There are many injured people, and those who can still sit there with such composure are no ordinary people.
Throwing a stone to test the water, throwing a brick to attract jade. If you don't do it yourself, you have to let others do it.
Yun Xian had said long ago that she came to the Northern Realm because of the demon-possessed cultivator in Xiaoshi Town. Later, she learned that someone in the Body Refining Sect had passed on the magic book. Ultimately, the purpose of her group was inconsistent with that of everyone else.
Of course, she also wanted to help Ji Rongxue seize power and usurp the throne, but this was a conversation between her and Ji Rongxue, unknown to the others. Ji Rongxue had also mentioned the matter of the demon in the hall, asking all the sects to take it seriously. So how could she not take action now?
They had come to eradicate the demons, so there was no reason not to take action. Winning would be best; whether or not they could obtain the Sect Leader's Seal was another matter. Losing wouldn't hurt either; it would weaken their strength, wouldn't prevent these people from reaping the benefits, and could even earn them a good reputation.
So high-sounding and so convincing!
In fact, even if he didn't say it, Yun Xian had reasons to take action.
Ji Rongxue felt Nan Ronghong's gaze fixed on her face again. She couldn't help but frown.
She had actually noticed this kind of gaze many times before. She didn't understand what it meant, but she knew it wasn't malicious. She couldn't exchange more than a few words with Nan Ronghong, so she just ignored it.
Ji Rongxue looked at Tiedan on the other side, and Tiedan was also looking at her.
She suddenly became the center of attention.
Qiu Zhuo and Qiu Dan had already been deposed, and Nan Ronghong had even abandoned her own son, let alone Ji Rongxue? How could she possibly get away with anything?
Xue Lingxiu felt uneasy when she saw Nan Ronghong covered in wounds. "How can we continue the fight?"
Su Chi drew his sword with a clang.
"What are you doing?" Xue Lingxiu said sarcastically, "You're really rude!"
"Not only will you be rude, you must also do your best." Su Chi looked at him coldly and said, "First, I can't beat her. Even if all of them are combined, I still have a chance to beat her. Second, if you let her go, it's tantamount to humiliating her."
Given Nan Ronghong's personality, this is indeed the case.
"Is what I'm telling you the same thing?!" Xue Lingxiu said frantically, "You've already drawn your sword with your right hand, but you still won't let go of her. Are you used to holding her? Do you want me to help you pull her apart?!"
Su Chi: “…”
The corner of Qiao Lingshan's mouth twitched: "...If Fellow Daoist Xue hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it."
Qi Zhiye's golden eyes were filled with speechlessness. He glanced at her and said, "The demonic energy seems to be getting weaker."
Feng Ye also said: "Without the magic energy to repair her, her injuries will only get worse."
If it gets any heavier, I really won’t be able to walk.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Yun Xian finally focused his attention, took a step, and stopped three feet in front of Nan Ronghong.
"Senior." She took the Zhuoyue that Su Chi handed over and said, "I'm sorry!"
Nan Ronghong's gaze lingered on her face for a moment, a strange smile on his face, and he said with great ambition, "Come on!!"
The last time there was such a scene was during the Four-way War against the Spiders. However, Ji Rongxue was not there at that time, and everyone was still a novice, all in the Jindan stage.
I don’t know what kind of exciting one-on-many fight it will be after growing so much.
There seems to be an undercurrent surging in the confrontation.
Silence froze for a moment. Yun Xian slapped the hilt of his sword, sending a whistling roar of sword energy. He said sarcastically, "Don't wait for me to speak! I really don't know how to command!!!"
The fiery red sword energy solidified into a solid object and stabbed towards Nan Ronghong, but was shattered by the demonic light. Nan Ronghong shifted her gaze and slashed directly towards Xue Lingxiu. Xue Lingxiu dodged angrily, saying, "No one expects anything from you! How can we do anything if you don't take action?!"
Yun Xian was shocked. How did Senior Nan know to attack the medic first?! If he got hit by this, Brother Xue would be lying on the sidelines! He immediately said, "Someone block it—"
Xue Lingxiu knew his own limitations and retreated violently. Suddenly, a sharp sword sounded from behind him. Su Chi said coldly, "Get out of the way!"
The sword tip brushed past his cheek, almost cutting off a strand of hair. Nan Ronghong was forced to switch from offense to defense, raising his palm to block the tip of the sword. A red light flashed, and the two sides suddenly collapsed.
One is cold, the other is hot, they are tit for tat, evenly matched, and no one can restrain the other.
"Su Chi!" Xue Lingxiu's face was almost scratched, and he angrily said, "You did this on purpose, didn't you?!"
Su Chi: "Oh. Sorry."
Qi Zhiye's staff was gone, but his cultivation was still rising. He pinched the Buddhist beads on his wrist, opened his thin lips slightly, and without saying the name of the move, he shouted again: "Go away!"
Qiao Lingshan drew her sword just in time, moving out of the way. The golden light descended unimpeded upon Nan Ronghong's side, but she seemed to have eyes on her back. She spun around in an instant, deflecting another palm strike, and even took advantage of the momentum to unleash a "Drunken Hanging Bridge" move, aiming for Feng Ye's throat with an Eight-Character Palm. Qi Zhiye made a loud "tsk!" sound, and his Golden Bell Cover reappeared, barely blocking the blow for Feng Ye.
It was so accurate, Yun Xian shouted: "Nice!!"
"...What do you mean? Naphthalene silk? Herbs?" Xue Lingxiu didn't understand, but she chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Qi, you're becoming more and more proficient in using the Golden Bell Cover. You don't seem to be as determined as before that you wouldn't learn it."
Qi Zhiye immediately threw Feng Ye out of the arena, telling him to stay out of the way. He turned around and blocked Nan Ronghong's palm. He was forced to retreat, his chest felt stuffy, and he spat out blood. Even so, he didn't forget to say coldly, "You look so pitiful without the needle."
Xue Lingxiu: "You——"
Qiao Lingshan tried to stop the quarrel: "Stop arguing! Is now the time to argue?! Swallow Revolving Ten!"
Yun Xian placed the tip of his sword on the ground, countless sword energies rising from the bottom up. He said tensely, "Miss, don't slack off!! Two of you will be enough in the front. Fellow Daoist Qi and Senior Brother will go ahead, and the rest of you will go behind! Go behind!! I repeat, go behind!!"
Su Chi said briefly, "Yun Xian, move aside."
Xue Lingxiu: "Why don't you just move away now?"
Su Chi: "Get out of the way."
Ji Rongxue had just arrived and felt lost: "..."
It’s so noisy, my ears are going deaf!
It had to be said, Nan Ronghong was truly formidable. Not just in strength, but also in fundamentals. Her combat experience was profound, her moves unpredictable and unexpected. The stronger she became, the more nervous the group became, and the more nervous she became, the more she couldn't help but talk. This habit had spread from Yun Xian, and it had spread radiatingly. In the past, Su Chi wouldn't even speak for an entire match! Not only was it frequent, but it was also chaotic, like dozens of geese clamoring together. Outsiders couldn't make out, yet they seemed to communicate seamlessly. Even in the wrong situation, they still had a slightly dazed look on their faces.
Jiang Lan urged, "Dad, are these people sick?"
Jiang Fengtian slapped him on the back of the head like a palm-leaf fan, his fatherly love evident in the sound of the wind: "You know nothing! Don't you see that just because they talk doesn't prevent them from using force? Just now, so many people couldn't chew a hard bone. Now, although it seems that they are at a disadvantage, at least they can contain them. Who will win in the end?"
Jiang Lan urged: "They win."
Jiang Fengtian: "Look at them, then look at yourself! So annoying!"
Jiang Lan urged: "..."
Someone was already injured. Yun Xian was slapped in the side, Qi Zhiye suffered internal injuries, Su Chi's hand bones were broken, and his sword nearly snapped in his palm. Nan Ronghong's breathing was getting heavier. Ji Rongxue's pupils gradually narrowed and then straightened amid the crowd's chatter. She was like a dormant lion, searching for an opportunity.
No matter what. No matter what, she wanted the position of the head, so she had to - defeat her!
Found it!
In this gap that no one could notice, Ji Rongxue jumped behind Nan Ronghong like lightning, stretched out his hand expressionlessly, and tore the wound that was already unable to heal!
For her, one blow would cause serious injury, otherwise it would just cause more trouble.
The collapse of flesh and blood was a horrific sight. Nan Ronghong groaned and was actually on the verge of falling.
The Sect Leader Seal was in the other person's palm. Ji Rongxue could see the crowd below him stirring like rats smelling blood, ready to grab it. He forced himself to put aside all distracting thoughts and reached out to take it.
At this moment, Nan Ronghong's voice sounded softly beside her ear: "Rongxue."
Ji Rongxue's expression froze, and he glanced at the people around him, realizing that this was a voice transmission.
Why? What was she going to say?
"Rongxue." Nan Ronghong asked inexplicably, "Why do you want to be the head?"
"..." Ji Rongxue didn't know why she responded, and said, "This has nothing to do with you."
In just a few words, Nan Ronghong successfully found another flaw and ruthlessly broke Yun Xian's sword. As the burning moon shattered, she teased him, "Who taught you to hold a sword like that?"
Yun Xian: "I was born with it like this."
"Hahahaha!" Nan Ronghong laughed, "Little brat!"
Somehow, everyone was able to discern a gradually weakening aura from her words. Although there were wolves surrounding her, everyone simultaneously slowed down their attacks.
Outsiders can't see it, but those involved know it very clearly.
"Why do you always call me that?" Ji Rongxue said in a voice transmission, "I haven't said a few words to you."
Nan Ronghong said, "I've been watching you."
Ji Rongxue: “…”
"Your plan is good, but it's still not ruthless enough." Nan Ronghong said, "Those people at the banquet were here to assassinate the elders. You're more capable than I thought. You actually know their weak points. How many do you know? Three? The First Elder, the Second Elder, and the Seventh Elder. They're all from the Qiu Dan Sect. It's better for them to be dead."
Ji Rongxue paused for breath.
These three people were killed by her just now.
"Qiu Zhuo is nothing to be feared. The only one we need to worry about is Qiu Dan. None of the elders will agree. If they don't agree, just kill them. So kill these three first, and then." Nan Ronghong said slowly: "The Sect Leader's Seal is vacant, and they can't lead the troops. If they can't lead the troops, you can. You have already recaptured the Inner Disciples, and the Outer Disciples only obey you. Let me guess what you want to do? Seize the Sect Leader's Seal, forcibly suppress them, and put the remaining seven elders and the steward in death row. Kill Qiu Zhuo and Qiu Dan as well to prevent future troubles. Close the gates, prohibit entry and exit, divide the guests, and make things fait accompli, forcing them to accept the mutiny and take over. Kill a few of the aggressive ones as a warning, and everything will fall into place."
Ji Rongxue said, "You clearly know it, so why bother?"
"Do your friends know?" Nan Ronghong asked, "Some of these brats have never killed anyone. Could you bring yourself to do that?"
Ji Rongxue gritted his teeth: "...Why can't I!"
Nan Ronghong: "You can't. Even though you've thought about it for a long time, I don't think you can do it. Rongxue, you must know that your shortcomings can only be compensated by cruelty. Only when you are cruel enough will others fear you and be convinced by you... Sometimes, if you are not cruel enough, others will only be more cruel than you."
Ji Rongxue remained silent.
"You're not ruthless enough, because you were forced to become the leader." Nan Ronghong sighed, "You know, if it were someone else, just like you wanted to kill Qiu Zhuo and Qiu Dan to eliminate other dangers, they would never let you go. You had no choice but to do this."
"Why?" Ji Rongxue said coldly, "If you want to be the head of a sect, you still have to rank them?"
Nan Ronghong coughed and panted softly for a while, then smiled amid the flashing swords and sabers, "No. You're right."
"Sometimes I see myself in you. Often, even though I'm in the Bodybuilding Sect, I feel like I'm constantly stuck in the mire. Now, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the reason is, it doesn't matter if it's worth it or not. I fight for it, even if it hurts, hurts, or even kills me, at least I've escaped! Death isn't a big deal. The scariest thing is being stuck in it and still feeling alive."
Ji Rongxue: "You are seriously injured. Shut up. If you don't run, you will die!"
"Hahahaha! I used to be the one telling everyone to shut up! Do you think I'm nagging? Don't you understand? If I wanted to run, I would have already! How could these idiots stop me?" Nan Ronghong's blood stained a thin stream on the ground. She said happily, "I've worn the mask for so long that I've almost forgotten what I look like. Awesome! Fighting feels so good!"
Ji Rongxue: “…”
Her movements became slower and slower, and no matter how hard Yun Xian tried to cover it up, he could not hide her weakness.
The first person came up.
The second person, the third person.
"Even if I'm a root, a tree, you should at least let me choose who to support, right?" Nan Ronghong cursed at the sky, then said cheerfully, "I'm not someone you can mess with!"
"What on earth do you want to say?!" Ji Rongxue deflected the sword of the man behind him and said, "You...are going to die after saying all these incomprehensible things?"
"What's so inexplicable?! It makes such sense, but you don't want to listen." Nan Ronghong laughed heartily when she saw Ji Rongxue glaring at her. "Okay. I just want to say, don't kill yourself. Even if you kill yourself occasionally, once or twice, that's enough!"
Ji Rongxue said: "It's even more inexplicable! Why on earth are you helping me like this——"
"Your friends are good, treat them well."
In the bloody scene, Nan Ronghong interrupted her: "I wish you happiness, I wish you peace... I want you to be free forever!!"
Everyone rushed over, ready to devour her. The Sect Leader's Seal glowed faintly, and was instantly hidden in Ji Rongxue's hand. Ji Rongxue was stunned, not knowing why she had asked, "Don't you have any friends?"
"I have." Nan Ronghong's voice grew weaker. "It's just that I bet she would come... and it seems I lost. Is there a carriage jam on the road?"
At the critical moment, the red light of Taiping illuminates the sky.
"Yun Xian!!" Taiping screamed, "I thought you asked me to come out and fight?! You asked me to come out and absorb the moves, are you crazy?! I'm a trash can?!"
"What are you yelling about?! It's so noisy!" Yun Xian's forehead was as big as a bucket, and he said, "Use the opponent's force to counterattack, do you understand?!"
She was almost unable to cope with it. Finally, she caught a glimpse of a tiny sword mark from the corner of her eye and immediately shouted to everyone, "Stop!"
Although they didn't know why she said that, and hadn't considered the danger that might follow, the other four stopped their attacks instantly. Yun Xian, taking advantage of the terrifying momentum, lifted Nan Ronghong from the ground with a single sword strike, passing over the piles of heads, ten feet, three feet, ten feet...
Everyone watched helplessly as the bloody man was about to be knocked out of the Xuantie Gate.
"Fuck?! There's no need to be so ruthless!!!"
"This is still a Buddhist dog, how can it be Buddhist? It's so scary!"
"The Sect Leader's Seal is no longer with her?! Who stole it?! Why hasn't it stopped yet? It's still flying!!"
Fifteen feet away in the air, a black-clothed figure came over with a sword, as if waiting there. He caught Nan Ronghong by the waist just right, and with a shake of his arm, he completely neutralized the momentum.
Nan Ronghong finally opened her eyes and saw the familiar eyes above the mask.
She laughed with difficulty.
“…”
One can change one's past self, but one cannot kill it. Nan Ronghong understood this truth.
During her most difficult period, her friend wanted to come and comfort her, but she always refused. However, her friend persisted and she finally spared some time. That was the penultimate time she and her friend met.
When we meet again, decades have passed.
Nan Ronghong already knew about the pills and was completely devastated, but she still held on to her pride and refused to let her friend see it. They sat by the river, just like they had in their childhood, watching a small fish frozen in the ice. She remained unmoved, but her friend tapped it with the hilt of his sword, freeing it.
"How have you been lately?"
Not good. Not good at all.
Nan Ronghong: "Very good."
A friend wouldn't read her expression, or perhaps she was just being very good at disguising herself, so she brought up the matter of the Eastern Realm. They had previously agreed to go to the Eastern Realm, and although they hadn't said it explicitly, everyone knew it wasn't going to happen.
Nan Ronghong looked at her own expressionless self reflected on the water, and her friend beside her who was still carefree, and the dark fog in her heart was about to envelop her.
She asked her friend what she wanted, and her friend's face froze. "You know my situation," she said helplessly. "My benefactor arranged a marriage for me, saying we were a good match. I was wondering who it would be, but it turned out to be Jiang Fengtian! Doesn't he know how much I hate this guy?"
Nan Ronghong's heart skipped a beat: "Propose marriage..."
"But when I think about it, it seems to make some sense. If I must find a Taoist partner, I'd rather marry someone whose background I don't know. Jiang Fengtian is better. Forget it, I really don't want to! Jiang Fengtian is like a mentally retarded person. Spending even a quarter of an hour with him will shorten my life." The friend hadn't seen her for a long time and had a lot to say: "Alas. There's no rush. The Xingyan Sect said that I have no fate with children, and it's most likely a debt collector. If there is one, I hope it's a daughter. I'm going to give her the sword I've had since childhood, let her practice the same swordsmanship as me, and then mother and daughter will be a pair of killers... whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Nan Ronghong lowered her head.
She felt a surge of inexplicable anger and bitterness. Why, why are you still here, acting so nonchalant?! What does it mean to not rush? What does it mean to want a daughter? Do you know what that means?! Why is it that her cultivation is so much higher than her friends', and now... she has no choice. She has no choice anymore!
The black fog was swallowing her up bit by bit.
"I've thought about it, and decided to forget about finding a Taoist partner. Maybe in the future, maybe not. But at least, I don't want one right now." Her friend looked at her, "Rong Hong, what do you think?"
Nan Ronghong's words didn't seem to come from her own mouth, but she couldn't help herself: "Get married. Jiang Fengtian is a good man. If you get married, we live close to each other and can take care of each other. Get married."
The friend was stunned and asked worriedly, "Ronghong, what happened to you recently?"
Nan Ronghong didn't know how she left. She'd only taken a few steps when she vomited. She was vomiting until she felt dizzy, her eyes were full of stars, and the pain was beyond words. At that moment, she realized with absolute clarity that she had killed herself. With those disgusting words, she had brutally killed herself!
She vomited for a long time, drank a lot of liquor, groped in the dark, and staggered back to her friend's window.
Nan Ronghong was too ashamed to see her friend again. She cried and said to her friend in the calmest tone, "I lied to you."
Friend: "What? Ronghong, where are you?!"
"I told you, I lied! Don't believe it!!" Nan Ronghong shouted with all her might, "Don't get married like this. Don't do something you don't want to do. No, no, no!!! Do you hear me?!"
"Go to the East Realm. I know you've been waiting for me, but I can't go. I'm sorry, I broke my promise. I have my own things to do." She said quietly, "Are we still friends?"
"Friends for life."
"You don't blame me?"
"If you don't want to go, then don't go. It's nothing. I don't blame you. Where are you? Why don't you want to see me?"
"Promise me that you'll come see me only when I need you."
"good."
"Promise me that if you really have a daughter like that, you will bring her to me."
"good."
“…”
Decades later, the Body Forging Gate was in mid-air, ruins scattered across the ground. A mysterious figure held Nan Ronghong's blood-stained hand and suddenly asked, "Did you see that? Does it look like me?"
"I saw it. I saw it right away." Nan Ronghong looked at Yun Xian, whose face was bruised and swollen from her careless beating, and said with a smile, "It really is... I can tell at first glance that she's your daughter!"
…
Qiao Lingshan looked at the dark figure in the air and asked in confusion, "Where on earth did this person come from?"
Su Chi shut up, Yun Xian shut up, Xue Lingxiu was a little suspicious but had no evidence, Qi Xingye was half-shut, and Ji Rongxue was refining the leader's seal in the corner.
"I wonder who you are, sir?!" Someone clasped their fists, ready to resort to a polite, then forceful, attack. "You don't know, sir, this person is no longer Madam Nan. She's possessed by a demon!"
The mysterious man stood in mid-air with his sword, silent and unfathomable.
Seeing his attitude, everyone felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy and dared not move.
The next moment, the mysterious man suddenly spoke, his tone filled with skill and emotion, his rough male voice resounding through the heavens and earth: "Hahaha! I was passing by here, and suddenly my hands were itching to kidnap someone! It's you! Go!"
Everyone: “?”
"What? How could this happen!" Yun Xian said in a voice of absolute horror, "Oh my God! What the hell! Madam Nan has been kidnapped by a mysterious person!!"
Everyone: “???”
Yun Xian desperately used his peripheral vision to slash at Jiang Fengtian, who nearly dropped his cigarette. It took him a moment to grasp what he meant, and he stiffly said, "Haha! How dare you, old thief! How dare you be so arrogant! Let me, Jiang Fengtian, hunt you down and bring you to justice! No one else can compete with me! Don't leave!"
The three of them disappeared in an instant, one after another, between heaven and earth, like a whirlwind. All that was left was a vast expanse of white, with confused faces everywhere.
Xue Lingxiu was almost suffocating: "…………"
Is your Jiange's disguise technique inherited from our ancestors?! Isn't this Xiao Wu?!
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