Chapter 228

Chapter 228: Someone Like You, She Can Beat Ten
Quan Ye did not notice anything strange about Ye Cong Xin. He let out a sigh of relief and said: “You damned guy, how dare you hurt my Junior Sister, watch me tear you apart alive…”

He grabbed the man by the collar and was just about to strike when a woman’s voice came from afar.

“Stop!”

With a few light jumps, Yao Wu Jilanded in front of the three of them. Her face looked dark as she said: “Wang Sheng is my person. What are you trying to do to him?”

When Wang Sheng saw Yao Wuji, the madness in his eyes faded at once. His gaze went back to its usual blank and innocent look. He reached his hand toward Yao Wu Jiand cried out: “Ah ah ah.”

Cui Jue saw Yao Wuji. His eyes dimmed, but he still did not say a word.

Quan Ye burned with anger and said: “Your person almost strangled my Junior Sister to death just now. I want him to pay with his life.”

Yao Wu Jiglanced at Ye Cong Xin, who was sitting on the ground. Her gaze stopped on Ye Cong Xin’s blackened neck for a moment. Then she said carelessly: “Isn’t she alive and well? Besides, my Wang Sheng is the purest. He never takes the initiative to hurt people. It must have been Ye Cong Xin who provoked him first, so he lost control.”

“That’s nonsense, Junior Sister did nothing at all!”

“You say she did nothing and we should just believe that? You are on her side, of course you will speak up for her.”

Yao Wu Jiwas relying on Wanderer Bao Hua’s status in the Five Elements Dao Sect, so she did not put the people in front of her in her eyes at all.

Besides, these past days in the Five Elements Dao Sect, she had heard quite a lot about Yu Zhao and Lone Moon Peak.

In her view, anyone from Lone Moon Peak was no good.

If Wang Sheng had really strangled someone to death, it would indeed be hard to deal with. But now the person was fine. Did they still want her Wang Sheng to be buried with her?

“Don’t forget, your Master Qing Yan is still waiting for my Master to save him. If you still refuse to let him go, I can’t promise what I might say in front of my Master.”

Yao Wuji’s open threat really made Quan Ye hesitate.

Quan Ye could not help looking at Ye Cong Xin.

Ye Cong Xin’s eyes were full of tears as she shook her head at him.

She meant that she did not want Quan Ye to worry about Master Qing Yan and should definitely avenge her.

But her gentle and understanding image had sunk too deep into people’s hearts. Quan Ye misunderstood and thought Ye Cong Xin was telling him to put the bigger picture first. So he swallowed his anger and let Wang Sheng go.

As soon as Wang Sheng was free, he ran to Yao Wuji’s side and grabbed the hem of her clothes, looking scared and uneasy.

Yao Wu Jipatted his head and tossed out a sentence: “Count yourselves sensible,” then swaggered off with him.

Ye Cong Xin almost fainted from rage.

[Trash! A bunch of trash! None of them can be relied on!]

She dug her nails hard into her palm. The thought that had been wavering in her heart became firm.

Master Qing Yan was not even dead yet, and these people already dared humiliate them to their faces. If Master Qing Yan really died, how could she keep standing in the Five Elements Dao Sect?

She had to get that bottle of potion.

“Junior Sister, the wound on your neck…”

Quan Ye hurried to help Ye Cong Xin up, feeling both heartache and guilt.

It was his fault for not protecting his Junior Sister.

Ye Cong Xin was also worried that the wound on her neck might leave a scar.

She forced down her hatred and looked pitifully at Cui Jue as she said: “Fourth Senior Brother, it hurts so much. Do you have any ointment for external wounds?”

In the past, she did not even need to ask. Cui Jue would offer it on his own.

She thought that since Cui Jue did not mention it this time, she would just ask for it herself. Surely Cui Jue would not refuse her.

But Cui Jue really did refuse her.

He did not even speak. He only shook his head lightly.

The hatred in Ye Cong Xin’s eyes almost turned solid.

Quan Ye, who always had a big heart, said: “If you don’t have any, then just refine a bottle for Junior Sister. For Fourth Senior Brother, that’s nothing at all.”

Cui Jue said coldly: “Before I was poisoned, I swore a deadly oath. From now on, I will never touch an alchemy furnace again. You should find someone else.”

With that, he walked away without looking back, his figure filled with resolve.

Quan Ye’s attention was immediately pulled away by his words. He asked in confusion: “Why won’t he do alchemy anymore? Isn’t Fourth Senior Brother a genius in the Dao of Alchemy?”

Ye Cong Xin lowered her eyes. Her fingertips dug moon-shaped marks into her palm.

[It’s Yu Zhao. It must be for Yu Zhao.]

Only Yu Zhao could make him willingly give up everything he had now.

Even though she had worked so hard to play Yu Zhao’s role, she still could not compare to Yu Zhao’s place in his heart.

Ye Cong Xin then thought of the proud Yao Wuji.

Yao Wuji’s relationship with Yu Zhao was also quite close.

That man named Wang Sheng just now must have acted on Yao Wuji’s orders when he tried to kill her.

The goal was, of course, to vent anger for Yu Zhao.

They all wanted her life.

[But I will live better than every one of them.]

“Fifth Senior Brother.” Ye Cong Xin raised her head again. A string of crystal-clear tears rolled down silently. “I have no grudges with Yao Wuji. Do you think she did this for Senior Sister Yu…”

“Impossible!”

Quan Ye sounded as if he had heard a joke. He refused at once.

The sad look on Ye Cong Xin’s face froze.

Quan Ye comforted her in his usual blunt way and said: “Junior Sister, I know you and Yu Zhao don’t get along, but Yu Zhao is not the kind of person who plots behind others’ backs. If she doesn’t like someone, she just goes up and beats them.

Someone like you, she can beat ten.”

Quan Ye was not trying to defend Yu Zhao.

He was only saying what he really thought.

When he remembered being punched by Yu Zhao into the snow again and again, his whole body ached and tingled, as if electricity had run through it.

This time Ye Cong Xin was truly angered to tears.

She cried with real feeling.

Even the most brainless Quan Ye had “betrayed” her.

No one could be relied on.

She still had to depend on herself to take everything back.

She said in her Sea of Consciousness: [System, buy that bottle of potion for me.]

[Ding! Transaction complete!]

…

“Speak! Why did you attack Ye Cong Xin?”

Wang Sheng opened his clear eyes and looked at Yao Wu Jiwith an innocent face.

Yao Wu Jislapped him with one hand, knocking his head to the side.

Her voice was cold as she said: “Don’t play dumb.”

She might not have seen Wang Sheng strangling Ye Cong Xin with her own eyes, but from the remaining aura in the yard and the wounds on Ye Cong Xin’s body, she could be sure Wang Sheng had done it.

She had thought that because Wang Sheng had lost his memory, she should be more tolerant of him. Now it seemed that she had also been fooled by Wang Sheng’s fine acting.

Her poison was useless on Wang Sheng.

Instead, Wang Sheng was a big threat to her.

Thinking of how she had kept such an unstable factor by her side, Yao Wu Jifelt a chill of fear.

[Master was right. I still am not ruthless enough.]

Wang Sheng slowly turned his head back, then suddenly burst into loud sobs. Tears and snot ran down together. He looked extremely wronged.

Yao Wu Jiwatched coldly without moving.

“It hurts, it hurts.”

Wang Sheng shouted that it hurt and tried to grab Yao Wuji’s sleeve.

Yao Wu Jiknocked his hand away and said: “It doesn’t matter if you won’t admit it. I’m about to offer you to my Master anyway. She has plenty of ways to make you talk.”

Wang Sheng still kept that blank and innocent expression.

Yao Wu Jisimply handed him straight over to Wanderer Bao Hua.

Wanderer Bao Hua was very interested in Wang Sheng’s Immunity to All Poisons and accepted the gift with a smile at once.

“Yao, Yao.”

As Yao Wu Jiwalked away, Wang Sheng’s gaze followed her the whole time. His tone was full of reluctant longing.

Yao Wu Jidid not stop and did not look back.

She had made a mistake once before.

She would not allow herself to make the same mistake a second time.