Chapter 1389: Delacuri

Chapter 1389: Chapter 1389: Delacuri

"I wondered who it was, turns out it was my old defeated enemy. Yes! I admit I am not as good as Pei Yan! But at least I’ve faced him multiple times, what about you? Lin Daozi! Known as the Child of Origin of the strongest plane among the planes, being the defeated of the defeated of Pei Yan, now only able to use the other’s name to scare people, does this feel good?" Nero, seeing that the speaker was Lin Daozi, no longer concealed his arrogant nature and retorted with a cold sneer.

"We both know how you won back then, but I won’t use that as an excuse to cover up my past failures. Today, I will take this opportunity to use your life to wash away my past shame."

As soon as Lin Daozi finished speaking, Liu Xuanji stepped forward, pointing at Jue Liunian in the opposing crowd, challenging: "Jue Liunian! It’s time for us to settle our scores today."

Jue Liunian smiled, did not refuse, and patted the longsword at his waist, giving the other side a provocative look. At this point, there was no need for more words as the siege by the Investigation Hall was already formed. Led by Jue Liunian, everyone leapt forward. Situ Maocai flicked his wrist, and a long, lightning-glowing whip slithered out as he swung it toward the witch, shouting, "I’ll deal with this woman. Liu Sanjian, don’t overestimate yourself, join with Wendao and quickly take down this rebel Jue Liunian, so we can account to His Majesty the Spirit Emperor."

Situ Maocai’s words were aimed to prevent Liu Xuanji’s pride from causing him to take matters solely into his own hands. He indirectly provided Xuanji a face-saving way out, implying that it wasn’t about being worried he couldn’t defeat the opponent, but rather that this person was too important to the Immortal Palace.

"Old stubborn from the Daoist Plane, do you really think you can suppress me alone?" The witch facing the sweeping electric whip neither dodged nor evaded, letting the whip slice through her silhouette and split her in half. Meanwhile, turning into a phantom and gradually hiding in the void, she giggled: "Don’t forget! This is the Magic Plane! You, not being the Child of Origin, will all be suppressed in terms of strength, whereas I!"

As she spoke, the surrounding wild grass, as if sprinkled with a catalyst, rapidly grew. In just a blink, the grass ropes woven from wild grass merged together to form one after another of giants over ten meters tall. These massive beings, some still maintaining their original green grassy giant form, others rising up in flames to become blazing Flame Giants, while some exuded clusters of thick black liquid, converting the entire grass figure into Poison Giants emitting toxic gas.

As numerous giants were produced and transformed, the witch’s voice resounded again: "Are truly the rulers of this land!"

The formal trading battlefield was ablaze, whereas the ambush at Delacuri’s family area seemed unusually calm. After receiving a sense from Hu Jiu that Delacuri’s aura was nearby, Pei Yan instantly used the blood link to teleport to Hu Jiu’s side. Upon entering the family area, he discovered that, just as Nero had said, Delacuri had already stepped into the ambush circle. Upon meeting each other, for a moment, they were speechless, not knowing what to say.

Ultimately, Delacuri spoke first, a smile of helplessness and self-mockery: "Didn’t expect you to switch everyone out, and conceal the bloodline and aura so well! I only realized something was amiss after my true body came close to this space, and it was due to my Blood Servant’s merits, right? You really went to great lengths for me."

Hearing this, Pei Yan frowned slightly. From what he heard from Nero, he judged Delacuri should have long known it was a trap here, but why did he say that then? Thinking of this, Pei Yan countered: "You didn’t know we had swapped people out?"

Delacuri shook his head and answered honestly: "I knew you’d lay a trap here, but I didn’t anticipate you’d be so elaborate for your family’s safety, swapping everyone out. I didn’t expect you to regard your family so highly. If I’d known, I shouldn’t have been so cautious at the start, and acted when I suspected it was your family’s location. Even if I couldn’t take them away, killing one or two could haunt you for life with guilt due to your nature."

"I also didn’t expect you to regard your sons so little. You knew it was a trap, you could have stayed out! We wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, then just proceed with normal trade terms as you still hold bargaining chips to exchange with us. But you didn’t, instead choosing to risk entering the trap just to hold me back? Why? Is the Blood Shattering plan that important? More than your two sons’ lives? You know that regardless of your success or failure, their fate is only death."

Delacuri was well aware of Pei Yan’s implication. Without knowing the personnel was swapped, if the family area still contained relatives of Pei Yan and others as bait, Delacuri stepping into the trap would only at best kill Pei Yan’s and other agents’ families in chaos out of spite, to take them alive as hostages was nearly impossible in this kind of proximity. Causing that kind of aftermath also negates the importance of Ye Jiumu’s safety or Du Guangyuan’s son’s life, prompting the most frenzied retaliation from Pei Yan and the Investigation Hall, first suffering will be his two sons as hostages.

As for failure, it goes without saying, it means Delacuri’s demise, the subsequent process being a complete eradication of the Vlad Clan’s remnants.

"You and I both know that there’s no room for reconciliation between us." Delacuri turned slightly to point to this isolated space, coldly laughing: "You’ve enhanced this space to withstand greater impact, sealing the space transmission to the outside once I entered here. Oh! Let me see!" Saying this, Delacuri briefly closed his eyes to perceive, then continued: "The seal is still being fortified from the outside. I suppose breaking through layers of defense to escape in battle is challenging aside from specific Space Transmission Arrays only you know how to activate, right? What else have you arranged? Isolating my contact with the outside world using a Divine Artifact? To prevent me from activating the Blood Curse to take your companion’s life at my end, right? You’ve done all this just to take my life, to destroy my family."

Upon saying this, Delacuri lightly tapped his cane. His originally slender body began to expand, the back arching with a thick lump like a hunchback. As his height stretched further, the hunched form under pressure of the lump finally swelled to the extreme and began to crack. Out of the exuding pus and blood emerged streams of shadows, which grew upon encountering the wind, and soon seven silhouettes stood beside Delacuri.

After splitting off the shadows, Delacuri straightened his posture again. His cracked body and clothes returned to their original state, not leaving a trace of blood even where it had dripped onto his clothes. Having done all this, he looked up at Pei Yan and smiled: "Regarding the survival of the family, what do two sons’ lives count for?"