Mu Lingshi followed up by waving a pair of pink fists and pounding on Zhang Ruochen’s body, saying, “Why did you lie to me? Since you’re still alive, why didn’t you tell me? When you saw me in Liyuan City, you actually pretended not to recognise me. You are a bad person, the worst person in the world.”
Zhang Ruochen stood there woodenly, letting Mu Lingshi’s fists pound on his body.
His eyes, too, were a little moist.
He hadn’t expected that Mu Lingshi would use her feelings for him so deeply, and his heart was secretly moved. The heart that had been broken because of Chi Yao’s betrayal finally had a few more points of warmth, at least in this world, there were still people who cared about him, there were still people who were sad for him, who shed tears for him, who cried for him, and who also laughed for him.
This was such a precious feeling!
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen said rather bitterly, “I’m sorry.”
Mu Lingshi gently bit her lower lip, her eyes grumbling as she said, “What’s the use of being sorry, you’ve wronged too many people, and I’m not the only one”
Suddenly, her words stopped, as if she had thought of something, as if she had made some big mistake, rather panicked, she immediately rushed out from Zhang Ruochen’s embrace, taking three steps back in a row, and stood in the distance.
Zhang Ruochen stared at her rather surprised, revealing a puzzled expression.
Mu Lingshi’s face, however, was quite pained, both struggling and yet hesitating, and finally asked, “Does Sister Dust know that you’re still alive?”
Zhang Ruochen stared at her, suddenly understanding somewhat, and gently shook his head, saying, “I didn’t tell her. The people who know that I’m still alive, together with you, are no more than three people.”
“Why? Don’t you know how Sister Dust feels about you? She’s just not good at expressing herself, so why are you hiding it from her? Do you know how sad she would be?”Mu Lingshi asked with great puzzlement.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze was deep as he looked out at the navy blue mountains under the moonlight in the distance and said, “I am a person who cannot see the light and can only live in the shadowy world, whereas she is one of the Chen Clan’s Family Head Heirs, someone who stands in the light. She also has her mother and father, and a huge family. As long as the Empress is still alive, I can never be with her.”
“But would it be too cruel for you to do this to her?”Mu Lingshi said.
“Wouldn’t it be even more cruel to her to tell her that I’m still alive?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “In the entire Kunlun Realm, I don’t know how many people want to kill the Space-Time Transmitter and won’t allow him to grow up. As long as the news that the Space-Time Transmitter is still alive leaks out, then they will first go against Smoke Dust, against my mother, and against my friends. Only if I completely disappear will it be the best protection for them.”
Mu Lingshi’s pair of beautiful eyes gazed at Zhang Ruochen like this.
Until this moment, she finally sensed that Zhang Ruochen’s heart must also be incomparably painful, having a home that he couldn’t return to, having a fiancée but not being able to see her, and having friends but not being able to recognise them.
Because, there were countless people who wanted to kill the Time Successor between them, and there was also an unbeatable Empress Chi Yao between them.
Empress Chi Yao was like a huge mountain, deadening him and preventing him from breathing.
Unless he was able to push back that great mountain, otherwise, he would never see the light.
By Huang Yichen and Concubine Lin’s side, there were at least people to comfort them, take care of them, and help them out of their sadness.
However, Zhang Ruochen was even more pitiful, as long as the Empress was still alive, he could only remain incognito forever, unable to receive any help or care from anyone, unable to trust anyone, and could only become an exiled fugitive, living a life of displacement, enduring loneliness, darkness, and inner torment.
If not helpless, who would want to live in anonymity?
Mu Lingshi also finally understood why Zhang Ruochen would pretend not to know her, in fact, Zhang Ruochen did not want to harm her, did not want her to get involved.
Mu Lingshi stretched out two fingers and gently tugged on Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve, saying, “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to blame you, I know that it’s not easy for you either. What if you come with me to the Moon Worshipping Divine Sect and I’ll appoint you as my Grand Protector?”
Zhang Ruochen stared at her and said, “How come every woman wants to have a Grand Protector?”
“Who? Who are you talking about? Who dares to steal the Great Protector from me?”
Mu Lingshi crossed her arms, without the slightest trace of immortal aura, instead, she was somewhat quirky, revealing a very angry look.
Zhang Ruochen knew that she wasn’t really angry, but just wanted to amuse him in such a way.
“I’m just talking casually.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head, picked up the metal mask on the ground again, and said, “Although your Devil Cult is powerful and able to fight against the imperial court in the shadows, there may not be a place for me there. The grudge between me and Empress Chi Yao is definitely more than what you think.”
“Empress Chi Yao’s strength is too powerful, so powerful that it makes people despair, before I have the strength to fight her, getting too close to anyone could be harming her. Senior Sister Duanmu, do you understand?”
Mu Lingshi’s pair of round eyes stared tightly at Zhang Ruochen, as if she could sense Zhang Ruochen’s emotions, and asked, “Is there some pain deep inside your heart that you’ve been enduring all alone and have never spoken about it to anyone? What’s going on with the grudge between you and the Empress?”
“Don’t you continue to ask, even if you do, I won’t say anything.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Mu Lingshi gently bit her lips and teeth, no longer forcing Zhang Ruochen, but hugged Zhang Ruochen tightly from behind, saying, “I don’t care what grudge you have with the Empress, anyway, now that I know that you’re not dead, you can’t get rid of me.”
Zhang Ruochen put the metal mask, back on his face, somewhat helplessly, and said, “You let go of me first.”
“I won’t let go. Didn’t you say earlier that even the most ruthless man in the world would be charmed by me and would fall under my stone skirt when he saw me alive? You don’t even know, at that time, how happy I was to hear that. Now I will give you this chance, and only you.”Mu Lingshi said.
Previously, Zhang Ruochen had a marriage contract with Huang Yichen, and Mu Lingshi had never dared to fight for it, not daring to get too close to Zhang Ruochen.
But now, Zhang Ruochen had already died once and couldn’t be the same Zhang Ruochen he once was, so why couldn’t she go for it?
Even if Huang Yichen scolded her and beat her in the future, at least for now, she would hold Zhang Ruochen tightly and never let go.
Right at this moment, a spiritual power fluctuation covered over from afar, quickly approaching Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingshi.
Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingshi were both top-notch experts, so they were naturally able to sense that someone was probing with their spiritual energy.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s palm rotated in a circle and pushed forward, striking out a wave of spiritual force that crushed the spiritual force probing over.
There was no need to guess that it must be the Ice Demon’s spiritual force.
“What an abomination, not coming sooner or later, and rushing over at this exact time.”Mu Lingshi complained, rather exasperated.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “To fight, or not to fight?”
“Of course I will fight, if I don’t, I would think that this Holy Maiden is really afraid of them.”
Mu Lingshi began to secretly run her true qi, and two cold lights appeared in her eyes as she said, “Earlier, I mainly wanted to lure you out, and that’s why I purposely gave way to them, since, they have spoiled this Holy Maiden’s good deed, don’t blame this Holy Maiden for being merciless in her actions.”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Thunder Pearl and squeezed it tightly in his hand.
Mu Lingshi glanced towards Zhang Ruochen, revealing an astonished expression as her eyes blinked, saying, “The Ice Demon has been cultivating spiritual power for nearly a hundred years and is quite powerful, are you sure that you’re a match for him using only spiritual power?”
Mu Lingshi knew that Zhang Ruochen was extremely talented above spiritual power, but the enemy they were about to face was an old devil in spiritual power.
Even if the talent was high, how could it compare to the other party’s hundred years of cultivation?
One had to know that Zhang Ruochen’s main cultivation was martial arts, not spiritual power.
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm and said, “Don’t worry about me, I have my own confidence to win.”
Before the words fell, Mu Lingshi realised that Zhang Ruochen had already disappeared, not even a trace of his breath could be detected.
“Wow!”
The temperature in the air, all of a sudden, became colder and colder.
At the edge of the sky, the Ice Devil flew in sharply, standing hovering a hundred feet above the standing ground.
In the darkness, the dense sound of breaking winds resounded, and one by one, the Evil Dao cultivators, hurriedly rushed over, appearing in all directions, and it was unknown how many people there were, tightly surrounding Mu Lingshi in the centre.
The Ice Demon looked down at Mu Lingshi below, with a victorious stance and a hoarse smile, “Your Highness, the Holy Maiden, how have you been?”
Mu Lingshi clasped her hands in front of her chest and smiled sweetly, saying, “Ice Demon, you want to catch me with such a group of minions? I advise you to call out the Green Clothed Star Envoy and the Hunter first, the two of them, on the contrary, can accompany me for a bit of practice.”
Ice Demon snorted coldly, “Little minions? Do you really think that we don’t have experts in the Black Market? Today, I will let you know how powerful our Black Market is. Set up the Surprising Phoenix Locking Formation, whoever can capture the Demon Sect Holy Maiden will be rewarded with 10 million Spirit Crystals and a Dragon Rising Pill.”
Those who were able to rush to round up the Demon Sect’s Holy Maiden were naturally all first-rate experts, at least at the cultivation level of the First Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
In the darkness of the jungle, a single Evil Cult cultivator who hid his figure immediately injected his true qi into the jade, activating the formation inscription in the jade.
“Wow!”
Dozens of light pillars, which immediately shot up into the sky, intertwined with each other, forming a huge circle of light, which would soon be connected into a combined attack formation.
Mu Lingshi naturally wouldn’t sit back and wait for death, with a flick of her wrist, her two snow-white fingers pinched together, and a green-coloured ox-hair fine needle appeared on her fingertips more than once.
Eighth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, Gang Breaking Needle.
With a swoosh, the cyan-coloured Gang Breaking Needle flew out, striking the body of an Evil Dao cultivator of the Fish Dragon Third Transformation in the darkness.
“Boom!”
The Big Dipper Needle burst apart, forming a powerful energy storm that tore that one Fish Dragon Third Transformation Evil Dao Cultivator into pieces of flesh and blood.
The powerful destructive force, on the ground, blasted out a large pit with a diameter of five metres.
In the pit, it was full of broken bones, and scarlet blood.
Mu Lingshi kept striking out, the Gang Breaking Needles were like rain, flying out quickly and continuously hitting the evil cultivators in the black market.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
In just a few moments, seventeen or eighteen Fish Dragon Realm Evil Dao cultivators were struck by the Gang Breaking Needles, bursting apart and turning into piles of broken flesh and blood.
