Chapter 111 Shameless Scoundrel
Mu Jianjian didn't notice the expressions on the faces of the two people beside her. Her gaze shifted and settled on the sea monster she had kicked away. "Once you leave the water, your strength is nothing in front of me. A light kick will bring you down!"
Turning his head, he saw two sea monsters trembling in the water, surrounded by crumpled paper, and watched them begin to show weakness without taking it seriously.
When the sirens attacked her from behind, she remembered that the two sirens didn't have this expression!
Linghu Zhuoyu's dwindling patience was finally exhausted after the siren's sneak attack. His body, standing in the shadows, almost blended into the darkness, and his fair hands gently condensed qi in the air, drawing strange runes.
What business is it of his the life or death of the people on this ship?
Crossing the Black Sea cliffs is just a bit troublesome, but it's not insurmountable.
Wuhen, on the other hand, seemed like an outsider. He sat on the railing with one leg propped up on the wooden frame, swinging his leg and watching everything with a grin.
“We don’t have time to waste here with you,” Mu Jianjian said without even turning her head. With a flick of her finger, she easily killed the sea monster that had just attacked her. She then fixed the hairpin to the deck. “But I must remind you, there are more sea monsters than just you at Black Sea Cliff.”
Linghu Zhuoyu's fingers, hidden beneath his wide sleeves, paused.
The rattling sound of the hairpin inserted into the ship's plank made the two sea monsters' expressions turn sour; they both clearly understood the girl's intentions.
Threaten them with all the monks on the ship?
Sorry, but then they turned around and coerced the other sirens in return.
Before the siren, clinging to a sliver of hope, could speak, Mu Jianjian expressionlessly cut off their escape route. "Having spent so long pulling people from passing ships into illusions and using their inner demons to hunt them, your combat skills must have deteriorated considerably, haven't they?"
"The longer the ships stay here, the more sirens will climb aboard. If you don't want the sirens that board the ship next to me to suffer the same fate as the one under my feet, you'd better break their illusions as soon as possible."
Let's just wait it out; after all, they're not the ones who will die next.
The girl's voice was clear and melodious, and the two sea monsters, unable to bear looking at the carcasses on the ship, finally began to sing a ballad.
The song echoed in the night sky, seemingly possessing the power to penetrate eardrums. Compared to the previous alluring style, this song was like a clear spring flowing through the mountains. At the same time, the sea fog gradually dissipated, and the clear moonlight finally shone on the sea without obstruction.
Beside Linghu Zhuoyu's disheveled gray-black hair, her clear eyes flashed with tenderness.
He had thought his sister would spare the two sea monsters for the sake of the people on the ship, but now it seemed he had worried too much.
An older sister with a temper and principles is even more adorable.
He looked up and noticed that the several unconscious cultivators standing on the deck were showing signs of waking up. He leisurely took out a veil from his spatial storage and put it on. As soon as the two sea monsters finished singing, he raised his hand and ended their lives.
Wuhen immediately gathered up the crumpled paper wrapped beside the boat, jumped off the wooden railing, shook his robes, and looked delighted, as if something interesting had just happened.
"Why not take this opportunity to kill more sirens?" he asked curiously, looking at the girl's figure.
Although these sentient demons don't have beast cores, aren't they all doing this to rid the people of evil?
After all, the sirens of Black Sea Cliff had wreaked havoc in the area, killing many people on passing ships. He hadn't expected the girl to quickly point them out and then stop.
"Why?" Mu Jianjian didn't expect the other party to ask such a question. She was confused and, due to the mental exhaustion after everything was resolved, her words were slightly perfunctory. "Because it has nothing to do with me, it's that simple."
Does she intend to dive into the ocean and wreak havoc, annihilating all the sea monsters hiding on the Black Sea cliffs?
Transforming into a righteous cultivator who vanquishes demons and monsters, and then hanging up a banner in a seaside village that reads "I have eliminated all the sea monsters, you can go out to sea safely" is just too stupid!
Mu Jianjian almost burst out laughing at her own imagination, but then her mind cleared up a bit, and she added, "Well, I'm not exactly a righteous person, and besides, acting like a 'righteous person' is itself a kind of dishonest act, isn't it?"
That's so convoluted... Is it actually the same principle as wolves eating sheep and people killing wolves?
She even jokingly thought about biodiversity—which moved the biology teacher to tears.
Wuhen watched the girl suppress her laughter, his curiosity growing stronger. Just as he was about to step forward to ask again, the boy wearing a veil blocked their way.
After separating them, she quickly reached out and grabbed the girl's sleeve. Linghu Zhuoyu's voice was soft and sweet, showing no trace of her previous coldness, "What did you mean by what you said earlier, sister?"
He remembered it all clearly, and it bothered him deeply.
What did you say?
Mu Jianjian recalled the things she had said to Yu Yu after she came out of the Yellow Springs Realm, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
She wasn't so bad as to vent her anger towards Linghu Zhuoyu from the illusionary demons onto the boy in front of her. She touched her nose and was about to say something random to steer the matter away.
The boy seemed to understand her intention, and he tightened his grip on her sleeve. "Sister?"
Mu Jianjian immediately lost her temper and answered truthfully, "Because I met you in the illusion of the inner demon."
Linghu Zhuoyu's pupils widened slightly.
Did he do something really bad to his sister?
Before he could get caught up in his own emotions, he heard the girl's cheerful voice comforting him, "In the inner demon, you kept calling me 'this one' and you weren't even my friend anymore. I'm just a little upset."
Waaah.
Mu Jianjian sobbed softly in her heart, as a tribute to herself when she was imprisoned in the dungeon beneath Yingzhou Duanyue Pool in the illusion.
Linghu Zhuoyu was not entirely convinced at first, but upon seeing the girl's slightly aggrieved face, all her worries vanished instantly.
Although I didn't expect it to be for this reason, the weight that had been hanging over my heart was lifted, and I couldn't help but smile.
It's good that it's not what he thinks.
Wuhen watched the two people talking and felt a strange sense of being ignored. He saw a white ball of fluff run over from a distance and jump onto him, so he angrily smacked its head, "Running away again! Running away again!"
The white ball nimbly dodged, then, without a care, nestled into the man's arm and closed its eyes to doze off.
My little darling!
Helpless, Wuhen pulled up the groggy cultivator at his feet and put on a familiar expression, "Oh, fellow Daoist, you've finally woken up. How are you feeling..."
As one person on the ship awoke, the previously silent air was finally filled with intermittent noise.
The monks on deck, seeing the two undisposed sea monster corpses before them and recalling the song they had heard and the dream they had before losing consciousness, realized what had happened.
They were attacked by the legendary sea monsters on the Black Sea cliffs!
The sounds of relief, crying, and conversation mingled in her ears, making her sense of hearing seem to be amplified to the maximum. Mu Jianjian yawned.
A genuine wave of drowsiness washed over her, and she decided to give herself a proper break by sleeping instead of cultivating. Just as she was about to return to her room, a roar accompanied by heavy footsteps reached the deck.
"Who killed these sea monsters?" A heavy, rough breath swept over them, and a burly man with a beard appeared in their sight.
After the crisis subsided and the people around them finally recovered from the illusion, they remembered their savior.
Before the cultivator, whom Wuhen had helped up, could point at him, Wuhen swaggered out, saying, "Of course it's me and those two—"
Wuhen raised his hand and pointed at Mu Jianjian and Linghu Zhuoyu, his eyes blazing with fury, "Why did it take you so long to kill the sea monster!"
"Huh?" Wuhen craned his neck forward in confusion.
Why are you questioning me when I didn't even come to thank you?
"My brother's heart is broken because he fell into the demonic path. If you had killed the sea monster sooner, my brother wouldn't have ruined his cultivation!" The burly man glared at Wuhen, his rough voice tinged with an accent. "He was the only one in our family with the talent for cultivation. Now that my brother has lost his path to cultivation, what will become of our family!"
Upon hearing this, some cultivators whose cultivation had been affected by their inner demons cast grateful but resentful glances at the man in the middle.
Seeing that the man in front of him had no cultivation yet dared to speak to him like that, Wuhen felt both anger and pity. He disdained to fight or talk with such a person and waved his hand to leave, but the other party pressed him step by step.
"Do you admit it or not!"
Looking at this scene, Mu Jianjian seemed to have been pricked like a hedgehog, and her whole body stiffened.
That's how people are. When they can't save their own lives, they think about how to save their own lives. After they save their own lives, they think about more vested interests.
Her cold gaze swept over the three people who were scrutinizing them. Seeing their eyes shrink back in fear, she raised her voice and said, "Admit what? Admit that you are shameless scoundrels who can't even break free from their inner demons and who turn around and attack others after being saved?"
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