Chapter 115: Jin Chong Gu Worm
Jiaoran is definitely not the kind of person who drags things down. If she really realized that Mu Jin no longer loved her, she would definitely let go quickly and stop pestering him.
But with Zhou Zhi, she could never completely cut it off.
She was breastfed by her when she was a baby, and she learned to drink rice porridge, which she fed her one spoonful at a time.
Her arms are her cradle and her shoulders are her pillow.
In her heart, Zhou Zhi is her past that she can never let go of. Her biological mother, who was closest to her in the world, is no longer around, and she only has Zhou Zhi as her adoptive mother.
Even though she hunted her, hated her, slandered her, and even killed Yi Bingfeng in front of her, until today, she still couldn't swing the knife at her.
Jiaoran suddenly gave a bitter laugh, "If I insist on stopping you, will you kill me like you killed my mother?"
Zhou Zhi was slightly stunned.
Jiaoran lowered his head, not daring to listen to her answer.
Her sword was still far away.
She too.
Neither of them could bring themselves to kill the other, and they both realized it.
At this moment, everything became very subtle.
Zhou Zhi said, "If you can kill me today, then you can stop me. Otherwise, I will never stop."
Lin Poyan had been chopped to the ground, and Song Xiaoshan was still struggling and fleeing in all directions.
There are more and more corpses on the ground.
"Stop it, mother, I beg you."
Zhou Zhi seemed not to hear it.
He swung his sword at those people regardless of everything.
Jiaoran sighed. The good memories of Huiying Inn in the past seemed to have become a dream many years later, far away and beyond reach.
The world is so ridiculous.
A Niang was clearly right in front of her.
They are so close, but their hearts are so far apart. They both have too many secrets hidden in their hearts that they cannot tell each other.
Jiaoran swung his sword again towards Zhou Zhi's sword, and saw that Zhou Zhi's sword was covered with blood.
Zhou Zhi sneered, "Come on, let me see if the child I raised dares to kill me!"
Jiaoran bit his lower lip and said stubbornly, "You don't believe I dare to kill you? I killed Chai Yu with this sword."
Zhou Zhi's face changed drastically.
Jiao Ran continued to look at the thin dragon and said, "It only took one sword."
"You killed... killed Chai Yu?"
"The Phoenix Cub took away his body. Didn't he tell you why Chai Yu turned from a living person into a dead person?"
Zhou Zhi fell silent and lowered his eyes. "It turned out to be like this, fate plays tricks on me."
Jiao Ran said calmly, "So you have to understand that this is not the first time I have done something like this."
Zhou Zhi looked at her, eyes full of sadness, "Do you know——"
"I know." Jiao Ran interrupted, "I know Chai Yu is my father, I know Chai Rou is Jiao Yue, and I also know that you and my mother had a close relationship."
Listening to Jiaoran say these calm words, she felt a myriad of emotions churning in her heart.
Along the way, the fair and tender little dumpling has suffered a lot and seen the joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the impermanence of life and death.
The day Jiaoran left, she didn't even dare to look at her for fear that she would stop her from leaving.
In the blink of an eye, she has become a grown-up girl.
She felt a little guilty about her, but she was helpless and it was impossible to make up for it.
"It's all my fault." Zhou Zhi said.
"If you still have any compassion for me, please let them go."
Zhou Zhi suddenly said, "Then tell me, whose fault is this? When the Qingfeng Sect was wiped out, tell me, what should I do? Should I pretend that nothing happened and live my life in peace, while those murderers get away with it?"
Jiaoran saw the pain hidden in her eyes. When her sword fell towards Song Xiaoshan, Jiaoran still blocked her. When it hit the thin dragon, Zhou Zhi's sword also shattered into pieces.
"You've slaughtered everyone from Wudang, Kongtong, and other sects. That's enough. How many more do you want to kill?!"
Jiaoran turned around and looked, as if he didn't dare to look at the corpses on the ground.
Lin Poyan lay there lifeless. He was already extremely weak after his blood and essence were sucked out. He was chopped to the ground after just a few exchanges with the disciples of Zongxun Sect.
Song Xiaoshan stood blankly behind Jiaoran's sword, and it was a long time before he dared to turn around and look at his master.
Such a cowardly and afraid person.
How could Jiaoran have expected this?
He didn't cry, but his eyes were bloodshot. He pulled out a sword that was stuck in his master's body and threw it at Zhou Zhi.
Zhou Zhi caught his flying sword effortlessly.
He failed to kill Zhou Zhi.
He had guessed that Jiaoran and Zhou Zhi had a close relationship, and when he heard her call her mother, he understood.
So he knelt in front of Jiaoran and begged Jiaoran to help him kill Zhou Zhi.
Jiaoran stared at Song Xiaoshan and said, "You're seriously injured. I...I'll take you away from here first!"
Song Xiaoshan felt a sharp pain in his heart.
He shouldn't have forced Jiao Ran to help him, but where could he go if he left here? His master's sect was destroyed, and he could only watch them die at the hands of these people.
Jiaoran didn't dare to look into his eyes, not even once.
Suddenly, a man from the Zongxun sect shouted sternly, "How dare you kill innocent people like this!"
This voice sounds familiar.
As soon as he saw the person coming, Song Xiaoshan looked at the person with a smile, as if he had seen a savior.
This person turned out to be Yuan Jianlu.
Yuan Jianlu stepped out from among the corpses, his whole body soaked in blood, his face cold and ruthless.
Song Xiaoshan snorted, "Junior Brother Yuan, why did you come just now?"
Jiaoran's heart was beating fast. Seeing Yuan Jianlu suddenly here should have been a happy thing, but for some reason she thought of Chai Che.
People who appear at inopportune times often do not bring good news.
But no matter what, Yuan Jianlu was always her acquaintance. Jiaoran looked at him, wondering why he appeared here.
He always liked to wave his dagger and say some nonchalant words, or look left and right at the beauties, but now... he was so serious that it was scary.
Song Xiaoshan said sadly, "Master and the others are dead. I never thought we would perish in this small Zongxun Sect..." He clenched his fists and said angrily, "It's all their fault. They killed Master and his fellow disciples."
Yuan Jianlu said, "I came late and didn't see what happened. Did you see that they killed the master with their own hands?"
Song Xiaoshan nodded and shouted, "Master and the others died tragically. You don't know, just now..."
Puff—the sharp blade stabbed towards him.
The dagger that Yuan Jianlu often used pierced Song Xiaoshan's chest before his eyes closed.
Yuan Jianlu walked up to him and asked, "Why should I know?"
Song Xiaoshan's last words were, "Why did you want to kill me?"
Yuan Jianlu laughed again, as carefree as ever, as if he had never done anything wrong.
Jiaoran stood aside, and when she wanted to stop him, Yuan Jianlu had already killed Song Xiaoshan. Everything happened too quickly.
She really couldn't think of any reason why Yuan Jianlu would kill his fellow brother, especially since it was he who pushed her into their sect and brought her to the mountains.
Jiao Ran was stunned. "You killed your senior brother?"
Yuan Jianlu sighed, pulled out the dagger from Song Xiaoshan's body, wiped his hands on his sleeves and said, "I thought you were not blind."
"You betrayed your master?"
Yuan Jianlu sneered, "What a pity, my master is gone, so it doesn't count as betrayal, don't you think?"
Jiaoran was stunned again. She really couldn't imagine that this was something Yuan Jianlu would say.
His face was exactly the same as Yuan Jianlu's, but the indifference on his face made Jiaoran unable to recognize who he was.
At this moment, she really wanted to see whether the person behind this face was Yuan Jianlu.
Yuan Jianlu asked, "Jiaoran, are you wondering what kind of person the person who wandered with you in the past was like?"
Jiaoran did not deny it. She realized that she had always been in the game. The Yuan Jianlu in front of her was the same Yuan Jianlu from beginning to end. He was cynical, greedy, lustful, and full of lies. It was all him. But now she understood him a little better, that is, he was deep-minded and not so shallow.
"Back when I was captured in the Governor's Mansion and then exiled, you were always by my side. It wasn't a coincidence, it was because they ambushed you next to me from the beginning, right?"
Yuan Jianlu sighed and looked at Zhou Zhi, "How could you raise such a naive and foolish girl?"
Zhou Zhi looked at Jiaoran's sword and said, "You'd better not get close to her, otherwise she won't kill me, but I can't guarantee that she won't kill you."
Jiao Ran gritted his teeth. "You tricked me and my mother, Jiao Yue, into this, didn't you? You and Feng Huangchu have been in cahoots from the beginning, all to get the Gao Shan Shou. If that's the case, why are you so good to me? Why do you want me to be unable to hate you? You deceived me and made me realize that a mother's love for her child can be fake."
Zhou Zhi said, "I am sorry for her, but I am not sorry for you. In this world, the only people I am willing to admit I am sorry for are your mother and my Mu Jin."
Yuan Jianlu sighed, "At this point, are you still asking whether it's a lie or not? Is there any point?"
Jiao Ran pointed his sword at his throat, "Shut up! You are also a shameless person. I regard you as a friend, trust you, and respect you, but you, you have been lying to me all this time. From the beginning to the end, everything has been a lie!"
Then he thought, "What about Mei Wan'er? Did she lie to me too? You two, did you lie to me together? You played me to such a degree?"
Yuan Jianlu's face turned cold. "Don't mention her. She has nothing to do with these things. She knows nothing and shouldn't know anything."
Jiao Ran asked, "What do you gain by working for them?"
"You don't need to know."
Jiaoran watched them collude with each other, and rather than anger, she felt more helpless. She found herself isolated and helpless, and she had too many enemies.
Up to now, Mu Jin still hasn't shown up. Such a tragedy happened on the mountainside and so many people died. He must have known about it on the top of the mountain, but he didn't show up.
Maybe it was because he knew that there would definitely be a fight between her and Zhou Zhi.
Whose side can he stand on?
One is his biological mother, and the other is the woman he loves most.
He must be helpless too.
Phoenix Cub came over and calmly asked the people in the sect to deal with the corpses without even looking at them for a second.
"Let's all go back." said the young Phoenix.
Jiaoran drew his sword and was about to kill him, but Fenghuangchi did not move and just stood there. However, Jiaoran's sword stopped at Zhou Zhi's neck. If she was more ruthless, he could chop off her head, but she refused to dodge and insisted on protecting Fenghuangchi.
Protect with your life.
Jiao Ran didn't understand, "Is he more precious to you than your life?"
Zhou Zhi said, "Exactly."
"If you want to kill him, you can kill me first."
Jiao Ran said, "I will kill you. Don't worry. Our mother-daughter relationship has long been over."
Zhou Zhi smiled, "If that's the case, why don't you move your sword down a little bit? That way, you and I won't suffer so much. Kill me and avenge your mother. Kill me and avenge Yi Bingfeng. Why not kill me?!"
Jiaoran's sword fell beside her neck, already trembling.
Phoenix Chick pushed her sword away at this moment, "I'm the only one you want to kill, right?"
Jiao Ran said, "I should have killed you. I should have killed you long ago. Everything is because of you."
Phoenix Chick sneered, "Didn't Zhu Su tell you? If you kill me, Mu Jin will die too."
"What did you say?!" Jiaoran couldn't calm down.
"Nanzhao has a kind of poisonous insect called Jin Chong. It is a relatively unique species in Nanzhao's insect magic. Only a holy witch can raise such a poisonous insect, feeding it with heart blood. When Jin Chong matures and gives birth to Zi Chong, one person consumes Mu Chong and the other consumes Zi Chong. The two lives are then linked. If the person who consumes Zi Chong dies, it will not affect Mu Chong. However, if the person who consumes Mu Chong dies, the host of Zi Chong will also die immediately."
Jiao Ran cried out in amazement, "Absolutely not!"
Fenghuangchu told Zhou Zhi not to stop her, "You can just kill me now. If I die, you can see if Mu Jin will die."
Jiaoran then understood why Zhou Zhi risked her life to protect her. In her heart, she had no choice but to abandon Mu Jin. As his mother, how could she bear to watch Mu Jin die? This must be the reason why the Phoenix Chick could threaten her.
At this moment, several Zongxun Sect disciples from the foot of the mountain grabbed a woman and threw her in front of everyone. "Master, this woman was trying to sneak up from the foot of the mountain, but we caught her. We wanted to kill her on the spot, but she said she was looking for Jiaoran. We were afraid that killing her directly would affect the master's plan, so we brought her here first."
When Yuan Jianlu saw Mei Wan'er, he stepped forward, grabbed her wrist and pulled her up. "Didn't I tell you to wait for me? Why did you follow me?"
Mei Wan'er saw the blood on the ground that had not been cleaned up, emitting a dark light in the moonlight, and her face suddenly turned pale.
After walking around, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Jiaoran was fine. "Are you okay?"
Jiaoran wanted to say something but stopped herself. She saw a fierce look in Yuan Jianlu's eyes behind her. But when she turned around and whispered to him, he returned to his original appearance without a trace of hostility.
Jiaoran hummed, "It's okay."
Seeing that Zhou Zhi and Fenghuang Chu were there, Mei Wan'er's face turned even paler. She had already been caught in a jar. If she barged in now, she would be seeking death.
He moved closer to Yuan Jianlu and asked, "Are we going to die together?"
Jiaoran was worried that Yuan Jianlu would use Mei Wan'er to make her do something bad. He had just killed people without blinking an eye, even his senior brother was not spared. How could such a person care about his wife? The marriage might be a conspiracy to cover up his true identity.
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