Chapter 298: 298: Does she deserve pity?
Even though Jiang Nuo considered that his voice was quite low, who was Mu Qiuniang? She was one of the outstanding figures among the younger generation in the Cultivation World, how could she not have heard?
She thought to herself, how come so few men showed compassion even though she seemed so pitiable?
Look, even an Immortal’s man, seeing her in such a pitiful state, still spoke up for her, didn’t he?
Mu Qiuniang was secretly delighted, unable to display a more vulnerable demeanor, and began to beg Mu Qiuniang for mercy. Actually, it was all for Jiang Nuo to see.
"Immortal, I truly know my wrongs, please spare my life... I, Mu Qiuniang, have had a hard life. I truly didn’t know he was your man, and I never intended to harm his life. This time someone offered a high price, and I was made to teach him a harsh lesson..."
"Wuwuwu... I really know my wrongs! I shouldn’t have easily believed others, thinking your man was a fool who deceived other women, which is why I softened and helped others..."
"Immortal, I beg you, I’m still so young, I really don’t want to die..."
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Jiang Nuo’s heart was in turmoil. In this era, how could one casually take a life?
He prodded Mu Qiuniang’s back, continuing softly, "Wife, we can’t kill indiscriminately, or how are we different from those villains?"
How did she kill indiscriminately? This was an eye for an eye. The Cultivation World is inherently like this; if you don’t take another’s life, they’ll take yours.
So against enemies, there can be no mercy.
"What if I must kill her?" Mu Qiuniang didn’t bother to explain, turned around, and looked at him coldly.
"Are you crazy?!"
Jiang Nuo was somewhat shocked. He knew his wife was formidable and had read books about Cultivation, saying how cruel the Cultivation World was, with life’s decisions being made at the flick of a finger.
But he never thought his wife could be such a person?!
What a joke?!
"Qiuniang, that’s a living person, not an animal..."
Jiang Nuo tried to persuade her.
Mu Qiuniang suddenly felt a bit disappointed. Perhaps she was wrong; she shouldn’t have brought this man into the world of Cultivation.
He was born in peaceful times, never experienced such cruelty, how could he accept such harshness?
Even if he read about the battles in the Cultivation World, they were just words.
It was her fault!
Knowing full well they were from different worlds, she insisted on dragging him into her affairs.
From the beginning, she was wrong!
Or maybe she protected him too well.
She could be ruthless enough to throw her two newly initiated disciples out, letting them experience the harshness of the Cultivation World.
But for him, she couldn’t be that heartless.
"Perhaps, I was wrong!" Mu Qiuniang said.
It was a simple sentence, yet it made Jiang Nuo suddenly realize how hurtful his words had just been.
"It’s not like that, wife. I’m saying, no matter what this woman did wrong, she hasn’t caused irreparable consequences yet. We shouldn’t decide her life or death carelessly..."
"This world is governed by laws. If she really killed someone, the law should decide what price she should pay. This is only attempted murder, which shouldn’t be punished by death."
"Qiuniang, it’s a civilized society now, a lawful society..."
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Regardless of what he said, Mu Qiuniang only said one thing: "This is the Cultivation World!"
Suddenly, Jiang Nuo didn’t know what to say.
The Cultivation World, is it really that different?
With just a wave of a hand, one could decide a person’s life or death.
In his line of sight, Mu Qiuniang raised that cruel arm, the one that looked plump and delicate, which he was once immensely enamored with and had kissed countless times. With a light imaginary grip, a life vanished.
"No! Don’t..." Mu Qiuniang never expected that, even now, the woman still killed her.
She let out a tragic scream, enveloped by countless white Bai Qiangwei flowers, instantly devouring flesh and bone.
The image that entered Jiang Nuo’s eyes was a living person being eaten by a group of plants.
Such beautiful and pure white Bai Qiangwei flowers transformed into executioners for taking lives.
White, stained red, as if purity was tainted by blood...
Something heavily pounded on Jiang Nuo’s heart.
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By the time the elders of the Yun Sect arrived at the scene after receiving the distress signal, they only saw a field of pure white Bai Qiangwei flowers, with no trace of Mu Qiuniang.
"Where is she?"
What shocked him was that there wasn’t even a trace of Mu Qiuniang’s body.
Who could be so ruthless, leaving not a single bone?
What’s more terrifying is that he couldn’t find any signs of the battle no matter how he searched the scene.
If it weren’t for finding the Furnace used by Mu Qiuniang to refine the Great Replenishing Pill on the ground, he would truly believe it was she who made a mistake, but things were there, and people weren’t.
There was something very wrong!
Refining the Great Replenishing Pill was such an important matter. If the Cultivation Alliance discovered it, their Yun Sect would be in big trouble.
Mu Qiuniang, normally such a cautious person, how could she make such a mistake?
"Mu Qiuniang? Mu Qiuniang? Mu Qiuniang, are you still there? If you are, please respond to me..."
He was more worried that Mu Qiuniang was, after all, a core disciple of the Master, knowing too many secrets of the Master.
If Mu Qiuniang wasn’t dead, but captured by this person, once she couldn’t withstand torture and revealed the secrets of the Yun Sect, then the Yun Sect...
He hesitated just a little before immediately tidying up the scene and returning to the Master to report this incident.
"What?! You say Mu Qiuniang disappeared?!" The Sect Leader of Yun Sect, dressed in a pale blue robe with a white beard hanging to his chest, appearing slim yet exuding an otherworldly aura.
But now, veins popped on his face, making him appear a bit fierce.
"Y-yes, Sect Leader!" The visitor was startled, his voice a bit shaky.
Their Sect Leader, in the eyes of outsiders, was broad-minded, benevolent, very tolerant and magnanimous, but in fact, he was a petty person, particularly jealous of talents.
Especially those with no status but extraordinary cultivation talent, who couldn’t be used by him.
If he could assassinate them, he would have done so long ago, pulling those who could be drawn into their sect.
So on the surface, the Yun Sect appeared to be the last among the five major sects, but in reality, its hidden power was the most complex.
"Disappeared, don’t you know how to search? You fool, with all the Great Replenishing Pills you were fed, for good cultivation, what use are you? At the critical moment, you were of no use, what is the point of you being alive, simply wasting the sect’s resources..."
His heart was shaking. Would the Sect Leader find him too gluttonous and want to get rid of him, refining him into a Great Replenishing Pill?
No! He liked eating Great Replenishing Pills, but he wasn’t willing to become one.
"Sect Leader, I think Mu Qiuniang is likely already dead..." he hurriedly responded.
"Are you certain?"
"I’m certain."
"What evidence do you have?"
He was immediately at a loss for words.
The Sect Leader immediately became furious again, "You have no evidence, yet you dare to make big claims, are you trying to fool me?"
Saying so, he sent out a palm strike.