257: Chapter 257 Another Memory About the Witch

Just as Zhuge Jinyu and the other three women were staring at each other on the sea's surface, their hearts shaken by the Witch's shocking words before her departure...

...and wondering if Su Chen would truly arrive here soon as the Witch had prophesied...

Bai Suzhen's cold voice broke the deathly silence.

"That Witch was right."

"I also know about the person you all mentioned."

She approached through the air, her white robes as pure as snow.

Her exquisite face carried a mix of bitterness and solemnity.

Zhuge Jinyu and the other three spun around, their gazes burning as they stared at her.

As fellow Transcendent Heroic Spirits, the four of them...

...could see...

...that something was wrong with this woman named Bai Suzhen.

The aura of life within her body had been completely overwhelmed by the aura of death.

This was... a sign that her life was reaching its end.

But.

For powerhouses at their level...

...life was virtually infinite.

Why did this Bai Suzhen look as if her time was up?

Zhuge Jinyu hesitated for a moment before finally asking the question she wanted to ask most.

"Cult Leader of the White Snake Cult, your body..."

"None of that matters."

Bai Suzhen waved her hand dismissively.

Facing the gazes of four of Great Xia's top Transcendent Heroic Spirits, she showed no stage fright at all.

Instead, she let out a soft sigh.

Her tone carried a hint of self-deprecation and a hint of composure.

"To be honest, he and I... indeed had a brief romantic encounter."

"It's exactly the person you're thinking of."

"Su Chen."

Upon hearing the words 'brief romantic encounter' and 'Su Chen'...

...Ye Jingjun's hand tightened around her broken sword, and Cang Mingyue bit her lower lip.

However, Zhuge Jinyu used her eyes to stop them from lashing out.

"But right now, jealousy is meaningless."

Bai Suzhen's tone shifted, and her expression became solemn.

"I came from Qiantang."

"The Qiantang River water has surged back, and spatial rifts producing monsters have appeared throughout the urban areas."

"If not for the efforts of the Great Xia officials and ourselves, I'm afraid Qiantang would already be a wasteland of suffering."

"But other places haven't had the same luck as Qiantang."

"The entire Great Xia, and even the Blue Planet, has been shrouded by terrifying natural disasters and various rifts."

"Even within humanity, there are ill-intentioned individuals watching like tigers eyeing their prey."

"What's more terrifying is that what we see now is only the beginning."

"The majority of the monsters haven't even arrived yet."

"Right now, the space of the entire High Martial World is collapsing. We must focus all our energy on dealing with this world-ending catastrophe before us."

She looked at Zhuge Jinyu and said in a heavy voice.

"After finishing the battle in Qiantang, I used a secret Soul Search technique on the corpses of several Men in Black who were attempting to impersonate my White Snake Cult."

"Namely, the so-called 'Fake White Snake Cult'."

"The attack you encountered during the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony was their handiwork."

"In their stripped, fragmented memories, I saw something..."

"These things are related to that 'President of Flower Feather Society' you just saw."

With that, Bai Suzhen waved her delicate hand.

A ripple of water shimmered and spread through the void.

It quickly intertwined and enlarged.

Ultimately, it transformed into a massive, translucent memory curtain, similar to the one Ye Jingjun had created earlier.

The images within the curtain gradually became clear.

The time was not long ago, before the catastrophe had fully erupted.

It was during the days when Great Xia's 'Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony' was about to begin.

The location was also here, above the East Sea.

In the image, a familiar figure appeared, quickly drawing the attention of Zhuge Jinyu and the others.

It was the President of Flower Feather Society, wearing an intricate black lace gown and a wide witch hat.

At this moment, she was alone, her figure gracefully gliding across the calm surface of the sea.

Her beautiful face carried a faint, sweet smile.

It was as if she were preparing to meet an old friend she hadn't seen in a long time.

Suddenly, the void twisted.

Dozens of Men in Black, exuding an eerie aura—the fake White Snake Cultists—

—appeared out of thin air like ghosts.

They tightly surrounded the Witch in the center.

Killing intent filled the air, blocking all paths of retreat.

However.

The Witch at the center of the encirclement showed no sign of surprise or panic on her face.

Her red lips, hidden beneath the black veil, even curled into a mocking arc that said, 'As expected.'

"The Fake White Snake Cult?"

"Your courage is commendable, to actually dare to block my path?"

Upon hearing the Witch's words, the Men in Black automatically split into two rows like a group of robotic puppets.

The tallest Man in Black stepped out from the crowd.

It was the same Man in Black with a Transcendence Realm cultivation who had been killed by Bai Suzhen in Qiantang.

"Greetings, President of Flower Feather Society."

"I... have come under my master's orders to take your life."

The Witch didn't react much to these words.

"You know my reputation, so why do you still dare to come here and stop me?"

The Man in Black gave a dry laugh.

"Madam President, you are indeed famous throughout the Blue Planet. Even in Great Xia, I have heard of your name."

"However."

"If our investigation is correct..."

"...you seem to have never revealed your strength on any occasion."

"So..."

"Enough, enough."

The Witch interrupted the Man in Black with some impatience.

"So your so-called master thinks that I am actually just a vase who can only prophesy, has no cultivation, and relies on borrowed power, right?"

The Man in Black Robe laughed awkwardly.

"Madam, those are your own words. I wouldn't..."

"So..."

The Witch stood quietly in the void.

"You have completely lost faith in humanity and are preparing to usher in the Abyssal Demons to cleanse your fellow kin on the Blue Planet."

"And the first step you've taken is to lie in wait here to eliminate me, the so-called 'Prophet,' right?"

Hearing the Witch's questioning, the Men in Black were in no hurry to strike.

Instead, they stared at her with mocking eyes, as if looking at a dead person.

The leading Man in Black sneered repeatedly.

"Witch, we indeed thought so originally."

"After all, the Boss said that in this world, if human society still has a sliver of hope for a comeback, the only variable is you, the supposedly all-knowing 'President of Flower Feather Society'."

"But looking at it now..."

"...the so-called prophet is simply a joke!"

"You didn't even foresee that you would be surrounded and killed by us here today; you didn't even foresee your own death."

"After all, if you truly had a premonition, you wouldn't have come here alone like today, or at the very least, you should have been prepared."

"Someone like you poses no threat at all!"

As soon as he finished speaking...

...a soul-trembling roar suddenly erupted from deep beneath the sea.

The sea surface beneath the Witch's feet tore open into a terrifying rift tens of thousands of feet long without any warning.

The rift split the originally smooth sea surface in two.