Chapter 306: Yun Lan’s Strength
The mory finally vanished completely. Qin Jiani’s spirit, still trapped by Yun Ruoyan and Li Mo’s spiritual energy, was trembling all over. The images and scenes that had appeared were all past mories that she hadn’t wanted to revisit.
She had imagined that the past was the past, gone and forgotten for good. As long as no one knew about what she had done, then it wouldn’t be of any import to her. When she had cut apart her own father’s chest, she had buried her conscience and her guilt.
But when she saw her wooden face as she removed her father’s heart from his chest, when she saw her cold, calculating face as she poisoned Lin Yuei, when she saw her sinister face as she had her own daughter bring Madam An a concoction that would slowly turn her crazy…
When these mories resurfaced, she found that she couldn’t bear to look at them, that she was so afraid her whole body trembled.
As Li Mo continued releasing his spiritual energy, he looked at Yun Ruoyan. Qin Jiani’s mories had clearly shown how she had poisoned Lin Yuei, and that her true father wasn’t Yun Lan, but instead a man called Long Yin.
Li Mo didn’t know that Yun Ruoyan had long since found out about her true parentage, so he was very worried for her. Unexpectedly, Yun Ruoyan seed to receive the news calmly, so he relaxed and turned back to Qin Jiani.
Yun Lan frowned as he looked at the three people in mid-air. While he was in the alternate dinsion, he had personally witnessed a demonic puppet being killed. Under normal circumstances, killing the owner of the demonic puppet would cause the puppet to vanish as well. Only high-ranking demonic puppets would be able to host their masters’ spirits, as was the case here.
Yun Lan hadn’t expected that Qin Jiani’s demonic puppet was already at such a level. He glanced at Qin Jiani’s lifeless body, his eyes turning even darker.
“Madam Qin, you’ve already paid the price for what you’ve done. Now that you’re dead, don’t hold onto your grudges any longer,” Li Mo murmured.
“I’m dead?” Li Mo’s words finally provoked a reaction from Qin Jiani. In her spirit form, she raised her head, looked all around her, and chuckled bitterly. “I thought I would be able to change my fate, and yet this was my outco… no, I refuse to submit! The heavens might have cursed , but I will not succumb!”
Yun Ruoyan thought that she would have been happier to see her mother’s killer so desolate, but her past life’s experience had instead left her with so sympathetic resonance for Qin Jiani. Neither of them began as evildoers, but chance and accident had compelled them deeper into their demise. One wrong step had dood their fates for good.
In her past life, because Yun Ruoyan was weak and useless, because she listened to others mindlessly, she had suffered a wretched fate. anwhile, because Qin Jiani had been bewitched by Yun Lan’s honeyed words, she had fallen in love with soone who wouldn’t ever love her back.
“Madam Qin,” Yun Ruoyan found herself saying. “Do you believe in reincarnation? If fate were to give you a second chance, would you have lived your life the sa way?”
Yun Ruoyan’s sudden question was quite unexpected to Qin Jiani. As a mber of that shamanic tribe, she naturally believed in reincarnation, in the Buddha of the past and the Guanyin of the present. However, she believed in it in the abstract, not as though it were reality.
“If I could reincarnate, I would certainly not believe the words of n so easily. Even if I have to lead a dull, ordinary life, even if it ant I would have to give up on the possibility of being truly strong, I would never stoop so low again,” Qin Jiani pledged.
“In that case, why not let go of your grudge and let this demonic puppet dissipate? Go where you ought to go, and you might find another chance at life,” Yun Ruoyan said.
Qin Jiani stilled again. “I killed your mother, and I ruined your life. Don’t you hate ? You should loathe so much you would damn to hell for eternity!”
Yun Ruoyan hadn’t expected Qin Jiani to have recognized her. She was a little shocked, but quickly cald herself down. “You’re already dead, Madam Qin, and my revenge is done. If you do intend on causing trouble, though…”
“Haha.” Qin Jiani suddenly began to laugh. “Ruoyan, I actually do like you. You’re not at all like your mother; she was beautiful but sheltered, whereas you’re worldly and intelligent.”
“Madam Qin,” Yun Ruoyan sighed. “I hope you can give yourself a chance.”
“Ha, ha…” Qin Jiani’s laughs seed to turn low and mournful. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions. For , perhaps having my soul scattered to the winds would be the best possible ending…”
Her spiritual body suddenly grew larger and larger, so quickly that even the spiritual energy that Yun Ruoyan and Li Mo were giving off wasn’t enough to restrain her. At the sa ti, the demonic puppet began to move. It swung a fist toward Li Mo and Yun Ruoyan. Li Mo steered his sword away from the blow, but in doing so, freed Qin Jiani from his restraints.
“Not good,” he murmured. “The demonic puppet’s going to rge with her spiritual body!”
Yun Ruoyan brandished her Scarlet Eye, and Li Mo had readied an icicle in one hand and a fireball in the other, both of them prepared for a prolonged battle.
However, the demonic puppet turned away from them and instead toward Yun Lan, the man whom Qin Jiani had loved her entire life but was never able to possess.
“Even if I die, I’ll bring you down with !” Qin Jiani hollered.
Under her control, the demonic puppet blew out two gusts of demonic aura at him, one black and one red. They morphed into gigantic claws which pounced on Yun Lan. They were far stronger than the claws that had plagued Yun Ruoyan and Li Mo, having been infused with the power of Qin Jiani’s grudges. Even the wind generated from their motion was sufficient to blow Su Nan, Yun Moxiao, and Li Mo’s other guards aside.
Only Yun Lan seed to be unaffected by the attack. With his hands clasped behind his back, he patiently waited for the claws to approach him. One claw seized his neck, and the other his two legs, raising him high up into the air.
“Yun Lan, you’re the bane of my existence! Only with your death can I reincarnate in peace.” The demonic puppet that had rged with Qin Jiani raised a gigantic fist at him.
With a great smash, the fist landed on Yun Lan’s body. However, contrary to her expectations, Yun Lan didn’t die or turn into at paste. Instead, Qin Jiani could feel a surprising surge of strength resisting her blow.
Everyone gathered could see Yun Lan encased in a shield of blinding white light. Yun Ruoyan could identify that shield as a mbrane made of spiritual energy, one that could be activated by any eighth-rank blademaster during tis of duress. However, if the attack was from a cultivator with a more advanced cultivation, then the mbrane might as well be useless; it was only effective against attacks from a lower cultivation. If the difference in cultivation was large enough, then it could even reflect an incoming attack.
Zhuo Yifeng had once been injured by this damage reflection.
If Yun Lan’s spiritual mbrane was able to defend against the demonic puppet’s attack, then it could only an that his current cultivation had exceeded that of the demonic puppet!
Yun Ruoyan was imnsely shocked. It was rare that her father would reveal his own cultivation to anyone, and she hadn’t expected that it would be so extre.
“This is the realm of a sword saint!” Li Mo whispered in her ear. “That fruit of cloud and sky was surely a great help to him.”
Yun Lan’s spiritual energy grew whiter and even more blinding, and the demonic puppet’s fist was pushed further and further away by its force. With a great Bang!, the demonic puppet’s enormous body was flung into the wall of the teahouse and brought it crashing down.
The white spiritual energy on Yun Lan’s body slowly turned red. Just like Yun Ruoyan, Yun Lan also used fire-attuned spiritual energy. With so technique unfamiliar to her, he covered his entire body with spiritual fla. Upon touching the fla, the black and red demonic claws crumbled into ash.
A blood-red sword aura appeared underneath Yun Lan’s feet as he flew toward the demonic puppet. With a manifestation of spiritual energy, he forcibly extracted Qin Jiani’s spirit from within the demonic puppet.
“You want to kill ?” Yun Lan asked. “Why?”
“I wanted to kill you, but it looks like it won’t be possible!” Qin Jiani’s face was bitter. “I wasted my entire life’s emotions on you, and this is what I get? You were the one who reduced to this sorry state, so of course I’d take my revenge on you!”
“Foolish!” Yun Lan muttered disdainfully. “You killed Yuei, so I can’t spare you. Die!” Yun Lan’s voice was cold, without any hint of warmth, nor even a shred of sorrow or disappointnt.
“Yun Lan, was I never in your heart?” Qin Jiani asked, unwilling to give up.
Yun Lan’s eyes narrowed. “There have been many won in my life, but except for Yuei, they’re all one and the sa. I initially thought you might have been a little different from them, but it seems as though you were simply more foolish.”
The spiritual flas on his body slowly encroached upon Qin Jiani.
“I am foolish, aren’t I? You might not think much of , but please treat Ruoyu well. After all, she’s your daughter by blood—”
Before Qin Jiani could finish speaking, her soul, evanescent and fragile, had scattered to the winds...
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