Otherworldly Desert Dust

"Put down the fan first, it’s cool," Wu Hen said.

"Tell me, who are you! Otherwise, whether the East Bright Alliance has the Demon Bone or not, I will flatten the place!" Ruan Muhuan said with a hint of threat in her voice, displaying the arbitrary and domineering nature of the Northern Guardian Lady.

"Did you order people to place the Demon Bone in the East Bright Alliance?" Wu Hen looked at the woman close at hand, incredulous for a moment.

"You don’t have a choice," Ruan Muhuan said.

A touch of tenderness, a hint of coldness, and a trace of madness.

For a moment, Wu Hen felt this woman was somewhat unfamiliar, yet he sensed her years of torment from her manic coldness, and the emotional outburst she could no longer suppress after he rekindled her hope!

"Alright, if you want to know the truth, I can tell you, but first you must know something… the old friend you mentioned, he isn’t the Lu Yun you think of," Wu Hen sighed deeply.

"Do you think I know nothing!" Ruan Muhuan said angrily, "The Lu Yun I knew, he was utterly disillusioned with this world, had no attachment to life left, and even without being sent to the execution grounds, he was already a corpse without a soul; he died in the prison of Ya City!"

Wu Hen looked at Ruan Muhuan, astonished, unable to say a word.

"The other Lu Yun, not only wants to live, but he also pulled me, a person buried in the mire, out to see life as splendid as summer flowers, turning the ceaseless, loathsome ice rain into a delicately beautiful scene. The same person? Ha, how could that be!" Ruan Muhuan could no longer keep calm, she needed to know the answer.

"My fault, my fault, I should have told you who I am, where I come from… Han Han, I’m sorry, I should have come to see you sooner," Wu Hen stopped making excuses and apologized sincerely.

"Then what exactly are you, a Demon God with extensive Divine Skills, or some other life form from the Otherworldly that we cannot understand!" Ruan Muhuan asked again.

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"I…" Wu Hen was about to reveal the truth, telling Ruan Muhuan that he was from the Nuwa God End, a Human Clan life dwelling in a homeland in a soul form amidst Otherworldly Dust.

But the words never left his mouth.

He couldn’t say it.

It wasn’t that Wu Hen didn’t trust Ruan Muhuan, but he had to clarify something before revealing the truth to her!

"Han Han, I can tell you everything you want to know, but you must first answer me one question," Wu Hen could admit that he was indeed the Lu Yun from before.

But he couldn’t betray the Nuwa God End!

The Nuwa God End was now not far from Wudou in the Three-color Mountains and Seas.

What was the attitude of the people of the True Martial Continent towards the Nuwa God End?

Being lost, evil possession, these were death Laws in the True Martial World, once discovered, survival was impossible, not even for a Martial God under evil possession.

Numerous bloody lessons from his homeland had told everyone who stepped into the True Martial World, no matter how deeply involved they were in the True Martial World, they couldn’t escape the deadly Law of being identified.

It could be said that this was one of the Laws of the True Martial World.

Facing Ruan Muhuan, Wu Hen did love truly, but what made him think he could escape from this Law with her?

Everyone tends to romanticize their own love stories, believing their love is unique and can easily break down conventional barriers, but how many have truly survived in the end?

It’s not that one shouldn’t go all in for love, sparing nothing, but the truly cherished ones must consider all the hardships they might face, not just with true heart, but also with strategic planning, directly facing all the storms that might come!

Wu Hen could admit he was Lu Yun.

But he couldn’t mention Nuwa God End, couldn’t tell Ruan Muhuan how he awakened in Lu Yun in a manner that, under the deeply ingrained views of the True Martial World, would be considered evil possession, maggots born from a corpse!

"You answer me first," Ruan Muhuan seemed to have her own persistence.

"Han Han, dear, I wouldn’t harm you, but your obsession might be exploited by some lurking in the shadows. I know you want to pry open the East Bright Alliance, know what kind of people are entrenched there, and whether these people are related to me, I can tell you, they indeed are related to me, but I need to know if all this was your doing, or if you were instructed by someone else!" Wu Hen also had his own steadfastness.

Wu Hen couldn’t risk his family and the hard-earned peace of the entire Human Clan over Ruan Muhuan’s honest love!

He would not gamble with feelings or use them to test; Wu Hen could trust Ruan Muhuan unconditionally, even if she were to thrust Silver Fan into his throat, but ultimately, the price could only be paid by him, not those behind him.

Someone was targeting the East Bright Alliance.

Someone was probing the Nuwa God End!

If all this was done by Ruan Muhuan’s hands.

Then Wu Hen had no regrets; it was his own wrongdoing, ultimately reaping the ill fruits.

He had brought hope to Ruan Muhuan but then extinguished it abruptly in a playful human manner; she seemed to be stepping toward the bright Sky Dome of Valkyrie bit by bit, but in reality, her soul was already lost in calmness, mad in the cold.

She must have sensed from the conversations of those people in Lu Yun Commerce that life does not end with immediate death, she also noticed that the East Bright Alliance was extremely similar to those who had once protected Ya City…

And thus, she placed the Demon God Bone in the East Bright Alliance, using it as the perfect reason to suppress the entire East Bright Alliance, searching for the old friend lost in her life!

If so, Wu Hen could now nod and tell Ruan Muhuan he was a citizen of Nuwa God End, that Nuwa God End passed through the True Martial Continent, and he was merely playing with mortals. Then this farce could come to an end.

But, was this really done by Ruan Muhuan??

The Ruan Muhuan he knew, could she really be so mad, or did these three years also turn her into another person, seeking her answer no longer caring about right and wrong!

So, Lu Yun is no longer the Lu Yun of the past.

Is Ruan Muhuan still the Ruan Muhuan of the past?

Wu Hen gradually calmed down from the panic and tension of having his identity exposed.

"Tell me, was it you who placed the Demon Bone into the East Bright Alliance?" Wu Hen began to counter-question.

"No," Ruan Muhuan finally gave her answer first.

Wu Hen sighed deeply in relief.

It’s good that it wasn’t!

It’s good that it wasn’t!!

Han Han, you are still my beloved Han Han, untainted by this dark world.

"Then we have an enemy lurking in the shadows, one who not only wants to destroy my homeland but is also trying to manipulate you, the Northern Guardian Lady, into starting a massacre!" Wu Hen said.

Ruan Muhuan began to breathe more easily under her nose, and though her heart was filled with many doubts, she suppressed all emotions.

She actually didn’t care about her own situation or who the enemy was.

But Wu Hen’s words at that moment brought her back to the familiar feeling of walking through the stormy mud towards a direction...

It was this familiarity that made Ruan Muhuan realize that perhaps what she truly cared about wasn’t who that person was but having someone to watch the mountains with, watch the rain, accompany her in punishing the wicked and eradicating evil, and climb to higher realms of martial arts, telling her how beautiful the scenery is from up high and where that beauty lies.

"The Demon Clan’s theft is real," Ruan Muhuan said.

"That night of the banquet, besides you, who else acted together to kill those Demons that had infiltrated Wuting?" Wu Hen asked.

Ruan Muhuan furrowed her brows as something seemed to come to her mind.

After a moment, Ruan Muhuan extended her hand and pointed towards the towering grand statue in Wudou.

A torrential downpour, the murky edges of the capital city where the Martial God stood like a mountain range atop the land inhabited by tens of millions, the people beneath him were as tiny as ants.

"Are you saying, the Rotating Martial God also acted that day?" Wu Hen’s voice grew heavier.

Four Demon Bones, Ruan Muhuan had retrieved three on the spot.

But one was missing, its whereabouts unknown?

And the Rotating Martial God had also killed the Demons infiltrated into Wuting that night...

No wonder they found where the Demons were hiding, but the last piece of the Demon God Ancestor Bone couldn’t be found!

Clearly, the Rotating Martial God had killed the Demons who stole the Demon God Bone and took away the last piece.

Despite Ruan Muhuan turning Wudou upside down, it would be impossible to find this Demon God Bone, as it had already been recovered entirely that night!

"That is to say, the Rotating Martial God had already anticipated the Demon Clan infiltrating Wudou, and he kept silent until they started their actions… No wonder the information I got from a friend indicates that, in recent years, the Demon Clan and the Foreign Gang have been unusually active in Wudou, he’s been turning a blind eye!" Wu Hen suddenly realized.

Everything was under the scrutiny of the Rotating Martial God!

On the night of the banquet, the Rotating Martial God recovered one of the Demon God Ancestor Bones and then ordered the Northern Guardian Lady to search for it.

Eventually, he had someone else place the Demon God Ancestor Bone in the East Bright Alliance to solidify the evidence of collusion with the Demon Clan, forcing Northern Guardian Lady Ruan Muhuan to dismantle the East Bright Alliance.

What a cunning move to pit others against one another!

"Why would a Martial God care about worldly strife?" Ruan Muhuan felt a hint of puzzlement.

"This relates to our group’s composition, perhaps in the eyes of this Rotating Martial God, we are even more terrifying than the Demon Clan, already posing a threat to the stability of the entire Main Continent…" Wu Hen said.

This is not good, not good at all!

One thing is certain, this Rotating Martial God must have caught on to their group of "passers-by."

However, the fact that the Rotating Martial God did not act himself but instead used the Northern Guardian Lady to mobilize Wuting’s power shows that he did not have enough information and also had concerns, worried that there might be an extraordinarily powerful entity behind the East Bright Alliance.

Ruan Muhuan is strong, but if she truly becomes an enemy of humanity, she would eventually be destroyed by a Super Nuclear Bomb.

"Can you keep your Silver Gua Wu Rui in check, will they act on their own? For example, if the Rotating Martial God forcefully issues an order, they must carry it out," Wu Hen asked.

"During my tenure, they must obey me, as the Rotating Martial God is also overseen by the other eighteen Martial Gods and is not permitted to interfere randomly in worldly disputes. But once the seven-day period ends, I will be stripped of my position as the Northern Guardian Lady, and with the vacancy in the north, they will obey the Rotating Martial God," Ruan Muhuan said.

"That leaves only two days, it’s like having a commanding sword hanging behind you, forcing you to fight against the entire East Bright Alliance, such deadly malice!" Wu Hen exclaimed angrily.

To think that they’re using my dearly raised Han Han as a sword, and even pointing it towards her own people!!

This Rotating Martial God...

Hmph, I won’t let you off!