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Yes, Qingyi is indeed here, as calm as water and as peaceful as a mountain.
Because the distance was very close, Ye Hong could clearly see the frown and slightly angry expression on her cold and pretty face.
She just raised her bare hand and hit the flying sword with the scabbard of the ancient sword. It seemed so light and powerless, but the flying sword was vulnerable and turned into powder in an instant.
After suffering such a severe blow, Wang Xifeng immediately vomited blood, her face turned pale, and she fainted.
Seeing this, Ye Hong couldn't help but said with regret: "What a pity, I'm just short of a flying sword."
Qingyi turned her head and looked at him, her expression changing from bright to dark. She gnashed her teeth in anger and said word by word, "What were you yelling about just now?"
Ye Hong thought to himself that this was not good, and immediately said righteously: "My life belongs to you."
Qingyi sneered, her eyes seemed to see through everything, and she used words to expose his pale admiration, "No need to act in front of me, you don't like me at all, you just envy my cultivation."
Ye Hong was stunned for a moment, looking at her. For the first time, he seemed so helpless. His brain felt blank and he was sweating profusely.
I can't find the right words to describe my mood at the moment. Maybe it's because I feel ashamed?
Yes, you keep saying that you like her, but there is no such thing as true love. Don't be so self-indulgent. It's nothing more than the stimulation of hormones.
This is not love, it is just a physiological need that is so simple that it does not require thinking with the brain. Love is far from being so superficial.
If you truly love someone, you would even be willing to die for that person. It's like if only one of him and Ye Wanqing could survive, he would be willing to sacrifice himself.
Ye Hong thought, I definitely can’t die for Qingyi…
The emergence of this thought made him a little stunned, and he once again realized his own naivety and hypocrisy.
"But I sincerely hope that you can be happy because of my love." His nose felt a little sour, and he said softly, "At least this feeling is sincere. The opposite is also true. For your happiness, I can give up loving you."
"...You have been tolerant enough of me. I cannot let this tolerance become the capital for me to tease you recklessly. I promise that I will never say I love you so casually in the future."
Qingyi's expression did not fluctuate at all, as if she was not touched by his words at all. Her eyes seemed to say, your love is so cheap, it can be easily obtained, and it can be easily given up.
Hearing him change his mind immediately and say that he didn't want to love her anymore, I couldn't help feeling annoyed. I frowned and thought, love or not, after all, is just a child's game.
It’s ridiculous to think about it carefully. In the past hundred years, the only person who dared to express his love to her was a child.
"You better be."
After saying that, Qingyi turned around and prepared to leave.
Ye Hong chased after them and asked, "How should I deal with them?"
"Think for yourself."
Apart from leaving him a beautiful back view, Qingyi's attitude was completely perfunctory and she showed no concern at all.
……
After the crisis was resolved, he suddenly relaxed, his adrenaline faded, and he felt a sense of fear when he recalled what had just happened.
When I realized that I had killed two people, it didn't seem real, and there was no blood. In short, I felt very complicated. I wanted to cry but couldn't, and I felt a little regretful. I felt uncomfortable in my heart, but I couldn't put it into words.
He muttered to himself, "It's good to feel uncomfortable. If I feel good after killing someone, then I'm doomed."
Maybe I'm not a good person, but I don't want to be a bad person either.
Next, he came to the unconscious Wang Xifeng and whispered, "Let me see your true face."
After taking off the veil, he immediately recognized the face - wasn't this the "little fairy" from that day?
Killing someone just because of a quarrel, tsk, this way of thinking is obviously different from ordinary people.
Ye Hong sighed lightly. In fact, the whole matter was very small, so small that if she herself didn't care, not many people would care. But she insisted on making a fuss to this point, which was clearly hurting others and herself.
He never had any mercy on the little fairies.
Chapter 38: Don't Kill
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Beheading her would not be a big deal, not to mention that she posed no threat to him anymore. Ye Hong did not want to kill a woman casually, so he reluctantly carried her back and handed her over to the sect at daybreak, and then the sect would make the final decision.
On the way back, Ye Hong turned back to the place where the few people had their first fight. The two corpses were still lying there, looking miserable. To be precise, pufferfish toxin is a neurotoxin, and they died of respiratory failure.
He took out the Qiankun bags of the two people, opened them, and was stunned again. There were all kinds of elixirs and talismans inside, and the preparations were very sufficient. However, they were poisoned to death on the spot before they could react. It was really frustrating.
Seeing this, Ye Hong became more resolute in his inner thoughts. Even a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit. If these two had been a little more cautious and on guard, they would not have ended up with such a tragic death.
Speaking of which, although these two tall and short people are not particularly wealthy, they have been casual cultivators for decades and have accumulated a lot of good things. The two primary magic weapons alone are worth thousands of immortal stones, and now they are all worth gold coins.
Ye Hong put away the Qiankun bag and sighed slightly. It turned out to be the gold belt for murder and arson.
However, these things did not fall into his hands in the end, because Hua Zong did not encourage people to prey on the weak and kill people for treasures.
In other words, this set of jungle law only applies to evil practitioners.
According to convention, these spoils of war would be confiscated and handed over in full to the sect, and then the sect would send back a portion of them as compensation or reward. Only after this whole circle was it in compliance with the rules.
Ye Hong returned to the camp late at night with a seriously injured woman. Under normal circumstances, he would have attracted a lot of attention, but at this time the camp was already mostly empty and there was no need for night watch.
After returning to the room, he put her on the bed with a little effort and hugged her gently. It felt quite comfortable to hold such a fragrant, warm and soft body in his arms. It was more comfortable than petting a cat, and he could not get enough of touching her.
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But at this moment, something even more terrifying happened. She felt that the surging spiritual energy in her body had disappeared, and there was no place on her body that didn't hurt.
She felt a little desperate for a moment, but when she woke up, she suddenly became a helpless person, like a paralytic who fell into a muddy pond and couldn't get out.
I tried to struggle at first, but soon I had to succumb to fate.
Looking back on her life, Wang Xifeng couldn't help but shed tears of regret. Obviously, she was also a normal person who was afraid of death. Who would be willing to die in such humiliation?
With tears in her eyes, she pleaded miserably, "Please don't kill me or insult me, okay? I know I was wrong!"
Ye Hong hugged her trembling shoulders from behind and smelled the fragrance of her hair. To be honest, this was already considered frivolous.
He said calmly: "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you either, and I won't accept your confession afterwards. You will bear all the consequences yourself. This is karma, and bitter fruit is also fruit, and you have to swallow it yourself."
At that moment, Wang Xifeng lowered her head and bit her lip. As the saying goes, "bitter fruit is also bitter fruit," she immediately felt unbearable bitterness in her heart.
Gradually, the string of reason in my mind finally broke, and I couldn't help but cry in his arms.
After a while, the crying gradually weakened until it disappeared. She cried until her eyes were red, sniffed softly, and said aggrievedly: "Why are you still holding me?"
Ye Hong said frankly, "I have never seen a woman."
Wang Xifeng: "..."
……
While Ye Hong was trying to influence Wang Xifeng with his actions, Qingyi, on the other hand, after leaving, traveled a thousand miles in one step and went straight back to the Changchun Mountain Sect to find the real culprit.
After Liu Ruochen opened the door and saw Qingyi, he couldn't help but be stunned like a puppet with its strings cut.
Looking at that beautiful face, my mind suddenly went blank. I didn't know what to feel and could only stand there.
"Why are you doing this?"
The cold wind slid across my back.
This question, which was neither happy nor sad, awakened Liu Ruochen's mind slightly. He gradually regained his calmness and his eyes became normal again.
"May I ask the Immortal Venerable, what did I do wrong?"
"You know it yourself."
Liu Ruochen looked at Qingyi, then looked at her own hands and lowered her head slightly, as if a thread controlling her fate was slipping through her fingertips.
I thought I had done it well enough and there would be no mistakes, but I still couldn't hide it from her.
Yes, after all, she is Qingyi.
Like a dreamlike moon, like a fantasy flower, approaching yet distant, its solitary shadow shining on the startled swan, so clear and transparent that there is no other in the world.
Liu Ruochen neither admitted nor denied it. He looked around and said with his head down, "...Actually, I have always wanted to see you over the years."
But you don't want to see me!
"I don't know if you still remember that little girl back then..."
It doesn’t matter if you don’t remember, after all, you care about the people.
But you've only known him for a few days? Now, now, you've come to me just for him!
She murmured softly: "Fairy Lord, no, Fairy Qingyi, you have changed!"
You never cared about someone so much before!
Qingyi raised her eyebrows, feeling unhappy and thinking that she was being shameless.
At the same time, he seemed to know how to use words as a knife to pierce her heart and destroy her unrealistic fantasies, and his tone was calm from beginning to end.
"He is my disciple." The corners of his lips curled up slightly.
Liu Ruochen was suddenly stunned, like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and asked angrily: "When did he become your apprentice?"
I've tried so hard to be like you, but why don't you even look at me more and give me a chance!
Qingyi said coldly: "I said yes."
Thinking that she didn't even bother to lie, Liu Ruochen felt even more uncomfortable, and was anxious, "He's the kind of person who doesn't respect you, and you actually still protect him!"
That night, she followed Ye Hong all the way and saw the two of them talking at night, which she would never forget for the rest of her life.
At the same time, it also felt incredible. Since when did she, who was unparalleled in the world, become infinitely tolerant?
"You don't have to worry about my affairs."
Qingyi said calmly, with a look that seemed to be saying that you don't deserve it.
"I came here tonight just to tell you that if you dare to harm your fellow disciples in this way again, I will kill you."
Chapter 39: Only Destroy the Heart
The moon was full and the night was cool.
Qingyi looked back at the sect where the valley was full of flowers. The faint fragrance in her nose made it possible to identify the type of flowers even in the night. Her eyes were deep and her pretty face was still cold, showing no emotion, but she sighed softly in her heart and then turned and left.
To be honest, she did not expect Liu Ruochen to understand her painstaking efforts. She just wanted him to be a sword hanging over everyone's heads, so that no one dared to overstep the line.
In the distance, in the chief's courtyard, Liu Ruochen smiled sadly. He no longer had his usual spirit, as if he had been abandoned after being seduced.