Chapter 96: Survival from Despair
He took her to Yuping Pavilion.
The unconscious Jiaoran lay obediently in his arms. On the day she came back, while she was still unconscious, Mu Jin had already planned to cut off these entanglements, never meet her again, and send her out of here. From then on, she would be able to be as free as before.
It was like... she had never been to the Governor's Mansion.
I don’t know what it feels like to be betrayed and have your blood taken.
If someone had to be the animal whose blood was taken, that person must not be her.
In Yuping Pavilion, the Holy Witch had been waiting for quite a long time.
He walked in silently holding Jiaoran.
He originally wanted her to think that he had really changed his mind. Zhuxing and Chai Che were also helping her. They all wanted Jiaoran to be disappointed in him and leave here alone, but she was so determined, so determined that he could not hate her.
Even if he was just a substitute found by those people for Jiaoran, even if even his mother gave up on him, even if no one remembered him in the long years, he didn't want to hate him anymore.
Hate was too tiring and it drained all his energy.
Just like when he was young he always felt that death was always around, but Jiaoran's existence always reminded him that there was someone whose love was as always around him as the death he once feared. As long as she was alive, she would always love him no matter where she was.
Then he understood that even if he died, Jiaoran would never forget him.
Not being forgotten is what he wants in this life. In the past, he had been forgotten by the gods and was trapped in a small governor's mansion, repeating the life of a puppet day after day.
The Holy Witch led them into the tunnel. Mu Jin felt something was amiss. "Where does this road lead to?"
"Lock Dragon Pond."
Mu Jin stopped where he was.
"Why, are you afraid?"
Mu Jin said, "You didn't tell me that the blood exchange technique had to be performed in a secret room."
"In the entire Governor's Mansion, this is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy. I specially found a time to avoid Chai Yu. Let's see if you dare."
Mu Jin became suspicious, but at this point, if he was weak any longer, all his efforts would be wasted.
"I swear by the lives of your people that you have not deceived me."
The Holy Witch sneered, "Since you don't believe me, why did you follow me in?"
"Apart from you, I can't think of any other way to help her completely escape this fate. I just want her to be an ordinary woman and live an ordinary life."
She shook the bell on the ring, and a strange rhythm came out from her two hands alternately.
"I swear..."
As she swore, every ring of the bell seemed to be stepping on the razor-thin gap between life and death.
"Well, I've sworn it."
Only with such a cruel oath could Mu Jin feel at ease. The Nanzhao people valued oaths the most. In their hearts, their gods loved honest people. If someone made a promise and then broke it, then the gods would completely abandon her and no longer protect her and her descendants.
A fire started in the secret room.
Previously, the platform of Cainu Pond rose again at the call of the Holy Witch, with Jiaoran and Mu Jin lying on both sides respectively.
In the range illuminated by the fire, Mu Jin only saw Jiaoran.
He was very worried that someone in the dark shadows of the secret room was preparing to deliver a fatal blow to them at this moment.
So he couldn't close his eyes, he had to stay awake at this moment.
The Holy Witch's face seemed expressionless, but in fact, there was a hint of mystery and sadness.
As she walked around the Cainu Pond, she shook the magic weapon in her hand, and countless golden butterflies flew out from her body, sparkling in the dim secret room.
Her voice rose and fell until the last line.
The lingering sound.
The surroundings are silent, and the world is soundless.
Mu Jin felt as if he had lost all his sorrows and joys in an instant.
Suddenly, he heard a shrill cough.
It is Jiaoran.
After the cough, Mu Jin wanted to struggle to get up and go to her, but it was too late. She was unconscious, with her eyes closed. After a cough, blood flowed out of her mouth. The stone platform, which could only accommodate one person, was covered with Jiaoran's vomited blood, and Jiaoran's blood continued to drip down the stone platform.
The blood floated on the mercury, and in the blink of an eye, the silver water turned into a pool of blood.
From the bottom of the blood pool, the roar of a giant dragon could be heard faintly.
It tried to break free from its chains and escape from the bottom of the pool.
Mu Jin stretched out his hand helplessly. He didn't feel much pain in his body, but he seemed to be trapped by something, like a nightmare, and could only watch Jiaoran suffer.
"You lied to me!"
The Holy Witch lowered her head, her hands folded on her shoulders. "My God will punish me. I will no longer be able to be her believer. My people will spit on me, and my... children will betray me."
Mu Jin struggled desperately, trying to break through the restriction.
"Jiao Ran!"
His voice was drowned out by a long howl of the wind.
Like a tsunami, or a hurricane sent down by divine punishment.
Millions of golden butterflies fluttered their wings in the strong wind, trying to fight it, but it was in vain. The wind shattered every golden butterfly, and instantly turned them into golden powder that fell all over the sky.
In the strong wind, Mu Jin suddenly broke through the force that was strengthening him, and he leaped to Jiaoran's side regardless of everything.
But she had shed so much blood, "Jiao Ran, Jiao Ran..."
He weakly called her name over and over again and wiped the blood from the corner of her lips. It was clearly a show.
He clearly told her about the agreement he had reached with the Holy Witch when he kissed her.
But why can't it be stopped?
She promised that she would wake up and kill the Holy Witch immediately if she felt something was wrong, forcing her to tell the truth of that year, and he decided to help her.
That night he told her the story that the holy witch had told him.
But Jiaoran said that she had also heard from another person that what the Holy Witch said was not entirely consistent. In other words, the Holy Witch must have participated in the hunting of Chai Ying, but they did not know what she had done. That was why they planned to follow the clues to find out the Holy Witch's position in this game.
He laid her flat, carefully leaning over her chest to listen to her faint heartbeat, then reached out his hand in disbelief to check her breathing.
"What did you do!" Mu Jin wanted to kill this witch immediately.
"As you requested, the blood exchange has been completed. However...something unexpected happened. From now on, you are the only one in the world who possesses Qilin blood."
The wind howled violently, the sky and earth changed color, the sky above the secret room was covered with dark clouds, and a storm was about to come.
In this gust of golden light and strong wind, a dark shadow slowly walked out.
Like a black-bellied poisonous snake, it lurked in a corner of the secret room, waiting for everything to be over.
The flame was picked up by the wind, fell on the mercury pool, and was quickly extinguished.
The governor came out and looked at him mercilessly.
The howling sound of the wind soon stopped, but the wind did not stop because of him. Behind him, an old acquaintance walked out.
"It's you, Phoenix Chick!"
Mu Jin never dreamed that the Phoenix Chick would appear here, nor did he expect that the Governor would continue to keep him by his side.
Jiaoran said that the person who shot the arrow at him was not her, and also said that Chai Lie told her that it was not Chai Hui. He didn't understand it at first and thought it was a lie by Chai Lie.
Now thinking back, that person might be a Phoenix chick. He wanted to make him temporarily useless and unable to draw blood. He pushed Jiaoran in front of Chai Yu and made him a substitute for drawing blood. Step by step, he made Chai Yu begin to fear Jiaoran's power.
The bodies of the remaining butterflies either fell to the ground or flew in the air.
Seeing the man behind the governor, the Saint Witch's pupils contracted in fear, but he still said with courage, "I have done it for you. Now, you should return the child to me."
The person flying towards her was Xu Mengchou. She stepped forward and caught the unconscious Xu Mengchou with both hands, feeling heartbroken.
"Twenty years ago, you forced me to use the technique of a thousand-mile tracking to find Jiaoyue. Twenty years later, you forced me to exchange her child's blood for another person, and asked me to kill her child." She said angrily, "The gods will not forgive you. I will not have a good ending, and neither will you. I have seen your end. You two will die at the hands of your loved ones. After your death, your bodies will remain intact, and no one in this world will remember you. One of your descendants will be cursed, the man will die young, the woman will live a lonely life, and the other will not be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation, and will never meet the person she wants to see again in her lifetime."
Hearing this, Chai Yu and Fenghuang Chu were slightly stunned, and no one stepped forward immediately.
The Holy Witch left with the seriously injured Xu Mengchou.
The Phoenix Chick sneered, "As for me, I don't believe in curses or divine punishment. I am a god myself, so what god can curse me? Hahahahahahaha..." As he spoke, he swung the long whip, pulled Mu Jin away from Jiaoran, and trapped him beside him.
"Well, the Holy Witch said you would die at the hands of Chai Ying's flesh and blood. Now I've killed Jiao Ran for you, and I've also left you this blood man whose blood you can continue to draw. Shouldn't you be satisfied?"
Chai Yu remained calm and suddenly swung his sleeves. A short sword flashing with cold light shot out from his sleeves and pierced Jiaoran's heart.
Chache had already arrived, but it was too late for him to stop him, "Father!"
His dagger was so fast that it pierced Jiaoran's heart at an angle.
If the Holy Witch had taken half of Jiaoran's life just now, then now he was taking the remaining half of her life.
A fatal blow.
Chai Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that her slightly heaving chest had stopped moving.
Mu Jin was already crazy upon seeing this. He laughed loudly towards the sky and swung his sword with force like thunder. However, when he reached in front of Chai Yu, the blade turned slightly and the sword in his hand slipped out.
Chai Che stood there in a daze, looking at Jiaoran's body.
His father actually killed Jiaoran, and killed Jiaoran in front of him.
He walked up to him step by step, "Father, don't you know that she is also a child of the Chai family?"
Chai Yu smiled and said, "Of course I know. I also know that she is my child."
Tchaikovsky's shock far exceeded all the shocking things that had happened in the past twenty years.
Jiaoran is his sister? Half-sister?
"Even so, you won't let her go?" Chai Che was extremely disappointed with him.
"Let her go? Have you ever thought about whether she will let me go?"
Phoenix Chick said from the side, "Second Young Master, you may not know this yet, but the one who ordered the killing of Miss Chai Ying was the Governor-General."
He couldn't understand, "Why did you kill your own flesh and blood? You wouldn't let Chai Ying go, nor would you let her child go. What did they do wrong?!"
His sword was faster than Mu Jin's, and this time the tip of the sword in his hand was pointed towards his father.
He once swore never to point the sword at his family, but this time, he was completely disappointed.
His father was a complete villain who even disregarded his own flesh and blood for his own ambitions.
It turned out that he never thought of saving Aunt Ying. When he realized that he could no longer control her, he killed her.
Chai Yu did not dodge, he just stood there and let his son's sword point at his neck.
The sharp sword left a faint trace of blood.
"Take action! Can't you kill even your own daughter? So what's the harm in killing one more son?" Chai Che roared at him.
Mu Jin also climbed up and picked up his weapon again.
Both men pointed their swords at them.
Phoenix Cub watched this wonderful show and said, "Sir, do you think your beloved son can kill you?"
"Bullshit!" Chai Yu said.
The wound on his neck by Chai Che began to bleed faintly. Chai Yu touched it and smiled, "Are you disappointed in me?"
"Yes! You are no longer the father I admire. Perhaps you have never been one from the beginning, but I have been deceiving myself."
"I'm the same as your father," Chai Yu said. "You've disappointed me too. You've turned against me. I've done all this for the future of the Governor's Office. If I fall, do you know that everyone in the Governor's Office will be doomed?"
"Maybe not."
At this moment, a faint laugh came from the darkness behind everyone.
A ghostly woman slowly stood up.
A dagger removed from the chest.
Blood spurted out and then stopped.
Mu Jin, who was heartbroken by her death, burst into tears the moment he saw her wake up again.
Jiaoran looked at him, and suddenly his heart was filled with guilt. He must have been in excruciating pain just now.
She stepped lightly, flew back to the shore from the mercury pool, and said to Mu Jin, "I'm fine, don't worry."
Jiaoran appeared in front of him again, her dark eyes like stars. Mu Jin hurriedly pulled her closer to check her wounds. Strangely, they were all healed.
"how so?"
Jiaoran shook his head and said nothing.
"No matter what, you have to promise me that you won't scare me again. If you really die, I will kill your enemies and then die with you."
Jiao Ran hurriedly explained, "There won't be a second time. I don't want you to die for me. You must live well. Remember, there is only one ending for you and me, and that is to stay together forever. Even if I leave for a short time, I will come back to you one day. I won't keep you waiting too long."
Phoenix Chick clapped his hands, "Have you said enough sweet words to him?"
Jiaoran smiled, and just as she smiled, Fenghuangchu's sword had already reached between Jiaoran's eyebrows.
Jiaoran pulled Mu Jin behind him and stepped forward to fight.
As soon as his sword came out, Jiao Ran called out, "Thin Jiao!"
A flash of light appeared on her wrist, and a sharp sword immediately appeared in her hand.
Among the people present now, only Jiaoran and Fenghuangchu know that the magic swords in their hands are the weapons that can take the opponent's life. Other worldly weapons are nothing but tickles.
What the Phoenix Chick didn't expect was that the Holy Witch's blood transfusion technique didn't work, and Jiaoran's spiritual blood recovered so quickly.
Now things are a little trickier.
Chai Che looked at Jiao Ran beside him and asked, "Are you really okay?"
The sword pierced her heart, but she was still alive. It was truly a miracle.
But thinking about how she had dared to step forward and slay the dragon before, he changed his mind and realized that he wouldn't be too surprised by anything that happened to her in the future.
Fortunately, she was fine, otherwise Zhuxing would never forgive him in her life.
"Of course I'm fine. Don't you see I'm full of energy?"
Phoenix Chick said, "I suspect you're just bluffing. I know the Saint Witch's abilities. Her spell might not have been ineffective, but you're just deceiving us."
Jiao Ran laughed out loud. "You think I'm bluffing, so why don't you dare to come forward and challenge me?"
The Phoenix Chick remained silent. At this moment, Chai Yu stepped forward. Jiaoran did not move at all, so Chai Che blocked Chai Yu.
"You—" Chai Yu said angrily, "Don't stand with them."
Cha Che said, "I am no longer a child. I know clearly what is right and what is wrong."
Jiao Ran gently waved the Thin Dragon Sword in his hand. "There are three of us now, and there are only two of you. If Chai Che and Mu Jin can deal with the commander-in-chief, he should be able to handle it, right? Then I'd like to ask for your advice, Senior Brother Fei Wu."
As she spoke, she drew her sword.
This sword move was extremely varied, and in the eyes of a practitioner like Chai Che, it was considered the ultimate in swordsmanship.
Fenghuangchu looked at her sword, and Jiaoran looked at his sword. The two of them just stood there quietly.
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