Chapter 147: Mortal Power
The snow feels cold on my face.
The stove was burning in the house and it was warm.
An hour ago, their bodies were still warm.
But if you stand in the snow for too long, you will feel cold.
This time they did not escape.
Mu Jin and Jiao Ran looked at each other for a long time, then smiled at each other. No matter what the outcome today was, they would not complain about anyone.
Mu Jin wanted to fight with her, but Jiao Ran just shook her head. She knew that Phoenix Chick was a demigod. If she couldn't defeat him, then Mu Jin would only die faster if she went up.
Jiaoran took off the soft cloak and handed it to him, "Don't get caught in the wind and snow."
I don't know whether to tell him to avoid being exposed to the wind and snow, or to tell him to hold on to his cloak and avoid being exposed to the wind and snow.
He smiled knowingly and said, "Well, I'll wait for you under this tree."
"After I'm done fighting and rid the world of this scourge, we'll go back to Jiangnan. It's too cold here, and I don't like it."
He said, "I'll wait for you."
Jiaoran turned around and walked away, walking towards another person.
He seemed to have been waiting for her for a long, long time, waiting for this day.
Jiaoran summoned the thin dragon. The black sword in his hand was the black dragon under the Governor's Office.
He watched Jiaoran walk towards him quietly. At this moment, the wind and snow of millions of years seemed to be pressing towards him, making it difficult for him to breathe.
But he smiled.
In the wonderland and in the human world, it is the same. The kindness in the wonderland is greater than that in the human world, and the cruelty in the human world is greater than that in the wonderland.
But for him, kindness and cruelty have always existed. After a thousand years, he even forgot the hatred he felt when they killed his mother. He only remembered that it was an emotion called hatred, which was the only rare emotion he had, a rare emotion that humans and gods could possess.
They had all waited too long.
She wanted to kill him.
And he wanted her.
They were all getting impatient.
Would Jiao Ran be his opponent? Of course he thought it was impossible.
A mortal who has only practiced for a few years is simply too insignificant compared to his divine body that has been cultivated for thousands of years.
He has already mastered both "Gao Shan Shou" and "Chang Sheng Jue", and the Taoism lost due to the heavenly calamity has been restored by practicing these two secret books.
So she has even less chance of winning.
They were sending her to die, he thought.
Is it possible to kill gods in the land of mortals?
He is very curious.
Perhaps only Jiaoran can give him the answer.
"How are you?" he asked her.
Jiao Ran said, "Don't worry. It's really not easy for you to find this place."
Phoenix Chick raised an eyebrow, "Five years, I've been looking for you for five years, without any problems."
Jiao Ran said coldly, "Why are you so stubborn? I am not Wuxia."
There was a hint of disgust in her eyes.
Phoenix Chick glanced at Mu Jin. Would she also look at him in the same way?
Jiao Ran took a few steps to block his view, "You didn't come here today to kill me?"
"It was always you who wanted to kill me, or maybe it wasn't you who wanted to kill me, it was them."
Jiaoran's expression changed. "You forced me to kill my mother and then killed my biological mother. Even if you don't come here, I will go find you."
Phoenix Chick pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever considered that she is just a vessel for you to come into this world?"
Jiaoran was surprised at his cold-bloodedness.
"Don't look at me with such fear."
"Do you also think your mother is a vessel?"
"When I was only a few hundred years old, still a child, I was like you, but it was only after a thousand years, a thousand years after I lost her, that I understood this truth."
Jiao Ran scoffed at his statement, "If you were really like what you said, you wouldn't have killed all the people in the Wonderland, nor would you have fled the human world and then wanted to return to the Wonderland to avenge your mother."
He said, "Yes, so I was wrong. I should have lived curled up in the human world. If she were still here, she would definitely want me to live a good life, instead of becoming what I am today."
Jiaoran had already raised the thin dragon, "Let's fight quickly and decisively."
"Do you have enough power to kill me?"
Jiao Ran said, "I don't know, but I have to give it a try."
"You know, if you can't kill me, I'll kill you."
Jiao Ran said, "I hope you keep your promise and untie the Jin Chong that bound you and Mu Jin."
He smiled. "Of course."
She killed Zhou Zhi in exchange for Mu Jin's freedom, and she had no worries when she fought him to the death.
"He would be very sad if you died."
Jiao Ran said, "That is also our respective destiny."
Phoenix Chick said, "Fate? Do you really believe the lies they tell mortals?"
Jiao Ran said, "Don't you believe it?"
"If I believed it, I would have died hundreds of times already."
"Come with me. Let's go to a place where no one can find us. I will erase your memory and make you the same as before."
Jiaoran refused as usual.
She keeps saying that she is not flawless.
He couldn't stand it. They teased him and turned him into a fool. She stood against him and was complacent, thinking that she was doing her own thing. It was ridiculous.
Even more cruel than him are those who are high and mighty. Mortals can only endure, tolerate, and then die, or fight hard and stay alive, but he is different. He never takes them seriously.
Since those hands reached out to the human world, he would cut them off as he did in the past.
But she was his most beautiful tail, a part of his body. She came into being from nothing, making him complete.
She was his only reward in fighting against that ridiculous game - fate.
"Have you ever tried putting your hand over a hot stove?"
Jiao Ran said, "I'm not stupid, I know how to burn."
He nodded meaningfully, "That's good."
"What's the meaning?"
"I told you not to make things difficult for yourself."
Jiao Ran asked, "Do you think I'm not capable of defeating you?"
Phoenix Chick said, "It's not just this one thing."
"Speak clearly!"
“Time is something that can be short or long, just like the morning dew, which disappears when the sun comes out. Sometimes it is also like flowing water, which cannot be cut off by anything, even if you hate it to the extreme.”
Jiaoran didn't understand why he was talking such nonsense to him.
"Do you think these are just trivial gossips?"
"Um."
He said, "I've heard this before and felt the same way."
"Has anyone else said something like this to you?" Jiaoran was surprised.
"Do you think you're the only one who's received unconditional love? Zhou Zhi and Chai Ying, they were willing to sacrifice their lives to pave the way for you. The love of mortals can be so touching sometimes. I almost let them go."
"Since you have also obtained it, why are you still so cruel?"
"Brutal? No, I'm very peaceful. Look how many people I've killed? Compared to you, can I not be called merciful? You've killed many more people than I have. Just think about it, how many people in the Chai family have you killed? Oh, you also killed your mother and your senior brother Bu Yue."
Jiao Ran was stabbed in the heart and felt pain. "It's all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't—"
He interrupted her, "Every time, you had the opportunity to choose whether to kill or let go. You could choose, but every time you chose the most painful decision. I don't know why mortals are so stupid, even you are no exception."
"Ridiculous, sweet talk! Even today, you still think you're innocent?"
"Most of the people I killed were those who had grudges against me and had humiliated me. Can you kill people for your dignity and your family? But I can't?"
Jiao Ran said, "If you had just done what you said, I wouldn't have questioned you, but you set up a trap. So many people died just to get Gao Shan Shou."
He said, "Then don't you understand? Even if they died, it was because of their own greed. Those mortals who died on the top of the mountain of Zongxun Sect came because of greed. Zhou Zhi chose to betray Chai Ying and join me because of greed. Even Chai Ying sacrificed Mu Jin to protect her own daughter. She couldn't control her greed. You see, mortals are greedy. It wasn't me who killed them, it was their own greed. They were too eager to get something that didn't belong to them. They wanted change and instability, which was destined to be full of changes. Since they chose to change, they must accept their bad ending. Aren't you and Mu Jin the same? You left Huiying Inn because you were jealous of the other disciples of Huiying Sect. You wanted to get Zhou Zhi's recognition like them. You were not willing to be ordinary. And Mu Jin, he wanted to leave the Governor's Mansion and gain precious freedom. People are always greedy, greedy for what they don't have, so they make mistakes and are punished."
Jiao Ran said, "According to you, everyone should live like a walking corpse, forever ordinary, forever trapped in the prison that holds them?"
"You shouldn't ask me the answer to this question, you should ask yourself."
Jiao Ran said he didn't understand. "You're just making specious arguments, demanding the unattainable, and walking an endless path. That's the mortals' own choice. Who gives you the right to decide their life and death? You stir up trouble, treat them like ants, and in the end, you say they killed themselves."
"You also know that I can't decide their life or death, but do you think you can?"
"Of course...that's not possible."
"Then have you ever thought that every blade of grass and tree, every day and month, every light and darkness, life and death, change and constancy in this mortal world are all controlled by a pair of hands?"
Jiao Ran shook his head. "Plants, trees, the sun and the moon, light and darkness, life and death, these are all just the laws of nature. They have always existed. How can anyone control them?"
The snow was falling harder and harder, and their calves were buried in the snow.
Jiaoran felt that the time had come. "Let's leave your absurd theories to the underworld. Let's not talk about them anymore."
A voice came from behind, "Thank goodness you said some more nonsense to him."
Jiaoran looked carefully and found that the person coming was Chai Che.
Zhuxing also followed, and Jiaoran's heart was in suspense. They could obviously escape, but they still came.
Cha Che walked over on the snow and said, "The last time I saw you was also on a winter day."
Phoenix Chick said, "You still remember. I thought you had already hidden away somewhere and lived a peaceful life."
Chai Che said, "You killed hundreds of people in the Governor's Office. Peace? My peace has been burned to ashes by you."
When Jiaoran heard him say this, he realized that the Governor's Office had been destroyed. He didn't expect that the Phoenix Young would go to such an extent to kill them all.
"Hurry up." Jiaoran said to him.
Phoenix Chick smiled and said, "Since you've come here to die, it would seem I'd be looking down on you if I let you go."
"He is not an ordinary person. You are no match for him at all." Jiaoran said to Chai Che.
"What if I also practiced Takayama Shou?"
Jiao Ran looked at his black hair mixed with white hairs, and felt a pang in his heart, "How did you get the secret method of Gao Shan Shou?"
"Chai Yu is my father, and Chai Lie is my brother. They both practiced Gao Shan Shou. How could you think I didn't know about it?"
But Jiaoran didn't understand. If he already had it, then why did he... In a flash, she figured it out. It is easy for mortals to go astray when practicing this kind of mental method. Chai Rou is a good example. It was because Chai Yu absorbed her spiritual power that he was able to suppress the domineering "Gao Shan Shou" mental method and stabilize the true energy in his body.
In order to seek revenge, he ignored their opposition and practiced this evil skill which was unnatural to mortals.
Phoenix Chick asked, "With you as an additional person, do you think you can kill me today?"
Cha Che said, "Then we can give it a try. As you just said, mortals are greedy. When they stray, they wish they could walk on flat ground. When they are sick, they wish they could recover. When they are stupid, they wish they could hear and see clearly. You are indeed powerful and invincible to mortals, but mortals also have mortal courage. They dare to cut through thorns and chase elusive shadows. This is mortal courage."
After hearing his words, Jiaoran's mouth corners slowly rose. Chai Che was indeed smarter and more perceptive than her.
"You're right," she said.
The Phoenix Chick said, "Then you can try to resist me with the courage of a mortal and see whether your courage is stronger or my strength is greater."
Jiao Ran glanced at Chai Che, and after confirming that he would die with her today, she no longer hesitated, "Neither of us will hide away, Phoenix Cub, today is the day you die."
He chuckled and said, "I hope you won't regret it, and don't make those behind you regret it."
Mu Jin handed the cloak to Zhuxing, "Put it on. The wind is very cold. Jiaoran will be worried about you. I already put one on when I came out. You don't have to worry about me."
Zhuxing nodded, "Did she tell you not to take action?"
Mu Jin said, "Don't you know her personality best?"
Zhuxing said, "That's right, he looks just like Master."
Zhuxing felt the ground beneath his feet seemed to tremble slightly, "What is this?"
Mu Jin didn't say much, just looked at the Kongsang Tree.
He already knew that they might all die here today, but he wanted to help Jiaoran one last time.
The Kongsang Tree had an agreement with him long ago. For the last time, he would use his heart to try to see if he could maximize the magic power of the Kongsang Tree to help Jiaoran.
"what's on your mind?"
Mu Jin asked, "Zhuxing, do you believe that the power of mortals can surpass that of gods?"
"Mortal power?"
Zhuxing looked at Jiaoran and Chai Che in the distance and said, "Of course I believe it."
"I want to help her one last time."
"How can we help? They are facing a Phoenix chick."
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