The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1125 - 613: Zhao Douan’s Earth-Shattering Strike
Xu Jianwen!
In the dreamscape, when Zhao Douan saw the person’s face by the window, even though he had already suspected it, his heart still skipped a beat.
Could it be true that the Second Prince, who once launched the Xuanmen Coup, killed his father and murdered his brother, is not actually dead?
Of course, Zhao Douan had never met Xu Jianwen, but he had seen his portrait many times, and coupled with Master Gu Huo’s cry of "Your Highness," everything was crystal clear.
In a daze, the remaining memories of Master Gu Huo dissipated, and Zhao Douan stood silently in the dreamscape, while at this moment, the dreamscape began to collapse.
...
On the icy surface, the battle between both sides continued.
However, the opposing sides seemed to be in the eye of a storm, extraordinarily calm.
Zhao Douan and Master Gu Huo stood still as if they had both fallen asleep, while Xu Jianwen stood at the front of a bamboo raft with a smiling face, intriguingly observing the young priestess standing on another bamboo raft opposite. He said, "Jin Jian, how much did Zhao Douan offer you? I can offer double, no, triple that, as long as you hand him over to me, how about it?"
Jin Jian clutched her magic wand, standing behind layers of swelling moonlight, her little face full of disdain, letting out a "humph" of contempt, "Is my name something you can freely call? A partner of such evil cultivators like you is not worthy of doing business with this priestess."
She had principles when doing business!
Xu Jianwen, still smiling, tried to persuade her: "But even if you protect him, he’s still doomed to die. What does it matter?"
Jin Jian glared at him with disgust, sneering without replying. She found him very annoying, trying to cozy up to her incessantly. Did she even know him?
It was just that upon careful sensing, there was indeed an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had... seen him somewhere before.
Xu Jianwen stood with his hands behind his back, speaking to himself: "With Master Gu Huo making a move, even if he’s Half-step Celestial, he won’t have a chance to survive. You..."
"You say who won’t survive? I didn’t catch that. Why doesn’t the Second Prince say it again?" At this moment, Zhao Douan suddenly opened his eyes as if waking from a dream, maintaining his stance with the Chasing Saber, and asked with a smile.
Jin Jian turned her head in surprise to look at him: "You’re awake!"
The young priestess didn’t dare say that her palms were sweaty just now, but she wasn’t very surprised because she was among the few who knew a Wild God resided within Zhao Douan’s Sea of Consciousness.
She naturally assumed Zhao Douan relied on the "Dragon Girl" to break free of the dreamscape.
Xu Jianwen’s smile suddenly froze, and he quickly turned his head, only to see that the altar floating in front of Master Gu Huo lost its sustaining power, falling like rain. The old Daoist streamed blood from his seven orifices, lifeless, and toppled over in the cabin like a rigid piece of wood.
He was dead!
The old Daoist, who roamed the Martial World with the secret technique of the Chang God Sect, died within the dreamscapes, his specialty.
At this moment, even though he didn’t know exactly what had happened, Xu Jianwen realized that when the old Daoist went to the Capital, he likely also died at Zhao Douan’s hands.
"Second Prince?" Jin Jian belatedly caught onto this title.
And with Master Gu Huo’s death, even the combatants subconsciously diverted some attention to look over.
Then, everyone heard Zhao Douan’s crisp words enter their ears: "Or should I perhaps call you by the title bestowed by the late Emperor during his lifetime... Emperor Wen?"
Xu Jianwen remained silent, then as if understanding there was no longer any point in disguising himself, he took out his pale, evenly-jointed right hand from his sleeve and slowly removed the monkey mask on his face, revealing an indifferent face.
"Ah!"
In that moment, everyone seemed to have a fleeting avatar.
Headed by Song Jinxi, the tributes of the Imperial Palace felt as if their hearts were struck by tidal waves.
Xu Jianwen!
The Second Prince, presumed dead on the day of the coup several years ago! How is he resurrected? How is he here?
Is someone impersonating him? Or...
"Zhao Douan, I admit you gave me a ’surprise’," Xu Jianwen stated coldly, his tone remaining calm and unhurried, "But, no matter what method you used to kill Gu Huo, it doesn’t matter. Because you won’t be leaving here alive today."
"Is that so?" Zhao Douan quietly tightened his grip on the Chasing Saber’s hilt, and said with a smile, "I remember, Second Prince, your cultivation wasn’t high. At most, it was the peak of the Divine Chapter. Even if you used some method to enter the Worldly Realm, do you think you’re a match for us?"
While saying this, with no warning at all, the shadow of the Divine Dragon Girl emerged from the depths of Zhao Douan’s eyes.
Activated!
He attempted to use the Dragon Girl’s authority to control Xu Jianwen. Even if only for a moment, given the distance between the two, it was enough to end the fight.
However, the expected "sleep" did not occur, and Xu Jianwen didn’t even blink, shaking his head and mockingly saying, "Don’t bother trying to use magic on me. I’ll make it plain: standing here, no magic below the Heavenly Human Realm can affect me one bit."
Jin Jian was momentarily stunned, only at this moment coming to realize the source of that feeling of familiarity came from—back then, as a disciple of the Heavenly Master, she had also seen Xu Jianwen.
Upon hearing this, the priestess refused to believe, swung her magic wand with skepticism, and above Xu Jianwen, a phantom of a crescent moon suddenly slashed down like the scythe of Death God!
Yet strangely, Jin Jian’s full-force strike passed over Xu Jianwen and sank into the lake.
"Unable to hit!" The young girl’s face tensed, her expression unprecedentedly serious: "He has means to be immune to magic!"
But Zhao Douan was not too surprised.
As the former Second Prince, Xu Jianwen had the courage to appear before him, he must have a trump card.
And immunity to magic means Dragon Girl, Jin Jian, Ji Yue, even his trump card Pei Niannu, all lost their effectiveness.
