318: Chapter 318 "I Didn't Catch Her"

Her entire body turned to ash and smoke, dissipating across this devastated battlefield.

All that remained was a butterfly hair clip, the one she loved most during her life, which she used to pin in her long hair.

It fell, lonely and solitary, onto Su Chen's lap.

Su Chen stared blankly at everything happening before him, turning his head slightly.

At this moment, he still could not comprehend what "death" meant.

He only felt that...

Just now, something very important to him seemed to have dissipated before his eyes.

And...

He hadn't caught her.

"Ah... Urgh, ah, ah!!!"

A suppressed, shrill cry of agony erupted from Su Chen's throat.

It was enough to break the heart of any listener and bring tears to their eyes.

And at the very moment Su Wanyue dissipated, the last bit of Mental Power she had reserved during her life exploded forth.

A miniature spatial teleportation array formed beneath the wheelchair.

A flash of white light passed.

Su Chen, still in a state of half-imbecility and half-madness, was forcibly teleported, along with his wheelchair, back to the base camp located far in the rear.

And in a corner that no one noticed...

"Crack—"

Cracks also appeared on the second face of the six-sided mysterious ice within Su Chen's mind.

... In the base camp tent.

This was a private territory that only Su Chen and the six women, including Zhuge Jinyu, could enter.

The space twisted, and Su Chen's figure suddenly fell onto the floor tiles.

The wheelchair overturned to the side.

He curled up on the ground like a beggar who had lost everything.

At this time, because the Alien Demons from the Alien Demon Plane had temporarily retreated to rest, the human defense line had also begun a brief respite and was allocating supplies for the front line.

Zhuge Jinyu, Ye Jingjun, Cang Mingyue, and Jiang Luoli felt the spatial fluctuation and immediately rushed over.

However, when they pushed open the door and saw Su Chen on the ground, the footsteps of the four Transcendent Heroic Spirits instantly froze in place.

As if falling into an ice cave.

Su Chen remained in that dejected state.

But in his arms, he was clutching two things tightly.

A broken long blade, snapped in the middle and stained with dried black blood.

And a butterfly hair clip, carved with exquisite patterns, which had lost all its spiritual luster.

Su Chen's dead eyes were bloodshot.

All the women could see it.

The six-sided ice wrapping Su Chen's soul already had cracks on two of its faces.

This should have been a good thing.

But what seeped out from those cracks was despair and grief.

He was like a drowning person.

Clinging tightly to that broken blade and the hair clip.

His whole body was trembling violently.

Making meaningless whimpers from his mouth.

No words were needed.

Just by seeing those two mementos and sensing Su Chen's violently fluctuating soul aura, and combining it with the battle report just sent back from the front line stating, "The southern Huayu Association defense zone was attacked by a Transcendence Realm Lord, but miraculously held out," Zhuge Jinyu and the others had already guessed the whole truth.

"Wanyue, Teacher Wang Jin..."

Cang Mingyue covered her mouth, her azure eyes filled with tears.

She leaned weakly against the wall, sliding down it, sobbing uncontrollably.

Ye Jingjun bit her lip tightly, making no sound.

Zhuge Jinyu closed her eyes, two lines of clear tears sliding down her pale cheeks.

Her spine, which had always been held straight, was drained of all strength in this moment, looking so hunched and desolate.

The Prime Minister of Daqian could not even say a word of comfort in the face of this cruel reality and her imbecilic lover.

In comparison, Jiang Luoli was the calmest one.

Because she, who was also at the Huayu Association defense line, had seen it the most clearly.

The great hall fell into a dead silence.

Within their hearts, wave after wave of pain and guilt rolled.

They had brought Master to the battlefield with the intention of using external stimuli to awaken him.

But who could have imagined that the cruel price would be watching two other women who loved him deeply be torn to pieces before his very eyes?

Although even if Su Chen hadn't gone to the battlefield, the deaths of Teacher Wang Jin and Su Wanyue likely wouldn't have changed.

However, now the scene of their sacrifice had been witnessed by Su Chen himself.

When Master fully awakens, when he recalls this scene, when he discovers that because of his imbecility, he caused the deaths of Wanyue and Teacher Wang, how were they supposed to face him?

How could they explain all this cruelty to him?

This was undoubtedly twisting dozens of knives into his already riddled heart!

Even...

The four women looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Could they really live until the day Su Chen woke up?

After all, on this battlefield, which was like the Avici Hell, dying in battle was simply too common, too cheap a thing.

Sadness and guilt had become the most luxurious emotions in this world.

Because the footsteps of the Alien Demon Plane would not pause for a moment for human tears.

The day after Teacher Wang Jin and Su Wanyue died in battle, the southern defense zone of the Huayu Association, having lost two powerful core members, met its doom.

No matter how selflessly the lower-level martial artists fought, in the face of absolute crushing power, the Great Wall built of flesh and blood finally suffered an irreparable collapse.

The southern defense line collapsed completely.

Countless Alien Demons drove straight in, turning vast swathes of land into scorched earth.

The Huayu Association's decades of accumulation were completely finished in an instant.

What was even more desperate was that as the rift between Blue Star and the Alien Demon Plane grew larger and larger, more and more high-level monsters were able to pass through the rift.

Almost every day, at least ten Fourteenth Stage or even higher-level Transcendence Realm Alien Demons would forcibly descend into the real world of Blue Star through the rift.

The human defense line was like a tattered rag full of holes, leaking everywhere, in imminent danger.

After the southern defense zone collapsed, Zhuge Jinyu, Ye Jingjun, and Cang Mingyue hurriedly mobilized some troops from their own subordinates to support the Huayu Association.

However, the strength of these troops, after all, had a gap compared to the original Huayu Association troops, and it also weakened the defensive power in the east, west, and north directions.

The greedy gaze of the Alien Demon army immediately turned toward this weak prey.

The pressure on Jiang Luoli and the southern theater of war increased sharply day by day.

The high-dimensional commanders of the Alien Demon Plane were not stupid.

Through battlefield feedback, they keenly sensed that the defensive power in this area had developed a gap, and they directly regarded it as a soft persimmon that could be easily crushed.

To ensure nothing went wrong and to tear open the eastern gate of Daxia in one fell swoop, the Alien Demon Plane directly dispatched four Transcendence Realm Alien Demon Lords whose strength reached the half-step Fourteenth Stage, leading an army of hundreds of thousands of Alien Demons to encircle and annihilate Jiang Luoli.

"Rumble—!!!"

The doomsday storm descended once again.

How terrifying was the power of four Transcendence Realm Alien Demons attacking at the same time?

They merely launched the first round of combined attacks from ten thousand miles high in the sky.

That earth-shattering energy beam, like divine punishment, shattered the large defensive array that tens of thousands of martial artists had just formed over the southern theater of war.