My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 184 - 161: Symbolism

The uneven pit was due to the fire hose leaking, forming puddles in the low-lying areas. The wheelchair wheels rolled through the water, crushing the scattered glass shards with a crunching sound.

Very soon.

Ji Xin found Yan Kan's corpse.

The headless body lay on the ground, looking devoid of all life.

Yet the blood he spilled was still azure blue, and the spirit seemed not to have dissipated.

Ji Xin looked at Yan Kan's body for a moment, then slowly raised her hand.

As she lifted her hand.

Yan Kan's body suddenly twitched, followed by a violent explosion in the chest! With a spray of blood, the heart flew out.

Ji Xin pressed down her index finger, peeling away the outer layer of flesh from Yan Kan's heart, revealing a gemstone-like radiant stone inside.

Then, she manipulated the stone to move into her palm.

Crack.

As soon as the stone landed in Ji Xin's palm, a crack appeared.

Subsequently, a vague, severely shrunken form of Yan Kan appeared in the air.

His lower body intertwined with the stone, his upper body wavering between reality and illusion.

His face contorted with horror, he stared at Ji Xin and screamed as soon as he appeared: "Shadow! Shadow! Shadow! Shadow! Shadow!!!"

"..."

Ji Xin looked at the stone and shadow in her palm, frowning slightly.

Yan Kan probably never expected... that one day his head would be blown apart.

So even though Yan Kan's heart stone held most of his soul, the great shock still led to its collapse.

This was the first time Ji Xin had encountered such a situation.

Of course.

On the other hand, it also proved one thing.

The intelligence was not wrong, Tang Language did not lie either.

...Shadow?

Ji Xin thought as she raised her other hand and gently pulled upward.

The soul fragments attached to the stone were extracted like silk from a cocoon.

Then, Ji Xin softly closed her hand.

Yan Kan completely vanished between heaven and earth.

From then on, in both Bi Luo and Yellow Springs... there was no longer such a person.

"How's it going?"

At this moment.

Tang Language settled Lin Wan and came to Ji Xin's back, asking, "Yan Kan's soul?"

With his head blown to smithereens, survival was naturally impossible.

But Yan Kan was a Stone Stage Empowerer who had crossed the threshold of soul separation; doubt remained concerning the soul.

"Mad."

Ji Xin lowered her raised hand, gazing at the body on the ground: "He kept screaming something about a shadow… Xia Yue's 'Fury,' your 'Beastification,' and Li Ge's 'Divine Strike,' are you certain these Authority Techniques can exist simultaneously in one person?"

"Didn't you see it with your own eyes?"

Tang Language glanced at the unconscious Chen Lusi, thinking of the recent events, feeling a bit bewildered, as well as lingering fear.

Earlier, the situation was urgent, everything happened too fast to think carefully.

But looking back… Chen Lusi actually used his fist to literally beat to death a Celestial Strategy from the Celestial Strategy Mansion.

Most astonishingly, his spiritual reserve was merely at a bleeding stage, not even having formed a stone.

How exactly… was this achieved?

She couldn't figure it out.

On the other hand.

Ji Xin said nothing, merely stowed away Yan Kan's stone.

Earlier, she indeed hadn't seen any shadow, nor had she seen Chen Lusi use Li Ge's 'Divine Strike,' she had only seen him in a beastified state.

Yet she roughly understood what was going on... clearly, Xia Yue had hidden many things, and this Chen Lusi's Authority Ability was far from simple.

"..."

Tang Language, not hearing a response, withdrew her gaze from Chen Lusi, happened to notice Ji Xin putting away Yan Kan's stone, and couldn't help glancing again at the body on the ground. After a brief pause, she suddenly asked, "Why do you think Yan Kan betrayed? No, he must have joined Self from the start, it was Xia Yue's trip to Yellow Springs that drove him into a corner... but why?"

"Why?"

Ji Xin tilted her head slightly in response, "Perhaps you should ask Mount Tai, ask him what he would say, is it due to internal and external troubles? Or because of pressure from all sides? Or perhaps Self was causing disruption? See what answer he gives you.

It would be best to take pictures of this scene and show it to him, then let him answer, asking if this is the kind of Celestial Strategy Mansion without contradictions he pursues.

The Celestial Strategy of Celestial Strategy Mansion chose to defect, and it wasn't just one person defecting, but nearly a hundred people were brought along together.

And they acted in the bustling streets, ask him if this is what he wanted to see."

"… Saying this to me is useless."

Tang Language slightly frowned, "I'm not Mount Tai."

"I know." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Ji Xin gently moved the wheelchair forward while continuing, "So you go back and tell him directly—step down."

"..."

Tang Language froze momentarily, then hurriedly caught up: "What are you saying, he is an emblem at the very least..."

"Does an emblem hold significance?"

Ji Xin stopped, turning her head back, "Do you think this scandal can still be covered up? Yan Kan, a dignified Celestial Strategy, defected with his members and acted against innocent civilians in a bustling street, how do you think the highest echelon will view the Celestial Strategy Mansion?

Mount Tai should be grateful that Chen Lusi ultimately stopped Yan Kan; if Yan Kan had really escaped overseas, I wonder what he would have done then."

"Those old entities have long been discontent with the Celestial Strategy Mansion, the shadow of Self behind them is almost certain, yet he did nothing."

"The highest echelon, due to the Security Army's perpetual detachment, finds itself unable to intervene, holding a skeptical attitude towards the existence of the Celestial Strategy Mansion, he did nothing."

"The Ten Halls insists that those who receive credentials may not wield Authority; but is there an Emperor now? He still seeks no change."

"And this time with such a scandal caused by Yan Kan, those old entities knowing of this, they will surely take action, but do you think he has the ability to handle something like this?"