Chapter 1357: Chapter 1357: No!

Outside the valley, the ground shook and mountains trembled, and the condition inside the cave wasn’t much better.

Qin Yi was still entangled with Ning Wenxuan in a duel. Both of them were more or less marked with signs of combat. It was evident that both harbored intentions to annihilate each other! Neither showed the slightest mercy in their strikes, with every move meant to be lethal!

Su Pan’er focused all her attention on healing, utterly unconcerned with the life-and-death struggle between the two men.

Countless rocks fell from above, constantly clattering down, yet she seemed oblivious, remaining calm as she administered needles to Mrs. Ning.

Old Cheng, seeing the situation turn sour and the cave shaking more violently, became increasingly anxious. Gritting his teeth, he suddenly backed away quietly, and with a flicker of his shadow, he vanished without a trace.

Su Pan’er huffed coldly but did not bother with him; her hands became steadier as she continued with the needles. However, when the flying stones stirred up by the duelists disrupted her healing for a second time, she could no longer maintain her composure!

"Have the two of you had enough?"

She suddenly scolded, "Lord Ning, if you wish for her to die, then just keep making a greater commotion. It would be better to send her on her way sooner rather than later, to spare her from suffering in this world!"

Perhaps her words had an effect, for the entangled duo finally separated and stood their ground on opposite ends.

Qin Yi collapsed near Su Pan’er, one knee on the ground, using his sword thrust into the earth to support his body. He looked as if he had just been dragged out of water.

He slowly raised his head and, with a hand pressed against a wound on his chest, flashed a particularly bright smile.

But a trickle of fresh blood slid from the corner of his mouth.

Ning Wenxuan stood opposite him, his condition not much better than Qin Yi’s.

His sword-wielding right hand was injured, and the blood that soaked half his arm turned it bright red. Yet he seemed not to feel the pain, as he gazed at Su Pan’er with an indifferent expression.

His words were especially cold, "If you want to take her life, go ahead! She was supposed to have died back then, and it was I who refused to accept her fate and forcefully pulled her back from the Gates of Hell. Every time she regains consciousness, she questions why I did not let her die! For her, death is liberation!"

Seeing that Su Pan’er paid no attention to him and continued to administer needles to the unconscious woman, Ning Wenxuan also settled down on the ground.

"Do you know? Back then, if it hadn’t been for that damned old man, the young mistress would not have ended up in the state she is in today... Back then..."

Ning Wenxuan fell into his memories.

In those years, as a young man smitten with adoration, he developed special feelings for the young mistress. And the master of the Valley of Ghosts was particularly pleased with him, not only promising him a position of power but also declaring in front of numerous disciples that he would bestow the young mistress to him in marriage!

With her unmatched beauty and martial arts prowess, paired with him, they were the perfect embodiment of men with talent and women of beauty!

He was full of youthful pride, and even his walk carried an air of triumph.

He thought he would spend his life with the young mistress, living an enviable existence on the mountain that even mandarin ducks would not scorn.

But all of that changed when the young mistress fled from the engagement and stealthily left the Valley of Ghosts, delivering him a resounding slap in the face! He became the laughingstock of everyone!

He was furious!

Swallowing his resentment, he vowed to find the young mistress and demand an explanation. But by the time he left the valley to find her, another figure had appeared by her side.

Her face emanated a soft glow, one that he had never seen before, her smile tender and eyes brimming like the autumn waves.

Alas, all of it was for another man!

He flew into a towering rage, just like a husband who caught his wife in an affair. He exposed the two, and on the day when the sect leader came with people to find them and beat the mandarin ducks, he deliberately leaked their real identities.

"The Imperial Court’s people, once they heard about the remnants of the Valley of Ghosts, each of them seemed as if injected with chicken blood. The rest is history; in the end, the man was seriously injured, and I struck him down into the ravine with a palm, while the young master was brought back to the Valley of Ghosts and imprisoned. Without me lifting a finger, everything proceeded exactly as I had planned..."

Ning Wenxuan snickered contemptuously.

But it left Qin Yi and the other person present speechless, not interrupting him.

However, Ning Wenxuan’s face gradually twisted into a fierce scowl: "The entire Valley of Ghosts was preparing for my wedding with her. Every day I visited her, I could move her heart. But what I never expected was that she would kneel before the sect leader on the eve of the wedding, pleading through tears. Because... she was pregnant! She carried that man’s evil breed!"

"So you devised a plan, once again putting the Valley of Ghosts in peril, all for your own selfish desires."

Qin Yi smoothly took up the thread, slowly lifting his head: "Not only that, but you also concocted a good play. Not only did you make that man truly believe the young master was dead, but you also ordered the murder of the baby boy. Unexpectedly, a loyal servant escorted the child to safety, and he escaped with his life! Is that not so?"

"Indeed!"

Ning Wenxuan became increasingly manic: "This evil breed should never have been brought into this world! If not for him, if not for him... she would have become my woman long ago!"

"You madman!"

Qin Yi cursed angrily.

"Madman? Hahaha... you’re right, I’ve been mad for a long time! I was bitterly in love with her, and I went mad the moment I lost her! The only reason I’m still alive is to have one more glance at her. Indeed, my gamble paid off!"

Ning Wenxuan laughed loudly as he slowly stood up, throwing his arms wide in wild laughter: "Look at me, Ning Wenxuan, who was nothing but a disfavored illegitimate son from a Branch Family of the Ning Family, but once I took control of everything in the Valley of Ghosts, it became my backing. Now, the entire Ning Family is within my grasp. Even the once unattainable young master has become the woman in my bridal chamber. To be a man like me, there’s nothing I can’t obtain! Hahaha..."

The laughter echoed around the cave, the reverberations striking the cave walls and causing a shiver down one’s scalp.

"That’s wrong, you got one thing wrong."

Su Pan’er, who had been silently tending to the wounded, suddenly spoke up.

Unnoticed by the two men, she had quietly watched the woman lying on the ground, and a tear slid from the corner of her Eyes, sighing softly.

"Wrong? How can I be wrong!"

Ning Wenxuan was exceedingly confident.

"You indeed got one thing wrong."

Su Pan’er lifted her head to look at him, all empathy in her Eyes: "What does it matter if you gain the whole world? Even if that woman has forgotten everything that happened to her, even if she carries the identity of Mrs. Ning, the man she truly loves in her heart will never be you!"

"Nonsense! Nonsense, you’re spouting nonsense, I’m going to kill you!"

Ning Wenxuan, like a cat with its tail stepped on, suddenly lunged at Su Pan’er.

That sword, filled with a lifetime’s cultivation and brimming with Killing Intent, left no room for Su Pan’er, and was already close at hand.

Ssss!

The sound of the blade piercing flesh rang out, causing Qin Yi’s face to change horribly as he cried out in shock and sorrow.

"No!——"

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