Legend Management Bureau Chapter 181

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Two strange men each pulled a black gauze scarf from their waists and tied it over their eyes.

“Gorgon, give up,” one of the men said. “If you fight us in your current form, collateral damage is inevitable. You’ll probably end up killing Du Yu yourself.”

Medusa was torn. Just as they said, her monster form did not distinguish between friend and foe. It was entirely possible she would accidentally hit Du Yu and turn him into a stone statue, but if she didn’t make a move, Du Yu would be killed by them instantly.

Du Yu slowly stood up and asked, “Are you… He Suoyi’s people?”

The two men blanked, turning back to ask, “He Suoyi…? Who is that?”

Du Yu gritted his teeth and said, “Are you playing dumb with me? He’s the only person in this world who wants my life!”

“Is that so?” the older brother shrugged noncommittally. “Then you might not know yourself very well. There are many people in this world who want you dead.”

Du Yu’s expression turned cold. “Since I’m going to die, I want to die knowing the truth. Tell me, who wants my life?”

“It is the ‘Saint’.” The older brother smiled at Du Yu. “He is not human, not an immortal, not a god, not a monster, not a ghost, and not a devil. He is the ‘Saint’.”

He pondered for a moment before stating coldly, “Gorgon… don’t worry. I don’t need you to deal with these two. Put away your beast form for now. I can handle this.”

The two men were startled by his words and subtly took a step back.

‘He can handle this? Could it be…?’

Medusa also considered it for a moment and transformed back into her human form.

The two strange men couldn’t help but grow cautious. They slowly removed the black gauze from their eyes and assumed a fighting stance.

Du Yu hadn’t expected his bluff to be so effective, but right now, there was only one person he could rely on.

He immediately threw his head back and hollered, “Master, save me!!!!”

Fahai paused. He was still searching for Xiaoqing’s silhouette when he suddenly heard Huijing’s cry for help. Turning his head, he located the source of the voice.

Hearing Du Yu cry for help, the older of the two brothers breathed a sigh of relief. “Phew! You scared me. I thought there was a problem with the timeline of our descent!”

The younger brother also felt a lingering dread. “I thought he was going to summon ‘Xingtian’ for possession… From the looks of it, he hasn’t collected ‘Xingtian’ into the Bafang Ghost Record yet.”

Fahai manifested his colossal form, looking down at Du Yu. “Huijing, what happened? Did this demoness attack you?”

“No!” Du Yu roared. “These two foreign monks suddenly showed up, cursed Tathagata Buddha, and even threatened to tear down Jinshan Temple!”

Fahai froze. “Is that true?!”

“It’s true, it’s true!” Du Yu shouted, while simultaneously pulling Medusa and Shiranui Asuka closer. He lowered his voice to a whisper. “This situation is an emergency. I’ll open a portal in a moment and send you two away first.”

“Alright,” Medusa nodded.

“Huh?!” Shiranui Asuka was stunned. “Sister Gorgon, how can you agree so readily? We can’t leave! What will happen to Senior Du Yu if we go?”

Du Yu gently rapped Asuka on the head. “Ah Xiang, you should learn from Gorgon. There are always scenes like this in TV dramas. They tell you to leave, but you stubbornly refuse, and you just end up making a mess of things.”

“Ah… Will this really work?”

“It’ll work, but don’t rush. We need to wait for an opportunity,” Du Yu said with a heavy expression. He knew that if these two could enter the legend from elsewhere to ambush him, they must also have the constitution of an ‘Operator’. If they chased them into the portal, things would turn disastrous.

Fahai gathered his strength and brought a massive palm crashing down toward the two strange men.

The two men did not change their expressions. The older brother said, “I thought our plan was foolproof, but an accident still happened. Are we really going to fight Fahai now?”

“Brother, who do you think we are trying to kill? In your memories, is he the kind of person who dies that easily?”

The younger brother channeled his qi, his right hand expanding to a gargantuan size, and clashed directly against Fahai’s palm.

Du Yu looked around for a chance to escape, only to realize that Xu Xian was missing.

“Damn it, where is Xu Xian?” Du Yu blanked. “Ah Xiang, didn’t I tell you to keep an eye on him?”

Shiranui Asuka was also startled. “Ah?! When I saw you get hurt just now, I went to check on your injuries. How did he disappear in just that brief moment of distraction?”

Seeing Fahai turn his attention to attack others, Bai Suzhen naturally didn’t stick around to tangle with him. She soared over the mountain, searching for Xu Xian’s figure.

Before long, Bai Suzhen spotted Xu Xian, who had already descended the hillside. With his back to the mountain and facing the water, he was trying to figure out a way into the sea. However, firstly, he had no boat, and secondly, he was somewhat fearful of the bizarre creatures in the water.

Seeing a mortal preparing to enter the sea, the shrimp soldiers and crab generals naturally had to interrogate him thoroughly. This was a battlefield, and any human wanting to enter the water needed to be questioned. But before they could utter more than a few words, they saw a woman in white flying down from the sky.

The aquatic troops recognized her. This woman was the ‘eye of the storm’ on the battlefield just a moment ago. She had been fighting magical battles right in the center of the conflict, clearly a demon of profound cultivation. She might even be the commander of their crustacean army this time.

But upon seeing Bai Suzhen from afar, Xu Xian’s expression suddenly changed. “You, you, you get lost! Don’t come any closer! If you come any closer, do you believe I’ll kill you?!”

Bai Suzhen was taken aback. Why was Xu Xian speaking to her like that? But she quickly understood; he wasn’t saying those words to her, but to the shrimp soldiers and crab generals beside him.

“Shrimp soldiers and crab generals! What are you doing?! Let go of my husband!” Bai Suzhen waved her hand, directly blasting back the numerous sea demons.

“Husband, don’t be afraid. I’m here to save you!”

Bai Suzhen immediately stepped in front of Xu Xian, shielding him behind her back while constantly scanning the sea to check for other demons.

Xu Xian trembled as he stared at Bai Suzhen’s back, thinking to himself, ‘What on earth is wrong with this woman?’

‘I already made it so clear. Does she have to keep pestering me?’

“Husband, they didn’t hurt you, did they? The situation today is urgent. I…”

Before Bai Suzhen could finish her sentence, she suddenly froze.

A piercing cold sensation spread from her waist.

In disbelief, Bai Suzhen turned her head to look, only to see a sharp machete lodged right into her waist.

“H-Husband…?” Bai Suzhen’s expression was somewhat unnatural. “Are you… are you terrified? Don’t worry, with me here, no one will hurt you…”

Xu Xian gritted his teeth, leaning his face closer as he spoke viciously, “Bai Suzhen, you are exactly the one I’m trying to hide from. Yet you keep pestering me endlessly… You brought this fate upon yourself today…”

With that, he shoved the machete another half-inch deeper.

Bai Suzhen frowned slightly. Her mind went completely blank. She felt the world spinning around her, her entire body slipping out of control. Her skin began to turn faintly pale, and scales spread across it like crashing waves.

‘What exactly is going on?’

‘When Xu Xian first met me, he spoke so many affectionate words. Were they all fake?’

‘He married me. Was that fake too?’

‘He called out for me to save him just now. Was that also fake?’

Xu Xian couldn’t help but stumble back a few steps, watching Bai Suzhen’s transformation. “Mother of God, you… you really are a giant white snake?”

Bai Suzhen stared blankly and asked, “…What did you say?”

“I thought you were only half-snake! I didn’t expect you to be a giant white snake all over! With things like this, who would want to sleep with you? Are you trying to scare someone to death?”

“I’m actually… a white snake?” Bai Suzhen revealed a bitter smile. Immediately after, she completely transformed into her serpentine form. Measuring over thirty meters long, her gaze turned icy cold. “Hahahaha… Well said. I am actually a white snake.”

If this man only learned today that her true form was a white snake, how could he possibly have saved her one thousand eight hundred years ago?

Thinking back carefully to their first meeting, Xu Xian kept claiming that he had saved ‘a young lady’ and never once mentioned a white snake.

‘I turned my heart toward the bright moon, yet the moon shines its light upon the ditch.’

She had given him her whole heart, only to receive this outcome in return?

Her gaze was incomparably frigid. She turned and plunged into the sea, her blood dyeing the seawater red.

Xu Xian spat at the crimson surface of the sea. “Now you know how formidable I am, you damn monster.”

Logically speaking, Bai Suzhen’s body could not be pierced by a mortal’s weapon. However, she never would have expected Xu Xian, who was right behind her, to deal such a vicious blow. She hadn’t even activated a protective spell.

And so, by sheer coincidence, Xu Xian had thrust the machete directly into her vital spot.

Watching Fahai and the two brothers brawl in a chaotic melee, Du Yu stealthily opened a portal in a corner and sent Shiranui Asuka through first.

On the other side, the Eight Great Reapers were already waiting by the portal. Seeing Shiranui Asuka emerge, they immediately shielded her behind them.

“Gorgon, hurry, it’s your turn!” Du Yu extended his hand toward Medusa.

Just as Medusa was about to leave, an extremely ominous premonition suddenly gripped her heart. She couldn’t help but look back into the distance.

“What’s wrong?” Du Yu asked.

“I… I don’t know…” Medusa reached up to touch the spot over her heart. “My chest suddenly gave a violent throb…”

Du Yu followed Medusa’s gaze. It wasn’t the battlefield where the magical clashes were occurring; that area looked very quiet.

“Du Yu, I can’t leave. I want to go take a look.” Medusa’s face was solemn. “Something might have happened to that lowly mortal!”

“You mean Bai Suzhen…?” Du Yu cast a suspicious glance at Medusa. Now that Fahai was tied up, who else could possibly hurt Bai Suzhen?

A colossal white snake slowly sank into the sea. The nearby shrimp soldiers and crab generals gradually backed away. This white snake had just attacked them, and now, unsure if she was friend or foe, no one stepped forward to save her.

Such was the rule of the water.

When a whale falls, all things thrive.

The death of a massive monster represented a path of survival for others. Its enormous corpse would feed tens of thousands of living creatures in the water.

Right at that moment, an emerald green water snake suddenly poked its head out from a group of sea demons, staring at the giant white snake before it.

“Huh? How strange… Why is there another snake here?”

The emerald water snake simply couldn’t figure it out. She had just sneaked down the mountain from her master’s sect, but the moment she jumped into the water, the entire sea was suddenly swept away by someone. Left with no choice, she could only stumble along with the numerous nearby demons until she arrived here.

She had thought that her identity as a water snake would make her incompatible with the rest of them. But seeing another snake demon suddenly made her feel a sense of kinship. She hurriedly swam closer to investigate.

Only to discover a machete lodged right into the ‘seven-inch’ mark—the fatal weak point—of this giant white snake.