Chapter 265 The Whirling Sakura
Teng Yongqing did not give up; he would not loosen his grip on Ye Shaoyang, "She has no way to escape, and she is going to die. Let me try to transcend her. I am confident!"
"No! If you fail, we will all die. I don't want to risk anyone's life, including yours." As Ye Shaoyang spoke, he raised his leg, preparing to perform a back kick. Suddenly, all of them heard soft cracking sounds, as if something had burst open. The sounds shocked everyone, as they raised their heads and looked forward:
Madam Chee's head had split in a cross manner; her body shook back and forth, as a pair of eyes squeezed out from the wound. The creature had no nose. and it had a long, sharp stinger at its mouthpart.
Cicada! Madam Chee had revealed her true form - a cicada!
Ye Shaoyang sensed danger; Madam Chee was a cicada, and exuviae was a usual behavior for the insect. She had finally used her ultimate power!
As her head escaped, she let out a loud and clear groan; she immediately crawled out from the burned body, and she flipped her transparent wings and stabbed Ye Shaoyang with her long, sharp stinger.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. It was too late when Ye Shaoyang reacted to the stab. He could only watch on as the stinger stabbed toward his throat. Suddenly, someone pushed his head to one side, so the stinger struck the person behind.
Pfff! Warm blood spurted over the back of his neck. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the stinger had pierced through Teng Yongqing's neck. Blood spilled out non-stop from the stabbing wound, and Teng Yongqing's face became paler and paler, as he gasped for air.
Ye Shaoyang was dumbstruck at once and so was Madam Chee. She did not expect her stinger to kill her successor. Even though she was a demon with no humanity, she still had a little affection toward her successors.
"Wooo!" Madam Chee removed her mouthpart and chirped sorrowfully. All of a sudden, a silver aura flashed behind her. Tan Xiaohui appeared behind Madam Chee, spinning arctic silks over her and wrapping her in layers.
A cicada and an arctic silkworm fought face to face.
Madam Chee grunted; Demon Qi broke loose from her and struck Tan Xiaohui, who had paled to the point where her body turned transparent. However, similar to Teng Yongqing before, continued to grasp Madam Chee's body and persistently spun silks around her.
"Big Brother Shaoyang, kill her! Ki--" Tan Xiaohui sounded tired and her voiced contained suffering.
The sudden shift of events left Ye Shaoyang with no time to react, so he had just looked at Tan Xiaohui, stunned. Now he realized the reason for her not appearing when the fight had started; she was waiting for a chance, a great chance that would definitely help them kill Madam Chee in one attempt.
Ye Shaoyang grasped his sword a little tighter, as he hesitated about raising the weapon.
He knew that with such a close distance, if he used the mighty power of the Qixing Dragon Sword to kill Madam Chee, he would indirectly injure Tan Xiaohui. All in all, Tan Xiaohui was a demon too, and she was much weaker than Madam Chee. The aura from the sword would kill Tan Xiaohui as well when he slashed toward Madam Chee.
"Do it now…." Tan Xiaohui caught her breath, "I can't hold her much longer. I have disintegrated my demon body and soul. Eventually, I will die, even if you do nothing. So --"
"What!" Ye Shaoyang's heart sank. Disintegrating one's demon body could boost a demon's power at once, but the power would ultimately die out. Meanwhile, disintegrating one's soul would mean facing the consequences of breaking the soul into pieces. These were considered as acts of suicide for humans.
"Why... did you do that?" Ye Shaoyang forced the words out of his mouth.
Tan Xiaohui smiled bitterly. Her body became fainter and fainter, while her soul kept transforming into threads of silk that wrapped Madam Chee's demon body, the cicada. Madam Chee knew that she was at death's door, so she struggled desperately and released all her Demon Qi to break the silks.
"Big Brother Shaoyang, don't hesitate. Don't let me die in vain. Do. It. Now! "
"I… I… am sorry!"
Ye Shaoyang let out a thundering roar and raised the sword, reciting an incantation quietly; he slashed Madam Chee's head with all his strength.
The moment the sword chopped off Madam Chee's head, Tan Xiaohui smiled faintly, "Big Brother Shaoyang, if you have a girlfriend in the future, remember to bring her to the Sakura garden. The Sakura is just too stunning."
A purple aura soared and illuminated the sky, and the sword cut two figures into pieces.
The Gang Qi from the Qixing Dragon Sword created a gust of strong wind that curled up the Sakura on the ground, dancing in the air together with the primordial spirits of Madam Chee and Tan Xiaohui.
Ye Shaoyang reached out with his palm for a Sakura petal. Xiaohui….
After a while, the Sakura petals gradually fell back on the ground. The primordial spirits had disappeared, and Zhou Jingru's sobs sounded from the tunnel.
Immediately, Ma Cheng thought that this would be the right time for him to comfort her. However, he stopped; he shook his head when he realized that he did not belong to the group. It was like he was in a different world.
"Little Ye, Teng Yongqing is dying…." Xiao Ma choked with sobs. Ye Shaoyang was startled. He quickly advanced to Teng Yongqing, who was lying motionless on the ground. His face was deathly pale, and blood gushed out from his neck wound, staining the ground around him.
Ye Shaoyang squatted beside Teng Yongqing, as he grabbed one of the latter's hands; it was ice-cold.
"It was my fault," Teng Yongqing forced a smile on his stiff face, and he said in a soft, barely audible voice, "Luckily, you did not die because of me…."
Ye Shaoyang shook his head, "We were both right. It was only because we were standing from different points of view."
Teng Yongqing tried to say more, but Ye Shaoyang stopped him, raised his head. and cried, "Call the ambulance! Call the ambulance!"
"There is no use, Little Ye. He has…." Xiao Ma choked.
Ye Shaoyang hung his head down. Teng Yongqing's soul had just left his body, while his Yang Qi was slowly dispersing from his body. Ye Shaoyang quickly grabbed the soul and tried to return it to Teng Yongqing's body.
Xie Yuqing saw his actions and suggested, "You are a Heavenly Master. Can you do anything to seal his soul? Isn't that will keep him alive?"
Ye Shaoyang shook his head, "No. His body was badly damaged, and it could not contain the soul. He will become a Soul-bound Undead if I seal his soul forcefully."
Suddenly, Xiao Ma grasped his wrist, "The pill! The pill that Tan Xiaohui gave you!"