Chapter 910: Martial Empress

Night.

In the stream.

Three figures were quickly das.h.i.+ng through.

The doll was now sitting on Gu Qing Shan’s shoulder cupping its hand as it looked towards the sky.

“A meteor is falling”

It loudly called out.

Everyone looked in that direction only to see a dark cl.u.s.ter streaking across the sky.

All of a sudden.

An earthquake.

A huge sound of impact resounded from afar.

Gu Qing Shan tried to stabilize himself and asked: “The Demon Dragon is here?”

The tall slender woman replied: “That’s right, it fell not too far away from where we are, it’ll probably make it here soon”

“Can we outrun it?”

“No, both its physical strength and speed are retained, it would very soon catch up to us”

“Then we have no choice but to face it” Gu Qing Shan sharply scowled.

“Definitely not, its body was built to be the ultimate weapon, without the power of the Abyss, I’m no match for it, while you——–”

The tall slender woman glanced at him, then sighed.

She then reached her hand into her long black hair and lightly pulled.

She had plucked a strand of her hair.

She swiftly tied the strand of hair around her waist, then pulled the other end towards Gu Qing Shan.

“Since you carry the power of the Demon Dragon, as soon as it notices you, it would devour you whole”

The tall slender woman tied the hair on Gu Qing Shan’s wrist and continued: “My hair has a stretchy and elastic property——– this isn’t a supernatural power, it’s my own physical trait”

“And then?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The tall slender woman said: “You go ahead first, I’ll stall it here. When you arrive at the warp point, pull on this air, its elastic property would be triggered to pull me straight to your location”

Gu Qing Shan glanced at her: “You aren’t afraid that I’m going to get rid of this strand of hair?”

The tall slender woman curtly replied: “Regardless of what happens, since you have the twin swords with you, I can’t allow Demon Dragon to catch you”

Gu Qing Shan stood silent for a brief moment before turning to leave.

He brought Shannu and the doll with him, das.h.i.+ng upstream as fast as he could.

The tall slender woman stood still, closed her eyes and slowly mediated her breathing.

In the shroud of night, her presence slowly faded away, as if her body had become one with the world.

A few moments later.

A mocking voice resounded: 「 Tsk, tsk, tsk, how unimaginable. You were betrayed by humans, yet you’re staying here to stop me for the sake of a human——— the legendary Martial Empress, deceived by yet another human. I really wonder just how exactly was your head fitted on 」

A gloomy humanoid figure appeared from the shadow.

The Demon Dragon.

His pair of long black horns had already turned completely ashen, curling inwards by his ears.

His physique was noticeably bulkier, with each movement of his limbs, a faint grey mist could be seen drifting from his body.

The tall slender woman slightly bent her body to form a stance.

“That’s all in the past, no need to bring it back up” she muttered.

The Demon Dragon gave her a strange look, then vexingly spoke: 「 I really don’t understand, both you and I have submitted ourselves to the will of the Abyss, but why are you still holding yourself to your original human ident.i.ty? 」

“I will not let you have the twin swords” the tall slender woman curtly replied.

「 Then die! 」the Demon Dragon abruptly shouted.

He dashed forward like a howling gust of wind straight at the tall slender woman and threw a single punch!

The tall slender woman appeared to not have moved at all, but still managed to avoid the Demon Dragon’s punch.

Dong——–

Her fists swung forward like a loosened bow and struck the Demon Dragon’s body like a bolt of lightning.

The Demon Dragon’s body was heavily shaken.

Borrowing the recoil from this strike, the tall slender woman leapt backwards.

Boom!!!

Several hundred meters away, a large boulder suddenly exploded into fine rubble and dust.

———that was from the shockwaves of the Demon Dragon’s punch.

In the blink of an eye, the tall slender woman had avoided her opponent’s killing blow, retaliated, then immediately retreated.

While facing against the ultimate weapon of the Bygone Era humanity, to be able to recognize and move against such an attack proved that she stood at the peak of martial arts without any doubts.

The Demon Dragon stood still, lightly shook his body, then glanced at the tall slender woman who stood at a distance.

「 You should know, with bodily strength alone, humanity can’t stop me 」he slowly spoke.

“Of course I know, I partic.i.p.ated in the trial that tested your physical strength” the tall slender woman replied.

「 That’s why I’m curious——– you who have lost all your abilities and retained nothing but your martial arts expertise, what gives you the courage to stand in my way? 」the Demon Dragon questioned.

Standing across from him, a streak of red liquid slowly seeped out from the corner of her mouth.

She was already wounded by being merely grazed by that punch’s accompanying pressure.

This was an imbalanced battle.

———without her martial arts expertise, anyone else wouldn’t have been able to survive the punch from the Demon Dragon just now!

The tall slender woman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said nothing.

She opened the fist of one hand into a palm, maintained a fist in the other hand and formed another stance.

The Demon Dragon scowled as his expression darkened.

Although she can’t defeat me, she can stall me here through risking her life. If this is allowed to go on, that brat with the twin swords is going to escape!

The Demon Dragon relaxed his stance: 「 I don’t want to waste time here, so how about this? Let’s make a deal 」

“What kind of deal?”

「 After I kill that brat and obtain the twin swords, I will bring you into the Reality Gate myself, after you had your revenge, the twin swords will belong to me 」

“A fair deal, I’m moved”

「 Then let’s decide on that 」

“No, I refuse”

The Demon Dragon froze, then gritted his teeth: 「 Are you mocking me? 」

The tall slender woman calmly replied: “Earlier, I would have already agreed, but I’ve just found out a certain thing. After over a hundred million years, the old man finally has a disciple, and I don’t want that disciple to die here”

The Demon Dragon froze again.

「 The old man’s… disciple 」the Demon Dragon displayed a complicated expression.

The tall slender woman said nothing else and continued to acc.u.mulate her strength.

The Demon Dragon abruptly laughed maniacally: 「 Ahahaha, a disciple of that fool! If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have been born and wouldn’t have been imprisoned in that Abyssal Jail for countless years, watching over YOUR ABYSSAL BODY! 」

「 HE DESERVES TO DIE! AND HIS DISCIPLE TOO! 」

「 MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, I WANT TO KILL THAT BRAT! 」

The Demon Dragon’s body gradually grew larger and larger, eventually reaching 4-5 meters tall with an appearance similar to a demon in legends.

The tall slender woman coldly told him off: “He granted you life, and now you want to kill his disciple?”

The Demon Dragon angrily shouted back: 「 NO! HE DID NOTHING OF THE SORT, IT WAS ALL THANKS TO THE SAMSARA! The Samsara was supposed to be our only hope, but HE took the Samsara away from our world! 」

The tall slender woman spoke: “You should understand better than anyone, the Samsara wasn’t something that belonged to our world so we couldn’t let it remain, otherwise, its unknown owners would be able to infiltrate our world!”

The Demon Dragon gritted his teeth: 「 I only saw that in the final moments before the Apocalypse struck, he discarded the Samsara, discarded MY hope of evolving into my perfect form——– he deserved everything that happened to him! 」

The tall slender woman sighed and muttered: “At that time, we’ve already studied and understood the most basic principles behind the Samsara——– we had already begun to construct a Samsara of our own. This would have been our world’s ultimate weapon, the creation of which would’ve solved your issues as well”

「 Bulls.h.i.+t! Humanity’s power couldn’t have possibly achieved that level! That was a mere ridiculous imitation! 」the Demon Dragon roared.

He abruptly became hysterical, stepped in closer to the tall slender woman and questioned her in a frenzied tone: 「 Even if what you said had been true, how did things actually ended up? 」

The tall slender woman lowered her head and fell silent.

The Demon Dragon angrily roared again: 「 Answer me, HOW DID THINGS ACTUALLY ENDED UP!? 」

The tall slender woman pursed her lips tightly, a look of pain flashed by her gaze before going away.

The Demon Dragon stood up straight and shouted to the sky: 「 I! WAS IMPRISONED FOR OVER 100 MILLION YEARS! WHILE YOU FELL TO THE ABYSS AND RECEIVED THE CONTEMPT OF THEM ALL——– after the old man died, they took that laughable fake Samsara and ran away! THEY! RAN! AWAY!!! 」

The Demon Dragon’s vertical pupils started to glow with gloomy dark flames.

He lowered his body, both legs bent so that his entire body crouched almost flat to the ground, using only one finger to support his entire body.

At this time, the power acc.u.mulated on the Demon Dragon was like a raging tidal wave, manifesting itself as a gloomy spiral that continually emitted intense pressure and howling wind.

The Demon Dragon aimed straight at the tall slender woman and remained still.

「 Since you took care of me back when you were still human, I will give you one final chance——– move away, or die! 」the Demon Dragon muttered in an incredibly low voice.

The tall slender woman took a deep breath, both her fist and palm pulled back in front of her chest as her entire body felt as heavy as the deep sea.

“Desperation!”

She loudly shouted as her body began to give off visible white light.

The stream, the rocks, the falling leaves, the air, everything floated around her as if it was caught by some sort of extreme power.

「 This is your final desperation martial technique? Regretful, just how much of your power back then can you actually exert now? 」the Demon Dragon spoke as if mocking her.

“Skip the nonsense, come and face me” the tall slender woman declared.

「 If you really want to die so much, then——– I—— will——- grant—— DEATH! 」

The Demon Dragon’s body abruptly vanished.

The tall slender woman’s figure also vanished at the same time.

A bolt of lightning exploded on top of the stream.

Boom!!!

A slender figure was sent flying away like a kite whose string had been snapped.

The Demon Dragon’s maniacal laugh reverberated in the sky: 「 Ahahahaha! So what if you stand at the apex of martial arts? Even a thousand of your punches can’t harm me, but I only need to land one hit on you! 」

While laughing, he abruptly stopped.

Because the figure in the air was flying away from him at an unbelievable speed.

——-as if someone standing in an unseen location had pulled on a string with all their strength.