Ji Yunxi slowly got to her feet. At this moment, she felt even more strange. She clearly had given the God-Slaying Blade to Feng Xingzhi. No one else could have had access to it. Even if someone did manage to get hold of it, no one had been in close contact with her recently.
Ji Yunxi looked at the distant sky. Her eyebrows felt icy cold, and the emotions in her eyes gradually faded. The commotion outside slowly died down. The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and night had fallen!
Ji Yunxi returned to her room and sat in meditation. There was nothing abnormal in her dantian, so she decided to check if there were any tiny gaps in her meridians.
She folded her hands in front of her chest, adjusted her breathing, and focused her mind on her dantian. She pressed the heel of one palm firmly with her elbow slightly bent, feeling the spiritual energy flowing through all the meridians in her body.
With this new train of thought, she quickly found it. There really was a gap near her ear.
Ji Yunxi opened her eyes wide, and her pupils suddenly shrank. She remembered that only Yue Chen had touched her ear under the pretext of brushing away a flower from it that day. In an instant, she understood how everything had happened, but how on earth had Yue Chen managed to do it?
Just then, the door was suddenly pushed open. A figure stood against the light. Jiang Yaoji looked at Ji Yunxi, and a look of disgust appeared between her eyebrows.
"Now that things have come to this, are you still going to hold on?" Her sarcastic tone was like...
The candlelight in the room dimmed. Ji Yunxi couldn't see her expression clearly, but she could imagine how ugly her face must be from her tone.
"What difference does it make whether I hold on or not?" The belief in Ji Yunxi's heart was faintly wavering, and the light in her eyes dimmed a bit. This was the first time Jiang Yaoji had seen Ji Yunxi like this.
"Yue Chen has almost recovered by now. He doesn't even put Feng Ji and the others in his eyes. If you and Feng Xingzhi were both here, there might still be a glimmer of hope." Jiang Yaoji never thought that one day she would be so patient in talking to her. What a twist of fate!
Ji Yunxi's eyes looked a bit erratic, and the desolation in her eyes slowly emerged. She knew in her heart that what Jiang Yaoji said was the truth.
The old subordinates of the Fengche Palace were in Yue Chen's hands. The Yunqi Palace had been massacred back then, and there were very few people left. How could they fight against Yue Chen now? A feeling of helplessness welled up from the bottom of her heart, and a sour feeling flowed in her chest.
She wanted to save them, but she was in such a difficult situation herself. How could she have the strength to save others? She could only watch everything happen helplessly. "So, is that why you came here today to tell me all this?" Her hands were tightly clasped, and her knuckles turned white. At this moment, Ji Yunxi didn't even feel the pain. A strong sense of sorrow welled up in her heart, and her eyes looking at Jiang Yaoji were filled with hatred.
"Of course not. I came here today to..." Jiang Yaoji sat down on the chair, crossing her legs. She leaned forward slightly, looking at her with a cold and malicious glint in her eyes: "Kill you!"
The candle flame flickered. Ji Yunxi's eyes shifted. Her slender body remained motionless. Her bright eyes quietly looked at her. An invisible killing intent filled the air between the two of them.
Finally, Jiang Yaoji made the first move. She hooked her fingers and quickly attacked Ji Yunxi. Ji Yunxi kicked the ground and flew up, dodging her attack. Then she drew her sword and stabbed at her.
Jiang Yaoji dodged nimbly and appeared behind Ji Yunxi, delivering a heavy palm strike. Ji Yunxi quickly turned around, and the sword blade formed a protective shield to block the attack.
"Your speed has slowed down." Jiang Yaoji didn't know about the rupture of Ji Yunxi's meridians. She looked at her in confusion.
Ji Yunxi's back was burning with pain, and blood seeped out. It turned out that she had been scratched by Jiang Yaoji's move just now.
Seeing the confused look on her face, Ji Yunxi understood. It seemed that Jiang Yaoji didn't know about the disappearance of her divine power yet. She decided to end the battle quickly and launched another attack on her.
Jiang Yaoji soared into the air. She folded her hands in front of her lower abdomen and gathered her qi into her lower dantian. The petals and leaves in the yard automatically flew into the room and surrounded her.
Ji Yunxi's pupils widened slightly in shock. It was the Feather and Flower Flowing Technique. When they were in the Merman Clan, Jiang Yaoji had defeated Jing Weiwei and the others with this technique.
"Today, I'll let you taste the pain your friends have endured."
Ji Yunxi stared intently at her attack. Guided by her will, her fingers spun quickly. Her movements were light, lively, and continuous.
A little bit of starlight appeared at her fingertips. Although it seemed to have a slight pause in appearance, the internal force was flowing in her body, and her muscles continued to exert force.
"Break!" Ji Yunxi shouted. A blade of light flew towards Jiang Yaoji.
Jiang Yaoji flipped her wrist and gently pushed. Those petals transformed into sharp blades and broke through the blade of light.
A bright light flashed in the hall and then quickly faded away. If one looked closely, they would find that there were gradually more and more tiny wounds on Ji Yunxi's body. Her water-blue robe was stained red with fresh blood. Taking advantage of the moment when she was gasping for breath, Jiang Yaoji wrapped vines around her body and lifted her into the air. One of the vines penetrated her chest.
Ji Yunxi waved her sword with two fingers and cut off the vines. Those petals seemed to be alive and automatically combined again, glaring at her menacingly.
She lay pale on the ground. Her pale lips were stained with blood. Her breathing was very light, as if she would disappear the next second.
Jiang Yaoji withdrew her spiritual power and slowly landed on the ground. The petals in the air scattered. She moved lazily and gave a charming smile: "You look so pitiful like this, but you're lucky. Yue Chen doesn't want you dead."
Yue Chen? Ji Yunxi felt strange. Didn't Yue Chen want to kill her? Why didn't he let Jiang Yaoji do it?
"Don't worry, though. You're all going to die." Jiang Yaoji's tone was vicious. When she said the last few words, a cold light flashed in her eyes.
"Is the situation outside related to you?"
"So what if you know? You're still lying here like a useless person." Jiang Yaoji didn't deny it, but she didn't confirm it either. She walked towards her step by step.
Ji Yunxi was lying on the ground. From her perspective, she could only see Jiang Yaoji's fluttering hem slowly approaching her. The petals on the ground were stepped on, leaving one mark after another. She tried hard to get up, but she didn't have the strength.
Seeing her like this, Jiang Yaoji couldn't help but sneer: "How have you become so weak? Are you still the Ji Yunxi I know?"
"Isn't this exactly what you wanted? You've always wanted to defeat me, and now you've finally succeeded." Ji Yunxi was a bit self - defeating at this moment. Her thoughts were slowly falling apart, and she didn't know what she was saying anymore.
"Hehe." Jiang Yaoji sneered. Her arrogant voice echoed throughout the entire hall: "You've been trapped here for too long. If you want to know the answer, go out and find it yourself!"
Go out?! Jiang Yaoji's words suddenly woke her up. She also wanted to go out. Her vision was getting blurrier and blurrier. Suddenly, Feng Xingzhi's figure appeared in front of her.
"Yunxi, stand up. Don't give up. Get up quickly!" Feng Xingzhi looked at her tenderly and reached out his hand to her.
"Xingzhi, you must be very disappointed in me..." Ji Yunxi raised her hand and forced a bitter smile. Finally, she fell into darkness.