43. The Most Crucial Link
“Ding—”
The clash of the longsword and the bone fan caused a storm-like surge.
After taking out the Eight Desolations Wind and Cloud Sword from her Universe Ring, although Gong Yiling’s disadvantage was not quickly reversed, the situation was at least optimistic.
She had already advanced to the Earthly Nether realm, and the burden of this Wind and Cloud Sword was much smaller than before.
At least for a short period of time, she could still hold on and fight him for a few rounds.
However, the longer this meaningless stalemate continued, the more Gong Yiling felt that something was not right.
After the two pulled away again, Gong Yiling couldn’t help but ask, “Big brother, are you sick?”
Lin Bieji: “???”
This sudden curse left Lin Bieji stunned.
“Pulling me in for a one-on-one to stall for time, and letting the two Immortal Mansion realm cultivators outside fight your ragtag bunch, are you sure?”
“Stalling for time?” Lin Bieji raised an eyebrow. “Why would you say that?”
“Isn’t it?” Gong Yiling sneered. “Your cultivation is clearly higher than mine. Any normal person would have already used a martial skill on me to force out my life-saving measures. Are you trying to compete with me on who has a longer life? I’m only sixteen. Can you compare?”
Hearing this, Lin Bieji just casually explained, “I was just testing your abilities. After all, you can always show a strength that is completely beyond your appearance.”
“If you test any longer, the day lily will be cold.”
At this point, Lin Bieji’s original sharpness suddenly disappeared.
The bone fan in his hand inadvertently turned back into a folding fan. He smiled while fanning it lightly. “It’s nothing. I was just thinking whether I should give you a chance to survive.”
Gong Yiling frowned. “Speak human.”
“There’s something I want to ask. If you can tell me the answer, I will naturally let you go.”
Originally, when she heard this kind of talk, Miss Gong would definitely try to beat this person to death. But now that this was coming from Lin Bieji, how could it not make people curious?
“Then why don’t you tell me first what you want to know?”
“Before I came here, Miss Gong seemed to have had a trip to the divine palace that she yearned for.” Lin Bieji said, “I want to know what you saw in the divine palace.”
At these words, Gong Yiling was taken aback for a moment.
What the hell was this guy? No matter what question he asked at this time, theoretically, Gong Yiling would not feel surprised.
Only this question…
“Why do you want to know this?”
“You don’t have to care about what I want to get.” Lin Bieji said calmly, “This is just a deal, or rather, a deal you have to accept.”
“Not necessarily. Just as you said before, maybe I still have some trump cards.” Gong Yiling shrugged and said, “But if what you want to ask is this, then I’m not unwilling to tell you.”
“Mmm-hmm?”
Because she was worried about the situation outside, Gong Yiling spent only a few seconds to casually talk about the matter in the divine palace.
The most crucial part was naturally that even Lin Bieji himself had never heard of the Heavenly Evil.
“The Heavenly Evil… the Heavenly Sin…”
This same type of name, you only needed to read it once to know that they were at least the same type of thing.
“If so, then I know what that prophecy means.” Lin Bieji said to himself, “Eternal disaster, evil breeds itself. This world, is it not the world of mortals after all?”
His words, on the contrary, made Gong Yiling frown with great confusion. “What do you mean by that?”
“Girl, if you have so many questions, you can only die too quickly.” Lin Bieji sighed and said, “You have almost completely overturned the result of the Eight Desolations Deer Hunt. If he hadn’t saved you, you would have tasted the consequences of your own arrogance a few months ago.”
He?
Who was he? A member of the Heavenly Sin, or the Heavenly Sin itself?
“What do you think I am? Do you think I’m afraid of you guys who stir up trouble in the dark?”
Gong Yiling, not to be outdone, directly rushed up with her sword and, without a second thought, used a few styles of the Eight Desolations Sword Technique.
However, in the face of this kind of arrogant operation, Lin Bieji not only did not get angry, but instead had been holding a folding fan, dodging her attacks like a leisurely stroll.
This couldn’t help but make Miss Gong angry.
You said this jerk, he was the one who pulled her in at the beginning. After pulling her in, it was this person who was stalling for time bit by bit—was he really just asking about this?
No… the most urgent thing now was to calm down first and figure out the ins and outs of all this.
This guy should have other intentions, a reason why she couldn’t appear outside.
This reason seemed to be only…
Suddenly, the girl seemed to have grasped something crucial, and her eyes couldn’t help but light up. “Are you worried that I will see through your real intentions?”
After saying this, Lin Bieji’s movements were delayed for a moment.
It was this moment of negligence that Gong Yiling’s sword technique left a shallow scar on his face.
After Lin Bieji quickly pulled away, he couldn’t help but touch the almost insignificant warmth on his face, his eyes flashing.
“It seems I was right.” Gong Yiling’s mind began to race.
This meant one thing.
Although she didn’t know why he didn’t want to kill her, he was still afraid that she would destroy the most crucial link.
The problem was, which link?
The part that could be thought of now was that they should act against the Murong royal family and the Youcang Court. But this part, anyone who had a grasp of the situation could actually figure it out.
Especially Chuyue.
Chuyue, she could basically restore the entire ins and outs of the Desolate God Kingdom back then. She could naturally sort out the current situation.
But in that case, he had no need to lock her up alone.
If… the Heavenly Sin’s plan had a deeper layer… if…
Wait!
Gong Yiling suddenly discovered a huge loophole in this.
The Heavenly Sin itself expected to cause chaos and seize power on its own. They had done this before.
Since this goal was the center, then… it was completely unreasonable for them to only make a move on the pharmaceutical company.
In other words… there must be a person from the Murong family who had become their mole from the very beginning, waiting for all this to begin, to ascend the throne in an unexpected way.
And this person…
“How did you know that the place I went to was called… the divine palace?”
Only knowing it was a divine palace but not knowing what happened inside, in that day’s team, there was indeed such a person.
