Legend of the Great Sage

ack on my word!” Ruan Yaozhu gazed at the sky.
“And I believe he would never fall as a demonfolk!”

Li Fengyuan suddenly felt rather sorry to see all this, as he understood the origins of the daemon star of misfortune better than anyone else—he had not just fallen as a demonfolk.
He was basically a demon among demons, the source of all trouble!

Her hopes were bound to fall through.

“Let me go.
You can’t protect me.” The phoenix circled in the air and advised her gently.
“You don’t have to worry about me.
I’ll be fine.”

The Hundred Herbs garden was not a dwelling—the master of the Hundred Herbs garden was only the manager, not the owner.
The core authority over the formation did not lay in Ruan Yaozhu’s hands.
Instead, it was under the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance’s direct control.

And it did not matter even if she possessed the core authority.
Could a single formation hold off the entire Myriad sect?

That was unless she used all the plants in the garden as “hostages”, leaving the Myriad sect wary and with second thoughts about breaching the formation, as it would completely destroy the garden if they did not.
However, she would rather die than do something like that.

As a result, there would be no change to the outcome.
Once the Myriad sect struck, he would still struggle to escape, while she would be dragged down with him for nothing.

However, Ruan Yaozhu said, “Whether I can protect you or not depends on others, but whether I try to protect you or not is up to me.
If I can protect you for a day, that’s a day.
If I can protect you for a moment, that’s a moment.”

She was like bamboo—thin and slender but would rather snap than bend.

At this moment, the nine-coloured deer leaned over and nudged her gently with her head.

“Jiu’er?”

“Don’t look at me like that.
Do you really think I don’t understand you? I just knew it would turn out like this! Sigh, this is a tribulation of attachments! A tribulation of attachments!”

Ruan Yaozhu smiled.
“Perhaps it is!”

“So be it.
If it wasn’t for him, we all would have died under Black Cloud city already.
Let’s just say this is a life for a life! However, if you’re going to tell me to go, I’m really going to get angry!”

“We’ll never leave each other.” Ruan Yaozhu rubbed the nine-coloured deer’s head gently.

Li Fengyuan sighed in amazement from the bottom of his heart.
“My first father might be a huge bastard, but he still has an eye for women!”

Ruan Yaozhu did not respond to that verbally.
She pressed down with her hand gently, and Li Fengyuan immediately plummeted towards the ground, landing in a bush of thorns, leaving him crying out in pain.

Outside the Hundred Herbs garden, Wan Jianfeng dismissed the sword intent and communicated with Dai Mengfan, “What now?”

“Sigh, we have been senior and junior sisters after all, so let’s give her another three days!” However, Dai Mengfan summoned another direct disciple and ordered, “Junior brother Ren, go and find that Shen Yushu.”

“Shen Yushu!” Ren Aoyou furrowed his brows heavily in complete disdain.

Shen Yushu was similar to Ruan Yaozhu.
They both practised the Heavenly Tome of Nature.
Before Li Qingshan arrived in the Myriad sect, he had remained in the Hundred Herbs garden the entire time as the head caretaker.
Afterwards, he came into conflict with Li Qingshan and had lost his body during their duel, expelled from the Hundred Herbs garden.
After Li Qingshan became the first senior brother, he was completely expelled from the Myriad sect.

Dai Mengfan had actually specially summoned someone like that.
For what?

Thinking up to there, he suddenly realised something and glanced in the direction of the Hundred Herbs garden.
He furrowed his brows even further.
“Do we really have to do this?”

“I don’t want to ruin our relationship either, but if junior sister Ruan insists on defying orders, how can I leave a traitor in charge of the Hundred Herbs garden?”

“Traitor!?” Ren Aoyou was infuriated.
He glared at Dai Mengfan.
He had always treated Ruan Yaozhu as a younger sister, and Dai Mengfan was clearly even closer to Ruan Yaozhu than he was usually.
She actually turned against her so mercilessly.

“Do you have a better way to refer to her?” Dai Mengfan also felt like she had overspoken, but she said in discontent, “Are you going to defy orders as well?”

“I would never.”

Ren Aoyou lowered his head deeply, but before he left, he left behind a cold message.
“Hopefully, you can be just as imposing if you face Li Qingshan, first senior sister!”