Chapter 114 (1/2)

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114 – Something Horrible

“… dead!”

A voice rang abruptly and detonated a bomb called “panic”.

The time began to flow again.

At first, the auctioneer clenched his face full of long needles and made an ear-piercing scream, and then screams, curses, weeping, and other sounds filled the s.p.a.ce. These emotions mixed together and turned into a powerful torrent that washed away the people's rationality.

Only Xue Qilin watched the hole in the roof of the single-story building, silent.

Things look to be on fire…

The color of dusk entered the dim single-story building through the hole. It dispelled the deep darkness and burned like flames atop the still flowing blood.

“Young Teacher, what, what's… going on?”

Looking at the chaos before her eyes, Shui Yun'er forced out an intermittent voice from between her lips, stunned.

“… what else could it be? The 'rope' wasn't thick enough, and so the la.s.s struggle free.”

Xue Qilin replied dully. Although her voice is quiet, but it was still transmitted into Shui Yun'er's ears despite the messy environment, sounding clear and distinct.

When she heard this, Shui Yun'er asked incredulously: “Young Teacher, are you saying that… the martial demon broke the 'fetters' just now?”

Fetters – this refers to the method of closing the qi pa.s.sageways. Xue Qilin was once a victim of it.

“Um, I underestimated her determination…”

Her tone is weak and unimpressive. The la.s.s who seems to be talking to herself has an emotionless expression on her face.

But ineffable ripples surged in her eyes, proving that her heart is not without fluctuations.

Although things happened in a blink of an eye, and Xue Qilin didn't see what happened, but she is still able to guess everything based on the current situation.

The martial demon la.s.s who was auctioned as a commodity has disappeared.

With her own strength, she forced out the long needles lodged deeply into her body blocking her qi pa.s.sageways – the long needles that stabbed the auctioneer in the face, including the eyes, are probably the same needles that were ejected out of the la.s.s's body by true qi. After breaking free of the fetters and killing the son of a n.o.ble family in front of her, the martial demon la.s.s broke the roof of the single-story building and fled.

Xue Qilin who was once treated in the same way by Hua Tianji knows better than anyone else how big the price you have to pay in order to struggle free from those fetters.

It is a price so heavy that she didn't dare to pay it rashly.

What is the thing… the thing that made the la.s.s be willing to pay such a heavy price?

Is it dignity, chast.i.ty, faith?

Or is it just the wish to be free?

Xue Qilin doesn't know the answer.

The only thing she is certain about is that the la.s.s must be upholding something more precious than life itself.

“… What are you doing? Chase after her!”

A man standing in front of the platform gave orders. He should be the person in charge or the hired thug leader. However, Xue Qilin doesn't have much interest in him. She only glanced at him for a split second, and then looked away.

“No matter what, don't let that little b.i.t.c.h alarm Merak Temple, or we'll have to bear the consequences!”

When the darkness is exposed to the light, it will become an eye-sore, and people will no longer be able to turn a blind eye to it.

Because of this, darkness can only be darkness, always hidden deep in places where the light cannot reach.

The man probably understands this as well, which is why he is so impatient.

After receiving their orders, several strong men in black with blades hanging from the waist left the sing-story building. They are all martial pract.i.tioners, all in the Human Realm.

Although she cannot see it, but with her perception ability, Xue Qilin detected several Earth Realm auras outside the single-story building move away urgently. They are probably chasing after the martial demon.

“Young Teacher, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for us to stay here much longer… it'll cause trouble.”

Shui Yun'er furrowed her eyebrows, looked around, and then warned worriedly.

Xue Qilin withdrew her gaze.

“Little Yun, you rush back to Merak Temple first.”

“What about you, Young Teacher?”

“I'm going after the martial demon.”

Xue Qilin looked at Shui Yun'er and gazed into the water-blue eyes.

“Little Phecda should be awake. Ask her to come meet me.”

“This… Young Ancestor, do you want to save her?”

Xue Qilin shook her head and said “no”, and then set off. Shui Yun'er followed closely behind.

“Are they worried that she will harm the innocent?”

“No.”

Xue Qilin narrowed her eyes. They are close to the corridor leading to the entryway.

She is staring at several thugs who want to prevent them from leaving with her sharp eye, scaring the other side to back off again and again.

The corridor is dark.

The la.s.s's s.h.i.+mmering eyes suddenly lit up.

“Something bad is coming.”

“Something bad…?”

Shui Yun'er asked subconsciously, feeling that Xue Qilin's words are mysterious. She cannot figure out the meaning of the other party's words.

In the girl's impression of her teacher, her teacher occasionally says some things that she cannot understand, or it takes her a long time to understand.

Perhaps this is a manifestation of the gap there is between our realms. Shui Yun'er mused.

“I don't know either. I just have this premonition.”

At this moment, the la.s.s's s.h.i.+mmering eyes – bathed in the swaying candlelight, her eyes suddenly became abstruse.

“… qi of the five elements is restless.”

What does it mean? A a figurative big question mark popped up on Shui Yun'er's head.

She was just about to ask, when she suddenly thought of a possibility and turned on her “spirit sense.”

The scene in her eyes changed immediately, and countless water-blue specks of light emerged before her eyes.

That's water qi.

“The water qi… is uneasy…?”

Shui Yun'er can't believe what she sees.

The water-colored specks of light swaying left and right seem to be evading something, panicky. She has never seen such a phenomenon before.

“Uneasy…”

Xue Qilin's eyes are dull.

Then she murmured

“Hmm, maybe it's really uneasy.”

As if she was infected by the water qi, Shui Yun'er showed a puzzled and uneasy expression.

“Why is this happening?”

“I'm not sure. But…”

Xue Qilin surveyed the sky.