Stuck in a Chinese novel-Chapter 459: Mother...?

"Xiao Yan! Run away!" A woman in her thirties struggled to hold back a wave of Qi while behind her stood a terrified four or five-year-old girl who couldn't move an inch. Even when her mother desperately tried to hold her ground, it was impossible for her.

"No, mom..." The legs of the little girl trembled as she tried to move, but she couldn't. She couldn't leave her mother behind.

"No..." She muttered again when out of the dense wave of Qi, a hand emerged and grabbed her mother by her neck. Her mother struggled greatly, tried to slash her sword at the man who was holding her by her neck, but all for naught. No matter what she did, she couldn't free herself.

"Kehe~ What a sweet scene." The man said with a sadistic expression before he grabbed the woman's sword, snatched it out of her hand, and stabbed the woman in her heart, all in an instant, but made sure the girl had enough time to register everything.

"NO! MOM!" The little girl yelled as her legs moved on their own. Still terrified, she ran to her mother, who was on her last throes, but desperately wished for her daughter to run away, but no matter what, her wish didn't come true.

Thud!

The body dropped to the ground.

The girl knelt beside her mother, trying to stop the bleeding with her tiny hands, but she couldn't do anything.

"Ru...n aw..ay..." Her mother used her willpower to utter those words, but a five-year-old girl couldn't register those words.

"No. No. No. Mom. Mom." The girl wept, trying desperately to keep her mother alive, but all in vain.

"What a touching scene." Even at that scene, the man's sadistic smirk remained on his face as he raised his hand and said, "Why don't I send you to your mother too, little girl? Haha."

He brought his hand down, but at that instant, the life finally left the mother's body. The girl froze. Even at her age, she realized. She had lost her mother.

"NO!!!"

"Kugh!"

A storm of frost assaulted the surroundings. Ice began to develop on everything. The body of the mother began to freeze along with the sword in her chest, the man was pushed back, baffled by the frenzied power of frost.

As he looked at the tiny girl emitting power that even threatened him, he saw a tiny girl standing with a scary expression on her face. Her teeth gritted and her emitting pale blue light resembling light.

The city around them began to freeze as well. It didn't matter if it was a good guy or a bad guy; the frost spared no one. Everyone and everything was being covered in it, and amidst all of that, the man looked at the girl whose hair was turning white, and the storm of frost around her was intensifying.

"Frost Empress's body. What a waste." The man said before he pulled out a piece of yellow paper from his jacket with some strange writing scribbled on it. He tore the piece of paper, and with a flash of light, he was no longer in his spot.

The frost continued to envelop everything while the girl began to scream. The screams of pain. It wasn't because she couldn't control her power. It was because the actual pain of losing her mother numbed every other pain.

Finally, a pale blue pillar rose behind her, and a beautiful woman with a crown on her head and a crystalline dress on her body appeared before the world. Far away from the city in crisis, the rescue teams heading to the city froze in their spot.

The power they felt. It wasn't just power. It was the end itself.

None of them could move. None of them could even think of moving.

All except one.

"Xiao Yan!" Commander Yan, yet a Captain in the CSF, ran to the city with all his might while calling for his daughter.

The power that day, the few managed to remember it. That was because only some could afford to keep a sane mind in the presence of the white haired woman who had materialized behind the little girl.

And today, for the second time in her life, she appeared again.

But the little girl was too afraid to show her full power.

"Xiao Yan!" She could hear her father running at her at full speed, desperately. Yet, she knew he wouldn't be able to make it in time. The slash of dark, sinister Qi heading for her would kill her before she would be able to do anything.

Nothing had changed.

She was still the little girl who could only remain frozen in her place.

"Mother..." She muttered.

But that was not possible. Her mother was dead. So who was it? Who was keeping her from dying this time? Saving her at the cost of their own life.

"Get! up!" Wei Jun's voice fell in her ears as the blurry image before her eyes cleared up to replace her mother's with the person who loved her just the same, or perhaps, even more. freewebnoveℓ.com

"Wei... Jun...?" She tried to come to terms with it quicker, but her senses weren't just stimulated. She couldn't register anything around her. Other than the heavy frost and the sinister darkness that threatened to swallow everything, there was nothing but her and the man before her.

The man who was shielding her at the cost of his own body.

"Kugh!" Wei Jun grunted as he tried his best, exerting his full power and letting out the maximum of Qi he could every second to stop the storm of the dark Qi from the front and the cold Qi from the back.

It was very difficult for him to just stop that one strike. Even without someone telling him, he knew. The opponent this time was in a league of its own.

[Qi Emperor]

[Strength: 3710]

[Agility: 3209]

[Stamina: 3811]

[Qi: 3919]

At just one point below reaching the realm of the Qi saint, the realm of the old man of the military, Liu Qinaghua, the opponent was even stronger than the sect master. Granted, the skill of Qi empowerment was in effect, but...

'This is still too much...' Wei Jun muttered inwardly as his hands turned black. Luckily, they were only from the outside.

[A power of an inferior level has infiltrated the user's body]

[All effects would be negated]

[Effect of power cannot be negated]

Dark or evil Qi was known for causing many adverse effects other than just exerting power, such as corruption of a body, poisoning, paralysis, life steal, and such.

Yet, when it came to Wei Jun, only the power effect was acting on him, negating all other adverse effects, which was the only reason he was still standing. The middle-aged man who was emitting Qi wasn't even letting out Qi in droves.

Just like Sun Ruan, there was no technique behind his emission. He was just letting it out in all directions. Just sheer raw power, yet even with all of that, it was taking Wei Jun's everything to stop the dark Qi from reaching Yan Rong.

The other problem was that Yan Rong was also letting out frost Qi from behind him, freezing and reducing his health. From behind him, Qi was very, very hard to deal with compared to the evil Qi that could be negated to some extent.

"Yan Rong! Sleep!" Wei Jun yelled.

"What?" Yan Rong asked in a low voice.

"Dream! She'll come to you in your dream!" Wei Jun yelled once again. Yan Rong didn't know what that meant, but following the advice of her lover, she just closed her eyes and fell on the hard asphalt.

How she did it so fast didn't matter anymore. Wei Jun could only thank his lucky stars for her talent as the force on him halved.

"Haa... Haa..." But that didn't mean the evil power putting pressure on him was reduced in any way.

Back to where he was before, the old woman looked in the direction of the comical scene and couldn't help but mock Wei Jun.

"Do you think he'll be able to do it?" She asked out loud.

"I know he will." Natasha, up above in the air, dressed in her green robe, replied while looking down at her.

"Such faith." The old woman could only say. Natasha was still young. She was naive. She was perhaps yet to face disappointment.

'But, for someone so young...' She couldn't help but notice the power Natasha was emitting.

An eighth circle magician.

Even the old woman had to be cautious.

Still...

"Do you think you two would be enough?" The old woman looked at the girl who was standing right beneath Natasha on the ground.

"It's not whether we can or not," Xia Lu said as a pair of swords appeared in her hands, "We have to be enough."

"Such naive foolishness." The woman replied. She was right in the end. The opponents, no matter how strong, were just young girls who could barely be called women.

'I'll end this before those two fools.' With that, the dark Qi that was emitted from her the next moment overwhelmed everything in the surroundings.