Published: February 24, 2025
Chapter 19: A Narrow Escape
"Okay, I remember." Mu Mengyi felt a wave of dizziness. She realized that Tan Yun was holding her tightly with both hands, flipping her mid-air so that her back faced the sky, while his own back faced the rocky mountains below!
Suddenly, an ominous premonition filled Mu Mengyi's heart. She seemed to guess something, tears streaming down her face as she choked out, "We are not related, why are you doing this? Tan Yun, you will die doing this!"
"If I don’t do this and Murong Kun catches up, I will definitely die a miserable death, and so will you. Don't worry, I have a tough life; I won’t die so easily." Tan Yun smiled calmly. In an instant, a strong surge of spiritual power rapidly gathered into a shield behind his back.
"Remember my words, hide!" Tan Yun shouted sternly, using all his strength to suddenly thrust his right arm, throwing Mu Mengyi out!
"Tan Yun..." Mu Mengyi cried out, her body soaring in a parabolic arc through the air, falling into the deep pool below the jagged rocks...
Tan Yun's back slammed down heavily onto the rocks from a great height!
“Boom!”
The dull thud of impact was swallowed by the roaring sound of the waterfall. Amidst the flying debris, the massive rock was instantly covered with huge cracks, and Tan Yun was embedded over a foot deep into the stone.
He lay still facing the sky, his eyes wide open, blood oozing from his seven orifices, without a sound...
After falling into the deep pool, Mu Mengyi sank down due to the powerful inertia...
Moments later, Murong Kun, maneuvering his Spirit Vessel, hovered above the waterfall.
Thinking of how Tan Yun had ruined his plans and cut off one of his ears, his face turned ghostly pale, hair flying wildly as he released his spiritual sense to stay over Tan Yun's body, only to find that Tan Yun had completely lost his breath and was already dead!
"You bastard! You should be glad you're dead; otherwise, I would make you regret coming into this world!" Murong Kun cursed before releasing his great perfection of spirit embryo realm spiritual sense, repeatedly scanning a radius of fifteen miles, searching for Mu Mengyi's corpse.
An ordinary cultivator in the great perfection of spirit embryo realm could cover a radius of ten miles with their spiritual sense. However, Murong Kun's soul was evidently five times stronger than that of cultivators of the same level!
After scanning with his spiritual sense for a full quarter of an hour, he snorted coldly, "She’s been hit by soul-devouring powder, her whole body is weak. Falling from such a height, there’s absolutely no chance of survival. It seems her body has been taken away by a demon beast in the mountains."
"She’s one of the four great beauties of the outer sect! What a damn shame. If I had known it would come to this, I should have turned her into my woman earlier!"
Although Murong Kun had a distinguished background in the Huangfu Sacred Sect, killing fellow sect members was a capital offense. Plus, having lost his ear, he urgently needed treatment. Thus, he leapt down from the Spirit Vessel, lifted a boulder weighing thousands of pounds, and placed it over Tan Yun's corpse.
Afterward, he maneuvered the Spirit Vessel and shot into the sky, speeding towards the eastern horizon!
After Murong Kun left, a head emerged from the shimmering water's surface, and then Mu Mengyi, drenched, crawled ashore, looking exceptionally tragic!
Her damp, disheveled hair hung over her knife-like shoulders, and a tight red dress clung to her curvaceous body, accentuating her delicate form.
"Tan Shidi, where are you!"
"Where are you... where..."
She staggered through the valley, calling out in a panic.
That helpless voice lingered in the picturesque valley, echoing for a long time.
"Tan Shidi... please respond..."
Mu Mengyi's heart was filled with a mix of emotion and guilt.
She felt touched that Tan Yun had risked his life to save her by throwing her into the deep pool.
But she also felt guilty, thinking about how heartbroken his family would be if something happened to him!