Could it be that I am the cruel villain?
Chapter 140 - 109: The Adaptive Moral Bottom Line

Chapter 140: Chapter 109: The Adaptive Moral Bottom Line

Adapt to moral bottom lines.

Not just others, Jiang too.

When you’re in the society, things are out of your control, as the involved party, there are many things and outcomes you can’t change, if you don’t know how to maintain a facade and pretend, but instead choose to be stubborn until you hit the wall...

You’re very likely, no, your brains will definitely splatter all over the southern wall.

"Core Formation my ass!"

"This is a Qi Refinement seventh level assignment? I’m elaborating on your dream!" (Please translate yourself)

"Dozens of wolves that can’t die even if they’re minced into meat paste! And there’s a top-grade Foundation Establishment following behind their asses! And now a Core Formation appeared, you’re telling me this is a job for a Qi Refinement seventh level? Fuck your mum!"

The heart feels a bit of a twinge.

He finally realizes what ’give them an inch and they’ll take a mile’ means, what a boomerang is, instinctively taking two steps back, now it’s no longer a question of him wanting to save the villagers or not.

It’s about how this lady wants them to die.

If they die quickly, at most they’ll lose their heads, if not, they’ll become walking corpses just like the wolves.

But this submissive talk didn’t stir any emotion in Cen Yueyue, she just coldly uttered a few words.

"Chasing Soul, Soul Stealer, life snatcher."

She flung out the three silver hairpins from her left hand.

"I..."

Forcefully suppressing the urge to curse, he turned and ran, but those three silver hairpins, as if possessing spiritual intelligence, closely followed the young man, impossible to shake off no matter how he changed his movements.

He glanced back slightly, then gritted his teeth and hid behind a tree, but unexpectedly those three silver hairpins accelerated mid-air.

Piercing through the giant tree!

Clang!

One sword flicks them away, then dodges the other two.

The tremendous force even bent the sword blade, and his heart and lungs almost stopped. He could feel that this was not Guardianship but a tracking force that was piercingly strong and excessive.

"Misunderstanding, Heroine! Just now, that was a misunderstanding!"

Clang!

The harsh collision made the young man retreat three or four meters to stabilize his body against the huge tree, even seeing the fine treasure sword in his hand bent almost at a right angle!

A real Magic Treasure scorns those flashy maneuvers, forever will it use the simplest and most brutal methods to achieve its purpose.

The three hairpins attacked the young man like a machine gun, incessantly stabbing, and with every deflection Jiang Feng had to readjust, making it utterly unbearable for him, and on the other side he even sensed a dark shadow expanding above his head.

His heart skips a beat, then without hesitation, he throws himself to the side!

Boom—

The silver crown, originally the size of a palm, had somehow expanded countless times, striking his previous location, shining brilliantly, the crown appeared imposing and majestic.

"Not a bad reaction."

Crimson smoke began to spread, with the silver crown tracking above, and even silver hairpins on his tail, defense was out of question, let alone running.

And Cen Yueyue gracefully walked by the riverside, enjoying the pleasure of toying with her prey, the silver crown descended once again, this time Jiang Feng dodged with a clumsy forward fall, and before even getting up, his back ached.

"Shit, if you don’t stop now I’m going to blow up!"

He couldn’t take it anymore and lost his temper on the spot.

Continuing to be toyed with would likely lead to death, so he unhesitatingly took out the last "Ruyi Jingu Bang" from his pack and charged straight at Cen Yueyue. From his posture, he wasn’t planning to defend but to trade life for life.

But this didn’t make the other party wary at all, even sneering, she merely raised her hand to call back the silver crown and hurled it straight at the young man. Despite the distance of only tens of meters between them, she seemed to be planning to face Jiang Feng head-on!

In the next second.

Bang—

The already thrown silver crown was smacked away by a firm slap.

The man who was sprinting with all his might only saw a blur before him and bumped into it before he could even stop.

The figure standing between the two didn’t move, it was also a woman’s silhouette, but before someone could process it, the person who stopped their fight spoke up.

"Who would have thought that near He Family Village, even a distinguished lady like Miss Cen Yueyue would find some leisure interest. This servant offers her respects."

With a smile still on her lips, she gazed at the girl before her, whose skirt was much shorter than usual, slightly bowing, but the movement in her hands showed no mercy. She had just slapped away the silver crown, then quickly plucked the strings of her pipa.

Hum—

She shifted her body to the side.

The invisible blade of light brushed past her, slicing a tree thick enough for a person to hide behind clean in two!

The sudden change at the scene caught the young man somewhat off guard, but Cen Yueyue’s expression didn’t change, and she seemed not at all surprised — as if she had already anticipated Yu Ying’s arrival.

Avoiding such a killing move seemed as routine for her as an everyday meal. Indeed, she had noticed this woman as soon as Jiang Feng had arrived.

She had said before that those who followed Jiang Feng were not "he" but "they".

Yu Ying was polite in her words, but her methods were extremely venomous. It seemed effortless and graceful as she plucked the strings, but her aim was lethal. Even though the silver crown had blocked the terrifying blade light, it still left seven or eight deep ruts on the ground.

She even had the leisure to collect three silver hairpins. The entire skirmish lasted only four or five seconds. With a forceful lift of the strings, the grating sound made it clear that this strike was far from simple.

"Cousin sister!"

Accompanied by a shout, a dark-skinned youth descended from the sky, interrupting the lingering sound with a punch!

"Oh?"

The fingers that were playing the strings stopped, her eyes filled with interest as she looked at the dark-skinned youth before her. This physique, this constitution, perhaps even stronger than a giant elephant.

"A cousin sister, indeed. At only sixteen, already at the peak of Foundation Establishment and possibly on the verge of Core Formation. Truly, heroes emerge from the youth. It seems that the Southern Border will have another formidable warrior in the future."

Jiang Feng, who was planning to step forward to assist, immediately stopped in his tracks.

He retreated and stood behind Yu Ying again.

Not a word spoken.

Cen Zhuangzhuang just turned his head to look at his sister behind him, feeling that the strength of the woman before him might far surpass both himself and his sister; whether to flee or to fight.

But Cen Yueyue just shook her head, signaling to her cousin not to be too tense.

"Such little tricks of musical rhythms, in the entire Shuangfeng City, only one person is adept at them. Having heard of the name Poison Flower, seeing is indeed better than hearing. To meet today... truly only some low-level tricks."

She tilted her chin up slightly as if looking down from a higher position, not showing a trace of fear even when facing a Nascent Soul expert. One couldn’t tell if it was confidence or arrogance.

"This servant’s humble abilities indeed may not catch Miss Cen’s eyes, but this, after all, is Shuangfeng City, only a little more than two hundred miles away from Shuangfeng City itself. For you two to show up in Shuangfeng City, committing an assassination and spreading Gu... isn’t that a bit too ostentatious?"

She smiled and looked at the two people in the distance, returning to the demeanor she had when she first met Jiang Feng. But before Cen Yueyue could speak, the dark-skinned cousin was the first to open his mouth.

"No sir, that Gu, I dug it out from wolf cub corpses, and placed it there, it doesn’t, no, it doesn’t work on the living."

He stammered out the Central Plains language not very fluently.

"Then how would you explain that your cousin sister fed poison to the child?"

This time it was Jiang Feng who stepped forward.

"That, it’s not poison, it’s... it’s our He family’s Scarlet Pill, eating it can improve constitution, immune to all poisons, because we couldn’t control the Gu worms, the wolves, they startled them, so, it was... making amends."

He opened his mouth.

He really wanted to say "You think I’m an idiot, don’t you?" but looking at that extremely honest face in front of him, and those eyes, pure without a hint of deceit.

They seemed even more genuine than the real thing.

Blind with indecision.

He really wanted to spot some flaw on the face of this kid younger than himself, but unfortunately, Cen Zhuangzhuang had a face that seemed incapable of lying.

Taking into account this Southern Border woman’s consistent restraint, along with how the villagers managed to leave unharmed, and even the furrowed brows when the wolves lost control.

He should have guessed it earlier.

Otherwise, not a single soul would be left in this entire village! Did people have nothing better to do than stay here and watch him fight? And to come over to keep him company for a while, were they nuts?

With an awkward expression, he looked at the Southern Border woman behind the young man. Standing tall and proud, he could still see a hint of guilt in those wandering eyes.

The two of them locked eyes for a moment.

And then.

Cen Yueyue just sneered and mouthed a word to Jiang Feng.

"Pig’s trotter."