Chapter 754 - 414: My Name Is Lin Yuan
"Lin Yuan, what are you doing?"
Tantai Mingyue also wanted to stand up, but had no strength, struggling to support herself, she saw Lin Yuan walking to Si Minglan, unexpectedly showing a smile:
"Si Family’s orphan, I won’t die by your hand."
Si Minglan sneered: "I’m afraid that’s not up to you."
Lin Yuan raised her head, looking in a certain direction.
"Master, I was wrong, and so were you..."
Suddenly, a powerful burst of spiritual power erupted from her, condensing into a long sword in midair.
Si Minglan frowned but did not move.
Tantai Mingyue’s expression changed, shouting loudly: "Lin Yuan, don’t!"
The spiritual power sword in the air suddenly pierced down, stabbing through Lin Yuan’s chest, penetrating her body!
The color drained from Lin Yuan’s face, and with a thud, she knelt before Si Minglan, clutching her legs to keep herself from falling completely.
"Tell... Mo Xiaolan, Yiren, Yiren truly cares for her, please... please protect..."
The voice ceased abruptly.
Si Minglan lowered her head, Lin Yuan knelt before her, hands still gripping her legs tightly, already silent.
The last splendor of the sky fell, the afterglow of the sunset burned out.
Yunlin Mountain plunged into darkness.
"Lin Yuan... little Yuan..."
Tantai Mingyue opened her eyes wide, struggling to crawl towards Lin Yuan.
Si Minglan looked down at Lin Yuan’s corpse, sneering: "You died too easily."
She raised her hand, about to strike down.
"Don’t!"
Tantai Mingyue finally crawled to Lin Yuan’s body, blocking in front of her.
"Si Minglan, I knew you were faking your death back then, and that you were hiding under Tang Mountain, I didn’t make things difficult for you, in exchange for Lin Yuan’s intact corpse!"
Si Minglan’s brows slightly furrowed: "Junior Martial Uncle Tantai, didn’t you always hate Lin Yuan? Why are you protecting her body now? No one in this world cares about her anymore."
"No!"
Tantai Mingyue said: "She still has a daughter, Yiren has never harmed your Si Family, she and Mo Xiaolan are like sisters, Si Minglan, for Yiren’s sake, leave her mother an intact body, will you?"
Si Minglan slowly lowered her hand, her tone mocking: "Junior Martial Uncle Tantai, you’ve hated her for so many years, yet now that she’s dead, you want to protect her, truly laughable."
Tantai Mingyue held Lin Yuan, looking down at the lifeless face.
At this moment, all disguises lost, that face finally returned to its spiritual beauty, just like when first meeting her and Wu’an.
In a daze, Tantai Mingyue seemed to return to twenty years ago.
In Jianxian City.
In the Immortal Brew Tower.
She and the handsome youth sat drinking together, a woman wearing a cyan hairpin gracefully approached, sunlight through the window fell on her swaying Smoke Cloud Butterfly Skirt, ethereal like an immortal.
The woman reached them, her beautiful face showing a swaggering smile:
"You two, is this wine tasty?"
The youth smiled: "Miss, have you not tasted the Drunken Immortal Moon Wine of the Immortal Brew Tower?"
The woman tilted her head: "I haven’t, on the mountain, Master doesn’t allow us to drink."
The youth stood up freely, clasped his hands: "If so, meeting is fate, will the lady join us in drinking fine wine?"
"Sure!"
The woman sat down, her smile refreshing.
The youth poured her a full cup, she lifted the bowl, took a sip, her eyes lit up: "So good!"
She drank it in one go, the youth poured her another bowl, she was about to drink again, Tantai Mingyue suddenly asked:
"What’s your name?"
The woman put down the bowl, sat upright, the sunlight fell on her, her hair tied in strands, graceful like jade, beautiful and sweet:
"My name is Lin Yuan."
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Thud, thud, thud!
West Imperial City.
The West Dawn Bell rang again.
The sound infused with profound spiritual power resonated throughout the Imperial City:
"The former Emperor has passed, Sixth Prince Wu Heng, with virtue embracing the sea, might expanding in all directions, all people submit, now entrusted by Heaven, inherits the throne."
"Today the new Emperor ascends, pardoning all directions, today’s chaos in West Imperial City is settled, those involved will not be pursued."
In the chaotic West Imperial City, the panic-stricken citizens finally calmed down, and knelt one after another.
"Welcome the new Emperor!"
"It’s finally over!"
"Great, West Imperial City is fine now!"
Outside the Chang’an Palace, among the cheers of surrounding citizens, Qin Gengyun stood in front of the gate, somewhat anxious.
Though he knew his wife’s cultivation was unmatched, she was nevertheless pregnant, and Qin Gengyun worried something might happen.
But he had already promised his wife, he would not interfere with matters inside Chang’an Palace.
He could only wait outside now.
"Why hasn’t the Saintess come out yet?"
"Could something have happened?"
"Shut up, the Saintess’s cultivation is unparalleled, nothing will happen!"
Behind Qin Gengyun were members of the Cyan Lotus Sect.
At this moment, there were no longer any disciples of the Three Great Sects in West Imperial City, Xue Wen and Xue Wu disguised themselves as ordinary herbal merchants, not fearing their identities being discovered.
Xue Wen was the most anxious, his fists constantly colliding, wishing he could peer into Chang’an Palace.
Liu Xiaotang gently tugged his arm on the side: "Martial Uncle, rest assured, Master will surely be fine."
Suddenly, the half-collapsed palace gate opened, and a dainty figure slowly walked out.
"Saintess!"
Everyone immediately grew excited, Xue Wen was about to rush up, but Qin Gengyun had already reached Qiu Zhihe first.
"Wife, is everything settled?"
"Yes."
The couple looked at each other for a moment, Qin Gengyun held Qiu Zhihe’s hand:
"Let’s go back first."
"Okay."
As Qin Gengyun spoke, Qiu Zhihe replied softly, the surrounding people watched eagerly, only to see Qin Gengyun holding Qiu Zhihe’s hand, already turning towards the direction of the pharmacy.
The Cyan Lotus Sect members looked at each other, Xue Wu nodded slightly, someone immediately ran into Chang’an Palace to investigate.
Shortly after, that person ran out, face pale, yet with joy:
"Revenge has been taken, revenge has been taken!"
Xue Wen rejoiced, even knelt towards the south:
"Fellow brothers and sisters, today the Saintess avenged you, you can rest in peace!"
Others followed kneeling, tears in their eyes.
Liu Xiaotang knelt, kowtowed several times, unable to contain her curiosity, ran into Chang’an Palace.
A moment later, she ran out, leaned against the half-collapsed palace gate, and vomited profusely.
Xue Wen stepped forward to support her, angrily said: "Xiaotang, what’s wrong with you? Who did it? I’ll chop them up!"
Liu Xiaotang was pale, after vomiting for a while, she regained clarity: "Martial Uncle, what are you saying! I’m not vomiting because of that, it’s... it’s the Chang’an Palace, the Chang’an Palace... it’s too terrifying inside."
She had just seen severed limbs and remains everywhere in Chang’an Palace, the whole palace dyed red with blood.
Like Asura Hell.
Liu Xiaotang murmured: "I finally understand why they fear Master so much?"
She grabbed Xue Wen’s arm: "Martial Uncle, I want to become like Master in the future too!"
The Cyan Lotus Sect pharmacy.
Qin Gengyun held Qiu Zhihe as they entered the inner room, entering a chamber, he gently said:
"Wife, there’s no one now."
Qiu Zhihe’s face turned pale, suddenly spitting out a mouthful of blood.