Chapter 274 Thank you for your cooperation
Upon hearing these words, Mu Jianjian stiffened. She could clearly feel the oppressive aura emanating from the other side, and she tried to hold her breath to minimize her presence.
"Are you nervous, Mu Jianjian?" Ouyang Wenjin's brocade robe was spotless from head to toe, standing out conspicuously in the dark, otherworldly realm.
In contrast, the girl in front of him had congealed blood on her face, and her robes were already in many strands, some still sticking to her skin, outlining her beautiful figure, but her exposed skin was covered with blemishes.
Ouyang Wenjin opened his own otherworld, eliminating the other spirits. Even though only one remained in front of him, he was completely confident. "Let me guess, why did Miss Mu of the Xuan Shuang Sect, who had been ill for so long, suddenly recover and be able to cultivate?"
Mu Jianjian looked straight ahead and met the man's gaze, without answering his question.
Within an hour, in this other world, only she could stand up and confront Ouyang Wenjin.
If she falls, all the cultivators in the "Panmen" will die, and those behind her, such as Sang Wanyue, Linghu Zhuoyu, and Ye Wuluo, will be silently erased from existence.
Mu Jianjian had never felt so much pressure on her shoulders. From the very beginning of her transmigration into the book, she had been positioned as a lazy bum, but looking back on her journey to the present, it seemed that she had always seized opportunities and survived desperate situations.
The enemy before them was more powerful than any of the beings from the upper realm they had ever encountered. He knew about the lower realm, understood her better, and possessed unimaginable secret techniques and abilities.
But this is a battlefield for two people, and also a battle for her alone.
“If Miss Mu is willing to cooperate and tell me the reason, I might be able to contact my master and ask him to spare your life.” A black shaving appeared in Ouyang Wenjin’s palm. He gently pinched the shaving, and the flow of time around the two of them changed.
A smug glint flashed in the depths of his eyes. As long as he could slow down the flow of time around Mu Jianjian enough, he would be invincible forever. Even if she attacked at top speed, it would be nothing more than the fluttering of a small insect in his eyes.
"What if I don't cooperate?" Mu Jianjian asked softly.
“In this world, you can’t just die with your memories intact,” Ouyang Wenjin said clearly and bluntly. “After I take you back, they will use secret techniques to dig out everything from your brain.”
His tone gradually became excited, "It's a pity I don't have this secret technique, otherwise reading what's in your head now would definitely be a great help to our operation."
“This is a dead end, you have no choice,” Ouyang Wenjin said with a smile. “Don’t expect that person to come and save you.”
Mu Jianjian suddenly looked up, her icy gaze meeting his.
"He's busy dealing with other forces in the upper realm and can't even take care of himself, how can he protect you?" He paused, "Besides, he hasn't even told you this information, so how do you know he's not using you?"
“You talk a lot,” the girl opposite finally said her first words since entering this other world, “and you’re really… confident enough.”
They would actually sow discord on the sidelines, explaining her current situation clearly before offering her a rosy promise to appease her.
Mu Jianjian remained expressionless, and an instant after raising her hand, a stream of deep yellow water poured down from the sky!
"I won't make the same basic mistake of letting you escape from the space last time." The black dust on Ouyang Wenjin's body transformed into maple leaves, surging towards him as if blown away by a strong wind.
The black shavings, resembling maple leaves, naturally touched the water of the Yellow Springs and slowly merged into it!
Mu Jianjian alertly tried to extract the third realm, but found that the black dust was not corroded after it merged in; instead, it turned into countless strands and spread out!
"Annihilation—"
In the blink of an eye, Ouyang Wenjin was standing in front of her. At this moment, her face had begun to blur. Compared to her previous pale and weak appearance, she now looked rosy and energetic, and when she smiled, you could clearly see the tiger teeth in her mouth.
His previously dark eyes now faintly glowed with a red light.
Clearly, his current appearance is closer to his appearance in the upper realm.
Ouyang Wenjin looked up at the Yellow Springs Water, which had been completely invaded by black dust, then looked back at the girl who was motionless because time had stopped. "It's over."
The girl seemed to have been put on pause, her eyes wide with resentment, even her hair seemed to float in the air.
“If you want to stall for time until my otherworld ends, you don’t have to be so aggressive,” a regretful voice echoed in the space, “but even though it’s only for an hour, I can easily imprison you here.”
He looked at the scene with satisfaction, and was about to use his secret technique to wipe out the people in the other world again, when he heard a sound coming from not far away.
"Tick-tock—tick-tock—"
It sounded like water was leaking from somewhere, slowly and rhythmically tapping down on the ground.
Ouyang Wenjin turned his head and scanned his surroundings. He had already stopped the flow of time in the other world, so how could there be the sound of water coming from there?
"Ding ding—"
Before he could figure out the source of the water sound, a metallic scraping sound came to his ears. He immediately tried to slow down the flow of time, but found that he had become sluggish when controlling the secret technique.
"Fuck you." The three words fell crisply, and a dagger with a flash of fire grazed his face, leaving a blood-red scar on his cheek.
How could that be!
Ouyang Wenjin stared fiercely at the girl who had suddenly regained her mobility, his mind racing as he tried to figure out what had gone wrong.
Tactile senses... Hearing and bodily senses!
There's something wrong with the smell around him!
"Did you guess?" Mu Jianjian's right arm was covered with scratches from the ruptured space. Blood flowed down her arm and the Fire Fox Dagger, dripping onto the ground. The pain did not stop her. "I thought you would find out later."
Why is she sounding so regretful?
Ouyang Wenjin was about to adjust the flow rate again, but he found that it was becoming increasingly difficult to even lift his hand. After realizing this, he paused for a second before speaking, "You really surprise me."
"If I were you, I wouldn't activate the secret technique again, otherwise the poison will penetrate deeper and affect my life." Mu Jianjian tilted her head.
As early as her second meeting with Ouyang Wenjin, she had already realized that something was wrong with him, so she began to poison him as a backup plan.
Using colorless and odorless incense poison, coupled with the guidance of divine sense, it is easy to invade an unsuspecting cultivator. However, the incense poison has been suppressed and dormant in his body for quite some time, and now it is very difficult to restrict the opponent's secret technique.
"So this is where you feel so confident..." Ouyang Wenjin's disdainful expression turned slightly annoyed.
“I’m not the one who’s fearless,” Mu Jianjian said. The Yellow Spring water beside her, which had been tainted by black shavings, gradually returned to its original color. She swallowed the blood in her throat and suppressed the exhaustion that was about to deplete her true energy. “It’s you.”
He is a spirit from the upper realm. Even if he dies here after the plan fails, he still has the chance to open his eyes and come back. But Mu Jianjian is different.
She won't have a second chance; once she's dead, she's dead.
Facing an abyss, having already stepped into death, she would certainly do everything in her power.
"Blazing Flames—" Mu Jianjian channeled her true energy into the Fire Fox Dagger, tracing the outline of the blade as she watched the towering flames, and pointed the blade directly at Ouyang Wenjin's head.
"ah."
With a sigh, a playful glint flashed in the man's eyes, and under the girl's gaze, he grabbed the flaming blade with his bare hands!
"Bang bang—"
A brute force tore the Fire Fox Dagger away and threw it onto the ground in the distance, where it echoed. Before the other side could react, Ouyang Wenjin quickly reached out his right hand and grabbed Mu Jianjian by the neck.
"Cough cough—" A feeling of suffocation surged into Mu Jianjian's heart. She opened her eyes with difficulty and recalled the scene when she was choked in the Yingzhou Demon Palace.
The same pain, the same... disgusting.
At this moment, Mu Jianjian made up her mind to kill everyone in the world who was choking her!
"Well, let me think. If you don't come from this world, then where did you come from?" Ouyang Wenjin's eyes shimmered, and a mischievous smile appeared on his face. "Since you can recover your true energy, what else... could you possibly gain from it?"
There's no time left... She has to kill this thing before the incense poison wears off. If the incense poison loses its effect, it will be much more difficult to kill this person.
Mu Jianjian opened her right eye wide, letting the golden threads transform into phantom butterflies that slowly fluttered around her. After that, she recalled the appearance of her beautiful master when she used the phantom butterflies to materialize during her previous transmigration.
She doesn't have to imitate it perfectly; just being able to mimic even a little bit can be a turning point in a desperate situation.
"You closed your eyes?" Ouyang Wenjin saw that the girl's face was pale and she seemed to have lost all resistance. He lost interest. "Boring. Are you sure that I will take you away and not kill you, so you gave up?"
“It’s pointless,” he loosened his grip slightly. “I thought you could last at least half an hour. I overestimated you.”
"I never intended to stay until the end of your otherworld." In the silence, Mu Jianjian opened her eyes.
Ouyang Wenjin vaguely sensed that something was different about the other person. He narrowed his eyes and discovered that there were some golden butterfly shadows floating around!
Although it appears faintly and gives a sense of fragility, it exudes a vast amount of true energy.
"Pfft—"
The illusory butterfly brought true energy that sprinkled onto Mu Jianjian's body. She quickly used her pupil-turning technique to pick up the Fire Fox Dagger, bursting out with astonishing speed at that moment. Then, using the flames on it, she stabbed it into the back of the man's head.
A raging fire burned on half of Ouyang Wenjin's face. Her gaze was indifferent as she kicked the other person away and pulled out the Fire Fox Dagger.
She made a last-ditch gamble and succeeded.
Even the people from the Longevity Tower still retain the same arrogance as those from the Upper Realm.
"My goal from beginning to end has been to kill you." Mu Jianjian's neck ached, but she didn't want to use her bloodied hands to do it, and her mood was extremely bad.
“I… can tell you news from the Upper Realm…” Even with half his head blown off, Ouyang Wenjin still retained a breath of life, letting out a faint chuckle as he fell to the ground, “Including our plans… Don’t you want to know these things?”
Beside him, Mu Jianjian looked down at him, her face expressionless as she stared at his dissected body, its sparse intestines scattered on the ground, emitting a strange stench.
She smiled and said, "Then can you tell me your real name in the Upper Realm?"
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Wenjin made a pleased sound in his throat, "Bian Yi... then Miss Mu, would you consider what I just said?"
"Thank you for your cooperation. Now, please die." Mu Jianjian nodded, and with a swift stroke of her knife, she cut off the man's life. As she watched his smiling gaze gradually fade, his appearance returned to that of Ouyang Wenjin.
I felt no emotional fluctuation.
She wanted to know the other person's real name so that she could take revenge in the upper realm later, and she believed that this madman thought the same thing.
They were both testing each other.
With Ouyang Wenjin's death, the surrounding otherworld finally showed signs of loosening, and light from the outside world pierced through the cracks in the otherworld, illuminating a patch of light.
Mu Jianjian picked up a gold, reflective plaque from beside Ouyang Wenjin's robe. Turning it over, she saw prominent numbers engraved on it—
"Four".
She had seen this brand before...
Long ago, the plaque on the waist of the Third Young Master of the Hehuan Palace in the Xuantian Secret Realm also had this style of engraving.
——
A place in the upper realm.
"Ah—" A boy stretched and opened his eyes groggily in a barrier. He covered his mouth with his hands and yawned, his expression and posture unusually relaxed and lazy.
"Immortal Bian...you—" The attendant beside him was shocked to see the young man wake up, but hesitated and stammered.
"If you have something to say, then get lost." Bian Yi looked up and around, finding the scenery unchanged. He thought to himself, "How boring."
"Fairy Mengyan said that this mission must succeed, but everyone else is still asleep, while you..." The servant felt the gaze from above, his voice grew softer and softer, and finally he shut his mouth and dared not speak anymore.
Bian Yi scoffed. He stood up and stepped over the barrier without answering the servant's question. The jade pendant at his waist shimmered with seven colors in the sunlight as he walked, clearly indicating that it was no ordinary item.
"Is Immortal Bian going to see the Fairy Maiden?" the servant asked, urging on his courage as he followed behind.
Fairy Mengyan said no one was allowed to disturb her. If Immortal Bian barged in, he, the servant, would be the one blamed in the end.
"Stop calling me an old hag," Bian Yi said, his expression darkening, though the genuine joy in his eyes betrayed his true feelings. "By the way, go do me a favor."
"Please give your instructions, Immortal Bian."
"Spread the word that I am waiting for someone in Changfeng Valley."
The attendant almost thought he had misheard. After a moment of surprise, he replied, "Yes."
As the footsteps behind him faded away, Bian Yi relaxed, his gaze becoming playful.
Miss Mu from another world, please don't disappoint him...
He would be very sad if he died on the way.
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