Madam, please listen to my explanation.

Chapter 78 Please, kill me
Zhuang Yuning opened her eyes in a daze and found herself lying on the couch.

The stench of decay and dampness filled her nostrils. She was fully conscious, yet she couldn't move a single finger.

This is where?

"Mother, are you awake?"

The voice was so familiar, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember who it was.

The noise and stench outside seemed to evoke some of her memories.

Is this the West City area?
But didn't I leave here a long time ago?

"Mother, I just made myself something to eat, so don't worry."

Even though she received no response from beginning to end, the girl continued to mutter to herself.

"I took the liberty of using the last three copper coins in my house to buy this bowl of talismanic water from Abing. Try drinking it; maybe it will help you get up."

"Oh, right, Mother, everyone has erected a stone statue of the Great Sage Celestial Master under the old locust tree in the alley. That way, you won't have to walk so far to pray there."

The Great Sage Celestial Master?

Her heart felt like it had been suddenly gripped in someone's hand, and she immediately found it difficult to breathe.

A small hand pried open her mouth, and a foul-smelling, bitter, unidentified liquid was poured into it.

"Drink it. Drink it, and you'll get better."

With her trachea completely blocked by dirty water, Zhuang Yuning tried to swallow the water or get up, but found that she couldn't do it at all.

I could only watch helplessly as the feeling of suffocation slowly engulfed me.
Her body grew increasingly stiff, and she could vaguely hear the crisp sound of a broken bowl falling to the ground.

"Mother!!!"

The world was spinning in front of my eyes.

Zhuang Yuning regained consciousness and found that she could finally move.

Her gaze was very low.

He struggled to move forward through the alley, dragging something many times heavier than his own body.

"Mother, don't be afraid, I'll take you to the statue of the Celestial Master."

She could clearly feel everything that this small body was enduring, yet she felt helpless, like a bystander, unable to change anything.

As I turned a corner, I heard two sets of footsteps beside me.

She had no time to look; she only wanted to drag her mother to the Celestial Master's side as soon as possible.
Once you get there, you will surely be saved!
"Stop worshipping! Your mother is her."

"Little girl, why is your mother sleeping here?"

Zhuang Yuning turned around abruptly and looked towards the source of the sound.

That woman looks so familiar.
No.
The woman with the precious mirror clipped to her waist.
Isn't it me?

An unprecedented rage surged within her, and she suddenly let go of her mother's hand, rushing towards her like a madwoman.

"My mother never came back to life."
You lied to me!!!

chap——

A flash of silver light appeared, and the woman, a smile on her face, easily severed her own neck.

"Your older sister will take you to see Mother."

Do not--!
No! Stop it now!!!
Countless jumbled memories flooded into her mind, and Zhuang Yuning felt as if her head was about to split open.

She didn't know how much time had passed; she only knew that she was experiencing different lives and moments of death over and over again.
She was a gambler who was beaten to death with sticks.

He was an elderly man who died in front of the bed.

She was a prostitute who was subjected to humiliation.
The sensation of each death was so vivid that it almost drove her insane.
The gaze shifted, and she was alone, crouching amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Looking around, there were still countless souls reaching out their arms, lunging towards him.

"No...don't come any closer."

Please.

In that boundless sea of ​​souls, there seemed to be a place shrouded in clear light, the only sanctuary. She crawled towards it on all fours until a familiar figure appeared before her.

The man had a cold expression, arms crossed, looking down at me.

The moment she saw that face clearly, she finally remembered everything.
"gentlemen."

Her arm was draped over the man's leg, and she said weakly:

"Yu Ning, you know you were wrong."
Please, kill me.

Xu Jinhuan sighed, but before he could make a move, the other person had already collapsed to the ground, completely unconscious.

"Hey, Xiaoqing, how are you? Are you holding on?"

Fortunately, this seemingly delicate woman has an unexpectedly strong will.
Otherwise, even with my help, he would have already gone mad.

Xiaoqing's voice was very weak.

It had already consumed too much of her power to keep the consciousness of an ordinary person who had never cultivated from dissipating.

Not only her, but also herself, as the mediator, couldn't help but feel dizzy at this moment.

Xu Jinhuan: 'How about we stop here?'

"No!" Xiaoqing said fiercely.
Stop looking down on people. At least you can hold on for another fifteen minutes!

Huh? That's fast! Something's coming!

Xu Jinhuan looked over in surprise and was astonished to see what appeared to be a golden meteor hurtling toward them from the horizon!

He squinted and looked closely. Behind the golden light, he could clearly see a woman with long, flowing hair.

'Gu Niaoniao?'

The golden light arrived in an instant, and just as it was about to rush into Zhuang Yuning's body, a slender arm suddenly pressed her firmly to the spot!

Gu Niaoniao puffed up her cheeks in anger. With a wave of her hands, she rolled and flattened the ball of golden light in her hands, turning it into a glittering golden ball of light, and then threw it into the sky.

"Excuse me for interrupting your continued reading!"

With that, she took a step and leaped into the air, chasing after the golden light.

Xu Jinhuan stood there, his brows furrowed.

He vaguely saw it just now.
That golden light was clearly a blurry human figure.

Most importantly, he recognized the aura emanating from the other party, a feeling he had sensed before on the Heavenly Palace.
That's genuine imperial dragon aura!
At this moment, many questions in my mind seemed to have been vaguely answered.

'Xu Jinhuan is finished. There's no way to win.'

Xiaoqing gave a lazy reply.

Xu Jinhuan then realized that the golden light had just rampaged through the area, and any wandering ghosts or spirits it encountered along the way were completely destroyed in the blink of an eye without any resistance.

What remains now is less than one-third of what it was before.

Not only that, perhaps because they were too close just now, some dragon energy dissipated and was being rapidly absorbed into Zhuang Yuning's body.

At this moment, a righteous aura inexplicably arose from the mirror master, and the remaining lonely souls dared not approach, scattering and fleeing in all directions.

'Never mind. I'm going to get some sleep. Don't wake me unless it's absolutely necessary.'

As soon as he finished speaking, the dissipated golden dragon energy changed direction and suddenly rushed into Xu Jinhuan's body.

The moonlight and the lonely spirit that had enveloped the courtyard vanished instantly, as if nothing had ever happened.

Xu Jinhuan closed his eyes, and golden light suddenly shone brightly in his dantian, his aura continuously rising!
Click.
A crisp cracking sound came from within his sea of ​​consciousness.

A rising sun slowly ascends amidst the boundless sea of ​​stars.

Opening my eyes, my gaze seemed to pierce through layers of clouds and reach straight to the sky.

With a thought, the trees in the courtyard rustled, and countless leaves fell from the branches, swirling around him.

'You've reached the fifth rank.'

(End of this chapter)