Beauties in Simulation Cross over into Reality-Chapter 195 - 176: When You’re Dead, There’s Really Nothing Left
"Sister Ah Zi... why...?"
Jiang Xin’s mind went blank.
She couldn’t believe what she was seeing, nor could she believe what she was hearing.
"Ah Xin." Zi Xia smiled, but her smile looked as if she were about to cry. "In this world, do you really think there’s a ’why’ for everything?"
Zi Xia took a deep breath and looked at Jiang Xin calmly, her eyes tinged with a hint of pity.
"From the very beginning, I only saved you because your Root Bones were decent. They can be used for Alchemy to help my master break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
To me, you were nothing more than ingredients for an Elixir right from the start!
Before you, I had already brought seventy or eighty other young boys and girls back to the Danyang Sect, refining them into one Elixir after another."
"No..."
Jiang Xin shook her head forcefully.
"I could feel it. Sister Zi Xia, you genuinely cared for us. When you were with us, you were truly happy..."
"Hehehe..." Zi Xia let out a cold laugh. "So what if I was? So what if I wasn’t? When I was with you, there were times I did indeed forget what I had to do, but that was only temporary."
"What does it matter if I pity you? I’m still going to kill you all the same."
Zi Xia stared at Jiang Xin, her eyes narrowing.
"Ah Xin, I know you’re different from the others. You can see people’s emotions and hear their thoughts, but only when you focus your attention on someone.
That’s why I always controlled my emotions, hid my true thoughts, and avoided being alone with you.
That day you went up the mountain to gather herbs, I originally couldn’t be bothered to capture you.
But unexpectedly, you came looking for me on your own initiative.
You passed up the road to heaven and came knocking on the door to Hell.
My senior brother was right.
Ah Xin, this is your fate."
Zi Xia turned around, not sparing Jiang Xin another glance. "Men, take them to the Guest Peak and lock them up. Feed them a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill every day. In fifteen days, they will be thrown into the Pill Furnace to be refined into an Elixir."
As Zi Xia’s words fell, two disciples entered and dragged Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin away.
Jiang Xin was completely crestfallen, staring blankly at Sister Ah Zi.
Xiao Mo didn’t resist either.
After all, he was just a child, and they were Cultivators. Resistance was futile.
After Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin were taken away, Teng Ziming walked back into the Alchemy Room, a smirk playing on his lips. "Junior Sister, you’re still too soft-hearted. You’re putting them on the Guest Peak instead of locking them in a cell."
"Even a death row inmate gets a final meal before their execution." Zi Xia shot Teng Ziming a glare. "Does Senior Brother have a problem with that?"
"Of course not."
Teng Ziming shook his head.
"It’s just that the little boy with Jiang Xin has a good Root Bone too. I suggest we use him for the Alchemy and keep Jiang Xin. We could take her as a disciple. After all, someone who can read minds is incredibly rare.
This way, Junior Sister gets to save Jiang Xin’s life. Isn’t that the best of both worlds?"
Hearing Teng Ziming’s words, Zi Xia fell silent.
Seeing Zi Xia’s hesitation, Teng Ziming’s lips curved into a slight smirk as he turned and left the Alchemy Room. "Junior Sister, think it over."
...
Before long, Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin were brought back to the courtyard on the Guest Peak.
The Array in the courtyard activated, trapping the two of them inside with no way out.
Over the next few days, Xiao Mo was fed a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill every day.
Every time he swallowed a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, Xiao Mo felt as if his bones and flesh were being crushed to a pulp, and he would writhe on the ground ceaselessly.
Aside from that, Xiao Mo was only given Fasting Pills to sate his hunger each day.
Xiao Mo felt like a grass carp being kept in a bathtub.
Before cooking a grass carp, you first have to let it slim down and get rid of the fishy taste.
As for Jiang Xin, she wasn’t given any Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills, which meant the Danyang Sect planned to spare her life.
And every time Xiao Mo was writhing in agony, Jiang Xin would try to hold him.
But the pain was always so intense that he would forcefully push her away.
Seeing Xiao Mo’s state, Jiang Xin was consumed with guilt.
"Xiao Mo, I’m sorry, it’s all my fault... It’s all my fault..."
On the tenth day of their confinement, after Xiao Mo took another Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill and writhed on the ground until he was exhausted, Jiang Xin knelt beside him, holding him in her arms as large teardrops dripped down.
"Why would I blame you?" Xiao Mo said with a weak smile. "I was the one who decided to follow you. I’ll take responsibility for my own decisions."
"But..."
"Enough with the ’buts.’ Wipe your tears; they’re about to drip into my mouth."
"Oh... o-okay..." Jiang Xin hastily wiped the tears from her eyes, sniffled, and said with a determined look, "Don’t worry, Xiao Mo. If you die, I won’t live either!"
"You’re a fool," Xiao Mo said, shaking his head. "Even if I die, you have to live. Once you’re dead, there’s truly nothing left."
"No! I don’t want to live on with this guilt!" The gentle girl showed her stubborn side once again.
Xiao Mo’s mouth opened slightly, wanting to say more, but he knew Jiang Xin wouldn’t listen right now.
Just as Xiao Mo tried to sit up...
Suddenly, a massive BOOM echoed from the sky above the Danyang Sect, as if the heavens themselves were cracking apart.
Immediately after, ripples of Spiritual Power spread out from the sky above.
The Small Array set up in the courtyard was instantly destroyed by these Spiritual Power ripples!
"Xiao Mo? What’s happening?" Jiang Xin stared blankly at Xiao Mo.
"Is this... an invasion?"
Xiao Mo looked up and saw several Cultivators charging toward the Danyang Sect. The Deacons and Elders of the Danyang Sect all flew up to meet the enemy.
Although Xiao Mo didn’t know what was going on, he quickly scrambled to his feet and grabbed Jiang Xin’s little hand. "Ah Xin, this is our chance! Let’s go, quickly!"
"Okay..." Jiang Xin nodded forcefully.
As the Danyang Sect’s Sect Protection Array was broken...
More and more disciples from the Mountain Ghost Sect surged in.
The disciples of the Danyang Sect had no idea how the Mountain Ghost Sect had managed to break their Sect Protection Array. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Logically, their opponents shouldn’t have possessed that kind of power.
But they had no time to dwell on it now; they could only face the enemy.
"Where is the Alchemist? Come out and face your death!"
The Mountain Ghost Sect’s Sect Leader—Zhou Ye—roared, his voice echoing throughout the entire mountain range.
"Zhou Ye, you brat! Don’t get arrogant! Today is the day you die here!"
The Alchemist soared into the air, lunging at Zhou Ye and slashing down with his longsword.
"Good of you to come!"
Zhou Ye took out a Giant Axe to meet the attack.
The Cultivators of the two sects clashed. The sounds of slaughter, shouts, and the clang of blades filled the air without end.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the Danyang Sect, Xiao Mo pulled Jiang Xin’s little hand and ran nonstop down the mountain.
Xiao Mo’s heart beat faster and faster.
No one was paying attention to them.
’Maybe, just maybe, we can actually escape!’
