Chapter 808 - 42: Do You Know How to Roast Bamboo?
"Kill myself?"
Luo Xiaohong was taken aback.
"If you want to protect the balance of the world, you must kill all living beings in the world, and you yourself are a part of those beings, so you must kill yourself."
Qin Gengyun said, "You are the Tao Spirit Body, your Tao Heart is pure, your thoughts are unified, your Tao Heart is like this, do you want to go against your own Tao Heart?"
Luo Xiaohong was stunned, the wolf leg she was holding smelled delicious but she couldn’t take another bite.
"I need to kill myself for my Tao Heart to recover?"
Qin Gengyun smiled and said, "Yes, if you kill yourself, you will protect the balance of the world, and your Tao Heart will naturally recover."
Thud.
The wolf leg fell to the ground, Luo Xiaohong held the Five-Colored Short Sword, her gaze bewildered.
"Kill myself, kill myself..."
Luo Xiaohong slowly raised the Five-Colored Short Sword in her hand, aiming it at her white neck.
Qin Gengyun reminded, "Your cultivation is too high; stabbing your neck won’t kill you. You need to stab the Spirit Field and then sever all the meridians in your body before cutting off your own head."
Luo Xiaohong murmured an "oh," and then aimed the Five-Colored Short Sword at her abdomen.
Si Minglan and Xia Qinglian watched Luo Xiaohong intently, subconsciously holding their breath.
Luo Xiaohong’s Five-Colored Short Sword pierced half an inch into her abdomen, a thread of blood flowed out, and her motion suddenly halted.
"But if I die and the world balance is not restored, what should I do?"
Qin Gengyun kept his hands behind his back, gesturing to Xia Qinglian and Si Minglan to hurry away, and continued saying:
"But if you don’t try, how will you know that the world balance cannot be restored?"
Luo Xiaohong furrowed her brows, pouted her lips, and began to ponder for a long time.
Qin Gengyun quietly turned back, only to find Xia Qinglian and Si Minglan still standing there. His eyes suddenly turned exceptionally fierce, glaring viciously at Xia Qinglian, and then shifted his gaze to the passage leading out of the relic.
Originally, Qin Gengyun hadn’t planned to deceive Luo Xiaohong into suicide so easily; this situation had already exceeded expectations, giving Xia Qinglian and Si Minglan enough time to leave the relic.
If Luo Xiaohong came to her senses, none of the three of them would be able to leave.
The only strategy now was to stay behind and see if he could continue to deceive Luo Xiaohong, then seize the opportunity to escape.
If all else failed, Qin Gengyun was also prepared to hold off Luo Xiaohong himself.
Si Minglan could accompany a demon for so long; why couldn’t he do the same?
As long as Lady, Xiaolan, Liu Su, and Yun Wu were safe, what harm was there in staying in the tomb with the Tao Spirit Body?
Right now, the most important thing was to let Lady leave.
Though Xia Qinglian was usually decisive in killing, she hesitated at this moment, and Qin Gengyun could only glare at her with the fiercest expression.
It was Xia Qinglian’s first time being treated so harshly by him, and her eyes reddened in an instant.
She wasn’t upset, but worried.
She knew Qin Gengyun’s intention, but how could she let him stay here alone to face the Tao Spirit Body?
If Luo Xiaohong was unhappy, she could claim Qin Gengyun’s life with a single word.
Si Minglan also understood Qin Gengyun’s intention. She grabbed Xia Qinglian and whispered, "You still have a child in your belly."
This sentence instantly shattered Xia Qinglian’s resolve. She looked at Qin Gengyun, her gaze sorrowful, but was already being dragged into the passage by Si Minglan.
At the instant of entering the passage, Xia Qinglian heard Luo Xiaohong’s voice: "You lied to me."
"Quickly go, don’t let down your husband!"
Si Minglan tightly held Xia Qinglian’s hand, fearing she would rush back.
Xia Qinglian’s body became cold, her fists clenched, allowing Si Minglan to fly her out of the passage. Waiting in the valley above were Mo Xiaolan, Wei Wan, and Yun Wu asking anxiously:
"Where’s Qin Gengyun?"
Si Minglan said, "Quickly go, Yun Wu, spew the Desolate Mist!"
The three women froze in surprise, Mo Xiaolan was about to head back to the Cyan Lotus Sect relic: "Qin Gengyun hasn’t come out yet!"
Her hand was grabbed by Xia Qinglian, and her figure was involuntarily dragged outward toward the rear mountains!
Xia Qinglian turned back to the bewildered Yun Wu and said, "Spew the Desolate Mist!"
"Sister Xia?!"
Mo Xiaolan struggled, but saw Xia Qinglian’s face already a stream of tears:
"He will make it out."
Wei Wan cradled Yun Wu, her figure flickering, urging: "Xiaowu, quickly!"
Yun Wu bit her lip, and ultimately opened her mouth, a dense fog of Desolate Mist spewed out.
At the same time, the five also quickly fled to the rear mountains.
When the five women stood in front of the rear mountain, Yun Wu had already spewed out all the Desolate Mist.
The rear mountain of Cloud Bamboo was once again shrouded in thick Desolate Mist.
"Sister Xia, what exactly happened?"
Yun Wu asked anxiously, looking at Xia Qinglian.
Seeing Xia Qinglian’s face pale and her body stagger, Mo Xiaolan quickly supported her.
Si Minglan said sadly, "Luo Xiaohong saw through our plan, Qin Gengyun stayed behind alone to stall her."
Yun Wu opened her mouth wide: "Tao Spirit Body is so powerful, will Brother Qin die?"
"He won’t."
Xia Qinglian lightly disengaged Mo Xiaolan’s support, her pale face, the tears already stopped.
"He promised me that he would make it out."
...
Cyan Lotus Sect relic.
"If I die, the world balance still won’t be restored; I should first kill all living beings, then commit suicide. That’s the right way... you lied to me."
Luo Xiaohong raised the Five-Colored Short Sword, looking up at Qin Gengyun fixed in midair.
Just now she realized she had been deceived, one word and Qin Gengyun was immobilized in midair, unable to struggle; he said hastily:
"If you kill all living beings and then commit suicide, what if the world balance still isn’t restored?"
Luo Xiaohong’s brows knitted in thought, she began pondering again, finally raising her head:
"Then what should I do?"
Qin Gengyun said, "I have a way."
"Say it!" Luo Xiaohong demanded immediately.
"If I tell you, you’ll kill me."
"If you don’t say it, I’ll kill you!"
"If you kill me, there’s no way to find out."
"..." Luo Xiaohong was once again stumped, after a long while of pondering she looked at Qin Gengyun, a bit irritated:
"I don’t like you."
Bang!
Qin Gengyun fell from the air, landing heavily on the ground.
His body was tough, undamaged from the fall. He climbed up, chuckling:
"You don’t need to like me, anyway you can’t get out."
Luo Xiaohong frowned, her figure flashed into the passage, arriving at the relic’s entrance, outside was a mass of dense black mist.
Qin Gengyun followed her over, saying to her: "Why don’t you try it, maybe it won’t stop you."
Luo Xiaohong looked at him angrily: "You lied to me again! This is the Desolate Mist, Master said that if I enter the Desolate Mist, I will die too."
Qin Gengyun shrugged: "You are the Tao Spirit Body, more powerful than us. I thought the Desolate Mist couldn’t harm you. It was my ignorance, how was it deceiving you?"
Luo Xiaohong was now quite cautious of him, her eyes wide open like a Demon-Revealing Mirror:
"I don’t believe you!"
Qin Gengyun said helplessly: "The Tao Spirit Body appears once in ten thousand years; we’ve never seen it before, how would we know its wonders? That’s why I guessed you might not be afraid of the Desolate Mist. Is there a problem with that?"
Luo Xiaohong blinked, feeling that this annoying fellow’s words seemed somewhat reasonable.
"Alright, this time you didn’t deceive me. Hey... Do you know how to roast bamboo?"