"Thank you for your hard work, Butterfly Girl."
"Not hard at all, Brother Ling Xiao. But it seems your Ghost Shadow Sword might soon be unnecessary, right? Are you going to give it to to eat?"
Butterfly Girl said with a mischievous smile.
"Indeed, now that I’ve had a breakthrough, the soft sword is becoming less suitable for . To channel the power within more forcefully, it’s best to have a heavy sword!"
A Heavy Sword without Edge!
What Ling Xiao needs now is a heavy sword that can let his moves be unleashed to their fullest extent!
"Hehe, I knew Brother Ling Xiao treats the best. I’ll go rest now, every ti I fight, I get so tired."
Butterfly Girl yawned and was sent into the Mountain and River World by Ling Xiao.
It seems that in this world, Butterfly Girl is the only living being that doesn’t turn into his Martial Soul upon entering his Mountain and River World.
Ling Xiao hasn’t fully understood the secrets of this little one even to this day, but it doesn’t matter.
To him, Butterfly Girl is like a daughter.
Even though, at seventeen years old, he isn’t quite sure what the bond between father and daughter truly ans, he knows very well that he must protect this little angel.
That’s also why, for such a long ti, he has mostly refrained from letting Butterfly Girl fight.
The situation today left him with no other choice.
After Butterfly Girl entered the Mountain and River World, Ling Xiao looked over at Manager Jia, who hastily retreated in fear.
"Don’t worry, as long as you tell who is behind this, I can spare your life."
Ling Xiao said disdainfully, "As I said before, if Jia Tianfeng and Kong Ming won’t speak, you will tell ."
"I’m not telling you for your own good. Knowing their identities does you no favor."
Manager Jia hurriedly replied.
"Whether it’s beneficial or not isn’t for you to judge. Now, you just need to tell who they are, and that’ll suffice."
Ling Xiao said calmly.
Manager Jia had actually been hesitating for a long ti. When he was crippled by Butterfly Girl earlier, he had already considered that today, no matter what, he had to preserve his life.
Death is irreversible.
Yet even if all tendons are severed, and cultivation is destroyed, there’s still the possibility of rebuilding.
Once dead, everything is gone.
"Alright, I’ll tell you. But don’t bla for not warning you about what might happen."
Manager Jia resigned himself to his fate; he gritted his teeth and said, "I have only one request, let go."
"No problem, I’m not particularly interested in killing a cripple."
Since Ling Xiao’s cultivation breakthrough, he no longer regarded Manager Jia as a threat. Manager Jia, now a cripple, couldn’t possibly be his opponent, even had his cultivation not been destroyed. What did Ling Xiao have to fear?
"Fine, the one behind us is Yuan..."
As he was saying this, Manager Jia suddenly showed a look of terror.
Then, his body went limp and collapsed to the ground.
Sure enough, he was killed by a sharp and almost undetectable Sword Qi from within the crowd.
"Killed soone, and you still want to run?"
Ling Xiao pointed a finger, and a terrifying aura pierced through the crowd, nailing an escaping man to a tree.
However, that person imdiately chose to commit suicide.
Much more decisively than Manager Jia.
"A death warrior, huh?"
Ling Xiao sighed; he didn’t bother to investigate further. There was no point; such people never carried any clues unless they intended to fra soone else.
Looking would be futile.
But Ming Jin went ahead to check it out, and as Ling Xiao suspected, nothing was found other than that the death warrior was a Third Cave Sky Realm martial artist.
"Yuan? Yuan what?"
Ling Xiao frowned, pondering the clue left by Manager Jia.
Feng Yingshan’s face turned a bit peculiar, as if he had thought of sothing, but it quickly smoothed out.
"Brother Ling is indeed blessed with good fortune. To survive such a perilous situation, it seems I was right not to intervene."
Feng Yingshan walked forward with a smile and cupped his hands to Ling Xiao.
"I never expected you to interfere. After all, who benefits most from today’s setup if not you? Do you think your plan was well laid, clever?"
Ling Xiao looked at Feng Yingshan calmly and said: "We’re allies, but let remind you not to keep scheming against . I’m not stupid; genuine cooperation is advantageous to us both."
Feng Yingshan, however, maintained his smile, "Brother Ling, are you blaming for not lending a hand?"
"Do you think I would?"
Ling Xiao sneered, "This trouble was mine to handle; staying out of it was the right choice. You and I aren’t friends, so there’s no need to clean up my ss. Likewise, I won’t clean up yours."
From the start, Ling Xiao knew he and Feng Yingshan could never be true friends; the man was too calculating.
If it were only about outsmarting enemies, Ling Xiao wouldn’t mind, but to sche even against friends and family, he found that intolerable.
Feng Yingshan felt awkward, but he didn’t regret his actions.
Even though the appearance of Butterfly Girl surprised him, even now, given the choice, he wouldn’t have saved Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao was a formidable ally but difficult to control.
Feng Yingshan enjoyed having everything under his control!
"What about Yan Ran?"
Ling Xiao didn’t continue mocking Feng Yingshan, since they were still allies and might be needed at tis.
At the very least, on a surface level, he could use Feng Yingshan’s na to do things, which was more convenient than working alone.
He looked over at Feng Yanran and asked.
"Yan Ran wanted to save you and even went to find reinforcents, but I knocked her out."
Feng Yingshan replied honestly this ti.
"Oh, you really could do it, hehe."
Ling Xiao chuckled; whether it was mockery or amusent wasn’t clear. He walked over, woke Feng Yanran, and thanked her.
Seeing Ling Xiao alive, although Feng Yanran didn’t know what had happened, she felt relieved.
She had many things to say to Ling Xiao, but he was eager to head elsewhere.
Leng i and Moon Lady were still fighting; Ling Xiao was worried.
Yet just as he prepared to move, they both returned.
Leng i was unscathed, holding a human head, that of a Peacock Clan elder!
Moon Lady was also unhard, looking spotless as if she hadn’t been in any fight.
In truth, she hadn’t fought.
The three people’s aim was to stall her, and she had confidence in Ling Xiao. So unless Ling Xiao was in mortal danger, she wouldn’t act.
Thus, until Manager Jia was killed and the three left, Moon Lady did not intervene.
"Everyone leave Ling Yue Bieyuan."
Ling Xiao suddenly announced.
"Why?"
Many were puzzled upon hearing this.
"Because I am going to destroy it."
Ling Xiao’s voice was calm and resolute.
This place was created by his parents; presumably, Ling Yue Bieyuan was both a joint effort of the two and related to his sister.
Perhaps in its inception, it was a place of beauty and peace.
But now, it was full of extravagance and defilent, utterly sullied by the Jardine Clan.
Keeping it would be worse than destroying it!
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