Chapter 287 - 284: An Interlocking Scheme for Yan Chqing

Chapter 287: Chapter 284: An Interlocking Scheme for Yan Chqing

"Idiot! How can a Third Turn like you be as stupid as a pig!"

In response to the Third Turn’s explanation, a Fourth Turn slapped him with a right hand as large as a cattail fan.

The slap completely dazed the Third Turn, and the mere sliver of power that leaked out from the blow was enough to obliterate the entire house.

"Use your brain. If you can’t send us to Guiyun Peak, then send us somewhere a thousand li away from it."

The hot-tempered Fourth Turn said with contempt, "Is that Forbidden Demon Domain really that large?"

"Hey, Xiang Lie, don’t get so angry. What if you kill him?" a white-robed Fourth Turn at his side advised. After all, if they killed him, who would teleport them?

Xiang Lie snorted coldly, then said, "Hurry up and teleport us over there to support Emperor Chu."

"Yes, yes, of course." The Third Turn shaman nodded his head repeatedly, too terrified to feel any resentment.

After all, that massive Black Domain on the livestream was created by a Fourth Turn. Anyone who saw that would be rendered speechless.

For anyone below the Fourth Turn, going there would be no different from suicide, as their legacies would be suppressed by the Forbidden Demon Domain.

Certain Third Turn Soul Cultivators would probably die instantly from exposure to the "light of materialism" just by getting close to the Forbidden Demon Domain.

As a ring of light flared up in the Third Turn shaman’s hands, a portal, set to a random location near Guiyun Peak, opened up.

The moment the portal appeared, the figures of the Fourth Turns began to pour through it.

The first to enter was the hot-tempered Xiang Lie.

He had just stepped out when he found himself standing atop a mountain with pleasant scenery.

But as his gaze swept the area, he discovered a woman standing before him, though he didn’t know how long she had been there.

The beautiful figure stood at the peak’s summit. Her ice-blue hair cascaded like a river of stars, the ends adorned with tiny silver bells that chimed like shattered jade in a spring waterfall with every gust of wind. In her fair hand, she held a three-foot-long sword, and she was currently staring at him with an inscrutable gaze.

’Holy shit, it’s Liu Qingmeng!’

In an instant, alarm bells screamed in Xiang Lie’s mind, and he subconsciously prepared to attack.

Everyone knew Fang Can was from Jiejian Mountain. It was possible he had already been... *used* by the woman in front of him.

’That Third Turn shaman has the worst luck. How could a randomly opened portal lead right to this madwoman?’

Before he could react, Liu Qingmeng had already activated her Charming Blue Film legacy, her body transforming into lightning and moving at the speed of light to appear behind Xiang Lie.

By the time she exited her lightning form, the cold gleam of her longsword was already at Xiang Lie’s neck, erupting with a blinding flash of electricity as she slashed with the full speed of a peak Fourth Turn.

CHK—

With the crackle of thunder ionizing the air, Xiang Lie’s head was sent flying into the sky.

’Damn woman!’ A murderous intent flashed through Xiang Lie’s severed head.

It was just a beheading. Even a mortal could retain consciousness for a few seconds.

’As long as Liu Qingmeng’s Heart Image isn’t infused in the wound to prevent regeneration, I can recover in an instant if I reattach my head in time.’

But in the next moment, he saw a state of utter annihilation, of life and death being extinguished, spreading from the stump of his neck.

’This is... The Sacrificial Artifact has a ’death on injury’ effect, and it’s at least Fourth Turn level... ’

The consciousness dwelling within Xiang Lie’s head dissipated almost instantly. Before it was completely extinguished, he saw a blue "film" rush into the glowing portal.

Four breaths later, Liu Qingmeng’s figure reemerged from the dissipating portal.

Her expression was cold, and her white clothes were like snow. It was as if nothing had happened.

Charming Blue Film gave her a movement speed unmatched among Fourth Turns; its only shortcoming was a lack of instant-kill techniques.

She was well aware of this and did her best to compensate for her legacy’s deficiency.

Relying on the "Silent and Shadowless Steps" technique and the Fourth Turn-level Sacrificial Artifact in her hand, almost no one among the Fourth Turns could evade her surprise attacks, not even Xiang Hongtu.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingmeng’s gaze shifted toward the distant Black Domain.

’Say what you will, Fang Can really knows how to pick fights with the big fish among the Fourth Turns.’

If she were to act now, she had more than a fifty percent chance of killing Xiang Hongtu while he was caught off guard.

But Xiang Hongtu possessed a Yin-Yang Holy Womb. Killing just one of his lives was far from enough.

After a single breath, he would resurrect by switching bodies, and she wasn’t confident that her Charming Blue Film, with its two-thousand-kilometer movement speed, would be enough to escape his pursuit.

As for the other three, Yan Chqing’s Equality Domain made her defense unbreakable, Chi Xiao could simply ignore attacks, and Yi Tianxing became invincible the moment he was attacked by initiating a "game"...

Just thinking about it gave Liu Qingmeng a headache. ’That little guy is a real troublemaker.’

Meanwhile, on the Endless Sea, Yan Chqing glanced around warily.

Ever since they entered the Endless Sea, Ji Donglai, controlled by Fang Can, had been attacking her like a madman.

’What a heartless man,’ Yan Chqing snorted inwardly. ’And to think we shared a certain intimate favor, too.’

Then, watching the all-out battle between Ji Donglai and Xiang Hongtu on the livestream, she mused, ’Fang Can hasn’t attacked me for a full second now. He must have given up. After all, he can’t break through my Equality Domain.’

The so-called Equality Domain could suppress an opponent’s power to her own level.

Centered around this legacy of hers, Yan Chqing had deliberately suppressed her own power growth, focusing wholeheartedly on cultivating dozens of Horizontal Training techniques to raise her defense to more than ten times her strength.

Now, her mastery of Horizontal Training made her pure physical body the strongest among all Fourth Turns.

Coupled with her Equality Domain, she didn’t even need Yi Tianxing; she could escape an antimatter explosion on her own.

But at this moment, unbeknownst to her, two figures were watching her coldly from three feet away.

’Get ready. After you borrow Boss Ji’s ability and teleport away, I’ll launch my attack.’

Fang Can suppressed his own heartbeat, hovering in the air and inching closer to Yan Chqing’s back.

Before him, ■■■ had transformed into a man? A creature? A thing? A concept? ■■? Something that defied all description.

This was the superpower ■■■ had borrowed: Antimeme! (This was mentioned in the list of ■■■’s abilities back in Chapter 242.)

To put it simply, if a meme is about the rampant spread of information...

...then an antimeme is about the self-containment of one’s own information.

A piece of text that can never be perceived, a person who can never be remembered—such self-containing information, these perpetually sealed objects, can be understood as antimemes.

And right now, the ability ■■■ was borrowing was an antimeme superpower codenamed [Identity Unknown].

It was a passive ability, observable only when within one’s line of sight.

The moment it disappeared from sight, all prior memories of it would be instantly erased by the [Antimeme] ability.

Even while it was in his line of sight, Fang Can could only vaguely sense an indescribable ■■■ before him.

And this was only because the antimeme ability was weakened when ■■■ borrowed it. The original superpower’s user remains in a state of ’identity unknown’ to this day.

According to ■■■’s memories, this ability had just suddenly appeared one morning. It was the only superpower to have emerged automatically.

The numerous nuclear warheads previously placed on Guiyun Peak were all planted by ■■■ after borrowing this ability.

At this moment, ■■■ stood motionless one meter away from Yan Chqing. Fang Can knew this was as close as he could get, because the antimeme’s effect created a one-meter radius. If Yan Chqing entered it, she too would become ’forgotten’ like Fang Can.

At this moment, Yi Tianxing was contemplating his chess game, while Yan Chqing’s attention—along with that of most of the audience—was focused on the battle between Ji Donglai and Xiang Hongtu.

Even Xiang Hongtu, forced to defend with all his might against Ji Donglai’s suddenly ferocious assault, wasn’t paying attention to Yan Chqing’s livestream, and neither were the other key players.

Perhaps some other viewers were shocked to see Fang Can and ■■■ behind Yan Chqing, but they had no way of relaying that information to her.

’This is the perfect chance.’ Fang Can’s expression was grim as he did his best to suppress his own presence.

The reason he had to rely on a sneak attack was that, no matter how weak she seemed, Yan Chqing was still a Fourth Turn.

If she had time to react, she could kill him a hundred times in a single second. She would never give Fang Can the chance to get close.

He held his breath. The reason they had to wait for ■■■ to borrow Ji Donglai’s ability was that in his antimeme state, ■■■’s defense was practically zero.

SWISH—

King ■■■’s appearance flickered, transforming into the likeness of Ji Donglai, and he immediately began to desperately use teleportation to leave.

And at that very same moment, Fang Can thrust his right arm forward with all his might, his middle finger bent back for a strike.

Having lost the protection of ■■■, Yan Chqing felt an extreme sense of danger from behind her, and her body tensed instinctively.

"CLANG—"

’This familiar feeling... It’s Fang Can!’ Yan Chqing’s expression immediately became guarded. During those three days at the Suxin Nunnery, she had seen far too many disciples and elders fall to this very move.

’But it’s useless. He’s just Fang Can. With my Horizontal Training, my entire body is a fortress with no weak points. Since you’ve delivered yourself to my doorstep, this is perfect!’

A triumphant look flashed in Yan Chqing’s eyes. She was just about to blast Fang Can away when a faint laugh echoed from her Heart Image: