The four Divine Generals came to as if waking from a dream. Apart from the Ziwei Divine General, whose radiance put his companions in the shade, all three of the others flung themselves at the beautiful Luohua at full speed.

Whatever happened, the girl must not be allowed to gather another aurora!

A pillar of aurora that terrifying must never be allowed to appear a second time!

The Wenqu Divine General on the left, the Wuqu Divine General on the right and the Jumen Divine General in the middle came pouncing in at high speed, perfectly in step, as if the three of them were one.

They all knew City Lord Luohua’s weakness now. Her aurora attack was matchless in power, and once it burst out it moved as fast as lightning, but the pity of it was that it took far too long to gather. If the Dijie Divine General had not looked down on her so much, if he had not wanted to toy with her and waited so carelessly for her attack, he could easily have struck her dead during the long process of gathering… Now the Dijie who had looked down on her had been killed in an instant, and the remaining four were naturally not going to repeat his mistake and give City Lord Luohua time to gather.

“Slash!” In the middle of his charge the Wuqu Divine General drew a purple-gold sacred blade and raised it high over his head, ready to cut down the beauty in front of him with a single stroke. He had no heart for sparing a lovely woman, only the will to crush the flower in his hand.

“Mirror shield.” Compared with the murderous Wuqu Divine General, the Wenqu Divine General was more careful. He produced a silver mirror shield, another sacred-grade treasure.

A silver mirror shield was a treasure that not only defended superbly but was at its best refracting or reflecting attacks made of beams of energy.

The Wenqu Divine General was not certain he could take a hundred percent of that strongest aurora she had spent so long gathering.

But he was confident of one thing.

For blocking or deflecting any aurora beam City Lord Luohua threw out on the spur of the moment, the shield would be more than enough.

If this City Lord Luohua, with her deeply hidden strength, had the talent to throw out a hundred-odd pillars of aurora on the spur of the moment, he would not believe it if he were beaten to death for it. The reason she had not done so just now must be that the longer an aurora gathered, the stronger it became, which was why she had spent so long gathering one to unleash at full power… Of course, he could not rule out that she had been trying to mislead them, but however much she misled them, she could not possibly throw out an aurora that killed a Divine General in an instant without gathering it. So the sacred-grade mirror shield was more than enough.

The Wuqu Divine General and the Wenqu Divine General had chosen different methods, one attacking and one defending, each true to his own character and way of doing things.

The Jumen Divine General in the middle was no exception.

Among the Eighteen Divine Generals, the most careful and cautious, the one with a mind finer than a hair, was not in fact the Tianxiang Divine General, who was a woman, but the Jumen Divine General, who looked so rough and burly.

The Jumen Divine General drew no weapon to attack or defend. He only fixed his full attention on the beautiful Luohua in front of him, ready to respond the moment she made the slightest unusual move. More than divine weapons and treasures of that kind, he trusted his own body, his own reflexes, his own wits.

A divine weapon might one day fail; a divine or sacred beast might one day betray you; a comrade might one day sell you out for gain.

The only thing a man could trust completely was his own two hands.

Behind City Lord Luohua, in the very instant the Wuqu Divine General shot into the air and the Wenqu and Jumen Divine Generals closed in on their guard, a drifting, fragrant white mist suddenly welled up. In the white mist something like the tail of some creature seemed to be dancing softly, endlessly lovely, and yet impossible to see clearly.

Even the Ziwei Divine General, the strongest of them, who had been watching from far off the whole time, could not see through that faint white mist.

An extraordinary fragrance filled the nose and went straight to the heart.

As the Wuqu Divine General’s purple-gold sacred blade came cleaving down, he saw a grotesque and terrifying sight.

In front of him were two City Lord Luohuas.

The two City Lord Luohuas were as alike as twin sisters, identical in every way. Whether in looks, in manner or in the way they fought, there was not the slightest difference to be seen between them. The two of them stood quietly, one in front and one behind, as if they had been born twin sisters. And that was not the strangest part. What struck terror into the Wuqu Divine General was that both City Lord Luohuas were gathering aurora, one in each hand.

In other words, all four of those jade hands had at some point gathered a ball of energy to rival the Death Aurora from before, and any of them might burst out and fire at any moment!

There could only be one City Lord Luohua.

Which one was real? Which one was fake?

Whoever guessed wrong was going to pay dearly under her aurora!

“Hah!” The two beautiful Luohuas cried out together, and the aurora gathered in their four hands pointed at the Wuqu Divine General in the sky, Wenqu on the right, Jumen in the middle, and the Ziwei Divine General far off. An attack with a share for everyone, one that could never miss, cast a shadow over the heart of the Wuqu Divine General, whose purple-gold sacred blade was already an arrow on the string that had to be loosed. He was simply too close to the two City Lord Luohuas, so close that even a Divine General like him had no time to react. In fact, the purple-gold sacred blade in his hand had already reached the tops of their heads, and a thousandth of a second later it would split them both in two and send their heads to the ground.

In that instant, in less than a ten-thousandth of a second, four pillars of Death Aurora burst out at once…

“All or nothing!” With no time at all to dodge, the Wuqu Divine General brought his purple-gold sacred blade down savagely, forcing every bit of power in his body to its height at the same time, straining to reach his peak for the fight to come.

The pity was that he would never get the chance.

A beam of aurora shot from the left hand of the beautiful Luohua standing behind, unimaginably fast. It skimmed past the edge of the purple-gold sacred blade and slammed hard into the Wuqu Divine General’s face, blasting him away bodily.

He had not been killed in one move like the Dijie Divine General, but a blind man could have seen that the Wuqu Divine General was not having a good time of it.

And it was not only the Wuqu Divine General. The Wenqu Divine General was sent flying by one move as well.

The pillar of aurora bursting from the right hand of the beautiful Luohua standing in front struck dead on target, hitting the Wenqu Divine General, who had shrunk himself like a turtle behind his holy shield and was defending with everything he had. That terrifyingly powerful pillar of aurora, unbelievably, shattered the sacred silver mirror shield that could reflect almost any beam of energy, and blasted the Wenqu Divine General hiding behind it straight into the air.

Howling in agony, the Wenqu Divine General traced a long arc through the air and crashed down ten thousand meters away.

Of course, having been defending with everything he had, he was far better off than the Wuqu Divine General, who had taken it full in the face.

The Wuqu Divine General had been blasted clean away, shooting furiously toward the sky.

He turned into a star.

His scream trailed away into the distance.

Nobody knew when he would come down again.

The Ziwei Divine General, who had been watching quietly from far off, saw the aurora of the City Lord Luohua in front come racing straight at him, and even though his strength far exceeded his companions’, he did not dare take it lightly.

He neither attacked nor defended. He only moved his feet lightly.

He leaned his upper body halfway back and neatly dodged the full force of the aurora.

The aurora grazed the tip of his nose. He was not hurt in the least, except that a few strands of the long hair drifting back behind his head melted into nothing in the aurora, and for one second the face of the Ziwei Divine General, the strongest of them, changed slightly. That an aurora thrown out on the spur of the moment could carry so much power was more than he had ever imagined. If he had not had the greatest strength of them all, and that trump card, he truly could not have afforded to provoke this City Lord Luohua, twin sisters of terrifying power with a single mind between them!

The intelligence they had gathered before was completely wrong.

“City Lord Luohua” had been twin sisters all along.

No wonder she could so easily defeat opponents of the same level and the same strength. The reason was that there were two of her, twin sisters of one mind and matchless understanding!

“Phew!” The one who truly came through without a scratch was the Jumen Divine General, the most careful and cautious of them all.

When the right hand of the beautiful Luohua standing behind took aim at him with its pillar of aurora, in that instant he neither attacked like the Wuqu Divine General, nor defended like the Wenqu Divine General, nor dodged like the Ziwei Divine General, the strongest of them. Instead he tore his two hands apart and ripped a spacetime gate out of the void itself, right in front of him.

His whole body slid into the spacetime gate.

Riding the natural law by which spacetime closes back on itself, he escaped the pillar of aurora completely unharmed, and teleported to a spot behind the Ziwei Divine General.

Whether City Lord Luohua was one woman or twin sisters, the Jumen Divine General had no wish to fight her. This was an enemy who could not be beaten, because she held the strongest of all attack talents: aurora! Under a Death Aurora that could annihilate anything, even someone with the power to defeat the two of them completely, even to kill them, would find it hard to escape their counterattack as they died…

The Jumen Divine General considered his own task finished, and the Dijie Divine General, who had been in charge of destroying the Hanging Garden, was already dead in battle.

There was no need for him to risk his life against these two City Lord Luohuas.

Even if someone had to, it did not fall to him.

In a fight like this, wasn’t there the Ziwei Divine General, the eldest? He was the eldest and the strongest, so it was only right for him to step forward and make a decision. In any case it was not his own business to meddle in. As for the task the Grand Hall Master had given them earlier, taking hostages to threaten Yue Titan, the Jumen Divine General did not think it was a good idea, because he suspected that even Ziwei, the eldest and the strongest, did not have enough power to talk lightly about taking her hostage, let alone himself.

So protecting himself was the only thing he had to do now.

His will to fight completely gone, the Jumen Divine General looked again at the Wenqu Divine General, who had been blasted away without mercy even with his shield raised, and found his companion not much better off than a lump of charcoal, black all over, his skin giving off a smell like roast meat…

As for Wuqu, who had turned into a star up in the sky, he still had not come down, and there was no telling exactly how he was.

But the Jumen Divine General guessed that this worthy’s condition was not going to be any more hopeful than Wenqu’s.

The two City Lord Luohuas did not attack again.

They were waiting.

Their heads were raised.

They seemed to be waiting for the Wuqu Divine General, blasted out beyond the ninth heaven, to come back down.

What did they mean to do? Fire all four cannons at once when Wuqu came down?

The Jumen Divine General quietly wiped his brow. If that really happened, he thought, Wuqu might very well turn into a fragrant roast pig that smelled a hundred times better than Wenqu did now!

They waited at least half a minute before the Wuqu Divine General, blasted into the sky, finally fell back to the ground together with the purple-gold sacred blade that had flown from his hand.

Unconscious, he dropped like a meteor.

He fell faster and faster, without limit, and then — boom — into the ground…

Because they were afraid the two City Lord Luohuas would seize the chance to fire off their aurora, none of them, not the Ziwei Divine General, not the Jumen Divine General, not even the Wenqu Divine General, who had only just recovered from his roast-meat state, reached out to save him, and they let the Wuqu Divine General smash into the earth head first, feet in the air. He was a Divine General, after all. However hard he smashed, the fall could not possibly kill him, so saving him and all that was best skipped if it could be skipped. Who knew, maybe a knock like that would even knock some sense into that rock-hard head of Wuqu’s!

By the time the dazed Wuqu Divine General came staggering up out of the ground, a full minute had passed.

He was not dead.

But the Wenqu Divine General and the Jumen Divine General, and even the Ziwei Divine General, the strongest of them and still perfectly sure of himself, were all frozen in shock.

“What’s wrong with you people? You see your old man falling and not one of you lends a hand!” The Wuqu Divine General roared at his companions in fury without stopping, but the moment the curse left him he felt that something was off. His voice had changed. The steady, powerful male voice with its ring of metal and stone had inexplicably become a sweet, simpering female one, and scolding in that tone sounded wrong however you listened to it, as if a woman were deliberately playing coy.

The Wuqu Divine General was stunned at first, and then he let out a shriek: “What’s happening? Why have my breasts gotten so big?”

Sweat broke out on the Ziwei Divine General’s forehead.

The Jumen Divine General and the Wenqu Divine General were just as drenched in sweat. Looking at the strange state of their companion’s body, they both swallowed hard at the same time.

Neither of them was blind. They could both see clearly that Wuqu, their companion, had turned into a woman. No, to be precise, Wuqu had turned into a shemale! A shemale with a woman’s body and a man’s body at once!

The scruffy stubble on Wuqu’s face was still there, but his chest had swelled up high like a woman’s, and his body had become rather like a woman’s too, his pelvis and hips spread wide like a young wife’s. Yet through the familiar life-sense shared between comrades they could tell that their companion had become a freak who was neither man nor woman. His lower half should still be male, but it no longer had any male function.

He no longer had a man’s virile strength, only the form of it.

And the change, of all things, was incomplete.

In his body, the change toward woman was perhaps a little more than halfway done, which was why he had become this horrifying shemale, neither man nor woman and both man and woman at once.

Get hit by that aurora and you lost your manhood, and turned into a shemale on top of it?

When the Ziwei, Jumen and Wenqu Divine Generals looked again at the City Lord Luohua standing behind, there was fear in all their eyes.

By comparison, they would much rather take a blast from the City Lord Luohua in front. That way the worst they would become was a roast pig, and however painful that was, it had to be better than turning into a shemale who was neither man nor woman, right?

The Wenqu Divine General felt like the luckiest man alive!

If he had just been hit by the sex-changing aurora and turned out like Wuqu, he might as well have killed himself!

“The Enchantress talent. It can turn any man into a woman, and it can make a woman even more of a woman. The purer the body and mind, the greater the change in the body and the shorter the change takes.” The beautiful Luohua standing in front, her smile as bright as a flower, pointed at the Wuqu Divine General who had become a shemale and laughed. “Ha! For someone as filthy in body and mind as you, this transformation will last a thousand years at the very least. Congratulations. You will have plenty of time to enjoy the whole process!”

“How can there be a talent like this in the world!” the Wuqu Divine General shrieked, on the edge of madness.

“It was granted to me by the ancient gods, and it exists precisely to cleanse and judge scum like you, whose crimes are piled high! Every day you will bear the pain of every woman you ever violated, and live through every one of their sufferings as if they were your own, until the transformation ends.” The beautiful Luohua standing behind waved her hand and scattered a cloud of fragrance. “I forgot to tell you. In a pure fragrance, your pain is magnified a hundredfold!”

(End of Chapter 1258)