Chapter 141 A Glance That Lasts a Lifetime
"What did you say?"
Linghu Zhuoyu suddenly raised his head. His deathly pale face finally reacted upon hearing the news. A wave of despair washed over him, and his whole body turned ice-cold.
"Hahahahahaha." Compared to her previous exaggerated laughter, Linghu Zhuxu now supported herself with her hands, her voice as clear as a silver bell. The setting sun's light fell into the courtyard from behind her, and the woman's expression was full of sorrow and resentment.
“She’s dead. My divine sense has already been planted in her body. She will walk step by step toward the snake pit, until her soul is completely scattered and her body is left behind.”
Divine consciousness leads.
Linghu Zhuoyu felt as if a gash had been ripped open in his heart. He slowly closed his eyes and then reopened them, his eyes bloodshot, as if hope had been swallowed up by the endless darkness.
The Divine Consciousness Guidance was created by Linghu Zhuxu, extending from the art of object manipulation. It uses a solid divine consciousness imprint to intertwine with a person's spiritual power, thereby turning a person into their puppet. From the moment a person becomes a puppet, it is very difficult to break unless the controller uses their heart's blood to dissolve it.
“I’ve changed my mind,” he said with a smile, though his eyes held an uncontrollable despair. “He told me on his deathbed that he would spare your life, but I’ve changed my mind.”
A dark red aura surged into the boy's body, his breathing becoming chaotic and disordered. True energy filled his surroundings as he walked step by step towards the woman, isolating himself from all senses and shutting out all sounds from his surroundings—
Fallen demon.
Linghu Zhuxu continued to giggle, her dazzling smile appearing particularly eerie in the current setting. "Even if you kill me, you can't escape the blood of the Linghu family, hahaha! How could someone like you, a freak and a madman, be liked? I'm helping you!"
It would be better to be her lover.
The woman's pupils gradually changed from dark to gray-white, and the spiritual energy in her mind split into countless streams that enveloped the boy!
Linghu Zhuoyu suppressed his chaotic true energy, which intensified his demonic aura, but his sharp gaze tore open a gap in the oncoming net.
"Yulang, let me take you to see the peach blossoms."
Linghu Zhuxu looked at the boy's fierce attack, cupped her face in her hands, neither dodging nor avoiding, and grinned.
——
“Don’t look at me like that,” Mu Jianjian said, standing on the snake cave and pointing to Shen Ningyu, who was behind Shen Fengzhou. “She went to the snake cave again. If I’m not mistaken, once this divine sense guide is engraved in her mind, it will follow her until she dies.”
Shen Fengzhou quickly turned around and saw his sister numbly walking towards the snake cave. He hurriedly reached out to stop her.
"The one who set up this divine sense was... Miss Linghu," Mu Jianjian lowered her eyes and spoke softly, "is that right?"
Shen Fengzhou used his true energy to suppress Shen Ningyu, but she was completely unaware. Even though she was subjected to extremely high pressure that crushed her flesh and bones, she still showed no expression. In desperation, he heard the girl behind him ask a question with certainty.
He recalled the madwoman's methods, his body trembled, and after meeting the girl's eyes, he was about to speak sarcastically, but was frightened by her aura.
Even though the other party's cultivation level was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, while he was at the Core Formation stage, he was still intimidated by those clear and cold eyes and didn't know how to speak for a moment.
“You’re a smart man,” he paused, “your sister Shen Ningyu tried to harm me but ended up falling into her own trap. Now the only one who can save her is Miss Linghu, and you have to watch her get stuck.”
Looking at the disheveled brother and sister, Mu Jianjian succinctly explained their predicament.
"What do you want?" Shen Fengzhou asked, yielding, seeing that Shen Ningyu's condition was getting worse and worse, and that he was even losing control of her.
"What is Miss Linghu's real name? What is her relationship with Linghu Zhuoyu?" Mu Jianjian was worried about the safety of Linghu Zhuoyu, who had been out of contact for most of the day.
“Linghu Zhuxu is the Pool Master’s…mother, the former Pool Master and one of the ‘Five Eccentrics’ of Yingzhou, but—”
Mother?
Was it really her mother?
For a moment, Mu Jianjian was confused about the cause and effect. The clear lines in her mind became chaotic because of this condition. "But what?"
Shen Fengzhou knew that hiding the news would not do him any good, so he sneered: "But everyone says that Miss Linghu's attitude towards Master Chi is very strange, not like that of a mother and son."
He only said half of what he meant and didn't continue.
Just as Mu Jianjian was about to speak, the man began to tell another story.
"The master of Duan Yue Pond has always been a member of the Linghu family. Each member of the Linghu family is exceptionally talented but lacks connections. By the time of Miss Linghu, she was the only one left. People in the inner city say that one year, at the Peach Blossom Banquet, Miss Linghu was captured by a Core Formation cultivator who was infatuated with her and was about to be turned into a cultivation vessel. It was a young master with only Foundation Establishment cultivation who stepped forward and saved her..."
"The two quickly fell in love, but when Miss Linghu became pregnant with Master Chi, Young Master An couldn't stand her temper and broke up with her."
"Rumor has it that the woman he later married was thrown into a snake pit by Miss Linghu... After learning that he was pregnant, Young Master An seemed to have a change of heart, and in recent years the two of them have appeared hand in hand at the Peach Blossom Banquet."
Through Shen Fengzhou's narration, Mu Jianjian gradually learns about another side of the original book.
She bit her lip, recalling how she had once asked Linghu Zhuoyu about the purpose of obtaining water and spider blood in the Xuan Tian Secret Realm.
How did Yu Yu answer her?
He wanted to destroy the soul, to destroy his father's soul.
"What kind of personality does Linghu Zhuxu have?" Mu Jianjian's heart was opened by the successive influx of information.
“She’s a madwoman,” Shen Fengzhou said, looking at his sister’s ghostly appearance with a deep-seated hatred in his voice. “When An Liuyu was around, she acted like a human being, but behind An Liuyu’s back, she was just a madwoman living in her own world.”
How could he not see that his sister was being used as a pawn by that madman Linghu Zhuxu?
He had clearly warned them beforehand, but it was all in vain.
"Then what about her relationship with Linghu Zhuoyu—"
"Who are you to the Pool Master?" Shen Fengzhou interrupted Mu Jianjian, his gaze complex.
"friend."
“Ha, friends? The Linghu family are all lunatics,” Shen Fengzhou said with a strange expression, withdrawing his probing and continuing, “It is said, just said, that Miss Linghu treats Master Chi badly and often throws him into snake pits… She has done enough rotten things for An Liuyu on the surface, who knows what she does behind the scenes?”
Throw Yu Yu into the snake pit?
"Do you know where she is now?" An ominous premonition rose in her heart, and Mu Jianjian asked anxiously.
"The peach blossom grove on the mountaintop? She'll always be in that peach blossom grove." After finishing his explanation, Chen Fengzhou asked urgently, "You're the Pool Master's friend. When you see him, ask him to come and save my sister!"
"When did I promise to save Shen Ningyu?" Mu Jianjian hurriedly took a step, her voice filled with confusion upon hearing the man's voice.
"You, you, you!" Shen Fengzhou struggled to suppress Shen Ningyu, who was walking towards the snake cave. After learning that he had been tricked, he was filled with resentment and could not say a word as he pointed at the girl's back as she strode away.
He remembered her!
If it weren't for his sister, he could have grabbed her right now and thrown her into the cave to feed the snakes!
Mu Jianjian no longer cared about Shen Fengzhou's thoughts; she had no intention of helping her enemy. Now, she was extremely worried about Linghu Zhuoyu.
As the last rays of the setting sun dipped below the distant mountains, their gentle glow softly touched the earth, the fiery red dissipated, and the night sky, now draped in deep blue, emerged.
When Mu Jianjian rushed to the peach blossom forest, countless petals fell from the sky in the darkness, slowly lowering the curtain. There were no people from the inner city who came to attend the peach blossom banquet. Only two figures stood facing each other in the sky.
Her pupils widened slightly.
The young man, possessed by a demon, wore a robe dripping with blood. With a burst of energy, he shattered the sky, and the woman opposite him stood in mid-air, her expression breathtakingly beautiful.
Two powerful pressures from Core Formation cultivators pressed against his body, and a raging wind surged as if turning the pages of a giant book, sweeping up everything in the world. Peach petals poured into the night sky, and under the magnificent light of the rune array, they were like a dazzling rain of stars falling down.
The east wind at night releases a thousand trees of flowers.
The wind blew down, and stars fell like rain.
She watched as Linghu Zhuoyu raised his arm and brought it down on the woman's neck.
What happened in less than a second seemed to Mu Jianjian as slow as frames of a slow-motion film. Her pupils constricted, she raised her arm toward the two of them, and screamed, "No—"
Linghu Zhuxu can die, can be killed by anyone, but she cannot be killed by Linghu Zhuoyu.
She doesn't deserve to get his hands dirty.
The girl's piercing scream pierced through the layers of violently fluctuating true energy and reached the ears of the boy, who was a hundred feet above the ground.
As if suddenly injected with new life, Linghu Zhuoyu snapped out of his demonic state and looked down at the girl who was running towards him anxiously.
The dormant heart began to beat again after a long silence.
A glance that lasts a lifetime.
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