm and said in a low voice, “I don’t know why, but ever since a moment ago, my palm has kept stinging. From the surface, there’s nothing there.”
Hearing this, Liu Yuenuo’s expression turned grave. She immediately sent her divine sense into Ye Yu’s palm to probe it.
In her perception, at the center of Ye Yu’s clean palm, a razor-cold sword-qi mark lay buried deep within.
If one didn’t look closely, it really would be hard to notice.
This sword-qi mark was highly unusual. Without anyone sensing it, it could siphon the divine power inside its host and slowly fatten itself.
In the end, once it had drawn enough divine power, it would burst out through the palm, cut down the host, and complete its use.
And throughout the whole process, the caster could use the sword-qi mark to know the host’s location at any time.
In short, it was the perfect choice for tracking and god-slaying.
This was an upper-grade divine art of Ancient Sword Gorge: Shadowless Sword Sever.
Liu Yuenuo knew this art all too well, because three million years ago, many demon gods of the Tongtian Pavilion’s Divine Alliance died to Shadowless Sword Sever.
She just hadn’t expected that someone would dare use it on her husband now.
Seeking death. Seeking death!
“Was it Shadowless Sword Sever laid by Heng Xuanzhen?”
“It shouldn’t be. From her eyes you can tell—she rather likes my husband.”
“Then who was it?”
Crouching to the side, the tailless Guardian Great Saint, Luo Shu, also sensed something was wrong.
He spoke at once: “Is it that vicious marking divine art? The one called Shadowless... something?”
Liu Yuenuo glanced at him but said nothing.
Luo Shu instantly understood and cursed, “Damn—must be that Skinner Zhu. I thought we scared her off, but who knew she’d pull this bottom-of-the-barrel trick as she left. Truly vile!”
Liu Yuenuo frowned slightly. “Skinner Zhu? Which Skinner Zhu? What happened?”
Luo Shu then recounted what had happened a million li away just now.
After listening, Liu Yuenuo instantly realized this was absolutely Zhu Cangwen’s doing.
“To run into her again even a million li away?”
“Truly, nothing goes as expected.”
Liu Yuenuo clenched her fists, anger surging in her heart.
The most disgusting part of Shadowless Sword Sever was that once the mark took root, it would merge beneath the divine soul.
You couldn’t forcibly wipe it out with external power.
You could only watch it grow day by day.
Unless the caster personally lifted it, there was no other way.
Seeing Liu Yuenuo’s and Luo Shu’s faces grow darker, Ye Yu asked curiously, “What is it? Is this a big problem for me?”
Luo Shu had just opened his mouth when Liu Yuenuo stopped him with a single killing glance.
She then said softly, “It isn’t that troublesome. Leave it to me. You two go back to Tongtian Pavilion and wait.”
She said this because she didn’t want Ye Yu to worry too much.
Under normal circumstances, after Shadowless Sword Sever was planted, it needed at least two days to fully trigger.
As long as they found that bastard Skinner Zhu within two days, it would be fine.
With that settled, Liu Yuenuo didn’t wait for Ye Yu to answer. She directly set a teleportation array and sent Ye Yu and Luo Shu away.
Then she immediately began deducing Zhu Cangwen’s whereabouts.
But she failed.
It seemed Zhu Cangwen carried a heavy treasure that blocked divinations, making it impossible to obtain her precise location.
“Damn it!”
Liu Yuenuo spat the curse, then turned on her heel and strode into Ancient Sword Gorge.
Sensing someone approach, Heng Xuanzhen immediately turned her back and wiped the tear tracks from her face.
“What else do you want?”
Liu Yuenuo said coldly, “Tell me your senior aunt Skinner Zhu’s whereabouts—now. Immediately. At once.”
Heng Xuanzhen keenly sensed a terrifying killing intent.
She didn’t understand why, after the other had been gone only a short while, her entire aura had become so violent.
Could it be because Ye Yu told Liu Yuenuo that Zhu Cangwen wanted him dead, so she became like this?
Heng Xuanzhen slowly turned around and said softly, “I don’t know where Senior Aunt is right now. As for her and Ye Yu’s grievances, I’ll persuade her—”
Before she could finish, Liu Yuenuo flashed to the front and seized her by the collar.
“I don’t have time for your rambling. Skinner Zhu planted a Shadowless Sword Sever mark on Ye Yu. If we don’t find her within two days, Ye Yu will die.”
At that, Heng Xuanzhen felt as if struck by lightning.
As a god of Ancient Sword Gorge, she naturally knew the power of Shadowless Sword Sever.
The casting process was slow, and the cursed felt nothing at first, as if nothing had happened.
But once cursed, it was almost a foregone death.
Unless they found Zhu Cangwen in the shortest time.
Thinking it through, Heng Xuanzhen no longer cared whether Liu Yuenuo was being rude. She tossed her a communication stone.
“You and I will split up and search for Zhu Cangwen. Whoever finds her, send word to the other, and take her to Ye Yu at once.”
Before the words were finished, Heng Xuanzhen’s figure had already vanished from where she stood.
She streaked through space at extreme speed, her heart fixed on a single thought:
Ye Yu must live.
“Damnable Senior Aunt—how could you be so vicious? And I was just pleading with Ye Yu to spare your life.”
“What a bitter joke.”
“You’ve been dead for so many years—why are you alive again now? Why can’t you stay dead cleanly?”
In that moment, Heng Xuanzhen birthed the will to kill Zhu Cangwen.
Meanwhile, at Silent Zen Cliff in the southern God Realm, Zhu Cangwen’s body had already turned completely transparent.
Currents of pure divine power surged wantonly around her.
As Zhu Cangwen’s hand-seals shifted without pause, her body gradually began to solidify.
When she reached the final step—
Zhu Cangwen’s features suddenly changed into someone else’s.
Her expression twisted in struggle and pain.
Though it lasted only an instant and swiftly reverted, it stirred the surrounding divine power into a frenzy.
After circling a few times, it fully dispersed.
Zhu Cangwen spat a mouthful of blood on the spot.
“So it still won’t work?”
Frowning, Zhu Cangwen lifted her hand and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.
Once more, scenes from three million years ago rose in her mind.