230: Ye Lin was stunned

“That bad seed, trying to scheme against me? What a pipe dream.”

Seeing Zhi Meng’s message, Jiang Yu shook her head with a smile and began to calculate.

Soon, she replied, telling Zhi Meng to wait and that she would come once she was done.

As for when she would be done, of course, that would be after Zhi Meng had fallen.

The most important thing right now was to stabilize Zhi Meng first, so she wouldn't abduct women for Gu Qing and affect the progress of their relationship.

After sending the message, Jiang Yu secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, she had upgraded her personal communication jade, which now ignored distance and could receive any message.

Otherwise, with Zhi Meng’s madness, she would definitely find women for Gu Qing, and Jiang Yu wouldn't know when she would see Zhi Meng become a discarded wife.

On the other side, Gu Qing quickly found Ye Lin.

However, to his surprise, Ye Lin was with Zheng Jianfeng and others.

He glanced at the charming and lively Zuo Yu’er and understood.

Zuo Yu’er was the female lead; how could the protagonist be absent from where the female lead appeared?

Even in the vast universe, Ye Lin had followed the scent.

“Boom!”

Ye Lin’s eyes widened when he saw Zhi Meng.

Her figure was tall and domineering, her fair skin seemed to glow.

Her phoenix eyes looked down upon the world, her aura overwhelmingly domineering, gazing proudly at the universe.

Zhi Meng’s beauty was too impactful, stunningly breathtaking.

However, before Ye Lin could recover from Zhi Meng’s peerless beauty, he saw Zhi Meng unleash a palm strike without hesitation.

The giant palm covered the sky and obscured the sun, and Chaos Qi permeated the air.

If it landed, the flying boat’s defensive array would definitely not withstand it and would be pulverized.

Ye Lin put away his flying boat, gave a crooked, evil, charming smile, confident and flamboyant, then raised a finger, and a sword qi struck the giant palm.

With a loud boom, the giant palm dissipated. Ye Lin stared intently at Zhi Meng, his mouth twisted into a cold sneer: “I say, beautiful lady, even if I’m incredibly handsome, there’s no need to be so immodest and come to snatch a groom, right?”

Clearly, Ye Lin mistook Zhi Meng for a Starry Sky Bandit who specialized in robbing cultivators.

Having finally encountered such a peerless goddess, Ye Lin couldn’t help but tease her with his sharp tongue.

As for Gu Qing next to her, he completely ignored him; his eyes were currently fixed only on Zhi Meng’s unparalleled beauty.

“You’re asking for death.”

Seeing Ye Lin’s disgusting smile, Zhi Meng was furious. She spread her hand, and the Chaos Sky Blade appeared in her grasp. She brought it down with a powerful strike, the blade’s momentum unstoppable.

Looking at the dazzling blade light, Ye Lin finally changed his expression. In this single strike, he felt a fatal danger.

Ye Lin dared not be careless anymore. His Divine Fire Realm sixth-level cultivation fully erupted, and his longsword unleashed billions of thunder sword qi, like an boundless sea of thunder, or raging waves, sweeping through the void.

Rumble!

Zhi Meng gained the upper hand, suppressing Ye Lin. The snowy blade light illuminated the boundless void.

For a while, neither could determine the victor.

Gu Qing looked at Zheng Jianfeng and the others and asked, “Are you with him?”

“Yes.”

Zheng Jianfeng subconsciously replied, then realized his mistake and quickly added: “I was just riding his flying boat; we have no friendship. I didn’t even know him before.”

All of this happened too suddenly.

Even now, he hadn't figured out what was going on.

However, there must be a reason behind it, and Zheng Jianfeng dared not get involved.

After all, Gu Qing had saved his junior brother and sister.

If it weren't for Gu Qing and Zhi Meng generously giving him nine immortal pills, his junior brother and sister would not be alive.

Zuo Yu’er watched with sparkling eyes. She had never seen such a handsome man as Gu Qing.

Especially Gu Qing’s domineering nobility that lorded over the universe, yet when he smiled, he exuded a gentle and refined temperament, something none of the sword cultivators in her sect possessed.

Hearing Gu Qing’s question, Zuo Yu’er also spoke up.

“Senior Brother is right, we have nothing to do with this shameless scoundrel.”

“Junior Sister, Junior Brother, he is our benefactor, Dan Shi Gu,” Zheng Jianfeng transmitted.

Hearing this, their eyes lit up, and they looked at Gu Qing with gratitude.

Zuo Yu’er even blurted out: “Dan Shi Gu, you are Dan Shi Gu who gave Senior Brother the immortal pills…”

“I didn’t expect Dan Shi Gu to be so handsome and talented. I really couldn’t tell!”

In her impression, alchemists should all be old men with white beards, so how could there be such a handsome alchemist like Gu Qing!

This didn’t make sense.

“…”

Was she praising him or insulting him?

“My apologies, Dan Shi Gu, my Junior Sister is simple-minded. Please forgive any offense.”

Zheng Jianfeng’s expression changed, and he quickly clasped his hands and bowed in apology.

“It’s fine.”

Gu Qing shook his head and said, “Since you have no relation with Ye Lin, then go kill him.”

“What?” The few of them were stunned.

“Unwilling?”

If these few were unwilling, then he wouldn't mind taking them out together.

Zheng Jianfeng hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Although he didn't want to act, Gu Qing had saved their lives, and this debt of gratitude had to be repaid no matter what.

“Junior Brother, come with me to kill Ye Lin.”

“Alright!”

At Zheng Jianfeng’s command, his two Divine Fire Realm seventh-level junior brothers immediately took action without hesitation.

They had been annoyed with Ye Lin for a long time, as he constantly stared at their Junior Sister with lustful eyes and teased her with various words, which was utterly hateful.

“Strange,” Gu Qing muttered to himself. These people clearly belonged to the protagonist’s faction, yet why did they act as if they were dealing with a sworn enemy who had killed their father?

“Thank you, Dan Shi Gu, for saving our lives.”

Coming before Gu Qing, Zuo Yu’er’s delicate face was flushed, her bright, sparkling apricot eyes fluttering.

Her fair skin had an alluring glow, making her charming and graceful.

“Saving your lives?” Gu Qing was a bit confused.

When had he saved these people?

Why didn't he know himself?

“I was poisoned…” Seeing his confusion, Zuo Yu’er briefly explained the whole story.

After listening, Gu Qing was somewhat silent.

When did a life-saving grace become so cheap?

Perhaps, this was the fate of supporting characters.

The protagonist helps a little, and it becomes a life-saving grace, which they repay with their lives, possibly even implicating their sect and family.

Shaking his head, Gu Qing didn't bother to think further and said, “You go too.”

How could the female lead be absent from besieging the protagonist?

“Ah? Oh.”

Zuo Yu’er, in a daze, drew her sword and charged forward.

Rumble!

Innumerable sword qi and jade-like blade light tore Ye Lin into pieces. After his body was reshaped, his aura was weak, and he glared at Zheng Jianfeng and the others with fiery eyes.

“Zheng Jianfeng, I kindly saved you, and not only are you ungrateful, but you actually betray me. Are you and she in cahoots?”

“Are you Starry Sky Bandits?”

“No.”

Zheng Jianfeng was momentarily stunned. When had Ye Lin saved them?

Unable to figure it out, he didn't bother to ask and directly attacked, a man of action with few words.

The few of them were all true disciples of the Grand Profound Sword Sect, renowned prodigies, and their combat power far surpassed their peers.

Therefore, with their combined efforts, Ye Lin had no power to retaliate, and his physical body was repeatedly blown apart.

He didn’t even have a chance to use his escape technique to flee.

“Stop! Since you’re not Starry Sky Bandits, I kindly gave you a ride; you can’t repay kindness with enmity, can you?”

Ye Lin no longer dared to speak of life-saving grace, instead roaring out the facts in anger.

His soul twisted, his physical body completely destroyed, he screamed in terror.

He was still confused even now.

He couldn't understand Zhi Meng’s background or what grudge she had with him.

And why were Zheng Jianfeng and the others helping Zhi Meng?

Just a moment ago, he was still smugly flirting with the pure and lovely Zuo Yu’er, so how did he suddenly face death and destruction?

“Pah, you shameless scoundrel, how dare you even speak!”

Speaking of which, Zuo Yu’er’s face was filled with anger.

Ye Lin was too greedy.

The place they were going wasn’t very far. The price for riding a flying boat would at most be a few thousand to ten thousand immortal crystals.

But Ye Lin, on the other hand, directly demanded a crossing calamity pill, an immortal yuan pill, and an additional ten thousand immortal crystals from each person.

These were life-saving immortal pills that were hard to buy even with immortal crystals.

Ye Lin was practically slaughtering them like fat sheep.

Zuo Yu’er’s heart was bleeding.

If it were before, she definitely wouldn’t care about a mere few tens of thousands of immortal crystals and two immortal pills.

But now, having experienced life-and-death hardships, she deeply realized that these were life-saving treasures.

Moreover, these immortal crystals were earned by her senior brothers with their lives, accumulated little by little through battles with demonic beasts and conflicts with cultivators.