Chapter 130 - 123: A Murderous Heart, Beidou Overhead, Controlling the Four Seasons!

Chapter 130: Chapter 123: A Murderous Heart, Beidou Overhead, Controlling the Four Seasons!

Chen Sha seamlessly transitioned into the second Chapter of the "Divine Maiden Bu Feiqing."

Time shifted. He was instantly transported from the night-lit streets and red lanterns of the Drunken Smoke Tower to the entrance of a sprawling manor.

Standing there, he saw words flowing down the Southern Heavenly Gate in his mind:

"The Sect Leader has entered the second section of the Bu Feiqing Chapter, ’Bone Pavilion Platform, Beidou Killing Body.’ Upon successful completion, the final section of the Bu Feiqing Chapter, ’Dead Silence, Great Vajra Sound,’ will be unlocked.

"Key figures in this scene include Lian Wenzhang, the leader of the Bone Platform, Bu Feiqing, and the assassins of the Bone Platform.

"The Sect Leader must defeat at least two key figures and several assassins to clear this Chapter."

As these words faded from his mind, Chen Sha sensed something. He looked toward a distant path leading to the Bone Platform’s stronghold, where a red-haired woman in a plain dress was approaching, a pipa cradled in her arms.

With just one glance, Chen Sha realized that this Divine Maiden was no longer the same person from the Drunken Smoke Tower. Though he didn’t know how much time had passed, judging purely by her Cultivation, she had already reached the "Upper Innate" level of this world—the First Grade Great Innate Realm.

Perhaps four or five years had passed since the incident at the Drunken Smoke Tower, or maybe even longer. Chen Sha could feel the marks that time had left on this legendary woman.

Her face had matured, but her eyes had grown even more hollow and indifferent. The bone-chilling murderous intent she exuded seemed to seep straight from her very soul.

The surreal sensation of walking through a legendary figure’s past and present—while already knowing her future—was difficult for Chen Sha to put into words.

When Bu Feiqing arrived in front of the Bone Platform, she stopped and looked at Chen Sha. She stared at him intently. In her memory, she had never seen him among the members of the Bone Platform.

"Ah?" she voiced, her icy tone carrying a hint of interrogation.

Although the Divine Maiden before him could not speak, Chen Sha could still decipher a shred of meaning from that single, simple syllable. He replied calmly, "I am not from the Bone Platform. I, too, have come to destroy it."

Upon hearing this, Bu Feiqing remained indifferent. "Ah."

Her tone carried a sense of rejection, though she made no move to attack him. Since Chen Sha was not affiliated with the Bone Platform, she completely ignored the young Daoist and strode right into the manor.

Chen Sha shook his head. Emotionally speaking, after witnessing the Divine Maiden’s tragic past in the previous Chapter, he felt no reason to intervene and stop her. However, this was a Cosmic Light Fragment, and he had his own conditions for clearing the stage.

He watched as Bu Feiqing marched into the Bone Platform as if no one else was there. He wondered if the guards stationed outside had already been wiped out by her, considering no one inside the manor had sounded the alarm as she approached.

Suddenly, a terrifying sound wave pierced Chen Sha’s ears. It was so horrific that even with his Great Innate Power, his eardrums throbbed with pain and his heart raced violently. He immediately drew upon over a century’s worth of Innate Power to protect himself and thought, "Judging purely by the power of her Sound Wave Skill, ordinary Great Innates would be completely suppressed by her. And that’s not even factoring in the unknown abilities of her Beidou Killing Body..."

With that in mind, Chen Sha immediately followed her into the Bone Platform.

WOO-WOO-WOO—

The relentless strumming of the pipa sounded like the mournful wailing of gods and ghosts, ushering in the despairing fate of death. As Bu Feiqing advanced, the Bone Platform transformed into a literal mountain of corpses and a Blood Sea. Anyone who heard the Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound bled from their seven orifices.

Chen Sha once again witnessed the sheer horror of this ultimate killing technique.

Looking around after entering the Bone Platform, he saw corpses littering the ground. Lower Innate masters lay dead like discarded trash, while Middle Innate masters bled from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, seemingly having died without even a sliver of resistance. Chen Sha noticed that some had tried to cover their ears, but they too failed to escape the fate of having their brains instantly obliterated by the sound waves.

Just as Bu Feiqing was about to wipe out the entire Bone Platform, a long howl erupted from deep within the stronghold, resisting her lethal pipa notes.

"Feiqing, your brother’s death was not the Bone Platform’s intention! Even if you disregard the camaraderie you shared with your peers, you should at least remember the fifteen years of care I provided in raising you!"

Along with the booming voice, a burly old man draped in a black-and-gold robe flew out from the back of the Bone Platform. His hair and beard whipped wildly in the air, and his face was twisted with a dark, ruthless expression.

"Now you return my kindness with betrayal! You think that just because you’ve mastered the Beidou Killing Body, you can slaughter my life’s work with the Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound? Do you really believe your Beidou Killing Body can kill every master in the world?"

With those words, the old man—clearly the Bone Platform’s leader, Lian Wenzhang—stepped forward rapidly. Using his formidable Upper Innate Power to resist the suppression of her Sound Power, he charged right in front of Bu Feiqing in an instant.

CLANG!

In a fraction of a second, the old man’s palm and fingers, cloaked in black qi, struck toward Bu Feiqing’s face.

Bu Feiqing’s expression remained calm. She suddenly looked up, slung her pipa onto her back, and let her red hair flare wildly into the air. Ceasing her strumming, the crimson light of slaughter flashed in her eyes.

WOO-WOO-WOO—

An unimaginably terrifying murderous intent materialized into a tangible force swirling around the Divine Maiden. It gathered above her head to form seven blood-red, star-like points. She then gently pressed her palm forward.

Their palms and fingers collided!

The moment they made contact, the leader of the Bone Platform felt as if he were being slashed by a thousand blades. "So this is the Beidou Killing Body! AHHH!"

A palpable terror appeared in his eyes. He realized that this invisible murderous intent was far harder to resist than Innate Level Qi Power. Worse, the moment they touched, the killing intent autonomously surged toward his heart meridians! It brought a bone-deep, agonizing pain, as if he were suffering the torture of death by a thousand cuts!

"White bones, white bones, who doesn’t turn into white bones? Bone Scripture!"

However, the leader of the Bone Platform was, after all, a terrifying entity at the Upper Innate Level. With a fierce roar in his heart, he made the bones in his entire body glow, rendering them as hard as Diamonds. Even as his arm, engulfed by the blood-red murderous intent, was instantly dismembered, he still thrust two eerie, white bony joints directly toward Bu Feiqing’s eyes.

But at that exact moment...

BOOM—

A horrifying burst of Fist Power, capable of splitting mountains and shattering the earth, roared in from the far side of the Bone Platform. Carrying the deafening crack of a sonic boom, it directly enveloped the Bone Platform’s leader, who was locked in a stalemate with Bu Feiqing.

SQUELCH!

This Fist Power smashed through his left ribs and burst out from his right, instantly punching a gaping hole clean through the leader’s body and sending him flying. Life drained rapidly from him.

Crashing into an artificial mountain in the Bone Platform’s garden, he looked weakly toward the source of the punch and muttered unwillingly, "You actually found such a formidable helper..."

Bu Feiqing turned her head, her gaze overflowing with murderous intent. Shooting a lethal glare at Chen Sha, she demanded, "Ah..."

Chen Sha replied expressionlessly, "I know you are very angry, so you can attack me with the same intent to kill as you did with him. It makes no difference."

The leader of the Bone Platform was a key figure in this scene, a Great Innate Level master. If Chen Sha didn’t land the killing blow himself, he would lose out on an Innate Level reward. The Southern Heavenly Gate generated these Cosmic Light Scenes specifically for him to undergo trials and earn rewards by defeating opponents. Even if the Bu Feiqing in this scene had suffered a tragic fate, he had to do what was necessary.

After all, this was merely a projection of the past. The Bu Feiqing who Ascended in the True Realm had exacted her revenge long ago. In this projection, Chen Sha had to maximize his own benefits. If he failed to clear the stage, everything here would simply repeat thousands, perhaps millions of times. There was no room for soft-heartedness.

"AHHH..."

Bu Feiqing let out a long howl at the sky, her red hair fluttering as her overwhelming murderous intent locked squarely onto Chen Sha.

SWISH—

Her long robes snapped violently in the wind. The "Seven Stars pattern" formed by her killing intent above her head shifted, its handle suddenly pointing straight at Chen Sha. As the Seven Stars aligned toward him...

"Hmm?" Chen Sha immediately felt as if he were being targeted by seven stars in the sky. Even though it was late autumn, an inexplicable, blistering heat surged through the air, as if he were being scorched by a blazing sun.

The overwhelming killing intent, just like the intense summer sun, was omnipresent. It descended upon Chen Sha, and before it even fully struck, it already caused a severe burning sensation on his skin.

"So this is the Beidou Killing Body?" Chen Sha faintly grasped the truth. Facing Bu Feiqing and the Seven Stars above her head, the blood-red palm of slaughter crashed down toward him.

"Such terrifying power!" He didn’t hesitate to unleash his most powerful Fist Technique.

Dao Yi Seal!

Bu Feiqing’s strength was obviously leagues beyond the ordinary Great Innates he could defeat in a single move. In fact, relying on the terrifying and mysterious Beidou Killing Body, her prowess within the Great Innate Realm could rival the top few fighters of the Divine Land World’s Top Ten. A Bu Feiqing at this level would have no problem fighting on equal footing with his mother, Yun Canxuan.

RUMBLE!

In a flash, their fist and palm collided. The terrifying, earth-shattering Qi Power instantly detonated, blooming into a fifty-foot-tall mushroom cloud right where they stood!

BOOM!!!

The crimson Qi Power expanded into a massive sphere and blasted outward, annihilating buildings and grand halls one after another.

BANG!

Chen Sha and Bu Feiqing were simultaneously blasted backward for dozens of feet.

"Ah..." Bu Feiqing coughed up a mouthful of blood after being sent flying by the punch, yet her expression remained unchanged. Her killing intent was as relentless as ever.

At the same time, the handle of the Seven Stars above her head turned once more, pointing to the East.

Chen Sha then witnessed a bizarre scene. As the Seven Stars rotated, a gentle and warm vitality inexplicably blossomed from the natural world and enveloped Bu Feiqing. After she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her injuries seemed to heal at a rapid pace.

Chen Sha stared in disbelief. "This healing speed..."

Looking at the Seven Stars above Bu Feiqing’s head, he was suddenly reminded of a few lines about the Big Dipper recorded in ancient Daoist texts:

"When the handle points East, the world embraces spring; when the handle points South, the world embraces summer; when the handle points West, the world embraces autumn; when the handle points North, the world embraces winter."

The Beidou Seven Stars—these were seven stars that symbolized the shifting of the four seasons in the world.

Meanwhile, as Bu Feiqing charged toward him again, the air around Chen Sha grew utterly bleak and desolate. They were already in an autumn setting, but in that instant, the grass on the ground rapidly yellowed, and the leaves on the trees planted within the White Bone Temple completely withered and fell in flurries.

Heaven and earth were engulfed in a bleak, desolate killing intent.

"The Southern Dipper governs life, and the Northern Dipper governs death... Is this the secret of the Beidou Killing Body?" Chen Sha watched as the surrounding environment whimsically transitioned through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, entirely influenced by Bu Feiqing’s killing intent.

With a heart of slaughter and Beidou overhead, she could manipulate the four seasons!

His eyes revealed an undeniable look of temptation. "Defeating a legendary woman like you... I won’t be satisfied unless you drop this Beidou Killing Body as loot!"

The abilities of this Beidou Killing Body were far too mystical. It wasn’t something that belonged to the Martial Hero Level at all; it had already ascended to the Fantasy Level. After witnessing it firsthand, Chen Sha didn’t bother to hide his enthrallment.

Bu Feiqing rapidly cycled through the killing intents of summer and spring before striking at him with the deadliest intent of all—autumn.

Chen Sha refused to be outdone. Facing this strike, his hands first formed the shape of a lotus, executing the Ninth-Grade Lotus Seal. Instantly, his bodily Qi Power and vitality surged into an explosive state. With his combat power thoroughly bolstered, he followed up by forming a technique far exceeding his previous, ordinary punch...

A fiercer, far more terrifying Dao Yi Seal!

A punch against the Autumn Kill!

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