The Godlike Jade Rabbit Chapter 66

Taking a gamble…

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Ch. 66 | There’s still one more weapon

 
Styx looked down at them from mid-air, then at Song Fuyan. For some reason, his eyes appeared slightly moist.

Song Fuyan was taken aback and suddenly shouted, ‘Styx, what are you planning to do?’

The phoenix’s body was entirely bathed in moonlight and its voice came from deep within its body. ‘I’ll delay the Crone. Leave quickly and take the injured with you.’

‘Don’t do anything rash!’ Song Fuyan met its gaze and felt that there was something different about it.

The ten fire dragons were rushing at them with a powerful momentum and their scorching breaths were coming in billowing waves.

Liang Luoheng’s big tree had already been burnt to bits and he had no choice but to abandon it and go back down to the ground where he pulled Song Fuyan away, warning, ‘Don’t go over there! It’s dangerous!’

Just then the phoenix landed in front of them and spread open its wings, extending them rapidly so that they looked like a big gate, firmly barring the front. The fire dragons collided with the wings with loud explosions, forcing the phoenix to take a step back each time. By the time all ten dragons had collided with its wings, turning into sparks that shot everywhere before disappearing, three of the phoenix’s wings were blackened. But it had withstood this wave of attacks.

The phoenix turned its head and urged them in a very deep voice, ‘Retreat quickly!’ Then it beat its wings again and in an instant, all the starlight and moonlight shone on its body until it looked like a shining beacon.

‘Styx!’ Song Fuyan’s voice was so grim it was menacing. ‘Whatever you’re thinking of doing, I order you to give up the notion!’

‘Master.’ The phoenix sounded very bleak. ‘Whatever I do, I hope you know that it’s for your sake.’

After saying that, it actually launched itself directly at the Crone.

The Crone hurriedly brandished her walking stick. A fire dragon instantly came snaking out from behind her and rushed towards the phoenix, roaring all the while. The phoenix was covered in a shell of starlight and moonlight so the fire dragon could not harm it in the slightest. It also blocked the second fire dragon. By the third and fourth dragons, cracks were slowly appearing on the shell and when the nth dragon slammed into it, the shell split open with a crack.

‘Bang!’ A fire dragon collided head-on with the phoenix, slapping its head to one side. The phoenix shrieked and blood streamed from its mouth.

‘Styx!’ Song Fuyan roared furiously. ‘Stop!’

Ye Ziran asked Song Lin in some disbelief, ‘What… is it up to?’

Song Lin’s fists were tightly balled. ‘Legend has it that when a phoenix girds itself with starlight and moonlight, it intends to end in mutual destruction¹.’

‘In… in mutual destruction?’ Ye Ziran suffered a shock.

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Just then, they heard a bang as beams of starlight surrounding the phoenix began hurtling towards the Crone like asteroids. The Crone hastily summoned the Shuren around her, each one stacked atop the other, climbing on each other, forming a wall of bodies. Any Shuren that got blasted by the starlight exploded into black fluid and the gaps were then filled by other Shuren.

The phoenix was like a golden comet, its resplendent tail trailing behind it as it blazed in a dazzling arc towards the Crone. This magnificent trajectory was reflected in everyone’s eyes, seemingly in slow motion, beautiful but heartbreaking.

Time seemed to stop for a moment and after a minute’s stillness, there was a massive explosion of light which completely engulfed the Crone and all the Shuren nearby.

Liang Luoheng immediately summoned new tree vines from below which twisted themselves together to form a gigantic hand. He bellowed, ‘Now’s the time! Retreat!’ The giant hand of tree vines grasped hold of all of them and lifted them in the opposite direction, away from the scene of the explosion.

‘Styx!’ Song Fuyan’s hair was ruffling in the wind. He leapt swiftly down from the tree vines, causing Song Lin to exclaim in alarm, ‘Brother!’

He turned his head and squeezed Dandan’s shoulder. ‘Go back to Crescent Moon Ridge first!’ Then he jumped off as well.

‘Song Lin!’ Dandan hollered but those two did not even look back as they ran off into the distance.

‘Blast it!’ Dandan braced himself against the vines, preparing to leap down when Phantom held him back, urging, ‘Dandan! Where there’s life, there’s hope²! Let’s go back to Crescent Moon Ridge first and come up with another plan!’

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Dandan shook Phantom’s hand off. ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t leave Song Lin behind.’ Then he jumped down.

Liang Luoheng asked in alarm, ‘What are you all doing?’

Song Fuyan and Song Lin were already rushing towards Fuyin Street so Dandan turned back to shout to the rest, ‘Go back to Crescent Moon Ridge quickly, we’ll be right behind you!’

When they rushed to the spot where the Crone was, they discovered the ground covered in the sticky black fluid of the Shuren that had been blown apart by the explosion. It was a terrible scene, as if ink had been flung everywhere.

The Crone’s grey cape lay in shreds all over the ground where she herself lay sprawled, her entire body a faint translucent black, her legs broken. She lay wriggling on the ground as she absorbed the black fluid around her without pause to heal her legs.

Song Fuyan crouched down beside Styx who was back in his human form but lying motionless and with his eyes tightly shut. He brushed his fingers lightly across Styx’s deathly pale face before he said, ‘Fool.’

Dandan crouched down, felt Styx’s pulse and started back in shock before looking at Song Lin. ‘He’s dead.’

While keeping a wary eye on the Crone, Song Lin replied, ‘Legend has it that the phoenix possesses eyes of immortality and can be reborn, but I don’t know how true it is.’

Dandan took two deep breaths and went near Styx, saying softly, ‘Hey… Ol’ Fish Eyes… don’t die… If you die, who’s going to keep the Song Manor in perfect order… or prune the trees in the courtyard… or mend Eldest Master’s clothes…’

Song Fuyan slowly gathered Styx to himself. ‘He won’t die. Phoenixes have more than one life but the loss of each life causes enormous damage to his heart receptacle, so we must take him home quickly.’

‘Leaving?’ Suddenly, the Crone rose with a strange motion. She was like a mass of writhing jam and by no means a human form, yet was growing deformed limbs that were ghastly to look at.

Song Lin turned his head and told them, ‘You all leave first.’

Song Fuyan gazed down at Styx in his arms, torn between wanting to send him back quickly for healing and yet worried for his younger brother.

The Crone’s hand extended like a rope, twining round and lifting up the magic weapons stolen from the Guardians while she sneered, ‘You’re all unarmed³ now and nothing more than a few nobodies which I can easily crush.’

Her gaze landed on Dandan and she said leisurely, ‘My dearest, would you like to experience once again your pact owner dying in front of your very eyes?’

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Dandan’s heart suddenly constricted: w-what did she mean?!

Countless sharp magic weapons were now hovering menacingly above Song Lin’s head and it would take only a second for him to be sliced and diced.

The Crone’s voice was like an invisible hand wrapped around his throat. ‘Whether it’s Yu Huan or Song Lin, you can only watch helplessly as they die, this is your karma!’

Dandan had never felt as impotent as he did at that moment: he had no Blood Weapon, no weapons, no great spiritual power; his most important person was standing in front of him, yet he couldn’t protect him…

What the hell is this!!

Song Lin… is the person I’ve sworn to protect for the rest of my life!

The look in Dandan’s eyes changed abruptly and he suddenly thrust a hand into his own chest, causing a jet of blood to spurt out.

‘What are you doing!’ Song Lin turned his head round, staring at him in horror.

‘I still…’ Dandan seemed to be straining to reach something inside his body, ‘I still have one more weapon…’

Song Lin’s eyes widened suddenly and he asked with trembling lips, ‘Yu Huan’s weapon?’

‘You don’t have enough spiritual power to summon it now!’ he shouted.

‘I…know… ahh… so, I don’t… plan on… summoning it.’ Dandan’s hand sank in by another centimetre even as he stifled a grunt of pain before coughing up a huge amount of blood.

‘You’re mad!’ Song Lin finally understood what he was planning: since he didn’t have enough spiritual power to summon it, he wouldn’t do it that way but would instead… pull it out by force!

No spirit beast had ever pulled out a weapon in such a suicidal manner.

‘I… can do it! …’ A weapon resided inside a spirit beast’s body in the form of spiritual power and towing it out needed an equivalent amount of spiritual energy. Dandan had channelled all the spiritual power from his heart receptacle into his fingers and then sought the weapon’s spiritual energy, so that both types of power would be attracted to each other like magnets.

‘Stop it!!’ Song Lin roared, his voice cracking, ‘You’ll die!’

‘… I…’ Dandan seemed to have grasped something which he then gave a hard tug. ‘I’m going to protect you for the rest of my life, I won’t… won’t die so easily!’

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_{(Approx. 1608 words)}

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