Chapter 139: Obsessed
"He's coming to take me away. Let him show himself. Otherwise, it's wishful thinking for you to rely on me!"
Jiaoran inserted the sword into the soil in front of him, pressed the hilt with both hands, and spoke leisurely.
Xu Mengchou thought that Fenghuangchu was in seclusion now. If they had not found Jiaoran and brought him back after he came out, they would surely have a miserable end. He was an extremely cruel and ruthless person.
The master's body was still feeding the fish underwater. She was terrified. In the midst of danger, she suddenly thought of the strand of Zhou Zhi's hair that she still had.
Once a plan comes to mind, I have no choice but to give it a try.
I saw her supporting herself on the ground with one hand, kicking off with one foot, bending her waist backward, and doing a somersault. The moment she touched the ground, several golden butterflies suddenly flashed out from her hand.
The golden butterfly used to track Jiaoran's breath at this time was a touch of spiritual power given to her by Phoenix Chick before she went into seclusion. If used to do this now, it might have miraculous effects.
With a pinch of her palm, a trace of flame ignited from her hand, and the strand of black hair immediately ignited. She silently said in her heart, "Search!"
The other people had no idea what she was doing, and each of them was already at the end of their strength.
Chai Lie looked at her and saw her wink, and then he swung his sword across Jiaoran's face again.
Bu Yue crouched down and jumped to her side. Not knowing what she was planning, Xu Mengchou said, "You go too and entangle her."
Chai Hui swung his sword and blocked in front of Chai Lie, taking Jiao Ran's sword attack head-on. "Brother, how are you?"
At this moment, Yuan Jianlu also followed and continued to harass Jiaoran, which made her extremely disgusted. She didn't know why they were so ignorant of the seriousness of the matter.
Suddenly, Chai Hui let out a scream. It turned out that Jiaoran had stabbed his other wrist, breaking his hand.
Seeing that Chai Hui's eyes rolled back in pain, Chai Lie suddenly increased the speed of his sword and tried his best to deal with Jiao Ran.
Jiao Ran was baffled. "I wanted to let you go, considering our past friendship, but you chose to die?"
The barrier would soon dissipate, and she really didn't want to see them die in her hands, so she removed the barrier and beat them one by one until they could never get up again.
Unexpectedly, Xu Mengchou followed her and broke into the barrier in the courtyard at this moment.
Mu Jin was extremely panicked, thinking that she was going to attack Jiaoran from behind, and hurriedly said, "Be careful, Jiaoran!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiaoran hit Xu Mengchou with the sword, causing her to vomit blood.
Xu Mengchou, however, continued to move deeper into the barrier without knowing the consequences.
Jiaoran thought she was going to hurt Mu Jin, so he took a few steps forward, grabbed Mu Jin's shoulders, and pulled him behind him.
Unexpectedly, she was not heading towards her or Mu Jin at all. She was heading towards an open space.
A golden butterfly kissed the soil lightly. Xu Mengchou wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled coldly, "So it's here. I found it."
Jiaoran didn't know what she was looking for. Could it be that they were looking for something else besides her?
At this moment, Mu Jin cried out in grief, "No!"
It turned out that the place where the golden butterfly fell was where Mu Jin hid Zhou Zhi's ashes. He was afraid that Jiaoran would be sad, so he never told her that Zhou Zhi was buried next to them. He was not going to take Zhou Zhi back to Huiying Inn until they could safely escape from Fenghuang Chu and were completely safe.
Just as Jiaoran's sword was about to cut off Xu Mengchou's neck, Xu Mengchou held a white porcelain bottle in one hand and shouted with a smile, "Do you dare?"
"Take a step forward, move me, and I'll smash the ashes to pieces, letting the wind and rain carry them away completely. You don't want your mother's ashes to be mixed with mud and rainwater, blown to a cesspool, a wilderness, or a cliff, and never rest in peace, do you?"
When Bu Yue heard that Xu Mengchou was holding his master's wife's ashes, he was overwhelmed with emotions. He didn't want to use this to force Jiaoran to surrender, but at the moment, none of them could match her except for this despicable method.
"What do you want?!" Jiaoran gritted his teeth, almost in a state of madness.
Zhou Zhi died in her arms, and her ashes were right in front of her. As long as Xu Mengchou shook his hand, A'niang would disappear completely and would never be able to rest in peace. How could her spirit withstand such torture?
Yuan Jianlu and others escaped danger because she spared them, but now seeing the situation reversed, they became murderous again.
Several people stepped forward, took advantage of the situation and flipped their swords, stabbing Jiaoran quickly. Only Bu Yue stood there motionless.
Chai Hui also took advantage of the situation and stabbed Jiaoran's throat with a sword. At this moment, Jiaoran stood there straight and let them draw their swords.
Mu Jin was heartbroken. "Don't worry about Mother. You can't be captured. Let's run away!"
The thin dragon was also ready to move in Jiaoran's hands, shaking her palm to ask her to fight back.
But she held the thin dragon tightly and did not attack again.
Several people tied up Jiaoran and Mu Jin.
Chai Hui pointed his sword at Mu Jin and said, "Since he is useless and Phoenix Chick doesn't need him, let's just kill him here to avoid being an eyesore."
Chai Lie coughed, "Enough!"
“Big Brother!”
"Whether they are useful or not is not up to you to decide. Take them back first and wait for the master to come out."
"I know..." Chai Hui said somewhat dissatisfiedly.
Mu Jin felt extremely guilty, "You shouldn't have been captured, it's all my fault."
Jiaoran stared at the ashes in Xu Mengchou's hand and said, "Now that I've surrendered, can you return my mother's ashes to me?!"
Xu Mengchou chuckled twice and said, "I'll give it to you now. If you break free from the ropes and run away, all our efforts will be wasted."
"What do you want?"
"Come back with us, and I will give you the ashes when we get to Zongxun Sect." As he said that, Xu Mengchou held the urn in his hand, spun it in the air, and the urn fell steadily into his hand again.
Jiaoran was shocked by what he saw, "Enough, stop teasing me like this!"
Xu Mengchou took a few steps back and started playing with the urn again, as if to avenge Jiaoran's cruel move. "Whether I tease you or not depends on my mood. You seriously injured us, so you must pay a price."
Bu Yue couldn't bear to see Jiao Ran suffer, "Forget it, we have to hurry and take her back before the master comes out of seclusion."
Chai Hui's wrist was still bleeding, and he wondered if he would ever be able to hold a sword again. He had felt the same pleasure from Jiao Ran's humiliation as before, but now the joy of reaching the summit had faded, and hatred lingered in his heart. "I have to make her pay, otherwise all our suffering will be in vain."
Chai Lie had already tied up Mu Jin and put away Jiaoran's weapons, and did not object to his brother's words.
Mu Jin angrily said, "What do you want to do? If you want revenge, come at me!"
Xu Mengchou pressed his mute xue, "As for you, since you didn't hurt us, just stay here quietly. This has nothing to do with you."
Yuan Jianlu also laughed. "Didn't you just say that it would be effortless for you to kill us? I want to see how you kill us now."
After saying that, he reached out to Xu Mengchou to hand over Zhou Zhi's urn, and found a chair to sit in the middle of the hall.
He was obviously his master's capable and beloved general, but for an insignificant woman like Jiaoran, he left the main sect and mingled with other sects just to follow her all the way. Such a dull-witted woman, but there were people who enlightened her wherever she went, and even his master looked up to her.
She doesn't deserve it at all.
If it was him, with the guidance of those people, he might have greater luck than her.
Mei Wan'er had already married him and had been his wife for a long time, but for Jiaoran, she repeatedly threatened him with her life not to hurt Jiaoran.
She had done nothing, yet so many people were willing to die for her. From beginning to end, she never cherished what she had received.
He smiled evilly and said, "How about this, you kneel down and kowtow to me three times first."
It's raining again.
Jiaoran's face was covered with rain.
She wiped away the rain that blocked her vision and knelt before him without a word.
Xu Mengchou laughed heartily. "Why aren't you being arrogant now? Try being arrogant again! In front of your mother, oh, and your loved ones too. Why not let them see how servile you are?"
The wounds on her body were still bleeding slowly, but the pain had disappeared at this moment. Seeing the culprit kneeling down, she felt so happy.
Bu Yue turned her face away and said, "It's getting late, we should get on the road as soon as possible."
She used to be his junior sister, and he couldn't bear to see them humiliating him.
Xu Mengchou said, "What are you afraid of? There's no need to rush on the journey."
Seeing Jiaoran kowtow to Yuan Jianlu, Xu Mengchou laughed and said, "Okay, it's my turn now. Kneel down and kowtow to me too."
Jiaoran gritted his teeth and glared at them fiercely.
Xu Mengchou did not move, but gestured for Jiaoran to kneel before her and kowtow to her.
Tears welled up in Mu Jin's eyes. She desperately stepped forward to stop Jiao Ran from being so humble, but was stopped by Chai Lie. "They'll just play around and then calm down. Why worry about it?"
Mu Jin whimpered. Seeing how hard he struggled, Chai Lie kicked him and made him lie down. "Don't refuse a toast and then drink a penalty. Do you want to be humiliated with her?"
Chai Hui quickly said, "What's the point of kowtowing?"
"Then tell me, what is considered interesting?" Xu Mengchou asked.
"I say... she's always been so proud. Look, we're all soaked in blood, and our shoes are soaked in mud. How about letting her lick our shoes clean?"
As soon as the words came out, Xu Mengchou laughed again, "I find Mr. Chai San is really interesting. Why didn't you come to look for the sect earlier?"
Seeing Jiaoran kneeling with her head on the ground, motionless, Yuan Jianlu wanted to throw the urn to Chai Hui and let Chai Hui play with her.
At this moment, Mu Jin grabbed a stone and threw it hard, hitting Chai Hui's knee. At this moment, the urn was only a fist away from Chai Hui.
Snap!
The white porcelain jar fell to the ground, and the grayish-white powder was exposed to the sky among the fragments. Soon part of it was wet by the rain and carried away by the running water, and part of it was blown into the sky by the wind.
The porcelain vase fell to the ground, and her heart broke.
She knelt down at Chai Hui's feet and covered herself with the fragments, regardless of how sharp the pieces were. However, no matter how hard she tried, Zhou Zhi's ashes were still scattered by the rain in the heavy rain.
In her panic, she even forgot that she could use magic to temporarily shelter from the rain. When she remembered, Zhou Zhi's ashes had been washed away by the heavy rain and mixed into the soil, and disappeared in a short time.
She knelt on the ground, holding up the ashes mixed with mud and water, and kept crying softly, "No, no, no... Please don't leave me, I will take you back to Huiying Inn, take you home... How could this happen... How could it be..."
With a thud, Chai Hui was stabbed in the throat by a sword and fell to the ground.
Jiaoran stood up in an instant, still holding Chai Hui's sword in his hand.
The rainwater mixed with the blood from the burned firewood flowed in the yard, a glaring red.
Xu Mengchou and Yuan Jianlu arrived with both swords. Jiaoran held Chai Hui's sword and lay with her face up for a long time, letting the rain wet her face, as if she had forgotten that there was an enemy in front of her.
The two were overjoyed, thinking that she was so sad that she forgot to attack.
The two swords were about to pierce their clothes, but Jiaoran flicked his wrist and with lightning speed, he cut the throats of both men with one sword.
Xu Mengchou covered her bleeding throat and wanted to say something, but blood gushed out of her mouth. She was like a drowning person and couldn't utter a word.
Bu Yue hurried forward to stop her bleeding, but how could he reconnect a throat that had been cut? Blood flowed from his fingertips, and he could only watch Xu Mengchou, who had been so ferocious just now, die.
Bu Yue turned around and looked at Jiaoran, whose sword was pointing at his face.
"Senior Brother——"
She seldom called him senior brother, and always called him Bu Yue without any respect.
Her move was extremely skillful, like a sudden flash of lightning, and she cut his neck in the blink of an eye.
Bu Yue smiled, "This time, you didn't forget to call me Senior Brother..."
He turned his head and saw Xu Mengchou closed his eyes, so he slowly closed his eyes as well.
But she was right in front of him, yet he was worried about the person who was thousands of miles away.
For a moment, sunlight filled the backyard of Huiying Inn, and Zhuxing was watering the vegetables in the backyard one bucket at a time. He walked out of the room and saw her showing a row of pearly teeth and sweetly calling him senior brother.
He wanted to tell her that he would no longer gamble. Since she was angry last time, he had never been to a gambling house or a brothel again. When they got married in the future, he would definitely be a good husband to her and provide a good life for her.
But then he thought that she no longer needed him, so he sighed and sealed her in his mind.
Jiaoran's swordsmanship was like a sudden surge of waves. Chai Lie and others were already at the end of their strength, and when they were suddenly counterattacked by her, they were naturally killed by her easily.
The last one was Chai Lie. Seeing that they all died at the hands of Jiaoran, he attacked Jiaoran quickly, hoping to gain a chance of survival, but she was faster. In an instant, Jiaoran swung her sword and laughed wildly, stabbing it into the center of his chest with the wind.
Even after killing them all, Jiaoran's sword power remained undiminished.
She picked up her sword and hacked at the corpse, but she still felt unsatisfied.
He walked to Mu Jin's side, cut his ropes, untied his body and said, "From now on, you and I will not interfere with each other and go our separate ways. Phoenix Chick wants me. If you follow me, you will only end up in a miserable situation."
The murderous aura emanating from Jiaoran was overwhelming.
She picked up the thin dragon from Chai Lie and walked past Mu Jin.
Mu Jin sighed dejectedly, watching Jiaoran leave like this. She looked very scary now, like a killing god. This was not the usual Jiaoran.
He hurried forward and grabbed Jiaoran, "You can leave, but you can't leave me. I can decide whether to live or die. I will never leave you."
She reached out and patted his shoulder, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.
"You won't leave even if this happens?"
"Absolutely not!" Mu Jin said.
She was about to attack again, but Ji Feng had already transformed into a human form, "Are you crazy?"
Jiaoran leaped up and struck Mu Jin with his palm, knocking him against the tree behind him.
This palm strike was quite powerful.
Ji Feng saw the clue and shouted, "She's gone crazy!"
He stepped forward and blocked her path, "Don't leave here. Without Kongsang's protection, that man will find you soon. With your current level of cultivation, you definitely can't defeat him."
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