newbobooks Chapter 846 has a problematic name.
Chapter 846 has a problematic name.
Hearing Lin Ping's words, Li Mingxuan grinned lewdly, "As expected of Master Ping, you're capable of keeping a mistress in a golden house. I'll arrange it right away!"
Li Mingxuan's understanding was correct. Hiding away a beautiful young woman was nothing short of keeping her as a mistress.
"Hide your sister!" Lin Ping said angrily.
"How could I possibly have such a beautiful younger sister? If I did, I would have already offered her to Master Ping." Li Mingxuan said with a cheeky grin, "Don't worry, the princess will definitely not know about this, and even Miss Meng from Shuntian Prefecture will never find out."
Seeing him pat his chest so confidently, Lin Ping really wanted to pat him a few more times, with all his might.
"Think what you want, but you absolutely must keep a close eye on her. If she manages to leave the room even a fraction of an inch, I'll skin you alive," Lin Ping said coldly, without a hint of joking.
Knowing Lin Ping's excellent character of keeping his word, Li Mingxuan was so frightened that his legs trembled, and he had to replan the matter.
"Brother Lin, it's just a girl, is it really necessary to go to such lengths?" Zhu Xiaoji said dismissively.
Although Zhang Yuelu is beautiful, she has no advantage over Lin Ping's other female confidantes. Zhu Xiaoji can't figure out Lin Ping's intentions in doing this.
"A girl? She's no ordinary girl," Lin Ping said sarcastically.
"What right do you have to lock me up?" Zhang Yuelu roughly understood Lin Ping's meaning; he was going to imprison her.
"Holy Maiden of the Vermilion Bird Sect, I have already been magnanimous enough not to kill you." Lin Ping snorted coldly, directly tearing off the pretense of civility.
"How...how did you find out?" Zhang Yuelu was a smart woman. She knew that there was no point in arguing. She was just curious about how Lin Ping could see through her identity.
"I must say, you acted very well in this whole affair, even risking your own safety. If I hadn't pieced the whole story together, I probably would have been completely kept in the dark," Lin Ping said calmly.
"First of all, your timing was wrong. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you shouldn't be walking in the forest in the middle of the night. Secondly, the Suzaku Sect's defeat was rather strange, as if they lost on purpose."
Zhang Yuelu remained silent, keeping her head down as she listened to Lin Ping's analysis.
"Later, you said you lived on the mountain with your master, but there was no master there at all, only a few assassins from the Nightmare Palace. At that time, I already had some suspicions, so I deliberately used you as a test. Sure enough, the Nightmare Palace assassins did not dare to hurt you, and even pretended to miss."
"So I deliberately traveled with you, and sure enough, we didn't encounter any assassins from the Nightshade Palace along the way."
"The Nightshade Palace's goal is to kill you, so why should I save you first?"
Lin Ping's analysis failed to convince Zhang Yuelu.
"Because you want to absorb the energy from my body! If I'm not mistaken, you have the ability to absorb the energy of others," Lin Ping replied with a smile.
"What? How did you know?" Zhang Yuelu was dumbfounded. This was far more shocking than Lin Ping guessing her identity.
"Why should I tell you?" Lin Ping didn't intend to answer.
Having achieved his goal of exposing Zhang Yuelu's identity, he no longer needed to reveal that he possessed X-ray vision.
At this point, Li Mingxuan and Zhu Xiaoji broke out in a cold sweat.
The thought of having to guard such a ruthless witch day and night made Li Mingxuan's face turn pale. He was certain that Lin Ping was not keeping a mistress as a secret lover.
"Since you know I'm from the Vermilion Bird Sect, why don't you just kill me? Aren't you afraid I'll kill you instead?" Zhang Yuelu continued to ask, showing a strong interest in Lin Ping.
"I'm not killing you because I want to use you as a shield. I'm not afraid of being killed by you because I know you don't have the strength right now," Lin Ping continued to explain.
“Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. Our strengths are vastly different. Even if I’m injured, I can still kill you,” Zhang Yuelu said angrily. She hated being looked down upon.
"You can give it a try." Lin Ping smiled faintly, his eyes full of disdain.
Zhang Yuelu was so angry that she wanted to tear Lin Ping apart, but just as she was about to gather her energy, her internal meridians were damaged, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"If I'm not mistaken, the energy within me can damage your meridians. As long as we have regular skin-to-skin contact every day, my energy will passively enter your body, thereby damaging your meridians. Therefore, you will never be able to regain your strength."
"Impossible, you couldn't possibly have seen that!" Zhang Yuelu shook her head, staring at Lin Ping as if she had seen a ghost.
As the Holy Maiden of the Vermilion Bird Sect, she had never felt so nervous and fearful. Lin Ping was like a demon who devoured people's souls.
“I become weak every time I come into contact with you, and you always try your best to keep your distance from me. Based on these two points alone, I can guess what’s going on.” Lin Ping suddenly appeared next to Zhang Yuelu, his large hands already gripping her arms.
With her weaknesses completely exposed, Zhang Yuelu broke down.
"It's all just guessing. What if I guessed wrong?" Zhang Yuelu was still somewhat unwilling to give up.
While Lin Ping's claims are reasonable, they are largely speculative, and he shouldn't be so absolute.
"You can only blame yourselves for having such cliché names, completely based on the Vermilion Bird constellation. Don't think I don't know that the Zhang constellation is called Zhang Yuelu," Lin Ping said with a sly grin.
His suspicions about the other party did indeed begin with that name.
“It’s not the ‘deer’ of ‘elk,’ but the ‘dew’ of ‘dew,’” Zhang Yuelu retorted, still not believing she had made a fatal mistake.
"Is there a difference? You didn't deliberately write it out." Lin Ping turned his head, even finding the Vermilion Bird Sect's Holy Maiden somewhat adorable at this moment.
Strip away that evil facade, and you're just a pure and lovely young girl.
Isn't Lin Ping a woman who likes to take off her outer clothes?
"So she was injured!" Li Mingxuan swaggered over, mustering his courage. "Don't worry, Master Ping, I will never let her step out of the room."
"Don't blame me for not reminding you, she's only staying here temporarily as a hostage, she'll be released sooner or later," Lin Ping said meaningfully.
Li Mingxuan immediately withdrew his rude hand and said to Zhang Yuelu with a fawning smile, "This way, please."
"Lin Ping, we'll settle this score sooner or later," Zhang Yuelu said angrily, then followed Li Mingxuan into the backyard.
After seeing off this plague god, Lin Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Lin, aren't you going to take a look at Miss Meng?" Zhu Xiaoji gently reminded him.
Over the past month, he had had a lot of contact with Meng Qingge and witnessed her fighting spirit. This strong-willed personality was clearly that of a man, not a woman.
"Qingge?" Lin Ping felt a pang of sadness. "That silly woman must have lost a lot of weight."