The Gusu Mistake - Chapter 55

Yuan Ruo and Jiang Yi Lan were going to the Han family, and Wu Yun Fei knew they would come. So when they showed up, he was well prepared.

The sun was just right at that time, making the murderous intent of Wu Yun Fei’s henchmen even more obvious.

Wu Yun Fei sat in the main hall, with a gray-robed middle-aged man standing beside him. This man was Hu Cong, his partner in crime. Both of them stared at Yuan Ruo and Jiang Yi Lan with a sinister expression as they approached.

“Just the two of you?” Wu Yun Fei asked mockingly when the two were close.

Jiang Yi Lan replied, “The two of us should be enough!”

“Hehe!” Wu Yun Fei chuckled, stood up, and, without another word, waved his hand, “Kill them!”

As soon as Wu Yun Fei said those two words, his men swarmed forward with only one goal: to take the lives of Jiang Yi Lan and Yuan Ruo.

Yuan Ruo and Jiang Yi Lan also stopped holding back. Every move was a killing blow, and they quickly eliminated more than half of Wu Yun Fei’s men.

“Taoist priest!” Wu Yun Fei looked at his dwindling number of henchmen and couldn’t help but turn to Hu Cong.

“Don’t worry, my lord, leave it to me!” Hu Cong finished speaking, chanting something, and soon a giant scorpion crawled out, heading straight for Yuan Ruo.

“Yuan Ruo, be careful!” Jiang Yi Lan was facing Wu Yun Fei and happened to see the scorpion lunging, so she quickly warned Yuan Ruo, who had her back to it.

Yuan Ruo dodged instinctively, just avoiding the scorpion’s attack. “It’s the monster that escaped last time!”

Jiang Yi Lan killed the last person in front of her and joined Yuan Ruo. “I was wondering why I couldn’t find it; it turns out it was taken here!”

“That’s great!” Yuan Ruo twirled her sword. “We’ll get rid of it today!”

“Okay!” As Jiang Yi Lan’s voice fell, the scorpion lunged again. She knew that ordinary attacks couldn’t break its armor, so as the two of them moved to the left and right, she also scattered her medicinal powder.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!” The scorpion, hit by the powder, let out a series of painful screeches, but it only shook itself and lunged again.

Yuan Ruo seized the opportunity and thrust her sword, but she only heard a “clank” and failed to break the scorpion’s armor.

“How could this be?” Yuan Ruo didn’t expect that the scorpion, which had been hit by the medicinal powder, was still impenetrable. What’s more, the scorpion kept lunging, forcing her to retreat repeatedly.

“Yuan Ruo!” Jiang Yi Lan also noticed something was wrong and quickly stabbed the scorpion from behind, relieving Yuan Ruo’s predicament. But the two of them were just dodging, unable to injure the scorpion at all. If this continued, the outcome would be bad.

“Yi Lan, you go first!” Knowing that she couldn’t kill the scorpion, Yuan Ruo just wanted Jiang Yi Lan to escape first.

“What do you mean, go?” While dodging, Jiang Yi Lan was also thinking of a plan. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to her mind, and she had an idea, but she saw the scorpion’s tail stinger thrusting toward Yuan Ruo. Without thinking, she used her body to block it. At the same time, several poisonous insects covered in medicinal powder flew from her hand, heading straight for the scorpion’s eyes and burrowing in.

“Yi Lan!” Yuan Ruo quickly held Jiang Yi Lan, helping her stabilize her body.

“Don’t worry about me, deal with it first!” Jiang Yi Lan endured the pain, pushed Yuan Ruo away, and pointed at the scorpion, which was in agony and jumping around. “Attack its eyes and the top of its head!”

Yuan Ruo couldn’t let go of Jiang Yi Lan, but at this moment, she couldn’t care about that much. She thrust her sword toward the scorpion’s eyes.

“Clank… snap!” There was a crisp sound, followed by the sound of something brittle cracking. As Yuan Ruo’s longsword was pulled out, the scorpion’s screams became more apparent. After a while, it lay motionless on the ground.

“You… you killed my darling?” Hu Cong was furious and charged at Yuan Ruo with his sword.

“You evil Taoist, I’ll take care of you, too!” Yuan Ruo took up her sword again to fight, with every move and stance intending to eliminate Hu Cong.

“Still useless!” Wu Yun Fei, who had been watching the battle, saw that the scorpion was dead and Hu Cong was gradually losing to Yuan Ruo. A desire to retreat arose. However, just as Wu Yun Fei was about to leave from behind, he saw a swarm of snakes, rats, insects, ants, and ferocious beasts all pouncing on him.

“Want to run? No way!” Jiang Yi Lan, who had finished blowing the whistle, put down her hand and watched as Wu Yun Fei was overwhelmed. Only then did she sigh in relief, but as she relaxed, her body began to sway and she was on the verge of collapsing.

“Yi Lan!” Yuan Ruo’s attention was diverted to Jiang Yi Lan, which gave Hu Cong an opportunity. He dodged and tried to escape.

“Don’t let him get away!” Jiang Yi Lan shouted just as Yuan Ruo was about to give up on chasing Hu Cong.

Yuan Ruo hesitated for a moment but still listened to Jiang Yi Lan and chased after Hu Cong.

“Go to hell!” Yuan Ruo caught up with Hu Cong and thrust her sword with speed and precision, giving him no chance to escape. The sword went straight into his chest, ending his life.

When Yuan Ruo returned to the Han family, the wild beasts had all scattered. Only the wobbly Jiang Yi Lan, with a pale face, was smiling at her. “Is that evil Taoist dead?”

Yuan Ruo first supported Jiang Yi Lan before replying, “He’s dead!”

Jiang Yi Lan looked in Wu Yun Fei’s direction again. “Wu Yun Fei is also dead!”

“It’s good that he’s dead!” Yuan Ruo threw away her sword, lifted Jiang Yi Lan up in her arms, and said, “Don’t talk about that for now. I’m taking you to get treated!”

“Treated… you take me there!” Jiang Yi Lan’s eyes slowly closed. “I’m so sleepy, I’ll sleep for a while!”

“Yi Lan, don’t sleep, please, don’t sleep!” Yuan Ruo shook Jiang Yi Lan while running with her in her arms. She needed to find Jiang Ze and get the ice toad.

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