Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

Chapter 509: Ch 509-This evil spawn must not be allowed to live!

“You are Chaerin’s disciple…”

With a spirit sword at his head, the shadow under the demon armor spoke with a calm, faint smile.

He looked at Ruoning’s face, his brows filled with self-loathing.

“On this journey, did Dia not explain to you why I created this Illusion Realm?”

“Because you didn’t want Sister Dia’s soul to dissipate…” Ruoning replied softly.

Jing Chen lowered his gaze, continuing to smile in shame. “That year, the Demon Abyss descended, and the Divine Abyss Gate threw their weight around. Dia only became this broken to protect the sect…”

“Later, to sustain Dia’s remnant soul, I created this illusion realm with myself as its core. I preserved her remnant soul within my own sea of consciousness.”

“After that, Father was also killed by the Divine Abyss Gate. I inherited the position of Liuli Sect Master. In those years, I traveled the world, searching for a way to revive Dia… And perhaps it was fate, I met a powerful Celestial Master in the Western Region…”

“She gave me the secret recipe to revive Dia, but she also gave me a distant and long-prophecy.”

“But, Dia’s soul couldn’t wait that long…”

“So, to truly allow Dia to exist to this day, I sacrificed myself as the nexus to construct this tangible Illusion Realm.”

“That Celestial Master said…”

“A hundred years later, which is today, a successor with the Innate Liuli Holy Body, guided by fate, would arrive in the Liuli Illusion Realm.”

“At that time…”

“As long as I can kill her, sacrifice her soul to the Demon Abyss, and refine her Innate Liuli Body’s flesh and blood into a pill, I can revive Dia…”

Speaking to the end, Jing Chen finally looked up at Ruoning with a bitter smile.

As a Sect Master, a senior of the Liuli Sect, he no longer had the face to meet the sect’s descendants, let alone a direct victim like Ruoning.

“So… Ruoning, don’t feel any psychological burden.”

“A loss is a loss, and the winner takes all. This has been the rule since ancient times.”

“The Celestial Master told my fate, and heaven gave me this chance, but in the end, it was I was incompetent. Even after guarding this tomb for a hundred years, I still can’t compare to a single hair on the head of the new fated one.”

“I’m tired… I have no face to see Chaerin… Just end me here today.”

“Grant me this, let me reunite with Dia in the afterlife. Isn’t that in its own way a perfect ending?”

Jing Chen gave one last shrug and a cold laugh, then closed his eyes completely, giving up the fight.

“…”

Ruoning clenched her fists.

As Dia, in her sea of consciousness, also completely gave up hope, the nine swords plunged into the wall began to vibrate violently.

“Wait!”

Just before the end, Yino, who had been standing to the side, suddenly spoke up. “What was the name of the Celestial Master you met? And which Demon Abyss did she tell you to make the sacrifice to? The Divine Abyss Gate’s Eastern Sea Demon Abyss? Or one of the evil supreme beings sealed in the Western Region’s Demon Abyss?”

“I don’t know that Celestial Master’s name… She wore a long white dress, her face covered by an illusionary veil. I could only see a pair of charming and captivating purple eyes… and on her head, a pair of…”

Since death was imminent, Jing Chen held nothing back and began to describe her.

He tried to recall more deeply, but as the woman’s face appeared in his mind, Jing Chen seemed to be hit by some kind of stimulus. His eyes flew open, pupils shot with blood.

“Cough!”

He spat out a mouthful of black blood.

But before Ruoning and Yino could react, Jing Chen’s lips curved upward in a somewhat playful smile as he spoke again. “Hehe…”

“She had a pair of black-purple dragon horns!”

“She also had the thick aura of the Demon Abyss on her!”

“And on her neck, there were ancient golden curse marks!”

Jing Chen grew more and more agitated as he spoke, but the blood also began to pour from his mouth, to the point that he started choking on it, his speech becoming garbled.

But even so, Jing Chen showed no fear.

He spat out a large mouthful of blood. Jing Chen no longer had the strength to lift his head, but he used his last breath to recall the important details:

“She also said! She had already given me a chance once before… She said she was the one who secretly guided me to meet Dia beneath the Eastern Sea…. Pfft!”

At this, Jing Chen sprayed out another massive mouthful of blood.

He fell silent, his lowered head completely devoid of life.

Yino carefully walked over and knelt, only to see that Jing Chen’s face was already bleeding from all seven orifices, a horrific sight.

“It’s a death curse…”

Thinking of this, Yino felt a little dazed, raising a hand to his lips.

He looked back at the two fox demons beside him. Yuebai was silent, but Jinyue, who was from the Demon Abyss, puffed up her cheeks thoughtfully. “A black-purple dragon… appearing in the Western Region’s Demon Abyss… that can only be the shape-shifted form of the Mirage Dragon sealed down there…”

“Wait, besides those few Mother Goddesses, there’s also a dragon suppressed under the Western Region’s Demon Abyss…?”

“And why not?”

Jinyue blinked, shrugging as if it were obvious.

“There are plenty of ancient beings suppressed under the Western Region’s Demon Abyss. Besides, the Eastern Sea Demon Abyss has a Dragon Sovereign sealed beneath it that the Divine Abyss Gate has worshiped for generations… so why can’t there be a dragon sealed under the Western Region’s?”

“That… actually makes sense.”

Yino nodded slowly.

As they talked, with Jing Chen’s life force gone, the entire palace of the Liuli Illusion Realm began to disintegrate into billions of Liuli shards.

Jinyue’s charming eyes narrowed. She walked forward, swaying her tail, and stood on her tiptoes to rub Yino’s face.

“In this world~ there are far too many grudges and passions that you and I don’t know about!”

“This story of the Primordial Phantom Butterfly might just be the tip of the iceberg of all the infighting between those Celestial Masters. But more importantly, you’ve already sacrificed both Chen Jianxin and Xumo. You should be worrying about how you’re going to face the Celestial Master when you get out~”

“I think…”

“By this time, my Celestial Master has probably already come to the Liuli Sect personally.”

…..

“Xumo… is dead…?”

In the Divine Gate, within an immortal palace carved of jade, a second lamp on a golden plate extinguished. On the high platform, the white-haired woman’s golden pupils suddenly widened.

But perhaps she had already foreseen this. This time, she didn’t fly into a rage, but just stood frozen in silence for a long moment.

Beside her, several other white-robed immortals with profound auras opened their golden eyes.

“Another child has fallen…”

The immortal in the lead sighed.

At these words, the white-haired woman grit her teeth and silently raised her hand, summoning a jade bow from the void.

“Immortal Venerable, what are you doing?”

To the side of the jade platform, two young disciples who had been meditating and acting as protectors also stood up.

“An evil spawn is bringing disaster. Today, our righteous immortal path has already lost two future fated children.”

“This evil spawn… must not be allowed to live!”

“Qingshuang, Mingyu, bring the ritual artifacts. Follow me to the Liuli Sect to execute this evil spawn.”