Meng Yiran's Death

"This guy was finally dead for good."

Watching Meng Baichuan explode and die, Lin Yuan finally let out a long breath. He leaped down from the bamboo tip, raised a hand, and drew the golden armor-shaped Soul Bone into his grasp.

Sure enough, although the armor was only the size of an adult's palm, its appearance bore quite a resemblance to Barbarian Beard's Imperial Scale Armor.

No wonder Meng Baichuan had given it that name.

After carefully storing the Soul Bone in his storage Soul Tool, Lin Yuan drew over Meng Baichuan's Soul Tool as well.

He discovered that while this fellow was not as wealthy as Dai Mubai, it contained quite a few books on Soul Beast and Soul Master theory.

The collections at Nording Academy and Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy were ultimately limited.

Obtaining these things was an unexpected bonus.

"It's time to consider what to do with the other one."

Lin Yuan looked toward Meng Yiran. To be honest, he did not particularly want to kill her.

Otherwise, he would not have wanted to knock her out from the very beginning.

But she already knew the secret of the transmigrators.

Even if she could not make sense of it for the moment, she would understand once she encountered other transmigrators in the future.

So, should he send her down to accompany Meng Baichuan?

With that thought, Lin Yuan snapped his fingers, and all the Lone Bamboo he had summoned earlier vanished.

Lin Yuan darted toward Meng Yiran.

When he arrived, he found that Meng Yiran had already fallen unconscious due to her severe injuries.

Blue flames rose from Lin Yuan's right hand. He lifted it, about to end her life with a single palm strike.

But in the end, he still could not bring himself to do it.

When dealing with transmigrators, he could use any means necessary.

After all, this was a struggle where only one side could survive. If he did not kill them, they would kill him in the future.

Unless he was willing to remain mediocre for the rest of his life.

When dealing with villains like Tang San,

Lin Yuan would likewise show no mercy.

But when dealing with ordinary people—especially those ordinary people from the original story who had not followed Tang San in causing trouble—so long as they had not seen his true face or Martial Soul and could not threaten him in the future, he ultimately could not harden his heart.

He decided to give her a chance to live.

As for whether she could seize it, that depended on her.

"Ah, if only I had Old Devil Han's Forgetting Dust Pill..."

Lin Yuan sighed inwardly and stepped forward to carry Meng Yiran in his arms. But to prevent her from pretending to be unconscious and ambushing him, he chose to seal her acupoints before picking her up.

A short while later, Lin Yuan brought Meng Yiran to a cave far from the battlefield.

Seeing the wound on Meng Yiran's back, corroded by the four-clawed monstrous dragon formed from Meng Baichuan's Self-Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Lin Yuan used the bandages and medicinal herbs he carried to give her some simple treatment.

He then used the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique to stabilize the internal injuries caused by half the force of his palm strike.

A moment later, Meng Yiran suddenly coughed up a large mouthful of clotted blood and slowly woke up.

"If you don't want to die, don't move around."

That was the first thing Lin Yuan said after she awoke.

Only then did Meng Yiran realize that her upper body was completely bare. Only a circle of bandages covered the wound on her back and her creamy white breasts.

Feeling the warmth from Lin Yuan's palm against her back, her pretty face flushed slightly. She asked the question in her heart, "Why did you save me?"

"This is a conflict between us Fellow Transmigrators. It has nothing to do with you. Of course, if you want to die, I can grant your wish right now."

Lin Yuan lowered his voice and replied indifferently.

"Fellow Transmigrators... Meng Baichuan was one too?" She did not call him her younger brother; she called him Meng Baichuan.

Clearly, this brush with death had made her vaguely realize something.

Thinking of the conversation between Meng Baichuan and the mysterious person behind her earlier, as well as her younger brother's strange behavior since childhood,

a terrifying guess could not help forming in her heart.

Lin Yuan said in a deep voice, "It seems you've already noticed something, but I still advise you not to dig any deeper. Otherwise, not only will you die, but your grandfather, grandmother, and your family will die as well."

"Because I am not the only Fellow Transmigrator in this world."

"Every one of them is exceptionally gifted, ruthless, and ambitious. They may come from Spirit Hall, the Upper Three Sects, or the imperial families of the two great empires. Once they realize their identities have been exposed, they will do whatever it takes to kill anyone who knows who they are."

"The Shrek Academy you attend is one of the gathering places for Fellow Transmigrators. That is precisely why Meng Baichuan brought you to Shrek Academy. If you don't want to die, leave that place immediately and never return."

"As for me, you may come seek revenge whenever you like, if you can find me... But once I discover even the slightest sign that you intend to take revenge,"

"then I will destroy the Dragon Snake Family at any cost."

As he spoke those final words, Lin Yuan could not help feeling a strong sense of dissonance.

Only then did he remember that it was one of Gangzi's classic lines, so he added, "For example, I could secretly reveal what you know about Fellow Transmigrators to those Fellow Transmigrators in Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects."

"Or I could wait until I become a Titled Douluo, then come to your door and wipe out the Dragon Snake Family."

"Meng Yiran, you wouldn't want the Dragon Snake Family to be destroyed because of you... would you?"

That final sentence undoubtedly shattered Meng Yiran's psychological defenses.

She closed her eyes in pain and muttered, "I only want to ask one final question. Was Meng Baichuan really my younger brother?"

"How old was he when he first began acting strangely?" Lin Yuan asked in return.

Meng Yiran thought for a moment and said, "After awakening his Martial Soul at six, his personality suddenly changed drastically."

"No!" After saying that, Lin Yuan withdrew his power and left.

By the time Meng Yiran came to her senses, she discovered that Lin Yuan had somehow already appeared outside the cave. After a few flashes, he disappeared from sight.

Looking at the place outside the cave where Lin Yuan had vanished, Meng Yiran's expression became extremely complicated.

It was no wonder she felt that way.

Too many things had happened in a single day.

First, she had been attacked by that mysterious black-clothed man and saved by her younger brother.

Then her younger brother said many things she could not understand. In the end, in order to kill the mysterious man, he had not hesitated to sacrifice the life of his own elder sister.

The reason was actually that she had not accepted his declaration of love.

Yet in the end, it was the mysterious man who had intended to kill both siblings who saved her. He also told her that Meng Baichuan was not her real younger brother, and that her actual younger brother had long since died.

And Meng Baichuan's various actions had confirmed that he truly was not her younger brother.

That was why Meng Yiran did not know what attitude she should take toward Lin Yuan at this moment.

If she hated him, he had not only saved her, but also killed the beast who had occupied her younger brother's body and lusted after her.

If she felt grateful, he had initially come to kill her, and before leaving, he had even threatened her with the Dragon Snake Family.

Those two conflicting emotions left Meng Yiran frozen in place, unable to find peace in her heart for a long while.

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