Chapter 25 I Think I Have Found an Enc.u.mbranceRonghua felt that she had found an enc.u.mbrance rather than a helper. As soon as she came out of the mysterious territory, she saw many young members of the great families that she had seen before. They all looked frustrated and exhausted and seemed to have suffered a lot in the mysterious territory. Looking at these weak people, she couldn"t help but sigh. Fortunately, demons and monsters never invaded the land of humans. Otherwise, it would cause enormous mortality.
The people also saw Ronghua and Xia Pumo beside her. Those who had learned Ronghua"s means retreated immediately, while the others who didn"t know it suddenly became annoyed to find that nothing had happened to Ronghua, and she even carried Xia Pumo. Why were they so embarra.s.sed while the two were still safe and sound?
“How come nothing happened to them?” Yang Li said. He was the only son of the third branch of Yang Family.
“Ah, don"t offend her. She"s not a wimp at all.” Someone warned him.
Yang Li got fuming, “What"s there to be scared of? Will I be afraid of her? She"s just an arrogant and ignorant woman who dares to help him.”
“Hey, you—” After he finished his words, he rushed over recklessly with a sword in his hand. It showed that he was going to kill her. Ronghua turned her head and had a glimpse at him, thinking, “You"re dead meat.”
She glanced at Xia Pumo"s sword and picked it up to fend off the attack. Her strength made Yang Li have a tingle in his hands and back up a few steps.
After keeping his feet, he stared at Ronghua in disbelief but was still not convinced, “Who the h.e.l.l are you? Why do you help him!”
Ronghua looked in the direction of his finger, wondering in mind, “Is he referring to Xia Pumo?”
Ronghua was amused and looked at him, “Is there any problem that I help him? Or you think I should not help him but help you?”
Yang Li felt a tiny shiver. Although there was a smile on Ronghua"s face, when he saw her indifferent gaze, he shivered unconsciously and stepped back.
“There"s nothing to fear!” A voice interrupted them. Following the voice, Ronghua saw a rugged man who was pushing Yang Li forward and looking at her, with disdain and frivolity on his face. This man was Yang Li"s second uncle, Yang Jing!
He was tall and robust, with tattoos on his chest and a scar on his face. His figure implied that he should be a strength-based cultivator, and it would be difficult for others to get the upper hand in a hand-to-hand battle with him.
“Uncle!” Yang Li felt relieved as soon as he saw Yang Jing. He smiled triumphantly, thinking, “That woman must be scared!” But as he looked at Ronghua, he only saw her clouded face, which scared him again.
“What the h.e.l.l do you want to do?” Ronghua"s smile faded, and her eyes darkened. It seemed that she would be very busy today. However, Xia Pumo was in such poor health that he couldn"t wait anymore, so she had to take him away immediately.
Carrying Xia Pumo, Ronghua was about to leave, but Yang Jing stepped over and stopped her.
“Get out of the way!” Ronghua said impatiently.
Yang Jing said viciously, “Leave him here, or both of you will be killed!”
Apparently, his target was Xia Pumo. The matter could hardly have a smooth end.
“Get out of the way!” Ronghua warned again, “If you keep getting in the way, don"t blame me when you lose your arms or legs.”
Yang Jing stopped Ronghua, “Where do you want to go? You even help evil. It seems that you are the same as him. Unbelievably, there"s a woman who dares to do such a thing.”
His tone was frivolous, and it sounded like that Ronghua had done something harmful and terrible.
Ronghua felt speechless, “What did I do that makes you insist on minding my business?”
Yang Jing said, “You helped Xia Pumo, and then you still ask me what you did?”
Ronghua looked back at Xia Pumo, who was still asleep, and the soul in his body. After thinking of what Shenyuan told her about them, she guessed out almost the whole story.
Ronghua asked, “Is there anything to do with you that I help whom? Besides, it is me that help him, and even if there were any harm, it wouldn"t be your turn to worry about it! Minding so much business, who do you think you are!” Ronghua"s words were always relentless, and it was Yang Jing who offended her, the person whom he couldn"t afford to provoke, so he deserved it this time.
“Mind your own business, b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
Hearing the word “b.a.s.t.a.r.d”, Yang Jing immediately burst into a fury and scolded, “Who do you mean?” At the same time, he gathered a ball of fire in his hands and hit towards Ronghua.
Ronghua half-closed her eyes and thought, “The b.a.s.t.a.r.d actually dares to take an attack.” She was carrying Xia Pumo with her left hand, so she used her right hand, making a gesture and warded off his punch directly.
The crowds were expecting a fierce battle without thinking about the consequence. Ronghua never expected them to coordinate disputes. In fact, if the one Ronghua helped were someone else, maybe they would give her a hand. However, she saved Xia Pumo. Everyone knew that Xia Pumo went crazy somehow and called back the soul of Murong Zhe, the evil demon, and even tried to find him a body. Murong Zhe killed countless people in those years. The imperial clan of Zither, where Xia Pumo belonged, had also suffered a lot under the slaughter by Murong Zhe at that time, while he called back the evil demon now. Didn"t it indicate that he wanted to be the enemy against the whole world?
Ronghua thought nothing of Yang Jing, but he continued to meddle with her affairs now, and everyone around them was just bystanders. “It"s troublesome!” She thought.
Yang Jing didn"t think so. He had thought to defeat this woman with one punch, but she just used one palm to ward off him easily. Who was she?
In fact, he should think twice. If the woman who helped Xia Pumo did not have any ability or status, how would she dare to do so and even not be afraid of offending the major imperial clans? He had never heard of this woman, but she could be from another continent. Didn"t he finish knowing the people on this continent when he came?
Ronghua didn"t want to waste time on him. She thought, “Although this man is brave, he seems to be weak in his thinking! He became angry because I saved Xia Pumo, and he wanted to knock me down to prove himself. But now it is a slap in his face that I"ve fended off his attack so easily. If I provoke him at this time, it should make a difference!”
“With such a weak ability, you even dream of winning me? It seems that you are unable to beat not only me but also Xia Pumo. If not, why do you come and catch him when he is unconscious? Maybe you cannot win him when he is awake, can you?”
Yang Jing"s facial muscles and corners of his mouth twitched. He had been angry because Ronghua warded off his punch, and now he couldn"t bear it anymore after hearing what she said.
Just now, although he did not use his full power in that punch, he used nine-tenths of it. Why couldn"t he beat her? It must be due to her luck.
After separating from Ronghua vigorously, he gathered a bigger ball of fire in his hands and then hit towards her fiercely with a glowering expression. The corners of Ronghua"s mouth raised unknowingly. Everyone only noticed how powerful Yang Jing"s fireball was, but ignored the movement of Ronghua"s hand. Everyone was taking a kind of dark pleasure.
“Duke of Anbo, leave her an intact corpse!” The people around them tried to add fuel to the fire.
“Yeah, don"t make her unrecognizable by the time she died! Hhhha….”
“Your Lordship, kill her! Seize back Xia Pumo! That"s the supreme glory!”
“Not to mention that he is still unconscious!”
Ronghua didn"t pay any attention to their words, because she could clearly feel that Xia Pumo"s body was getting weaker and weaker. She could not waste time.
Unknowingly, Ronghua"s eyes turned entirely red, and a ball of liquid appeared and wrapped around her hand. It was ice blue and looked like a ball of ice.
Someone noticed the thing on Ronghua"s hand and asked strangely, “Em? What is that?” He pointed to Ronghua"s hand.
Others noticed it soon, but none of them had ever seen such a strange thing.
Those who had suffered from Ronghua"s attack before were shocked. Although they did not know what this was, it must be a terrible thing.
They suggested Yang Jing immediately, “Your Lordship, don"t attack her head-on!”
But Yang Jing had never failed in the fight with his punch, and he would not follow their advice.
He shouted proudly, “Just witness how I won this woman!”
Without any expression, Ronghua watched Yang Jing rushing over and reached out a hand towards him. He had thought that he would be able to beat her down this time, but she still warded off it unexpectedly. He felt annoyed for a while, but his annoyance was immediately replaced by fear!
“What… what is this!!!” Yang Jing"s painful voice came, and it frightened the onlookers. Before knowing what happened, they saw the ice-like thing on Ronghua"s hand running towards Yang Jing and soon cover his body. He rolled on the ground in pain and yelled, “Hot! It"s burning hot! Give me water! Water!”
The crowds were scared by Ronghua"s horrible methods. No one had expected that the thing on her hand was actually fire, and it could not be put out after the contact.
They stepped back in fear, saying, “Witch. She is a witch!”
“Yes, she is a witch.”
“She can use witchcraft. Step back.”
In this way, everyone was scared and backed up by Yang Jing"s miserable situation. Perhaps they already forgot that they had asked Yang Jing to kill her just now!
Ronghua closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths, secretly managing to dissipate the scary fire around her hand. After finishing, she turned her head and pointed at Yang Jing, saying to those people coldly, “If you still want to offend me, I"ll just wait here for you. Anyway, your end is the same as his.”
Those people swallowed and were very afraid that she would throw the fire on them because of dissatisfaction. Offending her was just shooting themselves in the foot.
Yang Li was scared by the change and stunned for a long time. He didn"t know why his second uncle with such high cultivation would fail in the fight with that woman. His nerves were almost on edge. Someone patted him twice on his back to comfort him, and then he recovered with the help of it and calmed down a little.
Seeing Yang Jing fall to the ground with fire, he lost his voice, “Uncle!”
Yang Li rushed to help Yang Jing up, but Ronghua said suddenly, “If you touch him, you will be the next one.”
It frightened him, and his hands stopped above Yang Jing"s body. In this case, whatever he did would make him in a dilemma. He dared not move but turned to glance at Ronghua, cursing, “You even dare to kill my uncle! Do you have a death wish?”
Ronghua squinted at him, and someone immediately stepped over and pulled Yang Li back. He covered Yang Li"s mouth and made a fawning smile at her, “Miss, don"t take offense at a child"s words. Don"t bother yourself with a child!”
“Yes! Yes! He"s just a child!”
Usually, they would not interfere in this kind of thing, since the Yang Family had been bullying them for a long time. But they were afraid that they would get involved and die here when Yang Li"s offensive words angered the woman.
Ronghua ignored him. Just now, she felt a fiery gaze clearly when she called out the fire of nothingness. It seemed that someone was looking at her without any evil intention.
Well, it was indeed dangerous to call out the fire of nothingness, and she nearly lost control of it just now. She would never call it out again unless it was essential.
After warning them, Ronghua carried Xia Pumo on her back and then left.
All the people here sighed of relief and complained of having provoked such a scary woman. But since it had already happened, it was useless to keep on talking about it.
Ronghua didn"t know to whom the gaze belonged. After she left, Weilian came out behind a tree. He was right. The thing on Ronghua"s hand just now was indeed the fire of nothingness, a formidable kind of fire.
It could burn everything. It could pa.s.s through the highest heaven and fall into the netherworld, turning the whole world into nothingness. Even if it were he that faced with such a fire, he might not be able to control it. But she could call it out and even use it. He had seen it once on one person. It would not be wrong. He remembered.
Weilian made himself invisible and came near to Yang Jing to have a glance. Yang Jing"s body was entirely burnt into black carbon. It seemed that Ronghua treated him with the desire to kill. Otherwise, maybe this person could still be saved.
Judging from her performance just now, he knew that Ronghua was definitely not as simple as she appeared. The reason for her to be able to live in the Realm of Demons for so long wasn"t just relying on Shu Ruomi"s help. How many secrets did she hide? “Ronghua, I am looking forward to your next performance!”