Chapter 49

Was it that she hadn't heard clearly? Or simply that she didn't want to answer? Ling Xiao's heart sank, and he slowly released his fingers. "You're tired too today, go rest early!"

"Huh?" She had just gotten up, how could she rest again? Eat and then sleep — does Master want her to be sent straight to the slaughterhouse?

"Master, I…"

"Tomorrow this Master has to go out for a trip, you…" Ling Xiao stood up, his back to Shi Ran. "Behave yourself, don't cause trouble, understand?"

What did he mean 'behave herself'!? Searching her heart, when had she not behaved? Aside from that first time she transmigrated over and courted death by drugging Mei Ruoxue, the rest of the time she had been honestly grinding dungeons, earning herself a few more chapters of survival!

But Shi Ran was cowardly; the above she only dared say in her belly, not daring to retort to his face at all, only able to honestly reply, "Understood, Master. You come back early!"

Ling Xiao shook his head and smiled faintly. One fit of anger and it was 'you' this, 'you' that — she hadn't even noticed it herself, had she?

Shi Ran naturally hadn't noticed, and still tilted up a smiling face, waving to bid farewell. "Master, see you tomorrow!"

Ling Xiao……… forget it!

Although Shi Ran prided herself on having a 'cockroach body' — small but tough, invulnerable to blades and spears — in the end she still had a mortal body. That one slash, though it hadn't injured vitals, still left her unconscious for several days; it was Ruan Xinli who exhausted great effort to pull her back.

So, after Ling Xiao left, Shi Ran said with her mouth that she wasn't sleepy, but in reality she closed her eyes and slept, this one sleep lasting straight until the sun was three poles high.

Just as she woke, she saw Xiao Yaopu delivering medicine. Shi Ran impatiently drank it mouthful by mouthful, then simply picked up the bowl and downed it in one gulp. Setting the bowl down, she heard He Bi's voice.

"Shi Shimei, Shi Shimei, it's terrible! They're fighting, Shi Shimei!"

Truly not a moment of peace! Shi Ran sighed, just about to roll her eyes in a show of respect, but then saw Xiao Yaopu hand her a pine nut candy. "The Elder said, this must be given to you!"

?

Shi Ran took the pine nut candy and held it in her mouth; the sweet taste actually traveled from her oral cavity to her heart, her mood improved, so she didn't mind He Bi's loud clamor.

"Shi Shimei, hurry out and see, your Shijie and my Shijie are fighting!"

He Bi rarely moved this fast; he grabbed Shi Ran and tried to leave, but was pulled back by Shi Ran. "I still need to rest in bed right now, and besides my Shixiong are all there, what would I go for!"

"Your Shixiong?! Don't mention it. Your Da Shixiong is sparring with my Lei Shixiong, your Er Shixiong wishes he could jump in himself, chasing me wanting to fight me! Your San Shixiong is fine alright, just fine at pulling them apart!"

"And there's Gu Yusheng!" Shi Ran dismissed it. "Their sparring definitely started because of him; with him there it's fine. I'm not going to wade into this muddy water!"

He Bi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Gu Yusheng and Ruan Xinli are both nowhere to be found, that's why I came to find you!"

Could the two of them have gone on a date?

Shi Ran thought over the plot and discovered there was indeed such a thing — it was precisely because Gu Yusheng and Ruan Xinli went herb-picking together that Mei Ruoxue couldn't find anyone, so she went to find Wei Yuzhu, but Wei Yuzhu didn't know either.

The two fell out over a few words and actually started fighting.

In the original text it was Ling Xiao who stepped in to stop the two of them from waging war, but now Ling Xiao is also out the door. Shi Ran pursed her lips — would she have to stick a foot in again this time?

He Bi only now experienced the feeling of others waiting for him. "Grandma, hurry up and go. Any later and those two will tear down the medicine hall, and we can't afford to pay for it!"

He spoke the truth! Losing money is unacceptable! Shi Ran threw off the quilt, then hesitated again. "I… how do I go?"

"I prepared a wheelchair!" He Bi was completely prepared. "Wait, I'll push it in!"

Inexplicably feeling calculated by He Bi, Shi Ran gritted her teeth! Watching He Bi push the wheelchair over with a face full of high spirits, she felt her earlier self had been stupid to death.

He Bi didn't care what Shi Ran thought; his goal was simple: make Shijie stop, make the world quiet, and most importantly, they were poor, couldn't pay a single cent!

When He Bi and Shi Ran rushed to the scene in a panic, Wei Yuzhu and Mei Ruoxue's war had already entered a white-hot stage. A red figure and a white figure collided and intertwined ceaselessly in midair.

Wei Yuzhu wore a set of blazing red robes, like a cluster of burning karmic fire; her body's gang qi surged, scorching heat waves distorting the surrounding air.

Her sword qi was like a rainbow, carrying the terrifying high temperature of burning gold and melting iron; every strike was accompanied by a sharp, tearing shriek. Wherever it passed, the ground's bluestone slabs actually grew faintly hot, leaving charred black scorch marks.

Mei Ruoxue, entangled with her, was the polar opposite. Her white clothes surpassed snow, her figure elusive as a ghost under the moon; her movements carried a heart-palpitating chill.

Her moves did not see grand openings and closings, yet were exquisitely peerless. The Youge Sword's ice-blue sword qi was like substantive profound ice; every point, brush, pat, lead, and pierce precisely dissolved or deflected Wei Yuzhu's fierce onslaught.

Where that ice-blue sword qi reached, fine ice crystals condensed in the air, rustling down, colliding with Wei Yuzhu's heat waves, instantly steaming up large sheets of white mist.

"Boom—!"

Once again a completely unadorned hard clash. The crimson sword shadow and the ice-blue sword qi slammed fiercely together in midair.

Though there was no sound of metal striking metal, it erupted with an even duller, even more heart-palpitating giant roar, like a thunderclap exploding on flat ground.

Violent airflow exploded outward with the two at its center, sweeping up broken stones and fallen leaves, forming a visible shockwave ring that howled as it expanded in all directions.

Do these two intend to tear this place down?! He Bi and Shi Ran were pushed back a step involuntarily by that violent qi wave, their sleeves flapping loudly, the skin on their faces scraped raw and stinging.

"Two Shijie! Let's talk nicely! Don't fight!" He Bi shouted at the top of his voice, trying to stop this death battle.

However the two in the fierce battle turned a deaf ear.

Mei Ruoxue's figure was like willow catkins in the wind; borrowing the collision's recoil she floated backward, her toes tapping a corridor pillar, and she shot back like an arrow leaving the bow.

She spread her arms, unleashing ten swords in a row. In a split second, dozens of condensed, substantive ice-blue sword qi tore through the air, emitting a "hiss-hiss" sharp sound, weaving into a dense net of cold ice that covered the sky and blanketed the earth, enveloping Wei Yuzhu's whole-body major acupoints.

That ice net was extremely fast, its chill bone-piercing, as if it could even freeze light.

"Trifling skill!" Wei Yuzhu coldly snorted, advancing instead of retreating. The Handan Sword fiercely cleaved before her chest, crimson sword qi surging forth like a volcanic eruption, instantly condensing into a massive, burning flame shield before her.

"Blazing Flame Wall!"

"Puff puff puff puff…"

The ice-blue sword qi slammed hard into the flame shield, emitting a dense, muffled patter like rain on banana leaves. Extreme cold and extreme heat's powers crazily eroded and neutralized each other in this instant.

The ice-blue sword qi was continuously vaporized by the high temperature, turning into rolling white smoke, while the flame shield's color also dimmed at a visible speed, its surface even condensing fine ice cracks. Every impact burst open a bizarre qi mass mixed with ice shards and fire sparks.

Just as the flame shield tottered, about to be pierced through by the last few strands of finger force, a fierce glint flashed in Wei Yuzhu's eyes, and she abruptly withdrew her defense!

She actually used her shoulder to forcibly tank two ice-blue sword qi with slightly weaker penetration, muffled a groan, red robes stepping on blood, while a strand of bone-piercing icy true qi drilled into her body.

But Wei Yuzhu forcibly endured the intense pain, borrowing the opening bought with this sacrifice, her whole person like a diving bird of prey, throwing herself bodily into Mei Ruoxue's embrace!

"Burn Heaven, Boil Sea!"

Wei Yuzhu's Handan Sword was crimson like a branding iron, carrying temperature enough to melt through gold and iron, viciously stabbing toward Mei Ruoxue's chest.