Chapter 77 No Need to Blame Yourself Forever
The three hurried toward the dark palace. Just as light appeared before them, a grappling hook flew toward the door and, after Ye Wuluo dodged past, slammed into the wall, sinking a full foot deep.
His eyes turned cold as he raised his golden fan, while Sang Wanyue stood in front of Mu Jianjian, holding up two swords.
As the grappling hook was retracted, the three's view gradually opened up. They saw that the dark palace stone wall, which was a hundred feet high and wide, was covered with mottled runes and emitted a strange, eerie light. Before that, a man dressed in dark blue clothes held a grappling hook in front of him.
“The cultivators of the Golden Crow Shrine,” Ye Wuluo said slowly, but then immediately denied it, “That’s not right.”
He had previously received information from someone at the Golden Crow Shrine that the inner level of the secret realm contained what their Sacred Lotus Pavilion desired, which is why he relied on his innate Dao Body to suppress his cultivation and enter the secret realm.
But now that person can't be contacted, something must have happened. Even the eyes of the Golden Crow Temple cultivator in front of him are dull and lifeless, and even his attack movements are stiff.
They're probably being controlled by someone else, but there's actually a fifth person here?
"Jianjian, wait for me here," the woman's voice instructed.
Seeing Sang Wanyue also getting into the fight, Mu Jianjian naturally couldn't just wait by the sidelines. But after she joined in, she discovered that the Golden Crow Temple cultivators opposite her weren't fighting her at all!
This realization frustrated her, like punching cotton.
It was another monk from the Golden Crow Temple.
Mu Jianjian recalled the person she had met in the Fanjin Palace and fixed her gaze on the blue-clad man who was fighting the two of them without being at a disadvantage.
They're all from the same faction, all the same... strong.
She was about to rush in from behind, holding the silkworm bone banner, but the man in blue dodged again and actually wrapped the iron chain around behind Sang Wanyue!
"Be careful, Yueyue!"
Too fast! Too late!
Previously, the reason why Yueyue and I fought side by side in the inner layer of the secret realm was because of the suppression of cultivation by the laws. Now that the laws have dissipated around the Zhu Pavilion, the cultivation of the three of them seems to be at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage under the suppression of the secret realm, while her fourth level of Foundation Establishment seems insufficient.
We still need to become stronger.
In a flash, a figure in red appeared in front of Sang Wanyue, grabbing the grappling hook with one hand. However, the black steel was still deeply embedded in her abdomen, leaving a hideous scar from which bright red blood oozed.
“Little Yue’er,” Ye Wuluo’s pale face was splattered with blood. When he saw Sang Wanyue’s wounds, his cold expression finally cracked, and a hint of dread flashed in the depths of his dark eyes. “With me here, you won’t get hurt.”
It seems that intentionally getting hurt is feasible. As long as there are cracks and instability, it's fine. He can make up for his past mistakes little by little. One day, Xiaoyue will accept him again.
Mu Jianjian was full of questions when she heard this.
She's still here!
Sang Wanyue frowned slightly, but relaxed her brows in the next second, reverting to her usual indifferent demeanor.
With him around, I won't get hurt?
All her misfortunes in her past life came from him, how dare she say such a thing!
Seeing that the fight between the three was getting fiercer and fiercer, and that a winner was about to be decided, Mu Jianjian, who was unable to intervene, gradually noticed that the Golden Crow Temple cultivator was leading the two of them towards the top of the dark palace. She looked up and saw faint traces of light appearing on the black board.
Mu Jianjian leaped up from the bonfire groove on the stone wall, slowly touching the carved marks on it, and an ominous premonition rose in her heart.
"Don't go near the stone wall! There are talismans on it!" A strong suction force rushed towards them, and she quickly jumped away and shouted at the two of them.
"Twelve fans." As Ye Wuluo's fan, sharp as a knife tip, touched the blue-clad man's face, Sang Wanyue's broken blade also came toward the man's chest.
The man in blue didn't even flinch from Ye Wuluo's fan, his chin was torn apart but he didn't even blink. The hook wrapped around Sang Wanyue, who was using seven-tenths of her strength, and he threw her upwards with one hand.
Ye Wuluo's aura deepened. Seeing that the woman was already entangled by the magic array on the stone wall, he crossed the two fingers of his left hand and whispered, "No."
Sang Wanyue turned her head in a daze and saw the man in red holding a golden fan sever the head of the man in blue, grab her ankle with one hand and pull her down, while his body was also absorbed by the talisman array due to the displacement!
With a "thud," the blue-clad man's head fell to the ground, lifeless, while Ye Wuluo disappeared into the stone wall. Sang Wanyue frowned and grabbed his hand.
She didn't want to owe him anything!
"Yueyue!" Seeing the unpredictable changes in the battle, Mu Jianjian rushed to Sang Wanyue's side as fast as she could, only to find that she had missed her.
The figures of a man and a woman were swallowed by the stone wall, but they suddenly withdrew after touching Mu Jianjian, returning to their original hard texture.
Mu Jianjian tapped the wall in front of her repeatedly. The light dissipated and there was no sound, as if the two people who had just been swallowed up were just an illusion.
Even if you hit it with your true energy, all that's revealed is a dark barrier, with only a few stones falling off.
Why won't they let her through this wall? Are they looking down on her?
In just five seconds, Mu Jianjian's emotions went through a rollercoaster. She stared blankly at the dark palace where she was now all alone, the system's announcement echoing in her mind.
[Task progress completed 6, 8, 10 – 10/100, stage reward achieved. Host can choose three blind boxes to draw from. Host, would you like to draw a blind box now?]
Mu Jianjian was dazed. "We don't need it now, let's keep it for now."
Her mind was in a daze. If it weren't for the two severed pieces of the blue-clad man's body lying beside her, and the pervasive smell of blood reminding her that the whole thing was real, she would have thought it was all an illusion.
If she were a little stronger, would the outcome have been different if the three of them fought that male cultivator from the Golden Crow Temple together?
"I... couldn't help. It's all my fault. If I had pulled Yueyue back faster, she wouldn't have been sucked in."
Her speed, which she was so proud of, seemed utterly useless given the huge gap in their cultivation levels.
His mind was filled with the image of Sang Wanyue being sucked in, without her even touching the hem of her clothes.
Tears slowly slid down her cheeks.
Seeing its host succumbing to self-blame again, the system comforted it, saying, "Host, you don't need to always take the blame upon yourself. You've only been cultivating for a few months and you've already reached the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. This is a height that many cultivators never reach in their entire lives!"
That's enough to prove your talent and hard work! There's no need to blame yourself!
"But I have spirit stones, resources, and the support of the system space. If I don't level up quickly, I'll be useless..."
Mu Jianjian didn't want to make excuses for herself, and she had completely forgotten her original purpose for entering the Dark Palace under the blow.
Tears fell to the ground drop by drop until a wisp of white beard landed beside her.
"They've only entered the spirit realm; they won't die." The aged voice unexpectedly matched the voice of the old man who had been explaining the rules in various parts of the secret realm.
Mu Jianjian slowly raised her head.
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