Chapter 32
"You? A toad trying to eat a swan!" Jiang Wan glared at him with disgust, then glanced at Ye Qinghui worriedly. Could he, holding a child, possibly beat Shen Xingyan?
Crimson Slash's attacks intensified; she wanted to defeat Jiang Kui quickly so she could help Ye Qinghui.
Seeing this, Jiang Kui was filled with jealousy and hatred. Finding an opening, he launched Hidden Weapon at Ye Qinghui and the baby in his arms. Since Ye Qinghui was protecting this child so much, then let him and the child perish together!
"Watch out!" Jiang Wan exclaimed.
While dodging Shen Xingyan's sword light, Ye Qinghui spun around to avoid Jiang Kui's Hidden Weapon hitting Ye Zhenzhen. However, while Ye Zhenzhen was protected, his left arm was accidentally grazed by Jiang Kui's Hidden Weapon, tearing a section of his sleeve and revealing a seemingly small but deadly wound on his arm.
This time, Jiang Kui used the Millennial Venomous Centipede Spike, which is extremely poisonous. Even a cultivator with extremely high cultivation level would die from the poison within an hour after being stabbed.
The plot actually overlaps with the original book! Ye Zhenzhen a chill run down her spine.
Before they even reached the Netherworld Ghost Domain, Ye Qinghui was injured in the arm by Jiang Kui's Hidden Weapon. However, instead of his right arm, the weapon ended up in his left arm, which he was using to hold Ye Zhenzhen. The poison was extremely potent, causing excruciating pain that penetrated to the bone marrow. His left arm turned from pale to dark black. He gritted his teeth to resist the pain, but still managed to hold Ye Zhenzhen tightly.
Several brilliant red streaks flashed across the sky, followed by the chirping of birds.
They've finally arrived! Ye Zhenzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief and tossed the Vermilion Bird Egg into Shen Xingyan's arms, "Since you want it so badly, then it's yours!"
Shen Xingyan assumed the Little Bean was protecting Ye Qinghui, so sheathed her sword and urged everyone to stop.
Just as he was happily holding the Vermilion Bird Egg and feeling the surging spiritual power within it with Jiang Kui, a large shadow suddenly fell in front of him, and it felt as if something had pecked him on the head.
"Ouch!" he cried out in pain, and when he looked up, he saw a Vermilion Bird pecking at his head.
Shen Xingyan quickly drew his sword to drive away the Vermilion Bird. But soon, more and more Vermilion Bird flew towards him.
He frantically used his sword to defend against the Vermilion Bird's attacks, but the Vermilion Bird were notoriously hot-tempered and had a bad temper. When they discovered that their eggs had been roasted, some of them snatched the Vermilion Bird Egg from his arms, while the others retaliated by breathing fire on him and Jiang Kui.
Shen Xingyan's hair, which she had only grown for a few months, was burned off again, even shorter than when Ye Qinghui shaved it last time.
Jiang Kui's hair was also burned away, and his originally fierce face now looked even uglier and more terrifying. He was furious and launched a frenzied counterattack, frequently using deadly moves against the Vermilion Bird.
"The Vermilion Bird is a divine bird; we must not harm its life." Although Shen Xingyan was angry, she had not lost her temper and shouted at Jiang Kui.
But his shouts came too late. Jiang Kui, after all, came from a small, insignificant sect and lacked any real foundation. He didn't even know this basic common sense about the Cultivation World, and he successively injured several Vermilion Bird, arousing their wrath. The Vermilion Bird spread their enormous wings, stirring up a sandstorm that filled the sky.
The storm was so strong that it was impossible to open one's eyes.
The shadowy figures that had been secretly following them seized the opportunity amidst the chaos and cut the Heavenly Stairway above them.
Amidst the terrified screams of countless cultivators, everyone lost their support and plummeted vertically. During the fall, the mole between Ye Zhenzhen's eyebrows flashed with golden light. After feeling someone touch her, she fainted.
Ye Qinghui's left arm was throbbing with pain, but he tried his best to accelerate his descent, rushing to Ye Zhenzhen's side to become her physical shield and protect her.
"Anyway, I've already been poisoned and won't live much longer, but Junior Sister, you must take good care of yourself!" he thought to himself.
Ye Zhenzhen: First Senior Brother, you're so touching! 55555
Chapter 32
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It took many days to climb to the top, but falling to the bottom seemed to happen in an instant.
Contrary to expectations, there was no violent impact that would shatter everyone to pieces. Instead, a surge of black energy rising from the ground lifted everyone up, saving their lives.
When Ye Zhenzhen opened her eyes again, she was lying quietly in Ye Qinghui's arms, being held tightly in his protective embrace. His face was ashen, his lips were purplish-black, and his blood was beginning to congeal and turn black, as if he had been infected by the venom of a thousand-year-old centipede. His whole body exuded a cold aura, but he still managed to hold on tightly and did not let go of Ye Zhenzhen.
"Brother Xi! Brother Xi!" Her sweet, childlike voice was now tinged with anxious sobs. She called out to Ye Qinghui again and again to wake him up, but he remained silent.
The red Flower of the Other Shore bloomed all around like congealed blood, their red so deep they were almost black, a blend of black and red, like the most alluring spirits in the darkness, exuding an eerie and suffocating beauty.
This is the Netherworld Ghost Domain described in the original book.
The place was deep and dark, with an eerie atmosphere, as if countless eyes were watching them from the shadows.
Ye Qingyao ran over, intending to use her Healing Art to detoxify Ye Qinghui. Unexpectedly, when she tried to use all her spiritual power, she found that it was sealed and she couldn't use it at all.
"Strange? Why can't I mobilize my spiritual power?" She repeatedly tried to concentrate and regulate her breathing to mobilize her spiritual power, but failed time and time again, and became increasingly anxious.
Ye Qinghui's face grew paler and paler, and his whole body began to tremble violently. He was about to be completely devoured by the poison of the thousand-year-old centipede and fall into eternal darkness.
In the moment of crisis, Jiang Wan, dressed in red, arrived, dragging along a person who was then tightly bound by chains.
Great! It's Jiang Kui.
"Hand over the antidote now!" Jiang Wan threatened Jiang Kui, holding a sword to his neck. "Or I'll kill you!"
"There's no antidote." Jiang Kui smiled dismissively, then said sarcastically, "My beauty, your beloved is about to die from the poison. I advise you to abandon your evil ways and release me quickly, so I can be your future sect leader's wife."