Chapter 428: Temporary Ending

Xing Wen smiled and said, "Senior Sister Tao, you look very weak. You didn't even notice my presence."

Tao Zi put away the powder hammer in her hand and replaced it with a dagger.

She smiled and replied, "I can't help it. My strength is limited. But fellow Daoist, why don't you look for an opportunity?"

Xing Wen stood by the tree with a smile on his face and said, "Isn't Fellow Daoist Tao the best opportunity?"

Seeing his expression, Tao Zi suddenly relaxed and said, "Then do you want this opportunity of mine or not?"

He stood up straight, a long knife appeared in his hand, and walked towards her.

The senior's calm yet faintly weak voice echoed in her sea of ​​consciousness: "Tao Zi, your spiritual consciousness has been exhausted. Do you need me to take action?"

She replied in her heart: "No need, he is no match for me with just physical strength."

Xing Wen walked up to her step by step, pointing the tip of the knife at her. The next moment, he turned his hand and handed the handle to her, pointing the tip of the knife at himself.

He smiled and said, "Master Cheng is trapped by a Nascent Soul, but he will be free soon. Let's fight quickly and make it a success."

Tao Zi held the hilt of the knife, played with it for a moment, and asked, "A quick decision, a quick decision on what?"

Xing Wen looked at her fingertips, his eyebrows curved. "You are good friends with Master Yue, so you must hate the main peak, right?"

She raised her eyebrows and said, "It's not been a day or two since the main peak bullied our sect."

Xing Wen's smile deepened: "Stab me with a knife. I need the Lord Peak's trust. This is my chance."

Tao Zi asked concisely, "Remuneration."

A parchment book appeared in his hand, and he handed it to her without any hesitation: "The opportunity I got in this relic."

She took it and saw that it was a good technique, so she accepted it and stabbed him in the process.

Seeing him fall to the ground with bleeding from his abdomen, Tao Zi took a step forward. Before she could say anything, an urgent voice came from the forest: "Fellow Daoist Tao, please show mercy!"

Xing Yue rushed over and stood in front of Xing Wen, his voice still panting as he said, "Fellow Daoist Tao, we are also helpless. We hope you will show mercy!"

Tao Zi glanced at the monk lying on the ground with interest, pointed in a direction, and said, "Three minutes."

Xing Yue immediately bent down and carried Xing Wen away from this place.

Not long after, the brother hurried over and was relieved to see that his sister was safe and sound.

Tao Zi looked delighted and said, "Brother, I gained quite a lot from this fight."

Cheng Wuchou reluctantly reached out to support her and said, "What's the harvest? Look at how pale you've become."

She smiled and said, "It's okay. Those four Nascent Souls are very weak. I think my brother can defeat them all by himself."

"Don't be stubborn."

Tao Zi said seriously, "Really, brother, the reason I'm like this now is because my spiritual sense recovery speed is too slow. I can't fight a war of attrition. In order to end the battle quickly, I directly used my spiritual sense to crush them and kill them in one blow. That's why I'm like this."

Cheng Wuchou's expression straightened and he said, "Azi, never tell anyone your weaknesses, including my brother."

She was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything like "I trust my brother the most" and just agreed obediently.

He helped her to the side to rest, then said, "Then judging from your strength, you should be better than my brother."

Tao Zi shook her head and said, "The strength I just displayed was due to external forces. I couldn't do that under normal circumstances."

As for the price, I could tell just by listening to the senior's voice and my extremely weak consciousness.

Thinking of this, she sighed with regret. With her current strength, she could not fully control the spiritual consciousness of the out-of-body stage.

Cheng Wuchou thought for a moment and said, "When you have time, have a thorough duel with me. I want to see your true strength."

Tao Zi nodded in agreement.

Then he asked, "I was entangled by a Yuanying just now. Is there something wrong on your side?"

She said, "Two people came, one of them is very interesting."

As for Lan Yongji, Tao Zi simply ignored him.

Cheng Wuchou's expression darkened, and he said firmly, "Kill you."

She smiled sweetly, and the liveliness in her eyes and eyebrows made this seemingly ordinary face even more beautiful.

Tao Zi said slowly, "To be more precise, they should seek cooperation with me to gain the trust of the main peak."

He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "There really are all kinds of people on the main peak."

She chuckled softly twice, her tone unfathomable: "It can't be helped. They couldn't endure hardship back then, so naturally no one was willing to follow them wholeheartedly. It's normal for them to be looking for people to be their confidants now."

Cheng Wuchou suddenly stopped talking.

Tao Zi looked over suspiciously: "Brother?"

He exhaled slowly and said, "It's okay, brother, I just remembered the suffering you went through because of them. It was really not worth it."

She smiled indifferently, looked up at the sky, and said, "What can I do? Back then, when I was controlled by the Heart Gu, I could only come up with that solution. I can't really obey the Heart Gu and train them to become talents. That would be really worthless. Besides, the more madly I dote on them, the less suspicious that person will be, and I can hold on for a while longer."

Cheng Wuchou touched her head, his eyes full of heartache.

Tao Zi turned her head and smiled at her brother, her tone extremely relaxed: "In fact, it's not a loss at all. The connections I fought for through fire and water gave to the Punishment Hall. Even the most serious injury - the residual poison from Shao Hua Jushi - bought me an extra life. As for them, they lived comfortably standing behind me, and in the end they only got superficial benefits. Look at how miserable they are now. They can't even kill me."

He shook his head, not believing his sister's relaxed expression at all. After all, when she was controlled by the heart poison, she truly loved those three people, even if there were too many calculations mixed in this love.

In the end, Cheng Wuchou only said one sentence: "They deserve to die."

Tao Zi was stunned for a moment, and he immediately changed the subject: "Logically speaking, as the young master, you shouldn't be able to mobilize only so many people."

She said calmly, "Indeed, but in his eyes, those few wandering Nascent Soul cultivators were enough to take me down. The people he sent later were probably just there to confirm my death or perhaps to finish me off."

Cheng Wuchou helped her tidy up her messy hair and said in a very soft voice: "I discussed with my husband to set up a plan to kill the three of them?"

"What's the point of killing these three? After all, they're just pawns in that person's hands. I just don't know what use these pawns have." Tao Zi said, spinning the bracelet on her wrist. "What's more, these three are too replaceable. If we kill these three, three more powerful ones will appear. Wouldn't that be even more troublesome?"

He rubbed his forehead and said, "I really want to kill these three people."

She smiled and said, "They will die, but their death must not bring about future troubles. That would be a loss."