Chapter 26 A Narrow Escape: She was originally facing an inevitable death...
Before she even cried for help, Lu Jiao sensed a change in her aura. Upon hearing her cry, he instantly appeared beside her.
When he arrived, Lin Jianyu was wrapped in a blanket, shivering, and asked him, "What should I do next? Do I need to lie down?"
Yun Dan and the others were quite nervous, but when they heard her words, they almost laughed out of anger.
Lu Jiao didn't react much, he just quietly "watched" her.
At first, Lin Jianyu could sit and look at him, but gradually she couldn't sit still anymore.
Her heart began to contract in waves, her veins bulged, her bones cracked, and she felt as if she had been disassembled and reassembled. The pain caused her to break out in a cold sweat and scream repeatedly.
"Ah, ah..."
"Master."
"It hurts so much."
"Master."
"Help."
...
Her body was contorted, screaming and spitting blood. Her hand instinctively grabbed the small porcelain bottle in her pocket, like an addict, wanting to swallow the blood droplets inside, yet forcibly suppressing her desire.
"Master, it hurts, it hurts so much."
"ah……"
"Master."
...
As Yun Dan and the others watched her like this, they couldn't tell whether they felt more heartache or more worry.
Zhu Liu held back for a long time, but finally couldn't help but say to Lu Jiao, "Boss, aren't you going to help her?"
"The mutation can only be overcome by oneself; no one else can help," Lu Jiao said.
“But if this continues, she will die.” The blood vessels in Lin Jianyu’s body had bulged to a certain extent and could burst at any moment. He was terrified just looking at them, let alone Lin Jianyu who was enduring this pain. Unfortunately, they could not help her and could only place their hopes on Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao actually wanted to see Lin Jianyu die, because that was her destiny as a bastard. However, the drop of blood from his heart and the soul power that did not belong to him would not allow him to do so. He urged him with pain again and again, urging him to save her.
He didn't like the feeling of being controlled by someone else's consciousness, but his indomitable spirit wouldn't allow him to completely melt away this drop of heart's blood. He wanted to defeat him, wanted to kill the person he wanted to protect with his own hands.
Lin Jianyu felt she was about to die. Her spiritual energy was completely exhausted, and her consciousness was becoming blurred. She was still holding a small porcelain bottle containing blood beads in her hand. She knew this was her last chance. If she didn't consume the blood beads, she would soon explode and die.
But she was still hesitant. She looked at Lu Jiao, but her blurred vision only allowed her to see a splash of red, like blood, vivid and dazzling. She reached out to him, trying to grab the splash of red, but she couldn't grasp it no matter what she did.
In the instant she lost consciousness, she only had time to curse in her mind.
She felt she had been tricked. Lu Jiao had no intention of helping her successfully transform; he just wanted to watch her die. He had never stopped wanting to kill her.
But would he be content without killing her with his own hands?
The answer is, I'm not willing to accept it.
In the instant she fell into a coma, a drop of blood condensed on Lu Jiao's fingertip, and that drop of blood quickly seeped into her heart.
As the drop of blood entered her heart, her blood vessels slowly returned to normal, her body stopped twisting, and she seemed to have simply fallen into a deep sleep.
Of course, this is on the premise that we ignore her pale face and the bright red bloodstains on her body.
"Did it...do you succeed?" Zhu Liu asked.
“No,” Lu Jiao said. “Her physical condition cannot change successfully in one go; it requires repeated changes until it succeeds.”
"Does the repeated mutation mean that it can repeatedly absorb the energy contained in that drop of heart's blood in her body?" Yun Dan asked.
"More or less," Lu Jiao said.
Yun Dan understood. It meant absorbing the energy contained in that drop of heart's blood in stages. Once she had absorbed all the energy contained in that drop of heart's blood, her body would naturally undergo the successful transformation.
that is……
"Will every subsequent encounter be as perilous as this one?"
"The mutation itself is a matter of life and death, and she was originally facing a certain death." He gave her hope for life, even though he didn't want to.
"When will she wake up?" Zhu Liu looked at Lin Jianyu lying on the ground, wanting to pick her up but not daring to move her, and could only anxiously stand by.
Lu Jiao didn't answer his question; instead, he poured ice water over Lin Jianyu's head.
Then, Lin Jianyu was woken up by the cold.
Lin Jianyu shuddered and slowly opened her eyes.
When she opened her eyes, Zhu Liu noticed that her originally black pupils had turned blue, like the deep sea. He wondered if he was seeing things and wanted to take a closer look. He subconsciously moved closer, but Lin Jianyu dodged him.
As soon as Lin Jianyu focused her eyes, she saw an enlarged face approaching her, which frightened her so much that she retreated repeatedly until her body hit a tree and she had nowhere left to go.
"What are you doing?" she said fiercely, her voice strong and forceful. "If you're going to molest me, at least put on the face of a big shot first. Who do you think you're disgusting with your own face?"
Zhu Liu: "..."
Zhu Liu really wanted to kick her a couple of times, or better yet, nail her to a tree.
"You're the one who's disgusting. I got close to you just to see if your pupils had turned blue, not to molest you."
"My pupils have turned blue?" Lin Jianyu grasped the key point in his words. "I've successfully undergone the mutation?"
“No,” Zhu Liu said. “Only when I first woke up were my pupils blue for a moment, but they’ve turned back to black now. The mutation didn’t succeed either. The boss said that your body condition can’t be transformed successfully in one go; you need to undergo repeated transformations until you succeed.”
"Repeated mutations?" Lin Jianyu seemed to have heard a terrible piece of news.
"right."
"Why don't you just kill me!" Lin Jianyu said to Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao really wanted to fulfill her small wish, but he couldn't do it for the time being.
"Once the mutation begins, it cannot be stopped."
"How many mutations are needed to fully transform?" Lin Jianyu wanted to know how many more times she would have to endure the pain she felt today.
"I don't know," Lu Jiao said, "but if you can only absorb this little bit of energy each time, you might not be able to successfully mutate before you die."
"Don't say such unlucky things, believe me." Even though she herself didn't believe herself, "Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry."
Qianli handed her a bag of snacks, which Lin Jianyu opened and ate immediately.
Zhu Liu ran over to get her water bottle, and Yun Dan cooked her instant noodles.
After eating a pot of instant noodles, Lin Jianyu finally came back to life, but the clothes she had just changed in the morning were now so dirty that they were unrecognizable.
"When are we going to town to buy supplies next? I need to buy two sets of clothes." The two sets of clothes she brought were almost completely worn out due to her constant recklessness and Lu Jiao's constant destruction.
"Let's go when we get to Suzhou!" Zhu Jin said.
"I'll go this time, and Junior Brother will stay behind as a hostage."
"You're dreaming." Zhu Liu refused to stay, even if it meant death. "Fifth Senior Brother is enough."
"Is that enough?" Lin Jianyu asked Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao said, "You can't go."
“I want to go. If you don’t let me, I’ll cling to your leg and won’t let go.” She’s been in the mountains for a month or so and is almost like a wild woman.
"Shouldn't he have remained kneeling?" Zhu Liu said.
"What good is that!" If she dared to kneel for so long, Lu Jiao would make her kneel until she died. "It's just once, I'll be back soon. I'll bring you something delicious when I come back, please, just leave me for a little while, you won't die."
“You will die,” Lu Jiao said.
"Pah! Shut your jinxed mouth." Although he wasn't from their sect, he couldn't curse her to death. "Just this once, so tell me if you agree or not?"
Lu Jiao looked at the person who sat down on the spot and clung to his leg, and wanted to kick her away.
"Let go, or you'll die right now."
"You have to agree first. If you don't agree, I'll never let go, even if it kills me." Lin Jianyu hugged her even tighter.
"Go if you want to." Lu Jiao didn't want to care about her anymore.
"Thank you, boss!" Lin Jianyu was overjoyed at achieving his goal.
"Do you know what you looked like just now?" Zhu Liu asked Lin Jianyu.
“Like your father,” Lin Jianyu replied.
Zhu Liu: "..."
This conversation is going nowhere, let's just fight!
After deciding to go to Suzhou, Qianli did not go with them. He escorted them to Suzhou and then went back to pack his luggage.
While he went back to pack his luggage, Lin Jianyu and the others went to a nearby town to buy supplies. Lin Jianyu and Zhu Liu went with him, leaving Xuan Zhan alone with Lu Jiao as a hostage.
"Isn't it unfair of us to do this?" Zhu Liu felt more and more sorry for Xuan Zhan.
“That’s pretty unfair,” Lin Jianyu said. “Why don’t you go back and let Senior Brother Xuanzhan come with us?”
"Impossible, don't even think about it." Zhu Liu suddenly stopped thinking they were being unfair, because he decided that it was better to die for his fellow Daoists than for himself. "The people will always remember Fifth Senior Brother."
"You're making it sound like Senior Brother Xuanzhan is going to sacrifice himself." Lin Jianyu resisted the urge to roll her eyes at him and said, "Staying by the boss's side isn't as scary as you think. We always get along quite well." Lu Jiao basically ignored them. They just needed to pass the time on their own and not provoke him.
She was mostly cultivating, with Xuan Zhan protecting her from the side. Time passed quickly and wasn't difficult to get through.
"Only you can get along well with the big boss." Zhu Liu sometimes couldn't help but admire her fearless spirit.
Lin Jianyu wasn't fearless; she knew Lu Jiao couldn't kill her, so she was fearless.
When she first met Lu Jiao, her voice trembled, but now she dares to cling to his leg and refuse to let go.
The town wasn't far away, and the group walked quickly, so they arrived in no time.
Suzhou is located on the dividing line between North and South China. Most of the area is in the South, and a small part is in the North. The food is more in line with the South, but there are also some Northern characteristics, such as dumplings.
After arriving in the town, Lin Jianyu ate two large bowls of dumplings, but still felt unsatisfied. He even asked Yun Dan to buy flour and meat to go to the mountains to cook for himself.
Yun Dan, of course, would satisfy her.
After finishing their dumplings and purchasing supplies, the group didn't stay in town for long. They rested briefly before heading back to the mountains. On their way out, they encountered several cultivators from Gouqu Mountain.
It wasn't far from Gouqu Mountain, so it wasn't surprising to encounter cultivators from Gouqu Mountain on the road. None of them paid any attention to them, treating them as just a few passersby.
Leaving the town, the group chatted and laughed all the way, just like elementary school students on an autumn outing, completely unaware that danger was approaching them step by step.
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