Chapter 438: Ah Gu, the last straw
Outside the Eastern Domain Demon Sect, on an unknown mountain.
A fierce cold wind blew on the dark mountains. Due to the earth’s evil energy and the winter, the mountain forests that had never been green all year round became even more breathtaking at this moment. Even the overwhelming white snow turned into black charcoal when it fell to the ground.
In the broken mountain temple, the black crow was looking dully into the courtyard, seemingly looking for today’s lunch.
Whistle—whistle—
Suddenly, a series of tiny footsteps in the wind and snow broke the dead silence of the mountain temple.
The black crow heard the sound and spread its wings and fled in a hurry.
Two demon cultivators wrapped in cloaks and bamboo hats walked through the temple door and entered the main temple with a large hole in the ceiling. Under the headless Daoist statue in the temple, they lit a bunch of scattered demons.
Gu Mingxin awkwardly took off the hat on her head with one hand, shook her head to shake away the thick black hair that had been suppressed for a long time, and then looked at He Jiming, who was standing dully aside, and said:
“Sit down. Remember what I told you on the road.”
“Ah… Yes.”
He Jiming recovered from his stupor, and with an opposite attitude from before, he lowered his head and bowed to Gu Mingxin, then quietly sat down cross-legged and replied in a low voice:
“After returning to the Heavenly Demon Sect, go directly to the sect leader and tell him everything about Donghuang.”
“Um.”
Gu Mingxin responded softly and ignored him. She lowered her eyes and raised her incomplete right arm, which was currently wrapped in bandages, to look at it.
In this biting snowy Eastern Domain, she could feel the coldness in the air all over her body, except for her right hand.
The wind that was blowing on her right hand was quite warm. Even though she could only feel it, she could still imagine Ye Anping with her hand hanging on his waist, wielding a sword in the clear sky of the lush forest.
Gu Mingxin tried to grab her right hand, and sure enough, she was able to grab something that looked like Ye Anping’s thigh, and then she felt the back of her hand being pinched hard.
“Hiss–”
Although it hurt a little, it made Gu Mingxin relieve the tension in her heart at the moment.
Nearly a month had passed since her right hand was cut off by that junior sister of Ye Anping. She and He Jiming traveled day and night and finally arrived at a place less than 700 miles away from the Heavenly Demon Sect.
No matter what Xue said, Gu Mingxin still firmly believed that after listening to He Jiming’s statement, the Hell Master could understand that He Buqun was causing trouble in everything, and he could also understand that she was innocent.
After He Ji Ming finished reporting back to the Heavenly Demon Sect, she could go back to her cave to have a good rest and prepare for the next fight with Feng Yudie and Junior Sister Ye Anping.
Feng Yudie aside, Ye Anping’s junior sister was simply a monster.
But the bigger the monster, the more excited she was.
Sword fighting with that junior sister Ye Anping was much more interesting than fighting with disciples of the Demon Sect in the martial arts field.
As long as the master still believed in her, she would have no worries, and she would not be held back by the burden of He Jiming and unable to exert her full strength like Donghuang this time.
She wanted to prove to Ye Anping that she was the only one worthy of him…
She wanted Ye Anping to know that he should not side with that white-haired fool but should follow her to the Demon Sect…
Prison Hell will value Ye Anping very much and will treat him and himself as his direct disciples…
She just had to wait for He Ji Ming to go back and report to her master truthfully. There was no need for her to follow Xue’s instructions and go to Ye Anping, praying to Ye Anping to save her life as if she were admitting defeat.
The strong were respected, this was the teaching she had heard since she was a child.
As long as she beat Feng Yudie and Ye Anping’s junior sister, she could snatch Ye Anping over.
Ye Anping Ye Anping Ye Anping…
A strange smile gradually appeared on Gu Mingxin’s face, and she couldn’t help but use her right hand which was thousands of miles away to grab it again. Then she felt that her right hand was hit by Ye Anping with a bamboo stick, and she winced in pain:
“Hiss–”
Why don’t you just touch it? You’re so stingy…
Gu Mingxin gently rubbed her right arm, trying to make the stinging sensation subside a little.
Seeing her staring at her right hand without a palm, He Jiming was stunned for a moment, and quickly took out a pot of blood wine from the storage bag, held it over with both hands, and said weakly:
“Young Master Gu, this wine is my treasure. It has an analgesic effect. Do you want to drink some? I will pour you a glass…”
Looking at He Jiming’s attentive appearance, Gu Mingxin waved her hand indifferently, refused, and sneered:
“What does it mean?”
“This…” He Ji Ming was a little embarrassed to say it. He was stunned for a while and said apologetically, “Young Master Gu, it was my fault before. I was jealous of you before, so I kept quarreling with you in private. I also slandered you as an immortal spy. After seeing you fighting swords with the immortal cultivator girl before, I finally understood…”
“Um?”
“I understand that when you and I were fighting swords in the martial arts arena, you didn’t use all your strength to defeat me. If my father hadn’t begged me, you would have cut off my head.”
Gu Mingxin looked at He Ji Ming who seemed to have let go of his pretense of being the third young master of the He family, and felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
Although it was a good thing that He Ji Ming could admit his mistake to her, compared to the cowardly He Ji Ming now, the former He Ji Ming who had a bad mouth and a sarcastic face was more pleasing to her eyes.
Gu Mingxin did not respond: “…”
Seeing this, He Jiming quickly added:
“When I return to the Heavenly Demon Sect, I will help Young Master Gu clear your name of having an affair with an immortal cultivator, and praise you among the disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect. If it weren’t for you, Young Master Gu, I might not even be able to come back to the Heavenly Demon Sect… ”
“Cowardly and incompetent.” Gu Mingxin narrowed his eyes slightly and said sarcastically, “How lucky you are that you can survive in the Heavenly Demon Sect until now? If I were your father, I would have refined you into a blood elixir and fed it to your big brother.”
This time, He Jiming truly understood how much he weighed and nodded in response:
“Ah… Yes…”
“Ah…”
Gu Mingxin felt that he was very boring, but hearing that he was willing to help her clear her name made her feel a little more hopeful.
No matter what, she still wanted to stay in the Heavenly Demon Sect and stay with her master.
Gu Mingxin took the glass of wine held by He Ji Ming, shook it twice, and smelled it. It smelled quite unpleasant, so she simply gave it back to He Ji Ming, then stood up, looked at He, and walked out of the courtyard of the mountain temple.
“Ah… Young Master Gu, where are you going?”
“Get some air, my nose can’t stand it if I stay in the same place with a bastard like you.”
“Ah… Yes…”
Jiming was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly. He was so humble that he stopped talking. He stretched out his hands toward the bonfire, rested for a while, and then went back to the Heavenly Demon Sect alone to help her clarify what Gu Mingxin had said before.
Black clouds were pressing down on the sky, and the wind and snow were like waterfalls.
Gu Mingxin walked out of the threshold alone and stood under the eaves, looking at the purple spiritual light called the “Hell’s Eye” above the middle hall of the Heavenly Demon Sect in the distance.
After watching for a while, she glanced sideways behind her, and seeing that He Ji Ming had no intention of chasing after her, she called out in a low voice:
“Xue…”
“Yes, I’m here.”
Xue immediately appeared from between her eyebrows. Because He Jiming had been following her before, the sound transmission was a bit troublesome, and it was not easy for her to talk to Xue.
Taking advantage of the sound of wind and snow, she also wanted to talk to Xue about the next thing:
“Did you hear what He Ji Ming said just now?”
“Um.”
Xue nodded slightly and glanced at He Jiming who was warming his hands on the bonfire in the temple.
“I heard it, but Ming Xin, whether what he said works or not is another matter. In short, you can hide here for a while, and I will follow him back to the Heavenly Demon Sect. If something goes wrong, I will come back to tell you, and we will go find Ye Anping.”
“I trust my father.”
“Speaking of which, I asked you to leave a hand for Ye Anping’s junior sister. Did Ye Anping receive it?”
Gu Mingxin hesitated for a while, nodded, and said:
“…He received it, what’s wrong?”
“Then what did he say to you with that hand? For example, did he ask you to find someone? If we want to go to the Western Domain in the future, we must have someone to take care of us. Otherwise, if we can’t pass through the southwest realm, we will be captured by immortals. I realized that it wouldn’t work if I were caught by those powerful cultivators.”
Gu Mingxin was slightly dissatisfied and asked:
“You don’t believe in my master that much?”
Xue floated in front of her. She stopped talking for a while and finally said:
“Ming Xin, I’ve been following you, and I’ve seen it too. Indeed, the old man Yu Yan didn’t do anything bad to you, and he was the one who raised you, but it’s always good to be more prepared. Ming Xin, just tell me, did Ye Anping say anything to you? I’ll think about it later. I’m not like that golden fool, who is very stupid…”
“Mo Chi Ling.”
“Name?”
“It should be.”
Xue nodded and quickly took out the Demonic Scroll from under her skirt. She licked her fingers and started flipping through it. Her dark eyes quickly scanned left and right, but her brows furrowed slightly:
“Anything else?”
“No.”
“It is written in the Heavenly Demon Scroll that Mo Chi Ling was the direct disciple of Immortal Yu Yan 1,700 years ago, but she died 600 years ago.” Xue said while flipping through the book, “However, This is also what the previous owner of the Heavenly Demon Scroll heard. The description of this person in the Heavenly Demon Scroll only included her qualifications for the Heavenly Spiritual Root and her female gender, but did not specify the reasons for her death.”
“So?”
“After all, she was the former young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect. How many famous immortal cultivators she killed are written down in detail in the Heavenly Demon Book, and the reason for her death is recorded quite vaguely, indicating that she may still be alive. If Ye Anping told you this name, he probably wants you to go find her…”
“That person is… My senior sister?”
“Well, let me read the book for a while. Regardless of whether He Ji Ming can be used later, I think we can all go find that person. I didn’t pay attention before, but after Ye Anping said it, I saw something was wrong…”
“…”
Gu Mingxin frowned slightly, but she didn’t have any thoughts at all. She just felt that Xue was so useless. If “Mo Chi Ling” was so important, why didn’t she see it after reading the Demon Scroll for more than 20 years? As a result, as soon as Anping said it, it felt something was wrong.
Hindsight!
But this also showed that Ye Anping’s insight was also very powerful. He should have seen this name from the Book of Heaven, right?
Gu Mingxin felt the gentle breeze coming from the palm of her right hand in a foreign place, and once again looked toward the dazzling “Hell’s Eye” above the Heavenly Demon Palace in the distance.
The cold wind blew on her face, blowing her bangs and causing the bonfire in front of the headless Daoist statue in the temple to sway.
Huhu——
However, that was the next moment.
A noise mixed into the sound of the wind.
Whoosh——
?
Gu Mingxin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt an aura of death. Her eyes widened. She immediately summoned her natal spiritual sword from the soul realm, held it in his left hand, and then turned her head toward He Jiming behind her and rushed over.
Xue seemed to have noticed it and shouted quickly:
“Ming Xin!! Be careful…”
Before he finished speaking, Gu Mingxin quickly reached out toward He Jiming and shouted:
“What!!”
He Ji Ming, who was originally facing Gu Mingxin and heating his hands with fire, turned his head with confusion when he heard the sound. He looked at Gu Mingxin rushing toward him with his spiritual sword in hand, and suddenly felt a little confused:
“Um?”
Until–
He saw Gu Mingxin’s wide-open red eyes reflecting his somewhat embarrassed and confused face, as well as a dark dagger in front of his neck.
Swish——
Ding–!
Sparks exploded in front of He Ji Ming’s eyes.
Gu Mingxin gritted her teeth and took five steps almost in an instant to reach He Jiming’s side, parrying the dagger in front of his neck with one sword.
The person holding the dagger was a cultivator with a black mask and a black hat. His face could not be seen at all. He seemed to be carrying some kind of artifact to hide his aura. Gu Mingxin could not see through his cultivation level at a glance.
However, Xue used her consciousness to penetrate the layer of aura that isolated and probed and reminded:
“Ming Xin, it’s an insect cultivator in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, be careful!!”
“…Ah ah ah ah—!”
Swish——
The bloody aura waved an arc on the side of He Ji Ming’s cheek, and along with a trace of black blood, a finger flew out from the long sleeve of the cloaked monk.
After Gu Mingxin swept the man’s finger with her sword, her eyes widened slightly, and the half-swung bloody spirit sword suddenly stopped in mid-air and then swung toward the neck of the hood.
But the man didn’t seem to be interested in fighting. He quickly jumped back and turned into a ball of dark spiritual energy and dissipated.
Whoosh——
Gu Mingxin immediately stopped the sword in her hand, retreated to He Jiming’s side, let go of her consciousness, and checked her surroundings.
“He Ji Ming, use your blood to protect your body! That person is coming for you…”
Gu Mingxin immediately turned around and glared at He Jiming, but found a bloody aura appearing on He Jiming’s neck.
“Young Master Gu…”
He didn’t seem to react now, and his expression was slightly dull.
The next moment, Jiming’s tall body suddenly began to inflate like a balloon.
Bang——!
With an explosion, He Ji Ming’s deformed upper body exploded instantly.
Blood and flesh splattered all over Gu Mingxin’s body.
A plump chrysalis used the remaining lower body of He Ji Ming to twist and stand in front of Gu Mingxin.
“…”
“…”
“…”
Then, he spit out his tongue like a snake letter at Gu Mingxin, as if taunting her.
Gu Mingxin froze on the spot, feeling a buzzing in her ears. Looking at the pupa insect in front of him, her left hand holding the sword could not help but loosen slightly.
She spent so much effort to bring He Ji Ming safely back to the Heavenly Demon Sect from the Central Domain, hoping that he would help her regain the trust of the Immortal Hell and clear away the accusation of betrayal.
However…
“Mingxin!!!”
Xue’s roar brought her back to her senses. At this moment, Gu Mingxin finally understood what Elder Fu meant by “Abandoned son” that she had told her before in the Central Domain.
The so-called abandoned son was a person who had been abandoned.
Not about to be abandoned, but already!
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
In just one breath, Gu Mingxin waved countless rays of sword light with her left hand, cutting the chrysalis that occupied the lower half of He Jiming’s body into minced meat.
“Ahhhhh——!!”
“Come out!! Come out!!!”
Even though the chrysalis had turned into minced meat, the spiritual sword in her hand still did not stop, passing by the wall of the temple, dodging the headless Daoist statue, and breaking open the incomplete temple roof——
The heartbreaking sound resounded throughout the mountain, causing the wild beasts that were hunting in the mountain to flee.
Xue kept calling her name from the side, trying to calm her down, but Gu Mingxin couldn’t listen at all, and even almost hit it.
“Ah? Ming Xin!! Calm down… Calm down!! Ming Xin…”
Finally, it was a tingling sensation coming from the back of her right-hand thousands of miles away that made Gu Mingxin stop the spiritual sword in her left hand.
She felt that Ye Anping was holding her hand tightly at this moment.
Then she slowly opened the fingers of her stiff right hand and wrote five words on the fingers:
——Go to Mo Chi Ling.
“…”
“Mingxin…”
Seeing that she was suddenly stunned, Xue rushed over and gently touched the back of her head with her hand, comforting:
“It’s okay, it’s okay… I’m with you, just like when I was a kid. Every time you lose your temper, I touch your head like this…”
“…”
“Don’t think too much. He Ji Ming is a useless waste to He Buqun. If you go crazy because of this, isn’t that playing into He Buqun’s hands? He wanted to drive you away from the Heavenly Demon Sect, this… Ming Xin, don’t think about it, look at me, can I tell you a story? Once upon a time…”
“Shut up!”
Gu Mingxin closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then threw the bloody spirit sword to one side, raised her left hand to wipe He Ji Ming’s minced meat on her face, and then lowered her eyes to wipe He Ji Ming’s waist. She picked up her storage bag in the room and took the blood-red spirit sword back to the soul realm.
“Hiss-huh… Xue, go find Mo Chi Ling.”
“Well… Ming Xin, please wear a hat. It’s snowing heavily outside…”
Gu Mingxin slowly walked to the bonfire that was extinguished by blood, picked up her bamboo hat, and put it on her head. The blood was still flowing from her forehead. She walked out of the temple and walked into the wind and snow:
“Why, I’m going to kill you… I’m going to destroy your entire clan!!!”
…
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