CHAPTER 276: CHAPTER 128: YUE CHEN LIKE BLOOD

"Who? Who is there?" Lie Rou lifted her Luo skirt, hesitating whether to step into the cluster of grass to have a look.

A figure darted out, catching Lie Rou off guard, making her step back several paces.

Under the dim moonlight, Qin Gang smirked and walked forward.

"It’s you," Seeing Qin Gang, Lie Rou sensed trouble and, in a panic, pulled out a dagger from her hand, staying on guard, "Qin Gang, why are you following me? You are a grand general of the Shang Kingdom, why must you harass a woman endlessly?"

Under the moonlight, Lie Rou’s delicate body trembled visibly, like a fragile orchid, tempting him to pluck it, stirring his beastly desires further, "Lie Rou, you ungrateful wretch, this general has ignored the court’s ridicule and formally requested your hand in marriage, you are this general’s woman. Thinking of leaving Shang Kingdom? Only after I’m done with you,"

After Yue Jinghua and others prepared their horses and left, Qin Gang’s lustful desires remained unchanged; he possessed a treasure ring known as the Concealing Breath Ring, which could hide a person’s Dark Power and even their breath.

He evaded the Gold Eater Worm and Flash Cloud Leopard’s surveillance and took advantage of the deep night when Yue Jinghua and others were still not back, creeping near the carriage. Initially planning to use a despicable tactic like seductive fragrance to knock Lie Rou unconscious and kidnap her, he didn’t expect to be discovered by Lie Rou.

"Don’t come any closer," Lie Rou clenched her teeth, knowing that calling for help was futile in the secluded, silent wilderness at night.

Thus, she lifted her Luo skirt and desperately dashed towards the carriage.

When Yue Jinghua left the city, the horses sent by Zhan BeiAo were all fine steeds. Having accompanied her husband on travels after her marriage to Yue Nian, Lie Rou was quite skilled in horse riding. If she could just seize a horse, with the military horse’s speed, she could escape for a while.

Just as she was about to seize the carriage and take the reins, another person emerged next to the carriage.

Lie Rou looked up and couldn’t help but exclaimed: "Uncle!"

"You have the nerve to call me uncle. You and Yue Jinghua, that scourge, have brought ruin to the Lie Family Mansion. Now you think you can just slap your butt and leave? Dream on. General Qin, I have taken control of the carriage and that little brat inside, this vile woman, you can do as you please," Lie Chang’an thought that with Lie Changshun’s death, he would take charge of the Lie Family Mansion.

Little did he know that shortly after returning to the mansion, the court dispatched officers to seal all properties of the Lie Family, accusing the Lie brothers of colluding with Fa Xiaoyi and plotting a rebellion. Upon checking the private assets inside the mansion, he discovered that a large amount of money had been liquidated and sold off days before.

Now being alone without family assets or personal wealth, he had no choice but to grovel to Qin Gang like a scruffy dog and became his lackey. Hearing that Qin Gang wanted to pursue Lie Rou, he didn’t hesitate and immediately played the part of a fawning follower.

Lie Chang’an also possessed Dark Earth Cultivation with movement techniques far superior to Lie Rou’s. His sharp actions allowed him to grab hold of the reins and with a ruthless laugh, he grabbed the sleepy Chenchen: "If you don’t submit to General Qin willingly, I will kill this little brat."

Lie Chang’an leapt onto the carriage cover, lifting Chenchen high, ready to throw him down.

Chenchen tensed up his little face, looking very frightened.

Seeing this, Lie Rou’s expression abruptly changed, "Uncle, put Chenchen down, he’s still young, you will frighten him."

"If you don’t want the boy to die, just obediently come back to the city with me," Qin Gang advanced step by step, Lie Rou clenched the dagger in her hand, neither advancing nor retreating.

"Mom, don’t be afraid," Chenchen’s slightly immature voice suddenly interjected into the conversation.

"Shut up, you little brat, or I will smash you to death," Lie Chang’an grimaced, his iron grip tightened, and Chenchen’s frame creaked ominously.

Lie Chang’an was feeling smug when he suddenly saw a piercing pain before his eyes. The red cinnabar on Yue Chen’s forehead seemed to light up, and a fierce gleam flashed through his glassy eyes.

The parked carriage began to violently shake, and tree roots like thick pythons flipped out from beneath the ground, drilling out from under the carriage. The horses were startled and let out a short neigh before galloping wildly forward.

Who would have thought that the vine, like a spider spitting silk, would, in a breath’s time, entrap the carriage, the horses, and Lie Changshun completely in its midst.

The dark green vines grew denser, and in the end, not even a sliver of a gap was left, swallowing Lie Rou’s line of sight completely.

"Chenchen--" Lie Rou was greatly shocked and wanted to rush forward but was grabbed by the pale-faced Qin Gang who dragged her to flee backwards.

Before they had run far, they were accompanied by Lie Chang’an’s fragmented, agonizing screams, causing a chilling horror and violent palpitations.

Qin Gang heard the sound of bones being crushed and realized that the strange vine must have strangled Lie Chang’an. This vine was formidable; with his experience, he knew it was far beyond what Lie Rou and Lie Chang’an could contend with. In his youth, he had traveled across the continent and encountered various mystical Dark Beasts and spirit wood.

He knew that he must have fallen into someone else’s trap; under the carriage were buried spirit wood seeds with fatal attack power. As soon as the spirit wood seeds broke through the soil, they could form the Killing Wood that kills invisibly.

Spirit wood is different from ordinary Dark Beasts and Dark Practitioners; their self-healing capability is incredibly strong. Unless their spirit core is found, even battling until the Dark Power catastrophe cannot destroy a high-level spirit wood.

Qin Gang, after all, is a master of the Heavenly Dark Realm; his movement technique was swift, and in just a few breaths, he had already distanced himself from the carriage.

He dragged Lie Rou, moving faster and faster.

"Let go of me," Lie Rou struggled fiercely, which only infuriated Qin Gang further.

"You little bitch, if it weren’t for you, would I, this general, have to be so embarrassed," Qin Gang remarked, seeing no pursuers behind them. Believing the murderous vine could not move quickly, he breathed a sigh of relief and flung Lie Rou onto the ground beside him.

A cunning light flashed in his eyes as he looked over Lie Rou’s body, "Since you won’t marry this general under heaven, why not tonight right here..."

"Ah, what’s this thing," Qin Gang turned his face and encountered a set of extremely sharp leaves, while the grass beside him rustled soundlessly. The sharp grass tips, like blades, emitted a chilling green light.

"Who is it, who is playing tricks," Qin Gang released his Dark Energy, and his entire body was enveloped in a reddish-gold aura, his aged face gleamed within the golden light like it was cast from copper and iron.

The leaves, if they came any closer, would be shattered into powder.

No one in the forest responded. Qin Gang spun around abruptly, his eyes emitting a fierce light, and delivered a heavy palm strike toward an old tree nearby.

The old tree shattered explosively, and Yue Chen stumbled out from behind the tree. He was still young, with shallow Cultivation. Having chased all this way, his breath had not yet stabilized, and the shock from Qin Gang’s strike caused him intense chest pain. The spirit wood around him, which had turned into vegetative soldiers, lost all control.

"Little devil, so it was you," Qin Gang, taken aback by Yue Chen’s capability, was shocked, realizing Yue Chen’s background was definitely not simple; he was not merely an adopted son of the Lie Family Mansion.

Raising a tiger is asking for trouble. Today, if he does not eliminate this boy, once Yue Chen becomes more capable, he will surely be a great disaster. Thinking this, Qin Gang became even more determined to eliminate Yue Chen.

With a ferocious expression, Qin Gang swiftly lunged toward Yue Chen. Just as he was about to kill Yue Chen with a strike, Lie Rou, in a frenzy, threw herself forward and plunged the dagger deep into Qin Gang’s chest.