Chapter 140 He begged me to kill him
Shen Ningyu couldn't understand her words, but the girl's indifferent expression, as if she saw through everything, sent a chill down her spine. "Miss Mu has misunderstood..."
It's alright. Linghu Zhuxu said that once the membrane of this petal is broken with true energy, it will be gradually drawn in by divine sense as long as you get close. Besides, she wasn't completely unprepared.
"Tell me honestly, where is Linghu Zhuoyu?" Mu Jianjian didn't want to waste time with this person. "What is your purpose? If you don't tell me, I'll put this petal on your forehead."
Shen Ningyu waved her hand, "I don't understand what you're saying."
"Smack—"
Just as Mu Jianjian was about to raise her hand to slap the peach petals onto the girl's face, several Foundation Establishment cultivators dressed in black emerged from the peach grove and surrounded her. Shen Ningyu, pale-faced and terrified, retreated.
"The quantity is more than expected," Mu Jianjian said thoughtfully, glancing at Shen Ningyu who was patting her chest. "More than your method, I want to know the reason."
"The reason is that I want you dead." Because she had come with helpers, Shen Ningyu stood firm again and no longer hid her hatred.
"Why? We should have no enmity between us," Mu Jianjian asked while dodging the attacks of several people, "Is it because of Linghu Zhuoyu?"
“The dead don’t need to know.” Shen Ningyu stared intently at the girl’s every move, calculating the time she lingered with the flower petals in her hand.
“That’s it,” Mu Jianjian said, easily severing a man’s neck with her hairpin. Her nimble movements made her seem like a dancer on a knife’s edge. “Even if you kill me, you can’t get his attention or love. Love shouldn’t be obtained through such means.”
Shen Ningyu watched as the young woman calmly dispatched the men under her command, one by one, until they were cut down in the wind. Through the layers of figures, she actually saw something in the other woman's eyes—
Sympathy and pity?
She was wrong...
How could someone like that be a country bumpkin?
She brought five people with her, the highest of whom was at the eighth level of the Foundation Establishment stage, yet this person didn't even take them seriously.
With her thoughts in disarray, Shen Ningyu had no time to pay attention to what Mu Jianjian was saying; all she wanted to do was call her brother from the Peach Blossom Banquet to rescue her!
Mu Jianjian killed the last person, glanced at the scarlet corpse lying among the peach petals, and felt sorry that such a beautiful scene had been ruined.
Feeling the petal's influence on her consciousness growing stronger, she frowned and rushed to Shen Ningyu's side in a few steps, slapping the petal on her forehead like she was catching a chick.
"No, no, no—I won't beg you, I'll tell you whatever you want to know—" Shen Ningyu screamed loudly, but this time Mu Jianjian didn't give her a chance to back out.
The petals instantly blended into her skin upon contact with it. Shen Ningyu lowered her hands to her sides, her eyes glazed over, and then she lifted her foot and walked towards the edge of the cliff.
Like a puppet that has been programmed and is being executed.
Mu Jianjian quietly used her mental power to remove the influence of the divine consciousness in the petals on her, while following behind her, wanting to see where she would go.
The two walked down the cliff, which was not deep, about ten meters. There were even peach petals that had fallen from above, sparsely decorating the dark bottom of the cliff.
Mu Jianjian could vaguely hear intermittent animal sounds coming from the darkness at the end of her vision.
She parted her lips slightly, a guess forming in her mind, until the entire view of the bottom of the cliff came into view, confirming her guess—
Snake den.
At the edge of darkness, on a cliff corner that blocks out most of the sunlight, in a dark gray concave cave hundreds of meters long and wide, countless snakes are densely entwined, and in the center is the remains of a huge monster, devouring and tearing at the lifeless beast. Holes of different sizes are etched on the stone walls, and snakes of all kinds with venomous fangs keep emerging from the holes and surging into the center to join the feast.
The fragrance of peach blossoms mingles with the stench of rotting corpses.
Birds chirped loudly, and snakes hissed softly.
The snake's lair was actually located beneath the magnificent peach orchards covering the mountainside.
This is where the original owner first died.
For the first time, Mu Jianjian had a direct experience of the scene described in the original book. No matter how detailed the words in the book were, they could not compare to standing in front of the snake pit with her own eyes.
For some reason, her eyes welled up with tears. She turned to look at Shen Ningyu, who had already stepped into the snake pit, without any sympathy.
If she hadn't dodged, she would be the one unknowingly walking into the snake pit now.
As if smelling fresh meat, the snakes in the snake pit turned their heads to look at the falling Shen Ningyu, their tongues flicking as they twisted towards the direction where the girl was about to fall.
Mu Jianjian watched all this from the stone cave above the snake cave. Just as she was about to turn her head, a fierce true energy attacked her from behind, moving so fast that it was close to the Core Formation stage!
If you dodge, you'll fall into a snake pit; if you don't dodge, this attack will either kill you or cripple you!
Mu Jianjian's eyes turned ruthless. She stood up to avoid the attack. As her body plummeted, she saw Shen Ningyu being carried away by a man. Her right pupil flashed, and she returned to the cave.
"Are you Shen Ningyu's brother?" she asked as she landed.
Shen Fengzhou's hands were still trembling as he stared intently at the indifferent-looking girl in front of him.
If he had been a step later, his sister would have been torn to pieces by the thousands of snakes in the snake pit!
It's all this woman's fault!
——
Bright red blood splattered on the green grass, like bouquets blooming on the grass and trees. A gentle breeze rustled the tender grass until a rolling human head fell to the ground, shattering the light and shadow on the ground.
"I already said, he's dead." Linghu Zhuoyu's aura turned completely cold, standing in the dim sunlight, utterly lifeless.
"You think killing the Luo family head is enough?" Linghu Zhuxu, covered in blood, glared at the boy before her, whose clothes were only stained with a trace of red. She raised her hand again. "Here—"
One has to admire that his progress surpasses even hers; he truly deserves to be called a cultivation prodigy. However, regardless of the circumstances, all the poison arrays and talismans he knows were taught to him by her, and he can easily master them.
“He’s determined to die, you should know that very well,” Linghu Zhuoyu interrupted.
Why can't we face this fact?
"No! What do you know? Yulang loves me so much, he said he would stay with me for life!" Linghu Zhuxu paused, her voice almost screaming, "Unless...unless you kill him...you commit patricide?"
Linghu Zhuoyu's hand, which was forming an array, trembled. The woman seized the opportunity and whispered in his ear, accompanied by three ferocious claw marks that pierced his robe and carved into his bone.
“Yu Lang,” Linghu Zhuxu said softly, each word distinct, a thousand emotions suppressed in her eyes, transforming into a gentle question, “How could you kill your father?”
The vibrato seeped into my bones little by little from my ears.
When Linghu Zhuoyu was called "Yulang," he recoiled as if electrocuted. Childhood memories flashed through his mind, and his face turned pale instantly. As if he had finally made up his mind, he spoke to the innocent-looking woman.
"He begged me to kill him."
"Hahahahahaha," Linghu Zhuxu was stunned for a moment before bursting into wild laughter, his chest heaving. Then he suddenly looked down at the face that resembled his beloved and said, "It's just a pity about the woman you brought into the city. She's probably fallen into a snake pit and been bitten to death."
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