Chapter 125: I don’t want you to return your heart to me, let’s part ways, how can he have the best of both worlds?
Dark clouds gathered, rain poured down, and thunder rumbled.
Under the dark night sky, thunders flashed from time to time, illuminating the cliff.
With a "whoosh" sound, it was like a sharp blade easily cutting through cloth.
A pool of crystal clear, hot blood gushed out and flooded Jiang Ruxian's eyes, making her vision occupied by a sea of crimson, blurry and bright red.
She seemed to be back in the courtyard where the fiery red maple leaves were falling in the wind.
But it was she who took action at that time, piercing the heart of the young man in white, and the hot blood splattered all over her dress and hands.
She fled in panic and haste. The last time she looked back, she saw the young man in white slowly falling to the ground. Blood flowed like an unstoppable stream under him.
So shocking.
And tonight, the rain fell like a torrent, and the similar scene was played out again.
The only difference is that the one who took action was Jiang Lan himself.
He looked extremely calm, as if he felt no pain. The rusty ancient sword in his hand, surrounded by sword energy, easily cut through his coat and pierced through the wound on his chest.
This was the wound she left on Jiang Lan.
Now the wound is constantly expanding. As the ancient sword pierces through it, colorful mist shines out, and the spiritual rhythm of Taoism continues to surge, blazing and dazzling.
But what was more was the gushing out of boiling blood, which could not be stopped and flowed down. With the heavy rain washing down, the surrounding soil was stained with a deep red...
"No……"
Seeing this scene, Jiang Ruxian's pupils trembled, her beautiful eyes widened, and her voice became hoarse because she was too anxious.
“No… don’t do this…”
Her voice trembled and she choked up, her eyes blurred with tears. Regardless of the fact that she was unable to use any of her skills at the moment, she rushed forward and grasped his hands with both of her own to stop him from continuing to stab himself.
Jiang Lan still looked at Jiang Ruxian calmly, his eyes as indifferent as the abyss, as if he could not feel any pain.
"All the grievances are due to this exquisite heart of the immortal."
"This exquisite seven-aperture immortal heart originally belonged to you. After tonight, it will be returned to its original owner."
"From now on, there will be no connection between you and me..."
There was no change in his tone, and he continued to push forward slowly with one hand as before.
Jiang Ruxian, who was unable to use his cultivation at the moment, was unable to resist at all and was pushed away by a tremendous force, falling onto the ground covered in blood and mud.
But despite this, she still struggled to stand up, and at the same time called upon all the strength she could to stop Jiang Lan.
She finally understood why Jiang Lan secretly used the Soft Soul Immortal Powder. He expected that she would definitely take action to stop him from digging out her heart.
He had no intention of killing himself. He just wanted to return Xianxin to himself. From now on, he wanted to sever the last remaining relationship between the two of them and go their separate ways.
The emotions that Jiang Ruxian had been accumulating for a long time finally burst like a dam, and she could no longer bear it.
"don't want……"
"I don't want you to give my heart back to me..."
"Don't be like this... please..."
"Without a heart, how will you live in the future? Ah Lan, please stop hurting yourself."
"You can do whatever you want to me, hate me as much as you want, punish me however you want, I beg you..."
She stretched out her hand, wanting to stop Jiang Lan, but was suppressed by the invisible force and could not move forward even a single step.
In front of her, the blood was bright red and glaring, and it seemed like a gorgeous flower blooming on the originally spotless white clothes.
Her voice was choked and trembling, and the blood that splashed on her face mixed with the heavy rain and tears, blurring her vision.
Jiang Lan remained silent. The wound caused by the Eternal Sword was getting bigger and bigger, becoming more and more blazing and dazzling, emitting a bright red blood diamond-like light.
The beating fairy heart with seven orifices, emitting colorful rays of light, emerged from the wound.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this world is constantly gathering as it beats.
His face was becoming paler and paler, and all the blood color was disappearing as the connection between his immortal heart and body was severed.
At this moment, Jiang Lan could no longer feel the blood connection with Jiang Ruxian in front of him.
To him, it was as if some shackles that had been restraining him for a long time were loosening and opening.
The rain became heavier and heavier, like a corner of a river in the sky bursting its banks, pouring down, and muddy streams had begun to gather under the cliff.
A flash of lightning streaked across the night sky and exploded in the distance.
"Why is it like this..."
Jiang Ruxian seemed to be stunned, just watching Jiang Lan continue to dig with the Ancient Sword of Eternal Tribulation.
In the bloody wound, the exquisite fairy heart with seven orifices beat like a drum, containing an extremely surging breath of life.
But as the connection between Jiang Lan and Xian Xin was dissipating.
She could no longer feel the breath coming from Jiang Lan, she could no longer hear his heartbeat, and she could no longer sense his emotions...
She reached out and touched her heart, which suddenly felt empty, as if something extremely precious had left her forever from that day forward.
Then, a suffocating pain spread from there.
"Alan..."
Jiang Ruxian's tears flowed like a spring. She raised her face and let the rain wash over her, wetting her long black hair and sticking it to her beautiful and flawless face.
At this moment, she is no longer the fairy who stood proudly at the top of the world and overlooked all living beings in the previous life, but a weak woman who is at a loss and full of sadness and pain.
"I don't owe you anything anymore."
Although Jiang Lan's face was pale, his tone remained calm.
As the wound expanded to the extreme, he abandoned the Ancient Sword of Eternal Tribulation and reached out to grab it.
The magical light flickered and covered his hands, and then spread to the exquisite fairy heart with seven orifices.
Then Jiang Lan pulled hard, and blood gushed out like a fountain. In his hand, the fairy heart, which was filled with fairy mist and mysterious, was still beating alive.
As the immortal heart left his body, all the blood color on Jiang Lan's face quickly disappeared, and his life force continued to weaken.
But his facial expression did not change at all from beginning to end.
This kind of pain that ordinary people cannot bear is like commonplace compared to the "heart-wrenching disease" I once suffered.
At least in his opinion, everything he did tonight was worth it, and this little pain was nothing.
"You never owed me anything..."
Jiang Ruxian's face was pale, and she stared at the beating immortal heart with bitterness.
This was the immortal heart that once belonged to her. It was the source of her revenge and revenge in her previous life. Now it was right in front of her.
But now she had no intention of taking it over, only endless pain and regret in her heart.
She didn't want this fairy heart at all, and she never wanted Jiang Lan to dig out his heart and return it to her.
But Jiang Lan's words just now also made her understand... In the future he saw, she had indeed broken his heart. He was completely desperate during his lifetime because of her misunderstanding and hurt, and he still could not rest in peace after his death.
Jiang Ruxian herself didn't want to think about the paranoid things she had done in her previous life.
When Jiang Lan mentioned it just now, he was so calm and didn't kill her. That was already a great kindness and mercy...
He would dig out his heart and give it back to her, not wanting to have any connection with her anymore. Jiang Ruxian could actually understand that. After all, the memories she brought to Jiang Lan were all of pain and despair.
"sorry……"
Jiang Ruxian murmured, stood up, and wanted to go forward to support Jiang Lan.
However, Jiang Lan just kept handing the Immortal Heart back to her, looking at her calmly, and didn't let her get any closer.
"Don't be so stubborn... Hurry up and take the healing pill."
Jiang Ruxian hid all the bitterness in her heart, took the fairy heart he handed over with trembling hands, and spoke as gently as possible.
Jiang Lan just nodded calmly and said, "I will."
Watching Jiang Lan turn around and leave without any hesitation, without even looking at him.
Jiang Ruxian held the fairy heart in her hand, which still carried his body's warmth, but she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, and endless bitterness and sorrow surged up in her.
Fortunately, it was raining heavily and my face was wet, but no one could tell whether it was tears or rain.
She wanted to ask him to stay, but she didn't know how to ask, and she didn't know what qualifications she had now? The effect of the Soft Soul Immortal Powder did not last long, and Jiang Lan's slightly staggering figure disappeared in the dense rain and deep forest.
Jiang Ruxian had recovered her cultivation. She stood there in a daze for a long time, allowing the heavy rain to soak her whole body, without using any magic power to stop it.
It wasn't until a loud thunder sounded in the distance that she finally calmed down a little.
She looked at the immortal heart that was still beating in her hand, and used some means to gather and draw the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Then she refined a crystal clear source of Taoism and sealed the immortal heart in it with great care.
When she returned to the dilapidated temple on the barren mountain, Liu was still waiting for her anxiously by the campfire.
However, in response to Liu's inquiry, Jiang Ruxian did not respond.
She used her magic power to steam dry all the clothes on her body, and then sat in front of the campfire, hugging her knees, her shiny black hair hanging down, and her eyes staring at the campfire blankly, as if her body had returned, but her soul was still outside.
"Ms. Ruxian, what happened?" Liu looked at her worriedly.
Jiang Ruxian seemed not to have heard anything. She sat there blankly like a clay sculpture, her pupils reflecting the campfire.
At this moment, there was no trace of fairy mist on her body anymore. She looked like a fairy banished to the mortal world. Her absolutely beautiful face was too fair and translucent, but her slightly red eyes could be seen.
Liu didn't know what had happened, nor did she know how to comfort her. She just kept sighing.
Jiang Ruxian still ignored it.
However, when she heard the questions that Liu asked later, her eyes moved and she seemed to become more lively.
"Miss Ruxian, are the people who attacked us just now from the Xiangguo Mansion?"
"What you said outside the temple just now, did you mean that the person who killed me in Guangyuan City that day was sent by Master Lan?"
Jiang Ruxian turned her head and looked at Liu who was asking her questions. Then she seemed to sense something, and a sense of hostility suddenly appeared in her originally calm and cold eyes.
She simply raised her hand and slapped it towards a certain place outside the temple. Suddenly, a loud rumbling sound came from a piece of void that ordinary people could not see.
Accompanied by some kind of shattering sound and a muffled groan, the figure hidden in it trembled and fled away in an instant, leaving only a mouthful of blood spurting out on the spot.
"This is……"
Liu was shocked and surprised.
Jiang Ruxian only uttered two words with a hint of chillness, "Royal Family."
When she was first outside the temple, she encountered an ambush and thought that it was because of Liu's presence that her whereabouts were leaked.
Combined with the fact that Jiang Lan sent the retainers from the Prime Minister's Mansion to take action, she immediately guessed that Jiang Lan had sent people to kill Liu.
After Liu's death, even fewer people knew the truth of what happened.
She thought that Jiang Lan hated her too much, and that was why he became unscrupulous after his rebirth, and wanted to eliminate everyone who was related to what happened back then... Jiang Lan didn't want her to know the truth of that year.
Perhaps in this way, he would feel more at ease when taking revenge on himself.
but……
After experiencing what happened tonight, Jiang Ruxian found that she was still wrong and her misunderstanding of Jiang Lan was too deep.
Even though he knew what the future would hold, and even though he hated himself to bits, he never thought of killing himself.
"Since he knows what will happen in the future, he must also know my current cultivation strength..."
"But the most powerful of the retainers he dispatched was only at the seventh realm level."
"These people can't hurt me at all. He returned the Immortal Heart to me, cut off all ties with me, and sent people to kill me, just because he didn't want me to set foot in the imperial capital Jingyang City."
Jiang Ruxian now understood Jiang Lan's approach to some extent.
He was caught between the Prime Minister's Mansion and himself, and in fact he felt helpless and had no choice. On one side were his parents who gave birth to him and raised him, and on the other side was... himself.
How can he achieve the best of both worlds? He actually has no choice at all.
The Great Xia Southern Hunting Exercise was imminent. Once he set foot in the imperial capital, given the hostility of Jiang Lintian and Li Qingshu towards him, they would definitely take action.
What will the royal family do then? In order to take the overall situation into consideration, they will definitely use a large formation to trap themselves.
"I don't know when someone from the royal family has become involved with A-Lan. They have been secretly watching me. If I hadn't been distracted, I wouldn't have noticed."
Jiang Ruxian's mood calmed down a lot.
She always believed that Jiang Lan still had deep feelings for her, but she had hurt him too deeply in her previous life, so he could not avoid her in this life.
Otherwise, why could I feel the pain, helplessness and powerlessness in his heart when I met him on the cliff...
"If he knew that I actually came back from the future and had experienced the things he described in my previous life, he would probably hate me even more..."
"If I want Alan to accept me again, the best way is to make him understand that the dream he had was just a dream, not the real future."
Many thoughts flashed through Jiang Ruxian's mind, and her mood was no longer as depressed as before.
In her previous life, she was able to stand on the top and overlook the world because of her determination and perseverance after deciding on something.
…
At this time, on the other side, on a famous mountain, the dark clouds dispersed, the heavy rain stopped, the night sky was dotted with stars, the air was fresh, and it seemed exceptionally clear.
All the retainers and servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion were waiting here. They all had wounds on their bodies, but none of them were fatal. They would be fine after resting for a while.
Jiang Lan's face was still a little pale, but not noticeable.
He had changed into a black robe, and the wound on his chest had healed as before. Although he had lost his seven-orifice exquisite fairy heart, it was now wrapped in a ball of light as blazing as a phoenix fire, nurturing a new heart, and the air was filled with a majestic and rich breath of life.
In addition, the luck surging in the Niwan Palace far exceeded any previous moment.
The luck on Jiang Ruxian's body is so strong that even Lin Fan, the original protagonist of this world, is far inferior to her.
Jiang Lan was actually trying to find out Jiang Ruxian's fate just now, but failed. Like Emperor Xia, she had a much stronger cultivation level than him now. Her aura was so strong that it was like mist, covering everything, making it difficult to glimpse into her fate.
However, when he came into contact with Jiang Ruxian just now, he discovered something unusual.
There were indeed unexpected changes in his age path, and the aura of some fragments of time lingered around Jiang Ruxian's body.
It was precisely because of this unexpected discovery that Jiang Lan deliberately repeated the same arguments he had made to his parents in front of Jiang Ruxian.
Judging from the changes in his expression, Jiang Lan had some subtle guesses in his mind...
But whether it is true or not can only be determined from the subsequent contact.
At least tonight's tests and actions made him feel that it was worth it. He not only understood Jiang Ruxian's current attitude towards him, but also successfully resolved some troubles that might be encountered in the future.
Jiang Ruxian would not hurt him. Instead, she felt deeply guilty and indebted to him because of the original misunderstandings.
Although the relationship between Xiangguo Mansion and Jiang Ruxian was still hostile, they would not immediately resort to violence...
"From now on, being a stranger is better than being an enemy. It's also good for her. At least she can experience the feeling of despair and despair..."
Jiang Lan gently stroked his chest. Logically, the Seven Apertures Immortal Heart had been returned to Jiang Ruxian, but why were there still those emotions and feelings left in his heart?
Did I really inherit and integrate my original memories, or did my original memories contain some additional emotions from the future?
Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly? Did the butterfly become Zhuang Zhou, or did Zhuang Zhou become the butterfly? Shaking his head, Jiang Lan did not think much about this matter.
"Thank you for your help in tonight's matter, but please keep your mouth shut."
"After returning to the Xiangguo Mansion, my father will prepare some rewards for you all for what happened today. I hope you will not refuse them when the time comes."
Jiang Lan looked at the worshippers and retainers here.
Several of them were seriously injured, but Jiang Ruxian had already held back. Compared with the many gains of tonight, this small loss from internal friction was completely negligible in his opinion.
"Thank you, sir."
Hearing this, all the servants and guests bowed and thanked him, without asking any more questions about Jiang Ruxian.
As for what happened between Jiang Ruxian and Jiang Lan later, they didn't know either.
Mr. Chu, Taoist Qingxu, and Jiang Crocodile were still frightened by Jiang Ruxian's terrifying strength. When they saw her knocking several people away and going to find Jiang Lan alone, they were still a little worried, but later they realized that their worries were unnecessary...
Buzz!!! At this moment, the void in front of everyone suddenly trembled, and ripples spread from it.
Then a crack appeared, and a huge figure flashed through it. Faintly, a tall, ferocious and handsome figure like a dragon could be seen, with scales all over it and a cold and bloodthirsty light.
A middle-aged man with horns on his head, wearing a gray-ink robe, and with a face vaguely similar to Jiang Lan's father, appeared here, bringing with him a tyrannical and overbearing aura that suppressed the starry sky.
"Uncle Jiao..."
Jiang Lan looked at this person and spoke.
This person's name is Jiang Jiao. He was his father's mount in the past. He was a three-headed evil dragon with the blood of a true dragon.
He has been practicing in the Bijiaotan Lake deep in the Xiangguo Mansion for many years. His strength is so strong that he is about to enter the eighth realm.
He dared to test Jiang Ruxian tonight because he knew she would not kill him.
Another source of support and confidence is that his father will not let him take risks and will definitely secretly call Uncle Jiao to protect him.
"I'm glad that you're safe, young master. The imperial capital may not be at peace tonight. Many powerful families were testing us yesterday, but I have eliminated all the spies on the road." Jiang Jiao said.
Jiang Lan nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, Uncle Jiao. I have almost finished my work here and can return to the imperial capital."
Jiang Jiao nodded, glanced at the crowd of worshippers here, and took action directly, creating a crack in the void.
This is a talent of his. It can stabilize the turbulent wind and carry people through it quickly.
And at this moment.
The imperial capital, Jingyang City.
Deep inside the imperial palace, inside Chengming Hall.
Emperor Xia sat upright on the dragon throne. The ancient and misty Heaven-Watching Mirror in front of him suddenly shattered with a click. The last image was a pair of beautiful eyes with coldness.
The figure seemed to look at her through the Heavenly Mother Mirror, and then the other person's face was obscured by mist and quickly disappeared.
Emperor Xia was very interested and not afraid at all. At the moment the Sky Monitoring Mirror was shattered, he even looked at it.
“But I have to admit that this is a terrifying perception, worthy of being above the eighth level…”
"Even if it's the Xiangguo Mansion, it probably won't be easy to deal with this person."
"But it did give me a good show. Although the picture is blurry and not very clear, I can still vaguely guess some of the truth."
But afterwards, Emperor Xia stroked the broken mirror, his emotions gradually became turbulent, and his eyes became somewhat deep.
Although Xia Zhu has good talent, he dare not get too close to such a strong man, so he can only hide in the distance, use secret techniques to peek at what is happening, and then transmit it back to the Jiantianmu Mirror.
The heavy rain and roaring thunder made the scene blurry and difficult to see, let alone the sound of talking.
Emperor Xia, who was already curious about Jiang Lan's secret, had no choice.
But through some actions between the mysterious woman in white and Jiang Lan, some problems can also be seen.
The woman in white, Jiang Lan's sister, was full of hatred towards the Xiangguo Mansion, but also felt full of guilt towards Jiang Lan. Had she ever done something to hurt him?
"Dig out the heart and return it to my sister? Could it be that the Xiangguo Mansion dug out the heart of the woman in white and transplanted it into Jiang Lan's body?"
"Is this also the reason why Jiang Lan lost all his cultivation?"
(End of this chapter)
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