Chapter 565: What Is My Aim?

Chapter 565: What Is My Aim?

Xiong Kuohai hadn’t been idle while Ji Donglei, Huo Ruyu and more champions were attacking Joy Bodhisattva. He wasn’t part of the attacking group though. No, he was singlehandedly keeping Joy Bodhisattva’s four champions—Worriless, Wisdom Queen, White-faced God and Black-faced Buddha—at bay.

Worriless and Wisdom Queen were the only Half-Step Grandmasters out of the four. White-faced God and Black-faced Buddha were both late-stage Spirit Masters.

If their opponent was anyone else below the Grandmaster-stage, then they would have broken through already. But Xiong Kuohai wasn’t just strong enough to stop them all by himself, he was intentionally drawing out the battle. His aim was obvious: he wanted to save his strength so he could play the fisherman later.

The group of four weren’t the only champions of the Buddhist Hall of Joy, but the Wisdom King of Joy, the Lampholding Protector and the Joy Arhat had been executed for their troubles, and Joy Bodhisattva excised the rest of the corruption after returning to her sect. She successfully subdued the foxes in her backyard but lost a lot of quality warriors as a result.

Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. After all, Joy Bodhisattva had become a Grandmaster. She alone could protect the entire Buddhist Hall of Joy from harm, and no one dared to draw her ire so soon after she won her previous conflict.

But now, the flaw in the arrangement was bared for all to see. With Xiong Kuohai pinning down Worriless, Wisdom Queen, White-faced God and Black-faced Buddha, there was no one else in the sect who was capable of helping Joy Bodhisattva. The ordinary disciples couldn’t even get up the floor without getting annihilated by all sorts of attacks. Vissit novelbin(.)c.om for updates

To say that the Bodhisattva was caught between a rock and a hard place would be an understatement. A Grandmaster she might be, there was only so much she could do when she was outnumbered many times to one. A moment later, Ji Donglei managed to seize an opening and destroy her Dharma in one slash. While her energies were scattered, Huo Ruyu landed a palm strike against her back and flooded her veins with fire poison, shattering her body as a result.

Gold Ingot’s corpse puppet endured a finger strike from Joy Bodhisattva in exchange for a punch to the stomach. Even as she staggered backward, Mistress Ruyi, Wei Changhe, and Five Poison Boy’s attacks arrived right on time and injured her even more.

Unable to weather the barrage of attacks any longer, Joy Bodhisattva fell from the sky and hit the ground with a loud thud. She was bleeding from all orifices and looking as pale as a sheet.

“Hahaha! She’s hurt!”

“Kekeke... I’m going to kill her...”

“Kill her...”

“KILL!”

Smelling the kill, countless people rushed toward Joy Bodhisattva with crazed, bloodshot eyes.

“ENOUGH!”

It was at this moment a sword beam cut through the air. Some of the attackers charging toward Joy Bodhisattva abruptly stopped in their tracks. Their heads flew into the air like balls, and blood splattered everywhere.

Mistress Ruyi looked deathly pale, and crumbs of dust were falling off her skin just like an incense stick.

Gold Ingot was fine, but one of his corpse puppets had been splattered across the ground like a smear of meat paste.

Besides that, a dozen or so corpses were sprawled across the floor as well. They were all people who joined in on the attack sometime after the battle began, but they were weak enough that Joy Bodhisattva were able to slay them all.

“Calm down, Five Poison Boy!”

Wei Changhe hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Five Poison Boy’s shoulder tightly. He was seriously worried that the warrior would kill Joy Bodhisattva in a fit of rage.

“Get off of me! I’m killing this bitch if it’s the last thing I do!”

Five Poison Boy shook Wei Changhe off before tightening his grip. He was going to snap Joy Bodhisattva’s neck there and then.

Suddenly, a bloodcurdling scream escaped his lips. It was because Joy Bodhisattva had struck him with her sleeves and cut his left arm clean off the shoulders. The warrior was sent flying into the distance.

The retaliation wasn’t without its cost. Joy Bodhisattva’s complexion grew even whiter, and the dense cracks on her face had spread across her whole body.

“Enough, Joy Bodhisattva. Are you really planning on struggling until the last moment? Just give us the antidote, and we might consider letting you live,” Ji Donglei said. He never even looked at Five Poison Boy.

“Joy Bodhisattva, I don’t see why this has to end in death and tragedy. It’s not like our factions are hostile toward one another. Just give us the antidote already!” Gold Ingot also chimed in.

Despite her condition, Joy Bodhisattva remained fearless. “I did not poison you, so I don’t have the antidote.”

“Stubborn bitch!” Huo Ruyu snarled. She could no longer suppress her rage and killing intent at this point. As a practitioner of the Dark Ways, her martial art was powerful and swift to cultivate. Unfortunately, that also meant that her willpower and mental fortitude were weaker than most.

Already, she was on the brink of insanity as the Burning Heart burned at the final threads of her rationality. If she did not receive the antidote soon, she was going to lose her mind and perish just like the weaker warriors around her.

“Do you really think I wouldn’t dare to kill you?!”

“You can kill me, but it will be a futile endeavor. As I have told you many times, I do not have the antidote.”

Joy Bodhisattva’s expression slowly turned scornful as she met her would-be-killers’ furious gazes head on. “None of you are idiots. I beseech you to use your brain and open your eyes a little wider. If I really am the poisoner, then what is my aim for doing this? To have you slaughter my disciples to the last? Or to have you kill me?”