Chapter 91 Nobody Wants Her "She's in such a state, living is just suffering for her..."
In an instant, Bai Yuan was enveloped in a chilling aura. His originally pale skin was covered with a thin layer of snow, crystal clear, and even his black hair was covered with silver frost, like a holy spirit who had lived in the snow-capped mountains for a long time, or more like a ghost whose body was not yet cold.
After all, no one had ever seen such a frosty and cold Yin body, and with Tingfengzhi, they could make a perfect pair amidst the wind and snow.
A chill spread from Bai Yuan's body throughout the entire tomb, and the sudden cold made everyone shiver.
Zhou Yaren couldn't turn his head, but the silkworm silk around him was quickly wrapped in frost, covered with layers of ice film, spreading all the way to the top of the tomb, temporarily freezing the star chart mechanism that could change at any time.
"A wrongful accusation..."
Bai Yuan didn't allow the other party to waste words, and left with the words "You figure out how to get out of here yourselves" before heading towards the madman who dared to steal the Yin Sui right under her nose.
Bai Yuan pierced through the myriad serendipities of the Star Changes, unleashing gusts of cold air that enveloped Lin Mu and Li Liuyun.
Caught off guard, Lin Mu's eyes widened, only managing to catch a glimpse of her silvery-white hair, which swept across Ting Fengzhi's palm as it fluttered in the wind.
Zhou Yaren blinked very slowly, subconsciously curling his hand, his silvery hair hurriedly slipping through his fingers and disappearing in an instant.
It is said that the ten fingers are connected to the heart. The sensation of countless threads passing between his fingers felt like blood vessels connecting him, wrapping around him as if to seep into his flesh and bones. Zhou Yaren could hardly describe this sudden feeling; it was a chilling sensation that made him tremble. His skin seemed to contract suddenly in response to stress, both tight and numb.
Even someone as shrewd and perceptive as Tingfeng couldn't discern the nature of this dread. After a moment of blank stare, he realized that Bai Yuan always sent chills down his spine. Her first appearance had left Qin San stunned and even the self-proclaimed tough guy Lu Bing weak in the knees. Then came the Taiyin Dao Body and the Ghostly Bureau—in short, they either sent shivers down one's spine or filled one with utter terror, each time delivering a profound impact.
Seeing that the person who took the Yin Sui turned and fled, Li Liuyun blurted out to Bai Yuan, who was chasing after him, "The Yin Sui cannot enter the Corpse Star's acupoint!"
Bai Yuan turned a deaf ear and flashed across the vast "starry night" in a few steps, but the "moon" surrounded by stars was plucked away, and the starry night instantly dimmed.
Bai Yuan glanced at Liang Youyi lying on the ground, not caring whether he was alive or dead; he must have just been knocked unconscious.
She ducked down, just as she peered into the entrance of the Jingguan cave, when an incredibly sharp, cold glint flashed towards her face. Bai Yuan suddenly leaned back half an inch, the blade grazing her nose. Bai Yuan raised her hand, bracing the blade with only two fingers, and gently snapped it off. A sound like metal breaking rang out as Bai Yuan broke off a corner of the blade with her bare hands.
"This kind of ordinary iron..." I don't know where it came from. It's a substandard product that hasn't been forged and refined. It's just like scrap metal. It can't withstand any damage. I reckon Bai Yuan would be crippled even if he were chopping vegetables or cutting melons. And yet he used it to entertain her.
Bai Yuan held a small knife tip and sliced it into the palm of the person holding the knife, cleanly slicing open their entire arm. Without making a sound, she squeezed into the cave entrance, and with a twist of her wrist, she cut open the person's abdomen, disemboweling them.
The sound of the knife tip cutting through the fabric was like the sound of cutting cloth.
As the filthy black water flowed out, Bai Yuan managed to extricate himself in time, without getting a single drop of the foul stench on him.
She didn't even glance at the pile of skeletons and human skin. She slid forward, clearing a path for another monstrous creature that lunged at her to its death. A small blade, its tip gleaming coldly at Bai Yuan's fingertip, as chilling and sharp as her gaze, flew towards the woman who had fled with the Yin Sui.
The thin blade tip, coated with frost, was aimed directly at Chen Ying, capable of piercing the back of her neck.
Perhaps sensing the sharp, cold light, Chen Ying turned sharply, her hair standing on end, and watched in horror as the ice blade pierced the Jingguan wall. The skull that was struck instantly had half its head shattered, turning into an ice skull.
Chen Ying was terrified: What the hell is this? What on earth is this thing that crawled out of the Taiyin Dao Body? How can it be so eerie?!
"Stop her!" Chen Ying shouted in a panic, her feet moving swiftly.
The demons disguised in human skin swarmed towards Bai Yuan, who was stopped in his tracks: "So, you're allied with the demons, and you're the Gu Master who caused trouble in Bei Qu?"
A cold, long blade pierced through the air. Chen Ying stopped abruptly, the tip of the blade plunging right in front of her toes, just inches away...
Bai Yuan kicked a giant elephant flying, sending it crashing against the wall of the Jingguan (a mound of stones), sending dust flying: "Where is that constable you kidnapped after committing your crimes in Beiqu?"
Chen Ying clung tightly to Yin Sui, driven to the brink of danger by Bai Yuan's accusations, silently searching for a way out of the Jingguan. Of course, she was also forced into this situation, but her involvement was perfectly timed, coinciding with the group breaking the Twelve Killing Formations, allowing her to hide in the shadows and reap the benefits.
But now that we have the Yin Sui, the sealed Jing Guan has no way out. Are we going to have to go through that tomb chamber?
Chen Ying was so anxious that she paced around in circles, frantically searching for the entrance or mechanism like an ant on a hot pan.
Wang Xiang attacked from all sides, restraining Bai Yuan. Bai Yuan tore two of them apart with her bare hands. As she rushed towards Chen Ying, her energy suddenly stagnated, and the white frost covering her body instantly melted away. Bai Yuan's movements were instantly restricted, her speed was drastically reduced, and more than half of her killing aura melted away along with the frost.
Without batting an eye, she snatched the knife and slammed the other eagle-shaped nail into the rammed earth wall. Her tone remained chillingly cold: "You were the one who cut open the belly of the woman's corpse in the Puzhou government office, weren't you?"
Chen Ying paused slightly, then, sweating profusely, tapped a suspicious spot, but the protruding stone was not the key to opening the array gate.
Bai Yuan dodged the attack of a monstrous elephant, leaped up using the wall of corpses as a springboard, and kicked the elephant's head away in mid-air, smashing it towards Chen Ying: "You used the pregnant belly of a mentally challenged child to nurture the elixir, buried her alive in the filth of the mass grave, but the body was dug up by the government, so you took advantage of the night to go to the yamen to cut open her belly and take the elixir from her womb."
Chen Ying dodged abruptly, and the severed head, spurting blood, slammed against the wall and rolled to the ground. Bai Yuan's words greatly surprised Chen Ying: "You even know this? No, how could you know how to make Gu..."
"You're so brazen..." Before Bai could finish speaking, he was suddenly interrupted.
"It was you!"
Liang Youyi woke up at some point and overheard the conversation between the two. He found it hard to believe and couldn't even understand what "using a pregnant belly to nurture a Gu" meant. He didn't need to understand to be able to tell how cruel and vicious this method was.
"It was you! You killed my daughter!" Liang Youyi stared intently at Chen Ying, his legs trembling slightly as he took his steps.
"Your daughter?" Chen Ying stared warily at the impoverished old man in front of her. He was extremely ordinary, but his eyes—no, not those eyes, but that look—were somewhat familiar, like the look Lu Bing had in her eyes, filled with hatred, sorrow, and pain.
Having spent half her life killing countless people, Chen Ying was perfectly perceptive and knew that the victim had come to seek revenge.
She used to kill her father, mother, sister, brother... The downside of killing one person at a time is that it easily leaves hidden dangers. For a while, the situation dragged on, and countless victims came seeking revenge, causing a lot of trouble. So later, to save trouble, she preferred to eliminate entire families. Serial killers are gradually honed, but this wasn't Chen Ying's consistent style. She occasionally killed on a whim. If it were without reason, she wouldn't go and wipe out someone's entire family. It was like chopping melons and vegetables; she killed at will.
Chen Ying remembered that the mentally challenged girl she picked up was an orphan girl with no relatives and who was abused and bullied by everyone. How come she suddenly has a cheap father now?
But everyone is born of parents, so there's nothing strange about it. Chen Ying said, "Oh, I thought no one wanted her."
After all, people with intellectual disabilities are seen as a burden, and most parents would abandon them, which Chen Ying always believed.
The words "I thought no one wanted her" pierced Liang Youyi's heart, leaving him with countless wounds. Peach Blossom was the only memento his deceased wife left him, his very lifeblood. How could she be unwanted? How could his child be unwanted?
“She just got lost.” Liang Youyi’s throat burned, and he almost vomited blood. He walked shakily toward Chen Ying, emphasizing again and again, “She just got lost. I searched and searched, from north to south, and searched and searched… Finally I found her, my daughter,” but it was a body that had suffered terribly. Liang Youyi burst into tears. He couldn’t understand it no matter what. “Why?”
Why treat his child like this?
Why do these people treat his child like this?
Why else? Because she's easy to bully. There are plenty of people in this world who bully the weak and fear the strong, venting their evil desires on the vulnerable. Besides, she's an innocent and ungrateful fool, so bullying her requires no cost or consequence.
Chen Ying, harboring a heartless and treacherous nature, naturally couldn't utter any kind words: "Living like that is just torture for her."
Since I met her while pregnant, I might as well use her to cure the ailment.
"Then you shall pay for Peach Blossom's life!" Liang Youyi suddenly erupted, drawing his sword and charging towards Chen Ying.
Chen Ying was not afraid of him at all, and did not take Liang Youyi, whose eyes were full of fierce light, seriously. She regarded him as an old, weak and disabled person who dared to overestimate his abilities and try to kill her.
"Why don't I send you to reunite with your daughter?" Chen Ying aimed for the vital point; with just a flick of her finger, she could kill him instantly.
With a clang, Chen Ying's dagger, which was aimed at Liang Youyi's vitals, was deflected by some scrap metal. She looked down and saw that it was half of a rusted arrowhead.
Chen Ying rolled away to avoid Liang Youyi's deadly series of blades. Turning her head, she saw the troublesome woman peeling off Wang Xiang's human skin. The half-arrowhead was naturally kicked by her.
Why are you so difficult to deal with?!
Chen Ying suddenly kicked Liang Youyi in the kneecap, and with a crisp crack, Liang Youyi fell forward.
"Since you've been searching all this time," Chen Ying said swiftly, grabbing Liang Youyi's wrist as he held the knife and slitting his throat, "go search for him on the road to the underworld!"
With a clang, her counterattack against Liang Youyi was thwarted once again, forcing Chen Ying to dodge quickly. Then, like a wild leopard, she sprang back, the distance between them barely a second. The tip of her raised knife had just pierced the flesh of Liang Youyi's neck, not yet penetrating deep enough to sever an artery, when Chen Ying was sent flying along with the hurled fangs!
She was so struck that she saw stars and slammed to the ground, cursing, "Damn it!"
Bai Yuan finally escaped the siege of Wang Xiang and was able to deal with Chen Ying. An inscription flashed between her brows, and black energy dissipated from her forehead like wisps of smoke. This wisp of ghostly retribution came from Wang Sanhu, who was "convicted" by Liang Youyi to kill Xiao Hua, and then tortured to death by hanging him upside down in the prison. But he died with his eyes wide open... Liang Youyi had wronged him, Liang Youyi had wronged him. It was clearly not him who killed his mentally challenged daughter, but Liang Youyi did not believe it, and he was unwilling to accept it.
Finally, this moment cleared his name, letting Liang Youyi, who had been wrongfully killed, know the truth, and the grievances were dispelled...
Just as Bai Yuan passed by Liang Youyi, several poisonous insects suddenly shot out from under him. She waved her sleeve, but was still pierced on the back of her hand by one of the insects. Its fangs were hooked and firmly sucked and bit into her flesh, injecting venom.
The creatures raised by the Gu Master have probably all undergone some kind of mutation. Bai Yuan frowned and directly squeezed the poisonous insect, whose species he couldn't tell, until it burst.
Looking at Liang Youyi, who was lying motionless on the ground, his face and lips had turned blue and purple after being bitten by poisonous insects, indicating that the poison had penetrated his internal organs.
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