Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 233 The Wrath of the Blade Empress

As Wu Long turned to leave, he suddenly stopped all movements, and a sharp aura rose around him as he turned back in the blink of an eye as a sheathed sword appeared in his left hand, his right hand grabbing the hilt at the same time as his body turned.

Old Yen and Butler Bang's eyes widened as they did not expect him to make any movements while the golden swords behind the Blade Empress spread out to her sides pointing toward the point she was looking at with eyes, her pupils contracting to the size of a pinhole.

Wu Long's figure blurred and at the same time, the swords of the Empress went forth with unbelievable speed.

A drop of sweat came down from Old Yen who turned around with a slight delay and by the time it hit the floor sparks went into the air with metallic noises.

Amid the sparks, Wu Long's sword was in front of the neck of a man in gray whom Wu Long left kneeling on the floor as the man's terrified eyes shifted to see a thinner sword's point being blocked by the one held in Wu Long's hand. On the other side, three golden swords blocked off throwing daggers.

"You have a lot of nerve!"

Nie Xiwang shouted out in a light fury as her figure rose floating into the air, her pressure covering the entire room as Both Old Yen and Butler Bang felt a little tight in their chests.

Two beautiful figures appeared from clouds of black smoke on the opposite sides of the room from each other. Both were clad in tight black clothes. The one clashing her sword into Wu Long's was a jet-black-haired beauty while the one who appeared slightly in the distance had snow-white hair. But apart from that, their appearances were almost indistinguishable from each other, with red hair and silver demon mouth half-face masks covering their lower faces.

"Tch, failure. Retreat"

The white-haired beauty coldly snorted, only her initial 'tch' containing slight annoyance but the rest pronounced without any emotions as she quickly cut off the lingering feeling of frustration, and coldly made a rational call.

"You think you can leave as you please?!?!"

The six golden swords that were not around the man in gray surrounded the white-haired beauty.

"Hello handsome, we meet again, hahaha"

The other assassin chuckled as wrinkles of laughter appeared around her eyes. The red irises of her eyes were slightly glowing and her voice was filled with joy and excitement.

"Heh, cannot say I am surprised"

Wu Long chuckled as he noticed their surveillance since this morning.

"You are quite good, my sister rarely gets so cautious against someone but she refused to make the move while the target was in your custody"

The beauty looked at Wu Long with intense curiosity and a bit of another kind of interest.

"Should I be flattered?"

Wu Long said with a charming smile while the Blade Empress did not give the other beauty any chance to escape or attack as she unleashed a coordinated barrage of attacks, her golden swords moving effortlessly around the white-haired beauty as sparks rose into the air.

"Bahshi Bloody Rose Dagger Technique, first style, Blooming Rose"

The white-haired beauty started moving two short daggers in her hands as red lines of Spiritual Qi were left like traces after the blades of her daggers passed, if viewed from above it was like a red rose was starting to bloom. She was also utilizing Bahshi Ghost Step so her figure could not be clearly seen in a cloud of black smoke, only the red lines and sparks from the collisions with the golden smoke floating around.

"Six-Way Death Array, Impenetrable Fortress"

The Blade Empress did not even lift a finger as she floated in the air, her hands leisurely held behind her back. The swords in her command formed a formation and started a coordinated dance around the assassin beauty. There were three swords that started rotating around the man in gray, as they also turned individually in a beautiful movement. The last three swords returned to her side as she prepared a contingency for any unexpected situation.

Meanwhile Wu Long and the black-haired beauty crossed their swords a hundred times in the short span of mere moments while Old Yen and Butler Bang fought off several men in black clothes with silver demon face masks. She occasionally used a short dagger that she held in her other hand to try and make a deadly strike that was thwarted by Wu Long's unbreakable defense.

"Come on! I know you can do better than this!"

She excitedly exclaimed while he chuckled at this energetic lady. He mostly defended without making any moves since there was no real meaning in this fight. He knew that she was not doing her best either.

"Hmm, your sister seems to be having problems, shouldn't you be worried about her?"

"Kahahahaha, you are so funny, sister Yue has not even warmed up"

"She told you to retreat though, no?"

"Ah come on, when else can I have some fun after so much boredom? I want to try the so-called Blade Empress out as well"

The black-haired beauty who was called Prime Demon Hong Ye by her subordinates the last time Wu Long saw her laughed with a tinkling and delighted tone.

"I would not play with that fire if I were you"

Wu Long chuckled.

"Ye'er, quit fooling around!"

"But sister!"

"No buts... tch. Your Majesty, my apologies for disturbing you but our target is only that man, we do not wish to further engage in conflict with you"

"Hah! The audacity! You break into my throne room, and expect me to simply let it off?"

Nie Xiwang scoffed at Hong Yue from her position high up in the air, looking down at the cloud of black smoke swirling with red lines that bloomed like a red rose.

"Tch, hurry up and come help me!"

Hong Yue, unable to make a breakthrough from the Blade Empress' sword formation without exposing her trump cards finally shouted out in frustration.

"Haa~, such a pity"

"Hahah, no worries, Prime Demon Hong Ye, I can wait for my turn, though I doubt it will come"

"Really?"

A delighted light appeared in Hong Ye's eyes as she took a slight distance from Wu Long.

"Suit yourself"

He shrugged his shoulders and he opened his hand to the side in the gesture of invitation to ignore him and join her sister.

"Should I take it as you not willing to make amicable relations anymore?"

Nie Xiwang raised her eyebrow as she looked at Wu Long while the swords continued the relentless attack on Hong Yue.

"Not at all, I will guard the man, while you deal with them. She is just so eager to test out your powers that I cannot find it in my heart to disappoint this beauty"

Wu Long chuckled with a charming smile and the Empress rolled her eyes at that answer, her expression reading 'whatever'.

"Oh, my, what a gentleman, sister, I think I am in love~!!!"

"Quit spouting nonsense and take this more seriously!"

"Okay! Okay! gee~ no need to shout..."

"Hong Ye! I swear-..."

"Coming! I am already here"

Hong Ye noticed a note of annoyance in her sister's tone and a bead of sweat went down her forehead as shivers went up her spine. She quickly stepped turning into a cloud of black smoke to appear close to where her sister was fending off the six swords and broke the offense of the swords by joining from the outside, she was already holding daggers in both hands when she stepped out as the sword was sheathed behind her back. Meanwhile as Wu Long now guarded their target Nie Xiwang retrieved the three swords that she was guarding him with and the nine swords swirled in a large circle around the two sisters.

"Your Maje-..."

"Silence!"

Hong Yue tried to negotiate as they could not come into direct confrontation with the Imperial Family, and only wanted to finish the contract kill before the target was handed off completely into the Empress's custody. Nie Xiwang knew that but she was still enraged by the audacity of trying to get away with something like that right in front of her eyes.

Wu Long chuckled as he looked as the two sisters joined forces to deal with the nine swords that moved in perfect coordination, unleashing a multi-directional perfectly-timed barrage of attacks on them.

"Bahshi Bloody Rose Dagger Technique, third style, Rose Garden"

The twins both started moving with incredible cohesion as red roses of Spiritual Qi Dagger blades started appearing all around them and they launched a counterattack. The force they now used was no longer probing as Hong Yue did before but a full-scale attack as sparks rose into the air all around.

An intense flurry of collisions with metallic noises unfolded in the throne room but the Blade Empress still did not even have a change in posture while completely dominating the battle. The two changed styles several times, increasing the output of Spiritual Qi, but the Empress simply changed how her swords moved without moving a muscle.

"Bahshi Bloody Rose Dagger Technique, fifth form, Red Rose of Madness"

"Bahshi Bloody Rose Dagger Technique, fourth form, The Thorns of Retribution"

Finally, the sisters realized that they could not break the encirclement of the nine swords as the attack patterns changed all the time and each sword's attack was incredibly sharp and deadly. Hong Yue swirled her daggers up while Hong Ye's body lowered almost to the ground as one of her legs bent and another was stretched out and her daggers thrust forward.

A giant Red rose with thons underneath it bloomed as it broke through the swords and headed for the Empress who simply looked on. The rose then clashed into the air as if an invisible wall was before Nie Xiwang. The sisters looked on in astonishment as they stood before the floating Blade Empress, shards of red from their technique like broken glass falling all around them along with the sparks. The daggers of both sisters had cracks on them.

"Are you done?"

The Blade Empress asked in a tranquil voice as her fury from earlier subsided. She then touched her spatial ring and twelve more weapons appeared in the air around her, swirling and pointing toward them in the next moment as their eyes widened.