Chapter 188 - 172: Forcing Her to Reveal Her True Form

The next instant, Mo Xiao and the others seemed to be restricted as well.

Jiang Wu promptly noticed the change in her and knew the poison had taken effect.

She couldn’t help but sneer. "Su Mo, this poison was made especially for you! A weak female with no strength to speak of thinks she can fight me? Do you think I’ve lived all these years for nothing? I know your abilities like the back of my hand! If you know what’s good for you, surrender now. Maybe then I’ll spare your Beast Husbands!"

Su Mo gripped the long whip in her hand and frowned, asking Little Nine, ’What’s going on? Why are Mo Xiao and the others affected when my Totem’s power is restricted?’

Little Nine replied with a frown, ’It’s not clear what trick she’s pulled. It seems any Beast Husband who has successfully formed a bond with you is affected! But the Third Young Master and the Lord Major General don’t seem to be.’

’No kidding! They haven’t formed a bond with me! Is there any way to fix this right now?’

As she asked Little Nine, Su Mo raised her gaze to Jiang Wu and said, "Don’t get ahead of yourself, City Lord Jiang. The fight isn’t over yet! It’s a little too early for you to be celebrating."

A smug smile touched Jiang Wu’s lips. "Then I’ll show you what it means to be utterly helpless, your pleas falling on deaf ears!"

Su Mo sneered. "Is that so? Why don’t you try channeling your power again?"

She suddenly lashed out with her whip again. Though her strength was clearly diminished, she could still put up a fight.

’I just have to wear her down a little more,’ Su Mo thought, ’and I can force out her true form!’

’Once I see her true form, I can figure out her weakness.’

Jiang Wu’s brow twitched. The moment she tried to channel her power, she sensed something was wrong.

’What’s going on? Why is it that every time I try to use my power, I can’t control the urge to shift into my true form?!’

’What Su Mo hit me with wasn’t poison at all! Her goal was to force me into my true form!’

’Damn it!’

’I absolutely cannot reveal my true form in front of Su Mo!’

Su Mo said to Little Nine internally, ’We have to use this chance. We must find a way to rescue the hostages, and quickly.’

Little Nine frowned. ’Xuan Qing is already closing in on the Think Tank!’

Su Mo glanced in that direction. Xuan Qing was cutting through Jiang Wu’s men like a bolt of lightning. He then threw his dagger. With a sharp CLANG, the iron chain suspending the Think Tank snapped!

She quickly threw out the antidote. "Xuan Qing, catch!"

Xuan Qing reached out and caught the medicine Su Mo had thrown, then tossed it to the Think Tank. He moved quickly, rescuing the two little ones and the Military Advisor’s Wife.

A figure flashed past, and in the next second, Jiang Wu’s whip lashed out at the two Little Dragons as they tried to flee!

In the nick of time, the Military Advisor’s Wife leaped forward and shoved Nannan and Dongdong toward Long Yan.

Jiang Wu’s eyes filled with bloodlust. If she couldn’t kill Su Mo today, then killing someone else would have to do! In any case, her whip was going to taste blood!

The next second, she ensnared the woman who had leaped forward...

After a sickening THUD—the Military Advisor’s Wife was thrown violently to the ground. She smiled weakly from amidst a pool of her own blood.

The Think Tank rushed to her side, his hands trembling as he gathered the blood-soaked woman into his arms, his voice choked with sobs. "Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu!"

The woman in his arms smiled weakly, raising a hand to wipe the tears from his face. "Knowing you’re safe is my greatest comfort. Don’t cry. Your ambition is my ambition. By helping you fulfill your duty, I fulfill my own. You must protect the people of the Dragon Clan... but I only ever wanted you to be safe. I... I just need you to be safe. Do you understand?"

Tears brimming in his eyes, the Think Tank clutched her cooling fingers in his palm and nodded solemnly. "I will."

...

Though she had witnessed countless lives perish today, Su Mo’s heart was still heavy. ’If it weren’t for Jiang Wu’s insatiable greed and bloodlust,’ she thought, ’these people wouldn’t have had to die!’

She raised her bow, aiming an arrow at Jiang Wu. "Do you want to know why you’re trapped in this endless cycle of rebirth, doomed to never have a happy ending?"

Jiang Wu frowned. ’She knows? She knows I’ve been reborn countless times?!’

’But so what if she does?’

’I’ve been reborn so many times. Opponents have come and gone, one after another. They were all just fleeting figures, while I, Jiang Wu, am eternal! Everyone wants to defeat me, but no one ever truly has!’

Jiang Wu sneered. "I don’t need to know why. I was born to be the master of this world!"

"You can never be the master of this world. You could be reborn a thousand times and you still couldn’t change your fate, because you never change yourself! That’s why you lose every single time!"

Jiang Wu’s eyes narrowed. "It’s not my fault!" she snarled. "It’s that damned script! ’He’ doesn’t want me to win completely! Since he won’t let me have an easy victory, I’ll fight him to the very end! I was born to be the protagonist, so why should I let ’him’ control my destiny!"

Jiang Wu snarled again, "I have nothing more to say to you. Now, die!"

Su Mo’s stamina was running low, but Jiang Wu wasn’t much better off. In the midst of another fierce struggle, Jiang Wu finally began to lose control, her true form about to burst forth!

Holding on with the last shred of her will, she cried out, "Ai Ci, get me out of here!"

Su Mo’s voice was grim. "Stop them!"

The next instant, she flung a powder from her sleeve. A blinding light flashed, and just as expected, Jiang Wu’s true form was revealed.

Its beak was like red jade, its talons like golden hooks. Each and every feather seemed to radiate a gilded light, and for a moment, everything else in the world seemed to dim in its presence.

But Su Mo was focused, her eyes scanning for the single Reversed Feather on Jiang Wu’s body.

’Found it!’

Just as she raised her bow to aim at the Reversed Feather, a black shadow shot past her eyes!