Chapter 51 Why did he kill himself to save you?
When Lu Jiao opened his eyes, Lin Jianyu was choking him with a ferocious expression.
The moment their eyes met, the scene became awkward.
Of course, the main problem was that Lin Jianyu was embarrassed.
She didn't expect Lu Jiao to wake up so suddenly. She didn't even have time to pull her hand away from his neck, let alone get off him and help him put his clothes back on.
Yes, at this moment she was not only choking Lu Jiao's neck, but also sitting on him to make it easier.
As for how things developed to this point...
Don't ask, the answer is she's gotten arrogant.
It's not entirely her fault... well, at least not entirely her fault.
She was quite cautious at first, but after being slapped, having her philtrum pinched, and subjected to various verbal threats, Lu Jiao still didn't wake up, so it was hard for her not to get carried away.
She didn't float that high at first, after all, the neck area is too sensitive. She was also afraid that Lu Jiao would suddenly wake up and it would be difficult to explain. She hesitated for a long time before putting her hand on it, and she didn't dare to exert any force.
After a while, she noticed that Lu Jiao didn't react at all, so she mustered up her courage and applied a little more force, but still there was no reaction.
Having learned from her previous experience, she felt she could be even bolder, and that's how things escalated to this point.
"Would you believe me if I said I did this to wake you up?"
Lu Jiao didn't say whether he believed her or not, he just stared at her coldly, making her hair stand on end.
"I'm serious." Lin Jianyu tried to argue, but Lu Jiao didn't want to listen anymore and said something shocking: "Your master is dead."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu immediately launched a fierce attack.
Damn, I got carried away with it.
Lu Jiao closed his eyes and took a deep breath, but in the end he couldn't help but let her fly out.
After landing safely, Lin Jianyu ran back to Lu Jiao's side without even brushing off the dust on her body.
Lu Jiao was still sitting on the ground with his clothes still open, but Lin Jianyu didn't have time to appreciate his good looks at the moment.
"My master..."
"Dead." Lu Jiao answered before she could finish her question.
Lin Jianyu gritted her teeth, resisting the urge to give him another hard time, and said, "I was wrong. I shouldn't have taken advantage of you while you were unconscious. But I swear, I really just wanted to wake you up at first. Don't play this kind of joke on me. It's not funny at all."
“Humiliation!” Lu Jiao grasped the key point in her words.
Lin Jianyu immediately changed his tune: "I'm offending you."
"Is there a difference?" Lu Jiao asked.
“Yes,” Lin Jianyu said. “Revenge means to bully and insult, and offense means to be rude and impolite.”
"Does being rude and disruptive go unpunished?"
"Yes." Lin Jianyu was not afraid of his retaliation if she dared to do it... Well, she was still a little afraid, but since he couldn't kill her anyway, it was all a small matter. The most important thing right now was to find her master. "Once you find my master, you can take revenge on me however you want, even humiliate me."
"Your master is dead." That's right, Lu Jiao did it on purpose.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu finally lost her temper and grabbed his neck: "If you say my master is dead again, I'll strangle you."
Faced with her anger, Lu Jiao's expression remained unchanged, and his voice was very calm as he said, "Can't you feel it?"
"Can't feel anything?" Lin Jianyu asked, puzzled.
“You’ve changed,” Lu Jiao said.
"Have I changed?" Lin Jianyu was even more puzzled.
Lu Jiao: "..."
Lu Jiao didn't want to talk.
Without him saying anything, Lin Jianyu leaned closer to look.
Yes, use his eyes as a mirror.
Upon closer inspection, she discovered...
"The pupils of both your eyes have turned green." Yes, she hadn't noticed her own change, but she had noticed Lu Jiao's. "Being bloodthirsty is demonic corruption, but turning green, what does that mean? Becoming a god?"
Lu Jiao: "..."
"Don't stay silent, I'm scared."
"Heh." Lu Jiao didn't want to laugh, really, but looking at the person who was saying he was scared but was still choking him, he couldn't help but laugh in anger.
"Don't seduce me, we're talking business!" Lin Jianyu resolutely refused to be seduced by beauty.
"Let go, and stay away from me." Lu Jiao said coldly.
"Oh." Lin Jianyu cooperated by letting go of his hand and taking a step back.
Seeing that Lu Jiao didn't seem satisfied, she took a little more back. Still not satisfied, she...
"If you back up any further, I won't be able to hear what you're saying," Lin Jianyu said, standing about ten meters away from Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao: "..."
Damn idiot!
“It’s too far, isn’t it? I think so too.” Lin Jianyu walked back to his side and squatted down at a spot not too far away. “Are you calmed down? If you are, put your clothes on and we’ll go back to find Qianli.”
Lu Jiao remained silent.
Helpless, Lin Jianyu manually helped him put on his clothes. After she finished, she patted his collar and said, "All done, just like new."
And then, that was it.
She'd been thrown out while crouching before, so dealing with it was a piece of cake!
"Let's go. We can talk on the way. It would be troublesome if we missed Qianli if we got back too late." Lin Jianyu pulled Lu Jiao up from the ground, then put on his backpack and took Whale Rise and Whale Fall.
As she picked up Whale Rising, she didn't forget to introduce it to Lu Jiao: "This is Whale Rising, my master's other natal sword. My master said it is a sword of slaughter, used to slay demons. When Whale Rising, all things perish."
"Have you ever wondered why it ended up next to you?" Lu Jiao asked.
“I’ve thought about it!” Lin Jianyu said. “It must be that my master sensed that I was in danger and sent it to save me. That’s how the whale fall happened before.”
“Wrong.” Lu Jiao shook his head. “Whether it’s the rise or the fall of a whale, it’s all something you summoned with your bloodline power, or rather, something you plundered.”
The word "plunder" struck Lin Jianyu like a hammer blow, awakening his memories; the words he had spoken on the return journey still echoed in his ears.
Aptitude, talent, bloodline, and even life itself.
Every mutation she undergoes is a form of plunder, plundering her master's aptitude, talent, bloodline, and even life.
Lu Jiao asked her earlier, and when she couldn't feel any changes, she was wondering what had changed about her. Now she knows.
Her body grew stronger, she gained healing abilities, she could control whale falls with her will, and she even summoned whales to rise... All of these originally belonged to her master, but she plundered them one by one, even...
"My master..."
"Dead." Lu Jiao didn't care what she wanted to ask and sentenced her to death.
Lin Jianyu took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to strike him with his sword, and said, "My transformation has not yet succeeded."
“You don’t need to successfully transform.” Lu Jiao paused, looked up into the distance, and continued, “Because it wasn’t you who killed him, it was himself.”
"What do you mean?" Lin Jianyu didn't understand.
"The literal meaning." Lu Jiao felt he had explained himself clearly enough, but Lin Jianyu was even more idiotic than he had imagined.
Lin Jianyu actually understood the literal meaning of the words; what she didn't understand was...
Why did he kill himself?
"To save you," Lu Jiao said very bluntly.
"Why did you kill yourself to save me?" Lin Jianyu asked, then remembered that only one of her and her master could live. Her expression instantly fell, and she looked at Lu Jiao as if he were an enemy. "Why did you create this harmful technique!"
“I used to think this was a harmful technique, so I made it a forbidden technique, so that all creatures that used it would pay the price, until you told me that your master used this technique to save you.”
"When I first heard this, I thought he was incredibly stupid, and it turned out he was indeed stupid, but he did use this divination technique to save you."
"Whether you succeed in the transformation or not, he is using this technique to save people, not to harm them."
"Therefore, the problem is never with divination techniques, but with those who use them to harm people. So, I will not kill your master."
"But I also tell you, he will die, and he will definitely die, because this is the price of using this divination technique to save people."
It was rare for Lu Jiao to say so much in one breath; well, if he said less, she might not understand.
Lin Jianyu understood, but still blamed him.
"Don't think that just because you're right, I won't blame you. As long as my master's death is related to your magic, I will blame you, I will blame you for the rest of my life." That's right, that's how unreasonable she is.
Lu Jiao didn't really care whether she blamed him or not, but...
"Everyone has the right to blame me, but you don't, because you may become the only beneficiary of this divination method."
“I’m going to blame you.” Lin Jianyu continued to be unreasonable.
Lu Jiao glanced at her, then decided to ignore her and walk forward on her own.
Lin Jianyu stood there alone for a while before jogging to catch up.
After catching up, she didn't mention the forbidden technique again, but instead asked Lu Jiao, "Are you getting revenge on me?"
Lu Jiao did not reply.
She reached out and tugged at his sleeve.
He still didn't reply.
She grabbed his arm and wouldn't let him leave.
Lu Jiao: "..."
Lu Jiao began to reflect on whether she had been too good-tempered.
Before he could come to a conclusion, Lin Jianyu ordered him, "Say it, are you retaliating against me?"
"What should I tell you in return?" Lu Jiao asked.
"Reporting back at me... what it is doesn't matter." That was close; I almost gave myself away. "Just say you're getting back at me."
"I'm getting revenge on you." Lu Jiao didn't know why he was cooperating with her; perhaps he just didn't want her to keep bothering him.
After hearing what he wanted to hear, Lin Jianyu indeed stopped bothering him and walked ahead of him in a good mood.
Lu Jiao watched her retreating figure, wondering why her mood had suddenly brightened, but he didn't ask.
Lin Jianyu, however, turned around and said to him after walking for a while, "Next time you report to me, don't bring up my master. I don't want to hear about his death again."
“He’s dead,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
They really know how to mess up something that shouldn't be messed up!
"You're the one who's dead, your whole family is dead."
“Your master shouldn’t have saved you,” Lu Jiao said expressionlessly.
"Is it not worth it?"
"yes."
“I think so too.” Her life was worthless, not worth her master sacrificing his own. “So, can he go back on his word? I mean, if I die, he lives.”
"No." Lu Jiao replied without hesitation.
"Why not? As long as I successfully mutate—no, my successful mutate means his transfer failed, it should be that I fail to mutate. As long as I fail to mutate, I'll explode and…" Uh, I think I know why it can't be done now. "What kind of broken magic did you create? How can it have bugs!"
"Bug? What is that?" Lu Jiao asked, puzzled.
"Whether I succeed in the mutation or fail, my master will not survive," Lin Jianyu said.
"Oh," Lu Jiao replied, seemingly understanding but not quite.
"Oh?" Lin Jianyu was clearly dissatisfied with his answer.
"Otherwise what?" Although he didn't understand what a bug was, what she said was right.
"Shouldn't you fix the bug? I mean, give my master a way out."
"Whether it's harming or saving people, using forbidden techniques will only lead to death, and your master is no exception," Lu Jiao said without any mercy.
“You said you wouldn’t kill him.” Lin Jianyu first used his words to shut him up, then said, “When he saved me, he had no idea what kind of magic it was. As the saying goes, ignorance is no excuse. Even if he regrets it in the end and doesn’t want to save me anymore, he should still be innocent.”
"And then?" Lu Jiao asked.
"Then, you're not allowed to kill him," Lin Jianyu said.
“I don’t need to kill him, he’s already dead.” Lu Jiao continued to harp on the same old story.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu pulled out the whale.
Lu Jiao remained unmoved... oh, he did move, he didn't stop walking and continued forward, making Lin Jianyu look like a clown.
Enraged, Lin Jianyu stabbed him in the back.
And then, that was it.
The sword bent.
She's definitely holding the Whale Rising Sword! So, can someone tell her why the sword used for killing is also a soft sword?
She couldn't accept it, so she stabbed him twice more, but the sword still bent. She was so angry that she threw the sword on the ground.
The sword that had fallen to the ground became perfectly straight again.
Lin Jianyu picked it up from the ground, then stabbed himself with the sword, nearly committing suicide.
Lin Jianyu: "???"
No, at least whale fall treats everyone equally, but whale rise treats everyone differently.
Most importantly, the person being treated differently wasn't her, but Lu Jiao.
Why should I?!
"Tell me the truth, are you really not my master?" Besides being her master, she couldn't think of any other reason why Jing Qi would treat him differently.
"No," Lu Jiao replied without turning her head.
"It's not true?" Lin Jianyu deliberately misinterpreted his meaning.
Lu Jiao finally gave her a look.
Lin Jianyu called it the death stare because when he looked at her, she felt a little dead.
"See this sword in my hand? It's a killing sword. It can not only kill, but it can also devour its master. Just now, I almost killed myself with it. Also just now, I tried to stab you with it, and it bent. Can you explain to me why?"
"Because you are not its owner yet," Lu Jiao explained.
"So, who are you?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“Neither do I,” Lu Jiao said.
"Then why is it bent?" Lin Jianyu asked again.
"Because it's cowardly," Lu Jiao said again.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
It is well-reasoned and irrefutable.
"Does a whale fall also make you a coward?"
"Um."
Am I its owner?
"no."
"Then why does it bend when I use it to poke myself?" As Lin Jianyu asked this question, he had already put away the Whale Rising and was frantically poking himself with the Whale Fall.
Lu Jiao: "...because it's even more cowardly."
Lin Jianyu looked at the whale fall in his hand, which was bent into a willow branch. Hmm, it seemed a bit more cowardly than the whale rise.
"You used it to kill several people when you went crazy. Will my master suffer a backlash because of this?"
“No,” Lu Jiao said. “He’s already dead. Even if there’s a backlash, it will be on you.”
"I don't believe my master is dead," Lin Jianyu said through gritted teeth.
"Believe it or not, it's up to you," Lu Jiao said indifferently.
"I can feel that he is still alive, don't try to fool me." She was trying to trick Lu Jiao, but not entirely, because she really did have that feeling, just without any evidence.
Whether Lu Jiao was tricked or not is unknown, because he didn't say anything.
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