Ink Blade Chapter 61 (Part 1)
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Translated by Sylver
Chapter 61.1 Off the String (part 1)
The autumn wind blew over the cliff, scattering countless years of love and hatred.
Yan Luo’s turbulent thoughts were interrupted, and a sound of flapping wings came from the wind in his ears. He suddenly looked up, only to see a group of black dots quickly enlarging in the distance above the forest - a dozen or so large black birds flew over the dense forest towards the cliff.
The birds flew very fast, and in the blink of an eye, they were in front of him. Black feathers, golden eyes, sharp beaks, and claws, it was…the Golden-eyed Spirit Eagles raised by the Jiuzhong Palace!
In the forest, under the carriage of the Jiuzhong Palace. Mo Ren’s expression was faint, he slowly put down the finger that was against his lips, and casually picked off a piece of black hard feather from his shoulder.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Elder Brother play with eagles,” Qiu Jin said, helping the guard’s arm next to him, helping him sit back in the carriage, “These little birds still listen to you so much.”
Mo Ren was silent, he sat down with his fur coat on his body, and looked up at the sky. After a long time, he sighed softly, “The Master’s method of work is such, the blood feud is too heavy. If it weren’t for the persuasion, I wouldn’t want to.”
The Spirit Eagle flew towards the cliff.
On the cliff, besides Chu Yan and Yan Luo, who were facing each other, there was also Bai Hua, who was half-dead and bloody.
The Spirit Eagles that had been hungry for a day smelled the scent, and immediately chirped happily. They fluttered their wings and flew around the flagpole, tearing Bai Hua’s flesh with their beaks and claws!
The bloody body on the high pole began to struggle violently, like a small animal thrown into boiling water.
Yan Luo suddenly changed color, his face almost turned blue in an instant. “Chu Yan! You!!”
Chu Yan stood with his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice, “Hand over the antidote, and this Master will call the Spirit Eagles to disperse.”
The originally peaceful autumn-colored cliff turned into a bloody scroll in an instant, people’s skin was torn alive, and the flesh was joyfully divided by the birds, and even the exposed bones were pecked and broken.
The mountain wind brought the whimpering of dying, it was Bai Hua crying. His pair of feet that had been pulled out of the toenails kicked frantically, and the long hemp rope began to sway, swaying more and more severely.
The black eagle flipped and flew, and several eagle feathers fell one after another.
Gradually, more and more blood soaked the hemp rope.
Yan Luo couldn’t help but sneer with his teeth clenched, and when he clenched his fists, his nails were embedded in the flesh. “Palace Master Chu has good methods.”
Chu Yan stood alone under the flagpole, and there was a constant drop of blood in the sky, falling on his shoulders, clothes, and even cheeks. He didn’t avoid it, and said coldly, “As for the cruel methods, this Master dare not compare with Sect Leader Yan and Young Master Bai. Today, this Master has no other demands, just the antidote.”
“Boring.” Yan Luo snorted, turned around to pull the horse’s reins, “I’m going.”
Chu Yan said, “Do as you please.”
In the next moment, Yan Luo backhandedly broke a branch and threw it back. The branch was filled with internal force, and it flew like an arrow off the string, aiming not at Chu Yan, but at the hemp rope that was tied to Bai Hua!
But Chu Yan had already anticipated his move. With a single step of his lightness skill, he was already in mid-air. The palace master clapped his palms together, and the branch broke into two pieces in his palm, falling into the abyss below the cliff.
The elegant robe fluttered, and Chu Yan landed back on the cliff, stepping on the bent dry grass, and sneered. “This Master is still here, Yan Luo! Don’t use such embarrassing tricks, you underestimate this Master too much.”
Yan Luo’s face became increasingly ugly. In mid-air, Bai Hua suddenly let out a mournful scream, a black eagle pecked out his right eye, and blood splashed from his eye socket.
Chu Yan did not dodge or avoid, the blood wetted half of his handsome eyebrows and eyes, and then dripped down, silently soaking deeper into his clothes.
The muscles at the corner of Yan Luo’s mouth twitched, his breathing gradually became rough, and he suddenly glared. “Chu Yan… listen to me, I won’t give you the antidote, I won’t give you anything!!”
It was as if thunder exploded on the cliff, Yan Luo suddenly roared.
“Chu Yan, you are stupid, extremely stupid! Look at you who think you are a genius, acting recklessly, but now you are trapped by love, for a humble guard, heaven and earth is not responding!” (TL: from “the sky is not responding, and the earth is not working”-it means that you are in trouble, with nowhere to complain your grievances, nowhere to express your reasons, and no one to help you when you are in trouble)
There seemed to be a raging fire in his eyes. “It was you who made me lose everything, it was you who ruined my great future, my life was ruined because of you, whatever you ask for, I will make you ask for it in vain!”
“If you think that a mere bitter meat trick can make me as stupid as you, and hand over the winning ticket in your hand, then you are greatly mistaken. Bai Hua is nothing more than a handy dagger to me. Now that he has failed, why should I keep him!?” (TL: Bitter meat trick- the ruse of inflicting an injury on oneself to win the confidence of the enemy)
Chu Yan said, “Very well, then you just watch your people being eaten by the flying eagles. It counts…” The palace master raised his eyes, took a look at the increasingly weak Bai Hua, his eyebrows and eyes were cold, “It counts as you personally sending him to walk the Netherworld Road, from beginning to end.”
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“This time there will be no antidote.”
In the dense forest, Mo Ren opened his hoarse voice, his eyes looking at the bloody flagpole, “The Master should know in his heart.”
Qiu Jin sighed lightly, “Elder Brother Mo, I know you don’t want to see the Master do this.”
Mo Ren closed his eyes and turned his body into the carriage. “…It’s too dirty, the Master shouldn’t… he’s not that kind of person, the Master shouldn’t for me…”
Qiu Jin pursed her lips and said, “But your poison… there is only this little hope left, how can you ask the Master to give up willingly? With the Master’s temper, he can do anything.”
“…That’s why it’s not appropriate.” Mo Ren squinted his eyes quietly, “Bai Hua deserves to die, and it’s not wrong to be tortured. But today the Master can drive the eagle to eat people alive for me, tomorrow and the day after… When my life is really hanging by a thread, what will he do?”
“At that point, who can ensure that the Master will not really… be forced by Yan Luo and Bai Hua to do something stupid.”
“Even if there is none, what will the Master do after I die? Bloody slaughter the Wuxian Sect, flatten Southern Xinjiang? Tear the face with the Alliance Leader Mansion, stir up a big mess in the Jianghu?”
“Qiu Jin, if I’m not there, who can hold the Master back from making mistakes… can you?”
Qiu Jin was silent. She couldn’t.
Two breaths later, Mo Ren suddenly stood up, the fur coat silently slid off his thin shoulders and fell on the blanket in the carriage. Qiu Jin exclaimed. “Elder Brother Mo!”
She saw Mo Ren get up from the carriage, and there was an extra bow and arrow in his right hand.
“I can’t let the Master go on like this, I want Bai Hua to die in my hands, right here and now.”
Mo Ren gritted his teeth, he hung the bow and arrow on the saddle, “I am the Master’s blade, the person who should be bloodied should be me, not the Master.”
He mounted his horse. “Go.”
“Wait, Elder Brother Mo!!”
Qiu Jin’s call passed by his ear, the horse neighed, and its hooves crushed the fallen leaves. Mo Ren held the reins in his hand and looked ahead, he saw the rugged mountain road moving quickly from both sides.
Suddenly he thought: If it weren’t for the poison invading his body, he could go directly with lightness skill. Fortunately, his riding skills have not fallen behind.
Mo Ren quietly bypassed the cliff where Chu Yan and Yan Luo were confronting each other, and continued to ride upwards.
