Chapter 37 You're more of a death necromancer, I'm a bastard! ...
"What do you think of an existence that could cause the gods to fall?" the woman in green asked instead of answering.
Lin Jianyu felt... nothing else mattered, what mattered was: "The blasphemer who caused the gods to fall is a big shot? Isn't he the Judge?"
"It is said..." The woman in green stopped after saying only two words, her face showing hesitation, as if she was wondering whether to continue.
Lin Jianyu waited a moment, but when she didn't continue, he couldn't help but ask, "What's the rumor?"
"It is said..." The woman in green hesitated for a moment before finally speaking, "It is said that the Fish Witch was born a blasphemer. Later, he led many blasphemers to rebel against the temple, and that war was known as the 'War of Slaying Gods'."
"I don't know the details of the war, but I do know that after the war ended, there were no more gods in the world, and the temples no longer existed. Instead, there were judges and courts."
"Oh ho!"
Both Lin Jianyu and Zhu Liu were shocked.
"The big shot seemed a bit too low-key when he was with us." This made them completely unaware that he was such an awesome person.
“No, not exactly,” the woman in green said. “It is said that after the war against the gods, that fish shaman sealed his power, and he is now much weaker than he was at his peak.”
Lu Jiao's current power is already weakened, and with the seal, it's clear how powerful he was at his peak.
Realizing how powerful her current backer was, Lin Jianyu wanted to cling to Lu Jiao even more, but unfortunately, Lu Jiao wasn't by her side right now.
On another note, they've been fighting for two or three hours now, why haven't Lu Jiao and the others finished their battle and come looking for them yet? Is it because they can't find them, or is the battle still ongoing? I suddenly feel worried.
Yes, I'm worried about her.
Lu Jiao is so awesome, she doesn't need to worry about him at all.
Thinking of this, she subconsciously glanced around to see if Lu Jiao had arrived. Of course, she didn't see Lu Jiao, but when she saw the spirit frozen by the woman in green, her eyes burned with pain at just one glance, and she quickly looked away.
"What are your plans to do with that undead?"
Upon hearing this, the woman in green glanced in the direction of the spirit, then raised her hand and gently clenched it, causing the spirit to transform into a beam of red light.
Upon seeing this, Lin Jianyu thought to himself, "The last time I saw someone deal with the dead so cleanly and efficiently was Lu Jiao."
Just when she thought the red light would enter the woman in green's body, it flew towards her and was completely absorbed by the whale fall in her hand.
Lin Jianyu: "???"
No, help!
What kind of suicidal behavior is this?
"Let me explain."
The woman in green ignored her and reached out her hand directly towards the whale fall.
Lin Jianyu tried to dodge, but failed.
The woman in green grasped the hilt of the whale-fall sword, but the next second she suddenly let go, as if she had been electrocuted.
At the same time, the whale fall began to shake violently, as if it had Parkinson's disease.
Lin Jianyu sensed that it was about to be drawn, so he subconsciously placed his hand on the hilt and pulled hard. He couldn't pull it out, but the trembling stopped.
So, it's because it doesn't like others touching it?
"A very special sword." The woman in green glanced at her palm, which looked like it had been burned, and instead of being angry, she laughed.
Zhu Liu, who was holding Lin Jianyu's arm, began to tremble uncontrollably.
Just as Lin Jianyu was about to ask him if he also had Parkinson's, he heard him tremblingly say, "Dead...dead spirit."
Hearing his words, Lin Jianyu thought that another ghost had come after them. Following his gaze, she found that he was looking at the woman in green.
In that instant, a lot of thoughts raced through her mind.
In summary, the woman in blue before them was likely not one of the Mountain and Sea Clan they had assumed, but rather a spirit of the dead.
"You, you are a ghost?" This realization made Lin Jianyu's body tremble uncontrollably.
The woman in green looked at the two trembling figures huddled together and said helplessly, "You should be glad I'm a ghost. If I were a member of the Mountain and Sea Clan, you might already be dead."
"What does it have to do with you being a ghost if you don't kill us?" Lin Jianyu asked, puzzled.
"You are not on my menu, but the undead that is hunting you down is on my menu, understand?" the woman in blue asked.
"I understand." It means she only eats the undead, not cultivators.
"So it turns out that rational undead don't eat cultivators." This was the first time Zhu Liu had seen a rational undead, and he found that it wasn't as terrifying as the rumors suggested.
“Wrong.” The woman in green denied his words. “It’s not that rational undead don’t eat cultivators, it’s that I don’t eat cultivators. Undead and cultivators are natural enemies. Once they clash, it’s either you or me who dies.”
“Then we are lucky to have met you,” Lin Jianyu said.
“Indeed.” The woman in green nodded. “If I hadn’t intervened, you might have already been swallowed whole by that sea monster.”
Lin Jianyu thought of the gaping maw that had been magnified in front of her and felt that this possibility was quite high.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, senior."
The woman in green said, "There's no need for thanks. I didn't save you for nothing; I have my own purpose."
"You want to get to know a big shot through us?" Lin Jianyu guessed.
“Yes.” The woman in blue nodded.
Lin Jianyu didn't mind introducing her to Lu Jiao, but...
"The big boss probably doesn't want to deal with the undead." Fearing the woman in green might turn on her, she had already tried to be as tactful as possible. In fact, so far, not a single undead that had appeared before Lu Jiao had managed to escape unscathed.
“I understand.” The woman in blue was surprisingly understanding. “But I have no choice. I want to leave this place, and only that Fish Witch can help me.”
"You want to leave here?" Lin Jianyu seized on the key point in her words. "You can't leave here? Why?"
"Yes." The woman in green did not hide anything, but she also did not explain in detail why she could not leave this place.
Lin Jianyu was hesitating whether to get to the bottom of things when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a red figure approaching them out of the corner of her eye. She was so startled that she sat up abruptly, and she also pulled Zhu Liu, who was holding her arm, up with her.
Zhu Liu was completely bewildered by Lu Jiao's behavior, not seeing her. Just as he was about to ask her what was wrong, she broke free from him and ran towards Lu Jiao, calling out "Big Boss."
Not long after, she returned.
Yes, she flew back towards him. He subconsciously took half a step back, and she landed right at his feet with a "thud." Luckily, she almost crushed his foot.
When Lin Jianyu saw Lu Jiao, she wanted to rush over and hug his leg, but before she could even grab it, she was thrown back. After landing, she saw that Zhu Liu was only half a step away from her, and she couldn't help but complain, "At such a close distance, couldn't you have reached out and caught me?"
"You think you're as light as a feather? You even reached out to catch me. Reaching out wasn't catching you, it was leaving your hand behind," Zhu Liu retorted.
Lin Jianyu: "If you can't even catch a hundred or eighty catties, do you deserve to be called a cultivator?"
“There’s a difference between a cultivator and a strongman,” Zhu Liu said. “Besides, it wasn’t me who made you fly back, so why are you taking it out on me?”
"I just don't dare to get angry at the big boss! You yourself said that you should pick on the weak." He's the weakest one here.
Zhu Liu wanted to say something more, but Lin Jianyu didn't want to listen anymore because she saw the whale fall fly towards Lu Jiao's direction.
The whale fall wouldn't attack Lu Jiao; it flew towards Lu Jiao most likely because it was under Lu Jiao's control.
Sure enough, it stopped in front of Lu Jiao and was then firmly held in Lu Jiao's hand.
Seeing Lu Jiao draw his sword, Lin Jianyu suddenly realized something and quickly stopped him, saying, "Wait a minute, don't rush to attack. We're on the same side."
“A dead soul.” Although Lu Jiao only said four words, Lin Jianyu still understood his implied meaning.
She felt that what he meant was that a dead person didn't deserve to be one of his own.
"Just undead? I'm a bastard! Aren't we still on the same side?"
“You’re right.” Surprisingly, Lu Jiao didn’t refute her, but the next second, he pointed his sword at her and said, “You deserve to die even more.”
Lin Jianyu: "..."
No, there's absolutely no need for that!
"I was wrong. If you want to kill her, then kill her! I won't stop you." As she spoke, she gestured for him to proceed.
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a chill down her spine, and then a cold hand gripped her neck.
The one who was strangling her neck was none other than the woman in green.
Lin Jianyu: "???"
What did she do to deserve this?
"You don't actually think kidnapping me will threaten him, do you? Please, he'd love for me to die. You could kidnap any random flower or blade of grass by the roadside, it would be more effective than kidnapping me!"
The woman in green did not respond to her words. She said to Lu Jiao, "I have no ill intentions. It is not my wish to be transformed into an undead. I hope Lord Fish Witch will show mercy."
“Kill her,” Lu Jiao said. “Kill her and I’ll let you go.”
"Do you want to hear what you're saying?" Lin Jianyu asked in shock. "I'm carrying your child, you heartless, ungrateful man." She wasn't saying this to smear Lu Jiao, but mainly because she was afraid that the woman in green behind her might hear Lu Jiao's words and impulsively kill her.
As it turned out, the woman in green behind her didn't act impulsively, but Lu Jiao did.
He appeared directly in front of her and plunged his sword into her abdomen with such speed and decisiveness that it seemed he intended to kill the bastard child in her womb.
The moment Lin Jianyu was stabbed by the sword, she felt like she had forgotten how to breathe.
She only took a deep breath when the feeling of suffocation hit her.
Oh no, she discovered her stomach was leaking air... Ugh! She realized she wasn't experiencing any pain in her stomach.
Looking down, the first thing she saw was the sword hilt she had instinctively gripped and Lu Jiao's hand. There was no blood. Looking further in, she saw Lu Jiao's abdomen, which was also devoid of blood.
The hilt of the sword was pressed against her abdomen, but the blade did not pierce her abdomen; instead, it hung low, like a willow branch.
For so many years, she had no idea that whale fall was a soft sword.
Lu Jiao, however, seemed to have expected this, and reluctantly withdrew... well, he couldn't, someone was holding on too tightly.
"let go."
"Okay." Lin Jianyu obediently let go.
She let go, and Lu Jiao also let go. The whale fell to the ground without any support.
When Lin Jianyu looked over at the sound, it had already become a straight sword.
Just as I picked up the sword, another scabbard appeared on the ground.
It's obvious who lost it.
Lin Jianyu dutifully picked up the scabbard as well, and then tried to bend the broken blade with her hands to see if it would bend. However, the blade was hard as a rock, not at all the soft sword she had imagined.
The weapon bends when it's stabbed at her, probably a trick Lu Jiao used to make the woman in green loosen her grip on her neck.
Yes, the woman in green had already released her neck when Lu Jiao stabbed her in the abdomen with his sword.
"So, when you stabbed me with your sword, it wasn't to kill me, but to save me?"
"Don't overthink it. I just want to kill you, but my sword is crooked and bent." Lu Jiao told the truth.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu slashed him directly with his sword.
Then, the sword bent again.
"This sword is indeed disappointing."
"Whale Fall is a sword that the sect leader's junior uncle specifically uses to deal with the undead. It might not be able to harm the living?" Zhu Liu guessed.
"Really?" Lin Jianyu looked at the sword, which had straightened again, with a doubtful expression. "How about I try to stab you?"
"No." Zhu Liu wasn't stupid. What if his guess was wrong? Wouldn't he have taken a sword for nothing? "Next time you encounter cultivators from Gouqu Mountain, have a big shot help you pull out the sword, and then you can try it on them."
"What a load of crap, this is clearly courting death." Lin Jianyu wasn't stupid either; if the whale fell into the water at a crucial moment, she might be the one who died.
"I didn't ask you to fight them head-on. You can wait until we're cleaning up the battlefield before you try your luck with them." When cleaning up the battlefield, those cultivators were like fish on a chopping board, completely at her mercy.
Lin Jianyu thought about it and agreed, adopting his suggestion. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, she asked Lu Jiao, "By the way, where are my senior brothers?"
“Clean up the battlefield,” Lu Jiao said.
"Is anyone injured?" Lin Jianyu asked again.
"I don't know," Lu Jiao replied.
Lin Jianyu: "You really only care about whether I live or die."
That sounds... how should I put it?
It seems fine, but something seems off.
Lu Jiao opened his mouth, but ultimately did not refute, instead focusing his "gaze" on the woman in green.
Lin Jianyu followed his gaze and looked at the woman in blue, saying, "She seems to have something to ask of you. Why don't you listen to what it is before you kill her?"
“You don’t need to say the last three words,” the woman in green said.
"Oh," Lin Jianyu replied perfunctorily, then looked at Lu Jiao, waiting for his answer.
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