Chapter 315

Chapter 315: Bai Mu Mu Attempts to Assassinate Master Ling Xiao

Very soon, Master Ling Xiao had no power to fight back. He had just broken into the Void Refinement Stage and thought he had secured the top seat in the Cultivation World, yet now he was being hammered into the ground.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan was so fast that he felt sharp pain in several places before he could even react to her moves. His mindset crumbled. He had always stayed calm in battle, but now he began to panic. Even when he faced Immortal Lord Chang Li before, he had not lost his cool like this.

He gritted his teeth and tried to counter, but it was useless. The cultivation that Azure Luan had suppressed for ten thousand years was unleashed in one surge. This was not a joke. Master Ling Xiao began to doubt everything. [Wasn’t I the strongest in the Cultivation World?]

He hesitated for a heartbeat, and Azure Luan’s palm smashed into him again. He slammed straight into the ground, carving out a pit dozens of meters wide. Disciples gathered at the edges, gasping in shock.

Immortal Maiden Azure Luan snapped as she lunged again: “Strongest cultivator of the Cultivation World? If you dare touch them, I will beat you down.”

Shen Sang Ruo and Immortal Lord Chang Li cheered from the side: “Immortal Maiden is mighty,” and, “Azure Luan is mighty.” Their pain even seemed to fade a little.

Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing were both relieved that Shen Sang Ruo had been saved and stunned by Azure Luan’s power. They clenched their fists. With things like this, even though Master Ling Xiao had broken through to Void Refinement, there was no way he could take Shen Sang Ruo back to Flying Cloud Sect.

Bai Mu Mu took slow breaths and tried to make herself smaller. Anyone could see the situation now. If Master Ling Xiao lost, she would be next. Without the System, she had no path but death. She forced down her fear and quietly tried to reach out to the System again.

As for Shen Dao Chen, while Immortal Maiden Azure Luan was beating Master Ling Xiao, she gave Shen Dao Chen a thrashing too. [Just something she did in passing.]

Flying Cloud Sect tried to send people to rescue the two many times, but with a flick of her sleeve, Immortal Maiden Azure Luan sent them all flying. Only when both men had lost the power to resist and could only crawl on the ground did she stop. She had no plan to kill them for real.

Master Ling Xiao no longer looked noble. He was only battered and defeated, like a frost-wilted eggplant. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan asked flatly: “Now we can have a proper talk, right?”

She hoisted both men with Spiritual Power as if they were chicks, carried them into a room, and tossed them onto the floor. Even in this state, Master Ling Xiao and Shen Dao Chen still moved to shield Bai Mu Mu behind them. Azure Luan had promised to make them crawl, and she had done it. If she said she would kill Bai Mu Mu, she would do that too.

Master Ling Xiao bared his teeth as he snarled: “I will never allow you to harm Mu Mu. If Mu Mu dies, I will Self-Detonate and take you with me.”

Covered in blood, he still swore to protect Bai Mu Mu, and because his back was turned, he did not see her strange expression. Shen Dao Chen ground out his rage at Shen Sang Ruo: “You unfilial girl. What did I do to deserve a daughter like you?”

He ranted on, almost jabbing a finger into her face as he shouted: “You brought outsiders to kill your little sister, then watched her beat me and Ling Xiao and did nothing. You ungrateful thing. I should have killed you earlier.” Shen Sang Ruo only met him with a cold stare. Immortal Maiden Azure Luan answered for her with another slap of force, knocking Shen Dao Chen flat and speechless.

The room fell quiet. Shen Sang Ruo swallowed a few pills and let her Divine Soul Power recover. She stepped forward to stand before Master Ling Xiao and Shen Dao Chen. Their eyes brimmed with hatred, even more than when she left Flying Cloud Sect. She did not care. She spoke plainly: “I wanted to explain calmly, but you refused to listen. This result is what you deserve.”

Master Ling Xiao and Shen Dao Chen still felt they had done nothing wrong. Bai Mu Mu had been “killed” by Shen Sang Ruo. How could they stay calm?

Shen Sang Ruo lifted her hand: “Since you can finally sit still, I will let you see with your own eyes. You said Bai Mu Mu was innocent. Look for yourselves.” She displayed the eerie, chaotic System before them. Before they could ask what it was, she poured Divine Soul Power into it and explained: “This is the Malevolent Spirit I just stripped from Bai Mu Mu. You can test how well it matches her soul.”

Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing were thrilled. At last, Bai Mu Mu’s true face would be exposed. They added quickly: “Bai Mu Mu really is linked to the Malevolent Spirit. We never lied.”

Master Ling Xiao and Shen Dao Chen exchanged a look. In each other’s eyes they saw doubt and hesitation. Shen Sang Ruo spoke with such steady certainty that it did not seem fake. Could Mu Mu really be tied to a Malevolent Spirit? Even if she was, they remembered she had helped Master Ling Xiao pass his Heart Devil Tribulation. She had helped them and had not tried to harm them before. That meant she still had some kindness. Deal with the Malevolent Spirit and then be lenient, that was all.

After wavering, both decided to test the compatibility between the System and Bai Mu Mu. Shen Sang Ruo, who knew them well, easily saw what they were thinking. She gave the Bai Mu Mu behind them a tiny glance and then looked away so quickly no one noticed. Bai Mu Mu could not escape this disaster, so Shen Sang Ruo did not rush to kill her. Leaving her alive until the truth came out would hit those two far harder. Besides, when she probed the System with Divine Soul Power just now, she found something interesting. [Let Master Ling Xiao taste the bitter fruit he planted himself.]

Bai Mu Mu’s eyes darted. If the two men confirmed the System’s link to her, she would be finished. What should she do? Her gaze fell on a broken porcelain shard on the floor. She remembered the faint response she felt from the System earlier and that her favorability with Master Ling Xiao had already reached one hundred. If she killed Master Ling Xiao and stole his cultivation, she might still have a thread of life.

Her eyes turned fierce. She snatched up the shard and drove it straight into the left side of Master Ling Xiao’s back, where the heart lay. The shard sank into flesh, adding a fresh streak of bright red to his already bloodied robe.

He had no guard up against her. As the stab of pain flashed through his mind, he turned, eyes wide with disbelief, and stared at Bai Mu Mu. Her gaze was wild, holding only the resolve to kill him and Attain the Dao. He had never seen her like this.

Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing cried out together: “Master!”

Shen Dao Chen shouted, stunned: “Ling Xiao!”