Chapter 808: This Lord Mosquito Has Killed! What Can You Do About It
The Loose Cultivators’ heartfelt warnings continued, their shouts rising and falling one after another.
It wasn’t that they were bad people.
Nor were they cowards.
They had just lived in Luoping City their entire lives and had long grown accustomed to the unspoken rules set by the Eight Great Clans.
They knew when to stop, when to quit while they were ahead.
They knew perfectly well.
If the Eight Great Clans were truly pushed to the brink, no one would escape unscathed.
The shouts of the onlookers.
Chu Sheng heard them clearly from inside the All Things Return to Origin Bell.
‘Are they wrong?’
‘No.’
‘They’re just living by the rules of this world, cautiously, just trying to survive.’
‘But there are always those people who rely on the classic “Do you know who my father is?”…’
‘They show no regard for the rules and do whatever they please.’
‘You follow the rules, working your way to the finish line step by step.’
‘Meanwhile, they’ve already driven their car there and are popping champagne!’
‘Tell me!’
‘How can someone who plays by the rules compete with someone who doesn’t?’
‘In my past life, as a human,’
‘I lived just like that, always following the rules.’
‘Cautious, always trying to read people’s expressions.’
‘It was so damn tiring!’
‘Now that I’ve been reborn as a mosquito in this life, why should I still be shackled, living by rules set by others?’
‘What’s the point of living?’
‘For just one thing—satisfaction!!!’
‘To hell with the rules!!!’
‘I AM the rules!!!’
‘Whoever pisses me off!!!’
‘I’ll make their whole family miserable!!!’
‘My fate is my own, not heaven’s to decide!!!’
‘I’ll live however the hell I want!!!’
Chu Sheng paid no mind to the “well-intentioned warnings” from the onlookers.
He flapped his wings and flew slowly toward the little mosquito playing dead on the bell’s inner wall.
Next, all he had to do was extend a foreleg and gently tap the little mosquito.
And Jiang Xinglan would be obliterated, body and soul, with no chance of survival.
Outside the All Things Return to Origin Bell, Ye Guxuan also heard the Loose Cultivators’ shouts.
He quickly turned back to look at the unusual little mosquito inside the bell.
Combining this with the strange phenomenon of the All Things Return to Origin Bell still being active,
Ye Guxuan immediately thought of one of the Jiang Family’s life-saving Secret Techniques—the Transformation Escape Technique.
He realized it at once.
Jiang Xinglan wasn’t dead.
He had merely used a Secret Technique at the last moment to feign death and escape by transforming into a mosquito.
It had to be said,
Jiang Xinglan was indeed clever.
He hadn’t turned into some other animal, but a mosquito, just like Chu Sheng.
Even his aura was identical to that of an ordinary mosquito.
‘We’re both mosquitoes now.’
‘Surely I won’t attract your attention.’
Jiang Xinglan’s little scheme was well-conceived.
But Chu Sheng had still found the flaw in it.
However, it had bought Ye Guxuan time to save him.
Since Jiang Xinglan was still alive,
Ye Guxuan had to find a way to protect him.
Otherwise, when the Jiang Family came asking questions,
he and Chu Nianci would have no way to explain themselves.
What’s more, the honor of the Eight Great Clans was at stake.
But they couldn’t enter the All Things Return to Origin Bell and had no way to go in and protect Jiang Xinglan directly.
They could only watch helplessly as Chu Sheng flew step by step toward Jiang Xinglan.
In his urgency, Ye Guxuan saw Gu Yuexi, whom they had been about to restrain.
Suddenly, a diversionary tactic popped into his mind.
“Nianci, quickly go and restrain Gu Yuexi!”
Ye Guxuan urgently ordered Chu Nianci, who was beside him.
“Remember, don’t harm her. Just capture her to use as a hostage.”
Chu Nianci didn’t dare delay. She nodded, and with a flash, she shot toward Gu Yuexi, who wasn’t far away.
Gu Yuexi was only at the Divinity Transformation Realm First Layer, while she was a genuine Integration Realm Peak cultivator.
Moreover, she had earned her strength through her own step-by-step Cultivation.
She wasn’t a phony like Jiang Qingyao, whose level had been artificially inflated with Heavenly and Earthly Treasures.
Therefore, restraining Gu Yuexi was as easy as flipping her hand.
After giving his orders to Chu Nianci, Ye Guxuan quickly shouted at Chu Sheng inside the All Things Return to Origin Bell.
“Mosquito! Stop!”
“If you dare kill Jiang Xinglan, we will kill your Host, Gu Yuexi!”
“You don’t want your Host to die, do you?”
“Besides, if Gu Yuexi dies, you, as her Beast Pet, will die with her!”
Hearing this, Chu Sheng’s movements did indeed stop, and he turned his head to look at Ye Guxuan.
Ye Guxuan thought his threat had worked.
He felt a wave of relief and immediately softened his tone, beginning to lay out the stakes.
“Mosquito, I admit you are very powerful. Your methods are strange, and even Jiang Xinglan was defeated by you.”
“Even if I were to fight you myself, I’m not completely confident I could win.”
“But your Host, Gu Yuexi, is only at the Divinity Transformation Realm First Layer.”
“She is too weak. She can’t withstand our Attacks at all.”
“You are inside the All Things Return to Origin Bell right now, too far from Gu Yuexi.”
“If we decide to kill Gu Yuexi, you’ll have no chance to save her.”
As he spoke, Ye Guxuan glanced at the coiled Frost Bone Dragon nearby and continued his analysis.
“I know you have this Frost Bone Dragon protecting Gu Yuexi.”
“If this Frost Bone Dragon were still alive, with its Celestial God Realm Cultivation from its Peak,”
“never mind me, even the Eight Great Clans combined would have to remain silent.”
“They would have to avoid you at all costs.”
“But the Frost Bone Dragon has been dead for a hundred thousand years. Now it’s just a skeleton, and its Cultivation is only at the Integration Realm Early Stage.”
“Even with its noble Dragon Race Bloodline, allowing it to punch above its weight and display the strength of an Integration Realm Peak,”
“at most, it could only hold off either me or Chu Nianci.”
“And the other one would have more than enough time to kill Gu Yuexi.”
“The Frost Bone Dragon would be completely unable to save her in time.”
“Once Gu Yuexi is dead, you, as her Contracted Beast Pet, will surely die too.”
After Ye Guxuan once again emphasized the life-and-death bond between Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng,
he felt the time was right and finally got to the point, stating his terms.
“Mosquito, as long as you release Jiang Xinglan.”
“Then, you and Gu Yuexi go to the Jiang Family and offer a sincere apology.”
“Furthermore, you must both cripple your own Cultivation.”
“I guarantee the Jiang Family will spare your lives and not wipe you out completely.”
“The other Seven Great Clans will not trouble you again either.”
“You can find a small place in Luoping City and live out the rest of your lives peacefully, wanting for nothing.”
After speaking, Ye Guxuan paused, then added in a persuasive tone,
“A wise man submits to the circumstances.”
“It’s better to live a miserable life than to die a good one, right?”
“‘A wise man submits to the circumstances?'”
“‘It’s better to live a miserable life than to die a good one?'”
Chu Sheng repeated Ye Guxuan’s words, his tone flat, betraying no emotion.
Then, he began to chuckle softly, his laughter dripping with mockery.
“Heh heh.”
The moment his laughter died down,
he extended a thin foreleg and snatched the little mosquito that was Jiang Xinglan.
His appendage squeezed slightly.
With a soft POP,
there was no gush of expected green fluid, only a spray of black blood.
Jiang Xinglan let out a short, sharp cry.
Before he could even struggle, his body and soul were obliterated, utterly snuffed out.
Chu Sheng casually tossed the remains of Jiang Xinglan’s corpse aside.
He was as nonchalant as if he had just squashed a real mosquito.
With Jiang Xinglan dead,
the All Things Return to Origin Bell stopped operating and reverted to its smaller form.
Chu Sheng casually put away the All Things Return to Origin Bell.
Then he flew into the air and looked in Ye Guxuan’s direction.
He opened his proboscis.
His voice wasn’t loud, but it was filled with utter arrogance and dominance.
It carried clearly to every single person’s ears.
“This Lord Mosquito killed him right here and now.”
“What are you going to do about it!!!”