Singing with a Sword

The following is the main text of the novel "{?$article_title?}" ({?$jieqi_title?}) provided by {?$jieqi_sitename?}. Please enjoy! Wu Jingrun stood there, looking at the corpses all over the ground, how could he dare to move rashly? However, he was a man of principle. Although he was afraid, he still raised his head and said with his chest out, "Yiran Xiao, kill me if you want!"

Yi Ranxiao smiled, a bitter smile that was hard to describe. She then shifted her gaze from him to Qian Xiaomo, who was kneeling beside Qian Xiaotian's body, wiping away tears and sobbing. A sudden pang of pity welled up in her heart. Although Qian Xiaomo was Qian Xiaotian's daughter, she was not a bad person and had never done anything heinous. Yi Ranxiao felt quite guilty for making her suffer the pain of losing her father.

"Miss Qian," Yi Ranxiao called out, but then he didn't know what to say. Qian Xiaomo was lying on Qian Xiaotian's body, sobbing uncontrollably. Hearing him call her name, she turned her head and stared at Yi Ranxiao with tearful eyes.

Yi Ranxiao thought she would look at her with hostility, but to her surprise, Qian Xiaomo's eyes held a very complicated and troubled look. In those eyes, Yi Ranxiao seemed to see a kind of adoration!

Qian Xiaomo looked at Yi Ranxiao through teary eyes. She was now certain that after Yi Ranxiao "molested" her, she had unwittingly fallen for this man! She didn't know why she was so foolish, but that was the truth!

But the crueler truth was that the man she loved had killed her father! What in the world could be more painful than this? Qian Xiaomo roared inwardly, and another wave of tears welled up in her eyes, flowing out as if her dam had burst.

Yi Ranxiao felt a pang of heartache. "Miss Qian, I...I'm so sorry..."

Just then, Wu Jingrun suddenly launched an attack! He slammed out a pair of fists, and a black tiger-head phantom tore at Yi Ranxiao!

With a quick glance, Yi Ranxiao immediately channeled his Yuan Power into the decapitation strike. An "endless chill of ice" shot out from the decapitation strike, bursting out of the storage bag and forming an ice wall beside Yi Ranxiao!

boom!boom!

The phantom tiger head crashed into the ice wall, but failed to break it! Wu Jingrun's final sneak attack also ended in failure!

"Wu Jingrun, you can leave!" Yi Ranxiao was unwilling to kill this traitorous disciple. "However, from now on, you are no longer my disciple, and I am no longer your master!" After saying that, she flicked her sleeves and turned her back.

Wu Jingrun sneered, "You won't kill me? Hmph, but I'll still kill you later! If you let me go today, you'll regret it!" As he spoke, he fled in a sorry state.

Yi Ranxiao glanced at Wu Jingrun's retreating figure and sighed silently in her heart. Her first apprentice was gone just like that...

Thus, only Yi Ranxiao and Qian Xiaomo remained in the room. Yi Ranxiao didn't know what to do. He knew that Qian Xiaomo only had one father, and now that her father was dead, she had become an orphan and would have to live a lonely life in this world from then on!

Thinking of this, Yi Ranxiao said, "Miss Qian, why don't you...why don't you come with me?"

If Yi Ranxiao had said these words before, Qian Xiaomo might have been happy, but now? How could she walk with her father's killer?

Qian Xiaomo picked up Qian Xiaotian's body, said nothing, and staggered out of the room. Yi Ranxiao wanted to help her, but in the end, he stood still, watching Qian Xiaomo's departing figure, heartbroken for a long time, until the inn gradually became noisy, presumably because officials had arrived. Yi Ranxiao had no mood to explain to them now, so he immediately left, continuing south, traveling day and night towards Ruyang City.

The reason he kept going so tirelessly was that he was afraid that if he stopped, he would remember Qian Xiaomo's tear-streaked face and his beloved disciple's betrayal. He was afraid he wouldn't be able to bear that kind of pain! So he had to keep traveling and keep himself tired so that he wouldn't let those feelings control his emotions.

Finally, on the evening of the second day, Yi Ranxiao arrived in Ruyang City. Coincidentally, it started to rain as soon as he entered the city. This kind of light rain in winter always makes people feel down. Yi Ranxiao suddenly thought of those things and felt very depressed. He found an inn to stay in, hoping to get some sleep, adjust his mood, and then go see his master.

He had just gotten into bed when a thunderous roar suddenly pierced his ears. Yi Ranxiao was overjoyed. Damn it, he had just entered Ruyang City and had already encountered winter thunder!

Overjoyed, Yi Ranxiao immediately jumped up, climbed out of the window, and arrived in the suburbs. Then he sat cross-legged and began to practice the Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture, drawing heavenly thunder to temper his body.

Boom boom~ Boom boom~

A bolt of lightning struck Yi Ranxiao directly! Countless electric snakes surged into Yi Ranxiao's dantian, where they gathered and condensed into a ball of lightning!

A feeling of comfort spread through Yiran Xiao's body. He continued to circulate his Yuan energy, and another bolt of lightning struck him directly, which he then successfully absorbed.

This process repeated itself, and Yi Ranxiao absorbed a total of five bolts of heavenly lightning that night. The lightning ball within his body returned to its original level, which delighted him. After the heavenly lightning subsided, he stood up, feeling an endless surge of power within him. In an instant, the gloom that had been weighing on his heart for the past few days vanished.

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The sect's nine branch halls are located in eight cities within Qingzhou, while the sect's main hall is located on the summit of Shengwang Mountain in Ruyang City, the central city of Qingzhou.

Mount Shengwang, about 20,000 meters high, has a palace at its summit called "Wu Shen Palace," which is the headquarters of the sect. Not far from Wu Shen Palace is the Cliff of Repentance.

The Cliff of Repentance is not just a sheer cliff, but a broad flat area with a huge rock on it, inscribed with three large vermilion characters: "Cliff of Repentance." On the other side of the rock lies a bottomless abyss.

On the flat ground stood a thatched hut, the very place where Xu Jingyi was imprisoned. Inside the hut, Xu Zhongwen was talking to Xu Jingyi.

"Father, what exactly is the plan that caused you to be ostracized by almost all the elders in the sect just for opposing it?" Xu Zhongwen brought up the topic again. If it weren't for Xu Jingyi's opposition to the plan, which led to his alienation from the sect leader Xiang Tiannan and others, Shen Fanba wouldn't have dared to suppress Xu Jingyi so arrogantly!

"This plan is a secret, it's better if you don't know," Xu Jingyi said with a helpless smile. "Because this plan is too dangerous, you don't need to know."

"But Dad, just because you opposed this plan, are you going to be ostracized by those old fogies?" Xu Zhongwen was indignant. All he did was exercise his veto power. Was the consequence really that serious?

Xu Jingyi smiled, looked around, and then said, "Zhongwen, don't you think my lifestyle is very pleasant, leisurely, and happy?" He patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Instead of going out and fighting with Shen Fanba and his ilk, it's better to live peacefully here."

During his time at the Cliff of Contemplation, Xu Jingyi came to a realization: why fight to the death with others while alive? It's better to let go of hatred and live a life of peace and tranquility. (Ninety-eight, what a wonderful number! Please recommend, favorite, and support!)