Chapter 177 The Curse "Because they are all complete madmen..."
Flames surged within the winged woman's golden eyes, filled with murderous intent towards the two Li family descendants in the tomb. With a flick of her sleeve, a hurricane instantly swept away Jiang Yuhuo, who was blocking her way.
The wind was so strong it almost blew Wen Ruoxin's soul away, and Wen Yizhan had to do everything he could to protect her.
Li Mengbai wanted to follow Jiang Yuhuo, but a flame shot towards him, blocking his way and forcing him to watch helplessly as the merman rushed to Jiang Yuhuo's side to fawn over her.
Shameless, despicable fish!
His marriage contract with Jiang Yuhuo is still valid!
Do you think he's dead?
Li Mengbai was furious and kept turning around to try to get to Jiang Yuhuo's side, but the winged creature relentlessly pursued him. Just as he was about to curse, he heard Jiang Yuhuo's voice.
"senior!"
Jiang Yuhuo stood behind Yu Ren and shouted at her, "Although they are members of the Li family, they are also your descendants. Why must you be so ruthless in killing them?"
The white figure in mid-air froze for a moment, then withdrew the flames from its hand and slowly turned around. "Descendants? When have I ever had any descendants with the Li family?"
A look of doubt crossed Jin Tong's eyes, and Jiang Yuhuo was also taken aback. "Didn't you marry the ancestor of the Li family, Senior?"
"Who said I married him?"
Jiang Yuhuo had no choice but to tell the winged man all the stories depicted in the mural, from their first meeting, their departure to their expansion, their marriage, and finally, their death.
To everyone's surprise, Yu Ren burst into laughter. Her laughter was unrestrained and exuberant. She looked up at the tomb and said, "How pathetic, Li Yi. In the end, you have to resort to fabricating such lies to deceive yourself?"
The countless threads of the Blood-Entangling Heart Seal had completely dissipated, and no one in the tomb could answer her. The Feathered One lowered her head and continued to Jiang Yuhuo, “I have never married him, let alone had children with him. Everything you saw, except for our journey out of the Cloud Continent forest and the construction of Yanling City, was fabricated by him. When I decided to leave Yanling, he turned against me, and ultimately plotted to imprison me here for five hundred years…”
Her face hardened with resentment, then her tone shifted, "So I'll kill anyone from the Li family!"
Before he finished speaking, Wen Yizhan had already drawn his sword and escorted Wen Ruoxin out of the tomb. "If you insist on taking my life, feel free to try."
Golden light gathered between Li Mengbai's fingers as he sneered at the person in mid-air, "You couldn't defeat the Li family before, do you think you can today? Five hundred years ago, Li Yi couldn't bear to kill you, but the Li family five hundred years later won't."
The winged man's eyes flashed with murderous intent. "Fine, today I will wipe out all the remnants of your kind!"
Regardless of their usual strength, both of them had been injured multiple times. While the Feathered Man possessed a demigod-like body and extraordinary strength, he had been imprisoned for five hundred years, suppressed by the Myriad Blood Binding Heart Seal. He might not be able to overwhelm them. Jiang Yuhuo didn't want either side to be injured. Seeing that another fight was about to break out, she quickly stopped them, saying, "Senior, the one who injured and imprisoned you is Li Yi. Although they are descendants of the Li family, they did not plot against you."
"They didn't plot against me?" The winged man turned his gaze and sneered. "All members of the Li family are accomplices!"
"What do you think that 'Ten Thousand Blood Entangling Heart Seal' is for? Every blood thread drawn from it is drawn from my body. My spiritual power, my bloodline... everything is stolen by those insatiable blood threads and sent to all the Li family members."
"No member of the Li family is innocent."
"If you hadn't broken the seal today and freed me, I would have remained imprisoned in this mountain, exploited by the Li family until I was completely exhausted, until death took me away..."
Upon hearing this, Wen Yizhan froze on the spot. At this moment, he finally understood how the so-called situation of the Li family producing so many talented people had come about. It seemed that the family was blessed by the gods, who bestowed upon them talents and innate abilities, but in fact, it all stemmed from the exploitation of another person... no, the Feathered People.
"My people, even so, will you still stop me from killing these two thieves?" The winged man landed back on the ground, his golden eyes coldly staring at Jiang Yuhuo, as if trying to see through her. "Isn't the source of all your suffering precisely because of a member of the Li family?"
"You heard that?" Jiang Yuhuo was slightly shocked. She remembered that when she confronted Jia Qianyang, Yu Ren had not woken up.
“That’s right. My consciousness has been awakened after you broke the seal, but my body is still imprisoned.”
Jiang Yuhu shook her head. "I will settle accounts with that person for what he did, one by one. It has nothing to do with them. I saved you not so that you could kill them, but just so that you could be free."
relief……
The winged man chuckled, as if he had heard something ridiculous.
Soon, her smile turned serious as she looked at the binding thread on Jiang Yuhuo's hand. "Clan member, I have a piece of advice for you: do not fall in love with any member of the Li family."
Knowing that Senior Yu Ren had misunderstood because of the bond on his hand, Jiang Yu Huo was about to explain when he heard Yu Ren continue, his voice filled with barely suppressed smugness, "Because they are all absolute madmen."
Why do you say that?
She blurted out the question instinctively. Although she already knew something about the Li family's situation, Jiang Yuhuo still felt that this statement was biased, for example, her senior brother was quite normal.
Before Yu Ren could answer her, he just smiled and looked behind her, "Look, the madman is here."
Wen Yizhan was unaware of the Li family's background, but Li Mengbai was. When he heard the winged man talk about the incantation seal, he wasn't surprised at all, only slightly annoyed. It wasn't because he felt guilty, but because this winged man kept pushing Jiang Yuhuo to the opposite side. Out of consideration for Jiang Yuhuo's kinship, he tolerated it.
But now she is so blatantly instigating Jiang Yuhuo not to fall in love with her, which he absolutely cannot tolerate.
"Have you said enough?" Li Mengbai's eyes were filled with hostility. Several talismans unfolded behind him at the same time, shooting towards the winged man. "Mind your own business! What does it matter to you who she likes?"
The winged woman seemed to have been waiting for this moment. She flapped her wings and uttered something in mid-air. Suddenly, Li Mengbai clutched his head, looking as if his head was about to explode from the pain.
The next moment, he seemed like a completely different person. He stood there silently, yet his entire being was filled with murderous intent. He was even smiling, but no one could sense the smile when looked at by those crimson eyes. He glanced around, his bloodshot eyes sweeping over everyone present, seemingly plotting where to begin his attack. He could no longer distinguish people; everyone was merely prey to be slaughtered in his eyes.
Li Mengbai chose Wen Yizhan.
He was protected, but his weaknesses were too obvious.
Everything changed too fast.
She had seen many faces of Li Mengbai, but none so close to madness. Jiang Yuhuo shielded Wen Yizhan, and Li Mengbai did not hesitate at all in response to her attack. Seeing that murderous look, Jiang Yuhuo was stunned for a moment, until Li Mengbai's talisman was almost touching her face, at which point her survival instinct kicked in, and she shattered it with her sword.
The man, driven to madness, collapsed, revealing a serene merman behind him. It was Jia Yue who had knocked him unconscious.
"What...what's going on?" Jiang Yuhuo asked.
The winged man remained calm and composed. "Everything comes at a price. They have borne the power of my demigod, so naturally they must also bear some additional consequences."
She looked down mercilessly at the people on the ground, just like the statues in the temple.
“I have placed a curse on that blood. Anyone who has drawn upon this power will suffer spiritual torment, forever tempted by darkness, and endlessly sliding into the abyss. Even though the blood seal has disappeared, the curse will not stop. It will be passed down through generations in the bloodline until the Li family members who carry this bloodline are completely and utterly extinct…”
Jiang Yuhuo was shocked and took a few steps back. She suddenly understood what Jia Qianyang meant by "You feathered people created me, and I will eventually replace you." Did he already know about the curse?
Jiang Yuhuo couldn't help but look at Wen Yizhan, who was also standing there in a daze, seemingly struggling to understand.
Suddenly, a cracking sound came from inside the tomb.
Li Mengbai's final talisman struck the bronze cross rack, cracking the collapsed structure. The crack widened until it shattered and scattered on the ground.
Then everyone present realized that the bronze pillar was hollow and that something was hidden inside.
It was a human skeleton, sealed inside a bronze pillar, which had now shattered and spilled out. The skeleton was quite tall and robust, clearly belonging to an adult male.
Jiang Yuhuo was nearby; she was the one who had cut down the bronze cross rack, never expecting that a person was hidden inside. She immediately saw a jade plaque at the waist of the skeleton, engraved with the character "Yi," which belonged to the ancestor who had opened the path to immortality for the Li family.
The jade tablet was placed in a very conspicuous spot; anyone looking at the remains would definitely see it.
The winged man finally fell silent, and after a long while, he let out a bitter laugh and murmured, "So it really is true..."
The words he said he would stay with her forever, just before activating the Blood Seal, were true.
But she doesn't need it at all.
“He did propose to me.” The winged man landed back on the ground, in front of the pile of bones, as if speaking to Jiang Yuhuo, or perhaps talking to himself, “But as a winged person, how could I possibly marry a mortal?”
She slowly shook her head. "How can such short-lived creatures become the mates of the winged people?"
Hearing those familiar words, Jia Yue glanced at the person beside her, expecting her to look at her with reproach or mockery in her eyes, mocking their arrogance.
But she didn't.
Jiang Yuhu frowned. She had heard these words many times before, in the Heavenly Palace, and among the mermaids. But the unintentional contempt in the winged man's tone still made her uncomfortable. She had a father but no mother, and her father was a mortal.
The winged man continued, "The lifespan of mortals is but a snap of the fingers to us. We stop when we meet someone we like, and leave when we no longer like them. It is impossible for a winged man to stay for a mortal."
So, is this why her mother left Liyue Village, her father, and her? Although it's hard to accept, having such a reason seems better than having no reason at all, Jiang Yuhuo thought.
"If he had understood this principle back then and let me go, so we could have parted amicably, things wouldn't have come to this." Yu Ren looked at the skeleton on the ground, dropped a spark into it, and the skeleton immediately ignited with phosphorescent light. She sighed, "Unfortunately, he always insisted on forcing things."
Jiang Yuhuo asked curiously, "Then why did you leave back then?"
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