All Heavens: A Role-Playing System Starting from Tianlong

Chapter 120: True Form Revealed, Defeat the Enemy in One Move

The laughter was completely different from the mockery just now; it even revealed a hint of pleasure.

Murong Fu frowned: "I have already signed the document as instructed. Why are you laughing, sir?"

"Young master, still don't recognize me?" Li Qiushui reached out, her slender fingers pinching a corner of her veil, and gently pulled it down. The veil slipped down, revealing a stunningly beautiful face. "And now?"

Upon seeing this, Murong Fu froze on the spot, his pupils shrinking sharply. "Cousin!?"

"Yes, cousin." Li Qiushui looked at him with a smile, but her tone turned cold: "You made the wrong choice."

Before she finished speaking, Li Qiushui had already moved.

Murong Fu only saw a white shadow flash before his eyes, and the woman in white had already closed in on him and struck with a palm.

He was terrified and swiftly reached out with his right hand, using the "Shifting Stars" move to deflect the incoming force.

The moment his palm touched the other's, he felt a strange internal force, like a bone-deep infection, drilling straight in along his energy path.

That internal force was completely different from anything he had ever encountered in his life. It was neither extremely yang nor extremely yin, but rather a strange force that lay between the real and the unreal.

His "shifting stars" technique had nowhere to draw strength, as if he had punched cotton, with no real support.

That force traveled up the arm straight to the internal organs, and then exploded with a bang.

"Pfft—!" Murong Fu suddenly felt as if his internal organs had been struck by a heavy hammer, and his whole body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing to the ground.

Murong Nan was defeated in a single move, completely powerless to retaliate.

Li Qiushui lightly touched the ground and landed gracefully in front of him, looking down at him: "Cousin, this 'Shifting Stars' technique is indeed exquisite, but it's a pity you can't even figure out the method of my internal energy, so how can you return it to me?"

Having said that, she flipped her slender palm and struck out with another palm. Murong Fu felt a soft, yin-like force penetrate his skull, his mind went blank, and he completely lost consciousness.

Zhang Cheng, who had been standing behind Li Qiushui with a stern face as if acting as her bodyguard, finally spoke up when he saw Murong Fu being restrained: "I feel like Sister Li is having a lot of fun, playing this kid for a fool."

Li Qiushui chuckled lightly, took out the document that Murong Fu had signed earlier from her sleeve, and casually flipped through it in her hand: "After all, this kid just sold out my daughter and granddaughter. It's not unreasonable for me to take a little revenge."

After she finished speaking, she handed the document to Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng didn't take it, raising an eyebrow slightly: "Why are you giving me this?"

"This has my granddaughter's indenture on it," Li Qiushui said with a smirk, her tone slightly mischievous. "She's quite the little beauty."

Zhang Cheng's lips twitched. Don't think I don't know you're subtly praising yourself.

"The indenture he signed for someone else is worthless," Zhang Cheng shook his head. "At most, it can be used as leverage to blackmail him."

"If this falls into the hands of thugs and hooligans, it would be enough for them to bully men and women." Li Qiushui looked at him with a smile. "What do you think, Sect Leader?"

Zhang Cheng frowned: "You mean—you want me to act like a thug, take this thing and cause trouble at the Wang family's house? What's the reason?"

Li Qiushui stopped smiling and sighed, "My granddaughter Yuyan, I don't know what kind of personality Qingluo has raised her to be, she's just a bit dull and silly."

However, this is not Qingluo's fault. After all, I, as her mother, failed in my duty as the first one.

Fortunately, it's not too late to make amends. I want to find Yu Yan a good match so she won't be deceived by those heartless men.

"So you came to me?" Zhang Cheng asked suspiciously. "I have a feeling you'd find it more amusing if your senior sister woke up in the future and saw your face the first thing she saw?"

Upon hearing this, Li Qiushui smiled slightly: "Of course, that's also a consideration."

She paused, then her tone became serious: "But more than that, it's because I believe the sect leader is someone I can entrust with my life."

"If the sect leader is unwilling to marry her, then please do me a favor and make Yu Yan give up on that idea."

Zhang Cheng thought about it and figured it wouldn't hurt to play a bad guy for her. After all, he'd played all sorts of roles along the way, so playing a "thug" wouldn't be surprising.

"Alright." He reached out and took the document, casually stuffing it into his pocket. "I agree to this."

Seeing that he agreed, Li Qiushui's smile deepened.

Without saying another word, she turned and walked to the corner. With a flick of her sleeve, she broke the ropes binding Azhu and Abi, and also released the pressure points of Deng Baichuan and the others.

After Deng Baichuan and the others regained their mobility, they broke free of their ropes and removed the blindfolds from their eyes and the numbness from their mouths.

The four men looked ashen-faced, their gazes complex as they looked at the unconscious Murong Fu on the ground.

Li Qiushui ignored them and pulled Azhu and Abi to her side.

Abi's eyes were red and her tears were streaming down her face.

She was adopted by the Murong family when she was young and has always admired the young master, but she knows that she is of low status and therefore never dares to show it.

Having just heard with my own ears that the young master was going to abandon them all for the sake of his future, I felt as if a knife had been ripped out of my heart, and I could hardly breathe from the pain.

Azhu wasn't in much better shape. Although she was more composed than Abi, her face was also pale, her lips tightly pressed together, and she was trying her best to hold back her tears.

Li Qiushui, unusually gentle, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped away Abi's tears.

"Why are you crying like that, you little brat?"

Abi choked back tears, saying, "Young Master—Young Master doesn't want us anymore—"

"It's better not to serve such a master." Li Qiushui gently shook her head. "One of you is the daughter of the Prince of Zhennan of Dali, and the other is a disciple of my Xiaoyao Sect. Why should you become someone else's maid?"

Even if Murong Bo raised you, your years of loyal service to the Murong family have already repaid that debt of gratitude.

Besides, it wasn't you who willingly abandoned him; he himself used you as stepping stones, trampling you underfoot.

Azhu bit her lip and whispered, "It's because your great-aunt bribed you with great rewards that the young master did this—"

"Although I was indeed trying to entice him, the choice was ultimately his." Li Qiushui interrupted her. "The sect leader and I concealed our strength just now, and the situation was only fifty-fifty."

If he had truly wanted to save you, he could have taken advantage of the opportunity when I dismissed Helian Tieshu and made a desperate attempt to save you. But he didn't even bother to try and simply abandoned you.

She paused, then said, "You blame your great-aunt for using great benefits to lure him. But have you ever thought about what you, his subjects, really mean to someone who can be easily lured by profit?"

They are assets, pawns, bargaining chips that can be sold at any time. Before your great-aunt even revealed that number, he had already mentally assigned a price to each of you.

Even without me, he would do the same thing if he met someone who could offer him the same "benefit" someday.

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