Chapter 1546 Chapter 1539: Unkillable?
"Was the story you told us before true?" Cao Cuifen asked. Earlier when they first arrived, after Wei Wuyin exerted his dominance upon the challenging, arrogant Young Master Shang who declared that should Wei Wuyin survive three strikes of his, he would allow him to live and fulfill his debt. After being crushed by a single move, Young Master Shang's attitude changed entirely and he seemed utterly relaxed and indifferent in regards to the future.
The elderly man had informed them of the situation in the Blessed Yri Empire and explained that their Young Mistress' promise in the Nexus Battlefield was causing issues, something that could be the start of an intergalactic war due to a prophecy of some sort.
"What I said was," Young Master Shang replied. "But not all of it was exactly clarified or specific in detail. Honestly, I didn't expect you to not ask more questions and just straightforwardly agree. But that matched with your grasp of the Imperial Law and their natural haughty behavior. Invincibility is one hell of a drug. Worse when it's false.
"While it is strong, especially those conceived by the principles of territory, faith, and number of thriving people, it's one of the easiest laws to conceive and the weakest beyond one's territory. In fact, it can be detrimental.
"Those who've resonated with the Laws of Imperial and use it to establish their foundation in the Mystic Ascendant Realm are one of the easiest cultivators to truly kill away, all one needs to do is draw them away from their territory. Even at the True Sage Phase, this was so, and the quickest to death after a grievous setback by cultivation deviation. The king dies with its people, or so they say." Young Master Shang went on a slight tangent after answering Wei Wuyin's question.
The elderly man's limited cultivation had prevented him from sensing many things regarding the situation, and Wei Wuyin's genuine grasp of the Minor Authority of Imperial Law left him cautious. He only acted against Trueborn because he couldn't resist, and he didn't kill a single individual despite his explosive actions. He showed Wei Wuyin the greatest respect while acting only after seeing the emperor of this territory not react.
Su Nianzu and Jia Yang did the same thing when Han Hyo-joo was captured by them and announced wishing to see the Ascendant Emperor. They knew the powers of anyone who grasped the Imperial Law to any degree had a level of divine awareness in their territory. When Wei Wuyin didn't respond, they brought her away for interrogation.
Yue Songli was still holding Wei Wuyin's hands as her beautiful eyes flashed with murder. "Why capture me?! What treasure am I?!" Her grip tightened and only then did she feel comforted. She, too, had experienced the illusion, and Wei Wuyin replicated her reactions perfectly for the elderly man, including her mental fluctuations. He was precise in every degree to prevent any form of exposure. Young Master Shang too.
That said, he felt a tad bit drained of Spiritual Energy. Unlike normal illusion-type Mental Incantations that used Mental Energy, the Eye of Illusion consumed Spiritual Energy and scaled with his Spiritual Strength. It was far greater than normal illusions, almost indiscinerable due to how it could perfectly emulate and replicate physical, essence, and spiritual aspects of reality.
It was much harder to discern a difference.
Wei Wuyin could feel Yue Songli's murderous aura. His eyes softened slightly, holding her a little tighter. Yue Songli felt that and then turned her eyes to Wei Wuyin, and then her mind was blasted by realization. "You know? You know why?"
WeI Wuyin didn't hide it. He nodded. He knew the exact details from the moment Han Hyo-joo came into his possession. She didn't hold any details back as to why she was so insistent on reclaiming Yue Songli and accelerating her cultivation base as a captive.
Yue Songli had heard Young Master Shang say that those at the True Sage Phase or higher might kill to have her, yet Wei Wuyin didn't hesitate to bring her along with him to the stars. However, her thoughts weren't of anger at this knowledge being concealed from her by Wei Wuyin. She wasn't ignorant of her beauty; she knew that in a world of cultivation where egos and strength mattered, beautiful women were lethal dangers and they would often wear veils or conceal themselves to prevent trouble or worse.
She was a treasure. An excessively beautiful treasure.
Moreover, Wei Wuyin wouldn't have kept it from her without reason. She trusted him.
Instead, Yue Songli felt a shroud of warmth and a sense of unbreakable safety. That feeling of being safe with a reliable person was indescribable. The thought of being caged again had been another fear of hers, and why she rarely left her mother's senses despite Trueborn no longer being a threat. Only in Wei Wuyin's presence did she feel truly and utterly safe.
Only the elderly man could feel it. His eyes opened as Wei Wuyin's unearthly visage seemed to glide across all time and space, grasp the creation of all things, and unleash the annihilation of everything, all gathered onto a single saber wielded by the sole sovereign of the world.
Six...
Fear.
In his lifetime, especially after reaching his heights, the dread of death had long since vanished from his existence. However, today, it was returned a thousandfold. Greater than his first life-and-death experience against assassins. Greater than his tribulations of Mystic Ascensions. Greater than the pain of watching his loved ones fade to the cruelty of time, helpless.
True fear.
"Wai-"
His word was cut short as a saber light slid calmly across his throat. Within him, an invisible battle raged against the laws.
The Law of Momentum roared as the Law of Time, Law of Space, Law of Origin, Law of Annihilation, and Law of Imperial, led by the Law of Saber descended upon it.
A screeching that only those who've grasped authorities could hear echoed across the vast starry skies, inducing endless ripples across all of creation.
A True Sage who wielded the power of Laws...
...Today was his last day after living hundreds of thousands of days.
The Nexus War Flag shone upon the invisible clash of laws, claiming the spoils with the Law of War, and even that piece of the Law of Momentum tethered to that unfortunate soul was claimed!
Thud.
Roll...
The head of the elderly man smacked against the floor and rolled a little distance away. The light in its gaze long since died out as it coincidentally looked at Young Master Shang, reflecting his image vividly in its lifeless pupils.
Wei Wuyin sheathed Element.
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Erdiul's Note: RIP Bozo. +1 Sage Soldier of War.