World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 358 - 197: Magician loyalty!_3

Chapter 358: 197: Magician loyalty!_3

Moreover, Suo Lun was originally intending to kill Sorceress Yaomeng to silence her, as she knew a top secret that wasn’t meant for Suo Lun to know.

Having Ashi Liren kill her might have been the best outcome.

Thus, the three of them left with the utmost haste.

At this time, within the shattered remnants of Sorcerer Manor, only Ashi Liren and Sorceress Yaomeng remained.

Ashi Liren stepped forward deliberately, her jade feet turning each inch of the ground she traversed into ice.

"Why?" Ashi Liren asked, "Why didn’t you save my husband ten years ago? We were deeply indebted to you, why didn’t you save my husband?"

"I couldn’t save him," Sorceress Yaomeng said bitterly.

"Why couldn’t you save him?" Ashi Liren asked.

Sorceress Yaomeng replied, "If I had saved him, the person who killed your husband would have made my life unbearable and death unattainable. My family, my children, all would have died an unnatural death."

Ashi Liren’s beautiful eyelashes trembled slightly. Who had killed her beloved husband? She didn’t ask, yet she had a vague idea.

"You would rather offend me than him?" Ashi Liren asked.

Sorceress Yaomeng nodded and said, "He’s a complete devil. Offending you would only mean my death. Offending him, my entire family would die, including my daughter, who was only five years old at the time and is still in his hands... Miss Ashi, how is my daughter now?"

Ashi Liren remembered that horrifying image, of a small and beautiful girl, draped in a coat of dog fur, a dog tail affixed to her bottom, a human who completely believed herself to be a canine.

"She’s fine," Ashi Liren told a kind lie, and then said, "Will you take your own life, or shall I do it?"

"I will do it myself," Sorceress Yaomeng said, "I’ve been fortunate to live these extra ten years. Now, let me dedicate my life to your husband. Miss Ashi, please... please show some mercy to my daughter."

Sorceress Yaomeng pulled out a blue dagger, aimed it at her heart, and plunged it in fiercely.

Then, she collapsed to the ground, dead.

Ashi Liren looked up to hold back her tears, thinking of her husband in the heavens.

He was physically weak, yet he was a person of profound knowledge, so gentle, so pure. Truly like a breath of spring air, he had thawed her icy demeanor.

Now, Yaomeng was dead, but had she truly avenged her husband?

Probably not, as the Yaomeng of that day had simply failed to save him.

And the real culprit was... her own younger brother, the heir of the Ashi Clan.

As for why he had killed her husband, she knew the reason: jealousy and his terrifying possessiveness.

So, looking at Yaomeng’s corpse on the ground, Ashi Liren’s brows remained furrowed.

She took one last glance and then elegantly departed, vanishing in an instant.

She left behind a cold and mysterious fragrance in the air, and countless blue snowflakes.

...

Suo Lun and his companions had traveled several tens of miles when Bixiao, the swordmaster, suddenly staggered and coughed up a spurt of blood, eerily blue in color.

"Are you injured?" Suo Lun asked in alarm.

"It’s nothing," Bixiao said, "During the fight, her terrifying cold dragon power permeated throughout my body, forcing me to concentrate it and expel it from one location, or the consequences would be unthinkable."

Suo Lun exclaimed, "How old is she this year? To be so powerful?"

"Thirty-one," Bixiao replied, "There have always been rumors that the Blue Sorceress was invincible in the Western Regions, and I didn’t believe them, but after today’s battle, it’s truly astonishing."

More than astonishing, it was a level of power that could drive one to despair.

"But she said that you were more skilled than her," Suo Lun pointed out.

"I’m only more proficient in swordsmanship than she is, but her dragon power is very peculiar. Just by getting close, one can get hurt," Bixiao explained.

And at that moment, Ye Jingfeng’s tears started falling one by one as she asked, "Master, does that... does that mean granny is definitely going to die?"

Despite the old crone being nothing more than Yaomeng’s disguise, Ye Jingfeng’s instinct was to refer to her as granny.

Suo Lun nodded, acknowledging that Sorceress Yaomeng was strong but completely powerless in the face of Ashi Liren.

Suddenly, Suo Lun asked, "Swordmaster, Ashi Liren mentioned that Yaomeng did nothing to help her husband, what’s the story there?"

Bixiao shook his head, "Such secrets are beyond my knowledge. However, after seeing Sorceress Yaomeng’s true face, didn’t you find it familiar?"

Suo Lun felt puzzled. Without her disguise, Sorcerer Yaomeng was indeed bewitchingly beautiful. But

But after Ashi Liren appeared, all his attention was drawn to this icy goddess, which made him somewhat forget the face of Sorcerer Yaomeng.

Unconsciously, his entire mind was filled with Ashi Liren’s faint fragrance and mysterious eyes.

This had nothing to do with affection but was a matter of aura. Once Ashi Liren appeared, her presence would overwhelm everyone else’s, making her the sole focus of their eyes.

Bixiao reminded him, "The pretty little creature that Ashi Luo kicked away that day, wasn’t she similar in appearance to Sorcerer Yaomeng?"

With this reminder, Suo Lun suddenly recalled everything.

It wasn’t just a resemblance; they were practically cut from the same mold. The exquisite face of the girl beneath the beautiful creature was almost identical to Yaomeng’s, only younger by a decade or two.

After Sorcerer Yaomeng removed her disguise and reverted to her true self, she too appeared to be in her thirties at most.

That beautiful creature was Sorcerer Yaomeng’s daughter.

Any person whose daughter was treated so vilely would go completely mad with a relentless drive for vengeance.

Therefore, Yaomeng and Ashi Luo were mortal enemies. In that case, the enemy of an enemy is a friend.

Sorcerer Yaomeng changed Suo Lun’s face and knew his secret; Suo Lun wanted to kill her to silence her. But now, it seemed there was another, better way.

"Let’s go, back to Sorcerer Manor," Suo Lun said.

Bixiao said, "If we go back now, Yaomeng is probably already dead."

Suo Lun said, "No, I feel that Yaomeng isn’t that simple."

Then, the three of them quickly returned to Sorcerer Manor.

...

Meanwhile, Sorcerer Yaomeng, who had been stabbed through the chest, lay motionless on the ground.

And Ashi Liren had long since disappeared.

A gust of wind blew by, and Sorcerer Yaomeng’s body suddenly trembled slightly and then she actually sat up.

In pain, she glanced at the dagger in her chest, sighed softly, and understood that she must once again hide her identity. As long as her daughter was not rescued, she could not die.

How could she not die after stabbing herself in the chest?

She knew that one day Ashi Liren would come for her, so she had been preparing for this day for many years.

She was a genius magician and had managed to shift the position of her heart by an inch over five years, meaning the place she had stabbed was no longer where her heart was.

As for stopping her breathing and heartbeat, she had taken a certain feigned death potion in advance.

Her death had been flawlessly faked.

Of course, if she were faced with that beast Ashi Luo, she still wouldn’t have survived, because that beast would not spare even a corpse.

But Ashi Liren was too proud and chaste; after seeing her supposedly dead, she would leave immediately without even wanting to touch the body, which allowed Yaomeng the chance to escape from the jaws of death.

Just as she was getting up, three figures appeared before her; it was Suo Lun and his companions, returning again.

Suo Lun approached her and said, "Yaomeng, swear fealty to me, and in exchange, I will help you rescue your daughter. Ashi Luo and I are also irreconcilable enemies, sworn to a fight to the death."

Yaomeng stayed still and silent.

Suo Lun continued, "I will build you a bigger laboratory, satisfy all your research conditions, and moreover, my laboratory is located in a place unknown to anyone, where Ashi Liren could never find you."

Immediately, Sorcerer Yaomeng knelt and prostrated herself, saying, "Sorcerer Yaomeng, at your service, my lord."

...

Meanwhile, in the underground prison of Tianshui City Lord’s residence.

Turing Duo stood in front of a mirror, looking at the tattoo that covered her body from her neck to her knees.

"Suo Lun, I hate you, I hate you, and I will curse you for the rest of my life," she said through gritted teeth.

Then, she fiercely pulled out a dagger, poised to slash at the tattoo on her chest.

She wanted to mutilate herself, to peel away the terrifying tattoo, mangle it, even if doing so would make her body even more hideously disfigured.