Chapter 143 He Was Skinned alive "You want to kill me? Think it over!"...
Chen Ying stared at the dissected python body in front of her. The dark red snake heart was still beating, and a whole belly of snake eggs slid down the snake intestines into the pool of blood.
In an instant, the sorrow in Chen Ying's eyes turned poisonous. She took half a step forward, stepped on the meandering python blood, and an unprecedented killing intent surged in her heart.
Needless to say, Zhou Yaren dared to kill her pet, and she must pay with her life.
Before she could even speak, Ah Cong had already drawn his knife and slashed at Zhou Yaren.
The swordsmanship was swift and unpredictable; the single sword was wielded as if two swords were clashing, its afterimages slicing towards Zhou Yaren's throat like scissors.
The latter stared at the approaching black shadow without changing his expression. Zhou Yaren leaned forward, like a willow swaying in the wind, and swept past the sharp blades and scissors. His unfolded folding fan flattened the iron-masked man: "Wang Xiang".
"What?" Li Liuyun was taken aback by this question and looked at the masked man in astonishment. "He is Wang Xiang?"
After fighting for hundreds of rounds, the boys were completely unaware that their opponents were not human.
If Zhou Yaren hadn't possessed the ability to see the spirits, it would have been difficult to distinguish them.
Upon hearing the words "Wang Xiang" uttered by the other party, Ah Cong twisted his wrist, a cold glint sweeping across Zhou Yaren's blind eyes. The latter slightly tilted his head, his fan-shaped frame striking the back of the blade as he charged forward.
The blade could be reversed instantly, slicing straight at the fan-wielder's wrist. The folding fan opened with a "whoosh," forcefully pressing against the blade as it swirled, the resulting gust of wind transforming into a whirlwind that repeatedly grazed the masked man's vitals.
Chen Ying showed no sign of worry: "Acong, skin him alive!"
At the same time, Li Liuyun, who had injured his right shoulder blade, switched hands to wield the sword and suddenly thrust it at the Gu Master standing under the wall.
Chen Ying crouched down and pulled out a hairpin from her hair, stabbing it into Li Liuyun's ribs.
The hairpin was soaked in a deadly poison that could kill instantly if it drew blood; even the slightest scratch would be enough to cause immediate death. Chen Ying stared at Li Liuyun, who had rushed towards her, and thought the boy was incredibly audacious to approach a Gu Master; he was simply courting death.
Fortunately, the hairpin only snagged Li Liuyun's sleeve under his armpit and did not scratch his skin. But the next moment, a flying insect suddenly shot out from the hairpin and pounced on Li Liuyun's face.
Li Liuyun swiftly retreated, drawing his sword to deflect the flying insects. Just as he was about to kill the Gu Master, he heard Yu He shout hoarsely behind him, "Liuyun!"
Li Liuyun suddenly turned around and saw the pool of blood on the ground trembling slightly, with fine blood foam bubbles rising to the surface.
There was a pool of blood right in front of Lian Zhao, as if something alive was wriggling inside. He had never seen such an abnormal and bizarre phenomenon before: "What's going on?"
Li Liuyun was also stopped in his tracks by this strange and unusual situation.
“Qingmang was originally the python I raised,” Chen Ying said softly. “Every drop of blood on its body is insect nectar.”
"What?!"
The boys' expressions suddenly changed.
Although they didn't quite understand what "insect nectar" meant, they had witnessed the horrors of the Gu worms in Beiqu and could roughly grasp the meaning; in any case, it was definitely not something good.
"The blind man's knife was too fast," Chen Ying said, bursting in without a word and shattering the python's body filled with insect fluid with a single strike. She glanced at Zhou Yaren, who was exchanging blows with A Cong's knife and fan, and her face turned cold. "I didn't even have time to warn you."
“This is not my fault,” Chen Ying said innocently, trying to distance herself from the situation. “But it’s alright, next time you see me, you can’t be so reckless.” She put the poisoned hairpin back into her hair. “Oh no, there won’t be a next time.”
But the reason Tingfengzhi dissected the giant python was because this beast had swallowed Wenyi whole. Otherwise, would it have digested Wenyi alive?
Seeing the thick, sticky blood writhing and threatening to splatter on his face, Lian Zhao endured the throbbing pain in his lungs, mustered all his strength to stand up, and charged towards the snake's body without hesitation: "Wen Yi."
Wen Yi lay on the dissected cavity, his body covered in saliva, which was both fishy and sticky, and even slippery when you grabbed his wrist.
Lian Zhao struggled to pull him up, grabbing his arm and hoisting him onto his shoulder, attempting to take him away from the area.
At the same time, the pool of blood beneath the python's corpse was boiling, and drops of blood splattered up like blood worms struggling to rise.
Li Liuyun's sword energy arrived, suddenly sweeping away the blood worms in front of the two. Blood droplets splattered on the sword blade and crawled up his hilt. Li Liuyun swung his sword, shaking the blood droplets away.
Countless dense bloodworms wriggled and splashed up, like water droplets from stones thrown into a lake, splashing everywhere, and inevitably one or two drops would land on you.
The moment the bloodworms splattered on Li Liuyun's arm, they penetrated his skin and spread rapidly beneath the skin, like winding scarlet roots taking deep root in his flesh.
The Gu technique was too mysterious to them. Li Liuyun didn't know what would happen if he let it spread in his body. The Gu master was vicious, and anything from her would be fatal.
Without hesitation, Li Liuyun ripped off the flesh and blood. He tightened his jaw and looked back at Ting Fengzhi, the bloodstains that had splattered on Zhou Yaren's face earlier already wiped away before the blood worms even awoke.
The sword energy swept across, splattering blood on the wall, which then slid down the wall in a crooked and twisting motion.
Just as a few drops of blood were about to splash into the window, Qin San slammed his hand on the window and gasped for breath, still shaken.
It's too dangerous outside.
Qin San became anxious and lost. Chen Ying had too many underhanded tricks. When it came to being vicious and cunning, no one could beat her. Qin San suddenly worried that Zhou Yaren would also fall here.
Lu Bing asked, "What's wrong?"
Everything outside was too dangerous, so Qin San dared not tell him.
Hearing the sounds of fierce fighting outside the window, Lu Bing knew the situation was extremely dangerous. He tried to lift his neck, attempting to prop himself up from the hard couch, but he couldn't. Lu Bing said helplessly, "Help me, help me over there."
"Ah Cong is not easy to deal with." Qin San knew that Ah Cong was extremely skilled, but he never knew he was this skilled. No wonder Chen Ying had harmed countless people over the years and was still unharmed. Because Ah Cong was a sharp knife in her hand, plus those disgusting parasites she raised, there were probably very few people in the world who could deal with her.
The swift knife was pulled diagonally upwards from Zhou Yaren's chest, just barely touching his chin before being withdrawn. Zhou Yaren tilted his head back and kicked the masked man in the chest and abdomen.
The body, not made of flesh and blood, had its chest and abdomen dented from being kicked.
Ah Cong slammed down beside the snake's body, shielding Lian Zhao from a swarm of swarming bloodworms. The bloodworms seeped into the fabric and burrowed under the skin, but there was no flesh beneath his skin.
The wind blade followed closely behind, and Ah Cong spun around and slashed at Zhou Yaren with his sword. The sword was unstoppable and extremely fierce.
Zhou Yaren vigorously flicked her fan, and a sudden gust of wind swept the leaves from the trees in the courtyard to the ground. As she flipped the fan, her blue robe fluttered wildly in the wind, and the leaves, like arrowheads, tore through the air, slicing through the trees and embedding themselves in the soil, leaving trails of blood...
Yu Heqi looked down and saw several leaf blades stuck in front of his heels, with specks of blood falling from the green leaves—not blood, but bloodworms that had almost climbed up his calves.
Despite her attempts to retreat and dodge, Chen Ying was still cut on the cheek by two leaf blades. She raised her hand to wipe it, then stared at the bloodstains on her fingertips, her face darkening.
With a "bang".
Chen Ying looked up and saw A Cong slam into the door and wall. She said angrily, "Didn't you want to kill your enemy? Now he's right in front of you. Don't tell me you can't beat him!"
Zhou Yaren frowned, not understanding what Chen Ying meant by that.
Enemy? Does it refer to him? Because he just killed the giant python? Or is it a grudge from before at the River Mound? After all, he killed several monstrous creatures at the River Mound.
But it didn't matter. Time was of the essence, and he had no reason to dwell on these charlatans in human skin. He simply killed them.
The Gu Master released blood leeches in Beiqu so that Wangxiang could wear a human bone skin and mingle in the world, just like this Acong, so that she could accompany her to commit evil deeds everywhere.
Wang Xiang and Gu Shi are absolutely unacceptable to the world and should both be killed, especially since they also poisoned Lu Bing's entire family.
Zhou Yaren gathered the wind's power into a blade and slashed fiercely at the Gu Master under the eaves.
Ah Cong moved with lightning speed, reaching out to pull Chen Ying aside unharmed. Just as he was about to turn around, a second wind blade slashed towards the back of her head.
Ah Cong leaped into the air, and the wind blades narrowly slashed across his shoulder, carving a deep ravine into the bluestone floor behind him.
Ah Cong countered with his knife, and then a folding fan suddenly opened and closed in the air.
The clanging sounds continued incessantly.
The blade used to block the wind blades was chipped, and the spine of the blade blocking in front of him almost cut into his chest.
Seeing that A-Cong was gradually losing ground, Chen Ying turned to run, but a wind blade suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking her way. Chen Ying stared at the blade mark in front of her and immediately changed direction...
Ah Cong swept his blade diagonally along the ground, scooping up the python's blood and splashing it onto Zhou Yaren.
The sticky bloodworms scattered in the air, like thousands of intertwined red threads. Zhou Yaren swept them back with a gust of wind, splashing them all over Acong's head, instantly turning his iron face crimson.
Dozens of wind blades came fiercely. Ah Cong hastily defended himself, but the long sword he was blocking cut him in half at his chest. He was sent flying and his back slammed into the corner of the roof, breaking his spine with a crack.
This was a bone that didn't belong to him; even if it were broken, he wouldn't feel the slightest pain. Only his skin was torn open by the sharp eaves, and liquid kept seeping out from the wound.
The formless and shapeless creature is nothing more than a pool of water drifting with the current, only able to appear as a "human" through the scabbard.
Ah Cong gripped the broken knife tightly, leaping up from the ground like a tiger or leopard, determined to fight Zhou Yaren to the death.
"Don't be a coward!" Chen Ying rushed out in time, shoving A Cong around the waist and knocking him away from Zhou Yaren's wind blade.
Chen Ying aimed carefully and slammed Ah Cong straight into the well in the corner of the yard!
With a "plop," Yu Heqi rushed to the well, but before he could stop him, the man in the iron mask sank to the bottom.
Chen Ying was running too fast and trying to avoid the wind blades when she tripped over her own feet with her left leg and fell to the ground.
With a sharp "whoosh," the hairpin on her head was knocked off by the wind blade, and strands of broken hair drifted lightly to the ground.
When Chen Ying, her hair disheveled, raised her head, Zhou Yaren was already striding towards her.
These young men and the blind monk suddenly showed up at her door, catching her completely off guard.
These people were pretending to be receiving a pregnancy test, but she knew very well that Zhou Yaren had come for Lu Bing.
Just as Zhou Yaren was about to kill her, Chen Ying suddenly blurted out, "Lu Bing has been poisoned by a Gu technique!"
Zhou Yaren suddenly paused: "What?"
"And he's not long for this world; only I can save him." Chen Ying, of course, knew how to seize someone's Achilles' heel. She stared at Zhou Yaren, grinned, and said, "Want to kill me? You'd better think it over!"
She knew that Zhou Yaren couldn't bring himself to harm her, so she said fearlessly, "Since I'm going to die anyway, I don't mind taking him down with me."
"You—" Yu Heqi almost lost his temper when he heard her words.
Lian Zhao, supporting Wen Yi, walked around the bloodworms scattered on the ground and questioned Chen Ying, who was lying on the ground: "Where is Officer Lu?"
"Here!"
Everyone turned around at the sound and saw a thin, dark-skinned girl rush out of the side room.
Qin San stared at Zhou Yaren, her heart overflowing with bitterness and sorrow. She seemed to see salvation in him, and tears instantly streamed down her face: "Young Master, Constable Lu is here!"
Zhou Yaren had actually heard Qin San and Lu Bing's voices long ago. In this courtyard, not a single sound could escape his ears, so he didn't ask Chen Ying or Lu Bing whether they were dead or alive, or where they were.
From the moment he stepped into the courtyard, he knew that Lu Bing was alive and in this side room. Therefore, while the doors and windows of the other houses were damaged, this side room was completely intact, without a single brick or tile missing.
He heard Lu Bing's voice was extremely weak, clearly indicating that he was seriously injured and unable to stand, which is why he said to Qin San, "Help me, help me over there."
Just moments before, as Zhou Yaren was about to take the Gu Master's life, he heard Lu Bing weakly say to Qin San, "Don't tell him."
Qin San asked, "What?"
"Don't tell Masato about these injuries I suffered."
As the Gu master said, "Lu Bing has been afflicted by Gu magic," Zhou Yaren suddenly stopped. Lu Bing must be afraid that he would be coerced by the Gu master because of this.
Zhou Yaren frowned, and after several attempts, she managed to suppress the murderous intent surging in her heart before turning and walking towards the side room.
Qin San felt a gust of wind brush past him, and when he turned around, Zhou Yaren was already leaning over the hard couch.
Lu Bing suddenly saw a green figure flash in, arriving in front of him in a moment. When he recognized the person as Zhou Yaren, Lu Bing's eyes widened and turned red: "Yaren..."
"It's me." Zhou Yaren responded softly, bending down to help Lu Bing on the couch. She said, "I took a longer route, so I'm late. Did I keep you waiting?"
Lu Bing could no longer hold back his tears. He wanted to deny it, to deny that he hadn't waited for him, but he could only sob uncontrollably in Zhou Yaren's arms.
He didn't wait, yet it seemed he had been waiting all along, until Yajin arrived.
Lu Bing didn't want to cry; it would look too ugly. But he couldn't help it; it was too painful.
“Ya-ren… Ya-ren…” Lu Bing wept bitterly, calling out Ya-ren’s name incoherently, and the two people who had torn his heart apart, “Ya-ren… my father… and grandmother…”
Mentioning his parents, Zhou Ya felt a pang of heartache. He put his arm around Lu Bing's trembling shoulders and said softly, "Your colleagues and I have already buried your grandmother and uncle. Now, we've come to take you back to kowtow to your parents."
Lu Bing pressed his forehead against his chest and sobbed uncontrollably.
"What's wrong with your hand? Is it weak?" Zhou Yaren noticed something was wrong and ran her hand from Lu Bing's arm to his wrist.
Qin San, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't help but cry out: "It was that woman. She severed the tendons in Officer Lu's hands and feet."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yaren was struck dumb. What exactly had Lu Bing been through these past few days?
Zhou Yaren pressed her hand on Lu Bing's weak and powerless wrist. The head pressed against her chest felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, making it hard for Zhou Yaren to breathe.
The murderous intent surging within him could not be suppressed, nor could it find an outlet, so it could only pierce his lungs and internal organs, almost stabbing him until his intestines were ruptured.
Zhou Yaren tilted his head back, closed his eyes in pain, and heard hurried footsteps coming from three miles away. He knew that he didn't have much time left.
He had originally agreed with Li Liuyun to come here at midnight to meet him, intending to personally deal with the Gu Master, rescue Lu Bing, and then entrust a few young men to take Lu Bing away.
Because besides the Gu Master, he also had Xu Zhangfang behind him, who was determined to expose him and the Death Umbrella.
Unexpectedly, these teenagers, because of their pregnancy, followed the clues and found this place ahead of Zhou Yaren, almost losing their lives in the process.
Hearing the approaching footsteps, Zhou Yaren didn't even have time to find out how much suffering Lu Bing had endured before hurriedly telling them to leave.
With time running out, Zhou Yaren could only hastily entrust him with the task: "Liuyun, I entrust Lu Bing... to you. I hope you young friends will take good care of him for me."
"Listen to the wind and you'll know..."
Zhou Yaren solemnly interrupted him: "These days, I have been fortunate to receive the care of several young friends. I have no way to repay them. I beg Your Highness to ensure that the Death Umbrella is safe after you return to Taihang."
All the boys suddenly froze, realizing from the wind that this was...
Zhou Yaren clasped his hands together and bowed deeply to the boys, saying, "I thank the Celestial Master, the Headmaster, Your Highness, and all of you, as well as all the disciples of the Taihang Sect."
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