After Abandoning the Ruthless Dao Swordmaster - Chapter 18

Wu Su heard the sounds in the distance coming closer, and thought about how she could get away.

 

The black energy demon knew that there was nothing he could do to her. When he saw that she had withdrawn the energy of chaos, he immediately took the opportunity and flew out of the room, trying to escape.

 

Wu Su turned around, collecting the rest of the chaotic energy she had spread across the room.  Lowered her head, she pulled at her clothes, and managed to tidy herself up a bit.

 

She heard someone calling “Ninth Highness” outside, so she thought that he must have come as well.

 

As she stood still in the middle of the room, the locked door in front of her shattered, accompanied by the ringing of the familiar-sounding sword.

 

The evil aura inside the room had not completely dissipated when Pei Jiuzhi rushed in with his sword.

 

The sword in his hand was extremely sharp. Wu Su was so frightened that she wanted to hide, but her strength was exhausted..

 

She stumbled backwards, and Pei Jiuzhi’s indifferent eyes suddenly narrowed.

 

Under Pei Jiuzhi’s control, the cold sword turned in a different direction and brushed past her body.

 

Wu Su felt a sharp coldness pass by..

 

She thought she would fall to the ground again, but unexpectedly, she suddenly ended up  in a solid embrace.

 

Pei Jiuzhi pulled her into his arms, until her forehead was resting on his shoulder.

 

His shoulders were stable, with a hint of warmth.

 

His eyes glanced briefly over Wu Su’s tattered clothes.

 

——She always got herself into such a mess.

 

Through the rips in Wu Su’s torn clothes, he had seen the beauty mark under her breast very clearly.

 

Pei Jiuzhi turned his head sideways, a blush spreading over his cheeks.

 

He gathered Wu Su in his arms and pulled off the altar robe he was still wearing.

 

He wrapped her tightly in the pure white cloth with golden embroidery, covering Wu Su’s body..

 

Wu Su’s chin rested on his shoulder. She had no strength. He could kill her with a single move.

 

“Little Highness?” She called out to him, but her eyes remained focused on his sword-holding hand.

 

This sword looks so familiar.

 

She was so startled, it felt like she could hardly breathe.

 

The Little Highness is holding this sword. The Little Highness was the honoured guest that night.

 

“I’m here.” Pei Jiuzhi responded, his other hand still tightly wrapped around her waist.

 

“The demon is going to escape.” Wu Su reminded him.

 

Pei Jiuzhi lifted her into his arms and rushed out of the evil-filled room.

 

Outside the house, the blood of the female guard was still covering the ground,  the bright red colour growing darker as it dried.

 

The cage created by the evil black energy demon had also disappeared. Wu Su followed the evil aura, and saw the mass of black energy hit against an invisible barrier as it tried to flee.

 

Several Imperial mages had already taken action, using the spiritual energy received from the Immortal Island to set up formations to trap the evil demon inside the inn.

 

The evil demon was quite strong, and slammed repeatedly against the weak points of the formation, until cracks appeared in the pure spiritual energy due to his tyrannical power.

 

Wu Su was wrapped in Pei Jiuzhi’s robe and held in his arms. Xu Ling had already rushed in with someone from outside.

 

Seeing Wei Li unconscious on the ground, he quickly ordered someone to protect her.

 

After all, in his understanding, Wei Li was the person that the Ninth Highness had sent him to look for.

 

Qiu Xu worked for the City Guard, so he was carried out by them. Wu Su confirmed that the two people were safe and felt relieved.

 

Her promise to the woman with the red ribbon had been fulfilled, but at the same time, the fact that she is a demon has been seen by two humans.

 

The doctor might not say anything about it, but she is certain that Wei Li will definitely expose her identity.

 

Wu Su sighed softly. She would not be safe for long.

 

Pei Jiuzhi hugged her without letting go. His eyes were fixed on the evil black energy, but he turned his head when he heard Wu Su sigh.

 

“Are you hurt?” Pei Jiuzhi asked her in a low voice.

 

“No.” Wu Su’s long eyelashes trembled as she spoke. “Little Highness, I only sighed because someone died.”

 

Out of the four captives, the only one who died was the female guard from the Imperial City Division..

 

When Pei Jiuzhi broke into the yard, he first thought that something had happened to Wu Su.

 

That’s why he was so anxious.

 

“I’ll take you out first.” Pei Jiuzhi saw that the black energy could not escape for the time being, so he carried Wu Su towards the exit.

 

Wu Su was wrapped in his large robe, with long hems hanging down from the sides of her bent knees, and the sun and moon patterns embroidered on the cloth shone with dazzling golden light.

 

Pei Jiuzhi was wearing simple clothes over his strong and slender figure. To onlookers, the distance between the two is very close.

 

“Ninth Highness, who is this!” Xu Ling was shocked. He had already forgotten that there was a girl who was kidnapped together with Wei Li.

 

“The girl I asked you to find.” Pei Jiuzhi put Wu Su down.

 

Wu Su’s feet were a little unsteady once they touched the ground. Containing  the evil monster had almost exhausted all her strength.

 

Xu Ling was about to send someone to escort her out, but Wu Su shook her head.

 

She was suddenly curious about what kind of method a mortal like the Little Highness could use to kill monsters.

 

Would he kill her in the same way?

 

“I’ll stay here and watch over Your Highness.” Wu Su spoke softly as she wrapped her robe a little tighter.

 

Since they were surrounded by the City Guards and the Imperial City Division officers,  he felt that Wu Su should be safe here.

 

Pei Jiuzhi helped Wu Su sit down. In the yard, the evil demon was about to break through the confinement formation. Pei Juizhi raised his sword and turned around, heading towards the evil demon.

 

He will slay the demon, this is his duty.

 

Wu Su quietly watched his back.

 

She clenched her hands tightly under the robe, thinking that she too would inevitably be struck by his sword.

 

But there were too many people here, and she was too weak to run away.

 

She could only sit here and watch.

 

It took Xu Ling a long time to realise that he had found the wrong person.

 

He asked in shock: “Girl, Ninth Highness has been looking for you?”

 

“I don’t know.” Wu Su shook her head. She was still not completely sure that the Little Highness had been the distinguished guest that night.

 

Was it really him? Wu Su narrowed her eyes, trying to recall the details of that night.

 

But there were too many people around, and she was embarrassed to remember.

 

Even if she was a demon, she couldn’t help but feel that what happened that night was too ambiguous.

 

Xu Ling stood aside with a look of surprise on his face.

 

The guards from the Imperial City Division nearby also moved forward. One group went to protect Pei Jiuzhi, and another group went to bury the body of the woman with the red hair ribbon.

 

The guards of the Imperial City Division recognized the woman as their colleague. Seeing Wu Su, they wanted to come over and ask questions, but they were stopped by Xu Ling..

 

Wu Su lazily raised her eyelashes. She glanced at the familiar uniforms of the Imperial City Division guards, and asked “What’s wrong?”

 

“How…how did Yue Xin die?”One of the Imperial City guards asked.

 

“The demon wants to eat human hearts. She said that she is from the Imperial City Division and it is her duty to protect the people of Yundu. So she stood  in front of us. The demon cut out her heart, sliced it into small pieces, and ate it.”

 

Wu Su calmly described what happened not long ago.

 

“How can you be so calm!” A commander of the Imperial City Division pushed forward and glared at Wu Su, “She…she saved you.”

 

“She saved us.” Wu Su repeated his words, “We are very grateful to her.”

 

Wei Li was unconscious and injured, and Qiu Xu had gone into shock and had to be carried out of the courtyard.

 

Therefore, Wu Su’s current calmness is a particularly sharp contrast..

 

“Were you rescued by His Highness the Ninth Prince? How long were you  in the same room with that evil monster? Why didn’t he… kill you?”

 

The commander of the Imperial City Division continued to question her.

 

Wu Su could not answer the question about her identity. She whispered: “I don’t know.”

 

“Okay, get back to work.” Xu Ling sent the people from the Imperial City Department away temporarily.

 

Wu Su’s surroundings returned to peace. Everyone was doing their own things in an orderly manner. No one came to talk to Wu Su again.

 

The most difficult problem was the monster trapped in the yard, that had to be solved by Pei Jiuzhi.

 

As Wu Su quietly watched him, the long sword in his hand emitted a sharp stream of light.

 

The sword moves he used were all at the pinnacle of human martial arts. In the end, he is just a mortal who had not cultivated any magical abilities.

 

Wu Su couldn’t understand the mystery contained in every move he made.

 

But she could tell that Pei Jiuzhi relied on his amazing reflexes and strength to avoid countless attacks from the evil demon.

 

The demon was very strong, but he had already expended a lot of his demonic energy when he had been trapped by Wu Su. Now, he was no longer able to defeat a mortal.

 

Wu Su watched as Pei Jiuzhi’s figure battled like a swimming dragon, his sword energy was like the wind, and every attack accurately cut through the black energy.

 

The black energy gradually became weaker under the cutting and slashing blows.

 

His hand holding the sword was very firm, as if the sword was part of his body. The sword was like lightning, and its sharp aura seemed to be able to cut through space.

 

In the end, the evil demon was beaten down by Pei Jiuzhi.

 

Pei Jiuzhi’s face showed a determined look as he decisively struck the final blow..

 

A sword shot out like a flash of lightning, tearing through the sky. As the sword’s clear sound rang out, the evil demon was completely defeated.

 

Wu Su saw the look of disgust towards the demon on Pei Juizhi’s face.

 

This demon is indeed very bad. He killed the brave woman with the red hair ribbon.

 

But at the moment of his death, Wu Su felt sympathy for him.

 

She suddenly felt that Pei Jiuzhi would put the sword through her heart in just the same way, once he knew her identity.

 

The black energy dissipated, drifting over the courtyard.

 

Wu Su felt the alluring yin and yang energy emitted by the evil demon as it died.

 

The dying  demon tried to communicate with her: “I guessed your deal with the little girl in red.”

 

“You can make a trade with her, why don’t you consider making one with me?” The evil demon’s voice was extremely weak.

 

“There’s one more thing I…want to accomplish.”

 

“I can give you much more than her.” The black energy that was about to disappear wrapped around Wu Su’s body, the evil demon’s voice was barely a whisper.

 

Wu Su looked up at Pei Jiuzhi in the distance, walking toward her. He was holding the sword, and every step he took was so big, it almost seemed as if he ran towards her.

 

She saw a hint of concern in his usually indifferent eyes. After he completed his mission of killing the evil monster, she was his next concern.

 

The voice of the evil demon begging for a deal with her was still ringing in her ears.

 

“You are too weak now. Aren’t you interested in the energy I can give you?”

 

“I’m going to die, please…make a deal with me.”

 

“I still have something I want.”

 

Wu Su looked at Pei Jiuzhi as the evil monster  whispered deep in her consciousness.

 

She answered him: “No.”

 

“Why?” the evil demon asked.

 

Wu Su thought of the dead Fang Xiuzhi and Yue Xin.

 

“I will not make deals with the souls of those who died under his sword.”

 

At this time, Wu Su’s eyes were on the long sword held in Pei Juizhi’s hand as he approached. The sword was still brimming with murderous intent.

 

She was startled, a little scared, and turned sideways, trying to hide.

 

But although Pei Jiuzhi still held the sword, under everyone’s gaze he leaned towards her and hugged her tightly.