booktalesy Chapter 94 : Chapter 94
Chapter 94 : Chapter 94
Chapter 94: Killing the Body and Crushing the Heart! Steve, Martial Thearch of the Freedom Nation! A Four-Winged Angel!
And he had even promised that if Liu Ruyan could provide him with some information on Huaxia in the future, he would exchange a great many resources for it.
Of course, the two of them engaged in far more physical exchanges than anything else.
But Liu Ruyan naturally could not let go of Ye Xiao either. After all, Ye Xiao’s identity and status were not ordinary.
Later, when Liu Ruyan returned during a holiday to see Ye Xiao, she learned by accident from him that his parents and grandfather were about to depart on a top-secret mission.
She even found out their approximate destination.
The moment Liu Ruyan heard that even Martial Saints had to conduct this mission in secrecy, she immediately concluded that it had to be something major, so she directly sold the information to Steve.
But who could have known that once Steve learned it concerned Martial Saint Ye, he would report it straight to the top brass of the Freedom Nation? The higher-ups took it extremely seriously and directly dispatched several Martial Saints.
In the end, they truly did uncover a tremendous secret.
After Liu Ruyan later learned that Ye Xiao’s parents and grandfather had all died, she panicked a little.
At first, she felt very guilty. But once the money Steve had promised arrived, all her guilt vanished in an instant.
Unfortunately, after making use of Liu Ruyan, Steve kicked her aside as well.
Of course, once his family arranged a marriage alliance for him, he no longer dared fool around outside.
Liu Ruyan, who had originally hoped to marry into a great family of the Freedom Nation, was instantly devastated.
After all, the Ye Family had already fallen apart, and her dream of marrying into wealth had been completely shattered.
The two of them also lost contact entirely.
But no matter what, she had never imagined that Steve would sell her out over a mere 10 trillion!
“Hah, that’s 10 trillion, Liu Ruyan!”
“What did you think you were worth?”
“I truly never expected you would be able to stir up so much trouble. I really misjudged you!”
“Otherwise, I definitely would have maintained my relationship with you better.”
“After all, the sound of you moaning in bed is still something I have never forgotten!”
Steve looked at Liu Ruyan with a mocking sneer.
Then he turned to Ye Xiao.
“My dear Ye Xiao, I never expected you really would trick this stupid woman into coming out.”
“I knew it. Back when she was writhing beneath me, she was still willing to call out your name. You had to be the person she loved most!”
“And after all these years, that still hasn’t changed!”
Steve looked at Ye Xiao and laughed.
The moment those words came out, Liu Ruyan trembled with rage.
“Ye Xiao, I was deceived by him back then. Have you forgotten? You promised long ago that you would protect me for all my life!”
Liu Ruyan looked at Ye Xiao, trying to awaken him with the love they had once shared.
Slash!!!
But in the next moment, Ye Xiao’s hand shot out and clamped directly around Liu Ruyan’s throat.
To her horror, she discovered that Ye Xiao’s strength was actually this terrifying. He was no ordinary Martial Thearch, but a mid-level Martial Thearch at the Fourth Heaven of the Martial Thearch Realm!
She herself was only a Martial Thearch raised through pills. Under the suppression of Ye Xiao’s aura, she could not break free at all.
“Y-you… what are you trying to do? Let… let go of me! I know you must still love me. Otherwise, why would you still marry me right when you were about to kill me?”
Liu Ruyan was held aloft by the throat. Breathing with difficulty, she spoke in pain, still unwilling to give up. Ye Xiao had to love her.
“Love you? Hahahaha! From the very day you betrayed me and swept away all the Ye Family’s assets, I stopped loving you!”
“For these past three hundred years, all I have thought about is how to reclaim everything that belonged to my Ye Family.””
“You ask me why I married you?”
“Hahahaha! After you die, all your assets, along with everything that once belonged to my Ye Family, will return to my hands!”
“You never imagined it, did you? That I would use the very same method you once used on me to swindle back everything you stole.”
“The difference is that back then, you didn’t kill me. But today, you are absolutely going to die!”
“And after you die, I’ll also be able to claim your 10 trillion bounty.”
“As for you, you’ll only be able to watch from hell as I obtain all of it.”
Ye Xiao stared at Liu Ruyan with a grim gaze, his tone becoming ice-cold.
To him, money no longer truly mattered. The reason he said this was to make Liu Ruyan die in rage and agony, because the thing Liu Ruyan cared about most was her money.
And sure enough, the moment she heard that Ye Xiao intended to take her money away, Liu Ruyan’s eyes turned red instantly.
“Ye Xiao, that is my money. Even if I die, it will still be mine. You won’t get a single cent!”
“I distributed my inheritance long ago, and it was officially notarized!”
Liu Ruyan glared at Ye Xiao furiously.
“Oh? Then take a good look at the terms on this marriage certificate!”
Yet Ye Xiao only smiled as he took out the marriage certificate the two of them had signed earlier.
Every marriage certificate included a prenuptial agreement.
And on the prenuptial agreement of their certificate, it was explicitly written that after marriage, all of the estate of the one who died would be inherited by the other.
The moment she saw that, Liu Ruyan turned ashen.
Everyone knew that with inheritance distribution documents, only the most recent one was recognized.
The moment she signed that prenuptial agreement, all of her previous inheritance arrangements were rendered completely invalid!
“You… you plotted against me!”
Only now did Liu Ruyan finally realize that everything, absolutely everything, had been part of Ye Xiao’s scheme.
How laughable. She had even believed that he loved her so much he would gladly throw away his life for her.
And yet all of it had only been a trap he laid for her.
“That’s right. I’ve been plotting against you all along. I had over a thousand plans prepared for dealing with you.”
“It’s just a pity I never had the opportunity to use them.”
“This time, I really have to thank Xiao Xuan. If not for him stirring up this affair by accident, I would never have had the chance to deceive you!”
“Hah. I never expected that you truly loved me!”
“You loved me so much you lost your senses, Liu Ruyan. I really misjudged you!”
Ye Xiao looked at Liu Ruyan and spoke with cutting mockery.
Those words were the true act of killing the body and crushing the heart.
For hundreds of years, Liu Ruyan had always been the one to toy with other people’s feelings, while convincing herself that the only things in her heart were money and ambition.
“So after all these hundreds of years, I still really believed in love. There is no such thing as love in this world!”
At that thought, Liu Ruyan spoke sorrowfully.
“There is such a thing as love in this world. There is love that remains unchanging through life and death. You simply do not deserve it!”
When Ye Xiao heard Liu Ruyan’s words, disgust instantly filled his expression.
Crack!!
In the next moment, the strength in his hand exploded.
The enormous force snapped Liu Ruyan’s neck in an instant.
She convulsed in pain, and before long, she went completely still.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. What a pity. I had even thought of enjoying her one more time before she died. Ye Xiao, you really are too cruel!”
Steve spoke helplessly from the side.
“You’re next!”
The moment Ye Xiao heard Steve’s words, he looked over, his eyes filled with endless killing intent.
“I knew it. You people of Huaxia really aren’t the sort who keep their promises.”
“The moment your enemy is dead, you’re already turning on your benefactor?”
Steve showed not the slightest fear. Instead, he looked at Ye Xiao with amusement.
Boom!!!
But Ye Xiao did not bother responding at all. Terrifying flames instantly erupted from his entire body, and in the next moment, he shot toward Steve at an astonishing speed.
He was so fast that he had already surpassed ordinary Martial Thearchs!
Boom!!!!
When Steve saw this, he gave a cold smile.
He directly drew a dagger and sliced open his own palm in an instant.
Then he raised his right hand toward the sky!
In an instant, endless thunderclouds churned overhead.
“Divine Descent!!!!”
With a low shout,
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!!
A golden bolt of lightning crashed directly down from the endless thunderclouds!
That golden lightning struck Steve in an instant.
A terrifying shockwave erupted directly from his body.
Ye Xiao, who had only just reached him, was blasted backward thousands of meters by that force.
Buzz!!!
After steadying himself, Ye Xiao’s expression turned grave as he discovered that Steve’s body was rapidly swelling.
At the same time, two pairs of enormous wings gradually unfurled behind him.
Before long, a gigantic angel a thousand meters tall appeared between heaven and earth.
The angel’s body radiated dazzling golden light, and that radiance swiftly condensed into an enormous scepter.
Moreover, the aura emanating from him was now completely different from Steve’s earlier presence.
Even his soul fluctuations were no longer the same, as though he had become an entirely different person.
“Angelification? You were actually hiding such a powerful trump card! I underestimated you, Steve!”
Looking at Steve, who had transformed into a Four-Winged Angel, Ye Xiao’s face grew solemn. He had naturally known that Steve dared appear so openly because he had come fully prepared.
He simply had not expected Steve to be concealing a bloodline-type trait.
“God says, you are guilty!!”
Yet the Four-Winged Angel paid Ye Xiao no attention, merely speaking in a cold voice.
And the moment those words fell, the gigantic thousand-meter scepter in his hand smashed viciously down toward Ye Xiao.
But even in the face of that terrifying pressure, Ye Xiao felt not the slightest fear.
“Fire Ape Transformation!”
Ye Xiao spoke calmly.
The flames across his body condensed wildly, forming a gigantic flaming ape that reached out and seized the scepter.
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!!
With an earth-shaking explosion, the huge scepter was caught in the ape’s hand. But the terrifying force still smashed the earth beneath the ape’s feet into a web of spreading cracks.
“ROAR!!”
Controlling the flaming ape, Ye Xiao let out a furious roar and violently heaved upward, swinging the enormous scepter into the air and hurling the Four-Winged Angel up with it.
Then the flaming ape abruptly let go, and the Four-Winged Angel was flung flying away.
Boom, rumble, rumble, rumble!!
With a thunderous crash, the Four-Winged Angel slammed into a mountain and blew it apart into a storm of fragments.
From the ruins, the Four-Winged Angel slowly rose to his feet, a trace of anger appearing in his gaze as he looked at Ye Xiao.
“Light of Divine Punishment!!”
Suddenly, the Four-Winged Angel roared, and the wings on his back spread wide in an instant.
Boom!!
Four terrifying beams of light blasted out from his wings, shooting toward the flaming ape from all directions.
“So fast!”
Ye Xiao’s face changed.
The huge flaming ape around him shifted swiftly, transforming directly into a thousand-meter flaming wolf.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
In the next instant, as the four golden beams crashed down, the flaming wolf dodged at tremendous speed.
By the narrowest of margins, it avoided all four beams.
At the same time, the flaming wolf charged toward the Four-Winged Angel at a terrifying speed.
The moment it was about to reach him, the flaming wolf transformed into a gigantic flaming bull and slammed violently into the Four-Winged Angel’s chest.
That dreadful impact caved in the Four-Winged Angel’s chest.
Pfft!!!
At the same time, the Four-Winged Angel spat out a mouthful of golden blood, and his enormous body was sent flying backward at high speed.
Yet before he could even fly back a few hundred meters, a flaming ape seized one of his legs in a single grip.
Then the ape yanked him back violently and smashed him down into the earth.
Boom, rumble, rumble, rumble!!
With another deafening crash, white feathers filled the sky.
Next, the flaming ape grabbed the Four-Winged Angel and began smashing him around wildly.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
With one earth-shattering impact after another, the Four-Winged Angel was beaten until all his feathers had fallen away, and the ground was riddled with gigantic craters!
Even his once-beautiful face had become horribly twisted.
The previously emotionless face now showed pain and terror.
“Human, I want you dead!!”
A cold, frenzied voice rang out.
But before he could respond further, his body was directly hurled into the sky by Ye Xiao.
“Fire Dragon Transformation!! Wild Blaze!”
In the next moment, with a low roar,
Boom!!
A pillar of fire shot straight into the heavens.
The terrifying flames completely engulfed the Four-Winged Angel in the sky.
In the end, he disappeared entirely within the flames.
……
Standing beneath the endless fire, Ye Xiao looked at that scene with reddened eyes.
“Father, Mother, Grandfather, today I’ve only collected a little interest from them. One day, I will destroy the Freedom Nation and avenge you!”
Ye Xiao stared toward the sky, his tone resolute.
“Good. As expected of Teacher Ye. Your strength truly is impressive!”
“It seems you’ve already cultivated the Nine Heavens Fire Beast Transformations to the proficient stage.”
“Although it’s still somewhat short of mastery, combined with your Nine Heavens Divine Flame, it’s more than powerful enough!”
“It’s just that your enemy isn’t dead yet, so why are you already sighing with emotion?”
Yet right at that moment, an admiring voice came from the void.
The instant he heard it, Ye Xiao’s face changed.
“Who’s there?!”
He immediately became alert and searched the surroundings, yet he saw no one nearby at all!
Buzz!!
But in the next moment, two figures stepped out of the void.
The instant he saw them, Ye Xiao’s pupils contracted!
Because in the leading youth’s hand, he was actually carrying a scorched figure, and that person was none other than Steve.
“Xiao Xuan!? It’s you?”
Ye Xiao recognized the youth in front at once.
“That’s right. It’s me.”
After hearing Ye Xiao, Xiao Xuan smiled.
“How did you come here? And why did you save Steve? Could it be that you’ve already defected to the Freedom Nation?”
Ye Xiao glared furiously at Xiao Xuan and Mu Xiying.
This location had only been known to him and Steve.
After all, the fewer who knew, the lower the chance of an accident occurring.
“With my talent, if I’d defected to the Freedom Nation, wouldn’t I have fled there first thing and hidden myself away?”
“As for this trash, I naturally came here to steal the kill.”
“As I recall, the bounty on this dog in Huaxia is over a trillion!”
“Your intelligence really isn’t all that great. No wonder it took you three hundred years just to kill one gold-digging bitch!”
After hearing Ye Xiao’s words, Xiao Xuan spoke in exasperation.
The moment those words came out, Ye Xiao’s face darkened.
Did this brat always have to speak so viciously?
Still, it was not as though what he said was entirely unreasonable!
“What are you doing here? Aren’t you afraid experts of the Freedom Nation will come here?”
“And Steve is powerful. You’d better hand him over to me so I can kill him first. If you want the bounty, then just take his corpse afterward!”
Ye Xiao frowned, looking at Xiao Xuan and Mu Xiying with some concern.
As he spoke, he moved as if to come and take Steve away.
“There’s no need. Trash like this can’t stir up any trouble, even if he weren’t heavily injured.”
But Xiao Xuan answered calmly.
Rumble!!
In the next moment, violent lightning burst directly from his hand and began racing wildly over Steve’s entire body.
“AAAAAH!!!”
Steve, whose whole body had already been burned, immediately let out a scream of agony!
In the next moment, one silver trait after another emerged from his body.
But it still was not over!
Xiao Xuan poured one kind of energy after another into Steve’s body.
Those energies even contained healing power, ensuring that Steve could not die even while trapped in agony.
And a flood of silver traits began spilling out one after another.
“It would be a bit too wasteful to kill Steve just like this. The only problem is that I don’t currently have a trait capable of imprisoning him.”
“Otherwise, keeping him locked up and farming him would actually be quite a good option.”
Xiao Xuan thought somewhat regretfully.
Yet at this moment, the dozen or so elemental powers Xiao Xuan was using filled both Ye Xiao and Mu Xiying with shock and amazement.
“Xiao Xuan actually controls this many elemental powers, and from the looks of it, every one of them is at least silver rank.”
“Just who is he!?”
Ye Xiao was inwardly shaken to the core.
“Xiao Xuan has actually gained this many elemental talents. Could it be that he can not only plunder the talents of humans he kills, but even the talents of Ferocious Beasts as well?”
Mu Xiying, too, was filled with suspicion.
If Xiao Xuan possessed an ability like that, then in the future, his talent might even surpass her own.
As for Xiao Xuan, he simply listened to the stream of notification sounds with a slight upward curl of his lips.
He had to admit, both Steve and Liu Ruyan had fairly good talents. If they had not died, they definitely would have become Martial Saint-level experts in the future.
That was because both possessed gold traits.
As for Liu Ruyan’s gold trait, there was no need to mention it. It was nothing especially useful.
But Steve had come as a bit of a surprise to Xiao Xuan, because Xiao Xuan had originally been planning to sneak into the Freedom Nation and deal with Steve there. He had never expected Steve to come running here of his own accord.
That was right. Steve’s angelic bloodline was exactly what Xiao Xuan had intended to plunder, so that he could suppress the power of his Blade Demon Bloodline.
…………
Race: Human
Realm: Third Heaven of the Martial Thearch Realm
Traits:
【Speed Enhancement! Silver】 (Speed Enhancement: 600%)
【Strength Enhancement! Silver】 (Strength ×1000%)
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Defense ×1200%)
【Aptitude Enhancement! Silver】
【Four-Winged Angel Bloodline! Gold】 (Possesses the bloodline of a Four-Winged Angel and is born with control over gold-grade Light Power and Divine Power.
However, Divine Power possesses a deifying nature. Without sufficient desire to support it, one’s basic emotions will gradually fade.)
Cultivation Art Rank: Low Tenth Tier (Proficient)
Martial Technique Rank: Mid Tenth Tier (Proficient)
Overall Description: Overall strength, High Silver. This angelic bloodline and demonic bloodline are natural opposites, yet they also complement one another.
If the two are combined, perhaps they could give birth to an extremely powerful force.
…………
That was Steve’s bloodline.
Afterward, Xiao Xuan stripped all the traits from Steve’s body.
He also increased the intensity of the lightning and finished Steve off.
As for Steve’s corpse, Xiao Xuan did not destroy it!
After all, he still had to use it to claim the bounty.
A reward of over a trillion was no small sum.
As for Liu Ruyan, it was a pity that she had died too quickly. If Ye Xiao had moved just a little more slowly, Xiao Xuan could have gotten his hands on her and tormented her a bit as well.
Still, Liu Ruyan’s gold trait had also been recycled and converted.
So it was not much of a loss.
“According to the description, Steve’s bloodline, together with my Blade Demon Bloodline and Tian Ji’s Dark Demon-Devouring Bloodline, seems capable of evolving into a new and powerful bloodline.”
“But what exactly would that bloodline become?”
“Could it be related to light and darkness?”
“No, that’s not right. The Power of Light and Darkness is an elemental fusion of Darkness Power and Light Power. But if these bloodlines fuse, then it obviously won’t be limited to those two elements. There’s also Divine Power and Demonic Power!”
“If four elements fuse together, they’ll probably form an extremely powerful element. Even if it doesn’t quite compare to an ultimate element, it’ll definitely be far stronger than ordinary high-level elements!”
Looking at the angelic bloodline inside the Recycle Bin, Xiao Xuan’s heart filled with curiosity.
Of course, he did not rush to fuse it. He would first deal with the matter before him.
“Teacher Ye Xiao, I have a transaction for you. Interested?”
Suddenly, Xiao Xuan looked at Ye Xiao and smiled.
“What transaction?”
Ye Xiao frowned.
“You help me take Steve’s and Liu Ruyan’s corpses to claim the bounty, and once you’ve done that, transfer the money to me!”
“And from this day forward, you become my subordinate. What do you think?”
Xiao Xuan looked at Ye Xiao and smiled.
The moment those words came out, Ye Xiao’s face darkened.
“You call that a transaction? Brat, do you take me for an idiot?”
“I was the one who defeated Steve. You stole the kill, and that was one thing, but Liu Ruyan’s corpse is still with me. And now you want me to claim the bounty and transfer all the money to you?”
“And on top of that, you want me to become your subordinate? Your talent may be monstrous, but right now you’re only a Martial Emperor, while I’m already a Martial Thearch!”
“Do you think Teacher Ye is easy to bully?”
Ye Xiao was so angry he laughed.
“Look at you, why are you in such a hurry? If I’m offering a transaction, then naturally it means you give me something and I give you something too!”
“You give me the bounty from Steve and Liu Ruyan, and in return, I’ll bring you the head of one of your enemies from the Freedom Nation for free.”
“For example, Scott, the Ten-Star General who led the attack that killed your grandfather. What do you say?”
But after hearing Ye Xiao’s words, Xiao Xuan only smiled and spoke calmly.
Boom!!!
The instant Xiao Xuan said that, it was as though Ye Xiao’s mind had exploded.
Scott? So it was Scott who had killed his grandfather? That was one of the most powerful Martial Saints in the Freedom Nation!
His realm was at the peak of the Martial Saint Realm.
And Xiao Xuan was claiming he could bring back the man’s head?
But very quickly, Ye Xiao came back to his senses. Xiao Xuan obviously could not mean right now. He probably meant sometime in the future.
“Scott’s strength is terrifying. No matter how monstrous your talent is, you’d still need several hundred years to reach his level, and if you want to kill him, it might even take a thousand years.”
“Now that your talent has been exposed, every other nation in the world, along with the powerful experts of the other races, will definitely want to kill you as soon as possible!”
“So how can you guarantee that you’ll live long enough to grow to that point?”