Chapter 107 Let's seek revenge honorably.
"Look at the rest of the world?" The female voice repeated Mu Jianjian's words, then sneered, "In the hundred years that my body was trapped in the painting, I thought that as long as someone came to save me, I would listen to whatever he said or asked me to do."
"But ten thousand years pass in the blink of an eye. It seems everyone has assumed I died in the snake pit. Who would still remember the existence of such a person?"
Every word pierced my heart.
Under the cover of darkness, the once turbulent waves beneath the wooden boat strangely returned to calm, and the boat carrying hundreds of people remained silent, like a silent painting. Everyone in the sea fog closed their eyes and showed pain on their faces.
On the upper deck, Mu Jianjian stood close to Linghu Zhuoyu, their breathing erratic, and fine beads of sweat even trickled down their noses and onto their clothes.
Before them, a sharp fork was hurtling toward the ship, but it was suddenly kicked back into the sea by a foot.
"If you want to board my ship, you'll need my permission first!"
His voice was arrogant and unruly. The man's tall figure emerged from the thick fog. He stared at the three dark figures that were stirring in the sea below, grinning mischievously.
The three sea monsters in the water were startled.
Why wasn't this person pulled into the illusion?
However, with his mere Foundation Establishment Level 6 cultivation, they could quickly kill him by combining their strength.
At that time, all the people on this ship will become their prey!
As Wuhen estimated the magical artifacts he would need this time, he reached up and touched the suddenly empty space on his neck, only to find that the white ball had run away again.
He knew it!
Despite being a ferocious beast by nature, it runs away faster than him whenever danger arises!
This isn't raising a monster to defend against enemies; it's clearly raising a little tyrant!
Wuhen gritted his teeth and thought to himself. He flipped his right hand and saw a small ball of paper the size of a palm. He unfolded the crumpled paper, bit his fingertip, and drew blood onto it.
An endless stream of true energy was suddenly released, highlighting the man's handsome and confident face.
——
Everything around her blurred after the woman finished speaking, as if the original owner's memories had stopped abruptly.
Mu Jianjian felt her Dao heart, deep within her, being shaken, and a single tear slid down her cheek.
The weather changed rapidly; in the next second, we were back in the cramped, dark prison, once again bathed in the warm sunlight of the outdoors.
She lived entirely within the original owner's memories.
The man interrogating her grabbed her chin and lifted it up. "Lord Linghu has placed a formation here. Do you think your strange secret technique will still work?"
Mu Jianjian remained silent, only watching as a Gu worm crawled into her flesh, wriggling and sucking her blood.
Along with his crumbling Dao heart came a torn soul.
Once her Dao heart is destroyed by her inner demons, she is on the verge of death, halfway to the Yellow Springs. Once her soul perishes, even the qualification to step into the Yellow Springs will vanish.
"Mu Jianjian, I take back what I said before. I'm sorry."
In the calm sea of the heart, two figures stand facing each other, one in light and the other in darkness.
Mu Jianjian, hidden in the shadows, was crawling and being devoured by countless insects, but she remained expressionless. Even when she looked up at the woman standing by the light, she remained calm and composed.
“But you covered my mouth, sealed my movements, and forced me to experience your life, but we are not the same person,” amidst the shattered pieces, Mu Jianjian slowly lifted her broken Dao Heart to mend it, “What are you afraid of?”
"Are you questioning me? You're an outsider occupying my body, what right do you have to question me?" The woman in the light couldn't see her expression because of the light.
"Don't fucking try to morally blackmail me," Mu Jianjian rarely swore. She forced out each word, staring at the thigh that had been swallowed up and exposed the bone. The endless pain almost numbed her. "You're just afraid. I'm in the same situation as you, but I can change the outcome."
"This is the price you have to pay!" The woman's voice lost its composure.
Why is it that she can get everything so easily?
"Leaving aside everything I encountered in the secret realm, just consider the marrow-cleansing ordeal at the Gates of Hell. Ask yourself honestly, do you have the courage? No, you don't have that courage, just as you don't have the courage to admit your own cowardice and inadequacy."
Because of her status and the advantages she enjoyed as a disciple of the Xuan Shuang Sect, after Sang Wanyue joined the sect as a "half-sister," did she really not have a single opportunity to fight for her own survival and future?
Or is it that Sang Wanyue's character is so wicked that she is driven to the brink of extermination?
Just like the words she uttered when she was sealed inside the painting by Baili Mochen, regained her freedom, and encountered the two disciples of Duyunfang.
Just like her former sense of superiority, she never recognized her failures or made any changes.
"How can I compare to you? Smart, capable, and lucky, everyone's like you?" the woman sneered. "Do you know what I went through in Yingzhou!"
"If I had spread the word, Father and Brother Wuluo would definitely have come to rescue me!" she added. "But Linghu Zhuoyu held a personal grudge and detained me in Duan Yuechi, all because of him!"
Does she want to become like that? What kind of person is she, living in the Third Realm like neither human nor ghost?
Mu Jianjian remained noncommittal about the original owner's explanation.
Can the news really get out? If it does, will Mu's father and Ye Wulu really come to rescue her? After they rescue her, what kind of life will she have, or will she be sent back to another hell?
Placing your hopes on others is the beginning of all misfortune; you are your own eternal support.
No one should pay for your life.
Mu Jianjian's voice remained calm, and the shadows around her seemed to gradually recede, revealing the girl's clear and bright eyes.
She slowly stood up and faced the woman in front of her. She raised her hand and tore off the Gu worms on her body one by one. Even though it involved her tendons and flesh, the girl's back remained straight.
Endless true energy surged into her body, and her cultivation, which had long been stuck at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, began to loosen, showing faint signs of a breakthrough. Her Dao Heart was no longer as broken as before.
It has become even more stable, entering a completely new realm!
The woman in the light and shadow was startled by the imposing aura before her, taking a few steps back. Seemingly realizing the shift in power, she cried out hysterically, "I've lingered in the Yellow Springs for a hundred years! No one has asked me, no one has saved me! You're nothing but—"
So close!
She could drag this person down to the underworld and turn them into umbrella ribs to die in her place!
She did nothing wrong, so why do these people always talk so condescendingly like that!
As she gazed at the gushing waters of the Yellow Springs emerging from beneath her, her eyes filled with despair, she saw the girl leap lightly to her side.
"Then watch closely, I will go to the Yellow Springs for you." Mu Jianjian moved closer to the woman in front of her and finally saw her eyes clearly.
The other person looked astonished by her words, but deep inside was endless sorrow and resentment, utterly despondent.
Mu Jianjian said seriously, "If we have another chance to meet, let's take our revenge in a fair and square way."
After she finished speaking, her Dao Heart, which had been repaired, cracked inch by inch under her own consciousness. A dim yellow halo appeared beneath the girl, exuding an aura of decay and death, just like the one beneath the other's feet.
The murky water transformed into the shape of a giant hand, pulling her body down into the underworld.
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