Chapter 99 Why Don't You Listen?
Ruan Xing stretched out his hand with great effort and grasped the other person's collar. His vision was blurred, but the tension in facing a strong enemy and the fear of being on the verge of death suddenly faded a lot.
With her weak spiritual sense, she could feel as if she was in an alien space channel full of waves, with the sound of whistling wind in her ears.
So this is what the Ghost Escape Technique feels like.
Jian Lai was holding her tightly in his arms in a protective manner. The two of them were in hiding and he was running at full speed.
She tried to move her lips, but found that she couldn't open her mouth, so she gave up and asked through her mind connection: "Jian Lai? Why are you here?"
Jian Lai replied: "I heard you calling me, so I came."
"I don't think I called you..."
The message delivered by Jian Lai seemed to carry a hint of stubbornness, "I felt you calling me."
Ruan Xing was speechless. "Okay, just think of it as me calling you. Thank you for coming to save me, but... wait, you can't leave now!"
Jian Lai stopped obediently, but did not change his stealth mode. Instead, he waited obediently for her next instruction.
They had not run far now, having reached the edge, but were still within the town.
She had never thought of calling Jian Lai before, because the last time she saw Jian Lai, she had waited for him outside Yunyang City for two or three hours. It took too long to cross the mountain pass, and by the time he came, the opportunity was already cold.
But she didn't expect that Jian Lai would come so quickly this time. She couldn't see Jian Lai's character panel, and she didn't know what level he had reached in practicing the Ghost Escape Technique.
She was thinking, since Jian Lai's people have already arrived, they may not be without a chance of winning. Jian Lai's Ghost Escape Technique was able to conceal it from Foundation Establishment cultivators when he had not yet cultivated it. There is no reason why he can be detected by cultivators of the same realm now that he has reached the Golden Core stage.
If there is a chance to win, they cannot leave. If they leave, Ruan Xing will have a hard time in Nanzhou and will have no place to stay.
"Jian Lai, those three with black air are our own people. Go and see if you can launch a sneak attack on the most powerful one in the sky. If you succeed, kill them and come back to find me. If not, just come and take me away." Ruan Xing ordered.
Jianlai nodded, but didn't do it immediately, looking a little hesitant.
He is worried.
Because of a fight in a restaurant in the town center, most of the monks and mortals who were still able to move ran to the edge of the town.
They are now in hiding and no one has discovered them, but they will not be able to maintain their hiding after Jian Lai leaves. Ruan Xing is now seriously injured and can hardly move. If he encounters other cultivators with bad intentions, he will be doomed.
Ruan Xing thought about it and felt that this possibility was indeed very high. Little did she know that there were many protagonists out there who met seriously injured seniors on the road and finished them off to gain inheritance. If it were her, she might do the same.
"Jian Lai, do you remember Master Cai? He is here too. Take me to him and let him take care of me."
Cai Wen has just surrendered to her, so he should at least do some work.
Just now, after the fairy rescued them, Cai Wen quickly took Cai Jiao away from the center of the battle. The aftermath of a small battle between him and a Jindan stage was enough to kill them both.
Jian Lai held her and jumped onto the roof of a tall building. Ruan Xing swept his spiritual sense over a few places and found the hiding place of Master Cai.
The town was in chaos, but it was also dangerous to leave the town at night. There were monsters everywhere in the mountains and forests outside. Therefore, Cai Wen found an empty low house on the edge of the town and hid in it.
The two people appeared out of thin air, which scared Master Cai. He covered his heart and took a while to react before he realized that the little girl covered in blood in the arms of the pure white boy was Ruan Xing.
Jianlai carefully placed Ruan Xing on the bed made of stone bricks. There was only a thin mattress on it, but it was more comfortable than lying on the ground.
After putting Ruan Xing down, Jian Lai disappeared again.
"Boss Ruan, what are you doing..." Cai Wen said worriedly.
What Ruan Xing experienced seemed to be much more dangerous than he had imagined. He didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to entrust his daughter to Ruan Xing.
Fortunately, Nannan doesn't have much fighting ability. At most, she will lose her freedom and be put in a storage bag. She will not be sent by Ruan Xing to fight others.
Ruan Xing coughed twice and said, "Please take care of me. I am not feeling well right now."
"Okay." Cai Wen calmed himself down, and under Ruan Xing's command, he found the storage bag on her body and placed it next to her hand. Ruan Xing struggled to use a trace of spiritual power to take out a bottle of healing pills, and asked Cai Wen to help her take it.
As the effect of the medicine wore off, Ruan Xing gathered her energy and tried to repair her injuries. The bleeding had stopped, but she had multiple fractures on her body and the spine on her back was a little dislocated. She might need some time to recuperate.
After checking the operation of his spiritual power, Ruan Xing breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his spiritual bones were not damaged, otherwise it would have been troublesome.
She closed her eyes and practiced internal energy to heal her wounds for half an hour, but Jian Lai had not returned yet.
When it comes to fighting, Ruan Xing doesn't know how strong Jianlai is now, but if he hides and escapes, Jianlai will be absolutely unstoppable. Since he hasn't used the ghost escape technique to escape and take her away until now, it means that I have the advantage and the upper hand.
Cai Wenzhe sat on the side, holding his daughter and staring out the window in a daze.
After using the Dust Collection Technique on himself, Ruan Xing took out a set of clean clothes from the storage bag and changed into them. He covered his lips and coughed softly: "Cai Wen... cough cough, carry me on your back and take a look."
"Now? It should still be dangerous outside."
"It's okay, we're just looking outside, we're not going into the town center."
"Yes." Cai Wen had no choice but to carry Ruan Xing on his back.
An old man carrying a little girl on his back and holding another in his arms. It looks like a tragic story of left-behind children and lonely elderly people.
The streets outside are very quiet. In the current situation, those who can run have already run away, and those who cannot run have found a place to hide like quails. No one would wander around the streets for no reason.
The messy things from the confiscated stalls on the roadside were scattered all over the ground. Cai Wen stepped on the flattened lanterns as he passed by, making some slight noises. Ruan Xing looked vigilantly into the half-open shop on the roadside and met two pairs of slightly panicked eyes.
She acted decisively and used the fastest Five Directions Water Movement Technique she was familiar with to summon a water whip to trap the two cultivators at the third and fourth levels of Qi training inside.
After subconsciously using the magic, she felt a dull pain in her meridians. No, she couldn't use her spiritual power for at least the next few days.
"Senior, please spare us! We have never seen you before..."
The trapped monk begged for mercy, and Ruan Xing used the water whip to seal his mouth. Only then did she feel that the two monks looked familiar. She seemed to have seen them when she entered the restaurant. The one sitting at the table closest to the door?
Why didn't they die? Did they finish their meal and leave before the restaurant collapsed?
But unfortunately, they were too curious just now. When they saw someone on the street, they wanted to see who it was. After they found out that it was the senior monk they had met in the restaurant, they were so surprised that they made a sound and were noticed by Ruan Xing.
Ruan Xing frowned and whispered to Cai Wen, "Kill them."
These two people had seen her in the restaurant. If Elder Xu died and the sect investigated and found these two people, then she would be an important suspect.
Even though the gap between her cultivation level and Elder Xu's was too big and this case was very unreasonable, it would not be easy to get away with it once she was involved. She did not want to create many more twists and turns because of Elder Xu.
Cai Wen did not hesitate. The two monks were tied up by the water whip and had no power to fight back.
She took out the corpse-dissolving water from her storage bag, which she had not used since she became an immortal, and asked Cai Wen to destroy the corpse. The physical fitness of a cultivator at the third or fourth level of Qi training was still at the mortal stage, and in a short while it turned into a pool of pus with a slightly pungent smell.
After finishing the job, Ruan Xing looked up at the sky. There was no trace of cultivators in the night sky.
Is the battle over?
Ruan Xing hesitated for a moment. She seldom used the mind link to communicate with the Demon Lord Fairy, because it would make the two arrogant gods appear inferior to her. After all, in the contract of the puppet law, the mind link was used to control commands and suppress puppets.
But she didn't dare to go over there without asking about the situation.
After hesitating for a moment, Ruan Xing sent a message to the Demon Lord, asking him about the current situation.
The Demon Lord was not angry, and quickly told her that everything was alright and she could go now.
Ruan Xing quickly asked Cai Wen to carry her over. When she arrived at the ruins of the restaurant, the terrain seemed to be a little different because of the battle after she left.
On a space that had been hastily cleared, the Demon King was half-kneeling there, with the fairy lying on his legs.
Ruan Xing asked Cai Wen to put her down and sit on the ground, then ordered him, "Look for anyone alive, and kill them if there are any."
These people had all seen with their own eyes the black gas coming out of the Demon Lord and his men. If they were allowed to spread the news alive, the consequences would be disastrous.
"I was thinking the same thing just now, but she wouldn't let me." The Demon Lord smiled helplessly and said, "Don't tell her later."
"Of course." Ruan Xing nodded and asked, "What's wrong with the fairy?"
"I don't know. Injured? Or exhausted? How would I know anything about puppets? I wanted to clean up this place just now, but she kept stopping me. Then she fainted. I used Yin Qi to treat her, but it didn't work. You should be able to repair it, right? Take a look." The Demon Lord let go of the hand that was supporting the back of the fairy's head and let her lie flat on the ground.
Ruan Xing used his spiritual sense to take a look. After all, the fairy's body was a puppet body with the strength of a golden elixir. It looked like she had been beaten badly just now, but in fact, the injuries on her body were not even half as serious as Ruan Xing's. She would be fine after being sutured and repaired slowly with the Yin Qi. However, the meridians inside the body of this puppet body were messed up by the impact of the fairy's Yin Qi.
"She seems to be trying to use her Yin Qi to circulate the Qi according to the method... It's okay, she will be fine after a few days of nurturing with the Soul Nourishing Wood."
The Yin Qi only needs to be absorbed and condensed, and there is no need to practice according to the meridians like a cultivator. The fairy may still not be used to this puppet body, and she subconsciously practiced the exercises during the fight.
The Demon Lord's technique is to devour and refine, which does not require the circulation of Qi, so there is no problem for him to use this technique.
Ruan Xing took out the materials to repair the fairy's puppet body, then put them into the storage bag and placed them next to the soul-nourishing tree.
Maybe after four or five days, the fairy will wake up and we can release her.
"Where's Jianlai? The one who came to help you just now."
"I know. That's your puppet, right? You have a lot of puppets." The Demon Lord said, glancing at Fu Qinghong who was half-sitting on a broken stone wall not far away. "Just now he suddenly appeared and severely injured the late Jindan. It was easier for me to fight him because he was injured. Then your puppet went to kill the early Jindan and the two early foundation building. The bodies are over there. When the late Jindan saw that all his men were dead, he wanted to run away, and your puppet chased him."
"Then why didn't you chase after him? Are you hurt?"
"No." The Demon Lord said simply, "Just now, too much Yin Qi was consumed. Many people died here just now. I was thinking of replenishing it."
Anyway, the monk is already seriously injured, and the white guy can definitely kill him as long as he catches up with him, so there is no need for him to make another trip.
Ruan Xing held his forehead with his hand. However, it was true that as a demon cultivator with his own thoughts and who did not submit to her, there was nothing wrong with the Demon Lord's approach. It was just a little resentful that such a powerful puppet was not very obedient.
Fortunately, there is Jianlai. Jianlai has reached the Golden Core level and is very obedient and well-behaved. He is truly a little angel!
She called Fu Qinghong over and prepared to check his body as well.
Fu Qinghong's situation is similar to Cai Jiao's. He is completely unconscious. She can only give Fu Qinghong commands through the mind link, but Fu Qinghong will not respond to her through the link.
When Fu Qinghong limped over, Ruan Xing realized that he did not sit down because he was tired, but sat on the wall because he could not stand anymore. She took out the materials, repaired it and put them into the storage bag. Cai Wen also came back after finishing his work. She asked Cai Wen to support her and began to clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils.
She also put the three corpses killed by Jian Lai into the storage bag, and after they recovered from their injuries, she would refine them into puppets, mainly the cultivator in the black hat, after all, he was also in the early stage of Jindan.
She has two pieces of soul-nourishing wood. If used sparingly, the thumb-sized wood can be divided into one or two hundred pieces, and even enough to form an army of puppets.
She couldn't help but sigh, "It would be great if the puppet I made this time could be smarter."
It can be seen from Fu Qinghong that, although he is in the late stage of foundation building, and is fighting against two people in the early stage of foundation building, he is completely unconscious and relies entirely on instinct to fight. He is not at all as strong as a normal cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. He and Fu Yu forced Xie Huai to use self-destructive magic weapons.
Now he can’t even beat two ordinary people in the early stage of foundation building.
Hearing this, Xie Feng couldn't help but laugh, "Have you ever thought that the puppet you trained has no mind because this method is originally like this."
Ruan Xing was confused, "What do you mean?"
"I don't know what the principle of your puppet method is, but for us demon cultivators, we don't like the tools in our hands to have their own consciousness. For example, although I am your puppet in name, do I listen to you? I don't listen. Do you think I am more useful or your obedient white-clothed puppet is more useful?" The Demon Lord smiled kindly and said, "After all, I have more experience in demon cultivation than you. How about you teach me this method and I will help you with advice."
Ruan Xing's heart suddenly became alarmed, and he quickly refused, "That's not necessary."
You must be kidding. If the Demon Lord knew that his life and death were not under my control, I would be dead.
Now the Demon King and the Fairy followed her and protected her, not only because they promised her inheritance, but also because they had made a contract with her by dripping blood, thinking that if she died, they would die too.
Thanks to high school girl Zhou Yingting for the tip~
(End of this chapter)
