# 1690
Chapter 1683: The Third Option
A faint azure light flickered across Jialan's eyes. With her life force overdrawn, her power surged forth once more, easily tearing apart the Han-style clothing that bound her. Her aura climbed steadily upward!
Just as her breath was about to reach its peak, a hand slammed down onto her shoulder, forcibly pressing her back down.
"Just lie down properly. You're already injured this badly, why are you still rushing into things?"
Lin Qiye sighed helplessly.
"You..." Seeing the power she had好不容易 accumulated interrupted, Jialan froze. The next moment, countless Migos descended from the heavens, swarming toward Lin Qiye from behind!
"Be careful!"
Jialan grabbed Lin Qiye, trying to pull him behind her, but not only did Lin Qiye remain immovable, he actually turned to shield Jialan in front of him.
At the same time, Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed, and threads of causality burst forth from beneath his cyan robes!
These threads were intangible and formless—only Lin Qiye could sense their existence. They effortlessly sliced through space, stringing one Migo after another together, like a vast net covering the sky, enveloping every Migo within it.
"Rest assured." Lin Qiye looked down at Jialan's eyes, mere inches away, and spoke calmly, "They... won't come near you."
Clang—!
The Ame-no-Murakumo at his waist swept out, a blade mark flashing instantly toward the nearest Migo, bisecting it cleanly!
Suddenly, the thousands of Migos surging through the air came to an abrupt halt.
A blade scar eerily materialized across their waists. Upper bodies separated from lower halves, as if an invisible sword had simultaneously sliced through every Migo's midsection—even the angles of inclination were identical.
Following that, the second strike sliced through the lead Migo. This blow pierced directly through its tentacle-covered head, shattering it into crimson mist.
The same scene played out across all the other Migos. Blood mist bloomed from nothingness, like a simultaneous explosion of crimson fireworks, instantly dyeing the gray sky blood-red.
In that instant, over a thousand Migos were wiped out!
This bizarre spectacle left Jialan completely stunned. Blood rain mingled with the drifting snow, scattering across Lin Qiye's cyan robes. The earth behind him resembled a修罗 hellscape.
The intangible threads of causality withdrew from the Migo corpses, returning to Lin Qiye's body. From start to finish, he never once glanced back at the battlefield.
His gaze remained fixed on Jialan, whom he was shielding before him.
Under the power of 【Predetermined Fruit】, all the Migos had been connected by him. Any damage inflicted on one would synchronize to all the connected Migos—even their life and death were locked within this web of causality woven by fate. Pull one thread, and the entire net trembles.
Therefore, two strikes to kill one Migo meant killing all Migos... This ability was undoubtedly a dimensional suppression against species that relied on numerical superiority like the Migos.
Jialan stared at the blood rain cascading across the sky, her face full of disbelief.
This man before her was unmistakably human... Could humans truly possess such terrifying battle prowess?
After disposing of all the Migos, Lin Qiye sheathed the Ame-no-Murakumo and carefully examined Jialan's injuries in his arms. His brow furrowed deeper and deeper.
"You're already this injured, why were you still trying to fight desperately?" Lin Qiye said deeply.
"I... I didn't know you were that powerful." Jialan said quietly, "This thing is of great importance and must never fall into those monsters' hands.
Originally, I had planned that if I couldn't escape this time, I would destroy it first, then die fighting those monsters... Now that death was inevitable either way, giving you a fighting chance was still better."
"You're risking your life!"
"Compared to it, my life doesn't matter."
Jialan shook her head, slowly squatting down and sitting on the spot in the wind and snow. She gazed at the distant city with faint lights, her entire body flushing an unhealthy crimson, her voice growing weak:
"My time is running out... The rest... is up to you... If you're willing, take it to Mount Kunlun for me... However, every two days, those monsters will come again... No matter where you are, and in greater numbers...
If you're unwilling, then just destroy it..."
Jialan's vitality flickered like a candle in the wind, fading rapidly in the snowstorm. When Lin Qiye had found her earlier, she had been barely clinging to life. Now she had been dragged through the snowy ground for so long, and had actively overdrawn her power to attack. Her body had reached its limit.
Lin Qiye looked at Jialan before him, then glanced down at the white pill jar in his hand. In his vision, a thread of causality already connected him to her...
So that's how it is...
This thread of fate from the past... was actually something I initiated?
Lin Qiye's gaze grew complicated. He held the pill jar and walked slowly toward the weakened Jialan.
"Is there a third option?" Lin Qiye asked.
"Third option?" Jialan was stunned, furrowing her brow as if seriously contemplating something, "There shouldn't be a third... Mmm—"
Before Jialan could finish speaking, a hand stuffed something into her mouth. The round object rolled down her esophagus and transformed into a warm current that instantly flooded her entire body!
The next moment, Jialan's fading flame of life actually reignited, burning several times more vigorously than before!
The wounds on her body healed at a visible rate. Blood scabs disappeared without a trace. Even her cultivation realm began to rise rapidly, climbing all the way to the peak of Klein, just half a step away from the Human Apex.
Surging mental energy swirls churned the falling snow. A faint light flowed across Jialan's skin surface, like an invisible film protecting her.
"You... what did you feed me!?"
Feeling the earth-shaking changes in her body, Jialan looked at Lin Qiye beside her in shock.
Lin Qiye smiled, lifting the empty pill jar in his hand.
"!!!" Jialan shot up from the ground, eyes wide, "You gave me the... the Immortal Pill?! Are you insane?! I told you, that thing is crucial to the fate of all beings under heaven! You..."
"But if I hadn't fed it to you, you would have died."
"So what if I died! You fed it to me—how am I supposed to explain this to the Queen Mother of the West!"
Jialan stamped her feet anxiously. She reached into her throat, trying to vomit it back up, but after repeated attempts, she failed to do so...
"It's over... The Immortal Pill has entered my body—now even destruction is impossible... With this, those monsters' targets will all turn to me... If they capture me, everything will be ruined..."