Nightfall

Armed with Chang'an to Fight

The snow had been beating down from last night until now and had turned Chang’an into a piece of black and white cloth. This cloth was embroidered with houses, temples, mountains, and lakes, but one of the streets was foggy and dim.

Ning Que had heavily sewn that place, trying to mend it or embroider a new flower to cover it up, which relit it.

Unfortunately, he was too late to know that, and he did not have enough time to do that before the Abbey Dean found him.

He and the Abbey Dean saw each other across a long street through the wind and snow.

The Abbey Dean had been injured passing through Chang’an. His robe was stained with blood, but he had not fallen down.

They had not met, but they had seen each other.

Once they met, the battle between them would end.

Ning Que knew he would lose.

Mo Shanshan took a look at him, threw all the stones to the ground, and then left.

He took the Array Eye Pestle and tightly held his hilt.

In the past, if he was sure that he would lose, he would have left. This time, however, he stayed.

This had nothing to do with bravery—he was just confident.

He believed that he could achieve the final victory.

And that was because he was in Chang’an.

The Abbey Dean looked at him across the miles of wind and snow.

The Array Eye Pestle in Ning Que’s hand began to burn, and it was smoking and smelling pungent.

From morning until now, this was the first time that Ning Que and the Abbey Dean really had any contact. Only with the power of the God-stunning Array was he able to remain conscious under the Abbey Dean’s vision.

The power of the God-stunning Array spread to the street through the Array Eye Pestle, protecting his heart and body. As the passageway of the God-stunning Array, the Array Eye Pestle had borne unimaginable Qi of Heaven and Earth and was heating up rapidly.

Not only could his palm feel the pain, but his heart was also in pain.

However, he remained calm and said nothing. Since it was hot, he still could fight.

“Even in Chang’an, you are still too weak.”

The voice of the Abbey Dean resounded from a distant place, which even the wind and snow could not cover up.

Looking through the wind and snow, Ning Que said, “In Chang’an, I know everything, so you can never catch up to me. Now, I just want to see if I can be omnipotent.”

Then in a downward motion, he drew out his podao.

The Psyche Power in his sense of perception overflowed through the Array Eye Pestle and spread out in all the directions of Chang’an, covering the houses in Eastern City, the historied black bricks, the five lakes in Western City, as well as the buildings and pavilions.

A boundless aura came out of the brick joints, rising up from the bottom of the ice-covered lakes and the depths of the buildings.

The withered beams creaked and the green-stoned slates shook, raising dust. The hot spring gushing out from the bottom of the five lakes got hotter and hotter, creating countless pearl-like bubbles, and fish fled from the boiling water.

There was one way in and one way out.

The God-stunning Array sensed the summoning of Psyche Power from the Array Eye Pestle and responded by sending endless Qi of Heaven and Earth to Vermilion Bird Avenue, surrounding him and his podao.