Chapter 141: Soft and Hard Tactics Combined
“Stop! Stop!”
Just as Mu Ruo was about to attack Dugu Yuan’an, Xue Wuluo pounced over, grabbing Mu Ruo’s arm and pulling her forward. The soft sword sprang out and back, the blade slicing across the half of Xue Wuluo’s face with burn scars, and warm blood beads instantly emerged!
The cold air hadn’t attacked Xue Wuluo’s eyes, so she was actually the first person on the field to regain her vision. Seeing Mu Ruo making mistakes again and again, she was willing to risk her life to awaken her conscience. Her voice was originally rough, and now it was so hoarse that Mu Ruo could hardly hear what she was saying clearly.
“Stop it! Are you going to kill your own kin too? That’s your sister!” Xue Wuluo roared.
Seeing blood on her face, Mu Ruo was about to reach out and wipe it, but Xue Wuluo grabbed the soft sword, pressed the blade against her own chest, and said sternly, “Kill me, and let the Young Mistress and her wife go!”
The corner of Mu Ruo’s mouth twitched, and she said coldly, “Why should I let them go, and why should I exchange your life for theirs? Your life isn’t worth that much.”
Xue Wuluo said, “Yes, my life is indeed not worth that much, but if they die, I can’t live either. Watching you become like this, I can’t live either!”
“What am I like?!” Mu Ruo’s voice suddenly became sharp. “What I am like has nothing to do with you, a guard?!”
Xue Wuluo said, “Because I care about you! I care about you, so I don’t want to see you go down the wrong path again. I want to see the Mu Ruo from before, not the Yu Gongruo who wants to kill her own relatives now!”
Mu Ruo pulled the soft sword from her hand. Blood beads flew out with the sword body, which she placed across her neck. “Do you think I dare not kill you?”
Xue Wuluo whispered, “…I’ll go with you.”
Mu Ruo was stunned. Xue Wuluo looked gloomy and whispered, “If I knew you would become like this after leaving, I would have definitely gone with you back then.”
Mu Ruo’s heart trembled for a moment. Just as she hesitated, Yu Hanhong said impatiently, “Ruo’er, put aside the romantic affairs for now. If you want this person, take her away.” He looked at Dugu Yuan’an again. “Take the person in her arms too. I have a use for her.”
Mu Ruo said, “Father! Xue Mu is dying. What do you want a dead person for?”
“You’re right, what do I want a dead person for? This person’s life must be sustained. It’s best if she wakes up.” Yu Hanhong said.
Mu Ruo was delighted in her heart and asked, “Father, do you still have a way to save her?”
Yu Hanhong said with a faint smile, “I don’t have a way, but the Old Madam has a way.”
He looked at Old Madam Yan, who had her eyes closed and remained silent, and said gently, “Old Madam, my little niece Yu Yuan’s wife has only a breath left and is about to die. Are you willing to use your ‘Origin Returning Wonderful Method’ to save her?”
Old Madam Yan snorted coldly. Yu Hanhong said, “Old Madam, my little niece Yu Yuan and her wife have only been married for more than three months. Can you bear to let them be separated by death?”
“I will absolutely not use the ‘Origin Returning Wonderful Method’ in front of you.” Old Madam Yan said, “Yu Hanhong, you have done all kinds of evil. If this old body could use internal energy, I would definitely smash your skull with one palm.”
Yu Hanhong said, “Old Madam, since the cold air of my move ‘Frost-Blind Shadows’ has entered your eyes, it will also penetrate down along the meridians of your head into the meridians of your whole body. Your internal energy circulation will be blocked for a long time. If you try to break through forcefully, you will only hurt yourself.”
“As long as you, Old Madam Yan, are willing to come with me, I can spare everyone present. I won’t kill a single person, and I will save my little niece’s wife. As long as you treat her injuries later, she will be able to come back to life properly, clear-headed and walking freely.”
Old Madam Yan frowned and shouted in a low voice, “What use do you have for this ‘Origin Returning Wonderful Method’? Do you want to reach the cultivation of the supreme realm? You must know that this old body hasn’t reached this realm in my whole life. Even if you use the ‘Origin Returning Wonderful Method,’ you won’t succeed.”
Yu Hanhong laughed. “Why should Old Madam care if I can succeed or not? I want this martial art. As for whether I use it or not, that’s my business. I won’t use this martial art to harm people, just to improve my own cultivation.”
Old Madam Yan still didn’t relent and asked, “Are Villa Master Xue Qun and Saintess Xue Yue of the Snow Saint Mountain Villa alive or dead?”
“Villa Master Xue Qun had some grievances with me and once insulted my wife’s reputation. I don’t like to be heavy-handed, so I left his corpse intact.” Yu Hanhong’s smile faded, and he said faintly, “Saintess Xue Yue is locked in the villa’s dungeon. If other disciples of the Snow Saint Mountain Villa return, they can release her, Guardian Xue De, and others.”
The other disciples of the Snow Saint Mountain Villa who followed him to Huangding Mountain looked horrified and trembling. Someone couldn’t help begging for mercy, “Villa… Villa Master! Please spare me!” Although Yu Hanhong had exposed his identity, they couldn’t see his true face after all, so they still habitually called him Villa Master.
“Old Madam Yan, I’ll give you ten breaths of time to consider. I don’t mind using thousands of corpses as fertilizer to nourish the long forest in this mountain. Everyone’s life and death depend on your thought.” Yu Hanhong said.
“My little niece’s wife is about to die. Her ‘Qihai Acupoint’ is broken, and several meridians are destroyed. Fortunately, I didn’t use too much internal energy when I struck her with my palm. But if you don’t save her, she will breathe her last.” He said with a beaming smile.
His words were a thorough threat. Old Madam Yan grabbed her knees and only gave a cold “Heh.” She could distinguish Xue Mu’s breathing from the panting of the people around her, knowing that her breath was now only going out and not coming in.
Since Yu Hanhong dared to threaten like this, it meant he really dared to kill everyone. Old Madam Yan hesitated in her heart. Suddenly, she heard Yu Hanhong say, “Ruo’er, you go first.”
Mu Ruo said dazedly, “Father…”
Yu Hanhong said, “Ruo’er, don’t hate Father. Father had difficulties back then. But you must know that the person who killed your grandfather was Xue Duanhun. You saw with your own eyes that she killed him with one palm. Whether I am a traitor or not, let future generations judge. If you hate me for not appearing all these years and want to kill me, I will let you kill me. But your mother died miserably—”
He suddenly stopped here. Mu Ruo’s face changed in shock, and she said tremblingly, “My mother… was there something suspicious about my mother’s cause of death?”
Yu Hanhong frowned slightly and sighed. “These things are too complicated to explain. Let’s leave here first, and I’ll tell you in detail slowly later.”
The crowd present began to curse Yu Hanhong angrily. Some Jianghu heroes who mixed in the marketplace used all the filthy language they had learned in their lives on Yu Hanhong. Listening to this, Xue Wuluo was secretly alarmed, afraid that Yu Hanhong would kill people with a casual wave of his palm.
Mu Ruo hesitated no more. Pushing Xue Wuluo away, she reached out to snatch Xue Mu from Dugu Yuan’an’s hands. Unexpectedly, although Dugu Yuan’an had no heart to listen to anyone’s conversation at this moment, her brain was constantly absorbing the content.
Sensing that Mu Ruo was coming to snatch her wife away, she leaped off the high ground holding her, rushing towards the cliff in the north!
Xue Wuluo screamed, “Young Madam, don’t—!”