Chapter 136 You're trying to exploit a loophole again? How could you possibly use the luck of the Koi Fairy...?
Mingguang jumped up and down on the bed in a panic: "How can you be sure he's the immortal from Sui Sai?!"
Mingguang also had some suspicions because of what happened during the day when Dongjun suddenly barged in while the two were talking in the private room of the inn.
He guessed that Dongjun's descent to this realm might not be because demons had sprung up in this star realm, but rather because it was related to their competition.
However, Mingguang did not speculate that Dongjun was following the direction of Sai Xianchang.
When Xiao Taozhi said that, Mingguang thought about it and realized it wasn't entirely impossible.
The Shangqing Realm and the Taiqing Realm are mutually watchful and supervisory realms, and it is common for them to assist each other in performing their duties.
Although the selection of immortal positions in the Taiqing Realm has nothing to do with the Shangqing Realm, it is not uncommon for the Heavenly Dao of the Myriad Realms to personally find an immortal position in the Shangqing Realm to supervise the competition.
Bitao looked at Mingguang and said, "I hadn't thought of that either, since the immortals who accompanied the competitions in the first two rounds hardly showed up."
"But we were perfectly fine in the room during the day when Dongjun suddenly burst in, sword in hand, looking very nervous..."
"I suspect that there are forces or powerful individuals in this star realm that we cannot deal with, or even those other immortals who are not in a position to intervene in, that require Dongjun to deal with."
"He could have acted in seclusion, but he appeared in the Astral Plane and has lingered around us for many days without any intention of leaving. This is probably because his mission target is one of us."
"I think even if he's following Immortal Master Sai, he's still protecting you. There are too many people in the Ancient Immortal Clan who want to break the rules and kill you..."
Mingguang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly, "I know! It's Mother."
"It was Mother who learned of those people's conspiracy in advance, and she specially sent my brother down to the mortal realm from Shangqing Realm to protect you!"
Mingguang was inexplicably happy, and his grip on Bitao's hand tightened slightly: "During the daytime, it was because we were playing around and you cried for help that my brother suddenly rushed in!"
Mingguang breathed a huge sigh of relief.
He and Xiao Taozhi set up this scheme to lure out those who were hiding in the shadows and wanted to harm her.
However, their strength was greatly suppressed due to the competition, so they could only proceed cautiously and step by step.
If Dongjun came specifically to protect Xiaotaozhi, then not only this realm, but even if those high-ranking ancient immortals from the Heavenly Realm came down personally, they might not be able to harm Xiaotaozhi in the slightest.
The power of an adult Golden Crow is comparable to that of the blazing sun. In addition, there is a Supreme God True Being who is inseparable from Dongjun and possesses the Myriad Laws Breaking Eyes, which can see through the opponent's intentions at any time.
Little Peach Branch will definitely be safe this time!
Very good.
Mingguang was always saddened because his talent and strength were inferior to Dongjun's, and he could never catch up with Dongjun.
At this moment, all he felt was relief.
Bitao nodded slowly. This was the most reasonable explanation at the moment, but she still felt that something about it was off.
Don't dwell on things you can't figure out.
Bitao asked Mingguang, "How are you? Did you feel unwell just now?"
"What's bothering you?" Mingguang asked, somewhat confused.
"My change in attitude."
"Your attitude?"
Mingguang recalled his conversation with Xiaotaozhi at the door. He only remembered that the kiss felt very comfortable and that Xiaotaozhi turned the hairpin three times.
Each corresponds to one of them—I love you.
I love you so much.
—I only love you.
Others...
Mingguang said, "Hmm... I don't notice any change in you."
Bitao smiled.
Of course!
While her words seemed to be trying to appease Mingguang, they were actually just perfunctory.
Instead of explaining why she agreed to break up with Mingguang for Zhankui's sake, she shifted the blame onto Mingguang and instigated a fight between Mingguang and his brother Dongjun.
Bitao looked at Mingguang's innocent expression, clearly not having realized what was happening.
She reached out and flicked the tip of his nose, saying, "Oh my god, you're so cute."
"No matter how nice my attitude was, everything I said to you after you opened the door was just to fool you."
Mingguang remained silent for a long time before saying seriously, "But that was just a temporary measure for you, you didn't really want to separate from me, I know that."
"Besides, you're not wrong. Zhan Kui is your good friend. You're making a temporary compromise for her safety, so why should I care?"
Bitao leaned back on the bed.
She thought to herself that it was fortunate that Mingguang had fallen into her hands. Otherwise, with his tendency to give his heart away and then make up excuses for it, and not be able to distinguish right from wrong, wouldn't he have been deceived to death if he had fallen into the hands of someone else, and would have thought that the other person was wonderful?
Mingguang also asked Bitao, "When will we really break up?"
He didn't actually want to "break up".
However, now that they know Dongjun descended to the mortal realm to protect Bitao, there is no need to delay their plan to "lure the snake out of its hole."
Bitao smiled and said, "We've already begun."
"Huh?" Mingguang blinked a few times.
There was not a trace of gloom in his golden eyes.
Bitao patiently explained, "We need to have a falling out, but we can't do it all at once."
"All loving couples in this world, as long as they are still willing to argue and express their thoughts, will not easily separate."
"The process of no longer loving each other and eventually abandoning each other is a relatively long one."
"Like cutting flesh, little by little, at first it's just blood loss, but later when too much blood is lost and vital organs are damaged, it will lead to a complete death."
"If we suddenly break up because of Dongjun's provocation, it will be too abrupt and we won't be able to fool anyone."
"Throughout history, the hardest thing to separate is a loving couple. Even if you force them to go their separate ways, they will eventually reunite."
"Couples who truly despise each other are those who, even when kissing and hugging and exchanging sweet words, can still be seen by others to be estranged."
Bitao will shorten this long process and completely "dislike" Mingguang before arriving at Jiuxiao Palace.
But she hoped that her explanation would prepare Mingguang for the pain when he realized it.
But Mingguang looked at Bitao's moving lips, which were red and soft.
I want to kiss you.
He leaned in and kissed her, not listening to a single word Bitao said.
He had suffered a lot in his life, but the suffering that came with love was something Bitao couldn't bear to let him experience.
After dying in the second competition, Mingguang had just begun to doubt himself when Bitao swiftly overwhelmed him with a tidal wave of love, causing him to fall deeply in love.
He didn't know what "cutting flesh with a dull knife" meant, and because he was so immersed in love, he didn't even realize that he had been "cut" by Bitao.
Bitao's lips were gently bitten and held, and she smiled helplessly.
Okay, once he realizes it hurts, she'll find a chance to coax him properly.
But as Mingguang was kissing her, he suddenly exclaimed "Ah!" and slapped Bitao's thigh.
The two sat cross-legged facing each other. Mingguang's slap was so forceful that it made Bitao hiss.
Mingguang said, "You say that Dongjun is a celestial being who follows the path of the gods, so sending him to rescue Zhankui would be against the rules!"
Bitao licked her lips and said, "Don't worry."
"I know the rules of the first to third competitions by heart."
"There is only one rule regarding the relationship between the immortal and the contestant."
"The Chief of the Seraphim must not help or suppress competitors in any way due to personal relationships. If the Chief of the Seraphim violates the rules, he will be demoted."
“I sent Dongjun to rescue Zhan Kui and Guanghan, not to help me out of personal feelings; I hired him.”
Bitao said, "There is no rule in the competition rules that prohibits competitors from hiring the Immortal Master Sui Sai to do their bidding."
In the first two competitions, Master Sui Sai always followed in secrecy, and the competitors usually had no way to contact him.
No contestant would turn to the Fairy of the Sage for help.
No immortal master "suddenly went mad" and risked being stripped of his immortal status to be "hired" by the contestants.
If it were only that, Bitao wouldn't have taken such a risk. The key is that Bitao recalled the second competition and realized that this was feasible.
She gave her two fathers millions of merits, and they did not help Bitao during the competition, but after the competition, they helped Bitao do something - repair the soul of Bu Er Dao Ren.
Instead of being punished or demoted, the two fathers were promoted to Yama, the King of Hell.
In other words, as long as it does not interfere with the course of the competition, the "hiring" between the competitors and the accompanying immortals does not violate the rules.
When Bitao served as the bridge of reincarnation, she often asked her fathers to buy her pig's trotters.
Back then, Bitao was a bridge; not eating pig's trotters wouldn't kill you, but eating them wouldn't make you instantly ascend to heaven. Naturally, the fathers weren't involved in violating the competition rules either.
Therefore, in this competition, Bitao's "hiring" of Dongjun to do things does not violate the competition rules.
However, if Dongjun accepts her "things" to rescue Zhan Kui and Guang Han, it will definitely violate the competition rules.
After all, he was interfering with the competition after accepting a bribe.
But what does that have to do with peach blossoms?
Just because she hired him, does he have to do it?
He himself "suddenly went mad" and knowingly broke the law.
"You're trying to find a loophole again?" Mingguang disapproved. "That's too risky, and you only agreed to break up with me, that's not a deal, is it?"
“I gave him something else too.”
Bitao and Mingguang lay face to face on the same pillow, and said, "Don't worry, I'm best at finding loopholes in the rules."
Bitao thought to herself, "Dongjun is quite clever; he knows how to use coercion and enticement, and to feint to the east while attacking in the west."
He made Bitao promise to break up with Mingguang, and told her the story of killing the dragon, using Zhan Kui as a threat to divert her attention.
His real intention was to get her to agree to his help, which would lead to a violation of the competition rules and result in her being penalized as the loser.
He didn't hesitate to take revenge on Bitao, and ended up getting himself caught in the crossfire.
It can be described as injuring the enemy a thousand while losing eight hundred of one's own.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Bitao really wanted to return that sentence to him in its entirety: "Too clever by half, she ruined her own life." ①
Dongjun was unaware that his supposedly flawless plan had been completely exposed, and he had even been outmaneuvered by Bitao once again.
He looked at the pair of "lovebirds" in the water dungeon with utter boredom and scoffed.
He didn't notice that his master looked at his chest several times, but never said a word to remind him.
Inside the water dungeon, Zhan Kui held onto the cage bars, with Guang Han riding on his shoulders.
Zhan Kui gritted his teeth and said for the umpteenth time, "In this lifetime... I'll only let you ride me this once, do you hear me?!"
Guanghan did not answer.
He was more seriously injured than when he fell into the River of Oblivion.
When they were first ambushed, those people used a vicious magical weapon, some kind of claw, to grab him, and he blocked it for Zhan Kui.
With just one claw, the white bones on Guanghan's back were clearly visible, and her flesh was ripped open and turned pale.
Zhan Kui didn't know how serious his injuries were until he was submerged in water and saw the bloodstains all around him. Only then did he realize how badly he was injured.
That's why I gritted my teeth and carried him on my back for several days.
Unlike her confident demeanor in the second competition in the River of Oblivion, Zhan Kui was uncertain this time.
Guanghan said a few words in the first two days.
Later, he was taken away and repeatedly tried to extract the Immortal Pearl, but to no avail. His abdomen was ripped apart, and if it weren't for the cloth binding him, his internal organs might have spilled out.
His usually beautiful and vibrant features now resembled a withered flower stripped of all its color.
He had his eyes closed, leaning against the wooden bars of the cell, his arm secured in the bars, and hadn't spoken for a long time.
I have no energy.
But he's not dead yet.
It was because the water dungeon where the two of them were imprisoned had a spirit-gathering array, which kept him alive and prevented him from dying.
However, a layer of spirit-suppressing array was added on top, preventing him from using his spiritual energy to save himself.
Once again, Zhan Kui watched helplessly as two men with fierce expressions dragged Guang Han away to "dig for the Immortal Pearl."
Those people should have released the two people after they dug out their immortal pearls.
But Guanghan didn't know what was going on. There was no immortal pearl in her belly, yet she could use spiritual energy.
The group felt that the two were "strange" and locked them up here, making them wish they were dead.
They forced them to tell the "truth".
What truth could there possibly be?!
Even Guanghan himself didn't know why he could use a magical artifact without a celestial pearl!
When Guanghan was once again ripped to shreds, even her heart was ripped out, she was hastily treated and thrown back. Zhan Kui reached out to catch her, but Guanghan fell from her limp arm into the water and sank to the bottom.
Zhan Kui had never experienced such despair and heartache in his entire life.
She couldn't help but doubt herself: Wasn't she supposed to be a lucky koi fairy?!
Why is it that she, who always managed to escape danger, was no longer favored by fate this time, despite trying every possible method?
Could it be...?
"Has my luck really run out...?" Zhan Kui murmured as he lifted Guang Han up.
Guanghan had just been given a pill, and although she couldn't fully recover, she had at least regained consciousness.
He did not stop her when Zhan Kui carried him.
Preventing it won't help.
He simply braced his arm against the railing again to reduce the force on Zhan Kui.
At the same time, with his drooping, limp hand, he stroked Zhan Kui's face, which had been soaking in water for a long time and was extremely cold.
He whispered, enunciating each word clearly, "No..."
"How could the Koi Fairy's luck have run out?"
Just as Guanghan finished speaking, the restrictions on the water prison were suddenly broken by a powerful force!
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