"Liang Lian, listen carefully. It was me who went to your Liang Palace to take away the four treasures, namely the Fiery Divine Pearl and the Hourly Bagua Furnace." Xiao Qing stepped forward, stared at Liang Lian, raised her eyebrows and said, "But I was just borrowing them at most. The real thieves should be you, Liang Xiangguo, and you two, father and son!"
Liang Lian's body trembled, and his eyes shot towards Xiaoqing like lightning. Xiaoqing looked directly at Liang Lian, with disdain and contempt in her eyes: "Liang Lian, why don't you use your brain to think about it? Since I know that your Liang Wang Mansion has those four treasures, how could I not check the origins of those four treasures in advance? Don't think that you and your father secretly seized the tribute from the southern barbarians to the emperor and secretly killed all those who knew about it, and you can sleep soundly. There is a saying that if you don't want others to know, don't do it yourself! Liang Lian, originally you and I could live in peace. I borrowed those four treasures for a while, and after I used them up, "I will return it intact in the end. I don't care about you and your father Liang Xiangguo withholding tribute from the southern barbarians. It's a pity that you ran to Bao'an Hall and acted so presumptuous, and even dared to speak rudely to my sister - no one can be rude to my sister!" Xiaoqing's face was as cold as frost, and anger rose in her eyes. She stared at Liang Lian, suppressing the urge to tear him into pieces. She said coldly word by word: "You asked for everything. It was you who pushed your Liang Wangfu into a desperate situation... If I remember correctly, you should be punished for withholding tribute!"
Liang Lian's pupils suddenly shrank, and he clenched his hands tightly, using such force that his knuckles turned white. "What did you do?" He almost growled in frustration.
Seeing Liang Lian's pale face and obvious fear and uneasiness in his eyes, Xiao Qing couldn't help but sneer, "Oh, are you scared now? Why didn't you think of this day when you withheld the tribute!" After a pause, she said in a relaxed tone, "I didn't do anything. I just took a stroll in the imperial city and returned the four treasures, the Fiery Divine Pearl and the Time Bagua Furnace, to your emperor on behalf of your Liang Wang Mansion!"
"You deserve to die!" Liang Lian was furious, and suddenly pounced on Xiao Qing like a wild beast. Xiao Qing flicked her sleeves and rolled Liang Lian to the ground. She sneered and said sarcastically, "What? Do you want to kill me to silence me?"
Liang Lian got up from the ground, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, his brocade clothes were covered with dust, and he looked quite embarrassed. He stared at Xiao Qing with scorching eyes and roared, "This young master will not let you live. Anyone who dares to go against our Liang Palace will go to hell!"
Xiao Qing said nonchalantly, "I can come back even if I go to the underworld—" Then she changed the subject and said, "But once you and dad go to the underworld, I'm afraid you'll never be able to come back."
"What a joke. If you can come out from the underworld, you must be not human!" Liang Lian raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, murderous intent flashed in his eyes. He moved his shoulders, jumped up, and kicked Xiaoqing.
Xiaoqing's body suddenly fell backwards, she lifted up her skirt, raised her right foot quickly, and kicked Liang Lian's chest with her toes. Liang Lian's body turned several somersaults in the air, and then fell heavily into the grass beside him with a bang. Liang Lian struggled to get up with his hands on the ground, but he failed after several attempts. His chest was heaving violently, his breathing was heavy, and his face was pale. He barely raised his head and glared at Xiaoqing angrily, gritting his teeth and saying, "You-" Puff-, just after spitting out a word, his face suddenly changed, he lowered his head and spit out a mouthful of blood with a "wow" sound, his fingers tightly grasped a handful of weeds on the ground, his body swayed, and suddenly he fell forward uncontrollably, with a bang, he fell to the ground, motionless.
"Huh?" Xiao Qing raised her eyebrows and looked at Liang Lian who was lying on the ground with some surprise. After waiting for a moment, she still didn't see him get up from the ground. She frowned, walked up to Liang Lian, and said impatiently: "Liang Lian, stop pretending to be dead!" After shouting a few times, Liang Lian still didn't move. Xiao Qing couldn't help muttering: "He can't be so useless?" She couldn't help but bend down and stretched out her hand to feel if there was still breath around Liang Lian's nose. After trying, she found that Liang Lian was really dead. Her hand trembled, and she was stunned for a moment, muttering to herself: "Is he really dead? Impossible..." He had obviously left room for mana and didn't use too much magic power. How could Liang Lian be so weak and die so easily
While she was stunned, Liang Lian suddenly turned over and stood up. A cold light from his left hand attacked Xiaoqing's throat as fast as lightning. This sudden change was so sudden that even though Xiaoqing reacted quickly and dodged quickly, her action was still half a second too late. Although she avoided the throat, her neck was still cut by the dagger and bleeding.
It turned out that Liang Lian was faking his own death, waiting to lure Xiao Qing closer so that he could kill her by surprise. Although Liang Lian was conceited, he was not stupid. Seeing that his first strike missed, he knew that he had no chance of hurting Xiao Qing, and that staying would only be more dangerous for him, so he immediately withdrew and turned around to run away.
"Want to leave? Not so easy!" Xiao Qing was furious, sneered, muttered a few mantras, flicked his ten fingers, and the wind suddenly blew in the mountains. The weeds on the ground grew in the wind, and entangled Liang Lian's ankles like vines, fixing him in place, unable to move. Liang Lian was horrified, kicked hard, and struggled desperately, trying to break free, but found that the harder he struggled, the tighter the weeds around him became, "Damn, what the hell are these!" "Swish!" "Swish!" He swung the dagger in his hand to cut off the weeds on his ankles, but soon he found that everything he did was in vain. The weeds he cut grew again at a speed visible to the naked eye, and entangled him tightly. Her face suddenly turned pale, Liang Lian took a breath, looked up at Xiaoqing in horror. At this moment he realized that the woman he was facing had incredible power, a power that no mortal could possess. With a thought in his mind, the word "monster" flashed through his mind like lightning, and his eyes were filled with horror for an instant.
As if she could see what Liang Lian was thinking, Xiao Qing raised her eyebrows coldly, glanced at him, and said, "Liang Lian, you guessed right, I am not an ordinary person - it's your bad luck if you mess with me!" Her ten fingers moved quickly, and the weeds wrapped around Liang Lian grew rapidly and climbed upwards, wrapping around Liang Lian's body, arms, and neck in turn, and then slowly tightened -
"Cough, cough..." Liang Lian's face became paler and paler, and he gradually became short of breath. He felt the breath of death approaching little by little, and his heart was filled with fear. He wanted to beg for mercy, but his throat was tightened so that he could not make any sound.
Xiaoqing was injured by Liang Lian's sneak attack and was very angry. She thought to herself, "Liang Lian is arrogant and domineering. He must have done a lot of bad things. Letting him live will only bring harm to the people and the neighbors. I might as well kill him to get rid of the harm!" Just as she was about to take action, she remembered that Bai Suzhen once said to spare others when she could. After a slight hesitation, she looked at Liang Lian again and finally put down her hand, "Forget it, for my sister's sake, I will spare your life today." Just as she was about to recite the mantra to let Liang Lian go, she suddenly heard a Buddhist chant in her ear -
"Amitabha-"