“Master Ren Bin, you seem to have a lot of questions for me.”
Looking at Ren Bin’s thoughtful expression, Hua Wenyan said with a smile. “really.”
“It’s okay, Master Ren Bin, don’t worry and ask. I still have a little time.”
Ren Bin looked carefully at the black sword stuck to Hua Wenyan’s hand, “What kind of sword is this?”
“I don’t know. Someone gave it to me. As long as the mark is engraved, I will have the power close to the Dharmakāya.”
“It’s absorbing your spiritual energy. Once it absorbs all the blood and spiritual energy around it, it should absorb your life force.”
“I understand.”
“Master Ren Bin is really amazing,” Hua Wenyan said with a smile, “It’s so easy to see through this sword.”
“I’ve encountered this a lot,” Ren Bin said, sounding somewhat helpless.
“In the past, I would always call him Master in this situation.”
The last time he saw the Evil Sword was when Liao Xu showed up.
Of course, if you can’t beat them, just call for help.
“What about this time?”
“I haven’t thought about it yet… I’ll talk about it later.”
Ren Bin pondered for a few seconds, then answered helplessly.
He really wanted to get rid of this mess and run away.
It had nothing to do with him anyway.
Even if something really happened, let the court deal with it themselves.
“Who gave you the sword?”
“I don’t know.”
Hua Wenyan smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“From the day I was rescued until today, I don’t know the identities of those people, but I am sure that they are people of noble status in the court.”
“Rescued?”
Ren Bin was stunned for a moment.
“Oh, by the way, I haven’t told Master Ren Bin about my story yet. I’m so sorry.”
Ren Bin found a spot without blood and sat on the ground, “You tell me.”
“…It’s actually a very old story.”
“I used to be a zither girl, a signature of the brothel. Lord Ren Bin also once asked me to play the zither.”
“I also like to play the piano. There was a piano player in Hualou who taught me a lot. Unfortunately, she left Hualou nine years ago. I don’t know where she went. But before she left, she left me a lot of songs, which I still have.”
“Until…” She laughed, her eyes gradually becoming confused.
“Although it is written on the surface of the brothel that geishas sell their art but not their bodies…but that is ultimately for ordinary people, and cannot bind those high-ranking officials and practitioners.”
“I was favored by an official of the imperial court. He bribed a prostitute and drugged my wine.”
“Then, the rest of the story was just like a novel,” she lowered her eyes, “someone rushed in and chopped off the official’s head, and then said that I was the inheritor of some impoverished Sword Sect, with extraordinary talent, and that Wei Haowen was the murderer of my father, and that he could help me get revenge.”
“Oh…..” She let out a long laugh that sounded a little sarcastic.
“It sounds good, but there is no such a cheap deal in the world. Help and revenge are just lies they use to take advantage of me.”
“Although I was just a zither girl at that time, I understand…” “Perhaps the next moment after I reject them, my head will be chopped off as well. This will be the price for rejecting them. Those high-ranking officials must have been deceived by them. They are their pawns. It was arranged long ago.”
“The official’s head and body were separated, and his body was burned to ashes. No one knew he was dead.”
“I am just a part of their script. Even if I die, there will always be a replacement.”
Her eyes were somewhat sad.
“At that time, I just wanted to live a little longer. I lived in fear every day. In order to survive, I practiced swordplay desperately. It was just as that person said. I really had a talent for swordplay.”
“But what about Wei Haowen… He brags about his good teaching and how talented I am. He shows off everywhere. But privately, he treats me as a slave and a tool to win over the rich and powerful.”
“Later, I learned that he practiced evil magic and could devour other people’s sword power to nourish himself… He is such a rotten person.”
She looked to the side of the pavilion, where there was a corpse that had been sucked dry.
Fear and shock were written all over its face, and its eyes were bulging as if they were about to pop out.
“When I was killing him just now, his eyes widened and he uttered something unclear. I don’t know if he was begging for mercy or cursing. Hehehe… Are you shocked? That submissive disciple actually pierced his heart with a sword and sucked all his blood.”
“But he is also a chess piece after all, a chess piece used to take advantage of me… otherwise those people wouldn’t have waited so long before killing me.”
She paused, carefully picked up the wine jug beside her, and poured the wine into her mouth with trembling hands.
“Cough cough cough…I feel much better. I was just scared again.”
“What are you afraid of?”
“Hey, isn’t this… going to kill me?”
“Well, I don’t want to live anymore.”
Although the words were so sad, the smile on Hua Wenyan’s face seemed frozen.
“It’s so tiring to be a chess piece… I have no control over myself every day, and my life is worse than death. I am in pain, irritable, and unhappy. What’s the purpose of persisting like this? What will happen to me after I achieve my goal? I might as well die.”
“Have you ever thought about escaping?”
Ren Bin asked in a calm tone.
“Oh…no.”
She said self-deprecatingly.
“You thought about dying, but you never thought about escaping?”
“How can I escape? Every time I open my eyes, I feel like everyone is staring at me. As soon as I have the thought of escaping, it will be strangled by the fear of being watched.”
“Just like today, when I just met you, they took the tickets for the lake cruise and asked me to get rid of you.”
“That feeling only disappeared just now. I guess they achieved their goal.”
She lowered her head.
“Now, just wait… for the sword to absorb all the remaining vitality…” “Master Ren Bin, you have seen this kind of sword before. I want to ask… will it be very uncomfortable to have your vitality sucked away?”
Ren Bin thought for a moment: “meeting.”
“It felt like being bitten by ants all over my body. It was excruciatingly painful.”
“…How long will it hurt?”
“About a minute or so. Your vitality isn’t that strong.”
“One minute?”
Hua Wenyan was trembling all over.
“I am a little scared.”
“It can’t be helped. After all, everyone gets scared when facing death.”
He recalled the elder in the peak who usually looked calm and aloof, but when he was about to die, he hugged his neck and cried with tears all over his face.
“But you could be more optimistic.”
Ren Bin stretched lazily.
“If you had used a different method, I might have turned a blind eye to it.”
“But the sword you hold is evil and tainted with demonic energy, so Tai Heng Sect will have to take care of it.”
“That’s probably why they wanted to get rid of me.”
Two scrolls appeared out of thin air in his hands.
“Since the founding of the Tai Heng Sect, it has been our duty to slay demons and eliminate evil.”
“Wait! Lord Ren Bin, you can’t!!!”
Hua Wenyan stood up excitedly, her voice trembling: “Don’t be hostile to me, I can’t control myself…” She is just a pendant of the evil sword.
“Under the pressure of the evil sword, all sword practitioners will be suppressed! I don’t want to hurt you!”
Ren Bin scratched his hair, his face calm: “It doesn’t matter.”
“I am not a swordsman now.”
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