Chapter 143: Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Butterfly
A white light flashed, and they didn't know where they were going, but the whistling wind around them seemed to tell them that they were riding on a carriage that could travel thousands of miles in the blink of an eye.
When the Kongsang tree loosened its branches and golden powder sprinkled on the ground, they looked closely and saw that they were surrounded by a mountain road with water on both sides and a towering tree in front of them.
Zhuxing held the child in her arms. After going through this, he still slept soundly in his mother's arms.
Jiaoran was still standing, but his body was shaking.
She lowered her head, as if she had exhausted all her strength. She stood there, as if she had no idea whether she was standing, sitting, or lying down.
She stood quietly with her head bowed like an ancient tree.
Mu Jin didn't dare to touch her, wondering if she was seriously injured by the attack from the Phoenix Chick.
Jiaoran opened his eyes, but felt that he was surrounded by a dark smoke.
Darkness enveloped her and kept spinning. She wanted to walk out, but her feet could not move.
She felt that her body was also spinning continuously with the black mist.
But she just stood there.
She tried her best to dispel the black fog, wanting to imagine some colors in the darkness, and imagine the smiling face of Mu Jin or her senior sister.
But for some reason, her fantasy lost its color and everything turned black.
She felt her body spinning more and more violently, but in the eyes of Mu Jin and Chai Che, she just stood there blankly. Finally, she knelt heavily on the ground.
Her body was like a ball of cotton, unable to support her head.
When she finally knelt down, she seemed to fall from the clouds, falling straight into the abyss from mid-air.
Mu Jin hurriedly hugged her and lifted her up, but for some reason, her body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he could not lift her up by himself no matter what.
Chai Che was stunned for a long while before coming up to help reluctantly. However, when his arm was around Jiaoran's waist, he couldn't help but glance at Mu Jin.
No wonder he couldn’t pick up Jiaoran, and even he couldn’t pull her up. She seemed to have taken root and stubbornly stuck in the soil.
Zhuxing was startled and asked in a lost voice, "What happened to Jiaoran?"
Mu Jin and Chai Che looked at each other, confusion in their eyes.
At this moment, Ji Feng suddenly transformed, "Hurry up and go as far as you can!"
When Mu Jin heard this, she couldn't help but worry, "Is it her..."
Hayate nodded, "So hurry up and leave while she's unconscious."
Zhuxing refused to let Jiaoran go. "What happened to her? One of her eyes is injured. Could it be the Phoenix Chick's fault?"
Mu Jin talked about what had happened since they parted ways, and mentioned that Zhou Zhi died at the hands of Jiaoran. Zhu Xingneng felt more and more uncomfortable the more she listened. Mu Jin mentioned that Bu Yue and others used Zhou Zhi's ashes to threaten Jiaoran to kneel down. She couldn't help but be stunned!
In her heart, Bu Yue is definitely not such a despicable and shameless villain.
At this point, Chai Che no longer mentioned Chai Lie and Chai Hui, and remained silent for a while. Things had developed to this point, and he couldn't blame anyone. If it were him, could he be more tolerant than her?
Chache took the child and said to his wife, "Let's go first."
His body had already retreated rapidly.
He could see that something was wrong with Jiaoran now. If this hurt his wife and son, he would no longer be able to bear the pain of losing them.
He retreated with incredible speed. Turning back, he saw that Zhuxing had not caught up with him. He had no choice but to turn back. He heard his wife sigh softly, "I can't leave. Seeing Jiaoran like this, how can I feel at ease?"
"You all are leaving? Leaving me alone?"
As they were talking, they suddenly heard Jiaoran standing up by herself. Blood was dripping from her injured eye socket, and she looked very scary.
She was laughing, but it didn't seem like she was laughing, just acting.
At this time, her expression had changed, completely different from her dying look just now.
Although Jiaoran in front of me was missing an eye, she exuded a ghostly brightness, like a red rose with a petal lost, so beautiful that it was impossible to look directly at her.
When Zhuxing saw that she had regained her composure, he immediately took a step forward, touched her head and said, "Are you feeling better?"
Chai Che noticed something was wrong and hurriedly grabbed his wife's shoulders and stepped back, but Jiao Ran had already reached out and held his senior sister's hand. "Your hands are very soft, reminding me of my mother."
Chache kicked away her restraints and took Zhuxing away from her, "Let's go."
Zhuxing felt a sharp pain in her heart. How could she not see that Jiaoran was a little strange? But how could she give up on her now? "No, I don't want to leave here."
Ji Feng was startled for a moment, "Jiao Ran, is that you?"
Jiao Ran pursed his lips and smiled, "If I'm not Jiao Ran, then who am I?"
She reached out and pointed at them one by one. When she reached Mu Jin, she reached out and pinched his face. "Of course I am Jiao Ran. From beginning to end, there is only one Jiao Ran in the world, the one and only Jiao Ran."
She always had a cute smile on her face, but as she spoke, the expressions on Chai Che and others' faces became more serious.
Looking at her strange smile, Ji Feng knew something was wrong and had to explain immediately, "She is not Jiao Ran, but a demon." She gritted her teeth and finished her words, "Few people can master Gao Shan Shou, but many people have gone astray and become possessed by demons. I have seen many of them. If they cannot find themselves after being possessed by demons, they will be possessed by the demons in their bodies and become demons forever. Other mortals go crazy only because they are mortal and cannot withstand the possession of demons, so they lose their minds, but Jiao Ran will-"
Before he could finish his words, Jiaoran suddenly attacked, one palm attacking Chai Che and the other attacking Zhuxing, completely ignoring who was on the left and who was on the right.
When Chai Che's hand touched Jiaoran's hand, he suddenly found that a force in his body was sucked away. Zhuxing had already lost her internal strength, and was weak from giving birth. Soon she could no longer withstand Jiaoran's absorption of the mortal's Yang energy.
When Mu Jin didn't know what to do, he suddenly heard the sound of a strong wind.
"Can you play the flute?"
Seeing Chai Che and Zhu Xing's pale faces, Mu Jin hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, what should I do?"
Ji Feng was also panicking. She couldn't attack Jiao Ran, so she had to think of another way. She took out a mirror from her sleeve pocket and said, "No, not this one."
Throw it out.
He quickly took out another pair of clogs and said, "It's not this either..."
"Damn it, why can't I find it?"
Just then, she laughed and said, "Here."
He threw a jade flute to Mu Jin and said, "This is for you."
"What time is it now? Do you want me to use this artifact to hurt Jiaoran?"
Ji Feng's sleeves were already fluttering, and as her sleeves fluttered, a slender bamboo tube flew out and landed in Mu Jin's palm.
"This is the tune of the Tianji Qingxin Mantra, play it quickly!"
After hearing this, Mu Jin immediately took a look at the music, put it down, and began to play it.
When this piece of music first starts playing, the listener feels as if they are listening to the gurgling of a spring in a deep valley, the cool sound penetrating their bones and washing away the dust.
Another change in tone, gradually like a breeze passing through pines and cypresses, extinguishing the restlessness in people's hearts.
Suddenly, it was like the moon shining on an empty mountain, everything was silent and all was quiet.
At this moment, Jiaoran suddenly froze and let go of the hands that were attacking his senior sister and Chai Che.
When she came to her senses, she stared at her hands in a daze. What had she done?
Seeing Chai Che and Zhu Xing slumped on the ground with their children crying beside them, after a moment, she suddenly opened her eyes angrily, covered her ears, and kept repeating, "No, no, you are wrong?"
Jiaoran only felt that voice close to him, saying, "Kill them. Only by being ruthless and heartless can one achieve enlightenment."
When Mu Jin saw Jiao Ran like this, she stepped forward and covered her ears for her, "Put aside all distracting thoughts, think about nothing, just look at me."
Jiaoran looked at him, no longer listening to the voice, and concentrated the true energy in his body in his dantian.
However, the voice soon appeared again.
She couldn't concentrate.
Mu Jin held her face up and looked at her again, but he was not discouraged. "If it doesn't work once, try again a second time. No matter what you hear, just focus on yourself."
The voice gathered into a black mist, approaching Jiaoran little by little, and finally, appeared before her eyes, emitting a strange laugh that resounded through the sky. Then, Jiaoran's world darkened, and Mu Jin no longer appeared in front of her.
She was spinning in the darkness, "Who are you? Who the hell are you?"
The woman stood in front of her with a smile, "Can't you see? I am you, and you are me."
Jiao Ran looked at her hatefully, "You are not me. You just wanted to kill Senior Sister and Mu Jin. Chai Che, you are not me at all!"
The world was pitch black, nothing could be seen, only she and she were left.
There was only the sound of applause, and she laughed again. "Why don't you admit it? You want to kill them, and everything I did was what you had in mind."
"Nonsense, complete nonsense! Shut up!"
She said softly, "Don't be angry. You shouldn't blame me. Didn't you swear to yourself that you would be loyal to yourself for the rest of your life, love yourself, and never betray yourself? So I'm just helping you."
When Jiao Ran heard her say this, he paused for a moment and asked, "How do you know?"
"I know more than that. I know all your fears, all your ambitions, all your anger, and hatred. It's just that your power is too weak. If you don't kill them, you will always have weaknesses. When you reach the realm of transformation, the peak of your power, you will know that the seven emotions and six desires of mortals are nothing more than this. You will never think about these people who make you love and hate again! You should kill them. The first one to kill is Mu Jin. Cut off your love. Leave love, Jiaoran. Next is Fenghuang Chu. I know how much you hate him. I will help you kill him. When love and hate are gone, you will become the strongest, and there will be no fear."
"No more fear?"
"Yes, aren't you afraid of guilt, afraid of being indebted, afraid of loss, afraid of betrayal? I am helping you, Jiaoran, don't you see? I am the person closest to you in this world. Kill them, kill them, and you can completely get rid of the past."
Jiaoran kept repeating her words. She herself didn't know why she kept repeating these ridiculous words, but she just couldn't help it.
The woman was about to continue speaking when Jiaoran looked up and felt a sudden brightness in front of his eyes. A faint light suddenly appeared in the darkness.
"What is that?" Jiaoran couldn't help but ask.
She hurriedly summoned more mist, blocking out the light.
"It's your imagination," she said.
Jiaoran said no, "That is the bright moon."
Then the faint light really turned into the moon, surrounded by a soft silver glow.
Under the moonlight, Jiaoran said, "Are you really me?"
She stood in the darkness, afraid of the bright moon, and led Jiaoran towards her, "Yes, I am you."
Jiaoran's true power has been condensed in his right hand. He summoned a thin dragon and slashed towards the darkness fiercely and swiftly.
But at this moment, the woman's laughter was heard again from the darkness, "Kill me, can you kill me?"
When she heard her voice, Jiaoran was startled. Darkness came again and the bright moon disappeared. She staggered and almost tripped over something in the darkness.
When he looked down, he saw that it was A Niang's body.
She was so frightened that she couldn't stop shaking. She took another step back and found Bu Yue's body behind her.
She completely collapsed, turned around and flew forward. She was so fast.
But no matter how far she ran, the laughter always followed her.
It was as if she was always chasing after her.
She is tired.
Looking down, I saw more dead bodies.
Mu Jin opened his eyes wide, blood smeared on his lips, and his senior sister died holding the child.
Chai Che was in a protective posture, and before his death he still stood in front of his wife and children with a sword.
She became even more frightened and continued to run forward, not daring to stop, even when her throat was bleeding.
I ran for an unknown amount of time, but the sky gradually brightened.
She felt it looked familiar, and continued forward, unexpectedly arriving at Huiying Inn.
The sky brightened and she hurried forward, breathing a sigh of relief.
In less than an hour, she rushed into the inn and saw A Niang dozing off on a chair.
Jiaoran didn't know what was a dream and what was reality for a moment.
She couldn't tell whether she was Zhuang Zhou or a butterfly.
Ah Niang blinked, laughed twice, straightened her body, stood up, pointed at Jiao Ran and scolded, "Where have you been? Why are you back home?"
At this moment, I heard my father's voice behind me, "Okay, she seems to like playing in the mountains. It won't delay her dinner."
"Why don't you stay here?" the voice appeared again.
After a pause, she immediately asked, "Can I really stay here?"
She sighed, "Since you have a place you want to stay, then I'll take your place, okay?"
Jiaoran was in a daze.
Does she really want to stay here?
"Stay, they all miss you—"
"Everything you experienced before was just a dream. You dreamed of leaving Huiying Inn and heading to the Governor's Mansion, but in reality, you were still sleeping in your own little bed."
"Believe me, this is what you want."
Zhuxing's voice was shrill, "Jiaoran! Please!"
The thin dragon had pierced Mu Jin's shoulder. Chai Che was unable to stop it and tried to grab the sharp weapon with his hand.
At this moment, Jiaoran, with an expressionless face, suddenly drew his sword and stepped back a few steps away from them.
There was still no warmth in her eyes.
"sorry."
As soon as she uttered the three words, she raised her hand and suddenly the skinny dragon stabbed into her belly cleanly and neatly. Her move was so fast and ruthless that it was hard to describe.
The three of them were all stunned, staring at Jiaoran, blood flowing from her abdomen.
She smiled, somewhat relieved, "I won't die, I just want to use the pain to wake up."
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