Difficult to escape
Meanwhile, in the plum grove, the Gu woman danced and walked, her red sleeves fluttering, weaving through the lush bamboo forest. Her movements were graceful, and she hummed an unknown song. Not far from her, the guards were carefully searching for her.
Quesang looked around and walked towards where the Gu woman was resting. "My lord, we've searched everywhere, but we still haven't found anything."
"It's alright." The Gu woman seemed to be in a good mood, looking at her fingernails with an innocent and carefree smile. "A rat's nose is much more useful than yours."
After she finished speaking, she looked in another direction and said, "Take some people there and look for it. Don't worry about me."
He accepted the order and led his men to the destination quickly.
"Squeak, squeak!"
A large rat appeared at the feet of the Gu woman, with a ring of white petals around its neck, and kept circling around her.
Ren Xiangxiang, who was hiding in the house at the bottom of the slope, fell asleep by the bed without realizing it. When she suddenly woke up, she noticed that the bluish color on Mo You's face had faded a bit.
The poison he was afflicted with was extremely strange. It stubbornly adhered to his meridians, sealing his demonic power and gradually corroding his heart meridian. In the short term, nothing would be visible, except that he would lose all his demonic power. However, within three days, his heart meridian would rupture and he would die, but his body would be preserved for a period of time.
Ren Xiangxiang guessed that the other party's deliberate preservation of his body must be because they wanted to get something from him. Combined with everything she had seen in the underground cave, the result seemed obvious: they probably wanted his demonic power.
Mo You's fingers twitched, as if she was about to wake up.
"Mo You!" Ren Xiangxiang snapped out of her daze and stood up excitedly.
squeak……
The door behind them opened silently a crack, and a spotted rat cautiously crept in.
Mo You looked around, then glanced at Ren Xiangxiang. Just as she was about to sit up, her arm went limp.
"Be careful, don't move around too much." Ren Xiangxiang quickly helped him up. "I can't cure you right now, I can only delay the onset of the poison."
Mo You frowned, "You can't solve it either?"
"It's not that we can't solve it, it's just that we don't have enough time. We're not completely out of danger yet," Ren Xiangxiang explained.
Mo You pondered for a moment, about to speak, when his expression darkened, "Something has arrived."
No sooner had she finished speaking than a large group of spotted rats suddenly surged into the house. The Gu woman on the slope seemed to be deep in thought, staring at the direction the spotted rats were moving for a while before slowly descending. Only then did she discover a door hidden at the bottom of the hillside that was almost invisible.
"Well hidden." As soon as she finished speaking, her brows furrowed slightly, and her body glided lightly a meter away like a falling leaf. Almost at the same time, all the rats that had rushed into the house were blown out and died on the ground, their flesh mangled and bloody.
The woman before her was tall and slender, with a cold and beautiful expression. She was half-human and half-demon, carrying a young man on her back. The Gu woman immediately focused her gaze on the young man on her back, and her smile gradually froze. "I wanted to spare your life, but you are courting death. Little girl, I know it's you. I'll give you another chance. Leave him behind, and you can leave alive."
Ren Xiangxiang took a half step back with her right foot, and seeing that the other party did not move, she turned around and ran away with all her might.
In this situation, facing a Gu woman, they would only face certain death.
The Gu woman remained unfazed, her eyes flashing with even stronger killing intent. "You made this choice."
As soon as she finished speaking, countless spotted rats emerged from all directions of the plum grove. No one knew where these rats came from. Ren Xiangxiang stepped onto an old tree branch and saw the rats frantically climbing up it. She dared not linger and, having chosen a direction, ran for her life.
Not far ahead, there was a rushing river. In a flash, the Gu woman caught up silently and grabbed Mo You's shoulder, drawing blood instantly. Ren Xiangxiang paused, turned around and swung her claw, but the Gu woman knocked her off the tree with a palm strike.
"Moyou——"
Seeing Mo You being captured by the Gu woman and the rats swarming beneath her, Ren Xiangxiang didn't even dare to think about falling. Perhaps driven by her conviction, at the critical moment, she grabbed a tree trunk with one claw and used the momentum to jump up before the rats could rush up.
The Gu woman watched coldly, casually tossing Mo You onto a tree. Ren Xiangxiang glanced in Mo You's direction and suddenly jumped to the side. The Gu woman chuckled and swayed, but Ren Xiangxiang immediately retreated upon seeing this.
"Xiangxiang..." Mo You could tell that the Gu woman hadn't used her full strength, and Xiangxiang, with the little bit of demonic power she had, could only manage to escape, far from being a match for the Gu woman. If the Gu woman really wanted to kill her, she would have died countless times already.
The Ice Nightmare at his waist emitted a low groan, and Koma-kun's words suddenly echoed in his ears.
—The Ice Nightmare can make up for your lack of demonic power. You only control 30% of it now, but that's enough.
"Only 30%?" Mo You wondered to himself, gently gripping the hilt of his sword.
First, a faint stream of demonic power flowed slowly into his body through his palm. As more and more demonic power flowed back, his nerves, which had been numbed by the toxins, began to sting slightly. Mo You broke out in a cold sweat and let out a muffled groan.
"Why can't you be my friend?" The Gu woman looked at Ren Xiangxiang, who was hanging in mid-air with one hand gripping the treetop, ready to escape at any moment, and asked with a sincere expression.
"Will you let us go?" Ren Xiangxiang gasped for breath and jumped up onto the tree branch.
"I can let you go." The Gu woman tapped Ren Xiangxiang with her slender fingernails. "Because I like you."
When the Gu woman said "I like it," her gaze suddenly became hazy, as if she were lost in some kind of memory, giving Ren Xiangxiang a brief moment to catch her breath. She lightly touched the treetops with her toes and circled around to Mo You.
"But they're all dead." The Gu woman suddenly opened her eyes, looking in the direction Ren Xiangxiang had fled, her gaze suddenly turning fierce. "So you'll die too!"
The Gu woman moved like lightning, her evil aura surging, and she struck Ren Xiangxiang, who was fleeing in panic, with a palm strike.
"Moyou!"
With a deafening roar, a powerful force swept in all directions, causing Ren Xiangxiang's vision to go black and her blood to churn. If someone hadn't neutralized the force that was about to hit her, she probably would have died on the spot.
The massive impact shattered mountains and split rocks, and Husang, who was searching for any remaining members of the Bow-Clad Clan, instinctively looked up.
Thick smoke billowed and dust flew, blasting a clearing in the middle of the plum grove. In front of a plum tree that had been snapped in half, Mo You raised his Ice Nightmare and forcefully blocked the Gu Nu's full-force attack.
Ren Xiangxiang crawled out from a pile of branches, covered in dust and dirt. She was both anxious and angry to see Mo You, whose face was as pale as paper, blocking the Gu woman's attack.
"Mo You, you—"
Mo You remained silent, and Bing Yan drew a shrill arc of light, slashing at Gu Nu with his sword. The sword light was superimposed with a strange and powerful demonic aura, which surprised Gu Nu.
"I knew I hadn't captured the wrong demon."
As soon as the Gu woman finished speaking, a large, snow-white dandelion suddenly appeared in her right hand.
The Gu woman raised a dandelion and waved it forcefully. In an instant, countless tiny needles rained down on the two of them.
Mo You's eyes darkened, and he vanished in the blink of an eye. The Gu woman paused, and the next second, she swung her palm behind her, but despite feeling as if she had touched him, she still missed.
At this moment, her hair began to turn from jet black to gray, and she immediately became furious and embarrassed, "Damn it!"
The dandelion burst forth with fury, carrying a frenzied killing intent. Wherever it went, a layer of white frost covered everything in its wake. In this state, the Gu woman was even faster. Her scarlet eyes spotted the black-clad youth guarding three steps away from Ren Xiangxiang. The next moment, the dandelion descended from the sky, and the surroundings instantly turned into a white expanse. Suddenly, a point of blue light appeared in that impenetrable white light. Immediately afterward, the Gu woman's eyes were suddenly brightened, and a sharp and piercing sound tore at her nerves, just like her desperate and helpless cry for help that night.
"Why?"
Suddenly, the dark path was brightly lit, and a monster emerged from the woods, laughing wildly as it charged toward their carriage.
The fire set the carriage ablaze, and the horses bolted in terror.
"Don't be afraid, Mother will protect you, and so will Father. Let's run..."
"Father, Father!"
Under the moonlight, a shrill scream echoed through the night as she watched helplessly as the monster twisted the throats of her father and several of his men.
"Why? Isn't this road supposed to be free of monsters? Why did the monsters appear after those demon masters showed up? Is it because we didn't pay the road protection fee?"
"Run!"
Her mother pushed her away, but her sister-in-law caught her, grabbed her, and ran away.
"Sister-in-law..."
She was shaking so badly that she seemed to have forgotten how to run, so her sister-in-law had to carry her away by both carrying and dragging her.
"Why?"
"don't want!"
A scream rang out before her eyes. Her sister-in-law shielded her with her body, and the knife pierced right through her chest. Her pupils contracted sharply, and she even forgot to breathe.
"sister!"
don't want……
Don't come any closer!
"No!" The Gu woman gripped the dandelion with both hands, her eyes bloodshot and terrifying, her whole body bursting with evil energy. With one strike, she sent Mo You flying, and even the Ice Nightmare was shaken away from his hands.
Mo You coughed up a mouthful of blood, his vision went black and white, his right hand was covered in frost, and his body was covered in wounds.
"Mo You!" Ren Xiangxiang's leg was pinned down by a tree trunk. After finally managing to pull it out, she looked up and saw the Gu woman walking towards them step by step.
The immense pressure sent chills down their spines, causing them to break out in a cold sweat. The Gu woman, appearing deranged, cried and laughed at the same time, "Why am I the only one who survived? Why do you all think I deserve to live? Why are you all risking your lives to protect me?"
"What...what is she saying?" Ren Xiangxiang was dumbfounded.
Mo You pursed her lips, summoned back Bing Yan, and grabbed Ren Xiangxiang the moment the Gu woman attacked, rolling into the rushing river behind her.
Water splashed everywhere, creating a bright red haze on the river surface, which quickly faded into the rushing water.
The Gu woman exuded malevolent energy, causing trees to wither instantly wherever she went. She looked at her scratched palm, frowned in disgust, and finally withdrew the dandelion, slowly returning to her previous appearance.
"How annoying..." she said softly, with a hint of coquettishness, glancing back at the suddenly appearing husk half a zhang away, and asked, "Did you find it?"
"We found her, but it was too late. She shouldn't have gone far," Husang reported truthfully. "Also, Xiu Shen sent word that Lei Wan escaped with serious injuries."
"Another one escaped?" The Gu woman couldn't hide her anger. "What a waste."
Having said that, he seemed to realize that he had also let one escape, and became even angrier, stamping his foot and saying, "Chase him along this river! Find him alive or dead! Wait, he's so strong, he shouldn't be dead. Hurry up!"
"Yes, sir." Hun Sang accepted the order and left.
The Gu woman gazed sadly at the direction of the river, her consciousness slightly out of control. She muttered to herself, "I don't care. Hundreds of years have passed. No one can bully me anymore!"
The river surged and undulated, the crimson blood flowing all the way to the vast lake, where it slowly sank to the bottom.
"Lake Master, Lake Master! Someone has fallen in! And they're dying!" A large black fish, swimming too fast, crashed into the small dining table of the girl with the round pearl head on her head.
Moreover, she got her face covered in algae from the small dining table, and her round face immediately filled with a "kind" smile, which startled the big black fish, who quickly hid behind a rock.
"Lead the way!" The girl wiped her face and ordered the big black fish.
What a joke! This Wilderness Lake is within the territory of Yang Palace. Those demon masters are vicious and ruthless. Even if someone accidentally drowns, or even if he commits suicide, they can't be allowed to drown in her lake. Otherwise, she won't be able to explain herself no matter how hard she tries.
As she spoke, she sat on the back of the large black fish and was quickly taken to the scene of the crime.
Goodness, with just one glance, she could tell that the woman was probably fine, but the man…
"Go to hell! Take him back right now and drag that old turtle out of the mud!"
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