The Divine Urban Physician Chapter 3540: Wei Ying’s Predicament
Previously on The Divine Urban Physician...
Xuanyuan Moxie dared not make the attempt. He understood all too clearly that right now, his wounds ran far too deep, stripping him of any strength left—not even sufficient to shatter this pathway.
What's more, supposing he somehow managed it, bursting free from the pathway in his weakened form would render mere existence a brutal struggle, and Xuan Jiyue's wrath would guarantee his doom!
Xuanyuan Moxie had initially planned to bolt toward the Outer Realm, yet he never foresaw Xuan Jiyue's sudden meddling. Though she pulled him from peril, she had thrust him straight into fresh turmoil.
Xuanyuan Moxie realized Xuan Jiyue grasped his grand schemes and had plotted his demise for ages. Back at the Master Slaying Conference, she struck once, and her current rescue stemmed from no kindness at all.
"Could it be tied to the Samsara Master’s identity..." Xuanyuan Moxie pondered in frenzy.
At that instant, within the Upper Realm, Xuan Jiyue positioned herself amid a grand and imposing palace, her unmatched Emperor’s Aura dominating every corner. Still, her lids remained shut, her forehead creased in mild tension.
Her thoughts swirled with hazy visions of combat, but the true burden came from that subtle trace of the Biluo Heaven and Hell Map's essence leaking out.
The sealing laws Ren Feifan imprinted on the Divine Kingdom proved overwhelmingly potent!
Xuan Jiyue failed to glimpse the clashes in the lower realm with clarity, nor could she discern Ye Chen or Xuanyuan Moxie distinctly, yet she sensed the Biluo Heaven and Hell Map in play by another hand.
Her distrust of Xuanyuan Moxie intensified!
That said, a sliver of doubt lingered toward Ye Chen as well.
After all, the Divine Kingdom spawning a figure like Xuanyuan Moxie was astonishment enough—now this Ye Chen emerged too!
"Just who is this Ye Chen, so enigmatic, utterly beyond my grasp!" Xuan Jiyue mulled over it intensely, her mind brimming with unrelenting questions.
All these enigmas demanded resolution from Xuan Jiyue, which explained her choice to rescue Xuanyuan Moxie even against Ren Feifan's cautions.
Xuan Jiyue harbored profound wariness, bordering on dread, for the Samsara Master; she refused to ignore a single clue linked to that being.
Should Xuan Jiyue uncover the Samsara Master's true face, she would unleash every resource to erase them.
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Meanwhile, Xuanyuan Moxie sat in the pathway with legs crossed and eyes shut, pouring his focus into cultivation, striving to restore his condition to peak form without delay. Failing that, facing Xuan Jiyue would leave him hopelessly overpowered, reduced to a mere marionette under her control, his destiny hanging by her thread!
And unbeknownst to him, amid the shadows, a pair of eyes fixed upon his form!
Those eyes gleamed with a chill akin to winter frost!
The gaze belonged to a woman of stunning allure, mounted on a fiery beast that blazed beneath her!
Killing intent blazed in the woman's stare, sharp as blood-tinged snowflakes drifting down.
At her side materialized a pale-skinned young woman, Bai’er.
Bai’er appeared anxious, extending a hand to grasp Wei Ying's garment, pleading, "Palace Master, hold back from striking now."
"Your recent exploits in the Outer Realm have already rattled those mighty powers."
"Whispers have spread, linking you to Emperor Juehan."
"The shadowy networks of the Outer Realm have slapped a massive reward on your head, like a full-scale pursuit."
"No, worse—it's a total blockade across the entire Outer Realm against you."
"Should you move at this moment, those authorities versed in Emperor Juehan’s methods will zero in on you fast."
"In that case, Xuanyuan Moxie might perish, but you'd plunge into inescapable doom yourself!"
"Palace Master, think it over once more!"
Xiao Bai's voice even cracked with emotion.
Throughout their stint in the Outer Realm, she had fretted over the Palace Master endlessly!
She had seen the Palace Master's pristine robes soak through with crimson stains time and again!
Like scattered plum petals, ultimately painting the ground in vivid scarlet!
The Palace Master had endured the ceaseless chases from those Outer Realm titans!
No soul fathomed the immense strain this outwardly aloof maiden bore deep within.
"Bai’er, enough—my mind is set."
"Xuanyuan Moxie endangers Ye Chen far too greatly; he falls this day."
"Discovery by those foes be damned!"
"If they hunt me down, even in death, I'll force them to witness the resolve of Juehan Palace’s Supreme Palace Master!"
"My existence defies even Xuan Jiyue's reach!"
"My path stands justified!"
With that, an icy frost erupted around Wei Ying, the might she commanded defying imagination in its depth!
The gulf between her prowess and that of the Divine Kingdom stretched impossibly wide!
Right as Wei Ying poised to unleash her strike!
A twist of fate struck without warning!
A silhouette materialized within Xuanyuan Moxie’s pathway.
Another had beaten Wei Ying to the act!
As Wei Ying beheld that silhouette, the energy coiled in her grip slowly faded away.
Her luminous eyes, sparkling like stars, flickered with unexpected astonishment.
"She’s here in person."
"Who goes there?" Xuanyuan Moxie snapped his eyes open in shock. How could he detect yet another presence in this sealed pathway—it defied reason.
Xuanyuan Moxie then gazed ahead, where a colossal divine dragon loomed, its radiance swirling, Golden Light gleaming, surpassing even a blood dragon in splendor.
Vast dragon prestige flooded the space, shaking Xuanyuan Moxie’s very soul without cease, his wounds still raw, and now this mysterious intruder spelled impending disaster.
"Who are you!" Xuanyuan Moxie bellowed instinctively, straining to steady his turbulent spiritual energy, striving to appear less wretched.
"Hmm?" The dragon, catching Xuanyuan Moxie’s outburst, sensed the extra being in the pathway and tilted its head in faint curiosity.
This divine dragon’s gaze brimmed with boundless slaughterous will, and a single look froze Xuanyuan Moxie to his core, its extraordinary presence and crushing power endangering his life in any clash.
Were Ye Chen here, he’d recognize this divine dragon in the pathway as Ye Luo’s authentic manifestation!
"How did I arrive in this place?" Ye Luo’s lethal stare raked over Xuanyuan Moxie, scanning the surroundings to note it was some spatial conduit, endpoint unclear, with no clue how she’d been drawn there.
It felt as if an unseen force had dragged her to this exact spot.
She suspected it stemmed from that suppressed awareness buried in her core.
Yet without reason, at the sight of Xuanyuan Moxie, rage boiled up inside her, igniting an irresistible impulse to rip him to shreds.
"Where does this pathway go?" Ye Luo whipped toward Xuanyuan Moxie, demanding sharply.
"To the Upper Realm it goes, as I serve as the Heavenly Dao Master, called by the Upper Realm Empress for counsel. Might I inquire your identity, mighty divine dragon?"
Xuanyuan Moxie bluffed with bold flair, flaunting his ties to Xuan Jiyue, a title that struck terror across the realms.
Xuanyuan Moxie gambled that the divine dragon would pause at his claim, reluctant to strike.
Yet to his shock, upon hearing "Heavenly Dao Master" and "Upper Realm Empress," Ye Luo’s killing intent detonated in a frenzy.
"You’re Xuanyuan Moxie, aren’t you?"
Ye Luo locked eyes on Xuanyuan Moxie, her golden dragon gaze rimmed in red, the savage intent nearly taking solid form.
"I..." Xuanyuan Moxie’s expression twisted in alarm, as Ye Luo’s surging power loomed as a dire peril. He couldn’t grasp why she burned with such venom—he’d never crossed paths with this dragon.
"Hmph! You’re Xuanyuan Moxie, so perish!"
Ye Luo unleashed a sudden bellow, lunging without mercy, her dragon cry echoing, torrents of Golden Light bursting from her jaws alongside infinite dragon prestige, slamming fiercely into Xuanyuan Moxie.
The dragon’s thunderous call rocked the skies and earth, the pathway quaking violently, the cataclysmic aura crushing down, draining all color from Xuanyuan Moxie’s face.