Punch him
Han Jiang took a deep breath: "I can't."
She was taken back to the house by Chi Jin, and the four people who were originally waiting became two: the girl and Han Jiang.
The girl trembled in the corner, while the woman, stabbed multiple times, collapsed at the doorway.
The man lay on the stone platform; the next round of human-demon transformation had not yet begun.
"What is this?" Chijin asked as he entered, pointing to the woman's corpse.
"Reporting to Lord Chijin, this woman tried to resist, but I didn't kill her. I deliberately left her alive so that someone could come and drag her away to perform the human-demon transformation."
Han Jiang used to feel proud when others addressed Chi Jin as "Master," but now she only felt disgust and revulsion.
Han Jiang tried not to look at the woman's face, but he couldn't help himself. Guilt and remorse far outweighed the fear of being transformed from a human into a demon.
The girl asked sadly, "Were you brought back?" Her mother's death had not brought her any hope of survival.
"I'm so sorry, I really apologize," Han Jiang said. "I trusted the wrong person."
"Is there really no way to escape?" the girl murmured.
The transformation from human to demon began on the stone platform. The girl gripped Han Jiang's hand, her fingers trembling. Finally, she said, "This time, don't trust the wrong person."
Han Jiang was startled and looked at the girl. The girl continued, "I don't want to become a demon, nor do I want to be a victim of their plan."
The man didn't last long before repeating the same scene.
This time, it was the girl who rushed forward.
The guard reacted swiftly, drawing his knife and stabbing at the girl.
"No!" Han Jiang stood in front of the girl, taking the blow himself.
Chi Jin called out, "Junior Sister!"
Compared to the knife wound, Han Jiang felt a pain in his heart: "You are not... my Crimson Gold Senior Brother."
Faced with the reaction of the crimson gold, the guards dared not take any further action.
"Junior sister, just pretend you didn't see anything, and I'll let you go." Chi Jin's tone was pleading this time. "Junior sister, please go."
What does this mean? Han Jiang heard the pleading in Chi Jin's words.
She nodded.
I don't know how Chi Jin did it, but no one stopped Han Jiang when he left the house.
Han Jiang clutched the wound on her stomach and walked slowly towards the edge of the camp.
She wanted to live, leave this place, and tell the outside world.
She wanted to live, to see her master, to see Chicheng.
"Lord Chijin, that woman rushed up on her own, so the location where the knife stabbed her..." The guard stood behind Chijin, watching Hanjiang leave together at the camp entrance.
“I know, that’s why I let her go,” Chijin said.
The guard said, "Does Your Excellency mean you knew she wouldn't last long before she died? Then why did you let her go? Wouldn't it have been better to keep her for human-demon fusion?"
"No, I just can't watch her die in front of me." Chi Jin turned and went back to the camp, holding a gold-inlaid jade token in his hand, which had fallen out when Han Jiang blocked the knife.
It is engraved with "pure gold".
Each step of the cold descending was more difficult than the last. The pain from the wound had become numb, and consciousness was growing increasingly blurred.
She couldn't tell the wind direction and couldn't find her way.
It was pitch black all around.
Fortunately, there was a moon.
The cold wind made it impossible to see or hear clearly. I didn't even notice the footsteps approaching behind me.
"Look! There's someone all alone over there! Catch them and turn them into a human-demon!"
I was too weak to walk after the cold rain; my body was swaying precariously.
"Bang!" Something was hit.
The Cold Descent will never be seen again.
That night, Han Jiang died.
That night, Han Jiang opened her eyes in a wooden hut.
What awaited her was memory damage caused by a blow to the back of the head and a stab wound through her waist.
Now the memory is complete.
Chi Jin must have been very surprised when he learned that Han Jiang was still alive in Jingzhou, but when he saw Han Jiang in Yinzhou, he was relieved to find that Han Jiang was still as if nothing had happened.
The more I think about the cold weather, the more ironic it seems.
Chi Jin seemed to think that Han Jiang had lost her memory due to the shock, and happily called her "Junior Sister".
Little did he know, his junior sister, Han Jiang, had died several months earlier.
He died on the night of his birthday.
"Senior sister, there are too many guards, we can't get out." Han Qi whispered in Han Jiang's ear.
Han Jiang pursed her lips, pondering how to use that memory to influence Chi Jin.
But Chijin wasn't inside the house at the moment; he was outside.
He was pondering how Han Jiang had lost her memory. Back in Yinzhou, she had been completely unaware of what had happened in Anzhou.
"Sir, someone's here!" two men announced.
Chi Jin arranged for everything to be concealed, and all the demons entered the secret room to hide, disguising it as an ordinary residence for the disciples of the Vermilion Bird Pavilion to rest.
Cang Jingqi stood alone outside the mansion, seemingly waiting for Chi Jin to come out.
"Cang Jingqi, you should be in the palace right now." Chi Jin no longer addressed him as "Your Highness." "What, are you planning a rebellion?"
Cang Jingqi said, "No. It's just that I received a plea for help from my daughter Xiaoman in the palace, so I came to check on her in my eagerness to save her."
Many of the guards knew about the connection between the Cold Descent and the Crimson Gold, and upon hearing Cang Jingqi's words, they all perked up their ears.
"Your Xiaoman? When did my junior sister become yours?" Chijin raised his voice, trying to outdo Cang Jingqi.
Cang Jingqi replied in his usual tone, "So, Lord Chijin admits that Xiaoman is here?"
"So what if you are here? This is my Vermilion Bird Pavilion. Now that the Demon Clan has rebelled and abandoned the human-demon coexistence, how could I possibly let you in, as the Demon Clan's Crown Prince?"
"Since this is your Vermilion Bird Pavilion's territory, why is Xiaoman inside?"
“I grew up with Junior Sister Hanjiang. She came with me. What’s the problem? But you—” Chijin gave the order, “Seize this serious demon criminal!”
Cang Jingqi easily bypassed the crowd that surrounded him, deliberately avoiding a direct confrontation with Chi Jin, refusing to fight, and instead focusing on dodging and changing positions.
“Your junior sister is your junior sister, but my Xiaoman is my Xiaoman,” Cang Jingqi retorted provocatively.
Chi Jin asked, "What do you mean by this?"
"Literal meaning."
Chi Jin seemed to have lost face twice in front of Cang Jingqi, and was furious. He hurriedly ordered people to be brought out from the mansion to arrest Cang Jingqi.
Cang Jingqi, on the other hand, remained calm and joked with Chi Jin.
"Lord Crimson Gold, I remember you were at this level of cultivation when you were in the Four Continents Sect. How come you haven't made any progress since you came to the Vermilion Bird Pavilion?"
"No wonder Hantian doesn't like you and doesn't want Xiaoman to marry you!"
At the mention of Han Tian, Chi Jin became even more enraged and ordered everyone to attack together.
This was exactly what he wanted. Cang Jingqi chose a good spot and selected an angle—to manipulate spiritual energy!
For a moment, everyone within Cang Jingqi's spiritual energy range froze, then slowly stopped moving, lowered their hands, and stared blankly into space.
With the protection of his spiritual power, Chi Jin was barely able to resist Cang Jingqi's control.
Just as Chijin was about to escape into the mansion, another group of people rushed out of the mansion.
Hanjiang and Hanqi led the children out.
While Chijin was rapidly assembling its forces, Hanjiang probably heard that something was happening outside.
Not long after, the guards shouted that someone had broken in, and chaos erupted outside.
Han Jiang and Han Qi conspired and, seizing the opportune moment, used a feint to take down the guards inside the house.
Pushing open the door, a dark figure appeared.
He used his spiritual power to control the other guards in the courtyard, intending to rescue Han Jiang and the others, but they escaped on their own.
The two groups then met up and escaped the house.
"Ah Qi!" Han Jiang ran towards Cang Jing Qi, "How did you get out?"
Cang Jingqi raised his chin at the dark figure: "I left a backup plan. I originally had him meet you outside the palace, but I didn't expect you to be kidnapped."
The shadowy figure said, "Let's go quickly, neither of us can maintain our spiritual power control for much longer."
Crimson Gold was caught in the middle and tried to run away, but was stopped by Cold Maple in the blink of an eye.
"Where do you want to go?" Hanqi's eyes were icy.
Forcing their way in won't work; Hanqi's spiritual power is far superior to that of Chijin.
As the cold wind slowly approached the crimson gold, he clenched his fist.
“Junior sister, your senior brother has his reasons!” Chi Jin said. “We’ve known each other for so many years, don’t you understand your senior brother?”
Han Jiang scoffed inwardly: Your junior sister who knows you is dead. Or perhaps, she didn't know you at all.
“That day was your birthday.” Han Jiang stopped half a step away from Chi Jin.
Chi Jin didn't understand what Han Jiang meant by suddenly saying that: "Huh?"
Han Jiang looked up, his eyes fierce, raised his hand, and punched Chi Jin in the face: "That day! Was your birthday!"
The suffering endured by one of the body's owners is avenged by that same owner.
Chijin was knocked to the ground by a punch, his mind buzzing, and he was at a loss.
"Good job, should we kill him?" Cang Jingqi always said these frightening words with a smile.
"No. Didn't we say we should leave quickly? Let's go." Han Jiang knew that Chi Jin couldn't be killed. He held a similar position in the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, and Cang Jingqi was still here. If Chi Jin died, it would be tantamount to a confrontation between the Demon Clan and the Vermilion Bird Pavilion.
The demons are now considered rebels, so the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, being opposed to the demons, will automatically be considered part of the righteous side.
However, the current assessment of the Vermilion Bird Pavilion is still open to debate.
Taking a group of children with you makes things difficult.
However, the shadowy figure said not to worry, the yard was very large.
The shadowy figure never revealed its face. He and Hanqi stood at the very back of the group, while Hanjiang and Cangjingqi were at the very front.
A folding fan carrying five flying talismans filled with people floated across the night sky, looking like a line of egrets soaring into the blue sky.
Cang Jingqi was very familiar with the road and also with the way he spoke to the shadowy figure.
Han Jiang thought Cang Jingqi would ask him why he fought Chi Jin, but he didn't. Instead, he seemed to be in a good mood, holding hands with Han Jiang and leisurely fanning himself with his other hand.
"Why do you look so happy?" Han Jiang couldn't help but ask.
Cang Jing retorted, "What's there to be happy about? I'm heartbroken, okay? That guy said you and he were childhood sweethearts, while I'm just an outsider." He then made a heartbroken expression.
Han Jiang knew he was faking it, and raised their clasped hands: "You call this an outsider? Besides, don't you know I'm not the original Han Jiang? Chi Jin's childhood sweetheart is dead."
She briefly recounted the events in Anzhou last summer to Cang Jingqi, and incidentally pointed out two officials from the Vermilion Bird Pavilion in her memory: one was the deputy pavilion master Li Fang, and the other was some kind of Lord Liu.
Cang Jingqi suddenly stopped folding his fan, trying to turn it around, but Han Jiang grabbed him: "What are you doing?"
"You didn't hit him hard enough, he should die!"
“He can’t die yet,” Han Jiang said. “I don’t know what Master will do if he finds out… I can’t tell him that the original Han Jiang is dead and that there is someone else now. If that’s the case, I should die even faster than Chi Jin.”
Perhaps Cang Jingqi felt the same way, which is why he deliberately avoided topics related to agar.
The folding fan continued its journey and finally arrived at a courtyard before dawn.
It is far from any human habitation, and there is only this one house for miles around.
Cang Jingqi, familiar with the place, led the children into the courtyard and arranged several rooms for them to rest.
The courtyard design looked strangely familiar to Han Jiang. As she walked to a side gate, she suddenly remembered: "Ah! This is the courtyard from your illusion!"
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