Blood sedge

Chapter 1167 A Shocking Scene

"Junior brother, be careful!"

Seeing that Gu Yue was gradually becoming exhausted under Murong Bai's increasingly fast attacks, Gu Ri became extremely worried. He tried to fly over to help her several times, but was each time entangled by Deng Quan, who was like a "dog-skin plaster", making it difficult for him to escape.

Even though Gu Ri had beaten Deng Quan so badly that he was bruised and bleeding from all seven orifices, Deng Quan still chased Gu Ri and fought desperately, risking his own life to buy time for Murong Bai and the other masked men in black.

"laugh!"

"Forehead……"

"You bastard! Get out of here!"

"call!"

"Keng!"

"puff……"

When Murong Bai's silver spear pierced a bloody hole in Gu Yue's right rib again, the furious Gu Ri took advantage of the situation and blasted out a fierce palm, hitting Deng Quan's chest heavily.

Even though Deng Quan protected the mandarin duck copper rings in front of his chest in the blink of an eye, he was still unable to offset Gu Ri's powerful and vast palm force. Gu Ri's palm force pressed down the two overlapping copper rings and smashed them hard into Deng Quan's chest, causing his body to tremble and his internal organs to churn. Then he felt a sweetness in his throat and a mouthful of bright red blood gushed out of his mouth and nose, splattering Gu Ri's body with blood.

"Junior brother..."

"Gu Ri!"

However, before Gu Ri could rush to rescue the imperiled Gu Yue, Deng Quan, who was knocked to the ground by Gu Ri's palm, suddenly screamed his name and struggled to stand up.

"You and I haven't decided the winner yet, where are you going?"

Looking at the blood-stained, swaying Deng Quan, Gu Ri couldn't help but frown and said in a deep voice: "Boy, you are no match for me. The outcome was decided by just one palm strike..."

"So what?" Deng Quan waved his sleeve to wipe the blood from his mouth and nose, grinning to reveal a row of blood-soaked teeth, and said sinisterly, "Even if the winner is decided, life and death are still undecided, so you can't go anywhere."

How many years has it been since someone dared to challenge him so blatantly, not to mention that the other party was a junior? Gu Ri's eyes could not help but turn cold, and he looked at Deng Quan with a gleam of light, bursting out with a fierce murderous intent.

"It would be easy for me to take your life..."

"That depends on who kills whom first!"

Gu Ri was suddenly interrupted by Murong Bai's sharp shout. In a blink of an eye, Gu Yue, who was unable to dodge, was kicked several meters away by Murong Bai's dragon tail swing. When he fell to the ground in a mess and stumbled back, he suddenly saw a flash of silver light, and the cold tip of the spear was pressed against his throat.

"Murong Bai, don't hurt my junior brother..."

"Humph!"

Murong Bai turned a deaf ear to Gu Ri's shout, turned his wrist, and tried to stab the silver spear into Gu Yue's throat.

"stop!"

At the critical moment, Ling Xiaoxiao suddenly let out a hysterical scream, which not only interrupted Murong Bai's actions, but also stunned Gu Ri, Deng Quan, the remaining Wudang disciples and the masked men in black.

"mother……"

Ling Xiaoxiao ignored Luo Ningyu's surprised look and staggered forward. She stared coldly at Murong Bai, who looked suspicious, with angry eyes and said quietly, "You can't kill him."

"This……"

"Not only can you not kill Elder Gu Yue, no one else can touch a hair of a Wudang disciple."

At this moment, Ling Xiaoxiao's tone was unprecedentedly firm, but her expression was indescribably complicated. She seemed hesitant, ashamed and humiliated, forced to do so, and unwilling to give in... Facing such a strange Ling Xiaoxiao, not to mention Murong Bai was confused, even Gu Ri, Gu Yue and Luo Ningyu were equally confused.

"you……"

"Why can't we kill him?" Before Murong Bai could answer, Deng Quan said, "Do you think you can still order us around? The Seventh Master gave you a chance just now, but you didn't know how to cherish it. Now, not to mention that Gu Ri, Gu Yue and the Wudang disciples can't escape, even you...you have to leave your life behind."

Hearing this, Luo Ningyu was horrified and worried that Murong Bai or Deng Quan would suddenly attack Ling Xiaoxiao, so she hurried to Ling Xiaoxiao's side and subconsciously used her body to block Murong Bai and Deng Quan's sight.

"If I say you can't kill me, then you can't kill me!" Ling Xiaoxiao became irritable for no reason, and her words and actions were out of character. "Don't force me!"

"What if I force you?" Deng Quan sneered at Ling Xiaoxiao's weak threat and said teasingly, "Could it be that you are as secretive as the Lord of Jueqing Valley and have a set of shocking martial arts? If so, please show us a few of them, so that we can admit defeat sincerely."

"Deng Quan!" Murong Bai said unhappily, "A warrior can be killed but not humiliated. They are already at the end of their strength, why do you have to humiliate them again?"

"mother……"

"Murong Bai! Deng Quan!"

Ling Xiaoxiao's eyes straightened, and she pushed away Luo Ningyu who was trying to comfort her, and said angrily, "Are you really pushing me so hard that you won't leave me any room for maneuver?"

"us……"

"You colluded with Wudang to murder the Northern Sage King first, and then plotted to persecute the young master. You are so bloody and irreconcilable. How can you teach us to show mercy?" Murong Bai did not give Deng Quan a chance to speak, and ruthlessly broke Ling Xiaoxiao's last fantasy. "In public and private, we have no other choice. If you agree to the conditions I just proposed, I can keep you, the young lady, and the young master safe. But we will kill all the Wudang thieves without a doubt!"

"How shameless! I want to see how you kill me."

"OK……"

"Stop it all!"

Ling Xiaoxiao once again shouted at the top of her lungs, interrupting the furious Gu Ri and the murderous Murong Bai. "Mother..."

"Xiaoxiao, what are you doing..."

"Okay! Okay!"

Ling Xiaoxiao waved her sleeves regardless of the arrow wound, then laughed wildly in the astonished eyes of everyone, and then staggered towards a carriage not far away.

"Murong Bai, Deng Quan, I want to show you something."

When they reached the carriage, Ling Xiaoxiao suddenly stopped laughing. Her eyes, which were originally filled with resentment and anger, were now filled with tears, which made the people around her even more confused.

"After you have seen it, you can decide whether to kill all of us."

"Ling Xiaoxiao, you..."

"Stop talking nonsense and open your dog eyes to see clearly!"

While he was talking, Ling Xiaoxiao had already climbed onto the carriage and pulled down the curtain, revealing Luo Hongxuan, who was lying quietly in the middle of the carriage and still unconscious. Around Luo Hongxuan, there were dozens of wooden boxes of varying sizes stacked up. It was obvious that most of the boxes contained the rare treasures Ling Xiaoxiao brought from the Xianwang Mansion.

"Ahem...what do you mean?" Deng Quan suppressed the coughs caused by his internal injuries and said coldly, "Do you think that you can use Master Hongxuan as a shield to make us stop?"

"Shut your bitch!"

Ling Xiaoxiao cursed viciously, then turned and looked at the skinny and pale Luo Hongxuan with tenderness, and gently stroked his dry face that was almost skin and bones with her hands.

However, unexpectedly, Ling Xiaoxiao's hands did not stay on Luo Hongxuan's face for too long, but raised her arms and stretched straight to the wooden boxes stacked behind Luo Hongxuan.

"mother……"

"Xiaoxiao..."

Under the confused gazes of the crowd, Ling Xiaoxiao slowly moved the wooden boxes away from in front of her. After she had moved seven or eight small wooden boxes away one by one, a large vermilion box about five feet square, with dragon and phoenix patterns carved on both sides, was revealed. It was buried deep in the rear of the carriage.

Unlike the other boxes that were half-closed, this large vermilion box actually had a fist-sized copper lock hanging on it, which showed that it was a very precious item.

Seeing this big box, Liu Zhong and Liu Yi, who were seriously injured, couldn't help but look at each other, with curiosity in their eyes.

When they were packing their luggage at Prince Xian's mansion that day, this large vermilion box was carried from Ling Xiaoxiao's room by Liu Zhong and Liu Yi onto the carriage.

However, when the Liu brothers first saw the big box, it was already locked, so they didn't know what treasures were stored inside. They only remembered that Ling Xiaoxiao was particularly concerned about this big box. Unlike other gold, silver and jewelry that were left to others to move, this vermilion big box was actually placed on the carriage by Ling Xiaoxiao herself with the Liu brothers, so Liu Zhong and Liu Yi were quite impressed by this box.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Ling Xiaoxiao slowly stretched out her trembling hands and carefully stroked the box. She seemed to be lost in some kind of emotion that she could not extricate herself from, and her tears flowed uncontrollably like the Yellow River bursting its dam.

"This……"

The strange scene once again shocked everyone.

"To be able to make Madam so excited, and even so carefree..." Murong Bai frowned, staring at the large red box on the carriage, and couldn't help but imagine a lot. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he was horrified and muttered in disbelief: "Could it be...could it be that the box contains...the remains of the Northern Sage King?"

"hiss!"

Although Murong Bai's voice was very soft, in the silent Yandang Valley, this shocking speculation was still clearly heard by everyone.

"How is it possible?" Deng Quan was horrified and said hurriedly, "The Northern Sage King has long been buried, how could the box contain..."

At this point, Deng Quan's face suddenly changed, and a violent aura quickly rose between his brows. He angrily said: "Could it be that... Ling Xiaoxiao dug out the corpse of the Northern Sage King before leaving?"

"This……"

Deng Quan's words not only made Murong Bai feel panic-stricken, but also made Luo Ning speechless.

"What a despicable and shameless Ling Xiaoxiao is. She turned her love for the Northern Wise King into hatred, and murdered her own husband, which is ok, but now she even took the Northern Wise King's corpse... cough cough!" Deng Quan was so angry that he couldn't help coughing up blood. "She is really a vicious woman. She will not let the Northern Wise King rest in peace in the afterlife..."

However, facing everyone's speculation and Deng Quan's insults, Ling Xiaoxiao sneered.

But she suddenly turned around, glanced coldly at Murong Bai and Deng Quan who were feeling mixed emotions, and then reached out and slowly took off the golden hairpin on her head, which turned out to be a key.

“Crack! Crack!”

Ling Xiaoxiao inserted the golden hairpin into the copper lock and slowly turned it. With a soul-stirring sound, the copper lock opened, and everyone's hearts trembled as the copper lock opened.

"Murong Bai, Deng Quan." Ling Xiaoxiao's voice sounded quietly, but it was impossible to tell whether her tone was happy or sad. "You only recognize Xie Xuan and Liu Xunyi now, and don't recognize me... Then do you recognize him? Since I can't order you around, but I don't know... what about him?"

Before she finished her words, Ling Xiaoxiao frowned, raised her hands with all her strength, and suddenly opened the huge box lid.

"squeak!"

When everyone saw clearly what was in the box, their hearts skipped a beat, their blood froze, their pupils shrank, and they couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air from their mouths and noses.

Looking at Murong Bai and Deng Quan who were terrified and stunned, their legs softened without them noticing and they fell to the ground with a plop.

Everyone guessed wrong. The "thing in the box" was not a cold corpse, but a living person with flesh and blood and breathing.

The living... Luo Tianjin.

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