Chapter 412: Seven Tragedies
Shuiyue Jingxiang's beautiful eyes darkened, and she thrust her long spear directly towards Su Chen.
Pu!
Without a doubt, the long spear once again pierced through Su Chen's body.
Su Chen's body stumbled and he fell to the ground, yet he was still laughing.
"Today I'll see just how many thrusts you can withstand!" Shuiyue Jingxiang kept stabbing with her long spear.
Pu pu pu!
In the blink of an eye, Su Chen's body was pierced by the long spear so many times it became riddled with holes.
Blood showered down.
At this moment, Shuiyue Jingxiang, in exchange for sacrificing her life, had offered her soul to the Shikigami, making her strength terrifyingly powerful.
Her features were twisted and fierce, her eyes conveying a sense of gratifying vengeance.
Ever since she had escaped from the cellar, she had been waiting for this day to come.
After stabbing out a dozen or so times, Shuiyue Jingxiang finally felt her vengeance satisfied.
"It's over!"
Shuiyue Jingxiang's gaze suddenly turned somewhat desolate.
She had been dreaming of taking revenge on Su Chen.
But once the day actually came, and Su Chen was really about to be killed by her,
She felt an intense emptiness.
The feeling of vengeance wasn't as strong as she'd imagined.
Moreover, Su Chen was not her enemy, but rather someone who had simply broken his promise to her.
Her long spear was aimed at Su Chen's brow.
Pu!
The long spear broke through the air, emitting a piercing sonic boom.
But…
It did not pierce Su Chen's brow.
Instead, it was caught by a hand.
It was Su Chen's hand.
At this moment, Su Chen had completely become a bloodied figure.
But in his eyes shone an unyielding light.
With just one hand, he caught the long spear, mere centimeters from his brow.
"Hmm?" The centaur-like Shuiyue Jingxiang showed a hint of confusion in her eyes.
She had never imagined that, at this point, Su Chen would still be able to catch her long spear.
She tried to pull the long spear from Su Chen's hand.
But she found that the spear was as if it were clamped down by iron pincers.
Impossible to pull out!
With one hand holding the long spear a few centimeters from his brow, a hint of madness flashed in Su Chen's eyes.
"Martial Skill·Seven Tragedies!"
With a low roar, Su Chen's right fist suddenly burst forth with a dazzling brilliance.
The light was so bright that Shuiyue Jingxiang couldn't help but shield her eyes with the back of her hand.
The next moment, Shuiyue Jingxiang felt her body struck as if by a train, and was sent flying backward like a cannonball.
Several seconds later, a great cloud of dust erupted tens of meters away from Su Chen.
The centaur was blasted dozens of meters away by a punch from Su Chen!
Martial Skill·Seven Tragedies was one of the extremely powerful martial skills Su Chen had learned.
The more severe the injuries he suffered, the more powerful the force he could unleash.
Just now, his body was nearly turned into a sieve by Shuiyue Jingxiang's thrusts, and his wounds were extremely serious.
If it weren't for Black Stone, with such severe injuries, he would have certainly been doomed.
"Mother!" Nishijiu ran frantically towards his mother.
He let out a heart-wrenching cry.
He had never imagined,
That under such circumstances, Su Chen could still counterattack, and had even blown Shuiyue Jingxiang dozens of meters away.
The half-human, half-horse form of Shuiyue Jingxiang was now half buried in the earth and stone, spewing a torrent of blood from her mouth.
Clearly, that punch had inflicted massive trauma on Shuiyue Jingxiang.
Su Chen, dragging his staggering body, walked towards Shuiyue Jingxiang step by step.
"Don't, don't kill my mother!" Nishijiu, holding the continuously bleeding Shuiyue Jingxiang, cried out and pleaded with Su Chen.
Looking at Shuiyue Jingxiang, who was not far from death, Su Chen sighed deeply in his heart.
The truth was, neither side was to blame.
He didn't go to save Shuiyue Jingxiang because he himself was in dire straits at that time.
And her hatred towards him because he did not go to save her was also understandable.
In fact, when Su Chen learned that there had been survivors in that cellar, he was happy.
But he didn't expect it would end up like this.
There wasn't a trace of fear on Shuiyue Jingxiang's face.
Because whether Su Chen killed her or not, she was going to die.
Her only regret was not being able to kill Su Chen.
Actually, it might not even count as a regret.
Su Chen shook his head, ready to leave.
Just as he turned around, something fell from his body because many parts of his clothes were already torn.
He turned, instinctively trying to catch that thing.
Regrettably, due to his serious injuries, his reflexes were no match for his previous agility.
So, he failed to catch it.
The object fell to the ground and landed precisely on a rock.
Ting-a-ling!
A crisp sound rang out.
The object broke into two pieces.
Su Chen was shaken to the core.
He had always carried this object close to him.
Despite having been through so much, it never got lost or broken.
Yet unexpectedly, it broke at this moment.
Seeing the broken object, Shuiyue Jingxiang struggled and crawled out from the dirt, then grabbed the shattered Jade hairpin in her hand.
"You, you, you really went back?" Shuiyue Jingxiang looked at Su Chen in disbelief.
This hairpin was exactly Shuiyue Jingxiang's!
However, it had been snatched away by the guards of the cellar at that time.
Later, when she killed those guards, she did not take it with her.
Unexpectedly, it was found on Su Chen.
This meant Su Chen had gone back.
Su Chen nodded and said, "After I completed the mission, I wanted to go back and rescue you all, but I was ambushed. If my comrades hadn't arrived in time to save me, I might have been dead as well. By the time I regained consciousness, it was already many days later. When I went back to the cellar, I found it had collapsed. I dug through the debris and found only this..."
Shuiyue Jingxiang gazed intently at Su Chen, "What you're saying is true?"
"I have no need to lie to you."
"Ha ha ha!"
Shuiyue Jingxiang suddenly burst into a wild laugh.
Her laughter was filled with sorrow.
She had always thought that Su Chen had abandoned her and did not come back to save her.
It was the endless rage that kept her clinging to life.
But unexpectedly.
She had wronged Su Chen.
Su Chen had gone back.
It was only because he was ambushed that he couldn't return to save her.
"How proud has my life been, Shuiyue Jingxiang... to end up with such a fate..." Two clear tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.
Su Chen sighed deeply and said, "Death is easy, really. The true difficulty lies in... when all your companions, your comrades, have all been sacrificed in front of you, and yet you, must live on alone..."
The annihilation of the Reverse Dragon Group dealt as heavy a blow to Su Chen as Shuiyue Jingxiang's ordeal.
What was the significance of being bullied and tormented?
If he could exchange it for the lives of those fallen comrades, Su Chen would be willing to give everything.
"Live well..." Su Chen shook his head, his gaze filled with unspeakable melancholy.