Chapter 256 Wake up, you idiot!
Now that Shan Chuxue knew she had been exposed, she abandoned her previous naive demeanor, frowned slightly, and remained silent as she looked at the girl in front of her.
She knew that this time, no matter what, her master would not let Mu Jianjian leave.
"Clang, clang—"
The Rain Ruler created a barrier between the two, and Mu Jianjian used her pupil-shifting technique to instantly drop below. At that moment, the ink dots reappeared, blocking her way out.
Upon seeing this, Shan Chuxue noticed a thin sheet of white paper appearing at her fingertips.
The white stripes swayed back and forth, making a rustling sound as they were blown by the wind, their sharp edges reflecting white light.
"You don't need to do anything." Baili Mochen stopped Shan Chuxue's movements with his hand, and a light-colored long-handled calligraphy brush appeared in front of him.
The pen of judgment!
Helplessly, Shan Chuxue put away the white slip of paper in her hand, and her pupils narrowed slightly when she saw the pen emitting a pale golden light.
The master actually used this to deal with Miss Mu?
This is for real... we are determined to win.
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"When the toad-shaped cauldron emerges, it will suppress the five poisonous creatures—"
Mu Jianjian narrowed her eyes, sensing the enclosed aura emanating from all around. She immediately raised her hand and took out a giant dark green cauldron from her system space, then placed it in the center of the passageway.
At the same time, dark green golden light emanated from the mouths of the mythical beasts carved on the four corners of the toad cauldron, and a faint, strange fragrance and poisonous smell seeped out.
"Black is ink, white is fragrance."
A soaring aura emanated from beside the girl not far away, yet Baili Mochen's clothes didn't even flutter. His expression remained calm and composed, but the icy coldness in his eyes was chilling.
With his right hand holding the pen, he waved it in the air. The ink marks, after they lingered, actually transformed into physical energy, penetrating everywhere!
Mu Jianjian remembered the contents of the original book and knew what the other party was holding. She was already having difficulty standing due to the pressure of the other party's perfected Core Formation, and she was furious when she saw this.
That's a pen for judgment!
The male, Li Mochen, was already proficient in calligraphy and painting. He naturally possessed extraordinary talent by integrating his true qi into his calligraphy. He created his own secret technique as a gate, which could block the Dao and judge life and death with his pen!
The scroll drawn with the Judgment Pen can form an independent realm as long as Baili Mochen wants it—similar to Ye Wuluo's twelve-sided fan.
Their cultivation level was already overwhelming... and now they even used a high-grade magic weapon to seal off her last escape route.
All I can say is... he truly lives up to his reputation as the ruthless and heartless fourth male lead.
The illusory butterfly shimmered with a pale purple light in the air, passing through the boundary separated by ink. Mu Jianjian made a decisive move and used her pupil-changing technique to remove it, and her figure disappeared from the sight of Baili Mochen and the other person.
"Master..." Shan Chuxue looked up anxiously at Baili Mochen as soon as the girl disappeared.
She clenched her fists, unsure whether to be happy or sad.
When Miss Mu first came to her rescue, she knew that the other person was not the type to stay in a cage.
That person's talent is no less than that of Ye Wuluo, the pride of the continent...
"First, you should cure the incense poison in your body." Baili Mochen looked towards a corner of the Red Chamber, said this, took a step forward, and then disappeared.
Dan Chuxue was stunned. After examining her body with her hand, she realized that she had been poisoned without her knowledge!
After leaving the inkstone, Mu Jianjian silently moved through the corridors outside the various elegant pavilions of the Red Mansion.
[Host...] The system suddenly appeared.
"Don't make a sound yet, he's still behind us," she said calmly.
She didn't think Baili Mochen, who had taken out the judgment pen, was so unguarded; he had escaped too easily.
"Okay..." the system said weakly, then shrank back down.
It really felt sorry for its host.
Despite bearing wounds of varying depths, she woke up without resting and learned of being betrayed and schemed against by someone close to her. Now, she must escape capture...
They keep saying they're slacking off and giving up, but how does that count?
She was clearly doing her best to get everything she wanted.
"Pointy".
Just as Mu Jianjian opened a window in a private room to go outside, she heard a man's helpless voice coming from inside.
She placed her hand on the wooden door, momentarily stunned and caught in a dilemma.
Using the path guided by the Illusionary Butterfly to leave the Red Mansion should be the safest option, so why is Baili Mochen here?
"Don't call me by that name." The annoyance between Mu Jianjian's brows vanished in an instant. Not wanting to look at the man's face, she closed the door expressionlessly, and the next moment she felt an otherworldly sense of being enveloped from behind!
"The Underworld—"
She focused her mind, and suddenly a water droplet the size of a fingernail appeared at her fingertip. The droplet gradually expanded and swirled into a small vortex that enveloped her.
Unlike the secret techniques of other cultivators, Baili Mochen's secret techniques are more gentle and subtle, using ink to paint on cloth, like water dripping on stone, until the killing intent is finally revealed, killing the enemy with a single blow.
If she wanted to gain an advantage over the fourth man, the only thing she could do was to act quickly.
But if the opponent can't figure out his true energy, how can he finish the battle quickly?
Baili Mochen listened to the commotion outside his room. He sighed softly, his expression complex.
Jianjian is really going to fight him with her full strength... so he doesn't need to hold back.
"A long scroll of ink painting".
With his left hand supporting the sleeve of his right hand, Baili Mochen spoke slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a surge of spiritual energy rushed out of the door.
Mu Jianjian felt a "ding" sound in her mind, and then she swayed and fell down.
Just as she was about to fall to the ground, the door to the elegant pavilion opened, and the man in black pulled her into his arms, instantly filling her nostrils with the subtle fragrance of ink paintings.
Baili Mochen didn't give her a chance to resist. His eyes were dark and filled with obsession. "Jianjian, you can't leave now. Come back with me, okay?"
Following the man's gaze downwards, Mu Jianjian discovered that her lower body, from the thighs down, had been sucked into the painting and disappeared!
No wonder I suddenly couldn't stand up, and now I can't feel anything in my legs!
She gritted her teeth, her defenses crumbling, and screamed, "You motherfucker—"
It's one thing to be schemed against before, but now that you've torn off all pretense, you don't care at all and are using every trick in the book against her, right?
"Jianjian—" Baili Mochen's expression turned cold, but he still did not stop Mu Jianjian's cursing.
"You damned Baili Mochen, I was so blind to think you were good-looking and pitiful. I told you back then that I would stay away from people with the surname Baili. You were right. You say you didn't mean to harm me, but can you honestly say that you weren't the one who did those things?"
Mu Jianjian kept attacking until she saw the other person's increasingly deep gaze, and finally she was afraid.
Reason returned to her mind, and she realized that discretion was the better part of valor, so she shut up and remained silent.
Turning her head, she looked at Shan Chuxue and the others coming from the corridor, including Zhuang Mei, who was disheveled.
When Zhuang Mei saw the girl's figure concealed by the man's wide sleeves, and her whole body curled up in his arms, her jealousy once again began to surge within her.
Why does this person always manage to win the favor of others?
But what skills does she have that she can use to seduce men with her pretty face and flirt with them?
Mu Jianjian felt conflicted, realizing that she had just been arrogantly retaliating against the woman, only to find herself in a similar situation.
"Give them a good talking-to, then clean them up." Baili Mochen picked up Mu Jianjian and was about to leave when a sharp cry rang out from behind him.
Zhuang Mei, facing Shan Chuxue's murderous gaze, burst into tears. "Sister Mu, you are heartless and ungrateful. We were so close, yet you betrayed me and pushed me into the abyss... Heaven is so unfair..."
She wiped the dust off her face with her sleeve, hoping to get a glance from the leading man and gain his sympathy.
The sobbing sounds reached everyone present intermittently.
When Shan Chuxue recalled what had happened, she naturally knew that what she said was a lie. Just as she was about to refute her, she heard a hoarse girl's voice.
"So what? There are so many people in the world, Heaven doesn't care whether you're fair or not." Mu Jianjian saw through the other person's thoughts at a glance, but didn't want to refute them.
A pang of heartache flashed in Baili Mochen's eyes as he held the girl tightly in his arms. He turned his head and glared fiercely at the woman lying on the ground. "Kill her."
The piercing gaze startled Zhuang Mei, and she knew in her heart that what the other person said was true.
Why should I?!
"No... Mu Yuanyuan! I still have a younger sister! She's waiting for me to avenge her! How could you be so heartless..."
Zhuang Mei was filled with hatred, but she was powerless to change the outcome.
She couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If she hadn't been jealous in the first place and had continued to call her sister, would things have turned out differently?
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Seeing that she couldn't resist, Mu Jianjian went to Duyunfang and said she wanted to see Wan Xing.
"Is it that alien?" Baili Mochen frowned slightly.
Mu Jianjian nodded and yawned. "Yeah, and if you want me to cooperate, give me back my dagger."
Since the Fire Fox Dagger is not in Baili Yicheng's hands, it must be with Baili Mochen.
"I can let you see her, but I can't give you that knife." Baili Mochen's tone left no room for negotiation as he finished speaking.
"Put me down, I won't run around. You can't keep me trapped in this painting forever, can you?" Mu Jianjian knew it wouldn't be that easy, so she changed the subject and tried to negotiate.
"I'll take you there."
Left with no other choice, Mu Jianjian had to compromise and, under Baili Mochen's supervision, was able to meet Wan Xing, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.
Wan Xing was locked in a courtyard. Although he was no longer as disheveled and haggard as when they first met, he still looked tired. When he saw her, his expression was first one of disbelief, and then turned to excitement and joy.
She stared intently as Baili Mochen walked out of the room, then immediately turned and grabbed Mu Jianjian's hand, pinching it so hard it could turn flesh red.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Mu Jianjian didn't expect her to do this, and she frowned and shrank back. "What are you doing?"
"You didn't betray me, did you?" Wan Xing felt the real touch in her hand and withdrew her hand, looking pitiful as if she was admitting her mistake.
Upon hearing this, Mu Jianjian felt an urge to rip her brain out to see what it was made of, and retorted, "What do you think?"
Wan Xing swallowed hard. "I'm just a little scared... Please don't be angry..."
Ever since she was caught after escaping with the dagger given to her by the other party in the Red Mansion, she has wandered here, filled with fear, anger, and helplessness, terrified of returning to the days when she was skinned and bled.
Fortunately, I ran into her again after being locked up here for only a short time.
"When are we leaving here?" Wan Xing's excitement was evident on his face.
Mu Jianjian's expression twisted for a moment, but she quickly regained her composure, looking at the expectant woman opposite her, not even wanting to shatter her illusions, "I was also locked up here."
"Huh?" Wan Xing couldn't believe his ears.
"I'm locked up here too~" Mu Jianjian repeated her words, adding an interjection to make the sentence sound lighter.
"But the handsome man who just came in carried you in," Wan Xing said, realizing what was happening.
"He's the one who wanted to use me," Mu Jianjian gritted her teeth. "Our plan was caught by that dog Baili Yicheng; he's the one who betrayed us!"
Don't force her to recall such stupid things again and again!
“Oh… so it was him. What a pity,” Wan Xing’s tone became dejected. “I thought he was so handsome and amazing…”
Mu Jianjian: ?
"Can't you wake up?"
Silly child, think about how you were abducted to the Red Mansion for auction.
“I’m perfectly clear-headed. I’m just like him,” Wan Xing suddenly recalled the person she had been in love with, “a handsome face, but doing things that are worse than animals…”
As Baili Mochen listened to the conversation inside the house from the courtyard outside, his expression grew increasingly grim, and he even harbored murderous intent towards the noisy woman inside.
Seeing that Wan Xing was getting more and more agitated, Mu Jianjian immediately covered her mouth, winked, and whispered, "Calm down, calm down. Do you want to come up with another plan to sneak out with me?"
Wan Xing's sobs stopped abruptly. "Really?"
His eyes, still wet with tears, shone with trust.
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In a palace in Duyunfang.
A man in white held a hairpin woven with three intertwined flowers, his gaze deep and lost in thought.
It wasn't until someone came from outside to report the news that the man in white seemed to suddenly come to life, turning his head to look at him.
"Your Majesty, the array in the sand cave was opened by someone long ago, and our people who went into the sand cave reported back that Miss Mu was not among those left behind."
"Go to the Red Mansion and the brothel to investigate further." Chi Wenqing withdrew his gaze.
After the man left, an old man entered the palace. When Wen Lao saw the man's appearance, he sighed softly, "It seems that the young prince knows that Miss Mu has left the sand cave."
He came to Duyunfang injured, and dealing with the people scattered here from the upper realm had aggravated his old injuries, yet he went mad and slaughtered the palace because of that girl...
How long has it been since he last saw the young prince angry?
“She’s not the type to wait for someone else to rescue her,” Chi Wenqing said, a smile playing on her lips as if she had just realized something. “The one who broke the formation must be her, and it can only be her.”
She must have recovered her inner strength, and then went off to take revenge in a fit of anger.
I wonder if Jianjian will blame him for being too late when they meet again.
Under the moonlight, the young man was as handsome as jade, gentle and refined.
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