Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 261 - 42: Berserk Junior Sister Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder (Part 42)
In just a few days, his love had come to a complete end.
Of all people, it had to be Second Senior Brother; how could he ever compete?
Watching that lonely figure, Fourth Senior Brother helplessly leaned next to First Senior Brother.
"It’s too tragic, should we go over and say something?"
"No need. He needs to work through this on his own."
"Ugh—I’m just puzzled. Does Little Junior Sister have a problem with her eyes? They’re both charming and unparalleled, so why did she choose the stoic, unsmiling Second Senior Brother?"
First Senior Brother shook his head.
"For me, what’s most important now is this."
With that, he weighed the Heaven-Supporting杵 in his hand, considering whether to go and apologize.
Just then, a light comment came from behind.
"First Senior Brother, stay strong, don’t forget your current strength."
Turning around, Jiang Lai was standing behind him, smiling.
Thus, for the first time, the traditionally rule-following First Senior Brother defied a sect elder, unafraid even in front of the Beast Taming Sect, the leader of the Three Sects. When ordered to kneel, he did not, and even sent someone who charged at him flying with a single palm strike.
Everyone from the Three Sects was left speechless.
No one expected that the first person in the Three Sects in hundreds of years to reach the threshold of ascension would be a disciple from a small, unnoticed sect.
This left the Three Sects elders who came seeking accountability utterly speechless.
The Sect Master of the Eight Desolates Sect was particularly humiliated, having always believed that if anyone in the world could ascend, it would be his disciple, Ye Yunzhou.
Now look, after a trial, not only did Ye Yunzhou not ascend, but his spirit vein was severed, leaving him a useless invalid. Even if the sect’s most precious resources were used to barely repair his spirit vein, he was doomed to remain an ordinary person and could never return to his former rapid cultivation speed.
While everyone marveled at how all four disciples from the Tiangang Sect had cultivation above the Uninhabited Realm, the face of the Eight Desolates Sect’s Sect Master was thoroughly lost.
Returning in a rage, he looked at Ye Yunzhou lying on the sickbed and, suppressing his dissatisfaction, initially showed some concern. Seeing Ye Yunzhou still expressionless, his anger grew stronger.
"Look at your current state! Not to mention anyone from the Tiangang Sect, even any random person from the Eight Desolates Sect could kill you!
That disciple named Mu Wu just told me it was the people of the Tiangang Sect who caused you to become like this. How could you, with the entire Eight Desolates Sect at your disposal, let the legacy go to someone from the Tiangang Sect!"
The long-silent Ye Yunzhou finally raised his eyes and glanced at the Sect Master.
"Mu Wu told you it was the people of the Eight Desolates Sect who did this to me? Saying the legacy was something I gave away?"
"What else?! You should reflect on yourself! And as you are now, you can’t oversee any affairs of the sect, so just stay here and recuperate, and make sure you don’t show up again without reason!"
If not for considering the forces backing him, the Sect Master would have been inclined to kick Ye Yunzhou out of the sect immediately.
After everyone left, Ye Yunzhou silently stared at the jade pendant before him.
This had been a gift from Mu Wu not long after they first met.
Now...
Ye Yunzhou clenched the jade pendant tightly, and when he released it, it had already crumbled into dust.
As if his heart had been blind and eyes deceived, he’d fallen for such a selfish and indifferent woman. He had already done more than enough, and if they ever met again, they would be strangers with no ties left. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
But he didn’t need to do anything, as Mu Wu never came to visit Ye Yunzhou again afterward.
Gradually, the people around Ye Yunzhou drifted further and further away, and even those who once treated him with utmost respect now ridiculed and mocked him mercilessly upon seeing him.
When one is flourishing, everyone is eager to add to the splendor.
In downfall, not a single soul offers help in dire times.
Someone as proud as Ye Yunzhou couldn’t bear being reduced to a mere has-been in everyone’s eyes.
So when Jiang Lai heard from Little Buding that Ye Yunzhou planned to end his own life, she threw down her chopsticks and rushed to the Eight Desolates Sect.
Ye Yunzhou had moved out of his previous grandest estate and now lived in a remote, cold place, never seeing the sunlight and rarely approached by others.
As Jiang Lai pushed open the door, Ye Yunzhou had nearly snapped his own heart vein, and just as he was about to strike again, Jiang Lai rushed forward and grabbed his wrist tightly.
"How is dying anything noble for a man?"
Ye Yunzhou looked at Jiang Lai; first, a flicker of surprise crossed his eyes, soon replaced by desolation and silence.
"What are you doing here? To laugh at me?"
This former darling of fate was planning to end it all, likely with many people waiting eagerly for that day to arrive.
Jiang Lai indeed anticipated his self-destructing end, seeing as the things he did before truly deserved death, but alas, he was the protagonist; if he died, everyone would be doomed.
"Choosing death is the easiest and most unremarkable decision. With limbs intact and your spirit vein repaired, living might still hold a sliver of hope, but dying would truly be the end. After a few years, probably no one would remember you in this world."
Jiang Lai hit the nail on the head.
She knew all too well what Ye Yunzhou truly cared about.
Being forgotten, being remembered as a coward, that was far more painful for him than a glorious death.
Jiang Lai looked at him, then gave him all the remaining spirit stones from her space.
"There’s hope only in living. You were always a hero in my heart; dying would be too wasteful."
With that, Jiang Lai turned and left, not looking back.
Little Buding sighed.
"He’s looking at you, his expression is very complex, I can’t decipher it."
"Why bother?"
"So, he won’t die now, right? Can he make a comeback?"
"I don’t know if he can make a comeback, but he won’t choose to die again."
Giving him a goal, no matter how outlandish, at least granted him hope to live on.
As for what happens next, Jiang Lai didn’t care.
"Mission accomplished, the male and female leads completely sever ties, and the Tiangang Sect becomes one of the most powerful sects in Penglai. The few senior brothers are now among the strong, and they’ll never associate with the label of cannon fodder in their lifetimes."
One Mu Wu, insignificant in the grand scheme.
Jiang Lai nodded.
"No more burdens; I’ve had enough of this place. I’ll do one last thing, then take a stroll out of here.
"What thing?"
Jiang Lai chuckled.
"You’ll know when the time comes."
Jiang Lai issued a death match challenge to Mu Wu: both sides would duel on the stage, where life and death would be governed outside of normal accountability.
Mu Wu agreed.
She believed that in a one-on-one combat, Jiang Lai would not stand a chance against her.
In the Secret Realm, she had plundered so many treasures, her cultivation had soared during the month-long return, silently breaking through to the First Rank of the Uninhabited Realm.
As for Jiang Lai, she went boldly to test her spiritual power against a spirit stone, reaching the Ninth Rank’s peak and nearing a breakthrough to the Tenth Rank, astonishing all those watching nearby.
