Chapter 68 I guessed the little liar.
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The golden lightning deep within the thunderclouds emitted a terrifying sound, and the closer one got, the more one trembled. Chu Li didn't know how many times she had dreamed of this scene.
The same dark, oppressive clouds, accompanied by thunderous roars, struck Shang Xinglan one after another until he could no longer stand, his spine bent, unable to protect her. The tribulation lightning would soon follow, striking her. No one in the world is immune to the fear of tribulation lightning. For cultivators, it is an extremely harsh and merciless test from Heaven, but for a mortal like Chu Li, it is utter annihilation.
She roughly guessed why Erlong had escaped from Shang Xinglan's spiritual realm.
When Erlong heard that she had decided to stay, his expression suddenly changed, and he took her to find Shang Xinglan. He must have been wary of something at that time.
The Heavenly Yin Maiden can help those who ascend to immortality overcome their tribulations. Perhaps these tribulations do not refer to the Heavenly Tribulation of Lightning, but rather to the Calamity Dragon.
Stepping through the rain and rubble, looking around, the ancestral hall had almost turned into a mess of scorched earth, with only a few crumbling ruins remaining.
As Chu Li got closer, she spotted Shang Xinglan in the pool.
Strangely, the entire ancestral hall collapsed, but the place where Shang Xinglan was located remained intact, clearly indicating that the lightning tribulation was aimed at him.
Chu Li looked up at the sky. The tribulation lightning seemed to be brewing for the time being. She tentatively approached Shang Xinglan. The hair on her bare arms stood on end. Just getting close made her hands and feet go weak.
"Don't come any closer."
Her boots stopped abruptly, and she looked up at him in a daze. Hearing his voice, she felt as if she had been transported to another world.
Chu Li had a lot to say. There was a scoundrel, Erlong, and a scoundrel, Shang Xinglan, who had been bullying her in the realm of divine sense. They even used his face, making her not know which one was her real husband.
She stood at a distance that wasn't too close, looking at him expectantly, "How are you?"
Shang Xinglan slowly opened her eyes, her brows furrowing slightly with pity. "I'm fine. It's too dangerous here. Take Yinyin away quickly."
Chu Li had originally planned to do the same, but there were more important things to do, things that only she could do well.
She raised her eyes and glanced at him again.
If she tells Shang Xinglan that she is going to get rid of Erlong, he will definitely worry. It's better to tell him after she gets rid of Erlong. By then, she will have made such a great contribution, and Shang Xinglan will be very impressed with her.
"I know, you must hold on, you can't die." Chu Li's heart skipped a beat when she saw the lightning mark on his neck had disappeared. The E'long had indeed left his body, otherwise the curse would not have disappeared.
Where will the Eeron go?
The Heavenly Tribulation could strike Shang Xinglan at any moment, but it wouldn't be continuous. Therefore, the Calamity Dragon would likely come to find him during the intervals between the tribulations.
Gu Ye and Shang Jinyue have been guarding the ancestral hall, and perhaps in order to protect Shang Xinglan, they lured the evil dragon to another place.
Shang Xinglan, focused on dealing with the heavenly tribulation lightning, replied to her, "Achu, the tribulation lightning will get stronger and stronger. When it does, the entire Shang family will be razed to the ground. You should stay far away."
Chu Li was stunned. The entire Shang family was razed to the ground. That was too terrifying. Had Erlong taken the wrong medicine? How dare he attack Shang Xinglan at this time? Wasn't he afraid of being struck dead by the Heavenly Tribulation?
Without thinking too much, she whispered, "Okay, I promise I'll stay far away. Have you seen where Gu Ye and Shang Jinyue went?"
Shang Xinglan shook her head slightly, barely managing to spare a wisp of her divine sense to investigate for her, "In the bamboo grove of the East Courtyard, but..."
Upon hearing his words, Chu Li turned to leave, but after taking only two steps, she was suddenly frozen in place.
"There's a dangerous person there, don't go."
Shang Xinglan frowned, raised his hand towards her, and lightly hooked his fingertips.
Chu Li instantly felt as if she had been lifted off the ground by an invisible hand, her feet dangling in the air, and her whole body was placed at the entrance of the west corridor leading to the store's main gate.
She turned to look at Shang Xinglan, whose meaning was all too clear: she should take Yinyin and leave as soon as possible.
Don't worry.
Chu Li smiled at him, "I was just asking. I'm not going to go find them. I'll take Yinyin away right away."
She didn't know when the lightning tribulation would strike again, and she couldn't let Shang Xinglan be distracted.
Lying was her most skillful ability, and even Shang Xinglan, who spent every day with her, found it difficult to spot the flaws.
Only she can eliminate Erlong, and only she can kill him, so let's leave the rest to her.
Shang Xinglan glanced at her suspiciously. Just then, a terrifying clap of thunder sounded overhead. His eyes hardened, and he said in a deep voice, "Achu, let's go."
The immobilization was instantly broken. Startled by the thunder, Chu Li fled without looking back.
Just as Shang Xinglan was concentrating on preparing for the new tribulation, he caught a glimpse of a small, thin figure running towards the east courtyard.
His eyelids twitched suddenly, a few veins bulged on his forehead, and he clearly heard the sound of a string snapping in his mind.
Little liar.
He already told her it was dangerous there, so why did she still run to the east courtyard? He's currently overwhelmed with other matters; what if something happens to her, how can he possibly rescue her?
Although he didn't know who the people in the East Courtyard were, and his divine sense could only detect a chaotic black mist, he intuitively felt that they were people that Gu Ye and Shang Jinyue could not handle.
Feeling anxious and restless, he looked up at the thundercloud, closed his eyes tightly, and accelerated his cultivation, desperately absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Calm down, calm down.
Ah Chu is a person who values his life very much; there's absolutely no way he would go to his death.
She must have her reasons for doing this; in any case, he must focus on the task at hand now.
Achu trusts him, so he must also trust Achu.
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Chu Li ran quickly, the rain soaking her to the bone, and she almost tripped over the mud and gravel on the road several times.
She had walked the road to the East Campus countless times; she could find it even with her eyes closed.
The closer she got, the more she began to hear the sounds of swords clashing.
Strange, Eerlong actually knows how to use weapons. She thought that evil creatures like him could kill people just by waving their hands.
The area affected by the lightning tribulation was so vast that even the East Courtyard was reduced to ruins, yet the bamboo grove where Shang Xinglan usually cultivated remained completely intact.
She rushed into the bamboo forest and spotted Shang Jinyue. He stood deep in the bamboo forest, holding a sword in his left hand, with his back to her.
"Shang Jinyue!"
Chu Li called out subconsciously, only to see the other person slowly turn their head, look at her, and a wicked and eerie smile appeared on their lips.
"Achu, you've arrived?"
Chu Li stared at him in astonishment, her eyes widening slightly. "You're Erlong?"
The dragon has parasitized Shang Jinyue again. Why does it keep targeting the Shang family?
The other person smiled, twirling the longsword in his palm, and walked towards her step by step. "You didn't expect this, did you? I actually came out of the realm of divine sense. Although this body is a bit weaker than Shang Xinglan's, it's still not bad."
Chu Li's breathing hitched slightly, and she couldn't help but take a half step back.
How disgusting! Doesn't he have his own body?
"Are you here to kill me?" Erlong looked at her with interest, pointing to the sky. "Or are you here to save people?"
Following his fingertips, Chu Li slowly raised her head and saw Gu Ye, whose body was pierced by bamboo in mid-air.
The blood had long been washed away by the rain, leaving no trace. His eyes were closed, as if he had stopped breathing.
"Gu Ye!"
She was still a step too late. Chu Li's eyelashes trembled. She couldn't imagine how Gu Ye had been killed by Er Long. In her mind, Gu Ye was very strong and terrifying, but he had lost so easily in front of Er Long.
Shang Jinyue must have struggled for a long time before being parasitized by the E'long.
She drew a dagger from her waist and stared intently at Erlong. "What exactly are you planning to do?"
Erlong casually gazed at the thunderclouds in the sky and said with a smile, "After this tribulation lightning strikes, your husband and your child will both die. If you want to blame someone, blame Shang Liuyu. Who told him to be so arrogant and insist on sealing me?"
Chu Li had cursed Shang Liuyu a thousand times over, but she hadn't expected that Erlong was actually sealed by Shang Liuyu. Chu Li wasn't interested in the hatred between them, but why did Erlong kill her husband and child?
"Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor. You should have sought revenge against Shang Liuyu back then. What kind of skill is it to seek revenge against his descendants now?" Chu Li glared at him angrily, feeling that he was an even more shameless villain than she was.
Hearing her words, Erlong suddenly laughed and looked at her, saying, "Who told Shang Liuyu to be dead?"
Chu Li pursed her lips, ignoring him completely; this evil creature was utterly inhuman. But she sensed something amiss from Erlong's earlier words.
If she wasn't mistaken, even outside the realm of divine sense, E'long still couldn't harm her. Although she didn't know why, if he could kill her, he wouldn't waste so much time talking to her, and he wouldn't just kill her husband and child without attacking her.
Upon careful recollection, even within the realm of divine consciousness, the dragon had never harmed her; instead, it had consistently avoided her.
What exactly is he afraid of about her?
A strange thought suddenly popped into Chu Li's mind. She tentatively placed the dagger in her palm, made a cut, and winced in pain.
Erlong narrowed his eyes, staring at her movements, and suddenly fell silent.
"You're afraid of my blood, aren't you?"
She had once heard the head of the family say that the Heavenly Yin Maiden could alleviate the lightning curse on those who ascended to immortality, and the way to alleviate it was by using blood as medicine.
At the time, she didn't take it to heart, because even if she knew the method, she wouldn't be able to help Shang Xinglan.
But now, she is the true daughter of the Yin Heaven.
If her blood can alleviate the curse of the Thunder Mark, then could it also work on the Eer Dragon?
Erlong scoffed dismissively, saying nonchalantly, "Why don't you try and see?"
Chu Li pursed her lips, smeared the blood on the tip of the knife, and slowly walked up to him.
A moment later, she thrust her fist into his chest, but her wrist was gripped tightly.
Erlong smiled at her, but his eyes betrayed his anger. "You really don't care at all whether Shang Jinyue's body lives or dies."
A knowing smile appeared on Chu Li's face as she said softly, "He would be very happy to die for his brother and sister-in-law."
"Did you ask him?"
"I guessed."
Erlong was amused by her words and said in a low voice, "Chu Li, you are selfish to the extreme, even more so than me."
He could not harm Chu Li, not because he feared her blood, but because if the Heavenly Yin Maiden died, he would be sealed away immediately.
That damned Shang Liuyu, a thousand years ago, in order to seal him away, found the Sealing Clan, where a person with a celestial yin would appear every three hundred years.
People born under the influence of the Yin Heavenly Branch can not only comprehend destiny, but also alter it. That terrifying woman used forbidden magic to change her destiny into that of the Calamity Dragon, making them inseparable in their fates.
That day, the woman of the sky took her own life, and he was forced to parasitize Shang Liuyu's body.
Three hundred years later, when the Heavenly Yin Maiden is reincarnated, he will be able to break the seal.
He was never afraid of Shang Liuyu or Shang Xinglan; the only person he feared was this woman of the Yin sky.
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