Chapter 347 - I Want Him to Plead for Death

Tianyuan City was at its liveliest and yet complete silence enveloped the Jade Terrace Mountain. Many had left the mountain for the city. Inside the Immortal’s Prison on a summit of a rear mountain, an incessant stern voice demanded, “Speak, you slut! Where is Xiao Chen?!”

In the stone chamber that imprisoned Xiao Chen, Ling Fei pressed Li Muxue’s neck up against the wall. Blood gushed from her mouth like a leaking faucet, staining her lapels.

“Speak! Where is Xiao Chen?!” Ling Fei threw another punch at her stomach, causing her to cough up another mouthful of blood. He sneered. “Be prepared for a gruesome death.”

“Speak! Where did that bastard go?!” Ling Fei once again punched her in the stomach. Her aura was thin, and her face was a frightening shade of white. Blood flowed out of her mouth without an end. The crescent white jade resting on her chest was flickering incessantly, but hidden under her clothes, it escaped Ling Fei’s notice.

It was the jade note that Xiao Chen gave her. If she were to crush it, he would detect it immediately. But she wouldn’t. She hoped he would never return…

“Speak, damn it!” Ling Fei couldn’t restrain his anger. He had never seen such a stubborn woman in his life. In his fury, he punched her abdomen seven or eight consecutive times.

Next to him was a Ling family disciple who had turned pale a long time ago. He said quietly, “Young Master, why don’t we end it here? If she dies and the Jade Qing Sect finds out, we’ll be done for. Our family isn’t a match for the Jade Qing Sect…”

“Scram! Mind your own business!” Ling Fei struck the disciple with his palm, sending him flying out of the stone chamber.

Suddenly, a teenager rushed in. His face was pale, and his voice trembled with fear as he said, “Bad news, Young Master! Bad news!”

Ling Fei turned his head and glared at him. He said sternly, “Speak!”

The teenager was so frightened that he was trembling and couldn’t even get his words straight. “X-Xiao Chen! Xiao Chen has shown up!”

“That bastard dares to show himself?” Ling Fei became agitated as soon as he heard and immediately smashed Li Muxue against the stone wall. He shouted, “Where is he?!”

“The eastern district of the city! The Immortals’ League and large sects have him surrounded!”

Li Muxue was slipping out of consciousness, but blood immediately sprayed from her mouth as soon as she heard. Ling Fei laughed like a maniac. “Very well, very well, indeed! Let’s go! I want to see how that bastard dies!”

The teenager immediately stopped him. “You can’t go! You can’t go, absolutely not!” Impatiently, Ling Fei turned around and yelled, “What is it now?!”

The teenager burst into tears. “He found out about the Elder going to the Human World to exterminate the Three Pure Sect and wiped out our entire family. The Master was the only one who escaped…” He was sobbing so hard that he couldn’t continue anymore.

“What did you say?!” Shock struck Ling Fei like a bolt of lightning, and he felt the world around him spin. He then howled, “Father! Mother! Younger Brother! Younger Sister! Wan’er! Grandpa…”

The teenager sobbed and sniffled before wiping his tears and urging, “Young Master! Let’s leave this place as soon as possible! We won’t be able to afterward!”

“Leave? No way!” Ling Fei pushed him aside with a deranged expression. He abruptly turned around to look at the half-dead Li Muxue in the corner of the chamber and said sinisterly, “I still have an enormous gift for him…”

…

Dark clouds hung over the eastern district of the city as a storm brewed. Xiao Chen found himself surrounded by the large clans in the public square when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. Guifeng immediately supported his arm. “My Lord!”

Pale-faced, Xiao Chen supported himself off the ground with one hand. The pain was so abrupt that it caught him off guard. Suddenly, something occurred to him. “Muxue is in trouble! Muxue is in trouble!”

“Guifeng, let’s go!” Xiao Chen howled and charged at the Immortals’ League with a raised saber. When the cultivators saw him fleeing, they immediately stepped forward to stop him. He swung his saber, and more than ten cultivators in front of him disintegrated into a bloody mist.

“Get on, my Lord!” Guifeng hoisted Xiao Chen onto his horse, and they made a mad dash toward the central district of the city. The purple-robed Warden cried, “Don’t let him escape!” More than ten Nascent Soul Realm cultivators immediately blocked their way.

“Death to all those who stand in my way!” Guifeng swung his saber violently and instantly exterminated the body and soul of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. Suddenly, several sword radiance landed in front of them, prompting their diabolic horse to neigh and kick in the air. The Nirvana Realm cultivators had made their move.

“Demon, don’t even dream of running after committing such a heinous crime today!”

“Arghhh! Out of my way!” Xiao Chen started hacking them like a madman, but with his severely depleted bank of True Energy, how was he any match for Nirvana Realm cultivators? Guifeng was also beginning to run out of Soul power.

Seeing that he was about to exhaust himself, the purple-robed Warden yelled, “Capture the Devil’s Practice follower!”

Sensing that he was in serious trouble, Xiao Chen immediately turned to Perfected Immortal Qing Chen and cried, “Return to the League now! The one inside the Immortal’s Prison is Muxue! She’s in trouble!”

Yu Yifeng and the others looked confused to hear that the one inside the Immortal’s Prison was Li Muxue, but the realization hit the Elders of the League instantly. Magic Mimicry! No wonder he was able to escape the prison!

“She’s in trouble! Go! Go now!”

Perfected Immortal Qing Chen spared no time. He turned to Yu Yifeng and said, “Yifeng, hurry and see what’s going on!”

“Yes!” Yu Yifeng was about to take out his flying sword when a peal of laughter came from the western horizon. “Hahaha! That won’t be necessary anymore!”

Everyone turned to look in the direction of the voice and saw Ling Fei treading through the air toward them while holding a woman. Xiao Chen’s eyes widened. “Let go of her!” he cried, about to rush over to them.

Ling Fei’s eyes flashed with a cruel glint. “I’ve planted a Blood Yin Soul Incantation on her! Once I die, her soul will disintegrate as well! Feel free to come and save her if you are not afraid! Hahaha!”

Xiao Chen immediately stopped in his tracks. He had heard of such a crafty curse, so Ling Fei was probably not lying. Li Muxue raised her head and revealed tears streaming down her face. “Why did you come back…”

“Muxue! Muxue, it’s… it’s all my fault…” Xiao Chen’s eyes were wide open, and his grip on the Blood Lotus Demon Blade was so tight that the blade threatened to break. Suddenly, he howled and turned to Ling Fei. In a sharp voice, he yelled, “What exactly do you want?!” “Speak! Worse comes to worst. I’ll trade her life for mine!”

“Hehe! What do I want? You exterminated my entire family, but I don’t want your life! I want you to experience all the torment in this world!” Ling Fei looked deranged when he suddenly struck Li Muxue with his palm. The attack caused her five visceras and six bowels to nearly rupture.

“Stop!” Xiao Chen’s eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

The expressions of the cultivators from the large sects had changed a long time ago. Perfected Immortal Qing Chen cried in anger, “Ling Fei! Your grudge against Xiao Chen has nothing to do with other people! Let go of my disciple!”

“Ling Fei! You’re an Orthodox disciple! How can you take out your anger on someone else? Let go of my Junior Sister!”

Yu Yifeng stepped forward, wanting to save Li Muxue, but it was evident that Ling Fei had no plans of leaving this place alive. With his death, Li Muxue’s soul would also integrate. The reason the Ling family was able to stand tall in the East Continent was their sinister craft, the Blood Yin Incantation!

“Orthodox? I told you he’s a Devil’s Practice follower, didn’t I? But you insisted on shielding him. Now that he has killed my entire family, you’re bringing up the Orthodox Path? Hahaha!”

Ling Fei remained in that manic state of his. No one dared to go up to him and save Li Muxue. Ling Ruoxu was too ashamed for words. He chided, “Ling Fei, this Devil’s Practice follower has nowhere to run! Let go of that lady now!”

Ling Fei sneered and said sharply, “Bah! Ling Ruoxu! You’re unworthy of being the head of our family! If it weren’t for your indecisiveness, we wouldn’t have ended up like this today! If you hadn’t stopped people from hunting him down, we wouldn’t have ended up like this today!”

“Amitabha. If revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? Benefactor Ling, you shouldn’t entrench yourself in the swamp of misery anymore…” Master Xuanji muttered the Buddhist saying with his palms placed together.

“Shut up, you filthy monk! You have no right to educate me! Your Wuyin Monastery isn’t anything honorable either! You’re a bunch of hypocrites!”

Ling Fei was so deranged that he would lash out against anyone that threatened him. Xiao Chen said solemnly, “Then what do you want…”

“Hehe! What do I want? I want you to destroy your Nascent Soul by yourself! Right now!”

Li Muxue raised her head and said weakly, “Don’t, Brother Xiao! Even if you destroy your Nascent Soul, I… I won’t be able to survive today either…” Tears streamed down her face midway into her sentence.

“Shut up, you slut!” Ling Fei struck her with his palm.

“Fine! I’ll destroy it!” Xiao Chen thrust his saber into the ground, causing crushed stones to fly everywhere.

“My Lord, you must not!” Guifeng stopped him. He looked up at Ling Fei and said furiously, “You lowly person! Let go of her immediately!”

“Shut you, you damned ghost! You were a slave alive, and still a slave dead! You’ll forever be a damned slave!”

“Roar—” The diabolic horse let out an ear-shattering roar and was about to charge upward when Ling Fei clutched Li Muxue’s throat. “Come on! I’ll end my life and have this slut die with me!”

“Stop!” Xiao Chen said, extending his hand. He looked coldly at Ling Fei. “Remove her curse, and I’ll destroy my Nascent Soul immediately! I swear I’ll do it!”

Tears rained down Li Muxue’s face as she pleaded, “Brother Xiao, no! I haven’t told you but my lifespan is about to…”

“Shut up, slut!” Ling Fei tightened his grip around her throat, preventing her from speaking.

Suddenly, twelve silhouettes appeared out of thin air. The ladies of Hidden Fragrance Wafting Under the Moon had finally caught up to Xiao Chen. They weren’t as quick as him, which was what delayed them for so long.

Qingluan glared at Ling Fei and flung a package dripping with blood at him. “Your Grandpa’s head! Take it!”

“Grandpa!” Ling Fei looked pained. The moment he reached out to grab the package, Xiao Chen unleashed his Immortal-override Steps and appeared in front of him. However, someone was even faster than him, and snatched Li Muxue out of Ling Fei’s hands. Ling Fei turned pale from fright and immediately tried to kill himself and Li Muxue.

“The Roar of Ice Dragon Spirit!”

Xiao Chen thrust his palms at the same time, and an ear-shattering dragon’s roar resounded. Once Ling Fei was frozen, he turned his head to look at the person who took Li Muxue. The silver-haired woman was one of the Jade Qing Seven and Li Muxue’s master, Yanluo.

“Muxue!” Xiao Chen wanted to rush over to her, but Yanluo raised a hand and barricaded him. She said coldly, “From now on, she has nothing to do with you!” She made several taps on Li Muxue’s body with her fingertip and then drew out a red wisp out of her midbrows.

“Is the Blood Yin Soul Incantation removed?” Xiao Chen asked impatiently.

“Yes,” Yan Luo said coldly. “But I told you. From now on, she has nothing to do with you!” Carrying Li Muxue, she propelled herself forward with the tip of her foot and disappeared in the crowd.

Xiao Chen turned around to look at Ling Fei, who was encased in a layer of ice. Ling Fei’s mouth was open, frozen at the moment he was about to recite his mantra. Xiao Chen said frostily, “Guifeng!”

“Here!”

“Lay down a Barrier for me. I want him to plead for death!”

“Yes, my Lord! Devil Devours Three Thousand!”

Dark clouds rolled overhead, and an incorporeal force rained upon them, separating them from everyone else. Ling Ruoxu’s expression changed. “Xiao Chen! What are you trying to do?!”

Xiao Chen flashed him a sinister smile. “Didn’t you hear me earlier? I want him to plead for death!”