Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 355 Annihilation
Pei Nian fell, knowing he was doomed.

She fell, opened her eyes, and found herself still alive, being caught in someone's arms.

Flame wings unfurled beside her, and the scorching wind burned her skin.

She calmed down, leaned back, and was surprised to find that the person who caught her was not Gu Jingnian.

Turning her head, she saw a young girl's face.

"Yingyao?"

Yingyao has changed a lot. Her once slender face has become much rounder, and she now has a more dignified and imposing air about her that she has never had before.

She scooped Pei Nian up from a falling rock, and asked, "Where is the young master?"

"You didn't save Gu Jingnian first? He's still in the furnace."

Without hesitation, Yingyao immediately flew into the huge furnace.

The furnace was still filled with strange beasts floating in the air. Yingyao weaved through them and landed at the bottom of the furnace in the direction Pei Nian pointed.

"What about people?"

"He was just here."

Pei Nian kept looking around and found the pool of blood left after Shen Jichi stabbed himself in the heart with his lightsaber, confirming that she hadn't looked in the wrong place.

But she couldn't see Gu Jingnian anywhere.

"Gu Jingnian!"

She shouted at the top of her lungs, and her shouts echoed continuously in the giant furnace.

No one responded; only the ashes of some refined beasts fell and scattered.

"Gu Jingnian".

"Has the young master already been refined?" Yingyao asked.

Her tone was worried, but quite calm, even more so than Pei Nian's.

In the past, Yingyao would never have reacted this way; she would have been clearly anxious.

But upon closer reflection, once the emotional connection between her and Gu Jingnian was severed, given their relationship, this was indeed the extent of her concern.

"Do not."

Pei Nian shook her head, not believing that Gu Jingnian had been refined, and said, "He must still be alive. Can you sense where he is?"

Ying shook her head and said, "I can't feel it anymore."

Pei Nian was stunned, and her face instantly lost much of its color.

Yingyao realized she had misunderstood and quickly said, "I haven't been able to sense you for a long time."

"Then how did you find this place?"

"Someone told me that the young master is in danger."

Just as Pei Nian was about to ask Ying Yao what was going on, her gaze shifted and she noticed that even after Ying Yao had been inside the furnace for so long, she was still not trapped by the light.

"You won't be refined by this furnace? Why?"

"What?" Yingyao was taken aback, and instead asked, "Then why?"

Seeing that she didn't understand the situation, Pei Nian stopped asking questions and walked towards the door made of bones.

She was only focused on finding Gu Jingnian, so she quickly walked through the door without thinking about whether it was real or not, and stepped down the stairs in a few steps.

Yingyao wanted to follow, but she didn't understand what was going on. In the blink of an eye, she found that Pei Nian was gone. She passed through the White Bone Gate but there was no reaction.

"Miss Pei, where are you?"

Over there, Pei Nian walked down the stone steps, and the light and shadow before her eyes changed, and she found herself in the furnace of Jusai City.

At this time, most of the prisoners held in the Jusai City refinery had turned to ashes, while the others were on the verge of death.

Pei Nian glanced around and, not seeing Gu Jingnian, knew that Gu Jingnian probably hadn't come here.

Given his character, he would never back down.

Pei Nian then walked toward the door made of corpses, but caught a glimpse of a person out of the corner of her eye. She immediately rushed toward the person, trying to wake them up.

"Huang Hu!"

Huang Hu was listless, but had not yet fainted. Hearing the shouts, he turned around.

Pei Nian immediately saw deep sorrow in Huang Hu's eyes.

She had a bad feeling and asked, "Can you sense where Gu Jingnian is?"

Even a burly man like Huang Hu, upon hearing this question, burst into tears, crying out, "I can't feel it anymore."

"what happened?"

"Just now... just now I couldn't feel it anymore."

Pei Nian's heart sank.

She couldn't quite describe how she felt.

But upon hearing the news, she didn't collapse or become overwhelmed with regret as she had imagined. She was still in shock and somewhat bewildered. Her mind seemed to have stopped working.

She stood there blankly for a moment, then quickly walked toward the door made of corpses.

She knew she would never find Gu Jingnian's body, but she still had to stop the furnace, save those Gu Jingnian cared about, and fulfill his last wish.

Having something to do is a source of support for her.

The light and shadow shifted before his eyes, and he returned to the furnace in the cave. Pei Nian looked around, but he could no longer see Ying Yao.

She crawled toward the opening in the furnace wall and saw flames filling the sky outside, where Yingyao was fighting Shen Jichi.

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"You killed the young master, now pay with your life!"

Ying Yaoqing let out a shout, her wings transformed into fiery blades that slashed at Shen Jichi, with a continuous stream of blazing flames flowing down.

Despite such a powerful offensive, Shen Jichi remained unfazed.

"Descendant of the Phoenix." He scoffed dismissively, "Do you really think I'm just a mortal?"

After saying that, Shen Jichi raised his hand and shook it.

Despite the great distance, Yingyao was directly grasped by a pair of invisible giant hands, and the fiery wings on her back were extinguished.

This is not Shen Jichi's strength, but the result of Gun Gong possessing him.

But Shen Jichi clearly still had his own consciousness, and said, "You are still useful, so I won't kill you. Just stay here for now!"

With a wave of her hand, Yingyao was thrown directly onto the rock wall above. As she struggled, her body stiffened and gradually turned into a stone sculpture, somewhat similar to the stone sculptures on the four pillars of the stone platform, only not as small.

After doing all this, Shen Jichi looked up at the top of the giant furnace.

There, red mist was gathering, as if condensing into a pill.

A look of joy appeared in Shen Jichi's eyes.

That was the elixir refined in this giant furnace, which gathered the spiritual energy that had been suppressed for hundreds of years in this black neodymium stone mountain, and refined all the strange beasts in the cave, as well as all the strange people in the city of Jusai.

At that time, this red mist will condense into a small pill, which, when swallowed, will possess great power.

But if you look closely, his eyes are strange. They contain both a yearning for power and freedom, which belongs to Gun Gong, and a satisfaction after scheming and plotting, which belongs to Shen Ji Chi.

In any case, once the pill is made, he can reach out and grab it in mid-air to swallow it.

While waiting, Shen Jichi caught a glimpse of a figure crawling out of the giant furnace. It was Pei Nian, as insignificant as an ant.

"Not dead yet?"

He murmured something, raised his hand, and made a light pinching motion.

In the distance, Pei Nian, who was running, was easily twisted in mid-air and fell to the ground, presumably dead this time.

Just then, a sharp voice rang out from behind.

"So that's what Marquis Wuding was planning."

Shen Jichi turned around, two expressions appearing in his eyes.

That was the two consciousnesses within his body communicating.

Gun Gong's remaining spirit burst forth with intense resentment, while Shen Jichi used this incident to seize control of the body.

"Eunuch Xu."

Before anyone knew it, Eunuch Xu was already standing beside the blood pool, and said leisurely, "Marquis Wuding has gone too far this time. Allowing a wisp of Gun Gong's spirit to remain in your body is not a good thing."

Shen Jichi's gaze toward Eunuch Xu grew increasingly resentful, clearly indicating that Gun Gong harbored a grudge against Eunuch Xu.

Yet he spoke calmly, saying, "Since I have invited Gun Gong, I will never betray him."

"Oh?"

Eunuch Xu said, "Then let's save the princess first."

After saying that, he walked straight toward Wei Chan.

Wei Chan was on the verge of death, her head drooping, unable to even open her eyes.

Without any visible movement from Eunuch Xu, he stepped onto the pool of blood, his feet remaining completely dry. He walked straight to Wei Chan and said, "Princess, this old servant has come to fetch you."

"I...can't leave..."

Wei Chan didn't even have the strength to cry.

"Princess, rest assured, this old servant will carry you on my back."

As he spoke, Eunuch Xu bent down his withered and aged body and carried Wei Chan on his back.

No one knows how he did it, but as soon as he carried her on his back, Wei Chan actually left the stone thorn.

Xu Gonggong stepped out of the blood pool again, his feet still dry. He put Wei Chan on the ground and said, "This blood pool is not good. Let's drain it dry."

As he spoke, he took out a small box from his sleeve, released a tiny turtle, and threw it into the pool of blood.

(End of this chapter)