Blood Flowers Waft Fragrance

Watching Murong Brothers turn into a "living corpse" again, Duan Yun could not help feeling frustrated. Other than turning him into a woman, there was probably no way to change the situation.

Because he knew there was little hope in this matter.

Duan Yun had already begun wondering whether surgery could solve the problem.

He found that it would be difficult—harder than creating his own martial art. He would have to craft female organs by hand; that was harder than handcrafting a nuclear bomb.

Thinking how his good intentions had caused trouble instead, Duan Yun had been irritable these past two days and could only vent by exploring the "Elbow Sword."

On the third evening, he stood in the rear courtyard and drove an elbow into an old tree.

His elbow swept out, and Sword Qi tore through the air.

With a bang, the Sword Qi blasted a hole through the trunk. Wood chips flew everywhere. The Elbow Sword had clearly succeeded, yet Duan Yun felt something wet on his elbow.

Lowering his head, he jumped in fright.

He was bleeding.

Clearly, he had used too much force just now.

This newly discovered meridian route had not been tempered a thousand times over. He had to proceed step by step. How could he be so rough on the first try, without even considering whether its width could withstand it?

He could only blame the worries on his mind. He had vented his emotions.

Duan Yun hurriedly stopped the bleeding.

This could be called the most serious injury he had suffered since achieving success in sword practice. Even when he had faced the Red Tower elder, he had not bled this much.

Looking at his bloodstained elbow, Duan Yun decided to rest first.

He was feeling rather stifled, so he wondered whether he should go uphold justice and kill a few Thunder Duke and Old Mother Sect members to improve his mood.

If they were still nearby, that was.

He had yet to properly control the force of his Elbow Sword, but his Toe Sword had been mastered. When the time came, he could take off his shoes and kill one Thunder Duke and Old Mother Sect member with each toe—doing away with evil for the people.

Those lunatics who went mad and murdered people whenever they heard thunder deserved to be slaughtered clean.

Just then, a rumble sounded, and Duan Yun raised his head.

Thunder.

Judging by the sky, rain was clearly coming, so he went to bring in the laundry.

As he reached the corridor, Duan Yun suddenly caught a floral fragrance.

It was a scent resembling plum blossoms and jasmine.

There were plum trees in this manor, though he did not know whether there was wild jasmine. Still, by rights, this was not the season for plum blossoms or jasmine to bloom.

Duan Yun seriously suspected that Murong Brothers was secretly drinking.

During an earlier conversation, Murong Brothers had mentioned that he had brewed Plum Blossom Brew from plum blossoms, but he could not remember where he had buried it. He had been too lazy to look for it, so if Duan Yun was interested, he could dig it up and split it with him.

Duan Yun had been busy cultivating lately and had not had time to concern himself with it.

If Murong Brothers retained even a single hobby of the living, it could only be drinking.

Had this fellow remembered and decided to keep it all for himself?

Duan Yun also enjoyed drinking, so he quickened his pace and headed to Murong Brothers's room, intending to share a little.

Since entering the martial world, he had drunk at least eighty or a hundred catties of liquor, yet he had never tasted Plum Blossom Brew.

Murong Brothers still lay beneath the table, his body covered with a straw mat like a corpse.

Yet the floral fragrance could be smelled.

Good heavens, drinking flower wine behind my back.

Duan Yun stepped forward, only to be startled.

Murong Brothers was still lying beneath the table on the straw mat, but he was clearly not lying peacefully.

Several flower branches had appeared on his body. They had been inserted into several of his acupoints, as though his flesh and blood were soil. Blood streamed down.

The blossoms on the branches were gorgeous and gave off waves of fragrance, making the sight incomparably strange and eerie.

Upon seeing Duan Yun, Murong Brothers forced out, "Run!"

"Ha ha ha, where do you think you're running?"

A woman's voice suddenly rang out from outside the room.

By then, the floral fragrance had grown stronger, and the entire room was filled with a terrifying, deadly aura.

Murong Brothers spat out a mouthful of blood and said with difficulty, "Ling'er, if you want to kill me, I have no complaints. But he is merely an ordinary person staying here temporarily. He has nothing to do with either of us."

"Ha ha ha ha. An ordinary person with nothing to do with us, yet he lives with you in this ghostly manor?"

"Murong Brothers, I have searched for you so bitterly! Since you do not want me, I will destroy everything you have before your very eyes, including this friend of yours!"

Madness had already seeped into the woman's voice.

With a swish, a section of flower branch pierced through the wall and shot straight at Duan Yun.

Duan Yun felt his scalp tingle and hurriedly sidestepped.

The long, slender flower branch grazed past his body, humming without end.

Duan Yun had only just seen that it was not actually a flower branch, but a sword resembling one. Then the "flower branch" shook, turning from hard to soft and coiling toward him like a venomous snake.

It was not merely a sword, but a chain sword wrapped in True Qi capable of scraping bone and slicing flesh!

Duan Yun's iron sword was not at hand, so he immediately used Jade Sword Finger and tapped at a point on the flower branch.

With a clang, the flower branch that had coiled over like a venomous snake stalled, but it still could not be stopped from continuing its advance.

Borrowing the rebounding force, Duan Yun swiftly swept backward. Jade Sword True Qi spilled from his body, and with a bang, he crashed through the wall into the neighboring room.

The flower-branch-like chain sword did not pause in the slightest, following him like a festering sore clinging to bone. Duan Yun rolled across the ground.

At that moment, a pink figure flickered inside Murong Brothers's room and chased through the hole in the wall.

"No, don't!"

Murong Brothers struggled to sit up, his forehead already covered in sweat beads the size of soybeans.

He knew full well how terrifying she was. If he did not stop her in time, Duan Yun would likely lose his life very soon.

But all the True Qi in his body had been locked down, and after going without food for so long, he lacked strength. For the moment, he could not break free.

From here, Murong Brothers could not see what was happening next door.

Could Brother Duan truly be dragged down to his death because of me!

He had come here seeking death in the first place, yet he did not wish to implicate anyone.

What was more, after spending time with Duan Yun, they had found their temperaments compatible and had long regarded each other as friends.

After Duan Yun rolled into the neighboring room, that Flower-Branch Sword still hounded him relentlessly, vicious to the extreme.

But along his path, Duan Yun had killed the Black Bear Gang from top to bottom, killed Thunder Crazies, and killed the Red Tower demonesses. It had absolutely not been through luck!

Goosebumps rose on the back of his neck in an instant. As he lunged forward to evade, he immediately assumed the posture of a horse-rifle thrust and sent Jade Sword Finger backward, firing a streak of Sword Qi.

Jade Sword Finger specialized in being used whenever called upon—swift and abrupt.

The attacker clearly sensed the extraordinary nature of that Sword Qi as well. The flower-branch chain sword dipped and collided with the Jade Sword Finger Sword Qi.

With a clang, sparks scattered and petals trembled loose.

Duan Yun took the chance to catch his breath. Cursing, Fuck your mother!, he struck with Jade Sword Finger from his left hand while, without even having time to remove his shoes, he unleashed another Toe Sword.

Struck from above and below, the woman showed a flicker of surprise.

Yet though startled, she did not panic. Her right hand twisted the chain sword.

In an instant, the chain sword became a spinning ribbon of light, shielding her so tightly that not even water could seep through.

Two explosive clangs rang out as the chain sword knocked aside the Jade Sword Qi.

The woman fought fiercely. With a shake of her chain sword, she was about to strike again, but in the next instant, her pupils suddenly contracted. Her arm exerted force as she continued to hold a defensive stance.

This was because, within the dimly lit room, a Dharma Aspect of a female sword immortal in fluttering snow-white robes appeared.

Along with the Dharma Aspect came more than a dozen silver-white streaks of Sword Qi!

Duan Yun's expression darkened as he controlled the White-Silk Jade Sword Immortal to fire over a dozen Jade Sword Sword Qi strikes, then lifted his foot and delivered another snapping kick!

You fucking sneak-attacked me!