National Guardian's Gone and We're Done

”Then go to Hell and join your emperor!”

Hearing Xu Fu’s light taunt, Amaterasu became like a thoroughly enraged beast. Her face instantly turned as cold as frost, and a layer of rime seemed to condense upon her features.

She abruptly raised the gleaming Grass Cutting Sword in her hand. The blade flickered with a chilling light in the night sky, like a man-eating ice serpent.

Upon the blade’s edge, a terrifying energy formed a surging black tide,

constantly roiling, brewing, and coalescing.

An apocalyptic storm was quietly taking shape.

A moment later, just as the golden light was about to condense into a tangible form,

like a golden sun on the verge of exploding in the night sky,

Amaterasu, gripping the Grass Cutting Sword, swung it down from above with incomparable speed and ferocity.

In that instant, an immensely powerful wave of Sword Qi, like a dazzling crescent moon,

tore through the ink-black night sky and appeared before Xu Fu, carrying a majestic momentum that could crush anything in its path.

Wherever the Sword Qi passed, space became as fragile as paper, easily torn, creating visible ripples.

It threatened to mercilessly grind everything before it to dust, making all things in the world tremble under its might.

Just as this wave of Sword Qi was about to strike Xu Fu, something utterly bizarre happened.

Like a reckless bull crashing into an invisible yet indestructible wall, it stopped abruptly,

as if it had been hit by an Immobilization Spell, unable to advance another inch.

Seeing this, Amaterasu’s brow furrowed slightly. Her eyes filled with vigilance and confusion as turbulent waves crashed within her heart.

’Does Xu Fu still have an ace up his sleeve?’

The sudden turn of events caused the unease in her heart to spread rapidly.

Then, an even more jaw-dropping scene unfolded.

This seemingly invincible wave of Sword Qi had touched an even more powerful, mysterious energy,

and with a sudden CRACK, it shattered on the spot like breaking glass, dissolving into countless specks of light.

It annihilated into nothingness like a phantom bubble.

It was as if it had never existed, leaving behind only the stunned Amaterasu, who stood like a wooden statue,

and Xu Fu, who remained calm and detached from the situation.

The two faced each other on the night-shrouded construction site, like a strange, static painting.

At that moment, the atmosphere on site was incredibly strange.

Amaterasu’s eyes were wide, filled with vigilance. Like a keen nocturnal falcon, she scanned her surroundings with full concentration, not missing a single detail.

Despite her alertness, the mysterious person who had launched that ghostly sneak attack

left behind no trace to follow, as if they had never been there at all.

This left Amaterasu’s mind in turmoil, her thoughts a tangled mess. The gravity of the situation was palpable, almost enough to consume her whole.

As for Xu Fu, he too was completely bewildered, confusion surging in his eyes like a tide.

’This is the territory of the White-Red Empire, not a place where I once held sway. Who would dare to intervene at a time like this?’

’Could it be a deliberate plot by someone from the White-Red Empire?’

’But if they went to all this trouble, what could they possibly be after?’

Xu Fu’s brow was locked tight as thoughts raced through his mind. He tried to make sense of the tangled situation, but after much hard thought, he still had no clue.

Finally, he could only let out a long, helpless sigh in his heart.

The sigh carried the long, heavy weight of his resentment and frustration from his many years of being sealed.

Indeed, he had been sealed for far too long. The world outside had undergone monumental, earth-shattering changes.

Now, having suddenly returned to this volatile situation,

how could he, shrouded in fog, easily see through the mysteries before him?

Just as the two were eyeing each other, their minds full of suspicion,

a young figure suddenly appeared, standing steadily between Amaterasu and Xu Fu.

The young man was handsome, with a sharp, strong jawline. He exuded an air of transcendent freedom, like an immortal stepping out of an ink wash painting.

His presence miraculously eased the tense atmosphere, which had been on the verge of collapse.

”Hmph. So, you’re from the Great Xia Empire.”

The corner of Amaterasu’s mouth turned down slightly into a cold sneer, radiating a chilling aura that inspired fear.

In truth, her mind was a raging sea of turmoil, and a torrent of questions like a violent undercurrent threatened to capsize the lone boat of her reason.

’How on earth did that old bastard Xu Fu get involved with someone from the Great Xia Empire? He was clearly sealed in this remote corner. Don’t tell me he could break the seal and secretly communicate with the outside world?’

Amaterasu was full of suspicion, but she never could have guessed,

that Chu He and Xu Fu actually had no connection whatsoever. The distance between them was far greater than she could ever imagine.

Appearing now, he wasn’t using the ring he normally wore to hide his true face. He was no longer concealing himself.

Since he was already embroiled in this complex situation, any further disguise would be pointless. The truth would come out sooner or later.

Sure enough, Goto Taiji, who had been kneeling and cowering like a quail,

was now so frightened that his eyes looked ready to pop out of their sockets. He shrieked at the top of his lungs, ”It’s... It’s Chu He!”

This shout instantly left the four members of the Zheng family—Zheng Qifeng, Xiang Xiufang, Zheng Bolan, and Zheng Xuezhen—standing dumbstruck,

their jaws nearly unhinged in astonishment, their faces filled with utter disbelief.

”No wonder this young man has been so calm and composed the entire time! He’s the strongest person on Blue Star, the National Guardian War God of the Great Xia Empire!”