Chapter 38
As soon as the pink-robed woman appeared, Yan Bujian's gaze was fixed on her - the embroidery on her robe was clearly the lamp shadow and cloud pattern of the Bo Deng Sect.
The person who came is from the Bo Deng Sect... Could it be that he is Lin Yibai's subordinate?
But why didn't she save her immediately, and instead said weird things to the child?
Before he could wrap his mind around it, Yan Bujian's fists clenched suddenly. He suddenly turned his head to look at Lin Yibai, who was standing in front of the boiler. The blood on her chest had spread out in a circle, and her pale face, illuminated by the green will-o'-the-wisp fire, looked like a waning moon, lifeless.
"She's dying."
As soon as this thought came into his mind, he felt like he was almost suffocating.
Yan Bujian's Adam's apple rolled and he tasted a hint of blood on the tip of his tongue. Perhaps he had bitten his teeth too hard just now and unknowingly broke his lip.
He has never bowed to the evil in his life. Even though he was imprisoned and tortured, his pride was like a sword embedded in his spine, which would rather break than bend.
But at this moment, the sword shattered into pieces in the girl's gradually fading aura.
"Cough..." He coughed violently, the wound on his shoulder and arm tearing apart, the severe pain making his vision black out. In his blurred vision, he only saw Lin Yibai's head tilt slightly, and his originally weak breathing became almost inaudible.
No, we can't delay any longer.
The thought of not wanting this girl to die like this was like a prairie fire, instantly burning away all his hesitation and hatred. Yan Bujian supported himself on the ground with his hands and shouted hoarsely to the woman in the distance, "Save her!"
Su Ruo paused slightly at the sound of Xiao Mi's restraints. Her inky black eyes turned towards him, a hint of undisguised amusement spreading across them. "Young man, what did you say? I didn't hear you clearly."
Yan Bujian dug his nails deep into the gravel, blood seeping from his fingers. The humiliation was like a tide that overwhelmed him. He almost gritted his teeth and spoke again. His voice was a little clearer than before, but it was also trembling with an undisguised voice: "She's dying! Save her... please."
He deliberately emphasized the last word, then said with difficulty: "You are from the Bo Deng Sect, and she is your young sect leader... How could you not save her?!"
Unexpectedly, these words were like a spark falling into boiling oil, instantly igniting all the pent-up anger in the woman's eyes.
"Save her?"
Su Ruo's expression froze, and she turned to look at Lin Yibai, who was dying on the ground. The darkness in her eyes faded a little, and a ray of her original divine light leaked out.
But the next moment, a sinister sneer suddenly appeared at the corner of her lips. She slowly turned from in front of Xiao Mi, took light lotus steps, and walked towards Lin Yibai.
Several dark evil spirits crawled at her feet like poisonous snakes, and the bloody smell became thicker wherever they passed.
"Young Sect Master?" Su Ruo crouched down and gently nudged Lin Yibai's limp arm with her toes, her voice filled with sarcasm. "What a prestigious title! What a shame, you're still lying at my feet like a dead dog!" As she finished her words, she raised her hand, and a soft, jet-black whip suddenly appeared at her waist. The whip was covered in fine barbs, gleaming coldly under the green ghostly light.
Yan Bujian's pupils suddenly shrank - he recognized the whip. Before in the dungeon, Lin Yibai had used a similar whip to whip his back until it was bloody.
What is this woman going to do?!
“Bang!”
The whip cracked the air, and the barbs tore open Lin Yibai's shoulder robe, leaving a bloody mark deep enough to see the bone.
Yan Bujian's whole body trembled as if struck by lightning, and his brain went blank.
But despite receiving such a heavy blow, Lin Yibai just shook his body silently, his eyes tightly closed, his face as pale as water-soaked paper, and even his eyelashes did not tremble at all... as if he could no longer feel the pain.
Yan Bujian snapped back to his senses upon seeing this, and then the rage and panic in his heart erupted like magma, instantly overcoming his rationality: "Are you crazy?!" He roared at Su Ruo, his voice distorted by extreme anger, "I asked you to save her! How dare you -?!"
Wasn't she Lin Yibai's subordinate? Why did she want to kill someone who was near death?!
He struggled to get up, but as soon as he lifted himself up, the severe pain in his body pulled him back to the ground and he fell heavily among the gravel.
"Trash should be left alone." His furious expression caught Su Ruo's eye, earning her only a cold sneer. She lowered her head again, looking at the silent Lin Yibai at her feet. She seemed enraged, yet also lost in some twisted memory. The tail of her whip scraped back and forth across the man's body, leaving a crisscross of bloody marks on the barbs. "That's how you treated me back in the dungeon... Young Sect Master."
"Do you still remember what you did when my left cheek was torn apart by poisonous insects and blood and pus was flowing everywhere?!" Her voice was as sharp as nails scraping against a stone wall, and her dark pupils were fixed on Lin Yibai's pale face. "You thought I was ugly, saying 'two cheeks are disproportionate and disgusting', and yet you took this dragon bone whip and whipped my right cheek until it was unrecognizable!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she whipped Lin Yibai hard on the old wound on her chest, and blood splattered, staining the tip of her shoe red.
"Stop!" Yan Bujian on the ground roared like a trapped beast, his dark eyes blazing with rage. He no longer cared about the wounds all over his body and the blood gushing from his limbs. He stood up tremblingly and staggered towards the two of them.
But Su Ruo, seeing him approaching, paid no heed, still immersed in a raging hatred. She gnashed her teeth and said, "Remember that little medicine boy from Qingzhu Peak? He only secretly gave me half a piece of dry food, and you captured him and fed him to your poisonous insects! You watched him being devoured by the insects, yet you laughed so happily, saying, 'This lowly slave deserves to die with the lowly race!'"
Yan Bujian, who was walking towards this place with difficulty, was shocked when he heard the words, and the painful memories in the dungeon suddenly surged up -
What this woman said was true.
Lin Yibai...can indeed do it.
Thinking of this, his heart turned cold, his furious mind suddenly froze, his steps couldn't help but stop, and he stood there in a daze.
But the next moment, he saw Lin Yibai being tormented like a broken puppet, without even a trace of struggle, and the dull pain in his heart spread out densely -
No matter what, he couldn't let her die. She still owed him an explanation for everything that had happened in the past!
"Say something!" However, just as he was stunned, Su Ruo saw that Lin Yibai had no reaction at all, and finally became furious. He threw the whip to the ground, and the demonic energy in his palm surged, condensing into several sharp bone spurs, which stabbed Lin Yibai's limbs fiercely!
The dark green demonic energy instantly penetrated the girl's meridians along the bone spurs. Seeing this, Yan Bujian froze in place, his pupils shrinking sharply. The anger and struggle in his eyes froze instantly, leaving only empty horror.
He watched as the bone spur pierced through her thin robe, and watched as her body instinctively tensed up due to the severe pain, but she couldn't even utter a muffled groan. She felt as if her soul had been taken away from her, and she stood frozen on the spot, forgetting even to breathe.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment. Su Ruo's roar, Xiao Mi's struggle, all the sounds disappeared from his ears. He could only see the rise and fall of Lin Yibai's chest becoming weaker and weaker, like a candle in the wind, and finally -
Complete extinction.
......
Seeing that the girl at his feet was completely silent, a hint of impatience flashed in Su Ruo's eyes. She waved two fingers, and the evil energy that was entangled with Lin Yibai's body suddenly exerted force, twisting her arm into a strange angle.
The sound of bones breaking was clearly audible, but Lin Yibai just tilted his head slightly, and other than that, there was no other movement.
"No……"
Yan Bujian's voice shattered like a leaf in the wind. Those eyes, always frosted with snow, now fixed their gaze on Lin Yibai's pale face. Her lifeless form was reflected in his pupils, churning with an unprecedented confusion and emptiness.
He wanted to roar, to question, to wake her up and find out the whole story, but his throat felt like it was blocked by a hot iron, and he could only squeeze out suppressed, trapped sobs.
However, at this moment, Xiao Mi, who was bound by evil spirits in the distance, suddenly let out a deafening roar!
His originally handsome face instantly twisted, and a pale cold fire suddenly ignited between his eyebrows. Wherever the flame passed, the black evil energy that bound him quickly melted away as if it had encountered its nemesis.
Then there was a "bang" sound, and he suddenly broke the restraints!
As his feet slowly touched the ground, the ground beneath the boy's feet was frozen into a layer of white frost by the cold fire.
Xiao Mi suddenly turned his head and stared at Su Ruo, the pale flames reflected in his scarlet eyes, and his voice was as cold as if it came from the underworld: "You are looking for death!" As soon as he finished speaking, his aura suddenly became sharp, as if he had become a different person in an instant, and a heart-pounding pressure surrounded him.
But Su Ruo didn't care at all when she saw this. Instead, she laughed even more crazily: "Oh, Lord Demon, are you heartbroken? I never thought that when we meet again in this life, your heart would be swayed by the life and death of a mere mortal."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Mi suddenly moved.
The pale cold fire around him suddenly surged, enveloping him like a tangible flame armor. Then, it transformed into a shadow, instantly closing in on Su Ruo. Without further ado, his right fist, condensed with cold fire, pierced the air with a sharp whistle as it struck Su Ruo in the face!
Wherever the fist wind passed, the air was frozen and made a "sizzling" sound of condensation. The gravel along the way was instantly covered with white frost and shattered into powder.
Su Ruo's pupils shrank slightly, obviously she had not expected the other party to attack so swiftly, so she had to hastily wave her hands to summon two black magic barriers to deal with it.
"Bang!"
The moment the fist collided with the demonic energy, the barrier shattered into pieces like a fragile ice surface. The remaining force swept across Su Ruo's cheek with a biting chill, freezing her hair into ice chips. Then a red mark slowly appeared on her fair cheek.
"Interesting." Su Ruo raised his hand to wipe the blood from his cheek. Instead of being angry, he smiled. The demonic energy in his palm surged wildly, and instantly turned into several demonic vines as thick as his wrists, which wrapped around Xiao Mi's limbs like poisonous snakes.
Xiao Mi's steps didn't stop, her body nimbly dodging like willow catkins. Simultaneously, a long sword of cold fire condensed from her fingertips. With a flick of her wrist, three sharp sword shadows slashed through the attacking demonic vines with pinpoint accuracy. The severed demonic vines instantly ignited by the cold fire as they hit the ground, dissipating in a wisp of black smoke, leaving not even ash behind.
......
As the two men engaged in fierce combat, in an unnoticed corner, the mountain of flesh formed from the fragments of the demon-eating demon suddenly began to melt. Dark green liquid flowed along the ground, gleaming eerily in the light.
After a while, a little crystal light suddenly appeared in the center of the juice. The light seemed to have life, slowly rising and floating towards Lin Yibai.
It passed through the aftermath of the fierce battle, through the flying debris, and landed directly on Lin Yibai's forehead.
The moment the faint light touched her eyebrows, a dazzling dark golden light suddenly burst out.
The light surged into her body like a tide, and her already ice-cold body trembled slightly. The light between her eyebrows flashed and disappeared completely.
The two people who were fighting fiercely in the distance did not notice all this, and Yan Bujian, who was in a trance, did not see it either.
He walked, his gaze empty, step by step, toward Lin Yibai's body. His knuckles were white from exertion, the stifled gasps growing heavier, his eyes crimson, but not a single tear fell. Ever since the day the demon plagued the village and his parents had tragically perished before him, he had long forgotten how to cry. Now, all his grief could only smolder within him, transforming into silent pain.
He walked up to her, slowly leaned over, and stared blankly at the girl's peaceful face that looked like she was sleeping.
He hadn't asked her why she saved him.
He didn't have time to figure out whether the feeling surging in his heart towards the man who had tortured him and now saved him was hatred or something else.
......All the words that were not spoken eventually became eternal regrets.
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