Let Me Explain, Fairy-Chapter 1057 - 659: The True Saint

Standing atop the void, Xu Yuan surveyed all that was around him. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Within the massive crater, faint rustling sounds emerged, as dense threads slowly began to reassemble the mangled limbs of Mu Xingyi.

At the base of the distant West City Wall, Lady Wan was enduring the relentless bombardment of a hundred heavy crossbows.

Eventually,

Xu Yuan’s gaze settled on the white-robed woman whose figure was gradually coming into view.

Golden chains stretched out from the depths of the pitch-black void behind her, tightly binding Tian Ye’s delicate pale wrists, halting the killing blow she had been preparing and disrupting the impending death of Mu Nuo.

Perhaps at this moment, the millennium calamity Jiatiange had foretold was averted by the Pavilion Master of Jiatiange himself.

A flash of a sigh flickered in Xu Yuan’s eyes, as he sardonically ridiculed Tian Yuan’s actions in his thoughts.

From the current situation, the scales of victory seemed to be tipping toward their side, thanks to the abysmal performance of the Mu Family’s "Three Disgraces." But Xu Yuan knew this was only temporary.

If the Saints could not be killed, they could swiftly recover from their injuries in no time by utilizing their Sacred Origin.

Although Xu Yuan repeatedly emphasized to Li Junwu not to harbor the vain hope of killing these Saints, those words were truly meant only for Li Junwu’s ears.

Xu Yuan’s sole purpose in waging this war was to ensure her survival. If she resorted to using the military formation to kill Saints, it would entirely defeat his original intent.

However, just because Li Junwu couldn’t kill didn’t mean Xu Yuan couldn’t.

In his hands, he held two trump cards—one overt and one covert—that could annihilate Saints.

Those were Tian Ye and the Levitation Stone ring.

His plan was to use these two cards to catch the six attacking Saints off guard and eliminate them right from the start of the battle.

All prior arrangements—whether using himself as bait, launching the psychological assault on Mu Xingyi, or orchestrating Lady Wan’s demise—were all centered around this goal.

Yet when the war truly began, Xu Yuan found himself reluctant to proceed.

The pitiful display of Mu Xingyi and Lady Wan not only turned out to be unexpected for Emperor Bai and the others but also subtly shifted Xu Yuan’s perspective.

Was it truly worth exposing the Levitation Stone ring to instantly kill one of these embarrassingly weak Saintly-trash couples?

Perhaps the Levitation Stone would be better saved for the other three, while Tian Ye handled either Mu Xingyi or Lady Wan.

But the problem lay precisely here—Mu Xingyi and Lady Wan’s incompetence had far exceeded Xu Yuan’s lowest expectations.

This ridiculous couple were behaving like saboteurs disguised within a league of kings, actively throwing the match.

Despite having achieved sainthood, Mu Xingyi couldn’t break through Xu Yuan’s Integration Body defenses in a short amount of time.

Indeed, the Step Void Slash was a mechanism-based divine technique. Even Xu Changge’s Karma Sword couldn’t inflict harm during its teleportation phase.

But Xu Yuan managed to dodge Mu Xingyi’s strikes entirely due to the unique black Qi within his body.

The black Qi would deconstruct the Origin Qi, forming a protective layer around his body. When an attack landed, the collision triggered the Step Void Slash Xu Yuan had prepared in advance using layered pattern secret art within his meridians.

If Mu Xingyi’s attack frequency were slightly higher, Xu Yuan, even as an Integration Body practitioner, would have drained his internal Origin Qi dry.

But Mu Xingyi didn’t. Instead, he was brutally beaten down and left on the brink of death by Xu Yuan’s combination of calculated techniques and resources.

As for Lady Wan, who attempted to save the day, she was decisively crushed by a countermeasure Xu Yuan had set up near the West City Wall, earning herself the nickname "Finished Lady."

The couple’s inability to pose any life-threatening danger to him only reinforced Xu Yuan’s resolve not to waste the Levitation Stone ring on them—these embarrassments among Saints.

And since he wasn’t under fatal threat, Tian Ye, that "spectator for fun," had no reason to make her move. If she didn’t act, there was no way to promptly slay Mu Xingyi and Lady Wan.

In the end, it was the Ghost Infant, Mu Nuo—who shared the same origin as Xu Yuan—that threatened him critically. The black Qi in Xu Yuan’s body failed to react to the child, rendering the pre-prepared Step Void Slash trigger ineffective.

Tian Ye finally began to take action.

The advantage of information once again revealed its deadly edge in that moment.

Tian Ye could ignite the Yin Source of the Thousand-Thorn Ghost Willow, instantly rendering Mu Nuo incapacitated. For combatants of their caliber, even a momentary delay could prove fatal.

But even so, it still failed—

Though, of course, such failure was anticipated.

The Mu Xingyi family was indeed weak, but the other three Saints were all Supreme Saints among Saints.

They wouldn’t permit the Mu Xingyi trio to simply bow out and get served their "lunchboxes." As absurd as their performance might have been, they still held true Saint cultivation, with Mu Xingyi possessing the vast Sacred Origin accumulated by the Bug Saint over millennia.

Tian Yuan... came far too quickly.

The speed of the Zhen Yan of "Instant" truly defied all sense of reason...

The sea of clouds drifted past, obscuring the sunlight. The insect tide, like an inverted waterfall hung from the sky dome, poured through the breaches in the Heavenly Canopy into the city.

Ferocious insect beasts landed with grim savagery. Martial Apprentices stood their ground with blades in hand. Blood bloomed amidst the burning houses, swaying like a morbid dance. Explosive shouts and roars of battle echoed in the distance, contrasting with the silence over the marketplace.

"Bang—"

Almost in the same moment as Tian Yuan’s appearance, a blaze of scorching fire lit up the towering West City Wall.

The thunderous barrage hammering down on Lady Wan abruptly ceased, replaced by a deep, resonating explosion that spread across the entire Prefecture City.

Looking instantly,

Xu Yuan saw only a hunched old man, squinting his eyes and sighing faintly, standing atop the city wall, at the very spot where Huang Shiwei had been moments before—but now the man was nowhere to be found.

Yet Xu Yuan remembered,

Huang Shiwei was supposed to have the city’s defensive protection...

The thought hadn’t even fully formed when Xu Yuan’s brows instinctively began to furrow.

"Boom——"

Another explosion roared from the opposite side of the Prefecture City. A burly figure, lit ablaze, flew across the entire city and crashed into the East City Wall, leaving a massive crater in his wake.

One strike,

Huang Shiwei’s fate, life or death, remained uncertain.

After completing his actions, the hunched elder brushed off his robe, cast a glance at the female Yin Ghost Saint at the base of the city wall, but made no move to aid her. Instead, he subtly raised his hand, causing the flames around him to rapidly dissolve the city wall with intense heat. His voice, filled with an unrestrained smile, echoed across the city:

"Emperor Bai, this old man and the Pavilion Master have already made our move. Do you still need to keep playing coy?"

The next moment,

As if in response to the elder’s words, a rapid, drumbeat-like thunder rang out from the Heavenly Canopy, hidden behind the insect tide.

"Boom boom boom——"

Preparing her killing blow, Tian Ye sensed this presence and couldn’t help but lift her bright golden eyes to gaze at the Sky Dome. Her willow-like brows raised slightly:

"Oh my... looks like the Goddess’s little doggy got trounced. This might be a tad troublesome."

As her words fell, where her gaze landed, faint cracks began to appear in one corner of the City Defense Canopy...

And then,

"Crash..."

With the nosedive of a blood-soaked White Wolf into the city, that section of the City Defense Canopy instantly shattered like glass, disintegrating into brilliant specks of light and vanishing into the air.

The Qilin Wolf landed with ferocious speed, causing the entire Prefecture City to quake as if struck by a dragon rearing beneath the earth.

Leaving no time for anyone to catch their breath,

A figure surrounded by spiraling dragons, bending space itself, slowly descended through the breach over the Prefecture City.

His dragon-like eyes were cold and indifferent, overlooking all beings.

The raw pressure of a Supreme Saint descended unrestrained upon the Prefecture City.