Don't be afraid, I'm here. "Sister, I'm so cold..."
Lin Yunshu immediately offered a way out.
“Master’s wife, this boy is shameless and good at spouting nonsense. Don’t waste your breath on him. Anyway, we’ve been following him all the way, and he really came alone. Why not just kill him and avenge my senior brothers and sisters?”
After all, you can't win an argument with him if you keep going; it's just a waste of time.
Lou Wan, whom he called his teacher's wife, gave a cold laugh, then suddenly flipped over and flew onto the carriage, smashing the carriage door with a palm strike.
Wood chips flew everywhere, and snow poured into the car, causing the yellow talismans hanging from the roof to rattle loudly.
The boy's gold hair tie suddenly fluttered in the carriage, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth and sneeze before slowly pulling up his hood.
Lin Yunshu's eyes widened instantly, and he soared into the air, shouting:
"Master's wife, be careful of this boy's talisman array! He's always so deceptive and unpredictable; the real array must be under the carriage!"
Lou Wan also knew how cunning Pei Xuanzhi was, and seeing his calm and composed demeanor, she knew that something was amiss.
His eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he flipped himself onto the roof of the car, where he and Lin Yunshu each channeled their spiritual energy to strike the roof.
The moment the spiritual energy touched the roof of the car, the red rope with the yellow talisman hanging on it instantly burst into a crimson flame, which then ignited along with the two streams of spiritual energy.
The flames, fueled by the burning spiritual energy, surged into the two men's spiritual veins, scorching many of them. Both men suddenly coughed up blood and fell from mid-air into a nearby field, staggering and supporting each other.
Pei Xuanzhi bowed and stepped out of the carriage, pulling his cloak over his shoulders as he stood on the snow-covered carriage shaft, speaking slowly and deliberately:
"I admit that my actions are not exactly aboveboard, but as you both know, my father has always been a man of honor. He set up this formation in a conspicuous place. What do you two think?"
The wind was indeed too strong, and he couldn't help but sneeze again before continuing:
"If there is anything lacking, please feel free to point it out. I will definitely ask him to revise it carefully... Why don't you two stand on the ridge of the field? In this heavy snow, the wheat seedlings in the field can't withstand being trampled. We can argue, but let's not damage other people's harvest."
Lou Wan's spiritual meridians were almost entirely burned by the fire.
If Pei Hanzhou hadn't been known for needing two strikes to kill, giving them a chance to escape, they would have had their spiritual meridians destroyed by that one attack.
Lou Wan was so angry at the shameless brat's casual words that her anger surged, but she quickly calmed down.
This kid has such a foul mouth, yet he's still alive and hasn't been beaten to death. He must have some underhanded tricks up his sleeve.
Now that he has found his father, he has become even more arrogant, killing six of her disciples and daring to leave the Tianyan Sect alone.
The death of six disciples is nothing, but if we don't take this opportunity to kill him and get the Soul-Crossing Bracelet, we may never have another chance.
“Madam, I’m going to the Zhen position to try it out with a rope.”
"Can it be trapped? Under no circumstances should you use spiritual power."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yunshu leaped into the air like a gust of wind.
The rope she flung out of her hand cut through the snow without any spiritual power, yet it instantly ensnared Pei Xuanzhi, who was frantically trying to escape into the carriage.
With a sudden burst of force, he pulled Pei Xuanzhi, who was about to reach for the communication jade slip, out by the waist.
Under the swirling snow of the dark sky, it looked as if a blue and white kite had suddenly been pulled out and was fluttering in the wind.
Lou Wan slowly wiped the blood from her lips with her slender fingers.
She tiptoed and caught up with him, kicking Pei Xuanzhi hard in the waist, sending him swaying in the wind before he fell heavily into the snow.
Lou Wan gracefully landed on the snow, stepped on Pei Xuanzhi's wrist, ground it, and sneered, "You dog, you dare to wear the Soul-Crossing Bracelet?"
Pei Xuanzhi choked on the wind and coughed incessantly, saying intermittently, "One is real, one is fake, guess..."
Lou Wan withdrew her foot, half-squatted beside him, grabbed the back of his neck and lifted him up, saying in his ear, "What are you guessing? I'll just chop off your hands, won't that do?"
Pei Xuanzhi laughed loudly, "Then go ahead and chop it up. The Soul-Crossing Bracelet is now connected to my soul energy. I have set up several layers of magic to connect with it. If you forcibly take it, or if I die, I guarantee that what you get will be useless fragments of jade."
He was someone who could never distinguish between truth and falsehood, so Lou Wan didn't dare to take the risk. She slapped him across the face and then knocked him unconscious.
He casually sealed his spiritual meridians, stood up and ordered, "Yun Shu, take him to Luotuo Mountain."
Lin Yunshu gripped the rope, leaped onto the longsword, and hoisted Pei Xuanzhi along as they headed west.
Despite the heavy snowfall and biting wind, Lou Wan's heart burned with fervor and anxiety. She charged into the darkness with her sword, not finding the journey particularly difficult.
Things didn't go smoothly today, but we finally managed to capture that kid.
Whether or not the Soul-Crossing Bracelet can be retrieved is not important; what is important is that the Soul-Crossing Bracelet can open the Blood-Dripping Cave.
The Soul-Crossing Bracelet, which was almost found, was snatched away by this kid. After taking it, he went to hide in the Tianyan Sect. Does he think that she wouldn't dare to kill Pei Hanzhou's son now?
Once the Blood-Dripping Cave is opened, I'll tear this brat to pieces to atone for the tragic deaths of my disciples.
Halfway there, Pei Xuanzhi was awakened by the cold. He was uncomfortable from being tied up by the rope and kept coughing. The gold hair tie around his temples was swirling around, but it looked quite light and breezy.
The journey was extremely long, and he was so stiff from hanging in the air that he only realized he had been flying for almost a whole night when he heard the crowing of a rooster amidst the wind.
When Lin Yunshu dragged him into a very secluded cave, he was so cold that he could hardly move.
He slumped in the corner, staring at the unremarkable cave. Over there, Lin Yunshu smiled at Lou Wan and said, "Master's wife, once we get what's in the Dripping Blood Cave, you'll be happy, won't you?"
Lou Wan glanced at him, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly.
Many years ago, the demons killed tens of thousands of people here, using their blood to forge magical artifacts, purifying their resentment with soul-crossing stones, and nurturing their weapons of slaughter with auspicious energy.
Although the demons were later driven back by the sect, few people knew of the existence of the Blood-Dripping Cave, let alone its true location.
The Soul-Crossing Stone was divided into two parts: a Soul Bead and a Soul Bracelet.
Using the Soul Bead as a clue and the Soul Bracelet as a key, she would have been completely unaware of the existence of such a place had she not made contact with the Demon Clan.
Unfortunately, when she learned of the Soul Bracelet, almost all of her disciples had their internal organs dissected by Pei Xuanzhi while they were still alive because they were helping her find abandoned infants to refine the Youth Preservation Pill. Only Lin Yunshu was left.
Thus, before those disciples died, Pei Xuanzhi tormented them into revealing the matter of the Soul Bracelet.
Fortunately, she had already obtained the Soul Pearl and had not told her disciples about it or the Blood-Dripping Cave, so Pei Xuanzhi was unaware of it.
Compared to the magical artifacts hidden in the Blood-Dripping Cave for so many years, what is the Soul-Crossing Bracelet?
Once we retrieve the magical artifacts inside and kill Pei Xuanzhi, who will be able to trace it back to her?
"Yunshu, go outside and keep watch."
Lin Yunshu's expression changed, and he called out softly, "Master's wife... can't we trust each other now?"
Lou Wan casually reassured her, "Be good, go check if anyone is following us. I trust you with my back."
Lin Yunshu immediately smiled and said, "Then I'll go. If your master's wife needs anything, please call me."
As soon as he went out, Lou Wan set up a barrier to block the cave entrance. She glanced at Pei Xuanzhi, whose face was pale and bluish and who was on the verge of death, before taking out the Soul Pearl and searching around the cave walls.
After walking along the cave path for a long time, the Soul Bead in his hand suddenly emitted a low, faint light, casting the shadow of a large door on an uneven cave wall.
At the very center of that illusory gate, there was indeed a ring of light and shadow.
Just as she was about to pull Pei Xuanzhi over, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and with a "whoosh," her internal organs fell into the air.
Lin Yunshu leaned in from behind and kissed her cheek, whispering, "Look at my memory, I always remember my errands. I was the one who dissected the senior brothers and sisters. Pei Xuanzhi found out about the Soul-Crossing Bracelet, but before he could even act, I took care of those useless people for you."
Lou Wan stared at him with her mouth wide open, dark red blood gushing out continuously.
Lin Yunshu looked at her with deep affection and said, “I was willing to kill my wife and offer my child to you to make a youth-preserving pill, just so I could sleep with you. How can you think that the loyalty I offered was the most trustworthy? You may have won over my wife, but you can’t win over me.”
Lin Yunshu shed two tears, looked up and said, "Qingniang, look, I've avenged you and your son."
As she spoke, she wiped away the faint tears, snatched the Soul Pearl, kicked Lou Wan away, and expressionlessly stomped on the head of the person on the ground twice. Only after the skull under her feet shattered did she turn around and leave the path to find Pei Xuanzhi.
Pei Xuanzhi's face turned pale, and he was lying face down on the ground, coughing and gagging incessantly.
Lin Yunshu sneered, "Pei Xuanzhi, what are you spitting out for? Is your wife pregnant with your child? Ha, you're just like me, so why are you being so coy?"
Pei Xuanzhi vomited until his tongue was stiff, and said in a hoarse voice, "How can I be compared to Brother Lin?"
Lin Yunshu knelt down beside him, grabbed the gold necklace around his neck, and lifted him up.
"We have such a deep friendship. After you die, I will take good care of your wife. Every year during Qingming Festival, we will bring the children to burn paper money for you. How many children do you think your wife and I should have?"
Pei Xuanzhi, half-suspended from his collar, barely stood on his frozen legs and said in a cool voice:
"The reason I came out this time is because my wife has started to descend the mountain and enter the world after we got married. It would be bad if she saved me and I ended up being a burden to her. So... I can only feel at ease after I've dealt with you all."
A gust of wind blew by, and Lin Yunshu opened his eyes wide.
His lower body was still standing, but his upper body had already suddenly landed on the ground.
Pei Xuan's spiritual veins were sealed, and without support, he suddenly fell to the ground and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The Crying Spirit Blade was too much to handle with just one use, so he didn't care. He quickly crawled to Lin Yunshu's side, pulled out the hidden knife he had received during their engagement, and gritted his teeth to slit open Lin Yunshu's neck.
Blood splattered on his face and body, but he remained excessively calm, continuing to open up all the major meridians on Lin Yunshu's body.
Only then did he take the Soul Pearl and continue climbing forward. When he reached Lou Wan's corpse, he used the Soul Pearl to illuminate it and saw the shadow of the gate.
He was about to place the Soul-Crossing Bracelet on it, but ultimately suppressed his impulse, turned around, climbed out, and dragged Lin Yunshu's unseeing upper body over to lean against the cave wall.
He leaned against the wall and got up, took off the Soul-Crossing Bracelet, held it in Lin Yunshu's hand, and fastened the bracelet to the circular light and shadow.
Lin Yunshu's upper body was instantly sucked into the cave wall, and the sound of bones being crushed came from inside the cave.
A chill ran through him, and he quickly used the knife hidden in his sleeve to pry off the Soul-Crossing Bracelet and put it away.
He could have used the Crying Spirit Blade to kill them by the carriage, even though he would have suffered a backlash, it would have been worth it.
He was just more curious about what Lou Wan was going to do with the Soul-Crossing Bracelet, which is why he deliberately let them capture him here to see.
Now it seems that Lou Wan, that fool, must have had a jar of mush poured into her brain, daring to touch such an evil and bizarre thing.
The blood flowed more and more from his lips. He put away the Soul Pearl, collapsed to the ground, exhausted. His snow-white clothes and cloak were stained with someone's blood.
He rested for a while and tried to break through the seal on the spiritual veins, but ultimately failed.
But for some reason, the soul pearl in the treasure pouch suddenly flew out and danced around in the cave.
The light shone on and on, and a phantom image of a door appeared beneath his body. The black jade bracelet on his wrist was touching the circular light and shadow very close to it.
Pei Xuanzhi was struck dumb. He staggered to his feet, gripped the knife in his sleeve, and staggered out of the cave with his stiff legs.
His legs were numb, and he didn't know how long he had run. Perhaps he had finally exhausted his strength, he suddenly stopped, trembling, and abruptly lowered his head, clutching his chest and vomiting a mouthful of blood.
Hot blood seeped into the snow, gradually turning into a deep, bloody hole.
He casually wiped the blood from his lips with his blood-stained sleeve, took two steps forward with his body bent over, his legs gave way, and he collapsed directly into the thick snow on the ground.
He choked on blood from the fall, and struggled to prop himself up from the snow, coughing incessantly with his head down.
The north wind howled past, and the gold hair tie that tied his hair hung down on both sides of his temples, swirling and occasionally whipping his cheeks.
He was too preoccupied with coughing, his eyes fixed on the cold ice, to bother trying to dispel the phlegm.
Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound behind him. When he turned around, he saw that Lou Wan, who was already dead, was radiating a ghostly light from a blood-stained soul pearl. She chased after him with her shattered head.
This was completely beyond his plans. Now he was only thinking about how to survive, but he couldn't muster the strength to stand up again. He could only grit his teeth and crawl forward, his fingers gripping the snow.
Suddenly his ankle was grabbed, and a chill ran through him. He finally had the strength to get up and kneel in the snow. As he tried to get up, he summoned the Crying Spirit Blade again, but because it had been too long since he last used it, he couldn't summon it.
He felt an overwhelming sense of resentment. He had struggled to live to this age, was he really going to die in the wilderness?
Just as he was filled with resentment and anger, a sudden gust of wind swept by, and hot blood splattered. He turned around in a daze and saw Lou Wan's body lying broken in the white snow.
The Soul Pearl was enveloped in a bright flame, and within moments, several cracks appeared on it, causing it to shatter on the ground.
Amidst the heavy snowfall, Pei Xuanzhi, his clothes disheveled, his hair flying, his hands red from the cold, clutching a dagger hidden in his sleeve, knelt on the icy snow, his body covered in blood.
He slowly withdrew his gaze, looking up at the misty figure that was flying through the vast snow, making hand gestures for flames, dressed only in a single garment and riding a sword.
The figure landed in front of him and asked him many questions, but he seemed not to hear them. He just stared blankly at her face in the snow, completely forgetting that he could speak.
Yan Huanyue came all the way from Yongbei, only to find a carriage with a broken door. She was immediately filled with anxiety and fear, and chased after him all night, holding onto half a hair, before finally arriving here.
Unexpectedly, he was covered in blood, with a strange man with a shattered head following behind him.
He was still kneeling on the ground, his face blue from the cold, his eyes glazed over, unable to utter a single word.
Yan Huanyue thought he must have been greatly frightened, so she didn't rush to ask questions. Instead, she knelt down in front of him, raised her hand to brush away the snowflakes from his long eyelashes, gently stroked his cold cheek, and comforted him softly, "Xuanzhi, don't be afraid, I'm here."
Pei Xuanzhi suddenly collapsed, burying his face in her neck, greedily inhaling her soothing fragrance, and weakly murmured, "Sister, I'm so cold..."
Before he could finish speaking, he closed his eyes peacefully, his body went limp, and he slid down to her chest, completely losing consciousness.
Yan Huanyue hugged him tightly, hurriedly took out a few pills and fed them to him, using her spiritual power to help him swallow the pills.
She hugged him and kept wiping the blood off his face, watching as streaks of blood trickled from the corner of his lips.
As if she had finally made up her mind, she untied the red ribbon that bound her long hair behind her and cut it in half.
Half of his eyes were bound, and the other half was tied to his hands. Only then could they lift him up and put him into the small black box.
Fu Yinhuan watched as she entered, her long hair disheveled, carrying a person covered in blood. When he saw the person's blindfolded face, he paused for a moment.
Pei Xuanzhi...
She actually planned to kill Pei Xuanzhi too?
Before Fu Yinhuan could think any further, she was pinned to the ground with long nails, and her throat was sealed.
His spiritual roots had been stripped away, and now he was injured by ordinary iron. His face was contorted with rage, and he was covered in cold sweat. He endured the excruciating pain and couldn't even curl up his limbs or utter a cry.
She then used a hand seal to cleanse Pei Xuanzhi of the bloodstains, wrapped the indigo cloak tightly around him, and then took another cloak to cover him, using her spiritual power to warm his body.
It turns out they didn't intend to kill Pei Xuanzhi.
Fu Yinhuan gritted his teeth, watching as this treatment, which was originally his due, was snatched away by this cunning and scheming enchantress during his second chance...
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