Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 37

Yan Zhuguang had long expected the people from Qiuming Pill Hall to stall for time and prepare to escape, but she had not prepared any backup plan. She did not need to.
Because beside her stood Yun Mixue.
Senior Sister was a Nascent Soul great expert. How could a few people from Qiuming Pill Hall, only at Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining, slip away under Senior Sister’s eyes?
Yan Zhuguang had absolute faith in Senior Sister.
In truth, Yun Mixue did not disappoint Yan Zhuguang. Her Nascent Soul spiritual sense had been covering the surroundings the whole time. How could these people’s little movements hide from her?
As soon as the random teleportation formation was set up, Yun Mixue’s spiritual sense moved, and the formation base was covered by a layer of frost and snow.
The bodies of the Qiuming Pill Hall group vanished, then solidified again. The late Foundation Establishment manager’s face turned red. He suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood. It landed on the now-dim formation below and instantly turned into layers of bloody ice flowers. That striking color slowly chilled the hearts of everyone there.
“Sir.” Qiu Qiao supported the manager, who had suffered backlash from the formation. His lips pressed tightly together as he looked at Yun Mixue, who stood silently to the side like an ice jade statue. Then he turned to Yan Zhuguang. “The winner becomes king, and the loser is condemned. Our skill was inferior. Whether Miss Yan wants to kill us or cut us apart, I have no complaints.”
Yan Zhuguang looked strange. “How odd. What does whether you have complaints or not have to do with me? If I want to punish you, why would I care whether you complain?”
Qiu Qiao’s face stiffened. For a moment, he did not even know what to say.
After Yan Zhuguang finished speaking, she ignored them. She was more concerned about the matter the Qiuming Pill Hall people had interrupted earlier. “Senior Sister.”
Yun Mixue said, “Her body is still healing. She will not wake so quickly.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. “Then, Senior Sister, how should these people be handled?”
Yun Mixue said, “After Miss Su wakes, let her decide.”
The person hurt was Su Qian’er, not them, so the choice should naturally be left to Su Qian’er. They could not decide for her.
Yan Zhuguang did not find that strange. This was indeed Senior Sister’s style.
However, before Su Qian’er woke up, these people could not be allowed to live comfortably either.
This scum coveted his fiancee’s belongings, wanted to kill her to silence her, and even did not hesitate to slander her by saying she had an affair with a servant so he could excuse himself. How could she let him have anything good?
“Senior Sister, to stop these people from causing more trouble, I think we need to take some measures.”
Yun Mixue saw that Yan Zhuguang had some ideas in her heart and indulged her. “Do what you want. Do you need Senior Sister’s help?”
Yan Zhuguang shook her head. “How can I ask Senior Sister to help with everything? Senior Sister can just watch.”
Yan Zhuguang’s gaze turned to the people from Qiuming Pill Hall. The look in her eyes made their hearts prickle. “What do you want to do?”
Yan Zhuguang waved a hand, and a green light fell at their feet. The plants under them suddenly grew wildly, turning into long grass ropes that bared their claws and pounced toward them.
Naturally, the people from Qiuming Pill Hall would not sit and wait for death. They secretly gripped lifesaving spells. Seeing those strange grass ropes pounce over, they immediately wanted to circulate spiritual energy and fight back.
At this moment, Yan Zhuguang said lightly, “If you want to become ice sculptures and then turn inch by inch into snow sand, go ahead and resist.”
Yan Zhuguang smiled and even made a polite inviting gesture.
Thinking of the blood essence that had frozen into ice shards the moment it hit the ground, the group could not help shivering. Somehow, none of them dared make the counterattack they had planned.
In the end, their lives were more important. They gritted their teeth and endured the long, thin blades of grass falling onto their bodies and wrapping them tighter layer by layer.
But what puzzled Qiu Qiao was that these grass blades seemed to have only been urged to grow longer. They did not carry any special ability. If he wanted, he could break them almost without effort.
Did she think these mere grass blades could trap them? No. Since this woman could see through his plan, she could not be that naive. What exactly did she want?
Young Master Qiu Qiao of Qiuming Pill Hall, the manager, and the two old servants were wrapped into bundles by the wildly grown grass blades. Yan Zhuguang stretched out a hand, and the grass blades tangled around them extended one loose end into Yan Zhuguang’s hand.
Yan Zhuguang shook the grass rope. “Do not try to break free, or bear the consequences yourself.”
Qiu Qiao and the others looked at the rope end, then looked at themselves. Did they not look as if they were being walked like dogs? Their faces instantly turned ashen.
If they still did not understand what she wanted to do, they would be fools. This woman wanted to humiliate them.
The smile on Yan Zhuguang’s face looked like a demon to them. This woman was truly venom-hearted.
Yan Zhuguang did not know what they were thinking. Even if she knew, she would only sneer. So what if she was venom-hearted? Was it the turn of these people, who were worse than beasts, to judge her?
“You are not honest. What if you run away before Miss Su wakes up? I had no choice but to tie you up. You can understand that, right?”
Qiu Qiao clenched his back teeth and wished he could kill Yan Zhuguang with his eyes, but he still did not dare truly break free from the grass. He said word by word, “Miss Yan, if you want to kill us or cut us apart, do as you wish. But you should not humiliate us like this.”
“Humiliate you?” Yan Zhuguang looked at the unconscious Su Qian’er. “Is it very excessive?”
“I am only taking necessary measures. I do not think it is excessive.” Yan Zhuguang tapped her chin with her index finger as if thinking. “If you feel I have humiliated you, it is not as if there is no solution.”
“Ah, how about this?” Yan Zhuguang suggested with a sincere face. “Do you feel humiliated and angry? Since you are this angry, why not self-destruct?”
“The impression you gave me earlier was truly too poor. You were almost no different from beasts. Only self-destruction could make me look up to you again. Do you want to try?”
Yan Zhuguang watched them with great interest, waiting for their choice.
She had already guessed what they would choose.
If Qiu Qiao were truly the kind of person who would give up his life for dignity, he would not have been willing to claim he had been cheated on just to deceive them earlier. He was only a petty man who feared death.
A few traces of malice flashed through Qiu Qiao’s gaze as he looked at Yan Zhuguang. This woman, if he could escape this time, he would definitely cut her into a thousand pieces.
He straightened his back and turned his head away, saying nothing more. As for the others, let alone whether they had the courage, even if they had a little backbone, a person heavily injured by formation backlash and two mere Qi Refining servants did not even have the right to self-destruct.
And so, the group was held in Yan Zhuguang’s hand.
The system watching from the side only felt delighted. Against scum like this, this kind of method was exactly right. Anger them to death. Better yet, make them die from shame and fury. Only then would the hatred in its heart be relieved.
However, these people’s skin was so thick that they definitely would not die of anger over this.
What kind of trash were they?
The system was embarrassed to say that it had almost been fooled by these people. That man called Qiu Qiao had said so sincerely and angrily that he had been cheated on, and that manager had been so righteously furious on Qiu Qiao’s behalf, that it had thought they were telling the truth.
It had not expected it to all be made up. What kind of people were these? They could even make up something like that. These people were truly frightening.
If Host had not been clever, maybe even Senior Sister would have been tricked by them. Would that not have let this trash go for nothing? Tsk.
The system was full of sympathy for Miss Su.
But while it felt sympathy and satisfaction, the system could not help worrying about Host a little. Ever since being caught by Senior Sister earlier, Host seemed to have let herself go in front of Senior Sister.
Was this a little irrational? Being so aggressive, would the kind and upright Senior Sister dislike Host?
The system carefully watched Yun Mixue. It saw that she seemed to be watching Host… Uh, Senior Sister was not looking at Host at all. She was staring elsewhere, lost in thought.
Was this her way of pretending not to see?
If Yan Zhuguang knew what the system was thinking, she would probably laugh at it. Did being kind mean one did not know right from wrong? This matter was Qiu Qiao and his people’s fault. She had not done much. She was only scaring them a little. What was wrong with that?
Could Senior Sister blame her for the sake of these beasts?
If so, then Senior Sister would not be kind. She would be foolish.
Yun Mixue truly did not think Yan Zhuguang had done anything wrong. With her personality, she naturally could not act like Yan Zhuguang, but if Yan Zhuguang wanted to vent some anger, Yun Mixue would not stop her.
Yun Mixue was not a saint. She had a temper too. These people reversed black and white and were shameless to the extreme. They could treat a weak girl, their own fiancee, with such cruelty. What else could they not do? Yun Mixue naturally had no good feeling toward such evil people.
Because of that, Yun Mixue only pretended not to know that Yan Zhuguang was borrowing her name to threaten them.
However, she thought to herself that Zhuguang was still a young girl after all. She had a true nature and only thought of paying tooth for tooth and eye for eye, but she had not considered the consequences.
What if these people were forced too far and, like a cornered dog, decided to die together with her?
Forget it. Yun Mixue would simply pay more attention. She could not let anyone hurt Zhuguang.
Qiu Qiao and the others compromised with ashen faces. Yan Zhuguang laughed with an unclear meaning, making their expressions turn even uglier.
Yan Zhuguang turned to Yun Mixue and said, “Senior Sister, Miss Su is injured and needs rest. This wilderness outside the city is not convenient. Why don’t we go back into the city?”
Yun Mixue nodded. “That is fine.”
Only… “What about these people?”
Yan Zhuguang blinked. “Of course we take them back into the city too. We cannot just leave them here.”
“How will you take them into the city? Like this?”
“Mm.” Yan Zhuguang flicked the grass rope in her hand. “Just like this. Although there are many people in the city…”
As soon as she said this, a powerful aura suddenly burst from Qiu Qiao and the others. They were about to break free from the grass bindings and escape.
“Anyway, Senior Sister will help me watch them, right?”
That aura, which had been on the verge of exploding, went out at once and disappeared completely.
Yun Mixue shook her head helplessly. “You little girl, truly…”
She tapped Yan Zhuguang’s nose. “I never knew you were such a little slippery one.”
Yan Zhuguang wrinkled her nose. “Senior Sister is wronging me. People like them are not worth treating well.”
Secretly, she sent a voice transmission to Yun Mixue. “Besides, Senior Sister came to find this Pill Hall’s young master for something, did you not?”
“So you still remember Senior Sister needs to find him,” Yun Mixue said in mild reproach. “If it was truly important, would you not have ruined it by treating him like this?”
Yan Zhuguang waved her soft white fist. “Even if I have to use my fists, I will help Senior Sister accomplish it.”
“All right. I do not need your fists. You have already helped Senior Sister enough.”
“Hm?” Yan Zhuguang was a little confused.
“Settle Miss Su first. Then I will explain it to you.” Yun Mixue lifted Su Qian’er with spiritual power.
Yan Zhuguang nodded, tugged the grass leaves in her hand, and said to the people, “Let’s go.”