Chapter 151 Spare me! When I return, I will roam freely across the land, coming and going as I please. ...
The frozen earth crackled and popped incessantly, the inscriptions exploding within the ice shell, spreading like locusts all the way to the riverbank, shattering the canyon in all directions, even scraping off a layer of hard rock.
Chen Ying's expression changed drastically as she stared at the scene of ice being shoveled and the ground cracking. Seeing that they were already at their feet, she grabbed Ah Cong and ran haphazardly.
Zhou Yaren remained motionless, as if in a trance. The ice-breaking inscription exploded all the way to his heels, where he was suddenly pierced precisely by the ice silk.
Frost piled up, and countless ice threads, like needles threading through a needle, chased after the leaping inscriptions, firmly embedding themselves in the earth's rock. In an instant, the vast, desolate, frozen land was covered with silver threads, strung with the chaotic and erratic inscriptions.
With that earth-shattering sword strike, the punishment array crumbled, and the ice threads chased and strangled the punishment marks that covered the entire canyon, crushing them into shreds and annihilating them completely.
The turbulent mountains and rivers crumbled, and the massive rocks were cleaved open by the cold light, torn into unhealable scars.
The mournful cries drowned out the howling wind in the canyon.
Overly arrogant Xu Zhangfang watched helplessly as his millennia-long masterpiece crumbled and crumbled, utterly vulnerable. He tried to escape, but bumped into Zhou Yaren.
The blind man's face was as white as a corpse that had been dead for seven or eight years; he had come back to life to collect a debt.
really.
Zhou Yaren pressed on: "You trespassed into the Boundless Secret Realm, captured the Undead to refine elixirs, and framed Azhaosu..."
Xu Zhangfang retreated step by step, urgently refuting: "What frame-up? It was A Zhaosu... you who opened the door to welcome guests!"
How could robbers who committed arson, murder, and looting claim to be guests?
"Ah Zhaosu is nothing more than a gatekeeper. A pawn, driven by greed, befriended us, hoping to gain high-ranking positions and salaries in Qin, and voluntarily offered himself as tribute to the Undying to refine elixirs..."
Zhou Yaren's blood and qi surged, her temples throbbing violently: "Nonsense!"
Listening to his blatant lies will only disturb your peace of mind. Xu Zhangfang is taking advantage of the fact that he has no memory of his past life and can easily deceive and fabricate stories.
Zhou Yaren didn't believe a single word. He couldn't suppress the urge to kill. He no longer expected to hear a single truth from Xu Zhangfang. He just wanted to slit Xu Zhangfang's throat immediately.
Such a person deserves to be torn to pieces; that would be too lenient.
Xu Zhangfang keenly sensed the murderous intent and suddenly turned around, but a biting cold swept over him.
"I see you're all talk and no action." Bai Yuan cut off his escape route and spoke in a low voice, "Those sorcerers in Qin Prison were on the verge of death when they accidentally drew a blood array to bind me. Do you think you can also refine the injustice to restrain me?"
In his panic, Xu Zhangfang was caught between a rock and a hard place. Just as his foot slipped, the icy spike pierced through his chest and pinned him to the cliff face with both feet off the ground!
Caught off guard, Xu Zhangfang's eyes bulged as he stared incredulously at Bai Yuan, whose body was covered in frost.
"How is this possible..."
The cold air enveloped her from head to toe, and her frosty hair resembled thousands of strands of ice silk.
“Your method is indeed effective,” Bai Yuan said, raising his hand to block the cold cone and firmly pinning Xu Zhangfang to the cliff of the canyon. “But if you change your approach, it might not work.”
Even a single wrong stroke in a talisman renders it worthless, let alone studying a grand formation specifically designed to punish the innocent.
Xu Zhangfang painstakingly worked for thousands of years, only to proudly present a useless, trivial skill.
It's not that it's useless, it's just that this woman is too strong.
Zhou Yaren also clearly realized that the seal he had left in the Baiyuan Spirit Vein had been removed.
The seal that suppressed her had already vanished the moment she was slaughtered by Qiu Jue Dao and returned to her origin.
Having been reborn from the ashes, he will return to roam freely across the land.
She lowered her eyes slightly and looked down at Xu Fu: "I'm fine with the rules of heaven and earth, but what are you anyway?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her silver-white hair suddenly billowed up, and countless hideous and terrifying ghost faces sprang out from behind Bai Yuan. They opened their blood-red mouths, baring their fine, serrated white teeth, and pounced madly on Xu Zhangfang.
Halfway through his charge, he was pulled back by the shackles. The chains were stretched to their limit, impatient and eager to act, causing every bone in Bai Yuan's body to crack and pop.
Xu Zhangfang's trembling pupils were almost torn apart.
Bai Yuan forced himself to steady himself: "These are all wronged souls waiting for you to suffer retribution."
The sorcerers who died in Qin prison were all implicated in her, becoming inescapable evil spirits within her body. They struggled for a thousand years, their resentment reaching the heavens, causing endless turmoil for the innocent.
"No—" Xu Zhangfang screamed.
Zhou Yaren, who was about to step forward, suddenly stopped.
He, Acong, Wangxiang, Baiyuan, and the countless wronged souls behind her, all came to seek revenge on Xu Fu.
Bai Yuan suddenly looked up, her eyes turning bloodshot as if they were filled with an irreconcilable blood feud, almost dripping with tears of blood. But her voice was calm and icy: "I will take your life on their behalf."
"No—Aaaaaaah—"
The next moment, a flash of cold light appeared, blood splattered, and Xu Fu's terrified scream was cut short in his throat.
The moment Xu Fu's head fell, all the vengeful ghosts who had been bound and unable to escape their shackles finally broke free.
The chill that had frozen this land could no longer be sustained. The frost receded abruptly, and the early summer heat instantly returned, devouring all the ice and snow.
The Xiaoshan Canyon was transformed in an instant. The harsh winter completely dissipated, and the raging torrents crashed fiercely against the Sanmen Gorge, shaking the earth with a deafening roar.
The ice spike that pierced Xu Fu's chest melted into blood in an instant, and the headless corpse fell down the rock wall and was swallowed up by the surging waves.
A series of extremely mournful wails and screams filled the air as the vengeful spirits, surging with resentment, frantically pounced on Xu Fu's corpse and head, plunging into the great river and disappearing into the churning waves along with the underworld.
The thousand-year-old grudge that had been weighing on her hurriedly abandoned her, and Bai Yuan suddenly felt a lightness in her body, like someone who had been carrying a heavy load for too long suddenly dropping it, feeling unsteady as if she had lost her balance.
She stumbled and nearly fell into the water, but a gust of wind came just in time to help, steadily lifting Bai Yuan to the riverbank.
Bai Yuan was exhausted. Enduring the excruciating pain of being torn apart by the raging vengeful spirits, she did not turn around. She had only taken two steps when someone suddenly rushed up from behind and gently wrapped their arms around her waist.
A person suddenly pressed against her straight back, and Bai Yuan stopped abruptly. She was too weak to push anyone away, so she simply let him do as he pleased amidst the deafening roar of the waves.
How could Zhou Yaren not know that Bai Yuan was angry with him? "Are you angry with me?"
Bai Yuan's hands hung limply at her sides, her gaze fixed blankly ahead. The feeling in her heart was both light and heavy, something she couldn't quite describe.
The scene of Zhou Yaren throwing herself into the Devouring Array reminded her of He Yan's self-immolation by drawing Buddhist fire. Both times, if she had been even a step later... they would have perished for various reasons.
“I originally wanted,” Bai Yuan began, “to keep you by my side.”
Zhou Yaren froze upon hearing this: "Originally thought of it? So, you've changed your mind now?"
“Yes,” Bai Yuan’s voice lingered in the air, as if it could not fall, and she said, “I’ve changed my mind.”
She seems to be born alone, and probably no one can keep her.
Her soft words brought tears to Zhou Yaren's eyes. He released Bai Yuan, unable to calm down no matter what: "Change your mind? You promised me!"
"You made me agree, and what did you do?! You treated me to a feast, and then... you quietly delivered a sacrifice to the Ghost Gate," Bai Yuan sneered. "What? You really think you're something special, that anyone can chew you up and swallow you!"
These words were extremely harsh and showed no mercy whatsoever. Zhou Yaren's fingers trembled from the sting.
Even though every word of Bai Yuan was a sharp thorn, he was filled with grievances with nowhere to vent them, and his mouth felt as bitter as if he had chewed a handful of bitter herbs. But he knew that the phrase "silent and unassuming" was the most important thing.
What Bai Yuan was furious about was that he came to his death without a word.
"You have a very bold idea. What's the point of keeping someone who threatens suicide around? It's just a nuisance. We might as well go our separate ways. I'd rather not see them..."
This was a move that threatened to end things abruptly. Zhou Yaren's eyes welled up with tears, and she couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she interrupted, "You've been wronged."
He suppressed the immense bitterness and grievance in his heart and spoke in an almost humble voice: "Please spare me."
Bai Yuan was taken aback.
Zhou Yaren lowered his head and gently rubbed against him, using a soft approach to overcome a hard one. He said, "Give me some leeway. I don't want to leave you."
Zhou Yaren didn't give Bai Yuan a chance to refuse, and said bluntly, "I dressed you in your wedding gown, stayed up until dusk to be there, and we drank the nuptial wine and entered the bridal chamber." Even if it was just his wishful thinking, Bai Yuan accepted it without hesitation. Zhou Yaren felt that he was in the right and didn't want to have a falling out with Bai Yuan because of this. "I have already promised myself to you. You can't abandon me so quickly."
Bai Yuan: "..." He hadn't expected the other party to pull this stunt and was caught off guard.
He wanted to make peace, so he couldn't confront Bai Yuan, who was still angry. Zhou Yaren stared at her softening expression, his stomach churning with grievances. He resented the harsh words Bai Yuan had said and felt extremely unbalanced, but he could only suffer in silence. He hugged Bai Yuan tightly, and she didn't push him away. Zhou Yaren then buried his face in her cool, dark hair.
“Xu Zhangfang is dead. From now on, I will never risk my life again without saying a word. Bai Yuan, you went to great lengths to pull me back from the brink of death, just so I could get rid of you?” Zhou Yaren’s voice was nasal by the end. He then feigned weakness, “Bai Yuan, I’m in a lot of pain too. Please let me go.”
By the end of the conversation, Bai Yuan's heart had softened completely, and even his anger had dissipated by eight or nine tenths of his temper.
She sighed inwardly, "Zhou Yaren..."
Why is she still calling him by his full name? Zhou Yaren nuzzled his nose against her neck, making his voice even more nasal: "I'm innocent, I'm really in pain."
Putting herself in Zhou Yaren's shoes, she completely understood his actions. But who could tolerate someone who had just pledged their life to you turning around and secretly going to their death? Besides, Zhou Yaren had planned this all along, which was why he had painstakingly sought eternity with her. If she hadn't sensed something amiss and forcibly awakened from the Death Umbrella, she probably would have already reached the Taihang Mountains.
There was no way this blind man would pitifully tell her he was feeling unwell.
Bai Yuan was utterly exhausted. She glanced at Lin Mu, who had rushed over but then abruptly stopped, and, unable to bring herself to do it, she pulled and tugged at him, saying, "Alright, let go."
Zhou Yaren was completely absorbed in her grief and resentment, unwilling to let go: "Innocent injustice."
Just as Bai Yuan was about to raise her hand to push him away, her vision suddenly blurred, and her struggling body could no longer hold on, instantly turning into an umbrella.
Zhou Yaren, who had not yet received a single word of reassurance from Bai Yuan, stood there stunned for a moment, clutching the umbrella of death. He felt no relief whatsoever until Lin Mu slowly moved closer. Only then did he suppress his mixed feelings and try his best to appear nonchalant.
Zhou Yaren had given Lin Mu a lot of instructions last night and personally saw him off. She never expected that the boy would actually come to the Three Gates Natural Barrier with the Death Umbrella. When asked, Lin Mu said, "I was halfway there when Bai Yuan appeared."
When Bai Yuan appeared, he looked around at the surrounding green forest and mountain path before asking what had happened.
Lin Mu finished speaking haltingly, cautiously observing Bai Yuan's expression, fearing she might lose her temper. But Bai Yuan didn't; she walked silently along the mountain path, as if strolling, her face revealing no emotion.
The calmer she was, the more unsure Lin Mu became, his heart pounding with anxiety. He followed closely behind Bai Yuan, and inadvertently noticed a red silk ribbon tied around her wrist, something she had never worn before. Lin Mu made conversation, asking, "Where did you get that?"
Bai Yuan turned around: "Hmm?"
Lin Mu walked over to her in a few steps and pointed to her wrist: "Red silk."
Bai Yuan glanced down at it and said in a very indifferent tone, "Oh, there was someone who used this to entrust his life to me."
Lin Mu stared in disbelief, never expecting to hear such shocking news.
Lin Mu knew perfectly well what "there is someone" meant; it was Ting Feng Zhi.
“Since he has entrusted his life to me,” Bai Yuan pondered for a moment, “shouldn’t I take responsibility for him?”
Lin Mu lowered his head, somewhat evasive, as if he was hesitant to answer: "How will you take responsibility?"
Bai Yuan stared at a curled-up green leaf, narrowing his eyes thoughtfully: "Since we've pledged our lives to each other, shouldn't his life be mine?"
Lin Mu looked up in surprise.
Bai Yuan turned to look at Lin Mu: "Shouldn't I care whether he lives or dies?"
Lin Mu blurted out, "Aren't you coming back to Taihang with me?"
Bai Yuan smirked and said, "Go back to your own sect."
Lin Mu immediately became anxious: "Ting Fengzhi told me to take you back to Taihang."
“Good boy,” Bai Yuan readily agreed, “you are indeed obedient.”
"A false accusation!"
"Don't shout, I can hear you."
Lin Mu blocked her way: "No, I promised Ting Fengzhi that I would take you back to Taihang to recuperate."
Bai Yuan casually retorted, "How could I, a dignified evil spirit, be manipulated by the two of you?"
"How can you call it an arrangement?" Lin Mu retorted. "I know it's for your own good."
Bai Yuan asked him, "Do you think I can't tell right from wrong?"
Lin Mu was silenced by her.
“Sanmu,” Bai Yuan said, “are you a coward who fears death?”
"Of course not!"
"Neither do I."
Lin Mu was speechless. He knew what Bai Yuan meant, but he disagreed and turned to say, "I can't argue with you."
"You can't argue with me, you can't beat me, and of course you can't stop me. I can just take you down..."
Don't think he didn't know. Lin Mu said, "Aren't you just afraid that you'll become a death warrant on the way back?"
Wow, that's pretty sharp.
Bai Yuan then asked, "Would you abandon me halfway there?"
"No, I'll follow you. Once you turn into an umbrella, I'll pick you up and take you back to the Taihang Mountains."
Bai Yuan sighed. It seemed she had to be honest with this simple-minded child. So she put on a sincere expression and said, "That blind man is confused by his concern and can't think straight. You came down the mountain to deal with me in Bei Qu, so you should know my situation. You can guess pretty much right, right? There's no way to hide. Xu Zhangfang has plenty of ways to deal with me. It's just a matter of setting up a blood array with another injustice. Unless I am completely destroyed and never receive the summons of the underworld again, it won't help even if I hide in your Taihang Road. Why let that blind man die in vain?"
The boy looked troubled, clearly on the verge of wavering and struggling.
"The seal on my body has been completely broken, so now I am invincible." Bai Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, arrogant and conceited. "Xu Zhangfang is nothing but an ant."
forest:"……"
She's really bold; even the invincible in the world has come, so why doesn't he believe her?
However, after being misled by Bai Yuan, Lin Mu impulsively believed him.
As it turned out, she wasn't exaggerating at all. The naive Lin Mu was completely convinced, realizing that even the Celestial Master wouldn't be able to defeat her.
Hearing this, Zhou Yaren finally smiled with relief.
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