Jade-faced Ninth Master was very fast, and Leng Yue couldn't dodge in time, so he pressed her to the ground.
Jade-faced Ninth Master was no longer the "jade-faced" man he once was; now he had a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks, looking completely different. Leng Yue's hands were pinned behind her back, and she could only struggle desperately to free them.
Jade-faced Ninth Brother reached for Leng Yue's heart, licking his lips repeatedly. "Actually, I didn't want to eat you so soon, you forced me to..."
"Wait, if I'm going to die, I want to die knowing why. What grudge do I hold against you?" Leng Yue stalled for time, struggling to sit up. "I'm not feeling well. You're so powerful, do you think I'll run away?"
Jade-Faced Ninth Brother hesitated for a moment, but Leng Yue pressed on, "You're so powerful, with such profound skills, what are you afraid of?"
"Fine, sit if you want." Jade-faced Ninth Brother released Leng Yue, but he only stopped suppressing her. He still used the rope to tie Leng Yue's arms. "Don't think about running away. This is no longer the human world. You can't escape."
Leng Yue feigned despair, "It seems I can't go home. Can you tell me why I have to die?"
Jade-faced Ninth Brother laughed disdainfully, but his animal-like face with its pointed snout and monkey-like cheeks made his smile look very eerie.
"Why did you die? Don't you even remember me?" Jade-faced Ninth Brother looked at Leng Yue, and for some reason, he was filled with anger.
"Why?" Leng Yue was also concerned, but she kept talking to him. "How would I know if you didn't tell me? If I knew, would I be asking you?"
"Heh, that's right, you've long forgotten!" Jade-Faced Ninth Brother looked at Leng Yue with a sinister expression. "Because we have a blood feud! My parents were killed by you!"
"Impossible? How could I possibly kill your parents? I've never even killed a chicken!" Leng Yue retorted without a second thought. How could the original owner possibly have killed Jade-Faced Nine-Lang's parents?
"Then let me ask you again, do you remember when you first moved, your cat killed two white mice?" Jade-faced Jiulang asked with a face full of grief and indignation.
Leng Yue was stunned. What was going on? "A cat? I think my family used to have one, but it got lost. Also, what does your parents' death have to do with the white rat... Wait, are you a rat spirit?"
Leng Yue stared at Yu Mian Jiu Lang in disbelief. Upon closer inspection, he did indeed look somewhat like him!
“I remember now, it was your cat that killed my parents. I swore to avenge them. I've already poisoned that cat, and now only your family is left. I will start with you, one by one, until your family is destroyed!” Jade-Faced Nine-Lang said with a smile, as if he could see the scene of Leng Yue’s family dying tragically.
Upon hearing his words, Leng Yue realized, "My ghost eye and my brother's departed soul were both your doing?"
“Of course, since you’re going to die soon anyway, I’ll let you die knowing why.” Jade-faced Jiulang said, pulling out a sofa from somewhere and sitting on it with his legs crossed.
“Your parents are very fortunate. They did a lot of good deeds in their past lives and are blessed with great fortune in this life. I can’t get any benefit from them! So I can only target you and your siblings. One evening on your way to self-study, I caused your brother a minor car accident. In the shock, I extracted a part of his soul.”
“I originally thought he would become an idiot, but I didn’t expect him to just change his temperament. After that, I could no longer take action because his soul was with me, and Leng Kang and I became the focus of the Black and White Impermanence. So I could only stay quiet for a while, and Leng Kang also became a taboo.”
"Then I thought of you again. I used the same method, but it only gave you the ability to see ghosts. You two are really lucky. There was nothing I could do but continue to hide. Until recently, Leng Kang's soul escaped, and you also learned Taoist magic. I had to speed up my pace."
"Is there anything you don't understand now?" Jade-faced Ninth Brother flashed to Leng Yue's side. "It's all your fault for overestimating yourself and learning Taoist magic. I didn't mean to be so direct."
As Jade-Faced Ninth Brother spoke, sharp fingernails sprouted from one hand, and he once again lunged towards Leng Yue's heart. A suspicious liquid lingered at the corner of his mouth. "I've long wanted to taste a living person's heart, hahaha..."
As Leng Yue watched the gleaming claws approach, she quickly rolled to her feet. She had already cut the ropes binding her with her dagger, and without even moving her hands, she swiftly transformed them into a larger dagger and slashed at Yu Mian Jiu Lang.
"How could this be? This rope is forged from demonic power!" Jade-Faced Nine-Lang exclaimed involuntarily, "So you were hiding your true strength all along!"
Leng Yue didn't waste words with him and just swung her broadsword at him. Yu Mian Jiu Lang drew a long whip from his waist and lashed out at Leng Yue.
Leng Yue had very little training and even less combat experience. In her attempt to dodge, she was still struck by the whip. Leng Yue didn't know what material the whip was made of, but even through her thick coat, it still managed to tear the skin off her left arm.
Leng Yue was in so much pain that tears almost streamed down her face. Gritting her teeth, she instantly transformed her broadsword into a light sword, raising it with one hand to stab at Yu Mian Jiu Lang. Seeing this, Yu Mian Jiu Lang dodged to the side.
"You're no match for me. You'd better just accept your death obediently, at least that way you won't suffer so much." The taste of Leng Yue's blood thoroughly stimulated Yu Mian Jiu Lang's taste buds. He kept licking his lips, wanting to immediately devour Leng Yue's heart.
Jade-Faced Ninth Brother had eaten many dead people's hearts, but those were merely for sustenance and could hardly be considered a pleasure. Cold Moon's beating, vibrant heart—that was surely a true delicacy for him.
By consuming the heart of a living person, his cultivation level would increase rapidly. With such a speed of cultivation, he would no longer need to fear the Black and White Impermanence, right? Jade-Faced Ninth Brother kept making plans, and his fighting with Leng Yue became increasingly distracted.
Leng Yue's hands were both busy; while her right hand was dealing with Yu Mian Jiu Lang, her left hand was drawing a demon-suppressing talisman in the air.
Once the talisman was completed, Leng Yue shouted and thrust forward with both her left and right hands simultaneously. Yu Mian Jiu Lang, preoccupied with dodging the sword, didn't notice Leng Yue's left hand and was caught off guard, struck by her demon-suppressing talisman.
However, Leng Yue's cultivation was still shallow, and the demon-suppressing talisman on the Jade-Faced Ninth Prince was visibly fading rapidly. Leng Yue knew that if she didn't seize the opportunity now, she would surely die if she waited any longer.
Without hesitation, she thrust her sword towards Jade-Faced Nine-Lang's heart. At the same time, the demon-suppressing talisman's power nearly dissipated. In the blink of an eye, Leng Yue stabbed fiercely, penetrating to the very end, and swiftly withdrew her sword. Jade-Faced Nine-Lang coughed up blood from the corner of his mouth and from his chest.
Jade-faced Ninth Brother stared at Leng Yue in disbelief. "You...you..." He collapsed to the ground before he could finish his sentence.
His body grew smaller and smaller until it became a large rat, half a meter long, with half black fur and half white fur.
At that moment, the surrounding environment changed drastically. The yellow sand disappeared, the darkness receded, and Leng Yue finally realized that she was in her own bedroom.
"Yueyue, Yueyue, can you hear me? What's wrong with you?" Ling's voice rang out, and Leng Yue smiled weakly before fainting.
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