"How could you help the evildoers? You can't be so ungrateful!"
As he spoke, Xue Liang had already crouched in front of me. Just as he was about to raise his hand to scratch my face, suddenly another person appeared beside me and grabbed his wrist.
"Jixiang... You've come to save me?" I didn't expect Jixiang to show up so timely without my chanting the incantation for the spiritual assistant.
Jixiang grabbed Xue Liang's wrist with one hand and winked at me, saying, "It's not just me. All of us are here."
He snapped his fingers with the other hand, and all the immortals in my spiritual altar, including Lihua and Bai Ling'er, arrived.
"You..." I was so excited that I was almost in tears.
"It's no use for you to come. You're all here to die." Seeing this, Xue Liang's arm was as flexible as a soft - bodied animal. He gently pulled it down, and his hand slipped out of Jixiang's grasp.
Then he took to his heels and scurried back to Gu Yuan's side. He gently pointed with his arm, and his subordinates swarmed forward and fought with Jixiang and the others.
We all knew Jixiang's abilities. He was just a glib talker and didn't have much real talent, but his loyalty to me was no less than Bai Qi's.
Bai Ling'er was indeed quite capable, but she could only handle a dozen or so opponents. With hundreds of soldiers swarming forward, she couldn't hold out.
As for Lihua, although she was a smoke spirit, she was basically just a pretty face. She was good at cooking, but fighting was completely beyond her.
Only now did I start to regret why I hadn't recruited more immortals into my spiritual altar back then.
If there had been a few more immortals, we wouldn't have ended up in such a mess.
The whole fight only lasted for half an hour. Gu Yuan and Xue Liang didn't even need to move a finger. Just the little soldiers under them had beaten Jixiang and the others black and blue.
"Stop fighting. I'll rush up and stop them..." I had already appreciated their kindness. If the fight continued, they might all die before me.
"Since we're in the same spiritual altar, we rise and fall together. If we're going to die, we'll die together."
"Why do you have to do this? Go back quickly. Please, I don't want you to die with me."
At this moment, Jixiang had been beaten so badly that he was spitting blood, but he still stood in front of me, not allowing those soldiers to get close to me.
Bai Ling'er was the same. Her hand holding the long whip was already trembling.
I hid behind them, really like a coward.
"Gu Yuan... I beg you. Let them go. I'll go with you, okay? Please."
Just at this moment, one of my legs was about to kneel, but Jixiang grabbed me up.
"You're so useless. What's the use of begging him... The moment he wanted to kill you, he was no longer our grand master of the spiritual altar... I really regret not letting you smash his memorial tablet back then..."
Gu Yuan looked down on us struggling ants from above, completely ignoring Jixiang's words.
"If you don't want them to die, you can send them away with just one word."
One word. Right, I could use the incantation to send the immortals back.
How could I forget about this?
Without a moment's hesitation, I took out the talisman paper from my pocket and started chanting.
"Lan Lan, I said if you send me away again, I'll break off relations with you..." Bai Ling'er knew what I was going to do. She whipped out and flew towards me.
But it was too late. I said to her, "Sorry. It's better to break off relations than to die with me."
When the talisman paper burned out, all my spiritual soldiers were sent back to the spiritual altar by me.
Only Jun He was left. Since he wasn't an immortal in my spiritual altar, I couldn't invite him nor send him away.
Xue Liang's subordinates never expected that I would send all the immortals around me away and leave myself alone.
To be honest, just now I was still wondering what to do if they left and I was alone. But after sending them all away, I actually felt a sense of relief.
Isn't it just death? I never intended to leave this world alive anyway.
It's just a matter of sooner or later. I've already earned this extra half - year of life. Since Gu Yuan wants it back, I'll just give it to him.
I took a deep breath and looked at Gu Yuan, who was standing high above, with my red and swollen eyes from crying.
He was still so lofty. In fact, from beginning to end, I had never been on the same level as him.
I walked forward step by step. Those soldiers holding long spears wanted to rush up, but were intimidated by my fierce gaze and didn't dare to get close.
This scene made me think of the time when Gu Qingcheng single - handedly defended Youdu. Back then, she also fought against the heavenly soldiers and generals with the determination to die. If she could be so fearless, what did I have to be afraid of?
I walked in front of Jun He. I don't know where I got the courage. I grabbed the immortal - binding rope with one hand. The electric sound penetrated my eardrums, making my whole body go numb. The current flowed up my arm, leaving several scars along the way. Bright red blood flowed out along the cracks, and my whole body crackled like fireworks.
"Lan Lan... Stop..." Jun He shouted hoarsely.
My voice was even louder than his: "Ah..."
I exerted all my last strength to break the immortal - binding rope, but after all, it was a magical item of the immortals. As a mere mortal, I might be electrocuted to death before I could break it.
But at that moment, my mind was completely blank. I just wanted to save Jun He with my own ability.
Until I roared out my last bit of strength, my voice was hoarse, and I vomited blood. The blood spurted onto the immortal - binding rope.
I held one end of the immortal - binding rope. There was a crackling sound between my hands like setting off fireworks. I roared with all my might, and the immortal - binding rope was actually broken by me.
Jun He was also completely taken aback. He stood there stunned and even forgot to get out of the immortal - binding rope.
"Get out..." Reminded by me, Jun He finally came to his senses. He transformed his figure and got out of the restraint of the immortal - binding rope.
Seeing that he was out of danger, I also lost my strength. I had no strength left in my body and fell heavily.
"Lan Lan..."
Just as Jun He wanted to rush forward to catch me, I was hugged by another dark figure.
My vision was extremely blurred. I raised my eyes to look at him, but this person grabbed my mouth hard and forced some kind of medicinal soup into my mouth.
The medicinal soup was both spicy and pungent. When it went down my throat, it made me cough continuously. It was more like medicinal liquor than medicinal soup. I couldn't swallow it. I spat out a mouthful, but it all went into my nose.
I raised my hand forcefully and knocked the medicine bottle out of his hand, but he picked me up horizontally.
"Let her go..." With Jun He's angry roar, the effect of the medicine on me seemed to kick in.
My mind was muddled. I felt like my whole body was about to explode. My vision went black and white alternately, and I felt like I was floating in the air.
I only felt that my eyelids were as heavy as a thousand catties and I couldn't lift them up.