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Xu Shulou watched the busy half-humans and half-beasts for a moment, then turned to look at Chen Zhuang.
Chen Zhuang noticed her scrutinizing gaze and smiled slightly: "Let me guess, you want to ask if they are in pain, or maybe even question me, as we are both human beings, why can't I understand their pain, right?"
“…”
“Don’t ask, I’ll save you some energy,” Chen Zhuang said with a smile, “I know they are in pain, and they are living a life worse than death, but you see, I don’t particularly care what these mortals think.”
“…”
"Hey, why aren't you talking?" Chen Zhuang stared at Xu Shulou. "Can I tell you about my creative ideas?"
"No," Xu Shulou refused, "I am only responsible for killing you, I don't particularly care what you think."
"Hahaha," Chen Zhuang actually laughed out loud, "You are still young and don't understand my value. If you were someone more sensible, I'm afraid he would immediately treat me as a guest of honor."
"What's the value?"
"Think about it carefully," Chen Zhuang raised his finger and tapped his forehead, "The combination of mortals and beasts may not be very useful to some people, but what about cultivators and spirit beasts? With this method, what can't be done? What power can't be built?"
"What about the promise to benefit the cultivation world?"
Chen Zhuang spread his hands: "Okay, I lied, I don't really care about the cultivation world."
"It's true that you have financial resources, but if you want to target cultivators..." Xu Shulou recalled his friendship with Lu Beichen in the storybook, "You need a backer, preferably a big sect."
"Yes, it's hard to deal with the aftermath without a backer, otherwise I would have attacked the spectators in the Colosseum a long time ago," Chen Zhuang looked at her, "Do you have any suitable sect to recommend?"
"Ah——" At this time, a shrill scream came from a hole in the mountain wall, "What did you do to me? Chen Zhuang, Chen Zhuang! Come out! Even if I become a ghost, I will never let you go!"
A trace of distress finally emerged on Chen Zhuang's face: "I have tried both the goshawk and the vulture, but mortals and birds can never combine. They always wake up again and again. What can I do?"
Xu Shulou's heart slightly moved: "Will the other orcs wake up too?"
"Using spiritual power to stimulate their brains can make them sober for a short time," Chen Zhuang raised his eyebrows, "When they are bored, I stimulate them to chat with me."
“…”
"It's a pity that they either want to kill me or just beg for mercy," Shen Ji suddenly had an idea, "Hey, Xu Shulou, can you stay and chat with me?"
"not good."
"Let's make a deal. I have a lot of good stuff. If you stay with me for a day, I'll give you one. How about that?"
“No discussion.”
"You are such a boring person," Chen Zhuang yawned, "It seems that in order to prevent you from leaking secrets, I must keep you to play for a while."
Xu Shulou grasped the hilt of the sword: "That depends on whether you have the ability to do it."
Following a whistle from Chen Zhuang, the surrounding half-humans and half-beasts gathered around and growled hostilely at Xu Shulou.
Chen Zhuang made a gesture, and the centaurs bared their claws and moved. Their paw pads stepped on the ground almost silently, and their attack speed was extremely fast. Xu Shulou jumped up and dodged, but some of the centaurs jumped very high and leaped out after her.
Chen Zhuang watched with great interest: "Anyway, they can't recover, I don't understand why you don't just kill them."
To catch a thief, one must first catch the leader. Xu Shulou touched the mountain wall with his toes in mid-air, turned around and rushed towards Chen Zhuang, the sword light piercing his chest like a rainbow.
"Come at me?" Chen Zhuang sat there with his legs crossed, "Do you think I can only make some leopard man or werewolf?"
He raised his left hand and pressed the spring lightly with his fingers. Several flying needles wrapped in silver light shot out towards Xu Shulou: "It's a good opportunity to use you to test the power of these things of mine."
Xu Shulou turned her wrist, and the long sword in her hand made a flexible sword flower, knocking down the silver needles.
"This really won't work," Chen Zhuang threw away the thing in his hand and took out something else, "Wait and see, this is going to be interesting."
A beam of white light shot out and shone towards Xu Shulou. She didn't recognize this strange thing and didn't dare to take it head-on. She jumped to avoid it. The white light hit the polished jade wall behind her and reflected back. After several reflections, it actually formed an inescapable net in the cave.
Those half-human beasts seemed to be well-trained. When they saw Chen Zhuang taking action, they had already hidden behind the rocks. Xu Shulou had no way to avoid it. He only saw a vast expanse of white in front of him and could not get close to Chen Zhuang.
Nothing could be seen clearly in front of him, but Xu Shulou was very clear in his mind that Chen Zhuang must die today, and he could not even be given the chance to go back to Wuchen Island to go to jail. Otherwise, once today's events were spread, there was no guarantee that someone would not take the risk to kidnap him.
If possible, she wanted him to survive and experience for himself what it felt like to be turned into an orc.
But when killing someone, one must not drag one's feet. This is a truth Xu Shulou realized a long time ago.
She simply threw the sword in her hand, and the swift sword light, wrapped in sharp sword energy, stabbed towards Chen Zhuang.
At the same moment, the thing in Chen Zhuang's hand also shone brightly.
———
"What's wrong with Xu Shulou and the others? They've been attending a wedding banquet for such a long time and they haven't come back yet!"
In Xuancang Academy, Master Li was shaking his head and sighing.
Master Xue stroked his beard and said, "Why? I'm not anxious yet, why are you anxious? Are you so concerned about Xu Shulou?"
"Who's thinking about her?" Master Li blew his beard and glared, "I just want to say that this group of people have a bad attitude towards studying!"
Master Xue smiled and said, "Don't be so stubborn. I think you are just jealous that I have found a suitable successor."
"Pooh!"
Just as the two were about to quarrel again, Master Zhou hurried in from outside: "I just ran into the people sent by Qingcheng to deliver supplies. They brought news from down the mountain."
"What news?"
"Xu Shulou was fighting with someone in the mortal world. He blew up half of the mountain, killed some people, and saved some people."
"..." Master Li looked at him in confusion, "Who taught you to describe it so briefly? What are the causes and consequences?"
Master Zhou drank his tea slowly, whetting the appetites of his two old friends, and then he told them the whole story. Finally, he concluded: "This Xu Shulou looks reckless, but he has some calculations in his mind. He knows that he can't stay in Chenzhuang."
After hearing this, Master Li sighed and said, "Why is it that every time I let her go, this guy always causes a big trouble?"
Master Xue clapped his hands and laughed, "Great! The successor of my Cangsheng Sword should have such courage!"
"... the courage to stir up trouble everywhere?" Master Li said stubbornly, but in his heart he was somewhat envious of the successor that Old Xue had found. There were only a few young cultivators who were willing and capable of doing good deeds. "Alas, why don't you learn to draw talismans..."
———
The mortal world, Sheng Mansion.
"Senior Sister has sent a letter!" Bai Roushuang ran into the yard holding the letter, and everyone gathered around immediately.
Bai Roushuang hurriedly opened the letter and looked at the first line: "Senior sister said that Miss Errong has been found. She was a little frightened, but not hurt. She will be back soon."
Sheng Wuyou breathed a sigh of relief, and Sheng's mother patted her chest and said, "It's okay."
Sheng's father asked, "Who took that girl away? A kidnapper?"
Bai Roushuang continued to read the letter, but frowned: "It's the Colosseum. They treat mortal women as animals and make them fight each other!"
The Sheng family members all looked incredulous: "Is there such a thing? Who could come up with such a wicked idea?"
Mother Sheng warned Sheng Wuyou: "Errong must be frightened this time. When she comes back, you must comfort her."
Sheng Wuyou nodded.
Bai Roushuang continued reading, but this time she did not repeat it in time. She looked at Sheng's mother hesitantly. The latter understood what she meant and shook her head: "I'm not that fragile. You can say whatever you want."
"There is also a monk named Shen Zhuang there. He sewed together the bodies of mortals and beasts to create a half-human, half-beast creature..."
The three people from the Sheng family opened their mouths but could not utter a word for a long time. Song Ping and others were also filled with shock.
"Senior sister... failed to kill him with one blow, but she wounded Chen Zhuang. When the orcs saw the blood, the beast part of their bodies took over and thought it was food. Even Chen Zhuang's orders were useless. They ate the still-living Chen Zhuang alive... Before he died, he frantically shouted to Senior sister that as long as she was willing to save him, he would be able to hand over wealth and power to him..."
Everyone was silent. This ending was suitable for Chen Zhuang. However, they thought that such a madman who disregarded human life would not take his own death to heart... Unexpectedly, at the end of his life, he would also struggle and beg for mercy.
Everyone sighed in their hearts, and Bai Roushuang was also quite moved: "Senior Sister didn't manage to kill him with one strike? What happened?"
Everyone looked sideways.
Bai Roushuang hurriedly continued, "Senior sister sent a letter to Wuchen Island, and the people from the sect arrived there soon. They used their spiritual power to stimulate the orcs to wake up briefly one by one. They..." She paused, "most of them chose to die."
The Sheng family was kind-hearted and they shed tears upon hearing this.
"I'm afraid this is also my choice." Feng Yi couldn't help but feel sad for those people. "Is it still considered living if you live without your mind?"
No one could answer his question.
Everyone was silent for a long time, and suddenly someone asked, "By the way, Senior Sister sent the letter back, where is her own people?"
"I'm here." A sad voice came from under the crowd.
Everyone was startled and looked down, then gasped.
There stood on the ground an exquisite little person, not even as big as a teacup, wearing a small moon-white gauze dress. He was as beautiful as a flower, with beautiful features. Who else could it be but the Xu Shulou they were asking about?
Jiang Yan carefully lay on the ground and looked closer at her: "Master, Senior Sister?"
"It's me." Xu Shulou kicked the pebbles on the ground sadly. The pebbles were almost reaching her knees.
"You, you..." Everyone seemed to be suddenly infected with stuttering symptoms, "Why, how could it be?"
“Who knows what Chen Zhuang created?” Xu Shulou sighed, “When I threw that sword, I was also hit.”
Everyone was in a trance as they looked at her. It was really hard for them to adapt to the fact that the eldest sister had suddenly become so cute.
"Are you feeling unwell?" Song Ping asked quickly.
Xu Shulou raised his head and said, "No, it doesn't even affect my strength."
"Really?" Ji Ci asked.
"You want to try it?"
“……”Everyone woke up immediately.
Bai Roushuang patted her shoulder: "Senior Sister, please stop standing on the ground. What if someone accidentally steps on you?"
Xu Shulou thought about it, and flew to his junior sister's shoulder and sat down: "Don't worry, the headmaster and the master are already helping me find a solution. When I return to Xuancang College, I will ask the masters for advice."
"Sister, are you going back to Xuan Cang like this?"
"how?"
Bai Roushuang hesitated: "If your situation gets out, will people come looking for revenge?"
Still coming one after another? Why don't you just keep coming? As if she has many enemies? Xu Shulou looked at his junior sister without confidence.
Bai Roushuang looked at her carefully and said, "Sister, why don't you just stay here and rest assured. We will definitely take good care of you."
Several fellow apprentices also chimed in: "Yes, Senior Sister, we will take care of you!"
Take care? Xu Shulou was slightly startled. It seemed that no one had used this word to her for many years...
Inexplicably, she felt some inexplicable emotions in her heart. Before she could confirm whether it was touching, she heard her junior sister continue: "Senior sister, if you really want to go out... have you seen the fluffy rabbit-shaped hats that children in the mortal world wear? Otherwise, I will sew one for you, and you can wear it as a pretend pet, how about it?"
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