Bitter Realm: A Happy Person Traveling Across China

Chapter 104 "Brother-in-law" shines my shoes

Ye Jinming sighed and said, "But you now—"

Yu Ti replied very seriously, "Don't worry, I will win!"

Seeing that the Moon Goddess was so insistent, Ye Jinming could only let her go for the time being.

Although he said he wouldn't go with her, Ye Jinming still secretly went along to keep her company.

Sharp rocky ground.

With its jagged rocks and complex environment, it is named "Sharp Rock Land" and is a desolate and lifeless place on the outskirts of the Misty Forest.

The wind howled through the crevices of the rocks, adding to the somber atmosphere.

Ji Guqiong, dressed in dark and tight-fitting clothes, his face twisted and sinister from years of obsession and resentment, held a strangely shaped longbow and had been waiting there for a long time.

He gazed at that aloof figure, his eyes burning with a long-suppressed madness and yearning. "I've waited for this opportunity for far too long—"

Yu Ti stopped, the Chaos Bow resting silently on her back. Moonlight illuminated her flawless profile, her eyes calm yet carrying a hint of barely perceptible weariness and sorrow: "Abandon the Chaos Bow, it does not belong to you!"

"Hahaha!" Ji Guqiong laughed wildly, his laughter echoing through the stone forest, full of sarcasm. "Not mine? It proves that you are the one who doesn't deserve the title of 'Moon Goddess'!"

After hearing this, the Moon Goddess sighed and said, "Don't you truly understand your master's good intentions?"

Ji Guqiong's laughter abruptly stopped, his face contorted with agitation. He couldn't understand why such a powerful weapon wasn't given to his only son. "He would kill his own wife for the Chaos Bow, yet he wouldn't want his own son to have it?"

The Moon Goddess continued to persuade him, "He doesn't want you to follow the same path as him!"

Ji Guqiong shook his head and said with disdain, "Unfortunately, I have half his blood. If he can do it, so can I. But you can't. I can see that he likes you very much, which is why he keeps pestering you, and you've tacitly agreed to it."

Yu Ti's body trembled almost imperceptibly, but her voice remained cold: "So what?"

Ji Guqiong took a step closer, his words like knives piercing Yu Ti's defenses: "Severe heart and forget emotions, reach the pinnacle! These eight words are the ironclad rule for inheriting the Chaos Bow and becoming a true Moon Goddess! After that person appeared, ask yourself honestly, can you still maintain this 'severance of heart and forget emotions'? Can your arrows still be as pure and ruthless as before?"

Upon hearing Ji Guqiong's words, the Moon Goddess understood that this battle was unavoidable. She then took out the Chaos Bow, saying, "I truly do not wish to harm you—"

Ji Guqiong's gaze towards the Chaos Bow was filled with greed. "Think carefully before you draw the Chaos Bow! This arrow is not just an attack on me, but also a judgment on your own heart! Do you truly have no affection for the person inside? Are you truly willing to admit that you are not moved by him in the slightest? If not, the Chaos Bow will be the cause of your defeat, and it will ultimately become my spoils of war! Hahaha!"

A duel between two archers, a fateful showdown, unfolds with a thunderous roar on this desolate, rocky ground!

"Drink! Ah!"

Without another word, Ji Guqiong's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he launched the first attack!

The blood-red bow in his hand trembled violently, the bowstring humming like the howl of a demon.

In an instant, arrows flew like a string of pearls, each one faster than the last. They were not in a straight line, but rather drew strange arcs in the air as if they had a life of their own, swirling and weaving together to form a net of death that descended upon Yu Ti!

The arrow pierced the air with a shrill whistle, easily piercing and tearing through hard rocks, sending fragments flying, its power as devastating as if it could destroy everything in its path!

Yu Ti moved with the grace of a floating duckweed, dodging lightly through the net of arrows. Her moon-white figure narrowly escaped the deadly arrows, a truly perilous moment.

However, she never retaliated.

"Drink! Why aren't you fighting back?" Ji Guqiong demanded sharply, his attacks intensifying. "Did I hit the nail on the head? Now you can't use the Chaos Bow anymore?"

"I still hope—you can give up." Yu Ti dodged several more arrows, her voice tinged with a sigh.

"Excuse me, Double Wind Return!" Ji Guqiong was furious and changed his archery technique again!

He nocked two arrows at once. As the bowstring twanged, the two arrows were not fired simultaneously, but rather spun like tops, one to the left and one to the right, drawing two huge spiral trajectories in opposite directions. This sealed off all of Yu Ti's escape routes, and brought a whirlwind that tore everything apart as it came to kill her!

"Oh dear..."

A barely audible sigh escaped her lips. Yu Ti, who had been dodging, finally moved, grasping the Chaos Bow with her right hand, her pure true essence instantly condensing between her fingers.

A clear, melodious hum resounded in the air, and an invisible arrow of energy, as condensed as a tangible substance and radiating the bright moonlight, shot out from between her fingers!

Two soft sounds rang out almost simultaneously. The Moonlight Arrow, which was launched later, arrived first and pierced the core of the two spiraling wind arrows with perfect accuracy, instantly dispersing and detonating the violent energy contained within them!

Double whirlwind, break!

"You—" Ji Guqiong's pupils shrank, not expecting Yu Ti's archery skills to be so strong.

"Come on." Yu Ti slowly raised her hand, the Chaos Bow in her hand flowing with the clear moonlight, perfectly integrated with her aura.

"Yay! Drink!"

Ji Guqiong was completely enraged and roared as he launched an even fiercer attack.

Arrows rained down like a storm, striking Yu Ti from every tricky angle, each arrow carrying boundless resentment and murderous intent.

However, Yu Ti, wielding the Chaos Bow, still only responded with a single arrow.

Her arrows weren't fast, but they always appeared at the most crucial positions, using skill to overcome force and accuracy to break through complexity.

The countless arrows shot by Ji Guqiong were often pierced through the core of the arrow formation with a single arrow, causing it to collapse.

"Damn it, the Twelve Wild Flowers Bloom Towards the Sky! Aaaaaah————" Unable to break through after a long attack, Ji Guqiong went completely mad, pushing his power to the limit!

He took out twelve specially made crimson arrows at once, nocked them on his bow, drew the bowstring to its fullest extent, and then suddenly released it!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Twelve crimson streaks of light shot into the sky, not aimed at Yu Ti, but suddenly exploded in the air, turning into countless rocket petals, like a fiery meteor shower covering the entire Sharp Stone Ground, indiscriminately pouring down below. This was a wide-range killing move!

Yu Ti looked up at the rain of flames and petals that blotted out the sky, her eyes still calm.

She tilted the Chaos Bow slightly, lightly plucked the bowstring with her fingers, but did not draw it fully.

"Seven Stars Seize the Moon".

A clear, cold voice rang out, the bowstring vibrated, and seven cold stars shot out from the Chaos Bow!

These seven cold stars did not shine directly into the sky, but rather drew mysterious trajectories as they ascended, connecting with each other to instantly create a star net woven from the cold light of the moon.

"Sizzle sizzle"

Countless fiery petals collided with the star net, producing a sound like melting ice and snow, before being quickly frozen and extinguished by the cold moonlight.

It vanished into nothingness.

"You—do you still think you've won against me?" Yu Ti stood holding her bow, the moonlight shining on her, making her look like a true goddess of the moon bow descending to earth.

"Ah—drink!" Ji Guqiong's hair was disheveled, his eyes were bloodshot, and he had completely lost his mind.

He fired wildly and recklessly, his arrows flying haphazardly, yet with even greater ruthlessness and desperation.

Yu Ti held back, the Chaos Bow vibrated repeatedly, and beams of moonlight arrows were precisely fired, knocking down the incoming arrows one by one. Occasionally, the arrows that retaliated also left bloody marks on Ji Guqiong's body.

Just then, Ji Guqiong launched a vicious attack, shooting out arrows that were engulfed in flames. The resulting fire spread like wildfire, engulfing the entire Sharp Stone Ground and trapping the Moon Goddess in the flames.

"Now! A hundred miles of endless possibilities! Drink!"

A glint of triumph flashed in Ji Guqiong's eyes. He grinned and poured his last strength into the Blood Bow. A deadly arrow, entirely black with an arrowhead that shimmered with an eerie purple light, locked onto the blurry figure in the flames.

"Whoosh"

The black arrow left the bowstring silently, yet it was faster than sight could detect, and shot straight into the center of the sea of ​​fire!

However, just as the black arrow was about to plunge into the flames, Yu Ti's still clear and cold voice came from within the sea of ​​fire of the "Arrow of the Sky," but it carried an unprecedented sense of determination and a faint sadness.

Immediately afterwards, a vast, ancient, and terrifying arrow-like intent, seemingly capable of piercing through heaven and earth, erupted from the center of the flames!

The bow of chaos has finally been drawn to its fullest extent!

Ancient runes lit up one after another on the bow, and the energy of moonlight, starlight and even the surrounding flames was frantically drawn and condensed on the bowstring, forming an indescribable dazzling arrow beam!

"Shatter the Hurricane!"

Arrow fired!

There was no sound, only a beam of light piercing through the heavens and earth!

That fierce black arrow was like a firefly compared to the bright moon in front of this chaotic arrow light, instantly vaporizing and disappearing!

The arrow's momentum did not diminish, tearing through the sea of ​​fire and piercing the sky. Wherever it passed, faint black cracks were left in space, causing heaven and earth to tremble and all things to bow down!

"drink!"

Yu Tiqing shouted, her fierce arrow not aimed directly at Ji Guqiong, but exploded suddenly above his head!

The powerful shockwave completely extinguished the fire on the pile of sharp stones.

As Yu Ti manipulated the Chaos Bow, her arm was also attacked by her feelings, leaving a bloody mark.

Seeing that Ji Guqiong had stopped moving, the Moon Goddess asked, "Out of arrows?"

Seeing that the Moon Goddess was unharmed, Ji Guqiong was overwhelmed by a tremendous sense of defeat, resentment, and despair.

"Hmph!" He could only let out a weak snort, turning his head away, unwilling to look any longer.

Yu Ti silently put away the Chaos Bow, gave him one last look, and turned to leave slowly.

A cold voice drifted on the wind: "I hope we—never see each other again."

Only after the Moon Goddess's figure completely disappeared at the end of the stone forest did Ji Guqiong suddenly slam his fist hard onto a nearby boulder, causing the rock to shatter and blood to flow freely.

He roared to the sky, his voice filled with endless resentment, bitterness, and madness: "Damn it, damn it, damn it all!"

He slammed his fist into a dead tree next to him, and the trunk snapped in two, sending wood chips flying.

However, this did nothing to quell the violence in his heart.

In the very moment when his mind was most agitated, a condensed, swift, and chilling palm strike containing spatial power suddenly broke through the air and attacked without warning!

The palm strike wasn't aimed directly at vital points, but it was incredibly cunning, sealing off all his angles of evasion, and carrying a strange chill that felt like freezing and slowing him down.

"Who goes there?" Ji Guqiong's expression changed drastically. In his haste, he only managed to gather his remaining true energy in front of him and parry with his bow.

"Bang!"

The palm strike landed solidly on the blood bow, producing a dull thud.

The already damaged blood bow let out a mournful cry of despair, and the cracks widened.

And that far-reaching palm force penetrated the blood bow and slammed into Ji Guqiong's chest!

"Uh..."

Ji Guqiong was struck as if by lightning. He let out a miserable howl, spitting out blood. He flew backward like a broken sack, crashing heavily into several small trees and rolling on the ground more than ten times before finally coming to a stop.

He felt as if his internal organs had shifted, his meridians were throbbing with excruciating pain, his vision was blurring, and he barely had the strength to get up.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, a white figure appeared as if slowly emerging from the void, walking unhurriedly to his side.

Under the moonlight, the newcomer had a handsome face and a smile on his lips, but his eyes were incredibly cold.

It was night's embers that were bright.

Ye Jinming looked down at Ji Guqiong, who was curled up on the ground like a dead dog, without any pity in his eyes.

He raised his right foot and, with a light touch, stepped on Ji Guqiong's chest.

"Pfft—" Ji Guqiong, who was already seriously injured, spat out another mouthful of blood. He felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his chest, making it hard to breathe. His ribs also made a teeth-grinding "clucking" sound.

He struggled to lift his head, little by little, and when he saw who was stepping on him, his eyes were instantly filled with extreme fear and disbelief.

"Is it...is it you?" His voice trembled, hoarse and unpleasant.

He never imagined that this man, who had an ambiguous relationship with the Moon Goddess Yu Ti, would possess such terrifying strength!

With just a single palm strike from a distance, he nearly died from his severe injuries!

What is he trying to do? Am I going to die here?

A fierce will to survive instantly overwhelmed everything. Ji Guqiong forced a desperate, almost tearful, pleading expression at Wu Rong, his voice urgent and humble: "Spare me! You can't kill me! I'm Yu Ti's senior brother, we're from the same sect. If you kill me, Yu Ti...

She'll definitely blame you! Please, for her sake, spare my life! I... I'll never dare to do it again, I'll never dare to covet the Bow of Chaos again!

Upon hearing this, Ye Jinming slightly loosened his grip on his feet, and the cold killing intent on his face seemed to fade, replaced by a playful smile.

He looked down at Ji Guqiong, his tone slightly mocking: "Oh? Now you know to bring up the Moon Goddess to plead for mercy? Don't worry, I never intended to kill you. The reason—didn't you just say it yourself? You are, after all, her senior brother, so you're practically—half a member of her family? Killing you would indeed be difficult to explain to her."

Upon hearing the words "not to kill," Ji Guqiong was overjoyed, as if he had grasped a lifeline. He eagerly followed the offer, nodding frantically, his face practically overflowing with flattery: "Yes, yes, yes, I am the Moon Goddess's senior brother, she's family! We, we're all family, family doesn't fight!"

Ye Jinming's face became even more "kind," and he slowly lifted his foot from Ji Guqiong's chest, as if he had truly been persuaded.

Then Ye Jinming hesitated for a moment and said, "Since we're family, it wouldn't be too much to ask you to do me a small favor, would it?"

"No, not at all! Just say what you want, whatever you say!" Ji Guqiong replied hastily, enduring the excruciating pain and humiliation.

Ye Jinming pointed to the tips of his pristine white boots, where a speck of mud seemed to have been splashed up earlier. His tone was casual, yet carried an undeniable command: "Look, my shoes seem a little dirty. Brother-in-law Jiao, could you—could you wipe them clean for me?"

(Shine my shoes!)

Shoe shine?

Ji Guqiong felt a "boom" in his mind, and he was almost bursting with anger!

This is outrageous! What a disgrace!