Unusual Fate Records

Chapter 254, Section 045: She chose to make the deal without hesitation.
"Be careful, he's been possessed by the 'Prosperous Era' motto!" Zhang Xixi warned.

Her words interrupted Wei Zheng's struggle. The burly man roared again, regaining his fierce and menacing appearance, and swung his sword at Chu Pingqiu.

"Ah!" Chu Pingqiu exclaimed in panic, a flash of ferocity crossing his eyes. He scrambled to his feet, blood streaming down his shoulder. "What are you standing there for? Heal me now!"

He shouted at Xu Hong.

Xu Hong looked at her husband, somewhat at a loss, and said, "My will has been stolen."

Wei Zheng didn't care about any of that. His eyes were lifeless, his muscular body tensed, and he swung a fierce blow at Chu Pingqiu's forehead.

"Om-"

Before him stood a tall figure, whose arms, like pincers, were tightly closed, clamping Wei Zheng's greatsword. His twin ponytails swayed in the rushing water, slowly revealing the man's true face.

Feng Qingqing saved Chu Pingqiu at the right moment, but the crazed Wei Zheng abandoned his greatsword and used his iron fists like hammers to smash into Feng Qingqing's body. Even an earthen wall would be smashed through by his force, but Feng Qingqing only groaned and ignored the "thump thump" sound coming from her body.

“They’ve fallen out with each other,” Chen Ruolan said.

Fu Xun helped Sanshui Linxin up and said, "Let's go first."

"Zhang Xixi, burn him with the flames of the burning decree!" Chu Pingqiu shouted.

"Wait!" Xu Hong called out urgently.

The Zhang family's flames can burn the life-binding inscriptions, a secret technique passed down within the Zhang family. However, this technique can also burn the holder of the life-binding inscription into an idiot.

"He's already turned his back on everyone, what are you still worried about! Considering our past relationship as husband and wife, the best thing to do now is to free him!" Chu Pingqiu shouted.

"No! No!" Xu Hong shook her head helplessly, unable to find a solution for the moment.

She possessed a set of destiny words. She quickly searched her body for containers to store them, and small destiny words flew out one by one. [Pleasing to the eye], [Many children], [Parental love], [Family bliss]...

No, none of those...

She hurriedly took out all the prophecies she carried, but none of them worked.

"Flame-Dispelling Spell - Blue Flame Burning the Sky." Zhang Xixi's signature move, eight balls of flame swirled and arrived in a flash.

Feng Qingqing raised her arm to block Wei Zheng's fist, silently adopting a defensive stance.

The woman collapsed helplessly to the ground, watching Feng Qingqing stop the crazed Wei Zheng. Zhang Xixi's life-giving fire had already gathered around him, and Chu Pingqiu was muttering incantations, cursing incessantly.

She had previously focused on the study of destiny theory. It was only when she accompanied her husband on a long voyage that she changed to some destiny words that could enhance her sense of security. However, when her husband actually got into trouble, she was powerless to help.

As Zhang Xixi's blue flames burned the original form of Wei Zheng's destiny inscription, the fierce aura of the five-hundred-year-old destiny inscription rushed out.

Several Fate Masters were adept at dealing with Fate Words. Although they were not allowed to use Fate Words older than a hundred years, their years of experience capturing Fate Words made this siege much easier than dealing with Jin Ziyue.

Everyone switched to their own accessible Destiny Words, which were specifically designed for use with the Destiny Words. The five-hundred-year-old [Enjoying a Prosperous Era] could not harm these people with its own energy alone, so it manipulated Wei Zheng to riot again.

Xu Hong's eyes were blurry with tears, yet she was powerless to do anything about it. She stumbled to her feet, watching Wei Zheng shout angrily, exhausted from his brute force.

clank……

Tears blurred her vision. The man's quiet care in everyday life, the image of him bending down to listen to her belly and smiling when he looked up—all vanished as he collapsed.

Chu Pingqiu spat out a mouthful of blood, a barely perceptible smile appearing on his lips.

[Living in a prosperous era] I'm really getting old.

A dignified imperial edict, aged a thousand years, has been reduced to the power of a five-hundred-year-old edict, unable to exert the effect of a one-hundred-year-old one. Well, that's about enough. Although it's an imperial edict, it completely lacks the majesty of an emperor.

Today's harvest was quite considerable.

Hi, ma'am.

In a daze, it seemed as if someone was waving at Xu Hong.

Xu Hong opened her eyes and found that the surrounding scenery was as if frozen. Her husband was being burned by flames, and the blackened death inscription on his body was completely frozen. Even the aura he was emitting was completely frozen. Chu Pingqiu's mocking face was also completely frozen. Zhang Xixi was still holding back, Feng Qingqing was still being beaten, and Zhang Rang... had already raised his phone and chased after Chen Ruolan and her group who were fleeing. His text message QR code was displayed on the phone.

In the distance, Chen Ruolan and her group had not gone far, and the girl from District 16 was even looking in their direction.

Xu Hong saw all of this clearly.

She stared blankly at the person in front of her.

Wearing a black tailcoat and a top hat, with a white mask covering his face, his face beaming with a red, curved smile that resembled the devil's grin.

Xu Hong flinched slightly, feeling a bit scared. She felt that the mask on the man's face didn't look like a mask at all, but rather like a layer of skin and flesh growing on his face, and she could even see the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

“Don’t be afraid, I am a demon from hell.” He smiled, the curve of his mouth widening even more dramatically. “Your husband will be exhausted and his moves will be distorted in one minute and fifty-four seconds, and Chu Pingqiu will crush his heart with one hand. I don’t have much time, so I’ll be frank with you.”

Seeing Xu Hong's increasingly panicked expression, he said with a playful tone, "I can save your husband, but on the condition that you offer your soul. Are you willing?"

"I..." Xu Hong struggled for a moment, turned her head to look at her husband's ferocious face, and tears flowed involuntarily again.

"I would like to..."

Her voice softened considerably as she tried to suppress her sobs, and she involuntarily covered her mouth with her hands to prevent herself from crying out loud.

"Okay, don't worry, the devil is very particular about keeping his word. I will rescue your husband as promised. At that time, please be willing to offer your soul."

Tears welled in the woman's eyes as she silently nodded.

"Wait a minute," Xu Hong suddenly called out to him.

"What is it?" The other person seemed to have excellent patience, observing the woman's expression with great interest.

"May I see him one more time?"

"of course can."

Xu Hong stood up and walked shakily to the center of the fight, squatting down beside the man. Her movements were slow, her shoulders slumped, her expression forlorn, yet her eyes were full of tenderness.

The woman silently cupped her husband's face, and even though his expression was still ferocious, she gently leaned down and kissed his blood-stained cheek.

In that instant—

San Shui Lin Xin was somewhat moved by what she saw.

She could hardly imagine that the love between husband and wife could withstand the test of life and death and become stronger over time.

Sanshui didn't know why she could still move in a time and space where everyone else was frozen. It was probably because the thing that the masked man had transplanted into her head at the beginning allowed her to witness this scene firsthand.

For the one they love, they would even give their soul...

Suddenly, Sanshui realized that the wife was the truly brave and fearless person.

The man in the smiling mask curled his lips up even higher, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Sanshui Linxin, who was staring blankly into space.

I forgot to update... I counted it as the 11th. I'll write more this weekend.

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