Chapter 54 My life is over, I won't fly, I won't fly, don't go! ...
Qianli died... Bah! Qianli is alive and well. He's currently flying over the sea with Yun Dan and the others.
As a race with inherited memories, the Kunpeng race, even its cubs, possess a wealth of knowledge.
Therefore, although he had never seen what the blasphemers looked like when they fell into demonic possession, he knew what they looked like when they fell into demonic possession.
Bloodshot eyes, loss of reason, and an aura of danger surrounding the body... these are all signs of a blasphemer's fall from grace.
Qianli recognized Lu Jiao as a demon at a single glance.
Ordinary blasphemers who have fallen to the demonic path are terrifying enough, let alone Lu Jiao, a top-tier demon king.
He left almost as if he were fleeing.
Although they came back later, they only took Yun Dan and the others with them and ran away, without even taking Lin Jianyu with them.
After leaving Zhijiang, he rushed to the sea without hesitation.
Yes, he's going to find his mother.
Yun Dan and the others still didn't understand the situation when he ran towards the sea. They only knew that Lu Jiao had gone mad and that they would all die if they didn't escape.
These were Qianli's exact words, and they had no doubts, but they couldn't help worrying about Lin Jianyu who was left behind.
Yun Dan advocated going back to rescue Lin Jianyu, and the others had no objections, except for Qianli, who disagreed.
He's still a cub; only an idiot would go back to his death.
That's right, he didn't think they could save Lin Jianyu at all; going back would be tantamount to suicide.
In order not to die in vain, he persuaded them to go with him to find his mother.
The search lasted all day.
The ocean is too vast, and his mother likes to wander around, so he basically relies on pure luck to find his way.
Now, let's return to the story of Lin Jianyu and Lu Jiao.
After Lin Jianyu left, he started looking for food again.
There was no other way; she already had a big appetite, and after the mutation began, her appetite increased even more. A little bit of wild fruit was not enough to fill her stomach; she needed meat.
Under her persistent nagging, Lu Jiao caught her a rabbit, not too big or too small, weighing about three or four pounds.
She found the rabbit herself... well, not exactly found it, she just saw it while passing by and asked Lu Jiao to catch it for her, because she was afraid she wouldn't be able to catch it herself.
Lu Jiao didn't know why someone who was about to successfully transform couldn't even catch a rabbit, but she still helped her catch one because the rabbit was just too annoying.
With the rabbits, Lin Jianyu asked Lu Jiao to start a fire for her, and then it was time for Jing Qi to get to work.
Is it wrong for Lin Jianyu to use Whale Rising, a weapon of slaughter, to kill rabbits? Absolutely not, Lin Jianyu certainly doesn't think so.
As for what Jingqi thinks...
What's it to her!
Rabbits were plentiful in their Taoist temple, so killing them wasn't a difficult task for her; she finished it in no time.
Once the rabbit meat is prepared, you can start roasting it.
Roasting rabbit isn't a particularly skilled job, and she still does it with ease.
After it was baked, she immediately gave Lu Jiao a rabbit leg, and the rest were all for herself.
Lu Jiao saw that she had grilled it quite well and it smelled pretty good, so he ate it, and then... nothing more.
The roasted rabbit meat, without any seasoning, tasted terrible, as you can imagine. Lu Jiao didn't want to eat it after just one bite.
So he simply threw the remaining rabbit meat into the fire.
Yes, that's just how capricious I am.
"What are you doing?" Lin Jianyu picked up the rabbit meat and was about to take a bite when she saw this scene. While questioning him, she had already reached into the fire and taken the rabbit meat out.
"It tastes awful," Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu took a bite, chewed it, and thought, "Not bad! Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, it's perfect except for the lack of flavor."
"Do you even know how to eat? This meat is roasted so well, and you're still being picky! You should really try the rabbit meat roasted by my master."
Yes, after all these years, her master's rabbit roasting skills haven't improved at all; the outside is still burnt while the inside is undercooked, and only the middle is edible.
Lu Jiao remained silent, but the expression on his face showed disgust.
Lin Jianyu was too lazy to argue with him. After finishing the whole rabbit by herself, she ate some roasted chestnuts, roasted mushrooms, and roasted wild vegetables... focusing on a balanced diet.
After eating and drinking our fill... we drank plenty of spring water, and with that, we could continue our journey.
It was already dark, but that didn't matter, she now had night vision, so it wouldn't affect her walking at night.
"Minyue is just ahead. How far is it from the last place you sensed?"
“Far,” Lu Jiao said succinctly.
Lin Jianyu: "...It's not in Southern Vietnam, is it?"
It's not impossible.
Nanyue is another major base of their sect, so there's a good chance her master went there.
Moreover, Nanyue is also located by the sea, which fits the curse of her master.
“Let’s go straight to Nanyue! That bastard Xianting is in Minyue, and I don’t want to see him again.” As she said this, Lin Jianyu had already climbed onto Lu Jiao’s shoulder.
Well, after experiencing it once, she found that it was easier to climb onto his shoulders and then hug his neck than to climb onto his back and then hug his neck.
For example, she easily wrapped her arms around Lu Jiao's neck right now.
Lu Jiao looked down at her.
she……
"What are you looking at? Fly faster." He was unreasonable, but his tone was defiant.
"Let go," Lu Jiao said.
"Impossible, don't even think about it." Lin Jianyu said, hugging her even tighter. "Hurry up, it'll be dawn if we keep dawdling."
Lu Jiao wanted to break her hand, and he did, demonstrating his boldness and daring.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu asked him to help her straighten her bones.
"Why be so violent? I'm just a vulnerable human being."
“Bastard,” Lu Jiao corrected her.
Lin Jianyu: "...Aren't bastards vulnerable too?"
"Hybrids are generally not fragile."
Is it my fault that I'm different?
"yes."
“You’ve won,” Lin Jianyu said, “but I’m injured now, and you must take me to South Vietnam.”
"You injured your arm; it won't affect your walking."
"Then break my leg too."
Lu Jiao looked at her legs.
Lin Jianyu exclaimed in surprise, "You really want to break it?"
Lu Jiao glanced at it without thinking.
"If you want to."
"I want you to take me flying," Lin Jianyu said.
"Impossible, don't even think about it." Lu Jiao refused.
Lin Jianyu: "...Don't try to apply what you've just learned."
Lu Jiao then studied it.
Lin Jianyu had no way to deal with him, so she simply pretended not to hear and continued to pester him.
When he finally gets annoyed, she can finally go to heaven.
There are two kinds of flying: one is when he carries her, and the other is when she flies on her own.
She can't fly herself, so usually he would send her into the sky, and she would freefall, falling flat on her face, sometimes ending up hanging from a tree.
She was quite lucky tonight; she only had to fly twice on her own before she successfully got him to take her flying.
The straight-line distance from Zhijiang to Nanyue is about a thousand kilometers. If Qianli could fly them there, at a faster speed, it would only take a little over an hour. But Lu Jiao couldn't do that, so he stopped in Minyue.
Lin Jianyu didn't know at first and asked him if he had arrived, to which he replied no.
As for why there was no reason to stop...
Don't ask, the answer is I don't want to fly anymore.
As a merman, it's understandable that he doesn't like flying in the sky like a Kunpeng, Lin Jianyu tried to convince himself.
Unfortunately, it failed.
"You're already exhausted after such a short distance. By the time we get there, my master will be dead."
“You weren’t in a hurry when you were eating,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu: "...What do you know? People are made of iron, and food is steel. You'll get hungry if you skip a meal."
"You're a bastard."
"So what if you're a bastard? Bastards get hungry too, bastards need to eat." When she was a pure human, her appetite was actually quite small. It only grew after she mutated, and it's getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes she even suspects that her master's true form is a gluttonous beast, although whales seem to have quite large appetites too.
"You can fly on your own."
"That would only work if I knew how. Do I look like I do?"
Lu Jiao knew without looking that he wouldn't, so he didn't say anything and just flew away.
"Where are you going? Hey? If you're not going to fly, then don't fly! This is Minyue. If you run into Xianting, he'll kill me." Lin Jianyu was a little dumbfounded when she saw him fly away like that.
Although she didn't know where her confidence came from, she thought Lu Jiao wouldn't abandon her, but he just left her like that.
Still in Minyue, with the Minjiang River behind her, the legendary lair of Xianting... I inexplicably had a feeling of "my life is over".
Fortunately, this feeling didn't last long, because Lu Jiaofei came back.
Before him arrived was... a humanoid object?
Lin Jianyu looked at him from a distance and he seemed somewhat familiar.
Yes, she dodged it.
When you're feeling melancholic and sentimental, if a "person" suddenly falls from the sky, you might get crushed if you don't dodge.
Once she realized that the "person" was Lu Jiao who had dropped her, she ignored him and ran straight to him, giving him a bear hug.
"Waaah... I thought you abandoned me and left me alone. I was so scared. I was all alone, I didn't even know the way, and I'm such a novice..." Lin Jianyu's first "waaah" was fake crying, but as she talked, she became more and more frightened and aggrieved, and then she really cried.
Lu Jiao: "..."
He just went to catch a mount.
Well, the humanoid creature he dropped was a dragon he caught nearby.
The reason he chose to stop near the Minjiang River was because he knew that this was Xianting's lair, and there must be a dragon clan nearby. He wanted to catch one to use as a mount.
But before he could explain why, Lin Jianyu started chattering away, so he simply stopped talking and went to catch her.
Anyway, Lin Jianyu can't go far by herself.
When she returned, she was indeed still lingering in the same spot.
that is……
Why are you crying?
Lu Jiao didn't understand, but he still explained, "I went to catch a mount." He really didn't like flying, but it would be immoral to just grab any mountain and sea creature as a mount on the road, so he could only come to Minyue.
Who told Xian Ting to lose their "mount"!
"Then you should have said something! You have no idea how scared I was," Lin Jianyu said angrily.
"I forgot." Lu Jiao thought she was fearless! After all, she even dared to lay a hand on him.
"I'll let it go this time, but don't do it again next time. Otherwise, otherwise... otherwise I can't do anything with you, boohoo..." Lin Jianyu cried even louder.
Lu Jiao: "..."
Lu Jiao found it a bit noisy, so he cast a silencing spell on her.
Lin Jianyu: "???"
Lin Jianyu strained his throat and questioned Lu Jiao with his eyes.
Lu Jiao lifted the silence spell.
Lin Jianyu was able to speak again and asked in confusion, "What happened to me just now?"
Lu Jiao said, "It's noisy."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Forget it, I won't argue with him. Finding her master is the priority.
After convincing herself, she turned and left like a scumbag to go see the mount he had caught.
The other person lay motionless on the ground, as if dead.
"Why aren't you moving? Did you fall and die?" Lin Jianyu kicked the other person's body, but there was no reaction.
As soon as she finished speaking, the other person moved, which startled her so much that she immediately hid behind Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao didn't move, looking at the dragon clan member who was getting up from the ground, and said, "Take us somewhere, and we'll let you go when we get there, otherwise..."
"Skin and tendons." Lin Jianyu peeked out from behind Lu Jiao, originally just wanting to see what the other person looked like, but upon seeing him, he realized, "Oh ho, he's a familiar face."
She didn't know his name, but she remembered it very clearly. He was one of the men that Xian Ting had brought to surround and kill them that day. She thought that the wronged should be held accountable, and she couldn't help but blurt out a harsh word, which just happened to pick up where Lu Jiao left off.
When Lu Jiao captured the dragon, he thought he was doomed. But it turned out he was only to be used as a mount, and there was a possibility of being released. He... could not refuse. He couldn't fight back, and he didn't want to die. Being a mount was fine with him.
So, not long after, Lin Jianyu and the others got their wish and sat... uh, stood on his back.
Unlike the Kunpeng clan, the Jiaolong clan can also fly, but not only is it slow, it is also not suitable for sitting.
Of course, this speed is slow compared to the Kunpeng Clan. Compared to Lin Jianyu, it's much faster, and Lin Jianyu can't even fly.
At this moment, she was trembling and clinging tightly to Lu Jiao's arm.
"It looks like we're approaching Nanyue. Should we continue south?"
"Um."
South of South Vietnam lies the sea, or perhaps, Hong Kong?
Her master has never been to Hong Kong because of his destiny, and it is highly unlikely that he will suddenly go to Hong Kong.
Therefore, the most likely location is still the sea, specifically the sea near Shenzhen.
As for why it's in the sea near Shenzhen...
The reason is simple: another major base of their sect is in Shenzhen.
Thinking of her sect, she couldn't help but think of Yun Dan and the others who had gone missing, and hesitated whether she should go back to the main camp in Pengcheng and tell her third senior uncle.
I think I'll pass!
The mounts they were riding were actually their enemies, and it was inconvenient to bring them back to their base.
Moreover, her master might be in imminent danger and is waiting for them to rescue him, so they shouldn't delay.
If it had been just a fraction of a second off, she would have been devastated.
After entering southern Vietnam, they flew south for a long time, and Lin Jianyu could see the sea in the distance.
Just when she was about to conclude that her master was in the sea, Lu Jiao made their mounts turn west.
"Hmm? This direction? West Vietnam! Peach blossom pastry."
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
Lu Jiao: "???"
Lin Jianyu said embarrassedly, "This name is making my stomach rumble." Just mentioning it made her hungry.
However, I realized that peach blossom pastries are just a habit, and they are not available this season.
Her master only comes to Xiyue during the peach blossom season each year, and he has already come this year.
Perhaps it wasn't Xiyue, but Nanzhao.
Nanzhao was also west of Nanyue, so his master was more likely to return to Nanzhao than to go to Xiyue.
Xiyue only has peach blossom pastries, and it's not the season for peach blossoms to bloom right now, so it's unlikely that her master went there.
Nanzhao was their sect's main base. It was normal for her master to want to return to the main base if she encountered danger or was injured while training outside.
Even if nothing happened to him, it would be normal for him to want to return to headquarters.
Of course, Lu Jiao had said long ago that her master was critically ill, so there was almost no possibility that nothing would happen.
Either he encountered danger and got injured and wanted to return to his sect, or he simply encountered danger and got injured near his sect.
She analyzed the situation in her mind and was almost certain that her master was in Nanzhao when Lu Jiao suddenly mentioned it to her.
arrive?
Although she didn't know where she was, judging from the time and distance, it couldn't possibly be Nanzhao.
It could only be Western Yue, or perhaps they hadn't even left Southern Yue yet.
"Where is this?" After landing, Lin Jianyu looked around but couldn't tell where she was at all.
Lu Jiao didn't know where this was either, but the dragon clan that brought them here said, "Ancient battlefield."
Lin Jianyu looked at him with a puzzled expression upon hearing this.
He was looking at Lu Jiao, and his gaze was... cautious.
Lin Jianyu also looked at Lu Jiao and asked, "What is the ancient battlefield?"
Lu Jiao said, "I don't know."
Lin Jianyu had no doubts and turned his gaze back to the dragon clan member, ordering, "Speak."
The dragon ignored her, then glanced at Lu Jiao, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Lin Jianyu: "...Don't look at him, I'm asking you a question."
Upon hearing this, the dragon finally spared her a glance.
He wasn't afraid of Lin Jianyu, and even looked down on him a bit, because Lin Jianyu looked very weak.
But as the saying goes, even when beating a dog, you have to… well, you have to consider the Buddha's feelings, so he withdrew his gaze from her and continued looking at Lu Jiao, saying, "The battlefield of the War of the Gods."
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