Zhu Xinjue set a game rule for this world, and He Yun's death adhered to this rule. If she chose to turn on her other half, then she herself would die!
But he wouldn't disclose this hidden rule to Lu Zhiwei, because even though this system world offered an option to survive, what he really wanted to see was not the survival of a couple, but rather that the two people ruthlessly killed each other to death.
In fact, even if both parties were unwilling to kill each other, Zhu Xinjue would lend a hand and directly kill them both!
Whether it was for entertainment or to gain the other's spiritual power, he wouldn't allow anyone to escape. Even if Liu Gui had chosen not to strike He Yun, Zhu Xinjue would still have killed Liu Gui!
He loathed any loving couple! If he couldn't have it, he didn't want to see anyone else have it either.
Up to now, not a single couple had escaped from his grasp!
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"Damn it!"
Lu Zhiwei was shocked to see He Yun actually pierced through the heart by an ice blade, wanted to pull her back, but the ice wall had already dragged He Yun into it, merging her with the wall to form a statue of ice.
He Yun still looked at the man who had fallen to the ground from within the ice layer. She wanted to live and make it out, wanted to abide by Zhu Xinjue's game rules, but she didn't expect that she would be the first to die.
"So, how will you two choose? Who will kill whom?" Zhu Xinjue mockingly looked at Xiang Beifei and Lu Zhiwei.
"Neither of us will kill the other!" Lu Zhiwei said angrily.
"Then both of you will have to die."
Zhu Xinjue let out a cruel laugh.
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Xiang Beifei furrowed his brows as he looked at the guy in front of him and said in a low voice, "Lu Zhiwei, you take Liu Gui and get out first."
Lu Zhiwei paused, asking, "Get out? How do we get out? You don't mean for me to kill you, do you? I won't do it!"
"Take Liu Gui and get out!"
Xiaohei wrapped the system's abilities around Lu Zhiwei and Liu Gui, ejecting them from the space created by the system, while he charged towards the ice wall!
Whoosh!
Xiaohei suddenly kicked Lu Zhiwei and Liu Gui out of "Lonely Island," and because they were not Xiang Beifei, upon being kicked out of this system world by Xiaohei, the two reappeared in their original forest, unable to see Xiang Beifei anymore.
"Beifei! Xiang Beifei! Where did you go?"
Lu Zhiwei stood up hastily, calling out loudly.
But the forest was silent, with no signs of struggle, as if it was totally different from just a moment ago, resembling a return to reality even more.
"Don't you do anything stupid!" Lu Zhiwei started to get anxious.
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"What's going on?"
Zhu Xinjue saw Xiang Beifei recklessly attempting to make a move and sneered, "You're overestimating yourself. Even if your system's level is high, what of it? You're just a Qi-Controlling late-stage cultivator!"
He had clearly observed Xiang Beifei's confrontation with the Extreme Ice Tiger and knew Xiang Beifei's true strength.
The gap between late-stage Qi-Controlling and Meridian Opening was like a chasm, not so easily crossed!
Whoosh!
Zhu Xinjue tensed his body as the blizzard around him swiftly whirled, circulating around his entire body and quickly converging in his hand, forming a long ice blade. The ice blade was blue all over, three feet long, and its edge shone sharply.
He slightly raised his eyelids, saying with a mocking look, "Especially here in my space, you stand no chance!"
Hum!
Zhu Xinjue's blue ice blade vibrated in the air, releasing a powerful surge of Spiritual Power. This surge was extremely fierce, causing the air to buzz.
Swoosh!
His ice blade swiftly slashed towards Xiang Beifei!
The slash was incredibly fast!
Like lightning, it arrived in an instant, striking toward Xiang Beifei!
Zhu Xinjue, being an SR-level early-stage Meridian Opening practitioner, not only had a high system talent, but his cultivation was also advanced! The strength and speed of Meridian Opening practitioners' strikes were utterly different from late-stage Qi-Controlling practitioners, both swift and powerful!
Xiang Beifei's gaze sharpened, his eyes fixed on the ice blade without any carelessness.
Although Xiaohei could deal with fanciful system items, if the opponent relied on their own Spiritual Power to confront Xiang Beifei, Xiaohei wouldn't be able to block those things!
Zhu Xinjue's slash, the ice blade he formed, wasn't a system ability, but an attack method cultivated, strong enough to hurt him!
Moreover, as a late-stage Qi-Controlling cultivator, he couldn't block a strike from a Meridian Opening practitioner!
But Xiang Beifei didn't panic because Xiaohei was tightly gripping his shoulder, intently watching the raging ice blade.
Zoom!
Just as Zhu Xinjue's ice blade was about to sweep past him, Xiaohei had already flashed Xiang Beifei out of the system space. The ice blade passed directly through his body without causing any harm, and after it did, Xiang Beifei had once again entered the system space, closing in on Zhu Xinjue!
Zhu Xinjue's 'Lonely Island Cruise Space' was anchored to the real world, overlapping with it, so as Xiang Beifei switched his form between the reality and the system space, his reentry after leaving kept him in the same position.
"How can this be?"
Zhu Xinjue's expression changed slightly, and he was astonished to see Xiang Beifei didn't avoid his attack and seemingly let the blade strike him, yet remained unharmed!
Although Xiang Beifei disappeared and reappeared quickly, for some unknown reason, there was a moment when he suddenly couldn't sense Xiang Beifei's presence.
It was as if the connection to this world had been severed, puzzling him, but he had no time to ponder this as Xiang Beifei's disappearance was but a brief moment, quickly reconnecting, and he was already in close range.
Swoosh!
Explosive flames surged around Xiang Beifei, the fire converging on his fists as he threw a punch toward Zhu Xinjue's chest!