Chapter 213 - 183: Severing the Fate Line

Amid those interwoven trajectories, Su Mo discovered the threads of fate connecting her, Mo Xiao, and the others.

’So this is the main reason Jiang Wu can control them all through me?’

Su Mo’s gaze hardened as her heart sank.

Jiang Wu declared smugly, "All of your fates are in my hands! Whether you surrender meekly or face annihilation with Su Mo, the choice is yours to make in an instant!"

Jin Tong’s ink-black eyes were fixed on the Compass in Jiang Wu’s hand, a sliver of wariness rising in his heart.

He could clearly see the endings of the previous nine cycles of reincarnation, each one a repetition of the last. But this final time, the ultimate outcome had not yet manifested.

’Does this mean that while Jiang Wu has the power to restart fate, she can’t actually change her own ending, or ours?’

At this moment, Jin Tong finally understood what Su Mo had said that day: all cause and effect stems from the heart’s desires.

Everyone’s final outcome is the result of their own choices. It may seem preordained by fate, but it is forged by the decisions one makes every step of the way!

The endings for both him and Jiang Wu were, in truth, the inevitable result of the choices they had made, time and time again.

Jin Tong turned to Su Mo with a grave expression.

Su Mo was trying to figure out how to destroy the Compass in Jiang Wu’s hands.

Jiang Wu’s Golden Finger was probably just like her own system; the Life Force of such things was bound to their master. For the most part, they lived and died together.

But if Jiang Wu died before the bond was severed, her connection to the Life Plate would remain. The influence it exerted because of her would never dissipate.

’So, before I can kill Jiang Wu, I have to sever her connection to the Life Plate first!’

Little Nine’s voice echoed in her mind. "Master, perhaps you could try disabling Jiang Wu’s Combat Power first. Her kind of Golden Finger usually requires Inner Strength to operate!"

’Got it.’

Su Mo looked up at Jiang Wu. "City Lord Jiang, you hold the power to defy the heavens and change fate, yet time and again you weave your own prison, doomed to repeat your mistakes! You’re so arrogant and refuse to reflect on your actions. How could you not lose? Even if you were given ten million more chances, you would never win!"

Fury blazed in Jiang Wu’s eyes as she glared at Su Mo. "I have never lost! I possess the power of Nirvana Rebirth, so how could I possibly lose? The losers are you and these ants! You are all nothing more than pawns on my board, for me to move as I please!"

"An outsider like you is destined only to die at my hands, again and again!" Jiang Wu’s sinister gaze fixed on Su Mo. "Su Mo, I will ensure you are reduced to ash, completely obliterated from the six paths of reincarnation!"

With a flick of her wrist, she put away the Compass and said coldly, "Take this!"

Su Mo frowned. Gritting her teeth, she yanked the arrow from her shoulder and leaped into the air.

Jin Tong seized the opportunity, charging straight for Jiang Wu.

Ai Ci reacted instantly, calling her people to gather and clash with the approaching Jin Tong, Mo Xiao, and the others.

Behind them, Xuan Wei and the North Wing Clan Leader led their forces against Jiang Wu’s soldiers. It didn’t take long for Jin Tong to understand Su Mo’s strategy from her attacks.

’She wants to destroy Jiang Wu’s Inner Strength!’

To destroy someone’s Inner Strength, one must either shatter their bones and tendons or destroy their Wisdom Root!

Shattering the bones of a Level Ten Beastman was no easy task, but as for Jiang Wu’s Wisdom Root... Jin Tong only had to think for a moment before it became clear.

It was her Reversed Feather!

That Reversed Feather had once been both Jiang Wu’s weakness and her Wisdom Root!

To take the Reversing Scale, they had to force Jiang Wu into her true form.

Having reincarnated nine times alongside Jiang Wu, Jin Tong knew her as well as she knew him.

He had no advantage in a direct confrontation with Jiang Wu, but he could assist Su Mo!

With Jin Tong’s support, Su Mo gained the upper hand. The tip of her whip swept across the back of Jiang Wu’s hand, and the Totem on her wrist flared with heat once more.

Once stained with blood, the power of the long whip in her hand increased significantly.

Locked in combat with Su Mo and Jin Tong, Jiang Wu gradually found herself struggling to keep up.

She had been using the power of the Star Disc to suppress the urge to reveal her true form. But now, with her Inner Strength depleted from the fight and the effects of some drug surging through her, that urge was becoming overwhelming!

Jiang Wu quickly changed her tactics. Twisting her fingers, she summoned the wisp of Jin Tong’s Heart Soul and secretly exerted her power over it.

As expected, Jin Tong was immediately hampered, his Inner Strength restricted. In that moment of distraction, a poisoned arrow from Ai Ci flew toward him, nearly piercing his heart.

Su Mo quickly tossed a pouch of medicine to him. "Take this now! It will suppress the poison!"

Jiang Wu shot Jin Tong a hateful glare. If she wasn’t constrained from killing him right now, she would have finished him off on the spot.

Soon, Jiang Wu resorted to her old tricks, aiming the dagger in her hand at Ye Yuan, who was beside Su Mo.

This time, Su Mo keenly sensed her intent. She frowned and cried out, "Ye Yuan, watch out!"

Jiang Wu sneered. With a flick of her fingers, she redirected the dagger, sending it flying toward Su Mo instead.