Chapter 322

Chapter 322: Third Senior Brother, are you going to kill me too?
“Ye Cong Xin!”

“Ye Cong Xin!!”

“Ye Cong Xin!!!”

Quan Ye’s face turned pale green. Rage almost burst out of his chest.

He had treated Ye Cong Xin like family, but she only wanted to steal his fortune and had even sliced off his arm with one sword strike.

She had been heartless, so he would not show mercy.

Today he would strike first and remove this danger ahead of time.

Quan Ye stormed out. He first went to Ye Cong Xin’s cave dwelling, but did not find her there. After that he left Lone Moon Peak. He asked everyone he saw if they had seen Ye Cong Xin. At last, a disciple told him that Ye Cong Xin was at the guest courtyard elder’s residence.

He did not say another word and rushed toward the guest courtyard.

The disciples he had stopped began to talk among themselves.

“Why does Quan Ye look like he wants to eat someone? Who made him so angry?”

“Who would dare make him mad? Everyone knows he fights like he doesn’t care about his life! But just now he seemed to be asking about Junior Sister Ye’s whereabouts.”

“Ye Cong Xin? No way. Isn’t she the junior sister he spoils the most?”

“I don’t know. He already headed toward the guest courtyard.”

“…”

They looked at one another, feeling that something was off. Some chose to follow and see what was going on. The others went to spread the news.

Su Ming came a step later and heard their chatter. He knew it was too late to stop Quan Ye.

He could only use the other plan.

A complicated light flashed in Su Ming’s eyes, and he sped up.

On the way, some disciples tried to stop him to ask questions, but he ignored them all.

Inside the room.

Ye Cong Xin gently wiped the sweat from Wang Sheng’s forehead. Then she tucked his blanket around him again. Her smile was calm and soft. She insisted on doing everything herself.

Suddenly there was a loud bang as the door was kicked open.

Ye Cong Xin thought it was the guest courtyard’s master, Wanderer Bao Hua, coming back. She stood up, ready to explain, but the next moment a pair of big hands clamped down hard on her throat.

The familiar feeling of choking rushed back.

Ye Cong Xin panicked for only a heartbeat, then calmed down. She pulled a silver needle from her sleeve and stabbed it hard into the arm in front of her.

“Ah!” Quan Ye cried out in pain. He grabbed the place where the needle had pierced him, his eyes full of hate as he snarled, “Poisonous woman.”

Ye Cong Xin coughed a few times. Her breathing finally became a bit smoother. She opened her misty eyes and said sadly, “Fifth Senior Brother, why are you doing this to me? What did I do wrong?”

She truly did not know why Quan Ye had suddenly gone crazy.

Just a while ago he had still been avoiding her. Today he wanted her dead.

What had she done to deserve this?

“Stop pretending!” Quan Ye’s face twisted with rage as he shouted, “You filthy malevolent spirit! You want to steal my fortune, so I’ll kill you first!”

Ye Cong Xin’s pupils shrank.

[System! System! How does Quan Ye know my secret? Did the silencing technique you used on Fang Cheng Lang fail?!]

The System’s voice also sounded panicked: [Ding! Host, the silencing technique is still in effect.]

[Then how does he know? How does he know!]

Her darkest secret had been dragged into the light. Ye Cong Xin was both shocked and angry. She no longer cared to pretend. Cruelty filled her eyes and brows.

Quan Ye let out a cold laugh as he said, “You can’t keep up the act anymore, can you? We trusted you so much for nothing. You deserve to die!”

“That’s because you’re all stupid!” Ye Cong Xin screamed.

She understood Quan Ye very well.

His mind was simple and stubborn. Since he had decided she was a malevolent spirit, nothing she said would change his mind.

Besides, he had almost strangled her just now. There was no reason for her to hide her malice anymore.

“I’m stupid? You clearly hurt people on purpose! Ye Cong Xin, you deserve to die!” Quan Ye roared, enraged again by her attitude. He swung his fist at her.

The wind of his punch howled, stirring up strong ripples in the air.

Ye Cong Xin held the silver needle in front of her chest and suddenly flung her hands open.

The needle turned into countless copies, stabbing toward Quan Ye like a sudden storm.

A dense series of impacts rang out.

But when the needles reached Quan Ye, they bounced away from the body-guarding astral qi around him.

Ye Cong Xin’s face changed slightly. She let out a cold laugh, flipped her hand, and threw a small silver blade.

Puff!

The sound of the blade going into flesh was music to Ye Cong Xin’s ears.

Quan Ye was a body cultivator and had awakened the Azure Dragon bloodline. His physical defense was unmatched among people at his level. But as the darling of Lone Moon Peak, Ye Cong Xin naturally had a few trump-card treasures.

This Armybreaker Blade was a birthday gift from Master Qing Yan.

A fierce light flashed in her eyes.

Since Quan Ye knew her secret, he could not be allowed to leave alive.

Only the dead could not speak.

But she soon realized she had underestimated Quan Ye’s will to kill.

The blade pierced his right shoulder. He staggered back two steps and then steadied himself. Right away, he exploded forward again and charged at her.

Ye Cong Xin formed a hand seal with her right hand and summoned a round pearl as she shouted, “Explode!”

Boom!

A huge shock wave burst out.

The house could not bear it. It collapsed with a crash, sending up clouds of dust.

Two figures burst out of the ruins, one after the other.

Ye Cong Xin had not yet found her footing when a sharp sound of something cutting through the air came from behind her.

She panicked, but an invisible force suddenly moved her body, helping her dodge that fatal strike by a hair.

She turned and saw Su Ming holding a magical artifact, his expression complicated.

Ye Cong Xin could not believe it: “Third Senior Brother, are you going to kill me too?”

Su Ming did not say a word. The magical artifact in his hand shone brighter and brighter.

Ye Cong Xin’s heart sank.

Quan Ye wanted to kill her because he knew she could plunder fate.

If Su Ming wanted to kill her too, did that mean he also knew?

From the moment she bonded with the System, Ye Cong Xin had known that the System could not be exposed. Once anyone discovered it existed, it would mean that her death was near.

So back in the Five Elements Dao Sect, even though there had been many targets she could act against, she had always held back her desires.

She had never thought that in the end, her secret with the System would still be revealed like this.

Despair wrapped around her like vines, binding her tight.

Su Ming said in a low voice, “Junior Sister, this is the last time I will call you Junior Sister. You… take care on your way.”

As soon as he spoke, a beam of red light shot toward Ye Cong Xin.

Behind her, Quan Ye leaped up into the air.

They attacked from front and back. She had nowhere to run.

[Ding! Sensing that the host is facing a life-or-death crisis, the System will automatically draw on the host’s luck value to exchange for a special skill: Death Escape Technique.]

[Ding! Special skill has been exchanged.]

[Ding! Skill in use…]

Puff!

Bright red blood splashed across Quan Ye’s face.

Expressionless, he pulled his fist back out of Ye Cong Xin’s back.

Su Ming watched as her eyes grew dim. Blood bubbled out of her throat as she fell backward. A single tear slid from the corner of his eye.

He and Quan Ye had killed their Junior Sister.

“Ah! M-murder!”

“Quan Ye and Su Ming killed Junior Sister Ye!”

“Junior Sister Ye is dead!”

The disciples who arrived a bit late were all stunned when they saw the scene in the small courtyard.

What were they seeing?

In broad daylight, under a clear sky, Lone Moon Peak’s Quan Ye and Su Ming had joined hands to kill Ye Cong Xin, and they had done it right in front of all the disciples of the Five Elements Dao Sect.

Everyone’s minds went blank. They wondered if they were dreaming.

Or trapped in a nightmare.

Zhang Jun and Xiu Luo, who had gotten the news a little later and rushed over, looked at each other.

This was serious trouble.

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