The moral edge
As luck would have it, the system issued a task: "Be chivalrous and brave, and rescue the person in front of you."
Lin Yuan frowned, but still said, "Okay." Before he finished speaking, a group of people rushed out from the stone gate, all dressed in civilian clothes.
One of the bearded men saw the man in black and immediately became furious, swinging his knife at the man in black.
In an emergency, Lin Yuan snatched Yuan Xuanlang's Lingxu Sword and blocked the fierce sword, but she was pushed back three steps. Fortunately, Yuan Xuanlang quickly supported her.
The bearded man shouted, "How dare you, you little yellow-haired girl, block your grandfather's knife!"
Lin Yuan said timidly, "Why resort to violence if you have something to say?"
The bearded man glared, "What are you doing meddling in other people's business?"
Yuan Xuanlang clasped his fists, curled his lips, and said slowly, "I am a disciple of the Jinghu Sect. May I ask why you are chasing this man?"
Hearing this, Zhao Qianxue and Gu Paner came over to greet them, but their expressions froze when they saw Yu Luo.
The man held the broadsword across the black-clothed man's neck and said, "To be honest, I am Lu Renjia from the Huxue Sect."
His eyes were wide open with anger and his expression was grief-stricken: "This guy pushed my junior brother into the machine knife in order to save his own life, and my junior brother... died!" He choked and his grief and anger were beyond words.
Lin Yuan said to the system: "Look, this is the person you want to save."
However, the system pretended to be dead.
The man in black knelt down and said, "Brother, I'm sorry, I really am, but... it's human nature to survive."
The system popped up to add, "Who is without fault? Admitting one's mistakes and correcting them is the greatest virtue. What we should do is not to blindly condemn them, but to help them return to the right path."
Lu Renjia grabbed the man in black by the collar and dragged him away.
The man in black shouted in despair: "Lady, save me! Save me! I will atone for my sins..."
Lu Renjia looked at Lin Yuan with a wary look in his eyes.
Yuan Xuanlang shook his head silently. He was in a real dilemma. His junior sister was on the sharp edge of morality.
Saving him would be like shielding a criminal, an overbearing act of kindness, and a violation of the rules of the underworld: a life for a life, no interference in foreign affairs; not saving him would be a breach of promise, and would also give him the reputation of being heartless and heartless. Saving or not saving him would lead to condemnation.
Lin Yuan didn't take a single step forward. Seeing the man's increasingly desperate expression, she spoke coldly and ruthlessly, "I just saved your life. Now it's up to you."
The man in black had already prepared to escape. He raised his dagger and stabbed his senior brother's foot when Lu Renjia was not paying attention. Lu Renjia screamed in pain and let go. The man in black fled, but Lu Renjia still chased him relentlessly, running like a cat chasing a mouse.
"Senior Brother, should I save him? Wouldn't that be too heartless?" Lin Yuan's face was tense, with the corners of his mouth drooping.
"Well... you seem like a scoundrel, but I support you." Yuan Xuanlang touched Lin Yuan's head.
Lin Yuan didn't notice that the corners of his lips were curled up, and his tone was a little aggrieved: "Okay, okay, then let's be a rogue."
Lin Yuan said to the system in his sea of consciousness: "His junior brother's life and Lu Renjia's anger were all provoked by him. He should be punished. Besides, I am an outsider, a spectator. How can I ask for forgiveness on his behalf? To return to the right path? Oh, first pay off your debt. Asking me to help him is not being brave and righteous, but aiding and abetting evil. Having said that, you can punish me if you want."
What was the punishment? Electric shock? Days and nights of pain? Or the loss of an arm or a leg?
After silence and waiting, the system finally did not punish him, and Lin Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She turned to Zhao Qianxue and asked, "Qianxue, Pan'er, why are you here?"
Zhao Qianxue grabbed Lin Yuan's hand and swung it playfully. "Aren't we disciples traveling down the mountain? An old man told us where the sword manual was, so we came here to give it a try. What about you?"
Lin Yuan said: "We were the same. One person showed us the way."
Yuan Xuanlang and Mu Yunxi remained silent upon hearing this.
Looking at the battle situation again, the man in black was kicked onto the stone seat by Lu Renjia. The stone seat collapsed, revealing a black box, which attracted everyone's hunting gaze.
"boom--"
The ground around them suddenly collapsed. Fortunately, most people reacted quickly and used their lightness skills to avoid it. A few people fell into the abyss, and after the screams stopped, there was no more sound.
When the collapse gradually stopped, the ground had collapsed into a circular platform with only a stone path connecting it to the stone gate. Below the platform was a man-eating abyss.
After everyone came to their senses, they rushed forward to grab the box.
The one who is close to the water gets the moon first. The man in black grabbed the box and held it in his arms, no matter how hard he tried to hit and kick it, he refused to let go.
"Haha, I got it!" The person who just reached the box had his arm chopped off and the box fell into the hands of another person.
"The Lone Star Sword Manual is mine..." His voice stopped abruptly, and his eyes turned from horror to lifelessness. He was stabbed from behind, leaving a bloody hole.
The steel bars on the black box were shining with a clear light, and at this moment they were like the dazzling North Star, attracting countless people to compete.
Lin Yuan and others watched quietly from the side.
When the number of people dwindles, bystanders rush in to grab the items.
The robbers were so bloodthirsty that they killed anyone they saw.
Suddenly, a sword stabbed towards Yu Luo. Yu Luo looked at the sword tip that was getting closer and closer, and his hand holding the sword was shaking uncontrollably.
"Swish——" is the sound of a sword piercing into the body.
The man with the sword opened his mouth wide, his eyes filled with fear and confusion, and fell heavily to the ground, breathless.
The murderer was no longer hidden by the people in front of him, and his figure was revealed. It was Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan held a bloody dagger in his hand, his jade-like face was stained with bright blood, and his amber eyes, as deep as strong tea, were filled with cruelty and indifference.
Lin Yuan subconsciously thought, I must be crazy, this feels so familiar. I killed someone, shouldn't I be afraid? Shouldn't my conscience be condemned?
Yu Luo stared at Lin Yuan in a daze, feeling a chill.
"Lin Yuan, what are you standing there for? Come here..." Gu Pan'er was holding her sword against another person's sword and was in a weak position.
Lin Yuan turned the dagger and attacked the man. Even though Lin Yuan practiced swordsmanship diligently, he still lacked experience in actual combat. Gu Paner and Lin Yuan attacked the man from both sides, and the man gradually became exhausted and could not cope with it.
Finally, Gu Paner knocked him into the abyss with one palm.
Unexpectedly, the man pushed Lin Yuan down before he died.
Lin Yuan looked at the rising platform and the figure who risked his life to save her, raised his arm, and was grabbed by Gu Paner.
Both of them were hanging on the cliff. Zhao Qianxue and Yu Luo grabbed Gu Paner's legs and worked together to pull them up.
"Huh——" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Yuan was about to thank him when she saw Gu Pan'er pretending to be angry: "Lin Yuan, if you do this again, I won't save you!"
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Oh, there won't be a next time. Thank you for saving my life!"
Gu Paner raised her proud head, hummed, and raised her sword again, "Let's go support Senior Brother Yuan. Jinghu Sect can't have only one person going forward."
Several people followed her into the battlefield.
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