A Lai clenched his fists tightly. Despite his grayish corpse-like skin, muscles bulged on his arms like coiled dragons. He mobilized the strength of all his muscles and struck at Ning Yitao.
The chains embedded in his flesh seemed to be in tune with his mind. The bulky chains didn't become a burden to him; instead, they turned into his most suitable weapons.
The flying chains attacked everything in front of them, but they protected Ye Zheng very well.
Ning Yitao dodged. Because of these chains, she couldn't get close to A Lai.
Afraid that Duan Qinghuai and the others would be accidentally injured by A Lai, she took a few quick leaps and moved to Chu Zhiyuan who was carrying Duan Qinghuai. Then she led them to hide under the sink.
Ye Zheng wouldn't let A Lai damage her precious sink. They were safe here.
Without any worries, Ning Yitao landed lightly on the entrance of the cave, standing steadily with her clothes fluttering in the wind.
Thinking he had seized an opportunity, A Lai immediately rushed forward. But Ning Yitao suddenly spun around and swept him down with a single-leg kick.
Ning Yitao somehow drew out a sword from behind her back. The sharp sword energy forced A Lai back.
With the help of the sword, Ning Yitao instantly reversed the situation. She no longer just dodged but began to take the initiative.
Since she got the inner elixir from Mrs. Alexi, Ning Yitao felt that the meridians in her body had been repaired. The mobilization and operation of her spiritual power had become smoother, which was completely different from before.
The spiritual power covering the sword could easily scratch A Lai.
But after Ning Yitao scratched A Lai, his skin and flesh actually healed on their own.
Ning Yitao couldn't move freely in this narrow cave. She could only take advantage of his inattention and cut off his neck with a sword.
A Lai's head rolled on the ground for a few times and then stopped.
Chu Zhiyuan thought he had been taken care of and wanted to step forward to find Ning Yitao. But as soon as he stretched out his hand, he was grabbed by Yun Lianmeng with a serious face.
"Don't go."
When his attention returned to Ning Yitao and the others, he found that A Lai's head had somehow returned to his body.
"He's actually immortal. This is a forbidden technique." Chu Zhiyuan blurted out.
Hearing this, Ye Zheng's expression twisted for a moment. The corner of her mouth hooked into a strange smile, and she said proudly:
"A Lai is my treasure. He's my obedient puppet. I made him come back to life, and he can only rely on me and protect me."
"See the chains on his body? My masterpiece. I can make you powerful."
With a sinister look on her face, she looked at Chu Zhiyuan and said, "I can make you live forever. Come, come to me, and I can fulfill any of your wishes."
At this moment, Ye Zheng was hunched over like a child trafficker on the street, weird and persistent.
Chu Zhiyuan shivered. He couldn't even imagine what he would look like if he became like A Lai. He couldn't help but lean closer to Duan Qinghuai.
Chu Zhiyuan didn't know why, but he felt inexplicably comfortable and safe when standing beside Duan Qinghuai.
Ning Yitao protected Duan Qinghuai very well. She tried her best to prevent others from discovering Duan Qinghuai's secret and framing him.
After several rounds of testing, Ning Yitao grasped A Lai's specific situation. Although he had the ability to regenerate, his healing speed significantly slowed down after multiple injuries.
Ning Yitao found that the more spiritual power she injected into the sword, and when it reached a certain level, A Lai's wounds wouldn't heal anymore.
Ning Yitao twirled the sword in fancy moves. She made up her mind, gathered her qi and channeled her spiritual power. Her eyes were sharp, and her fluttering sleeves left afterimages in the air.
She neatly cut off his chains with a few sword strikes and then dismembered A Lai, leaving him unable to move.
At this time, Ye Zheng's eyes became useful. She was the first to react. She turned around and ran away from the cave entrance.
Even her body movements became more agile, and she ran like the wind.
After getting out of the cave, Ye Zheng's face was full of cold anger. She gritted her teeth and said, "Ye Qianmo, it's you again. You always come to ruin my good deeds."
She looked back three times at every step as she ran towards the village. She was afraid that Ning Yitao and the others would chase after her. She could only hope that A Lai could hold them back.
"Since you're so heartless and ruined the resentment I've accumulated for many years, then don't blame me for being cruel."
On this side, Ning Yitao was playing with A Lai's severed limbs with her sword. She felt very strange. She found A Lai's head and waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Hey, can you understand me?"
There was a childlike innocence in A Lai's eyes. He turned his head away like a child throwing a tantrum, not wanting to see Ning Yitao. He mumbled in a nasal voice, "Bad guy."
Unexpectedly, although A Lai had a giant-like body, he had a child's voice.
Surprise flashed in Ning Yitao's eyes. She didn't expect Ye Zheng to have some skills.
Even the living dead Lu Anguo accidentally created by Duan Qing didn't have such a strong sense of self-awareness and such a large range of activity.
However, these problems were solved on A Lai.
This made Ning Yitao extremely interested in A Lai.
On this side, Yun Lianmeng found that Ning Yitao just stared at the direction where Ye Zheng had run away and didn't do anything else. Instead, she was playing with those severed limbs and didn't intend to continue chasing Ye Zheng.
Yun Lianmeng asked in confusion:
"Why don't you pursue her while you're winning? Her most powerful helper, A Lai, can no longer help her."
Ning Yitao looked at Yun Lianmeng's unwilling face. After knowing her for so long, this was the first time she had been so emotional.
Ning Yitao asked thoughtfully:
"Do you really want her to die?"
Yun Lianmeng looked calm. She looked directly at Ning Yitao and nodded seriously. "Yes, I want her to die. I really, really do. I went to her house."
"She extracted the pure souls of those children to prolong her own life. That's bad enough, but she didn't even spare their corpses. She tortured them, drained their blood for a bath, dried their pancreas and ground it into powder to make a drink. All this was just to prolong her dying body."
As she spoke, Yun Lianmeng became more and more excited. Ye Zheng didn't show up but just controlled those innocent children to harm their companions.
Those children in the cellar clearly had a great future ahead of them, but they could only die miserably in the dirty and dark cellar for Ye Zheng's selfish desires.
Ning Yitao's expression was unclear. "She's already at the end of her rope. Even without me, she will die."
The resentment in the sink was long gone. Her formation had to be activated in the middle of this month. She was just one step away from achieving her goal.
But Ye Zheng couldn't gather enough resentment in such a short time before the upcoming full moon night.
Even without Ning Yitao's interference, if she followed the forbidden technique and activated the formation, it would definitely fail.
The activation of this forbidden technique required a large amount of spiritual power in the surrounding area to drive the formation.
This forbidden technique went against ethics and the will of heaven. Its activation would attract the wrath of heaven, eight thunderbolts.
The people at that time could succeed in activating it only because of their deep spiritual power and high cultivation.
But what did Ye Zheng have? Nothing. She only had a dying body.
Her end was doomed to be miserable.