Chapter 42 The Lone Wakes Up. Wasn't it said that he wouldn't wake up easily? ...
Lin Jianyu wanted to give him the middle finger, so he did, emphasizing his daring and decisive nature.
Lu Jiao didn't know what giving the middle finger meant, but that didn't stop him from wanting to break Lin Jianyu's middle finger.
Almost as soon as his gaze swept over, Lin Jianyu pulled his middle finger back.
It's not that I'm a coward... okay, I am a coward.
One cannot sacrifice even one's fingers for the sake of dignity.
“It’s not entirely to help me,” Lin Jianyu said. “You also want to find my master, so consider it helping yourself.”
"I'm not in a hurry." Lu Jiao was mainly looking for Lin Jinshui to pass the time, so there was no rush.
Looking at his calm and collected demeanor, Lin Jianyu inexplicably felt a sense of unease, like the emperor not being worried at all, but the eunuchs were dying of anxiety. Although she didn't really want to admit that she was a eunuch, she was genuinely anxious.
"What kind of father are you? Your son is about to die, and you're not worried at all."
“You’re going to die soon too.” Lu Jiao “looked” at her, his expression cold, as if he were looking at a dead person.
Lin Jianyu immediately fell silent.
Not only her, but everyone else too, suddenly became eerily quiet.
In the end, it was Lin Jianyu who spoke first.
There was nothing she could do; everyone else was more timid than her.
Will the cultivators from Gouqu Mountain come again?
"You should ask, do they dare to come again?" Among those who were driven away not long ago was the leader of Gouqu Mountain. Zhu Liu felt that they were now terrifyingly strong.
Lin Jianyu thought about it and agreed, then asked Qianli, "There shouldn't be any stronger old ones left on Gouqu Mountain, right?"
Qianli said, "Yes, I travel alone."
"Who?" Lin Jianyu was hearing this name for the first time.
"The king of the Serpent Clan," Qianli replied.
Lin Jianyu didn't know the lone traveler, but she knew the king of the snake-transformation clan.
Chang Kong mentioned it before.
"The one who raises the sky."
"Chang Kong is just one of the undead she keeps." Qianli didn't know exactly how many undead Du Xing kept, but he knew that he couldn't even beat Chang Kong.
"Is being a lone wolf strong?" she asked Lu Jiao.
She remembered that when Chang Kong asked Lu Jiao if he knew the king of the Serpent Clan, Lu Jiao said he had heard of him, but he didn't know if the Serpent Clan king he had heard of was Du Xing.
If so, they should be very strong at playing alone.
"I don't know," Lu Jiao said.
Just when Lin Jianyu thought that the king of the Serpent Clan he knew was not alone, he said again, "We've never fought."
Lin Jianyu looked a thousand miles ahead, hoping to get the answer from him.
Qianli clearly had a lot to say, and as soon as Lin Jianyu looked over, he began to speak at length: "I've never fought her either, but I've heard my mother say that she's very strong, no less so than her. If I run into her, I'll remember to take a detour."
"Is she stronger, or is the big boss stronger?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“It must be the Great Demon King; he’s the strongest,” Qianli said without hesitation.
With his words, Lin Jianyu felt relieved.
"Let her be. Anyway, she's just serving the big boss food."
“She probably won’t come,” Qianli said. “She has been asleep for many years.”
Lin Jianyu asked in surprise, "She hasn't woken up from her slumber yet?"
“She woke up, then fell asleep again.” Qianli thought for a moment and said, “My mother said that she woke up very early, probably several thousand years ago. Several thousand years ago, she was active for a period of time, and the Gouqu Mountain that exists today was founded by her.”
"Later, for some unknown reason, she fell into a deep sleep again, and there was very little news of her waking up. Several hundred years have passed since the last time news of her waking up was reported."
"Then she probably won't wake up easily."
...
The lone traveler, whom they thought would never wake up easily, was actually awake at this moment.
The story begins an hour ago.
An hour ago, He Nian personally went into battle and discovered that Lu Jiao's strength far surpassed his own, making him no ordinary merman. He did not linger in the fight and immediately chose to retreat tactically.
But once a chaotic battle begins, the situation is beyond his control. Even though he had tried his best to get his men to retreat, many of his cultivators still died or were injured.
Fearing that the other party would kill him, he hesitated for a long time before finally using a clan secret technique to awaken the sleeping Duxing.
Upon learning the whole story, Du Xing was furious, but not at Lu Jiao and the others; he was furious at He Nian.
She raised the dead to find a way to nourish souls, not to raise dead that would harm the local area. Naturally, she did not approve of raising the dead with the flesh and blood of cultivators, and even felt somewhat disgusted by it.
If it weren't for the formidable enemy at hand, she would have already taken action to eliminate her own family members.
However, this time when she woke up, it wasn't all just troublesome things. There was also something that surprised her: one of the undead she had raised had regained its sanity.
While rational undead are not numerous, they are not scarce either. Because of her dedication to studying undead, she has met quite a few, and even had a good relationship with a few of them.
These undead have one thing in common: they retain their sanity from the moment they are transformed into undead.
Almost none of them lose their minds at the beginning and then recover.
At least she had never heard of it.
This is the biggest breakthrough she has made since she started raising the undead. She wants to study it carefully, but before that, she has to clean up the mess left by the younger generation of her clan.
I'm even angrier!
Then, Henian was beaten.
Yeah, I can't stand even a little bit.
Duxing wasn't familiar with the merfolk. The only person he had ever interacted with was Lu Jiao, but that was a long time ago, so long ago that his memories of Lu Jiao were already blurry. He only remembered that on that day, his world collapsed.
Taking a deep breath and trying to calm her turbulent emotions caused by recalling the past, she asked He Nian, who was lying on the ground barely alive, "Do you know who you've messed with?"
He Nian initially thought Lu Jiao was just an ordinary merman, but judging from Lu Jiao's strength, it was clear that he was not. He was neither an ordinary merman nor a member of the merman royal family, so he could only be a merman warrior.
“They must be warriors of the Merfolk,” he said.
Those who can chase them away must be no ordinary soldiers.
I'm not afraid of going alone; I just don't want to exert too much effort.
However, she was also very protective of her own and couldn't stand seeing the younger generation of the clan being harmed. Even if the fault lay with them, she should personally clean up the mess, not let someone else do it for her.
Moreover, according to He Nian, the vast majority of the cultivators who besieged Lu Jiao and his group were there to avenge their fallen comrades at his call, rather than to provoke them on their own initiative.
She could ignore He Nian, and even those who harmed innocent cultivators, but she couldn't ignore them.
Fine, let's just consider it a chance to see the strength of the Merfolk!
She wouldn't kill him anyway.
After making the decision, she didn't bring He Nian and the others along, and went to meet Lu Jiao on her own.
Of course, she didn't know that the person she was going to meet was Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao, however, had sensed her presence long ago.
Just when Lin Jianyu and the others thought she wouldn't wake up easily, he suddenly said, "She's already awake."
"What?" Lin Jianyu was a little confused and looked at him in confusion.
Lu Jiao didn't explain, but Yun Dan explained for him: "The boss said that Du Xing has already woken up."
"Huh?" Lin Jianyu exclaimed in shock, "Didn't you say you wouldn't wake up easily?"
"That's what you said," Yun Dan reminded her.
"What you say is inaccurate; only the experts are accurate," Zhu Liu added.
Lin Jianyu didn't refute, but asked Lu Jiao, "So what do we do now? Are you going to strike first?"
Lu Jiao didn't say anything, but it wasn't hard to tell from his expression that he didn't want to strike first, or rather, he didn't need to strike first.
Lin Jianyu was relieved.
I had barely felt relieved when the lone traveler arrived.
She came alone. Lin Jianyu didn't know she was traveling alone at first and was wondering where this beautiful woman came from, until she saw Lu Jiao holding a whale fall and going up to greet her.
"Another rational undead?" Although Whale Fall can kill living souls, Lu Jiao said that killing living souls is not good for the sword, so he probably wouldn't use the sword to deal with cultivators.
"No," Qianli replied.
"What is that?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"He must be traveling alone." Qianli had never seen anyone traveling alone before, so he couldn't be sure if the other person was traveling alone, but judging from their demeanor, it was pretty much true.
"No wonder." No wonder Lu Jiao, who never treated his enemies like human beings, also picked up a weapon, but with Whale Fall... "If he uses Whale Fall to kill Du Xing, will my master suffer a backlash?"
"Do you think lone wolves are as easy as cabbages?" You kill them without hesitation.
"Isn't that...?" Lin Jianyu asked, looking completely bewildered.
Qianli: "...Okay, if the Great Demon King wants to, but most likely he won't."
"Why is it highly unlikely?" Is Duxing a particularly special person? Hmm, the king of the Serpent Clan does seem quite special.
For some reason, it reminded me of Xianting.
One is the king of the Serpent Clan, and the other is the king of the Flood Dragon Clan... well, although no one has ever said that Xian Ting is the king of the Flood Dragon Clan, the Flood Dragon Clan was revived under Xian Ting's leadership. Even if he is not the king of the Flood Dragon Clan, there is no difference between him and the king of the Flood Dragon Clan.
Judging from Lu Jiao's attitude towards Xian Ting, he undoubtedly disliked Xian Ting, but Xian Ting did not die, which is probably the reason why Du Xing will not die either.
"I understand," she said.
"What do you know?" He hadn't said anything yet.
“As long as Xianting is alive, Duxing won’t die.” Lin Jianyu explained the reasoning she had come up with.
"Are these two things related?" Zhu Liu asked, not understanding.
“Think about it, the boss hates Xian Ting so much, and Xian Ting is still alive, so how could Du Xing just die like that?” Lin Jianyu explained.
After her explanation, Zhu Liu remembered something.
“I remember now. When Changkong asked the big boss to help deal with Duxing, the big boss said that he would not be an enemy of the Huashe Clan. Even if Duxing took the initiative to become his enemy, he would not kill Duxing.”
Lin Jianyu... I can't remember, but it's not important.
"Just watch it for fun!" she said, opening a bag of potato chips.
What a tumultuous day! One wave of attacks followed by another, and her body even underwent a strange transformation. Although Lu Jiao managed to suppress it with her master's blood, she was still hungry.
“But he’s traveling alone, is it really necessary to be like this…” Zhu Liu hesitated before continuing.
Lin Jianyu rolled her eyes at him: "You talk as if you know Duxing."
Zhu Liu didn't really know Du Xing, so he saw a thousand miles.
Qianli also opened a bag of potato chips.
Zhu Liu: "..."
I really want to say something on behalf of Duxing: Doesn't she have any pride?
They were relaxed, as if watching a play, and even had the leisure to eat. On Lu Jiao and Du Xing's side, however, it was a fierce battle, a fight to the death.
Lu Jiao knew from the beginning that a lone opponent was not easy to deal with, so he did not underestimate him and took the Whale Fall. But when the fight actually started, he realized that he had underestimated his opponent.
He found that dealing with a lone wolf was more difficult than he had imagined.
Of course, they are just difficult to deal with, not impossible to deal with.
After a few moves, he was still in complete control, while Du Xing was struggling.
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