strictlysupreme Chapter 378 Never Entangled
Chapter 378 Never Entangled
Xue Tong held the handful of spirit stones in her hands, her gaze towards Xue Lan filled with a hint of suspicion:
"Are you trying to get rid of us?"
Xue Lan quickly waved her hand:
"Of course not, we've just been too busy and tired these past few days. We're giving you all a break to rest."
"There are plenty of delicious food and fun things to do in Yandu City..."
At this point, Xue Lan summoned the Soul Guide from her sleeve.
"Bring the soul guide with you!"
The spirit guide wore a royal blue round-necked robe, a necklace inlaid with crimson gemstones around his neck, and red ribbons tied around two round buns on his head. The reincarnation mark between his brows flickered, making him look like a little fairy attendant beside an old immortal.
The little fairy boy ran to Xue Tong as soon as he landed and took her hand. His voice was soft and sweet:
"Sister, take me to play!"
Xue Tong, who originally wanted to refuse to go shopping: Actually, it's not a bad idea to go shopping.
"Then I'll take the Soul Guide out." The girl said, pulling the Soul Guide along, her sharp gaze falling on Xue Lan.
"Don't cause trouble!"
Xue Lan wondered if she had just raised a father for herself.
But she only dared to think these words in her heart.
The woman, with a sweet smile on her face, held up three fingers towards the pale green sky:
"I swear I..."
"Wait, wait, wait." Xue Tong waved her hand to interrupt the spell as soon as she saw that the man was about to swear an oath again.
"Save your breath, stop torturing Tianlei."
After saying this, Xue Tong led the Soul Guide away.
Lin Su watched Xue Tong leave, then bowed to Xue Lan and took his leave as well:
"Senior Sister Xue, I'm going to the demon market in Yandu to buy some materials for refining weapons."
Xue Lan nodded: "Go ahead, go ahead."
When Lin Su left, Xue Lan turned to Lu Feng, who hadn't made a move yet.
The woman's voice carried a teasing laugh:
"Why don't you leave yet?"
Looking into Xue Lan's gray eyes, Lu Feng swallowed hard and mustered his courage to speak:
"I'm scared, I don't dare to leave."
Xue Lan shook her head:
"No, it's not just because of fear."
The woman pointed to Lu Feng's trembling hand, her tone gentle:
"You have something to ask."
Cold sweat instantly soaked through the young man's clothes.
Xue Lan's five short words instantly transformed into an invisible blade hanging over Lu Feng's head.
It looked as if it would fall at any moment and sever his head.
Stop asking!
Don't ask, you'll die!
A cowardly voice kept surfacing in my mind, one after another, like a nightmare I could never escape.
She will kill you!!!
"Are you making things difficult for me at every turn really just for my mother and the others?"
The young man heard his own voice, accompanied by a piercing sound in his mind, howl out like a fierce gust of wind.
There was a deathly silence all around; everything had fallen silent.
In the deathly silence, Lu Feng looked at Xue Lan, who was smiling in front of him, and his strength gradually disappeared.
But he didn't dare to speak.
Perhaps he should kneel before Xue Lan now and beg this senior not to kill him.
Perhaps he should willingly become that ambiguous pawn and gradually find a way to break away from Xue Lan.
But the guilt surging in his heart made him restless and unable to eat or sleep.
More than ten years after leaving Lujia Village, those memories from his childhood, before Old Mo appeared, kept recurring in his dreams.
He wanted to be free, and it seemed that only Xue Lan could give him that freedom.
Only the man who killed all the men of Lu Family Village in front of him can be given this!
Once he knows the reason, the vengeful spirits that have been haunting him will leave.
In the silent stillness, Lu Feng looked at the woman in front of him and seemed to see a line between them.
Their side was bright and dazzling, while Xue Lan's side was shining brightly.
The young man's pupils suddenly dilated. In his eyes, countless bright red lines appeared on Xue Lan's body, like a dense net that trapped Xue Lan within it.
It's just like……
Like a moth trapped in a spider web.
Behind the layers of red netting, Lu Feng saw the woman's unusually indifferent gray eyes.
"No."
Just as Lu Feng was about to be absorbed by the scene before him, the woman's soft voice rang out.
In an instant, the bizarre and absurd scene before the young man's eyes vanished, and the red lines that had grown in Xue Lan's body began to recede rapidly.
Finally, it all converged within Xue Lan's body.
Xue Lan looked at the somewhat stunned expression on the young man's face and spoke:
"It's not just for the women of Lujia Village."
Lu Feng seemed to suddenly possess the young man's body, and the young man took two steps forward without thinking.
"What's that for?"
Xue Lan narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling the moisture slowly gathering in the air.
It is going to rain.
“Fellow Daoist Lu, I know what you want.”
"But Xue has no right to speak on behalf of the dead."
The woman's voice sounded soft, but it struck Lu Feng's heart like a boulder.
The rain in Yandu came suddenly and heavily, and the distant mountains were particularly blurry in the rain.
A huge willow leaf appeared on Xue Lan's head at some point, shielding her from the rain.
Lu Feng was soaked to the bone. The young man looked at Xue Lan with red eyes, like a wild beast with nowhere to run.
Then he heard words he would never forget for the rest of his life.
The woman in black spoke slowly, her voice filled with endless sorrow:
"Fellow Daoist Lu, they are all very kind."
"What troubles your mind, fellow Daoist, is always yourself..."
Lu Feng felt as if he had been struck by a heavy blow.
"So that's it..."
The young man's voice was choked with sobs, as if he were a madman:
"So that's it..."
The women of Lujia Village have always been kind.
There was never any entanglement!
Xue Lan watched as the aura around Lu Feng circulated, and one of the auras that Xue Lan couldn't understand slowly disappeared into the rain.
Immediately afterwards, a thunderclap resounded in the sky.
"It's coming again."
The roar of the plot.
In the nearby city of Yandu, Xue Tong was sheltering from the rain under the eaves of a shop when he suddenly heard thunder.
Xue Tong was almost paralyzed by the thunder; the girl's body trembled violently, and the pancake in her hand fell to the ground.
"Xue Lan!"
The girl led the soul-guided creature towards Xue Lan's direction.
But it was too late.
A bolt of jet-black lightning descended from the dark sky, striking down towards Xue Lan's location.
But the lightning didn't strike the ground. Instead, it was blocked by a huge, light green branch.
The towering green willow tree, like an elder with boundless magical power, protected Xue Lan.
Xue Tong's heart, which had leaped into her throat, suddenly settled back into the distance. The girl let out a long sigh of relief and smiled at the soul guide:
"So it was Senior Qingliu's tribulation of lightning."
Yinhun tugged at Xue Tong's sleeve: "Sister, here's your cake."
Xue Tong immediately turned around and picked up the half-eaten pie that had fallen to the ground.
Fortunately, the shopkeeper had put the bottom half of the pancake in an oil paper bag, so it was still edible.
The girl patted the head of the spirit guide:
"It's still edible."
The two, one big and one small, smiled at each other and went back to take shelter from the rain under the eaves.
Xue Lan looked at the giant willow branch that had blocked the heavenly lightning for her above her head, and a smile appeared on her lips:
"Thank you very much, Senior Aoyagi."
Zhu Qing's voice entered Xue Lan's mind:
"The reason you summoned the heavenly lightning here was to get my help, wasn't it?"
Xue Lan chuckled and said nothing more.
The woman's overwhelming sorrow faded, and she smiled at Lu Feng:
"Now that you have obtained the answer you wanted, you should be at ease."
Lu Feng knew that Xue Lan was trying to get rid of him, so he didn't dare to complain in the slightest.
The young man bowed hastily to Xue Lan and went into Yandu City.
No sooner had the young man left than Xue Lan received a telepathic message from Xue Tong and Yin Hun.
Xue Tong: "Did you just play with lightning again? My heart is pounding! I don't even dare to tell Yin Hun and make the child worry!"
Guiding Soul: "Your Majesty, have you offended the Heavenly Dao again? Don't worry, your sister doesn't know! She thought it was Senior Qingliu's tribulation."
Xue Lan: Ah, this...