Chapter 73 She is Jianjian
Mu Jianjian was in a daze, enveloped in deathly silence, darkness, and gloom. If it weren't for the system in her mind talking to her, she might have denied her own existence after being in darkness and confinement for so long.
Until I heard voices and the sound of wind.
She vaguely felt something fall on her face, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Shi Hu's gaping mouth.
No, she needs to pull herself together.
She needs to use her eye technique quickly; she still has a lot to do...
Before she could make a move, her left wrist was pulled away by a tremendous force. Mu Jianjian's body was suddenly turned around by the external force, and she turned her head to meet Ye Wuluo's gloomy eyes.
The girl's cheeks were flushed with a sickly redness, and blood from a scar on her neck had soaked the cloth strip. The bloodstains on her robe had turned grayish-brown. Her eyes were wet and dazed, and her red lips were slightly parted as she breathed softly.
Ye Wuluo was distracted after just one glance.
He remembered what Xiaoyue had said to him at the top of the stairs in the Zhu Pavilion.
She said that his personality would eventually drive everyone away, not just her.
At the time, Ye Wuluo didn't take it seriously. Who could he possibly push away?
He had a smooth life from birth. Because of his innate Dao physique, he was taken as a disciple and chosen as a holy son by the master of the Holy Lotus Pavilion. He was second only to the master in the Holy Lotus Pavilion region. He could easily deal with the wars and attacks of demonic cultivators and monsters. He was deeply loved by the people and cultivators. He entered the Core Formation stage at the young age of twenty and was a famous genius on the continent.
After entering the Xuan Tian Secret Realm, he met Sang Wanyue. At first, he intended to tease her, but later he found himself falling deeper and deeper in love.
He was fascinated by the woman's intelligence and strength, but her stubbornness and arrogance also stirred an uncontrollable desire in him to destroy her.
After reaching the innermost stone cliff of the secret realm, he gradually realized his true desire. If Xiaoyue'er were willing to believe him again and change her personality, it wouldn't be a big deal. But it wasn't until the appearance of this girl in front of him that Ye Wuluo realized how completely wrong he had been.
Mu Jianjian.
Ye Wuluo grasped the girl's slender wrist, quickly pulled her into his arms, and then looked up at Shi Hu's gaping maw that was snapping at him.
The smile that usually graced his face vanished, and he raised his fan with his left hand, his thin lips uttering soft words.
"Eleven sides, breaking the wind."
The stone tiger reacted quickly to the swift attack, retreating instead of advancing. It burrowed its front paws into the ground, digging a huge pit in the stone slab, scattering stones everywhere, and then swung its tail to meet the man's swift wind.
"What do you mean?" it roared.
Ye Wuluo did not answer him, but instead raised his hand and gently touched the skin behind the girl's ear. The skin was smooth and there was no trace of a human skin mask.
Only then did he realize what the girl meant when she tried to reveal her identity in the last second before losing consciousness.
She is Jianjian.
Disbelief, tension, regret... a storm raged in Ye Wuluo's eyes as various emotions surged within him, finally settling on the present scene, with endless lingering fear emerging.
If the human skin mask hadn't fallen off, would the girl have been swallowed by the stone tiger and captured?
Thinking back further, back on the cliff, he allowed Lan Yi to kill Jianjian to avenge Tao Xian. If Lan Yi had succeeded, he would have lived with regret for the rest of his life!
Ye Wuluo's mind was in turmoil. He dodged the flying rocks while holding the girl, his eyes filled with anger as he met Shi Hu's gaze.
Shi Hu was completely baffled by the man's intentions. He was at a loss for words. The man had initially agreed to capture the person and was almost ready to hand him over when he suddenly changed his mind!
What's the meaning?
Do you think it's easy to bully and fool?
"Put me down." Mu Jianjian's face was pale. She knew from Ye Wuluo's reaction that her disguise had been exposed.
If you can't cover it up, so be it. It's better than being caught and having your soul extracted.
"Jianjian, why didn't you tell me?" Ye Wuluo lowered his head and whispered, looking at the girl's tired expression and blood-stained eyes with heartache.
What does that mean?
Is it her fault for not exposing her identity? Didn't she just arrest and kill everyone she found, and then she messed up?
Mu Jianjian met the other person's distressed eyes and remained speechless.
She could have handled Shi Hu on her own; she might not have been able to defeat him, but she could have escaped. At worst, she might have gotten a scrape on her legs because she didn't have time to dodge. But this man slashed her neck as soon as he arrived, and in the end, he didn't even let her say anything...
Although she thought this way, Mu Jianjian was perfectly clear-headed.
Ye Wuluo stopped to save her this time simply because she was Mu Jianjian, nothing more.
Sang Wanyue, having been reborn, was unaware of the original owner's personality, which is why Mu Jianjian could freely express her personality and emotions in front of her. But Ye Wuluo was different.
He and the original owner had grown up together, and although he wasn't entirely clear about everything, he was certainly very familiar with the original owner's tone and expression.
If you want to change your personality, you need to find a good time and reason, or rather... you have to take it slowly.
"Put me down first." Mu Jianjian frowned, but her voice was unusually clear amidst the fighting.
Ye Wulu smiled bitterly, his regret deepening, but Jin Shan showed no mercy to Shi Hu, knocking him back with a single blow before gently placing the girl in a corner.
"Jianjian, I..."
"Let's deal with Shi Hu first before we talk," Mu Jianjian said. She took the porcelain bottle containing pills from the man and swallowed them without hesitation, and her complexion finally improved a lot.
She looked at the marks that Ye Wuluo had scraped on the stone tiger and saw faint signs of healing. She explained, "It is made entirely of stone and feels no pain. It will keep stitching up the cracks. Only by cutting off its four claws and head can it be repaired."
"How did Jianjian know?" Ye Wuluo watched the girl's skillful movements as she swallowed the pill and circulated her true energy to heal her injuries, and his heart ached even more.
He remembered that when they parted, Jianjian was still a delicate young lady without any true qi cultivation. What had she gone through that made her able to remain calm even in the face of danger?
Mu Jianjian had no idea that Ye Wuluo had already imagined her as a tragic young lady in distress, but was instead thinking about the male protagonist's character in the original book.
As expected, Ye Wuluo's combat experience was still a bit inferior to that of the God of Slaughter Zhong Chuan. Ye Wuluo was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so it was normal for him to have weaknesses compared to Zhong Chuan, who was raised from childhood to become the adopted son of the Hehuan Palace and rose to power by stepping on human bones.
Although the original plot was flawed, fortunately, the cultivation and combat power weren't completely off track.
At this point, Mu Jianjian had no idea that her idea would be slapped in the face after meeting the fourth male lead.
"I knew it from seeing other people smashing stone lions."
After Ye Wuluo nodded, Mu Jianjian resumed her fight with Shi Hu, but she did not move to help. Instead, she leisurely tossed some pills aside.
The pills from the silver bracelet that Linghu Zhuoyu had given her earlier had already been used up when she and Yueyue fought Cai Chu. The pills that Ye Wuluo gave her this time seemed to be of better quality than any she had seen before.
As expected of the Holy Son of the Holy Lotus Pavilion.
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