Chapter 28 One in a Billion of Her
In a secluded corner where no one was watching, Lan Yi's gaze was cold and deep. He shook a thin, barely perceptible red silk ribbon wrapped around his left hand, and the golden bell on it swayed but made no sound.
The envious and jealous gazes of the crowd shifted to Mu Jianjian, their previous disdain turning into inquisitiveness and flattery.
Seeing that Sang Wanyue and Linghu Zhuoyu were both blocking her way, Mu Jianjian was initially worried that the gold silk would be stolen, but now it seemed that this would not happen.
The female cultivator from the Golden Crow Shrine in the original book... probably won't appear then...
The sparse sound of rain kept entering my ears. Even with my inner energy protecting me, while it washed away the stench of blood and decay, it also gave me a damp and uncomfortable feeling.
All four of them had gathered their ribbons, and now all they needed to do was find a safe place to cultivate and stabilize their true energy. They were just about to leave.
Ye Wulu walked towards Sang Wanyue. Mu Jianjian rolled her eyes when she saw the male lead's devilish smile.
"He's definitely up to no good," she muttered, pouting.
"He's up to no good?" A low voice came from beside my ear, accompanied by the faint sound of a bell.
"If you're going to fish, then fish hard." Mu Jianjian bit her lip, only realizing something was wrong after she finished speaking.
The person next to her should be her senior brother, so why does this voice sound so unfamiliar?
Mu Jianjian suddenly turned her head, and in an instant, the space shifted, creating a sense of illusory flow. Her eyes drooped limply, and when she regained consciousness, she found herself in an unfamiliar room.
The person in front of me was about twenty years old, hovering in mid-air, hugging his left leg while the other leg dangled and swayed. He had a fair complexion, a wooden bead from a Buddhist temple on his forehead, and long black hair that reached his legs was tied into countless thin braids, floating in the air.
The newcomer propped his head up and stared intently at her, with the excitement of a hunter finally capturing his long-desired prey.
Prayer beads, thin braids, feet that never touch the ground, gender indistinguishable.
The monks of the Golden Crow Temple, one of the "Four Schools," are described in the book as having a love for dressing up and being obsessive about cleanliness.
Mu Jianjian had always thought that the person who described it this way was a woman, but now it seems more like a perverted man!
Danger.
——
"Sister!" Linghu Zhuoyu watched in disbelief as Mu Jianjian disappeared before his eyes. He looked around in disbelief, but there was no sign of her.
"Hua Hua, can you feel my presence?" An urgent voice accompanied the hiss of a thin snake.
He hadn't sensed any danger at all, yet the person just vanished into thin air!
The answer was no.
Upon hearing Linghu Zhuoyu's voice, Sang Wanyue immediately turned around. Without even glancing at Ye Wuluo, she activated her divine sense to investigate, fixing her gaze on Chi Wenqing, who had also disappeared.
The image of the girl's pure and kind smile flashed through his mind, and a prayer welled up in his heart.
——
Even if Sang Wanyue, who had reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, encountered him in the original book, she could not escape the man's spatial flow. Even if she used the "Finger Severing" Blood Reversal Technique, she could only hold on for five more minutes until Ye Wuluo arrived.
Ye Wuluo has a special physique. Even after reaching the Core Formation stage and suppressing his cultivation to enter the secret realm, he only managed to fight to a draw.
The man carried the usual Buddhist beads from the Golden Crow Temple, but possessed a unique secret technique for true qi. He could generate fragmented waves by mobilizing the spiritual energy in the space, thus creating the effect of isolating space.
That's probably why we just brought her here from the South Palace.
It was precisely because she was so familiar with the plot that Mu Jianjian was so clear-headed about the situation before her—
They can't beat them, and they can't escape them.
Even though the other party had not yet shown any murderous intent, her feet felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and she dared not move an inch. Cold sweat slid down Mu Jianjian's nose.
"Are you scared stiff?" The wooden beads on the man's head made a creaking sound. "You smell very nice."
Even when he walked right up to Mu Jianjian, his feet didn't touch the ground at all; instead, they left ripples in the air.
"Give me the gold silk, and agree to be my puppet, and I might spare your life, okay?"
Mu Jianjian was still trembling when she looked up. When she met the man's gaze, she saw the bloodthirsty storm behind his dark eyes—the look one would give when looking at an ant.
A sense of grievance and resentment rose in Mu Jianjian's heart.
Reason told her that she couldn't beat the other side right now, and she should choose the same method she used when she first arrived at the Nanling Inn to save the innkeeper: being tactful and resourceful to save her life.
But if she hands over the gold silk to him, the second test will be over soon, and the black silk will be almost gone. Is she really confident that she can escape and collect the remaining pieces of silk?
Mu Jianjian closed her eyes; she wasn't sure.
Her lack of confidence meant she couldn't continue in the next secret realm, and her senior brother would follow the original plot, being turned into a humanoid Gu and taken back to Yingzhou.
After becoming a monster that was neither human nor ghost, he was insulted and despised by thousands of people, defeated, and sealed in the Sacred Lotus Pavilion.
Seeing that the girl had closed her eyes, Qu You assumed that she no longer wanted to resist, and he smiled with satisfaction.
This trip to the secret realm was quite fruitful; at least he obtained a doll body that he liked.
Qu You raised his left finger, and a golden bell wrapped with red silk thread appeared in his hand. The red thread floated like a fine earthworm, and just as it was about to burrow into the girl's body, a white feather appeared under the girl in front of him and rushed towards the back door!
She can still move?
After initial surprise came a slow, growing displeasure. Qu You glanced coldly at the space-time conversion within the Prosperous Golden Palace, but this was precisely his primary cultivation method for true qi—
How are you going to escape from my grasp?
——
Even after traversing several rooms, Mu Jianjian still dared not let her guard down; her hand, holding Bai Fengyu beneath her, was still trembling uncontrollably.
It is often said that fear stems from the unknown, but for Mu Jianjian, this was a 100% insurmountable obstacle set by the script, yet she was determined to change the predetermined ending and fight for that one in a billion chance.
The sound of bells rang in her ears, Mu Jianjian's white phoenix feather stopped spinning, and she instantly turned around and leaped to the other side. The next second, the huge white feather was cut into two pieces out of thin air!
Even the areas in the room where the talisman was placed were affected and cracks appeared. What terrifying true energy this was!
Mu Jianjian had no time to feel heartache and think. Just as she was about to run to another room, she heard a voice.
"Your reaction speed is really fast, but that's all." None of the doors on the six walls opened or closed, and Qu You appeared out of thin air behind Mu Jianjian. "Be my puppet, it won't be too painful."
He actually dodged that attack, even though he used 60% of his strength because of the sound of his golden bell.
"No."
The moment Mu Jianjian uttered that word, the killing intent drawn by the red thread descended. She took out the jade sword from her spatial bag, but before it could even touch her, it snapped in two.
Unable to dodge in time, a long, bloody gash stretched from her right shoulder to the back of her hand. The blood gushed out so quickly that it stained her clothes, and Mu Jianjian felt a sharp, stinging pain spread throughout her body.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
