Chapter 55 You'll Regret It
"Is it really... Sang Wanyue?" Mu Jianjian struggled to cope with Lan Yi's attacks, but still looked at Ye Wuluo with resentment.
"Lan Yi, let her die knowing why."
After all, she's still Xiaoyue'er's friend.
"After parting ways with her master, Miss Sang was taken to the grotto."
Mu Jianjian held the Silkworm Bone Banner in her right hand, and the steel hilt clashed with Lan Yi's sword with a series of "bang bang bang" sounds. Her right arm, which had not yet fully healed, was throbbing with pain.
Her blood gradually cooled.
She was taken to a grotto... right below the cliff behind her.
Mu Jianjian looked at the handsome man standing to the side, dressed in a red brocade robe with black hair flowing like silk.
Ye Wulu has always been this way.
He greeted the original owner of his beloved with a doting smile, but when he looked at others, his eyes held an arrogant air as if he were looking at a mouse, like a superior animal surveying an inferior one.
Previously, Mu Jianjian had no direct experience of this, but now, wearing the veil and posing as "Mu Yuanyuan," she truly experiences the descriptions in the original book. Ye Wuluo, as the "male lead," really is like a cold-blooded madman.
He knew perfectly well that Sang Wanyue's high cultivation level would make it extremely difficult for her to even condense her Qi and take a step when facing the laws of the secret realm.
It seems that, just as he said to Lan Yi, Sang Wanyue has angered him.
This was Ye Wuluo's "lesson" to her, to wear down her pride and make her submit.
madman.
"There are monsters down there, and you actually left her there alone?"
Mu Jianjian was confused, and a myriad of emotions welled up in her heart. Her voice was filled with resentment and bewilderment as she questioned him.
Ye Wuluo waved his fan without even glancing at her, and Mu Jianjian's eyes reddened beneath her veil.
Because he was confident that Lan Yi could take care of him, his tone just now sounded like charity to a desperate ant.
She forced herself to calm down, glanced at the cliff behind her, and said to Ye Wuluo with a resounding voice, "You will regret this, Ye Wuluo."
regret?
Ye Wuluo's peach blossom eyes curled upwards, a hint of a cold smile appearing on her face.
He has never done anything he regrets in his life.
Mu Jianjian refocused her gaze on Lan Yi, whose blade was falling with increasing force. She uttered a few words expressionlessly, "The Silkworm Bone Banner, Third Turn, Silkworm Fall—"
The dark red light in his hand transformed into beams of light that surged toward Lan Yi!
He frowned. When did this woman set up this trap around him?
The dark optical drive transformed into black mist the instant it collided with the sharp knife, swirling around Lan Yi. He quickly forced the black mist down with his true energy, and a white figure swiftly approached him.
Wow, so fast!
Before Lan Yi could react, a foot was kicked in his face.
"Click"
He heard the sound of his own bones breaking and the girl's soft moan—
"Wait until I get up here, then I'll take your dog's life."
Ye Wuluo's eyelids drooped, his eyes were devoid of any emotion, and he watched as the figure of the girl in white, like a butterfly with broken wings, resolutely jumped off the cliff.
"No need to chase after them."
He couldn't even crush a mere third-level Foundation Establishment cultivator. He looked impatiently at the injured and disheveled Lan Yi.
Should we go save Xiaoyue'er...?
This was the first time he'd seen someone rushing off to their death; he forgot to mention that there were more than just monsters below.
——
A feeling of weightlessness gripped Mu Jianjian, the veil attached to her hat floating haphazardly in mid-air. She looked at the ground getting closer and closer, and channeled her inner energy downwards to cushion the impact.
Finally, with her repeated efforts to cushion the impact, Mu Jianjian landed safely.
The already dim light did not penetrate to the bottom of the cliff; one could only vaguely see the cave entrance on the rock wall and the scattered grass and stones nearby.
Lan Yi did not follow.
He had no reason to let her go. The fact that he didn't follow her meant that after she fell off the cliff, they had already accepted that they would die there.
Mu Jianjian hates trouble, but she is never afraid of it.
She didn't want to reveal her identity to Ye Wuluo by lifting the veil, becoming a "white moonlight" who would interfere in the romantic relationship between the male and female protagonists in the secret realm, nor did she want to be taken advantage of by Ye Wuluo.
Therefore, she did not choose to reveal her identity, but instead planned to save Sang Wanyue before dealing with Lan Yi.
She takes revenge on her beloved Tao Xian out of self-pity, which does fit the tone of a tragic love story. However, she is not an ant who doesn't survive half an episode, nor is she just a seasoning to advance the main characters' trashy relationship.
She is Mu Jianjian.
Although it will be more difficult to defeat the monsters in the cave, I am confident that I can kill them.
Using the faint light, Mu Jianjian stepped into a huge cave entrance and quickly explored its depths.
She had to seize every minute to find Sang Wanyue.
The grotto is a maze of forks, and the walls, which become narrower and narrower, are carved with broken half-Buddha statues, each with a different shape and covered with thick dust.
The book mentions that the monster here is a giant lizard that likes to climb and forage in the caves and is very noisy. However, Mu Jianjian has not heard a sound, let alone a person, since she arrived. Instead, there is a faint smell of decay coming from a distance.
As the stench of blood grew stronger, the cave gradually widened, revealing a faint purple light. Mu Jianjian touched the end of the cave.
She couldn't help but take a step back.
The huge cave was cold and damp. In front of her on the wall sat a Buddha statue, which looked kind and benevolent. However, a crack running from the left to the lower right gave it a fierce aura.
Following the incantations entwined around the Buddha statue downwards, there was a pool of blood, a circular pool of about ten square meters, steaming with human remains.
Several cultivators were tied up in a corner not far away.
Mu Jianjian immediately spotted Sang Wanyue, whose forehead was covered in sweat and whose face was contorted in pain.
Blood pools, severed limbs, and people being boiled alive.
He is Cai Chu, one of the "Five Eccentrics" of Yingzhou in the original book, who turned his senior brother into a human-shaped Gu poison.
The plot has changed, replacing Chi Wenqing with Sang Wanyue, but the plot itself seems to remain the same.
No wonder she had never heard the echo of the monitor lizard in the cave—
He was probably killed by Cai Chu long ago.
Mu Jianjian shrank back into the cave entrance, listening to her heart pounding.
There was no sign of Cai Chu in the cave. He placed his spirit pet toad next to the bound cultivator to guard it.
The toad is poisonous all over. If you touch it, you will be poisoned immediately, and it will also make a sound to summon Cai Chu back from outside.
If she wanted to rescue the person without alerting the toad, she could only use her right pupil technique to teleport there and then move the person away, just like the male cultivator from the Golden Crow Shrine in the Golden Palace before.
Mu Jianjian had repeatedly experimented with this while cultivating in the Wood Spirit Clan, and she could do it—
But you can only bring one person at a time.
Let's get Sang Wanyue out of here first.
The moment the decision was made in Mu Jianjian's mind, a sound came from another path connecting to the cave on the opposite side.
Cai Chu is almost there; she can't wait any longer.
Her right pupil glowed with golden light, and Mu Jianjian remained calm as she appeared in the corner of the cave the next second.
"Quack quack quack—"
The toad, slightly larger than a human and covered in poisonous bubbles, saw a white shadow and immediately let out a piercing screech. Its bulging eyes widened even more, making it look terrifying.
Mu Jianjian landed behind Sang Wanyue, her right eye flashing. She skillfully mobilized her true energy to quickly envelop the two of them, and then waved away the venom that the toad spat out.
Just as she was about to use her pupil technique to leave again, a hand grabbed her heel.
"Please... take me with you," the stranger's voice was hoarse but filled with desperate sobs, "I beg you, I don't want my hand cut off and turned into a Gu worm..."
She kept repeating these words in a daze. The moment Mu Jianjian lowered her head, a corrosive pressure came from the dark entrance of the cave.
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