Chapter 225 Well-reasoned and Based on Evidence
Mu Jianjian frowned slightly. She turned her head away, not wanting the other person to see her expression. Just as she was about to get up and leave this place of trouble, she felt a force pushing her from behind.
"Huh?"
She let out a soft murmur and then fell from the tree, rushing down towards the two teams that were fighting below.
Mu Jianjian cursed under her breath. She quickly adjusted her body's leverage position, trying to harmonize the true energy colliding between the two sides, but found it difficult to find a point of support.
In order to survive the test and avoid being eliminated, she chose the tallest tree!
This height... it must be at least a hundred meters long!
Mu Jianjian's brows furrowed. She took a deep breath, disregarding any inertial weight, and shoved her hand hard against the tree beside her, trying to cushion the fall.
"Crackling sound—"
The tiny scratches on the tree branches and leaves turned into sharp knife marks under the impact of the speed, forming bloody marks on her hands, but Mu Jianjian dared not relax in the slightest.
In her calm state, her right hand had lost all sensation, as if a painless tool had stopped her from moving.
As she got closer to the ground, Mu Jianjian strained to see her surroundings. In a daze, she finally spotted a branch that was relatively close to her. Taking a deep breath, she lunged at it.
Fortunately, they managed to steady themselves, and the two fighting teams gradually determined the winner, so they didn't notice the commotion in the bushes.
Just then, a familiar voice came from behind.
"I'm sorry, Miss Mu, my hand slipped just now." He said casually, completely disregarding the near-miss she had just faced.
Mu Jianjian, panting heavily as she hugged the tree branch, lowered her resentful eyes and looked at the two who had finally slaughtered the team. A plan came to mind.
Seeing the girl remain silent, looking like a little dumpling sulking, Nian Qing's lips curled into a slight smile, and a sense of inexplicable pleasure rose in his heart.
It seems like it seems like her...
The expression between her brows, and the unconscious little movements when she was startled, were so similar to her in the past...
Or is it this person, it's her?
Even though they had disappeared for hundreds of years, they suddenly reappeared during this Immortal Palace Competition and, after many twists and turns, ended up back by his side.
"Oh my, second brother, you have so many fruits, and you even gave me so many to use as food. I'm really embarrassed!"
The strange rural accent that came out of Mu Jianjian's mouth was so loud that it echoed throughout the forest and reached the ears of the two people who had just finished a fight.
They quickly followed the sound and spotted two people standing in the tree, their eyes showing wariness.
Mu Jianjian, seemingly oblivious to everything in the tree, put on a silly expression and took a big bite of the grilled fruit skewer she was holding. "I think these fruits are really delicious. Since Second Brother has so many fruits, could you give me some more? Second Brother just finished fighting and doesn't have any strength left. I can protect you!"
The intonation of each word cleverly avoids the original sound, yet the listener can still understand what she is saying.
The two on the ground saw that the girl with the disfigured face was indeed holding a string of roasted fruit in her hand at the top of the tree. When their eyes met, they immediately saw the greed in each other's eyes.
The woman's voice just now revealed several pieces of information.
Among them, especially the "second brother," had a lot of fruit. He used the excess as food and entertainment. Moreover, the "second brother" didn't have much true energy left after fighting the player!
As for the woman beside them who sounded like a simpleton... they didn't need to pay her any attention.
"Let's attack! Don't let him escape!" A tall man drew his sword.
“Alright! You first use your secret technique to cordon off the area, then I’ll use the Thousand Blades Technique to quickly kill him here!” Another person, who was relatively shorter, chimed in.
“Heh.” Nian Qing stood at the other end of the treetop, momentarily stunned when she heard the girl’s strange tone, but then her smile deepened, her Adam’s apple bobbing as she let out a soft chuckle.
He just pushed her, and then got angry and wanted revenge, right...?
But even if she didn't cling to the tree branch, he would still hold her.
Nian Qing flipped his right hand and a chess piece with deep scratches appeared at his fingertips. He raised his arm to overlap the chess piece in his line of sight with the figures of the two rushing towards him, and he uttered a soft "bang".
His voice was hoarse and languid, like a bored person playing chess to pass the time.
Seeing that the two people below understood the implication in her words and quickly set up a secret formation to kill the man, Mu Jianjian began to hum a tune in her heart.
Hmm, not bad, that's settled.
In fact, she didn't think the two of them could defeat the man, but at least they could buy her some time to escape.
Even without true qi cultivation, it's still easy to get rid of this terrifying man in this dark forest by using the gloomy terrain.
It's a pity that we can't get a close look at the cultivation techniques and secret arts of the upper realm cultivators.
Just as the three of them met as she had planned, Mu Jianjian was about to leave when she heard the man's soft "bang." The body of the cultivator in front of her bounced away as if he had hit a huge object, and his body was instantly thrown more than a hundred meters away, where he was lifeless!
Seeing his companion in such a state, the other cultivator had long lost his initial confidence. He shakily raised his hand, his voice trembling with disbelief, "You...you...you are from the Demon Palace...I want to report to the Celestial Official...No, no, as long as you spare my life, I will not say another word."
Mu Jianjian couldn't believe her eyes at all.
What!
Is there really such a big difference between the cultivators from the Immortal Palace and those from the Demon Realm?
She dared not watch the play any longer and ran in the opposite direction from the two of them, wishing she had more legs so she could run faster.
That's terrifying. If she had known those two cultivators were so "fragile," she wouldn't have come up with such a wicked idea. She's made enemies out of nothing.
After running for about ten minutes, Mu Jianjian looked back and saw that no one was chasing her in the deep bushes. She finally leaned against a tree branch, panting and wanting to rest for a while, when she heard a voice behind her.
“Miss Mu, why did you run away? I’ve been looking for you everywhere,” Nian Qing’s handsome and fair face gradually emerged from the shadows of the bushes. “I didn’t even know that I had become your ‘second brother’.”
The man's smile remained unchanged, but Mu Jianjian sensed his displeasure and threat within it.
Her heart pounded, and she felt she couldn't be frightened any longer. She forced a stiff smile and said, "In this world, meeting is fate! Seeing how amazing Second Brother is, I feel extremely honored."
Mu Jianjian inwardly cursed her own words.
"Then why is it Second Brother?" Nian Qing asked, savoring the title.
"Because I already have an older brother."
Of course not. In a moment of panic, I called him "Second Brother" because I thought he was silly.
But is that really the point?
Nian Qing lowered his eyes, looking at the petite girl with a disfigured face and a fawning expression. Complex emotions welled up inside him. "Since you call each other brother and sister, why did you run away just now?"
"What do you mean by 'escape'!" Mu Jianjian refused to admit it. "I'm just afraid that if I stay there, I'll hold my brother back. So naturally I have to run far away and wait for you to finish fighting before I come to find you."
Well-reasoned and supported by evidence.
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