Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Chapter 544: 544 what is your name?

”Hmph, think you can escape?”

Just as Yun Xiao exerted his fastest speed, attempting to flee the arena, a look of disdain flashed in the black-clad woman’s eyes. A cold snort escaped her lips, and immediately Yun Xiao felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his whole body seeming ready to burst apart.

Already on the verge of exploding due to the furious power of the Golden Snake Worm, Yun Xiao took another heavy blow and couldn’t withstand it, his body going limp and falling to the ground.

”Sigh, this lady is too strong, accept your fate!”

As Yun Xiao felt the power he had just increased recede like the tide, a voice filled with melancholy reached his ears.

This was naturally emitted by the Golden Snake Worm, but Yun Xiao seemed to have not detected the sorrow and despair in its tone, treating it as if it were a matter of course.

”Could it be, after my death, this creature could actually find another host?”

At this moment of impending death, the fact that Yun Xiao could still think about such things was quite remarkable. Either his heart was indeed large, or perhaps, knowing there was no possible way to escape, he had instead found peace.

”Yun Xiao, if you have any tricks left, use them now!”

The numerous hidden cards the young man before her had revealed piqued the interest of the black-clad woman. After her words, everyone else’s heart surged with a strange feeling. They all wanted to see, did Yun Xiao have any other techniques up his sleeve?

”I have no tricks left. It’s your move.”

Yun Xiao lay collapsed on the ground, finding even moving a finger to be difficult. After a wry smile, he suddenly lifted his head and said with a laugh: ”Since I’m a dead man already, I can’t die cluelessly, can I? Could you tell me your name? So that I don’t end up a confused ghost!”

Yun Xiao’s slightly odd gaze fixed on the woman’s eyes, which were like brilliant stars in the dark night. For some reason, his somewhat teasing words didn’t seem to annoy her at all.

In fact, the black-clad woman held no deep-seated hatred for Yun Xiao. She was sent to assassinate Yun Xiao due to some inexplicable reasons and compelled by forces behind her.

”Shen Xingmou!”

Perhaps it was the Black Star Mark in the palm of her hand that, in some mysterious way, was connected to Yun Xiao’s Blood Moon Mark. At this moment, the black-clad woman inexplicably blurted out her own name.

”Shen Xingmou, eyes like cold stars, indeed a name as distinctive as her person. A good name!”

Yun Xiao repeated this somewhat unfamiliar name to himself, and even while staring at Shen Xingmou, he uttered a sound of admiration as if he didn’t perceive the woman before him as the enemy who would soon take his life.

”Hmph, do you think I need you to tell me that?”

A hint of pride flickered in Shen Xingmou’s eyes. Perhaps only in this moment did she reveal for the first time that she was actually just a young girl of seventeen or eighteen.

Witnessing the suddenly quiet exchange on the stage, and catching the subtle meanings behind their words, many in the audience wore a strange expression.

This did not resemble enemies about to kill each other, but more like a pair of old friends engaged in a heart-to-heart chat. How had the tense and solemn atmosphere suddenly become a bit ambiguous?

”You talk too much!”

Seemingly sensing the unusual gazes from the surroundings, Shen Xingmou’s face reddened, though covered by a black veil, her embarrassment was not seen. This provoked her somewhat, restoring her cold demeanor as she lightly snapped.

”To die beneath the blooming peonies would be a romantic end; to be killed by a lady would mean my rebirth was worth it!”

The sudden change in Shen Xingmou’s attitude did not affect Yun Xiao, who revealed another smile. However, no one knew the true meaning behind his words about ”rebirth.”

Yun Xiao was now certain that Shen Xingmou was not a talent from any power within the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, for even there, it was impossible to nurture such a young Heavenly Rank Expert.

This was beyond Yun Xiao’s comprehension, and perhaps only in that higher plane mentioned by the Golden Snake Worm could such a prodigy exist.

Once, Yun Xiao had thought the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud was the peak of the Nine Dragons Continent. Figures like the Long Xiao Battle God of his previous life and Emperor Canglong were considered the pinnacle of the continent’s combat power.

Thinking back, it was just a frog-in-the-well mentality. Being able to witness a wider world in his rebirth, indeed, as he said, he had no major regrets. After all, this life was one he had picked up.

”Arrogant even in the face of death, you deserve to die!”

For some unknown reason, when Shen Xingmou heard Yun Xiao recite the ten words ”To die under the peony flower, even as a ghost I’d be romantic,” her heart inexplicably filled with irritation, and even her intent to kill was somewhat shaken.

This discovery startled Shen Xingmou, so she forcibly restrained herself from thinking further and, with a wave of her hand, the black Jinghong Umbrella she controlled flew through the air, furiously thrusting towards Yun Xiao’s chest.

Whoosh!

Everyone clearly saw a streak of black light cut across the sky, and they all realized the outcome—that when the black light pierced Yun Xiao’s chest, this newly crowned champion of the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference would instantly expire.

No one could stop Shen Xingmou’s strike, and among the onlookers, some faces looked ashen, while others took pleasure in the misfortune, their emotions varied, but that outcome seemed forever unchangeable.

Watching the black umbrella rapidly stabbing toward himself, Yun Xiao couldn’t help but show a bitter smile. Back in the mountains of the Lingtian Empire, he had witnessed the power of this Jinghong Umbrella. Wasn’t Lingyun Sect’s Great Elder, Yu Qian, pierced through the chest and killed by it?

Swoosh!

However, right at this life-and-death juncture, Yun Xiao suddenly heard a strange sound in his ears. Then the Jinghong Umbrella, which had just penetrated an inch into the skin of his chest, suddenly froze, unable to impale him through the heart.

”This... what is this?”

Yun Xiao felt a slight pain in his chest, but his gaze swiftly moved to the shaft of the Jinghong Umbrella, because there, at some point, a light green ribbon had appeared.

This soft light green ribbon wrapped around the shaft of the Jinghong Umbrella was probably the reason it hadn’t pierced through Yun Xiao’s heart. The sudden appearance of this ribbon, which could render Shen Xingmou’s Jinghong Umbrella ineffective, made everyone take a cold breath.

Who was Shen Xingmou? She was a Heavenly Rank Expert who could easily overpower even Qian Sanyuan at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm. There was simply no one who could contend against her in the entire Hidden Dragon Continent.

Even Yun Xiao knew clearly that at least on the Hidden Dragon Continent, there was no one who could control Shen Xingmou, and even on the Tenglong Continent, there were likely only a few who dared to oppose her.

The entire Baiyue City square, inside and out, seemed to be trapped in a momentary spatial lock, and time itself seemed to stand still. Tens of thousands of gazes were all fixated on the Jinghong Umbrella and the light green ribbon wrapped around it.

To tell the truth, Yun Xiao’s life and death hung in that instant. If the ribbon could not hold, then his life would unquestionably be lost. But if the ribbon held, perhaps this brush with death could be survived.

All of this might seem like a lengthy tale, but in reality, it happened in a flash. When Yun Xiao saw that light green ribbon, his gaze followed the tightly pulled ribbon to its other end.

There stood a young girl, also clad in a light green dress. She looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, not much different from Shen Xingmou. With her graceful charm, she was too dazzling to look directly at.

”Sis... Sister?”

Upon seeing the girl in green, Yun Xiao felt his heart might nearly burst out of his chest. He could hardly believe the sight before him, as if he was in a dream.

Because the girl in green before Yun Xiao’s eyes was none other than his sister, who had treated him exceedingly well after his rebirth. She was the one he had long thought perished in the Shang Family’s tragedy—Yun Wei.

Back in the Lingtian Empire, Yun Xiao had learned from Yu Qian that his mother might not be dead, but even Yu Qian had confirmed his sister Yun Wei’s death, so he had always believed he would never see his sister again in this life.

Unexpectedly, at this critical moment of life and death, Yun Wei descended like a goddess from the Ninth Heaven. Yun Xiao truly felt as if he was in a dream; he even forgot the Jinghong Umbrella pressing against his chest. In his eyes, there was only the familiar silhouette of the girl in green to his very core.

”Little brother, long time no see! Have you missed your sister?”

It seemed that Yun Wei heard Yun Xiao’s murmurs. With an enchanting smile that bloomed like spring flowers, she finally made Yun Xiao realize that he was not dreaming.

”Sister, it’s really you, this is so wonderful!”

Yun Xiao didn’t know where the strength came from, but he suddenly stood up from the ground, and the Jinghong Umbrella remained lodged in his chest, yet he didn’t feel it.

”Who are you?”

However, just as Yun Xiao stood up and wanted to catch up with Yun Wei, a cold voice came from a slanting angle. Without looking, it was clear that it was Shen Xingmou who had spoken.

Honestly, Shen Xingmou was extremely shocked at that moment. Although she had struck casually earlier, with the power of the Jinghong Umbrella, not even Qian Sanyuan could easily control it.

Shen Xingmou naturally did not recognize Yun Wei, but from the latter’s intervention and the faint aura exuding from her body, she was clear that this might be a peerless genius of a girl who was no less than herself.

But try as she might, Shen Xingmou couldn’t understand. A genius like her was rare even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, let alone in her own plane of existence. Where did this girl in green come from?

And it seemed that the girl in green had quite a connection with Yun Xiao, so had the plan ultimately gone awry?