Chapter 270 : You Rock, Highgod! 20 (2/2)

Someone at the side, who was unwilling to accept the truth and would rather deceive both themselves and others, shouted, “Qing Guan, don’t try to scare us! Ancient God Zi Huan is already cured!”

“Whatever makes you happy!” Shi Sheng shrugged. “I’m not the one that’s going to die.”

The immortal didn’t speak anymore, instead turning to look at Zi Huan. ‘Only Ancient God Zi Huan would know whether or not what Qing Guan said is true.’

Zi Huan couldn’t feel any irregularity within his body. He could utilise divine power as per normal. ‘So what’s off?’

“Thinking time’s over. And now…” Shi Sheng drew her sword, beautifully rotating the blade and getting into a fighting stance. A strange smile bloomed on her exquisite face as her red lips parted, “It’s time to kill.”

Icy cold drops of rain suddenly fell from the sky and soon, it was pouring heavily. The rain blurred Shi Sheng’s figure, so they could only see an afterimage flash by.

“Ah!” A sharp wail pierced through the rain as fresh blood scattered from the sky to mix with the rainwater.

Soon after, a white figure fell from the sky and smashed into the ground. Fresh blood trickled out like rivulets and with the help of the rainwater, the area around him was soon red.

“Charge!”

Dong Jing’s forces, which had been observing to the side, charged over when the first man hit the ground. They were soon followed by a bunch of excited devil beasts who sneakily reaped kills.

The immortals lost this battle because Zi Huan hadn’t acted.

Once the immortals had retreated, Shi Sheng stood beneath a giant leafy umbrella that San-San held over her and raised her head to look at Dong Jing, who was in the air.

He hesitated for a moment before descending. Rainwater sluiced off his mask, making his figure appear even more lonely.

“Why are you so against them?”

“Would you be kind to a bunch of people who want to kill you?” Shi Sheng answered with a question.

‘Since the immortals have picked the FL’s side, they’ll act against me sooner or later. Don’t talk to me about how they’re still innocent because they haven’t done anything yet. There aren’t any innocents in this world, only a bunch of people who want to live.’

Dong Jing fell silent, only speaking after quite a while, “Have you found the person you were looking for?”

Shi Sheng was melancholic. “Nope. Probably not gonna find him in this lifetime.”

“This lifetime?” Dong Jing’s tone was rather odd. ‘She was born in the Verdant Palace… And from what I know, she didn’t have any love tribulations, so what’s with this talk of ‘this lifetime’?’

“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you.” Shi Sheng’s gaze swept over him before she asked, “Do you feel anything weird towards me?”

‘There’s probably some difference after our red strings got tied together, right?’

“Does not wanting to kill you count?” Dong Jing replied with a ‘serious’ face.

Shi Sheng, “…” ‘So you usually feel like killing on sight?’

Perhaps to someone like Dong Jing, it really was the case that he’d want to kill something as long as it was breathing.

But he didn’t have the impulse to kill her upon seeing her.

Shi Sheng pondered for a bit but still didn’t understand what that little bitch did by tying their red strings together.

The two fell silent because Shi Sheng didn’t have anything to say and Dong Jing didn’t know what to say.

[1] This is something that has no real translation since there isn’t really an equivalent in culture. For those of you new to this term, Gu, or “蛊” contains the characters for worm/insect and cup. It is referring to the practise of putting a bunch of poisonous creepy crawlies into a cup and letting them duke it out. The winner is the Gu. They can be poisonous, or just have weird voodoo-ish effects like here. Yin and Yang… just treat it like a fancier term for saying female and male respectively, but only in this context.