CHAPTER 134: 134

In the very next moment, Cang Yue felt an intense surge of power overwhelming her body.

"AAAAAAHHHHH"

Even with her resolve and tempered mind, she couldn’t help but scream in pain.

It felt like someone was pouring molten lava directly inside her body. And with that, she felt a surge of strength like never before. At the eighth minute, her strength had grown to a staggering two hundred and fifty-six times that of normal.

With agonising pain, she felt like she could destroy the entire world in a single punch.

Of course, it was due to this sudden increase in strength. Forget about destroying the world, she didn’t even know if she could beat the woman in front of her.

Till now, she had only activated her physique a total of two times and that too when she faced the demonic beasts.

Even at that time, the maximum she kept it activated was six minutes. But now...

With an overwhelming strength and agonising pain came the thing she was most worried about.

*Crack

It was the sound of bones cracking that was coming from her body.

Taking a deep breath, Cang Yue cleared her mind and focused on the woman in front of her before raising her needle and thrusting it forward.

In an instant, she stabbed the air in front of her almost fifty times, leaving behind countless afterimages.

But those afterimages didn’t disappear; instead, they all fell towards Lin Meilin, whose usual leisure face had a tinge of seriousness.

Lin Meilin simply covered her entire body with a thick outer layer of wind, making her extremely nimble and flexible.

She then stepped gracefully, narrowly avoiding the incoming attacks.

Even with such a large number of attacks, there wasn’t a single attack that could touch her clothes, much less cause her any harm.

But it didn’t seem to matter to Cang Yue, who kept on chasing after that voluptuous figure, attacking her with all her might.

Every time her attack missed, it would leave behind a dark, harrowing hole in the ground that emitted black smoke.

In just a few moments, those seemingly simple attacks of Cang Yue razed the entire Blue Faced tribe to the ground.

At this moment, she seemed to have an endless reserve of Internal energy that was similarly strengthened two hundred and fifty-six times.

With such intensity, it was even beginning to overpower Lin Meilin’s elemental energy.

The two of them fought like this for a while before Lin Meilin suddenly floated back before letting out an enchanting peal of laughter.

"NINTH MINUTE."

The moment she spoke, Cang Yue felt the world around her seemed to have come to a standstill.

She didn’t feel any strength, or should she say her body was now completely numb. The pain had exceeded the boundary of what she could tolerate, and for a moment, her brain had almost shut down. And yet, under the effects of the Nine Yin Physique, she was still sober and able to move.

At the moment, Cang Yue felt like she could do anything in this world.

She merely looked at the enchanting woman in front of her before taking a step forward, and with that, her figure disappeared from her initial position before appearing directly behind Lin Meilin’s figure.

"...."

Lin Meilin didn’t even have time to react when she heard Cang Yue’s soft voice in her ear.

"Death."

A single sentence, and with it, a thin needle tore through the air, directly piercing towards Lin Meilin’s heart.

Lin Meilin’s leisure expression finally changed as she compressed an immense amount of wind into her body in the span of a single breath.

Cang Yue’s attack pierced through the compressed layer of air, but it also diverted. The compressed wind managed to change its direction from Lin Meilin’s heart to her shoulder, but before it could pierce it, Lin Meilin gracefully bent her body to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack.

But unlike before, this time the needle managed to graze past her snowy, smooth shoulders, but other than leaving a thin white mark, it didn’t manage to do anything else.

"What the..." Cang Yue’s eyes narrowed into slits as she looked at the scene with a face full of disbelief. How could her attack with all her strength, that was further strengthened by her physique, fail to even leave a scratch?

For a moment, Cang Yue’s mind almost stopped working, but soon she came out of her trance. She wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to stab this whore in the eye, but the moment she tried to, she couldn’t move her body.

It felt like her body was filled with lead, making her incomparably heavy. She wanted to throw her needle towards the woman, but her fingers refused to budge.

She just stood there awkwardly as if frozen in time.

"Tch... tch... tch..." Lin Meilin slowly walked in front of Cang Yue before shaking her head with pity.

"I told you." She still had that leisurely expression on her face.

"Your current body isn’t capable of holding that much power."

"But you still forced it..."

"Now look at yourself."

Cang Yue wanted to retort and even fight, but the only thing that came out of her mouth was blood.

Not only her mouth, but even her eyes, nose and ears... Blood seeped out from them as her bones began to emit a loud crackling noise before a loud shout of shattering erupted from Cang Yue’s body, and she collapsed on the ground unconscious.

"Well." Lin Meilin wanted to finish her sentence, but before she could, Cang Yue fell unconscious.

"Whatever." With a shrug, Lin Meilin passed by Cang Yue’s body before making her way towards the unconscious Lin Yue in the distance, whose body was still twitching from time to time.

"I hope you learned your lesson this time." Muttering to her daughter, Lin Meilin placed her hand above Lin Yue’s mouth before prying open her lips and then cutting her palm, letting a drop of blood fall down into Lin Yue’s mouth.

"UMMM"

Lin Yue’s body suddenly began to tremble violently as if someone was giving her an electric shock.

Lin Meilin just nodded in satisfaction before standing up while patting her clothes.

The small cut she made on her palm to force out a drop of blood had already healed.

Ignoring her twitching daughter as well as the unconscious bleeding Cang Yue, she finally focused on the last standing person there... Xiao Ruolan.

"You aren’t going to make a move?" Lin Meilin’s charming voice carried a hint of teasing as she spoke to Xiao Ruolan.

She knew who she was, after all, she had seen her grow up. She used to be her daughter’s childhood friend before they drifted apart.

"Me!?" It was only now that Xiao Ruolan pointed towards herself before shaking her head with that same expressionless face.

"I don’t want to end up like them."

She just gave a direct, brutal, honest answer.

"Hmm..." Lin Meilin couldn’t help but look at her a few more times. Ever since Xiao Ruolan was a child, she had always been more mature than her peers her age. Lin Meilin wasn’t surprised by her decision.

With Xiao Ruolan’s measly 3rd Vein Expansion realm, going against her would be tantamount to suicide.

"Well, at least you are smart, unlike these two idiots." Lin Meilin couldn’t help but let out a soft chuckle.

"Senior, what are you going to do now?" Xiao Ruolan couldn’t help but ask in her usual emotionless voice. "If you wanted to kill us, you would have done so sooner."

"What do you want to do?"

"...." Lin Meilin took a look at Xiao Ruolan before shaking her head in response.

"Nothing much."

She then waved her hand, and in the next instant, the ground where the Blue Faced Tribe leader’s home was, split open, and from there, a body plunged towards Xiao Ruolan before coming to an abrupt halt in front of her.

"I suppose you were looking for the Tribe Leader of the Blue Faced tribe."

With a wave of Lin Meilin’s hand, the corpse fell to the ground, finally revealing the appearance of a middle-aged woman whose face was filled with incomprehensible terror as if she had seen something terrifying.

"As for those two idiots..." Pointing towards Lin Yue and Cang Yue, Lin Meilin just shook her head.

"I will leave them in your care."

Without wasting another second, she leisurely walked towards the place where Yang Ze was lying unconscious.

Looking at his face, which was clearly hidden due to the mask, her eyes flashed for a moment as she observed him further.

Due to her previous attack, coupled with his already injured body due to Cang Yue, it was a miracle that he was still in good shape.

She checked his injuries for a while, and other than some broken bones and flesh wounds, there wasn’t anything significant.

"Well, then..." She reached out to him, wanting to pick him up, but before she could even touch Yang Ze, she felt the presence of Xiao Ruolan behind her.

"What are you doing, senior?"

Were it any other person, Lin Meilin would have slapped them to death for disturbing her. But thinking about how Xiao Ruolan was almost like a daughter to her, she held back her anger before speaking in her usual charming voice.

"What does it look like?"

"....." Xiao Ruolan simply tilted her head in confusion.

"Are you going to heal him?"

"Hahahahahaha." Listening to her innocent question, Lin Meilin couldn’t help but laugh.

It wasn’t until a few moments had passed that she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes before shaking her head in response.

"You can say that..."

"I am taking him with me."

Her words instantly made Xiao Ruolan raise an eyebrow.

"Why?" Xiao Ruolan looked at Yang Ze before asking further. "Why would you be so interested in such an ordinary middle-aged man?"

"...." Lin Meilin took a deep look at Xiao Ruolan, wondering if she was just playing around or if she truly didn’t know his true age.

"I have my own reasons." Lin Meilin was in no mood to explain her actions to her. She had already done what she was here to do.

"What are you going to do with him?" Xiao Ruolan didn’t look like she was going to stop asking those questions.

Lin Meilin couldn’t help but let out a frown. Was she getting too soft? Even someone in the 3rd Vein Expansion realm dares to question her.

But she still decided to reply one last time.

"Going to keep him with me."

"He gives a really good massage."

Without wasting another moment, she directly grabbed Yang Ze by the collar and picked him up, but before she could do anything else, a soft hand suddenly rested upon her wrist.

"Huh!?"

In that instant, Lin Meilin’s eyes narrowed into slits as an incomparable serious expression appeared on her face for the first time.

She looked at the figure of Xiao Ruolan in front of her, who had appeared out of nowhere with extreme vigilance.

"You are not taking him anywhere."

Before Lin Meilin could register what was going on, she was hit in the chest by an invisible force, making her fly across the entire Blue Faced tribe as her figure finally plunged into a distant mountain.

The force of the blow was so immense that it shattered the entire mountain in half, making it look like a scene of doomsday.

"YOU..." Before the dust could settle, Lin Meilin’s figure directly appeared above the Blue Faced tribe as she stood in the air, gazing deeply at the figure of Xiao Ruolan underneath her.

At the moment, her eyes were emitting a bone-eroding chill that was enough to freeze even the bravest of hearts.

Lin Meilin’s figure was completely clean, without an ounce of dust on it. It was as if the person who flew out and plunged into the distant mountain wasn’t her but someone else.

"WHO ARE YOU?" For the first time, Lin Meilin’s usual leisure tone had disappeared.

"There shouldn’t be anyone like you in the entire Azure Dragon Continent."

The more she looked at Xiao Ruolan underneath her, the more she found herself at a loss.

She hurriedly calculated using her fingers, but in the end, couldn’t come up with an answer.

"WHO ARE YOU?" She repeated the question once again. "Someone like you should not even exist in this era."

"....."

"....."

Xiao Ruolan just looked at the woman standing in the air above her in silence for a while before shaking her head.

"Little insect..." Her very first words made Lin Meilin narrow her eyes.

"You don’t need to know who I am or what I am doing here."

"I don’t even care about the little play you and that bitch have been acting and planning around for millennia."

"The only thing you need to remember is..."

Speaking till here, Xiao Ruolan gently picked up Yang Ze as she put his head upon her massive, milky breasts, letting him rest comfortably before speaking further.

"This person is off-limits."

"The next time you think of touching him..."

"I will incinerate this entire piece of land."