Chapter 35

◎He’s like a begging dog, wagging its tail for mercy.◎

Chi Lu stood stiffly in the distance, watching the whole process, and suddenly felt a wave of nausea.

She had anticipated Fengyue City’s intentions early on. Relying on the fact that she had already dismissed her attendants and that Fengyue City had to keep her to open the formation eye, she planned to directly confront the two cultivators and act accordingly.

But who could tell her what was happening now?

Feeling uncomfortable, Chi Lu suddenly remembered the identity of the female cultivator.

She and another male cultivator were a pair of siblings, originally orthodox cultivators, but halfway through they changed to practice evil techniques, not only widely searching for spiritual pills and wonderful medicines, but even relying on absorbing others’ spiritual power to enhance their cultivation.

If such people were in other sects, they would have been expelled long ago. But Fengyue City not only accepted them, but also covered them. Even if they committed all kinds of heinous acts, their infamy never spread far.

This time the two siblings came to her palace, they definitely had no good intentions. According to their past feats, they might plan to kill and eat all the other people in the palace, use the soul-searching wedge on her, collect all the techniques of Linghua Sect, and then hand them over to Jing Yi.

Just thinking about it made her feel uneasy.

Watching Jing Shuxing blow off the arm of the female cultivator, Chi Lu’s feet seemed to have taken root, and she had no intention of stepping forward. 

The female cultivator’s piercing scream was unbearably sharp, but Jing Shuxing seemed to be oblivious.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, groped for the cane that had fallen on the ground, carefully hid it behind him, and examined it closely.

“Fortunately, it wasn’t dirtied by your blood.”

“You, how could you possibly do this!” The female cultivator knelt on the ground, with her eyes full of shock. She didn’t know how her brother had died, and now she didn’t have the leisure to think about the reasons. In order to survive, she retreated and threw out a handful of nails from her sleeve.

She had intended to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but Jing Shuxing didn’t dodge or avoid, letting the strong wind hit him head-on.

He lowered his head and smiled lightly. His laughter that was clear as a bell, sweeping away the previous gloom.

Accompanied by the laughter, the female cultivator’s legs disappeared. She maintained the posture of flying and escaping, stiffly suspended for half a second, and then fell to the ground with a thud.

Her other arm also turned into blood foam at this moment.

Blood splattered all around, and within a few breaths, the previously arrogant female cultivator was whittled down to a stick, twisting futilely on the ground.

The young man in a white robe picked up his cane, stepped on the sticky blood, walked up to the female cultivator, and reached out to touch her bosom.

Chi Lu saw him take out a pitch-black long nail, dipped it in the female cultivator’s fresh blood, propped himself up with one hand, and carefully drew a formation with the other. 

“I’m borrowing your magical tool.”

The female cultivator immediately understood Jing Shuxing’s intention, and panic surged in her eyes, followed by a fierce look.

She knew that her chances of survival were slim, and she put all her hopes of survival on killing Jing Shuxing. As long as she left this place, she could ask the city lord to rebuild her spiritual body for her.

She bit her tongue, condensed the blood that oozed out into a hidden weapon, gathered her spiritual power and spat it out, aiming at Jing Shuxing’s brow.

Just when she was full of confidence, a spiritual power came from the side, deflecting the blood bead and leaving a bloodstain on Jing Shuxing’s clean face.

At the same time, Jing Shuxing completed the drawing of the formation, raised his hand and inserted the soul-searching wedge into the female cultivator’s brow.

The young man’s clothes and face were stained with blood, the red spread upward on his clothes, as if he was wearing a fluttering red robes. The blood splashed on his jade-white face, the bright red was eye-catching, and it was ferocious as if it wanted to tear open his rugged jade bones and invite the inner Asura.

A radiant smile lingered on his face, as if he had thought of something extremely pleasant, and the joy in his heart could not be suppressed at all.

Then, with a “boom”, the blood droplet that the female cultivator spat out before she died shot into the palace, and the roof of the entire palace flew up into the air, rising several feet with the explosion, spinning towards Chi Lu.

Chi Lu subconsciously activated her spiritual power, intending to knock the roof off from the side. The female cultivator made a desperate final effort, waiting only for the hidden weapon to enter Jing Shuxing’s body, so that he would die beyond death. The powerful spiritual power poured into it, pressing Chi Lu to step back step by step.

Just as she was about to be buried alive by the chaotic rocks, the hand that had been persistently holding on suddenly felt light.

First, the fragments of soil and rock turned into dust and fell, like a curtain falling after the end of a play. Then, a graceful young man came walking leisurely.

His cane tapped on the ground, making a thud sound. He raised his hand to touch the silk, pressing down with increased force. In the next instant, the blood-stained clothes turned white, the icy-silk was cleaned, and all the traces from just now disappeared from his body.

Jing Shuxing stopped in front of her, slightly bowed his head, and stood there with a strange expression. He was struggling to distinguish whether the person who came was the young sect leader or her.

Chi Lu didn’t understand. Jing Shuxing clearly didn’t have a trace of spiritual power, so how could he do things that only cultivators could do?

After a moment of thought, she ignored Jing Shuxing’s gloomy expression.

Chi Lu didn’t speak, and Jing Shuxing also stopped talking. After a while, he suddenly reached out his hand, and the cool, clean and neat fingertips made Chi Lu shiver for a moment.

He didn’t use the hand that killed, the hand that touched Chi Lu’s face had always been behind him, and it had never been stained.

His fingertips brushed against Chi Lu’s cheek, the speed was extremely fast, like a fluttering willow catkin brushing past her face.

“Why don’t you speak?” Jing Shuxing’s eyebrows softened, and there was no longer the madness in his tone from a while ago.

He recognized the person who came by touching her face with his hand, but his mood didn’t improve because of this. 

He didn’t know when it started, but she had actively distanced herself from him and became estranged.

It was clearly not like this before.

He didn’t understand what he had done wrong. It seemed that from a certain point, the girl who had no grudges against him disappeared without a trace. From the initial gradual estrangement to the last few days when she didn’t come to see him, he began to be alienated and isolated.

And from beginning to end, Jing Shuxing didn’t understand the reasons.

Even now, no matter what she saw, she chose to keep silent and didn’t want to say a word to him.

“Are you scared?” He asked with a smile.

“How could it be possible.” Chi Lu finally reacted, no longer thinking about Jing Shuxing’s spiritual power problem, and retorted, “I’m just considering what to say.”

She heard Jing Shuxing let out a noncommittal chuckle, and the laughter faintly revealed disbelief.

Regardless of whether he believed it or not, Chi Lu’s eyes suddenly brightened up. Wasn’t this a god-given opportunity to complete the system mission?

“What I want to say is, well done, such a scourge deserves to die.”

The lines flowed out of her mouth without a hitch.

Jing Shuxing’s laughter was very pleasant.

“Do you really think so?”

Chi Lu blinked in response to his question. What else could she think, facing this situation, and if it weren’t for Jing Shuxing, she would definitely be done for?

Jing Shuxing reached out his hand and cradled Chi Lu’s face, as if he was holding a delicate object. He held it carefully, as if he was a Buddhist disciple breaking his precepts, or a killer suppressing his nature.

“Don’t you think this is a rare good opportunity?”

“What?”

“I can kill them, and I can kill others. Don’t you want to take back your previous request and become the master of Linghua Sect, or perhaps Fengyue City?” His tone was gentle, persuading her patiently.

Chi Lu lifted her eyelashes and looked up, only to find that Jing Shuxing’s expression was dark, like an abandoned spirit dog, wagging its tail and begging for its master’s mercy. 

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Tl’s Note:

Hello my lovely readers, I’m Avrora, this series translator (o≧▽≦)ﾉ. There are a few words I want to convey to you:

My lovely readers, Perhaps you have encountered many inconsistencies or other errors in your journey up to this chapter.

Such as, previously I translate “大公子” as “Eldest son” or “Young master” because it’s literally translate to “大” as “big” and “公子” as “son”. But I feel that title still not right, so now I translated it as “Fist young master” instead. Why I decided it as “First young master”? It’s because he is the eldest son(the first child) so I use the “first” and he is the City lord’s son so I decided to use the “young master”. So, that’s why now I translate “大公子” as “First young master”.

Therefore, I want to apologize to all of you. But don’t worry, because I have corrected and fixed them all. 😁

And also like what the Author said, I also say: Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

Thank you all for your attention, see you and happy reading. 😘