8mi Ch. 525
Ch. 525
The citizens of Black Hawk City were dying faster and faster.At first, it was only the Lord of Black Hawk City who was taking the lives of its people.
But unexpectedly, Wang Shenghan was now acting as though he were competing with the City Lord in slaughter.
One after another, the citizens burst apart into white-jade powder, which then gathered and rose toward the heavens.
"When did Mister Wang make his move?" asked Gu Yun, Sect Master of Rouge Sect.
Although she didn't know what that jade feather Wang Shenghan had thrown out truly was…
For Wang Shenghan to reach this point, one prerequisite was clear—he had to have linked himself to Black Hawk City's formation.
When Wang Shenghan was breaking the formation, he had already left something behind—so that he could borrow a portion of the formation's power for himself!
"Cough, cough, cough…"
Wang Shenghan coughed several times, spitting blood, and looked at them calmly.
"From the very beginning—when we first started to break the formation—I had already acted.
No matter what you do, you must leave yourself some backup plans. No matter who it is, I will always be wary of them to some extent.
If it weren't for the final moment, I would never have activated such a contingency.
Because these things… Mochi and the others would never be willing to accept them. If they knew what I had done, they would never forgive me. They would definitely stop me.
So I couldn't tell them.
Sigh…
They're simply too kind. Even at the very end, even when death is right before us… they still wouldn't agree to harming innocent citizens."
"Mister Wang's caution truly earns this concubine's admiration," Gu Yun said with a teasing smile. "But I never expected Mister Wang could be so ruthless."
"Ruthless?" Wang Shenghan half-clenched his fist, his gaze steady. "This is nothing more than leaving a few backup plans behind. Let me repeat myself—if you all hadn't done those things, I naturally wouldn't have activated these contingencies either."
As Wang Shenghan traded words with the Lord of Black Hawk City, more and more citizens died.
The dead citizens turned into black shadows and white-jade powder, drifting behind the City Lord and Wang Shenghan respectively.
The City Lord's shadow grew larger and larger.
Behind Wang Shenghan, the white-jade powder gradually condensed into the form of an armored giant.
Wang Shenghan's vital blood was burning nonstop.
Even if Wang Shenghan won this battle… he wouldn't have long left to live.
"Could it be you think this is enough to stop me?" the Lord of Black Hawk City said coldly.
Wang Shenghan smiled faintly. "We can try."
"Hmph!"
Fang Ran raised his right hand high. At the same time, the shadow also lifted its right hand.
Countless strands of black smoke gathered within Fang Ran's palm, finally condensing into a massive saber!
"Hah…"
Wang Shenghan drew in a deep breath. With a sweep of his sleeve, the armored giant raised the golden longsword in its hand.
BOOM!
A thunderous crash echoed through Black Hawk City.
The violent spiritual shockwaves caused one citizen after another to have both body and soul annihilated.
…
Meanwhile—
The jade eagle that had flown out of Black Hawk City kept its claws locked tightly around Xiao Mochi and the others.
The three of them had no idea what had happened inside the city, nor did they understand how Shenghan could have left behind such a hidden move.
But Xiao Mochi kept staring toward the city.
Yet because of the barrier, his gaze could not reach within.
Xiao Mochi formed seals and chanted.
Suddenly, one toe on the jade eagle's claw burst apart.
"Mochi!"
With Nan Wenmo and Lu Xiaoliu shouting after him, Xiao Mochi shot back toward Black Hawk City.
He didn't turn his head even once.
He could never bring himself to live on while his close friend's life hung by a thread!
If they were to leave, then everyone would leave together.
If they were to die, then they would die together!
And yet the moment Xiao Mochi returned to Black Hawk City, he stood there blankly, as though he had come to the wrong place.
Black Hawk City had become nothing but ruins.
Within the city, you could no longer tell where you even were.
Xiao Mochi closed his eyes, sensing the area within several miles of the city.
He found almost no survivors.
"Shenghan!"
Xiao Mochi's eyes snapped open—he had sensed Wang Shenghan's aura!
Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Mochi rushed toward him.
When Xiao Mochi reached Wang Shenghan's side, he happened to see Wang Shenghan fling his sleeve—
Not far away, a pair of parents and their child instantly exploded into white-jade powder, which surged into Wang Shenghan's body.
It was as if Wang Shenghan had recovered a portion of his spiritual energy. He lifted a foot and kicked the Lord of Black Hawk City flying to the ground.
On a jagged, broken wall nearby, the Rouge Sect Master had been pinned to death by Wang Shenghan's brush—already lifeless!
Wang Shenghan held a longsword and walked toward Fang Ran step by step.
Each time Wang Shenghan took one step forward, Xiao Mochi could clearly sense a living life disappearing nearby—
And then he would see that life turn into strands of jade-colored powder, flowing into Wang Shenghan's body.
Wang Shenghan was using the citizens' lives as nourishment for his spiritual power!
"Hahahaha! What kind of scholar are you?! You're just like us—you treat mortals as nothing!
You keep shouting about saving mortals, but in truth, you never considered mortals to matter at all!
Your so-called benevolence and righteousness—where is there even a trace of a Confucian scholar left in you?!
Is this really what the Headmaster of White Deer Academy taught you?!"
The Lord of Black Hawk City, crushed beneath Wang Shenghan's foot, roared with laughter—his expression bordering on madness.
Wang Shenghan didn't answer.
He simply raised the longsword in his hand.
Like piercing a watermelon, the sword drove straight into Fang Ran's forehead.
"Aaaah…!"
Fang Ran let out a miserable scream. His pupils gradually dimmed.
Flames engulfed his body, and in less than two breaths, the once-arrogant Lord of Black Hawk City was completely reduced to ash.
In the sky above, the black shadow and jade-colored powder continuously gathered together.
The Rouge Sect Master pinned to the wall also dissolved into a cloud of blood mist, vanishing into the air.
Black Hawk City's protective formation and the formation laid down by Rouge Sect both burst into dazzling light.
Black qi, jade-colored powder, and the radiant spiritual light of the formations intertwined, forming a massive sphere that compressed tighter and tighter.
The remaining citizens inside the city all died, their streams of blood qi pouring into that enormous sphere.
At last—
When the blackness dispersed, a blood-red pill appeared, suspended in midair.
The pill drifted down slowly like a fallen leaf, landing in Wang Shenghan's palm.
Wang Shenghan turned his head and smiled at Xiao Mochi.