“What monster?”
Jia the steward looked at the butterfly girl with great vigilance, his heart suddenly trembling.
In that previous attack just now, he believed that even a seventh cave heaven realm expert would have to expend great effort to block it.
Yet this little fellow had taken it so easily. He truly started to feel worried.
In the distance, Feng Yinshan and Ming Jin were also stunned speechless.
After a long pause, Ming Jin finally spoke. “Your Highness, the one helping Ling Xiao does not seem to be Ji Lingyue.”
“This Ling Xiao actually still had such a trump card? Why has no one ever told me about it?”
Feng Yinshan’s body was trembling.
If he had known that besides the Moon Lady and Leng Mei, Ling Xiao possessed such a powerful signature move, he might really have gone to rescue Ling Xiao.
That way, there would still be a chance to make Ling Xiao owe him a favour.
“Actually, when Ling Xiao was on the Heavenly Dragon Continent, there were some rumours that he had a beautiful butterfly by his side. Unfortunately no one saw it again afterwards, and this subordinate could not obtain any information about that butterfly.”
Ming Jin said helplessly, “It is this subordinate’s incompetence. Please punish me, Your Highness.”
“Sigh, forget it. Everything is destined by fate. Ling Xiao was not meant to die.”
While saying these words, Feng Yinshan was thinking in his heart: Is this really destined by fate? Why does it feel like everything has been within Ling Xiao’s calculations all along?
Others did not know Ling Xiao’s trump cards, but Ling Xiao himself knew them very clearly.
The Zhengqi Alliance’s Jia family, the Peacock Clan, and the Great Peng Clan had all been played by this kid.
“Swish!”
Just as Feng Yinshan and Ming Jin were feeling shocked, the butterfly girl had already made her move.
From her seven-coloured wings, a red beam and an orange beam suddenly shot out. These beams rushed towards Jia the steward like ropes.
Their speed was actually faster than Ling Xiao’s sword!
Like lightning, they made Jia the steward’s soul tremble in fear.
Jia the steward was after all an expert. Sensing the terror of these seven-coloured beams, he did not choose to meet them head-on but dodged upwards into the air.
However, the butterfly girl’s attack did not stop.
Two more beams shot out rapidly, sealing off the space above and below him. The yellow and green beams carried the same dangerous aura as the previous red and orange ones.
“Damn it!”
Jia the steward could not understand how such a tiny little thing could possess such terrifying power. Merely the sharp pressure brought by those attacks already made him unwilling to clash directly. This feeling was completely different from fighting Ling Xiao.
Fighting Ling Xiao had been troublesome, but he had still held the advantage.
Yet fighting this little one gave him a terrifying sensation of being utterly suppressed.
Retreat!
With upper, lower, left and right all blocked, Jia the steward could only retreat.
Unfortunately, the butterfly girl seemed to have predicted this move long ago. Two more beams, one in front and one behind, completely surrounded him.
These two beams, one cyan and one blue, were equally powerful.
Like a bird trapped in a cage, all of Jia the steward’s escape routes were cut off. Now the only thing he could do was meet force with force.
“What an impressive little butterfly. She called him big brother Ling Xiao just now, right? How does Ling Xiao have such a cute yet powerful little sister? This is too overbearing. She is much stronger than her brother Ling Xiao. She is simply not giving Steward Jia any way out.”
The crowd watched in amazement as the butterfly girl attacked Jia the steward.
Today’s battle really kept changing again and again. Every time they thought it was about to end, something new and exciting would appear.
“You really think this old man is afraid of a little runt like you?”
With nowhere left to retreat, Jia the steward was thoroughly enraged. His body spun violently, and countless water droplets sprayed out, each turning into powerful water-drop swords that were extremely sharp.
“Ugly monster, you are no match for me. But I will not kill you. I will hand you over to big brother Ling Xiao to deal with.”
The butterfly girl’s innocent and lively voice rang out, making Jia the steward so furious that steam practically poured from his head.
On the contrary, the watching martial artists could not help bursting into laughter.
Such an adorable little girl would make anyone feel fond of her.
After she spoke, everyone saw that Jia the steward’s attack was completely blocked by the six beams of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan and blue. Then it rapidly vanished, having no effect at all.
Seeing this scene, Jia the steward truly panicked.
“Little sister, whatever benefits he gave you, uncle can give you better ones. Anyway he is already about to die. Why are you still helping him?”
Realising he was no match for the butterfly girl, Jia the steward shamelessly resorted to trickery.
He probably thought that since she was so young and innocent, she would be easy to deceive.
But he did not know that the butterfly girl’s soul had already fused with Ling Xiao’s. They were as close as water and milk, closer even than father and daughter.
The butterfly girl’s feelings for Ling Xiao were something Jia the steward could never understand. Trying to drive a wedge between them was simply a pipe dream.
“You are a bad person. Die’er will never leave big brother Ling Xiao. Big brother Ling Xiao is the best to me.”
Indeed he was. Ling Xiao had given her massive amounts of spirit stones, even treasures, and all sorts of heavenly materials and earthly treasures for her to eat.
Even without the soul fusion, just on this point alone, Jia the steward could not compare.
After all, Ling Xiao was an alchemist. Many delicious pills could only be refined by him and were impossible to buy on the market.
Jia the steward had even less chance of obtaining them.
Finally, the six beams gradually transformed into six colourful walls, and they were transparent.
From outside, people could see Jia the steward struggling desperately inside the cube formed by those six colours, like a pitiful insect trapped in a bottle, struggling in vain no matter how hard he tried.
Is it over just like that?
People found this ending completely unacceptable.
Jia the steward had almost killed Ling Xiao, yet suddenly this adorable little thing appeared and toyed with Jia the steward in the palm of her hand, easily capturing him alive.
Then what exactly had all of Ling Xiao’s hard fighting earlier been for?
They looked towards Ling Xiao and discovered that above his head now hovered two giant swords.
One was the Radiant Divine Sword, dazzling and blinding.
The other was the Dark Demonic Sword, eerie and terrifying.
Not only were Ling Xiao’s injuries healing continuously, but his aura was also rising steadily.
“No way. Could this guy have been using Steward Jia as a sparring partner all along? From the very beginning he could have easily killed Steward Jia, but he did not do so. It turns out we were all worried for nothing.”
“Yes, everything seems to have been under his control. He was never going to die, and he did not need anyone to save him. He could save himself.”
“How laughable that the Jia family, Peacock Clan and Great Peng Clan thought that by drawing away Leng Mei and the Moon Lady they could easily kill Ling Xiao. In the end they lost both wife and army, and came away empty-handed!”
“Exactly. Jia Tianfeng killed, Kong Ming killed, Steward Jia captured alive. Those few experts who lured away Leng Mei and the Moon Lady probably will not fare well either. What is this?”
“Schemed too cleverly and ended up harming oneself. I reckon even at the very end Steward Jia never imagined that after all his calculations, he had still underestimated Ling Xiao.”
