chapter 40

Ah, that’s right! Yin Xuezhuo probably didn’t even know what a poem was. Ji Yan considered changing the topic of their conversation, so she could continue trying to convince him. But when she opened her mouth to speak, Yin Xuezhuo pinched her cheeks with some force.

Yin Xuezhuo’s hands were extremely cold, even the breathing that Yin Xuezhuo exhaled was cold. Ji Yan suddenly felt like she had fallen into an ice cellar.

He suddenly revealed a cold smile and asked, “What’s the matter? Are you not afraid of me today?”

The rim of his pupils was turning scarlet as he stared at her. Ji Yan stared back at him and then pursed her lips.

She answered his question with honesty, “Will you let me go if I’m afraid of you?”

He won’t.

Yin Xuezhuo was not the type of person that will allow some measly friendship to soften his resolve. Plus, it was not like the two of them had any friendship; they were unwillingly forced to stay together. Yin Xuezhuo couldn’t wait to get his hands on her and kill her.

Why did she need to live in fear if she was destined to die by his hands?

There was nothing she could do to prevent that, and it was impossible to reason with the devil himself. So, she merely hoped that she could live her days leading up to her death, peacefully and comfortably.

He looked at her and snorted indifferently. He let go of her cheeks and said, “You seem to be quite free of any worries.”

Ji Yan rubbed her face gently with her hands. She looked at Yin Xuezhuo’s profile and said, “To tell you the truth, I really don’t want to die. I’m already very weak because I’m an ordinary human. I really didn’t mean to cause you any trouble. Yin Xuezhuo, will you let me go if I beg you?”

Yin Xuezhuo ignored her. It was as she had expected; he won’t let her live.

She was just about to lay down and continue to sleep when she heard him respond, “Keep dreaming.”

Ji Yan, “…”

She let out a soft ‘oh’ before she pulled the blanket over her head, turned her back towards him, and went back to sleep.

Yin Xuezhuo waited for her reply, but he never received a response. So, he turned his head around to look at her.

He frowned unhappily at her sleeping figure.

He didn’t outright reject her, instead, he told her to ‘keep dreaming’.

Why didn’t she at least try to beg for mercy?

……

Early the next morning, Shao Xin came to pick up Ji Yan. They headed for the border of Linshaung City.

Many disciples were rushing back and forth as they arranged countless bows and arrows in a neat row. They piled the row of arrows into a high wall as they shot and killed the low-level devils trying to invade them by air.

They also killed off the goblins and beasts that are taking this opportunity to destroy the city wall.

The goblins and beasts were extremely fierce and tough, and their fangs were sharp and scary. Some of them even had hundreds of years of cultivation, which made them quite difficult to deal with. The disciples that had a high level of cultivation worked together to ward off the monsters while the disciples with a lower level of cultivation ran back and forth healing the injured disciples.

When Shao Xin and Ji Yan arrived at the city wall, Shao Xin summoned his flying sword. He got on his sword and flew over the wall.

The city wall was five to six meters tall…

Ji Yan looked up at Shao Xin blankly as he easily flew over the wall.

There wasn’t even an elevator nearby, so it was impossible for her to climb over the wall.

It wasn’t like she had chosen to be this weak and useless.

Shao Xin noticed that Ji Yan was no longer in sight and thought that she had lost her way, so he quickly flew back over the wall. Then, he finally remembered that Ji Yan’s cultivation had been crippled.

He had a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face when he said, “Junior Sister, it’s very dangerous for you to be here because you don’t have any cultivation to protect yourself. Why don’t you head back and rest?”

Ji Yan righteously refused his offer and said, “Junior Brother! Although my cultivation has been crippled, I still want to help everyone here. Even if I can’t kill devils, I can still help deliver weapons or help you report the situation back to the elders…”

Shao Xin felt somewhat awkward, “Junior Sister, there’s no need…”

Ji Yan closed her eyes slowly and when she opened them again, her eyes were brimming with tears that were threatening to burst. She said sadly, “Is it because Junior Brother thinks that I’m going to cause trouble here because my cultivation is crippled…”

Shao Xin quickly denied her claim and said, “No! No! That’s not true!!!”

Shao Xin would become nervous whenever he had to face a girl. When Ji Yan started crying, he became even more frantic and nervous. All his principle and belief crumbled in front of Ji Yan’s tears. He coaxed her until she stopped crying and finally found something for Ji Yan to do.

She could throw cannons at the devils, beasts, and goblins.

The cannon was made from crystals that contained spiritual influence in them. Once the cannonball was fired into the air, it would explode and kill a small group of devils.

Ji Yan was quite interested in the cannon and was satisfied with her job. Shao Xin believed that the task was simple since the cannon was something that was extremely easy to operate. So, she would only need to aim and set fire to the cannon to fire the cannonballs, so he left the cannon with her without further explanation.

The cannon had a long range, so as long as she doesn’t aim at their own people, then there shouldn’t be any accidents.

However, he greatly underestimated Ji Yan’s creativity.