Dreams of Jianghu

Chapter 74 – Heavenly Dragon (4)

Heaven damn them!

Lin Yu Tong was not prepared at all when the blade came at her. She quickly dodged, and the blade swiped by the tip of her nose, cutting off a lock of hair. She was furious. This person was so strange. If this was not her, another person would have died here.

The only person she had been in contact with in this world was Qiao Feng. No one else knew her name. Where did the grievance come from?

“Stop! Who are you?” Lin Yu Tong dodged two moves and asked.

“Little harlot, we chased you from Jiangnan to Dali, and now you pretend to not know us,” the old woman stood up and said.

“Be more polite.” Dang it, she had never been cursed at like this before. “I have never met you, but you want to kill me. This is no reason in this.”

The woman laughed coldly and said, “You harlot will always wear a face veil. Today, you have taken your veil off, but you think you can fool me?” She examined Lin Yu Tong and said, “As expected, you have a seductress’ face, just like your harlot mother.”

Oh dear! I do not even know who is the mother of this body, just a guess, and you know.

They had mistaken her for someone else. Thinking of Mu Wan Qing in the original novel who wore a veil, Lin Yu Tong wanted to hit herself in annoyance. Black horse, black robes. Was this not Mu Wan Qing’s attire? They were similar in age. Mu Wan Qing also had a horse called Black Rose. No wonder she was mistaken as the other.

She truly had no place to explain herself. Right after coming out, she encountered the fighting between Duan Zheng Chun’s women and his daughters.

She did not want to participate. Also, she did not have true combat experience right now, and there were many people here, so she may not win. The key was that she was not used to these rules where weapons and might made right. She was patient and explained, “Look closely at me, and then look at my horse. You cannot recognize a person’s face, but can you not recognize a voice? I am not the person you want.”

These people were likely sent by Madam Wang of the Mantuo Manor to kill Mu Wan Qing. What did it have to do with her?

“You laugh at this old woman for being deaf and blind?” The old woman was furious, glaring at Lin Yu Tong.

Oh! Such a temper. How come she did not understand human speech?

It seemed that the people of the martial arts world did not have the same way of thinking as normal people.

“I have not left the No Measure Mountain for five to six years. Jiangnan, why do you not say Mobei?” Lin Yu Tong jumped off the horse and thought, the other was not resting today, it was likely that today would not end well.

She had to weigh how much chance she had in winning.

The woman heard this and immediately started to attack. Lin Yu Tong did not dare to let her come close, and used the Graceful Wave Step to dodge all the crowd.

“I did not expect this harlot to have hidden such skill,” the old woman cursed, her attacks faster and faster.

The martial arts were different, why did she still not understand?

Today, it seemed that only one side would survive. Such a pain. What kind of grudge would lead to such a pursuit?

She did not dare to be careless, and a dart gun appeared in her hand. She hid her dart gun in her wide sleeve. Originally, she wanted to attack the minions first, but the old woman was clearly more skilled. If she used the dart gun, she had to hit the other, otherwise, the other would be on guard, and it would not be of effect.

So, she found a chance and shot at the old woman. The old woman immediately fell to the ground. Then the minions were a lot easier with the Graceful Wave Step and the dart gun. Lin Yu Tong was amused at her own weapons. These little minions did not know the use of the “hidden weapon” and thought that Lin Yu Tong had killed these people, so half of them started to flee.

Lin Yu Tong sighed in relief. She looked at the old woman. The other must only be a third-class character in the jianghu but she had some internal energy. The Divine Skill of the Northern Darkness could absorb all. She thought to prevent something going wrong, she would only absorb the qi of those weaker than her. But this old woman was unconscious right now, and she may be able to try.

She absorbed from the little minions and it was not difficult. Then she threw them into the woods. She dragged the old woman into the woods, and started to channel. The old woman’s internal energies were a bit more than hers. Lin Yu Tong sweated heavily, but nothing bad occurred.

She did not know how long it would take for these people to wake up, but she did not dare to delay. It was very dangerous to absorb internal energy in her body and not refine it.

Lin Yu Tong whistled and Black Whirlwind ran over. She got on the horse and said, “Friend, go back the same way.”

They ran about an hour, and then Lin Yu Tong felt she could not hold on. She led the horse into her pocket space. There were no disturbances in the pocket space. She immediately sat down, and slowly channeled her energy. When she first got her internal energy, she felt that it was a thin thread. After practicing for a few years, it was spring water as thick as a finger. Now, after refining other people’s internal energy, it was finally like the stream in the mountain cave.

Lin Yu Tong did not know how many days she had spent in her meditation.

She felt very refreshed all over and went to wash. She threw away the black robes, and picked a fruit green set. She was going to stay longer in No Measure Mountain. Since Duan Yu had fallen into the Blessed Reading Ground, then, it was time that the Divine Farmer was going to destroy the No Measure Sword Sect, and Zhong Ling was in Divine Farmer’s hands.

The Divine Farmer Sect operated in medicine. This was information that she was looking for. Even if she could not get any medicine recipes, if she learned the attributes of the different medicines, it would be worthy of study when she returned.

Also, the Divine Farmer Sect was controlled by Spirit Vulture Palace, who had sent them to investigate the No Measure Jade Wall. This was a way to understand the Spirit Vulture Palace that she did not want to miss.

Leaving her pocket space, she was a bit unable to tell the direction.

Based on her memories, she would walk in the direction opposite the shore. She temporarily did not want to travel on the major roads. Who knew she would met there? She urgently wanted to increase her internal energy. She had to wait for a chance to find people that she would not feel any guilt in absorbing the internal energies from.

Just as she was going to walk forward, she heard a voice from the side. Lin Yu Tong did not dare to move, and lowered her sense of existence.

She listened intently and heard a coquettish female saying, “…… I will not go rescue Ling’er. She caused the trouble, she will save herself……”

Gan Bao Bao.

The name of the woman appeared in Lin Yu Tong’s head. Listening to her words, Lin Yu Tong felt very exasperated. Why were the mothers in this world like this? None of them were reliable. Their own daughter was in the hands of others, and they did not mind. They did not mount a rescue themselves, searching from reinforcements from thousand of miles away, wanting Duan Zheng Chun to help. What kind of thinking was this? If she really cared about her husband who had been wounded by mistake, she should first send him back to the servants to be cared for, and then hurry to rescue her daughter. She turned and went back to her own home, and had Duan Yu borrow a horse to go back to Dali to find Duan Zheng Chun. Even if her husband was suspicious, was her man more important than her daughter? But if she truly feared that Zhong Wan Chou would misunderstand, why did she have to find Duan Zheng Chun? Okay, even if you cared about your husband and could not go in person, if you thought of having Duan Yu go to find Mu Wan Qing to borrow a horse, could you not ask Qin Hong Mian or Mu Wan Qing to rescue her daughter?

How did she plot? Lin Yu Tong thought she could not understand.

But if she followed behind Duan Yu and Mu Wan Qing, she may get free bargains. For example, she may be able to borrow the internal energies of the people who were wounded.

Thinking that this was not something very respectable, Lin Yu Tong took out a silk cloth from her pocket space and covered her face.

Duan Yu did not have any martial arts. Even if he got the secret manuals, he did not have time to cultivate. It was not difficult to follow him.

Likely because Lin Yu Tong had absorbed the internal energies of the old woman, these people blamed it on Mu Wan Qing. So when Duan Yu came over, she was already surrounded.

“Demonness! She used some demon method to cripple the internal energies, so vicious,” an old woman scolded.

Lin Yu Tong , who was called vicious, felt a bit of guilt.

She heard Mu Wan Qing say, “If I encountered her, I would not go to the trouble of crippling her internal energies, would it not be more convenient to kill her?”

The old woman was furious and about to attack.

Lin Yu Tong heard Duan Yu say, “So many of you here, bully a girl, you do not know to be embarrassed?”

Truly someone who wanted to die. If he was not the protagonist, he likely would have died ten thousand times already. Lin Yu Tong did not dare to be arrogant with the bit of skill she had, but he did not have any care.

Just as Lin Yu Tong was thinking for a moment, she heard Duan Yu continue, “…… The Dali is a small country, but a place with laws……”

This was something that the heir to the Zhennan Prince would say. This world was so strange. They did not want to train soldiers, everyone wanted to learn martial skills, even the emperor. What was this? This was an extreme heroes ideology. How could a country be governed like this?

Lin Yu Tong did not want to listen to them waste words. She just wanted to make an ambush when the two side were fighting. Otherwise, Mu Wan Qing would only leave behind dead people.

When Mu Wan Qing and Duan Yu got on the horse and used their hidden weapons, Lin Yu Tong was also very active. The dart gun silently aimed at one of the old women and an old man. These were the two targets she had chosen for herself. People who were commanded by Madam Wang had killed countless people. Today, she was just taking a bit of their internal energies. While it was a bit evil, she did not feel much guilt.

She dragged them into the woods. She absorbed the internal energies of the old woman. This woman did not have as much internal energy as her, and it was not hard to absorb. For some reason, the old man had a different background, and his internal energies were more, and Lin Yu Tong struggled to absorb his energies.

Just like last time, she immediately left, using her qinggong to dash in the forest for half an hour before entering her pocket space and keeping on refining.

This time, she did not take a long time. When she came out of her pocket space, it was the morning of the next day.

Lin Yu Tong let the horse out and chased in the direction that Mu Wan Qing and Duan Yu had went. She was not deliberately searching for them, just letting the horse roam freely. She suddenly heard howls coming from afar. From so far off, Lin Yu Tong’s eardrums hurt. She led the horse back into the forest, put it away in the pocket space, and then started her qinggong to head towards the source of the sound.

Halfway there, she heard waves of sobbing. Then she saw a woman strangely soothing a child.

Lin Yu Tong shook. This was Ye Er Niang!

She sped up. She disliked people like Ye Er Niang the most. She did not have any children of her own, and wanted to kill other people’s children all day. If she did not find a chance to cripple Ye Er Niang, she did not know how many children would be harmed. She could be cold and kill people in the martial arts world, but she could not watch a child be killed while standing by. This was her bottom line.

Below the cliff stood four people. Other than Duan Yu, the one in the black robes was Mu Wan Qing. The other two must be the Crocodile Deity of the South Sea Yue Lao San and Ye Er Niang.

She saw Ye Er Niang’s long fingernails hover above the child’s face and neck like it could thrust into the neck at any moment. Lin Yu Tong felt her blood start to burn.

She saw Yue Lao San was angry the child was crying and wanting to take the child away. Ye Er Niang just cared about dodging, and did not care about whether the child was hurt.

Lin Yu Tong took the silk cloth off her face. When people lived in the world, there were certain things they would and would not do.

She said loudly, “Ye Er Niang.”

The four people at the bottom of the cliff all stopped and looked up.

“Who are you?” Ye Er Niang saw Lin Yu Tong from afar, and asked.

“Do not mind who I am. Today, if you dare to harm the child in your arms, do not think that you will see your child in your lifetime,” Lin Yu Tong said loudly.

“My son……” Ye Er Niang cried and asked, “Who are you? What is your relationship with the evil thief who stole my son back then? How do you know where my son is?”

“You speak of the evil thief, but you are a thousand times worse than the evil thief. With every evil act you commit, your son will suffer for a day, like he is in hell.” Lin Yu Tong descended from the top of the cliff as she talked.

Such qinggong could intimidate people.

“Such handsome skill, like dancing, so beautiful!” Duan Yu praised.

Mu Wan Qing glared at Duan Yu. “Do not look at others. If you look, careful I will dig out your eyes.”

Lin Yu Tong did not want to pay attention to these two people who did not understand the important. She just looked at Ye Er Niang and said, “Do not think that I am scaring you. Do you want me to say who your son’s father is, and ruin his reputation?”

Ye Er Niang changed expression. She pointed at Lin Yu Tong and said, “You…… You…… You dare?”

Yue Lao San screamed, “You child, do you believe I will kill you?”

Lin Yu Tong ignored him and just looked at Ye Er Niang. “He wants to kill me, and then no one will know where your son is.”

“But if I don’t kill you, you will…… threaten him.” Ye Er Niang was trembling all over.

“If you do no evil, I will not say more.” Lin Yu Tong pointed at a flat stone nearby. “Put the child there, and leave. In three months, come find me, and I will tell you where your son is.”

“Ah, you believe the words of a baby?” Yue Lao San saw that Ye Er Niang’s expression changed and said, “Catch her, gouge her eyes and then cut off her nose. I do not believe that she will not say.”

“Ye Er Niang, if Yue Lao San dares to make an extra move, your son will suffer a bit more pain,” Lin Yu Tong looked at Ye Er Niang and said.

“Third, come back.” Ye Er Niang looked at Yue Lao San and said, her voice very grave.

At this time, a howl came from afar. Yue Lao San said, “Head is calling, we are going, spare these little babies for now.”

Ye Er Niang looked at Lin Yu Tong and said, “Three months, do not forget.”

“Lin Yu Tong, I will not change my name,” Lin Yu Tong said.

Translator Ramblings: Lin Yu Tong has become an energy vampire.

Table of Contents

• Grafting Life Chapter 73 – Heavenly Dragon (3)
• Grafting Life Chapter 75 – Heavenly Dragon (5)
• Grafting Life Chapter 76 – Red Chamber Epilogue