Chapter 214 Shovel one now
“I am just a pitiful woman who was dragged from the Red Chamber into Baili Yicheng’s mansion. I was disfigured because I angered him, and then he threw me here. Before I even understood what was going on, I was about to be boiled alive and eaten by you.”
The thin woman standing to one side had tears welling up in her eyes, and placed her hands on Mu Jianjian's back.
"Your words are contradictory. If what you say is true, how were you able to beat me?" The big man sneered, clearly not buying into the sob story.
"How can one person defeat ten or a hundred people?" Mu Jianjian retorted, standing up.
“Since you’ve said that, then I’ll have a go with you,” the burly man said to the boy as he walked out of the cave. “Little Cheng, watch out. This woman is nothing but a liar who spouts nonsense. Nobody from Baili Yicheng’s mansion is any good. You’ve misjudged her this time.”
Mu Jianjian's legs were sore and numb from being in the sack for so long. She stumbled when she got up and was supported by a thin woman next to her. She raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Thank you, Ji Ning."
Ji Ning's pupils widened as she saw the girl stagger out of the cave, leaning against the wall without taking her hand, her body trembling but not stopping. She was moved and somewhat puzzled at the same time.
How did she know her name was Ji Ning?
At the bottom of the cliff, a huge iron pot was still bubbling and steaming, with flames rising and swirling below, adding to the heat for everyone present.
Mu Jianjian stopped, coughed, put her hand to her mouth, and looked extremely weak.
"It's starting." The burly man said impatiently, looking at the half-dead girl opposite him.
"Mm." Mu Jianjian had just nodded when a surge of true energy rapidly appeared in front of her.
It has the momentum, but it's too slow.
Her right pupil flashed with a pupil-shifting technique, and a second before the true energy arrived, she slightly turned her body to dodge it.
"Boom—"
A loud bang occurred, and countless flying stones rained down on the ground, while the girl stood nimbly in a spot where she would not be affected, as if everything was within her calculations.
People in the cave on the cliff peered out to watch the fight between the two. They thought it was a coincidence that the big man missed his first attack, but they didn't expect that the newcomer would dodge the attack again and again.
"Xiao Cheng, who do you think will win?" Ji Ning walked to the boy's side and asked worriedly.
"That's not the problem. The problem is, who do you want to win?" Lu Shaocheng turned to look at her.
"Me?" Ji Ning didn't expect the other party to ask her. "If the boss wins, she will be eaten by us. If she wins... several old people in the cave will starve to death."
If they had a way out, they wouldn't spend all day squatting by the "Sky Crack" to catch people, let alone eat them.
“This girl will win.” Lu Shaocheng’s words interrupted Ji Ning’s thoughts.
"Why...?"
The girl's blood had dried up all over her body, and her original appearance was no longer recognizable. She had great difficulty walking, and she had been hiding all along, without making a move yet.
“She can always calculate the timing and range of the boss’s moves and dodge with minimal effort. It’s not that she can’t make a move, but she probably wants to wait until the boss runs out of energy before she attacks.” Lu Shaocheng sighed softly.
Even without cultivation, how could someone fight to this extent against a leader at the Qi Condensation stage...?
"What are you doing hiding like this! If you're so capable, have a fair fight with me!" The burly man grew increasingly impatient as the girl dodged away like a nimble eel, and couldn't help but roar.
"Incompetent," Mu Jianjian said calmly, her eyes sweeping over the burly man's increasingly unsteady stance, knowing that it was time for her to counterattack.
He wanted to tear off the hairpin from his head to use as a weapon, but when he raised his hand, he found that his head was empty.
"Oh right, the hairpin was stolen." She murmured softly, her eyes filled with confusion and sadness.
The Morning and Evening Hairpin is gone, and the Fire Fox Dagger is with Baili Yicheng.
But this expression only lasted for a moment before Mu Jianjian took out the Rain Ruler from the system space. Her figure disappeared from the spot in an instant, and the next second after everyone saw her, she appeared behind the big man, the Rain Ruler in her hand pointing directly at his vulnerable neck.
"You lost." The three words resounded powerfully, echoing among the rocky cliffs.
"You're cheating! What is this if not a sneak attack?" Cold sweat beaded on the burly man's forehead, but he dared not move an inch.
"In a one-on-one fight, what's the point of sneak attacks? When it really starts, you can't control whether the other person uses open or underhanded tactics." Mu Jianjian put the Rain Ruler back into her space. With the outcome decided, she leaned against the wall again, panting and resting.
“Miss, we have lost.” Lu Shaocheng walked up to Mu Jianjian and bowed slightly.
"Xiao Cheng, I—" The big man was about to say something when he was interrupted.
“Boss, we’ve lost, we’ve lost. It’s not that we can’t accept defeat,” Lu Shaocheng said, then turned to the weak girl. “If you’d like, I can have someone prepare a room for you. You can ask me anything you want to know. I’ll tell you everything.”
"A room?" Mu Jianjian asked, puzzled.
With sandstorms raging here, where are there any rooms?
"I can have someone dig one out of the cave for the girl to use, but we don't have a doctor here to heal her wounds."
Mu Jianjian: ...
Can one be shoveled out right away?
That does fit the style here.
"Xiao Cheng, what should we do with those guys in the East District tonight?" The burly man scratched his head, looking annoyed.
"Boss, don't panic."
After watching the boy calm the big man down, Mu Jianjian called someone to get a shovel and prepared to sit down and rest in a corner for a while. However, she was stopped by something in the corner.
She then noticed an old man sitting in the corner.
The old man's body was thin as bones, and his whole body seemed to be covered by an extremely disproportionately large robe, crawling with insects and ants, and even covered with specks of sand and gravel, but the owner was too weak to clean it up.
They were starved to this extent.
Mu Jianjian recalled the extravagant and magnificent palaces she had seen in Baili Yicheng's mansion, and the sight of those cultivators and officials indulging in debauchery in the arms of women in the front courtyard of the Red Pavilion, and couldn't help but feel a sense of irony.
Behind the red gates, meat and wine go to waste; on the roads, the bones of those frozen to death lie.
This situation certainly exists in the territory of every power on the continent, but the Cloud Pavilion has amplified this conflict to the greatest extent.
No wonder that when the male protagonist, Li Mochen, said he wanted to change things and become the new sect leader, he was surrounded by many people.
But why hasn't the male lead, Li Mochen, appeared yet?
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