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Chapter 537 - 344. Reliable People (4000 words)_2

Chapter 537: Chapter 344. Reliable People (4000 words)_2

In other words, she had a relationship with Ihui Guangjiu Ju and Ihui Ju Xu that was both mentor and parent.

And now, she was about to sacrifice one of her daughters...

Ihui Nailuo’s palm trembled.

Was this really worth it?

"..." Ihui Nailuo silently turned her head to look at the Divine Tree.

If she continued to delay, Beichuan Si would likely soon arrive.

She could not delay any longer.

So, there was only one thing left to do.

Ihui Nailuo reached out her hand.

Toward the neck of Ihui Guangjiu—

Bang!!!!

Ihui Nailuo’s half-body was struck backward.

"Beichuan?" Ihui Nailuo, barely stabilizing in midair, widened her eyes in shock.

Beichuan Si had been there all along?

"It’s impossible, how could you be so fast...? And I should be on the body of Ju Xu..." Ihui Nailuo’s face violently fluctuated, the Spiritual Body’s light dimmed even more.

"The monitoring mark has been removed," Beichuan Si answered Ihui Nailuo’s question.

Hearing this statement from Beichuan Si, Ihui Nailuo’s violently fluctuating face gradually calmed down:

"... Is that so. The mark was removed."

She murmured to herself.

This indeed was Beichuan Si’s style...

No... no, that’s wrong.

From the beginning, Ihui Ju Xu and Ihui Guangjiu had communicated with Beichuan Si... They never intended to obediently become living sacrifices.

But—

"I know everything!"

Ihui Nailuo’s face flashed with a twisted smile.

She straightforwardly reached out her hand, targeting both Ihui Ju Xu and Ihui Guangjiu!

"Beichuan, do you think I don’t know about your secret communication? I actually know everything!"

With these words falling, the eyes of Ihui Guangjiu and Ihui Ju Xu gradually lost their light.

At the same time, an impurity of the same nature as Ihui Nailuo flickered on their bodies.

This was Ihui Nailuo’s fallback plan!

Twenty years ago, having experienced the betrayal of Ihui Shenzi, she had fully learned her lesson.

She had left more than one type of good intention mark on Ihui Guangjiu and Ihui Ju Xu, whom she raised.

One was for monitoring, the other was for controlling their actions!

This was an ability that she had hidden while raising the two Witches for more than a decade, an ability she had never once shown.

Thus, it was impossible for Ihui Guangjiu and Ihui Ju Xu to know about this.

Since the Ihui sisters didn’t know, Beichuan Si could not possibly know either.

Ihui Nailuo finally felt like she was about to turn the tables on Beichuan Si.

But then—

The good intention extinguished.

A chilling deathly aura surfaced.

Ihui Guangjiu and Ihui Ju Xu gradually regained their senses.

"I had guessed... but it’s not really like that," Beichuan Si said calmly.

This time, the deathly aura left by Beichuan Si was merely for precaution.

He had always been wary of Ihui Ju Xu and Ihui Guangjiu, brainstorming over the possibility that they might be deceiving him.

Thus, he left traces of deathly aura on them as a precaution against their betrayal.

But who could have anticipated it?

What Beichuan Si did out of a mere whim had unraveled Ihui Nailuo’s biggest contingency.

It could only be said that timing, luck, and ability were not on Ihui Nailuo’s side.

Hearing all of Beichuan Si’s explanations, Ihui Nailuo completely collapsed on the ground.

Her gaze was vacant, her mouth agape, unable even to make a sound.

This was simply too despairing.

That had been her last recourse.

But even that...

This was simply too unreasonable.

"Beichuan..."

Ihui Nailuo muttered the name, filled only with regret.

Inviting Beichuan Si had been the biggest mistake of her decisions.

Ihui Nailuo gave up struggling entirely.

There was no way.

Even if she had turned into a vengeful spirit due to her obsession, there was no way she could defeat Beichuan Si.

Moreover, as a vengeful spirit, it was fundamentally impossible for her to enter the Divine Tree and turn all the islanders into celestial beings.

But...

"No matter what... even if turning the islanders into celestial beings can’t be achieved, the Divine Tree still needs a live sacrifice," Ihui Nai Luo said as if her heart had turned to ashes.

The awakening of the Divine Tree required the pure blood of a witch and her Spiritual Body to enter the Divine Tree.

Ihui Nai Luo’s original plan was to use the blood of the Ihui Witch to build a bridge between herself and the Divine Tree, then replace the witch’s Spiritual Body that was supposed to enter the Divine Tree, and enter the Divine Tree herself to take control of it.

But now, her Spiritual Body was so weak that taking control of the Divine Tree was already impossible.

Weakly, she looked toward Ihui Guangjiu and Ihui Ju Xu, "In other words, you still need to choose one person from Guangjiu or Ju Xu as the live sacrifice...but with this method of sacrifice... the selected witch will also become a celestial being, so there won’t be nowhere for the Spiritual Body to reside."

This was also a kind of win-win outcome in another sense.

One of Ihui Guangjiu or Ihui Ju Xu would merely lose their physical body but could still survive as a celestial being of Ihui Island.

"Let it be me," Ihui Ju Xu stood up.

She looked at Beichuan Si and Ihui Nai Luo, then turned back to her sister:

"It’s undeniably the most prudent for me to do it, Guangjiu is too young to bear the weight of the Divine Tree."

What Ihui Ju Xu said was undoubtedly logical.

As she mentioned.

Compared to Ihui Guangjiu, she was older and had been a witch for a longer time; entrusting her with the task of awakening the Divine Tree posed absolutely no problem.

She walked step by step toward the Divine Tree.

The weight of the Divine Tree... that was the weight of the traditional ceremonies passed down, the weight perpetuated by the generations on Ihui Island.

Ihui Ju Xu slowly walked to the midst of many human figures.

Then she took out a gleaming dagger from her bosom.

The dagger reflected her complexion.

There—

With a smiling expression!?

Under the gaze of Ihui Nai Luo and Ihui Guangjiu.

Ihui Ju Xu raised the dagger high and plunged it hard into her abdomen.

The ritual to awaken the Divine Tree was about to be completed!

However, the next moment—

A grim death aura knocked the dagger from her hand.

And with it, her body tumbled to the ground, covered in dirt.

This sudden change stunned everyone.

Ihui Ju Xu was completely dumbfounded too.

The death aura was heavy and forceful, causing her palms to ache and tremble.

"Beichuan Master?"

Confused, she turned her head to look at Beichuan Si.

And just then, Ihui Guangjiu was also fiercely knocked to the ground by Beichuan Si.

Beichuan Si paid no attention to Ihui Ju Xu’s questioning and indifferently took the same dagger from the embrace of the fallen Ihui Guangjiu.

Seeing Beichuan Si draw another dagger from her sister’s bosom, Ihui Ju Xu’s face turned pale.

She hurriedly stood up, her head aimed at the giant Divine Tree, ready to crash into it!

The threads of death aura were pulled taut again.

Her body was completely restrained by Beichuan Si.

"When did this happen?"

Incredible disbelief was written all over Ihui Ju Xu’s face, then she twisted her head to look at Ihui Guangjiu.

The other was bound by death aura just like her, unable to move at all.

Could it be that they even considered Guangjiu’s situation?

A chill ran through her heart.

And in her astonished face, Beichuan Si’s icy tone rang beside Ihui Ju Xu’s ear:

"I told you before. To guard against the two of you, I left death aura on your bodies."

Beichuan Si pulled at the death aura twisted between his fingers, his expression exceptionally calm as he counter-questioned:

"When did you two have an idea that ’I have completely trusted you both’?"

Indeed.

From the beginning, Beichuan Si had never trusted the people of Ihui Island.

Ihui Nai Luo... or Ihui Guangjiu, Ihui Ju Xu, were merely tools... no, guides that brought him here.

The ones truly worth trusting were—

Beichuan Si patted his collar and tapped on the Shinra Bell.

A small doll jumped up and stood on Beichuan Si’s head.

The Shinra Bell shone brightly, and Shenzhu Shihui, dressed in the Soul Suppressing Twins’ witch attire of Shenzhu Village, also floated out.

He trusted only them.