Chapter 291 Not Alone
A white figure stood in front of Mu Jianjian, catching the attack with his bare hands.
I only felt a flash before my eyes, and then bright red blood gushed out, staining everything in sight.
"Pure White!" Mu Jianjian quickly turned to look at the boy in front of her, wanting to check on his condition.
Blood flowed down the boy's pale, fragile wound. He made no sound, glanced at the stunned fairy in front of him, and with a flick of his wrist, the iron chain on his wrist creaked and sent the woman flying.
The iron chain then circled around and flashed back into the distance, knocking away a group of cultivators. Even Murong Yunyan had to retreat and dodge to the side.
"Where did you find this helper?" Ye Xuanzhi exclaimed, but Mu Jianjian had no time to respond.
After grasping the two people in her hands, countless illusory butterflies dispersed from her body, gradually spreading and surrounding the three of them, like rising clouds, partially obscuring the fairy's vision.
Her eyes twitched, she clutched the bloody hole in her stomach where the chains had been pulled out, and with the other hand she pulled sharply toward the two people who were about to disappear.
"puff--"
Mu Jianjian was pulled, and she couldn't help but vomit blood. However, the surrounding phantom butterflies did not disperse. Even though a few died, they still gathered around and vigorously flapped their wings.
"You think you can leave?" Blood was still gushing from the cut-open abdomen of Fairy Ni Chang. She leaned against a corner, grabbed the broken blade that had fallen to the ground, and shot forward.
The moment the broken blade touched the swarm of phantom butterflies, the three people who were surrounded vanished into thin air, their divine senses completely cut off, and they could not detect any nearby voices.
The Fairy of Rainbow Garments stared intently at the spot where the three had disappeared. After a moment, she came to her senses, took out a pill, swallowed it, and spoke when she saw Murong Yunyan being held by the other guards.
"A poor wretch was accidentally left behind."
The cold, piercing female voice sent a chill down one's spine. Murong Yunyan, who was still immersed in the scene just now, snapped back to reality upon hearing the voice. "I don't know her."
But the phantom butterfly that appeared looked too familiar, as if she had seen it a long, long time ago. She looked at Fairy Ni Chang with a defiant gaze, "Letting people into the inner palace and having their beloved stolen away, yet not even knowing who the other person is, is utterly foolish."
The Fairy of Rainbow Robes remained aloof and indifferent. The flesh that had been pierced through her stomach had grown back powerfully under the influence of the elixir, but the hole in her red wedding dress could not be repaired. "Then tell me, where do they belong?"
Just as Murong Yunyan was about to blurt out "Changfeng Valley Longevity Tower," the image in her mind was once again occupied by the illusory butterfly, and a voice deep in her heart told her that this was not the correct answer.
"Don't you want to talk?" Fairy Ni Chang leaned closer to her. "You really believe your master can defeat my father and then come to save you?"
She raised her hand and touched the woman's face, gradually permeating it with her divine sense. "If you don't tell me, I can only take out your soul and see for myself."
“Changfeng Valley,” Murong Yunyan glanced at the other party, “but instead of getting entangled with me here, you should go and help your good father. Otherwise, it won’t be good if you cry too much when you collect his body later.”
——
Outside the Pan Gate.
"Are you really going to go in yourself? The terrain here is inaccessible to dragons, so they can't help you at all." Wan Xing helplessly spread her hands behind a woman in blue. Seeing the woman's determined back as she went in without turning her head, she took a deep breath.
Although this is a newly discovered "Panmen", judging from the monsters surrounding it, the "Manluo" planted here is definitely not a newly sprouted flower bud.
There might even be people from the upper realms here!
"You still need to go to the Pan Gate over at the Hehuan Palace. You don't need to come in." As soon as Sang Wanyue finished speaking, her figure disappeared into it.
Wan Xing raised an eyebrow, clapped her hands, looked up at the sky speechlessly, and after waiting for a moment, she still chose to follow them inside.
Ever since Jianjian went to the Upper Realm, Sang Wanyue has acted like she's unapproachable, isolating everyone from her, and even choosing to enter the "Panmen" alone.
But if Jianjian were here, she would definitely say the same thing to her.
Wan Xing ran a few steps to catch up with Sang Wanyue, "Actually, you don't have to go alone."
——
"Knock knock knock—"
Three thuds came from a corner of a jade pavilion. Except for the first man who landed safely, the other two lost their balance and slowly fell towards the wall.
Mu Jianjian braced herself against the wall to steady herself, then went to check on Chunbai's injuries, "Chunbai? Chunbai, wake up..."
Seeing the boy struggle to open his eyes, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Actually, you didn't need to shield me—"
"Pfft—"
A familiar broken blade suddenly appeared in the air and shot straight toward the girl's fragile neck. Chunbai swallowed the blood in her throat and raised her hand to use her true energy to fling the broken blade away again.
"Sharp... I think I'm more suited to using magical artifacts than true qi..."
"Stop talking, how about you use your inner energy to recuperate first?" Mu Jianjian glanced at the broken blade that had been thrown into the corner, took out the pills from her spatial storage, stuffed them into the boy's mouth, and then handed them to Ye Xuanzhi.
Of course she knew that Chunbai was ill. As a weapon refiner in the past, she was naturally more skilled at using weapons. Now that she had returned to the Upper Realm, she had not yet fully recovered her strength, so she helped her.
“The Qi here has been altered; it must be Murong Yunyan’s doing,” Ye Xuanzhi slowly stood up, his black hair gradually turning white and falling over his shoulders. “We must leave quickly.”
"Okay." Mu Jianjian helped Chunbai to her feet and rubbed her eyes, which were starting to ache.
Since the great battle with the people from the Upper Realm in "Panmen" three years ago, it had been a long time since I had felt this kind of overwhelming pressure in terms of cultivation. Just now, when I confronted Fairy Ni Chang, the pressure from above reached my heart.
“I have sprinkled Yellow Spring Water all over the Jade Pavilion in Niyu City. It can be used with your Qi to send the three of us out of the city.”
Ye Xuanzhi changed his previous frivolous demeanor. After raising his hand, a phantom image of Tai Chi Bagua gradually appeared in front of him. He stretched his hand out to Mu Jianjian beside him and said, "Don't resist my Qi."
"good."
Just as Mu Jianjian reached out to touch him, she caught a glimpse of a man in brocade robes appearing in another corner of the pavilion, and her eyes slowly narrowed.
The man's brocade robe was stained with blood, which was still dripping. His features were plain, but his eyes were exceptionally bright and gleaming. He did not utter a sound, but quickly walked towards the three of them.
This is the man who first attacked Venerable Yu Hui at the banquet!
"We have to go, Ye Xuanzhi," Mu Jianjian said softly.
"We'll have to wait a while." Ye Xuanzhi raised his hand with difficulty, and the illusory image of Tai Chi gradually became more real.
She took a deep breath and pulled out the Morning and Evening Hairpin from her hair, which had just conjured countless branches, when the other party raised his hand and cut them off. The moment she exhaled, the man in brocade appeared in front of her and grabbed her hand!
At the same time, Ye Xuanzhi grasped her, pulling her body towards the Tai Chi phantom. He glanced coldly at the man, "Unleash the Profound Qi, Suppress Evil Demons—"
This time, he will not let Jianjian be taken away from him again!
The man frowned, and the next moment he shattered the illusory wall formed by Qi. The three of them had already disappeared into the Tai Chi and vanished from the spot.
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Inside the Pan Gate.
"You want to go inside? Are you crazy?" Wan Xing stared at the woman in front of him in disbelief.
“Only by truly entering can we completely kill it.” Sang Wanyue stepped onto the stone platform, looking down at the “Manluo” flower bud that was wriggling its tentacles.
"How do you know you'll be inside for years? And what if you never get out?" Wan Xing suddenly realized the similarity between the person in front of him and Jianjian—both were madmen who couldn't be reasoned with.
“Jianjian has explained the situation inside. If we never go in, we will never make any progress.”
"This is insane, insane..." Wan Xing gently pushed his hair back up with both hands, "What if your soul is corrupted by that 'eye'—"
Before she could finish speaking, the woman in blue leaped down and disappeared into the flower bud.
——
The three people on the other side rushed out of the Tai Chi phantom, and Mu Jianjian immediately used her pupil-shifting technique to teleport to a room in the registration hall.
A fat man was fast asleep in the room when he was awakened by the sound of falling. He stared wide-eyed when he saw who it was.
The three people were all in a sorry state, with the girl in the middle wearing blood-stained clothes and two streams of blood even trickling down from her eyes, which was extremely horrifying.
"You, you, you—"
"Shut up," Mu Jianjian walked to the table, leaving bloody footprints with each step, and slammed her fist on the table. "Your soul is in my hands. If you don't want to die, find a room and hide the three of us, understand?"
For some reason, her head was spinning. Given their current situation, they couldn't leave Niyu City for the time being, so they could only take a detour and hide here to recuperate.
"I understand, I understand." The fat man nodded repeatedly. He was about to ask about the relevant matters when, with a "thud," the girl in front of him fell to the ground.
Seeing this, a rebellious thought immediately arose in his mind: what if he took advantage of her unconsciousness—
"I advise you not to try anything funny." A cold male voice rang out, and a handsome, otherworldly face appeared before him.
The fat man was startled and then stopped thinking about it.
This head of white hair and the person he claims to resemble a certain one?
Hopefully he's overthinking it.
——
When Mu Jianjian opened her eyes again, she was slowly standing on a dark lake, and above the lake was an even darker sky.
There was not a single ray of light.
She slowly took a step forward, looking down at the water splashing around her as her footsteps created ripples that gradually spread out, making a clear but tiny "splashing" sound, while the blood flowed down and dripped into the water.
"Eee-yah-yah—"
The familiar murmured voice echoed behind her. She turned around in a daze and suddenly saw a huge eye rising from the distance. The moment the whites of the eye lit up, her soul trembled.
Black and white, the dividing line of the world is thus clearly defined.
"No, no, no—" The giant eye in the sky gradually opened, and Mu Jianjian was desperately backing away.
Her previous overuse of true qi and pupil techniques had already pushed her body to its limits. How could her aching limbs and weary soul fight against the "eye"?
"If 'Manluo' isn't here, why... why is she still appearing in my mind?"
She clearly left the battle in the Hall of Registration, so why is she here?
Did those people find her? Or was it an illusion?
One question after another popped into Mu Jianjian's mind, but reality didn't give her much time to think.
"Ding ding ding—"
A moment later, the "eye" in the sky finally opened completely—
Mu Jianjian had never felt such a strong sense of crisis. Just as she was about to raise her hand to unleash her true energy, she was pressed down by a powerful force and struck the black lake with a "thud." The sound of bones breaking could be clearly heard.
This is not a dream!
The "eye" silently watched as the girl's struggling strength waned, her eyes gradually becoming empty and lifeless. It swayed slightly, clearly indicating that it was caught up in excitement.
So what if it managed to escape last time...? This time it still managed to catch me again...
"Splash, splash—"
The sound of sloshing water came from another corner of the world. Mu Jianjian, who was in a state of chaos, was awakened for a moment and began to struggle with the chaos that had taken over her mind.
Who else has entered the boundary?
Is it an auditory hallucination...?
"Eye" glanced disapprovingly at the figure that appeared from another corner, and immediately wisps of white smoke rose from the Black Lake, obscuring the girl's figure.
"Hmm—"
With her limbs restrained and unable to regain consciousness through pain, Mu Jianjian could only bite her lip and let out painful whimpers.
A faint girl's voice suddenly drifted from the thick fog. Sang Wanyue stopped in her tracks, exclaiming in disbelief, "Jianjian?"
More and more thick fog surrounded Mu Jianjian, not allowing her to make a sound. Mu Jianjian could only vaguely watch as she grew further and further away from Sang Wanyue's voice.
She must be hallucinating. How could Yueyue possibly be here...?
"Jianjian, wait for me."
Sang Wanyue glanced deeply at the thick fog around her, then looked up at the dark sky. There was no sign of the "eyes" that Jianjian had mentioned. She raised her hand and condensed the fog, instantly dispersing the surrounding mist around her.
The moment the white mist gathered, she finally caught a glimpse of the girl's blood-stained clothes.
"Pointy!"
Mu Jianjian no longer had the strength to lift her eyelids. As she listened to the increasingly tense female voice, she slightly raised the corners of her mouth.
A faint smile hung on his bloodstained face, tinged with self-mockery and resignation.
"To be able to hear Yueyue's voice even before I die...that's so wonderful..."
The mechanical female voice once gave her a reward, but when her true energy was exhausted and the reward was used up, all that awaited her was "game over".
"I won't let you die! Do you hear me!" Sang Wanyue dispersed the white mist around the girl, pulled her into her arms, and seeing her weak and dying appearance, she trembled as she put the pill into her mouth.
"Jianjian? Jianjian, wake up?"
After waiting a moment and seeing that the girl's face was still pale, Sang Wanyue immediately realized a fact—
If the elixir is ineffective, it means that Jianjian's spirit is injured or damaged.
"Come out." Sang Wanyue suddenly looked up at the pitch-black sky, her voice filled with murderous intent that threatened to destroy everything.
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