Chapter 8

◎Like a Rag Doll◎

“What did you say?”

Chi Lu asked unconsciously due to her surprise.

Her voice was like a heavy blow in the air, pounding on Jing Shuxing’s eardrums, mixed with a sense of dizziness.

Jing Shuxing’s vision darkened, feeling that he could fall at any moment. He had to maintain consciousness through pain. His lower lip was bitten bloody, and a string of red beads solidified at the corner of his mouth.

His tone was light and breezy, “I’m just giving the Young sect leader some advice. As long as you say so, the city lord will definitely not keep me.”

His Adam’s apple rolled up and down, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and he looked up expectantly.

He was compliant, he was expectant. He was expecting the rude to reap what they sow, expecting the arrogant and indulgent Young sect leader to invite the wolf into the room, and hand over her life to him.

Jing Shuxing lowered his head without resistance, lightly licking the back of his teeth.

“How does the Young sect leader feel?”

Chi Lu read a strong sense of testing from Jing Shuxing’s words, which made her feel a bit cold.

Suddenly thinking of something, she gently knocked on her forehead.

She understood that Jing Shuxing must have misunderstood the content of the letter, thinking that she wanted to join forces with the “Young sect leader of Linghua Sect” to bully him.

This was a huge misunderstanding. She clearly didn’t want to do evil and was just trying to help him out of kindness.

Chi Lu wanted to explain to Jing Shuxing on the spot, to tell him that she had no malice towards him. However, given her current identity as the lustful Young sect leader, she had to maintain her persona.

“First young master, I didn’t expect you to be beautiful, but your heart is dirty.” She shook the chains binding Jing Shuxing forcefully, covering the sound of their conversation.

She thought to herself that once she removed her mask and returned to the courtyard, she would find Jing Shuxing as soon as possible to clarify the meaning of the letter.

Chi Lu pretended to examine Jing Shuxing carefully, stood up straight, and cleared her throat in a profound manner.

“City lord, the cultivators in the cultivation world all say that you are virtuous and benevolent, but today it seems not so. Your son’s life is like a dying candle, why haven’t you noticed?”

“The best plan right now is to hand him over to me. I can use the secret method of Linghua Sect to treat him, and I can still save his life.”

Jing Yi let out a cold laugh, “Since my son was injured, I have been carefully nurturing him to preserve his vitality. Now that he is suspected of having private communications with outsiders, this is why I am interrogating him. The injuries he suffered are mostly superficial and do not touch the root cause. Young sect leader, don’t talk nonsense.”

Chi Lu thought of Ying Lianyi’s words.

Indeed, there were traces of nurturing in Jing Shuxing’s spiritual body. However, under the devastation of the potent medicine, the withered wood that had just seen spring was instantly shattered. The so-called nurturing was like a drop in the bucket, having no effect at all.

She was preparing to whisper to Ying Lianyi when a soft murmur came to her ear.

After Chi Lu’s fingers moved away from Jing Shuxing’s jaw, he lowered his head again, burying it in the shadows. His black hair was stained with dirty blood, sticking to his pale cheeks, hiding his expression.

The others were too far away from him to see the movement of his lips. Only Chi Lu knew that he was speaking to her.

Why?

Chi Lu didn’t understand the reason. She read the content from Jing Shuxing’s lips, thought for a moment, couldn’t figure it out, and simply repeated it.

“Why did I say this? Shouldn’t the city lord ask Lady Ning?”

She looked at Lady Ning. The beautiful lady was originally calm, but upon hearing her words, a look of fear gradually climbed onto her face.

“The noble son of your city has two types of medicine woven into his body. One is the city lord’s elixir, which indeed has a nurturing effect. However, the other type of medicine destroys the city lord’s painstaking efforts in an instant. If the city lord doesn’t believe it, you can personally check.”

Jing Yi’s face changed slightly. He gave Chi Lu a cold glance, but ultimately couldn’t resist the shock in his heart. He strode forward, grabbed Jing Shuxing’s arm, and injected spiritual power into his body.

The cultivator who was half a step into the void was powerful. With just a faint trace of spiritual power, the entire hall was filled with his aura, heavily pressing on everyone’s hearts.

Chi Lu was only a few steps away from the two of them. The thick sense of oppression mixed with a suffocating feeling, and the noise in her ears made her almost lose her balance.

She finally understood the meaning of Ying Lianyi’s words.

The gap between her and Jing Yi was too great. Not only her, but even those cultivators who were over a hundred years old would be unable to live or die when they encountered Jing Yi, like puppets being played with in the palm of his hand.

Chi Lu steadied her figure and slowly retreated.

The buzzing noise around gradually calmed down. The moment the quietness was restored in her ears, Lady Ning’s whimpering cry suddenly rang out unexpectedly.

“Yi Lang, don’t listen to this girl’s nonsense, quickly get away from that little beast.”

She fainted for a while, and realized that no one was paying attention to her. She once again hysterically blamed Chi Lu, “It’s all your fault. If you didn’t come to take the little beast away, Yi Lang would never notice him.”

As she spoke, she let out a wail, dodged the support of the maids and her son, and fell softly to the ground.

As for the abnormal family relationship of the city lord’s family in Fengyue City, Chi Lu had no interest in commenting, but the development of the situation did not allow her to do so.

After Lady Ning fell, the other two were in a mess. The maid, not knowing who had instructed her, actually started blaming Ying Lianyi, who was standing in the distance, trying to be invisible.

“Great Elder, I originally thought that everyone in Linghua Sect was pure and good, and I had great respect for you. I never thought that you would be so aggressive!”

Ying Lianyi closed her eyes to rest, unmoving like a mountain, silently lamenting her bad luck in her heart, having to suffer this because of the Young sect leader’s whim.

Ying Lianyi didn’t respond, but instead, it was Chi Lu who raised her beautiful eyebrows.

She had been pampered since she was a child, and no one had ever taught her that sometimes you can’t be hard-headed, you need to hide your light under a bushel, swallow your anger, and keep silent. Although Fengyue City had a genius powerhouse, Linghua Sect was not to be bullied at will.

If she said that she had developed a dislike for Fengyue City because of Jing Shuxing, now it was a genuine disgust.

She turned her wrist, silently reminding herself that she was now the “willful, lustful, and capricious” Young sect leader of Linghua Sect, and her slender fingers gently rested on the handle of the Red Soul Whip.

“What’s wrong with Lady Ning?”

The maid didn’t expect Chi Lu to turn back, so she righteously shifted the blame, “The Young sect leader is actually indulging in love, it’s ridiculous. For a waste person, she even disregards the good relations between the two immortal blessed lands.”

She opened her cherry mouth and spoke in a babbling manner.

Chi Lu ignored her.

She bypassed the maid, looked down at Lady Ning who had “fainted” in Jing Luoyun’s arms, and looked down at the system screen.

The “make a declaration” mission was checked off, while the other three missions were still in the uncompleted stage.

Chi Lu carefully examined the screen for a while, confirming that her next actions would not violate the system’s requirements.

“Lady should get up, otherwise people will think that Linghua Sect is too bullying, causing Lady Ning to suffer.”

Her bare hand reached out from her waist, raised high, carrying a fierce momentum, and raised the whip.

“Snap.”

A very crisp sound, like a fruit farmer patting a ripe watermelon.

Lady Ning let out a loud wail, and the hawk turned over and propped up.

Just as Chi Lu had thought, the “whip and beat” mission was also recognized as completed by the system.

In the scene description, the system only said that Jing Shuxing’s behavior had annoyed Chi Lu, and did not specify the target of the whipping.

She said she couldn’t bear to damage Jing Shuxing’s beauty, so she turned to vent her anger on the onlookers. There’s nothing wrong with that, right?

Accompanied by Lady Ning’s wail, a roar of anger rang out from behind at the same time.

Before Jing Yi could speak, the maid was the first to “thud” and kneel on the ground, kowtowing like garlic, “City lord, please see clearly, it was the lady who hurt the first young master, it has nothing to do with the Young city lord.”

Jing Yi’s eyes half-lifted, a cold light flashed in his pupils, and Lady Ning was instantly gripped by an invisible force around her throat, lifted into mid-air, “I told you, he can’t die.”

Chi Lu looked back, Jing Shuxing was like a rag doll, pulled by the iron chains that bound his body, hanging weakly in place.

Despite being tormented to the point of unbearable pain, the corners of his mouth were drawn into a smile. His eyes, which could not see, were like regaining light, bursting out with rays of light.

In order to endure the severe pain of spiritual power piercing through his body, Jing Shuxing’s mouth was bitten to a bloody mess by him. He slightly opened his mouth, and a line of blood flowed down from the corner of his mouth.

His chest was heaving violently, and in order to suppress his laughter, his whole body was trembling.

Ridiculous.

The dignified half-step into the void, was actually oblivious to his murderous intent. Just now, he had already included the entire Jing Yi, within the range of his power.

With a thought, he could blow up this number one powerhouse in the cultivation world, who had once broken his bones and shattered his spiritual platform, into a shower of blood.

Really ridiculous.

When he was wholeheartedly towards the light, the heavens abandoned him. When he lost everything and had no hope, they turned their gaze towards him.