Chapter 105

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Chapter 105: Sound the of Wind

The darkness seemed endless. Ji Yunhe carried Changyi and quietly walked, as if they were going to walk like this until the end of time. Then she felt a faint flow of air. Seemed Shunde's formation still abided by the basic principles of magic.

Ji Yunhe analyzed the airflow in order to identify the position of the five elements, and find the location of a possible exit.

Soon she came to a conclusion and walked forward. "See?" she said to Changyi. "I told you this formation wouldn't trap us for long." He did not respond. Ji Yunhe turned her head and saw that Changyi had fallen unconscious on her shoulder.

His body was too exhausted, and his injuries needed treatment...

Ji Yunhe felt more anxious and quickened her steps when the darkness suddenly shook under her feet. Ji Yunhe frowned and did not know what was happening outside. She could only run for the exit as fast as possible.

The trembling of the surrounding void intensified with every step she took. What was going on? Was it Shunde?

Did she want to destroy the formation and bury them in it?

Ji Yunhe felt greatly distressed.

Then the darkness in front of them suddenly ripped open, and a beam of light shone through.

Ji Yunhe could not be more familiar with the man standing in the light, but she did not understand why he had come...

"Hurry up," Lin Haoqing urged her with a low voice.

Ji Yunhe brushed past Lin Haoqing's side and stepped out of the void with Changyi. The darkness disappeared behind them in a flash.

They were still in the middle of the cell with a broken magic glyph under their feet. Ji Yunhe looked at Lin Haoqing who stood on the eye of the formation and asked, "Why are you here?"

Lin Haoqing checked Ji Yunhe up and down and seemed relieved that she was not hurt. But seeing the seriously injured jiaoren on her back, he frowned again. "Leave the capital first." Then he led them out of the cage.

On the dungeon wall, Shunde's body was nailed with a third sword. Lin Haoqing's sword pierced through the location of her inner demon pearl.

"Is she dead?" Ji Yunhe asked.

"That will take some more effort." Lin Haoqing kept walking. "There's no time to deal with her right now."

Ji Yunhe followed behind and watched his back. "Didn't you say no one would come to save me today?"

"Your life was saved by me before. It'd be a pity for you to die again so quickly."

Ji Yunhe smiled.

He still made the same choice as that boy in the middle of the sea of flowers.

"Many thanks, brother..."

Lin Haoqing did not respond to her gratitude.

As soon as they stepped out of the dungeon, a voice sounded before them, "The love between a brother and a sister, it's very touching."

The Grand Master stood quietly by the exit. He looked as calm and cold as Ji Yunhe had remembered, but to see him here right now was something she did not want.

Back when she was in his prison, Ji Yunhe was not afraid of death or him. But now she had someone to worry about, and something to fear. And the Grand Master's target was the one person she was most concerned about.

As expected, he casually said, "The jiaoren stays, you can go."

"I'll hold him back," Lin Haoqing said quietly to her. "You take the jiaoren and run."

The Grand Master gently raised a hand and Lin Haoqing was immediately knocked to the ground. The wind did not disappear there, it continued to blow over him, firmly pinning him down and keeping him from moving even a finger.

The Grand Master had stood at the pinnacle of power for decades, and Lin Haoqing was nothing in front of him.

He did not even bother looking at Lin Haoqing.

The hands that were carrying Changyi tightened slightly while nine black tails subconsciously appeared behind her. Ji Yunhe stared into the Grand Master's eyes that seemed to be void of everything, but at the same time, full of disgust for this world.

"The jiaoren stays," the Grand Master repeated himself. "You can go."

"I will not leave him behind," Ji Yunhe said as an idea came to mind. She put away her nine tails and suppressed her fear. "If you were in the same situation and you were protecting Ning Xiyu, would you leave her behind?"

That name, like a needle, pierced into his indifferent eyes.

Everything around them receded, and he only saw Ji Yunhe. "Where did you hear that name from?"

"In my dream."

"Dream?" Ji Yunhe felt her throat tighten and Changyi fell to the ground. In a blink of an eye, she was thrown against a stone wall and pinned in place. The Grand Master's force was so great the wall behind Ji Yunhe cracked several times.

A mouthful of blood came up from her chest, but was held in by the Grand Master at her throat.

An attack without magic was already enough to subdue her. She stood no chance against him.

Refining humans into demons, antidotes to the frost poison... Ji Yunhe now understood that all the planning and scheming in the world meant nothing in front of this man's absolute power. He turned clouds with the flip of a hand, and controlled every life between his fingertips.

Her fox demon power was a joke next to him.

"Ji Yunhe," the Grand Master's eyes were bitterly cold, "you have a lot of smarts, do not use them in the wrong places."

Ji Yunhe could not summon any power at all under his grasp. But she still smiled and pressed on.

"Ning Xiyu... she always wore white and stood between the clouds..."

The Grand Master's pupils shrank.

Ji Yunhe continued, "She said she now lives in every gust of wind..."

A light breeze rose up and gently brushed the hair around the Grand Master's ears. He froze and loosened his fingers. Ji Yunhe's toes touched the ground.

"She knows everything that the wind knows, and she sees everything you've done over the years."

The Grand Master released his hand and looked at Ji Yunhe. His gaze fell on her face, but what he saw was someone out of his reach.

"Master..." he whispered, as if to penetrate the decades of lonely years.

The blood in her chest finally flowed out of her mouth, Ji Yunhe coughed a bit then said, "Qing Ji came to kill you because Ning Xiyu showed me what you did, in my dream."

If the Grand Master was crazy like Shunde, then these words would be as harmless as a gust of wind. But Ji Yunhe was certain that his madness came from his desire for that one person. All of his knots were tied to her.

Ning Xiyu.

"You set up a trap for Ning Ruochu. You told him he could enter the Ten Square Formation and accompany Qing Ji, but it killed him. Qing Ji learned about this and went to the Demon Valley to confirm it, and as expected, she came. You probably didn't understand why she suddenly came after you… It was because of Ning Xiyu... "Ji Yunhe smiled at him and said softly, "She wanted to kill you."

As if the sky had fallen and the mountains had collapsed, the Grand Master staggered back a step.

"You wanted to bury the world with her, you wanted to mourn her with everything and everyone, but the only one she wanted to take with her... was you..."

The Grand Master froze completely.

Behind him, Changyi slowly sat up.

Blue eyes swept across the surrounding area and fell on Ji Yunhe and the Grand Master. Frost stirred at his fingertips and condensed into the shape of a sword then disappeared. After three attempts, the long sword in his hand finally took form.

He used the sword as support and slowly struggled to his feet, then walked toward the Grand Master.

Ji Yunhe watched Changyi approach them. The backlash from his excessive magic consumption had almost killed him, but he still came to help her.

He was willing to fight for her with his life, of course she had to protect him with hers.

Before Changyi could make a move, nine tails behind Ji Yunhe unfolded in a flash and her demonic aura immediately covered the sky. She isolated Changyi outside the aura and lunged for the Grand Master's chest.

The Grand Master stared blankly at her with no signs of resistance.

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